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and allow you to focus on growing your business 877-6342638 or meganet.net good evening and welcome to the meeting of the Falmouth Select Board it is Monday April 7th 2025 it is exactly 6 p.m and I would ask that you join me for
the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all
okay as you can see we have one select board member who is with us electronically we have another select board member who cannot be with us this evening and so I'm going to flip-flop our business items and I'm going to take number two first and I will turn that
over to Mr wshaw thank you Madam Chair and good evening select board the select board will consider a vote this evening to place on the May 20th 2025 election ballot of proposition 2 and a half debt exemption ballot question for the engineering design and construction of the Great
Pond phase 1 sewer project to include the sewer lines pump stations force main to convey the wastewater to the town's main wastewater treatment facility and the rehabilitation of the town's existing northernmost open sand beds for discharge of treated wastewater madam
chair and select board uh the sewer extension project as you all know is a necessary step to restore the health of the great pond wershed in accordance with the water quality management plans which have been thoroughly vetted by consulting engineers town staff and the department of environmental protection
100% of the nitrogen discharge from septic systems in the lower portion of the Brick Pond wershed needs to be removed the town has initiated the application process with the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust to obtain 0% loans for this project if
successful approximately 92% of the project costs will be eligible for these 0% interest loans staff have recommended the debt for this project be financed with a proposition 2 and a half debt exemption the finance director has confirmed that by drawing down funds from the town's capital and debt
stabilization fund the town can pay for the new debt created by this project without a tax increase provided the anticipated subsidies are received the finance committee has recommended approval of the great pond phase 1 sewer project article 15 under article 15 of
the April annual town meeting the funding for this project per the finance committee recommendation is contingent on approval of a proposition 2 and a halfde exemption ballot question at the town election the town clerk is advised that the election ballot must be
finalized no later than April 15th given this election ballot timeline relative to town meeting and the select board meeting schedule for the month of April this vote to place dead exemption ballot questions on the election ballot has been scheduled for the first day of town meeting this evening a two-thirds vote
of the select board is required to place a debt exemption question on the election ballots and madame chair and select board my recommendation is to vote the approved recommended motion as printed in the ballot and you can see the ballot question listed in your in
your board packets this evening and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have thank you Mr renshaw questions from the board not really nope miss Goldstone no questions for me thank you thank you okay i would entertain a motion
madam Chair I vote to approve the recommended motion okay we have a I'll second Miss Goldstone's motion as uh printed okay we have a motion and a second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor i roll call please
heather Goldstone I sinsky I brown I taylor I you have your four votes thank you the motion passes okay we're going to move into number one and thank you for your patience i needed to to flip-flop those reconsider a vote to
send the petition to stop from evaporating nuclear waste to the clown town clerk to be placed on the May 2025 annual election ballot mr venture I know you've documented some history on this and I know you've had conversations with
town council and so I'd like also town council to be involved in talking to us about Yes thank you thank you Madam Chair um as you all recall this was up for consideration vote on the March 10th meeting select board meeting um following that meeting I asked town
council to do a review and I'm going to turn it over to town council O'Keefe to kind of go through uh the results of her research and her recommendations so in between that in between um the that March 10th meeting we got a a another
alternative suggestion from select board member Miss Scaly so that's where we needed to relook at sorts and procedure correct so thank you okay thank you so I did look at this and um my curiosity was sparked because uh ballot language is
required to be very precise there is a method to the madness um some ballot questions have um pre-ordained language so from the do you have to do it exactly like they ask you to for example for prop two and a half questions so I
started looking to see if the same was um was the case for nonbinding advisory questions and I consulted with some colleagues um who are um considering other petitions for non-binary binding
advisory petitions at the at the same moment and we also consulted with Michelle Tasinari who's the director of elections at the state um the advice and counsel that I received as um in conjunction with these conversations is
that these um requested petitions for non-binding binding advisory questions for the ballot are treated very similar in the way that we treat petition articles for town meeting you have to accept them as they are word for word and then they are either um you consider
them with an up or down vote you either accept them for the ballot or you reject them now the select board has an opportunity to do their own language for the ballot but if you want to go that route you also have to reject the petitioner's
language here where the suggested edits were very similar um to the language that was offered by the petitioners uh I don't see that there's a need to consider the suggested langu the suggested edits my recommendation
instead would be to simply vote on the petitioner's language yes or no yeah so what I'm hearing you say is that if we want something to move forward to regarding this issue it would be your advice that we move it as
presented at the March 10th meeting by the petitioner correct okay yes would it be correct to say that you didn't find any fatal flaws in the language of the presented petition no I there weren't any okay great i I would
say then that I would move that because that's what the petition uh was all about they signed on to that language all the petitioners who signed the petition so I think that carries second and and and that was a question that I had of the town manager that if
we were going to somehow rework this would it have to go back to being resigned um so it just seemed like it was not the best path so do we have a a motion Mr brown unless there's a specific written motion we
would just make a motion that we put this uh ball of question on the ballot March 10th as as presented by the petitioner as presented by the petitioner i'll second M's motion now chair okay i have a motion and a second to present as presented by the
petitioners i have a motion and a second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor by roll call please brown I zinsky I taylor I motion passes it will go to the ballot thank you thank you very much thank you
thank you okay we're going to move on uh discuss both motions and reports on the April 2025 annual town meeting as needed are there any uh motions or reports that we need to address anyway so so um um
so there was a misprints at the table in article 4 on tonight's uh in tonight's war booklets um we have uh last Thursday we had our uh meeting with town moderator of preparation for town meeting discuss it with the town moderator um the uh plan for tonight is
to there's a few slides that I'm going to go over um when the moderator goes through the warrant I think goes through typically two times on each of the each of the articles for the blanket for the blanket votes so so no not I think I think Tom moderator's comments and thoughts were
that it was a um um but in case there are any questions we're prepared staff is prepared to uh to address those through a series of slides short slide deck that we prepared so if I could just briefly elaborate on that so um if you look at the the table
that's printed in the warrant the the column headings are just off so the moderator is going to mention that and then we'll have the slides that are going to be displayed during the blanket vote discussion um and you know we'll see where it goes from there he said
he's going to direct traffic do that hit do that at the meeting that we attended anyway he's fully aware of that right right right so there's a shot you know that it might go on the blanket but if not would you should suggest that somebody be prepared to speak from the podium as they're go through those slides or just let it go through the
slides can't discuss during the blanket vote okay anything that's the only Yeah the only update report okay so that's okay and we're going to discuss consider and vote for the September 2025 town meeting and
I at our premeating with the town moderator i have put forth November 17th as the uh November town meeting date i'll move November 17th for the November town meeting Madam Chair okay i'll second that i have a motion and a
second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor by roll call please i brown I goldstone i Taylor I unanimous motion passes thank you any other
business at this time that you're aware of Mr chair no Madam Chair okay we'll move on to the consent agenda consider a request for the approval of a variance to the sign code 8184-30 movable portable or mobile signs D1A for the placement of 10 sandwich
board style signs to advertise the 2025 daffodil days event at Score Gardens on April 13th through April 26 2025 same as every other year right it is a name change this year i think
they've changed the name slightly i believe the base i don't remember exact yeah they're Yes they changed that it needs to be D A Y but otherwise I'll say okay do we need to move it or uh someone
needs to move the consent i'll move the consent okay I'll second that okay i have a motion and a second to move the administrative order on the consent agenda any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor by roll call please slinsky I brown I taylor I i great thank you and I will
entertain a motion to adjurnn so moved second okay i have a motion and a second any further discussion of the board seeing none all those in favor by roll call please silinsky i brown i taylor i great we have adjourned [Music]
[Music] the Steamship Authority is a proud partner in many Falmouth community events including town meeting coverage
and for good reason not only do we have a terminal and offices here about onethird of our employees call Falmouth their home we always work hard to serve our neighbors friends and the traveling public we recently put seven new electric buses into service at our Falmouth parking lots soon we'll be adding new vessels to our fleet
continuing work on our energy efficient Woodsole terminal buildings and adding solar panels at our largest parking lot at the Steamship Authority we're serving the islands and you welcome to the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce the Falmouth Chamber is dedicated to
working on behalf of our members to make Falmouth a better place to live work and conduct business we are committed to developing the economic cultural educational and civic interests of our community and welcome the support from all organizations to achieve our combined goals whether you call Falmouth
at home are a summer resident or a visitor we hope you take advantage of all that the chamber has to offer hosting services for fct.org are provided by Megaet Communications megaet offers a wide array of internet services
including mega backup cloud service server colllocation T1 fiber metro Ethernet as well as telephone services such as hosted PBX and digital voice their number one goal is to keep your communications network up and running and allow you to focus on growing your
business 877-634-2638 or megaet.net net