those reasonably anticipated by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law can we please have a call to order nicole Melo
present mark Pacico present and Peter Karen present via Zoom and now can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance and we do have a moment of silence right after so if everybody can just please standing for a moment please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and we lost a neighbor this week patricia no if we can just have a moment
of silence please thank you guys uh first thing up is schedule appointments which there are none uh but we can move right on to announcements whenever you're ready Nicole um the open space committee will be organizing a town cleanup day of open
spaces in town um April 19th with a rain date of April 26 they are looking for volunteers to assist in the cleanup efforts in addition anyone who has any suggestions of any particular areas to clean up can contact Jonathan Gale and I finally got the dates right and
Jonathan's not here to tell me I'm wrong so we're good um the Dyon Lions Club's food bank will be held next on Saturday April 12th they are located at the lower level of town hall a public meeting
regarding library accessibility will be held on Thursday April 24th at Old Town Hall at 6:30 p.m 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 this is your opportunity to help shape the Dyon Public Library for years to come on Saturday April 26th from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m the DEA will
coordinate with the Dyon Police Department for a one-day prescription takeback event this event provides an opportunity for the public to surrender pharmaceuticals controlled substances and other medications the Dyon Historical Society is holding a plant
sale this is on Saturday um May 17th from 9:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m at Winslow Davis Museum 1217 William Street stop by and get your plants for your garden this is a rain or shine event that's it great um thank you now
is the time for the first public input is there anyone there or anybody out on the line that wants to be heard no not this time okay we'll move right on to the town administrator's report please sure thank you very much Peter two things um uh thing number one is the
uh we we received a request from Don Rahobit Regional School as you may be aware they are they will be engaging uh with contract negotiations with Don Rahobit Regional School District Teachers Union uh the uh DR regional
school committee requests that either that a Rahobit border selectman and the Dyon board selectman jointly decide uh who will be their municipal representative um we don't know if um just uh if you have any idea who to put forward or if anybody has said anything
to you or someone on this board wishes to uh to be put forward uh I will share that information with um the Dyton Rahobit selectman and we could and you guys will jointly decide on who that who that would be so it's obviously important to have some representation at
that at that uh uh at that uh contract negotiation so okay and have we been in touch with Sam Hobus to see who had who they might recommend uh no not yet we just got the letter uh yesterday so I'll reach out to um and then uh secondly we
received um we put out the bid uh for glass doors for the uh for the library uh we received uh three bids um Somerset Glass came in at $43,675 um since it's under the $50,000
threshold I signed the the uh the contract for it and I just wanted to make the the selectment aware of that it's interesting that only one looks like one glazing company um responded the other ones look like construction companies so that was kind of an
interesting kind of interesting to me yeah it but you know construction companies I mean mill works they do doors and and everything but but maybe that's why some glass was cheaper right absolutely makes sense and that's all I have for the uh county
administration all right thank Thank you Ralph you guys have any questions for Ralph yet no no okay uh then on to collecting reports anything uh Nicole um I just wanted to highlight too of our departments i don't know if anyone saw the video the police department put out
yesterday on the firing range um I thought that was excellent um that was an excellent step after everything that they did already to show about the range and to have that video I think was really great as well as I know today the fire department had put out that they
received um a grant for um some purchasing some equipment that they need um it was a grant over $7,000 it's the second round of the firefighter safety equipment grant so they'll be getting some stuff with that so just thank you to them for putting in for that and
getting that it's helpful especially in this time that's it great all right thank you Mark do you have anything tonight um all I have is the annual town election is this Saturday at Den Elementary School from 7:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m um most of the races aren't
contested but there is a there is one and even if they're not it's we hope everyone goes out and votes so um right please vote this Saturday yes uh there is a very important um uh uh race and that's for the school
committee and um it it's certainly going to shape the the way the school committee runs and um and the budgets going forward so people should put a lot of thought into it and they really should come out and vote like Mark you said even though most of the the races
are not contested it's still their civic obligation to do that i agree with you Peter yes thank you um moving on to uh moving on to old business this is a review discussed act update annual committee proposed
schedule this is a revised schedule I guess from um uh well it has uh what's the new date on it Ralph yeah u well we didn't change any significant dates the uh June 9th is still the annual town meeting uh the
closing of the warrant is still today but we wanted to flesh it out a little more so um uh make it a little more granular uh so we added you like legal council review and and just the joint BS fincom meeting so again we just want uh
everybody to see it instead of the ones we had put out um two weeks ago was a little more general so we made this one more specific so okay um what's the post annual town meeting warrant
that's what post it yes okay that's what um Nicole do you have anything no I don't have any questions uh Mark do you have anything no thank you all right great uh then we'll move right on to uh to new business the first one is a review
discuss and act this is for the conservation commission request for additional hours i'm sure you guys remember a couple weekends ago a couple weeks ago when we were at the finance committee meeting joint meeting um the conservation committee requested additional hours for their agent
um is she here tonight or is anybody here to represent them they are here tonight Peter okay um my my feeling is this i I'm I don't know the position as well as she does or as well as they do but uh so I don't know if the hours are
are additional time is needed or not i I I think um when we are seriously looking at budget cuts tonight that this probably is not the opportune time to ask for an increase in ours it's um again not being
a professional at what like she does and and I'm sorry that she is under the gun but I I personally don't recommend that we add additional hours at this time uh Nicole um so yeah obviously this is a time
where we're asking all the um boards and committees and departments to make a cut and then to have um this request um is just not the time and like Peter said like I I don't know what you do um but
this is I just don't see this as an appropriate time to make that kind of decision and I know we're putting new fees in place that were supposed to help with paying but when we were doing that it wasn't looking to add on it was looking to pay for what we already had in place that was my understanding right
that's all I have to say about it okay thank you uh Mark do you have anything um I do just Okay sorry thank you takes me a second to gather my thoughts sometimes um I have some conflicting ideas because I agree with everything
that both of you said and I think it is I mean we have a basically an impossible task next on the agenda when we talk about budgets um but I also have the same underlying principle that you know it's been an initiative of
mine to offer employees that don't have a contract the opportunity to get one and if uh Lisa and I'm understanding she is in um willing to consider one
um I think contracts are negotiable so I would be open to um to do it under those circumstances but we could always table it to a different time when um our budget's set I guess or we have a better grip on the
financial situation of the town okay so you want to table either this question or just um the fact that you would like to have um contracts for the individual employees um because we have to decide tonight if
we're going to change their budget i'm not really sure i'm sorry individual contracts uh like you or or contracts with people who don't have them i just don't think tonight is the night um to to to decide whether she should get whether we should do that and um and
really just to move forward do we want to grant additional hours okay i um I think we should give it some consideration at some point so maybe if we at least can table it to a certain date is that something that maybe we
should consider we so that department has um maybe can look into more resources or maybe they can find a creative solution that um you know we don't want to like slow
said they have uh we we don't want to deplete their accounts that they're that they're just starting to get that they just initiated but they I know the departments have needs
as well sure i'm not being very articulate tonight i apologize no that's all right i know what you mean though mhm it's a difficult It's a difficult thing um because I know that they wouldn't ask if it wasn't needed but telling all the other departments that we have to decrease and then to increase
in department just I can't do it okay so then is there going to be a motion on the floor for this um I'll make a motion that at this time um we do not accept um the request for
additional hours second may I speak this discussion uh sure uh this is the discussion part so go ahead hey Nicole I think this is going to address your statement and that you really aren't sure what uh the agent uh
does but uh first of all we've had a great deal of increases in the number of applications that have been coming in lisa has to meet with the uh developer the engineers the scientists uh she has to go out and and uh view locations of
septic systems when people call in and saying there is a violation as a matter of fact tonight uh uh we made the time to meet at a certain time this evening and she's not there she's out uh she got a call in to inspect a violation in
progress she had to go uh uh Lisa um does not have an administrative staff most departments they have their agent they have administrative staff to do to do the various paperwork and then uh they might have additional staff after
that lisa has to do it all um with this um meeting with these engineers and wetland scientists site visits um uh it's extremely time consuming in addition she has to write up the orders
of conditions she has to write up enforcement orders she has to go visit those sites when enforcement audits have been given and uh and a lot of times uh she gets calls I know she does because I get them from her on weekends and I have to and I cover for her if we if she gets
a weekend call because that's when most violators do their work on weekends when they're when they're home uh now yes this would be an increase in in pay but uh I mean in lie of all the work that she does and uh that she has taken over
it's uh uh it's really imperative that she gets uh some additional time now the increase uh that we are asking for five hours would be about $11,000 uh dollars a year I'm rounding it uh however we
reduced our budget from last year by 6,000 so this would actually be about a $5,000 increase over last year um where would this funds come from maybe the just out of general funds from from
somewhere i don't you know that would be up to you people but this year we also have a revised bylaw system that has just been approved and which fees will be uh received from uh from various
applicants or various uh violators we don't know how much that's going to be but but we could be helping to fund that um again I can't say but we also have the WPA account and and you know and and
I think it's all in fairness for the amount of work uh and the time consumed by Lisa to u give her this additional five hours per week thank you thank you thanks Jim okay i I appreciate your
concern and um Oh is there somebody else i just for the record I just wanted to reiterate that I also have to do all the accounting so you know paying bills
um helping to facilitate the um contract with Weston and Samson and those peerreview services keeping track of those things making sure Serena's getting what she needs and also you know
whenever we have an issue we have to you know deal with a lawyer I'm dealing with the lawyer so I just wanted to reiterate that it's just it's admin technical field office you know it's everything that the other departments that do
inspections have to do but I'm doing it without any admin staff except for the woman I have that's doing the uh the minutes which has been doing a she's been doing a great job with that but I just wanted to reiterate I think you know there's not many towns that you
could see if you looked around that don't have more than one person most pe most towns have definitely two full-time never mind one part-time but you Okay thanks Lisa
um like I said I understand the position that you're in uh two things one I I think the hours that you put in are are exceptional and you work very hard at what you do the We're not open weekends and we're
not open nights that's uh that's the town hall and if you have to come in on a weekend then something else is wrong it's it's not just as simple as adding more hours to your pay uh it's as far as you saying there are emergencies i I think what Mark had
created had talked about earlier having a contract something like that would have to be put in a contract of you being on fall weekends uh it's just that at this time I can't recommend that we have additional hours put in uh I know you do a lot of work and and it's greatly appreciated i'm not sure what
other towns do really doesn't affect what we do here in Dyen but um it's just difficult at a time that we're looking to cut possibly positions that uh as much as you work hard so does everyone else uh I I just can't justify more
hours at this time uh when we put a contract in place or if there's going to be a contract in place and we can add uh something at that time I'd be more than happy to consider it again but uh not this evening um there's an I have one more thing under discussion if this
motion fails which um so if this motion fails I want to know from my um colleagues if you guys think we could put it on the warrant um for an additional 5 hours so we can keep it segregated from the budget and allow
perhaps the conservation commission or the conservation agent to you know give her that opportunity to discuss it at town meeting doesn't mean the Sluckman have to recommend the article or Fincom but at least place it on the warrant to give them one maybe one more opportunity to discuss it
um I I'm not uh uh sure that we should do that because then we can have every department up there arguing saying uh almost the same thing uh so it's the it's the job of the selection to decide not necessarily uh the voters of that
evening uh I don't know what's your opinion Ralph um I I would agree with you Peter i think uh you know we would have to get the funds from from somewhere and we're we're we're pretty tight all the way around so um I think um I I think it's
something we could we could look into i think it might be um appropriate to have a a maybe a year under the belt to see to see what uh how many how many fees are collected you know at that point we could we can revisit um and and this way
is is no reflection on the work Miss Calonia does it's just the the budget situation we're in currently okay can I just clarify something on the revolving funds um full-time salaries cannot be charged to the Well if let me rephrase
that if a full-time salary is charged to a revolving fund then we also have to charge the other benefits that that employee receives such as um health insurance or other insuranceances so if we are thinking to use revolving for a full-time salary then you know the
expense will be beyond just the hourly rate of the salaries okay thank you thank you thank you is there any more discussion on this no yes I have i would like to say one more thing when we look the school police fire sorry you got to go
to the podium okay when we look at the police fire uh school department yeah we're talking millions of dollars we're talking 5,000 in addition to last year's budget 5,000
okay is that it for discussion then yes okay then a call for a vote please what was our motion i'm sorry i lost our motion was to seconded oh um what was our motion to table the motion was to not recommend
okay so that I'm an I i think we got to do it on What do you do to announce a roll call vote because you're on Zoom okay so Melo I Mark I peter Karen i All right thank you thank you all right thank you was a motion we didn't recommend at this
time the motion was not to recommend uh moving on to B uh review discuss and act close the annual town meeting warrant um I'll make a motion to close the annual town meeting warrant second motion made seconded any discussion all
those in favor i mark Pico i Oh Nicole Melo i Sorry Mark thanks Mark peter Karen i Okay guys now on to the big one this is again a review discuss and act the fiscal year 2026 budget recommendation
uh now I understand you have to vote on the total the department total not the individual lines now I I don't know how you guys want to proceed i have some changes that I'd like to see in um thought that it was best that it's we we
don't necessarily have to go through each individual line item but uh we should go through each individual department and if there's any changes that we would like to make then we can make them at that time do you guys agree with that yes absolutely okay uh Ralph is that acceptable to you
no that uh that's fine just uh just to note uh Serena provided the um the um the wording for the motion so as we go through as we go through each each department um that's that's the preferred motion and then um also um you
know prior prior to this meeting I had uh as I had promised I had sent um some some additional well it's not additional information it's the same information I've been uh I've been uh sharing with this board just you know just updating
on the uh updating on the uh town administrators recommendations um how we intend um how we intend to use free cash and then Um overall uh the budget that I had put forward looks like we're um
80,000 uh $80,000 plus and then also you know moving forward some thoughts um we have to get direction on on how to uh address the budget in and uh FY27 so with that what's how much free
cash are we supplementing this budget with so the free cash is $371,524 we're using uh for uh free cash for snow and ice we snow and ice 135,000 uh one time for one time reserve fund
50,000 one time for one time 25,000 stabilization one time for one time$10,000 OPED 20 251,524 is to go for um general government operations so 251524
Thank you could you read the last one for general government operations again two uh 2 51524 thank you anything else guys before we start um I
I have a idea that I'd like the board to um I guess uh think about so uh you know we're going to go through our recommendations tonight and we'll I'm sure we'll make some cuts and FINCOM will but we'll still have a deficit that
we'll be funding with free cash to the tune of 300 and something thousand so the way I look at it we kind of have three different options for our budget the first option is kind of what we're going to do tonight we're going to go line by line and make our
recommendations uh to present to the town's people um so I think that should be option one and I I I kind of like to do a um non like it it'd be a little different than what that what we're used to but I'd like to
give the towns people three options so that's that's kind of option one option two is to present a a different budget that shows trash being an enterprise fund um so that way their residents
still have the trash services because we've heard that feedback a lot however it's pulled out of the budget um and I've done some research on it uh I looked at the town of Marshfield does it conquered and I know we've had it presented before pulling it out um but
the enterp an enterprise account um this is from I'm just going to read a small excerpt from DLS um allows a community to demonstrate to the public the total cost of providing a service by consolidating all
of the programs direct and indirect costs so into departmental um support insurance costs etc debt even capital expenditures into a segregated fund um so the to support the service a
community may choose to recover total costs through user charges rates through tax levy subsidy or through appropriation of other available funds um so even like if we did an enterprise fund for for trash and recycling you can
even put employees in there from my research so folks at the transfer station or if we have highway workers supporting trash you can apply salaries to enterprise funds as well so if we could do maybe a special meeting and and
look look at a budget that support shows um what would our budget look like if we have a enterprise fund for trash and then a third budget option which we discussed at um when we initially did a debt
exclusion was um looking at you know the staffing at town hall um you know that's been in our that's what we proposed to the town's people um if the debt exclusion failed we'd have to look at staffing so that would be scenario
three and um I just want to go back to scenario one which is kind of what we're doing now i think if we bring this to town meeting and let's say you guys agree with me if this is the if this is the budget the town's people approve which
is funding our budget through free cash which we all know is very unhealthy um I would like to see there's another mass general law um it's mass general under law chapter 53 section
18B and basically what this law does is we were really restricted when we did the last debt exclusion um we really couldn't put anything on the ballot that described it it was um basically you put what you just put the exact language as prescribed what it
that exclusion is and most folks were very confused as to what that meant so I'd like to see in this budget um we propose it that if this is the way the town goes obviously we probably need to do another debt exclusion and so we would need to accept
this law and this would allow us to do the pros and cons of a yes vote the pros and cons of a no vote you can have um your city solicit uh sorry your town attorney write um a summary of what's um
what's happening and um it also prescribes that we send a mailer out to residents so I cuz I feel like and I said it right from the beginning we did everything we possibly could could for the last dead
exclusion um but when when I did the initial research on it the state did say if we accepted this law we can do more and this would allow the town to do to do more because if we keep doing the same thing over and over we're probably not going to get different results so this
would be something a little different so I threw a lot at you guys but I thought I would love to hear what you guys think about that well I go ahead um I like the having the options um the trash for enterprise fund showing
people what what's the alternatives like I obviously this year we're just going to go through the but do what we usually do but we like Ralph had said we have to start talking about the next fiscal year and for people to have a better understanding of that we are things are
going to have to change a better understanding of why it's not healthy that we're taking from fe free free cash I don't think people understand that I think they think well the money's there why not um so if we have the availability to show them other options that might be
more I don't know i like I I like the I like the suggestion i guess that's all that's going to come out of that that means a lot to me sure uh good work Mark i I guess I'm going to pretend for a second that I'm sitting
there in the audience listening and and are you you telling me we're going to give I'm going to have three options tonight on how to vote on the town budget so we're still the leaders of the town they elected us to to lead so I think the way I see this playing out is
we do this budget tonight we do a special meeting for trash a special meeting for personnel but then we recommend an option to the town's people so we say you know we we recommend option let's say B you know enterprise fund i'm just throwing that out there
this is what we recommend but if the town's people reject it because we don't have a crystal ball we don't know who's going to show up to town meeting uh different audiences can prescribe a different future for our town we're not scrambling to get the numbers we've already gone through every budget
scenario so we don't have to incur any costs for another another meeting hopefully hopefully we um do our research and we can get it all settled that night and um so I still think we should recommend an option however we can sit there and say if you don't like
it we we have two other options for you what's your pleasure you know we've we've gone through the scenarios we've actually put pen to paper and we can show you what what the town's future would look like with these cuz we really have three different roads we can go down here one is going to be more spending one is
um you know you know we have three different options so I think we should recommend one but give them three okay uh do you have an opinion Ralph um I'm I just need some some clarification
um do you is it your intention or the intention of the board to do this at this annual town meeting um yes yes i think um I I thought about the enterprise fund and I I probably assume you can't get that done for July
1st but we could find a date that we could get it done by and get the numbers for that you know so like each So this is the hard part because we have to go through every single budget for here but like looking at these other things we only have to look at certain budgets for and we can spend more time on them if we
did a couple special meetings special meetings meaning selectman's meetings or I think we should do this meeting for this tonight and don't change what we're doing i think we should have one special meeting involving all the stakeholders and we
should do a budget for enterprise funds for trash and that wouldn't require us looking at the entire budget we're only looking at you know there's only a few lines for um solid waste and then the third option which is you know um we
would still be looking at consolidated number of budgets yeah okay the I'm going to have to look at the enterprise fund but I know in some instances with the with an enterprise fund the I have to get the specifics of it
and I'll and I'll share them with you at sometimes you have to do a vote at town meeting for the enterprise fund to raise an appropriate to sort of f sort of yeah the initial seed money for the enterp for the enterprise fund uh um so we have
to um we have to look you know we have to look at that i think um the I think um we could get on on this meeting um if you suggested as an article the 5318B
the town could accept that at the town meeting that's that's the easiest thing to do absolutely um out of out of the um out of the out of the um what you suggested um I'm I'm trying to to think what the um the logistics um the leg of the
logistics of how of how to make that work um so we I guess that's my concern is the logistics of it i agree with everything that you're saying Mark um I just don't know that's why I'm asking you how do we go about doing it as far
as an enterprise fund goes we as a trash um the the uh the waste committee have talked about that and think that is the answer um well that's coming from myself but uh that that is a possible answer to our dilemma here mhm how important Mark
is it that it happens this fiscal year like I I think as a So that that's what we need to hear like this is not possible for this to happen this year but having it planned we should have the vote for this town meeting so
we can plan on it you know we need if we keep kicking this can down the road like let's I don't know exactly we're probably not going to solve it the world tonight but um we we should be proposing more at town meeting than just this budget so enterprise fund is a solution but town
meeting might hate it so instead of solid waste spinning the wheels and trying to come up with all these scenarios I think we really should propose the three options and and I I um I think we can give it more thought so like tonight I think we should just go through this
budget um you know as we always do and that's going to be one of uh you know there's a deficit we're funding in free cash but um and maybe there's other options in the two I gave but we should give other scenarios that's I guess okay
yeah I agreement okay except like work on getting money in there all right i think we should proceed uh like you said Mark with the way we have it i I think an enterprise fund is a
great idea i'm I'm not sure uh if it can be feasibly done by by the by the June meeting uh if not it it's certainly something that we should put on uh on our agenda right away to get it done for next year but um um if if I may Peter um
I just had a quick sidebar with Serena um yeah we should have some meetings and if it is the intent of the board to put it on we looking to have a special um a special town meeting in the fall and that might be the time uh that would be the time to put it on so we could enact
it that'll be ready for fiscal year 27 27 yeah to go and everything i'd like to see us move a little quicker um No I hear you because I I just have as an elected selectman representing the
the town I would have a really hard time sitting up there saying this is the only option and it's going to cost you 371,000 out of your savings account and um we we all knew this was coming and uh I think if we really try hard and we put
our heads together we can get some get a budget for an enterprise fund i think we have a lot of smart people in town hall um we have a fantastic board of selectmen and um if we have a meeting dedicated to this and we do some research and then we
decide it's just not feasible to bring the town meeting I would accept it but I would I'd hate to kick the can down the road and only offer our town's people a $370,000 deficit or bandaided free cash
okay what's the date that the warrant is um again I don't know if it's feasible but I'm willing to give it as much effort as everybody else can too i know our um employees in town hall are all very um on edge and our residents our residents
are so um we're just to offer them some more solutions I think would be greatly appreciated yeah um so the we really only have until May 22nd when the warrant is to be posted so in
reality a week before that mhm um it would have to be on the warrant to be posted so that's like four weeks mhm um but we can put our best efforts
within those four weeks okay i'm an optimist so I think we can do it um so you know that would also include setting up utility billing and um the board of health i don't think we can get it set for July 1st to enact it but we
could you're just looking to like establish if we establish an enterprise fund and let's say we put heads together and say I don't think we can start till January 1st but we could present a budget at town meeting that says this will start January 1st you know because it's going to take a lot of time you know or maybe your recommendation is we
can at least accept an enterprise fund and then and then get it going at special town meeting or something but I guess I just want a plan for I want to walk into town meeting with a plan yeah as as do we is like when I put the
recommendations going to fiscal year 27 that's the sooner the better but but we will okay thank you I appreciate it okay thank you Mark thank you um one more thing on this so when we do this can we
also have a placeholder to if we have if I have your support on that mass general law for the um for the election can we reconsider that maybe when replace the warrant because we'll have to fund that too
um in this option one um because this would have a cost if we did a a debt exclusion vote prior to next year if that's something we want to consider
um or if we just think we can hold off until the next annual town election in a year from now um by accepting 5318B mhm the accepting of it has no cost there's
no cost no but the implications if we if we put a debt exclusion on the ballot again would have a cost if we we would we would have a cost if we choose to Yeah yeah if we put the debt exclusion
on if a debt exclusion on and we do have 5318b mhm if we exercise 5318B right we would have a cost we would So I just want to make sure if we accept it we we also fund it I guess is is my point oh and actually I'm thinking
out loud here we should fund it in this because if we put it on our ballot for a year from now even if it wasn't a special election um it'd be a mailing cost and a um you know a town council cost as well okay any other comments guys
no no thank you okay thanks Mark thank you uh I I certainly appreciate the work that you put in it shouldn't go unnoticed i I I just need do we put 5318b on is that is that the intent of of put it on this on this put put a
placeholder in article for it or or we just want to hold off hold off on it i I wasn't I was unclear as as to which way he wanted to go mark wants to place it so we're going to place it everybody I would love to place it yes okay all right okay good i just want I just
That's why I thought we were going i just was just I just wanted to double check i appreciate everyone's support thank you guys okay all right let's start with um 113 town meeting um the department total for this is 3705 uh does anybody have any questions
about it or comments about it um okay hearing then let's take a vote on it are we on um general government one 13 yeah 113 page page one okay i have no comments i don't have any
comments okay then we need a vote for 3705 for department um total for department 113 okay i make a motion to recommend $3,75 for general government 113 i'll
second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor i uh Peter Karen I Okay uh moving on to moderator this is where um I I have some cons not concerns some comments what do we want to do
about siphons uh I understand that the administrator's request is to cut the siphons by 50% the department um some have taken an increase other level funded and some have taken a decrease um my concern is we have a lot of
departments that work very hard i'm not sure a 50% reduction should be taken at this time i I would like to see it uh funded at 80% instead of uh just the 50% but the town moderator had made a comment at the finance committee meeting
to eliminate his um salary stipen alto together i don't think that's fair either he he works very hard on those two nights that he he go three nights if there's a third meeting you guys have opinions on stipens
i don't know i um I was for the 50% uh however hearing your comments Sluckman Karen you know I know another thing that
I had mold over in my head was a third a third and a third so how would you feel about um reducing it by a third this year and a third year and eventually going to to zero unless um perhaps we solve the budget and one some other option and we
can put them back the other way sure a third a third a third works for me um you know that that the the decreasing by 20% was not uh scientific it was just a look at keeping everybody engaged as well as um as as well as trying to
control the budget okay I'm fine with that if that's what okay we're looking to move forward with so can somebody do the math for uh this is going to be for the town uh town salary moderator looks like it would be
$333 do you agree with that Serena the 500 66 330 yeah yep i have 333 is that what you have i did 333 yeah with the round uh that should be uh correct okay so I make
a motion did you comment Suck Melo if No I said that I I said that I agreed with you guys in regards to the one third all right i didn't I didn't remember i'd make a motion for the town moderator 114's
um budget to be $333 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Terren and I nicole Melo and I mark Pico I uh Okay moving on to support and uh
department 122 again we have the um the stipens uh stipens in there as well and as far as anything else does anybody have any comments or or concerns about the totals no no [Applause]
um I I guess I'm just looking at my notes i got them on separate pages sorry guys um the dues and subscriptions are those all cogs in stone Ralph for everything that we need to do uh dues and
subscriptions uh 3,800 just seems like an awful lot and and I'm looking at the uh um the zerobased budget that we have there's a lot of um different meetings that are on there uh let me just take a quick look at
that thank you obviously we reduced the travel because we're not going to the trade show right and um whenever you're ready I'll just jump in yeah no no yeah I got it i mean you know we reduced the dos and MMA and MMHR which which really Karen and I uh
subscribe to and the uh the HR uh you know Zoom you know we hold the Zoom account on there um American and then the big thing is
um postage permit Nitro what's that that's Adobe that's yeah the adobe I mean it's um we we did cut it down as much as we could okay uh then the other thing I had it was a set travel uh is that just the three selectman's budget
or is it that pertain to you in any way that's just his that's just mine hit the selectman just like me okay oh your budget 124 i'm sorry so anything 122 is only the selectman so I I eliminate the 750 i don't think it's
necessary well does that include um Karen like Oh is that Yeah she she might have to travel i mean I don't do much you don't do much we could probably go to We want to decrease it to 500
for travel i I know it's nickel and diamond but all these cuts are going to add up to a a number that we can at least um show that we're trying to reduce it as much as we can absolutely okay yeah if Karen's fine with 500 yeah
the the limo you're not going to be taking it anymore so no more count to pick me up for meeting no um okay um then we have to make an adjustment for the uh the sipons as well as the 250
so I have for the salaries line $105,7628 and for the expenses line 82,900 i just did it as a total so do you have the I will have chairman has 3,333 and then 6,666
oh I had 33 0 oops so it's 333 that's just the rounding on that 6666 that was really bad uh that's not good okay do we have a new number yeah momentarily sure
i have $188,6718 that's what I have thank you okay so I would I would make a motion for board of selectman 122 budget $188,6718 i'll second that motion made a second any more discussion all those in favor
peter Karen I nicole Melo I mark Pico I okay uh Tom administrator um the only thing I have in here is the stipen to the ADA coordinator is that cut by a third as well yeah why does it say 36%
that was just what was spent through oh okay all right okay that's this percentage that Okay um so that's how much did that go up i mean it's So I increased it by the two and a half% and that's based on him working 10 hours a
month so it's not necessarily a stipen like if he works under 10 hours then he gets paid under 10 hours it's more of an hourly wage thing so we should leave his as is want to leave it as is i would suggest that
it should be level with last year uh if they're not going to cut it by it should be leveled to last year i thought the selectman voted to increase everybody by two and a half and that included pertium employees i know in the past it hadn't included perdeium employees i just knew that as
the town nurse that was Yeah we had that separated out from from boards and committees the uh the ADA coordinator because of because of the hourly rate why it's not exactly a stipen but an hourly rate more of a part-time position
okay then I don't care if we want to leave it alone or uh make it last year's I'm not really sure i want to treat all the employees the same ralph what how would we be treating him any differently if what what's if we everybody for the
most part right for the most part employees get gotten we put in for the two and a half% and that would be treat him the same as everybody else yes okay so with that said that's really important i would keep the budget as is at least for that for that line I'm in
agreement okay sure that's fine okay uh any other questions about the uh the department total um I don't think so okay okay then the total should be um with the the town administrator's issue
is not issue is uh recommendation is $195,279 i'll put that in the form of a motion i will second that motion made second any discussion all those in favor i I
Mark Pico I uh finance committee uh again the um stipens were were cut by 50% if we add it back to a third and should be slightly higher 216645 thank you
225 do we have a new total yet you said u Serena said $2,16645 for the salary plus the $225 for the expenses 391 $239145 so I'll make a motion to approve
finance committee department 131 not to approve to recommend for $2,39145 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor i peter Karen I uh the reserve fund 132 this is still
page two guys mhm thank you um I like that we are still able to make a reserve fund transfer so I support 50,000 yeah I do as well so do I awesome so a motion on the floor i'll make a motion for to
recommend $50,000 for 132 reserve fund i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I Nicole Melo I mark Pico I uh town accountant uh I thought maybe I
had com no no comments on that one thank you okay uh any any discussion guys no no okay is there a motion on the floor i'll make a motion to approve to recommend 135 Town Accountant for $174,778.77
i'll second that motion made and seconded uh any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens I nicole Melo I marko I order um again we have a site issue
but we have to change these and in this case we're cutting it by a third 3301 37 i'm sorry in 66027 we're adding a third back into what the town uh finance I mean town
administrator recommends 6602.74 so the first one for the chairman 3301 37 mhm and then for the uh for the members 660274 I had 330170 don't hate me so the
4952.55 I'm multiplying it by 6666 oh okay to just account for Okay 2/3 so 3301 what 37 37 one of the questions that I had uh in this department is Ralph how many people
actually work in this department there are three just three okay um if if we were to cut employees um not not um completely out of out of the budget but
um allocating just half the hours for the clerk is that something that anybody wants to consider at this time or a third of the hours uh I would consider I want to consider that an option three where we present that to the town option three okay yeah so a special meeting to
to um to determine that option i'm not looking to cut anybody um other than if you want to keep it as option three when we when we go to the town meeting that's that's fine uh it's just that we have to look at reality as well and
um it's going to be painful for everyone but uh that's fine Mark my thought is um yeah if we if we segregate out any proposed personnel cuts in a separate budget um and propose that as an alternative to the budget that's but
I'm only one selectman but that that would be my idea i just find that just like I don't know i find it a healthy way to present it yeah it is um I I I guess we have to keep something
in our back pocket and um I I I don't know the complete workings of the town hall as far as um what is needed and what is uh I doubt there's any evidence uh
because we seem pretty uh slim as it is but um the like I said the cuts are going to have to come from somewhere if we don't want to take it out of free cash absolutely and if we want to keep it as option three that's that's fine with me
how do you feel Nicole um yeah I would like if we were going to present like something like that like Mark said um option three of the instead of kind of finagling it to what we're doing right now yeah and I'm not talking personalities because I don't know them
that well it it's just strictly um they'd have to re reorganize themselves with uh the last person in would be the first one out if that was going to be a cut i agree with you mhm
okay so we're going to keep the numbers the same then for the um board of assess I mean yeah the board of assesses other than the changing of the site yes yes okay so there should be a new um
personnel total i have a new budget total for the motion that sounds awesome $224,3929 224 so I would make a motion i don't think No I did that wrong
sorry that's okay because then 660274 871 55 800 423 500 Oh something must be wrong on here so it's $3,31.37 right
mhm right and then $6,62 and what's your decimal 74 74 87 174 55 841
314 mine was 193 897 so for the salary number no well that's salaries I have 1963729 right okay Mhm
so the 1963 372 plus the 2802 yeah yeah the 224 okay that's 5,000 loss yeah yeah okay what's the total number i'm sorry $224,3929 okay i would recommend that number as
stated for board of assessors 141 i'll second that motion made second any more discussion all those in favor and I nicole Melo and I mark Pico i Okay on to page three this is the um 145
the town treasurer and again the only thing I would add is um keeping option three on the on the on the table mark yes I agree with you um okay is there a motion on the floor then uh motion to recommend 145 town
treasurer in the amount of $113,21.32 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor cron I nicole Melo i Mark Pico hi sorry can you just repeat that total one more time 113 $21.32
okay okay town collector uh department 146 i have no issues either motion to recommend 146 town collector for $17,36.32
i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor i peter Karen mark Macho i Nicole Melo i uh Okay everybody still up to date um Karen are you all set yep all set okay
town council 151 $50,000 motion is that accurate Ralph uh yes as accurate as we could guess yeah we've only spent $12,000 so far this fiscal year no that's December december
okay i have it through March if you want me to look that'd be awesome um so I will say that the legal bills from one of our councils are months behind but through the end of March we've spent almost 20,000 But there is one that's like at least
three months behind on billing mhm not that that's a large bill but um Okay with that said what do you think about $40,000 and we always could go to special if we need um more i was just going to suggest to
to 45 but I like 40,000 better um Ralph not that this has anything to do with the budget but you are the only one that contacts town council correct that is correct it goes through me yes does everybody know that and we're not
getting any phone calls from any other department heads not arbitrarily uh everybody puts the request through me i haven't seen any I haven't seen any arbitrary ones through all right thank you uh either the 40,000 or the 45 uh um
Serena how much did we spend through March um almost 20,000 but there is um one attorney that's quite a few months behind on billing so that's not really an accurate number through March any idea what that is by any chance
no no okay um well there's always the option of of taking to to a department transfer i mean a transfer when uh at the uh that's a fall meeting if it looks like we're going to be in trouble um or or next
year as a leftover bill but um I'd like to see it dropped can I just voice one concern because we're making so many budget cuts already in FY26 um I don't think there's going to be extra money if we need it down the line
unless we I think the only option is going to be free cash and free cash is going to be dwindling throughout the years um even with the finance committee reserves I was hoping to if we did come up with some extra revenue somewhere to throw a little more into the reserves
because I think 26 a lot of the budgets are really bare bones on they're essentially underbudgeted that we've heard from some departments and I just don't want to get jammed up too much at the end of 26 and kind of run out of options so you want to keep it at 45
yes at least yeah okay motion to recommend town council 151 in the amount of 45,000 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Carrington i Melo I mark Pico i
Okay data processing 155 this is page four um I have no uh no no concerns don't see God i don't have any concerns um I'll make a motion to recommend Department 155 data
processing for the amount of $71,72355 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karens I Nicole Melo I mark Pico I okay uh Department 158 tax title and foreclosure you did a pretty good job of
explaining this um I I I have no issues with it i don't have any issues with it at this time I'll make a motion to recommend tax title forclosure 158 for the amount of 7,500
i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Carson i Nicole Melo I mark Pico i Okay uh town clerk 161 uh the town clerk sent an email on April
3rd to the town administrator uh saying she spoke with the other town clerks and most have two per precinct as um in regards to pole pads as either uh backups for or uh backups or one for
checkin and one for checkout we do not have checkout stations at our elections i do understand this is a want not a need and just to clarify that's probably the next budget 162 elections oh all
right i check so this is like just the clerical staff and their needs as clerk outside of elections okay uh so knowing that elections is separate Mark let's uh vote on the uh the 161 as it stands uh so I would make
a motion to recommend $156,74951 cents for 161 town clerk i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Tams and I nicole Melo i March I sorry
okay m 162 can you explain again what she asked you for well in her um her zerobased budget she she broke it out that she was getting three more pull pads but um she did follow up saying she
understands it's a want not a need for the three basically I I don't think this is the year to do it uh I understand that they may might be in down the road but if we can push it off um until we get uh your
other recommendations in line with you know um debt exclusion or a um an enterprise fund for trash that we should take it out of the budget did she indicate what that dollar amount actually is for the three pole pads 5100
she said "Oh is that house line 5100?" You're right i requested 5100 for three full pads you're right that's must have been that yeah yeah it was close i was like I had to double check myself 5100 mhm so that would bring professional and
technical to 1900 so I have a total budget of 20,312 yes if Yeah off the town administrator's recommendations yes okay so I would put that I would make a motion to recommend 162 elections for
$20,312 um I'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico i uh 163 registrations um this is
uh 163 registrations actual cost register second um yeah okay i have no concerns i don't have any concerns i'll make a motion to recommend 163 registration for $8,600 i'll second that motion made and
seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico I uh 171 Conservation Commission we have [Music] um
161 171 observations 2 and a half in wages yes i'm fine with what's what's there i'm good as well i'll make a motion to recommend 171 Conservation Commission for $63,454.30 i'll second that motion made and
seconded any more discussion those in favor pet cars and I nicole Melo and I mark Pico i uh 174 that trails committee this is pretty much uh wiped out the budget so there is none mhm
uh do we have to vote to take that off um or we just leave it as nothing i I would vote to recommend the zero okay okay motion to recommend 174 Dayton Trails for $0 i'll second that motion
made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karens i Nicole Millows an I mark Pico i uh planning board department 175 we have the stipen issue so again we're cutting uh we're adding a
third to the um TA's budget we have a new um figure guys almost okay i have $55,2644 that's what I have awesome thank you nice can you give me that again M please
uh so I'll make a motion for 175 Planning Board to recommend in the amount of 55,2644 i'll second that uh motion made and seconded uh before we um the but we've eliminated overtime and
I guess a question for Ralph does any department that require gets overtime required to go through you to approve it no no no no yeah not a time for that
discussion but I just was just wondering okay so a motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melos and I mark Pico i Okay board of appeals the same thing with the stipen again so I have a total budget of $34,970.77
7 cents mhm um any other issues Peter that you had uh no I do not thank you same no so I'd make a motion uh to recommend uh Board of Appeals 176 in the amount of
$34,970.77 i'll second that seconded any uh discussion all those in favor peter Krington I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico I okay 179 Agricultural Commission i have
something on this well I'm sorry i'm going to make it not straightforward um I just I think this should be zero um I don't believe that they gave a um a zerobased sheet they did come with some stuff they had mentioned they were looking to make flyers for um something
in regards to the board of health or the um animal control officer which they have budgets for those type of things um and just historically um this commission has kind of struggled over the last couple years and I'm so grateful they're starting to rebuild which is great um
but I think that until they have a clear plan um that they should wait to come for us for money even if it's this little amount i I agree with you right they did not submit anything when it when they broke down their budget for the zero base
sheet so um if we want to eliminate it I guess my own question is are there supplies that are required every year for example um fertilizer or anything that that that they would need or we're just um going to eliminate it all
together um I don't believe that they need anything i know that the the garden had I believe went over to Park and Rex um Okay so I mean in years past it looks like looks like they didn't really
expend a whole lot yeah okay i I All right is there a motion on the floor then motion for Agricultural Commission 179 to recommend $0 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Ker
and I nicole Melo and I Mark Pacico I um 189 economic development committee seems like it's all a professional technical um I know they're doing a wonderful job over there and
um printing a business material oops sorry um Yeah I had no issues with it motion to recommend 189 Dian Economic Development Committee for the amount of $900 i'll second that motion made and
seconded any discussion all those in favor i car Nicole Melo i Mark Pico i uh on to page um page seven this is the uh public buildings and property maintenance uh department
192 there's a lot encumbered here um we haven't got to the trailers yet have we Ralph the sorry the trailers the trailer on um Tmont Street for housing surplus equipment they
um we give me um the short answer is uh no we haven't gotten to that yet that's part of the uh they utilize the trailer in case they needed an additional trailer for the for the equipment that's what uh that's what
was the price that was brought up so we do we haven't got to that budget yet no no okay 435 435 thank you uh uh Ralph you you know they they have budgeted for groundskeeping supplies 40 $4,000
uh for grass seed flowers and and uh and mulch what are the department what are the buildings that we maintain besides town hall and police station fire station um we'll do right the general the general government campus here um you
know at the time we would do we'll do the library uh you know police department um whatever I know there's not much around the fire department um and then um and then I think those are those are
the facilities uh which we which we maintain you guys think $4,000 is a lot for groundkeeping maintenance for supplies they spent 4,600 last year yeah but I mean if we have to cut back
uh is that an area that we can cut back on i mean that's what I want the properties to look like hell but um in FY23 they they only spent $1,787 um and then the the following year it was um what was what was the
following year it's right the column to the right $4,590 why did it go up so much i don't have that information oh sorry it was kind of it was kind of a rhetorical question I guess so the average is
$3,188 between the two years so would you entertain either cutting it by $800 that would be right in line with their average spend or That's what I would I would like i would like $3,200 yeah so would I Thank you that sounds
good okay thank you Peter for mentioning that again I don't mean to be picky um it it's just that uh we wouldn't be doing or I feel like I wouldn't be doing my due diligence if I didn't point out
uh just little things that again add up to to a number that that is that much less we have to take out of free cash i agree so with that said I would recommend public buildings and property
maintenance 192 in the amount to 254,800 i'll second that motion motion has been made and seconded any more discussion on it all those in favor peter cars and I nicole Melo and I mark Pico hi uh town report
how about we do $1,000 and we encourage people to go online right that was a comment that I had on my notes here um we are we're an online society and I understand that those there are some that don't which we we have to accommodate but we seem to have an awful
lot of time reports left over every year and I'm not sure there's a minimum that we have to do but I'd like to see that figure adjusted is there a minimum is there no Are we required not that I'm saying I want to get rid of it all together but are we
required to have some in print yes okay and and the requirement goes even further it has to be printed prior to town meeting or you can't have it really oh wow yep all right but I think $1,000 and we encourage
folks to um to review it online and we'll still have paper ones available that's fair so I'll make a motion for 195 town reports in the amount of $1,000 i'll second that motion made and then seconded any more discussion all those
in favor i Nicole Miller I mark Pico i Okay we're on to page eight this is the police department uh uh public safety uh sub and it's the department 210 uh I have some notes i was just thinking that yep
you know for a fairly new building um which is what seven years old now um or close to it we spend an awful lot on maintenance the building repairs the newer the more expensive to fix is
that what it is i don't know that's just all I can think also someone tried to run their car into it so that that probably wasn't that wasn't good well insurance was supposed to cover that but uh we didn't get anything out of it we are oh you should see her face you're making
her nervous um Sean had told me at the time um uh that the the kid was obligated to pay but he didn't pay no the person is making payments we're getting a couple a couple hundred bucks here and there okay all right it's paid
through the courts mhm okay does anybody have any issues with the police department uh budget i don't i don't okay uh we need a motion on the floor i'll make a motion to
recommend 210 Public Safety Police Department for 1,996,45166 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens I nicole Melo's an I mark Pacico hi
okay this is a communications department department 215 i think the chief did a good job explaining everything um didn't we just replace somebody or um hire somebody to replace somebody else yes and that's included in the budget
and it included in here is the um retirement coming up this year or is it not going to happen this year uh it's Yep the retirement it's line 5155 the benefit the 19,000 uh well the
department um request is uh more than that the 22,590 now will that affect the um full-time salary because of a decrease by any chance depending on the actual timing of
retirement okay i mean if it could be hired with two part- timerrs we'd save some money but I guess that would happen at this time okay uh does anybody have any concerns i don't have any concerns
um I'd make a motion to recommend 215 communications department for $445,8264 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karensson i Nicole Melo and
I marko i okay uh the fire department the chief does an excellent job every year with his budget so this is department 220 um I know he made just like the police department substantial cuts um I I I
don't see anything that in my notes that um I question at this point can I just make one comment regarding their salaries yes we are still um with their new contract hashing out exactly the wage scales so the number that's in
here might change and if it does then it we would just have to come back to re recommend it thank you you're welcome thank you motion to recommend fire department 220 for $836,13.38 i'll second that motion made and
seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Trenton I nicole Melo and I mark Pico I okay okay moving on to department 231 this is ambulance services we're on the page 10 now
okay so the same statement with the salaries the salaries split between both departments so we should we be adjusting it now to some form no we have no idea if it is going to change yeah okay so for fire rescue
equipment the department requested $15,000 but it looks like town administrator recommends 26,000 could you re could you I don't remember why right yeah no he recommended $15,000 so we had taken um we moved some additional funding from
the ambulance fund an additional $10,000 because $15,000 was cutting it too close uh so um from the ambulance fund we put in $10,000 to that so that's kind of the beginning of our warrant when we kind of
break out how we pay for all of these different departments that'll be brought out okay yes in the motion in the motion thank you actually just um just for your review we also did it in in the in the fire so we took the additional 20,000 we kind of
split it between the two for replacement um uh what's the line for for replacement equipment on both on both we put an additional uh 10,000 in the fire and 10,000 in ambulance i have no issues
i don't have any issues oh I think Peter might Oh no there's someone um in the waiting room sorry about that somebody wants something to say before we get into the discussion uh someone was trying to join Zoom oh okay
okay mark is there a motion on the floor then yeah sorry I'm a little slow $872,395.7 for ambulance services 231 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo and I mark Pico i
uh building inspection department 241 the um per dean inspected increase to $45 how did that happen those are actually the other budgets it starts with the 242 budget
oh no i'm in 241 did the pdeium the right the pdeium start on the next uh in the next series of Oh I'm sorry yeah he [Applause] Oh no peter you actually you are correct
and the the line that's the 5106 the assistant building inspector yeah oh yeah it's in the zerobased budget he has an additional inspector to cover him if there's a conflict so it does say that that is um he increased it to 45 from
35 for all of his inspectors from 35 to 45 for all his inspectors and this um would one uh would be the result of um the uh board of health inspector in in
their uh in their salary but uh as as the building inspector cut back some other places um which he thinks he could uh so he could bump up the salary if you see in the in the subsequent gas inspector and and the other uh and the
plumbing inspector he did cut out permit review and education and didn't he increase his permit fees and increase his permit fees yeah to try to So now they're going to make $5 more though than what we um pay our health
agent $5 less less no they make less oh and they haven't they haven't gotten a rate of an increase in I don't know how long mhm okay very good thanks Nicole what's it say for um because I don't
have the zero base sheet 5710 travel what's What are the travel related to continuing education 78 uh 780 bucks oh so it's not for travel it's not for driving to inspections just No no no he has to do
Yeah continuing education we use the this tower vehicle for that yes absolutely all right i have no issues i don't have any issues no me neither thank you um so is there a motion on the floor then motion to recommend building inspection
241 for $181,433.51 i'll second that second any more discussion all those in favor tina Karen's an I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico I i'm really sorry okay uh we're on to page 11 and this is
for 242 gas inspection motion to I have no excuse motion to recommend gas inspection 242 for 6750 i'll second that motion made second any discussion all those in favor peter
Carson I nicole Millows an I mark Pico I okay 243 plumbing inspection motion to recommend 243 plumbing inspection for 7,750 i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in
favor peter carries an I nicole Mills an I mark Pico i uh weights and measures this is uh 244 motion to recommend weights and measures 244 for $2,000 i'll second that motion being seconded any discussion all those
in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo and I mark Pacico I and then electrical inspections this is 245 motion to recommend 245 electrical inspections for 20,000 i'll second that motion remain seconded
any discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo's an I marco Chico I uh on to ammo control officer this is department 292 she um she really runs a tight ship i don't think we need to do
buildings repair and maintenance for $500 she wants to power wash it i think Yeah the highway yeah I think the highway department could probably do that okay really need to clean it up yep i think she knows someone in the highway
department too i bet okay can we just that by 500 so I'd recommend 292 animal control for $62,3122 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens an I nico Melo is
an I mark Pico i forestry this is the salary for the tree water department 294 so it's a salary not a stipen but it's elected and kind of falls under all the other stipens cuz it's on the ballot just like selectman or um planning board
and all these other stipens that we reduced by a third i know it's pennies here okay would that to treat everyone the same would this fall as a stipens yeah okay uh then we have to change it
mhm 18851 okay i make a motion to recommend 294 forestry for $188.51 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter carries an I nicole Melo's
an I mark Pico i uh department 299 emergency preparedness motion to recommend emergency preparedness 299 for $4,000 i'll second that uh before we continue um how come
there's been no expenses for the first six months of the year no we haven't had any emergencies or we haven't had to do the uh emergency um um paid an awful I mean uh budget an awful
lot for um has there anything been um come in for since March um we have we have expended up until today $3,800 38 38 3890 okay
thank you all right um uh then the motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Kron and I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico I uh now we're on to education um education education control this is
for um department 300 the DR the U Bristol AI and Bristol Plymouth uh and then our out of district obligation ralph is there any negotiations that can be done with the Bristol Plymouth and Bristol Aggie for
what they charge each student or is it just locked and stone every year they come up with they give us a figure and we just walk away saying okay well I mean I have spoken to them about it that that's how they do they come up with the formula and they choose and
this is what they charge every community so it depends on how many students that we have so so is there can we negotiate a lower rate than other communities no as we move forward going to them I've had discussions with them in like end of
November and December and giving them our you know our situation so um okay uh I I understand that i'm not so sure the public understood that because uh I I think they look at it as um all we're concerned about is DR and and not
looking at the other two schools and never question the other two schools on it and um I reach out to all three schools yeah no I I Peter I saw a lot of that on Facebook and um Oh yeah my thought was um obviously we've had a challenge with
DR because it's regional and it's only two communities i don't know how they would think we would be able to go to Bristol Aggie or BP which is far more communities and be able to negotiate any better than we can with DR
and that's that's just my thought on it it's not that I don't want to negotiate with these other schools but the fact is that if I can't negotiate with a school that's only two towns how am I ever going to negotiate with schools that are nine or more well said
okay do we have to recommend these or can we just accept it motion to accept because do we want to recom I don't know is it just a motion to accept i would say uh to recommend because
there is a there is a mechanism on town meeting floor to just quite just flat out reject it so I don't propose that i'm just saying there's a somebody's trying to get in i don't think you
Okay then we need a motion on the floor motion to recommend 15,465,21110 for 300 department 300 education i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo's an I mark
Pico I uh on to highway this is uh department 422 i change the view on that and for their salaries i'll just clarify if you notice it's the same amount being requested that's from 25 and that's because their contract is
currently in negotiations okay so you have to set aside for that but whatever they negotiate will that be for this coming year or will that be FY27 no fiscal year 26 okay yes so for building repairs and maintenance
supplies 5430 looks like they spent $900 in 23 $1,084 in FY24 and they're requesting $3,000 in FY26 what line was that Mark that is
5430 it's annual maintenance on uh central systems and oil burner sewer cleanout two times a year plus supplies okay is the justification for it okay so the oil burner sounds like the
cost driver on Sounds like it yep okay there's one more I saw [Applause] okay that's my only my only thought sure okay um if there's no more questions or
concerns we just need a motion on the floor motion to recommend 422 highway for 747,769.83 i'll second that motion made second any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo's an I mark
Pico i everybody doing all right or you want to stop for a minute i'm doing good okay uh on to snow and ice uh this is uh department 423
motion to recommend 423 snow and ice for $50,000 i'll second that second it any discussion all those in favor peter Karen and I mark and I oh sorry mark i don't know why I skipped you mark Chica
that's cuz you needed that break i guess uh department 429 Don Berkeley Bridge motion to recommend 429 in the amount of $1,600 i'll second that um final question is um repair maintenance there's been nothing
ever spent on it why all of a sudden are we budgeting $1,000 3.8 anything spent on it from this point no through March we haven't um I think his concern is the light posts and if something was to break with
them I think that was his biggest concern is the glass and like the specialty of those light posts i will um like to amend my motion to recommend department 429 for the amount
of $600 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion yes all those in favor peter Karens and I sorry can I just make a point so through March through March on the energy costs they've actually spent already $650
april May June July we've got four more months no April May June three more months if this motion dies I I'll recommend $1,000 what do you think about that well if if we take the energy and bring it up to 700 and still take out the the
repair and maintenance or or bring it up to 800 or we take out the maintenance we'd still be uh in better a better better shape okay that makes sense so I have an $800 total now
yes and it all goes to energy u 5210 so my original motion Mark Pico's no nicole Melo no i'm going to make a new Sorry i'm going to make a new motion for
429 Berkeley Bridge to recommend $800 i'll second that motion made in second any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico hi um department
432 this is the street cleaning and storm water [Music] um there is no sight for storm water no no oh somebody else is MS4 compliance is that the bottom
dollar that we have to do to comply with federal standards or is there any wiggle room in that because that's a pretty significant from 0 to $15,000 um if you remember uh uh Nancy had spoke up but it's I mean we could go a little less that's the best the best assumption
she made uh for you know for compliance there are certain things that we have to do uh in the in the reporting so they spent an awful lot of money oh not they haven't spent as much money as they had budgeted for police department um details or have they uh Serena
through March [Applause] 5303 they've only spent 5,400 bucks out of 15,000 yeah out of the 16,000 they've spent 12,556 i have no more concerns i don't have any
concerns we have contractual disposal under street cleaning and storm water but would it make more sense under waste collection or one of those other accounts that deal with disposal is isn't that because the disposal of
the waste that comes out of the street is owned by the company that that cleans it oh says the catch bas for the catch basins so right so it's a vendor who's charging us for waste right from my memory that's where it was but
I'm not sure if unless you can correct me Serena or Ralph now we did we go through a sourcage contract to to clean out the catch basins okay motion to recommend street cleaning 432 for 1 million oh the line above that
not for a million dollars for $249,185.20 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion on this all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico I uh transfer station
this is department 435 do we not know what CAMass transportation is going to be is that why it's Hold on i'm sorry wait okay 430 go ahead 433 is next oh okay yeah yeah waste collection waste collection
okay so Cass No we uh we're currently um in negotiations with Borges okay and it's Cass is Yeah and we reflected those numbers in the in the um uh in the department request so
yeah those are the increased numbers i think we're going to spend a lot of time on solid waste hopefully in a special meeting in the future so I would I would I have no issues with this i don't have any issues so motion to go
ahead what we saying no I'm good okay do you want to make a motion Mark oh okay motion to recommend 433 sanitation for $846,000.90 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in
favor uh Peter Karen's an I nicole Melo and I mark Lico I on to 435 transfer yep uh transfer station again this would be under um an enterprise fund if we were to go
that route mhm um this is the uh Mark is this where the rental comes in for that uh trailer oh that's right i have that starred yes 5270 the rental there's nothing budgeted for yeah we
eliminated that no way this What line number is it 5270 5270 oh thank you great
so it looks like that was a a newer rental because there was nothing voted in FY a new uh line item rather because there was nothing voted in FY25 but was we were spending $200 a month out of that line
no that was the the $200 a month was if we were needed to get an additional an additional um rental trailer for for the storage we have um um they're using um their space in the library in the
library rentals right now so that's what the that's what they're using if we have to if we if we have to maintain uh those rentals it would be the $200 a month oh that's just how I understood it when Tom mentioned it i thought there was a
trailer at the transfer station right now it's theirs we own it yeah the town owns it yeah thank you motion to recommend 435 transfer station for $98,6982
i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo and I mark Pico I uh Cemetery 491 motion to recommend 491 Cemetery for
$32,932.90 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor uh Peter Karens and I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico i uh voter house uh this is 510 uh again
we have the stipen issue uh the education hasn't been used that gets paid out in June in June yes does anybody have any concerns i don't have any concerns
so I have $129,000 $712 and51 cents that's what I have okay so I would recommend 510 um human services in the amount of $129,71251
i'll second that motion has made and seconded any discussion all those in favor nicole Melo and I mark Pico i come on 18 department 541 i have no concerns i have no concerns no
neither do I she does a great job too absolutely okay is there a motion on the floor motion to recommend 541 Council on Aging for $176,865 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens I nicole
Melo and I mark Pico I uh the next one is veteran services 543 [Music] um there has been some talk of the
um office personnel retiring i think she's put it off this year for for a little bit but um I was told that when they go to replace her or with him or her that they
probably don't need 14 hours uh at at a shop is now the time to look at that or do you want to wait did this include training wasn't there like didn't they talk about there was going to be some overlap involved yes there is yeah so is that included in
that 14 hours part-time office manager i think it's included in that line no I think now would be the time to discuss that um yeah I'm not sure uh what is it 14 and um 16 hours or or
um about 16 21 hours is what she works 14 hours is the is the office manager currently in veterans and then the other remaining hours to bring it to 35 are in the building department building department right
i wonder if we should look at that 14 hours yes i know there's a lot of veterans but um I'm not sure that it requires 14 hours a week i would I would discuss like any overlap
for training so if there's a retirement and they want some overlap I think we should give that some more thought i don't know what they proposed for that i don't know oh you know oh no that's over time i don't want to hurt any veteran that's
out there uh so it looks everyone knows they've done so much um it looks like they did in eight weeks go ahead sorry Peter i was just saying it looks like they calculated 8 weeks for
an um training in overlap what's the cost for that 3,12480 it's on the zero oh you don't have Do you want my That's okay i appreciate it um overlap is nice but it's not nec it's
not a requirement the um eight weeks is a lot eight weeks is a lot and the veterans agent could also get up to speed and then relay that information to the new office manager it's not ideal but neither is the budget right
what would you like to see the figure at then i think zero for what what um line number is it so it's it's included in
5115 so at least we have to budget $23,325 and change for the for the current Yeah I meant zero for No no I know i'm just No no I don't want to eliminate the position no no no i know just the overlap
okay how do you think okay so are we saying no overlap no overlap so reduction approximately three grand any position I've ever taken I've never had anyone to train me not that that's best practice no ralph had one day I
think maybe did you have a day of overlap no not at all and you're doing I came in on my own time yeah so so yeah so so no I didn't have any okay yeah it [Laughter]
would you do you think it's necessary i can't say for sure i don't know what's involved that's Yeah that's less than what you have in your calculator oh okay good answer we can take the heat sorry no
I deduct the bed okay so you want to put in this no overlap no overlap please so 23,4148 4 i should probably verify that that's right 25 i just did it based on that i
just did 14 that number 14 yes perfect did you do 52.2 no I did 52 all right so it's 3204 mhm right 3204 * 14 * 52 52.2 weeks yeah
so it's the 23,414 and that and if we take out what it's like 3125 16 so you so to reduce it to what was it 23
41484 if you don't want to do the overlap right 41484 yes what's the number the bottom line number department total sorry no it's fine
324 116 19150 i'll make a motion to recommend 543 veteran services for 116,191.50 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded but I
do have discussion mark uh the secretary said that you had discussed with him a parade is that still happening um I discussed it for this fiscal year and just with the the budget um I didn't pursue it any further 2042
yeah for FY25 for FY26 he does have a Memorial Day fund but it is being reduced and I uh Right i was going to bring up to to level fund it because we hope to have one next year but um Okay i I think I'll follow his leadership on that sure so a motion has
been made and second any more discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo is an I mark Fico i [Applause] Okay commission on disability this is 549 again this is a zero budget because it's been moved
i'm just going to make a motion to delete 549 Commission on Disability from the budget since it's been moved no it hasn't it hasn't been moved oh this is the This is separate than Jonathan this is the commission and the commission just voted on zero for this fiscal year
you why not talk of things motion to recommend Nicole i'm sorry don't try to get rid of us never please don't take it that way either uh 549 recommend $0 i'll second that motion made second any more discussion
all those in favor peter Krington I nicole Melo is an I mark Pacico I okay the library this is 610 and we're on page of 16 i know that we've talked about um staffing is a number three issue and
something we're not talking about now um but I just want to know if because I know we have um the library has the um what are they the elected officials um the trustees it has the trustees do we even have any power in their employees
in regards to when we start looking at where we're reducing do we even have any capability of reducing staff at the library we re we pay the payroll warrant so we we sign the budget every week i'm sorry to steal your thunder no no go ahead um well we we have the power of
the payroll um but it's the town's people who vote the budget not us okay i I was just wondering and I know we're not talking to stay within the budget but and the but is the there's a minimum amount of spending they have to do to meet state
appropriation mhm sorry to meet state criteria and the minimum number is 315 602 and they came in at a budget of uh 316 to420 okay so I mean um we'd have to
look at it if we want to if you know going into the future to reduce if staff reduction was a part of that we would have to uh also keep that in mind and I would have to u give you information on that okay thank you thank you
so do we want to go with the state minimum what was the number for the state minimum $315,62 oh it's on here that was nice sorry you guys yeah that's Serena where is it it's right under his 316
request oh thank you very much um so that the minimum spend that that's a new concept for me i hadn't heard of that before um sorry it's actually the minimum appropriate yeah minimum appropriate that includes salaries i
thought I just in other presentations they had what I gather was they had to buy a certain amount of new books every year and new materials right yeah that's that's a sub of it the custodial um the um the books and magazines right right
he can't go below 56,000 in that line in particular okay so that's one we cannot touch but then it goes even further than that and you have to as a whole as a whole oh so he does have some restrictions craziness crazy just a little wild to me purchasing more books
every year i totally understand that but the a lot of restrictions the whole um minimum amount of spending that's appropriating i know i put that in your head i I'm going to write appropriating for big letters i'm going to write spending
right what do you recommend Peter i I prefer to go with the minimum that is required uh I I think they do a great job and I think that the 56,000 is required that well I wasn't aware I like you Mark I'm
sorry let me back up i like you thought it was just periodicals that had to be a certain minimum and then Ralph told me that uh because I questioned whether or not um we were going to need that full staff when the new library opens supposedly in September according to the
person from the uh finance committee now one of the things that happened when we split the library was they needed a new half position because of the dual libraries and I remember talking to them and saying "Okay you're going to give up
that position when new library opens." And it was "Oh yes we will we won't need it." Um I I'm not so sure they're accomplishing that into this budget so that's why I would prefer to go the state minimum which um is is the 315 uh that's 1,600 bucks that
we would save okay thank you or thousand how do they come up with this number is it some kind of calculation in regards to like how many residents and stuff like that or um I think it's based on the past year's um appropriations
it's like snow and ice the more you the more you Yeah it's like the more you go up the more you have to stay at more you have to spend yeah all right so it's a it's a difference of about $650 yeah that's No no just saying i'm not
um Ralph would you mind sharing with the selectman just any information you have on that would you mind just sending us an email on like anything you have just to ed just good to be educated mhm i'll make a motion to recommend 610 Library
in the amount of $315,62 i'll second that motion made has been seconded is there any more discussion uh do we have to decide which account it comes from serena um which line item well it can't come out
of books at No definitely not i guess probably professional and technical yeah but if you want to specify there's not enough in professional and technical is there there's only $150 i'd make a motion to apply the difference evenly amongst all
eligible departments okay that sounds cool it's probably other property related services really i was looking at the 11,000 right that Yeah okay um is that the
other Oh oh that I need a Do you need a ruler uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay that's why I was off i was a little lazy so reduce evenly throughout the expense expenditure lines that we can yeah okay okay there's a motion on the floor
is there a second oh I'm sorry i'll second that motion made a second any more discussion on this then all those in favor peter Cameron's an I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico i Okay on to parks and recreation this is
department 630 what What cost $500 in the community garden did they break that down but I can't remember yeah they had been different they probably um general repairs to their facility equipment supplies and activities i think it's a brand new facility
brand new chain link so I was involved with the community garden for right bringing it up and you know how sometimes you have good intentions but you don't think of like the un the consequences of these things so they do donate to the food bank but at the the
point the town the like local government wasn't donating to the food bank but now we are and now we have to take care of this facility which I'm not saying get rid of this facility but just in perspective when I think of something again I'm going to think down the road
because this was now something that now we are responsible for because the person that put it into place stepped away right and now we're donating to something that we before just the town's folks donated to which is very kind of them yes um but I would like to see that
number decrease and be become more of a if you're interested in having time in there and donating to it um more of a resident based like you use it you pay it absolutely type of thing right that's I had to get out there about that about
the garden because Well said yeah it was one thing if it's a onetime cost yeah and there's but it's a recurring cost y Okay i I'd say we eliminate it me too we don't have any data behind it so they they can still spend out of that line
and get some data behind it but um I think it should be they still have funds in this year in it yeah 750 okay so they should be able to whatever they need i mean the growing season is
now um and throughout the summer so they should be able to spend that before right goes into free cash that's a good point as well so okay I'm all for changing it motion to recommend 630 parks and wreck for
15,700 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico I um the town historian this is department 690
she didn't get a two and a half increase is it a stipen or Oh this is a professional and technical i'm sorry i thought it was a stipend no no she didn't get one okay motion to recommend two uh 690 town
historian for $250 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion i just have a question oh sorry Peter sure go what does what does this person do like I I I don't know
um they supposed to maintain the like um uh town records if you go there historical records so they minimal work that they Yeah they've done some um coloring books
in the past uh and some they they were involved they like partner with the historical commission okay they did some uh like the past day anniversaries at the town i know that they were involved in that okay in the AR town archives
thank you did you uh Nicole i did okay motion made second any more discussion all those in favor peter Cameron and I nicole Melo and I mark Pacico i uh 691 Historical
Commission i don't know what they travel on but they got 150 and um how much have they spent since March Serena just in the travel line yes $41 i if I remember correctly uh they
explained with with this year because of the 250th anniversary they're going to do be doing some traveling um out you know outside of Dyon so that's why they put they put that number in there yeah but I thought that this the 250th
anniversary committee had their own uh $4,000 that we gave them if they could raise that we'd match it so does that is it necessarily a travel for that they wanted that for for events okay
i say we reduce it by 50 i say we reduce it 250 since to $50 because they've only spent 40 something and historically yeah I I think $50 would is that okay with you yeah that's fine with me
okay so I'd make a motion to um recommend 6ix91 historical commission for $1,000 i'll second that motion made second any more discussion on it all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo is an I
mark Pico I Commission 698 on page 17 for those who motion to recommend cable committee 698 for $58,520
i'll second that motion has made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Miller and I mark Pico I uh debt services this is department 710
motion to recommend $241,668 for 710 maturing principle on long-term debt i'll second that motion has made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I melo and I mark Pico I and this is 751
interest on the long-term debt motion to recommend $97,675 for line 751 interest long-term debt i'll second that motion has made second any discussion all those in favor peter carries an I nicole Melo is an I
marco Chico I uh Serena for account 820 and 8:30 you asked us to read it a certain way yes because this um is going to go through the state budget and a few other um committees before we get the final numbers so the numbers do tend to change
so I was just hoping the budget could be read a little more general just based on the um final state budget okay so how do you want the motion to read i'm prepared um Oh okay mark I'm sorry no I appreciate it i didn't think
I could do it motion to recommend A20 uh state assessments and charges uh as deemed by the state government conference committee i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter
Karens and I nicole Mill is an I mark Pico I motion to recommend 8:30 county assessment and charges as deemed by the state government conference committee i'll second that motion has been made and second any discussion all those in
favor peter Terren and I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico i thanks for doing that Mark thank you yeah thank you no thank you Serena for setting this up for success uh retirement and pension contributions this is department 911
um motion to recommend 911 retirement and pension contributions for 1,60,890 i'll second that motion has been made and second any discussion all those in favor peter Karens and I nicole Melo and
I mark Pico i um group health this is department 914 motion to recommend group health 914 for1,466,48654 cents i'll second that second any discussion all those in favor
peter Karens and I clos and I mark Pico i uh department 915 this is group life insurance uh 5175 motion to recommend 915 for the amount of $1,500
i'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I cole Melo's an I mark Pico i uh department 916 there's a $100,000 potentially i Yeah I just noticed that
um Paul had come to me afterwards saying that if we were able to give back any money that that is one place that he thinks he would need an additional $3,000 mhm which you know um we had gone over
budget i want to say maybe in 23 or 24 when Lenny was still on the board and it was um a hike in overtime ended up um putting us over our budget okay um do you want to go to 100,000 then or
somewhere in between okay um 98,000 985 i'll 985 do I hear 99 i know i can't deal or no deal 985 seems like a happy medium to me
okay motion to recommend 916 employer contributions for $98,500 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Cameron I nicole Melo and I mark Pacico I
okay oped 919 motion to recommend 919 in the amount of $10,000 i'll second that motion made second any discussion all those in favor peter Ker and I nicole Melo is an I mark Pico I
and tuition 920 i think we should reduce it to $2,000 2000 contractual obligations as a result yeah okay um I think one of the unions they
can get 3,000 per person did we have somebody to did we come to that number with two employees saying that they were education with the two employees that's why we put it is it subject I I thought the tuition policy they had to go in front of the selectman
that was subject to approval by the selectman is something like that within the bylaw language we have a policy a tuition reimbursement policy but they're union so does that change it so we have a union a union contract that
gives tuition as well yes you have some contraction [Applause] okay so the Okay motion to recommend tuition 920 for $6,000 i'll second that
motion made and second any more discussion all those in favor peter Karens and an I nicole Melo and I mark Pico I Okay uh liability insurance this is uh department 945 are these still estimates
motion to recommend um to 945 liability insurance for $266,74 i'll second that motion made and seconded any more discussion all those in favor peter Karen's an I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico I
uh do we have a new general fund total yet oh no no okay and that doesn't need to be voted yeah serena's good not that that's a lot of math that's
Then there's just um the sewer um sewer enterprise fund this is department 600 motion to recommend sewer enterprise funds for $411,21843 i'll second that motion made a second
any discussion all those in favor I Nicole Melo is an I oh Mer Chico I i'm sorry keep doing that nice [Applause] all right that we finished his new
business uh then it's time for the approval of the warrants mark um just for the the budget the full implications on chapter 5318b is that something that can be brought back to us and we can revote that budget there's a cost for mailing like FY20
um six if we go that route so can we just revote that at at some point in the future cuz like we'd have to assume this gets approved at town meeting and what the implic cost implication would be on this so that would probably right now
would probably town clerk's budget yeah um yes the elections budget it it'd either be that or I'm not sure who would do the mailing if it would probably be selectman um but the town it would probably be town clerk and
selectment because we'd have a a little bit of a legal fee and a mailing fee and she might find a cost in there too mhm yeah we can definitely discuss it with her and once we nail down an amount and then we could put a you could uh come
back do like another recommendation yes especially when you do the joint meeting i mean we have until a joint meeting with the finance committee okay if we're going to do the 50 right if it gets We probably will have to have it on the joint mhm but we Yeah we have it
scheduled when is it scheduled the May meeting right a joint meeting with the finance committee is that the May 14th is there one remaining yes
may 14th may 14th right a final joint meeting with them which would be a regular meeting right right okay thank you you're welcome okay thank you
um do you have any questions about the budget no thank you Mark do you no i appreciate your support thanks thanks for your input thank
you all right um warrants okay Peter yes sir whenever you're ready i make a motion to pay the warrants paid by April 3rd 2025 40a-25 for $133,89841 40b-25 for
$818,54.97 warrants paid by April 10th 2025 41 A-25 for $125,693.74 41b-25 for $166,862.19 i'll second that motion has been made and seconded any discussion all those in
favor peter Karen and I pomelos and I mark Pico i Okay approval of the board of select regular meeting minutes for March 26th of 2025 i'll make a motion to approve the board of selectmen regular meeting minutes of March 26 2025 second
motion made second any discussion all those in favor i peter Karen nicole Melo i Mark Pacico i Okay we're up to the last input of public input for the evening is there anybody out there that wants to be heard
anybody online guys laura is coming okay uh Laura Madera 1645 Maple Street um I just wanted to commend you guys for a very hard task that you have um and thank Mark i really liked your effort and your ideas that you have um and as
you said there's a lot of onedge employees me being one so I appreciate um diving into all the different avenues to look at um between the options is there at this time going to be a date suggested for those special meetings for
the other two options that you're hoping to look at for the town i think the our town leadership will have to put their heads together and um I'm guessing they'll have to work with us offline on dates that work for
for all of us and this these options would be for the annual town meeting for this annual town meeting correct absolutely that's that's my recommendation and my goal i think that um we need direction from the town's people so I think we need to bring three solutions to them and then get
directions from the town on which way they want to go awesome all right thank you thank you thank you anyone else okay uh motion to adjournment i'll make a motion to adjurnn second motion has been made and seconded any
discussion all those in favor peter Ker and I nicole Melo's an I mark Pico i All right thank you guys very much it was a great job bye Peter bye Peter bye talk to you later guys talk to you later
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