will open the select board meeting uh for the February 26 is 5 03 our agenda tonight we have a public comment session followed by approval of minutes
from January 29 2025 and a discussion on a parcel on at 86 Century way consideration of disposition um is a request by the Conservation Commission for the use of wetland protection act funds and we will
be opening a warrant for the annual town meeting on May 12th 2025 opt in the early voting for annual Town election for May 20th 2025 and then we will enter into executive session pursuant to General
Law chapter 30A section 21A pursuant pursuant to purpose to to construct s strategy sessions in preparation for negot iations with non union Personnel oh my God I can't speak Jason Silva the Town Administrator
and with William farell fire chief Dunville police Union neba Local 7 and to conduct contract negotiations with non union Personnel Jason Sila Town Administrator after that we will not be coming into public session again so um
the first thing we do is open up to the public is anyone in the public would like to speak to something not on the agenda you two just here for General entertainment all right good enough all right so we'll roll into the meeting minutes for January
29th assume we've all read them is there a motion move to approve the meeting minutes from January 29th 2025 second all those in favor I right enough thank you sue
uh next up so there is a undeveloped parcel at Century way number 86 that was taken by um by the town for tax
purposes yeah back I'm not sure how long ago that was it's been a while I think it started in 96 and we okay secured control proper thans and was a 99 2000 so it's 2 acre
lot sort of strangely shaped it's a the frontage John centy way and then that long strip that ties into property owned by the land trust actually I yeah a little r tail to get it to two acres right so it's a lot there a few properties on C way like
that yeah yeah that that whole section there yeah cu the new right there yeah and it is I think get the two acre yeah so what are we what are we thinking about with this well I
um I thinkig we put it on the agenda uh it's a lot on centry way that doesn't unless I'm missing something I don't think serves a real public purpose at this point um other than being a bacon
hot and um it's a the there are some grade issues it looks like there are there's probably some ledge on the property but it is a potentially buildable lot that someone may be interested in and so um I fig it's at
least worth the discussion on whether or not there was interest in pursuing disposition of the property because it was taken a tax title process will little different you can just B we can auction it off but there is a prescriptive process you have to follow to do that right so
um so that's just have a discussion about that I didn't want to do anything until um I knew the position of the board so this came to us as a recommendation from the land use
committee it it it is a it is a recommendation of the land use committee dat here um and and you do have this you do have a recommendation from the land use Committee in your pet with regard to this
property do you want to give us a quick summary of the deliberations yeah so um where we stand right now is we we'd like to town obviously rain as much land as possible um when we were coming
through we saw that Century wages didn't seem to have the typical conservation piece it was taken through taxes um so we started discussing that we looked at it a way to either to help boost the capital budget bringing
Capital expenditures and help facilitate any additional leases on other pieces um so there's no tax bring and then at the very least get some tax revenue into the town small baby stuff even if it's not buildable get a th000 bucks a year for
it it's something yeah one's better than zero pretty unanimous decision there wasn't much back and forth on it it just seemed like that so if it's not suitable to build I mean who might possibly buy that are
there neighbors interested or I would say in a butterwood you know Mr channy has expressed interest in buying it so um is he in a butter no he's not but it doesn't have to be a butter but I'm just
curious sometimes the butters to parel like this that are not buildable like to just be able to expand but I can't see anybody go out there paying any fair market value for something that's not buildable no I don't do we know it not to be buildable yeah exactly that do we know it not to be buildable no I don't
think so I don't know if anyone's done the due diligence I think I mean there is there's I think it looked to me I mean I I didn't go out and block it but I drove by it I got out I kind of looked looked at it yeah it looked like there was some ledge there so it would
require some blasting but the market the way it is but in in some ways I I think it probably would have some interest um those conditions might affect the price the overall price we get for it but they may it it's quite possible there's
interest in it I don't think it would have been buildable at the price point from when when centy way um now with the price of houses in town it's it's completely different um I manyan people are desperate to get in
hasn't been a new house for sale in town in more than 70 days new or just a house just a house like a listic anything anything yeah I mean there's that lock on on westf street that finally went under and they
put a custom Ranch in there I know with all the wetlands considerations even all that a ranch yeah that's going to sit all the way back there it's a custom Ranch it's going in I um sorry for but that's yeah social media at its best um well I would think
too that anybody that would consider would want to have permits at hand before they would negotiate a price I would think no you wouldn't get a permit until you got yeah but they would have to do look sell you got you gotta just
auction it all right that's the first step somebody's going to buy it so letter 100,000 no 125 no yeah do we have is it is the tax title taking process legally concluded
does the town if we would yeah long so is it clear is it a clear title of the town the documents are the decision from the land court and the be are on in the 96 yeah there was an this is is this the
land that they were going to put up a Doppler radar no that was up on Blanchard Hill off Sky blard Hill off Sky oh okay that's this is Century way I mean why would you let that go for that's if had a piece of
property I wouldn't just the capital assem says see you later let sell it yeah building lot in Dunville that's it's an R1 Community R1 Street we could sell it for 250 and to the land uses
thoughts offsets and capital stuff for one year yeah but we have that option well I think so what the I see you Joe and I'll get to you when the board's as long as the board is okay with pursuing this option then I we get
like there are attorneys who specialize in this they you know they get paid on the back end not the front end so they'll take a c of it um it's is typically based on my experience it's typically how works and then you hire a firm to come in just from from
the options I've used in the p in my past like a couple folks who do that as their line of work so um can we also just put it out there on the market like could be hire a brokerage I honestly I think the
tax title process is very prescriptive I'm not an expert in it but to dispose of it I think it's um auction I think it's auction okay because you know part of me is like you put it out there for 250 and you got 250 and it's the buyer's responsibility
to take to figure out do there sweet you they they pay the commissions they do all that they pay the closing cost Town washes their hand out I do I think Happ in the cities anding us to sell land all time yeah we
I did it in my last town I think three times and it's we always just hav come to town hall and had a good oldfashioned auction since it's actually but we would set a minimum bid
based on the valuation right what do what's the thing worth a buildable lot in dun just add it's build in the size is all that matters because you can blast blasting could take it could be blasting or it could
just be an excavator with a chisel on just cracks off the land yeah they swop you they roll in a undercar garage you got to get a septic system in there you can't BL two but I mean if it's you got to have someone yeah perk test a lot right but that's all a buyer responsibility we tried to see if
anybody parked that we couldn't find anything but it's called back to 996 right yeah but you mean in ' 96 if you got how many houses are on Century weight nine or 10 they Cent way 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 so it's it's generally assume you could get a Subic system in there again that's without any investigatory work because you have yeah 15 other houses I got on either side yeah I mean the only
issue that I have is because I bought tax I bought Lots before at auction we typically have a good amount of information before we put up our money and start what would interest me with this one if I were to be a bitter
is why these people walk away from it there's a building lot like that that what the hell were they doing with that a long time ago though I know but well you know was 30 years ago you can't explain what happens in someone else's
family tree yeah he know often times it happens with an actual home on it mhm yeah which is yeah yeah you got a couple siblings you know my younger brother and I may not agree on something and it goes on forever yeah
the Irish like a good you know a good lingering a good Grudge thrilling as an Irish person okay so if my if if I'm hearing this discussion to summarize it Jason I would continue with
the process of trying to dispose of this at whatever the prescriptive process is from an attorney so I you have to get with my for somebody and try who they got that will manage this through but I think that there's no motion act but I I
I I think based on this discussion we're all kind of in agreement that we should so before I get there had a question unless we've managed to answer it through our discussion uh has anybody just discuss this U this lot
with Port so I hear that question and we had a meeting a couple nights ago in regards to I guess yeah two days ago now and you know there's some other Parcels in town that have been designated for housing and such on Main Street there or 113
Main Street and again I'm I'm thinking we need want to get as much affordable housing kind of as quickly as we can so we don't have to deal with it in the future kind of mentality um so there was discussion about a Habitat for Humanity sort of
being approached for those lots on Main Street to see what they could do you know you could give them a beta test here say hey do you want to build one house see how it goes for the town but you know I also hear the the
budget in my back of my head and you know if we got a quick 200k you know this may take a little while is I thought this might be a next year's budget just based on tax title I'm guessing there's some Loops that we have to some process probably not tomorrow no it
would fall a free cash and have for yeah it will be next year does that subdivision have a well I guess I'm ask a question I should I don't know it could be covenants on the subdivision that might limit I mean I gotta tell you I've done habitat for humidity stuff and
you've done everything man I've done a few of them in doorchester yeah we did but you know so I just think the site the site itself maybe more than it's not an easy site to develop and the site cost to
prep it for a house would make an affordable housing unit one unit on that lot get okay but I'm not I mean I could be wrong about that but just my instinct that's what it yeah that's that's
what we discussed at the planning board meeting that John had attended you know the fact that these days you know you
can you can build a house and have an accessory um unit you know detached or you know attached whatever so that might add to the uh to
the attractiveness you know we were talking about the the uh that one acre piece of property over off of allall street right allall
Street uh that and you know in relation to you know the the project on street that the guy really
you know would rather give us money rather than make one of his fancy units and give affordable unit that's going to be not affordable
um and we just we just talk about different things but you know before uh before I had no problem you know getting rid of it but you know before we do it I think you need to make sure you
considered all the Alternatives I don't know what makes something unbuildable not being able to put in a septic system essentially not being able to put in the septic system and that would be because of the ledge yeah not
passing a perk test yeah well you can't perk in ledge right and then the cost of it right how much ledge you know down where I am those four houses those all were blasted but he had four Lots in there so it worked for him but I don't know you could buy
this and have you know $175,000 worth of sight cost you're in trouble with that unless it was 100K huh unless it was 100K yeah you know what I'm saying right mean even even to go in and with a machine and break the ledge out
it's that once you start getting into ledge it's like yeah so it may not be it may not be a lot that anybody's going to want once they start looking at the subsurface conditions but we have the same issue don't we with
uh um on Wall Street there 113 in that uh area there it's designated for affordable housing that's also uh in there as
well well I don't see anything wrong with trying all right so I'll do I'll do actual work on this now I just didn't want to waste my time on yeah so I'll do um work on it I'll dab the information
I'll um reach out to Tom counil and I'll reach out to a couple of the firms that I've used for the election process and then I back to the board okay I mean if you have a a law firm that you have an understanding
of that's good with this we don't have to use Myro right no no no I know but if they have someone on on their team that does this probably I'm sure they just as EAS yeah okay okay thank you that should pass for with that young
fell all right very good all right next up uh the gunville Conservation Commission requesting the use of Wetland protection act funds in order to in the amount of
$22,000 to be used to um title searches for two Parcels one for the Kennedy conservation restriction on High Street and the second for a 1.3 acre lot lower Mass poog Pond that the commission
is um looking into purchasing so it's required under the statute of the Wetland protection act that's um funds used from this specific but protection act fund has to be approved by the select board so that's
what this is why do we so someone asked me this they're like why do we cover the cost of doing this I know this has come up in a meeting I think it came up in an advis meeting day we are not covering the cost this cost comes from the wetlands
protection act fund which is solely funded by filing Fe for people who submit an application to the Conservation Commission for work so this is no money that's coming out of anybody in the town's pockets it's someone who has submitted a notice of
intent there's a filing fee associated with that um a poor half of that filing fee plus $25 it's a very weird formula is given to the Town Fund Wetlands protection act fund
so that's solely where that money comes from cool okay that's right I mean I I couldn't remember the answer and hopefully they're watching and they watching you're watching too yeah so yeah it is not money of the town is funding its fees that have been collected through the wetlands protection act transaction fees
cool I I included the map for just so people knew was near low mass I didn't do one for no no we've been through that a
lot so it's a 1 acre 1.13 acre lot or something like that that is on lower massip poog the property is surrounded by land that's already owned by the Conservation Commission as part of the Parkhurst subdivision open space area
and there are two other open space Parcels that are there um so it's it's essentially a landlocked the property owners have been interested in selling this to the town for a long time and they just recently came forward about two months ago and asked us once again
if they dropped the price significantly um because it's a 1 acre and it's landlocked that we were in a position to be able to uh go forward with it so should you
offer them anything it has no value it does have value but they can't do anything that it we're not going to do that I know but just on principal like it's for $3,000 all right I thought it was like like well here's a dollar well that's
when they started years ago three like three yeah no it's a we in a budget constra here cut every penny here the money is coming from Timber Anonymous donors again it is no cost to the town
for this purchase of this this lot so um you just need the select board we need the select board to approved the monies from that fund to pay for the title search that's all in accordance with Mass General Law chapter 131 have a question
40 I have a question Ron go ahead she's got a question um I'm just curious I uh you know we we hear repeatedly that there's no access to uh to uh Lake
Mass uh will help in that regard um it'll just have add additional Frontage along the area I mean that you can access it already there's a path
that comes off of Parker Street through open space land to get there presently this lies right smack in the middle of that right on there's a map here you want to take a look at it it's a funky way that that lot was sort of derived well I they were part of the original
owners of the whole area yeah and he just kep not thought maybe someday it would be a little you know beach house or something sell it to your neighbor that's what I've done sell to you wanted to sell it to the Conservation
Commission specifically to add to the open space down there and protect the greenway along salmon broken massive hog P so this it does not increase the access it just increases the area that is going to be Town owned there's
already access to this area through parkst okay is it was it it was access I remember a discussion about there being access to some area but it was like a steep
slope and uh you know not uh you know not something that U was easily accessible yeah um I don't know how easily but there is a way to get in there off Parker Street that it's already there this this
land is surrounded by open space land that has access in there yeah we we've been okay I just you know it seems to me that you know that for recreation purposes it's might be a good idea to
you know enable people in town to be able to access that well this one you'd have a difficult time doing that but you can access this through an already accessed area that so that particular area yeah you want to see the map Zone
it' be easier if you looked at this I can show you all that area that does not have a little house on it yeah is already open space there's the G weight parcel um there that's The Parkers open space area
so it's completely surrounded by open space and access is off of Parker Street I'll say in two spots actually yeah from a public access standpoint I
know this isn't um it's not like all the time but we are working with the you probably know we're working with the YMCA right now we're working with the YMCA we've been in discussions of then we were in discussions last year it didn't come together but we expect over the summer
um we'll have once a month week like a weekend or Saturday where Camp non non-amp what M the be with the beach being open to
dille Residents um so that's not a Thun deal but it's something we've been working on in conversations with the Y and we've had really good conversations with them about yeah thank you you're welcome all right in accordance with massachusett
General Law chapter 131 section 40 the wetlands protection act I move to approve the Conservation Commission to spend $2,000 from the wetlands protection act fund for legal fee expenses associated
with ver ification of title searches required for the acquisition of the Kennedy conservation restriction on High Street and a 1.3 acre lot on Lower massip poog second any further
discussion none all those in favor I I thank you thank you very much okay warrant for the town meeting May open it up open it up on the
word nothing to say about that except open it yeah there nothing here all right um I move to open the warrant for the 2025 annual town meeting to be held on Monday May 12th 2025 and to close the
warrant on Friday March 28th 2025 at 4M second those in favor I I thank you you early voting that's a quick one too op in early voting for annual Town election May 20th
2025 um so she's got a schedule of dates for that to happen on Saturday May 10th May 12th May 13th May 14th May 15th 9 to 12 on the 10th and then 9 to1 for the remaining days
I think that was quite successful last year seems like quite a lot of people V for yeah so anybody have any comments on that no I think it's a good idea get as much participation as we
can okay is there a motion move to approve the town clerk's request to offer early voting for all local elections in 2025 second in favor I I okay anything
else May 12 12 swallow 7 o' yeah standard yeah 7 o'clock at the school okay there being nothing else
then we will um I'm going to be going into executive session so we will close this here this meeting and do a roll call vote to enter an executive session which we will not be coming back into I move that the
select board enter into executive session pursuant to M General Law chapter 30A section 21A purpose two to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiation with non-union Personnel specifically Jason Silva Town
Administrator William farell fire chief in dusal police Union neba Local 7 and to conduct contract negotiations with non-union Personnel Jason Silva the Town Administrator the
board will not reconvene in Open Session following executive session second all those in favor I K and me I Leah bban I Ron Michael I great thanks
me