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9th, 5:30 p.m. And this is a joint meeting with the board of health. >> Thank you. call into order uh the meeting of the Falmouth Board of Health, a joint meeting with the select board.
Okay. Well, thank you all for uh for being here. Um as you know, the uh the impetus for this meeting was a memo you sent to our board back and it's in our packet back uh a couple of months ago.
Um, >> oh jeez, I apologize. We're going to do the pledge of allegiance. I thought Okay, >> I thought you had to pay me. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, sorry about that. So, as I was saying, the uh the impetus for this meeting was a uh a memo that
our board received from the uh board of health discussing or wanting to discuss the equitable cost distribution of water quality management planning and in particular uh as as as has come up with
respect to denitrifying IIA and septic systems and is there a way to uh uh in their words uh have fair distribution of costs in Falmouth's efforts to meet water quality targets. Uh and so I'm
going to turn it over to uh to to to the board of health and you've looked at this a lot and certainly we want to hear what your thoughts are so that we can hopefully put together some thoughts of our own and policy going forward.
>> Uh thank you, Mr. chair. Um, yeah, in the discussions uh within the board of health and with members of the public and with the water quality management committee, it's become clear that this is a quite a complex calculus. uh there would be
quite a few factors involved and um so our thought is that it it's it's worth uh setting up a committee specifically to address this issue and and um work through the concepts and develop a a
consensus plan. And with that, I'll I'll turn it over to the rest of the board of health to see uh what comments they may have. Go ahead, George. >> Uh, I don't think I Yeah. Um, as the select board knows, uh, over the next 10
to 20ish years, Falmouth is going to be implementing the water quality mitigation projects that the Commonwealth mandated to restore the health of our inbements. The comprehensive set of costs related
to all those watershed plans is likely to be more than a billion dollars across the town. That will include the cost of sewers, waste treatment, an outflow pipe, and the installation,
maintenance, and monitoring of five or 8,000 or more than that. Uh, dnitrifying IIA septic systems because it's a staggering amount of
money. I want to repeat the town that is the taxpayers of the town are going to spend more than a billion with a B dollars in the next 20 years or maybe
it's 25 or 30 or whatever but it's that kind of number of years. While it's expensive first of all we don't have any choice. the state is mandating that we make these improvements
uh and also uh they'll benefit the entire town and all the people who live here. However, as currently aortioned, the cost to individual taxpayers will vary enormously depending on whether they happen to get a sewer that they're
required to connect to or they have to install an IIA septic system or they don't have to do anything. Uh last December uh both the board of health and the water quality management
committee uh as you mentioned wrote to the select board encouraging you to form a committee to identify fair ways to distribute the cost and if possible ease the financial burden. And I just really
want to encourage you to do so and to do so now. And I think there are several reasons why it needs to happen or should happen soon. First of all, it's going to be a difficult task. There is no out
there fair system that everybody's going to agree on and there never will be. And that's why people kind have been discussing how to pay for capital expenditures as a group since uh I'm of
Greek ancestry since at least 3,000 years that I know of. um the uh large variations of the financial burden amongst uh different property owners
uh if that is seen as an issue is likely to reduce support for the entire project even though if the watershed plans aren't implemented then everyone will have to do an IIA system. Nonetheless,
people tend to vote for anything tend not to vote for anything that's going to cost money. Knowing the financing plans for all of this concurrently with the development of the watershed plans will help uh the town develop its long-term capital
budget and h people knowing that I think will help. Uh, also the board of health on a regular basis now is already making decisions that are related to this kind of thing and how those decisions get
made can have a big impact on individual taxpayers and what they have to do or not do at their homes. And lastly, uh the more property owners that know what group they're going to be in,
that is sewer, septic, nothing, uh the harder it's going to be for people to fairly come to an agreement on a plan. This is a longterm thing that we know
about humans. It's not that humans are bad. It's that humans are humans and financial incentives have conscious and unconscious strong influences on the decisions we make.
So it's always a better idea if you can say lots of political philosophers to make decisions about how systems are going to be created of the interactions of people before those people know what role they're going to play. So, you
don't know if you're going to be a kangaroo popper or somewhere in between. So, I really hope you'll uh develop a committee uh and do it really soon. I think it's extremely important. Thank
you. >> Anyone else? >> I think uh pretty much said it all. It comes down to equity. uh somebody who has to put in a 30 $40,000 IIA system uh will get the benefit of the sewer
only when they sort of go to an area restaurant that uses it and might take the dump there and they'll get a benefit. But when he goes home right now as it stands, he's going to hope that thing in his background backyard doesn't
break down and that DP doesn't come and say or the town have to come and say, well, you're going to have to do something about it. And that person would rightly feel, I'm sort of getting doubled here. I'm paying in part for the
sewer and now I have something in my backyard. Now, some of the costs are a little bit unknown because we don't know if a town chooses to use IE systems, which Felmouth undoubtedly will have to do quite a few. We heard a number there.
I usually say it's at least north of 3,000. Uh we don't know what the monitoring scheme will be like. Uh and that's going to be a cost how we'll do that. So I think the suggestion to the board, the
request of the board is to form a committee of people know what they're doing with the finance piece of it. We don't. The health piece of it, we sort of do and trying to figure out how we equitably spread the cost of nitrogen
mitigation across the watershed equally or at least in some sort of parody with somebody who's hooked up to the sewer. That's all. And and then the another piece of this is the fact that
this is a um a mandate from the state. And there while there are certain uh types of funding already available from the state um it's clearly insufficient
and there should be I think from the town um a conversation with our state representation and um a to to attempt to
address some of these essentially unfunded mandates. >> Anyone else? >> Uh the only thing I would add is I think George his his thoughts were really carefully constructed and valuable. It
is going to be a very inequitable way if we leave it to everyone has to take care of their own backyard. It'll be fairly inequitable. Um it's easy to believe that some of the largest houses that face the water will carry big burdens. That's not the way it will work out. Um
and I think the leadership, you know, at the point this starts to really impact people, the impacts will be significant, very significant for some people who may have to make very hard choices about can I stay here in Fmouth, can I stay on the Cape? And I think we as leadership want to know that we did everything that we
could to make this as fair as as possible. So, so just so I understand when when you know when you're talking about this, I I assume you're talking about some kind of monetary relief to individual
property owners based on some consideration. I mean, is that essentially what we're talking about at the end of the day? >> Well, um, not so. Yes, relief, but we have to remember that the relief's got
to come from someplace. So, this is going to be So, what we're suggesting is that the cost or at least I'm suggesting, but I think we all agree for the whole thing, the outflow pipe, the new sewers be more distributed across
everyone in town. So whether you get sewer, you do nothing, or you have an IIA system, the cost are not going to be equal because we that's too complicated to even try to do, but at least fairly
distributed. Now, what fair is is hard to say. So there's going to be all kinds of considerations. A lot of things will depend on your lot. they run into our rock or you know all kinds of things whether you're doing a septic system or
connecting the sewer. So we couldn't possibly make it equal for everybody but at least make some attempt to distribute it more fairly. And so yes it's relief but it's relief
that's coming from us cumulatively. So, it's everybody having similar skin in the game. >> Anyone on the select board have any thoughts, Mr. Brown? So, I've attended a lot of the water
quality management committee meetings and there was some talk during those meetings that maybe the town should take a more of a leadership role in perhaps identifying the best available IIA technology innovative alternative septics and maybe purchase those units
and deliver them to the owners. Then another idea would be to have a program like Mass is considering developing having a a monitoring program. So that takes the burden off the owner and it makes it more efficiently and effectively managed. So I I personally
would like to support both of those. Another way you could tackle it would be to just turn to the 7030 split that we do with sewer properties. That's been our standard. We have to decide each time what the equitable amount is, but seems like each time we do decide that it's the 7030 split and we could do that
also and leave the owners to choose their own technologies. So that's another way we could go. So those are my first thoughts. >> Okay. Anyone else? >> Mr. Richardson, >> the uh only thing I'll add is I I agree with uh Mr. Goldstone that I do think the state needs to be more bought into
this. Um this is a climate initiative ultimately coming Beacon Hill, which is totally justified. Um and we absolutely do need to to improve our waterways um in transition, but uh this is very expensive and as a lot of towns across the Commonwealth are facing tight fiscal
budgets and upcoming revenues are not unlimited in their growth. So I think we should go to our our state uh partners on this one. >> Yeah. Well, I I certainly agree that we probably should have a discussion with our state delegation. Uh and I'm going to ask Mr. Reno to maybe put that on on
his uh list of things to uh to try and set up for us. Um you know, as as as these big issues uh keep cropping up, I'm going to ask uh you know, Mr. Johnson stop. Do we know what other
towns may be doing or any other towns have have we heard that are looking into this, you know, equitable fairness issue that u that the board of health is raising and how they might be dealing with it or thinking about it at this point?
>> Yeah, I won't say that I have I won't say that I have uh comprehensive information on what other communities are doing. Um I have uh been at some of the clean water uh Capen Islands water protection fund meetings where um
occasionally the other towns give an overview of of what they're doing. We haven't really focused too much on the financial end. It has been more what are the projects that they're doing, what is the timing and how does that impact the cape fund. What I can say anecdotally is
that there's definitely a mix and you know there we should probably look to some of the bigger towns like Barnstable that has a challenge of our magnitude. Some of the some of the Cape Towns you know Brewster is going to have maybe some IAS and that you know the the the
magnitude of their projects are so much smaller it's not all that helpful. This would certainly seem to be uh an issue that would benefit from some kind of regional approach uh to the problem at least with respect to the towns on
the upper Cape as a you know as as a first thought to maybe put something together and with them uh and start that start that discussion with them as well. Uh but but certainly we hear you know your thoughts, your your concerns. We
appreciate you bringing it to us. Um uh how how do the members of the board feel about setting up some kind of a advisory committee? Mr. Reid, >> uh I would be in favor of setting it up. Maybe it's not a committee, maybe it's
some a working group so that it has a short time frame. Um it's project based. I guess I have a question for the health commission before we move on. Of the three options that Mr. Brown outlined. Did you have any thoughts heading into
this beyond just the overwhelming cost concern? Did you uh have anything not written in the paper or in the letter that you would suggest us considering? I think from from my perspective um we we we've bandied around a few ideas but
um I think we really need particularly people with a financial background as as George Ofelder noted to uh to tackle the problem more in depth than we've been able to so far. But I I I do right now I
like uh Mr. Brown's third comment there essentially, you know, a 7030 split treating uh the IIA systems collectively as another wastewater treatment plant um that's distributed. Um so so that there's less of a difference between
those uh those sewered and those not sewed. >> Thank you for that. And aside from the financial background, are other are there what other considerations for the membership of this group that we ought to be considering? I'm guessing someone with state level uh knowledge of
financial town financial who else >> certainly nitrogen management. >> Okay. >> Um >> I think the water quality committee is somebody from the town in finance. Um,
one of you probably um, >> I think it one of us uh, regards the state as we say in critical care medicine and scuba diving. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for
them. And I think if you wait for the state to act before the town acts, we'll be way too far down the road uh on this. >> Mr. Chair, >> understood. Yeah, Mr. Richardson. >> The only reason
>> representative of the state here. >> Yeah. Yeah. The only reason I I do think it is a good time for it uh and you are right, we cannot wait. Beacon Hill is very slow working there. Um the government is planning to take up an
environmental bond bill uh this session in the coming months. Uh and I think that this is something that they have they announced a lot of grants the other day. Uh found actually we were on the lower end which surprised me but um this is something they're paying attention to. As you mentioned this is a mandate
from them. Uh and I think that uh there will be opportunities uh if we get in early enough to to hopefully see some funding to this cuz this is again this is very similar issue for MASHBY you know for Barnstable uh and I would hope that the governor and and and her team would be focusing on this.
>> Okay. Thank you. One one more and then I want to move on to these other items that you've asked. >> Just to be clear I don't mean we shouldn't go to the state just that we shouldn't wait. >> Yeah. Don't hold our breath as you said. Okay. Uh, >> Mr. Chair, >> yes.
>> Sorry, one last question for town management. Um, is this a >> a starter or a non-starter question from the perspective of um town management? uh with regards to formula establishing
this this committee and having the discussion and >> that one and then the financial concerns are are we able to in your I guess if we do the 7030 split that money comes from the state. Yeah. >> No. No. So yes. So on the financial
side, yes, it I'm not going to say it's a non-starter, but it's a concern. Somebody the money has to come from somewhere and I I don't suspect immediately it's going to come from the state and the amount that's going to be impactful. So that very much needs to be part of the discussion. >> Thank you.
>> Sure. Do Mr. Brown, >> I just would like to throw in one comment that I'm not sure I would agree on the working group format because it's going to be in a very big issue and it's impactful financially. I think we need to have a standing committee that takes minutes and public posted meetings. So,
>> okay, that would be my take. >> We'll have to, you know, have some discussions about the best way to uh to set it up and and reasons for or against one way or the other. >> So, you've asked us, I think, to discuss short-term rental regulation by law, or that's something you wanted to discuss.
Uh, is that is that true? because you you know in all honesty been pretty silent uh with respect to the short-term rental law up to this point. Uh as you know you know the committee has been very active. We appreciate Mann's uh involvement with the uh with the
short-term rental committee uh advisory committee and Mr. Brown's chairmanship of it. But um you did mention it so you know I thought we would chat a little bit about it. >> Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. Go ahead George. Uh in short, when we were asked to uh appoint
a representative from the board of health, we uh I'll speak. I was want a motion not to do that simply until uh the board of selectman would commit to in that whole plan introduce a concept
of a housing inspector at the same time because we used to have a housing inspector and to just take money from short-term rentals just to say we're going to charge you $300. There's always a little implied warranty
when you have a permit that you've done something for. You've inspected the property according to chapter 2 of the state sanitary code. You found it acceptable and you've sort of passed it. I just wanted to throw out to the board of selectmen that it's the bane of every
board of health the housing problems we have when there are complaints. They tie up tie up our inspector. They tie up a lot of hours doing inspections and even a rip screen in the middle of August can mean you're going to write something
give the person an order to correct it. So I believe that in order to do it properly the board would have to commit and you could do that and incorporate it in your fee but have an inspection
before you sort of bless it or give it a permit. Uh, and without that, it's really meaningless. It's just collecting a fee for, yeah, you have a short-term rental will give us $300.
But without an inspection, I think the town opens it up to liability because if something happens at that point, the property wasn't inspected, wasn't even looked at, then we'll be uh in the morass of hearings
about whose responsibility it was. And I think the health agent probably gave you some testimony on how much time this board has taken up in housing complaints. So, it was just sort of a notice that in doing anything with
short-term rentals to think about how you're going to operate it, whether it's going to be an inspectional service also, so that the people who are actually renting can know, okay, the board of health's been in here, it's at least approved,
uh, without just paying a fee. >> Mr. ground. >> Well, we do anticipate there'll be some type of inspection, whether it's uh self inspection or uh fire department inspection. Uh just a general safety overall overview. Hasn't really been
determined yet how the uh the program would be implemented. Right now, we're just coming up with the bylaw to establish the parameters of what we're trying to do. to create a safe space for renters and create an environment where neighbors are less impacted by the way
that things are managed because sometimes they're really want run well and others not so well. So we want to have a kind of a even the playing field on how they're all managed. I agree with you though it is a it could be a timeconuming and Mr. again has made that clear that we're going to we're
creating a lot of work when we create this program >> and I agree with you uh you know signing off on a permit does have some implicit implicit understanding or acknowledgement that you know the the the housing is is is ready to go
>> for for short-term rental. Well, do do we have the staff to to do those types of inspections, Mr. Man? Right now, as the bylaws written, it's much more of a registration. Handling registration is something you do on the computer with some documents that sent
to you and a fee and so forth. Actually, having an inspector do whatever number of rental units we have on a rotating basis. No, we don't have we have a a health inspector who does interdisciplinary, so does food and general complaints. We don't have a
dedicated person. um housing when there's a tenant landlord dispute it takes an obine amount of time. Um these would probably might be quicker um ones but still would take time. Smoke detectors, egress, lock screens and
things of that nature. Um so yeah, there would have to be at least one perhaps more dedicated just to do inspections of each of the unit. Um the bylaw does say every other year, so that would cut obviously cut down the amount of time. You would assume that you would inspect twice. I mean, every other year as well.
Um, but yeah, that would be that would be a definitely a staff need. Registration is a much simpler process. Um, but like with the board that said, you're not really doing the the sort of the public health end by making sure that the units are um inspected prior to
giving a permit. Um, so >> anyone Mr. Brown, >> just expand on it. there is language that says that the owner is certifying that you know it's safe and habitable and you know meets the housing code. So it puts a little more responsibility on the property owner.
>> So u we will be discussing uh later this evening uh the the short-term rental bylaw which is one of the articles on the warrant. Uh, I will mention to the uh to the board uh that I'm sure you're
familiar with with the bylaw uh that I myself have have raised questions about your board's uh ability to issue rules and regulations under that bylaw. Um I
have asked that um that we consider amending that that provision so that any such rules and regulations uh that you might adopt written policies, rules or regulations would be subject to the approval of the select board. Uh I feel
that that is a is an important u responsibility that the board uh as an elected board has to the people in the in the town of Falmouth. So, I just wanted you to know at least where I'm coming from with respect to that
provision as far as implementing the uh you know the um the bylaw and and its requirements. That's your your jurisdiction per per state law. So, um just wanted to get that out there.
Um okay. So the uh the next item was to discuss allocation of resources from the embarcation fund to address concerns regarding public health and environmental concerns in Woods Hole. You want to chat a little bit about
that? Tell us what what you're thinking there. >> Sure. We've we've had uh um the the smart uh task force of citizens concerned with air pollution and and other disturbance from the traffic uh
associated with the fairies and uh and with the fairies themselves. Um and in general I think the board concurs that that there is a a health issue with um with the substantial amount of traffic. um most of the the traffic uh
uh required to uh con sustain a population of in the range of 100,000 visitors to uh Martha's Vineyard on any given day in the summertime has to pass through Falmouth. Um so it's really substantial and um there was a report uh
commissioned uh by the state uh several years ago called the CASS report uh that that suggested that we should expect in the range of about a 2% per year increase in that traffic. Um so assuming that's meant as a compounding increase
in the next 15 years that would be about a 34% increase from where we are right now. Um so this this is a big problem that uh that found this kind going to have to deal with in one way or another. Um but it's obviously super challenging. Um
some of this the solutions that have been suggested are to have um a freight ferry that that runs out of uh New Bedford. Um that may have its own own equity issues. I'm not sure um what the pathway of that freight through New
Bedford would be. Um, but it would reduce overall uh miles driven uh probably because a lot of that um traffic does come from the south. So it wouldn't have to come all the way up over the bridge and down into Falmouth.
Um so this is a big issue. Um uh we looked at some of the lowhanging fruit that we that we might be able to address and and we wrote a letter to the police chief asking if they would um uh
have an officer down at the ferry terminal um to enforce particularly the the idling law and I believe that's happening now. I haven't heard an update recently. So that's that's very good step. Um because >> I think we had pretty good success last
summer with respect to uh to the police presence down there. Mr. >> And as part of this upcoming FY27 budget, we was we actually proposing to add some additional funds uh to uh he he ran a little short, but it was uh highly successful. And they did more than just I mean that that was an important piece, but it was
more than just the uh the monitoring of the >> the idle. >> Yeah. Um, so terms of lowhanging fruit, um, there's not a whole lot else unless, um, we'd definitely be interested if the select board has has any ideas on what
to do about about the issue. >> Um, Mr. Johnson, with respect to the imbarcation fund, can you talk a little bit about that? Are you can you the amount that we have and how we go about, you know, accessing those funds
or possibly accessing those funds? Sure. We I I believe we're bringing in um in the neighborhood of $4 to $500,000 per year and much of that has historically been allocated toward public safety um primarily public safety recognizing that
a portion of the public safety work is associated with Woods Hole and the um the Falmouth Harbor area. Um there is an opportunity if you know depending on where revenues go if they you know if they stay where they are or they grow
you know there might be another 50 to $100,000 per year that could be allocated. So that's your that's your potential spending opportunity. I' I'd be interested in hearing, you know, in the in the future from you with respect to some concrete ideas, uh, you
know, that would touch upon the environmental and hazardous situations down there from your perspective as to maybe what what we could spend a some money uh, you know, on on trying to rectify those problems. >> Mr. Chair. >> Yes, Mr. Richardson.
>> I I just have two thoughts on this. Uh, I think the board should send a letter um to the new Bedford delegation uh including perhaps their city council and mayor. I think this is something and Doug, I know you've worked closely on this with a number of different groups. I think it's something we need to be more collaborative on with our partners
on the south coast because I think it would be mutually beneficial to get freight out of Woods Hole and but also get it into New Bedford. I think there'd be a lot of economic opportunity there. Um, that was the first point and I forget the second. So that's all I got.
>> Well, you know, >> no, I remember. I remember >> what >> do we have an update on u meeting with Mr. Chryska, the new director of the steamship? >> I'm actually meeting with Alex uh this Thursday. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I mean certainly let's not forget
that it's the steamship authority that has been blocking the New Bedford freight for years. So, it's not something that's in our control, but uh I agree with you certainly trying to uh >> you know to reach out to uh to whomever we can to uh to get that on the table
again is is an important thing for the for the people in Woods Hole and and the town of Fmouth completely. So now, yeah, go ahead, M. Brown. >> I was just going to say I I know that the overall traffic is up probably 2%. But if you look at the freight, which is
the heavier polluters, it's more like six or 7%. And that's continuously increasing for a lot of reasons, but one of the reasons is they're no longer M. Mr. Packer used to barge fuel over there in big barges and he pump it into a big holding tank. And then he's discontinued
that because it was time to rebuild the tank and he said, you know, I've got better things to to do than rebuild this whole infrastructure. So now the fuel is being trucked. That's a big change. a lot of their uh waste sludge is being trucked off in in trucks also. So
there's there's a there's a lot of reasons why the volume is increasing and the freight and those trucks are less restricted to uh the standards that vehicles are restricted to. >> Okay. >> Any other thoughts? Um so so one of the
the significant health considerations that um we um have been questioned with and we have um talked to the DP about is actually air pollution directly coming from not only the truck traffic which we've um have have uh started to address
through the the enforcement of the idling laws um but a just the traffic and b the fact that um the fairies themselves ves may in fact be um close to violating pollution standards. Um the
southeastern Massachusetts has certain is part of an uh air pollution zone. Um the um it's challenging to actually determine
whether or not any particular vehicle, including a a ferry, is actually violating pollution standards because the they require expert assessment on a somewhat regular basis that is not
inexpensive. um it in actually it's literally trained eyeballs in some cases. Um and so it might be that the town investing some resources in that um in doing more than
just the uh inexpensive um air pollution monitoring but an actual um professional assessment. Um I believe it's called a MarkV eyeball. uh to uh to assess
um the the potential for pollution directly coming from the steamship authority, not just from the trucks. Um sort of an additional thing to think about in terms of truck traffic is the fact that with the recon upcoming reconstruction of the
Sagamore Bridge, the Bourne traffic on the Bourne Bridge is going to be increased by some staggering amount and um uh the truckers themselves may wish to have relief in order to be able to
make their fairies. So, um I think thinking ahead more than just a few years um would probably benefit all of us including the steamship. >> Yes, doctor. I I think this is an area
where talking to the state even if it takes a long long time is the way to go because as I understand it and as you mentioned most of the issues are tied up in the recalstance of the steamship authority to do anything. So they just
bought new fairies and new engines for some of their fairies and they're not nearly the cleanest diesels that you can buy and but they seem to completely ignore as I'm a washer I believe is the
expression anything that gets said to the steamship authority is like talking to the wall and I don't know who at the state regulates them but that would seem to be something worth discussing >> well um you know in the in the summer we
did have Mr. Davis here and his staff and we were able to uh at least speak to them and and get some discussion going and we're hoping that um that we'll be able to continue that collaboration with the uh Mr. Krisa. So I'm sure Mike will
pursue those ideas uh when he has his meeting. So, so I guess the final item and you know we've got about another five or seven minutes here is the uh flow neutral law and uh I know you wanted to you know discuss discuss that
as well. Um we did have a recent uh variance request at either the last meeting or the meeting before by uh from the uh property there on Dillingham that you know wants to increase the uh affordable housing units there and
housing units and and the dental office there right across from uh FCTV. So, uh that's the uh the only uh application that I remember within the past couple of years, but we expect some may be
coming up soon. Um I know that Luchina had submitted an application, but they hadn't uh submitted all the necessary paperwork. So, what are you thinking on improvements to the process? how we want
to how we should be looking at these waiver requests from your perspective. >> Uh Mr. Chair, if I could >> before we move on, um just I don't think we really came to any kind of consensus on the uh previous request. Is there going to be any action by the board tonight on that?
>> Are we going to >> what >> recommend some type of monitoring program or looking into it? At least >> I think we'll we'll look into it. I don't think we're >> and we're not ready to recommend something, but >> should we have a consensus that >> I mean I'd like to request that we write
a letter to interested parties on on this >> as a future agenda item request if that helps move it along. >> Yeah. I I would just like to, you know, say that I think we should do something about it. I know there was a an attempt to do some monitoring, but locations
were difficult to find and I would say that a more appropriate location would be actually on Steamship Authority property. Mhm. >> So see if we can hopefully move that somehow. >> Okay, Mike, maybe you can bring that up to Mr. Chrisa. Yep. Okay. >> Thank you. >> No, I think I mean I didn't mention
because I think there is consensus that we want to get that type of uh you know program from uh from from the steamship authority. So okay, thank you. >> Okay. >> Right. I'll I'll let George Hoyelder speak more on the flow neutral bylaw.
>> Okay. I hate to be the rabble riser on two items on the thing, but flow neutral has always been a mystery to me. Flow neutral, the words imply a certain thing. And uh I've abstained from some votes that we've sent up to you because
apparently the board of health has to make a judgment on whether a system could be placed at the properties requesting and could fit a title five without significant variances. In the
past years that I've been on the board, uh we've seen some come up where we've said absolutely not. Could never fit that 2,300 gallons for that particular expansion that's being requested. It goes up to the board and we see it
passed. And I go, that doesn't mean flow neutral to me. That means flow positive. So I guess I'd like to ask what the intent of the bylaw is. I saw this operate very effectively in Province Town where they said flow neutral
because I would have to say up you can fit it or you can't fit it under title five. If you couldn't fit it under title five in that particular flow neutral you weren't allowed to go forward. I think that the town is going to spend a lot of
money per gallon and houses are going to have to be hooked up. But the more we give away that's discretionary that isn't neutral anymore, then that's less houses that get done or the same number of houses
get done but somebody else pays for the flow that was sort of given away. I'm just a little confused on what flow neutral means. So that's why we brought it up as a as a thing. I think I would
just ask the board if it comes to the board of health, which is supposed to for the flu neutral bylaw, merely for a thing uh a rendering of whether it could fit a title 5 system. I would ask the board to very very carefully not give
away flow if it couldn't be there to begin with under title five. Now that's using it as a growth limiter. Uh but then again I keep coming back to those words. What does flow neutral mean? >> You have anything to say?
>> Would you have anything to say Miss L? maybe turn the mic on. >> Hello. Hello. Hi. Whoa. Uh Amy L, the town's wastewater superintendent. Um the flow neutral bylaw. I think we could have a whole
another discussion about the flow neutral bylaw and I' I'd actually welcome that another evening. There's not enough time to have a complete discussion tonight. Um the goal there are
the state requires the town to have a flow neutral bylaw in order to get um 0% interest SRF loans and there I I can't speak for the state but a part of that a
part of the reasoning I believe is that um you the town needs to have some control over flow um so that its wastewater treatment and discharge capacity is not
overwhelmed by growth within a planning area. So it it the intent a major part of the intent is to give the town more control over redevelopment so we don't lose uh lose control of our our capacity
treatment and discharge capacity. Um there I know initially there was discussion before the flow neutral bylaw was passed. So many years ago there was discussion about the idea that a flow neutral bylaw would um a goal might be
to make it so that a sewer doesn't allow more wastewater flow than would be allowed by the the current title 5 uh regulations. So a property that's limited in its redevelopment right now
because of septic regulations once it gets sewarded should still have depending on how you feel about it some level of regulation. So I think the the basic the origin of our flow neutral bylaw the basic basics of
it is it's required by the state for a 0% interest loan and uh and they the state wants the town to be managing wastewater growth wastewater uh yeah wastewater growth the um
when the town passed the flow neutral bylaw I believe that the town was focused on um the new sewer service areas that were under discussion at the time, the Little Pond sewer service area, and the
majority of those parcels um are single family homes. And that's really what a lot of the discussion had been about. But this flow neutral bylaw applies to all existing and future sewer areas. So
before the flow neutral bylaw existed there was no such control or regulation of redevelopment on main street for example and that has been one of the challenges of the flow neutral bylaw I think is that it's on the one hand you
know sort of a lot of the thinking about it was related to redevelopment within a new sewer area but the bylaw as written applies even to Main Street Davis Straits ticket highway where many of those parcels couldn't have originally
put a um title 5 septic system on the parcel to meet their needs. Um and certainly can't now. So I'll hush up for now. But that's that's um an introduction to some of my thoughts on it. It could use improvement and uh I
have been wanting to make suggestions on that. >> Okay. Well, we'll certainly add it to future agenda items for the select board to uh you know take take a review of the flow neutral bylaw. So, uh so thank you very much for uh for for joining us this
evening. Thank you very much for all you do for the town and your service to the town. So, >> are we not going to have any discussion >> on >> on the flow neutral by? Well, I I you know, I don't want to go too far along since we've got a long agenda and we've got to start our meeting at 5 uh 6:30,
but if you have something to say, >> well, just uh I definitely think we should uh update it because if you look at Main Street, there's a lot of >> space that I would think could be potential for redevelopment for apartments and housing, but if they come to us, they're never going to be able to
show that they can fit this Title five. So, I think we're missing out on some opportunities, especially along Main Street. And at some point, I think in those sewer areas, we're going to have to face it. The bylaw the flow neutral bylaw doesn't really work. And I mean,
it's holding us up right now, I think. So, >> sooner the better. >> No, I I agree. And that's why I think we need to put it on the agenda for future future agenda items. So, yes, Mr. Chair, >> Chair Kroger, uh, can I take a roll call vote to pause our meeting?
Okay. Um, can I have a motion to pause our >> motion to pause our meeting while we move to a different room? >> We have a second. Okay. Mr. Goldstone. >> I >> Yeah, we'll be moving. We'll be reconvening in the woodeneck meeting
room here in the center. Uh, Mr. Topulus >> I, >> Miss Roth, >> Mr. Hoyfelder, and Mr. Kroger. I Okay, >> thank you very much. >> Thanks very much. Okay, we'll just uh take a minute uh fixing things up here and we'll start
our meeting at 6:30. Sorry. >> Okay. Uh it is now 6:32 and we are going to reconvene. We have already called this meeting to order and had the pledge of allegiance. Uh so uh the first item is is there any
recognition on any of members parts? >> No. Okay. Are there any announcements? >> No. Okay. Uh I will say at the beginning of the meeting, well let me uh let me remind everyone to silence your
cell phones and please notify the chair if you are making a video or audio recording of this open session meeting. The placement and operation of the recording equipment should not interfere with the conduct of the meeting. uh we
have a very lengthy agenda uh again this evening and uh I'm going to try to uh uh as much as possible stay within the time allotted for for each matter. So uh please try if you are speaking uh try to
make your comments uh quick and and not repetitive. >> So we will move on to public comment >> do an announcement for >> okay I'm sorry M has an announcement. >> Thank you Mr. I just wanted to let folks know that we are holding a community
forum on the proposed police station site plan and that is scheduled for February 25th that will be held here at 7 p.m. on February 25th. So we've invited the abutters but all of the members of the public are welcome to
take a look at the proposed site plan and provide your input. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. So we will move on to public comment. Uh public comment may be made on routine matters not on the agenda this evening. Comments are limited to two minutes.
Please introduce yourself and since the matter has not been included on the agenda, the select board may not participate in discussion of the topic. Is there anyone here for public comment? Uh yes sir. Please come to the podium.
Introduce yourself. >> Air conditioning on. It seems like it is. Yeah. >> Is it on? >> Hi, good evening. Uh, my name is Ed Hughes, uh, a resident of West Falmouth and member of precinct 6, and I've been
asked to perform a neighborly service of reading comments of a civic leader in West Falmouth who is unable to attend this evening. Uh, so on her behalf, uh, thank you for the opportunity. Uh, my name is Tammy Gilbert and I live in
West Falmouth. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of residents who have spent many months working to correct misinformation and to protect the land of zero West Falmouth Highway from development. Last week, State Representative Thomas Mowgi forwarded to me a memorandum for town
council regarding this parcel. I want to place on public record that detailed written response has been submitted to the town manager, town council, and the select board. That response explains why we strongly disagree with the assertion that this land may be freely conveyed
and documents why it is article 97 protected. Three consistent concerns have been continually raised. Public safety, conservation status, and historic significance. A Massachusetts Department of Transportation road safety audit identified this exact location as
hazardous. Development would worsen conditions already known to be dangerous. This land was acquired by town meeting in 1931 for conservation and forestation, has been treated as town forest for more than 90 years and meets the article 97 totality of
circumstances test. The parcel also marks the southern entrance to the West Falmouth historic district and provides a critical buffer between a historic village and a high-speed state highway. Many town meeting members have stated publicly that they would have voted differently had these facts been fully
understood and did so when a clear majority reverse their votes in last meeting's town last November's town meeting. Proceeding without pausing to correct the record and recognize the will of the town meeting is deeply concerning. For transparency, historic records related to this land as well as
town council's memorandum and our formal response have been provided to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office for review. We respectfully ask the select board and town manager to pause any steps toward development and reconsider the town's position. Thank you.
>> Uh thank you. We'll consider that part of the record. But I would note that the there were some differences from what you read and to what has been submitted to the board before. So if you want to give us a copy of those comments or get
get a copy to the town manager's office tomorrow. >> Sure. >> Thank you. Okay. Anyone else here for public comment? If not, we'll proceed to the consent agenda. Uh, under licenses, number one, consider
a vote to approve the application by Historic Highfield, Inc. for a series of three special one-day wine and malt beverages licenses on February 22nd, March 15th, and April 26, 2026 from 4:00
p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Number two, consider a vote to approve an application for a special 1-day all alcohol liquor license ACICS, Felmouth Road Race, Inc., Felmouth Road Race VIP Finish Line Viewing Tent,
Felmouth Heights, Sunday, August 16th, 2026 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Number three, consider a vote to approve an application for a special 1-day wine and malt liquor license, Grey Matter
Marketing, Cape Cod Brewfest, Cape Cod Fairgrounds, 1220 Nathan Ellis Highway, Saturday, September 19th, 2026 from 20 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Administrative orders. Number one, consider a vote to approve the petition of NSAR electric company, DBA, Eversource Energy, for permission to install one new FO pole labeled 1269/1
with an anchor approximately 32 ft from existing pole 925/7. This work is necessary to provide electric service to Brick Hun Road for the Falmouth wastewater department. Number two, consider the approval of a
grant of easement to end store electric company PN Eversource Energy closed rent at 100 Rick Kil Road. Number three, consider the approval of a grant of easement to Boston Gas Company
PN National Grid at 100 Brick Kilm Road. Number four, consider a vote to opt in to early voting in person for the May 19th annual town election. And number five, consider a vote to
approve a request from the Falmouth Running Club for a variance to sign code section 184-32 off premises signs to hang Cape Cod Marathon flags on light poles on Main
Street from 91126 to 101326. >> Mr. Chair, I'd like to hold number five just for a brief. >> Okay. All right. Well, then we will uh is there a motion with respect to the other items uh that have not been held?
>> Move approval for consent agenda withholding number five. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion in the second. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Okay, Mr. Brown is requested to hold uh consider a vote to approve a request
from Fmouth Road running club for a variance to sign code uh with respect to Cape Cod Marathon Flats. M Mr. Brown, >> I just like to request that the uh flags be designed in a way that they can be mounted seven feet or higher above, you
know, walking distance because I've seen in the last few years, there's been a couple of times when people have made signs that I think are too big and they hang too low and they're even below six feet. So then people have to dodge them and duck around them. I think that's >> does our policy discuss the dimensions
for for uh because we recently adopted you know some some guidelines in the policy back last summer. So >> yes, Mr. Chair, uh under the policy which is included in the board packet under section 9 installation and removal um uh section 9 C banner shall be
installed at a minimum height of 7 ft from the sidewalk to the bottom of the banner. >> Good. Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. So >> with that, I'll move approval of number five. Consider a vote to approve the request from California club for variance to sign code
18-32 off premise signs to hang Cape Cod Marathon flags on light poles on Main Street from 91126 to 101326. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I
>> Okay, thank you very much. Uh we will now move on to uh committee interviews and uh and and this interview is a little different uh from from what most of our interviews uh are. So I'm going to invite uh the uh the the members of
the Fmouth Housing Authority Board of Commissioners who are here uh and the executive director of the housing authority to join us here at the DEIS. Uh this is an application
uh to uh to appoint. Go ahead. Well, Steve, a very long vacant position and we certainly appreciate the patience of the interviewe uh in uh in getting us to uh to hear this uh this evening.
Um, so there is a vacancy uh on the on the uh Falmouth Housing Authority. Uh, that vacancy was occasioned by Mr. Richardson's uh election to the select board back last May. Uh and uh as a
result, there has been a vacancy uh and uh Hannah Vander Vander Shuran uh is is here this evening uh to uh to tell us a little bit about herself and uh why she wants to uh be on the Fmouth
Housing Authority. Uh this does not uh require an actual formal uh meeting because uh uh under the state statute um uh the found Housing Authority did not actually formally notify us uh of of the
vacancy uh which allows us to proceed without the you know formality of a joint meeting necessarily with the housing authority. And there, as you can see, there's probably not a quorum here, but in any event, we want to welcome Mr. Glasso and Mr. Patton and Miss Richards.
Uh, and uh, you know, ask you to, you know, talk a little bit about, uh, Miss Vander Sheeran and what you see the needs for the Fmouth Housing Authority. >> Thank you. I I think in her presentation she'll be able to describe that her
she's already very active in in housing and u and she's young so uh two major attributes um and we really would like to fill this vacancy. Our board can't always vote on some items. um some members can't vote
on financial items and you know we need to move these things forward and we welcome her but I sure you will after you hear from her herself. So >> and just so we understand the current makeup of the board is there are four active members.
>> Yes, Kathleen Hayes >> I'm sorry Kathleen Haynes is our resident member and Trish Favulli was uh the board's uh or the state's uh appointment to the board. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Go ahead.
>> All right. Well, thank you very much for having me tonight and also having members of the board of commissioners uh present. Um I'm really eager to participate in the uh Felmouth Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and um through discussions. I understand how uh
urgent some of these matters are to deal with and I'm just willing to learn um and lend my perspective um to the housing authority. Okay. >> So, is this a position that that's set forth in statute as to what the
qualifications are with respect to uh to this particular position? It >> does not. >> Okay. >> It's it's an appointment by the select board. >> Right. >> Right. >> Well, if if if not elected by the voters. >> If not elected by the voters. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Anyone have any
questions of Mr. Vander? I don't have any questions, but uh I have worked with Hannah on at with the marine biological laboratory housing action uh committee uh together with the Woodsole Oceanographic Institution and others. We joined forces just a short
time ago and I can attest to her professionalism. I can attest to her interest and her passion for this work. So I therefore move to um let me get the wording here. Uh
bear with me. Should have had it up. Uh so motion to appoint Hannah Vers Vander Shuran to the Falmouth Housing Authority Board of Commissioners to fill an unexpired term until the next annual town election on May 19th, 2026.
>> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I >> Okay, thank you very much and good luck and thank you for the other work that you've done for the uh for the town of family.
>> Thank you. >> Oh, sorry. >> All right. Well, thank you very much. Appreciate you being here. >> Okay. Busy night. Okay. Okay. Our next item is uh for the
conservation commission and we have Mr. Ronald Bowman. And Mr. Bowman, are you here? >> I am. >> Okay. Please step up. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> You want to tell us a little bit about yourself?
>> Well, I'm already an ultimate member and they need a full-time member. So, I've already been through this process. So, I think it's kind of semantics, but >> All right. Anybody have any questions? Mr. Bowman, >> I guess you're liking being on the >> I'm getting used to it. I'm getting my
feet wet. Yeah, it's a it's a learning curve, but uh I think it's a a good group of people there and I think we're making a good impact. >> Yeah, I understand there's some sort of training that you do for the to be a commissioner. Is that >> there's there's some training. Yeah, it's kind of you learn as you go, too. You learn and you know, for the first
few months, I kind of just listened and paid attention to what was going on. So, but uh the longer you're in, the more you start to learn things. >> Good. >> Yeah. >> Good to have you there. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No questions. >> Motion to appoint uh Thank you, Colin.
Motion to appoint applicant Ronald Bowman to f a member full member vacancy on the conservation commission on expired term June 30, 2027. >> Okay, we have second and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Good night.
kicked. >> Okay. >> So, also for the conservation commission, Mr. Dan Walsh. Here's Mr. Walsh. >> Good evening, folks. >> Good evening. Thanks for having me. Good to see you. >> So, just a little bit of background for
you. So, since retiring here 2023, being here full-time, >> I've done a lot of work with both the 300 committee as well as with the towns. Could >> you bring the microphone? Sorry about that. All right. Can you hear me now? >> Yes. >> So, with the conservation commission
staff and with the 300 committee management trying to maintain the trails around the various lands around here as well as removing, of course, invasives and trying to do improvements on a bunch of the property. So, to me, the conservation commission was kind of just a logical next step in terms of trying
to help maintain the character of the conservation lands around here. as as I'm sure you know, there's a big time commitment with respect to the conservation commission. So, uh Oh, yeah. You're prepared to uh to put in that time, I'm sure.
>> Absolutely. I've been I've been sitting through the meetings for the last couple of months and it's very interesting the issues that they have to deal with. So, it's definitely challenging. >> You're an important part of the town >> and I see from your resume that you have experience as a a person who lives in a conservation area as well. So, that's
>> that's true. >> Both sides of it, right? I I I butt green pond over there. So, I've been through the process myself a couple of times with the conservation commissioners as well as the doc process. >> Important that you've been through the process. I think it it lends something to uh you know those those discussions
with the applicants. >> Okay. Anyone ready to make a motion? Mr. Brown, >> I would love to make a motion to appoint Dan Walsh to the Conservation Commission for um we got couple of choices here. one full member position with a term ending
63028. Would you like that? >> I think that's what Yes, that'd be fine. >> I think we just gave the other one to Mr. Bowman. >> So that's my motion if you'll be willing to serve that law. >> Absolutely. >> I'll second that. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. Any
further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. And finally to the energy committee we have committee we have Owen Huxley. Mr. Huxley. Miss Miss Huxley.
Sorry. >> Oh, I think you just turned it off. >> Yeah, it's off. It's on the top >> the top of it. >> There you go. >> No, it's not the end. It's the top. >> There you go. >> There you go. Y >> Can you hear me now? now. Yes.
>> Okay. Well, tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to be on the energy. >> Uh, well, a little bit of background. I used to be a summer person, but I've moved here as quickly as I could, which was during COVID. Um, before that, I was in Washington DC where I was the energy manager for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and law enforcement being very close to my heart. Um, but yes, I was uh I used my dad was a scientist and we came to Woods Hole every summer. My parents built a house there in 1971. I just put solar on a roof. It's awesome.
Um, but during COVID, I was spending a lot more time up here and I realized that was a good time to probably make the switch. Um and uh yes so I changed jobs to become an energy consultant and relocated up here in approximately 2122
and Stephanie Madson who was my friend when she was a hoie was then objuring me to please join the energy committee and I kind of put it off for a few years but I've been to several of the meetings and things have worked out that I have a little bit more time to attend the
meetings and really apply myself so here I am. Well, thank thank you. There's been a a lot of activity and interest in the energy committee. It's great. Uh and we appreciate you stepping up. There have been a couple of other appointments within the past few months. So, it's
good to uh to get the energy committee fully formed. >> Yeah, we'll have a full house now. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any further discussion? >> No. I think uh certainly your resume speaks for itself and I think you'll be a great addition to this committee. >> It's going to be fun.
>> Yes. Oh, good for you. Thank you. Need a little fun around here. >> Okay. >> Motion to appoint uh Olen Huxley to the energy committee to fill an unexpired term that ends June 30, 2026. >> Okay, we have a motion. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Reed seconds. Any further
discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I Okay, >> thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Uh now we have a uh a public hearing. Uh it is past 6:45 so we are on
time. Uh and I'm going to ask Mr. Brown to read the public notice with respect to the uh wetland dock hearing uh with respect to property at 202 Edgewater Drive East. >> Okay. As soon as I get through all this
appointment policy language, I will do that. Gee, that's a long thing to scroll through. Okay. Felmouth Select Board will hold a public hearing under section 240-14.8, eight wetlands regulations of the zoning
bylaws of the town of Felmouth on Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. in the Old Silver Surf Drive program room, senior center, 780 Main Street, Felmouth, on the application of Michael and Marne Ferrell for permission to construct a fixed pier that will extend
approximately 61 ft Seawward of Mean High Water into Eel Pond located at 202 Edgewater Drive East, East Felmouth, Mass. Area affected is Eel Pond. Interested parties may review the file on this hearing at the office of the select board for order of the select
board. And I don't see the date of publication there. Oh, date of publication is Friday, January 23rd and Friday, January 30th, 2026 in the Felmouth Enterprise. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Brown. The applicant is here. Mr. Pelli, please
introduce yourself. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. For the record, Mike Borscelli, Felmouth Engineering, and I represent the applicant. Michael and Marne Farrell. Marne Farrell is here this evening in the audience. Uh the Pharaohs
own the property at 202 Edgewater Drive East. It has water frontage on Eel Pond and they uh expressed a desire to have a a a private recreational uh dock at their property. So they retained our
services to go through the design and permitting process. We performed a survey on the land um and we were able to determine that there was adequate water depth. Um we um first went to the conservation commission and
went through uh their hearing process which is a a rather rigorous process. Um, and early on in that process, uh, as is, um, our typical procedure, we met
with the harbor master, uh, on site and reviewed the property to make sure there would be no issues with navigation. So, the conservation commission had a series of public hearings and they approved it and issued an order
of conditions. The dock itself is uh proposed as a 4 foot wide fixed pier. It's pile supported with 10-in diameter timber pilings. They're spaced
um approximately 16 to 17 ft on center. And the idea is that uh a boat would tie to the southern side alongside. There's no ramp or float associated with
this. Um it has uh a minimum of 3 ft of water at the end of the dock at time of mean low water. Um a shelfish survey was performed and was determined that uh the
density threshold was not exceeded. Uh I include with the plan on the second sheet um a profile view the topography on the site is such that the land where the
house is is much higher than at the shoreline. There's an uh an existing uh stone seaw wall along the frontage. So, the duck will start at the top of that seaw wall and transition down with a um
two different uh levels till it gets to a a height that lends itself to getting in and out of boats at times of um high and low tide. There's a band of salt marsh along the shoreline. We're
required to provide a minimum separation above that salt marsh of 6 ft. Uh we're also required to provide public access under the dock um in one section and that this one
section provides that uh clearance for public access. I uh there's a typical cross-section uh you I've submitted on previous applications to this board and this is very similar to
uh previous applications. The overall uh dock length from mean high water is 61 ft. A question that is commonly comes up at these hearings uh and I was asked to
comment on it tonight was what is the overall uh percentage of crossing across the water body itself uh where this property fronts on Eel Pond. It's directly across from the peninsula known as uh sea pit.
And um so the body of water known as Eel Pond has a width of approximately um 350 ft at that point and the proposed dock is crossing just over 60 ft across that
overall 350 foot wide uh water body which equates to about an 18% crossing. um it's standard uh Army Corps of Engineers policy not to exceed 25%. So that combined with the fact that the
harbor master saw no issues with navigation, I think that there's there will be no impacts to navigation. >> I think that sums it up. I'm happy to take questions. >> Questions? >> Sorry. Any any questions on the
>> no addition on the select board? I know uh Mr. Brown had raised the questions and you app answered them and we appreciate your answering them in advance. So we had an opportunity to take a look at that. So I'll make a motion to close the public hearing. >> Second.
>> Okay, we have a motion in a second. All in favor? >> I Okay. Uh discussion with respect to the well uh before we uh Yeah, I apologize. Before we uh close the meeting, are there any people in the
public who wanted to discuss uh have comments with respect to the uh to the application? Okay. So, there were none. So, uh I think we're okay. Uh so, we'll we'll move to a vote.
I I would move approval of this doc presented by Mr. Borcelli. Okay. Motion to approve the application from Michael and Marne Farrell for permission to construct a fixed pier that will extend approximately 61 ft seawward of mean high water into Eel Pond located at
202 Edge Edgewater Drive East Valmouth. >> Second. >> We have a motion and second. All in favor? >> I thank you. >> Okay. We will now move on to discuss and consider a vote to approve an application for a one-day entertainment
license. Mr. Uh Reed, will you read the public notice, please? >> Yes. Notice is here is hereby given under chapter 140 section 183A of the general laws as amended by chapter 299 of the acts of 1926
and amendments there too that Luke Vos of Rise and Shine Productions LLC Falmouth has applied for a one-day entertainment license for Coastfest to be held in the Lynn Whitehead Banshell at Marine Park 180 Scranton Avenue Falmouth on Saturday August 1st 2026
between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. A hearing on the above application will be held in the Old Silver Surf Drive program at the Falmouth Senior Center, 780 Main Street, Falmouth on Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 6:45.
Comments may be sent to the select board at falmouth ma.gov for the order of Falmouth select board. Publication date Friday, January 30th, 2026 in the Falmouth Enterprise. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Bose.
>> Good evening. >> Okay. You want to tell us about your application? >> Uh, yeah. We've had this uh same event since 2019. It's a local concert. Um, we try to bring really high value production, something really impressive. Um, we have
a it's a great community event. Portion of the profits go to um go to local charities and um we've always done it until 10 o'clock. This year they asked us to move it to 9:00. Um, which just doesn't work for the financial side of
it. Um, so I guess I'm here more to answer questions. I like I think the event is we think it's a great event. It hasn't changed over the years very much. So, um, I'm here to I guess answer any questions or just appeal that change in
the uh in the curfew. >> I just >> I just want to express my strong support for keeping it at 10:00. Um I think that um you know I attended this this last year and it was a fantastic event and you know really it's more uh you know you guys do great due diligence and
making sure that you're done really by 9:45 950 and you are really respectful of of keeping the noise to the band shell and uh as as you know as a young person I haven't said it in a while Mr. Chair I'm allowed to say it but as a young person >> you're not that young anymore. Yeah, I'm not I'm not that they got younger people
here, but um it's incredibly important that we protect events like this and we continue to support Coastfest and make it as easy as possible. So, I would certainly support um keeping it at at 10:00. I think they've been a great partner to the community. Uh we should should should keep this in place the way it is.
>> I I guess I'm just going to ask you, Mr. Vos, why doesn't it make sense economically for you? Well, first of all, uh, one of the first things is just the production side of it. You put on a big light show, video walls. Part of the reason people come is
it's this amazing production. You're not going to see anywhere else on the Cape. Uh, you don't really see that until it's dark. So, if you stop at 9:00, people aren't going to see the light show. They're not going to see this video wall we put up. That's a big part of it. Um,
and then financially, we just know a lot of people come later in the day. a lot of people are coming at uh 9:00. Um so it's actually ticket sales for the door and then concession sales in that last hour as well. >> So So basically you think you would have
less attendance if you closed it up at 9:00. That's what you're saying financially. >> I'm fairly certain. Yeah. >> Okay. Anyone else questions? >> Do you think you'll ever outgrow the site and want to go out to the the uh fairgrounds?
>> I hope so. >> Yeah. because it seems like it's kind of getting there. It's getting pretty big. >> Yeah, I think we do a good job with the amount of people there. >> Yeah, >> honestly, I think we get everyone out in time and they have time to go to other bars in town if they want to keep, you
know, uh enjoying the evening and uh we really never had any big issues. I think we work well with the town and the police and the fire department. So, um I don't feel like we we're at like it's bursting at capacity. We need to get out of there this year. I would like any
enterprise I'd love to grow and grow into that space but I don't think we're there yet. >> I think from an infrastructure standpoint it makes sense because you know you can walk around after it kind of like what you just said >> you know but maybe in the future we can think of something with transportation from the county fair site to other spots
in town. Uh just for the record uh and it came in rather late in the uh in the day, but we do have a police log of some some noise complaints that were were to the police department last year and uh you know we appreciate whatever uh
whatever efforts you can do to you know minimize those uh those complaints as much as possible. >> Absolutely. >> Uh we did receive comments uh on both sides uh and they are part of the public record. So, um I'll ask if anyone else
uh in the public like to speak, sir. Uh hear you first and then >> you're go. >> Okay. Well, there you go. >> Good evening. My name is Rick Maple. I live at 174 Queen Street. My home, a
living space and bedrooms, as well as a residential complex faces the bench, which is only 150 ft away. Due to the extreme sound level generated by the bands, which exceeds 80 dB, the crowd noise, the traffic noise, people honking
and screaming as they go by, and the 8 hour duration of the event, which ends at 10:00 at night. I ask that you deny licensing for Coastfest on August 1st, 2026. I'll keep this short, less than three
minutes, as I've voiced my concerns to the board and a town manager for over a year at this point. I've also attended multiple town meetings in an effort to provide insight into the negative impact that these unreasonably loud and long
events are having. The sound level is so extreme, we're unable to host and invite friends and family to our home Saturday nights during the summer. We have needed to cancel multiple milestone family events, birthday
celebrations, anniversaries, and most disheartening, visits from our grandchildren. Due to the extreme sound levels, we literally cannot hear or communicate with each other both inside and outside
our home. And the grand and the grandchildren cannot go to bed at a reasonable time. This has been substantiated via multiple videos sent to the board. I've provided the board numerous videos
and written correspondence highlighting the extreme nature of these ban shell events. All of this is done in an effort to provide insight into the extreme and disruptive nature of the weekly events in real time. The reality is that there are families
that live only 150 ft from the band shell and the amplified sound systems. With this in mind, I only have a few questions I'd like to get clarification on from the board. One, does the board feel that band decibel levels that
exceed 80 dB in ex is acceptable in a residential area that is only located 150 ft from the band shell? Two, does a band feel that rock bands
playing amplified music continuously for eight hours in duration is acceptable in a residential area that is only 150 ft from the residential housing? And finally, does the board feel a
band's playing amplified music all day until 10 o'clock at night in the evening acceptable in a residential area that is only 150 ft away? In conclusion,
in an effort to provide realism, I'd like to present to the board an actual recording from last year's Coastfest that was recorded as we were sitting in our living room of our home. Please keep in mind this is a very short recording, but the actual event goes on for eight
straight hours. I ask you once again, please do not grant licensing for the Coastfest. Thank you. Voice memo. We love you guys so much. Do
we love you guys? Thank you. the consideration stopping this would be appreciated. >> Uh just just to to clarify, Mr. Maple uh during your your points you were somewhat conflating uh this particular
application which this is one night uh with with other other events. So I just want to clarify that this uh application is only with respect to uh uh to the uh crooked coast application. Uh you made
some comments with respect to events throughout the summer and so forth. That's not the subject of this particular public hearing. >> I completely understand that. >> Thank you. Okay. Any members have anything to uh Yes, sir.
>> Hi. Good evening. I'm Joe Setllock. I'm the property manager for the Admiral T Apartments, which is directly next door to uh Mr. where Mr. Maple lives. I represent uh 67 uh residents ranging from the ages of uh 5 years old to 94
years old. They are with few exceptions actually in uh favor of uh listening to music. I have many of my 70 and 80 year olds that uh grew up listening to rock and roll and they love uh being able to go there. I would like
to point out that the band uh the band stand has actually been in place since the 1960s. I used to have a resident that watched uh was listening to music over there while watching our property be constructed in 1963 64. Um the so
it's been in existence and and um and music has been played there since then 30 years before the marine condos were even open. You know, we uh we actually owned the property previously, we being the owners, and sold Marine Condos, their property, and they were built in
the 90s. So, the band shel's been existing, the music's been existing, and uh it's just really a part of the culture of Falmouth to be able to have events there, uh to uh have things that
really bring in more people to Falmouth. and I sit out there uh you know I was here the first year 2019 is when I came here uh I used to be off Cape and then previous to that I was in South Yarmouth and we were always in uh support of more
um uh music and culture and art events in uh in uh the Cape to help drive business uh to be yearround versus um being very seasonal as it was um in the ' 70s and60s.
So, uh we are uh in uh great support of uh of uh Coastfest and I have to uh uh commend them uh on their um event coordination. The crowd
control and site cleanup is tremendous. Uh they they do great uh with uh with making sure that they are a good partner to our community. I don't have to go out and pick up um um cups or anything else uh along the uh along the roadway or
into into our big lawn that we have there. Um, we uh we really just uh encourage using that space and uh you know we we hate the idea that you might grow too large to uh to go elsewhere, but uh if that happens, we would hope to
find somebody else that would be to come in and continue to pro provide that type of entertainment that is walkable for the community. >> Thank you. Any questions about, you know, our representation? >> Uh no, thank you.
>> Okay. Anyone Anyone else would like to speak? Yes, sir. >> Um, hi, my name is Jonah Goldstone. Um, I live at 43 Grasmir Drive. Um, just uh across the street from Mors Pond School.
Um, and I've been going to Coastfest uh since it began, as well as listening to Craig Coast since kindergarten when they played um schools or shows for the school um during the last week of summer every year that I can remember. Um, this
event's been a highlight of my summers as well as many of my friends for years since it began. Um, and I feel that the public event space isn't utilized as much as even as it could be. And this event once a year um showcasing local bands um is a great use of the public
property and the public show space um as well as uh the event only runs until 10:00 which is when the quiet time starts. So the uh allotted time is used fairly and there's no um extensive use
or too loud use of the property. >> Okay. Thank you. You have something to say, Chief? So, I wasn't able to make the um special event meeting. Uh so, I notified Peter Johnson STO that you I did have an
opinion on this event. Um I'm here now coming on three years. And one of the things that I really love about Falmouth is how we embrace all these special events. I mean, the Fourth of July is even louder. Um and we're not having near riots. We're not having, you know,
terrible issues there. Uh we encountered two intoxicated people. Uh we can't determine if they were even at this event. In fact, one of them we contact in that area quite often uh intoxicated. Uh we did receive a couple of noise complaints. Um I would just remind
everyone that it is a band shell. Um it's a one night event. We interviewed all the detail officers and all the staff that worked um last year. No issues. I concur what this gentleman just said. They leave the site cleaner
than when they get there. Um, so I'm in support till 10 o'clock. You know, I have empathy for the gentleman, for his family. It's one night till 10. I I don't think the 1 hour makes that much of a difference. Um, and like I said, it's a great local event that, you know,
I don't know, thousand people throughout the day visit, um, that really enjoy it. And I think it's good for Falmouth, it's good for our local businesses. I think it's good for for our community. Uh so and as your police chief, I just wanted to give you my opinion on it. Um and
like I said, very very few problems we have that night. Hopefully it continues. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Chief. >> Just real quick, I also just want to commend your officers. I talked with a number of them when I was there last year and it was just very great work that your department puts on as well for
this event and other events. Hello, I'm Molly Keefe. Um, I also have been listening to Creek Co since kindergarten and I am now a junior. Um, my friends and I look forward to this event every year. Um, we've been going since the first one in 2019 except for
CO when they did a trailer tour and came to my house. Um, um, an event like this is unique to our town and especially for teens. It's also very special to me. Um, thank you. That's it. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Yes, sir. >> Uh, please note that the apartment complex that the gentleman was speaking of is about 300 yards away from the building. We are actually 150 ft away from the building or from the banshaw. Thank you.
>> Understood. Thank you. Anyone else wants to speak? >> Hi, Melissa Keefe. I'm a member of the school committee. However, I'm not speaking on behalf of the school committee. I'm speaking on behalf of uh myself personally, my family, and uh if
I dare say children of the town and young people. Um couple of highlights I just want to mention it. Uh I want to remind everyone that during co we were essentially begging for live music to come back and Coastfest um they were
there before they made it work during you know being safe with everyone. They were on a flatbed, I believe, built by the amazing brother of the amazing Luke. And I'm I'm going to continue to advocate for live music. This event is
also bigger than Crooked Coast at this point. It's a community event. Um, and being somebody who's I I'd like to think I'm a fabric part of the fabric of this community. Um it it's it's hard for um
it's hard for to keep live music going and to really engage young people. And if you've not been to this event, uh to see the young people come together, families, young kids, grandparents, um
you know, contemporaries of myself, people from around the town that are perhaps on opposite ends of things coming together and really celebrating music, live music, and you know, folks that are from here. I think that that's really important. Um, I'm really sorry
to our I'm really sorry that um you're having a sour experience with this. I I I don't know how to fix it. I I'm sorry. I like to try to fix things. I'm I I hope that somehow someway
it gets better for you. I I don't know. But I would like to continue to advocate for this venue. And this is not my first time coming uh to advocate for Crooked Coast and Coastfest. Thanks very much. >> Motion to close public comment.
>> Is there anyone else that wants to speak? There's some other people. >> Hi there. My name is Lily and I'll be coming up next to talk about my event. But um just in reference to decibb and the financial
implications and it being a community event, I mean there's so much to balance when you're talking about community events and much to the officer's point, you know, the fireworks are far louder. Um Mr.
Maple, with all due respect, I know you were here last year, too. You were concerned about my event having six dates, and as a courtesy, I cut off at 9:00. I asked for 9:30 in case the bands go over because I can't, you know, if they go over five five 10 minutes, I don't want to be a nuisance, right? But
the point is to this particular event >> for Luke to lose an hour of his event has serious financial implications. So my background in this field, this is my profession. This is this is my livelihood. I worked for Live Nation for close to 10 years managing multiple
venues in Hartford, in Philadelphia, everywhere. An hour of sales can make or break the event. And let's say Luke was coming here representing the road race and it was the 70s and you guys said, "Oh, well, no, we're not going to close any more roads for you." Where would we
be economically at this point if we didn't have the road race? I mean, that's what these events are growing into, our economic stimulus. So, please keep that in mind, too, when we're making these decisions about
essentially issuing sound ordinance or things like that. like we we have to have actual research and like factual information as far as what we're going to do and base these decisions off of especially for public space usage which
was I know something I mentioned last year you know we were just kind of having this conversation for the first time with the new regulation and I was saying you know can we have a little more clarity maybe moving forward with that framework of what can we do within those spaces and maybe have an addendum
for public spaces versus those private spaces, which is how this all came about and why we have to go through this process. Um, and also the way speakers work, how you can control them, there's a lot that can be
done, a lot. So, to everyone else's point, you know, it would be a huge, huge loss to our community on many levels for many reasons. >> Thank you. Is there >> unless there's somebody else there? >> Yeah. Is there a motion to close public
hearing? >> A motion to close public hearing. >> Well, I would >> motion to close the public hearing. >> I guess I don't know. I just wanted to make a comment. >> But can we deliberate? Yeah. After. Yeah, >> we'll close the public hearing. Second. Okay, we have a motion in a second to
close the public hearing. All in favor? I >> I Okay, now discussion with respect to the application. Mr. Brown. >> Yeah, I'd like to ask Mr. Bose how he can uh manage to just turn turn it down a little bit. I mean, I've been to the event a couple years ago. I I know I
commented to you afterwards that it just seemed exceedingly loud. >> And that's not just, >> you know, from from my perspective about you, but other shows that I've been to. >> It just seemed like it was over the top. >> Couple years ago. >> Couple years ago. And I think it was it was a little bit less last year, but
still, I mean, >> it seemed like it was louder than it needed to be. It's not that big of a space. >> So, you know, people are going to hear you. It's not like, you know, >> so if we could try to work on that. I mean, I I think that's the biggest thing. The guy's trying to talk to his
family in his house. He can't even hear each other talk. And 80 something decibels is from 150 ft away. That's pretty loud. So, and I'm sure he's going to have the meter going again this year. >> Okay. So, >> all right. Is there a motion with
respect to the application? Motion to approve the application for one-day entertainment license. Rise and shine production LLC Coastfest. Lynn Whitehead Banshell Marina. Jeez. Lyn Whitehead Banchell at Marina Park 180s Grant Nav. Saturday, August 1st, 2026, 3 p.m. to
1000 p.m. as presented. >> I'll second that. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? D just a final comment that I think it's a valid point that these uh these events are economic driver in town and a lot of people come here for that and I think it's important
we've got a lot of comments in the emails as well of supporting >> as I said before you know there were a number of number of comments though okay uh so we have a motion and a second any further discussion hearing none all in favor I >> I Okay thank
And then we will move on to our last public hearing to discuss and consider a vote to approve an application for one-day entertainment license New England festivals. And for that I'm going to turn to Mr. Richardson. >> Town of F select.
>> Town of F select board notice of public hearing. Notice is hereby given under chapter 140 section 183A of the general laws as amended by chapter 299 of the acts of 1926 and amendments there too that New England Festivals Inc. North Falmouth, Massachusetts has applied for an entertainment license for the Harbor
Light Illumination Concert Series and Night Market to be held at the Lynn Whitehead Band Shell at Marine Park 180s Grand Nav Falmouth on the following Saturdays, July 4, 11, 18, and August 8:1, 1522 2026 between the hours of 5:00
p.m. and 9:30 p.m. A hearing on the above application will be held in the Old Silver/Surf Drive program at Fouth with Senior Center 780 Main Street, found on Monday right now. Uh comments may be sent to selectboard foundwithmma.gov. >> Okay. Thank you very much. The applicant
is here. Would you like to tell us about your application? >> Sure. Thank you. Uh my name is Lillian Kazanis and I'm here to present my concert series for your approval again this year. It will be our sixth season. Um
there's no changes to the event. It will be the same as it has been. Um, I have the same concern sort of as Luke is just, you know, I just want to make sure that I have that buffer um of a little bit of time. Like as a courtesy, I've always cut it off at 9:00. I know the
last concert of my series last year went over a little bit because the band specifically asked me if they could do a little bit more material cuz they were local from here. And the gentleman's daughter was coming up to sing with him and I said that's fine. And it went over by about 15 minutes. So, I'm just, you
know, concerned to know what is the process going to be moving forward? How do we address things like neighbor complaints? There's always going to be complaints. So, it's like where's that where's that balance? Where can we come together and say, "Okay, can someone let
me know when there's a complaint after one of my dates within, you know, five business days or something so I can address it?" I had no idea anyone had any sort of complaint whatsoever at all. The first time I heard of it was at our meeting in January and I was like, "Oh, well, I easily could have rectified that
had I known, you know, and furthermore, you know, how you arrange speakers, the decibel readings, like all of those things, you know, it's very manageable. It's very workable. So, you know, it's unfortunate
that he has had such a bad experience like the other woman was saying, but you know, there there are solutions to this that aren't just, you know, who's going to yell louder, the people complaining or the people, you know, it's like, no, no, no, no. We can we can figure this out. Um, as far as my event goes, again,
there's no changes. Um, and I'm looking forward to it. It's it's becoming more successful, which is great. I've been able to give back more, which is great. Your support has been great. So, thank you. >> If I remember correctly, your application is donation only for people
who attend. >> Yep. It's a free event, donation based should they so choose, so that it's accessible. There are artisans there, so it's supporting local artisans. Um, it's supporting local artists as
well, musicians, food trucks are there, and they're usually all local people. So, it's a local event for our town. >> So, quick question. Our regulation allows up to 1000 p.m. is if I'm hearing
it correctly, your event goes 5 to 9 >> as advertised and then if there is a request or a uh one more song chant that happens up, you'll be cut off by 9:30, >> right? I would never go past 9:30. My my
goal is to have that halfhour buffer really for just the ambient sound of people leaving even, you know, just so that it's, you know, my permit will extend to that, >> right? Just give me a littleation is to conduct until 9:30. >> Just your procedure is to stop it at 9:00.
>> Mine is >> Yeah, that's okay. Just wanted to make sure. >> Thank you for the clarification. >> Sure. >> Anyone else questions? Uh, anyone in the audience have something to say, please? No.
>> So, on to dovetail into what I said earlier about um the support from our uh from our um from our apartment building and uh everybody really just loves having these, but we've uh we've thoroughly enjoyed watching the growth of uh of uh of her event. Uh you know,
Harvard Eliminations is just uh it's it's different from Coastfest. It's uh quieter. uh overall and um but their partnership with the community uh you know making sure that uh the u the area
remains clean uh is uh is on par with what they do with Coastfest. So we uh we are just in full support, you know, and uh we love having uh as many events uh at the harbor as uh as possible, you know, because that's that's what the band show was built for. >> Okay.
>> All right. Thank you. >> Oh, Joe said lock again. Sorry. We got it. Thank you. Anyone else in the audience? >> I am Melinda Peterson. Oh, sorry. >> Raise it up a little bit. >> Oh, okay. Um, I've actually known
Lillian for uh a number of years. And um I have to say that it's really been awesome to see this event and how it's evolved uh in our town and actually see the band shell being utilized um in the way that I feel like it was really intended to be utilized. Um it really
represents I feel like a a important need in this community. Um I was born and raised here. I just most recently came back. Um, and from an economic standpoint, um, it's very inclusive, um,
seeing that it's donation based, um, for people who have young families who can't exactly afford to, um, uh, you know, take their kids out, you know, every Friday night. It's just it's just a wonderful opportunity. Um, I don't know
if any of you have ever been to it, but um, it's really incredible to see. Um, you know, there there's just kids running and playing and um, you know, it just I feel like it serves the community on so many different levels. Um, and we
just really need that. Um, here we're having I feel like a retention problem with uh, keeping young families here as the cost of living keeps on escalating. I know personally I came home to take care of my mother. She's 84. Um but um I
have two kids by proxy who are 9 and 11. Um and there just isn't the um there just isn't the finances available at the end of the day, you know, to take them out for the evening sometimes. And it's it's just a wonderful opportunity for
young families to be able to go out and to participate in the culture of the community um and not have to spend a ton of money. Um just go and listen to music. Um there's also activities there for children. Um which I just there's
having lived here for the last 44 years, it's just um you know I've seen the Cape change tremendously. It's not the same place as it was when I was growing up on Woodshole Road on the farm. Um, it's a
much different place and I feel like we need to cultivate these opportunities that are healthy and familyfriendly and wholesome. Um, I've actually never been to Coastfest, but um, I think what Luke's doing is wonderful as well. And I've known him for a really long time.
He's an incredible human being. His he comes from an incredible family, same as Lillian. And I just think that we can't set the precedent of eliminating these events. Um, I think it's really important that we continue to foster them. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Right. Anyone else uh from the public then? We'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion to second. Any further discussion? Hearing none.
>> I I I Okay. on the application. >> I'd like to just uh make a general comment that this event space was built originally in 1972 and redone in two in 2009 and it is such a community resource. Um having moved here over 10
years ago, I am still just a rookie. But um in that I have found that 90% of the time in this town, everything closes at 8 or 9:00. So having these few spikes of fun is very important. A few spikes of community
um homegrown talent, concerts and other things is very important. Uh we celebrate small businesses that are brick and mortar. But it's time that we also think about celebrating the homegrown music scene that we have here.
And uh to quote a friend of mine uh uh Brian Guest, let's keep Felmouth fun here. And uh for that, I'm supportive of both of the things. I I neglected to speak at the last uh topic, but for both of them overall, I think we need to do this. And I am in strong support for
both. And so with that, I'll make the motion to approve the application for a one-day for one-day entertainment licenses uh for New England Festivals, Inc. Harbor Light illumination Lynn Whitehead Banshell at I'm kind of cut
off Marina Park 180 Scranton AS on the Saturdays of July 4th, 11th, 18th as well as August 8, 15, 22 uh and 22nd, 2026 from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. as presented.
Second, um, and the only thing I want to add as as the select board leazison to the cultural council, uh, is that, uh, the cultural council appreciates the partnership, uh, and it's it's a terrific opportunity and keeping it free is is like Mr. Reed mentioned. >> Yeah, we did, uh, receive an email late
this afternoon from, uh, from the chair of the council. Thank you. >> Yeah, Alice. Um, so yeah, I second that motion. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? I >> I Okay, thank you very much. Okay, we
will now move on to the business uh the business uh portion of our uh meeting and we are right on time 7:40 p.m. and we're going to have a presentation by Joint Base Cape Cod, the Joint Oversight Group base commanders.
uh you are allotted 20 minutes and we are going to try to keep you to that. I'm sure uh I'm sure you'd like to keep it to that as well. So >> we'll be quick. We've been practicing. >> Uh is there report loaded and everything ready to go? >> Yeah. So is someone going to run the slides from the podium?
>> You want to be there? >> I can be there. >> I mean I can run the whole time. >> You can speak from there as well. So, it's just it's just a PC. And >> just while they're getting ready, Mr. Chair, if we could have a future agenda item. I know Colin had mentioned a while
ago reviewing cultural overlay districts potentially. If we could discuss that and how that intertwines with the entertainment regulations, just while I'm thinking of it now, >> we'll uh we'll put it down for the future. Thank you. >> All right. >> Okay. Here we go.
>> All right. Good evening. Uh my name's uh Colonel Matthew Porter. Uh so I have been briefing here at uh these meetings uh for probably since 2017 uh as the base commander for Camp Edwards but now I have moved into a new role. Uh General Fox uh has retired recently and I have
moved into the executive director position. Uh so the the um uh for some of the I'm gonna be pretty quick and I'm g move on to the to the army slides right after this but just want to cover a couple of items that are really uh you
know JBCC as a whole uh and what we're doing. Uh I know most of you probably have already heard uh that we have uh started uh kicked off a basewide um area master planning effort. Uh that effort is really in infancy uh stage right now
where the the the design team and engineering team is really just gathering information. Uh but we'll be reaching out to the stakeholders from the towns and community uh uh probably early spring. Uh and that's really when you'll probably start to you know meet those individuals uh more readily. Um so
that's you know major piece that we've been uh working on. Also it's probably of interest is we've worked with the nationalmies. We've already done one uh small panel of experts study uh that uh we had a transcripts from that uh and
then that led to us uh doing another contract with the nationalmies of science to do uh a study uh really looking at all of our ranges and the impacts of munitions or you know projectiles on on those ranges. So uh that scope is being built and being uh
contracted out. The money is in hand now. So that's that's good news and we will be moving forward with that. So, uh, with that, I'm going to move on to the Army and introduce you to Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mcdana. >> Good evening. As Colonel Porter said, I'm Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mcdana. I'm
the deputy commander for Camp Edwards. Uh, just as a brief overview, Camp Edwards, it operates primarily as a training site. So our mission is to ensure soldiers have the facilities, land, and resources available to meet their requirements so they're ready to
deploy for their federal mission. We also serve as a staging area for units getting ready to mobilize overseas for their federal mission. Uh for example, we staged uh 60 trailers for a transportation unit going overseas to Poland. A year later, they came back
with 120 trailers. They got staged and then they're going back to their unit. So, uh, army needs a lot of land. So, 15,000 acres maneuver space is what we use to primarily conduct our our training. And, uh, I'll move on to what the last, uh, year looked like. So, the
last year was our busiest year in over 10 years. Uh we hosted regional cooperation 25 which was a uh joint exercise with the C central command where we had units from that area of the world think Kyrgyzstan
uh Mongolia and the like uh officers from there came to camp Edwards and did what's called a war fighter which is a simulated exercise where the officers work on a problem set together and develop partnership and best practices.
is we also hosted aerosol um which is the course where soldiers learn how to jump out of a perfectly good helicopter with rope um and uh very successful course with a high rate of pass. Uh Colonel Porter already talked about the National Academy of Science.
Some other projects that we are working through is a renovation of three out of our eight barracks, a renovation of one of our dining facilities and uh subject to the availability of funds uh the construction of a armory uh near the
utes on the sandwich side of the base. Additionally, we are um about to award a contract to improve the electrical systems on our live fire ranges to accept new lifters. And um we completed our track uh renovation. Uh finally, I'd
just like to point out the uh state of the reservation report. You'll see in the lower right hand side of your screen, there's a report you can look at if you want to learn anything every anything about Camp Edward's training. All the data is in there and it's a requirement under chapter 47 of the acts
2002. Uh we also have a tour season coming up. Uh be on the lookout for the dates. It's been going for four years and is very popular. Um I believe we're holding questions at the end so I'll be followed by uh the 102nd. >> Uh good evening everyone. I'm Colonel
Andrew Saint. I'm the new commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing. uh just took over in August of 2025. So uh really just getting into what the mission of the 102 intelligence wing is and you can see up there it says empowering ready airmen to meter federal ISR taskings as well as expeditionary
tasking. So we do have a a home game as well as an away game. So an operational piece to what the wing does as well as the training piece much uh in co in coordination with you know what they're doing joint base Cape Cod and Camp Edwards. So really focusing on what we accomplished there with our 102nd
intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance group. This is what would otherwise be known as DGS Massachusetts. So doing the distributed ground system associated with uh exploitation of some assets flown overseas. So it gives us the flexibility to do kind of remote operations collection assets operating
down range when the folks who are doing the intelligence exploitation data gathering as well as dissemination back into the theater is taking place over at DGS Massachusetts. So get their taskings effectively from combatant commanders and then whatever the priority requirements they have uh that's what
they attempt to meet. Uh so that mission really kind of stood up some 17 or 18 years ago. The 202 ISRG is a newer addition to the portfolio of the wing. Uh really only became fully operational fully operationally capable a couple years ago. So it does much of the same
sort of intelligence production but kind of a difference in domain and a difference in analytical rigor. that's being done there. So they primarily work on uh signals intelligence and we have a lot of skilled cyber operators who are capable of uh providing let's just call
it computer network exploitation to assess an adversar's understanding of our weapon systems and how our development uh is proceeding so as to provide some kind of additional safety as we're procuring new weapons across the department. uh the 253rd cyber
engineering installation group. So primarily they are focused on being responsible for fixbased communications in a deployed environment as well as being able to rapidly restore communications. So, these would be the the types of uh airmen you'd want to call out in the event that you had to
rapidly stand up a communication node in a location in some, you know, desolate or otherwise uninhabited place and then be able to rapidly repair it in the event that something, you know, unfortunate happened to it. also attached to that group in a very there's a lot of things that that are very
bespoke about the way that this organization is set up and not every one of them seems purpose-built but we also have a weather flight that's attached to that engineering group which does a lot of work on behalf of our army aviation folks um out on the base as well our 102nd medical group so it is a small
medical unit uh we don't have a treatment facility we don't have a hospital but we do have plenty of docs and providers who are capable of serving uh to maintain a medical readiness for our units. Uh but we also have folks who are attached towards that homeland response force in terms of the critical care for FEMA region one uh and capable
of responding from a domestic operations perspective. And then the mission support group. This is really the folks who are responsible for doing all of our base operations support and also the ones who primarily we send off the yard whenever we are called out to bring agile combat support forward. So we have
our logisticians, our support personnel who manage you know military manpower, um our security forces defenders and these are the folks that primarily in the past few iterations whenever we're deploying airmen downrange it's primarily coming from that mission support group. So they have to sustain
our base operations at home as well as uh kind of make make the mission happen downrange. So I think now as I turn it over to our space force. >> Good evening. I'm Lieutenant Colonel Brian Becker. I'm the six Swiss uh and uh Cape Cod Space Force Station um
commander. Uh our we're radar um that sits on just the north side of JBCC um by market basket or the Borne Bridge there um or uh uh the other bridge there. Um we are basically our base our main mission is missile warning missile
defense. So we're here for it was built in the cold war 1980 is when we came active duty. It's seen a significant upgrade with added the missile defense but our job is to make sure SLBMs and ICBMs uh don't come into the the eastern side or the eastern hemisphere. Um as our third mission uh we have space
domain. So um which is basically tracking satellites at low earth orbit. Um we track about 10 million satellites uh a year. um making sure that they are exactly where they're supposed to be and not traveling anywhere nefarious or anything um making sure nothing actually hits our own satellites. Uh we track
about 50 plus missiles each year. Um there's 135 35 of us that are up there um between military, civilian and contractors. Uh we additionally have two Canadians. So it's a part of our reserve since it's uh defense of North America. We have two uh one officer and one enlisted Canadian member. Um and my boss
resides uh which we are mission delta 4 which is all missile warning missile defense across the world um resides in in Colorado. Um what's our impact what's our annual budget? So over the past year we're about 1.4 our $4.1 million annual
budget. Um we heavily rely on JBCC. We're only about 100 acres. So most of some of our individuals uh live on JBCC as uh on Captain Mason's housing. Um as well as we're we're uh reliant on the clinic that is also uh Coast Guard and and many of the facilities of of the
102nd. Um we have support agreements with fire uh and law enforcement uh across uh the all the different communities. Um and all of our members are pretty much uh I think only 15% of us live on base. So most of our members live within the communities of Falmouth
Sandwich uh and all the others. Um economic impact. So we do have two wind turbines as well as uh we are capable of taking ourselves off the commercial power grid. So if you if it's hot during the summer, we'll take ourselves and relieve the power grid of our of our uh consumption of energy as well as any
storms or anything like that. Um recently we've had about $6.3 million in the last year and a half of projects that have gone out to local communities and local biders. Um, and in the future we have a $250 million project which is a micro grid project which is updating all of our power sources and and making
sure it's more uh uh resilient um which was open for bidding um I believe as of last week to start looking at the the multiple functions. Um that's all I have. I'll pass it over to the Coast Guard uh Captain Mason um and I'll hold on for any questions. >> Good evening. I am Captain Roger Mason.
I am the commanding officer of Coastg Guard Base Cape Cod. I assumed command this summer in July. However, I've been uh on base for for about four years straight now in some different capacities. Uh Coastg Guard Base Cape Cod is the Coastg Guard's second largest base uh second only to uh Kodiak. So, a pretty large land mass that we manage
there. We actually uh as Brian alluded to, we administer the housing, the military housing that's on base. Um and we also maintain and operate the airfield, which was a change uh for the Coast Guard starting in 2008 when the F-15s departed. Um, so pretty large uh land mass for the Coast Guard to manage.
Um, on Joint Base Cape Cod, the Coastg Guard's got a number of different commands including Air Station Cape Cod. Uh, which I'll talk about here in a few seconds. Maritime Maritime Safety and Security Unit Cape Cod or I'm sorry, maritime safety and security team Cape Cod. Uh, they're an anti-terrorism team. Uh, they deploy up and down the eastern
seabboard. Uh, providing anti-terrorism functions for major events. Um, they also provide presidential security uh, which is a mission that they're off on right now. Uh, Port Security Unit 301 is an expeditionary uh, force that usually deploys with the Navy to provide uh, security for the Navy and foreign ports.
Uh, Northeast Reg Regional Fisheries Training Center is a schoolhouse to teach our law enforcement officers uh, the the ins and outs of of fisheries in the Northeast. And so every law enforcement officer doing fisheries law enforcement typically goes through the schoolhouse there on on base Cape Cod.
And then finally, Marine Marine Safety Unit Cape Cod is a uh a subunit of sector southeastern New England uh here in Woods Hole. They do maritime investigations and uh inspections on on commercial fishing vessels, commercial vessels um really across the entire Cape
Cod region. Uh my command base Cape Cod, uh we're we're split into six different departments. So, I'll just go through those real quick. Facilities engineering, that's a team of about 60 people that maintain our facilities, roadways, uh the airfield as as discussed previously. Uh base operations runs the galley that's open seven days a
week and serves all components of Joint Base Cape Cod. Uh contracting spends about $6 million a year to keep us operational. Um putting that money into the local economy as Brian talked about as well. Electronic support does really two functions. They do information technology for the Coast Guard throughout the region. And then our
electronics uh support team also does the electronics on small boats on vessels located really throughout Cape Cod and into Rhode Island. uh personnel support that those are the folks that uh assign people to and from housing, help them move uh when they PCS or transfer in and out of uh base Cape Cod. Um and
then our our morale, wellbeing, and recreation department uh does a whole host of activities um of of particular interest is our golf course uh but also our child development center. And so we've got about 60 children that we uh provide daycare for uh on Joint Base Cape Cod. Then finally, the Coast Guard
does operate a clinic on Joint Base Cape Cod. Uh primarily seeing active duty Coastg Guard members, but we also see some Space Force members. And just talked uh specifically about Coastg Guard Air Station Cape Cod. Uh they're they're sort of the most visible part of uh the Coast Guard on Joint Base Cape
Cod. They've got about 200 people uh attached to their unit. They fly three MH60 helicopters, which are comparable to the MH60s that the Army, Navy, Air Force fly. uh the one difference being that the Coast Guards carry some external fuel tanks that gives them much more endurance uh to to affectuate those
offshore uh search and rescue cases. Then we also have three uh HC-144 turborop aircraft that's at twin turbo prop on the the top left of the screen. Um they provide uh search and rescue uh but also command and control for the uh the rotary wing asset on offshore search
and rescue cases. Uh the the history of Air Station Cape Cod is is particularly interesting. uh they moved down to Cape Cod in 1970 and and they've been there ever since. Um they can launch within a 30-minute window. So if the uh the notice comes
that there's a a vessel sinking or a vessel in distress, they've got 30 minutes to have an aircraft airborne, whether that's a fixed wing or a a rotary wing aircraft. Um kind of unique to to base Cape Cod and Air Station Cape Cod is their uh medevac mission that they participate in on the islands. Um,
so, uh, if MedFlight has to decline a case due to weather being below their minimums, the the Coast Guard is that next call and and often the uh, the last hope to get those patients off of Nucket, Martha's Vineyard or Block Island. Uh, the Coast Guard certified to land on the the major hospitals in Rhode Island and Boston. Um, and so they're
uh, they spend a lot of time making sure those patients get to to the critical care they need. Um, they really participate in a whole host of Coast Guard statutory missions. Uh most recently uh they have been flying a lot uh to monitor ice flows in major harbors throughout the northeast and uh it's worth noting that their area of
responsibility spans from the New York New Jersey border up to the main Canada border uh and then hundreds of miles offshore. With that I will uh yield the floor to any questions you may have for the Coast Guard or the other services. >> Mr. Brown.
>> Oh, >> I don't really have any pertinent questions. I appreciate the update. Thank you so much. >> So, u just um so what was your group involved with the Gloucester and that boat? >> Yeah, Air Station Cape Cod launched and
flew on that boat uh for several days or until they called the search off. >> Mhm. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay, some other questions. Mr. Reed, >> first thank you all uh for everything that you do for not only our area but also the nation. We're a lot safer
because of you. So, thank you very much. Um, having just read up on one of our oceanographers at Woodsole Oceanographic Institution, I learned quickly about your rapid construction of that area between the years of 1940 and 1941,
especially on the housing front. I know that we as a community have talked to you multiple times about the housing front. We've also been uh talking about the the critical need of your uh of the rail that uh supports yours. So, you're
often times at the forefront of our thoughts even uh uh indirectly. Um just a quick question regarding the um the overall base operations. Um I think we've seen tidbits here and there, but do you have an average uh headcount uh
full-time, part-time contractor that are on base daily? Just the the sheer human power. I think >> we probably have to go through that uh service by service. Um uh but from I don't know.
>> Yeah, we we use 500 uh is our ballpark number. I think the 102nd uses 1,200 for your ballpark number. >> That'll be total. >> Okay. Um >> Brian, you're 135 on a daily basis. >> Uh the army full-time during the week,
we're we're kind of the odd ducks. We are the smallest service during the week, but we're the largest on drill weekends when the Army Guard comes in. On average, uh from March to really November, we're averaging between 2 and
3,000 soldiers passing through the base a month. Um with three weekends, we serve for uh drill service. So, uh three weekends a month we're always open and then uh we'll open up the fourth during the really busy time.
>> Thanks. And one last question I guess is we often come to you with requests of land space use etc etc. Do you what do you need our eyes on as a select board for the town of Falmouth that's abuing your properties and maybe the answer is
nothing right now and that's okay. Well, I will say first of all, I we do appreciate, you know, the support that we've gotten from all the towns, uh especially, you know, through some pretty challenging periods when we've had some budget shortfalls and and and that we've gone through uh recently. Uh
but, you know, for us, it's really we we're primarily focused on whether it's training our soldiers or going out and actually doing real world missions. So, uh you got families that live on on base and live in the community. I think it's important to realize that, you
know, throughout your community, you have people from the base that work there, uh that are vested in the community, but also vested uh on what happens on base. So, uh and they're worried about, you know, their soldiers or airmen or coast that are that are
doing their missions and and getting deployed and and that type of stuff. So, making sure that we have the facilities and training. Uh when we need something, we're asking for it, not cuz, you know, it's it's, you know, just something that we'd like to have, it's something because we we need to have it. So, uh, that's really important to, uh, to
understand is kind of, you know, when we when we put a project together and we're trying to, uh, uh, provide for our soldiers, making sure, you know, they're prepared for for going overseas or to go out and and and rescue a boat or what have you, that they have
what they need. So, keeping that in front of your mind would be appreciated. >> Mr. Yeah, Mr. Judge, just a quick comment. Uh, Colonel Porter, I want to commend you and your predecessor, uh, General Foe, uh, for the work that you've been working on with, uh, Bars County and the composting project specifically. I got involved in that
about a year and a half ago, and, uh, I think it's going to be a great opportunity for the entire region. Uh, there's a piece of land that's been carved out for this composting feasibility/pilot. Uh, and I think it's got great potential. So, thank you, Colonel. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. and and during our MCQ meeting tomorrow on on
Wednesday, we'll we'll have a little update on on that and where we're going with that as well. So, thanks >> Mr. Chair. H has there been any further movement or discussion with respect to the housing situation on on the base and you know what what the plans might be or
the options and opportunities might be >> right. So that is really what uh when I was talking about that conto area master planning effort. Uh right now the the engineering design uh team is really in the receive mode. They're they're working with our uh GIS. They're working
with uh our different uh engineering uh teams that are actually on base to to get gather all that information about where critical infrastructure is where you know uh sensitive receptors and all those things that that matter when they're putting the project together. Uh, and like I said, in in the spring,
probably early spring, they'll be reaching out to the communities and the different stakeholders, uh, which includes all the surrounding communities on, uh, different things that they would like to see and and really just taking those ideas and and put it into the into the the gunkilator, so to speak, as they as they decide on, hey, what we could
potentially put on the base and what is compatible with the the military base being there. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Richardson. >> You took my question. >> Sorry. >> Um, yeah. No, I just want to say thank you and kind of to echo the the town manager's comments. I think people really underestimate how much you guys
do for the community beyond keeping us safe. You know, with with with water and with compost, uh, you know, my mom's been an employee on the base when the groundwater cleanup program for over 20 years and I've spent a lot of time out there. Um, so just thank you for all you do and and you know, like like my colleague, Mr. Reed said, if there's anything we can do to help you all, you
know, happy to. >> Okay. All right. Any other questions? Uh, if not, gentlemen, again, thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you for keeping us safe. >> Thanks. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Uh moving along. Uh uh we are
going to consider a vote to approve an application for a special one-day wine and malt liquor license. Rise and shine production LLC Coastfest Lynwood Lyn Whitehead Manshell Marina Park 180 Scranton Avenue. Saturday, August 1 to
2026 from 3 to p.m. to 1000 p.m. Uh this is just a uh you know a followup to the uh to the entertainment uh license that we granted. Uh Mr. Vos, do you have anything to add with respect to your application?
>> Uh no, it hasn't changed since all the other same application. >> Okay. Anyone have any questions uh with respect to the liquor application? >> No. I'd like to make them I'd like to make the motion to approve the
application for a special one-day wine and malt liquor license from Ryzenstein Productions LLC for Coastfest to be held at the Banshell Marina Park 180 Scranton A on Saturday, August 1st, 2026 from 3:00 p.m. to 1000 p.m. Period.
>> Period. Okay, we have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. >> Okay, thank you. Uh, we now have to consider a vote to approve an
application for six special one-day all alcohol liquor licenses, New England Festivals, Inc., Harbor Light, illumination concert series, and Night Market. Lynn White, head Dan Shell
at Marina Park, 180 Scranton Avenue. Saturdays, July 4, 11, 18, and August 8, 15,22, 2026 from 9:00 p.m. to I'm from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Uh, anything you'd
like to add with respect to this particular application? >> Okay. Thank you. Given all the discussion from previous, I'd like to make the motion to approve the application submitted by New England Festivals, Inc. for six specialed one-day alcohol all alcohol liquor
licenses for Harbor Light illumination concert series and night market to be held at Marina Park on Saturdays, July 4th, July 11th, July 18th, August 8th, August 15th, and August 22nd, 2026 from
5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. May I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, moving right along. Uh, a few minutes ahead of
schedule for once, we are going to discuss and consider the approval of the submission of a community compact IT grant in the amount of $200,000 for the scanning of records for several town departments. Mr.
Wrenchaw. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Jed Corno is here tonight. I just want to commend Jed because he's done a tremendous amount of work putting this together. It started with some digitizing needs in his department and and Jed expanded it, talked to other departments divisions
trying to leverage as much of the grant funds as we possibly could. So, I'll turn it over to Jed. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Well, thank you. Uh for the record, Jed War, community development director. Um in included in your packet is a summary of the departments that we are going to
be working with. that'll be including the assessors, accounting, uh community development, um human resources, and the veterans. Uh as you may remember, we went to town meeting, I believe it was last year with the capital requests for the planning
office to scan their records. We've actually tried to incorporate our records into this grant request so that we can hand back that capital request uh if we're awarded. So, we're asking for up to 106 Well, actually the request is for $165,000
to allow us to um file that grant application. >> Can you talk about the local match? >> And you would be putting in how exactly what what's the local match? >> So, the local match is $41,250. It's not a requirement uh for this grant
program, but we felt it was important to be as um as strong an application as possible. Okay. Anyone have any questions? >> Mr. Brown, >> when I first saw this uh grant application opportunity, I was kind of
excited about maybe using it to get some of the old records out of the pump house building, but I got a feeling this is just really the ongoing stuff that needs to be done at town hall. Right. >> Well, it actually will. So, human resources has quite a few boxes over there that they will have scanned and
ultimately uh either kept or destroyed depending on on their prerogative. >> So, it might not get it all, but it'll chip away a little bit. Right. >> That's the goal. >> Oh, that's great. Thanks. >> How long would it take or how long will it take to uh to do that the scanning? >> If we're granted the uh grant funds, we
have 18 months to spend that uh that money and it will allow us to uh take advantage of that window. So 18 months. >> Is that enough time you think to >> Yes, sir. >> to do it. >> Okay. >> Having the benefit of sitting on the
finance committee and listening to the budget justifications. I know you've done a tremendous amount of work so far in sorting the files so it's more efficient to scan the files. So, uh, kudos to that. And with that, I'd like to make the motion to approve the submission of the community compact IT
grant in the amount of up to $200,000 for the scanning of records for town several town departments. >> Okay, there's a motion. >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second by Mr. Brown. >> Any further discussion?
>> Hearing none. All in favor? >> I >> I >> thanks for that to exercise the prerogative of the chair and uh >> Mr. Chair, quick question. Sorry. Can I Can I vote in the affirmative on B and C? I was in the bathroom. >> Is that Am I allowed to do that or
>> we didn't even notice, Miss K. >> I think we'll just leave it as is rather than worry about it. >> All right. >> Thank you for pointing it out. >> All right. >> Um anyway, so we're going to uh you know, take items H and I out of uh out
of order. Uh and um so the H is discuss and consider a vote to authorize the town manager to issue a notice of award for land development to Fouth Housing Trust to develop the land located at 21
Feeasant Land for affordable housing. We have our housing coordinator, Mr. Miss Kim Fish. But Mr. Retro, you have anything to uh say? >> I do not. I'm going to turn it over to Kim. She's the uh the resident expert. >> Okay. Well,
>> hi. For the >> Thank you. Thank you for taking it out our order as well. I appreciate that. Uh for the record, I'm Kim Fish, the housing coordinator. Uh this is regarding the request for proposals for land disposition for affordable housing on 21 Feasant Lane in 20 Brigotine
Drive. Uh, so I'm here this evening as a matter of procedure to request that you vote to authorize the town manager to issue a notice of award for land development to Falmouth Housing Trust to develop the
land located at both 21 Fezant Lane and 20 Brigotine Drive. >> You might want to pull the mic down a little bit. I don't think >> is that better. >> As long as we can >> usually don't have a problem being loud, so I hope my mother sees this. Um,
so this is just to authorize the town manager to issue the notice of award, but I thought I'd just briefly bring you up to date on where we are on the RFP process. On November 5th, 2025, the RFPs
were issued. Jed Corno, the director of community development, and I held a pre-proposal meeting on November 19th. We had about six people in attendance just asking some questions and then we ended up um whatever the questions were, we would
answer them and it has to be uploaded into the RFP system so that everybody can see the answers to those. The proposals were due on January 13th and uh 2026. Jed and Melanie Bush who is
the assistant to the town treasurer and the finance director and I opened the proposals for both properties and confirmed all the required documents were included. There was one proposal received for each property. They were submitted by the
Falmouth Housing Trust. On January 22nd, 2026, the townowned land affordable housing RFP review committee met to discuss the proposals and that
committee was formed by the town manager. On January 28th, 2026, on their behalf, I issued a memo to town manager recommending the Falmouth Housing Trust be awarded the land for development. The memo is in your packet along with the
evaluation forms. On February 2nd, 2026, the town manager sent you a memo requesting that you vote to authorize him to issue a notice of award for land development to Falmouth Housing Trust to develop the land
located at both 21 Feeasant Lane and 20 Brigotine Drive. We do have it broken up for you to do two separate motions for each parcel. Um, and just to let you know what the next steps are in the process, uh, if you authorize the town
manager to send those award letters, we'll send them out and then we'll fire the file the required forms in the central register and town council thankfully provided us with a model land disposition agreement.
I've revised that for each parcel um for each property and I'll send that tomorrow for town council's review and uh that that's the document that lays out the terms of the dispos disposition of the land and um that's it.
>> Okay. Does anyone have any questions with respect to the land disposition? No. >> Okay. Then we will entertain a motion uh to uh consider a vote to authorize the town manager issue a notice of award for land development to found with housing
trust to develop the land located at 21 Feeasant Lane for affordable housing. That's the motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I >> I >> Okay. And we will then move to discuss and consider a vote to authorize the
town manager to issue a notice of award for land development to Felmouth Housing Trust to develop the land located at 20 Brigantine Drive for affordable housing. That's the motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion second by Mr.
Brown. All in favor? I. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Fish. >> Thank you all. I appreciate it. >> Okay, very good. Thank you very much. We know everyone wants to get an early uh an early bedtime after uh after last night, right? Okay. Thank you very much.
Okay. Uh I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Wrenchure to uh to to give us some background on the articles and warrant for April 2026 annual town meeting. >> Thank you, M. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh the board is going to be asked tonight
to approve the articles and execute the warrant for April 6th, 2026 annual town meeting. Uh just a bit of an overview. When we met last January 29th, I believe it was. Um I went through uh with the board um each of the uh 35 articles. You
have a copy of the articles only version of the warrants uh in your packet this evening. Um uh in the interest of time, unless there are any questions, I wanted to focus the discussion tonight on uh on a few of those articles. Uh specifically, uh wanted to uh uh gather
some additional comments perhaps from the board uh in regards to the affordable rental housing property tax exemption, um operation of short-term rentals, uh that bylaw amendments. Clearly, there was some discussion on January 29th. Um there's an opportunity, I believe tonight, to gather some
additional input from the board and perhaps make some amendments to the language. And lastly, um there was a significant amount of discussion when we last met in regards to article 23, uh which authorizes select board to transfer care and custody of the parcel located at 484 Brick Road to
conservation commission. Um so with that, Mr. Chair, I just wanted to is a quick overview so that the board and the community is aware. Um the uh uh tonight the board is asked to vote the articles and execute the warrant. We'll then publish that uh uh document um on
February 13th in the local paper. The board um is next to the next steps. The board will be asked to vote the article recommendations on its next scheduled meeting on February 23rd and the warrant with recommendations would then be sent to the printer and newspaper on March 2nd
to keep on track with our uh town meeting schedule. Um, as I mentioned, 35 articles uh included in this warrant. And with that, Mr. Chair, I'll stop. And and again, I'd ask the board to give uh staff and I some direction in regards to um those three particular articles.
Article 15, the affordable runhouse rental housing property tax exemption, uh the operation of short-term rentals listed as article 17. And lastly, article 23, uh care and custody, transfer transfer of care custody of 44 brick to conservation. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Renure. Uh
certainly with respect to the uh uh annual affordable housing, I think there was generally consensus amongst the board at our last meeting that this was something that that we were in favor of. Uh so I'm not sure we need any further
discussion on on that item unless anyone agrees or disagrees. >> Do you do you need like specifics or is that good enough, Mr. Town Manager, like for that particular article? any any potential what I'm looking for tonight this evening because I'm going to be asking for the vote to approve the
articles is any any changes to what's what's >> No as is and I want to commend I want to commend the affordable housing uh committee for their work and particularly Liz Klein uh for her leadership on this issue >> okay so there won't be any uh any discussion with respect to uh anything
other than that's in the warrant book the only other item that we discussed of uh of somewhat more interest to the to the town in general was also the seasonal communities uh designation. Uh and uh there was very little if any
discussion last time about seasonal the adoption of the designation. There's certainly a lot of work that uh that needs to be done once that takes place. But so those two items uh and uh I'm going to uh turn it back over here to
Mr. Brown in his capacity as chair of the affordable as a the short-term uh rental advisory committee uh to uh to talk a little bit about some of the changes some of the discussions that
have uh you know that have transpired uh over the short-term rental bylaw over the past two weeks. Well, the um the only really uh recent um thing that's happened, you know, our committee has finalized our draft and we have it we
have a a comment from a gentleman named Mr. Bertrand who uh was raising some concerns, but a assistant town council has pretty much made it clear that a lot of these don't really apply the way that Mr. Bertrand had intended or expected in
his email. And I would like to ask town council if she could comment further on those uh discussions you may have had with assistant associate town council. >> Um I'm happy to provide commentary but
could you be more specific? I I don't have information specifically about Mr. Bertran's comments but >> Oh you don't I'm sorry. I >> No, I have I just don't that's not how I learned the information. So >> I see you got it just from Eric's >> So yeah. Was there something in particular that you wanted me to address?
>> Um, just uh well, I'll go back then. I'll look at um Eric's comments because he he did a pretty good job of addressing them. The um the one was a restriction on
fractional ownership, and I think Mr. Burton thought that because he owned a house with his uh sister that would be considered fractional ownership. But I think the intent was that we were talking about time shares. >> That's fractional ownership. So I don't
think that applies. And I think there's a lot of common ownership that's going to be we're going to find that that's a pretty common thing. And I'm certainly uh we'll we'll make it clear that that's not going to be uh what we're actually after. Then um the time
share, they're ineligible because it's you can't really own a time share. just own a piece of >> the time. So again, associate town council explained that that doesn't really apply. >> And I'll add that um that my colleague
also suggested it might be helpful to add a definition to the definition section, >> right? >> That would specify what the bylaw is intended to apply to when it talks about time share fractional and interval ownership units.
>> Right. Um, so he does have he did provide a proposed definition. I'm not sure if that was provided to the group, but I'm happy to um to read it aloud if that would be helpful. >> That'd be great. >> Okay. So, the proposed definition would
be included in the definition section of the bylaw and it states as follows. Time share, fractional, and interval ownership units. any dwelling unit A which is owned by an LLC, corporation,
partnership or other joint ownership structure. B, in which unrelated persons or entities own, sell, purchase, or otherwise for consideration create or acquire any divided property interest,
including co-ownership or fractional or divided estates, shares, leaseolds, or memberships. C which are subject to or subsequently bound by any agreement limiting the right or functional ability of interest
holders or their design to occupy or use the property and D which consists of two or more of the following elements and then it talks about co-ownership or divided or fractional um ownership units
um maximum or minimum day limits for each um partial owner's interest or use of the property. Um whether there's a centralized or professional management company involved in the oversight of the of the unit.
Whether there's a management agreement or if there are fees that are attached to the um actual percentage of unit ownership and if there's a reservation system. So all of these would go into um
determining whether um the property is falls under this decision this definition of fractional ownership. >> Okay. Well, that would be helpful. Thank you. Another question that came up when this email came in is that um the
requirement for a restriction on an owner as an operator when residing more than 20 m away. And that's something that the committee felt strongly about. And I don't think we completely thought through the fact that it's going to
force some owners who now manage their own property to find uh a manager. So that is maybe something that will have to go back to the committee if they want to take that up. But I I don't know if select board wants to just make a determination. That's a kind of a a big
change to make. I think that would be I think that would be something that the committee should take up and I would suggest we leave the language alone for now and get the bylaw onto the warrant and there'll be more time to discuss it
at a later date. It's a it's a simple change to exempt the owner if he's doing his own uh management if that becomes clear that that's something that's needed. So u I'm sorry. So just to uh to help us
Mr. Johnson stop as we go forward now we've got the warrant we've got the publication there's some discussion possibly changes how do we go forward from here to make that work?
So you you have a couple of options. Uh if the board is prepared to make any changes to vote on them tonight, then then those changes will be reflected in the original article as printed in the warrant. Any amendments that the board
wants to pursue after voting to execute the warrant tonight would um could be accomplished through a new main motion. It's essentially an amendment that would be contained in the recommendation. >> So, it would find its way in the
recommendation, be published and available prior to town meeting. >> Right. And >> if there were such >> correct and I believe you have until the next meeting, the 23rd, to have any um amendments to appear
printed in the warrant book before the warrant book goes to publication. >> Yeah. So, uh, one of the amendments would be as town council was just describing and we would have that and we can put that in now if we agree to that amendment. Is that >> you could put that in tonight if you
agree to it tonight and then it would not be an amendment. >> Okay. All right. Uh, with respect to the u the second item that Mr. Brown just mentioned, suggesting deferring it until the committee had an opportunity, we would just leave that alone at this
point. >> Leave that alone tonight. And if you vote on it on the 23rd, then it could be printed uh within the recommendation as a change to the original article. >> Okay. Uh were there any other changes, Mr. Brown? If
>> there was one other concern raised that uh short-term rentals shall only be rented to individuals and this gentleman pointed out that MBL and HOIE are a set of scientific organizations that sometimes have guests come. But I'm not clear that this is a valid uh concern
because I believe that individuals who come here and participate at these institutions are responsible to rent their own places. So I don't really think that applies and I'll have to uh look back for the response from
associate town council here. I I'll add that um I I think where Eric and I fell on this is that um I don't see this as being um
a a problem when it really comes down to the moment because there's a difference between a reservation with a short-term rental and then actually entering into the agreement to rent it. So, for example, if Hoey wanted to reserve a
reserve a space, then that would be fine, but we would want the the actual person who will be um taking advantage of the the Airbnb or short-term rental to be the one to
actually um be the renter. I I think that part of the problem with parsing this part of the bylaw out is that there comes to be a a point in time where we're not going to we're not going to be
able to um police this and in the minutia of that of that aspect of this issue. what the what the point of this section 8C is is more of a declaration um and it's a policy declaration on the
part of the town um embodying one of the main reasons behind putting this bylaw in place in the first place and it's to um announce and prohibit um corporate ownership of local rental units that we
want to try to make them available able to families and individuals who require um rental units and cannot afford necessarily afford to purchase a house. So um it is a bold policy statement
embodied in the bylaw to say that that short-term rentals cannot be made to to um to a thing. It has to be made to a person. >> Right. And in in practice, they would the person would have to reserve it
themselves because it's not reserved unless you put the deposit down. So, >> they'll just have to advise their their visitors that, you know, they'll have to find that that housing or maybe they'll they'll have to come up with something. But we can't I don't think we can
accommodate every request here. >> Okay. Anything more? >> No, that's all I have. >> Okay. So, as you know, Mr. Brown. Uh, and I thank you and your committee for entertaining uh, me the uh, other evening with respect to some of the comments that I
had with respect to the draft bylaw. uh and uh and and they are and would be in my mind amendments to what's in the uh in the warrant book uh under and and I believe uh at least it was my understanding uh be between the
committee and and uh and Eric who is who is there that uh in paragraph 4E uh where there's a listing of Minuteman license application requirements all applications for a and shall include at
a minimum the following information. Uh and I think that uh there had been agreement had been agreement that uh one of the uh requirements would be that the applicant uh produce a certificate of liability insurance in an amount not
less than $1 million uh as provided for uh in in state law. >> And that's correct. Yeah, we can vote that. >> So that would would be another amendment. And then uh and then finally uh with respect to uh paragraph section
article whatever we want to call it 13 uh the um uh the amendment would be and what was discussed uh would would read as follows if you're following along. The board of health or designate is authorized to implement this bylaw.
Period. The board of health is authorized to promulgate written rules, regulations, policies, and procedures for the administration and enforcement of short-term rental licenses and to affect
the purpose of this bylaw subject to approval by the select board. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, that would be a further amendment. >> So, my understanding is that the the committee voted that subject to um my review.
which I was hoping we'd have by now. Yes. >> Yes. I I do have it and my position is not changed on on that. And I >> which means what council >> that I have stated before that I do not think it's appropriate the for one
regulatory board to approve the regulations promulgated by a separate regulatory board. I >> we're giving them the authority to to do it. So I think we can put any restrictions on it that we want. My opinion
committee voted it. Uh I would have appreciated if that was going to be your position that I would have heard about that uh before this evening. Uh I have said all along that I do not believe that uh that this board should seed the authority with respect to written rules
and regulations for a bylaw of this much importance just to the board of health. I mentioned that to the board of health this evening. I didn't hear any uh objections or concerns from the board of health when I told them that. That was my uh that was my view. So
I don't know where we go from here, but that's my uh that's my amendment. You may not think it's appropriate, council. Is it illegal? >> I I think it's a precedent that is unusual. Um I I am not aware of any other
instance where the select board approves another board's regulations. I find it creates excessive um administr an administrative burden. I I think it it is um it is calling back
part of the um authority of a different regulatory board in an approp in an inappropriate manner. Uh I will refer you to the uh to the bylaw the town of Nantucket where the select board of the town of Nantucket did retain such uh
such authority rights. >> I don't know that that has been approved by the AG's office yet. >> We don't know that it's been disapproved either. So I mean I I mean with all due respect I think that particular bylaw has been in place for a while at least
what what what I looked at. So anyway, that's where we are. >> So how should we proceed then? >> Um I I proceed to uh to have the board approve the amendments that I've just made. It's up to that.
So does just my understanding um was your amendments I mean I saw today clearly the board of health supported it. Was the committee supportive of the chair's amendments?
>> Yes. Okay. Then I would >> the only um clarification I would make is that it's the approval of the select board in the purview of the creation of the bylaw, >> not into its day-to-day operations of
the >> and that was why I made it very clear and contrary to what council just said, I don't think it adds any administrative burden whatsoever. >> I I Yeah, I I am supportive. I just wanted to make sure that the committee was also in support of it. So I would I
would move forward with your amendments as well. >> The board of health clearly is the board that will implement this by the way. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure that committee was on board. >> Okay, >> Mr. Chair, you have a member of the board of health raising his hand. I don't know if you want to.
>> Certainly. I didn't see it. Uh, so I would like to just clarify that the board of health, which just concluded its meeting upstairs, put a discussion of the short-term bylaw on a future agenda item. I would not say that
the board of health necessarily agreed with any statements about the short-term bylaw that were raised this evening, nor that they necessarily disagree. It was um not a complete discussion of it. Well, that's fine, but they didn't say anything when we just discussed.
>> Point point of clarification then. So, I mean, we could just go forward with it. And then will your next meeting your next meeting will be before our next select board meeting? The next will be in two weeks >> as will. >> We did we have not we have not seen a te
the text or copy of the short-term proposed short-term bylaw. Nor have we explored the fully explored the uh legal framework for regul regulating
um a short-term bylaws in any way other than the housing code which is state law which supersedes uh >> again you're talking implementation I'm talking about who has the authority
to set rules and regulations I I like I said, I'm I'm speculating beyond what we have discussed. >> But are you saying that your board has not seen the proposed bylaw that has been in this warrant book for what, a month? Month and a half.
>> It's not been on our agenda. No. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Isn't that in part because um the board of health refused to send a member to be part of the committee? Well, I don't know why that the reason why they didn't see the bylaw. I mean,
it's there, but >> we it's it's not been on our agenda. We have not had a full discussion of it. >> Right. Let's call the question. >> Okay. I support the chair's amendments. >> Okay. We have a motion and I'll second it. All in favor?
>> I I >> Okay, thank you. Is that enough, Mr. Johnson? Stop. >> Okay. And just just to be clear for the record, so that was all of the amendments um including the ones proposed by associate town council >> and yes
>> all of the amendments that you discussed >> the definition and the other Yes. >> Yep. Great. >> Okay. So then the other the only other item uh that Mr. uh Renaw has u directed our attention to is the care and custody
uh with respect to the property uh surrounding Long Pond. And I am going to turn to town council with respect to that particular uh item that is on uh in the warrant book. >> I'm sorry, which item are we on? >> We are on the uh transferring of care
and custody of uh Brook Hill uh the properties around Pond that the the two parcels anyway. >> Article 23. >> Article 23. >> Okay. And what uh what questions are you looking for me to provide uh response for? Well, I mean there had been some
discussion about uh amongst this board about whether the u you know whether the board supported uh the the uh the current article. Uh and um there was some discussion about uh whether it was
applicable to those to whether section 97 uh was was applicable to those properties and there was some other discussion. Uh I I understand that there's been correspondence I think between your
office and the 300 committee uh you know with respect to some of these parcels. >> Yes. So, um, as we discussed at the last select board meeting, um, being a being able to have
an understanding about all of the parcels listed in article 24 is going to take some take a while. Um the 300 committee uh I gave all of my research to date to the 300 committee and they
have had their own research into the title work for these properties and have continued to look for information. My understanding is that um just as I have found um the majority of parcels
surrounding Long Pond uh indicate both in their deeds and in town meeting vote um that they are already protected by article 97 for water protection um purposes. I uh I
don't as I sit here I don't know which of these parcels by um by assessor's assessor map ID number. I don't know which of them are already protected. Um but in the in that case in the case
where some of them are already protected by deed and by town meeting vote and by history there's no need to take any action to transfer those properties to the conservation commission. In fact,
we'd have a hurdle um to be able to do that because we'd have to go through the process with the state legislature to transfer them. As far as this article 24 goes, whether >> I think we were talking about 23 though, uh, council, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm
maybe I didn't quite explain it. I think article 24 is petitioner's article. We had some discussion about article 23 and there was some discussion amongst the the members of the select board as to whether uh it was advisable to do that.
There had been some discussion about holding off some land swap possibilities for the future and whether we uh whether the board was fully supportive of article 23 as uh you know as as provided in the in the warrant book. So
>> Okay. Well, I'm not sure that I can speak to any of that. >> Okay. Well, then Mr. Brown. Well, I didn't uh I did send an email requesting if u any feedback from you or town manager's office about you know additional parcels that might be useful
and I wonder if there's any any thoughts to share on that. >> Yeah, thank you Mr. Brown and I apologize we did not have a chance to confer and get back to you but we we had um just this afternoon um chatted about
it just very briefly. So just to frame it for everyone and for the public so that they're clear on what we're talking about. So this is article 23. This is the one parcel 484 brick helilm that is um a draft article to put that under the care and control of the conservation
commission. And the question from yourself and um and a couple of other member one at least one other member was perhaps we want to um before we put this parcel into conservation um and article
97 protection find a parcel or parcels elsewhere that are currently in article 97 and do a swap. And the the challenge is just one of timing. the con the concept is excellent and it is
absolutely appropriate to um to approach it that way. But uh in order for I I I suggest that what we what the board might want to do is to spend some time to look at what are those parcels that
we want to take out of article 97 in exchange and we simply did not have time to conduct that analysis in the last two weeks. Oh, I certainly I didn't expect you to have it really all figured out, but the point is it just whether or not it's a valid suggestion and if there is
some benefit to that approach because >> yeah, I don't think it's urgent that we, you know, put this land in conservation and if we can get a benefit out of it, get some property that's more appropriate for municipal use that might
have fallen into article 97 by I don't know what the the process would be if it's not officially declared, but I guess it can just be established somehow. I'm not clear on how some of those restrictions came into some of the parcels we were considering for the
police station, and that's what brought this to mind, I think, for some people. >> Okay. And so again, it's just I I think we heard some different views from different board members at the last meeting. some some members I I think um
if I recall correctly, member Goldstone was arguing that we we should not delay and we should put this parcel into >> that. That is my position as well. >> I agree. Um and then others were saying, you know, let's let's look at at a swap and both are valid perspectives. It's
really a policy question for the board. >> I will jump in and say article 23 as written is good to go. Uh it is important. Um, I don't think we should delay. I was of the mind with uh Mr. Brown of thinking about um offsets for
article 97. I think there's too many questions involved and I think we need to make sure that with by way of vote we are protecting as much land within the confines of those roads around Long Pond as possible once and for all. Um, I
think article 97 on some of the parcels uh has been called into question by the research being done. Um, I think there might be some inaccuracies in the data anecdotally. Um, for how we've been
evaluating different parcels and we're trying to do the research now and 300 committee is going to give it to us. Um, I think any changes would be confusing to town meeting. So therefore for me I think um the best effort is to put this
land away with an eye towards as we identify article 97 in the spirit of article 97 we're going to have to find new parcels. It's not the easy way out. Um, so I've kind of flip-flopped on that one a little bit just cuz I think we
need to get all of this land protected and put our stamp on it. Um, so that there is no question that we're not going to be building on Long Pond between the confines of 28 Brick Brick Gford and uh, Goodwill. So I'm in favor
of 23 as written and 24. >> I'm not opposed to >> We don't have anything to say about 24. Really? >> I I'm not opposed to putting the land into conservation, but I'd just rather see us get some value out of it. >> Yeah, >> I hear you. >> I I'm obviously not running for reelection, so I would like to do it
while I'm on the board. Selfishly >> is just a transition. >> So, um, you know, just just for the record, I I'm support article 23 as written so that the town meeting can have these discussions as to whether or not it it actually wants to do that. Uh
I personally have some reservations with respect to uh such long-term um uh decisions uh that u you know that that aren't being completely thought of but with respect to article at this
point with respect to article 23 I'm in support of it as uh as printed. >> Okay. >> I'd be in support of it a future town meeting. So, do you do you not support article 23 at this time?
>> No, I don't for that reason because I think we're missing an opportunity here. I think a good point was brought to our attention and if we don't take advantage of it, I think it's a mistake. >> Well, I think as I said, I think town meeting >> can have that discussion at town meeting.
>> We're on time. So, uh, with respect to, uh, article 23, the consensus is, uh, as printed, I I agree. Mr. Brown disagrees. So, okay. All right. Is that enough for for
you to uh move forward? >> Yes. >> Okay. We're very good. Thank you. Uh, let's see. We are just a few minutes behind and uh we are going to discuss and consider a vote to to approve a
request for the waiver of building permit fees for the new YMCA facility in the amount of approximately $169,654. Mr. Wrenchaw, would you mind? >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll just give a brief overview and then turn over for discussion. Um, as you all recall, our
January 29th meeting, uh, uh, Mr. Stacy Pew from the Cape Cod Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y YMCA was present to talk about the uh the importance of this uh waiver, the request. Um I asked staff to prepare some additional information. It's included in your packet. Um with regards to the project,
um the request um that was uh that was filed was actually an amended request. There was an initial request for full waiver of not only the building inspection fees, but also the subtrade fees. Um this uh second request which was made on January 16th, a subsequent request I should say, uh just
specifically requested that the building permit fees be waved. It's our understanding it's the intent of the Cape Cod YMCA to come back at a later time um and uh uh request waiver of those subtrades. Um just wanted the board to be aware of that. Um my
recommendation again I don't think anybody is disputing the importance the significance the public benefit of this project. is a fantastic project. Um there's significant amount of work um involved in these inspections. Um so my recommendation, Mr. Chair, and the board, it's included in your packet, is
for the board to consider waving uh the uh building inspection fees in total of $169,654. Uh with the condition that um any further fees, the subtrades would not be considered for a waiver. And that'd be my recommendation.
>> Okay. But uh for for this application, we're we're really focused on this particular waiver application for the fees in the amount of $169,654. Anything that might come back to us in the future, we would decide and just
wanted to be transpar and I appreciate that uh Mr. Enter. So, Miss Pew, uh the floor is yours. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, I did want to thank everybody for the opportunity to be back
here this evening and um, you know, took it to heart uh, to really think more about this. I think u, Mr. Brown wanted me to think about this a little bit more and and come back with some thoughts. So, I did prepare some remarks, but um, Mr. Wshaw, I appreciate um, your
recommendation. Uh, I think that's it's fantastic. Um, so, uh, we are here to ask for your continued consideration of waving the YMCA's, uh, building permit fees. And the request is not about
avoiding a cost. It's about making an investment together in the long-term strength, safety, and well-being of this community. For nearly 15 years, the YMCA has been working toward building a
permanent home here. But the truth is the community has wanted and needed a YMCA for much longer than that. Over the years, we listened carefully to families, educators, health care providers, public safety professionals,
and town leaders. And one message came through loud and clear. This community needs a place that builds kids up, keeps people healthy, and strengthens the social fabric that holds us all together.
That is one of the important roles the YMCA seeks to play alongside the town. The YMCA is more than a building. It is a beacon of hope. It represents what is good and possible in a community when
people come together in service to one another. Everything we do is rooted in our three core areas of focus. Youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Let me share what that looks like
through the journey of just one child. It starts when a child learns to swim at the YMCA on Cape Cod. That is not a luxury. It is a lifesaving skill. That child gains confidence in the water, safety skills
they will carry for life, and a sense of belonging. That same child may go on to join the future Clippers swim team, developing discipline, teamwork, and resilience. Later, they may become a certified lifeguard, providing a critical service
not only at the YMCA, but at the town's beaches, ponds, and waterfronts. Eventually, they may become a swim instructor, becoming a leader and teaching the next generation how to be safe in and around the water. That is
the YMCA's cycle of impact. One person, one opportunity, a lifetime of giving back. And that story doesn't stop with aquatics. It extends to afterchool programs, summer camps, teen leadership,
chronic disease prevention, mental wellness, workforce development, and community partnerships that reduce strain on public systems. The YMCA becomes part of the village that it takes to raise a child who then
becomes a thriving, engaged citizen in their community. When we ask you to consider waving these permit fees, we are asking you to invest in that journey to help ensure that every dollar possible goes toward delivering life-changing experiences,
not just today, but for decades to come. The town's support sends a powerful message. That you believe in prevention, not just response, in opportunity, not just infrastructure, in people, not just
projects. This YMCA will stand as a shared asset, supporting families, strengthening public safety, promoting health, and contributing to the vitality of this town long after construction is complete. We respectfully ask that this
request is seen not as a waiver, but as a partnership, a shared commitment to the future of this community and the generations who will grow up here. Thank you for your leadership, your consideration, and for everything you do on behalf of the town. We look forward
to continuing to serve alongside you. >> Very nice. >> Thank you. Um, so, uh, from my perspective, I fully support the waiver in the amount of $169,654. Uh, but to get there, uh, took took me some time. uh and I certainly
appreciated uh the discussion uh that that we had at our last meeting and in particular some of the comments from your project manager with respect to third party inspections uh and and also uh from from town staff with respect to the fact that uh you
know the revenue was was not something that we were anticipating necessarily which which would affect our uh you know our bottom line and our budget. Uh I have supported this project from the very beginning. Uh I I continue to
support it and we got a ton of correspondence emails uh I think only one uh that that was was was not in favor of it. Uh you know and and fully supported from the from the community.
But I will say uh that um that that some of the comments that came to the to the select board uh I was saddened by uh the uh the implication that because we were asking questions in our fiduciary
responsibility to the town uh and gathering this information that that somehow was uh uh was in any way uh you know uh not supportive of the volunteers and the donors and all of the many people who have supported this project.
Uh all this board was doing was as I say exercising its responsibility to see where we were, get some answers to uh to your questions. So uh so as far as I'm concerned, I fully support the uh the waiver and what what you're doing there.
So >> thank you. >> Anyone else >> after that? How can we say no? >> Yeah. I just want to echo the chair's comment. I mean from the jump I said I supported it. still do. Uh, but this this did remind me of when I got on my high horse about the uh East Falmouth
and uh library project and the police station project of just asking questions does not mean we're not supporting something and I felt that people were frankly rude. So, >> oh, if you can to the extent you can re folks in, we support this project obviously. Um, but with that, I I am prepared to make the motion to wave the
full amount of $169,654. >> Do I need to be more specific or is that okay? No, >> that's good. I'll second that. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? >> No. >> Hearing and seeing none, all in favor? >> I I >> Okay, thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks.
>> Sorry you had to come back twice. >> Uh okay. Well, uh a slightly less amount of uh of a waiver. I think uh we are being asked to consider a request from the found classic car club for a waiver
of the special event permit fee for its classic car shows on June 14, July 12th, August 8th, and September 13th, 2026. Mr. Renaw. >> Thanks, Mr. Chair. Is the applicant here from Felmouth Classic Carship? I don't.
No, >> I just just uh wanted to mention to the board, you haven't included in your packet a formula. I I apologize. Uh I'm just going to go back to the YMCA. Uh uh and I neglect
that uh you know Dr. Gold Stone is uh is traveling uh and she had specifically asked that I uh read into the record a statement and uh uh you know in the rush to get it through I I neglected to do that. So I want to just just just say
this uh from from Heather Goldstone. I support the requested fee waiver. The Y is a project of unique scope, scale and benefit to Fmouth residents of all ages, incomes and abilities. It deserves the town support and this waiver would not cause undue financial burden for the
town. The revenue from the wise building fees has not been budgeted. It would be one time windfall revenue. As such, it would do little to alleviate the anticipated operating budget challenges in coming years. And as it happens, we have experienced unexpected new growth
revenue over the past year and have the ability to cover most of the foregone revenue of the wise building fees if that was felt to be necessary. So again, I apologize that I did not have that uh read in at at the time, but I wanted to
make that rep correction. Thank you. Sorry. >> Okay, let's go ahead. >> My name is Hank Deorgio. We're seeking a uh a waiver for the special permit for the four car shows that we have scheduled for 2026. Um typically we run
four shows per year. We donate all of our proceeds from those shows. We don't charge admission. Um but we do a 50/50 raffle. We get donations. In the past we've donated to Upper Cape Realy uh Tommy's Place Veterans Administration
and uh the service center service center. So, we figured if we could save on the waiver, we'd have more money to donate to those. >> How much, you know, how much are we talking about? >> 800 bucks. That's just we we pay $200 each time we use uh >> But how much are you getting, I guess, or how much donating
>> over the four shows, >> probably close to $2,000 with 50/50 raffles and donations. >> Okay. >> And then we have member fees as well. So, the only expenses we typically have during the year is the $200 we spend per
show for the for the marine park. We clean the place before we start the show. We clean it afterwards. Um, basically the town provides trash barrels and that's pretty much it. >> So, >> thank you. >> And that's it. So, and the library, we've donated to the library in the past.
>> Just wanted to thank you, sir. Just >> I know, excuse me. The reason why we asked for the waiver is we had heard that that there are times when the town does waiver that fee. So that's why we asked. >> This is the first time that the request has been made. It's my understanding. The first time the >> first time we've made it. Yes. Yeah.
>> Mr. Chair and select board in your in your packet is a formula that the front office select board office uses to uh to calculate. The option the board has is to uh by policy. uh you can wave a portion of that fee um and that would amount to uh charging the applicant $500
versus the uh the $800 um or wave the entire $800 fee. Those are two options or some other variation. >> Yeah. >> Anyone have any particular feelings with respect to this? Uh, I'm cool with the full um $800, but
I do think um we should be careful with um obviously two very different amounts of money, but you know, we do have policies in places for reasons. Uh and I think we should be careful uh with how much we
you know, different different things are different and you know, we wave different things. $800 for what's what's a great a great show. uh you know is is is I'm totally cool with but um just we should be we should be careful. Okay. I'm I'm going to ask actually whichever way we go and whatever waiver we come
down uh I'm going to ask that uh that you supply a report to the select board with respect to the uh amount generated and the donations uh that that you make from those accounts so that we have that information and uh if you come back
before us next year we'll have some uh some data to work from. >> Okay. All right. So, Mr. Richardson has made a motion to wave $800. >> I second that and also note financial uh
considerations of the future. Someday we are going to look at ourselves and say, "Boy, I think I'm going to paraphrase Mr. Brown here. Remember when we used to wave these all the time? I think we are in a period where we are wavering and it's going to be shut off very soon."
>> Okay. All right. Thank you very much. >> Paraphrased correctly. >> I think um I >> I will say it's probably difficult to paraphrase Mr. Brown to be honest. It's almost an honor to be able to uh actually >> Okay.
>> Yes, Mr. >> We didn't vote. >> We Yeah. Okay. So, let's take a vote. There was a motion and a second. He's got the second. All in favor? >> I >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Okay. uh and we are actually ahead of
schedule here uh and that is to uh discuss discuss future select board action on immigration enforcements such as community forums and revision of the June 30th 2025 position statement.
uh you know we have uh all I think received c certain correspondence uh and uh and and I will not be uh I will not be late this time but uh vice chair Goldstone uh wanted me to read an
item uh into the record uh and uh she would like to reflect this that this past summer this board unanimously adopted a position statement reaffirming our town's commitment to public safety and the rights of all residents and calling on federal
immigration enforcement officers to adhere to the same legal and ethical standards as our local police. At that time, we knew and discussed the fact that state and local governments have extremely limited ability to set the rules of engagement for federal
officers. Only the federal government can do that. Congress is considering this matter this week with a deadline of February 13th to enact funding for the Department of Homeland Security or face another partial government shutdown. This is an opportunity for this board to
make known for make known to our federal elected representatives the needs of our town for immigration enforcement that respects the civil and constitutional rights of our residents and provides for public safety.
Advocating to state and federal officials on behalf of our town's needs is not radical or partisan. It is our responsibility and our role within our system of government. I strongly request that we send a letter to our
congressional delegation this week urging them to insist on a uniform code of conduct for IC and CBP, specifically addressing officer identification, judicial warrants, use of force, adequate training, and accountability
measures. So, um, you know, I I'm not sure how this board could, uh, address such a letter or have it, uh, have it, uh, approved and, uh, and signed by, uh, by the February 13th deadline that Dr.
Goldstone seems to think, uh, is a, u,, you know, is is a deadline uh, for for for comments. Uh so um and and that is only one of the potential future items that uh that that this board is you know
to discuss. So I open it for uh for discussion amongst the amongst the board. >> Mr. Chair, so I would like to and we obviously can discuss this. Uh, I do agree with the vice chair's deadline because Friday, February 13th is when
DHS runs out of funding and I think it is important that this board sends our thoughts to our federal partners ahead of um that shutdown because Congress will have to vote on uh what to do with the government funding uh because of
that uh you know whatever that whatever that is um uh vehicle whether it's a one agenda item or something like that. But I think this is important. I think, you know, this room was filled well beyond capacity and it shows that this is what the people want. Uh and I purpose, you
know, uh I personally still um you know, I respect our congressman, but uh I still haven't received an explanation for his vote uh to praise uh ICE in June. Uh quote, "Praise ICE for protecting the homeland." Uh and I would like an explanation uh from Congressman
Keading uh on if that is still his position. uh and if we could just write a letter to him uh requesting uh an explanation for that vote would be my stance. >> You know, I think each one of us has the ability to uh to write to Congress uh as
individuals uh and uh and frankly I I intend to uh to write a letter myself uh with respect to some of the uh uh some of the suggestions that Dr. Dr. Goldstone has laid out and has been, you know, sent in numerous emails that we
have received. You know, my issue is is frankly with respect to the process where we are and and how we can actually uh uh be able to uh agree as a board as to the context of the letter. You know,
uh we certainly don't have a letter in front of us this evening. uh and um so I struggle with how we as a select board could actually make that happen. Uh but I feel uh that that that we whoever
wants to uh certainly has the ability to write as a as a as a private citizen. Uh you know with respect to uh you know to some of the items that uh we all know uh the uh certain uh provisions that are
being recommended with respect to the DHS funding bill and so forth. So so I really struggle mostly with the with with the process. Yeah, totally understand that. The only way I think it's a slippery slope is, you know, um
acting as individuals that are still elected officials. I think, you know, we have ran into this problem before where, you know, I I may be writing as a private citizen, but I'm still a member of this board. And I think that if we could have a letter that is unified specifically just tied to the funding
and I can deal with my problem that I have with the congressman on my own. But uh requesting that Congress do not fund or or work with on that is it separate from anything else I think is important. I think that's what the the community showed concern for when they were here,
>> you know, and and and showed concern with the many many emails that we got. And I, you know, certainly uh feel very strongly about many of the suggestions that have been made. Again, my my problem is given our open meeting law
and requirements with respect to posting and so forth, I I have trouble seeing how we might be able to meet this February 13th deadline. >> Well, we have our if I could, we have our existing uh statement from June. We
could take that out right now and take out some of the outdated language and add a couple things if we wanted to and send that if we wanted to. >> You know, we have said all along uh as uh you know, as soon as Mr. Richardson
was able to find a copy of it, uh you know, at the forum in the archives that u you know that that we definitely want to update uh that that statement. It is scary that 6 months later that that
statement looks like uh you know absolutely nothing in comparison to what's what's been going on. uh but you know revising that statement which is certainly one of the things we have committed to do along with holding other uh other forums and and meetings is
certainly something uh you know we need to do but I think we need to do it within the you know the context of reasonable discussion uh and agreement and you know again uh you know >> oh that's not on our warrant on our
agenda anyways we can't do it >> we really can't you know do it it's not on the agenda. It always >> Oh, no. I this I know this this item is for discussing future items. >> Yeah. >> Uh so one I agree with with Mr. Brown. I think that you know uh if you have to do
it next meeting while I'm not here that's okay. But within the next two meetings that we do revise our statement uh and our policy >> and and you know and if this board feels that a letter to our elected officials is something that it wants to uh uh you
know to to address. Uh it's certainly something we can take up and and deal with with a proper draft that the entire board takes a look at, approves and and agrees to send. So uh you know it it's just a an unfortunate timing situation
with respect to um you know this deadline uh and uh uh you know we had discussed uh at our agenda meeting this past uh uh this past week uh that real there really was nothing that we were
able to do. uh and then uh you know we started getting this uh these many uh me many correspondents from our concerned citizens with whom again on a on a personal level I I I I tend to agree with. So it's really just a process as far as
>> I understand then I guess I would request that letter be on our next agenda item which I know is not >> meeting the February 13th deadline. >> I would ask you Mr. Richardson maybe along with Dr. Goldstone to consider uh
you know working on a draft of of such a way. >> Absolutely. Yeah. Because I think it is important. >> Okay. >> Um but I do understand and I think it is a fault of the way that this just formal government happens to work that timelines are strict and and not fluid.
Um but that's that's what it is. >> Okay. You know so u you know I apologize we were a little ahead of schedule. uh and we have uh been discussing uh you know the suggestion that the select board uh
issue a letter uh with respect to uh funding. I read read Dr. Goldstone's um statement uh and uh you know the the problem that we have uh is that uh this deadline of February 13th which we have
absolutely no control over uh and you know whether it's a hard and fast deadline or not you know remains to be seen. Uh it's if not it runs into a partial government shutdown. I've heard people say you know good that's that that's what's going to happen. and
that's what's going to happen. Uh so uh you know the issue with respect to the correspondence that we've received is that this matter is not on our agenda. Uh so it's not really something that we can vote a letter to send a letter uh
from from this select board. It's just really a timing thing more than you know the fact that anyone you know doesn't doesn't have their own feelings with respect to it. Mr. Richardson uh has has uh suggested that he would help draft a
letter, you know, for our next uh agenda for the board to review and and uh and vote upon at that time. Uh but it's just, you know, it's it's going to be very difficult. It it's impossible because of open meeting laws and and
requirements. So, uh you know, certainly happy to hear, you know, any any comments that that any of you have. I I know, you know, it's something that, you know, you we're all pretty passionate about, but as far as being able to do anything this evening, I I don't think
we're going to be able to do it. So, >> but we will we will >> I guess my my only point of uh clarification is is that it is well, you can't tell me what to do as a private citizen, but as a matter of of practice, it is fine for one member of a
board to send a letter to >> No, absolutely. I want to be careful. >> I you know in my own mind I'm thinking that that such a letter would set you know I am a member of but I am I am clearly writing as a as a concern. >> I just don't want any surprises.
>> Yeah. So I mean that's I think that's an appropriate way that I would be looking at something. >> You don't want to not mention it because then you're inferring >> right >> something. So it's good to make it clear. >> That's that's all >> Mr. Newman, anyone want to say
something? As I say, it's so rare that we're ahead of schedule. I, you know, I do I do apologize, but >> I I think um it won't surprise anybody to know that um Fmouth Immigrant Rights
Coalition and Indivisible Thmouth both feel very strongly that the select board should say something. Um I don't I I can't fight the calendar. Um, but I would certainly ask that the town as a
town express firmly to the congressional delegation that they support the actions. As far as I can tell, our congressional delegation has been has been doing a good job in this direction. Um but but that the town expressed support for
minimizing funding to to ICE and other immigration authorities and trying to bring them to heal in terms of following basic um basic guidelines that other law enforcement takes and um and just common
decency. So, and and I I I think we are living in a bit of a bubble in that there's been very little happening in Fmouth recently, but that could very easily change very quickly and I think we just all need to be um fear fearful
frankly that that uh we could be looking like Minneapolis right now. >> Okay. Did you just want to identify yourself for the record, Mr. >> Sorry. Yes. Uh Jim Newman and I am speaking for both Felmouth Immigrant Rights Coalition and Indivisible Felmouth. >> Thank you.
>> And myself. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Any further discussion? Um thinking about planning for future forums. Is that something that uh that we feel is important as well? I know
there is a a planning group of which Mr. Renshaw is part of as as Vice Chair Goldstone and others. I think they did such a good job last time that I would just leave them to their devices. >> Okay. >> I guess the only thing I'll say is just
being clear of a bigger room and then which is a great problem we had. Uh and then uh maybe perhaps one that is more resources. I think this one was a great way to kick it off, but maybe one that's more, you know, a larger space. Maybe it's like a gym or something that's just
about sharing resources. >> Yep. So, Mr. Mr. Chair and uh select board member Richardson. Um one of the opportunities I think we have and I think some of the folks in the audience may have participated recently. One of our uh churches um put on some uh active bystander training >> and I think that that was one of and we
all heard from Lieutenant Herz um back on January 22nd here in this room of you know the value of that training. Um so I think that may have been an opportunity kind of a focused and I love the gymnasium uh uh uh uh venue for for that type of training. Um, again, just uh
give folks um some some um I think rather unique skill sets in terms of deescalation and addressing um some of these uh some of these things that are happening on our streets and and uh so I think that'd be something I'd like to speak with the planning committee about. >> Right. And and just one more thing then to add, I just want to give a shout out
to Lieutenant Herz. There was a great article in the Enterprise today about all he's done uh and and he's really a tremendous resource to the town. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh all right. We will then move on to the town manager supplemental report.
>> Just have a real quick uh update. Uh >> did anyone else want to speak uh there with respect to that item or >> just give you an opportunity to speak? It's late at night. >> Hi, I'm Deborah Catler. I didn't prepare
a statement and so I realized that it might be risky to try to do this. my head. >> Okay, great. Um, you read it. So in addition to um you know talking about forums and trainings, I'm also
encouraging the select board to consider concrete policies that the town can put in place in addition to what this, you know, the federal government's trying to do, what the state government's trying to do, but many local municipalities in the Commonwealth are addressing this
issue and their select boards are coming up with concrete policies to put in place in the town. And I would like to see us be working on that moving forward. >> You just add that as the next. For my two cents, I think that's what the select board, this select board should
be focusing on uh more than uh not not that they're any less important, but I think focusing on some real concrete steps that some other communities are are taking are really within the jurisdiction of this select board, what
our responsibility is to the residents. So, I appreciate your comments. Thank you. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Now we will turn over to uh Mr. Wrenchure supplemental report. >> Just a quick programming update. I think
I mentioned this in a previous meeting, but uh staff and I have been working on a employee recognition program. We actually launched it last week um employee of the quarter and then ultimately employee of the year. It's going to involve um well the first quarter ends uh next month, right? So, in April, a review committee, which
Peter has helped me form, um of peers, colleagues, co-workers, is going to review applications. We already have, I think, four or five applications that were nominations, I should say. Um, so I'm really excited about the uh the uh uh creating the program. I think it's going to be a great way to recognize, as
I mentioned, to the staff. Um, we do, everyone does tremendous uh amount of work here, but a lot of that goes unnoticed at times. Um, so I think a program like this where you're nominated by your peers, by your co-workers who see you doing those things in day in and day out is going to have a tremendous
amount of value for the town. >> And I just want to commend you, Mr. Enshore. You've been talking about this for a while. It's something that uh it's just a terrific idea. Uh, and u probably too too late too long for us not to have
done it uh before. So, thank you for for taking the lead on that. Are there any uh sweatboard reports? >> No. All right. Uh so >> I can report that I attended the uh
municipal planning organization, you know, the regional transportation group and u the only two things that Falmouth has on the tip are the route 28 uh improvement and that is years and years away. And then uh what's the other
thing? Oh, the the one in North got taken off. That was going to be that idea of putting a rotary at the corner 151. Um, but we really should talk about what we want to see. I like the na the nice new path that Mashby just built along Route 151. It gets to the town
line and stops in a dead end. Be nice if we had our own project there to to keep that going because that could be a nice shared use path that gets all the way to the bike way. So, we we should have a agenda item for that. >> Yeah, certainly we can add that. I I
think I had seen that that Felmouth was uh awarded some funds with respect to uh to the uh NPR. >> Well, no, it's just that we're on the tip for the Route 28, but it's years out and it's not even clear that it's going
to be implemented and uh like on the Route 151 uh intersection, a dangerous intersection. DPW is doing that inhouse so that doesn't go on the tip. And I guess the DPW sometimes has to weigh the the uh
application to the tip because then you have to go to state standards and they might have other ideas for how they want their roadway to look not up to all the the stuff that the state would mandate if you're in that tip. Uh, only thing I have, I didn't want to
put this in announcements because it wasn't finalized yet, but just for you guys' heads up, Senator Fernandez is planning to do the next, uh, bridge forum here in Felmouth, uh, on Monday, March 2nd. Um, so I'll give the official
word on that as soon as I do, but uh, just wanted to put that on your your calendars. >> I'm sorry. >> It's going to like likely, uh, be Monday, March 2nd. Um just got to confirm um with some folks at Mass Dot uh at FHS. Um so just to hear updates on
the Cape Cot Bridge Project. >> So on the bridge project >> on the bridge project. Yep. Yep. Louis Pansky the head of mega projects and her team. Uh this will be our fourth forum and our first in Felmouth. >> Okay. >> So just I will get confirmation hopefully uh by tomorrow on
>> please like report. >> Uh no I just have a future agenda item. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> Uh, two requests actually. I understand that there's a community service campus master plan happening soon.
Uh, I was wondering if we can get an update on that before it gets too far along. mainly because I want to take a look at membership scope and objectives, but also how it relates to other parcels
of land because I think in maybe a separate agenda item or similar maybe it's two put together is the need for a larger Falmouth facility owned property uh campus master plan of which this is
part of uh with school administration building with Morse Pond, with the community service campuses, with the police station, with the fire station. You know, these are all parcels that I think we should be talking about inter in an interrelated
manner and not isolated. And I'd hate for us to get so far down in this campus that we're not actually thinking about it in relation to others. So, there's that one. The second one uh that I'm requesting is um
I'm going to put it on the record and I don't know if it's possible or if I have support from my other uh members here, but um perhaps adding one meeting per month um for financial and strategic planning sessions um whereby we can
start by creating a dashboard of our financial metrics so we're all on the same page. Uh second step would be to look at a FY28 plan to meet a balanced budget and then really look at the five-year stabilization plan. Ideally,
I'd like it to do within our own meetings, but I don't think that's possible given just the sheer amount of pressure town management is on under current circumstances, but um with agenda needs and whatnot. But I think it's going to behoove us to
really have these um sessions slated um so we can start really planning um per comments before. I know it's additional burden. I believe that the select board met many times or met
weekly before my time here. Um so anyways, I just want to have those kind of discussions on a future agenda. Thank you. I have a question. >> I certainly appreciate you coming around to what I had suggested some time ago, Mr. Reed, which was that we do have an
additional meeting or two every month. Uh I agree with you certainly financial uh would be a big part of it but I think you know uh but it would be a a meeting that would be targeted with respect to
agenda items financial certainly being being one of them to to give the the board the opportunity to spend some time hear from the public uh you know with respect to some of these rather larger art uh bigger problems that we're facing
over the uh over the years. So, so thank you. I appreciate that. >> Just a late bloomer. >> Yeah. >> I I'd like to request a thing that with these future agenda items, can we put them in some kind of an order where we might anticipate to see them because
they kind of jump around. >> Yeah. I >> leaves me wondering when we're ever going to get to it. I think it's been a valid objection that all we do is list them and never give any indication as to when we might actually discuss them. >> Well, Mr. Chair, we have worked off
several items on the list if you >> I think we got to go through it. >> Yeah, I think we've got to go through it certainly. Uh we had a discussion joint pace card tonight. Uh but uh if you'd add the items that Mr. Brown and Mr. Reed mentioned and also that Mr.
Richardson me mentioned earlier about the cultural district. >> You want to repeat that? >> Uh I mean I kind of copied that from you but was I kind of quoting when you talked about different cultural and entertainment districts in the past. >> Yeah, I think that came up in a
>> gosh quite some time ago. That was an early meeting, but just looking at a cultural overlay district, what that means, what that doesn't mean, but just to help um the places where it makes sense. Uh anyways, for further discussion, you paraphrase. >> Well, the c the cultural council has
already talked about it and uh pretty much >> and we're standing by for some direction from the state mass culture mass cultural um with some some program revisions. Alice Kachmbboa and I have been working on that. >> Cool. >> The cultural district designation. >> Yeah. >> Motion to
Okay, we have a motion and a second. >> All in favor? >> I Okay, thank you very much. >> Okay. Early birds. Onslaur 729 Main Street, Falmouth, 508 5482287.