e e e uh good evening uh and welcome to the town of dians regular Board of selectman's uh meeting today is Wednesday March 12th at 6:00 p.m. this person uh this meeting is in person or via Zoom at Oldtown Hall 1111 Somerset
Avenue dayon Mass this meeting is being recorded the listing of matters are those reasonably anticipated by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting not all items listed May in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law can we
please have a call to order Nicole Melo present Maro pres and Peter Karen here uh we're going to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and uh fortunately we um didn't have anybody pass away this week so we don't have to stay standing for a moment of silence
I uned States stand Justice uh we're going to hop right into things uh the first thing on the agenda is scheduled appointments at 6:00 it's the committee commission Board of appointments this is a review discussion
Act recom recommendation to appoint Christopher ready to the uh dayon Economic Development Committee who's who's um are you going to take care of this I guess I guess I didn't know be here tonight yeah okay lenue chair of the economic
development committee so at our last meeting um we've had a um outstanding opening since last December of a representative from the taunt Area Chamber of Commerce composition of the board includes one member them as a
representative our last representative l in December so Chris is a very active member of the tun Chamber of Commerce and in discussions with them he has agreed to be their representative to our board he is a d business owner owns um
all out Services LLC um and um it was unanimous vote I think it would be a great addition to to fill that position great uh and he's not here this evening um typically we require that the and appoin appointment
be made with the applicant here um and he's already on the Titan Town um development committee no we'd like to have him appointed you want as the TA as the TA Area Chamber of Representative um what would you guys like to
do um Chris is known to me yeah to me as well so um it's it's it's uh Nicole I'm fine with the pointing without him being here he's already part of the um Toton what is it Chamber of Commerce um so I mean he's a known entity okay so is
there a motion on the floor to appoint uh Christopher ready to the Dion econom Economic Development Committee I'll make that motion I'll second that motion is made and seconded any uh discussion all those in favor I thank you thanks Dan
Chief your upic sir this is just an update this is not a review discuss or act and um as the Selectmen are aware uh we and and Ralph all had chance to visit the uh firing
range over this past weekend and into last week uh we had a great tour and uh I wish those who had issues with the firing range were there to to visit uh unfortunately it it didn't happen but uh the chief was going to go into it I just
want to let you know that we were there we um saw the house that was uh supposedly hit by a bullet and in addition to that we actually had the um an officer fire 15 rounds into the at the firing range to
see how far away we could be if uh we could hear it uh at the time I was with the chief in his car and um we didn't even know he fired uh we were on Middle Street uh now that's not saying nobody hears noise uh it just so happens that
that day uh there was we didn't hear it okay chief you're up okay um so what we're looking up on the board um is the what what circle is the range they're in blue and obviously we're we're uh looking at it like this so we're we're
shooting into the parallel Middle Street is the street to the right headed towards um you're looking at that headed towards uh C Street um the first question I have here is uh when was the range created the range was created in uh the vicinity of
2015 2016 um I talked to um Sergeant Dutra who's been around quite a long time um I met with uh our superintendent uh Mr Ferry um over a coffee and we discussed um um the the range was uh made when uh Chief McDonald was in in
the seat and 2015 2016 is when the range was established um the next question to that was uh when was the range um was the range constructed under the proper standards of of the uh of of guidelines of uh gun range hand out and yes it was
it was uh developed in the NRA guidelines and actually we above that um I've from the research I've done says up to 18 ft High the bm's about 20 to 20 21 ft High um was the range constructed on the
landfill no it was not constructed on landfill where the range is currently located right there is where the gravel used to be for for the road to service the landfill and to be able to monitor the the wells out of there from the run off that's all dried back there that's where the gravel was kept for years
that's where currently the r um was the range was the range Constructor on Wetland no it is not um that road was put in place in the early 70s 1970s that's when that road was put in place um what was the protocol to the
except outside towns for the range so that um that's always been done between the chief and the board of select um every every time uh a town has wanted to use the um the range it's always been discussed with the water of selectman and attorney's office the attorney has
been in uh have drafted up a a letter with uh obviously like laws and liabilities it's always been between the chief and the bo s that's how it's discussed that's what the GU on top of that um next question is how many how many days were on the Range last year
with the training records that were pulled from 2024 was 49 days 49 days on the Range is when we were there I know you're probably like looking at me like I'm crazy but that's that that's the fact of when we were training training dates on the Range was 49 days um
whether or not they guys out there shooting more and I'll get into that in a minute on their off time that's taken care of it's no longer going to be allowed there's a new lock and chain in the gate only instructors have the lock and gate uh lock and chain uh lock to the gate um and some Town officials have
it as well but there's going to be no more shooting on Saturdays no more shooting on Sundays and the lock has been changed with the locksmith so it can't be copied it can't be tampered with it's only the people that were given a key
um are lead bullets being used low lead bullets they're like almost green um almost green bullets they call them very very low lead we've actually going to 9 mm uh guns this year which a less lead than even the 40 the 40 m millimeter guns that we've currently used over the
past 20 years I've been um having the decel levels measured no we have not had the uh decel level uh levels measured at the range um mainly because um under the
mass law we're exempt from noise noise uh decb under mass under Mass Law chapter 214 section 7B um but as far as heing protection and all that stuff that's also required to be worn with eye protection and whatnot and can noise reduction be uh be
installed yes it can be and we're looking into that right now I've talked to Mr Ferry who's worked uh like a partner with us um containers are going to get moved back to the behind the firing line to where where we shoot to act as like to
act as uh buffers to to um to keep the noise from ricocheting and cause it anymore and then there's grant money that we're looking to apply for in August we're going to apply for an NRA grant that will obviously able hopefully be able to create or build uh baths down
there to reduce the sound last but not least can neighbors be informed when the range is be in use yes I've been actively posting things on Facebook and I will also call the board of selectman's office and uh speak with
either Mrs Kerwin or Mrs Brady and we'll let them know and we'll try to get stuff posted on uh on the town website because I understand some people don't have social media I don't have social media I I get that I understand that that was the last question uh thank
you obviously um you were here last week and or two weeks ago uh and unfortunately uh you left before a lot of the questions were able to we as did not have the answers so this is your time uh take as long as you want it can ask the chief
any more questions uh one of the things that I just want to clarify I don't want to insult anybody by saying I did not hear the 15 rounds the chief was in the car and as a matter of fact he radioed back to the the range to say one are you guys going to fire and they said we just
fired it uh so we picked a day and again this was on Middle Street not where everybody lives so I'm sure you guys uh hear a lot more than what uh we we could have heard that day so uh if you have questions for us we'll answer them if you have questions for the chief and now
was the opportunity yes sir first one I if I if I could if I could just hold on just for for purposes of cable if they could come up and speak into the microphone that I would appreciate um I I did first of all um I want to reserve that we do support our
police and I also want to personally thank you for being proactive about this issue because I've heard that you have been going around checking out you know the firing range and also with the bullet hit that M door um I was wondering um why did they decide and and
maybe you don't have the answer to this uh why did they decide to put the range in a residential area I know it's owned by the town it was the landfill but it really and another question is how close is the the nearest house from the perimeter of the firing range it it was
it was well over 1,000 1,000 uh yards away from 1,000 ft away from where we're at because I think it was like 1100 or 1200 feet was the nearest property to where the to where the Rangers currently located right
there and then I think like it was it was between a, and 1200 is the average feet away so we're we're pretty far away we're pretty far out there okay um but why to answer your first question um speaking to people in town we've been
training in town for over 40 years we've trained in different locations land's been sold land's been bought over time it's been developed and that was at the time when chief mcdonal was around and the town thought that was a good place for us to yeah it's just it is in a residential area um you know even though
you say it's a, feet from home it's it's like 1100 it's 1100 and something feet away it's just not in the woods like a lot of firing ranges are when you when you look at the picture I mean we're pretty far out there I mean where the blue circle is we're pretty we're pretty far
out okay yeah we are we are we are it is it is quite a ways out I mean sound travel is quite a ways I mean sound Ricochet so it may sound it may seem like we're a lot closer but we're we're in the middle
of the woods okay um when was it decided to allow the state police and policey to use it so the state police don't use the acad the police AC the the range okay that is only us Taunton and the municipal police training committee which are municipal towns and cities
around us that have instructors that need get qualified and they they use our range and we charge them um per per uh member why did they use our range though I know barnable comes and that's miles and miles away because they've closed
ranges I know over over time and they've sold off and they become housing developments so there's been limited do you know why it was closed do you know why barnable was closed no I do not uh I did some research and it was closed first of all because of the noise and
then they brought in the EPA and they closed it down because of um pollution so I can tell you our range is not poll polluted it's very well manicured it's taken care of all right uh I can reassure you with that okay we take pride in what we have um what type of a
contract does the uh do the policey have because is it a verbal is it is it a two-year contract no it's it's an it's an um it's once it's in place it's in place till they decide not to use it anymore so can you resend that that agreement at any time it could be it
could be rescinded yeah okay because I think that's probably the biggest issue not so much the dton and the Tian police I think it's that constant barrage of of gunfire we only had we only had uh [Music]
14 we only had 14 days last year where where they were there um it was two different weeks through the summertime when you saw probably the cruises there it was 14 days total that the mptc was in in our town yeah and we were able to we were
able to build them $33,900 to offset the cost for our ammunition and and for range supplies so kind of like offsets that's that's that's that's the positive side of it it was 30 39 it was $ 3,970 we were able to build the state
for to offset the cost of our ammunition which is well well around the $7,000 mon okay so it does help it does help a huge I I understand that but you know it's just the noise pollution I would call it that that's caused by the extra police
it was never an issue before and I've lived there 44 years and it's just in the last couple of years and I believe that's probably when the acmy were allowed to use it I I will honestly look look into okay I'd appreciate that I promise you that okay and are assault
weapons fired at the range Patrol rifles that's what you I don't know I I just hear it it sounds like a machine gun no Patrol rifles and handguns that's it and uh we use less lethal shotguns which you would you probably wouldn't even have and that's the academy that uses that's
us that's everybody that's P rles yes everybody it's mandated by the state excuse me for a second this might be a good dime to tell them about the private citizens who have their own range yes so that's another thing so on this log right here I want to be like transparent
as I can be it's a page paper I'll try to hold it up so everybody can see it it's on the back there's one of the there's over 40 calls here for gunfire and there's [Music] only nine calls there's only nine calls
here front and back but days that we were actually training on the Range this dates back to 2015 and there's a lot more lot more gunfire in town being done um we actually had a gentleman come up to one of our Patrol officers the other night and said SI of you guys shooting out
here till 10:00 at night first off we don't shoot at 10:00 at night we shoot from 9:00 a.m. till 400 p.m. Monday through Friday and then when the clocks change we have to do a thing called a low light skilled shoot and that's from 3 3 3:30 was when we got to get down there for the classroom portion of it
and we wrap up by 7 7:30 the latest we're never down there at 10:00 at night there's never shooting at 10:00 at night but that just goes to show you this there's a lot of private in town we get calls all over all over town all the time for private ranges and I I'll tell
you it's a lot of it a majority of the time it's not us it's really not okay all right thank you very much [Music] welome Matt Argin uh 621 Middle Street so uh couple questions the first thing I had is when you were speaking with your
um 15 shot test M what was fired for that test was it the p patol rifle that was a handgun okay you should have done it with the patrol rifle okay okay um I'm not saying that I'm not saying that out loud that I'm sure that they're probably a lot louder than hang on but that's what we use that day a lot louder because that's what we use majority of
the time and you had said 50 days or 49 days in the last year was that just Dian or did that include mptc and 14 days for mptc taunt was on there for 20 something days and then we're out there six days four days okay there there's a couple
things um I know I appreciate you allowing us to talk today um there was I was I felt quite disrespected last time I know you tabled um Somerset but there were a lot of people who came to this meeting that wanted to speak and by tabling it and not allowing any discussion that was I felt a little
disrespectful sure um so now that we're here I appreciate it um so my my thing is that with these Town meetings so I don't think we had an issue with your range from 2015 you said it started until probably whatever year taunt
started I didn't I didn't even really know it was there um do you know what year taon 2018 they started there yeah so it's it's been right I remember it being around that time so I I think one of the challenges I have is that that got on to the selectman meetings for a
vote none of us of Butters knew about it that's how many officers Von 120 12 so so I I have a concern and had we not noticed that it was going to be on the agenda last meeting for Somerset that might have gotten through so I and I
know you said this is not a a this is not a um act but um i' I'd love to see it where if there's going to be any other department or Association or Academy to use that that you notify the abutters in writing two weeks prior to
the uh meeting and uh that way there we know that that's coming up so that we can be part of that discussion yeah there won't there won't be I mean as it is now it's it's even tight scheduling for mandated training i' I'd still like to see that if that's something that the select selectman would consider the
select board would consider I would like to see that just so that nothing gets slipped in that we don't notice I think it's only fair to the neighbors that we can be part of the process um and if it's just slipped into a meeting and we miss it I don't think that's very fair um and to go one step further I
would I would love to see the town resend the offer to Taunton and the mptc um and if it's a money issue I'll help you get whatever money you need I'll do a go fundme you want 10 grand for training we'll we'll figure it out
but I think it's overuse of that in a residential neighborhood to have 120 some odd officers they are training how many times do they have to certify a year twice a year twice a year I I think that's a little excessive for a residential neighborhood Taunton has plenty of industrial space land that
they could have their own range um so I don't think that burden should be on the town of Dayton to to train them I don't see them being there much longer served they they're building a a new Public Safety complex police and fire complex on 40 acres I don't think ta going be there that much longer okay well I would
I would like to see maybe some action on that but um I think that's the biggest concern I think if Taunton wasn't there we would have no issue you guys could do 365 uh but I think it's it's that's the issue there's more to the TA just shooting at our range toon allows us to
go to their City twice a year as well we do all of our in service training there they save this town a lot of money in in service training so it's kind of like one hand washes the other they come here twice a year to shoot in a dirt area we go to their classroom we occupy their space they give us free training they'
brought us to so much Advanced Training that would cost us more money that town not as only as an ally for uh Mutual Aid stuff which they've been a huge help in in the past that town has been a tremendous support of of this town and this department I I I understand that but it's a little bit of a burden to the
neighborhood and I I would hope you guys would consider that thank you for your time y thank you sir hi Joy Wendell 244 Forest Street um I was just wondering if the when this range was designed and built
if it was inspected by anybody from the state I it doesn't have to be inspected by the state man there's no there's no mandate that the range has being insect the other state okay it was just a safety issue I thought um that's why I said we're above the NRA standards like
when the specs I looked at that range is above the N standards what that is okay I presented um a couple weeks ago um the range design criteria I looked it over okay okay perfect um it did recommend that um
a superv train supervisor should probably be there all the time that it's being used so there are nationally certified uh State Certified fire instructors on the Range per person that's shooting at Target so every time
there's a a fire at a on a three yard line a five yard line a seven yard line they are the ones looking over the shoulder of that person and the ones going down and accounting for every bullet fired into the Target because you have to pass a set score every single
time we're not just down there playing Cowboys and Indians in the woods we're down there shooting it targets where down there every every bullets accounted for that shot um it's it's a very safe range disciplines a very is a very real thing down there it's taken very serious okay well that's good to hear um I guess
why we think maybe that's not happening is because a lot of times we might see one car there or something you know and it's like oh somebody's shooting by themselves it sounds wild at times maybe so when you see one car there there are people that hunt that property year round that's another thing we have to
look at people hunt that property there's a lot of hunters on the property so when we're not training and the flag's not up or if it's not posted now on social media it's it's people hunting the property there's a black pickup truck there all the time they're allowed to do that can't they drive down to the gun range too though so if you see one
car like police if you see a car in the parking lot yeah sometimes like like what overflow but on a regular basis there is a a pickup truck that pops up top near the uh where the animal shelter is and I've been told it's Hunters maybe
maybe Mrs F can speak to that sorry a few more questions I think um okay I was wondering if records are kept then like you know under the supervision of this person uh do people have to come in sign in um have him inspect the gun to make
sure it's clean they have a record of what kind of bullets are being used how many we so we have our specific uh Department bought ammunition we have armors in every Department that are trained on on specific weapons and they are
inspected uh twice if not three times a year by the armor okay not every time though not every time I mean they're cleaned every time they used okay you know but they're they're inspected several times a year okay and then um the burm I mean what is that composed of
it is this just dirt and rocks that have been pushed up uh it's Loom it's Earth and then in front of that it's um it's sand sand is where the impact SP is okay have they uh done the due diligence to make sure there are no rocks there for Ricochet so there aren't any rocks there
there's nothing there's nothing that's going to cause any harm to anybody all right there was just that one possibly stray bullet that we heard about so I mean and that was I'll touch based on that too so we we visited the residents yes it was determined that it was not a bullet oh it was a what PA had to be
maybe a pebble and it happened four years ago it's been nothing recent with the homeowners um I went with myself and the detective we looked at it a report was filed with it and I also went there with Mr Karen as well supped okay it's
good Oh I thought of one more thing um we heard that let's see it's not it's 1100 feet away from any is is nearest like garage like okay all right and yet
um in that bookl I told you um I had read that 9mm calibers can travel a distance of over 1900 yard over a mile if you're shooting in an open space but we're shooting at a in and a burn true but I mean what if it ricochets or
misfires or something I'll reassure you that's why we have sand where we shoot yeah then we only go back 15 yards when not shoot far distance we're shootting at 15 yards away from here from here into sand true I just thinking you know if it misfires or something I'm telling
you 21 years I've never seen it happen okay just trying to think of the safety side yeah we we are safer than you you will ever imagine okay I hope so trust me and I'm I'm going to have something done um maybe like a video and I'll have
it shared on our website um to go down there and and actually film a session of us training so there's a better understanding of what we do that'd be a good idea and I promise I'll make that happen okay thank you thank you thank you
J 7 19 Middle Street how come we going to shoot when we're eating supper at 7:00 or 6:30 and they start shooting at night it's it's crazy well that's that's only in the uh the fall when yeah I understand that but why don't they shoot stop for a half hour or so when some sitting down eating his St so it isn't
the Bang Bang Bang all night long cuz I I get tired of it I have it's gotten better I'll tell you that it's gotten better I walk down here going try to make it better I walk down we're going to make we're going to make we're going to make improvements oh it's better I just like to have when you're eating supper I shouldn't have to hear that in
my ears that's nothing I got complaint all right thank you thank you thank you does anybody else want to come up yeah I'm uh Jim Coello I live at 8:30 Treemont street but
I'm I got a couple couple things that uh you said no key you changed the lock on that does the pter party man still have a key the pter party man he does not you didn't say he did he's not going to be there on
Sundays he always did at 7:30 in the morning Sunday because there was a miscommunication keys were issued out on Friday uh so he's only even doing the py party during the week and we will down there to unlock the gate for him oh okay yeah now and then you got when tarton
comes in especially when tton comes in we got a big traffic problem and they've stayed past dock well they've been advised they well they they did and what happened was when they got they they
would got got to the parking lot in front of the animal control and there they all put their light all started their car put the lights on right in window right in my front front room window lovely well that's only that's
only in the fall but I I will I will send out an email ask him them to be a little bit more courteous and I mean if you don't say nothing squeaky wheel gets the oil right so if I address it I'll address it okay and the last thing we have is you like if it's getting dark
and stuff like that that section of trear street has no street lights I don't know if you knew that no well now you do yes thank you thank you
Mr me wrap it up sure uh sure it depends what are you gonna say um say my name and address Robert Woods 158 Chase Street and uh see and I started most of
this conversation um I'd like the residents to know that I had a meeting with the police chief chairman of the board of Selectmen they gave me a a tour of the facility and you know just so you can
rest easy near BM is safe was a very nice range as far as ranges are laid out um I don't think we you'll ever have to worry about safety you know and we have to thank the chief because he he he did
really respond to this and also the board of Selectmen but you know it's our public safety and if there's an emergency you dial 911 you better hope these guys show up quick right and if it gets real bad let's hope they can shoot straight you know
um but on the other hand you know in 2018 when we took on tton I thought that was a mistake then right but like the chief said you know they do inservice training for us in their facility so I can see that but the noise and I live I
don't live real close to the range but I live close enough where you can hear and some days it sounds like Vietnam so the chief promised me and he showed me how many times ton used the range and they're going to get better control of it and what's important to me
because I know that these things have to be done just to give us a schedule so we know you know and the chief said they're not going to do it on the weekends anymore so that that's big you know you can have a cookout not worry about the bang bang bang and hopefully if tton
does put in their own shooting range and it'll just be our offices it's going to be very easy to toate um I'm going to follow up on the to thing because that's what I do um and I don't know if they're going to build a range they're in the
middle of building a human M Public Safety facility should they put in a Range absolutely I mean they got Prime Property over there it's beautiful property I'd say I'd say within a few years yeah within a few years they're pushing for it over there they have their own training they want to have
their own Hub over there and that's great right and you know Chief explained to me exactly what they do and how they do it and you know it's it's being done right been on over there playing cowo in Indians like you said so I mean that's
all we can ask for these guys have a job to do and they're very important that's all I got thank you good luck thank you does anybody else want to come up so so like to add to to said um John's like been super super
helpful with this us town with this town and any major incidences and with things that have happened in the past I mean I I was talking to someone the other day about um uh a retired major from the state police who just came over to us um and he went to inservice training for
the first time because he's now with us as a retired um special um and he went to training at TA and he said wow he was he was amazed of what we do there because he's now going to go to training with us in their city and he just went through the mandatory 4 days for the
false uh the spring session and then we go back again in the fall and we do another four days uh five days I'm sorry five and five um and he was amazed Floyd Floyd by the caliber of training they present to us they're above everybody else and a couple years back when I was
training over there brass from quiny and brass and brry came down because what's all the noise of what's going on all the training and what take taking advantage of this free training that's been given to us so it seems like a lot seems like a burden but you have to understand on a
on a law enforcement stand standpoint of what they give to us and we're just trying to give a little back to them as an appreciation so it's not a burden as far as cost to get that train thank you Chief Nicole do you have anything you want to no um I just want to make sure that we're all walking away
now that we've all had this discussion that we're walking away with the changes that are being made no Saturday Saturday and Sunday um the locks have been changed nobody's going off on their um offices on their off time um that we're working on the ported potty will only be
at certain times because I understood that was an issue um I think that was all I just wanted to make sure that once we finished we walked away and kind of kind of felt a little bit better I really appreciate everyone coming um I had a so many concerns after the last
time you guys were here um and I felt better with the chief brought me out there um I can't imagine being where you guys are and feeling like there's the chance that a Ricochet bullet would come or whatever I want to make sure that everyone's aware that when they're shooting they're shooting this way not
towards your houses um which makes a big difference I mean they're shooting up towards that way so I mean the chances through woods and everything it's just not it's not going to happen that's all I no well said um you've made yourself so available and we all you gave so many
tours and thank you everyone for for coming out and I think the big thing again is the the Saturday and and no weekends that will I look forward to seeing what that brings this year and um call the chief if not the chief but the police station if you hear firing that
is not on a day because they want to monitor it they want to see if this is the day that they're out there if it's not a day because I know not everyone has social media and we'll find I mean we can't stop people from shooting on their properties but we can have a better understanding is what shooting is from them and what is not I mean I know
we're going to make the upgrades to like m m said to being able to send uh my guys going to send me emails that you know when we're getting complaints for gunfire when we're not out the us we have a better handle on it and there's actually a tab um that's in our Software System now that's developed when we get
calls for gunfire also so we can keep better track in our okay better updates we um this is your neighborhood it it's not ours we all live in Dian but it's it's a detriment to your neighborhood and uh if at any time you feel like uh
inappropriate firing is going on my phone number uh the other two selectman's phone number is right on the website pick up the phone call me I'll call the chief uh especially if it's that rapid fire that seems to annoy most people uh obviously I believe whatever
the chief says here tonight but I have a feeling that it's not um happening on this gun range there is another Range close by not a range but private property this was the chief explained to to me uh close by where as long as they're not shooting within 500 feet of
a house they have the right to fire their guns uh unfortunately it's it's the law they have that right and I have a feeling that that's probably what you're hearing when you hear that rapid gunfire um if you don't think so uh um I don't
know maybe but please like I said my phone number is on there call me anytime uh and I'll pick up the phone and and call the chief right away we'll drive down and make sure that nobody's on the Range doing it if you if you have five or six guys shooting at once like on the line because you have it's going to
sound like rapid gunfire no there's no machine guns there's no machine guns down there yeah yes there is we don't carry machine guns it sounds like but maybe it sounds like it but if you have six or eight guys on the line they say okay on the count go I mean anybody can attest
that you're gonna have you're gonna have boom boom boom but it's there's no there's no machine guns down there and that's just like when you're on the line that's just it's going to sound like that the loudest days you're going to hear guys down there shooting is with the patrol rifles they are louder but with a handgun a small caliber gun
they're a lot quieter this is the first year going to 9 mm we used to have 40s so they are going to be quieter um ta's even gone to 9 mm they're going to be quieter the the patrol rifles are louder those are going to be the days that you probably hear hear it more than others but we don't do a lot of shooting with
Patrol rifles we have to do a 50 round qual mandated by the state and that's only that one time of um during the during the session down there mostly all of our shootings with handgun that's mainly what we use does anybody have any more questions
for the chief or the selectman about it I mean I don't want you to walk away thinking that we don't care or that again this is your neighborhood and um we want to help you as as much as we can if you have any suggestions beyond what the chief has said uh please don't don't hesitate to call come down the station
my do I have an open door policy it's been that way since the time I've been there so come down anytime I've had plenty of people pop in just to say hello have a coffee address what you have to address all right when I earli
the flag was fly the was TI up yeah I live right there thank you okay we're going to move on to announcements please thank you Chief thank you thanks thank you um the highway department public notice there is a townwide parking band
in effect from November 1st 2024 to April 1st why don't we just give it a second nobody listens anyway no I know but the TV does NOP they didn't come here like I can't wait to hear Nicole say the announcements that's why I came in I'll
sign them you oh okay nice so on you big yeah I'm going to frame it on Thursdays I review the announcements because I see you do you do such a great job so good she should be on television not in the waiting room we can let people in without a name we
weren going to do that see you later they knew the jig was up when we were asking who they were right I'm still traumatized some things you can't see that's right I guess we can continue I'm sorry
okay no that's okay um the um dayon Lions Club food bank will be held next on Saturday March 15th 2025 located at the Town Hall um it's in the lower level Friends of the dayon public library will be hosting the meet the candidate night
at the dayon middle school this will be on Monday March 31st the open space committee will be organizing a town cleanup um open space and um oh it's the date has now been changed to April 26 they are looking for volunteers to assist in their cleanup efforts in
addition anyone with any suggestions or any particular areas to clean up can contact Jonathan Gail the dayon Council on Aging will now host a location for free tax aid program the AARP Foundation offers it each year this program focuses
on assisting older adults with low to moderate income please call the D Dion Council on Aging for to book your free appointment that's all I got great thank you uh this is the first opportunity for public input uh and we will have a second one uh
Nancy sorry Nancy kot 6:31 great Terrace North dayon uh chairman stormw water committee on behalf of the committee I just want to thank everybody who helped us get the calendars out all of the Departments uh all of the Town buildings all of the
facilities uh obviously we had a lot of calendar to give out because we got them late and couldn't do it at lights on uh especially I want to thank the Bost bank and Mechanics Bank because this is the first year they've taken
calendars and helped us with us and they just like and the post offices they helped us each year and the post offices and the banks were really great in uh having me restock them and giving them all away so I just want to publicly thank them and the committee will be
sending letters to them in appreciation on behalf of the committee in the town how many do you order a year this year we did 650 wow we usually give out at least 200 250 at lights on so we had a lot left we had them all left but anyhow
uh I picked up uh uh some that were left over in various departments and put them in the post offices uh people were actually going in the post offices wanting to know where the calendars were like as if the post offices issued the calendar so it was really great cool so
I just wanted to thank them all well thank you for your effort too you're welcome hi it's more of announcement Stacy Ferry 1070 William Street North Tian I'm also the ACO we myself and Bristol agie are putting on a rabies clinic April 12th
from 12: to uh 9 to 12 at the Aggie um dogs cats welcome everybody needs to be on leashes or in crates and if you want to have a three-year vaccine make sure you have proof of your one-year vaccine so we can give you a threeyear vaccine cool you thank
you anyone else at this public input time no U Mr chairman this is oh yeah hi John hi I just wanted to clarify the announcement that Nicole that Nicole read open space the original date was changed but the new date is actually now
the 19th of April with the rain date of the 26th of April okay I just want to clarify that sure thank you someone listens to the announcements I well I only read I only read the second the second date sorry
Jonathan I'm hoping for rain I won't hold it against you I promise thank you Town administrator's report yeah um thank you uh first up at at the last meeting there was a discussion about the pack uh about pack um you know so we did
a little research on it pack was developed in uh 2021 uh from uh with through my predecessor uh Mike malen the purpose of uh of Pat is to have uh uh permitting and and
compliance it helps uh in applicants are are invited in so um it's looking to streamline the process so they understand what the permitting uh the permitting that's required for them uh before they go uh uh before they go
before boards for for actual decisions so it's sort of it's put together to sort of help and assist um I know at the early meetings uh they tend it to be a little long may in the neighborhood of
two hours but I could tell you uh this the the meetings that I have attended uh since October um they're definitely under an hour uh participants um in the pack provided uh memos to the board of uh to the board I hope you had an
opportunity uh to read them and also so uh we have two of the major participants who usually go to all the meetings uh Carrie Easter day here in Lisa calonia I know they told me they're available if you have any questions for for them or for myself okay um yes I do have a
question it somebody has mentioned to me that they would like the meetings posted is it something that can be done or has to be done sure so Carrie Easter I'm a department manager for the planning board um packed
meetings are not subject to open meeting law because it's not a governing body we make no decisions we make no votes um and it's just basically for lack of a better term some of the department heads of the major departments that would be responsible for any type of Licensing or
permitting on someone who's doing something on their property they just want a One-Stop shop to be able to sit down with the major departments to say what licenses and permits do I need what do I have to go for we go by our while
the planning department goes by the subdivision rules and rs and we go by our zoning bylaws so that's already been determined by the town of what the requirements are so when the applicant comes in just to make it simple for everyone when an applicant comes in with
a vision of what they want to do whether they get approved for that ultimately from the board but they come to us as a preliminary because they're still putting their plans together and they want to say okay well do we have to go to the zoning board do we have to go to the planning board everything goes
through the planning board but excuse me uh conservation is there Wetlands um building what is building requirements me so there's no votes taken and there's no we're not a governing body either
it's just um staff getting together for the for the purpose of a taxpayer or someone potentially becoming to be a taxpayer that way they can just come to one place get the information that they need on what they have to do then they
usually leave and then they'll come up with their plan um sometimes they might see that it's not cost effective because of the steps that they have to do and the cost that's incurred on that and other times they make a determination that yes it is something that they can
move forward with okay I mean it's so One Stop Shop yes and on paper it sounds great yes in reality it is um it's a nice service to offer how long we have we've been doing this um 2021 2021 yeah
I want to say 2021 okay um it was initiated because we had found that the department what was happening was potential applicants were coming in and they were come and say to the building usually they go to the building inspector first or the Building
Commissioner then he says okay well you need to go talk to planning and you need to go talk to conservation you need to go maybe zba if there's some variances or special permit through them make sure you go to conservation so then what happens is is the applicant will go to the building
department and then go to the conservation department the planning or zba Department department and do all the running around for the different departments sometimes we're all in sometimes we're not um and we also found
that when you had it separated that way excuse me um if you when you had it separated that way and you don't have the meeting of the minds together what may be said by the building department might get construed by the
time they get to us and then we're like okay well this doesn't make sense and then okay well let me reach out to him and then you have to reach out to him wait for an answer come back again so we found that I have found that the packed meetings were also very important for
those major departments to come together so that we're all on the same page and we we know what's going on if that makes sense so that we can all see the vision together the potential vision and say okay these are the steps that are going to be taken that need to be taken sure
uh it's I think it's a great service uh I I just think the person who um who had called felt something inappropriate was going on uh so that's the reason why I asked and it doesn't sound like there is so uh you you explained it very well
Nancy's here from storm water I think Nancy you want to be brought into this correct yes um I think uh now is the opportunity to do that the letter I sent to the board that is signed by Mr F and by me uh is really requested some kind
of representation when we had a combination stormw water agent Health agent he took care of everything he would attend those meetings after he left we were out of the loop and as I said in the letter which I did provide to uh Mrs EAS today and I gave one I
left one for Mrs calonia I don't know if you've got it or not I left it on your desk I'll give you one later but the concern is that because we weren't in the loop we had a major blow up at a select excuse me at a storm order meeting I don't remember if you were at
the that one or the one that came after it but the gentleman was very very upset because he was under the impression he didn't need a storm water permit and thank goodness we have Weston and Samson because they were doing the
work for planning and uh conservation and they said there's a storm waterer component to this and initially they weren't asked to respond um fortunately the work they did included storm water work but the owner
of the project thought Weston and Samson was going to go study it again and Bild them for work that already had been done we know Weston and Samson doesn't work that way so that was a major problem um they did bring in the permit uh
application and the check and that's a whole separate issue um the other one was a gentleman who was my second example who was just so persistent contacting me that we had to have a phone conversation about this whole
thing and I kept saying to him no you've got to go to planning and concom we don't get involved unless they approve a project and then you come to storm water and they will tell you that uh planning always says you know you're all set with
us now you got to go to storm water I said we don't get involved in give out information and all this stuff if the project isn't going to be approved so in citing those two examples all I'm saying is we need some kind of
representation if a project and it and I think it will be clear from the beginning if a project is going to fall within the town storm water bylaw and regulations right now it's 35,000 square fet of disturbance then we've got to sit there and listen to this we do require
permits we don't issue permits the Board of Health does because of subcommittee of the Board of Health and that was what our combination Health agent and stormwater agent did so he'd be at the meeting and if it was coming to storm waterer he would explain you need a
stormw waterer permit here's the application give it to me I'll take it to the board to help so we don't have that representation now so the only um the only safety N Stor water has at
this point in time is Weston and Samson obviously they get involved and they recognize as they did in that case this storm water issue is here so that's what my main concern is not not what the
group does as a whole it's just being because of these two instances being left out and it hopefully we won't have any more um very upset right proponents um and and
again if we know about the project what it is we'll just sit and wait and see what happens and whether it's coming our way or not so that's that was my main concern I think you're a vital part of that group and you should be there well we were yeah until there was no representation from yeah yeah and that's
when the problems developed and um the gentleman that was very very upset um I mean remarks get made like this town is pick a derogatory term uh this town is whatever or we're in business to collect
permit fees that's not what we do but again he got wrong information and it was unfortunate so so that's why I wrote that that a letter that Mr uh chairy and I went over it and so that's why we submitted it to you great thank
you just one more thing are these open to the public what's that the PE the public can Comm in so if you think of it like a a workshop yeah okay so the public can Comm in but there's no public input um we have to be very careful
about the public input because then conversations can start to turn from what yep is supposed to be meaning the licenses and the permits and variances or anything um when you start bringing public input in um some of the
Visions start to change because um an individual might be stepping in saying well let's can you put this in there put that in there and that's that's not that's not the PX rooll sure I would like to respond to Nancy really quick or
just in general um and I appreciate that thank you uh for your memo um we do have two representatives from the storm water committee on the pack team that would be Jim aguar and Lisa calonia um I also understand that this
is still something that we're working The Kinks out um but it's also my understanding that under your Buy laws it states in there that the issuing authority for Industrial and Commercial is planning and then for conservation
conservation takes care of residential and then anything that doesn't fall under that would then go under the storm water committee so okay and I I should address that yeah when the bylaw was originally written and passed that's exactly what it said there wasn't a
storm water committee what we found out was by 2018 and a successive number of new members on the board of Selectmen who quite frankly were tired of the complaints from homeowners who were allowed to build in areas that never should have been allowed mainly water and basements and
things like that storm water committee was formed by the board of Selectmen to specifically focus on storm water and what happened was the bylaws haven't been changed that's part of what Weston and Samson is looking at we know
there needs to be changes um initially conservation said to me personally we're not getting involved with that we do uh Wetlands protection act I said storm water is the Clean Water Act they're both Federal so
and there is a responsibility placed on every Community for storm water management um before we had a storm water committee there were not site visits made there were not I'll say qual ified people out in the field like when we had a storm
water agent who could go out and look at something and say wait a minute this isn't right this isn't wrong with the storm water committee and with the agent we had a good frequency of inspections and site visits I mean I've gone out on site visits with the storm water agent
with Tom Ferry we've had a number of people we've had on-site meetings um posted meetings uh to deal with certain I'll say projects like Brook Street the issue that arose was
enforcement of the bylaw and the site inspections and the kind of work that has to be done in a comprehensive storm waterer program so what happened was with the formation of the storm water committee the planning
board and conservation that's still still doing their their work more of the site inspection and enforcement and all that was being done now because we have a stor water committee and that's why it's uh usually what the chairman of the
planning board says they're all set with us now you've got to go to storm water okay so I think personally the setup we have is good because the decisions are made by the the main boards okay we don't get
involved unless we have to are unless there is a complaint as was the case when this committee got formed and we had all these residents coming to the board of Selectmen and at one time we were Board of Health too with these complaints about I got water here and I
got I mean the usual usual things we're hearing that that I think now has probably been prevented because of inspections and uh qualified people to do site inspections and do soil
sampling and um determining the actually if property is is considered a wetland um so without so if you step back and there's no storm water committee there's no enforcement no one on the planning
board or the conservation is going to go out and do site inspections and say to them like we had a joint issue with st Solon the minute they sat clearing the land we shut them down immediately the violations were so
bad and so serious that both water and conservation issu the stop work order because the conservation violations were more detrimental than storm water conservation took the lead
and we were with them we've had reversals with where stor water has stepped up and K CL has followed us but in any case the to have um Lisa and who was the other one uh Jim AA B all right they are
not there as storm waterer people no and that's the problem Todd was there to represent Board of Health and I don't know who's doing that now and stormw water and he was the person that was responsible for making sure that the rules and regs were complied with that
he was one of the people that called me that said we got to go to the site I'll pick you up and I'll be down here in 10 minutes we got to go to this site because we got major problems and we're probably going to shut them down and so you've got to have that component or
else without enforcement but anyhow that's why I'll came okay I personally feel that we're working together now the boards and the storm waterer committee except we've got a hole to be filled
specifically okay um concom is not going to enforce Clean Water Act neither is planning or the billing commissioner or anybody else so this is the whole thing that we have the responsibility
for okay all right thank you um you guys have any questions before Ralph continues well if the saw the posted meeting what would prevent Nancy from going to the meeting and nothing so she could she could go and as a town official public inputs AR allowed but could she weigh in as a storm water
absolutely as the storm water okay chairman my only other con thought is um just for transparency could we at least put it on the the calendar on the website so folks know what's happening I know you won't post an agenda because it's not a post a meeting but could we
post whatever the date time the date is time the date and time so I I I know that there was a another memo um outside of myself talking about you know the procedure like how long they are and whatnot and I think that's more of something for the packed members to get
together and work that out public the board of Select even like this week we didn't have a packed meeting because there was nothing to discuss um so I'm thinking instead of on the calendar instead of doing a rolling a recurring
meeting just do it when it's happening yes does that make sense it does um that's my thought and I completely agree with Nancy that there has been a little loophole with the um storm water part on
that I just wanted to make note that the issuing authority under those three properties type of properties that it would fall under is that those are the issuing parties yeah losing my thought here a little bit so if there was anything specific coming up saying okay
well and I'm just going to use something very simple someone wants to build a house on a lot that's going to they're going to clear more than 35,000 square fet but they didn't have to come to the planning conservation they have to go to building for a permit but um then obviously storm
water right would be at the top for that um but yeah I have no problem okay and I agree with what she's saying and again the spot that is is not being filled at this point is so the big
Housing Development proposal comes in and they go to planning and all that um we become aware that there was a big housing project or something planned um and so we kind of monitor it we don't
get involved unless there is part of that proposal that is truly storm water like one development wants to have water drained from dton into tanton and I don't know how many tanton Conservation Commission meetings we went to and said
please please continue this and finally the taton concom said to that developer when you get straightened out and Dion come back here because I said it's hasn't come to storm water yet it has not been approved by the planning board conservation has concerns I don't know
why you're hearing this because I'm not sure we're going to allow water to leave this town right it drain into another municipality um so again the way it's set up yes the planning board gets the big developments in the industrial
things and it's only on certain things like that that we would step up and say time out you know on the industrial end I can only think of one uh location that the storm water committee and concom and the building
department we've all involved with in the North End when they were planning to do some uh I'll say work on the end of the plant that's towards Wana Boulevard and they were going to make changes and we made several site visits talk to
engineers and made suggestions well nothing has come of it because everything seems to be in limbo so in that particular case uh it was because of drainage and things like that that uh uh I know Mr
pilling I was there Mr Ferry was there Jim agie I was there um not sure about Tim ry's back then but there was enough concern amongst if you will these departments because of areas of that
would in would be involved with the various departments you work in or the committee you serve on okay but um as I said that is sort of in limbo sure I know but but again
um the main concern is knowing what's going on and uh being able to at least be prepared so that down the road uh that development I talked about with the water going into another Community uh
whatever happens with that down the road again right now it's not going anywhere but uh it's something we're aware of and we just just monitor it okay as far as a rep from the stor committee it doesn't have to be me as long as we know that
there's a meeting and if we know what's coming up um if I'm available I would attend if I'm not I'd ask Mr Ferry if he's available but just to sit in on the meeting to get the information um so that we know where we where we're going obviously we wouldn't be making
decisions either okay thank you thank you I think you have anything else I don't think so okay Lisa are you here to add something yeah okay so yeah I completely concur with Carrie and Nancy and I think
communication between departments is very important um I also think you know since day one I've been you know we've been evolving on um permitting and how the how dyon does it how the procedures
are and reviews of things collaborating um as boards and committees and I think it would go I don't know if you all had a chance to read my letter but I think it would go a long way if like we we knew that the permit link was going to
start being utilized by other departments right now I know the town Treasurer uses it um I believe the assessor's office uses it I use it and the building department but it would be awesome and I think it would go a long
way if the Board of Health could start using it and I don't know when that's going to happen um I when did we we budgeted the money for this year right I mean fiscal year last night when we well that that was for the uh uh that was for
the annual fee there's there's additional Fe to um to to dep bring on that thing all we did last night was listen for the yeah and it's something we're looking into okay uh because um that module is is very helpful because then instead of doing like a paper
permit that has to get checked off on the permit cannot electronically cannot advance until planning checks off on it right you know conservation health and then the final check off should be uh the building
commiss okay yeah so that's in my experience because I've worked for several other communities and that you know with we're the Oddball here because like there you know someone could go and apply for
something and when they do if they don't have a computer the towns usually have a little computer there at the desk like in the building department for them to apply and when that happens the other department all get tasked which is
really great um because then you know I can see right now if the other departments have made a comment put it on hold or anything so you know then you know you know you don't it doesn't
require a phone call it doesn't require you answering the phone when someone calls to say I really don't know where things are at with your permit I hate saying that you know I really I I would rather know what the other departments have
decided um yeah and it's it's just been it's been tough with the Board of Health not having an agent um and I really think the health department should be represented by the agent for technical questions at the pact meeting you know
okay thank you thank you everything at this point um as a followup to what Lisa had to say if it's okay with you could we put that on our agenda for our next meeting to discuss permit link because I think that's an actionable item that we could probably take care of prior to the
loans with the next budget cycle y um because yeah do you think permit link has that capability that you can all see yes um and track it oh yes okay I know that's been talking about for years um since I've been involved with the town for years
so while looking to the module to see what what needs to be done uh to to air that because yeah right there's permit link permit eyes and they all have that capability and it's just a matter of of having like the administrator give the
point person the ability to open it up look at it and and then and then move it on as I said what I'm familiar with it's you know very similar what Lisa has explained like each um each department um has before before the the final permit can
be issued each dep it goes through uh it goes to each department and it does give it provides notation as to what it is what it needs um and and and what it needs to advance forward so it's we'll we'll take a look and it's what's really
neat is too it's a do it's a record on that property so later on 10 years someone comes they can see that they've already had to apply for conservation or whatever it was right um and then um
what else is it oh so it's not only useful for like ENT office but I mean if you're an applicant my husband owned a restaurant and a food truck he had to go through Board of Health and he would tell me you know some towns really have it together and some towns don't he
never had to come through here but um it's always nice when you kind of know and I know conservation has more like we have more work to do I would love to put on our conservation page the exact steps of what you need to do to apply for a
Wetlands protection act permit through conservation um So eventually we'll get there and even with the permit link we can put like our we can upload um eventually upload our applications on
that module which would change things so it wouldn't just be them applying for a building permit they could apply directly for our permits to too and I think the health department can do that too sure yeah all right thank you I think permit Link's been around long
enough too where the learning curve is is over so yeah there's probably plenty of people several years that we start that I'm not tech savvy I mean I look at dirt and plants and stuff for living so like if I can figure it out and also the
the cost too whatever cost would be associated with it I know the Board of Health has worked to change their fee structure to kind of cover the cost for inspection so I'm sure we can discuss that too making sure that it's being offset which is great awesome great
thanks for mentioning that one additional thing in regards to the cost um we do have the public health Excellence Grant I don't know what's going on with it anymore um but there was the whole point of it was to take smaller towns like us and get us up to
date with other bigger communities and that could be I don't know what they're doing with their funds right now but that could be something that the Board of Health could look into to see if there was any opportunity for money there that's awesome we'll see yes Hope hi Dan hi um
so Dan Higgins again I'm chairman of the Tian econ economic development committee so one thing is that the discussion so far has been around residents external customers businesses trying to come in their use of the pack it's also used by internal groups but I have gone there as
a member of my committee because I needed to socialize an idea with department heads and it was the easiest way to do it and I raised it to the Town Administrator at the time he invited me to the pack we were able to you know Express what we wanted to do and they were able to give me their
feedback um that's one point the second point is the whole idea of The Pact um which I think is great is simply to provide what's already publicly available information but synthesized in a way that's easier for the person to consume by pulling it all together for
them um and not only is it the role of the pack but that's pretty much what almost every Committee in town does I mean to a different degree maybe but sure I mean my own group I have run down um easements for a business that was
trying to sell and they said they were having trouble because the town had an easement on their property from going back like 50 years I came down here I talked to the assessors I talked to um the building department the town looked at it said we don't need that anymore we're willing to get rid of it all they
to send us a letter we'll negate the easement and that's just you know that's the same thing sure as what The Pact is trying to do it's just in kind it's a little bit different you and I met with a um a local business last year who was
interested in building more uh residential housing in town had some concerns about his current office space again it's all the same sure all those committees are doing the same thing it's just the complexity of it may R warrant pulling together more um uh more
department heads than something that's easier but it's all publicly available information they just trying to ease the path for you know residents or businesses so I I think when Mr Al stood that up I thought it was um a wonderful thing for sure for the businesses yeah
all right thank you thank you thank you Ralph you want to continue um about few think about the I have as much as I can say about the pack I I don't have anything okay sure one more thing go ahead oh thank Rob woods8 Chas Street and um I
appreciate Mark speaking up about the transparency but I want to know who the person's going to be that determines who goes to pack as far as let's say a developer comes in or somebody wants to know they want to build something or or
whatever who do they see who determines that person or group goes to pack has let me explain um at storm water committee we had a um gentleman who had a
problem so we said you need to go to the planning board well somehow we ended up at pack and another time I found out that there was another group going to pack that wanted to do a big development well who who is the person
that says yes pack is the Avenue for you I'm not saying I'm against pack and I'm not saying we should not have pack Pack's a good thing of course but like who is the person because some of these people should be going in front of the board of Selectmen all the planning board or some other board but you know
they used to come before pack they would come to planning board just to kind of feel us out we were thinking about doing this and we're thinking about doing that and you're basically telling them you know that's their job to figure out how to do it but they coming to get information on what's dyon look for because every city
in town operates a little differently so it's like they comeing to feel you out so who is going to be the person to say okay these people need to go to pack or these people need to go to planning board or these people need to go to the board of Select we need to know who that
person is what come if I may as as Miss is coming up that that's okay you can follow up the uh um you know something any department head can suggest that an individual should go to pack because
that person knows that you start they start explaining well this is what I'm thinking of doing and then the department head recognizes well that's out of my expertise I don't want to give you misinformation so we have this thing called a pack meeting all the department
heads are there and you should go there for the most part Miss uh easterday is the gatekeeper for pack because because it's planning most people go through and then the incident uh which Mr wood was explaining you know um person had a
complaint fortunately that day was a pack day all the people who could address his complaint or give him advice on the complaint where to go was at the pack meeting so it was like it was sort of a a natural notion to to send him there as
as the first step this does not pack does not preclude anyone from going to the next step we just let people know what the next step is what the appropriate next step is so we don't want you know we
don't want to waste anybody's time so we you know we use that we do it as a preview we say you know the ones I've been to it's like okay you know you have to go right you have to go to the permitting sometimes it's you have to go
to planning instead of Zoning for permitting or you okay or conservation that no you're not in the Wetland so we don't have to do that you're not clearing enough land so you don't have to go so you don't have to go for a storm water or what do you well if
you're clearing this much land you know you in all likelihood you're going to have to go to storm water or zoning you're going to have to oh you need a variant so you're going to have to go to zoning so it sort of you know it gives the appin anyone who's there the
opportunity to understand you know which Avenue they have to take to go in front of the appropriate board to get the appropriate permits kind of like you know if I come to her and ask her a question and I don't like what she tells me then I'm going to come ask you and if I don't like what you tell me I'm going to go
see him so there needs to be one person in charge of P whether it's Mrs Easter day or any other member there should be like one main person if somebody comes up to town hall and goes to Karen's office and say well I'd like to do this I'd like to do that oh well go talk to
Ken we go talk to Ralph so we needs to be one person kind of you know keeping it all together not nearly Willy well I talk to this one I talk to that one or if you didn't talk to Mrs EAS to day then you talk to the wrong person or
Ralph or whoever it may be yeah right just we need to clean this up a little bit sure you know and as far as storm water having a seat at that table yes I'm a storm water member myself I'm also on the planning board I do think a stone
waterer member should be there at that meeting it's my opinion okay that's all thank you thank you Carrie do you want to address uh his concern about who's going to be the firstling the gatekeeper and I One usually nine times out of 10 when someone is calling they either call the
billers nine times out of 10 they're call building Commissioner's Office okay first thing he says is you know get carry a call because right you're not in the right zone or or whatever so they're not getting bounced around from Department to Department exactly so organically it has become I've never
elected and I've never been chosen but organically pretty much everyone comes to me and they say okay this is what I'm looking to do and pretty much I know off the bat you're going to need to see conservation you're going to need to see building you're
going to need the zoning or planning um sounds like maybe storm water so listen we're going to have a packed meeting at 11:00 on Tuesday those departments will be there and that'll be the time to Hash it out okay and then again I just want to
reemphasize that there's no votes and there's no decisions all we're doing is just advising any individual who comes in and maybe I should clarify a little bit that someone who comes in with a potential application they're getting
the groundwork on that right then there's the aftermath when you issue the permits and the licenses and everything sometimes things come up complaints come up and then it doesn't feel like the complainer is and that's a horrible word I don't want to say that
but for lack of a better term the person who's complaining feels like that they're kind of getting the runaround or not getting their answers so then that's when I said okay why don't you come to P because these are the licenses and permits that they have what is your
complaint okay this is your complaint that falls under the zoning enforcement officer zoning enforcement officer who's the Building Commissioner was there and he said I'm going to go out and do an inspection and I'll said submit my report so again there's no again no
other decisions are made on anything after the fact but if someone comes in with a complaint or even the owner of that permit wants to hey I wanted to do some work over there well you have Wetlands let's have conservation there and then they
come in with a vision nope that doesn't fall under what you've already been permitted for and you can't do that in the wetlands I don't want to speak too much cuz not an expert in the Wetland area and it also I think I would like to reemphasize too that with us coming
together that way and i' I've never done this because I never want to be able to be the one speaking on behalf of the Conservation Commission saying you need to do this and this and this I think it would avoid that as well so that there's no miscommunication out there so for
example nine times out of 10 someone will say well I I say you have Wetlands so you're going to need to go to conservation but what do I have to file for that you had me to talk to conservation that's not my jurisdiction sure just to make it very clear to
anyone who comes in okay on that okay thank you thank you Mr chair just one final com um point about department heads and I agree with what Carrie is saying I send them to Carrie whatever it is there are
exceptions when a situation requires recognition of um extenuating circumstances we had a situation this was all discussed openly in TT again at the Conservation Commission we had a a
situation where a developer in Taunton was right up against the segre anet river to which we have water rights as does the town of Somerset and the uh not the full storm water committee but um certain
members uh less than a quorum and the chairman of the board of Selectmen discussed it and it was decided that we would pursue it at the storm water level because we didn't want want to end up in a court battle with the city of
Taunton and oh and Mike Mullen a Town Administrator was involved so we we did get it all worked out we did get plans revised from the developer to protect the river conom was involved because it was also a situation of runoff going
into the river so so on so to just kind of um point out that certainly I think everything should go Carrie congratulations Carri but as he said department heads have to recognize things when the complaints came to me I
was actually on a site inspection out in the swamp because I was still a selectman but I was also chairman of the storm water committee and that started everything going uh so the Town Administrator the chairman of the board
selectman um our health agent uh Health Agent stormw Water agent um Building Commissioner we all kind of work together chairman of the board of selectman was kept in the loop but we purposely did not include the board
immediately because we didn't want this to turn into uh the board of Select me if we could not have solved it we would had for legal action at which point the board of selectman would have been involved and the town of Somerset was a potty of Interest as was the D water
district so to say to just back up what he said uh very unique circumstances but obviously if something like that arose again and I got a complaint like that I would be talking to you and him just to say this is the
situation and to keep it to resolve it at the lowest possible level okay thank you did you want to talk about soon oh yes I did oh can I say one thing about water I'm sorry that's okay I I just
keep hearing about um storm water not being able to be represented I feel like I'm missing something because storm water is more than welcome to go to the meetings from what I heard ASW the health agent and any other department head right so want to keep he yeah through the we we um I'm sorry I didn't
want me to interrupt you mark but just the um you know we we did recognize that there's been some flux lately and we do uh and we are uh sort of making sure uh we expand it expand the invitees and uh I had spoken to miss Easter day about it
and we know that at the very uh going to have the office manager from uh from the health department there and then we'll we'll um we'll assume who we can have uh for representing storm water in all likelihood it probably be superintendent Ferry um um but but we'll work that out
you know something we're not going to we don't preclude anybody from coming it's just figuring out who's there to come you know so thank you so M Le some [Music]
representative from the health department is great I just want to reiterate having someone there to answer administrative questions is completely different than or answering technical questions so I think that if there's a
way we could in at least invite the health agent if he can't make it or if there isn't a topic for him to discuss but at least have it open because personally I have never I've only met him when he was appointed I have only talked to him on the phone well I think
we're talking about having um Elizabeth right attend right well I and these are details we're going to work because you know and just as we think you know you know Elizabeth could if she could get get the information pass it on to pass
it on to the health agent so you know the idea of pack is to like say Okay Health shouldn't be involved you know I'm not qualified to tell you what to do I'll give your information to the health agent so it's um it makes sense for him to be invited
or just yeah offer him the option to come to discuss I mean I can think we're not going to preclude him yeah no I know yeah because there might be a topic he wants to talk about with all of us yeah yeah sure thank you you're
welcome okay Ralph Zoom meeting the zoom okay we had um um as you know we had the incident at our last meeting so we were reviewing a zoom policies the um we are
the town of dyon is not obligated to uh to put the meetings on Zoom but I know uh that uh that you know we have um we we definitely have a a a history of transparency so um we we took a a look
at how we can continue to do zoom and and sort of um sort of mitigate uh Zoom bomb so one thing uh one thing which came up was we would have to give everyone a password and that's too cumbersome to do to everybody so what
we're doing now is um we're letting um everybody in they go to the waiting room and then we let them in no uh no video just audio so we think that will go a long way in um in sort of protecting us
against any sort of Zoom bombers and as you see we have the list um uh the list up of of who's on of who's on Zoom uh and then if something did did happen we could click them off quickly where unfortunately the in um like last week
we didn't have you know we don't have didn't have the list of the participants right up so I think uh we're gonna I think that's a good way to go that's something I've done in the past and and um we're we're comfortable with that um if somebody needs to uh be doing a
presentation um we could allow them uh to uh to go on the screen and share screens and but we would have vetted that that person great first step yeah okay and to you come if you don't mind just for
clarification so folks what I heard was they won't be able to show their video unless we invite them to correct they Beed and just to be clear they have to show their name like it can't be iPad iPhone well we can't yeah no we can't we can't pleas that they put any name up
yeah but can they at least put a first can we make that as part of our procedure I think iPhone well then would well if we can you know what we could list that on the uh um and then we could bring this up because it's it's would be
a board policy um you know what we could do is we could list it at the top of the agenda and then someone has to come into the waiting room and if they just put on his iPhone we don't admit them I think that would be that would be nice it doesn't take anyone's rights to um join the zoom
meeting however it gives us a little more control over the zoom meeting we will bring that we will bring that policy up at the next meeting so you can make a decision on it thank you Mr Mr chairman before this is Mr Gail um speaking in da position for this a little bit just quickly just to think about anyway is that when you're still
doing hybrid Zoom meetings if and this hasn't happened yet but the question could come up if you have a person who needs somehow to attend the meeting at some point and wants a sign language interpreter so that they understand what's going on and they're attending by
Zoom then there has to be some opportunity to have an exception because if there needs to be an interpreter there because it's the only way the person can attend by Zoom if they're not physically in person and the meetings are being you know available assume and that person has to
be able to have The Interpreter there as I said so that they know what's going on we've never had that come up yet I I think confus wait so he's saying having a sign language interpreter but they can see them right so not having the camera how would that John Jonathan yes I I
think there's a misunderstanding you will still be able to see what's happening here in the um Town Hall we just get but we will not be able to see uh you on camera okay but they will be able to see
you folks correct yes okay if that if that's if that's the case then that's fine I just wanted to clarify that that would be absolutely the case that the video would would basic be saying y yes okay and that's question
thank you all very oh you're welcome sir um town uh serman reports Mark none none Nicole do you have anything just quickly um the commission on disability we met last week um as we discussed briefly last night um we decided to zero
out our budget for um the upcoming fiscal year one we have an used budget from last year um so that right away was a great reason not to be asking for more money um to we take into account the financial state of the um town right now
and I thought I had a third but it's not coming to me I had it in the email um but other than that we also started to talk about maybe um doing some more some different kind of programming um some kind of prevention stuff so that we can
not only um reach out to our disabled residents but also not um add to our disabled residents but also get a population that doesn't know um and isn't looking for disability things but through prevention we kind of capture them Hope just trying
to capture more folks than what we had then but other than that I just wanted to make you aware of the budget for this this upcoming year okay thank you um you've probably heard a few times tonight that we referred to last night's meeting uh we did indeed have a meeting
last night with the selectman in the finance committee uh combined uh interviewing certain amount of department heads we had that meeting last night there's another one tomorrow night in one next Tuesday um it's the start of our budget season
uh well we're halfway through the budget season it's the start of the selectman in the finance committee reviewing each budget and uh it went well it's a long tedious process but we're off to a great start so I just want to make everybody aware of that so uh we're going to be on
to Old business which is none so uh new business please uh this is a review discuss and act petition to request parking lot expansion at Dian Council on agent um I could I could begin addressing that um as as the selectman see they received a petition of some
some of the participants on the Council on Aging to expand uh to expand the parking lot uh where they park now is down um at the bottom of the uh bottom of the hill uh the the um the people who
work for the Council on Aging Express concern about uh about the elderly people uh and people with ambulatory problems going going up the hill especially on icy conditions uh so uh they put in request to expand uh the
parking lot so um we were in um myself uh Mr Ferry Mr aguar got together and sort of looked how you know how how can we do this um an expansion of that size um requires an engineering study um so
um and as you could I'll back it up a little bit as you could well uh imagine it's kind of costly to to put to expand um to expand the parking lot so um Council and aging did uh does have $199,000 which has to be expended by the
end of this month um so we made a suggestion to them uh one um Granite City will do the engineering um will do the engineering for the uh project uh so we could have that so we could have that
in place so if sometime in the future when um you know if Finance is allowed if the Council on agent can get a grant uh to uh to complete to comp uh to complete the uh parking lot we could uh we could Mo uh move ahead on that the
estimated cost of the um of the uh asalt blacktop and laying it out is about 30 an additional $35,000 so that's where we're at um the um uh uh Granite City is presenting the
um the engineering study in front of the planning board because has to go as a for a site visit it's going front of planning board next next Wednesday so so they'll have that in hand in case you know you know Fortune Smiles on us we have some money um they can move ahead
and uh expand the park a lot so you say the funds are good until the end of March um then there's really not a decision tonight would it be the last meeting uh in March for the selectman that if anything needs to be approved we
can do it then yes okay so this is not necessarily if if you discuss no we didn't quite know what it was uh when it was coming when it was coming forward meaning that uh we thought you know that we thought the funds could cover it and you know uh but again we had the uh
again myself uh superintendent Ferry and and commissioner aguar spoke with uh spoke with the council and Ag and sort of laid out the plan y so um citizens did bring It Forward uh to the selectman and uh we just want to let you know action has been taken sure and uh
and we're we're working on it okay great thank you I just have a question yes in regards to whatever Granite City is going to that component that they're going to complete is there any like is how long is that good for is like if we if it's many years down the road that we get this money whatever they do is that
still going to be viable um I would if I could refer to uh superintendent Ferry it it should I mean I I don't think it's going to change the land so um as long as um um I don't know the answer to that I'm
sorry yeah yeah not off the top of my head I don't have the specific answer to that okay um yeah it just kind of puts my department in a unique situation too so make something happen for The Expendables by the end of March is going to be tricky um I already went through
the conservation agent we got a limit of work out there already on the planning board's agenda so the engineering is going to happen and we'll probably have a list of materials that we can buy within 19,000 with it also including the engineering um I I do think it's a
viable project at some point the board will need to act to say yes or no I mean if there's a no I need to hear it sooner than later because it is okay not to spend the 19,000 you know it's CU it does force us to invest in it is the I guess the
question would be is the board okay just expanding I think we can probably make a decision this evening um unless you want more information I just want to know what where did the Grant come from where's the $19,000 what Grant is that uh that's
one of the grants that this uh Council on Aging had received it's for uh a programming Grant I believe it's a state programming Grant and it this uh uh uh this fits this would fit under that beat that criteria so I know they did the
bathrooms and all that that's that's the grant that that's the the last Grant they had and because of the work our department did that's why you have that remaining balance it's awesome great it makes sense within the scope I mean it's all improving that facility you know the
bathrooms the parking lot the engineering makes sense they're here and now the worst case scenario the site prep work would be done some trees would be removed the very few uh top soil and then good gravel will be added with the
ri wrap slopes for the storm water element um just waiting for asphalt so be shovel ready for asphalt there's no Wetlands there or anything right there there is but it's already we already had we utilized a wetland delineation for the railro bed in the back
y the buffer Z beautiful so we we we already had the delineation that we could go off of Y so it saved it a little bit on the engineering and the prep work for Grants like if is there a way like to find out like ahead of time that they'll definitely pay for it CU I'm
just thinking of like yes yeah it was already it was already given the green light to go this direction oh great okay awesome I don't have any questions uh Nicole you have any other questions no that was Mr f um Nancy
yes Mr and I are kind of both in Conflict being on the stor water committee and him being Council on Aging and I signed that petition so I support Pro I saw your signature on that I'm not
opposed to a parking lot but you know what I'm going to say one of the things that we have to report on the ms4 is potential sites that can be converted from impervious to perious surfaces if we are going to create a Pocky lot I
hope that the engineers are going to pave it or Surface it or whatever you call it with uh perious material we don't want to add more impervious surface to our ms4 report we actually
were able to do something down at the tennis courts right a small section uh we had to give them five possible sites to convert from uh impervious to perious only one of them was POS done but I just mentioned this that going forward if
there's going to be I'll call it surfacing of parking areas that we keep that in mind because if it's if it's pervious that's a plus for the town and we put it on the report sure we just don't want to add more right we don't want to create more runoff that's going
to Y so would it be like a gravel parking lot's better than asphalt no there is no there is asphalt that is is uh pervious as a matter of fact one of the first storm water permits issued was for a home on hot Street uh excuse me no hot Street where it was extremely sloped
and part of the driveway in order to get the permit had to be perious the rest could be impervious but because of the slope and the water going across the street yeah that was a requirement that they met oh great the um parking lot at
the uh tennis courts cost $30,000 so we get probably close to that same size correct yes that's how we get that rough number okay uh so we're going to keep this as a review discuss and act then unless uh you don't want to guys I'm I'm good you
ready to make a decision okay is there a motion on the floor then please I'll it's not for a parking lot expansion it's for um it's so I'll make a motion to approve the engineering
for basically studying an expansion of the the parking lot would that be fair statement you fav no uh some things may need to actually happen before the end of the month okay which includes removing some trees and top soil okay
yes so I I would say the project could be a go-ahead I'll amend my motion I would need that yes to allow the parking lot Expansion Project to move forward I'll second that okay a motion made and seconded any discussion all those in
favor bye Tom thank you Mr Ferry again uh Pat you've been sitting here so quietly you guys are real real Troopers thank you this is a request for the 250th anniversary from the 250th
anniversary committee for Revolutionary War soldiers Monument okay I'm Pacs and I'm the chair of the 250th anniversary committee and Ray heg is the Veterans agent so he's working with the committee on this project my committee is really great at
brainstorming and coming up with great ideas and um in our conversations we decided that it would be really important to leave something that's permanent for the 250th anniversary of America here in dayon so
that people in years to come can come and see we had over 300 Revolutionary War veterans that were listed in the lives and fortunes book from 1976 um and there's nothing that really
honors these men and these soldiers So the plan that we hope to have is a a monument to honor these Revolutionary War soldiers um with a companion podium in the veteran Circle and the podium
idea is from Mr Ferry um so Ray and Tom are working on this and it's going to be the lasting tribute at the D trans first station there are pieces of granite from the old dayon Berkeley bridge and the the new
one right they pink too Tom it's all from the old all from the old so we went and we did a field trip and went and looked at it and it was sprinkly rainy you know but we did it they have some nice pieces of granite there um that would work which was kind of exciting
and we'd like to repurpose these for the monument and for the podium so we're requesting from you your approval to utilize these pieces as part of the meaningful this meaningful project but to help manage costs we'd
also like permission to barter a piece of granite um with a monument maker in exchange for the services this was Ray's idea wasn't it your idea was his idea his idea was his idea maybe your idea
who knows so um because that'll help with the the cost of this in addition of course we are actively seeking grants and alternative alter alternative funding sources so we're respectfully asking for your approval of the monument
project and the podium and its placement within the veteran Circle so uh I have no issues with um using the the granite and finally having a permanent Podium there because we know what happens every year uh with a little
bit of wind it goes flying and um it's it's a chore to bring it up the uh the uh the podium up to the circle so um but tell me more about this Bing that you want to do right um so what we're asking
for tonight is really to enter into the feasibility study of this project y uh in my mind I believe it might take several votes of the board of Selectmen to make this come true okay um one being the use of the property uh two being the
uh purchases of the even though it's not going to go to the bid procedure laws because it'll be less money I talked to um Aban as monument in Westport Massachusetts and they were instrumental in doing The Monuments that we placed in
the Veterans Park in Fall River so they experienced that and what they would do is take one of the slabs I don't know if you all seen this yes Granite that were so lucky to have here in the town of dayon somebody had the uh uh wisdom to
save all this and it's uh nice stuff and um we would take one of those slabs and bring it to them Tom said that he can transport it they would work it for us they first of all they're going to give us a rendition of it which we would
bring to you to get approval of it okay then it would be installed and in talking to them I brought up the subject of all them is a lot of granite have a lot of granite that are they interested in taking granite in L of money okay and
they said that they would look at the granite and that's a possibility sure so it's it's a great project and there's not a lot of Revolutionary War monuments throughout the whole country uh that's because at that particular time as they
were going forward they ran into other Wars and they didn't have the money uh to do it and they didn't have the people left to do it so now all these other monuments you see there were a lot of World War II vets there were a lot of Korea vet Vietnam vets and also so they got together and they built these
monuments so we would be one of the few people in Massachusetts other than in Boston and Lexington of course that had this type of monument and um it looks like a good project to us and um we think it's very very doable so um I
think what we're looking for tonight is just the vote to uh proceed proed feasibility with the intention of coming back with each series of votes that it's going to take to make this uh out here on Park um one one last question before I turn it over to the other truth
selectman the grants have you raised any yet we received any yet 250 yeah no not yet okay we keep looking sure one of the problems with the grants is because we're such a small town we don't meet the threshold of some of them are like
you have have matching grants of you know $25,000 you know so um but we keep looking um there was a whole series of grants that came out last week that we have to take a look at and I don't know if the monument would fall under one of those or not but we keep we there
several grants available um for Revolutionary War monuments and other monuments but there are grants for initial um our proposal the way I see it once they write that and send it into a grant provider they'll be overwhelmingly
supportive of it because of of what it encompasses sure and especially D's participation in a revolutionary war which is you know quite impressive right and we would have to for any of the grants we would have to have an outline of you know what the project is a whole
description of the project you know how it's where is it going in the town is there Town support for it so we we need all of those components to even begin apping for Grants and we would like to see the dedication of the monument
around for Veterans Day uh 2026 which would be the grand finale of the 250th would be the the Final Act sure okay ncole do you have any questions um I love the project I love that you guys have already looked into ways of funding it my saying this year is if you can
fund it you can do it um so if we can get that funding that would be great and I I really think it would be nice to like said not to have that thing that's always blowing over and just have a really nice thing out there because that area deserves to have something nice yeah and and Tom's been gracious enough
to bring that Podium out for the last few years that I've been here because I told him I was thinking I'm too old to carry that Monument out and what and what he said to me tool are just trying to get out of work remember we're going to have you carry the granite in and out
Tom so the other side of that coin is the selectman you all they had a c chairs and everything so you're all pitch in every every time we're not doing Granite chairs yeah Mark um thank you as always you guys are always so creative and
bringing things forward um I understand bidding and and different thresholds but I know getting rid of surplus is a different topic you know so I just don't know if it's other the laws around that if if it's legal to barter that seems like
a government municipal government and Bing I don't know if it's a legal way to do it yeah it's so 1776 that would be great yes yeah it's grandfather I don't know what what agency the graned itself is 100 years
old right wow no you're right though about the uh procedure but I think it would fall under um the um procurement was I think so so I would support it um with the caveat that we check with
someone and and we get in writing from someone that that's okay just to protect that yeah once the values are placed on it because you do have to place a value on what you have against value of what you're getting so sure okay interesting then is work with Ralph on that sure I
got a an email for a grant today it was cultural Count Council I is that one of them we were just looking at it like I think it might Loosely fit you know if you did a ceremony around it but I don't know we'd have to look at the details we have to look at it more cuz I was looking at a couple of them cuz there's
one like for programming there's one for like the festival part of it which our reenactment our encampment will fit into but we have to wait till 2026 for that one because the monies that you saw on those grants today have to be expended
by June 30th of 2026 and like our encampment is going to be in that fall so I'm keeping an eye on you know that one but there were a couple of others there that looked like we could kind of use one being we've um been talking about you know making a sequel to the
lives and Fortune book um adding a little bit of information more information about those soldiers and that might fit into one of those too awesome so yeah just have to look at the you know all of the rules for the grants great that's and the one the one from
the mass tour tourist and tourism I was thinking about we have to have tourism and Dion we can start at Ground Zero and if we get a a little bit then that that'll have that for us um if we could do something with I don't know some kind of a tour or something so we are
thinking about how we can use those thank you that's great okay thank you uh then um I need a motion on the floor to uh approve the infancy of this uh for them to look into um a granite U
Monument um I'll make a motion for the 250th anniversary committee to begin exploring a Revolutionary War soldiers monument and to start um going into looking into the feasibility of it I'll second that motion made and seconded any
more discussion all those in favor I thank you thank you guys thanks for being patient um again this is a review discuss and act roselli and clock a clock and Associates CPA engagement letter brazell and Clark there are
Auditors they do our audits every year they were actually in the they were in the building last week doing our last year's audit so um so um uh uh the town accountant Serena amiral um had reviewed this and this um
folds into uh what our needs are it's a three-year contract that will review it for year ending uh June 30 2025 26 and 27 so um all I'm doing is requesting the authority to sign this so we could uh so
we could move for on it do you have the actual copy tonight uh I will sign it so we don't have but I do have the actual I yeah I mean you just got give me the authority to okay sure yeah because it's just one one signature line I would be but I have the actual copy here okay oh yeah I
thought it was a three select that on this but I didn't read it close enough okay is there a a motion on the floor then um I have a question aren oh sorry I we used these people for the last time are you supposed to switch Auditors like every how like every every contract or
how you should you uh practices are you should review it so I know Serena who's the mcppo did did review as going she seemed to be she was okay um with this they do
a I'm just going to say they uh they do a good job I know there's not many firms out here that do it but uh but it was reviewed by uh by Serena I know going into it okay thank you I'll make a motion to authorize the Town
Administrator to engage roselli Clark and Associates um contract as presented I'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I I okay great um we'll do
acknowledgements and then uh another public uh input and then approval of the warrants so um the only acknowledgement that we have is a letter from Chris uh Chris rer of nrpc uh donation to five computers to the
town of dayon did um votes donating computers do we need them or yes we do okay uh um as it states in the we are we are moving to uh two-stage authentic authentication and the some of the computers we have right now are um don't
have the uh capability to move up to the next Windows which uh uh the windows program which you which is required for twostep authentification so uh so um we need um I think we need a
total of about 12 uh uh Chris is Our IT guy he he came across these uh five which would which would work for us and it saves us okay um how much money to they're about well they're about each
computer um we we get is about $600 okay a piece uh so um we're looking at still spending if I remember like $5,200 okay
yeah um okay this is a review discussion act so do you guys have any questions no that's very nice of uh to to do that for us so motion to accept
the computers as presented with thanks and appreciation second motion made in seconded any more discussion all those in favor I I um public input Mr do you have something this evening unforunately Mr and Mrs left I
just wanted to mention a couple of things the silus talbet plaque that was the last addition to the monument it's the great big boulder with the silus talet plaque that sits in the back of the little garden
yeah uh that plaque was located in the old dayon Junior High town hall and when the building burned that's what was left my first Year's selectman it used to be no not here the room over there it was leaning up against the wall and had
been there since the school burned and and I said we need to do something with it how about if we find a Big Field stone boulder and mounted on it Mr Ferry is the person he was not uh he was a foreman on this highway department I
swear he knows every Rock in Tree in this town but he knew the perfect Boulder and so that Boulder that holds that plaque uh I think it came from a section of West dayon maybe near the Regional High School uh but I wanted to mention that because he was involved
with that as far as the granite from the old bridge um the decision was made uh in working with the engineers that each town would get half of the pilings from the bridge so Berkeley got a share and
dayon got a share some of them um I believe there might be some down at the Frank Costa Park uh cuz they've been stockpiled at the landfill but I think there might be one down there um I also believe the um fence that was put up at
the police department the second fence to protect it from being hit I believe because I said to Tom you think that wooden fence is going to hold he says yeah I reinforced it with granite blocks from the bridge behind it so um there
were a lot of pieces of granite that came out of that but that's how each Town ended up with a share of the original granite and then the last thing I want wanted to mention uh Mrs Gail said Granite from the new bridge the new bridge is not Granite no it's concrete
and it's sprayed to make it look like rose Granite okay and it ages and it gets I'll call it Pinker but not not brilliant pink but more like Granite sure okay a quick question the granite that's at the transfer station is none
of that is Berkeley's it's all belongs to Dayton Berkeley has their own stash somewhere yes that when when they took the old bridge down each Town got their share and it was transported to wherever okay thank you
m good evening good evening lard H 760 Main Street D um few things from school committee yeah some of them I think you're going to be interested but first couple shout outs uh the dayon
elementary school p PTO D Elementary D middle school PTO made a contribution of $6,400 to the elementary school vital needed supplies sure and a little bit of
programming D and Lions Club our Superstars to BP Dr and ba they gave a combined total of $33,000 or $1,000
to each school to high school um budget wise Bill Rooney and the school committee paired it down they said to the best of their ability okay they're looking at a 4.3%
increase speaking to some of the Selectmen in rth they're satisfied with that number just so you know when you go into discussions with the school committee on that that bill Rooney
today issued a letter that I'd like to read into the record it's not really long dear D with families students staff and community members the upcoming fiscal 26 budget for Dr School District
presents both opportunities and challenges while we are not facing the DraStic cuts of previous years this is not a sign of fiscal stability rather it is a result of deep sacrifices already
made in fiscal year 24 and 25 when 33 staff positions was slated to be eliminated the financial burden on our town is not due to the district spending decisions but rather an outdated State
funding formula that fails to account for the real cost of Education the cold harmless designation now applies to over 230 districts across Massachusetts forcing towns to shoulder
the full cost of budget increases a situation that is no longer sustainable given the 4-year inflation rate of 4.95% the current formula
is some would argue unfair to the small towns as compared to the big cities like Springfield Massachusetts has an opportunity to address this broken system there is a proposal before the house SD
912 that would require $250,000 out of the state's 59.6 billion budget to reconvene the K through 12 funding review in fiscal year 26 this is a
crucial step toward fairer education funding we are very fortunate that our local legislators plan to support SD 912 and that is Justin Thurber of the house side and Kelly Duna on the Senate Side
Kelly also serves in a very important Committee of house Ways and Means and I'll speak more about that in a moment but but they need data to help convince their colleagues in the House and Senate
to support this bill and Mr Rooney has a link to a website which you can sign the petition in support of SD
1912 but as was the case last year many people asked that we reach out to our legis Lors and I might add that it had a significant impact both in the state and at the local
level as was the case last year the governor's budget was woefully underfunded for the schools education this year is no different last year through the
Grassroots efforts people contacting their legislators it was a $48 million increase to Chapter 70 funding that increase ended up being an increase of
$150,000 to the D hobit School District so I would Advocate members of the board of selectman as well as Citizens in the town to contact their legislators and ask them for their support and bringing
additional revenues to the school district which one could argue if funding comes from the state that might mean that on the town side they might be able to
negotiate a number little less than 4.3% thank you thanks Mr Hall anyone else there um approval of the warrants please oh if I may before through the chair I'm sorry just this is a segue
just again a reminder that was brought up at our last meeting March 25th the uh the dayon raog with uh school committee is having their budget meeting which is um I think it's it starts at 6:30 so again we're going to again we're going to post that on uh on our web you know
on our website to make sure people who are interested in it have opportunity to go so March 25th right thank you will you still uh would you still mind working with um Tom make do that on e sign too yeah yeah we thank you oh we can get that on
Facebook e yeah yeah awesome thank you so much might tough but but we'll uh we we'll see maybe we put it on a Gran actually yeah let's let's definitely do that that' be awesome thank you for that man schools are tough
like so they we have a lot of control over town Department budgets but the schools assess us and then we have kind of folks come a lot from the school committee and mention if my understanding is if it's
the town's people voted down you have to have another special town meeting right and if it's voted down again the state seems like they take it over the budget and right I think it's three times three meetings yeah I yeah I believe it's three times the state takes it over and
then they do a 112th assessment of your last year's budget until they until they resolve it through mediation so so it's not a bad thing because we get last year's budget oh okay so it's last year's budget okay because it's tough
like we go through our budget meetings and we look at all these departments so close but the school is such a large part of budget it seems like this as Selectmen do we have that much that we can do like as far as like if we have concerns for yes you can address the concerns you
can't tell them they got to cut teachers or administrative um the that's what the school committee does in their group whatever group they have to recommend to the superintendent whatever the budget's going to be um can we ask them to cut
certainly okay um and not to bring Mr Hull into this but I'm a little disappointed that they didn't cut more than absolutely uh less than 4% which is what we asked them to do yes
so yes at the town meeting if if it's tabled correct uh it would be tabled you could well you could only vote for it or or vote it down okay so there's no tabling of it uh if it was voted down then there's two more times uh the tent
meetings is what they're called then right then they they you right so you try to work out a budget again and then again and then and like I said it has to be the third time and and correctly as uh Ralph stated it the state takes over
and um takes over the budget doesn't take over the school system like happened in Providence okay recently so the school would run but just with a limited budget okay thank you for saying that about being over 4% because I found in our first budget meeting last night
that I was really impressed with all our Our Town departments and Our Town Administrator for your support because it seemed like everyone really tried and took the the direction that we as a group gave to heart um and even it was interesting to hear BP because they said
not including that their assessment for the project there was only a 2% increase right and I know it's tough to compare different schools and it's really hard to do that and we said we don't like to compare dayon to other towns right but you know the fact is if they only increase it 2% and DRS at
4.3 um it's definitely some worth noting at least sure yeah so thank you uh the 25th is Tuesday right uh yes okay um then approval of the warrants oh you you came back sir did you want to
speak during public input okay I just so she'll come back if she use her name um I'd make a motion to pay the warrants by March 6 2025 36 a25 for 11 16, 677
9 36 B-25 for $281,200 43 warrants paid by March 13 2025 35 a-25 for1
12,734 185 in 35 B-25 for6 15,33 n42 I'll second that motion second any discussion all those in favor I uh minutes now um the 13th we've
already approved so we're doing the 22nd the 30th and the 26th is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve um the board of selectman regular meeting minutes of January 22nd 2025 second motion May insed any
discussion all those in favor I I'll make a motion to approve the board of selectman special meeting minutes of January 30th 2025 second motion made in second any more discussion all those in favor I I I'll make a motion to approve the board of selectman regular meeting minutes of
February 26 2025 second motion being and second any discussion all those in favor I motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn second Mo me second any discussion all those in favor I