good afternoon everyone this is the monthly meeting of the dayon storm water committee it is Wednesday February 19th 2025 and I'm calling the meet meeting to order at 103 we are in the uh Oldtown Hall upper
level meeting room 11-11 semer Avenue in Dion this is a public meeting being video and audio recording for posting on YouTube and um we have a number of people who have zoomed
in uh ke did you I I don't recognize two of okay um all right I'll do the the attendance after we do the pledge Please
Stand United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for allend for the committee here not very yeah Robert
Woods yeah uh is dve Phillips there yet he's not coming he just told me oh he's sick oh okay um another one also I need to also online
um Jonathan veride can you handar me Jonathan he's muted sorry should be able to hear me now yes we can hear you Jonathan pad from grasshopper and along with me is uh taba Seline also
from grasshopper okay thank you um Jonathan's requesting to record to meeting also oh that's okay that's fine um also on the zoom is Frank Chrisi
from Wellington Street I can hear you is there I can hear you can you hear me yes we can hear you okay thank you is there anyone behind that white box here
so yeah I'm GNA move it Evan Watson hi Evan can you hear me yep I hear you loud and clear okay and I the young lady there
taba taba I think is it taba am I saying that correctly yeah that's correct can you hear me yes she's from she's from grass up with Jonathan yes um and uh in the audience we have Miss B from P Street
um Mr C Chris Foy had asked that we take his uh latest information out of order because he's got to uh it's got to be somewhere so um thank you
you need a motion is what you saying um I'm I'm going to I'm looking to see where I can do this because this did not make the agenda because I got the pictures and stuff after um but
um public input I'm going to go with unanticipated items I need a motion to take under agenda item8 to take this out of order at the request
of Mr chrisa foi so move we have a motions there a second a second we have a second any discussion hearing none all in favor I I I okay so you've been all copied on emails
from Mr Christopher and my response to uh responses um he had attached uh a number of new pictures uh when we discussed this last month and we got the
reports from Pete Warren from ma CS which is the solar farm behind AR ruos and also Jim AAR uh they had made site visits to check on the position of the lighting and uh Pete Warren had made some minor
adjustments and uh they weren't there together Pete went there first when it was Doc and uh Jim mag went there after a meeting here went the same day but it was later at night so um based on their
reports we had closed this issue at the last meeting however um Mr Chris buly sent a couple of pictures and he's talking about these lights come on periodically excuse
me the first out of the uh his concern that we addressed last month he talked about Spotlight that was shining for two years into his son's bedroom um based on the site visit that
was done by Pete Warren and Jim Agia um they could not locate a spotlight that that would be shining in his son's bedroom considering the distance that the lights are from his
property and then subsequent where his houses so there are a couple of pictures that uh Mr chrisop foi sent and I described what I could see in those pictures and sent that out to everybody and asked him where is the spotlight
that's shining in his son bedro he responded the pictures that he had sent me and there's red marking where he's showing arrows if anybody didn't see those uh Tom do you have those on your
computer I I have the pictures not the ones with the arrows but yes you can see the all right yeah okay but the the red that was a subsequent uh email from Mr christop Foy
so I asked him again where is the spotlight that is shining into son's bedroom so Mr christop can you address that please yeah sure and I I apologize for the pictures obviously they're taking it night with a cell phone so there is you know i' actually had the
police out so you guys probably had seen the police report where they confirmed you know a spotlight shining towards the back of my house and it seems to be going on randomly and it appears to me it looks like a you know freight train coming out of a tunnel you know in terms of a you
know bright shining light shining to the back part of my house um you know if you do look at the solar bylaws you know basically requires that solar Farms are dark sky so you know no lights or or pointing lights pointing down there's
also a town bylaw which is the reason that I got the police involved where they are the uh authority to uh to address it and I mean basically there's a light uh I can see it with binoculars you know from my office it looks like there is
some sort of control panel electrical panel on the Eastern side and I mean it would be great if they could just move the light to the other side of the panel and not shine in my backyard okay I have spoken to Chief
Nicholls he did not confirm that they have agreed that there is a spotlight shining from Sol that would be able to reach be a problem to your property or your son's bedroom window is your son what floor is
his bedroom on he's on the second floor okay but if you if you've ever been you know to my property the whole back of my house is glass okay what I'm saying to you is that your statement about the police saying that there was a spotlight
shining on your property was not confirmed I spoke to the chief yesterday uh and that wasn't confirmed it look you have excuse me one second do you have a copy of the police report no I don't okay but I suggest that were you know
they're basically the officer that came out confirmed I originally thought it was headlights and it looked very suspicious where somebody hanging out you know behind my house for a period of time and when they did a site investigation at that point it was
probably 11:30 at night and according to the police report they confirmed that the light was shine in the direction of my home coming from some sort of generator uh electrical panel fixed on the facil on the site okay what the chief did say to me
was that there was a site visit but what he explained was the light that they saw would be no different than somebody who had a light on their property like next to their front door he didn't say it was
a spotlight but aside from that um Mr Ferry I sent an email to you yeah from Williams just came in before I left the house with a whole bunch of
ises okay okay I want to read the email I got from Pete Williams um just so that because I didn't have time to follow it I took a quick look sent it to Tom figuring he'd have his computer here
and I could let everybody know it's got a whole bunch of pictures attached to it which Pete took when he was down there visiting okay I don't need those pictures I just want the email that's done yeah okay uh this is Pete Williams from
uh signal energy good morning excuse me pet Warren said it's Peter Warren excuse me um good morning all the light he is questioning is the safety
light that's at the pad it is motion activated and will go on as animals run by or people are working I am not sure what the setting for the jewel J J
L it's either j t e or J l i long l n it will long it will stay on maybe he means how long it will stay on but when I was there it went on but before I could get
my camera to take a picture it went off there is one light at each pad on the response I sent to answer this complaint back in June there were about eight pictures attached I believe
I don't think it was June I think it was January I believe the chief was on there but he evident he copied the police department I believe the chief was on there but he may not but he
may only but he have only but he may have only been on the town response I'm attaching a few more here meaning pictures the pictures where I am point
to point means pointing to is where Frank's hous is in relation to the lights which as you can see are pointed straight down and they are facing south his house is to the Southwest through
the trees about 200 plus meters away let me know what else is needed so that came in um as I said let's see um well he sent it at 9:36 but I was in a meeting all morning so I probably
picked it up today around 12:30 so that's what Pete Warren is saying so I these were emailed out to the committee does any one on the committee have any comments about the pictures uh
yeah I'd like to say something go ahead why can't they position that light where it points in a different direction he He adjusted them all pointing down pointing down they Point down I mean you can see if you're looking the other question but they're
they're not pointing off why is an issue like this before the committee right it should go to like the zoning enforcer or the building inspector okay yeah what the according to the town bylaws the the chief of police is the enforcement agent that's why I got them involved after I
and again reading the bylaws I had reached out to the Building Commissioner multiple times leaving messages and sending text and I never got any response whatsoever you know and again you know from my perspective if you read the
solar bylaws you know it needs to be dark sky so I understand that there's lights that need to be there you know for certain actions and the fact that you you know make note that it's motion sensitive also makes sense because it seems to be you know more prevalent when
it is windy out like last night last couple days it's been on and off uh I would just ask that you know the town take the applicable action and request the uh the solar farm folks to relocate that light you know facing in the
opposite direction you know there's three sides of that are all Woods you know as opposed to shining into the residential areas the only thing I want to say one more thing too as a planning board member you know when they were before us
trying to get the prent for this solar farm we did everything we could to increase the buffer zone along the cryistal fury property to prevent stuff like this and they fought us tooth and nail on every single inch of that buffo I don't know if anybody's ever
been to Frank's house but he has a beautiful home worth a a lot of money and it's worth a lot less now because of that solar P so I think whoever is in charge of that Sol Farm should direct that light in a different direction because as long
as Mr christop Foy has owned that home he's had complete privacy a beautiful backyard with no lights no nothing but the woods in nature and now we have to deal with this right he's dealt with
everything he's dealt with the Dust he's dealt with all the that comes along with these solar Parts the language yeah all the other negative things um and I think something should be done about this not just because
Frank is a friend of mine which I'm telling you right now Frank is a friend of mine but any Resident Mrs well anyone else that has to live next to these things should be taking care of read good issues I wrote myself a couple
of notes here first of all complaints about light I can tell you when I was a selectman Board of Health member before they split we had complaints about light on Pleasant Street we did a site visit
it was the full Board of Selectmen who was the Board of Health we had the uh you may have been there not sure but you may have been present and [Music] um uh this was a um or is still is it's
a f uh and on the right to th they have a lot of different kinds of FS whatever they used to keep the yard lit like daylight because they said they were
coyotes the neighbors all complained because the the roost some of the birds would make noise all night long because I thought it was daylight
so um Mr Agy I worked with the property owners and they removed some lights and other lights were directed to the ground uh the total I don't know if you call them lumens or what were reduced that was a complaint
specifically about lights and it was the whole neighborhood that was complaining and it was a addressed by the board health and the Building Commissioner what is being talked about here in this particular case is it's not a spotlight so the original complaint
about the spotlight in his son's bedroom that it's not a spotlight we know that two individuals one from the company and one from the town at different times but on the same day I believe same night excuse me in the dark
went out there the person from the um Solar Company P He adjusted lights down we know that they're uh evidently motion generated the site visits that were made
the house is far enough away so that the light is not shining in the windows and from the photographs you can't see that there's a steady um how can I say it a a steady path of light from where the light is up
to his property line because from his property what you see when you look at his backyard the light stops and then there's some trees and you can see out there what I pointed out initially there were I could see three spots
now as far as the buffer zone or whatever it was the other thing we're dealing with obviously is no leaves on the trees as far as everyone and and there's also no planting you know it's been two years none of the trees have I that
today we're gonna deal with like we can put that on a future agenda but for right now there are quite frankly I think most all the solar bombs have got to have replanting uh I know the one on Tre does but that's because everyone agreed we got to wait for the next grub
season anyhow getting back to what you said about the inconvenience and everything else everyone who is near a Sol probably has to deal with some kind of light um by the same token there's a big
difference between lights that actually shine on your property and come into your house and the inspection said that wasn't the case and neither one of those gentlemen here Mr agie I said he would try to get here but he had an appointment he had to
keep and um so comes in I'll ask him to address it but in any case Okay U Mr Ki I I need you to clarify something you talked about enforcement
of the solar bylaw actually two two bylaws and and I don't have the one there's a town bylaw that talks about spotlights and it specifically calls out the police as the enforcing agent and it basically says
you know and again I'm paraphrasing but basically says that a neighbor cannot cast measurable light onto another property that's the BW that I just talked about back when we had to go to Pleasant Street that's the the force the
police that now the solar Skies that's got nothing to do with the storm water committee we don't have per say in our storm water bylaw or in our
RS anything related to lighting I think the reason that I was contacted is because when the police department got your uh complaint call however you sent it in they didn't know what to do with it because they don't feel the lighting
bylaw per se is there to enforce they feel that lighting that is a nuisance like I don't know if it would be not that we have them uh signs on someone's property or spot lights that as you are driving down the road the light's so
bright you can't see where you're going because we had a few of those in town um but if you are specifically relating to Doc sky and solar bylaw you got to go back to the planning board that's not
St okay again I mean I read the I read the bylaw you know I read the spotlight bylaw and you know again kind of paraphrasing it is explicitly said that the you know Police Department is the enforcing agent so I got in touch with them after the
you know multiple contacts to the building inspector Ned zero reply you know I how to dig in dig into this incident a little bit deeper um so I'm basically asking you so I had a similar situation with my direct neighbor where my garage you know put up a new fixture
and it was shining in his yard he came over and said hey your light is bothering me you know and again I was very apologetic and he and I worked out a resolution where I relocated the fixture pointed it you know in a direction that did not cast any light
and again I'm asking you the board you know in the town as my neighbors to take some action I mean as Woody noted you know this has been nothing but a pain in the butt you know one you know water in my basement last week kind of an ongoing thing the dirt the dust you know these
solar Farms do not make good neighbors and I don't feel that the town I'm going to stop you now because we're get into a lot of time and people have to leave we're not here to discuss solar Farms that have been approved that have been built that are out there we've gone
through that before we gave you a solution to what you feel is the water problem and it's yours to resolve we're not doing that I will also point out that when Mr wood started he wanted to know why we're talking about that and that's why I brought up the scho of
bylaw and Doc skies and he just said he agrees so what I'm saying to you is I don't believe at this point because of what you're citing as the town bylaw I this is not storm water and I'm suggesting that you get in touch with
the planning board which is what Mr wood said um I think that we not only we but I think the police department now that this has been brought up this is a confusing situation and I think since do sky and all of that
is part of planning discuss in the beginning with whatever's coming that Sky that's been around for a while okay I'll leave it at that I'll be at the next planning board meeting and maybe somebody on the planning board can address
it thank you Frank and if you see that right again call the police right away get the name I have and they've been noting it in the uh in the police log over the last two days um all right I I actually have to go to a 1:30 meeting I
do appreciate you taking the uh this action and I appreciate you taking this matter out of voter I appreciate it thank you I will send an email to carry EAS today and tell her uh but you need to follow up and get on their agenda okay thank you much take
care um Mr chairman yes Mr just want to recognize since the meeting started after roll call Le's phone is on and James Pearson is on okay uh hi Mr
pearon hi there and is it Lee Cy hi Lee I don't know who Lee's iPhone is on mute Lee most likely le le from long comes to that he'll probably he'll probably come in um I'm going to request a motion to
table action on Mr Chris ai's request because he's going to go to planning we'll see where that goes um but I I just I don't think we can do anything taken off the table at a future meeting if yeah the need
arises taking on your advisement well you can't even do that because the advice if it's coming from planning they're going to make a decision not us okay was we have a motion to table and we have a second uh discuss motion so
all in favor we don't have anybody on there right no okay all right so let's go back to the order of the agenda uh project updates Street uh Mr pad sorry about that off no problem so
when I got an email from you you asked me if um the rest of the information or if all the items on the checklist that Mr Agia The Building Commissioner generated had been addressed he's not here if he comes in
um we can ask him about it but I don't have the list and don't know the status so um is there anything else that you need other than what's the status with that that that's it I mean we I can tell
you the couple of items that I'm aware of I just wanted to make sure that we're working from the same list okay so I I do understand from the notes that Mr ha
has left behind that on the south side of the the far south side of the site outside the fence we'll need to do some more visual screening and of course in the
springtime um we'll have to go around the entire site and replace any dead um visual screening that that was uh that was planted there so those are the two things that I'm aware of that we need to
deal with I just wanted to ensure that there weren't other items that for whatever reason didn't make it onto the list of Mr ha is Left Behind okay um Mrs calonia Lisa calonia is here from the
concom and uh Lisa is there anything you know of that would be a concom issue or anything you want to mention um well I know there's um the area at the South End of the site regarding uh that needs to be addressed with conservation still
so okay so you mentioned that you know that yeah so that's that would be the conservation concern yeah mainly that right now um does anyone else have questions for Mr pad I I well we're not the enforcement
on uh the vegetation but that's has to be mowe okay between between their arrays you got woody stuff starting to grow okay um did uh Mr pad did you hear Mr Ferry just
then I did I did so of course as soon as um you know know the we're we're free of the snow and as part of the site commissioning we will certainly um do the vegetation control we need to we
need to get rid of all of that before we um we finalize the site okay um one of the things we asked Mr HZ for um was that when everything is completed
the checklist is done it's up and running and generating power we ask for a the name of who the local contact will be to maintain it because it will have to be mowed probably at least twice a year unless we get a lot of rain and it
grows more rapidly and then the other thing is the site will be subject to inspection by storm water to make sure that if we have torrential rain or whatever may happen uh that the want a
management system uh is still working properly that if we get the 500 years St if it's damaged it's going to have to be replaced so I I don't I personally don't know who the local contact or company is but that's something that we will need
uh okay yes so we'll we'll be happy to provide that to you uh just uh we'll we'll follow it up in writing but okay the company name is amarco uh they look after all of our
sites in Massachusetts so we'll provide the the contact information and whatnot so they will they will assume Carriage of the site once we're once we're down done commissioning um but as of as of right
now we should be following the the protocols with the signage I think we have contact signage on the site on the Gate of the site if I'm not mistaken and as a as a fallback please do either contact UM myself or or
TI okay um Mr Pearson from Weston and Samson is on the zoom call Mr Pon do you have any comments as far as anything you're aware of that might have been on the checklist to wrap up things at Brook Street um from a storm water perspective
I I don't have anything left on any checklists for that project okay all right um uh Mr pad are you generating power to the grid now we are not we are not okay okay can I assume that's got
nothing to do with anything the town is this is between you and the power company that's that's correct we're we're coordinating with the power company right now as as you know better than I they've got their hands full with the recent storms that have gone through
uh Mass so they've asked us for a little more time okay um does anybody have anything else comment questions or anything Mr SP did you have anything yeah just want go to
the vum please um Lisa I know you said that the southide but you are concerned also about excuse me name and address oh I'm sorry I should know this laori bosay 1680 p
Street um but also the trees that have died on the North side that's not conservation that's mention go whole site okay that's that's those are the correct me if I'm wrong
but those are the buffer plantings that are the screening buffer not the Wetland buffer that planning board required right so yeah you already said they're going to go around the whole site and replace whatever needs to be replaced I
mean I am concerned it's just well it's in our jurisdiction so obviously I want it done but that was a requirement of the planning board okay that's fine um is it still under the uh ownership of
grasshopper it's oh it is yes it is okay and and I will just mention that um I received notification from Mr that uh grasshopper wants to proceed
with a pilot agreement and I have asked the board of Select to put a placeholder in file so that when the warrant is put together for the annual town meeting in June the pilot agreement that got tabled
last fall is the exact agreement that will be brought before the voters again and the name in the pilot agreement is just the way it was which is affect grasshole so okay and just to make note that we
are still watching the um the water level because um that's some pump is going on unusually um often and um I know it's been hard but we had kind of heavy rains
last time and um Mr Agia had said to closely watch it and um just let you know we are okay thank you uh is there anything else on grass off that anybody has comments
anything okay uh do you have anything else Mr pad not at this time Madam chair okay thank you very much thank you thank you all Sola tront middle streets do we have
anything on on that um that's no Mr Pon you have anything on the solar farm at Tremont and middle um I do not it was um several months ago that I had been called out to just uh do an inspection of it um
pursuant to the submission of asilt plants that the applicant had made I believe it was to the Conservation Commission if I'm not mistaken and then I think more recently they had um made a submission to the planning board of the same as builts and uh yeah I don't have
anything for further on it um as as far as I as far as I know and as far as I'm concerned they uh gave everything to us that we need to review and we and we responded to it um
um just do you have anything on uh no and our permit's closed okay and as far as I'm not Mr AG um we're talking about um tont middle uh as far as your concern there we don't
have anything no I uh closed out those permits uh on Thursday okay and I have the emergency contact and I'm just waiting for a daytime contact but I'm in touch with Greg morous for that okay all right so um grank has sent
a u email to me saying I thought this was all closed out and whatever um and the only reason it's on here is because we wanted to make sure if there was anything that didn't come up at the last meeting it could come up today but uh
going forward I think we can leave uh Heather I think we can leave this off unless the woodwork and we'll put it on but for now uh this solo found we can yeah leave off the agenda I I believe planning Bo's watching over those trees
that need to get replaced correct yeah okay but that's that's a planning board so there's no reason we can't take it off uh at a future meeting if planning board does something he just wants to mention as a news item that whatever but
I I don't think we need to carry on a storm water agenda I think we're we're all set um I agree uh so um what happened was um grass just left
and what they're mainly interested in was and I told them we check with you and get back to them um was the he talked about the self side needing uh the trees in that which we know did make a statement saying that
and we talked about the need for visual screaming the diet he did say that they're aware of that and they're going to go around the whole site when you can plant and replace anything that needs replacement um and and his main concern
was is there anything else we need know that we need to do and I said I don't have the list but I'll ask Mr agot to follow up on it so I haven't been able to go up there the weather hasn't cooperated okay so I I do plan to get there I just I just haven't had the time
in this weather to Traverse the entire site because the list is scattered throughout the entire site what what Tom mentioned was that they're going to have to when they can get out there in the snow and ice they're going to have to go out and trim the or do mowing or whatever because it's growing up and and
and so he said that they would do that also um he said they're still they're not live but there're still really the power company and the power company ask for more time because of storm damage right and whatever so so we will have graphs
off on next month's agenda just to follow up on it yeah and just one more thing uh we do have a fire alarm acceptance test that needs to take place once they're energized so that was that's still pending obviously so hopefully I'll have an update on that by the next meeting okay and hopefully I'll
be able to walk the site okay when we fire alarm is tested is it going to be uh can you hear it up there and it's going to ring at the fire there'll be a local alarm but um I'm not sure if you'll be able to hear it from your house but it it does call the fire dep
it goes to Communications okay yes all right um we took Mr christop Foy out of order because he had to leave for a a meeting or something um we in effect have tabled his request about the lights
because he is now referring to dark skies and solar bylaws that's not storm water right so we referred it to the planning board and Mr Woods agrees that's where it belongs okay so we tabled it and suggested that he get in
touch with planning I'll send an email to Carrie but um if something comes back from planning that involves us then will'll take it off the table okay but um uh there was discussion about and the
he's he's talking different bylaws because I mentioned the site visit we made years ago when we were bard of Health bard of selectman on Pleasant Street right when a whole neighborhood was complaining and you got that
resolved that was one bylaw but what the solar bylaw in dark sky is a different ball game so anyhow for right now it's tabled with us because it's not a storm water issue but uh if you hear from planning you'll know what that's about sorry I'm late thanks for the background
oh no problem uh okay we are now at Macs Aros have the asil plans been reviewed and are they all set Mr Pearson so we had received a submission of some ASB built plans and the other thing we were waiting on was submission
of a revised storm water report um which to my knowledge uh well we haven't received it anyway I don't know if it's been submitted um the last request that I saw go out for it was uh Carrie easterday had had contacted uh Mr Peter
Warren um to try to get to try to get that and and this is all pursuant to um a review letter that that we had written back in March 5th 2024 uh in which we had um identified that there were some differences between the asilt condition and the original
design condition and we had requested that the applicant provide a revised Stone Water Report just to show that the changes to the storware configuration still met the original design intent so um so at this point we we haven't seen any of that yet so we uh
we haven't we haven't been able to review that okay uh does anybody here have anything on Ms orj all right so he this will be on the next agenda continue it
um 102 Sunny's way and this was drainage are we all set with that Tom I think this was was this Mr Reed's property I we just got to wait for the growth to make sure everything's stable yeah they need stabilization oh all right and this is
weather related or yeah you need spring time for that yeah okay all right so for next month we won't have this on there but when you have the final word can say everything is up there is all straightened out yeah it'll be it'll be
mid spring me yeah yeah okay so we'll just leave that we'll leave it off in the next agenda and uh when you're ready to give us an update um that'll be fine okay okay thank you um zero Elm Street
um there were Communications going back and forth about and I'm not not sure if this is the right term the saw blanket the the whatever was going on there until they can get grass to grow so are they okay with their um stabilizing the
the land the slope until you can actually get grass are they okay yeah I think we I think you know everything's frozen right now right but they have been regular inspection reports right and photographs yeah every week okay so this
will be on for next I think I think some came um yesterday I think yeah yeah um so all right so this will be on for next month does anybody here have anything about Elm Street okay all set Hunters
Hill Lee can you hear us I'm here with Lee too if he's uh if he can't hear he's Lee's iPhone Evan's here his engineer Evan yes I'm I'm here okay hi Evan there okay so do you have
anything to report um progress report what's happening or anything like that just so we have an update yeah sure I can you want to allow him to oh there we
go I was muted sorry I could put it uh the plan up on the screen just so we can all see can you hear me now yeah we can hear you Le okay every just got muted again somebody keeps M me all right I
think I'm good um yeah so over here Hunter Hill this is just the overview plan uh We've we actually have a few houses uh under construction out there along boxwood Lane and working our way down Clubhouse Drive uh we're going to
be meeting with conservation tomorrow on Lots 32 and 61 and the clubhouse Foundation has been installed and we did the Wetland um
enhancement area in behind the clubhouse along with the associated drainage improvements so that's done uh maybe a little bit of grading work to be done once we see how it all settles in in the spring um and then the drainage basin
way out in the back has been performing actually perfectly as designed the water's right up to the invert of the outlet pipe and uh it's looking good we haven't had any issues out there uh
storm water related or otherwise so um a pretty pretty good update so are you able to continue Construction even with this horrendous weather yes not horrendous must have polar bears working for
you they're they're new englanders and they um it's we we we we Marvel at all the time we talk about it all the time they uh day in and day out it doesn't matter they're they're out there it's amazing EV we're all
engl all complaining about getting out of the to walking into a building seriously I know it's on average 10 degrees colder than normal right now yeah Mr peon do you have any questions or comments on
Hunter Hill uh I do not I don't have any action items on my on my lists for Hunter H at this point okay um anything from the committee we're all set uh so thanks Le thanks Evan very
well next month thank you okay all right thanks again thanks a lot agenda item five old business update on the calendars I picked up the calendars uh I 650 I picked them up on Valentine's Day
I immediately started giving them out at the open Town buildings that were open uh two Banks and uh two post offices I've replenished and I've since then visited all the town uh buildings
that weren't open on Friday and left copies for boards committees and for the public um as I said we I have four cases 650 and I'm down to half a case and um I
will continue to check the uh Banks and the post offices and town buildings until they're all gone uh but the uh feedback has been excellent and from what I understand residents were going
into post offices and saying by the way where are those calendars how come we don't have calendars like they're supposed to answer that question but uh we had problems with the thumb drive we had problems with the pictures uh we got into everything was there in November
but there were problems with thumb drives um and I'm not making excuses for anybody but also once you get beyond my deadline the middle of November once you get beyond that the amount of work that goes into that uh graphic arts
department and it's all going to be done for Christmas or New Year's so anyhow um we finally have them and the public response has been very good I've already received uh a beautiful picture of a very fiery sunset on the street I live
on by one of the residents and so I am collecting photos um no buildings no people I just need to know where IND dicton and who took the picture so they can be emailed to me um and uh coling for next year's
calendar um the under new business the proposed budget everyone should have a copy of this um we're going to be meeting with to discuss budget um is it t no it's
it's March Tomy what's the first date March no it's in it's in February it is February see next Tuesday Tuesday next Tuesday you signed up for
12 what time you signed up for 12 I start at 11: oh the reason I'm questioning is because I was asked to attend on Tuesday the DI subcommittee
meeting on budget when they discussed the school budget so yeah during the day fine that was it was just like what um but anyhow that's going to work out okay um so the budget was reduced as we were
asked to do but I also sent out to you the email I received from Jarice Schwartz at Weston and Samson um these are just guests and uh so they're not true they guest theat uh some of those numbers she's got
there I'm sure can be reduced um she's talked about spreading things out over three years um I've said repeatedly St expensive especially when we get into testing and everything that relates to that
but that email is just an FYI uh she will be attending the select meeting next week to give a little presentation on where she is with the project that that she's she and her team are doing as
far as looking at the storm water bylaw RS um they've done uh they've had Engineers doing uh checking outfalls doing testing um looking at the mapping and all of that is being paid for under the
OPA Grant um and the last invoice I saw I believe believe I believe the grants around 45,000 and I think the billing to date is around 14,000 I'll say one thing when they send you an invoice it's very detailed you
get the names of who did it and how long they worked and what all of that stuff so um the I'll call it field work uh has pretty much been done in cooperation with Mr Ferry because I'm not into
outfalls and testing good stuff and uh he told them where they should be put streets and all that so do you have anything to add to that Tom this time so I I should be at that meeting next Wednesday yeah I'm also
sure because I sent that those cost estimates out uh there'll probably be questions from the board and the Town Administrator relative to those not that that's going to turn into a big budget discussion but I felt like got to get
that information out um what kind of numbers in the end we're talking about I have no idea because we all know what the financial situation is so getting back to our budget uh there's no questions at all we just want you to know um there will be a meeting these
are the numbers that are going to be presented these do not include anything relative to the estimate that I got from uh jerice Schwarz so this is this is where we are right now
um solar canopy 6B 2200 Lewis Street does anybody have information on this Lisa uh yeah so I don't have the plan with me but um we haven't opened the public hearing on it either but we did
request a um peir review um proposal from West Samson yeah so we're opening the hearing tomorrow night and um yeah we'll see where it goes okay Mr Pon have
you had any information yet on this uh 2200 Lewis Street Sola installation uh I have not okay we're trying to figure out what it is it doesn't sound like it's a solar farm it
sounds like solar panels mounted on something Mr Ed you know anything about it a little bit I've not seen any plans but um discussions took place a year or so ago maybe a little longer than that and
it looks like they're exploring the option of putting in structures and then panels on top of the structures I guess similar to what the school did but I have not seen a final design where um Lewis Street the um auto
recycling facility just AO you should have got copied though did you get copied when they submitted to us they typically do yeah but I've not seen any structural plans on on the do we know is it is it for personal use or are they going to sell Surplus power well it's
it's going to generate more power than they'll use at the site so it'll probably be a generator but um the the the concept is that they can still operate the business with the solar with the solar panels there that's why they're wreting them on these structures
but you know we we've we we told them the first thing you need to do is uh planning in concom and that's what they're doing so okay I've not seen anything finalized okay I have I have a feeling those two processes will probably dictate the layout and K has asked that Weston and Samson get
involved down the road well I mean I requested the proposal but they're gonna officially ask them tomorrow yeah oh okay yeah all right Mr peon sounds like there's more word Ked your way okay
great okay so under 6C when I talked about the budget the west and Samson storm water program update work plan uh I've kind of covered that when I talked about the budget I mentioned the guesstimates that uh Miss Schwartz gave
to me and so unless uh anybody has any comments or questions we'll just continue on uh I got an email today from Michelle voodo at the EPA the
public comment period for the new ms4 and everything else were there were dates set in February I signed up for a meeting that got postponed to I don't know when because it just it hasn't happened I specifically requested
information relative to the time River Watershed they seem to have when they talk about this a lot of focus on the Charles River and rivers that are north of the Charles uh and the Connecticut
River which doesn't help us at all so I when I wrote the email back I told them we want to focus I want to focus on the tton river Watershed and south eastern Mass um there may
be um plans Concepts that are similar but I really don't want to sit there and listen to all this about those rivers that don't affect us again there may be rules and regulations that will be part of the T River Watershed that applied to
Connecticut river and conquet river and everything else um all I know right now is the public comment period has been extended so when I get more information I'll share it um uh I it was a zoom
meeting it got close HED and I thought even with bad weather I thought you know we can have a zoom meeting you don't have to be physically there but we'll wait I'll keep you guys advised uh let's see we don't have minutes for approval right okay those
will be on the next one uh so uh we had talked on unanticipated items we talked to Mr chrisa foly because that came in after we had done the agenda um does anyone else have any unanticipated items they'd like to bring up
Public public out there uh car on is we don't have any the only have is that email I got from Michelle buo Michelle buo is now in uh she was s of an assistant to newa far permit writing she and another
person are now doing a handling the permit writing that he did because he has now been uh enforcement so course he did um to
us I keep himed we're making progress he already knows who his players are that's well also he knows we're having a study done by Weston Samson so um uh we're doing what we
can um to to keep the wolf at B uh the next meeting is on Wednesday March the 19th what our next meeting yeah yeah and which is the usual time um I don't think
I'll be there fishing or hunting my birthday a knows what I'm doing but Ain coming here you had one last year though A's a good Baker no my wife takes me out well she could take you out to dinner not
I don't know probably won't be here both retired now it's an all day thing um other than the kind of stuff you usually have if anyone has any agenda you get in touch with me or put on the list and we'll go over
it nobody has anything that I to move there second a second P te hey don't forget my birthday um sorry we're all in favor of a
Jour and forgetting Mr Wood's birthday hi thank you thanks Jim and thank you