--------- um in board committee resignations from the land Library trustee and the land use committee review of the auto dealer license inqu inquiry discussion on Trail Loop contract Union building exterior restoration the designer Services
contract first to approve the climate Action Group update on the State climate leaders program ARA relocation reallocation Sor and here Town administrator's report and
section 5 the community outreach of the Town administrator's contract um so I'm sing with the tax rate hearing is Vicky they are here just cross the way I think they're just printing stuff
out um well we're waiting for that and we can jump to the minutes and take that out of order everyone's okay with that yeah the minutes were fine to me so yeah they're fine to me too so I move to approve the meeting minutes from October 22nd 2024 and November 12th
2024 second discussion all in favor anything else we can do here about the res yeah we can take those out of order as well was Mr Callahan and the remember
who was and Erica Flynn from the land use committee received written request from those two folks who resign from the board they on one is here here to speak to
that thank you for the time appreciate that hopefully they uh things F the void with I know those are two busy busy for there is a motion yeah we do uh move to request the select board's office
publicized the committee and board vacancies on the land use committee and board of Library trustees on the town website and social media and also request the board of Library trustees considered candidates and make a
recommendation for the select board to fill their vacancy second discussion favor we have Sor yes John I just wanted to know who uh who has
has was Mr Callahan from the library trustees Mr John Callahan and then uh Erica Flynn um from the land all yep thank you okay so we'll go back to the tax rate here we
have our assessor and our Board of assessor chair yeah no are you not no I think it's changed yeah I all right well you're from doing yeah so um
have a motion to open the public hearing for the tax rate the setting of the tax rate not the setting of the tax rate we're just saying whe we're having a split rate or not yeah setting of the rate of setting of
the weight say that all right so we need a motion to open the tax classification hearing right no that okay you're all right well as usual nothing's changed denable as far as
residential commercial splits um residential makes up about 96% of the tax spase um so there's no sense in any kind of a split tax rate it's best to just have tax rate for all
classes yeah that's we're consistent if anything so yes yes it is what it is yeah doing it this way for a long time I'm asking you do you have any comments I don't have any comments no I mean then just like she says it's kind of one day I want to come here and say we've got
55% commercial there'll be pigs flying outside too all right is anybody out there in audience have any questions or concerns regarding yes no being n all right back to the
board I move to establish s tax rate fact of one second further discussion none all those in favor I thank you thank you yeah
okay next up is the public hearing for the liquer license so we will open the public hearing for that for section 15 of liquor license application for Mar Farm llc at 11 Pleasant Street
so you're here to speak to that tonight I'll take it I suppose so I don't know what words they to say at this I know you've been gone through a very lengthy process with all of the boards that are relevant um so here we
are here you are checking off boxes exactly next box my only question was on the schedule like would you ever consider like being open on Memorial Day because like I know it's a holiday but I wasn't sure like if that was something I know like some were
planning on doing short hours any doing the full 11 for all seven days for some reason but was closed Monday Tuesday so okay actually on Sunday must we have to close at 6 pm.
regardless got okay and we we cannot stop before 9: a.m. yeah yeah just I mean sometimes it's I like when Farmhouse has a little extra hours like they're doing the Jingle Fest they're staying open a little bit later that day sometimes it's nice for people yeah it's
something that's happening then maybe but if we have the full hours anyway it's kind of okay at the behest but cool all right we engage yeah and you're right you guys have visited with us in many other boards several several times I don't I don't have any questions for
this group I think I'm understanding pretty appreciative of their willingness to see this through so um Jason do you have anything to add to this no no let's get them open no they've been they've been through the process they've done their
due diligence there are still a few things that are outstanding but all the Departments have signed off and um we're ready to go um we're good we'll open to the public is anyone in the public would like to speak to this
okay okay excellent that's very good to hear John um is the uh the last time we talked about this I believe there was uh some discussion about
a um a traffic s has that so he came out the traffic um he has all his photos he's compiling that he's a cute little old man with a beret and be emailing me shortly and as soon as I have that you will have
that so what you've said is the traffic has been done the yeah the it's not a full traffic study it's just whatever was requested the traffic memo I think is the addition but I don't have it physically in my hands yet but he does have all the information he came out and
did his full site survey so when I have it okay was that requested by the plan sounds good okay great yeah I move to approve the application as presented
from Mirabel Farms llc at 11 Pleasant Street for section 15 off premise alcohol all alcohol license manager Amanda Shannon with hours of operation from 11 a.m. to
700 p.m. Monday through Sunday subject to approval from the abcc receipt of all applicable sign offs in permits all fees paid and Corey
approval second any further discussion all those in favor all thank you thank you have fun out too same to you okay public comment anybody out
there have anything that they would like to speak to not specifically on our agenda okay I'm going to take that as a not so we will move forward um next thing is for Anin she is not be
here so we will jump to the next I told an six just because I thought we had a lot to go through okay slow down maybe or you want to maybe grind a bit rather well we'll just
keep going positive okay um so the auto dealer license inquiry there one person in town who inquired and had to develop something yeah Sue did the B of work on this so
I'll let her speak to it in Greater detail but we did get an inquiry I know they reach out to you um they reach to Su as well um we kind of took a look at models that
existed we didn't have any of this in place um so we had to create and or recreate what what was in place before so these are the doc these are the um documents we put together they largely
correct me from mon but they're largely modeled after town of chord yes and the process is very similar to the liquor license process as far as all of the application it's almost identical
honestly um with a little more obviously Auto related stuff so now would this be just like a regular home business that someone could do they could apply for this license and
then it have to be Z business Zone think residential zoning or with the Town Center it all I don't think it could no I don't think it would meet the Town Center requirement I think it have to be
have to be in a do we know enough about where this potential person I this is the first I've heard of it so I I didn't know if there was a specific part of town it's yeah it's Matt Raymond the property over by the General Store okay the
msrb yes so I think he was looking to have a used dealership on the property okay um from what he told me interesting okay right so what is it you need from us to
just approve this application form or yeah we just we did we did a similar process with the LI license stuff we just wanted you to see it look at it before we kind of move forward with the process and the application forms
um the the is consistent with other tools you know that is that considered a B1 it is now B1 partial correct yeah okay yeah it it is it
he resed a number of years ago that's what I thought but I know there was questions on that at one point over there okay and looking at the zoning map I know you gave this to me recently so I don't know if the entire parcel
is Zone there it's a pretty big piece or it's broken up to a couple different pieces and I don't know if the entire thing is B1 doesn't look like it but I may just be Miss reading that well yeah you have next
door you have Ernie septic which is I know that's a home business it's a home it's not part so that's not part of this but just this this is more for the process part of the process would be him getting
as as um as the marel Farms had to get sign offs from each department sign yes you can move forward with us if need zoning etc etc so whoever would like an auto dealer's license would have to go through almost as Sue was say The
Identical process as someone going for like a license and there is a department review sheet here okay as part of it with fire police DPW tax colle department no it looks
good John um okay I'm sorry I was in the back and couldn't hear very well so uh uh what what are we talking about here someone had asked um both Jason and
then me and Sue probably about what someone needs to do to get a license to sell Automobiles and we didn't have a particular process in place so sue and Jason have put together an application form and we're starting to establish the
process of getting a license to be able to sell cars a used car lot a used car lot yes well I mean we do have we do have language in the in the zoning ball is is
used car loots listed in there I I'm pretty sure it is in B1 what's that I think it is in B1 I think it is yeah and what is the area what what what spot is it where the
this uh area the used car lock well we don't we don't actually have an application before us yet we're creating the application but the person that has inquired we believe it would be at Matt Raymond's place across the street from the General
Store okay and you were right that that not that whole area was not Z1 like the Peter George go back in history you see that's not what it was intended to be what's that it was like Peter George's you know what was it
initially what Happ it evolve you know it's all this the history of parcels so well you know just just what we need you know use car a lot in uh in the center of town you
know uh on S Brook all right on well it can't be any worse than what we have on St Brook now but well again it would the process involves having to go to each individual board in order to get their approval so it's
not it's the process we're creating a process supp yeah I mean he's a land owner off of a 113 up closer to Theon Barn for that big parcel is where I know there's a number of vehicles and things like that being stored so it's you
something that we should be thoughtful about not because of the individual but because of the practice in terms of where it is in town and what it means to the neighbors and their resources we have here so I think you know puts a little pressure on our planning board friends and a couple other boards as
well as us to sort of be thoughtful about a resources that natural resources you know our aquafers our salamanders my dorkiness for turtles so things like that that so I don't like seeing just excavators and
RVs everywhere you know I rather see trees and pollinator flowers and stuff like that but I'm Pookey when it comes to that stuff so some of us may recall um a town meeting t or a dozen years
ago U where the article in uh the stute uh which wound up with um I believe three or four different votes uh was whether or not to give the
planning board The Authority well actually there were two steps one was to uh designate property question B1 officially that what it is B1 um uh
but now for the rest of the story with A2 the planning board uh according to uh I don't remember if it was same article different AR but anyway um was to be given the authority
to change a B1 to a B2 which uh led to a um spirited debate and several votes uh separated by one or two votes each time I won't go into the history of why
the votes occurred several times let's just say it was controversial at any rate the planning board I believe then uh went ahead and designated the property as
B2 which I think I know is what's required for gas station and I suspect logically would be required for a used carot um if that's the
case if I'm correct we have a B2 property thanks to the planning board of the time and the town meeting which is controversial uh ready and waiting for uh an application which since isn't to
say that the application would come forth or succeed through the various boards but I think that's the history Joie does that make sense um yeah I think the I think the as I recall it was
a a situation where you know the area is is designated B1 um and uh a B2 use uh can be allowed
with uh I believe it required a special permit I'm not sure I believe it required a uh a special permit through the planning board in short in order to use it in a in short a zoning change by
the planning board as opposed by the town meeting which is why it was controversial right do you have the map it's not clear to me based on the language if it's even
allowed in property but it's a service station repair shop for Motor Vehicles sale and Rental of Light Equipment light equip Light Equipment yeah that's the B this is B2 and it would be by special
perit well I mean it's we're to the origin of the the agenda it's creating the application in the event that someone came forth um but it's a good chatting topic for our boards and our our residents to think about and then
yeah this right C certainly this measure before you now is an appropriate preparation for what may come down the road yeah no pun intended yeah it says one on this map it says
what B1 so our map say B1 that's what it says well I I think it is I think it is Zone B1 but I did read it in our town meeting minutes about that in the use is
permitted it says any use permitted and as regulated elsewhere in this bylaw in an R R1 sorry I think it's I think it's Zone B1 but there was a stipulation there
that uh with the uh and I think that was voted at to meeting with the uh um uh special permit of the planning
board it could be that's how he got that's how he was able to to put his uh equipment equipment right okay well I'm sure there'll be more this but this point we're just establishing
the process so we don't have an app so not only is there one for the town but there's also one for the state there's a state application they have to go through too [Music]
incor and just cuz I either Ron and I think usually think of these things do we need to run Town Council through the application process we're sort of picking up a model from other plac um one one more thing there was there
was something uh I believe certain portions of that property were I think we're zoned
B1 uh or maybe allowed the B2 use but other portions were not so that's something that has to be you know maybe the special permit allowed that use that is currently there
but honestly we're not going to get an application unless it's determined that the Z that this complies with the zoning right of the parcel that they want to locate it on so we won't even the select board won't even see an application unless it's the term for such so yeah
well the I'm just saying the certain buildings there were um able to be used for the purpose he wanted to use for and certain buildings
were not right yeah there's a few different structures on that all right anything else on this application process dra I think it's I
think in thisor in this motion when we refer to chapter 140 right and I do know there are several levels of cardal licenses right does 140 Define all of that is that how that work yes it it defines that it defines um
who's what Authority lies where okay so if this guy wants to sell new cars he's going to app for new car license or a use car license Sol operation right in one he has all
that right I guess this is just establishing the process it is so I know that in accordance with chapter 140 of mass general laws section 5759 move to approve the auto dealer
licensing process material requirements and applications as presented and approve an annual license fee of $200 second all those in favor I I
than um next up the Trail Loop contract you have an update on that real briefly um you probably remember at the annual town meeting town meeting approved $20,000 to support the Town Center Trail
project it was meant at the time should be a match to a mass Trails grant that we applied for unfortunately we did not receive the mass Trails Grant so um and thinking about how best to move forward I reached out to nug and
asked them there was a way that we could utilize the funding to continue to advance the project with the hope of making us more competitive for Mass Trails Grant moving forward so for next
round so um le as you know I talked to the community preservation committee about it y they um they were comfortable with this approach um and so before you you have the scope of work which
um which in a nutshell is a feasibility study and then does um some Outreach to some of the key stakeholders and Butters and then um so that's the scope work and then you have a draft contract with neog for them
to execute so so the only thing I saw that is sort of how line is the timeline had a start date of October yeah that was um when we first so just
put and then just it Mar um that yeah it's good so it's Incorporated the feedback that you got I move to award a Professional Services contract to the northern middlex Council
of governments for a feasibility study and preliminary stakeholder Outreach for the Town Center Trail Loop project in the amount of $20,000 and to authorize the chair to sign the contract
on behalf of the board second discussion in favor all right cool okay next up is the union building exterior restoration for the designer Services
contract and so we had been presented to us at our last meeting the recommendation of the Union Building Restoration committee and that committee put forward their um list of people to that
submitted bids for the design aspect of the exterior work and ranked everybody before submissions um I believe you've been in contact with the number one outfit that
recommended and things are good are good so then the next step was to get a proposal from them which is in your packet so um we had the in the RFQ that we issued we had the price of not
to exceed $100,000 so they met that requirement um The Proposal looks good so next step is to accept it and to authorize entering into a contract with GN yeah anybody straight
forward okay move to award a contract for architectural services to Jan architects in the amount of $100,000 to design the exterior restoration of the union building and authorize the chair to sign the contract
on behalf of the board second and okay next up the climate Action Group update on the State climate leader program someone tonight for that please so my name is korton I'm a member
of theate action working group in Ren great and that was a group that by our town manager to uh assess the support for a climate action resolution in the town of BR and we're in the process of
gathering data about that assessing what people think about it um and haven't yet produced a report but uh expect to have that in the next three or four weeks um so I was asked to talk about
what uh the climate leaders program is about yeah do you mind if I just set the table a little bit on this so and sorry to interrupt um so I think about a month ago Lacy's here too um I
think about a month ago um the what I'm sorry the climate action the climate action working group approached the school committee and requested that they um sign on to a resolution a climate action
resolution of some um and this is was is part of the process as I understand it to join the climate leaders program which is essentially the green communities program
enhanced and so as you know Town D is a green Community now they have developed this state um sorry climate leaders program which um if you meet additional criteria you are eligible for additional Grant
funds um so the gron um this working group in gron approached the school committee the school committee's response I believe was sounds great but let's make sure that both towns are supportive and on board with this before the school
committee um makes a decision and so um not being an expert in this and knowing that this working group and gron has been um spending a great deal of time and energy on it I asked that they come
and U make a brief presentation on the program its merits process to get there and any other information that you want to share so thank you for being here sorry I didn't set the stage before but I think that I don't know La say is that do a
decent job with it y um so just a quick update from school committee side we did take a vote at our last meeting um where we basically said that we um would join on to the resolution um pending approval
from um BR board and board as well um and from our perspective it basically means that we will look to do um energy efficient projects or or take on any kind of Capital Improvements uh from the
lens of doing it in a more sustainable environmentally conscious way so long as financially feasible like the were to access funds to um help to cover that and so on so yes yes okay and the I as
it was explained to me the biggest difference between the Green communities program and the climate leaders program is the adoption of an enhanced stretch code local option stretch code which I
believe only um applies to new construction I think that's the major if there I think there are others but that's the most significant difference between the Green communities to be a green Community you had to adopt stretch code but this is a
enhanced stretch code that applies to new construction talking could be significant cost to new construction okay so stepping back just a second so green communities was about
Energy Efficiency reduce energy use reduce the cost of the energy we use in Municipal operations whether that be in buildings or the climate leaders program is really just a shift in focus it is ciment to
the greens Community but it's a shift that Focus from Energy Efficiency to carbon footprint reduction okay so it's effort primary effort is to eliminate the local burning of fossil fuels essentially goal so so it's an effort to
get municipalities to sign up to eliminate carbon carbon fuels in their buildings and their vehicles and other Municipal operations okay so uh so the climate communities that and it is in
addition to Green communities and it's as as as they say a uh an additional layer of opportunity for communities to get funding for activities which Drive this Caron reduction okay um requirements for
joining up uh you have to be a green community and good standing um you have to have a local body that advises the select board and uh Administration on sustainability related
issues uh the big thing actually is the a commitment by the select Bo to the net zero 2050 goal which is the elimination or Net Zero carbon
emissions by the year 2050 which brings the community into congruence with the state law which has set that go for the state as a whole um and and and what's necessary another necessary element is you need to
have what they call a municipal decarbonization road map um and what this is it's an enhancement of your Capital planning process which requires that you consider
decarbonization options anytime major Renovations are occurring on a building so if you're replacing an hbac system you would have to consider put a new roof on a building you might have to consider photo
voltaics or if photov voltaics doesn't make any sense you consider a construction method that is compatible with installment of photoall tankes at a different time and you put in the wiring so that so that it's photo R um that
consideration of those low low carbon options are not it's not mandatory that be implemented it's mandatory that they be evaluated so it if it turns out that it's technically or financially not
feasible you can fall back to the the carbon burning option if that's all that's left okay it's just an effort to push towards that zero zero option forward um the town also needs to adopt
a uh uh a zero emission vehicle first policy which right now is all light Vehicles you need to consider an electric vehicle either an all electric vehicle plugin hybrid hybrid as options before you fall back
to the internal combustion option okay and then finally yes you have to adopt the specialized building code um and and it's important that you realize that the
specialized building code affects costs if you're using CL in other words if you're going to put in a gas furnace then yes you're going to it's going to add cost to to construction because you got to enable a carbon free uh future so
in other words you have to wire it have um if you if you build an all all electric be building there's no change in cost because you're meeting all the requirements okay so it's only so it's
to it's an effort to push new construction towards an all electric design and this is I'm sorry it's this this is Construction done by the municipality or any construction in town it's construction by the municipality
okay yeah the plan is this is this is pressure on the municipalities so this new stretch code wouldn't pushed on to residential no the stretch code would it would be the the building code for the
T and is it does it this participation I assume it opens up some more avenues for funding like specific funding not just for studies but for like actual project correct correct so very recently just in the last couple
months $60 million has been dumped into this program with 52 and a half million of it four projects fund specific projects and then 75 million for technical assistance that
help with both planning for the process and for technical assistance and creating these municiple great okay this is a a question way outside the box and you'll probably frown at me when I ask
this question but is there any linkage between these type of Action Pro like Concepts and like Community preservation funding sources um because I I think of restoration as something we use pretty famously for restoring some of our
wonderful parks and resources but I also know that that school roof really needs some restoration and it really benefit from like a solar restoration type project so absolutely if solar's involved this is this is the kind of project that this
program Advocates yes well and I guess the point there would be the the power of this group would align themselves with the concepts of the community preservation effort to find some type of linkage and I know it doesn't exist now but that's why I think there's really
nothing in the community preservation act that would allow if it were historic school we were restoring it to be the same but some of our Parks AR historic so we restore the trails but Parks well no they don't restore the
trails you can do work with for recreation stuff and you can buy open space you can do affordable housing in historic is specific in the language on how money can be used for right undesignated funds could be used for that the restoration
of a of a of a building for the that's why I think that's actually the usefulness of group to it wouldn't you wouldn't be able it's a stretch but it's a huge I mean I appreciate you being creative with the doesn't
to but it has it has to be I appreciate you trying to well I'm trying to like not I'm trying to not do an override for a school roof when we have like we have some money set aside already and and the usefulness of this
type of concept here to try to blend the worlds together come up with a solution but unfortunately it's that's that's my only yeah kind to be a pain in the butt no it's fair question in the school I think that's
actually a good example for Community preservation but in a different way so there is a particular Grant um that is designed to help school systems to repair or replace GRS with the idea that you would install
Sol panels yeah um it's a fantastic opportunity we're looking into it I don't know if that's something that z school district will qualify for yeah but working with a group like just
they can be really helpful in terms of that gring process we don't have stol you know and that's something that there are a lot of Grants potentially out there but we don't have necessarily people that know that they're there know
to go out how to go after them how to write those BR applications yeah so working with a group like this does help us to access that other money that's out there so not necessarily our you know Community preservation money but there is other money that's potentially on the
table and up for grabs for communities that go after it we just don't have to be able to do that on our home yeah did did the recent Florence roach Stoddard School fall into any of this like approval for a green like lead type of
that that that whole project predated this okay but there was money received before there's a battery installation so so so yes some money has been involved for green communities okay
in in that project cool and future project at the middle school if we were to [Music] join this is like the best it's the last page the best comparison yeah
no I just yeah the stretch code is the one thing that I'm still not fully robbing my head so it's this one is specific for municipal no no it's you got to adopt it as the township wide it's just like the stretch code you
adopted to be a green Community it applies to every it applies to all buildings all building um just it's it's enhanced from what we have now right and and you should also be aware
of just the context here so the state of Massachusetts has Des has adopted a uh an international code an i EC them with ACR stands for for the for their base energy code we're currently
working to 20 2018 version of that code and it's revised every three years and as of January 1 Massachusetts will be transitioning to the 2021 version of that code and that jumps up the energy
requirements for a building and it changes some electrical requirements yeah anywhere right the Bas is and and the transition and 2024 is mostly written and it's in the process of being approved and it jumps it up another level of efficiency and make more
Provisions for uh for carbon free electricity so what the state's doing with these stretch and specialized codes is just saying we we want to we want to move faster than the international body moves because
this ratcheting up of requirements is going to happen whether whether you step out three years you know get ahead of the curve or not it's coming so the process we're doing each of these things um so where we're at as a
community so we last did a energy reduction plan 20 19 so it's very outdated and so I've been struggling to get one of National Grid subcontractors to come in and work with
us to essentially update our existing energy reduction plan which really needs to be done and to be honest we're leaving money on the table with the G communities program because we don't have an updated energy reduction plan I think we're eligible at the moment for
slightly over $300,000 if we get our um acting IND and um have a plan that's up to date I'm hoping to have that for the spring round of the great communities program we've also as you know we've also just been awarded a regional Grant
with peppol Littleton dunable and town town and so we've received the grant before four of us to share a sustainable ility manager
position that's not the title of it but that's essentially the work energy manager thank you energy manager position and so um so we're in the process of working with ncog because we think ncod is going to be the actual employer of the position we'll get a
contract with them and so the hope is that they can provide some Focus full-time person for four communities so I'm not going to get enough but we'll get at least more attention than we do now in this round um
but if the board thought this was worthwhile this is something that we could put with each Community is setting four goals for this position my first goal for this position is get our get our energy reduction plan
updated hopefully I'll be able to do that before but in case I don't but this is something also that we could kind charge this person whoever it is um to help us um comply with and um and
join if if that was an interest for the board do any of these require a town meeting the stretch code would need town meeting I don't have a resolution you need to have a resolution to commit to the 2050 Net
Zero goal so yes but not town meeting no for the town to adopt the new stretch code I'm does Town need to have a town meeting does it have to be we we adopted the stretch code just a
few years ago right yeah it's changed it's yeah but I mean the sweat board probably I don't remember I don't remember okay I don't think you know no I don't so if this if that's the case in the stretch I don't
think any of the other would I don't think it would need I think the select it's it's well within your authority to do each of these yeah I think that's how we did the stretch code with the whole blower door thing and all that kind of stuff the select
Bo that was my before street but it was after Alexander yeah so like only 16ish to 10 years ago I I'll look old more I know it's changed recently I know the the town of Brookline the hampire
has adopted a new energy code and it has some builders for new houses for for new houses and just like holy just changes the pricing structure completely so I it it does but at the same time now new house gets a rating yeah they're
tight they're sustainable and if someone wants to buy that house if you got a crapy no rating see later this is good I mean I think it's it sounds like it could be useful for the school and we're a town in a community that needs to open up as
many doors as possible that a be resourceful with funding find out where the grants are and someone to go after them and B make our buildings last longer than we're going to last in essence so if you trust AI town meeting
the stret I'll go through our minutes do we do we need to vote on this tonight or is this just an education no vote no I I we didn't put it down as a voter as more informational and for you
to kind of think about consider and we can come back at a future meeting and um and think I think it's a good idea e e
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sounds good yeah again okay take every shot I think that you're right Ron like I think that we do need to be having that plan but in the meantime when in it grant opportunities arise like for example the
small one that may be something that we if we bring it to the town before we have our plan kind of finalized like we may need to move on something sooner rather than later if that makes sense um so we may need to come back to you guys and and seek input and feedback like yes
let's partner to go after this grant or no now's not a good time or you know whatever it's going to be um I think that specific Grant has a grant anation deadline of like January 31st or something so I mean that I know there's a lot to be said about that roof but a
lot of the solar companies if they have contracts put those panels in rep replace that roof that that's my goal that's right and I see most people don't see this but I do because I'm on these roofs a lot most of the malls like the Burlington Mall
Square One Mall brand new membranes by the solar panel company and there are thousands and thousands of solar panels on the loose of those buildings is that that's what I'm talking about it's specific for schools right it's
only app it's only able to be utilized byol building but it is that it's basically we replace the roof or repair it and we put in our Solar P basically like I know the town that I grew up in Connecticut this the school
is so large it's all single level yeah and they offset the entire usage of the town's electricity with that group oh okay it's a zero w and they own the panels so they just bought them out they use arpa M to do it bought them put the new roof on put the panels in and have
zered out electricity for the next 25 years I'm like that's brilliant yeah so there's opportunities out there great thanks coming thank you very much all right yeah that's
interesting um all right arpa reallocation okay so as you know we have to spend or commit our balance of oper funds by the end of the calendar year the end of this month so normally and I and I have provided a
a chart with the with the specific expenditures but inevitably some come in a little higher some come in a little lower so because of the time frame right now that we're in I'm requesting that the board approve the
Town Administrator to approve approve expenditures or commit the remaining balances Within These listed categories I did give you what I think we're going to spend and I can walk through that a little bit the Opera reporting and compliance that will that number is
accurate we have a existing agreement with the firm we've been using um that's the number that she gave us through 26 um ms4 that's the number that is accurate $20,000 why the task order um
that need to be signed in that amount for the endless forc a permit um however in the natur the natural gas space here in the highway department that's accurate that work has been completed should be
paid the boiler circulation pump that work is completed that needs to be paid um but the remaining balance there is um you know like the Town Hall boiler service maintenance service
contract that could come in lower that could come in slight you know so I'm trying to have a it's a small amount of money but just so that we can make sure we don't lose a penny of it um between now and the end of the Cal here I think that's
good yeah this might be one to so I know we've sort of like I think of the MS storm water ms4 storm water one's been drawn down a number of times our you know it's it's not lost on me that it's pretty vague what the arpa
money could be used for and like I know you know we are again in a budget sort of fiasco here in town and I Al often think of our employees during holidays and things like that and part of me wishes we could acknowledge that through a gift card type of cont concept
I don't know I don't think that's the right purpose of arpa but I guess it's the thought that kind of counts to me and I don't know like I I don't know how to visit that without making it sound awkward but I just think
it's you know we we have really good staff here and I think it's important to acknowledge them and you know a handwritten card means a lot but so does an opportunity for them to go out with their family at the Holiday times on us some scratch I mean I hate to say it but that's what
motivates people to come to work you know especially when we've had the heat not working in here you've dealt with the ceilings you know we've had some interesting infrastructure issues here um and you know I just I think it's important for our board to recognize
that people put up they they tolerate they get compensated to come here but they've tolerated some Oddities here in the building here this year um and that goes for all our toys falling the ceiling falling you know like the you know and you know the same for the folks down at the police
department they've had some work done there you know the the highway garage is not always the most glorious space to be the fire department you know I I don't know I'm trying to find a way to say let's let's appreciate our employees in another way
um in the cemetery yeah I put you under the evelope there Mr Mr ch um folks be honored are out here okay excellent um so we can we can
revisit that at the you know maybe at the end but just something that I I would be curious to find a way to do that I don't know noted I don't know how we could do that I'm not sure that as a municipality
we have the same rules to play with that we do in corporate world with bonuses and stuff well that's why the the gift card is the key concept where do you want to
S um we have one more meeting before yeah yeah well we can think about it okay so I move to authorized to administrator Jo um that's what
but uh considering the fact that you know we don't have h a pot to you know what in and considering the fact that you just approved uh an employee plan that would
give anybody working here a year six weeks paid vacation that's not it's actually it's actually not it's for one year it's uh what was it 15 15 days three huh
from three weeks and then 13 paid holidays at uh you know yeah it's a little short short of three weeks oh including the holidays including the holiday serious okay that's
what I love all these people you know it's no different than what any other town so you know we can't start cutting this stuff we're gonna can't afford to lose people cat so you know people research their surrounding towns on
what's going on there too so you know it's not an argument that I think we need to have because I think that I think that um you know I I think they're doing okay I think you're treating them pretty well we're treating them pretty well I
hope we are um but yeah I mean if we've got a few bucks left in the aror fund you know I don't I don't think you be spending it on Dunkin Donuts G gets and that you know crap like that it's okay
well thank you for your opinion thank you let's move on okay I moved to authorized administrator to approve expenditures and or commit the remaining balance of oper funds in the amount of $ 43,9
n78 for the following purposes Opa reporting in compliance ms4 storm water permit General it website upgrade Vital Records fire reporting system upgrade and or fire truck repairs Town Hall
boiler maintenance contract Town Hall boiler circulation pump replacement natural gas space heater at the highway department replacement second those in favor by
by okay well Ann is out there yes Ann would you please join us hi an well thanks for coming tonight so we just wanted to have you here so that we could honor you in your years of doing the neighbor to neighbor
and um as much as we are happy that you're going to retire and move on to other things we are also um I have sort of regret that you're doing that you've been a great resource to the town um and uh little right up
here but so for more than 30 years you've played a vital role in fostering communication with IND dunable by providing residents with a reliable resource of local news and updates has been especially important without a regular newspaper covering the town and through neighbor to neighbor you've
shared important information on the town events and government meetings community activities ensuring residents are informed and engaged you've also given us a lot of um advertisements so we know who to call to paint our house or flush our toilets or whatever it else that we
need to get done um um your efforts in doing this have been widely accessible over the years and have helped ensure members are of the community stay connected um not only in tingbo in dumville but dumville in pboro so um your work is reflected your
commitment to the town um and we know it's spent a significant amount of time um and not for a significant amount of money I know that to be the case um but your effort to touch us is is consistently is just been really
appreciated um by keeping the neighbor to neighbor and maintaining it you established a long lasting impact on on the town in the community sort of that's everybody's goto paper um we're certainly going to miss
it um your work as a Creator and an author and a publisher of neighbor to neighbor which we relied on so much it's just it deserves recognition and I know there was a little party for you last weekend at the mclone barn which was great well attended there must
have been 5,000 cookies there still eating some of them um so we just really wanted to thank you and present you they C ifate of appreciation signed by the [Music]
board than you abely thank you so much now not only that she's a neighbor of mine and I see you get to get out more and walk by every day you and and my
dogs furiously yeah no it just again it it that's a publication that so many of us have have relied on and um I think we're g to miss it be a little little lost for a little bit till we you know figure out
something else but we do have other social media resources now but still I there's still nothing like getting a piece of paper in your hands once a month to keep you informed so thank you and we appreciate it and we're going to miss you yes all right thank you in the
garden okay so we know we got to find you need to tap your shoulder and type something up quick yeah and I I remember when neighbor to neighbor first started coming out cuz I was the kid that read everything like the back of the shampoo bottle like I
read everything and I used to always like be looking for dun and little son and when you started sending that out it was like oh my God there's like a whole like there's paper like Words dedicated to our town and it meant a lot and then
I came back and moved back in 2002 and it was still coming to our home I was like oh my goodness thank you for that welcome like an old friend it is yeah it's been there going
any any success on now finding we have many people who are interested yeah we want to make sure it continues in like that it's been in for 41 years we don't want someone taking this and turning it into just that so we're trying to be
select people it's possible possible I won have it inos though already schu already getting news January I'm sure [Laughter]
you late so probably be more like midm this you said you're keeping your website up for for a while unless it sells and but you won't be feeding it though right you just keep it up for retro somebody says I need a plumber
yeah it's just the reference last issue you know now yeah that's cool he's making me a library what was my office so the 41 years years past issues wow I have both towns there
right cool enjoy retirement too hope so thanks for coming abut yeah lose that resource okay where are we at here uh Town administrative did you want to go
through this or I mean you guys have it if you can look at it if you have any questions or good sh me an email a lot of lot going on sum it up in that way so uh yeah so
the demolition delay so there's going to be a hearing on that for that 473 High stre 12 it's for the house right yeah the barn I know I saw some animals at the barn so yeah something yeah it's across
the street that's owned by different people I saw some goats they sold that off yeah they've got PR page report really I lot going on all right
okay um Community outre count administer contract so that is in the contract for you have that this is we did this last year we did this last year and we have it in the contract that it needs to be approved by
the board obviously he ticks that box so yeah no no questions move to approve the payment of the community outreach stien in the amount of $2,500 to the Town Administrator for fy2
in accordance with Section V subsection e community outreach of the Town Administrator contract second any further discussion M thank you all in favor all okay last thing we need to vote
on uh yeah that's affirmative all right we're good motion toour took us an hour and 20 minutes not bad considering L that agenda yeah all right all right anyone want to second
that motion second all those in favor I I thanks for coming