okay guys okay uh thank you we are just coming back from executive session so we've already taken our roll call roll call and we've done the pledge of allegiance so now we're going to get right into the the meeting but I just we just want to explain to you that this meeting is being recorded the listing of matters are those reasonably anticipated
by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting now all items listed may in fact be discussed and all other items list not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law what basically that means is if you want to you're going to be on camera if you want to look good just turn to
your best side um so we're going to start right away and the first thing on our schedule is an appointment of uh from Dave Marvel chairman of the cable committee uh Dave can you come up please yes this is a recommendation to appoint Maline Easter Day as a member of to the
cable committee so Maddie came in last Saturday and uh we showed the equipment and everything and um she likes what we do she likes the challenge and uh I think she would make a perfect fit um on the cable committee there's a lot of things to
learn and um we think everything went well and we like to see if she gets appointed to uh to our board okay great um any questions no I really don't have anything uh thank you for for doing this uh it's a wonderful task because um I
know they're always short-handed and but if David thinks that you're a fit then then so do I is any questions from Nicole no I don't have any questions do you have any questions are you fully staffed now i think what maybe one more we're a five member committee so
currently she Great but it will be a big help having her on to fill in when people are out and things like that or we're running like the uh especially for the high school you know we hold our town meetings down there so uh it's going to
be a big help great that's very exciting is that other vacancy posted on the website i think it is uh pretty much always there yeah it never goes away basically you know awesome but you know there's a lot to learn but it's it's all
new equipment it's all Mac uh you know it's the equipment is it's nice to work with compared what we had 20 years ago when we first started so we came a long way so yes in the office is practically brand new so we're looking forward to it awesome
all right thank you guys thank you mine do you have any questions for us yes sir great okay uh is there a motion on the floor um I'd like to make a motion to appoint Madeline Easter Day as a member of the cable committee i'll second that motion made and seconded any
discussion all those in favor i I Well congratulations thank you for coming in congratulations uh you don't have to stay any longer tom Ferry you're up next sir oh yes thank you
this is uh Paul Patrico uh for an Eagle Scout presentation uh Paul just give us a second thank you good evening good evening Tom yes as you can see I'm here for a few things this evening on the agenda uh one of them is
a well actually a few of them are kind of fun and exciting but we don't have an opportunity that often to have an Eagle Scout offering a project that affects our community um we have a young gentleman here that proposes it might be just another
observation stand to some people but it has a unique vantage point on our town property down at Broad Cove and I won't steal too much of his thunder but if you would I I'd like to ask him to come up here and Sure have his presentation your chance but hi my name is Paul Patricio i'm a life
scout working towards my Eagle rank i'm in troop 45 um so for my Eagle project I decided to build the view platform the nature view platform this will be constructed on the U Broad Cove Nature Trail off off
the um Broad Cove Nature Trail there will be no digging or disturbance of the ground and it will not interfere with the marshlands um um yeah the wetlands um this structure is being placed
um near a couple other uh view platforms but this one is placed uh strategically so that there is no sight of cars or houses it's just nature and there's almost a mile long range of sight so you can enjoy the beauty of the marshland or
the wetlands um and this project will also be adjustable because this is they won't be like secured in place so this view platform will be able to be moved if
necessary or if anything comes up it can be moved out of the way um yeah sure that's cool thank you for doing that uh I know it's going to get a lot of use because uh we've been down that way
before and I see people um just clamoring to get out there uh you said it's going to be movable uh is that something that you think because of ice and or is it not not an issue so the the the platform is going to be
placed on um pyramid support like base blocks and if there like if anyone decides that it's it there's a better spot for it or if it's in the way of anything it can always be moved it's not secured to the ground is that what you
meant yeah and I am not like designing the the um the structure i'm recycling the old um uh structure designs from Mr fernet and I received his uh build instructions
and the material lists which I I have so I will be using that for the the project great uh it's an awesome thing to become an Eagle Scout as you're probably aware by now uh I was a Boy Scout and I never made it to Eagle Scout i uh I couldn't
handle it but um thank you for for doing this and for becoming an Eagle Scout it's one of the things that uh when I was in Boy Scouts and one of the troop leaders had said to me uh there was a Eagle Scout who was uh on American Greed
that that show I don't know if you ever watched it or anybody has and one of the first things they said was an Eagle Scout was convicted of whatever he was convicted of at the time so you're always going to be known as an Eagle Scout first which I think is tremendous
and thank you and congratulations thank you you're welcome nicole do you have anything you want to add i just had a question um so in regards to like planning for future upkeep what's the plan for that like if it needs any maintenance or anything like that so what the materials we're using is
pressuret treated and um they're meant for like outdoor so the structure should be fine like after years of weather and um if the the the surrounding area like starts to change and it needs to be
moved it can always be moved um and I mean I'll personally keep an eye on it if anything gets brought up you know we we can always make changes and fixes so sounds good thank you mark do you have something you want um thank you for choosing Bean to do your project that's
awesome um how did you choose this project what made you interested in this so this trail is actually very close to my house i grew up on this trail so this trail is you know very important to me and I love these i've seen these view platforms i've been on them i love the
view that they offer and the peacefulness that they offer so I think it's it'd be it'd be nice to have another one in this certain spot and I think a lot of people would enjoy it it bring more attention to that section of the trail and yeah I'd like it just one more
question from Would you be willing or having are you willing to just put Lisa Calone in the loop on this project just so she's aware of it she already has very good also thank you thank you very much
congratulations you mean you want to hear me uh this like we should approve uh approve the project and then anytime it comes forward I could I could sign off sign off so this is a review discuss and act then okay uh sure then is there a motion on the floor please to accept
this project i'll make a motion to approve the Eagle Scout presentation by Paul Patricio as presented i'll second that okay a motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor i congratulations congratulations
thank you thank you uh Tom are you here for the um cemetery as well yes this is a review review discuss and act recommendation to appoint Kenneth Chico as member of the uh SE cemetery commission um does everybody know Ken
absolutely i think I've met him okay um yeah um I have no no concerns at all unless unless you do it which you're probably not we have work waiting for him all right gentlemen um that's great so uh is there
a motion on the floor to uh appoint this uh appoint Ken Pico i'll make a motion to appoint Kenneth Pacico as member of the cemetery commission i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor i i great thank you
thank you Ken oh hi Ken thanks uh again this is a review discuss and act operator class one position recommendation to hire Dennis Hazel yes so as you know we had a vacancy uh come up in our department and we have
advertised um with the help of Miss Brady we did interview three people um the one that came out on top most qualified and best for our department at this time
u would be a gentleman that was worked with us for almost 14 years in the past so I'd like to introduce Dennis Hazel he's here with his family hi Dennis hello so um that's what we have proposed for you tonight to act on okay great uh I have no questions obvious obviously if
he's coming as a recommendation from you uh I have no issues with it at all and um Nicole do you have any questions i just want to say I'm thrilled that you've decided to come back i know you spent a lot of years here and it says a lot to have you back so thank you
similar comments thank you for coming back Dennis uh it's a great community obviously you're well aware of that and uh you came highly recommended to be hired back from from Tom um and I just we just appreciate you you your
eagerness and willingness to come back and thank you for that oh you're welcome so is there a motion on the floor please i'll make a motion to recommend Dennis Hazel as an operator class one for the highway department i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion
all those in favor i I thank you okay we're going to move on to announcements thank you you guys and you have a beautiful family all right all right do you announcements yes please all right they're getting longer yes they are
um time one isn't it yes highway department public notice there is a townwide parking ban in effect from November 1st 2024 to April 1st 2025 no person shall allow any vehicle to remain in the street as to obstruct snow
removal the Friends of Dayton Public Library will be hosting Meet the Candidate Night at the Dayton Middle School this will be this coming Monday March 31st 2025 at 7 PM the open space committee will be organizing a townwide
cleanup um on April 12th 2025 with a rain date of April 19th 2025 they are looking for volunteers to assist in these cleanup efforts if you have any suggestions of any areas that need to be cleaned up you can contact Jonathan Gails at ada dyon-mass.gov
the Dying Council on Aging is hosting host location for a free tax aid program that AARP foundation offers each year this program focuses on assisting older adults with low to moderate income please call the Dyton Council on Aging to learn more and book your free
appointment the Dyon Lions um Club Food Bank will be held next Saturday April 12th 2025 and it is located at the lower level of town hall lastly on Saturday April 26th from 10:00 a.m to 2 pm the
Drug Enforcement Administration will coordinate with the Dayton police for a one-day collaboration of prescription drug takeback event that's all I got okay um I have a comment on public sure would you mind adding um the annual town election info
for our next meeting sure sure thank you appreciate it oh my god you're just putting more in there i love hearing them sure uh before we continue I made a huge mistake um we forgot the moment of silence and I'm embarrassed for that but can we please just have a moment of silence for two neighbors that we lost
this week robert Bradshaw and James Leonard thank you very much and again I apologize um this is the first uh of two public inputs that we have for this evening does anybody want to come up lenny how you doing
good evening couple things um I'm on the open space committee okay and we voted that it be on April 19th i I thought that was the case yes but it
was printed as the rain date for the 12th i mean for the 19th because the 12th is um the election so it was going to be the 19th and the rain date the following oh it all right let's make that re uh
correction now then all right um the open space committee will be organized a will organize a town uh cleanup day of open spaces in town on April 19th with the rain day of the 26th 26 they are looking for volunteers to assist in
these cleanup efforts if anyone who has a suggestion of a particular area to be cleaned up besides my yard and contact Jonathan Gail at ada dyon-mma.gov thank you thank you thank you uh an update from the school department budget
hearing last night uh the school committee did make some cuts uh the increase went from 4.1 to 3.78 chairman Andred also said that the
committee would be willing to discuss a transfer of surplus funding to the town side to the legislator legislature provide additional funding to chapter 70 and with that being said it would be ideal if the board of
selectmen if they haven't already done so would write or reach out to the area legislators to advocate one additional chapter 70 funding from the governor's 1%
and also a discussion about changing the formula for chapter 70 funding currently the formula favors the larger communities the gateway communities at the expense
of smaller towns and in particular regional towns what makes it more difficult for the school department is that the transportation costs obviously larger
because it's a regional district are receiving less funding from the state and also special ed services are receiving less funding that's across the board so it's not just DET and Rahob
that are affected with it um it was noted that striving to stay on the path set in their goal to 2030 plan was important and that in attending the budget
hearings did not get enough discussion one of the biggest problems we're all aware of and we've heard criticism in social media is the number of students who are leaving the district
increase and better quality in the CTE program brings additional chapter 74 funding because that funding formula provides more money than chapter 70 the more money that school district can
get from the state the less money they have to ask for the town and right now that's a big problem because under the governor's budget small cities and towns like Dyke and Robbert are being shortch changed
that chap that uh goal 2030 plan also addresses the issues of retention and that's important to the Dyton side the more students from Dyton Middle to go to Don
Hobith potentially means lower tuition that the town side has to pay to BA and BP in addition um if we can convince many of those middle school students to go into
chapter 74 it becomes a winwin for the town side and the school side because it brings additional funding um I know at times the process has been a little
contentious especially in social media but I and it was mentioned in discussion too um I would hope over the next several weeks that the board of
selectmen will have more discussion for the public of the plan you know we know about the budget but we don't know the thought process and the public doesn't know the thought process to get to the final
numbers are there multiple solutions to the budget crisis and there is a budget crisis everyone understands that but how do we handle that and and I would imagine hearing things around town that
there are several different options available and I'd be curious if if the board of selectman would be willing to share that with the public and get their input in which direction they would like to see the town go to balance their
budget okay thank you the budget meeting for is the ninth which is the next meeting thank you anyone else helps at this time hi Nancy this isn't a big presentation okay uh a couple of things i was at the
budget meeting last night too and I will say I was happy to hear the superintendent provide information to the public about special needs children i had brought this up at the uh advisory committee meeting when we
met with the subcommittee of the school committee and he was not very receptive at that point and I said to him it's important that people understand that we have obligations for students some
students up to the age of 22 and I asked about residential placements and I asked about out of district placements I said "People need to understand it's not only the students who attend our schools and our local collaboratives but
these are other expenses." And last night he did talk about that so I was glad that he did bring that up because people if you're not in the business you don't understand what the requirements are and people think that when students leave high school there's no obligation
that's not true right it depends on the circumstance so I was happy he provided that information because as I said he was not receptive when I brought it up forformational purposes but uh he did
talk about it last night um so something I wanted to tell you about i'm as you know I'm looking for photographs for next year's calendar already oh yeah i've already got a few but I got in touch with the uh people at the EPA that
I deal with and last year we sent him the calendar so I said to them kind of late but would you like to have calendar and the response back was from Michelle Vudo who replaced uh Newton Tedar he's moved on to
enforcement she's now in permitting we have to have four so there are two people with her newton Tedar enforcement and then Selma Murphy who is the person in charge of the program for all of New England so they're all going to get copies so I
just had Tom sign a letter uh from the stormwater committee because in here I've got calendars but the other thing I'm sending them is this is the coloring book that we had BP print for us these were like pennies yes it's coloring and
activities and it's about thirst and we bought little boxes of four crayons each like they give them at the restaurants so we gave these out for the first time at the arts festival um
all the ones I had went and we got another batch printed because as I say they're dirt cheap but as you can see it's all sorts of things that people can students can do on their we wanted to get the attention of little kids relative to the importance of storm
water without getting into the heavy science and of storm water right so um this is what they came up with this is something that uh parents can do with their children um we had we ended up with two blank pages
so we said "Write a story about Thirstston." And we said "Draw pictures about what you wrote." So anyhow um as you can see every page says EPA we got this off their website for free cool
printed it took it to BP made those couple of changes put our logo on it so I'm sending in four of these with the calendars because Michelle said they want to use these as examples of public education that's great and so I just
wanted you to know that once again we're sending this in and they're going to the EPA office where they go from there that's all right who knows but anyhow um they uh they have been very I won't say accommodating very
helpful in cooperating with us from day one and I think it's an important relationship that we need to keep i don't think anyone wants to get on the bad side of the EPA but anyhow so that's what this is about okay awesome thank you Nancy i love to think that they have
the our calendars up in their office it's funny i happened to go to East West Bridgewater to um Massioneer last year and I left a calendar there and you'd be surprised at the number of people in Dyon that use that office and saw that calendar and
said "Hey that's our town where'd you get the calendar?" That's cool so anyhow uh so again anyone with pictures uh y they can be black and white they don't have to be current um preferably the the uh they are
horizontal because when they're vertical we have to kind of spread them out to fit the calendar so but we'll take any uh no one submitted black and white but we'll take them um nulad at comcast.net no buildings no people especially no
children just need to know location and who took the picture awesome so I'll put them in the folder and we'll go through them uh when we get ready to plan the next calendar right thank you thank you you're welcome anyone else for public
input at this time anybody online no I guess not okay uh then we're going to move to town administrators report thank you i know um um this is my first budget season with you and I um and I appreciate the input
you you've been giving me and I know uh at the next meeting the selecting will be putting forward their recommendations uh so I just want to give you an overview of the budget of um of what it's looking like and where where we where we are at today so as I introduced
um you know back in December I introduced the the one the one page so you it's a nice snapshot of the budget i went online i saw the um I changed uh the number for for
um I that's the number that was presented last night just just to give you some ideas of what we're looking at right now um looks like we're um we're in the plus about
$94,000 why over that it's always it's always a moving target uh but some of the things um we did Serena and I took a look at it um you know with the with the decrease in uh the DR school budget and we took a look at the snow and ice we
originally had it at $200,000 it's kind of looking that we'll come in closer uh closer to 150 it's right now it's at 130 we don't anticipate it uh going much uh much higher than um than uh than than that so
but again we're still being conservative um um we're looking at uh looking at 150 um and as a result um you know we're looking at uh right now um at the plus side of of about of about $92,000
additionally I know that the uh finance committee expressed some concern and I know some of you expressed some concern in in uh using free cash so um we um we are reducing um uh our dependence on
free cash from from 471 to uh to 3 uh to 371 so we're going to take a um at my next um the next slides I'm going to show you what we did but I just want to give a quick overview of um of where we're at with that so any any questions
before I go on behind that white thing it's not a question of you question of Mr hall you had mentioned that there were funds that Mr andre wanted to give back to the Well Mr standard set that if there are additional funding provided by
the state it's at the bottom that's not revenue 26 I see it that would be willing to come to the town it and how much are we talking about I
had no idea okay all right thank you I didn't mean to interrupt your presentation Oh no no no i just had to uh Not a problem i just had um I just had to find it so so this is sort of a we're going to have this as a you know as a as a recap
as to what's going on as you know uh the budget timeline um we're already in March you did your joint meetings with the uh with the finance committee uh next you know next up in April um you're
going to be putting forward your recommendations and then in May um you it's again meet again to reconvene to jointly discuss uh the submittal of the budget and then um the proposed operating budget will go to the annual
town meeting on June 9th so you know as you know um we we we've been trying to be um very very conservative um in our budgeting and I I I've told you I I know you're getting sick of hearing it from me but but I I
have to give all the credit to uh to the department heads and and and what they put forward uh for budgets to um to help to help Don get through this through this budget season um you know we had a very cautious approach in in 26 we're in
the fourth year of BP we got a couple of breaks um in uh in in the financing the DP project we thought it would be about $660,000 but uh for this year um we got a little lucky it's uh
512 you know and also uh the Aggies is is 209 so together that puts us at about uh 7 $120,000 um so um we identified uh the ability to make uh projections uh and um
we have a year a net increase from from last year of $952,000 we went up um in in revenue $885 last year but it's 952 where does that come from you know uh net uh net
proposition prop two and a half we get to increase um the tax base by two and a half percent so that's $566,000 you know new new growth we're still being a little conservative but we have it at $250,000 so where else where else are we
license and permitting um we're projecting that at $275,000 it's it's relatively flat um based on the economic downturn um we got a you know based on the governor's budget we have an increase in
$27,000 um on the cherry sheet um you know we we're decreasing um the excise tax projections it was a high in 2003 you know there was like pent up demand for um especially for the purchase of automobiles now now you know um the the
cars are older there aren't uh people aren't buying as brand new cars so so it's kind of um it's in a downward slope but it's probably um kind of looking as leveling off as the pre preandemic to to where we're at now so we're looking at
$165,000 um also to help um to help you know with the budget um and to help with the specifically with the fire department we're taking an additional uh $20,000 from the ambulance fund usually take uh
$455,000 uh this year we're taking $475,000 to help the help the fire department with the with the purchase and upkeep of uh of equipment and uh something we have this year that we haven't had an increase in in um trash
bag revenue um we're and again we're being conservative um conservative increase um we're looking at a $75,000 increase in in trash bag revenues
i mean yes one question that pertains to future um capital debt will only go down from the 209 the you know it's going to be it's yeah yeah yeah no no I get it's going to be relatively flat at 209 it really is
dependent on how many students we have okay at at this point where where uh the uh BP debt um is is going to increase for the next three years and then level level off yeah okay and my next question is the governor's budget when
does the legislative party um vote on that um I have to I'll I'll find you because I know um they're going into session i don't know when they're going to find them so the 27k is a shot in the dock
it's our best guess that present that's okay and um the trash bag increase i just want everybody to know it's been four maybe five years since we've had an increase and technically it should have been increased every year as trash has
gone up and the cost of bags have gone up that we as a town have just absorbed uh and and it's not just because we want to uh increase revenue we're just trying to maximize the cost that uh the top
okay good job all right well we still got more to go so so just a big um a little definition on on zerobased budgeting um you know how and how we you know the philosophy we use um going
going forward with that and you know just the you know budgets represent a plan for municipal and department operations for the fiscal year rationalizes proposed budget requests and allows department heads the
BOS and finance committee to more clearly evaluate the appropriation uh needs when building a budget okay so um in expenses uh overview so you know uh the proposed um you know there was an
increase over over last year total increase of 896,000 um you know and a lot of that is you know outside of the town's control you know obviously the education budget is a is is a big number
um the total the total increase is 734,000 uh and then just the capital assessments update DR assessment increased this is from DNR increased $491,000 from from the previous year um
the increase in also we have to count the retirement that went up uh that went up $51,000 now here's a thing that's a little sticky so it's the trash recycling transfer station initially we had it at an increase of $30,000 i'm
getting some initial numbers where that increase might be $50,000 so um I will have those numbers to you you know by Monday so we could start start thinking about it that is from Borges now that's from Yeah Borges
believe it or not the increase a majority of the increase came from um uh from wages he has to pay his drivers as uh based on um based on um the prevailing wage um because a ruling came
down that everybody everyone who services the town has to be on the prevailing wage so we got them from the state i passed them on to Mr gorgeous and um that's um it's it's a significant it's a significant
increase and then uh health insurance costs we're lucky it only went up $111,000 a lot of communities um you know as uh as the slide show our our increase uh for for group health insurance was 8.2% a lot of communities
were facing were facing double that so would you be willing to send that ruling with the prevailing wage i should read more about it nope i I I will thank you okay and again uh this I had uh again
passed this out at the uh at the finance at the joint meetings just to give an idea of sort of as we begin to plan our uh our our financial future looking out to um FY FY30 um one of the things that's um really glaring without um
without any significant increases you know just just the debt we carry for BP and BA um you know if you look at it uh in fiscal year 29 that number is projected to be $900,000 but um our
increase with um with um uh Prop 2 and a half and and estimated new growth doesn't doesn't even cover that so just so we could start you know um thinking it
out uh next so if we if we didn't use free cash um we would be facing a a budget deficit of approximately 269 $269,000 um and that's you know if we
were just we're plus 92 so if it was zero it would be like the $269,000 so so um just to let you know how my intention of uh of of applying the free cash usually free cash is a is a is a one-time revenue it should be
applied to one time uh onetime expenses so we broke it out as best as we could um to officially 150,000 to snow and ice 50 to reserve fund 25 to stabilization fund 10,000 to open so those are the
onetime fees um and but we are going to uh put forward approximately $136,000 to the operating uh to the operating budget um as the previous slide shows you know we're um you know we we have to start thinking um um how
do we how do we close that gap so you know few a few things uh to put forward to which I need uh start getting direction uh from from this board of select men is uh one you know the waste reduction you know work with the waste
reduction committee do we explore the implementation of a per household user fee uh structure for for for trash uh you know trash represents about about $800,000 in in our budget it's going to be more than that but you know that's
the number the other thing you know um or do we reintroduce the debt exclusion to cover to cover our capital obligations do we introduce a two and a half override to meet our operational
needs or or lastly um you know do we develop uh a service and personnel reduction plan if necessary so really those are um our primary options in in um in meeting the um the the budget
shortfalls as we go as we go forward and um if you have any questions um it's not a rosy outlook no no no it's not but but you know we'll
figure it out borrowing from free cash not borrowing using free cash scary um at one time source of revenue to cover expense but it's not something that we can rely
on no and um it switches back in the whole next year what do we do so yeah yes yes you know next year we'll be facing the same you know the same predicament unless um no unless we get some tremendous you know tremendous new
growth or revenues you know just go go through if we just continue to move on what we currently have you know that's we have to be hopeful you know if um to be um to be proactive you know those
things that I mentioned either do we look at trash do we look at debt exclusion do we look at override or do we look at service and personnel reductions uh can you talk more about the pay for per for user fee uh the pay for user fee i I I want to be honest
with you I didn't put a lot of of effort into it just yet but uh but I know the notes that I have been seeing in and talking to other communities um we would it would be uh generally speaking a quarterly payment uh to the individuals
down of Don so they would still be trash pickup uh but for that trash pickup you would have um you know you would pay a portal fee the same way you pay with your taxes um the thing with the user fee you can choose not to use it and then you don't you don't pay that you
know you don't pay that user fee um I know there's some thoughts as to um the user fee do we give a um a senior uh senior citizen uh discount um there's a lot of elements to it um so you know was
just brought up last week i did a quick a quick survey and see what was presented before so a lot of it is the same of what you heard uh but but it is primarily still trash pickup you know but but uh a userfree uh and you know
how do we you know how do we identify the users i haven't worked out the details on that yet that was my next question yeah yeah but I think as as we move forward um as we explore these options I could do um I'll I will do presentations on them and so you could
you know determine which way which we want to go um if we're planning for next year and beyond uh you know we really should have a should have a plan in place by by by July okay um obviously you don't know all the
details in um I don't think the um waste reduction committee has has uh anything concrete just everything excuse me on the table which it has to be
okay is that something on the table too the user fees an option but also perhaps I think the town at one time did recycling every other week recently yeah so like a couple years ago they went to every week i don't know how much of a difference that will make with
the cost from gorgeous yeah i mean the recycling it's the same you take the truck out and then it's then it's based on tonnage so but but you know the recycling fees I could I could look into it see if that Yeah is it one truck that
comes out now with this split trash to like two/3 of the truck and then one third I'm I'm I'm led to to under to believe and understand that's what um Bordresses has said um I haven't seen them in action i see I watch him outside
my window they pick the trash up across the street so okay so I don't know if there's a any kind of savings with going back to every other week because you'll still have the same yield but um there's a cost to having it done every week i think we should
certainly look at going back to every other week it's a it's a slight inconvenience but it's worth if if there's money saved to save there it's I think it's worth the inconvenience and the third thing for looking at trash is um you have to offer recycling but maybe
just at the transfer station uh yes that has come up uh my only concern with that was uh what kind of hours are you going to operate at the transfer station is it still going to be the same two days or we're going to have an expense of including another second or third
another day or or even possibly a second day so there's going to be cost involved with that right uh but it doesn't change again the yield that we send back to the state not the state but to the uh uh dumping station so I think it would
right like it would be I think a lot less people would utilize it at the um well the thing with trash is we are mandated by the state to have a certain percentage of trash in the c not trash recycling and I think they audit on an
average of every maybe you can help me Lenny 13 or Tom every 13 loads or something is the average where the state is it seven where the state audits the trash uh make sure that we are recycling I I know that's a fact but Tom do you
know how often that happens no I'm not familiar with that okay um to make sure that we we are a recycling community the state orders the trash as it gets dumped to make sure there's not more recycling in the trash
than it should be right so uh it to have people just recycle into the trash saves us money because the tonnage for trash removal is less than what recycling is um I would hate to be fined
by the state for not cooperating with what the requirements are i'm not sure what those fines would be but uh we can look into that and we'll that'd be great okay um on to permit link oh okay permit
permit link um uh when we had the discussion about the pack meeting I know uh at least Calonia brought up brought up permit link for each department to to use online permitting the modules
for that are would be in excess of of $10,000 so if you're looking for planning if you're looking for zoning if you're looking for uh for um for conservation to do um electronic
permitting it's it's expensive i think what has happened and I think a more effective use of the tool what we have is that um um those permitting departments zoning planning um and
conservation help have authorization to review permits and sign off on them electronically um I think um what has happened you know due you know due to to
the turnover um that has um that has kind of fell by the wayside so I'm having conversations with who Jim Aguar to um to bring that up uh and then to reintroduce it to to give um start giving um you know Liz uh permissions um
you know Matt will review it and and sort of say okay you can you can sign off on it so what happens is you know when a when a permit comes in comes into the building department they should forward it to all the applicable departments you know does
this need you know you know does it this need a septic does this need to be reviewed by conservation does this need a special permit this is this is need um um a waiver or um and um so that's done
more by word of mouth now um u we have the capability of doing that so you know at our next pack meeting we're going to uh develop a plan uh to make sure everybody's just doing um electronic to doing the electronic approvals to know
where to go to look what's um to to know where to go to look at the permits uh and and and uh see if if anything in that in their permitting field applies to it and can they sign off on it and just move it so it could get move
forward uh swiftly and efficiently so So I just want to give an update on that because I know it was brought up um you know it it would be nice to have um you know electronic permits but right now it's a a real costly but I think we do
have a tool in place that's being underutilized and we have to maximize that use is it in anybody's anyone's budget right now for next year to to what no well everybody has access to permanent link right but but
to to No no we have we have a we have a a number um of authorized users okay so we have that we have that in place what I said the use um the ability to include a module to have like um a separate um
so you could do all your permitting online never use a paper permit if you didn't want to for the planning for zoning for you know for that that would be about uh 10 grand for each department so so and no one has that in the budget
for Okay no did you mention there might be a grant for that well the public health excellence grant was doing something with the the I don't know what it was yeah it was it was it they had a grant but it wouldn't be as efficient
because it wasn't to go towards permit link it was to go towards a a different vehicle system right yeah so so sometimes you you know you have that um then that becomes a difficulty in and of itself yeah you can't have your own
you can't be an island you all have to do the same thing so okay is um conservation on that they have um viewing access they have viewing access we want to make sure everybody has um the ability to look at and sign off on it so they do have viewing access um and
you know so sometimes you need a quick tutorial how do you go through it and all the elements of it so awesome I have a different question on the town administrator's report if you don't mind sure thanks um the zoom policy is that
something that's going to come up in a future meeting just amending the zoom policy we will I know we we brought it up we should put we'll we'll we'll put it on next Yeah yeah i know there's a lot going on and the budget definitely takes priority
so thank So we've been we've been um we've been kind of doing it but we'll we'll we'll uh make it official thank you appreciate it uh on to selectments reports uh I just want to make the announcement that I
will not be here for the uh the 9th meeting but I will be here on Zoom it's a regular I mean it's a the typical uh meeting but we are discussing budgets and uh to me it's very important that um I'd be here but unfortunately I can't
but like I said um just real quick um so Monday I was invited to um ride so south coast rail with um our state rep invited me um Justin Thurber it was opening day um it was great because he also he tried to
pick someone from each of his districts unfortunately there was nobody available from Swansea but there were two folks from Somerset the town administrator um the chair of the economic committee so I got to spend some time with them maybe some people that I usually wouldn't get to um talk with so it was nice bringing
that he brought our communities together um for that event and I loved it it was great it was really exciting cool was here yeah and the lieutenant governor rode on our train and then the governor was in Fall River and she rode on that one and then we all met in Taton for the
big celebration so it was nice mark do you have anything this time i don't okay then we're going to move on to old business this is the review discussion acts regular meeting schedule uh we just want to put this forward
again just to so you can see the schedule and and uh I know we have um potential town meeting date but um it is we we are cementing it we cemented it for June 9th so yeah again this was a review discuss and
act so is there a motion in the floor to accept the regular meeting schedule unless somebody has another question i'll make a motion to accept the board of selectman regular meeting schedule and to amend the town meeting to June 9th i'll second that motion made second
any discussion all those in favor i um new business again a review discuss and act the county flag display request i think you have something on this please so just to recap for the public we had a
request from uh Mr costa the superintendent director at Bristol Aggie asking for a Dyontown flag and as you know there were only two in existence one of them is hanging behind me and the other one is in the Hall of Flags at the state
house uh so I got in touch with Bristol Plymouth unfortunately they can't print cloth that big so um Aggie School put me in touch with the banner company the flag company they use uh and I talked to them and
you've got a you should have a picture there of what it's going to look like the flag is I'll call it indooroutdoor good quality nylon and it's something that will last
uh I am trying to get the vector file from the family of the person who actually created that when I did the anniversary book in 201213 she lent it to me i gave it to BP and they used it that's the cover of the
anniversary book they gave it back and I returned it to her they didn't keep the file and unfortunately although Mr ferry took pictures of that they can't use it at the company because actually there are wrinkles showing so I sent an email to the sister
of the lady who created that asked her if she's still got the file and I'm waiting to hear if I can't get that file there's an additional cost of $45 i think it's $154 for the flag that's an additional cost now in the
course of discussing this with Tom Ferry we thought it would be a good idea to actually order three flags one that would go to the Aggie School one that we could fly outside of town hall and maybe as part of the uh
250th anniversary of the country we could have a flag raising and maybe the sister and I know there's more than one sister still alive graduated with me um and the other flag could be kept for ceremonial occasions so I contacted the historical
commission and parks and wreck and uh historical commission's going to put it on their agenda to see if they were willing to pay for one of these uh parks and wreck he offered to pay for it and I said to him I'm not soliciting contributions because that's
going to happen next year when we start to raise money for the celebration so I'm not asking for money now i'm just asking you to look at your your budget to see if you've got any money so um I haven't heard back from them yet because
they've got meetings coming up i have not asked about a group discount or a quantity discount and I may be able to do something there so everything that we have right now is what you have i'm waiting to hear from uh the sister uh
who had the file and um I think it's kind of something that's cherished so I have the feeling she's probably still got it i don't think she would have destroyed it no uh but that's where we are so I'll give you a progress report
as this moves along um but in any case uh we're looking at a minimum of flag at $154 from the school and then possibly another 45 yes if we have to do that y so we'll we'll see how it all comes out it would be nice if we could get the
three flags because then we'd have those flags for ceremonial purposes sure uh I think it's embarrassing that their home community doesn't have a flag up at their school uh unlike other communities that that do i know they service more
than just us but we're their hosts right it's a great idea and uh yeah it would be nice to have it and uh certainly the recognition and um I think I don't know how many people have actually been to the Hall of Flags but I got to tell you
every time I go there I have to go look for it because there's so many flags but I I know now it's on the upper level and I have to start at a certain corner and say "All right where is it?" But uh it's nice to see it there you know so That's correct thank you very much all right so
I have an update through through the chair just to let you don't answer we were looking at our budget the account administrator's budget and uh you know professional development i'm not going to any more MMA for the rest of the year so um we could we could pick up a nice chunk of that so so at least at least
two flags possibly uh the reason I asked was as uh after Tom and I were talking about it and he was talking about it would be nice to get three because we we would have a use for them and um the reason I reached out to them thinking
that they are committees that would be involved with use of these flags it's just not for the board of select men or something we're going to stick in a closet right um they'll be a use flag and maybe the flag won't fly every day
outside of town hall but during certain uh times of the year and special events it can be raised and uh the significance of it maybe Veterans Day maybe Memorial Day who knows right so that it's something important um I checked with
some communities when I when the request was made and when I called Rehobit I said "Did you guys uh get a request for a flag for the school?" They said "Yes." I said "Where did you get it from?" They said "The town's
safe." I said "Oh." They said "We only had one spayer we never use it so we gave it to them." And I'm thinking to myself Yeah we got that one as a matter of fact is
has been periodically taken down and taken to the middle school so they could hang it during the graduation at the middle school because we've had a few bear spots up there at times and people say "Where'd the flag go it's coming back it's coming
back." So uh anyhow I'll give you an update we'll we'll stay on it absolutely thank you you're welcome okay i'm good it look it looks like um they the school said they would pay for this am I reading this right like for the obviously for the one they're not going
to pay for all of them but the email said if there was any cost involved they would be prepared to cover the necessary might get one out of it this was the email from um superintendent yeah so I definitely think we should take advantage of that
i agree even if we get a partial payment from here and a partial from Yeah adds up okay I'll continue with new business and again a review discussion act renewal of FP2
licenses of sales and Tot Club and reviewed them and good to go everything's in yep any questions guys i don't think so look through yet i don't have any questions okay uh again
this was a review discuss and act so is there a motion on the floor i'll make a motion to approve the renewal of the FB2 license for Reese's Auto Sales 556 Summer Sedav Tom Yach Club 2125 Water Street i'll second that motion has been
made and seconded any discussion all those in Oh all those in favor i I review discuss and act facilities request and there's a number of them um assuming everything is in but well um
go ahead not quite uh all all of the uh people doing the request are nonprofit so the fees are waved number one everybody supplied their insurance with the exception of Toron Area Vietnam Bets cruise night
it's not that they they put in for it they just uh their insurance company was not open today and they didn't have it but they will uh they will have it so before before the event the event is in June so um they'll be getting it to us
so if you want to um wait or or approve with an amendment what exactly are we doing with fees i know you had mentioned it before i nonprofit or not i think we should treat everybody the same and we are not in a
position to w fees anymore i think we have the issue to wave fees for nonprofits we can we can amend that how much is the fee 75 $75 oh okay i
thought it was like I mean that's a lot of money some but I thought it was like hundreds of dollars or something oh there's paperwork involved that um white trash there's a user fee uh there's not um
abuse of the grounds because nobody abuses it but there's use of the town facilities that comes at with a cost to us however minimal there is a cost involved um so if we want to amend it and include nonprofit now but now is the
time to do it i agree yeah I think we should definitely add that to a another agenda okay yeah you got a question sure so the Dian Club you know we we do a two events a year a lot
of that money goes back into the town so whatever the elementary school needs there to help them so it's almost like we don't give it a fee but we give a lot of money back we bought uh for instance like the North End
playground we supply all the tables paper tables and the chairs so I'm just asking please think about it because we do give back from Lions Club to the town so even though it's going to cost you a fee to avoid the fee you still got to
think right i'm not saying we should make an exception today um maybe it should be on a case by case i I think not that I'm saying anything against lines but I think it just gets really difficult because then I'm looking at the historical society well they do
things for the town too um so I just think it would make it really challenging to Okay uh a management nightmare these are the hard decisions we have to make when we're in the financial situation absolutely okay um well first of all there's a request that
we have to handle uh I think we should put the $75 on another agenda possibly or do we want to decide that this evening we have the right to do that we could hold off none of these are happening instantly so so could we hold off on them until we amend the policy
that would make sense if we just discussed it what is that review the policy um you could okay that's what you want to do and we should put it out for next week just so they so they know mhm
i'm you mentioned it so Mark you for that as well motion to table facilities request until our April 9th meeting i'll second that motion has made second any discussion all those in favor i
um we do discuss an act council on aging items for surplus disposal uh there they are all listed there's a numerous ones so we just can go as printed in the agenda motion to Oh if I may pause you for one second Jar uh put forward a a
request there's a lot of different things here which may or may not be sold off so he goes he would allow uh that any appropriate items be recycled at the discretion of the surplus auction facilitator if not we have to keep it in storage for Okay 200 bucks a month so
how much a month i uh $200 per month so it just be easier to if it's if it's not going to move and it can be recycled sure why Why do we pay $200 a month to store it for a storage facility to keep it you don't keep it at the transport station
in a in a container uh do we rent that container is that what it is no I don't i'd also like to look Yeah looking at wires because how much do we even make out off of the stuff that we keep
no not a lot it Yeah it it might be if we send it to the auction auctioneer and they store it so which comes up what twice a year or it comes up whenever we need it when whenever we have enough stuff tom looks like he has information
go ahead Tom please so last several years we Tom you got to go to the mic i'm sorry i'm getting direction from Dave blaming it on Dave blame it on my committee thank you the cable committee
yes for the last several years uh we utilized the auction services uh Auction International in particular and the drive was we had vehicles to get rid of and that increases the percentage that we would get back um when we have items
like being entertained tonight you're lucky to get $5 for the whole lots uh yes to answer your question um they were stored in a shipping container that's being rented uh that rental has been transferred over to the library
project uh so there's no real waste means of storage so when something's just thrown out there cuz they're being replaced it should be looked at for disposal or historically in the past sold it on their own you know receiving
bids for it rather than utilizing a larger entity if that makes sense mhm i mean a lot of these things the whole lot like there's they and that's something else we need to communicate with our boards and committees don't just throw it out in
the lot and say "Okay come pick this up and put in storage right?" No you got to plan that you don't just put it out there right the council on agent has um has numerous requests with
us for disposal it doesn't happen every time but uh they've been up here before so that container is $2,400 a year right 20 200 bucks a month and the things we're talking about are are toasters and
coffee cups and computer monitors and utensils and couches i don't think we're going to get 2,400 bucks out of this stuff a lot of that stuff can be recycled properly disposed of or if you chose so
choose have like a silent auction people put in bids have a closed date and you award the winner that way and you still get some money do you think we ever get our money's worth out of that trailer is that something is that a practice we can end do we get our money's worth out of that trailer that holds these items no
no not not unless you have the vehicles along with it right and it doesn't look like we're going to be replacing vehicles in the near future so you're not going to have that luxury right and some of these items we could still get money from because we have a metal container right do we get money for that
yes the metal you get money for right so might be a break even instead of a net loss if we threw if we just kind of threw some of these items out and that's crucial in how you vote is it going to surplus and waiting for a future end of life or is it up to like Mr paco
suggested leave it up to the option that title you gave him uh his discretion for disposal or option oh okay that makes sense but it's it's how you're your voting your motion okay yeah but to just
to put it in surplus is not a good thing and boards and committees need to get on board with that because we don't want the container there waiting for them so it just should be recycled what can be recycled and it should be planned before you put it outside your office okay so
what is the procedure they call and say "I have X Y and Z come pick it up you look out your window it's on the porch over there the whole everything you're discussing tonight." Okay where's it going to go after tonight yep oh is it the I saw the sweeper out there though yeah
no not the street sweeper is that Is that Don't get him nervous we own that right we probably still have a payment on it well it's out the window right
just um on this same topic sure Mr chairman if you don't mind for our April 9th meeting would you guys mind just pointing out in the budget where that trailer is um the $20 just for when we're doing our recommendations yep something worth looking at
it's a lot of money yes and you said something about the library trailer that's used for that was at the transfer station the library project on temporary storage okay
thank you well we have the attached uh for the the breakdown i'm all for recycling what we can uh when when would an auction be if we can dispose of this is it a minimum requirement before they come out yeah I
think um five bucks is five bucks yeah I mean I think we may have enough i know Jim Jim sets up the uh the schedule for that and usually they probably have enough stuff to go through an auction relatively soon i'm not concerned about the five $5 i concerned about renting a
trailer just the house stuff that we're going to throw out or auction off the right yes so they they say they don't have a minimum to show up on okay i do see some talent with like just a desk
sometimes but it's good they're making a percentage on it sure so if they're making 15% on that desk that's being sold for $5 it's not working what is your efforts right yep right you also have to take down
employees to move these items and catalog them and turn them over to the auction company so what's the best way to award this Ralph uh I would say uh to
um to allow this um the items presented as surplus and disposal and to any any items um that are not auction off can be recycled at the at the
discretion of the auctioneer at the discretion of the auctioneer or the auction facilitator so okay did you get all that Mark close enough I think okay yeah go forward um I'll make a motion
to approve the items for surplus from the council on aging as directed and to allow any surplus items to be recycled at the discretion of the auction facilitator i'll second that
motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor i I Okay approval of the warrants i'll make a motion to approve the warrants paid by March 20th 2025 30a-25 for $119,2166
38b-25 for $90,749 warrants paid by March 27th 2025 39a-25 for $137,744.82 39b-25 for $219,892 and 39 C-25 for $1,571.32
i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor i I uh on to minutes uh can we approve these separately because I have questions about uh number letter C yeah I can I can motion them each separately
sure and I don't think we have a right you don't so not no A um I'll make a motion to approve the board of selectment regular meeting minutes of March 12th 2025 second motion has been made and seconded any discussion all
those in favor i I uh letter C accept the record of water selectment emergency meetings from May 11th 2019 which we have a copy of um can you explain how this ended up here
well there was some um just As I understand it there was some um discrepancy over the minutes the board at the time um refused to um approve it they didn't have enough members to
approve it um they went to the AG's office and the AG's office said uh uh to put a uh a designation on the minutes as as as you see but at this point it was never truly accepted so to make the the
minutes official then you're not approving them but you're just accept accepting them for the for the record so um they could be uh so they could be um identified as as as the minutes for as
for the meeting so this is just for the record just for the record accepting them for the record yes does any just what how did it get on our agenda uh there was a uh a citizen uh complaint
um and they wanted to know what why these haven't been accepted and that's how that's how it came to pass without put you on the spot does this is it a Dayton citizen or someone outside the town of Dyon outside town you're welcome
um I'll make a motion to accept for the record the board of selectment emergency meeting minutes of May 11th 2019 second motion made second any discussion yes you don't have to call me chairman thank you
i prefer as king i like feelless leader i'm going to tell you what really happened with those minutes sure there were um meeting notes written the meeting took place right
here the meeting was called if you read the meeting notes by state officials all right i got a call one afternoon on a Saturday saying that was from uh Skip Badne who was Jehovah selectman not
chairman representing the state agricultural commission i remember that the state veterinarian had come down her boss had sent her down the commissioner of egg had sent her down to provide assistance to the two towns
i got the phone call from Skip because he's the only one he's I'm the only one he knew on the board and said "The vet wants to talk to you i don't you know okay." She says "I need a meeting set up immediately i'm here from the Department of Agriculture
i'm here to help you but I've got to talk to people." Okay i said "Um I don't know if I can get any board members but I'm going to call the board of health too whoever I can get I will ask them to come you saw the litany of people that were present at that meeting including an
assistant DA who was out shopping with his family at the time they sat in the parking lot while he came into the meeting this is how urgent and important it was so anyhow um we ended up with uh two selectmen from
Dyton i was one of them and the chairman of the board from Rehobit at the time was uh Jerry and Jerry and Skip King that came um we had to wait for uh Sergeant
Nichols at the time because he was first on the scene again you can read all about it what those meeting notes state is absolutely true no question about it
what happened was the town Friday morning the town administrator called me and said "There's going to be a news conference at the police station at noon uh District Attorney Quinn has called
it okay she says I'm telling the selectman not to go they won't be there and I thought to myself this one will be there i don't have to speak i'm going to represent the town that put me in office you don't leave your police department
out there totally alone when something of this magnitude happens in this town so I went just to see it see the guys quite frankly and say "Hey guys how you doing?" So forth so on
um I know Mr quinn so you know we spoke to him briefly so he said said "What was going to happen?" He says "Uh all right everybody line up." And he said "You there you there?" And told me where to stand i was getting ready to leave and
it's like okay so I got in line where he told me to stand he was at the podium and we were this was at that meeting room at the police station we're all behind him just standing there quite frankly staring at the floor
uh and he talked about the investigation and what was happening and what was going to happen and so it ended um he said we were walking out together i said to him "When I leave
here I'm going to the post office i'm not answering any questions i'm not talking to anybody and if reporters bug me because they were everywhere I'm going to tell them "Call your office." He said "That's fine that's fine." So I was there the interesting thing is as
I'm leaving that station the chief in a few of the office said to me "Nancy thank you for showing up you're the only selectman that was here." I didn't get into the message that hadn't been delivered to the board they had options whether or not they showed
up was up to them i said I felt I needed to be here i I can't do anything for you guys but I I had to be here the remark was Nancy you always come all
right that was thank you enough to know that they recognized I was there to support them not to talk about any of this just I'm here guys what else could I do so anyhow that was that was on the Friday
at noon well then Saturday afternoon around 1 I get the call and that's what's in the meeting notes so the next thing that happens uh on Monday uh and we did have members of the
board of health um uh Todd Pilling um animal control um uh chairman of the board of health pers uh I'm thinking of town officials at this point so anyhow excuse me we
were sitting around tables here fixing one another and the vet got all her questions answered she was mainly concerned about the the female that had all the puppies and all that and there were two dogs that were being boarded so we you know but all these animals ended
up being kettled in Rehobath because we didn't have room so Rehobith was concerned cherry Schwall that was chairman of the board of selectment um their concern was hey don't worry about who's paying for what at this point our only concern is we don't have
any space now so if we have to take in a dog we got no place to put it so uh turns out Mr ferry uh was on his way back from I think Virginia someplace and and his wife called him and they were
making arrangements to free up space at the a kettle in the north end uh at the landfill um the the Rehob uh contingent said we're going to have to put details on on our kennel because reporters are climbing over fences and everything else
to get pictures of the dogs they also had to put I think a detail at the home uh of the family in Rehobath because the reporters were out there all right so we knew there were going to be expenses for police details
so we figured out who's going to do what where the animals are going to go and there was going to be a meeting on Monday morning when the TA got back to talk about all this during the discussion Tom Pay has stated to the
Rehobath contingent "Don't worry about it we'll cover the expenses we're just glad you were willing to take the dogs okay because um the TA the animal control officer did not want these animals some here and some there." And
at this point in time all of the bad dogs had not been identified there was one more that tests were done on to determine that that was a bad dog too so when the town administrator returned
everything was blown out of proportion she felt that I had set her up and that I knew this meeting was coming and I didn't want her there when she called me she told me about this uh news conference and she said "I'm
supposed to go to Maine this weekend." I was going to spend some time with a college friend i says I'd go nothing's going to happen you know about the uh news conference um so when she came back that was the whole
thing as time progressed even David Gay ruled it was not a meeting at which point I took those notes to the town clerk and said to her I actually ran these by an attorney from uh Copa and
Page they're telling me these are definitely minutes can you back up for a second the Monday meeting was not a meeting the official meeting that was the TA was referring to or gay and gay said who who so that group that
emergency meeting that was technically called by state officials okay was not a meeting there were no votes taken okay so I said the commitment was made by the town of Dyon to pay the bills mhm and
when Tom said that and we looked at one another two selectmen made eye contact and nodded he said "No no I never did that." If you read those minutes those excuse me meeting notes you will see when I sent it out in draft form I said
"Anybody if I've got this wrong get back to me." Nobody got back to me there were no corrections to what I wrote so anyhow I took them to the town clerk said "Are these minutes?" She said
"Yes." I said "I can't get them on the agenda they will not do anything with them we've made a commitment to the town of Rahobit and I'm here and they're not going to pay the bills this is wrong." So anyhow she said "Let me call
the AG's office." So she called the office and the attorney she sent them up they looked at him and wrote back said "Definitely it was a meeting tell the person who wrote the the notes get this down to one page we want to know who
called it who was there and the action that was taken even though it was not a formal vote was the agreement to pay the bills?" I says "So that's all I want i don't want to rehop it without the hanging." That commitment was made so
anyhow the one page that you have in front of you are the result or the if you will the condensation of the meeting notes so Sue tells me condensed this down this is what they want okay fine i put it into one page took it back
to Sue before she sent it back to Boston she got a call from the AG's office again and the attorney she was dealing with knew there were problems here that attorney took it to the attorney general who's now the governor and the
message came back it went to the top this was definitely an emergency meeting and this what this one page thing is definitely minutes they need to be approved well time went by uh the
first time it went on the war the agenda the vote was one for and two against and the next time it was put on the agenda sometime later it got tabled and the feeling was that I was
told point blank by the chairman of the board number one they never should have called you i'm chairman of the board i said I only called because he knows me he doesn't know the other people who the other two called skip called me yeah but were the other two select and called i called
them you did okay because Ken showed up i left messages for Brett in two places he said I never called him it's not true but Ken said I had they called first of all he said Riohoba should have called him to set up the meeting and I said but
Rihob didn't call the meeting it was the state and she said who do you know in he called me i wasn't so open at the time he also said "Had they called me I would have refused to schedule the meeting
because the TA wasn't around." And that isn't how I operate i would not do that as a town official when state officials say "We want an emergency meeting and we're sending somebody to help you." I don't
get involved with "Well who's the chairman and who's the whatever when I got that phone call I said "Give me a phone number i'll call you right back i immediately called Tom Py and I said,"Tom who can you round up i need
more to help the people." And he said "All right I'll call this one this one this one." And I think he said "Call the police department." Yeah I'll do that and I I said "I'm going to call the other two selectmen." So I think they got here around when I say they the people from
Jehovah got in maybe around I don't know going on too it was certainly after 1:30 but anyhow we kind of all came in bit by bit and then we heard that uh Sergeant Nichols had to go to uh Taton on a run
but he was coming and um so we waited and I think the last person that arrived was the assistant district attorney uh who had been at the news conference the day before by the way um and just so
happens his father had been a coach at DR and I knew his father i didn't know him but anyhow it just dragged on and dragged on and dragged on and the town clerk notified the uh district attorney's office that these minutes had not been
approved that they had absolutely refused to approve them and she said "File the minutes with the meeting notes and put on it they were never approved if a member of the public
anybody request those minutes and they're not approved the town will be fined i brought this up more than once i got nowhere all right it had nothing to do with the facts that occurred in this hall it was all if you will ego and I
don't know what I can think of other words but I won't say them publicly but the fact of the matter is I can't imagine any town official telling state people who say "We're coming down to help you under these conditions." And
then to have them say "I wouldn't schedule that." They they just can't do that as I said these have been out there forever they haven't changed they got approved at the top there's no place
left to go and I know other boards have said "But we weren't there." And I said "You don't have to be present to approve minutes you have to be in the capacity to approve and if what you've been told to do is accept for the record that
solves the problem it doesn't mean you were there it doesn't mean you agree with the contents or the outcome all it means is this is an official public record that was recognized all the way to the attorney general's office and for
the sake of Don and not wanting to get fined if somebody asked for this it's a simple procedure so that's why it's here before you i would assume uh the the my other thought is we we need to put this
to rest absolutely yeah this time the last time in this town since I've lived here that we had a horrendous event and this one this one was even worse was when a man who lived on Elm
Street across from the dam who ran a farm was murdered in his home by a couple of the people he hired to work on his farm all right I remember that it was awful i lived on Main Street at the time right around the corner everybody knew
this man you know just ordinary guy had his bomb and everything he was murdered in his home by two people they were caught i mean and they weren't if they're still alive they're probably still in jail
but all of these things as time passes have to be put to rest one way or another and as long as this sits there with no response it doesn't get put to the rest all right we have that opportunity tonight thank you
okay um basically we just need a motion to put this on the record and approve it i think I made a motion did we roll oh we did oh that's right i'm sorry that was the discussion part um okay so uh motion has been made and approved
uh made and seconded no more discussion so all those in favor I I thank you thank you Nancy public input as this is not a setting previous talk i just want to
give you all a quick update on solar so at the strong water meeting my new contact is Jonathan Prasad who was boss of Ahmed Hz um Tom and Jim did a site visit they had to
wait for the ice and snow to go away because there was a checklist of stuff that had to be done so at the storm water meeting Tom gave the report uh for Jim that everything was done except for plantings and when the growing season
comes they will replace the trees or whatever that's dyed vegetation whatever tom had a couple of minor recommendations about he wants some of the rocks in the the big basin move but it's this is not everything's working
down there okay i said to Jonathan Vad um when are you going to go live and he says well what do you mean by go live he says we're testing with national i said go live to me means you flip the switch and we're done as far as it's done so
we're looking at beginning midappril but they're working with National Grid there was a delay with National Grid and I don't really know what that was about i hate to go into details but anyhow for all intent and purposes unless something totally
unexpected happens Brook Street will be up and generating by hopefully midappril okay they're already on the tax roll as I told you yep um Blue Wave that's the Cabraw Farm again racing farm on Tmont
and Middle plantings yeah that's going to be done there yep that has nothing to do with going live oh no they're they're live okay um MAC which is the one behind Joe Farms the only thing we're waiting
for there is the asbuilt plans came in and Weston and Samson looked at them and reviewed them and made the request we need to see that the calculations for storm water match the
asill plans there's been foot drag in there now I know that Pete Warren has been sick because I heard from him today he's our contact but in any case that one won't be totally okay and
have the blessing until Weston and Samson sees calculations that in effect match those AS bills so um that's where we are with our solar farms and once again I got to say one of the best
things we ever did was to hire a town engineering firm simply because they're professional they don't get involved with local stuff petty stuff or oh that's just no no this is what we do this is what it is and we can
rely on that sure you know so that's what we have with solar farms okay great nancy for solar farms have um for the assessing side of it is our head assessor how to to do the tax agreements on those the she sat in on some of them
the main thing is the good thing is about pilot agreements as long as we stay with the boiler plate it's a filling in the blanks things the part that gets calculated is what we have the uh consultant for and um this
is what he does for a living so the attachments that go to that equipment list uh plot plan and the pilot the tax payment schedule that's the hot part and that's what he does so
um if I disappear tonight you got boiler plate pilot for Brook Street is it's done it's been around again um I will get a copy of that to you the same one that I presented last fall so you'll have it to go with the Yep
uh same dollars um and and John Prasad yeah we'll give you a pilot agreement it's the same money we're not doing this over it's over $800,000 over 20 years and he didn't argue i didn't hear that his accountants were happy or anything else but in any case the reason we did
this is so that we don't negotiate pilot agreements every single time meaning worrying they can question the tax payment schedule but we got a professional that does that and um this
is where it stands up so as I said um we have more come along it can be done yep thank you you got to always plan for the continuation of government right good comment
uh anybody else with public input think that's it okay then uh a motion to adjurnn make a motion to adjourn motion made second any discussion all those in favor i that's it
thank you