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It's 8:38. And today is June 24th. Uh meeting agenda for this morning is uh public comments, approval of meeting minutes um from two prior meetings, select board designee appointments,

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annual appointments, comp and class placement of part-time officers in police department cleaner, police chief contract, appointment of acting town administrator, early voting for special election, town

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administrator's report, and topics not on the agenda. So, public comment. Not seeing anyone. >> Okay. >> Uh approval of meeting minutes from May 22nd and June 9th.

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>> I move to approve the meeting minutes from the select board meetings on May 22nd, 2026 and June 9th, 2026 as presented. >> Second. All in favor. >> I. >> I. >> Okay, select board designee

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appointments. >> Okay. Um so, what we have here from the list are blank. So, we're going with this list as of today's date. >> Well, >> there are fewer people on the motion than there are.

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>> Yes, so these are these designees are actually either you or Ron um to serve on board of housing committee, board of housing trust fund, CPC, master plan,

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and then the NMPC designees. So, it's up to you both to fight over who wants to do who wants to do what. >> How are we going to do that? >> Well, well, let me ask you let me ask this question. Do we have to do that now

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cuz it's a front-loaded question. We and we're going to have a third member in a month, right? And that way folks will I'll continue with these with Jen and Nemcog. >> Okay, and I I can be the I'm the

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alternate. >> You're the alternate. >> Happy to continue that. Um if you want if you want to wait on the others, that's fine. >> But I'm happy to continue with CPC. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay, but we have there a couple of

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other assignments on there, right? So let's do that. Let's continue on the way we are and let's just get to this other selectman on board. >> Fair enough. >> It'll probably set later. >> Okay. >> Sounds good. We can do that. >> All right.

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>> All right, trouble on the Annual appointments. >> So that's what this list is then. >> Yes. Oh, yeah. >> Okay. >> It uh are four and five the same? >> No. So five are just the rolling annual appointments that we've been Oh, that's

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this list doing and we've been doing, you know, over the last couple couple meetings. So these are just folks that have recently um expressed interest to fill some of the some of the openings that we have on our boards.

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>> So this is so like Commission on Accessibility, Economic Development Committee >> Yeah. >> Nashua Watershed, blah blah blah. >> Yeah. So some of these are new appointments. So this Capital Planning Committee has a

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vacancy, Commission on Accessibility is a vacancy, Economic Development Committee is a vacancy that we're filling and then the some of these are are >> [clears throat] >> are reappointments. >> Yeah. Okay. Do we have a motion?

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>> Yes. I move to appoint the town officials, board and committee members as presented on the document entitled appointments, staff, committees, boards and commissions dated June 24th, 2026. >> Second. All in favor. >> I. >> I. >> At six, um

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and class placement of part-time offices and police department cleaner. Is the cleaner like janitorial or some criminal activity cleaner? >> No. >> No, janitorial. >> Okay. >> [laughter]

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>> Better call Saul. Better call Saul. Um Let me give a brief overview. >> Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, please. >> So, we realized, I don't know, a week or two ago that the chief has some part-time positions that were not included in the

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topping class review and study. And so, we wanted to just take a look at those positions and bring them in line and on to the new salary schedule that we implemented this mid-year, this fiscal

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year. So, you have a recommend recommendation in front of you. There are three part-time police officers we're recommending, to place in grade C, and the cleaner position in grade E.

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Um that's based on our beer job descriptions that you have and also, um you know, trying to place them in a group that's similar responsibility and function. Um >> Yeah. >> And we're proposing to place them on the

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salary schedule in a similar fashion that place everybody on the salary schedule up to this point. So, um in their grade, the closest higher step, um we're proposing to place them. So, um

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so each is receiving no less than I figure at 2 and 1/2% increase, um so. >> You said that the janitorial was E and the PTs were C?

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>> Yes. So, >> Yeah, the janitor was easy because it was already in the chart. >> Yeah. Yeah, there there was we already had a a solid position on the schedule, so it was easy to put them to place them in the same grade. >> Okay.

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Right. Do these Do the part-time officers go in the union? You don't think so? And then this this document, right? This is looks like a POD or a certification document. Is this part >> Part of the regulation >> Yeah. >> the part of the Yeah.

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>> Yeah, it's just a question. It looked that way to me, but and that's fine. Okay. Again, good. >> Yep. >> Do you have a motion? >> Move to classify the part-time officer's position as grade C in the police

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department cleaner position to a grade E on the town's compensation plan and place the affected employees at the closest higher step on the salary schedule effective at the start of the new fiscal year FY '27. >> Second. >> All in favor.

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>> Aye. >> Hold on. >> Shh. >> Okay. >> All right. All right. Next item number seven, police chief

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Packard. So, um I know we've gone back and forth here with this. Little bitty. Are we all set with this? >> Yeah, I got Jason and nobody there for the last meeting. Yeah, this afternoon I reviewed it, everything looks fine.

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>> Yeah, Jason, any comments? >> No, we're good. It's um I took I talked with both of you individually and I've kind of gone through the the what I would describe as kind of minor changes and which is pretty it's pretty

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uh close to what we've had in the past um yeah, with with some minor changes. >> Yeah. And Mark Carrier was kind of on board with this. >> Um Yeah, Mark Mark Carrier reviewed the

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initial content which is substantially the same >> Yeah, nothing else. >> Beauty. Okay. >> I move to approve the employment contract between the town of Dunstable and police chief Eric Hore for the term

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of July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2028 as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Do you want us to sign >> a copy for you to sign >> You got to sign >> Okay, thank you. I just so you know that this next agenda

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item I had several people freaking out thinking that we are replacing you. And [laughter] that is not the case. Yeah. Oh, jeez. >> [laughter] >> I did as well. >> [laughter]

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>> I did as well and I was like, you know, >> You were the first to know? >> [laughter] >> Okay, so Um, go ahead, will you walk us through this, young man? >> Yeah, sure. So, I am going away, and I'm going to be out of the country starting

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Friday to Friday to Friday, and I just don't know how reachable I'm going to be. If I am reachable, I have no problem with, you know, >> Personally, I think you should leave your phone >> [laughter] >> and actually take a vacation. >> Yeah, but but

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you know, just because I'm unsure of how um my connectivity um how reliable that will be during that week, I thought it was a good idea for the select board to appoint an acting town administrator for

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the week just in case something arises that needs to be dealt with, and um And so, you'll have a memo in there in the packet from me recommending that um the select board consider appointing the

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police chief as the acting town administrator for the week so that if something goes haywire, and I'm sure it won't, but if something does, um >> I get to work. >> It's Murphy's Law. >> Yeah, right. >> I know. >> It's not the law, just get used to it. >> Yes.

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>> It's happened before, so I've just been here, you know, local when it's happened, so >> You probably have better connectivity to where you're going than you do certain parts of this town. >> Oh, man. You know what? Isn't that the perfect example? Yeah.

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>> Yep. Okay. And you're happy to take on this role for the week? >> Yes. I just need to know where we keep the checkbooks, so >> [laughter] >> In this desk drawer. >> The cigar box on top has the cash in it. >> [laughter]

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>> All right. Um well, then I move to appoint police chief Eric Correia as acting town administrator from Friday, June 26th through Friday, July 3rd during the temporary absence of our town administrator. >> Second. All in favor. >> I. >> I.

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>> I need a couple days off. >> No problem. >> [laughter] >> Um [clears throat] all right. Item nine, early voting. >> Hey. >> So, >> Um special election?

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>> For our special election on July 21st, um in order for us to offer in-person early voting, we have to opt into that according to state law. We can do mail-in, um a vote by mail ballot's automatic, but

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the select board needs to decide to opt into early in-person voting. I don't know why the law's written that way, but it is. So, the um the town clerk has um has recommended that we offer early

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in-person voting. Um here's the I've also included a tentative schedule where she's looking at July 13th through the 16th from 9:00 to 5:00. Um and so that's what's in front of you.

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>> And that'll be held at the town hall. >> At town hall, yeah. >> So, the mailing, that's just for people who have signed up for the mailing, they'll automatically be sent the ballot. >> Yeah. >> This is This is a pop-up election. Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, it is it is what it is. If you

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don't sign on to this, >> And you got to have >> relief from the candidate. >> And we can't And we can't And we won't be able to offer. And it's consistent with what we've done in the past. The schedule's a little different, I think. Yeah. I think we've offered Saturday vote voting, and

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>> We have, it's minimal. >> Yeah. >> Minimal people. >> It's been so light that we've decided just to other town clerks decided to not do that this time, but >> Yeah, but on Saturdays, Saturdays are like dead. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Yes, sir. >> Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. >> Yeah. >> That's a pretty good spread, right? >> Yeah. And we And we >> We have all these hours covered, 9:00 to 5:00. >> They'll have people there, yeah? >> Yeah, she has staff. >> Yeah. >> What about them? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> [laughter]

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>> And we do get We do get reimbursed for the cost of this of our early in-person voting by the state. >> Only that piece of it per app, per app. >> Okay, cool. How does that happen? We send them a bill? >> I'm not sure how that happens, but the

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town clerk makes sure it happens. >> [laughter] >> Do we have a motion? >> She will make sure it happens, yeah. >> All right, we're good? >> Yes. >> Okay. Moved authorized in-person early voting for July 21st, 2026 special election, with early voting conducted at the town

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hall at these dates and during the hours recommended by the town clerk. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Question, I know for the 21st, you said for the election, what are the hours? >> It's >> It's a new meeting up there.

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>> For town elections, the bylaws stipulates that it if that is those will be those are the times. >> Yeah, but can't get there early enough. >> Who's your opponent? >> Seth Eagan. >> Okay, yeah. >> All right. Anything else?

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Any administrator report? >> I'll provide a report. I don't know if you want me to go through it or if you want me to give it to the council of Dublin. I'm going to run through it. There you go. >> I'm I'm I'm okay I'm kind of okay with it, but

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that the speed limit sign was the only thing I had an issue with. How much did that It just a question just curious what that cost, you know? They didn't give us a >> They didn't give us a bill. I mean the thing cost >> So they just gave us the sign. >> Yeah, yeah exactly. It wasn't like all you get time of time money to go get it.

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It was It was just a donation. >> that we share the data with the state. >> Yeah. And we installed it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> We did. >> No, I thought we they gave him money and >> I just know that they just gave us the One day we showed up and there was a

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sign delivered from the state. >> Yeah. Well, that's pretty neat. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, it works quite well. Like you don't have to go to the sign to retrieve the data. It's all cloud-based. It goes up to the cloud. I can log in from a laptop. >> You can, huh? >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> And it's been working great. The two

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weeks that it was on Um it was kind of just all It was black. There wasn't any speed limit showing. That's part of the study. It says there's some science behind having a sign there for two weeks and then turning it on after the >> Have we had any comments from general public?

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>> I've only had one. Anything else from you, Tom? >> Uh yeah. I I mean I just that the at my coffee was it last week that we talked about it and had a had a >> Yeah. >> fun conversation about it, but other than that no. >> Okay.

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Sounds like then if no one's That's a That's a good thing. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You know the sign on people driving down in the middle of the road after the conversation we had at the meeting with the big road redesign, so we'll see what the data ends out of that, but I think people are going to like Main Street.

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>> Good. >> Is your report online available to >> This one is not yet, but they all are. Yeah, so it will be. Yeah. >> There's just some good stuff on that people might just want. >> Yeah. >> So,

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I guess just the only thing that I'd like to do, Jason, is this um um road modification at Oak and um

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Main, right? >> Yeah. >> What how is there a tracking order or something because so we had a meeting and we gave them our concerns and it is there like some kind of a plan that says, "Okay, we're going to do this, that, and we're

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all and we're going to be done on this particular day." Do we have it like a tracker order from MassDOT? >> We don't. We what we have at the moment is a follow-up meeting scheduled to go over that and to um and to um

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kind of that what happened at the meeting. What were like, you know, some of the constructive criticism and feedback that we received and what can be incorporated um into kind of the concept plan. So,

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um I think it's the week I get back cuz where where it might it's either the week I get back or the following week. That's we there's something on the calendar with MassDOT and um and the engineers tap.

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>> So, the engineer that was here, she was with Judith Nitsch? >> They were with Tech um >> Yeah. >> Nitsch was with the trail center. >> Oh, yeah. Nitsch is the trail >> Okay. Trail center. Okay. GPI is from 113 and Tech is the

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And so, the comments from the from the and I think it's the comments that we heard were mostly from the people that live in that area, right? And they were talking about, you know, bumping that out to reduce it. I'm not sure how that

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went over all that well with everybody cuz there's a thought that it was going to look odd. >> Um I think I thought I didn't get that. You You might be right though, but I I heard more concern about where we were bumping it out on

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Oak. The property to the adjacent abutting property owners were concerned about maintenance and who's going to be responsible for that and who's going to be responsible for um essentially

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what will amount to look like their front yard. >> It would be. >> Mhm. >> You know, who's going to make sure that that looks the way it should. That was one concern. Um second concern was their driveway was kind of reconfigured so that it's coming

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out more on Main Street than Oak, which you know, that's a significant change. So, you know, what level of comfort is there with that neighbor? Um I'm not >> That could be changed, too. >> That could be Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yep. Yep. So, they had I'd

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say that you know, at the last meeting you had a letter from them. We received an email from them. Um we talked about getting together. I They were They They said they'd email me some with some follow-up communication.

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Um so, I expect them to do that. We'll get together to talk about it specifically specifically their concern. Then, on the opposite side, um there's like a on Mill Street, there's that dirt kind of patch where people kind of use to

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>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> make that and leave. And so, there was some thought about maybe utilizing that area differently. Um and trying to s- stop people from making that

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uh maneuver and possibly move them the utility pole so that we could you know, um square it off um a bit more. Um and then there were other concerns with speed and with some of the overgrowth

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right on Main Street that was that was affecting the line of sight. >> Yeah. >> I think in general everybody wants to see something happen though. That was my takeaway. >> Um Yeah, I mean I left the meeting thinking that we definitely picked the right intersection because there were a lot of

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people there who had concerns about it and um had opinions on it which is good and um I think I thought most people were pretty >> It was a healthy discussion. >> constructive and really productive. >> Oh, absolutely I agree. It was nice to see everybody there. >> Yeah.

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>> You know, the fact that all those people I thought were going to go together and >> Yeah, right, right. Just right. I was like, "Oh, this is great." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> No, they all working together. And all I want to do is just kind of keep the fire burning a little bit, right? So that it doesn't so that they know we're just not putting nothing on the shelf. But

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>> Oh, yeah. >> If you got a meeting posted, great. Maybe we've got to have um a couple of other possibilities. You know, if it's not that, it's this. I don't know. Or a rendering or sketch. >> Yeah, I mean I So we have a concept plan

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right now that was presented. I don't know how far So the grant only gets us so far. So um it's not going to get fully designed through this through this round of grant. Um it's just going to get us to uh

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hopefully a final kind of conceptual preliminary we can take and and build on. design further. And I don't know if that's going to be happily local funded or if if we can

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find another grant to help us um advance the design further a lot but we'll kind of work with the state if they've been really on >> How short are we on dollars? Do we know that? >> Well, they they provided with their with the

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concept based on the plan that they gave us which I think we'll change somewhat based on the new first meeting we had. Um they did give us a cost estimate um

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for that project which is very much preliminary an estimate but um I want to say it was in the neighborhood of $250,000. Um So, that's kind of that's a that's

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overall. That's the project overall. So, um So, I don't know. We'll we'll see. I mean it could be a It's on our complete streets prioritization plan which makes it eligible for complete streets funding following. We just got a complete streets grant for

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the Main Street sidewalk work the the design work for that. So, that might be a project if we if we you know, are able to advance it more that might be a good good streets project. Um

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So, you know, there are there are options and like I said the state's been really helpful with kind of guiding and directing us on what what funding options are out there and what projects will be competitive and all that. So,

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But yeah, it's not it's not just out there filed away. It's it's being It's still being worked on. >> All of them are being worked on. Do you There's a lot of >> Yeah, I mean I you know, I think it's important to remember that we have a lot of projects going on and not a lot of

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people to do them. So, um the management of these is um falls on a very small group of people. Um and so in some cases one person. >> Yeah. >> So so you know keeping everything up in the

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air is is can be sometimes challenging but but I believe >> You'll be police chief next week. >> Yeah, that's all the problem now. But no, I think they're all I think they're all in good shape and moving moving along. Moving along great. So

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>> How involved is the road commissioners in that project on Oak? >> So they they were at the initial site visit. Um you know, they obviously they met with they were there jointly with us um

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for the presentation and to participate in that. Um they you know, before the meeting we made sure that they saw the concept plan and had opportunity comment on it. Um

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and ultimately they're going to need to be directly involved in to approve whatever we whatever ends up happening. So So now they've been they've been involved and will continue to be. >> Beautiful. >> Yeah.

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>> Anything else? >> No. >> Eric, no. >> Sue? >> Good. >> Leah? >> Motion to adjourn. >> Sure. >> Second. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Thank you.