i think that's a great idea solidarity you know that I think that's a great idea i just got some new orange i have new sneakers at home i can't wait to try them out do this is just more because I know we have to make a motion to vote but like is like the teachers union
going to these school meetings like you know like they remember they wore the red shirts a few years back and that was like for when there was some violence in one of the schools i'm just like so you're not see like one of the things that you don't see right now is the anti school like
chess like vitrial attitude anymore it's it's very different over there she participate she made that happen yeah yeah i mean to me that the failure last year of the override was they were saying no to Chelsea period that's interesting yeah and and I and I
know I know teachers that voted against it which they were voting against themselves but it was it was a vote it was a no vote against Chessence essentially and now that she's not there anymore it's different
well last year at this time we had people in these meetings we've Jason and I have had many meetings for people to come go to the farmhouse come to the library we'll go to your house you know open sessions here we've been discussing
this budget at our select board meetings for the past you know several months we send out stuff to people's everybody's house in the newsletter discussing this stuff the school wrote a long article for that the information is out there for people it is out there we are
forcing it upon them um and there's just we very well I think a total of seven people among those three meetings we've had showed up yeah and I kind of you know I I agree the information is out there and I think one of the things that
you heard a little bit last year with was think about the seniors and some of the different things that you know went along with what about the people without kids and then I was as we're this these two boards are talking about approval of moving forward with a budget that
requires a $500,000 $480,000 increase it got me sitting there saying to myself like each board member and now the cross-section of our town is represented here and we're all saying that this is the right thing to do we have people with kids we have people without kids we have retirees we have people are still
working we have uh you know uh people new to the community and people have been here their whole lives and all of them are saying the same thing yeah that's true you know when you look at that from that perspective when someone jumps up it's like well we we're considering each one of these demographics as we proceed forward and
people with enough information have said that this is the way we need to go forward with this and I think it makes the most sense to just keep things you know we're not that's the part that's killing me is we're not asking to like increase anything or right we just want to hold steady just hold the fort so we
don't you know continue to make things uh more challenging for our community sue did you have a question no I mean that's a good point though i mean the budget we're asking for that higher number override is really just for the status quo like we saw at our
last meeting the status quo we're at right now is basically sort of a minimum level that can still function and the status quo I mean those numbers are not entirely school i mean we've had some jumps that were unanticipated on the municipal side um you know our insurance
numbers went super high we had negotiations we could you know upgrade contracts there's so and still that's providing all our level service here you know it's cost of living
yeah it's not the library is not asking for a new wing they're asking to get their state accreditation back so they just barely enough funding to be credited by the state no there is no department here that is asking for anything yeah that's what I'm saying beyond just continuing to
function at the level that provides the service and safety um and the needs of the people yeah but even that level is going to require this it is right right exactly i think some of the the those other
uh municipalities have as or uh folks within the community have asked for additional things and we've had to say no because it hasn't you know because I know there's a couple of chiefs that are behind me here that say that they asked for some more and uh we uh we said we can't right we're just looking for a
status quo right yeah I'm sure they would be very happy to put additional police officers or additional firefighters in in their respective departments but yeah I think they're as worthy we wish we we all support it i mean there are asks to the capital plan
but that's not part of the budget so so yeah all right i mean if is anything more that the select board needs to discuss no want to contribute okay does this never change anything
with the regional um emergency agreement with Tink Pharaoh no no not I mean I don't want to jump the agenda but there will be costs associated with that that's why we're going to be talking about it too but um
it wouldn't be we're not in a we're not in a place where we can okay definitive definitively know that that number and included in the budget at those points okay okay all right so I'm going to read this i'm going to read it all because it
needs to be read and Mr chairman I'm going to You guys need to vote this through not just you know a second thank you i move to recommend the town administrators and advisory boards recommended FY26 operating budget with total
expenditures of 14,191,765 which um includes 120,000 for town capital expenses 50,000 transfer to the general stabilization fund 50,000 transfer to
the CIP stabil stabilization fund in funding the Graten Dustable Regional School District and Greater LOL Technical High School assessments at the amount of 9,20,968 requiring a general override of $480,841 to be presented to the
residents of the town at the annual town meeting on Monday May 12th 2025 further move to approve the town administrator to present a second contingency budget at the annual town meeting based on the matching the town
of Grten's assessment under the levy in the amount of $13,989,755 which includes $120,000 for town capital expenses $50,000 transfer to the general stabilization fund $50,000 transfer to
the CIP stabilization fund in funding the Grot and Dustable Regional School District Greater Law Technical High School Assessments at the amount of [Music] $8,818,958 requiring an override of $278,831
second any further discussion all those in favor hi hi hi godspeed it's about right good job Ron it's about right okay next up we have the review of the
draft and meeting we didn't have anything else to discuss we can adjourn make a motion to adjurnn those in favor thank you very much for coming in
consider yourselves advised what else you got when I sent that did you understand what that was i can't believe that what am I looking at we know school districts right based on the
population total population and then the power they have on the school 5050 that one i have no idea i just you know and I don't know either i thought at some point I'll reach out to him but interesting
i don't know that's That's the kind of we want yeah exactly all right [Applause] all right so we've got the warrant proposed warrant here
[Music] did you get the ballot questions we have those did you do the motion not yet we're going to do that after this yes
okay yeah so this is a initial draft of the Lauren i just wanted to get it in front of you just to make sure okay so we have nothing to vote on there's nothing to vote on because it's it's not final okay um but I wanted to just get it in front of you
for your review um if you have any comments concerns issues with anything on the line does this have all the CPC questions in here this has some of the CPC that I'm aware of they're meeting Thursday May um so it's only 19 articles
so far it's only 19 articles so far i don't expect there might be one more but I don't expect many more okay um so are we is the um like massipog weed removal is that just a yearly thing now
no yeah okay because we did it last year right well they like to treat it yearly but the CPC ask is something different every time okay because you can't use CPC for maintenance so for one year they did it for a
particular area for a particular type of weed removal the second time they did it if it was a different type of issue using it in a different area of this one's again is it is it a third different new concept and do our colleagues in Toronto do any Oh yeah
yeah they they're doing okay good cool yeah they all there's a I know the rotting they file between the three towns if they have to do work with a notice of intent and they also all three do CPC stuff good yeah it's just it's help sort of describe with the people
right it's like hey every town does it we all try to Yeah help protect that water resource oh they're wrong they're wrong how do you want to do this do you want me to just run through or do you want me to just highlight the different the things that are a little different than the standard ones that we usually see
sure yeah i mean standard ones are kind of boil unpaid bills it's all boiled but yeah i mean transfer we've talked about the $50,000 transfers for stabilization fund and a capital improvement stabilization fund
um let's see for the CPC we have potential article field Woodward Mill Dan needs some repairs to the top of it based on the assessment we had um the economic development committee sponsored
an article for the establishment of a um disability commission article 9 the water system infrastructure improvements that was there last year that's um that's uh we talked to the water board and that's essentially hopefully
will be an annual article now okay for that they um appropriate or transfer from retained earnings their free cash to annual capital uh improvements and repairs to the system
forward thinking yeah that's awesome is that something that we can empower the water commission to do on their own so they don't have to come to town meeting or is it based on the bylaws it's got to be No um it's it's actually the state you have to appropriate the funds at town meeting okay all right yeah just
hate that someone gets like muddied up about it like "Hey we don't got water," you know right just it's an easy target once they once the appropriation is made for capital improvements it's then under their um jurisdiction on how best to
utilize the funds okay um I have a article right now for a lease purchase agreement that is um meant to be for a new vehicle for the highway superintendent um they have a proposal for a three-year um lease
purchase agreement and so um uh because it's a little late in in the game I'm talking through with capital um plan now so conversation with the chair this morning and um I talked to Leo as well
so um but that's that's what that's meant to be but this article 15 doesn't specifically address the highway superintendent's vehicle it gives us general authority if we choose like let's say that uh the
cemetery department wants to get a lawn mower and they want to lease it but this doesn't specifically tie the motion this could this the motion has to include the terms and the number okay but it's the motion then will focus the vote on that
truck correct yes correct we just don't have that in that's Yeah how do tariffs come into play there because if it's if it's a $65,000 truck that's going to get a 25% well it depends where we have
elevator it's if if it's on the lot right now if you drove by car dealerships or zoos we have a it's a Chevy we have a lease to purchase agreement we have terms from the dealership and it's good through the end of the day um so this was a article sponsor
sponsored by the board of assessors for increasing that there was a recent um bill passed the heroes act that allows communities as an option to increase the exemption for veterans based on cost of
living adjustments um article 18 allows is is a request to allow us to place um leans um on real estate property for unpaid essentially unpaid um permit fees special
permit site assignments etc this is meant to deal with the issue that the planning board has sometimes with collecting fees from um applicants so um in this case if we are unable to collect fees we are able to now we would be able
to lean there so we will finally have an enforcement mechanism well not necessarily enforcement but at least repercussive we would be able to that's huge i mean they need some teeth because there's some things would help yeah and then the last one is the flood
plan district u bylaw amendment which every community in the commonwealth is doing so we've worked with the Department of Conservation Recreation on the on the bylaw language and plan board is scheduling a public hearing on the um on
the bylaw and it's accepting the new maps the floodplane maps which there was no significant change really to the properties that's it that's it we could see like I said we could see
one potentially one more CPA article um but I don't think much more than that okay how is this um flood plane amendment here being presented is that the planning board member or are you having to step up to do that yourself or
how is that sort of usually is the plan planning but we haven't got we're not quite there yet about who's present yeah anything else on this no all right so it's still a draft form still some
tweaks that need to be done so we will address this again probably at our next meeting yes very good moving on um ballot questions so based on our previous vote for the budget go forward with that so what this
does is call is is puts the ballot question on the annual for the 480 and then as a backup in case for a special engine all [Applause]
thank you all right we're going to vote through this right yeah move to approve the following questions for the ballot at the 2025 annual town election and to provide written notice of such question to the town clerk in accordance with
Mass General Law Chapter 54 section 42C question one reads shall the town of Dunable be allowed to assess an additional $480,841 in real estate and personal
property taxes for the purposes of supplementing the town's general government operating budget and regional school district assessments for the fiscal year beginning July 1 2025
second question um further move to call a special town election on June 10th 2025 and approve the following question to appear on the ballot and to provide written notice of such question to the
town clerk in accordance with Mass General Law Chapter 54 section 42C question one shall the town of Dustin be allowed to assess an additional $278,831 in real estate and personal property taxes for the purposes of
supplementing the town's general government operating budget in regional school district assessment for the fiscal year beginning July 1 2025 is there a second second further
discussion those in favor i I I Okay good okay all right um EMS partnership with Ton so as you
know over the last several months um we have been having some informal and then formal conversations with the town of Tim Burough on the
potential partnership in service um I think we all know that our emergency response times um aren't where we want them to be and they generally run between 15 and 20 minutes um and so
because of that that was kind of our um motivation to start looking and starting to better understand what our options were so um I'm going to kind of hand this over to the fire chief I think because he's
done and he's had a lot more conversations about this and that but we've we've had really productive meet several meetings with town of Tsboro town manager and fire chief to a point where they've proposed they've made a
proposal to us for us to consider um in short it's $45,000 annually um you have some data that we've shared um from the fire chief that shows what type of
improvement we'll see in response times um and it's just to be clear it's $45,000 based on the estimates that they believe they'll see in revenue from the transport fees um if it if they collect
more revenue our fee will be less if they collect less revenue our fee will be more so they will be they they are very very willing to partner with us but they don't want to do it at a loss which makes sense makes sense so um based on the estimates they're comfortable with
45 but that could be a variable number okay um Trinity's response time um the fire chief did some rough math um to the to the firehouse in Dunable it's 14 minutes um James B would cut that to
six it's a significant improvement um and in a in a case such as this the improvement can be real health can have real health outcome effects too so all right Chief I don't know what you
want to add but I know you've been at the center of a lot of these discussions yeah so I mean this has been going on for quite a while this I had documents going back from 2015 about this so we kind of just reached back out to everyone to see You know this is kind of been the last
several fire chiefs have kind of all taken a look at this to see and um there's been different conversations different municipalities around here have been in different um stages of being able to have this type of a conversation with us
um the closest you know being Tro and at the time I think when when um Trinity first moved to uh to Drummond Hill you know and due to the fact that
Tro's start ambulance service kind of to jump in on that at the time they weren't really sure how it was going to go just having their town do it let alone take on someone So there wasn't really much of an appetite to take on more than just what we had so we
ended up you know sticking with Trinity and you know having a lot of response times and there's been a few you know talks over the years with other communities um some that were ready then uh we were not in a position to to have
those kind of conversations but basically I just started all over again and I I reran the numbers the response times looked at each department how you know what they have manower they run for annual service um where they get their ALS from whether they do it themselves or if they have a contracted
ALS and uh again you know obviously TR is still significantly closer than any of the other ones and um they are now in a in a position where they are looking to enhance their their service by taking
on uh you know another municipality and being able you know they're in a position much more in a position to take on a little more time so we started talking with them and they came up with you know what they
would need to do with it would be comfortable you know with us being able to supply them um we talked with uh I've had several conversations with couple over the years um we sent out rotten and you know kind of the same
thing i think I did have a conversation with Trendy and one of the first things he said as well which you know how come you're not talking bro um it just it makes the most sense i mean it's you know on paper if
you look at the response times it's significantly faster to get over here than than any of the the other services um like Brook at this point was was interested but in some people we didn't
get didn't really hear back from them and the response time the difference response time was was pretty much the same as what we're getting from um that we're already getting and again I talked to Trinity and you know I asked them "What would it take to
for you to put an ambulance in Dunville for Dunville and the number was you know astronomical $875,000 a year today." Um then they they offered that they would do um you know they could do something more in the
$300,000 range if they uh you know collected some data that said the peak I said peak um times would be for you know response over here but we all know that's just not a good way to do business we can't can't predict it
so that that was it was an option they had they offered but you know it wasn't it's not really an option um so I think this option that we have is is clearly the best option the only other option is that we take it over that's
another over it's more than just get an ambulance we're not really in any position to to be able to move forward with that to get such aizable donation
what is our deal with Trinity now i mean what's the difference the delta between these we don't have one that's who gets called we don't have I thought didn't we sign no nope expired
expired okay expired yeah we we did have one we did that's right yes and what was the cost of that okay so that was just based on the past oh yeah how about level of care any differences for our customers our residents to be
aware of is Trinity the Trinity Cadillac versus Kingsboro as a Toyota not trying to be insulting i'm just trying to understand you know potentially it's it's going to be better i would a lot of you know they're kind of a more local service when you're
working with Trinity is a big company you're getting people you know kind of in and out all the time okay basically we're going to be dealing with the same people um the same you know the same employees that that are already familiar with you know how we do business they're familiar with the area um
yeah that's what I was getting there they may use old general for their ALS um we don't necessar if we don't necessarily automatically get a paramedic a fly car so it's really It's it's comparable to what the situation
that's happened so I got a couple of questions um I I believe me I I understand Trinity is lagging on their response time all right i I I get that all right but in in in an overall comment for them Trinity
brings significant resources to EMS all right i know they can't I know they've had some issues where we've had long run times on ambulances um but in terms of Trinity to Karen's point they they
really are a class operation they they they just are here's the issue that I have with all this right there's scenarios here that I think and I could be wrong i could be wrong there are scenarios here that don't work out for us
well okay i'm going to hit you with them here's here's here's here's my understanding and and speak when I'm wrong all right we have a building fire and we need their engine or we need their area all right h how what's the
where where is it in the management plan that allows Tings to come forward and say we have the capacity to answer your medical calls capacity in terms of people and
equipment right they got two ambulances as best as I know what there's no third they're both BLS ambulances and so you know we've got a building fire we need their aerial and now an ambulance needs to come in town to cover the
building fire for in the event of an injury of a firefighter right yeah we're not we're not going to they're going to come for the fire as they as they normally this is my plan right now they're going to come with the fire extension like they always do we need that as we'll get mutual auencers i mean
we'll probably my plan is to keep Trinity as our mutual aid contact for if we have a building fire so that that basically just stayed the same okay and and and Okay um um that's good as long as you've got a mechanism in
place to provide the the fire scene with Yeah not have anyone any other ones well it can't be it can't be theirs now going forward with that right they're on a medical
call and now Dustable's got a medical call are they all the time now pardon me happens all the time now it it does but is the the premise of bringing teams in here is to reduce our response time all
right and if as best as I remember they had two guys at the station they're but they're hiring they have four they have five during the day four at night they're going for a fifth now right and they'll be running two they'll be running They're looking to run two well here they're looking to hire two and a
half if I didn't say that so they they've my Billy My point with this I understand plenty of times now where Trinity doesn't come and we have to get pepper um it doesn't it's not I'm not concerned that
this is no one's question i mean Trinity we have high Oh yeah we have a high opinion at Trinity the problem with Trinity is it takes them 15
20 minutes to get there most of the people and it's it's a real problem most of the people that transport they just need to get and the fast we can get from there i'll show up
toyota so going back on this all right because I and I do know they had a lot of bumps in the road when they first launched their ambulance service right they're offering us i I don't think we should I think we we should appreciate
what they're offering us this is being broadcast um and if we're you know I if we're not interested in pursuing it that's okay but if we're interesting I think the decision now is whether we're interested
in pursuing a partnership or not but if we're interested in pursuing a partnership I mean we can ask these question we can ask questions and we're going to but I think I think all concerned that this was going to be more
yeah i mean this is all I mean I've not participated an issue that people have come to us and said you know this is an issue that we have that we want to fix and this is really the best way to do that well it's an issue that's been brought to us it's an issue that's been brought up in town surveys it's an issue
that it it it's a it's a real issue yeah for sure especially people who have had some very serious life-threatening situations and had to wait 20 minutes for a children whatever it's way too much on on our people to have to wait for these ambulances you know we've had
guys work in codes with one or two people you know cardiac arrest waiting for Trinity 15 20 minutes these people need to be put in ambulance and they need to be transported to the hospital as soon as possible this is going to increase the response time i I
there's not going to be a perfect scenario even if we were to take over giving us there's going to be times where we're going to be put up running and another call is going to come in we're going to have to get it's not you know guarantee all around it's definitely a
big chief over there has a strong background in and EMS and EMS we've sat down through all the numbers and he's comfortable i'm comfortable and and Wes is is perfectly okay with this whole thing he's got he's got no trepidation
about it at all at all okay at all and that's why I guess that's another reason why I just feel so confident about it no like I said I talked to personally about this i think this is this is a goal of I see
in the notes the master plan implementation and regionalization we're doing it in other departments within the town hall already it's if it doesn't work you know we have your expertise and we have our own sort of review as a select board and towns people to say hey
this wasn't it wasn't good after a year but the difference between 15 minutes and six minutes is significant in anybody's well-being if I'm bleeding out from a you know shattered ankle and I know you're I can speak from experience
in the years past being alone at 2 in the morning and doing CPR and waiting 20 minutes for an ambulance to show up or another officer from another county just to help you until the higher level it is cutting that in half is significant
and you know but we but we do and and and to his point people we the fire department does respond to medical calls i understand that but they do they do respond but you're still it's still absolutely 15 minutes before maybe the first firefighter gets to the fire
station and gets fire truck oh no i've been I've been you know we I've been in the field with everybody i I get it i believe me I understand it i had a lot of trepidation about Tingboro because you know when Timmy Madden was chief and this was then becoming you know Timmy
was like I don't know how we're going to get all this done and and so it's matured and it sounds like they've got a number of issues that they had that they've worked out with staffing and equipment so forth so and I'm just asking these questions so that we can
make an informed decision but if if if uh Wes is good with this and you guys are good with this um and and we have a couple of little things in here that need to be worked out then we should move in the direction of trying to
codify this thing and make it work yeah this is this is going like I said this is going on a long time this got kicked off the road i think it's it's been hard to to nail down a good scenario where both part that's the biggest thing the region everybody wants to region last but it has to benefit all the parties
that are involved in the past years someone that you know in the conversation hasn't been satisfied with with everything and this is kind of the first time at this point that both parties that are involved going to do this are like okay this is going to benefit us this is going to benefit you the worst thing that's going to come out
of this is next year we say Jesus didn't which I don't see happening and then we just end up back with Trinity or you know we get the talks back to somebody else i just again I I wouldn't be looking to do that if I thought that there was going to be a problem they
would not be looking to do that if they thought it wasn't going to sustain so um I think it's you know pretty safe that I think it's the right direction to go too i mean we are we're providing a better service for people yeah and we've kind of looked at regionalization as a way to
save money and this isn't doing that no it's not it's not but that's not the only re reason to regionalize right if we can enhance services by doing it that is another reason to regionalize and while this isn't going to save us money
I think it I mean just based on these meetings we've had they really they see it as a benefit to them we see it as a benefit and they've been really positive productive and and it seems like their leadership is committed to looking at
things like this as well so we're kind of where it's kind of one of those moments where we have a great opportunity they don't come around all that often it's kind of we make a decision to take advantage of it or not and if we
don't it may not we don't know when the next one will be that's how I was feeling about it and and the motion here is for our our field experts to go and chat with their field experts and see if there's a a symbiotic relationship here this is not I didn't we didn't want to
get too far down the road without coming to you and saying hey this is really going well and just want to make sure you're comfortable with us moving to the next step which is basically iron ironing out some of the details and
actually coming starting to draft a formal document into municipal agreement between the two towns I just didn't want to get I wanted to make sure we were all on the same page before we got to that My one last question and this might be probably in the chief's neck of the
woods is there any do they have are they part of the Patriot Dispatch group remember we like or how that's kind of something kind of happens organically okay i wasn't sure so that's all I need
to pick up just like Okay i didn't know so just figured you guys would do that it's basically it's the same and I think there could be I mean I don't know this just hope that I'm thinking that maybe once they get involved with this that they say maybe this is something that we can get into too but I couldn't uh that
would no no changes anyway so like I know that was an apprehension the way it's going to work this be exactly the same that it is now okay yeah i'm not sure Patriot would have the bandwidth to pick up I mean they could but I'm not sure they have the bandwidth to pick up Tinksboro i got another
keyboard but so Mr uh town administrator the last time we had this drill and you can YouTube this all right the Kingsboro Board of Selectmen spoke negatively about this now that's was a while ago it was 5 years ago things have
changed absolutely things have changed are they in the loop with this to any extent select yeah I I believe they are yeah I mean the impression we're under is yes that they are and that they're interested i mean that's what No that's that's that question i have a question
about you know the unions where they you know everybody they're not in the union they're part of this the union firefighters yes not all the WF
um honestly I was kind of surprised that that everybody were No it was question i mean the last I heard they were in mass call you can't be union shop and be in mass call they're definitely union shop
they have call guys and have guys it's combination okay we're not We're not signing the document yet this is it you know when I'm asking this question because I'm coming into this thing I'm going oh god I remember you know look
forward to blood look as this thing moving around you know we've been talks with all these different times it was mostly somebody else was not interested in taking it on so we really kind of went around all all our neighboring departments and just said you know do
you do you have a you know any interest in doing this do you think that you could that this would work okay is that me all right now we're having a little technical difficulty here come on Sue all right is there a motion are you sure move to approve
move to approve town administrator approve uh I think it should move to approve the uh authorization for the town administrator to finalize the terms and conditions in a in draft
intermunicipal agreement between the towns of Dunstable in Tingbor for the purpose of improving the town of Dustable's emergency medical services and response for the select board's
consideration so that's my motion i think it kind of says what to say second that motion all those in favor i I Does our audio team need a moment good all right did you I or I said I Yep okay all right all
right thank you thank you for the work into this it's been been a long haul and I hope it helps people that's what really matters better service for your guys and for the residents all right next up um request to wave the
town's first of refusal request to for the town to wave its right of first refusal for a narrow piece of property off of 328 Quan Street um Hannah Axen is looking to purchase
this in order to install a well apparently and it's a strip of land that would allow that well um to be located 100 ft away from the septic system which is required by law and it's on a parcel of land owned by Paul Staples which
um is in it's got to be in chapter land so yeah so chapter land chapter 61 so yeah so the staples are apparently willing to sell this strip of land to Hannah Paxton in order for her to have
a clean source of drinking water yeah sean's here if you want that pretty much sums it up yeah and the process for removing land for sale out of chapter 61 is that the town has the first right of refusal to said property um meaning if
we were interested in purchasing this we would be able to do so um so she has to request us to wave that right if we see fit um I don't I don't think we've given up anything it's an administrative
surrounded by still land so it's not like it's cut off is kind of just the one script that um has been looked at by Scott Williams and doing a well up to kind of make it her current well is too shallow it's too close to the septic
it's not doing well and so the land is too small to to get one that's not on her own so she approached them stable trust to get this see land that's
that's and the assessor already said they'll wave the taxes 200 so it's just a long the dimensions there are no dimensions on here but it's like Yeah it's about It's like 100 something it's not It's just enough to get it off
the other plants i think Yeah it's probably just a little little of 100 ft long maybe 20 ft wide just enough there how did the No I mean I there's I don't see any
interest in the town for this strip of land but there it is a very steep slope there and this really has nothing to do with the property i'm going to say it anyway there's a significant amount of dumping that is occurring that area that I really is disturbing so please stop
and clean up what are they dumping trash there's trash there's stumps there's brush there's Cuz it's on the far side of the all kinds of stuff it's like no one's over there no man's land the address is
on street which is where she is my only question on this was and this is more probably a board of health and just a thought and I'll say it out loud is how did we approve this septic system was this done like back in the 1960s like how did we get to this point i
don't know if if they if there's a septic system that has failed here okay i don't know what has prompted this if the whale the well failed or not okay and it's a shallow well so she just not
good from it yeah well point drive yes all set is anybody in the audience cares to speak to this move to wave the town's right of first refusal on the parcel of property located at 328 Pawn Street as presented
being purchased by Hannah Abson for the purpose of installing a new potable water well for her property at 155 off Pawn Street second further
discussion not all those in favor I I I good thanks for coming John we have three sets of minutes everybody good yeah we are good um I move to approve the meeting minutes from
February 26th 2025 March 11th 2025 and March 26 of 2025 second excuse me all those in favor i I one day liquor license
application so this is for um the block party oh right and so we have been speaking with R.J julian who is a resident in town who
owns a shower club in Demons and um so his application is in he has done these types of events in the past um so just date of event March 17th 2024 yeah
why would that be it was the date of application I guess yeah yeah it's the date of the event is June 20th i apologize okay you filled it out incorrectly yeah i can have them submit it okay
so it's actually June June 20th my birthday is it well March 17th is St patrick's Day it is yeah um from 5:30 8:30
p.m um the block party is here i think we've talked about that before y it's on our police officer's radar oh yeah he's thrilled look at him beaming
they're here do they need any other approvals from the select board other than the liquor um the only other you have a motion in here to allow alcohol consumption on
town property um that's next that's all they need other than that and the one day liquor license and then when they run this block here's my concern is that town hall becomes the party for people who need to party we're
not No we're going to do bodies they're going to put them out there yeah so that we don't have as long as we don't have to the building unless it's pouring right our septic system can't handle that our septic system right and I wouldn't want to you know totally agree
it's beautiful in that so all right all right move to approve the request from Robert Julian of the Nishoba Club Incorporated for a one-day liquor license for the sale of wine and or malt
beverages for the block party event on Friday June 20th 2025 from 5:30 p.m to 8:30 p.m on the grounds of T town hall subject to the following conditions one delivery of and receipt by the licensing
authority of the required fee two delivery of and receipt by the licensing authority of proof that the alcohol will be purchased from an authorized source um three delivery of and receipt
by the licensing authority of proof of insurance and last proof that the applicant can receive proper delivery um provide proper storage and disposal of all alcoholic beverages purchased all in
accordance with the requirements of general law chapter 138 good second in favor all right all right all right good but they're really not drinking liquor
right it's a beer and wine beer and wine okay so no gin and no only nonprofits can be by Yeah i miss all the good events that's like my parents 50th wedding wedding
anniversary bring them to this it might be overseas that's where they're going to be so and then we also have another motion for the approval of alcohol consumption in accordance with the town's public
drinking bylaw I move to approve the consumption of alcohol on town grounds at Comet and High Streets at the town's block party subject to the review and approval of the police and fire departments
second all right i've would like to discuss something on so should we say that move to approve the consumption of alcohol that is purchased from our
vendor alcohol so yeah from the vendor so we're going to modify that right let's So let's just talk this through for a second in a coolant move to approve the consumption of alcohol on the town's ground at the town's block party is it really the town's block
party or is it Nishoba's block party it's ours we're holding the party he's just grant us pay for Yeah just just Oh yeah but I don't this we need to be more How are we insured in the event of
something going wrong at the block party standard going to come in and they're going to have to have us as chief yeah are we going to sell right up to 8:30 or we going to have a
Whatever you say whatever you say absolutely no absolutely i think that's up to you two guys yeah whatever whatever yeah that's that's you know what you're going to if you have a cut off time you have a cut off time we're going to go
over whatever we require yeah but this should be specific to the consumption of alcohol from purchase only from the vendor okay so I think we did this last time at um ladder fear and we
specifically stated in our motion that it was not a yob correct event so how about if we modify this um bylaw this approval to say that this is not a Bob event remember we had that little
skirmish yeah we did that the last time so let's re let's re um let's reposition this and so um the motion is going to be in accordance with the town's public drinking bylaw I move to approve the
consumption of alcohol on town grounds uh common and high streets at the town's block party subject to the review and approval of the police and fire departments and this event shall be considered not a BYOB event all
alcohol purchased consumed must be purchased at the event from the approved vendor second all right all those in favor i I do all right anything
else from the board that was a good one from the public um the only question I had in the town administrator's report was the library repairs where are we in that process just because if we're in a budget fiasco and we're closing the library see the point
in doing the repairs yeah we're not closing it yet well I hope I'm not closing on the Senate um and then we'll we'll see we have um we received state funds for a portion of the work i'm afraid that the work may
come in over over budget though so if that happens we're going to have to make some decisions on Okay how to move forward so but uh but I'll be you'll know that as soon as I know great yeah okay yeah that was my only question there so okay i have a couple of things
yeah right this this notion that town hall has a chimney the faux chimney can you help me out with that one i'm going on that roof and look for this chimney you're going to have to have with the his The architect called it a faux chamber but yes no
you're correct it's not really a chamber not ch it looks like that though from the from the street it looks like okay and then the other thing that I wanted to I don't want to belabor this meeting painting yes the work at the uh
gazebo right he did stand dance see he did everything he needed to do and we're c and did he put a couple of coats of um one coat of uh preservative on the shingles yes all right and and he's all
done that right yes we have that i've gone there a couple of times i've not seen any shingles on the ground and it's like 60 mph winds tonight right i mean and there may be a one I don't want to under I don't want to understate this but I think there was a onesie or a
twoozy there right it wasn't like was it the shingles blowing off the roof there were a few were they there were a few but it wasn't it was they were at they were at the seams when he cut in the on the ridges
you know he's a decent guy you and I I've talked to him a bunch of times you did too so [Music] the only thing I'll add is that's not in my report is that I emailed you all today that the state uh issued their um
letter of eligibility for the Wall Street project oh did they and does he have he must have that I would yes oh yeah yeah so that's um I just got that a few hours ago
okay saw that in the email so yeah did we ever hear back from Habitat for Humanity for the best triangle we have some followup okay cool they're going to be at the block party
everyone's All right is there a motion to adjourn so move just starts going down another rabbit hole motion to adjourn all those in favor i I a rabbit hole or a rat hole