Why you still Today is April 23rd, 2025 and it's about uh 56. This is in person is Zoom at Oldtown Wall 1111 Sun Avenue Bon Mass. This meeting is being recorded. The listing of items are notably anticipated by the
chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may exact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought for discussion to the test committed by law. Please come to order. Mark Pico present. Peter
pres this evening. If we please stand for the pledge of allegiance and the pledge of allegiance standing for a moment of silence for two that we lost this week. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for it stands for it standice and justice for all. Uh we do have two residents this week uh friends of of of many people here in town and one of them was Wendy's for Vendy's and the other one was Susan Mashado. Thank you very much
guys. I don't know if you want to table this until here. Sure. Motion to table reorganization of board of selectmen. I'm going to step down and check that. All those in favor? I I um and we go right into the schedule of
appointments. 6:00 is Tammy Bell, the interim chair of the board of health. This is a review, discuss, and act. And this is for bond commit fees. All right. Is Tammy here? She is. Hello.
Hello. All right. Whenever you're ready, K. Okay. So, I I brought um Stacy Ferry because I thought it was more appropriate for uh for Stacy to give um the animal control uh side of the uh barn permits and our office
manager. So, barn permits were put into effect, I want to say eight, nine years ago. Um, in 2023 we decided to discontinue them. They weren't they were $5 at that time. They weren't worth the
hassle of doing it. I still have to inspect whether we have a permit or not for the state. This past year in October, I believe, a member of the board of health decided that we should bring them
back. For me, it was a hidden agenda for her. um so that they can be inspected, which they already are inspected. Um I think she felt that the board that as the board of health she could go out and inspect if there was a barn permit and
that's not true. Um bar permits are just a hassle. Nobody comes and gets them and there's nothing stands behind them for me to enforce them not coming to do them. I can hand them a piece of paper, they can turn around, throw it in the circular file and that's it. There's no
fees if they don't do it and there's nothing that I can give them a citation for because it's there's no regulation saying this is what has to be done. Most towns towns do not do barn permits but they do stable permits which we do and I believe it's in our bylaw which says we you have to have one horse or more to
have a stable permit. Those I think are very important because horses not only go down really fast but most of our horse farms either board or train or do lessons or something like that. So, it's very important that they are inspected. Barnes, most of my um stable
permits have barns with them. As they as it says somewhere, we had 20 barn permits way back in 2023. For those 20, there's probably 30 more that never even did it. I don't think. And I think $25 for somebody that has five chickens in their
backyard is outrageous. They're not going to pay. They're not going to pay it. We had a hard enough time getting them to pay the $5, never million 25. And for the administrative assistant, it's paperwork and it doesn't pay for itself either. It's paperwork
and and paper and sending out notices and all that kind of stuff. So that's why we decided that it just wasn't worth it. I still inspect them. They still get inspected. It's just that they don't have a piece of paper except what the state has. Well, I take that back. They do get a piece of paper from me saying I
inspected them. Just so you know, the annual revenue was $100, right? So, it wasn't that much. Is this just an update? Not worth doing. Not worth doing. No. See, what happened was when they got reinstated, I had no
idea they got reinstated. And how I found out is two people came to me and says, "What's going on with the environment permits? I thought we did away with them." I says, "We did." And they showed me the notice. And I says, "Oh." So, four people paid and they got deposited into the bank and then they
decided that they weren't going to do them anymore. So, they need to be reimbursed. That's why this has come up. Is this in the purview of the board of health or is this um something that you would need us to vote on? I think the reimbursement you have to vote on. Okay.
But you guys can set your own fee structures. Yes. Right. Okay. All right. So, is that the request tonight just to um reimburse those four individuals? Yes. Yes. Okay. I'm not one of them, am I? No. I don't want to have a self-s serving
vote. You have a stable permit, so that's completely different. All right. Perfect. Oh, Mr. Buffington was one of those people that paid for his permit. Yeah. Awesome. I I think that's great. Thank you. I don't
have any other questions. Not sure if Peter does. Yeah. No, I don't have any. Um, is there any discussion out uh with the public? Okay. This is a review discussion act. So, we are going to vote tonight to uh um reimburse those four people who had
bond permit fees paid and that we will no longer have bond fees. I'll put that in the form of a motion. Okay. Motion A. I'm going to step down as chair and second it. Mark Pico I independent I thank you
ladies. Thank you. Thank you. I get my Okay. Um next is George Hipple from the department. You discuss an act with special appointed special police officer Wilton Gray III.
Good evening, Mr. Karen. Good evening, George. Uh, tonight I bring before you a Wilton F. Gray III um to be appointed to the as a special police officer. Uh, Mr. Gray just retired recently after 31 years with the Environmental State Police on April 5th. I came very highly
recommended. I went through the uh the background check and uh he's ready to do some work. Awesome. Currently we live lives uh lives in Lakeville for the past 20 28 years with his family and uh like I said he came highly recommended from our surrounding
agencies. Okay. Uh excellent. I don't have any questions for you uh uh but uh thank you for coming on board. We appreciate it and uh the the department is wellrun and you're going to be adding a nice addition to us. Thank you. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you for
joining and answering uh the call to service. I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, Mark. You hear discuss and act. So, is there any more discussion out with the public? I'll make a motion to appoint Wilton F.
Gray as a special police officer for the Dayton Police Department. Hey, I'll chair and second that. Um, no more discussion. So, all those in favor? Mark Pico I. Uh, Peter Carol is an I. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you.
Welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chief. Thank you. Thank you. Nice meeting you. You too. Okay. Our next is Jonathan Gail, chair of the open space committee. Again, this is a review, discuss, and act for open
space committee request for a Facebook page is um yeah, so we're requesting as other uh committees have come before you in the past, prior to having a Facebook page, we're requesting similar approval to have a Facebook page for open space.
What we are hoping to do besides of course posting our minutes and um the things that we do, we want to be able to provide the public with information about resources for open space within uh the town of Daiden for areas of open
space, places they can go to. We feel that this is an opportunity to do it through this page. Also, when we're working on various projects, for example, uh putting together a cleanup day, we can we can put that on the page. Putting together any potential plans that we're working on with circuit or
other organizations as well for public review and comment. The administrative rights would be given to uh the open space clerk and also to the designate of as in as in other committees as well to the design of the town administrator. So
we're asking your permission to please um establish a Facebook page. Sure. Um Mark, I have no issues with this. Do you? No. Did you have one in the past? There may have been one a long time ago. Um I'm I'm not sure if it exists or not
anymore. We've tried to find out if there was one. We haven't been able to get the information for it. So, we will be establishing a new one. Okay. No, I appreciate that you're going to add enough folks as administrators. So, if there's any attrition from your
committee, it looks like the page will still move. You know, there'll still be access to it. So, that's good. We will we will make sure no matter what besides the the clerk of the open space committee um I will be doing it as chair only because of my additional permit so it will be the clerk otherwise normally
it usually is the chair however we will also provide any password information to the selections office so that um you'll always have that same information. Awesome. Okay. All right. This is a view discussion
act. So is there any discussion on that? No. Okay. Um, Mark, is there a motion on the floor? I'll make a motion to approve the request for a Facebook page for the open space committee as presented.
Okay, motion made and chair second. Motion being seconded. Any discussion? U all those in favor? Mark Pico I. Peter Karen is an I. Thank you, John. Thank you all very much. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh, Mark, you want the
announcement? Yes. Um, there will be a public meeting regarding library accessibility on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at Oldtown Hall, 1111 Somerset at 6:30. The library director will provide
an update on the progress of the new library construction project. Jonathan Gail, the ADA coordinator, will be on hand to discuss the town's vision for making the new library fully accessible and inclusive. This is your opportunity
to help shape the Dayton Public Library for years to come. Arujo Farms, 1522 William Street, will be hosting Reese Across America, a mobile education exhibit that brings local community, veterans, active duty
military, and their families together from 8:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. on Friday, April 25th, 2025. The Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, will coordinate with the Dayton Police Department for a 1-day
collaborative prescription drug takeback event on Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This event provides an opportunity for the public to surrender pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications.
The Dayton Historical Society is having a spring patio pot fundraiser on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. to be held at Arjo Farms, 1522 William Street. $50 per person includes all
materials. The Dayton Historical Society is holding a plant sale on Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Winslow Davis Museum. 1217 William Street. Stop by and get your plants for
your gardens. This event is rain or shine. The Dyan Lions Club food bank distribution will be held next on Saturday, May 17th, 2025 located at the town hall 979 Somersetav lower level.
Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Um the next is the first of two public input. Uh does anybody want to be heard at this time? Okay. Not hearing anything. We're going to move right on to finish report. Whenever you're ready, Ralph. No. Um,
are you Did you Did you Okay. Uh, it looked like someone may have some public input. No, no. Oh, no. No. Uh, I just double checked and and not at this time. So, so I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to move ahead to the town administrator's report. Um, just to make
the selectman and the public aware, um, uh, Selectman Pico requested, um, a special, um, a special selectman's meeting, uh, to discuss some of the items that will be coming up on the, uh, upcoming town annual town meeting. Uh,
one of the one of the big topics would be will be the uh, enterprise fund. Uh so on May 7th uh at 6 PM at the Council on Aging uh building we will be having
that special selectman's meeting. Uh so just to just to make everyone aware of that. Uh the second uh so the selectman here present uh understand that when there are two um selectmen present if it is a tie vote
a tie since it is not a majority vote a tie vote equals a denial. Um the selectman may vote to to uh move it to the next meeting. um if you know if it is a tie vote I just want to make uh
both of you both of you aware of that and and um oh just one other thing when we get to it uh the Dyon Lions family funday um um when when we get to that if we could uh table that they don't have
all the uh signatures ready uh so um at at this time so I just want to let you know other than that okay that's all I have so we're going to table the the filming fund day for now. Uh yep. Yes. We were informed that they don't have
all their uh this uh departments haven't all signed off on it yet. So once you know once once they do that, we could bring it forward. Okay. Thank you. Uh Mark, do you have any slements reports? Um no. I just wanted to say congratulations to all of the newly
elected um town officials after our annual town election, including you, Selectman Karen. Congratulations. Thank you. Um and also congratulations and thank you to all the candidates who put themselves out there. Sure. They did a great job. Um at this point, Mark, I'm
going to ask if we take a fiveminute recess. I am in the parking lot and I'll be right in. So, uh to start with all business. All right. take your time. Hey, Mr. Chair. All right. Thank you very much. Uh sorry about the delay from uh me attending. Um we're going to go
right into old business and this is where we're going to review, discuss, and act facilities request. The first one is for the Boy Scout Association Troop 45G for a car wash. Through the chair, if I may. Yeah. Uh as you know, uh this was brought before the
board um several weeks ago. Um the um the issue was with the uh facilities or one of the issues with the facilities fees. I want to point out to the board uh that um for each one of these uh there is there is no fee as listed in
the fee schedule. Okay. So they're all outside. They're all uh so so there's no fee. It um each of the applicants had requested a fee waiver. There was no fee to wave. So perfect. Okay. Um,
so Mark, uh, is there a motion on the floor then to, um, allow the facilities request for the Boy Scouts Association? I'm going to make a motion to approve the Can I do them all in one? Uh, sure. Facilities request. They're all printed. Okay. Okay, I'm going to do a motion to
approve uh the Boy Scouts Association Troop 45G car wash, Dyen Historical Society annual strawberry festival, Tony Rosario, Taon Area Vietnam Vets Cruise Night, Dian Lions Club annual couch festival and the Dian Historical Society
presentation Queen Elizabeth II as presented. Okay, motion made and seconded. I'm going to step down and second that uh motion. Any discussion? All those in favor? Hi, Debb. Do you want to say something? Hi. Hi. So, I I just want to discuss
that we're getting a waiver for just the cow chip festival, but I I wanted to ask for a full waiver of any future um events. Now, I'm not sure that all of the selectmen know who the Dyon Lions are and what they have done for the community. U we're a local club
representing Lions Club International. We're made up mostly of the current and former Dyon residents who are dedicated to helping this community. The club's been in existence for 70 years and over that time we've supported the community in the sum of over $300,000 uh which doesn't include the
monthly food bank that we fund and operate monthly. It doesn't include the the $125 per month we pay for the uh portagons to be here every month. Um 80% of the money that we raise at any of our fundraising events stays in Dyton uh to
support the school programs. Uh police department requests, fire department requests. Um we've installed ramps for people in the community for free. Um the Santa ride, all the candy and everything that the Santa ride has been in effect
has been from the Dyon Lions. And we don't want to forget that the Dyon Lions paid for and built the pavilion. and uh we let the community use it for free. Um Ed has some more details u on the specific funding, but I'm requesting that the Dyon Lions are exempt from the
the from the fee completely, not just for the cow chip festival. Okay. And we do have medical supplies if if if you need. Oh, good. I I might before the meeting's over. Ed, do you have something you want to
add, please? Uh a a little bit. Uh only because um I've been a member of Dyon Lions Club as of this month 60 years. Wow. Um I think you were four years old when I I think so. I right on my math.
Okay. Uh so and back then when you were four, you really didn't care the line unless you were out front waiting for the fire truck to come. I probably was at Christmas and uh I probably was on the back back then. Uh so at first I was a little upset and
then I thought and I thought and I rewrote this. This was a complete pad when I started and uh I rewrote it and then I re I really realized that you don't know what the Lions do
did. Our members don't know because we have never bragged. Mhm. We've never named a building or a place after any lion. Maybe Lion's Club, but no individual. Uh so people don't know some
of the things that we've really done. Uh like Deb said, 80% of the money we raise stays in this town. Not all clubs are like that. our club decided 70 years ago that's the way they're going to operate.
Um, let me say that when I first joined the Lions Club, they were just build finishing the uh ball field on School Street. I didn't get involved in the work because I wasn't a member yet. But when I did, then it's when we turned the
field over to the town. Uh again at no charge and then it came a basketball court, basketball, tennis court and ice rink. Okay, this is was built where the
town hall is today. Um and they voted well I mean don't want to get ahead of myself. The basketball courts and the tennis courts were a great success. the ice rink. No disaster. Total
disaster being built on black top with a 6-in brim and flooded by the Dyon Fire Department when a freeze was coming only to have the sun come out, warm the black top, melt the ice, and we had a 6-in
swimming pool, which we had no permit for. So, uh, then they built the town hall and they gave us a piece of land down by the police station for the next tennis courts. We filled it in with quite a bit
of fill and a lot of donations from people around. We built that. So, that was one of the things. Uh, let me go on to skip jaws of life. Dyon Fire Department wanted to jaws light. This was something new back then.
And so they came to the Lions Club only because we had a formula. We sold light bulbs doortodoor. We canvas this town selling our light bulbs. So we had a formula and members of the VFW were a
lot of them were firemen. So the VFW, Dyton Fire Department and Dyon Lions in two Sundays, four hours each Sunday contacted every single house in Dyton raising money. the Santa ride. You know about
um on that Santa ride going back a little bit in the early days, Lions rode on the truck. Okay. Due to insurance reasons and the redesigning of the trucks, you don't nobody rides on back anymore. And so the firemen are the only
ones allowed to be on the truck. We still pay for the lollipops. That's an average of $600 a year. No charge to town. Dyon Elementary School came to our
attention that Dyon Elementary School didn't have a real library. So, one of our members, and I'll mention his name was Dave Neely, who was on the school committee, says we should have a library.
Well, we started and the trouble was we didn't have any money and back then no New England that ever took a project of this magnitude without having a little bit of cash on hand. So, we went on a fundraising
uh thing and along with Slutton and Frank Costa uh in the Taton Laborers Union, they donated their time. They taught us how to lay lay the cement blocks. We mix
cement and we mix cement and we mix cement every weekend and till that building was built and they got a 60x 20 foot edition on the Dynamont Elementary School for their
library at a time again after shortly after and that was at no charge street signs Don was minor street signs some were unreadable some were gone Some were broken and some were uh on
streets that just got built. The town had no money. They approached us. Would we buy the street signs? Yes. Under one condition that you put this little decal on the every sign and we paid for
these signs. Gave them to the town no charge. There were many other projects at no charge but I cannot report some because they involve personalities. We are have another unique situation. We have three high schools.
How many city or towns have three high schools? They got to support scholarships for three schools. No charge for town or the students. The pavilion was another thing. Well, I'm getting ahead of
myself. Take your time. Um, when they had the fire here at the school, okay, this place became kind of desolate and the veterans put up a nice park out
front and the dandelions put that uh gazebo out there, no charge. A group of women, mothers in Don approached the Lions and said, "We want a playground,
but we want the best." And if any of you noticed, this is the best playground around. I mean, it's used constantly. Now, it's handicap accessible, but there was no charge to the
town. Next project we started was the track. That track was horrible. It was cinder. We put stone dust on that track. The fire end was always underwater. There were
ruts and we put the with the highway department. They graded the many loads of uh stone dust we put there. We installed lighting for the safety of the people in town who get up there. Believe me, they're out there at 4 and 5:00 in
the morning and late at night. But those lights have been great for them. Plus, there's a warm up station right back here, too. Then came the pavilion. One of our members had built
three of these projects, not as pavilions, but as that type of building. The value of that was $85,000. Again, we didn't have the money, but we went for donations. And
inside that pavilion, you'll see a plaque where the people in this town donated thousands, I mean thousands of dollars, plus businesses
donated good part of the lumber, cement, um, electric. The cement floor was another thing. that cement floor. Alice Souza wanted a smooth floor so to her clients and patrons could play shuffle
board. So the floor was extremely smooth sealed and painted shuffle board. Guess what? They couldn't push it far enough to see. So they settled for a tabletop
one. So that that's how the flood was. It really needs ceiling again, but no charge. Um cold weather suits for the fire department. Dive suits. Um they didn't have any.
They wanted some. We purchased three. And uh one kind during the winter they took us up to Elm Street at the damn chopped holes in the ice and they jumped in with these suits and showed them what
us what they did. Great thing. We bought them no charge. Another time there was a young man up in North Don who had a very severe heart attack. Uh by the time the ambulance it was
volunteer then got up there the man had expired but the police cruiser got there earliest. Had he had a defibrillator he may have helped out. We don't know but we made sure there was a defiill in
every cruiser after that at no charge. the botchi court. Um, well, when we have these events here, you had the playground for the kids. You got to have something to keep the adults happy. So,
we put the yachi courts and ho pits out there. And we got the barbecue pit. So, they can they can have a pretty good time out here. And over the course of time, we've had birthday parties, uh, anniversary
parties, weddings, baby showers. Well, maybe the baby showers after the wedding, but uh and and one funeral. So, that has been used and it's
no charge to the people in the town of Dy. It's a place, the only place that people can gather. All you have to do is call and make sure there aren't three birthday parties the same day. But we don't
charge the people. If people want to make a donation, yes, we'll accept it. Uh we've never turned people down. The food pantries, you mentioned one tonight. We have two. One is at Lincoln Village. Those people can't
drive that come down here in most cases and some of them shouldn't that are driving. So we have one up there and we have this one and there's no charge. The um stuffies what are they
called? Sensory for the cruiser. Sensory animal stuffies for the cruisers. Oh yeah. To take them on. We bought those at no charge. Um then the cameras uh the police department approached us. They wanted cameras. We
bought two. The company donated one more. So they were put up for the benefit of the town and the benefit of the police pack. But again, no charge. Uh so I don't know how many times I've
mentioned no charge but uh quite a few so the only thing that I did say if you don't feel as though the Lion's Club should be exempt and if you want to charge the
$75, please don't make the bill out to the Lions Club. make the bill out for rental of the field and I will personally pay for it. Not the Lions Club. Thank you very much. Nice job.
Uh Deb and Ed and everyone else who who's here tonight to support you. I'm glad this happened. Uh, and I don't mean that in a negative sense because I I have to claim ignorance. I I didn't know
you did 90% of what you've done. And most people don't. And I'm glad you had the chance tonight to tell everybody what you do. Uh, because that's absolutely remarkable. Uh, you don't brag. You're behind the scenes. it. We see you with your yellow
vest on at certain events, but we don't know all these things that take place when uh when you're not around. And that's fabulous. Uh I for one have no issues with making the Lions Club exempt. Uh I know you you do a lot for the town. You've given a lot to the town
and you're going to give even more to the town and the least we can do is show our appreciation that you do that. And and Ed, I I I will I will uh personally say to you if um if it doesn't pass this evening, I will help you with that $75.
U Mark, do you have anything you want to add? Um so I'd like to thank you for educating me on all you do as well. I certainly know that Dyon Lions Club contributes a lot to the town. Uh but I didn't know to what extent. So I I appreciate you sharing that. I just kind
of want to go back to where my comments started for the um rental fees and um you know when I look at Spratfield and the the bleachers and the concrete it's eroding and it's in my opinion is a
safety hazard and will become I think it's dangerous. some of the trip and fall and it gets so much use. And I just think of all of the events that we have um out there that use those bleachers. And if the town had charged a fee for
it, whether it be $50 or $75 over the years, we'd have something saved up to fix those bleachers now because they need it. So I was looking at it in a business sense. And I I wasn't looking at it in the the view of the night lines. I was looking at it in the view
as we have a problem. How do we fix it? Um, so I I agree with Sluckman Karen that you guys certainly deserve that consideration. Um, and I will say it's not on our agenda tonight, the fee schedule. It will be on future agenda.
Um, but of course you deserve that consideration. Yes. I do have one comment. Um, and now you have told me because I didn't know either. It's the maybe the Lions Club can help out with one of these. this may be a project for
us. We don't know this. We we haven't been approached. Mhm. And uh maybe we can, right? Uh we're we're the ones that use it. Uh we did put up the lights. We did put up the track. Maybe we can work with you. Absolutely. And uh we can talk
sometime. Sure. Okay. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you guys. I appreciate your uh your efforts this evening. Uh we certainly do. Okay. Um so again uh go ahead please. Uh the
Historical Society speak please. Sure. Um you're up coming up for um Oh no. You were just here for the Okay. Sure. Go ahead. My name is Irene Alli. I'm a member of the Dyon Historical Society. And when we first learned about that
there would be a fee charged for groups to use facilities. Uh we are a nonprofit organization. Any monies that we raise stays inhouse. We support the Winsslow
Davis House on William Street. and any of the monies that we raise, whether it be from the Strawberry Festival, which is outside, or the Queen Elizabeth presentation, which would be using the town hall because our facility is not big enough to hold a large group. That
money goes into the society to pay for the upkeep of the Winslow Davis House, okay? Which is a historical building in this town. We have had a lot of expenses over the last couple years. this year even more so between the electricity being charged
for the building, the house insurance went up quite a bit. We've had multiple repairs that we've had done to the house. We do go out and ask for grants. Sometimes we get them, sometimes we don't. So then it comes back to us to
try to fund that repair. Right. Right now we do have an issue with the house. We have gone and requested a grant to have one wall of that house that faces going south on William Street that is bowing out. That house is an old
colonial home. We've tried to keep updated with records any um items that the town members feel that belongs in a historical society. And I'm just asking that you reconsider
because we don't have a big budget. Our budget is very tight. We are looking at other fundraisers that we can try to at least keep the upkeep of the house. We have done a lot with the outside because a lot of it was falling apart. Uh we have tried to keep the outside grounds
clean and updated. And for us to spend a fee for a presentation for the town's people, I feel would be a hardship to our group. And we are very small group and there's only a small number of us that frequently volunteer. And we have a lot
of volunteers that do add to the plant sale, strawberry festival, and any talks or programs that we have done here in the town hall building. So I'm just asking your consideration because we are a small group. We do not take any money
ourselves. A lot of us volunteer on the days that is open. And I just figured I would give you an update of what the historical society is about. Sure. I don't know whether Joanne has anything. She's also a member of the society. Uh president
and treasurer away. So that's why I'm speaking. Okay. Great. Thank you. I I don't have too much to add. You may see 624 Middle Street, North Don. Uh I've been a member for 44 years of the Dyon Historical Society. When I came to town,
I bought an antique house and they wrote me in. Uh and I have to say for all those 44 years, the majority of the time that we spend is in fundraising because we have such a small group of members
and we're all volunteers. And right now most of us are seniors in our 70s. And um you know it really is a hardship to have to pay to use um facilities that we have used for free in the past. And again you know what we provide as a
service to the town. You know we do archive you know the records from the town and uh it's it's a museum that we run and it's open to the public usually uh one morning every other week. Um, and it really is a service to the town. So,
I appreciate your consideration for being exempt. And just to add to that, any monies that we do raise go back into that house and museum. Yep. It doesn't go anywhere else. It's rem looks remarkable from the outside. You guys have done an excellent job. We We've
really had to look at trying to keep the upgrade and maintenance of the building. Yeah. the upgrade of the inside of the building plus taking and like she said getting those uh items and trying to preserve the history of Dyke.
So we would ask your consideration please. You you have educated us this evening or at least myself. Uh I I think we have to probably go back and readress the or address the um nonprofit aspect of the piece. uh that I can guarantee
you we will we will look at it again and uh certainly take what you've uh said this evening into consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Uh my name is Tony Rosario. Yes. From the Tan area Vietnam bats. Y I
belong to the two great organizations. One of them is the Lions Club that back there. I built I know you did all that and I've been in the club for I don't know 35 years what Ed's done it said I was there
um my thing is he I'm representing the the veterans sure um we do cruise nights one uh a month June July and August and if it's a misty day it's a wash because
these guys won't bring their cars out uh in the organization like every organization we only got about 10 15 guys active and I'm the youngest one. I'm 72. All those
guys they have either Agent Orange or they're all messed up. Wow. And what we do is just for scholarships and we have a hard time I do uh barbecue chicken barbecue and that's the only two fundraisers that we
do you know for the scholarships and we give scholarships that Rio Aggie and uh Bristol and all the surrounding towns but we have through the years we have you know given u scholarships in in our locals.
What I'm trying to say is I'm not a good speaker. I mean, all of this, if you stand there, you can see all of this going on. It's a great, beautiful area for nonprofit, which we are also nonprofit organizations for families to
come in, go on the playground, adults can walk the track, they can play bouchy, they can, you know, everything. And we're just trying to help ends meet, you know, as a organization, try to raise money for
scholarships. So, I mean, you a few years back when I first started doing it, that was 15 years ago, the town was have at it, you know, not a problem. in the last three or four years they made us get insurance which I don't agree
you know because all cars all vehicles are insured in the state of mass so all those people with cars they are insured and heavily so I I don't but that another subject we can discuss but
it it just you know $75 yeah that probably is not much but it's taken from us going to a scholarship, right? You know, that's that's my whole thing and that's all I have to say about it. You know, like I said, I'm not a
speaker. I'm I'm the worker and these guys know it. But, uh, yeah, I hate to see it. You know, like I said, we only do it three times a year and that's it, right? They want me to do more and I say, "No, I'm getting too old for this. Follow me." So, uh, yeah, it's a it
would be a cry and shame. Sure. if you know, like I said, we're going to readress the uh the fees for especially for nonprofit. Um we can't put an under undue burden on on the work that you guys do. We all, you know, the little league, the boys club, any nonprofit,
they all trying to the way things are today, you know, try to raise money or something and and I mean this is great, you know, nice place to have a party to and this and that to have a good time to
have families come and share, you know. So, I mean, you start putting feeds and you know, some of these nonprofit organizations, you know, they You have all this for nothing, right? People ain't going to be showing up. Y, you know, so that's all I'm in the same
boat. Yeah, we can exempt that, you know, the future. I don't know how many more years we got left. Sure. We got a lot of years left. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else at this time before we move on? Um, so just so folks
know where I stand on it, I would still like to see a fee, but I absolutely think there should be an exemption for nonprofits. I think that as Sleman Carrot said, you've all made a very compelling argument and thank you for all you do and especially for all you give back to our town. Um, however,
these facilities do cost um, money to maintain. So, I would like to see a I'd like to see us talk about in a future meeting adding a fee structure with an exemption for nonprofits. Great. All right. Thank you for coming, guys. Thank you. Uh, you can stay for the rest of
the show if you'd like. Uh we're going to move on to new business. This is a motion. We we approve them and there was no fee to wave. Yeah, it was it was said up front.
Uh this is uh moving on to new business. Review discuss and act fiscal year 2000. Sorry, that's okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye guys. This is a review discuss and act fiscal year 2026 annual town meeting warrant
placement of the articles. Okay. I got to find it. Yeah. I think in the past did we have maybe I'm wrong did we have all the articles kind of like like the the motions typed out by this point or this is just to put them on the warrant the next meeting.
Yeah. Okay. So we can take it all collectively. Yes. Okay. Uh through through the chair I just want to point out a few things is particularly particularly article 21 and article 22. Article 21 is um what the
select mecha brought up a few meetings ago. Uh chapter 43 section 18b the funding to um explain um the explanation of the vote. Uh we have some dollar signs next to it. And um right now we're we're narrowing it down. It looks like
it's going to between uh between mailing fees and and town council fees. It's going to be about $6,000. 6,000. Yeah. Yeah. So, a a little less than what I originally thought. Um, and something else um uh article 22 and just again um
something to think about um as as we move forward the heroes uh the heroes act specified percentage if if uh it is um if it's recommended and voted on at the town meeting to give the veterans
100%. Um, just pointing out to the board that that would cost us an additional approximately $40,000 in our overlay. Um, just uh again to make you aware, if we're using the uh FINCOM's numbers, uh
our excess levy capacity would be down to 40 41,000 and if we use the BOS numbers, it would be down to about 31,000. So, just want to I just want to point that out to you so um you're aware moving forward uh when you when you think about the recommendations at at
the next meeting. Okay, great. Thank you. So, in the budget, you put 40 uh 50% for the uh well the the article is for 100%. Right. So, you know, unless directed
otherwise we're we're we have that number. Okay. And that will be at the next meeting that we vote on on uh the May 14th, right? The May 14th meeting is the recommendations. Thank you.
Um so we need to uh uh to act on this. Um or or no, we don't really. Well, you could accept accept this these articles to place the articles on the warrant. Yeah. Okay. Uh Mark, you want to make a motion to do that? I'll make a
motion to approve article 1 through 30 for the annual town meeting on June 9th, 2025 as presented. Uh I'm going to step down as chair and second that. So motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I
motion to table the facilities request for the Dyon Lions family funday. I will set down and second that. Any discussion? All those in favor? I uh junk dealers's license to review, discuss an act. Um this is for Joseph
Frisado on 180 Cobb Lane. All the necessary paperwork is in. The fees have been paid. Um uh through through the chair, if I may, I'm a little nostalgic about this. I'll tell you why. because uh this was my
first introduction into Dyon. Uh the last time Mr. Fzado was before the board was on uh September 25th, the same day I accepted the position as as town administrator. So I remember that I remember that evening pretty well. Um, I just want to point out to the board, um,
that, uh, knowing, uh, especially being there that night and knowing, uh, knowing the history of this, um, of this, uh, location, um, we are unaware of of any other complaints that were issued against, uh, Mr. Fzado's
business. Um, we, um, you know, we contact the police department and the fire department. So, I just, um, if that I know that was a big question the last time, so I just wanted to present that to you. when he was given that two week suspension, were there any violations during that those two weeks? No. No.
Okay. Um I don't see a reason not to give it to him as much as the uh the neighbors probably don't want that to happen, but um if he's following the rules of the road, then uh I think we have to approve it. I've received a complaint from the
neighbor that he's up being outside of the hours and I tend to believe the neighbor. Sure. Unfortunately. Okay. For Mr. Fzado. So at this time I wouldn't support um you wouldn't support it. Okay. Junk dealer's license for him.
Okay. So this is a review discuss and act. Um so is there a motion on the floor at this time? I'll make a motion to deny the um junk deal license as presented. Well, I think if you just don't make a motion, then it denies automatically,
right? If I would say to if you It's kind of funny. Well, yeah. I If you say vote to approve and it's a split vote, then it's denied. So, and as I explained earlier,
uh when there's two of you, tie vote is a denial. And you could either let it stand as a denial or uh move it uh when there are three voting members present. So you making a motion to deny or you withdrawing it and just not making no
motion. Okay. So hearing no motion um it does not pass. Uh, you want to send him a letter, Karen, saying that um the uh past history of his uh
violations in the town has caused the selectman to uh take his license away. Thank you. Um this is a uh review discuss an act donation from Mechanics Bank to the
fire and police departments. This is a good one. Yeah, absolutely. So, the uh the uh police department and the fire department a few weeks ago noticed they were having some difficulty difficulty with their communications. Uh
apparently there was um a break in communication between the water towers um which could only be um fixed with with new um microwave antennas. Uh the initial the initial cost of that was
approximately uh seven to $8,000. Uh Deputy Chief Ryan was looking into it and and the tariffs kicked into place. So it went up to about $15,000. And we were trying to figure out a way um how to how to pay for it. Do we do a reserve fund transfer or or something to that
effect because we know the importance of communications with for our first responders. uh a member of the fire department reached out to Mechanics Bank and the president of the bank, Joe Baptista, uh graciously uh said they'll take care of it. So um so we're just
looking to um to ex u accept right accept the donation and we will be reaching out to Mr. Batista, show our appreciation. We'll we'll we'll go there and we'll let the selectman know uh when we do that. That's great. Thank you. Um
fantastic. That's awesome. Uh, so Mark, is there a motion, please? To accept I'll make a motion to accept the donation from Mechanics Bank to the fire and police departments with thanks and appreciation. And I'll step down as chair and second that motion made and
seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I could we send them a thank you letter from the board of selectmen as well? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, that would be awesome. Uh e review discuss and act a letter of recommendation for Ariana Baptista for
becoming an Eagle Scout. I understand she did some work here in Dyon. Um she her eagle project was in Torton but but the troop that she belongs to the old girls troop is is a is a Dayton uh Dyon
Torton um uh troop. Okay. So um I it's um pretty commendable. I think she aside from being an Eagle Scout, um she's going for the highest rank uh in Girl Scout as well. Wow. Underachiever. I hate her. Yeah.
Just an Eagle Scout is awesome. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That alone Yeah, that alone is uh is quite commendable. Wow. Cool. Okay. Uh this is review, discuss, and act. So, we need a motion to uh send her a letter. I'll make a motion to send a
letter of accommodation to Ariana Batista. Um I'll step down as chair and second that. Any more discussion? All those in favor? I I ask review discuss and act award for a
bid for ceremony for uh cemetery lawn maintenance. This is going to dream builders 2350 Cedar Street Titan. Um yep. They um just the the board that uh no it's um beyond my capacity to um
to sign it but if you they give me authority to sign the contract. Dream Builders had been our um uh they had been doing this uh cemetery lawn maintenance for us and they and uh they they've been doing a good job and fortunately they came in as as the the lowest bidder. And also you know in a
little bit we're catching a few breaks for fiscal year 26 and one of them is this. We um last year they're they charged us 32,000 and this year they're charging us 28,000 going into fiscal year 26. So so uh get them while we can, you know.
Any particular reason why the price went down? Um but don't ask. I I I don't know. He does a good job. Tom is very happy with it and you know we tell everyone to bid accordingly. Sure. You know, so great. Thank you. probably from efficiencies from doing it for three
years. He knows. Yeah, I'm very pleased that he bid on it again and is the low bidder. So that's fantastic. I'll make a motion to award the bid of cemetery lawn maintenance to Dream Builders, 2350 Cedar Street. I'll step down as chair and second that. Any more
discussion? All those in favor? I um this is G. Review, discuss, and act. request to appoint Thomas Ferry, Highway Superintendent to the Joint Transportation Planning Group, JTPG. I'll make that motion. Okay, motion made and I'll step down as chair and second
that motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I um H re uh again a review discussing act request to appoint Ralph Paco, town administrator as alternate to the joint transportation planning group. Do you
really want it? Yeah. Oh yeah. Nice. Oh yeah. All right. It's during the day. Okay. And Tom I like to see Tom. Perfect. All right. I'll put that in the form of a motion as well. Okay. Motion made. I'll step down as chair and second that. Any discussion? All those in
favor? I I uh request to reappoint Jeff Kavalo, Planning Board Chairman, as designate to the Serpent Southeastern Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District, representing both the planning board and the board of selectman. I'll make that motion. Motion made and seconded. Any
more discussion? All those in favor? I um we're still down one person, right, for that? I believe so. Yes. Okay. For circuit. Is that um posted on our website? I will double check it. Believe
it is. Yeah. Thank you. Review discuss and act. This is Jay. Appointment of municipal representative for the Dyon Rhobit teachers union negotiations. Uh just through the chair just for discussion purposes. Uh selectman uh George Solas from uh Rahobitth had had
stepped up. Um if um if it is the determination of the board to put someone forward to, I'll reach out to um to um Dyon uh DR and uh see what what we need to do. Okay. Uh yes, Lenny.
Traditionally, that position has alternated from time to time. Okay. Last year it was George. This year it's Oh, I remember that when uh a couple years ago we did that. I was right.
Yeah. When you did it, what was the time commitment? One meeting. One meeting a month. No, one meeting. One meeting. Oh. To vote on the contract. Oh, okay. I because I had reached out to our town administrator
about it. I I was thinking and I reached out to the superintendent of DR. I I was thinking it was every other Wednesday. So, wow. Um I would be interested in in representing it. That's music to my ears. I thought it was going to be twice a month. Um so, I mean I was only
invited to one meeting, the final meeting. Yep. For the vote. Okay. And that's how it was in P2 when I was the designate for that too. Oh, fantastic. Would you support if I was uh or if we put my name up to see if they're interested? Yeah.
Okay. Um, so I'll make that motion uh to appoint um Bach Pacico as the um representative from the town of Dyon for the teachers union negotiations. I'll step down and second. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I um I will reach out to Dyon.
We're hoping to see what else what we have to do just to make sure it's all copacetic. Yeah. Great. Thanks, Lenny. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Mark. Um this is a review discuss and act council on aging surplus disposable items 83 placemats and two wooden
tables. Motion to approve the um the surplus request as presented. Motion made. I'll step down as chair and second. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I
approval of the warrants. Um hold on. I don't know where I put them. Sure. Oh, here we go. I'd like to make a motion to pay the warrants by April 17, 2025.
42A-25 for $122,1187. 42B-25 for $156,21157. 42 C-25 for $3,16.82 82 warrants paid by April 24th, 2025.
43A-25 for $138,99.33 and 43B-25 for $63,56549. I'll step down as chair and second that. Any more discussion? All those in favor? I I uh we're moving up to correspondence. We have a letter or
three letters from the chief Christopher McGee the fire chief regarding three new personal personnel effective uh April 1st for Matthew Pavo, April 20th for Scott Fornier and May 1st for Shane Delaney. Um these are I guess people
that he would like to appoint to uh members of the ranks. Welcome. Definitely. Do we need a motion just to place on file or No, no, just it's an information. Okay. All righty. Okay. Uh there are no
minutes uh to approve tonight. Uh last public input anyway. I may approach the podium of course. Yes. If you don't mind. No, not at all. Since I voice it all the time. Yeah, I know. So, as you know, uh we we try to do the
uh the recording of the uh the Veterans Day holiday, Memorial Day in the the other one in November. Being uh the the the anniversary for the country, I was thinking if we put the flags on the flag pole for this coming year, I think it mean a lot. I went up to Lexington.
Short story. Don't ask me why I went up there, but my wife said I'll go. So, we left the house at 2:00 in the morning. went up there for the reenactment. So, I had the uh my little Dying Cable hat on. So, I told my wife, "I'll get in with this." Go in there. CNN's there, ABC,
Channel 12. I say, "Where are you from?" And uh so, basically, it was really crowded. There was a lot of people there and I was quite moved by it, you know, like one of the first battles with the British, you know, going through conquered. Wow. And we had to watch it on a maybe a train, you call it. Am I
using the proper word? because it was so many people around the uh the exercise where they're doing, you know, you know, firing the musketss and Yeah, I saw it on the news. Yeah. You couldn't see it cuz the crowd was probably like maybe five, six feet out easy. So, they had a trim. We had to watch it from there. Oh,
cool. But, but it was still kind of nice to see kids out there, young families knowing what it really means that, you know, get our independence and everything. So, I was quite moved by, you know, by going up. Even though I came back empty-handed, I was like, "Oh, well, we still went up there." Sure. But I appreciate if we can do the flags,
it'd be great. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just one just one quick item. Glenn Hall, 760 Main Street. I heard a discussion this evening about liability insurance for the events and it you
might want to touch base with your insurance carrier because in the history of charging the insurance was the town it's on town property. If something happens the town like everyone else the
deep pocket theory is going to get sued as well. You might want to touch base with your insurance carrier to make sure that there's no additional cost to the town if you should wave the
fees for protection. $75 fee or Well, no, no, no. Insurance. I don't think we have any intentions of doing that at this stage, do we? Well, no. Okay. But I just wanted to mention that, you know, as something to check with the insurance carrier. If you don't
require those people to carry insurance, does that add additional liability to the town? Right. And as a result, an additional expense. Sure. So, thank you. Thank you.
Uh, anybody else for public input? Motion to adjurnn. I'll step down and second that. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Thank you guys. Thanks, D.