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meeting for Thursday, November 13, 2025. Uh, please join me with the pledge of allegiance. 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. >> Thank you. Um, I'll remind everyone to turn off their cell phones and to uh notify the chair if anyone is making a recording of this uh this public
meeting. And if so, it cannot interfere with the conduct of the meeting. If anyone is, please raise your hand. Okay. Thank you. Uh any announcements this evening? No. Okay. Well, we'll move on to public
comment. Uh public comment is limited to two minutes. Uh and it is for matters that are not currently on the agenda. There's only basically one m matter on the agenda. So, but if anyone is interested in public comment, please
approach the microphone. Okay, moving right along. Uh, okay. So, uh, our first and only item of business to tonight to discuss and consider a vote to propose that a new police station be constructed at one of the
following three locations recommended by the police station advisory committee. 484 Brick Kill Road, East Falmouth. 100 Brick Hill Road, East Falmouth, Zero Carriage Shop across from Wagon Trail
Road, also in East Falmouth. Uh, Mr. Wrenchaw. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, just a real quick comment is the chair of the public safety uh, advisory committee is coming to the podium. So, as you all recall, we've had two community meetings. Uh the
first was on September 25th and the most recent was October 28th. Um the uh the the advisory committee and uh my office heard um loud and clear uh the concerns expressed by uh community members as well as the select board uh with regards
to concerns about the site uh the 484 brick kiln site. uh Peter and I gave some direction to the uh to the to the team to go back and produce uh some alternative options for the board to consider tonight. I do feel it's important going into town meeting on on
Monday that we have a site identified um going into town meeting. So uh with that I want to thank the advisory committee um not only the chair but all the members of the of the team uh the consultants uh vertex and tecton the architect engineer um just a tremendous
amount of work as you all know has gone into it over the past 10 11 months um it's been methodical um and uh fast-paced and quite honestly I know there's uh been some some u concern perhaps about the speed at which they've worked over the past week and a half two weeks following the October 28th meeting
um but that's how important it is to this group to get it right and I feel that they have gotten it gotten it right with the recommendations you're going to hear tonight. So with that, I'll turn it over to Boyd. >> Thank you, Mr. Renshaw. Good evening. Boyd Delo, chairman of the police station advisory committee. Um we're here tonight to present a presentation
on our recommendations of the three sites that the chair has previously mentioned. So without further ado, uh we'll get going on this just for a quick overview. So, uh, for those in the audience or at home that may have not seen some of the previous, uh, two
community forums and several meetings here with the, uh, select board, uh, this is the F police department patrol area for the town of Fouth. The town of FA's 44 square miles. It's divided into five sectors for the, uh, police department. Currently, the, uh, blue star in the map indicates the in the
center section indicates the current location of the police station um, where it sits today. And these are the patrol sectors that uh one police cruiser uh either one police officer generally handles during his shift. So uh going forward, one of the things this committee looked at was uh relocating
the police department on available piece of property that provided better coverage to the town of Famouth. So um as you'll see going forward in this presentation, I I I think we've accomplished that um a few times here on this presentation. So, selecting a location, we're going to
do a brief overview again of of all those parcels, and it'll be quick. Um, but I think it's important that we review everything the committee's done because as Mr. Renshaw stated, this committee was appointed in uh uh early the part of the year, January, and we got right to work uh meeting every two
weeks uh and occasionally it was a every week meeting and looking at parcels, rejecting some, bringing some back. So, and um it was it was really an in-depth study and and I was I can't thank my committee enough for the help and and and uh passion they bring to this
project along with the support of all the town departments, Department of Public Works, town manager's office, uh town council's office, and I'm sure there's a few others out there, uh Department of Community Development, and uh Jed and all his staff up there that provided us input to this project.
uh selecting location. A few of the minimum requirements, and it's not all of them, but this is a few of the big ones. A parcel size of 5 acres or above. Currently, we're looking at about probably 4 and a half acres of land, give or take. But again, we're in a loca secting selecting a land location, not a
design for a station at this point. Road access and location, uh no flood, nothing's in a flood zone. Currently, the police department does sit in partial flood zone. Uh no conservation restrictions and article 97 relief is not required. Um, article 97 is uh part
of the mass uh commonwealth constitution and it's a I call it a pesky little thing because it keeps cropping up every time we find what we think is a good site and article 97 raises its head and we moving on. Um site location uh the PAC selection criteria parcels uh came
from the community development office. Again, there were 500 plus parcels that were originally looked at by the by uh their office and it was whittleled down to to uh 16, maybe a couple extras in there and the PAC committee through evaluation got it down to four based on
the uh 18 value valuation criteria that's on the board in front of you currently. Um none of these are listed in any particular order. They're they're just the criteria we used. um municipal water service availability, uh flood
zone impacts, and there's other impacts of note. Generally, if it didn't fit into one of these categories, there may be uh something with an individual parcel that we saw that kind of dropped into the other impacts of note uh category for us when we're doing these evaluations.
Um we've at some point along the line grouped these parcels into different uh groups just for our own uh management of the parcels. And this is what we call the long pond group. It's it's more the core center of Falmouth. Uh there were several parcels here. The 484 Brickill
Road parcel, the zero Brickill Road parcel, which is just to the east of of the 484 parcel. 233 uh Brickill Road, that's the dog park. Uh 100 Brickill Road is what they refer to as the Augusta property property, the former drive-in theater property. Uh zero Gford
Street. 525 Gford Street, which is the youth uh Little League Fields. 650 Gford Street, which is the water treatment plant, and three parcels along uh West Falmouth Highway, um on the east, no correction, sorry, west side of Long
Pond, essentially on the uh west farm with Highway corridor leading from the intersection of Palmer up to the uh split on the highway. The central road access group uh is consists of about four parcels that we looked at. zero Blacksmith Shop Road,
which is uh farther up to the northern part of Blacksmith Shop Road, but just to the south of the former town landfill, currently uh housing the town solar array. 565 Blacksmith Shop Road, which is right across the street from the previous parcel. That's also known as the uh town municipal leaf dump. 154
Blacksmith Shop Road, which is the wastewater treatment plant, which is up off Service Road, more to the west side of Blacksmith Shop Road. and then zero carriage shop road which is out off of um just in from Sandwich Road near the intersection of old meeting house and carriage shop at the fork there that's
uh also referred to as the Allen parcel it's about a 71 plus acre parcel of which I'll get into more explanation in a minute then we have the school the downtown group there was a couple properties that u we had looked at and there these two properties were mentioned uh as we went
forward community meetings and meetings with the with the board uh 340 ticket highway, which is a school administration uh property, and 323 Jones Road, the Morspawn School property. And then we have what we call the outliers group. It's a couple parcels of
land that fit some of the criteria, but again, due to the police department's uh need to service all areas of the town of Falmouth. They while fit some criteria, didn't really fit into that, it's a great spot to put a police station because if you look at the stars of the map here, if you're going down to the
419 Woods Hole Road property where it's where currently the fire and rescue department, station 2, is uh located. If you're traveling from the far east on the north sector, it's a quite a travel time to get back to the station. And vice versa, if you put a police station
up in the north on the uh blue star up there, that's zero Nathan Ellis Highway, which is up near F uh found with Woods development off Route 151. We did do a tight uh sight fit on that parcel as we went forward. It's just a tight parcel up there. So, and plus this too far out
to provide central uh location for for the police department. So, selecting location uh these are additional or revisited sites since our community forums and our meetings have gone on. Again, 340 the school administration building. It's got
article 97. Uh so, we no longer have that under consideration. 888 Sandwich Road has some uh was brought to us post one of the community I think the community forums or select board meeting. I don't remember when that dropped into the rotation. We had looked at it early on, but digging down on it
again, article 97, uh, the flag popped up. So, that's no longer under consideration for us. And then 233 Brickill Road, which is the dog park. We did take a really good look at this parcel because it was it was in that center town where it's it's accessible
uh to most of the police uh sectors. However, um it's the dog park would require and I'll get into why we rejected that in a minute, but it also has article 97 uh designations on that property. That brings us to our 484 Brickill Road, which is parcel 14, which the committee
has always said is the preferred site. Um 154 Blacksmith Shop Road, which is the wastewater treatment plant. the 100 Brickium Road parcel. Again, that's the Augusta parcel, zero carry shop road, the Allen parcel, and then zero Blacksmith Shop Road, which is that one
up on Blacksmith shop. We recently went back and took another good look at that just to make sure that we were, you know, dotting the eyes and crossing the tees on this review and that we had made sure we were comfortable uh yes or no on that parcel. And we'll get into that as I move forward. Um, so real quick, the
school administration parcel at 340 Ticket Highway, uh, we rejected this site. It has some article 97 issues required, uh, with moving the ball field, traffic congestion on Ticket Highway and Sandwich Road. We looked at a traffic study going back that was done by the Capecock Commission a few years ago. Um,
additional roadways improvement, um, costs will likely be imposed by MASDOT on improving TT highway uh, if we're going for curb cuts. and there's a possibility that some of those costs could be incurred by the town. Um, it's deed restricted because the school administration building is an historic
building and there are some of our impacts and with PD operations in the area and it is adjacent uh to a flood zone and once earlier mentioned we'd have to relocate a ball field. uh the matrix score on that one and our I I'm sorry I'm remiss on mentioning we our matrix scoring back in that slide with
the 18 parcels um the scoring if we had a perfect parcel it was you know the golden parcel would score an 85 on the matrix scale um for a perfect score if you want to call it um this this site here scored a 59 out of all those 18
criteria and the scoring that we did on that this site is the 233 Brooklyn road the dog park. Uh we did take again we went back and looked at this site. Uh ultimately we've rejected it because once again article 97 is uh on this
parcel. Uh it's within the water resource protection overlay district. There's been land bank funds used on this parcel. Uh would require excuse me relocating the dog park whether it would be to another location on that property or relocating the dog park elsewhere. Uh
it's a narrow site with an angled frontage which made uh traffic increased traffic in and out of that site uh difficult. Uh should we relocate the dog park on that parcel, say to the rear of the parcel, it would be a dual use of of a public drive on the public entrance side to the police department where you
probably have a driveway off that go into the dog park out back. And there was some uh concerns about some in uh a butter uh impacts in the area with both business and residential. And on that property, there's a significant uh storm drainage work and
restrictions done on that property since the implementation of the bar dog park, excuse me. Uh 484 Brickill Road. This has been uh discussed greatly at at all the meetings. Um it is the recommended site by PAC. Uh it's got
ease of vehicle access to all the areas of the town. It's an excellent road access and the sight lines in that section of Brick Kill Road are are really good. Close proximity to all patrol areas. It does have proximity to Fouth High School. A lot of the parcels we looked at, we looked at the proximity
of the parcel we're looking at in relation to other municipal uses in town. Uh so this proximity to FA FHS presented some positive uh results on that. we able to tie into the sewer into the force main that's currently being uh out to bid for the town and the current
sewer expansion project and it's outside the flood zone. This had a matrix score of 76. Concerns and considerations with 484 Brick Road. Yes, it's within the water surface water supply zone B and it's within water resource protection overlay
district. Uh we've discussed this project at previous um meetings about ground well monitoring, tight tanks for the uh vehicle wash bays and storm water uh septers for uh taking care of the
storm water runoff on the property. 154 Blacksmith Shop Road. This is the wastewater treatment plant site. It's a 314 acres up off Blacksmith shop road off the service road in West Falmouth. Uh we've this one was in play for a long time but we finally came around to
rejecting it due to its remote location off a main road. Uh it's a poor vehicle access due to service road and blacksmith shop road and it's hills and blind curves up there. limited area available due to the wastewater treatment plant and underground electrical utilities that are still there from the uh windmills and there's
some plans or talk about um possible solar array or some other work getting done up there or expansion of the wastewater plant and topography and soil issues up there were uh quite difficult had a matrix score of 72 100 Brickill Road the Augusta property
um this is one that we we looked at really in depth in in the last uh since the last select board and community forum um and spent a lot of time on it. Uh myself along with uh Veritex and Tecton and members of the police department did do a walkthrough of the
property last Friday prior to our um Friday meeting of the police station advisory committee. Uh and it was eye opening on the parcel for us. Uh this s site ranked number two in our our final listing of uh the three sites that we're recommending ease of vehicle
access to all areas of town. Close proximity to the patrol areas. There's some conditional deed restrictions that allow for both conservation and municipal use in this property. Uh municipal purposes for the property. Four minutes to the high school. That's the same as saying it's in close proximity to the high school. Again, we
looked at municipal uh putting buildings municipal buildings near each other. Uh and this is the foremen high school is just indicating that this property is also close to another municipal parcel just happens to be the high school. Sewer access is available because the current proposed sewer project that's
come going forward uh does come through this property on the uh west side of the property and we'll be able to tie into the sewer on this property as well. It's well outside the flood zone and it's a previously disturbed site which is something we heard from the both the community and members of the board. Uh
this was a drive-in and we have some belief that before that there was an airfield there uh grass field be as it may. Um this uh the scoring matrix of 76 which is the same as the Brookil Road 484 parcel.
Considerations concerns with this site. A portion of the site is needed for installation of a lift station and a sewer main on the western border. The proposed sewer project is going to this property has two uh road accesses. one off the Brickill Road that we're talking about, then one off Route 28 uh near
Fmouth with Lumber across from the uh storage facility. Uh the sewer proposed sewer lines were going to are going to come in on that entrance off of Route 28 and travel along the the the border the western border of the property to the lift station located back near Bricklin Road. Um,
a portion of the site has been considered for wastewater discharge if the ocean outfall pipe is not constructed and a portion of the site needs to be designated for open space and/or recreation. Deed restrictions do not prevent the town from dedicating 5 acres plus or minus for a police station
and article 97 removal is not required for this parcel. Uh, some considerations and concerns continued uh greater neighborhood impact than the other sites. We realize that prior uses of the drive-in and airport could result in some increased site
costs for removal of utilities and possible environmental remediation. Uh test fit for the police station can be located in harmony with the new sewer lift station as it currently is designed uh in consultation with uh Peter McConnay and Amy LOL. The proposed
location of the lift station on the property and the proposed sighting of the police station are as we say are in harmony with each other. There's no requirement to relocate the lift station on the property to accommodate a police facility on this property. Topography better is better than many sites, but
some grading is required. The northeast corner of the property does trail off towards Brickill Road, so there may be some grading uh or excavation work or site work done to improve that should we use that as an access. Access to Titika Highway for police vehicles only. It's a
plus, but it it could be expensive. We really haven't. Again, we're in locating a piece of land. We're not looking at a design phase of the building. Although, you know, we do some conceptual drawings to make sure a building can fit. The design phase of the building would will dictate whether we're going to put a
driveway to Route 28. And there's a lot of discussion during the design phase on on the aspect of that zero carriage shop road, the Allen parcel, 71 acres, 14 of which are available from use, municipal use, the other 57 are in conservation
restriction. Uh this site was ranked number three. Transit to patrol sectors were impacted by the narrow roads and blind curves. It's in a pretty busy intersection. If you know if you're familiar with the area, there's Old Meeting House Road. Uh and then just to the uh west of that,
there's Alderberry and Blueberry Lane. And it's a it's a smaller road. Location entails longer travel times to the five patrol sectors. No different than putting something on on Route 151 or down on the five 419 Woods whole property. The travel times are increased
dramatically to this site. There's some potential endangered species out there and this is one of the preferred sites for wastewater discharge again should the ocean outfall not be constructed. However, there's no sewer uh connections on this site. So, the matrix score is 61
on that parcel. Uh the last one, zero Blacksmith Shop Road. Again, this is the parcel just to the south of the former town landfill, the current solar uh array. Uh we rejected this. It's a remote location again. Uh poor vehicle access due to the
road hills and wine curves. Blacksmith shop road is not a well-developed road as far as road standards. No sewer out there and the topography is very poor and there's some endangered species on the property and that had a matrix score of 62.
So all in all, as the chair pointed out, we're recommending three sites to the town, the 484 Brickill Road parcel, 100 Brick Hill Road, the Augusta property, and the zero carriage shop road Allen parcel to the board tonight for uh approval of a site going forward for town meeting on Monday. Uh the blue star
again locates the police station downtown just off well just next door to where we are today. And um we feel that these you know we're moving the police station to a better location to allow the police department to move forward uh and build a 21st century policing uh
build building that has room for their current staff and their proposed expansions. Uh 484 the Brickill Road site. It's an ideal location for efficient vehicle access to all five patrol sectors. It's the most favorable site for development costs based on preliminary geotechnical
test pitting and soil assessment. Uh this was a conceptual site plan. It's it's been out there for a while in the community. This was a site plan that we did. These site plans are are about a 30,000 foot flyover of the site. Uh we the Tecton and uh Veritex, they propose
these sites. We get down to design. We can get into more of the size of the building andor, you know, parking and where it's going to go and how many spaces we need and and stuff. But we as a committee would hate to find out we're picking a parcel and it we put a conceptual drawing on there that has x
amount of sites only to find out we need half that much more due to the design of the building when we get there. So we want to make sure we can fit the building on the parcel when we get there. Uh parcel number two in the ranking the 100 brick road the Augusta property.
It's outside the long pond wershed. It's outside the water resource protection overlay district. good central location with relatively efficient access to the five patrol areas. It was previously developed, as I mentioned before, it was a former drive-in. There's some uh historical data that indicates it may
have been an airfield there. It's flat. There's not a lot of virgin tree on the property as with the other sites. And the site assessment was based on GIS site history. And like I said, a group of us did a walkthrough on the property uh last Friday.
This is a proposed site plan uh for the uh 100 Brickill Road. The Augusta parcel locates the police station more to the Brickill Road side of the property. And you'll see in the upper uh corner there's a small driveway where the proposed lift station was going to is going to be located. That sewer line
would run along what is you're looking at would be the left side of that red line. Just to the right of the red line on the left side of the property is the western boundary of that property. Those sewer lines are going to come in off of Route 28 and run to that lift station from there. um has room for an out building, does have room for future
growth for a uh module or outdoor contained firing range. Uh should uh the police department be able to put that on the property. Again, it's a it's a sight fit test site conceptual drawing for the property.
Carriage shop road. Again, it's outside the water resource protection overlay district. Favorable topography and site conditions based on JS and site history. less advantageous location with longer travel times to the five patrol sectors. We did do a a test fit on this property
that shows you the test fit on that property as well. This property has been undeveloped. There's a lot of virgin tree out there and other things. So again, that was something we heard from the community about disrupting uh undisturbed land and the committee feels strongly about that uh when we looked at
things. So, but we did do a site fit so you could see what may be proposed out there so you could help make a decision tonight. That's it in a nutshell. So, we're ready for questions. Mr. Chair, >> thank you, Mr. Dlo. I I I'm sure all the members of the board echo Mr. Renaw's
thanks to you and your committee for the hard work that you put in uh the community forum and then another five meetings to to to come to this spot. So, we appreciate your your help. I'm going to ask U. Town Council. We've heard a lot about article 97. Can you uh can you
just give a a brief overview of article 97, how properties become 97 uh and what's involved in getting it off article 97. >> Sure, I'm happy to do that. So, article 97 is an amendment to the Massachusetts
Constitution that states that >> microphone too far. >> No one's ever told me I wasn't loud enough. So, thank you. Um, and what article 97 does is it it stands for the proposition that land held by
municipality is held on behalf of the public and the public is entitled to um to clean air to recreation to conservation of the land to the protection of the historical aspects and archaeological aspects of that land. And
um what article 97 stands for is that as a municipality we have a responsibility to hold on to anything that's protected by article 97 that falls within that ambit. Um in order to make a determination about whether a particular
parcel is protected by article 97 it um there you have to evaluate many different factors. It's a totality of the circumstances analysis. So that means that no one factor is indicative. Some might be weighted a little bit more
heavily than others. But what you would do is you look at the deed to say how the town took the property when the property became part of of um became town property. You look at the town
meeting vote, how town meeting debated about what they were going to do with the property when they took it, when they purchased it or accepted it. You look at how the property is used, how it's historically been used, how it's been used recently, and how um the
inhabitants of the town understand that property to be, what the characteristics that we as inhabitants of the town consider the use of that property. And then always there are some additional unique factors about that piece that
will be considered as part of the analysis. So um so we did that with these parcels and um and we looked at everything. We looked at the deed, what the language in the deed, whether it's dedicated for for a specific purpose, whether there's no
indication whatsoever in the deed. often times there is a lively debate on on the floor of town meeting surprisingly about what um how the property will be used. Um so all of these all of these aspects
were reviewed and analyzed for each of these properties that um that we're looking at tonight and for a lot of the other ones that didn't make the list. Um, like I said, there's no one dispositive factor and a lot of times
the analysis comes down to a spectrum where um I couldn't say definitively 100% that a property is AR article 97 uh protected, but I could say that it's most likely protected due to the factors
and that um it would be a challenge to a challenge and sometimes impossible to remove that protection. So once an once a piece of property is protected by by article 97, it's difficult to undo that and there's a reason for that. It's
important. The legislature wants the article 97 protections to remain in perpetuity. So to undo those protections, um there's a there's a there's a process. we would have to go to the
state to the um executive office of of environmental affairs and we'd have to um engage with them to do a site analysis. They'd do the same analysis that I've done and we've all done for these properties and look at the deed and look at town meeting vote and look
at how it's used. look at whether um the town has used CPC funding or land bank money or has accepted any kind of grant from the state in order to rehabilitate it for recreational purposes or conservation purposes or water protection purposes, any of that. Um, if
the land had some article 97 value to it, the town would have to do a at least a one for one swap to offer some land that wasn't already protected by article 97 in return for that. If the land had a
high article 97 value to it, the the state might ask for a higher swap than just a one. It might ask for a 2:1 ratio where we'd have to offer additional land to swap out for the article 97 land.
Sometimes the state will even say we'll relinquish the article 97 if you provide article 97 protection on another piece, but you also need to give us some money. So there's an analysis and again it's a spectrum and there's no one way in or
out. If the state does say, "Okay, we agree that we'll do this land swap with you, maybe with an an additional x amount of dollars." Then we'd still have to get town meeting permission to um go
to the state legislature because the state legislature, both houses would still have to vote a twothirds vote in order to to release the article 97 land at the very least. And I I this is really being generous. Um it would take
a year to do that. It's more like four or five years in order to get an article 97 restriction released. And at the end of four or five years, you're never guaranteed that the state legislature is going to vote your way. So that's the overview.
>> Okay. Thank you. Just one question. I have Mr. Dlo. Just to be clear on the matrix scoring, both of the top two locations had the same score of 76. Is that correct? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh so I'm going to open
it up to uh members of the board. I'll start with Chair Vice Chair Goldstone. >> So thank you um for all of the work that you've put in over um the past 10 months um and especially over the the past couple of weeks. And that goes for all
of the committee members. um who are here um to be able to provide these additional uh sites. Um I have to say I um I come in with mixed feelings this evening. Um I'm thrilled that we have
these options. Um since the beginning I have said that it would need to be an extreme last resort for me to support 484 brick and I think we're in a position where it's clear we have options. So, in my mind, that's really
positive. Um, I still have some concerns about the process that got us here. Um, with all due respect to town council, uh, what I've seen, um, and and heard in asking around is that article 97 is
typically a 1 to twoyear process for a land swap, um, and has had about an 80% success rate in the past. And I think that not only with article 97 but with um a number of the the issues coming up the the analysis has been unduly focused
on what are 1 to fiveyear concerns in the construction and permitting of the station rather than the 50-year concerns um that we need to be focused on to ensure that we have the best police station for the next five decades. Um,
and I think that in so doing and understanding the desire to get this two- town meeting with um, a location, um, what I've been hearing from constituents is that that we've eroded some trust in the process and we're going to need to to rebuild some trust
moving forward as we continue to work on this. Um, and I think as we heard at the community forum, um, everybody is is on board with a new police station. just wants to make sure that we get to the best possible police station for the whole community. So, um I I do have some
questions about um the Augusta parcel design. Um I shared some of those with with um town management uh prior to this meeting. Um I guess one of them is uh around the conceptual design and that process
moving forward. Um there were we we talked about parking with the original design on 484. Somehow this uh design now has an additional is it 40 sites? 216 total sites um for this police station. Um and it it still seems to
take up a lot of space. And so I'm I'm wondering with the the design process going forward, what will that look like? How much community and other input will there be into the design? Will we see multiple options or when we vote the the site, are we kind of saying that we're on board with this conceptual design?
>> No, I I don't believe as a committee or as the chairman of this committee, we're asking you tonight to say what I showed you for the Augusta property or any of the other two out there that this is the site you're getting. This is the building you're getting. This is how it's going to look. I mean, it's a conceptual design. There is great time
going down the road after a piece of land is located in the design process to tweak the building, tweak the parking spaces. again the you know doing a conceptual design and I'd asked Matt Salad from Tecton to to uh expand on this for me is that we're
doing a site an a site conceptual site drop on it to make sure that we're covering any potential design build on that property and we're not coming up short down the road you know we've locked into the property you know down the road and again oops wait a minute we're having trouble we can't fit this or we can't fit and I I don't know what
it could be it could be anything you know and or you know parking for a solar array in the parking lot. So these conceptual design and I'll let Matt speak to that more, but that's my take as the chairman of the committee on why yes, they do look large. And if you recall, we went back to this first
design when they did the staffing analysis and the design build with the police department and we came out at 68,000 or 62,000 ft for a building and we immediately pulled that back 23% right off the bat. That's the first part of designing a building. It it's, you know, we take the
great wish list. It's like breaking out the Sears catalog when you were a kid and circling everything in the book. You know, now we have to figure out, you know, what what mom and dad can afford. And that's what we're doing now. You know, we we tailed it back. The town manager came to us and we asked us for some other reductions that we looked at and provided on this process going
forward. But again, it's a conceptual design. It it's abstract. It's just making sure we're getting to the right place. you know, I don't want to come back or this committee doesn't want to come back and I'm sure that the board or the town doesn't want us to come back a year from now and saying great site, but we're going to have to move somewhere else because it's just not working out.
We don't want to that's time. That building next door is failing. It, you know, we need to and you know, we're not rushing to judgment because the building is failing, but we need to get them out of that building and get into a building they can do their job. You know, it's a great police force. They serve the town well, and they need something they can work on. So, that's my that's my take on
that. But again, Matt's better at this than I am. Thanks Boyd. H you did a pretty good job yourself. Um just to clarify on that too, this is right. This is preconceptual design. This is site test fitting, right? So we're being asked to look at parcels, take the program, the
space needs development, the space needs assessment that we had developed with the police department in the PAC committee um over the past year or so and make sure that that program will fit on the site. And that was the antithesis of of what you saw on the screen here. And just for clarity, I we did review
your email and and I appreciated you noting the fact that we were showing more parking spaces than originally. There was a drive aisle that we had inadvertently copied over a number of parking spaces. Those have been removed. They match. So the site test fit you saw on the screen tonight is the same number of parking spaces as the previous one at
484 Brick, which matches the space needs assessment. So, I just want to be clear, we weren't we we don't have more parking spaces on this parcel than we had previously. In terms of community engagement and involvement, that's something that goes on throughout the entire design development process. Once
we have an approval to move forward with the design, it takes anywhere from 9 to 12 months for us to develop those working documents that go out to bid for the contractor. Throughout that process, there's a rig rigorous community engagement process that'll be involved seeking public input because right now
we're just looking at boxes on a site. We need to develop the character of what this building looks like and how it feels to the community. And that's something that's so important for the input of the community to be incorporated into because at the end of the day, it's not Myer Boyd's building. It's not the police chief's building.
It's the town of Falmouth's building. And that input is critically important to making sure that it's a successful project now and for the next 50 years. and beyond that. Hope that answered your question, >> Mr. John. Sorry. >> Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to expand on that. And um that's Matt Salad, our
architect, as I know the board knows, but just for the public. Um yeah, I just want to reinforce that um if we do get design funds approved for this site, there will be multiple reports back, check-ins with the select board. In
addition to community engagement, there will be check-ins on okay, you know, we're at preliminary design 10%, here's what we're looking at. What's your input? You know, so from the board, from the public, continue along the design process, 50% design. Okay, this is, you
know, we incorporated your input. We've made some changes. This is what the design is looking like now. What's your input? So to your question, Miss Goldstone, absolutely there will be many opportunities for further input on refining this design going forward. Okay. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. May I ask one more question? >> Yes, sure. Um, and I saw him earlier, but uh for Chief Lori, um, if you if you wouldn't mind, I I think my other uh potential concern uh with the Augusta
property is um what feels to me like a maybe a lack of community integration, kind of the location where it is. And I get for operational um purposes why that location is actually really good and I like that. Um, I'm just curious with that kind of location. It's not right
downtown. It's not highly visible from Route 28 kind of integrated with other business or or cultural activity. Do you imagine that impacting or changing the way that you police? You know, you talked to us about 21st century policing and really being part of the community. So, how does that location fit with
that? >> So, I'll just give you my experience. So, I I'm in my 38th year as a police officer, my 14th year as a police chief. Um there's been one building that was centrally uh located. Um it was a downtown area. We're very unique um in
Falmouth and I I can tell you that u with my years of experience. Um we have 44 square miles. It's the biggest town that I've worked for. Um we have five sectors. That's a minimum of five cars on the road responding to you folks. So to get to you and just as important to
get back home if we have a prisoner, we're doing reports, we're doing different things. we really need to be more centrally located. Um, and I can just tell you from from my experience, most of the community engagement that we do is off-site, but even the community engagement that we do, inviting you folks in, movie night with the kids,
bingo, open house, first night, all these different things, you're centrally located. So, it's going to be more convenient for you folks to come in to pick up your police report, uh, and your accident report. Um, I can tell you Falmouth is very unique. uh you want to put us downtown with all the housing
you're building and everything else down there. We can barely get out of there now with 35,000 year round residents, never mind when you add another three, four, 5,000 people with all the building permits that are currently in place and in the ones that are being proposed. Um downtown doesn't work for us. Um in a
flood zone, we need to be protected. We think unbrick will will be a protected site uh for you folks, but we swell to over 100,000 people in the summer and we need to be able to operate effectively. Um and we feel by being centrally
located um we will be more effective as as police officers and as a department. And I hope that answers your question. I think it's a good site. I like the fact that we're able to get uh to Route 28. You know, when we talk about different things about crime areas and different
it's nice to being able to get on to 28 to the to get to different folks that are having issues in East Falmouth or everywhere else, but also being able to be central when we have to get to Woods Hole or West Falmouth. So, I think in my opinion, um both BrickM sites, they're
good sites. Um and I'm I'm hoping you'll consider one of them uh so we can move forward. Um it'd be nice going into town meeting Monday night with some dirt under our feet as Boyd always says it would be a nice thing. So, we know going forward if this money is approved, you
know, what are we building and where are we building it? And um I I want to commend everyone here, my team, internal team, we spent I can't even tell you how many hours on it and to obviously our architect OPM and to the committee. Um,
you know, like I said, unbelievable work and and I'm hoping um that the board and the town has has trusted us um to repair any issues that you may have over this. Um we've there are meeting minutes. Uh these were open meetings to the public that we've had. We've been very
transparent. Uh and I'll end with this. Just this week alone, walking in that building Monday with water pouring into records, garage doors broke yesterday. Um it we need to get out of there and and it's it's our home until we move and we can't wait one to two years for the
legislature to say okay article 97 but we really need to get out of that site. Remote's not an option. You know what do we do with our evidence room? What do we do with all our equipment? Where do we book our prisoners? So now the five officers on the road instead of having five we have three because two are in Mashby booking prisons. So that's our
home until we get out of there. And we haven't rushed this project, but I will tell you two and a half years ago when I walked in that building um until today, we need to go. And I'm hope we have your support um and we can move forward. Um
we have a phenomenal architect and OPM where I believe um after this town meeting, we could potentially be out of there in two and a half years and and I think that would be a wonderful thing uh for my amazing staff and for you folks in this great town. Thanks, Chief. You
know, I just want to say I think uh I think the two community forums that we held the uh you know, the meetings that you held subsequent to the initial uh description or introduction of the 484 and and those meetings, the two boards
uh select board meetings that we had. I think we we actually justified what a good process it has been up to this point and where we have uh you know asked for received and uh and dealt with all of the community concerns. So uh so
I you with due respect to to to my colleague think uh think the process has worked pretty well. Uh it evolved from from its very beginning but I think where we are now is a big improvement. Uh Mr. Brown, >> assuming you have a question.
>> Um, well, I don't have a lot of questions. I asked a couple ahead of the meeting and I went and drove the site to uh check it out. I remember going to the drive-in when I was a kid. So, I spoke with the chief earlier and I spoke with some of his command staff. Everyone seems comfortable with this site. It
seems like it'll work. Maybe the entrance onto Route 28 might need a little modification. knock the hill down so there's better light uh sight vision as you're pulling out. But I think the access on the two roads is good. I think the fact that they've done the uh preliminary plan to show that everything
fits is is really all we need at this point. And uh I'm I'm happy with this site. So ready to go. >> Anyone else? >> Mr. Thank you. Um, and thank you again for all the extra work over the last few weeks. Uh, no >> problem.
>> Chief, I feel bad that you have to take a left out of Main Street here. We all have to do it. Hopefully they don't hold you up when you have your lights on. >> Um, that being said, I do want to note that the minutes have not been posted. Uh, I don't see them anywhere. Maybe I'm
on the wrong thing. Um, >> yeah, the minutes are posted. >> We definitely need to make sure they're there. that police station advisory committee then minutes are posted regularly. Y >> Okay, I'll have to double check that. Same thing with the programming space needs. I would love to see that. But
overall, the Augusta property I think is a nice adjustment and I appreciate that. Um I I'm glad that we all heard the community come forth with no to Long Pond. Um I was surprised to still see that as your number one. I understand
that that is your top choice, but given all the community input that we received, I was surprised to still see that at the top. I would disagree a little bit with our chair regarding the process. Um, and I don't think it's the process of the uh the advisory
committee. I think it's the process of our town. And I think we have to really start thinking and and my uh colleague, the co-chair said it, this is a 50-year problem. And it's one that we need to look holistically. This is a beautiful
one toone replacement, but it's not looking at things holistically. It's not looking at all of the collective needs that we have with our capital campaign for the next 20 years. My colleague Mr. Brown always points to that we have a lot of needs. We could
have built in a lot of efficiencies in this and again it was not part of the scope of the advisory committee. It should have been uh the scope of this select board previous this select board currently the town management
um all of us to really be looking at how can we build efficiencies, how can we build grander visions, how could we build common centers and by economies of scale we could actually have uh congruent things working together. So
it's not just a beautiful police station. We know that we are going to need new town hall soon because we're in the flood zone, right? We know that we also are going to need uh new courthouse soon. Again, not part of this this the
boundary conditions of this advisory committee, but our boundary conditions and the way that we operate as a town. We need to look at these things and I think moving forward it totally we have to look at these things holistically going forward. This is a comment that I
make about our agendas. We look at things in isolation. I think we need to do better. We need to be better. And going forward, we're going to have to think hard about how we change the way we do things so that we can look at things strategically.
Again, I think the Augusta property achieves a a nice onetoone replacement. I have reservation because I don't think it's the best because we didn't expand the parameters. I asked that at the select board
meeting. Uh I don't know if that was conveyed to look at all possible land, not just land that is posted on MLS for sale, but potential opportunities and I don't think that actually got expressed. Um I wish it had. I wish we had I wish
we could go back a year or two and really think about how we could do these things together, but we can't. But with all that being said, I do appreciate the uh work that you did. I appreciate the alternative um uh site location of
Augusta, and I'm prepared to vote in favor of that um parcel. I'm uh yeah, there's just many different layers here and I think um we as a town have to do better. >> Well, I I'd say this to your comments
and and I'll be honest with you as a 63y year resident of the town of Famouth, I would agree with you that this town over the years has done some I would say headscratching moments in some of our processes in town. And yeah, there could be some improvement in a lot of that. However, this committee took the charge
that was given to us, ran with it, and we are looking with the conceptual designs down the road. And if you went back to our in-depth look at the 484 parcel and that design process we put out, there is expansion for greater expansion. And we are talking about a 50-year plan because the staffing study
does show spanding out. And that proposed concept design when we were really locked in heavy on the 484 parcel did have the potential for additional space to be provided on that site for future expansion for select you know select boards 10 years down the road from now or you know hopefully not that
soon but 20 years down the road. There was space we took that into consideration on it. But your words I appreciate your words and I thank you for those >> to totally appreciated. Um and again this is outside of the bounds. your your scope >> was inappropriately set. We should have
given you more rain to look at other other sites. >> Well, Mr. Eid, you're constantly challenging us and and we're going to take on that challenge and do as good as we can going forward. But thank you, Mr. Richardson. >> Thank you. Um
to start, I am in favor of voting the 100 brick road site. So, you got five yeses. Um concerned, uh Mr. Reed kind of hit a lot of the points that I want to talk about there. I am concerned that 484 was still recommended uh after the community forum. I thought the town was
pretty comprehensive in that community forum and the emails we received saying that we don't want to do this. This will be where I'll add, Mr. Chair. I would like the agenda item to protect Long Pond in perpetuity uh on our next agenda or as soon as possible. Um I like 100
Brick Kill Road and I don't have any questions uh on the particular site. Um, I would have liked to have seen, and this is again this is echoing Mr. Reed's point, I would have liked if we had looked at at um
properties that aren't for sale um or just haven't been considered before and we didn't really get that. And if they were, then my apologies. I just didn't see that process. Um, and I think that um Mr. Reid going to and as I look, he was looking to try and find the minutes.
I think it speaks to something I've been talking about where our town website needs to be improved and we need to actually spend the money to develop a new website and I think these are part of the larger communication problems that I've campaigned on um saying that we need to do a better job. I don't think I think ultimately if we did our
job here this room wouldn't be filled with people who were concerned that their wershed was going to be built on. Um again that is not for the scope of the committee. I just only get the microphone so often. Um, I want to thank you all for your work and for how uh how
long you've gone at it and how um intense it's been over the last two two weeks. Chief, I want to thank you for your advocacy for your officers and and for your department and uh we understand your frustrations and you shouldn't have even the station shouldn't have been in the condition it was before you even
hired is and that's indicative of town staff before the current select board before the current town manager long histories of problems with this town of of of mismanagement. Um so I I think that the 100 brick hill road parcel is uh is good. Again, I I am I I would like
the going forward. Um, you know, I would not I'm I'm I am frankly disappointed to see 484 Book Road was still considered. Uh, and I wish that as we move forward in this process that uh it's one thing to have a a forum for the community to
input, but to listen to the community uh on in their concerns on that one. So, that's all I have and and and thank you again for your due diligence. >> Yeah. I just want to say in in in in reference to your point about the the entire watershed in that area and conservation, it is something that we do
intend to have on a on a very >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Future agenda item. Mr. Brown, >> I just want to say I understand why it's still on >> because operationally it would have been the best site. I still believe we could have made it work. Obviously, public
opinion swayed us to go reconsider that, >> but I don't think it's a mistake to have it still back on there because, >> you know, >> yeah, I understand. I understand. It's just since the score is the same for the other one. >> I just I I listen to just what the constituent said in the community and
that's that's all. But I understand. >> Yeah. For the record, I I agree with Mr. Brown. Um, and I would have been in favor of uh of of the first choice except that we had as much discussion over the uh over the water quality and
concerns over that. But I think we had our Mr. McCanny, Amy Lel, uh, and and you know, they were pretty sure that uh that it would be okay and I was prepared to take their uh their advice. So, thank you.
Um, so we'll open it to public comment, but I would appreciate any public comment being limited to three minutes and just deal with the Augusta property if at least at the beginning if anyone has any questions with respect to either number two or number three.
Does anyone want to say something? >> Number three is too far away. No need for comment on that one. >> All right. Well, we won't we won't think of number three. Anyone have anything to say about number two? Yes, please.
>> You got to use the microphone. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Demell, if I could ask you a question, please. Sure. The you said that you've walked that parcel um the 100 Brook Road. Um I am I've lived near there. I'm 70 years
old. I've lived there for 66 years. I'm very cons familiar with with this parcel. Um as it comes in um if I was understanding what you were saying correctly, the septic or the sewer pot would be over to the western side closer to Homestead Lane. >> Correct.
>> So that would push the police station to the eastern side. Is that correct? >> I I wouldn't say it pushes the those police station completely to the eastern side. We we we need to leave uh some space to put the sewer lines in along that western border. And and let me be clear, those sewer lines and those
design concepts, and I believe Peter Mcclard or if Amy's here can speak more to that, those those drawings and plans have been in place before we even started talking about it. So, what inconceivably what we're doing is we're not disrupting something that's already planned.
>> No, no, that's okay. So my question is is to the on the eastern side of that property, the town owns another little strip in there, correct? >> Uh I believe so. Yes. >> Right. Which is where Brookill Road come that dip at the bottom. That piece that
goes straight back there. >> Going straight back there, there is a I don't know if I want to call it a sinkhole if you're familiar with what I'm talking about. Back there. >> Swale. >> Swale in there. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. and that
whatever that is down there and all there's either a spring or an underground river that goes to it because I remember when the town purchased that property not long before that they wanted to try and pump that out and they pumped for a week. The level didn't go up, it didn't go down.
Okay? So, it's constantly fed and we used to go back there when we were kids and then we would pay the price for that when we went home because none of our parents wanted us near that thing. Um, so my question is if the that property
is down that hole or whatever is downgrade from where the police station would be, the police station would be hooked up to sewer. So we wouldn't have to worry like there's going to be a lot of pavement obviously when you put the police station in. >> Right. So there's there's that swale
that you're talking about down in that lower corner. If you're standing on Brick Hill Road, you're referring to the left side of the property or to the right side. >> If you're on Brick Hill Road looking at in it would be on the left side of the property. >> Right. So we did look at that and we see it. But the police station is going to be back farther onto the property onto what is the flat grade or the you know
maybe part of the drive-in theater at the time. I spent time on that property besides the other day walking it. I probably was parked next to Selectman Brown on the in the drive-in years ago. I don't know. But I mean, I did buy myself, Mr. >> We're not going to get into that
tonight, sir. Thank you. Um, but you and I I I worked for the Augusta family for many years and you know, I we had some experience in working up on that piece of land, too. So, my familiarity with it wasn't related to just Friday. You know, I I spent some time in that property. I'm familiar with what you're talking about. But that police station will come
back off that swale. We did u Matt and and Steve Kirby from Tecton and we all looked at it. We discussed it and you know it's it's not uncsurmountable problem for us. >> I was just concerned about the runoff that's all because I do that as much. >> We are too and that's part of the design process going forward.
>> Okay. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else Mr. Netto 3 minutes >> keeping keeping the discussion positive. I would uh come to the mic to support uh this
parcel very well um familiar with the parcel actually remember when it was in air park. I don't know if I'm the oldest person in this room. I thought Mr. Guart was as old as me but I guess he's younger. I remember when the drive-in was constructed and that elevation in
that parcel is a fairly high site, but we paid $3.25 million about 15 years ago and that was going to dump this treated sewage and that's why we voted it. And I support the parcel because it's a good
use of taxpayers funds. Right now, we spent over $3 million of open space that no one's using. And if we can put the police station there, I think that's a great idea. And I think, as I said to this microphone, I
came here last, 55% of all the homes are east of Sandwich Road. So, as people of East Falmouth, we we are the center of town. It's not Main Street anymore. And the police respond to it. accidents and crime and that involves people. So, I
think the site meets many many qualifications and uh I'm happy that the committee came up with this site. Thank you very much. >> Is that a new record for the quickest Joe Netto public comment? >> 1 minute 30 seconds. >> You're practicing for Monday.
>> Okay. Anyone else care to have comment? Yes, Mr. Hargraves. This is uh I'd like >> introduce yourself. >> Peter Hargra precinct 9. I'd like to use my three minutes to comment on the exchange I heard between the factions of
the select board. You know, a lot of this stuff I have heard in public meetings over the last six months. I haven't seen one of the complaining members at any of those open meetings and I don't know how they get their information. Maybe it's from the hair on
fire letters that come into town hall from the vocal minority, but it's very disturbing to hear that we have a bad process. We've talked about doing things strategically. That won't be an invention if you do that. In any
communication, there are two sides. There's the telling and the listening. So those who have to have the baton to do the work should maybe do a little more listening to the public and maybe even attend some of the key meetings
where these open uh issues are discussed in public and get some firsthand knowledge. So I like I thank all the select board members for their service and I I'm glad we have different points
of view. That's how we get to the third way and doing things better than either one or the other would have done. But uh just more specifically, I would say on this issue, I brought up a strategic
approach and I was told we couldn't consider that because we didn't have time and it was an emergency. And on the same vein, 11 years ago, I stood in front of the school department and told them our buildings were underutilized,
46% occupancy, and we could save two or three million by redistricting and taking one down. There was no listening. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Yes. Uh behind you, Miss Fenwick, and then
you're next. Hi, Wendy Bistler, precinct 2. Um, I'm very pleased to see that you have found a viable alternative to the uh initial number one, the 440 brick. I think the
Augusta property seems to meet a lot of the needs of the town. I'm glad to see that both the pumping station and the police station can coexist on this property. That was one concern I know that that a lot of people in town had. So, I'm glad that they can both happen
and I urge the town to start looking for a place for the town hall because um as you know to get in front of of this whole process because it will be just a matter of time before that that the town hall has to be moved. So, thank you.
>> Thank you, >> Miss Fenwick. >> Hi, Judy Fenwick, precinct one town meeting member. Um I spoke at the second community engagement where I think I said um no matter what happens the board needs to come to a unified approach on a
vote. You can't split on this. The other thing I'd like to say is although um Chief Lori's been here two and a half years um there are so many members of the police department have been working in that building for far longer and they deserve relief as quickly as they can
get it. So, if you can speed it up so it's not another 2 and 1/2 years, that would be great. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, ma'am. Please approach. Yes, you.
>> Good evening. Uh I'm Sue Hughes from uh precinct 6 and I am uh I want to just join other people who have expressed their um their uh um their thankfulness
about your finding another alternative to the original, you know, property that was proposed for the police station and then uh reconsidered on the basis of the potential environmental concerns and
danger to Long Pond. I am hoping that those of you who are uh were very concerned about that issue will see the similarities between the uh use of that property and the danger to
Long Pond and the use of the proposed zero West Fmouth Highway property and its relationship also to the protection and conservation of lawn pod.
So, >> thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Uh, yes. Mr. Bosanowski. Uh, Dave Bosnowski. Um, I'm president of the Falmouth Heights Mayor Neighborhood
Association. I've also been a U town meeting member elect. I haven't been sworn in yet. Um, I'd like to commend the the process that we've we've actually developed here. I was very much in favor of the uh the Long Pond location at at 454 initially. I thought
it was a great location geographically centered in the in the in the town uh uh and I thought that process I thought the project there would go through. I really did. I didn't take into consideration initially uh the the runoff and the flood etc etc. Um, and I think the the
alternative location is a very suitable uh alternative. I think Brick Kil is is where it belongs. Uh, and and that parcel being the the historic pro property that it is uh airfield um the drive-in theater and I think access to
east east Velmouth east west is fine. Uh the chief mentioned getting down to Woods Hole, you're still going to have to go through the center of town probably or or 28A because there's no access to 20 uh to 28 from Brick Kilm. Um I I don't know if that can can be
remedied by a ramp onramp there. Um but I I I do think that is the right location and I would would support that location. Um and that's about all I really have to say. Good. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Yes. When
Shad, >> good evening everybody. My name is Lynn Lynn Shad and uh I'm a town meeting member uh with precinct 3 and I just wanted to say that uh it seems as if this um exercise that we've done more
than an exercise in finding um the proper place for a muchneeded police station as well as matching that with environmental concerns is an example of many of the decisions that are going to be coming before this town going
forward. We came to a nice amicable conclusion here and I just hope this gives us um uh encouragement to um enter into the the future um um projects the
same way by taking taking into consideration town needs as well as our environment. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Yes, Miss Schneider. Barbara Schneider. I'm here as president of the dog park and I want to say on
behalf of the almost half a million dog visits that we've had over the last almost 15 years as of May 1 this 2026. Thank you for realizing the importance of the dog park. And ironically,
100 Brick Kill Road was the dog park site committee's second choice for a dog park. And the reason we walked away from it was that at that time, 17 years ago, there was a lot of racing going on on
that property with some kind of go-karts and so on, and there was quite a terrain that had been carved in by doing that. So, thank you. and good luck. And we love this idea. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Lyn Whitehead, Precinct One. Um, I just
want to say I this is a great town. I know many we have many friends in many towns and they don't work as well as this town. the select board, all of the committee, the work that's been done, the the agreements, even the the the
forum you had at Lawrence School, everyone feels completely part of it. It doesn't happen in every town. So, thank you to all of you. All of you. We are so fortunate and I hope that everybody in this town knows that. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, I think we're getting close to uh to emotion, but I I just want to say that I think this has really been a you know, a good experience. Uh there's been good debate. Uh we've listened to the community. We've come to what I think is
uh as Miss Fenwick says, a hope for consensus. Uh I think all along that was what we were striving for and we obviously didn't have uh consensus on 484 and we kept looking and and and thanks again to to the committee and our
and our consultants, the chief and all of his staff as well. So Mr. Brown, >> Mr. Chair, I would move approval and I would say I move to propose construction of new police station at 100 Brick Kilm Road. >> Second. She can have it. Do we have a
motion and a second? Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. It's unanimous. My mother's always told me third time's a charm. Although usually after reviewing my homework, but in this case, third times a charm tonight. And I thank the the board for their vote on behalf
of the committee and the police department. We're moving forward. We're not done. We're coming back to see you again. And now people can get home to watch the Patriots. Right, >> Mr. Chair? Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion is uh second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you, sir.
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