order the town of Fland Select Board meeting for Monday, June 30th, 2025. Uh it is our intention to uh go into executive session. Uh and in that regard, I'm going to ask uh executive session to conduct contract negotiations
with non-UN personnel, town manager. Uh Ask for a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor by roll call. Goldstone. I. Brown. I. Richardson. I. Scoly. I. Okay. We will adjourn and be
back at 6:30. public meeting June 30th. Uh we have uh ajourned from executive session. So if you would join me in the pledge of 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. Okay. Our first order of business is we have two proclamations and I'm going to ask
uh member uh Richardson to uh read the first. Thank you. Uh this is a proclamation uh for the Falmouth Commodores. Uh whereas the Falmouth Commodores were founded in 1923 in the Cape Cod League where there were only
four teams, 102 years later, the Cape Cod League is now known as the Premier Collegiate Summer League with now 10 teams. And whereas the Falmouth Commodore's mission is to help young men and young women fulfill their dreams. And whereas the Felmouth Commodores are supported by numerous volunteers and
local sponsorships to provide a showcase for our players and interns, the Commodores also run youth clinics, provide scholarships to found high school students and provide outreach at community events. And whereas the Fmouth Commodores have a new head field
manager, Jared uh Salta Makia, previously an assistant coach with the Bor Braves and professionally with the Boston Red Sox. Jared replaces Jeff Trundy, a legendary and beloved field manager and a Cape Cod League Hall of Famer. And whereas volunteers, field staff, and interns want to invite you to
attend and watch the Fmouth Commodores at Gov Filler Field. Now therefore, we Robert P. Mscali, Heather Mh. Goldstone, Douglas C. Barrett Brown, Colin W. Reed, and Jack P. Richardson, members of the Felmouth Select Board, do hereby
proclaim July 10th, 2025 to be Felmouth Commodore Day in the town of Felmouth and urge all our citizens to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. We have here on to set our hand and caused the great seal of the town of Felmouth to fix on
this day, 30th of day of June, 2025. Um, we're we're joined by the president of the Commodores, Robert Curtis. Do you want to come up and say a few words or Thank you. Thank Thank you for that for this honor. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. I usually don't have a problem with talking soft. the um thank you very much uh for this honor in in this notation in this proclamation. Uh it is for July 10th. Uh we are having a public event at the St. Barnabas Church on July
10th to introduce a new coaching staff uh for the Commodores. Uh you may have seen some of the banners across town. Uh that our logo for the year is we're entering a new era and we've got a lot of new people involved, a lot of new volunteers. We have over 80 volunteers
that routinely provide their time to help play these games at Go Fuller Field. And so we work with multiple community groups. 10 12 our players are off handing out strawberries at the strawberry festival uh doing and actually right now they're working on
the carousel over at the carousel at night. So the I just drove by this almost done. But thank you everybody and hope to see you at our event and certainly one of our games over at G for Field. Good. Thank you. Thank you very much. Great bunch of young men over
there. And we have a proclamation for the 300 committee 40th anniversary. And I'll ask Mr. Brown to read that proclamation. And before I start that, I just want to say that I worked on the carousel with some of those young men. And what a classy bunch you sent us. That was really good kids or young men, I should say. Thank
you. So uh this is a proclamation u respect and announcing the 40th anniversary of the 300 committee. The resolution a proclamation congratulating the 300 committee on its 40th anniversary.
Whereas the 300 committee was formed in 1985 for the purpose of protecting 300 acres of public conservation land for the town of Falmouth's 300th birthday. And whereas the 300 committee continued land protection efforts focus on preserving and protecting open space in
all of Palmus villages to ensure equitable distribution of high quality open space for purposes including drinking water protection, habitat preservation, farmland preservation, and passive recreational access. And whereas the 300 committee's ongoing partnership
with the town provides significant resources for supporting land stewardship, public outreach, and education for the appreciation and caretaking of Falmouth's valued open spaces. And whereas the 300 committee has worked with the town and additional partners over the course of 40 years to
protect more than 2,700 acres of land to support and sustain Falmouth's environmental health, quality of life. Therefore, be it resolved that the Falma Select Board joins the Massachusetts House and Senate in congratulating the 300 committee on 400 years of land
protection in the town of Felmouth and witness whereof we have here unto set our hand and caused the great seal of the town of Felmouth to be affixed. Robert Psgi chair Heather Hm MH Goldstone vice chair Douglas C Brown Colin W Reed and Jack P. Richardson
Select Board. Uh, thank you. And I think we have Joanne and uh, and Jessica, do you want to come up or say a few words about the 300 committee and Leonard Johnson as well and
Oh, here's the whole group. Thank you. It might be best at at the podium because I think the FCTV camera probably over there. Is this mic working? Do they? Okay. Yes. Is this better? That works. It works.
Both work. I think good. Uh thank you uh Mr. Chairman and members of the select board. I'm Joanne Muramato, the president of the 300 committee land trust. Uh with uh me tonight are Jessica uh Writtenau, our executive director,
and members of our board of directors. Not all here, but most of them. Um so uh it takes a team to get things done. And so our 300 committee team includes our staff, our board of directors, our
committees, our volunteers, uh members and supporters, and our partner, the compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trust. So um on behalf of our 300 committee team, uh we greatly appreciate this proclamation. Uh since
our inception in 1985, we have always worked very closely with the town of Falmouth to preserve open space and that collaboration has been extremely fruitful. So we look forward to um future uh collaboration um to
preserve open space and we look forward to the proclamation being read at our uh annual meeting on July 10th. And thank you again. We really truly appreciate this proclamation. We appreciate all you do. Thank you.
All right. Well, ju just Oh, sure. Go ahead. I just want to say also I we didn't mention it in the proclamation, but I really appreciate your new efforts to incorporate some affordable housing on the periphery of your projects. That's a great new program, and I really appreciate that. Absolutely. Uh just
hearing the tingling of the cell phone uh reminds me that I neglected to say please silence your cell phone and 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. Is there anyone recording? No. Okay. Very good. Um we will proceed now to recognition. Uh, anyone on the board have some recognition?
Mr. Brown, recognize the uh, Carousel of Light volunteers pulling together the effort to put the carousel up without any experienced leadership. The board members themselves found volunteers and the guys from the Commodores Club and
uh, I went over and helped. I mean, they had a crew for years that was doing it and for some reason the crew was not available and not responsive this year and they still pulled it together and it's all, like you said, it's almost done. So, good for them. Very good. Um, Mr. Chair, I would like to recognize the
members of the Junth uh celebration organizing committee for putting together a really wonderful celebration. Uh, I think over 300 people attended um multiple hours of great programming, both some um really valuable history and
some awesome music and fun. Thank you. It was a great event. Um, I'd just like to recognize Woods Hole resident Katherine Bumpus. Last week was recognized as a Commonwealth heroine uh for the class of 2025 and she was
honored with with others at the uh state house. So, uh, congratulations to, uh, to Katherine. Many of us know the hard work she does in Woods Hole and and the town in in general. So, thank you, Cath Katherine. Uh, announcements. Uh, just
one more recognition. Uh, one more thing the 300 committee did this week was opening the Little Pond Conservation Area. So, thank you again. And, uh, my announcement is tomorrow 10:00, Hatchville train, uh, Hatchville, uh, fire station will, uh, will be
opening. So, you're all welcome to come. It's a milestone in the in the town and uh looking forward to uh to having it up and up and running. So, thank you. Uh yes. Uh this weekend, July 3rd through 7th, uh Friends of Fmouth Public Library
book sale. Um not that you could miss it on the lawn, but uh make sure you get there early. Okay. All right. We will then proceed to public comment. Public comment may be made on routine matters not on the agenda this evening. Comments are
limited to two minutes. Please introduce yourself. Since the matter has not been included on the agenda, the select board may not participate in the discussion of the topic. Is there anyone here to speak to public comment?
No. Okay. Uh excuse me ma'am and are you from the enterprise there? Okay. So, you know, I I had me I spoken to to Devon and I understand that he is moving on. Uh and I just wanted to on behalf of the select board thank him for the you know
for the good work that he's done the past couple of years. His reporting has been spot on. So, please uh wish him our best uh wherever he uh he he ends up. So, thank you. Uh and I also want to mention that member Reid is uh excused.
He's actually I I think if you look at here, he's in Venice. So uh so he had a he has a justifiable uh excuse for not being here this evening. So uh as you will notice or people who regularly attend you will notice that we have
changed the consent agenda which was usually at the end of the uh uh at the end of the uh the program agenda. uh you know most of those are go through with without too much discussion or or controversy but every once in a while
something comes up and people ask well do I have to come is it important for us to come and usually we're getting there getting to those matters at you know 8:30 9:00 in the end and we run through the uh the consent agenda so we have decided amongst ourselves to move it up
so that it's a little bit more uh convenient for people they can get here if there is a an issue they can you know address it or um if not they can just uh understand and and and head head home. So uh I'm going to read out the consent
agenda and if any members want to hold a particular matter please indicate to the chair. The first administrative order consider a vote to approve a project agreement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the Long
Pond Watershed Protection Project under the drinking water supply protection grant program. Number two, consider a vote to accept a donation in the amount of $500 from David's Old Silver Swim, Inc. care of Robert and Susan Catalano to the
beach donations account 28-63-5655-4830 to fund the Dr. David Garber quote dare to be great unquote award given to a lifeguard during the annual banquet. Number three, consider a vote to accept a water mane easement from Woods Hole
Partners LLC for the benefit of property at 533 Woods Hole Road. Number four, consider a vote to consent to a grant of a gas easement from Woods Hole Partners LLC to Boston Gas Company for the benefit of 533 Woods Hole Road. Number
five, consider a vote to appoint the certified weers for the Cape Cod aggregates. Number six, consider a vote to appoint to reappoint the executive members of the task force for workers and families to serve the remaining year of the task
force charge. Number seven, discuss and consider approval of the freshwater pond advisory committee's request to expand the committee membership to nine full members. Number eight, consider a request from the W Woodshole
Oceanographic Institution for a variance to sign code section 184-30 movable portable or mobile zone signs for a temporary promotional building wall sign in excess of 8 square ft on the Smith
Laboratory Hide Bay wall. And number nine, consider the approval of a letter of support to the state executive office of housing and livable communities for an affordable house affordable housing grant application for
the 545 Main Street project. Hold. Okay. Um so we will uh we'll entertain a motion for numbers 1 through eight with respect to the consent agenda. I I would move approval of uh orders number one through eight on the
consent agenda with one uh comment that I would say. I'd like to mention uh thankful appreciation for securing $158,000 grant to uh contribute to that purchase that property on the town's wershed. So good work. Thank you. Okay. Second. So
we have a motion and a second with respect to items 1 through eight on the consent agenda. All in favor? I I Okay. With respect to number nine, member Goldstone, would you like to uh speak on that issue? Uh yes. So, just uh two
things. There were a couple of um copy edit typographic uh changes that I can uh share with the town manager's office um after the meeting. I apologize that I wasn't able to get those over uh to you today. Um and uh beyond that, I guess I
um and I know that we have uh Mr. Galasso here. Um I I would love to see that letter. Uh it expresses I would say overall support for the project. Would love to be able to add in a little bit more detail about the importance of this funding specifically to the project. Um
and didn't know if if um if Mr. Galasso would would want to speak to that to be able to strengthen that letter a little bit more. Yeah, I'm I'm sure he would. I think we are under somewhat of a time constraint with respect to this particular application and we did make efforts to get this on the on the agenda at the last minute but certainly happy
to hear from Mr. Glass. Yes, thank you Mr. Chairman and and thank uh Tom Manager for putting this item on the agenda so quickly. Really appreciate it. We heard about this grant application um just a week ago and we've been scrambling to get everything together to get it submitted on on time. Um so this
is one part of a almost $30 million project now and altogether this project will probably require around eight different sources of funding. Um some of them unfortunately we lost when some funding was was clawed back by the current administration in Washington and
so we're sort of doing double work and trying to find a different applications for that will help serve the building. Um we've applied for funding to make the building more energy efficient. Um, we hope to hear about that uh that grant application in the next few days. So,
this is just another piece of the overall picture of financing the project with $30 million. Okay. Thank you. Um, anything else? No, I guess I would um uh I would be happy to move approval of of the letter with
uh some copy edits to be uh provided and uh perhaps at the discretion of the the town manager and the chair. Um some additional language to strengthen the importance specifically of this funding in in light of um the loss of federal funds um in particular. The only caution
is that we need to get this out pretty quickly. That's all. But thank you. I want to hold that up. Yep. Thank you. I had a couple of edits that I already shared with the with Mr. Reno. So, thank you. So, uh would move approval of the letter um uh with uh additions at the
discretion of town manager and uh the chair. Okay. Second. Second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? Any further discussion? Hearing none. Those are all positive comments. Yes.
Uh no hearing. No further discussion. Uh a vote please. I I Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Support. Okay. We will move on to committee interviews. Uh we are going to interview and consider a
vote to appoint a committee member on a regulatory board in this case the board of health. And we have George Hoofelder here I believe. M doctor if you will. Good evening. Good evening. Good
evening. Good evening. Is there anything that you would like to add to what's in your application and what people know about you in this town and all the good work that you do? Well, I've been a county health officer for over 40 years
and I figured in my own town I would speak to what I know and title five is what I know and boards of health deal with that for 90% of the time. But we have some real tough decisions coming up with all the wastewater planning that's going on.
And uh I'd say the select board as well as the board of health as we guide the town through this are probably going to get some cuts and bruises on it simply because uh it's new, it's expensive, and everybody will bear the cost. I think
the other George gave you a sort of the uh spiel that we really need to start to think about supporting those people who will never be on sewer but will pay for the sewer and they'll be expected to do something more for their nutrient
reduction which means I systems which as you know are quite expensive. So, as we go forward, I think uh the board is going to be challenged with that particular aspect of things because it's going to hit just about everybody in the pocket.
Anyone have any questions? No. Well, we're well known about McCoy Felder's experience. I would nominate him for a term through June 30th, 2028 to the board of health. Second. Okay, we have a motion to second. Any further
discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Congratulations and thank you for your service. Thank you. The uh next two interviews are to interview and consider a vote to appoint committee members. The first being the bicycle and pedestrian committee, Pamela
Rothstein. Good evening, Miss Rothstein. Good evening. So, uh welcome. And uh just is there anything that you would like to tell us about your interest in the committee and something that's you know in addition to
what you've submitted up to here? We're happy to hear from you. Sure. Uh I served on the committee when it was the bicycle committee and moved into being the bicycle pedestrian committee for nine years at which point I had to stop. Found myself continuing to think of
these issues. Um, you know, looking at that picture of Venice, it's very clear how you have to move through Venice, right? Well, I'm I'm a believer that everybody should be able to move around where they live safely and to have the
means to do that. I've lived in Falmouth for over 30 years and I think there's a lot of potential for us to improve that record and it was really gratifying to work on the committee towards that whether that's use of the bike path and
recreational biking or commuting. um the people who improving the east west links in town in particular to enable people to move safely, potentially creating more paths, but really making our street safer for pedestrians. Unfortunately,
the past few years have seen an increase of, you know, very very serious accidents. So, you know, we we have a wonderful chair now. There's a wonderful chair now. We have a long history of working with town departments, DPW. I find that that is really critical work
in a room filled with really big issues on tonight's agenda. I'm a believer in acting locally and making our daily life safe and uh for to enable people to make the choices they want to make safely
about transportation. Um and that takes work. That's it. Anyone have any questions for Miss Rusty? No, just happy to have you back on this committee. Thank you. All right. Is that a motion? M I make a motion to appoint Pamela
Rostine to a term on the bicycle pedestrian committee ending June 30th, 2028. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I unanimous. Thank
you and good luck. Okay, the next is the Council on Aging. We have Joseph M. Clansancy. Mr. Can I see if you like to uh step up and tell us a little bit about yourself? I I will say that I have had the pleasure of uh being the the the
select board's leasant to the council on aging. I've seen Mr. Clancy in in action and he is certainly a a wonderful candidate, but I'll let him tell you more about himself. So, thank you, Mr. Chairman. It was a pleasure serving with you as well. Members of the board,
executive staff, I'm Joe Clancy. I've lived in Felmouth since 1976 as a full-time permanent resident. I'm still an active real estate appraiser and continue to work every day, but I enjoy coming to this building. I've served
three concurrent terms on the Council on Aging. And my term limit ended last June 30th. So, I've been off for a year, but I've attended some of the board's meetings and have stayed active. Some of the things that we were able to
accomplish was to uh update our handbook and more importantly um ch um select three excuse me two uh people to our wall of recognition the first time ever. Uh last fall we were able to have a
wonderful reception here uh where that uh wall of recognition was made public and we've enjoyed that. So if uh you will have me, I would love to serve on the board again. We have a wonderful staff in Jill Irving Bishop who is amazing to work with and the people that
she directs on a daily basis are just very pleasant and welcoming. So I welcome the chance to be back. Thank you. Any questions? Anyone have a motion? No. Yeah. I make a motion that we appoint Joe Clancy to the Council on Aging for a term ending June
30th, 2028. Second. Second uh uh any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, and just in following that, I had meant to say at the beginning of the meeting that I thank Jill Bishop and the whole
staff here for making this facility available to us this evening for this for these uh hearings and discussions that we have this this this evening. So, well said. Well said, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, we're going to go into public hearings and I'm going to ask member Goldstone,
vice chairman Goldstone to uh list the uh the first public hearing. Okay. Uh the Falmouth Select Board will hold a public hearing under section 240-14.8 wetland regulations of the zoning bylaws of the town of Felmouth on Monday, June
30th, 2025 at 6:45 p.m. in the select board meeting room. says Fmouth Town Hall, but uh we are here in uh the senior center uh on the application of Thomas and Maryanne Varillo for permission to construct an elevated walkway, ramp, and float system located
at 43 South View Way, East Felmouth, Massachusetts. Area affected is Flax Pond. Interested parties may review the file on this application at the office of the select board per order of the Fmouth Select Board. Okay, thank you. Is the applicant here or someone on behalf
of the applicant? Yes, Mr. Chairman. Oh, I didn't see you over there. How are you, sir? Good. How are you? I saw the the presentation. I didn't see you. Welcome. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the board, for the record, Mike Borceli, Felmouth Engineering. I
represent the applicant, Thomas and Maryanne Burillo. They own a property at number 43 South View Way. and they have the benefit of water frontage on Flax Pond, which is a freshwater pond in East Felmouth, and they've applied to you for
a special permit to install a uh recreational uh walkway, ramp, and float. Um the purpose of the structure is for passive recreation on Flax Pond, including uh canoeing, kaying, fishing,
and swimming. the there's an existing path from the house down to the pond. There'll be a a small wooden landing at the water's edge. Uh a ramp will connect to that and then there's an 8 by12 float. Um so
that's a total of 96 square ft uh where they will have the ability to launch kayaks, canoes, and sw swim off of and fish. you've um reviewed other similar projects on Flax Pond like this. Uh we
have been before the Conservation Commission and received a favorable decision from the conservation commission. It was reviewed for environmental um performance standards and um we think this is um something that you can
approve and I am happy to take questions. Okay. Does anyone have any questions? Mr. M chair go you mentioned that uh other projects like this on flax pond have have been before this board. How many uh do you know roughly how many floats or docks
like this there are in the pond? Uh in the last two to three years my office has um submitted uh applications I think three to four that were reviewed by both the conservation commission and this board and approved and obviously the notice uh went out to
Abutters. Was there any feedback received um from abutters regarding this project? Uh we received no feedback or questions from any of Butters. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Brown have any questions? I can read the plans. It seems pretty simple. So, okay.
Okay. Well, uh um does anyone in the audience have any uh comments with respect to this particular application? Okay. Seeing none, we will have a motion to close the public hearing. So move. Second. Okay. All in favor of closing
the public hearing. I Okay. Uh any further discussion amongst the members? Appear to be satisfied, Miss Goldstone. Okay. Someone want to make a motion? I have the motion in front of I move
approval of the dock application for Is there of Yes. Uh motion to approve the application of Thomas and Marian Verillo for permission to construct an elevated walkway, ramp, and float system located at 43 South Viewway, East
Falmouth in the waters of Flax Pond. Okay, that's a motion and second and then second by Mr. Brown. Uh any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I I unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. Uh, our next
hearing is discuss discuss and consider the application by Falmouth Pier 37 Boat House LLC DBA Pier 37 Boat House located at 87 Scranton Scranton Avenue for a pool table license to install two pool
tables in the outdoor seating area approved on June 16th, 2025. Uh, Miss Mr. Wro, do you have anything with respect to that? Would you like just a couple? Oh, I'm sorry. Let me ask uh Vice Chair Goldstone to read the
announcement. Absolutely. Notice is hereby given under chapter 140 sections 177, 178, 179, 180, 183A of the general laws subject to sections 202 and 205 thereto that Fmouth Pier 37 Boat House
LLC DBA Pier 37 boat house located at 88 Scranton Avenue, Falmouth, Massachusetts has applied for a pool table license. A hearing on the above application will be held uh on Monday, June 30th, 2025 at 6:45 p.m. Comments may be sent to select
board atfalmouthmath.gov per order of the select board. Thank you, Mr. Wure. You have some comments with respect to this matter. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I do. I just wanted to point out uh that in your package this evening is a copy of the site plan that shows the location, the proposed location of the two uh pool tables in
the outdoor area. um as the chair indicated um they are proposed to be located in the outdoor area adjacent to the food truck as shown illustrated in the site plan and also Mr. Chair select board wanted to point out that the application has been reviewed by the police fire rescue department and the
building departments and no objections or concerns were cited. Okay. Is anyone here on behalf of the applicant with respect to this matter? Uh what's the board's pleasure? Do you want to proceed or No, I had a couple of questions I would have liked to uh to
have asked. So, um I I I in the absence of the applicant, I'd like to hold it over. Okay. I also had some questions and would like to the chance to speak with the applicant. Okay. So, then we will have a uh I don't do we need a formal motion to hold this over. Mr.
Johnson, table it to a date. Table to to the next meeting. A date, sir. A date, sir. Let's uh table it to our next meeting which is July 14th. July 14th, 2025. Thank you. And uh yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Yep. Uh is
there a motion to to table? I move that we table it to July 14th. Okay. Uh I think we may have the applicant here. So uh we haven't voted yet. Uh so uh to close the hearing. So uh we were
waiting. We had a couple of questions. So, please introduce yourself. We need to vote to reopen. We don't think we never closed it, so I think we're okay right now. So, I truly apologize for the delay. Um, Conor Mclofflin, general manager, PF37 boat house. The applications for two pool tables.
Um, that they were already called for on the plan that we had submitted that was approved a couple weeks ago. Um, and it's known by the fire department and the building commissioner and everyone else. That mic a little bit. Oh, I'm sorry. It's already been I gez uh it's already been removed. Uh it's already
been on the plan since the last one approved. It's known by the building commissioner, fire chief, and everyone who signed off on that plan. So, uh my my question is uh you know those pool tables attract a lot of people and a lot of interest and a lot of gathering and I'm just wondering what
efforts you're going to take to make sure that you know everyone there is acting appropriately, there's no gambling going on and things like that. Of course. Um well they are located they're going to be they're actually outdoor pool tables which is excellent. It's the only ones we know of in town.
Um they're near the entrance which is the most secure area that always has security and things present in that area. Um again they were called for as far as square footage and location for aggression points and things like that on the plan. So there's proper widths and um dimensions around them to make
sure that crowds are safe moving around them. Um, and they've also, I was only told recently about this application process. So, unbeknownst to me, they they you know, they've been there for um a little while. So, so we're we're confident in their security and their
safety. Okay. Your results, Ellen? Yeah. Um, I guess my question is is perhaps uh duly for town manager and for the applicant because when we approved the outdoor seating plan, one of the um conditions
of that was that it was to be an outdoor seating area and that the standing room be uh confined to the interior area designated for standing capacity. But in my experience, there's no way you have pool tables without people standing around the pool tables. Um and and so I
guess is is that um uh Mr. Manager, is that a concern for you given the the constraint, you know, the constraints that were asked for around the the standing room and and if so, is there is there a way to address that? Uh in in my opinion, um I I I'd
set up that it was my intention with that 72 people to be you can't really ask people to stand in one square bo invisible box for this to be the standing room. I we had allowed ourselves room. So there was not 476 seat in the restaurant because also that
includes weight staff, bartenders, security, other things like that that are going to be free flow on motioning. So there's there's the whole point of that was what do we do about a line in the bathroom? Is that a standing room area? There be five people in line in the bathroom. I mean it's not really a standard that can be held by anybody.
Um, I think that the goal is to keep the number of people always under 476 to only have 400 seated so that that leaves room for people to go to the bathroom, play a game pool, stand behind somebody at a bar and say hello and not be in a
violation. Um, you know, that that that's not that doesn't necessarily make sense for aggression, safety, all the things that we're concerned about. I I mean, I will caution you. I think you know there have been instances in the past and uh that kind of activity
can generate some activity uh and I'm sure that you'll be cognizant of that have your security staff being very aware of what's going on there at all times because it can be a dangerous situation. Thank you. especially when people drink. And what I do think is not to get into a bigger discussion, you
have a lot to cover here, but it is it seems to be that it was it's it seems to be an older law rule because you can tell because it's only bowling alleys and pool tables. So like, oh, if it was foosball table, it's fine. Cornhole's fine. Ping pong's fine. I'm like, all right, well then this is like from
gangsters in the 70s, whatever whatever caused this rule. I had to show I had to show I had to show LLC paperwork or who owns the property and who owns the company and who's in the background. It's it's a bit of an outdated. Yes, I I do have comments and I I agree with the applicant and it's kind of a dated uh
requirement that the the applicant receive a pool table license. However, I did talk to in response to the vice chair's question. I did talk to the police department rep um and uh and and there is concern and but I'm confident as the applicant stated that um they've been in operation for for a little bit
of time now. Um and I've been told you've been doing a good job keeping the traffic flow moving and circulating not having a lot of people congregating around the tables as the players. So that's the concern that I would have is just you know having a lot of people jamming up that area. But as long as security, you mentioned that the
security is right in that immediate area. Moving along tables, I think we're fine. Okay. Thank you. Uh, is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak to this application pro or con? The only uh thing I'd like to add uh is
like I share your concern. You know, we're in the middle of a housing crisis, a uh we have a big consequential thing with our with our energy policy and we're talking about two pool tables. So, um, which I know that's that's the law and this is perhaps a state issue, but I
I find it a little ridiculous that we have to spend time on on items like this one, but I thank you for your due diligence and for coming here today as well. But that mind, I don't mean to, but to take it the other way, maybe include foosball tables and ping pong and make sure the town's getting the revenue from any entertainment source
that's happened and that it's done safely, not just limited to pool tables and bowling alleys. All right. Thank you. Uh, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. So moved. Second. Second. Uh all in favor? I. Okay. Uh any further
discussion with respect to the application among the board members? Seeing none, all in fot. Yeah, I'll make the motion. Uh motion to approve the application by Fmouth Pier 37 Boat House LLC. Um uh for a pool DBA
Pier 37 boat house. Thank you. for a pool table license to install two pool tables in the outdoor seating area approved by the select board on June 16, 2025 as presented. Okay. Okay. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor?
I. Unanimous. Thank you. Uh C. Uh I'll ask uh Vice Chair Goldstone to read the public announcement. Notice hereby given under chapter 140, section 183A of the general laws as amended by chapter 299 of the
acts of 1926 and amendments thereto that Falmouth Oriental Incorporated DBA Asia restaurant located at 452 Main Street, Falmouth, Massachusetts has applied for an entertainment license and a Sunday entertainment license. A hearing on the
above application uh will be held on Monday, June 30th, 2025 at 6:45 p.m. Comments may be sent to the select board at select boardfallmouth.gov per order of the select board. Okay. Thank you, M. Mr. Wrench, do you have
anything to add? Just two two quick comments before we turn it over, Mr. Chair. Uh the application is for recorded music per the information in your packet and television I understand in the dining room area and the application has been reviewed by police department and fire rescue department and no objections. Seems seems pretty
benign. Uh thank you for being here this evening. Do you have anything to add to what has been said or what the notice? We're here for the entertainer license. That's all we already passed. You've been here before. Glad to hear see you here again. Um, so is there anyone in
the audience that would like to speak to this application, pro or con? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. So move. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I I Okay. Uh, just is there
any further discussion amongst the board members with respect to this application? I believe the hours are 11:00 a.m. till 10:00 p.m. Is that correct? 11:30 to 10 p.m. 11:30. 11:30. Okay. Dr. Ting.
Okay. With that understanding, do we want to make a motion? I move approval of the entertainment license. I have to scroll all the way back to the beginning to get the motion. I'll take it from you. Uh we are a collaborative board here. Understand
that. I recommend the select board approve uh the application by uh or I Fmouth Oriental uh uh Inc. DBA Asia Restaurant for 52 Main Street. Fmouth for an annual entertainment license at a Sunday entertainment license. Second. Okay. Uh we have a motion and a second
for approval. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Okay. Very good. We're anxiously awaiting you opening for business. Love the place in mask. Soft opening this coming Wednesday. Oh, good. Wonderful. July
3rd. Great. When's the regular opening? Next day. Uh when the recollection come out. All right. We we just only open stop open for full but wait until until recollection. We see. Okay. Good luck. Okay. See you
then. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We will now proceed to business items. A update on the level two significant drought designation. Mr. Renaw. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our outstanding water superintendent, Mr. Matt Lannon, has a brief presentation. But while Matt's
getting ready, I'll just note that the town of Felmouth along with the entire Cape region continues to be identified as being in a level two significant drought. I believe the latest report period was June 9th of this year. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection requires
permitted water systems comply with um several restrictions. Those being all non essential outdoor water usage are currently banned except for the watering of ornamentals and flower gardens with drip irrigation handheld hose or watering cans may be permitted. Matt, you ready to go? Yes. Thank you. Go
ahead. Good evening select board and those in attendance tonight. Matthew Landon with water. Um so just a little background on the drought management plan in uh the Commonwealth. Uh it was updated in December of 2023. Um each month the drought management
task force team meet to evaluate the current uh drone conditions in the state. Um the team is comprised of various uh various departments within the commonwealth um including energy environmental affairs, mass D, mass
waterworks and public water systems. Uh the team then gathers data from various user groups um about the current and past rain data in each region which we have six in the state of Massachusetts. Um they also take in uh data for current
draw downs on existing wells uh ponds and lake elevations and uh listen to any issues that a public water system may have to provide enough water to a community. Um at this point uh the task force then evaluate all variables and categorize each region into a drought
status. Uh currently as we all know uh the Cape region is in a level two significant drought based on all the variables we've seen thus far um in May and June. Um you will notice that the islands region
which is part of the uh Cape and Islands region is not classified as a level two but as a level one because they had more rain in the month of May end of May. Um uh within the restriction levels um
because we are in a dr a level two drought um there are bunch of action categories that we try to follow and adhere to um to improve the conditions of our our
current um uh water system. um uh when they sit down uh each month the drought task force goes through a bunch of categories. They uh take the data from all the different u uh
organizations within the state. They coordinate uh they communicate with public outreach, you know, how much water was received in each community from rain. um how you know if there are any major catastrophic fires um and
based on the detection of how much water has been um withdrawn on each community they they gather this and decide on which level uh you'll be in for a drought. Um the uh the graph up here shows from
2020 through 2025 on uh our our primary reservoir which is about 60% of our water supply to the community of Falmouth. As you can see in May of 2020 we're just over 9 ft. Um and then it slowly dropped down to uh just
about eight and a half feet um come um the end of the month. Um versus this year in May of 2025, we started only at about just over 6 feet, jumped up a little bit towards the end when we had a flash flood. Um but we were still
significantly lower um at the end of May compared to um a 5-year outlook. Um same with Lawn Pond Reservoir in June. Um you can see that on the 1st in 2020 we're at about uh 8 and 3/4 feet
high and drew down to by the 30th um about you know 7.75 ft um versus starting off in June at our reservoir we were at just under 6.5 ft and dropped down to just over 6 feet.
Um so historically for a breakdown from May 2020 to May 2025 um we started off at 9.22 feet. Um in May 1st and 2025 we're at 6.15 6.15 ft with the difference of 3.07 ft which equates to
about 36.84 in. Um this is also due that we had very little snow in the winter of 24 and 25. Um as you can see with June 2020 and June 2025 um we started off at 8.6 61 ft um in 2020 and 6.41 ft um in
2025 with a difference of 2.2 feet or 26.40 in um feet are also measured in North American vertical datim of 1988. Um it's the long pond level measurement is correlated at uh feet above sea level
which is an equation that we use to to gather this data. Um, so Falmouth, moving forward for the future restrictions, the drought task force team meets again on July 9th, 2025 at 10 a.m. Uh, upon the drought management task force recommendation,
Falmouth, the public's water system ID 4096000. Uh, we'll continue to enforce any recommen recommended water restrictions via the Falmouth MA homepage with the news flash. uh utilizing our rave alert system to let the residents know that
where we stand on our level and uh also utilizing the enterprise. Um some additional water conservation tips that we're trying to get out there are, you know, fix your leaking toilets, fix your plumbing and your irrigation systems. Uh if you can afford to upgrade
your toilets, dishwashers, washing machines to be more efficient. Um that would that would help us all. Um, utilize rain barrels when possible for hand watering gardens. Cut your lawn at a high deck um to prevent grass from burning. Uh, try to plant your new lawn
in the fall when root structures will form more effective for the spring. And utilize hand nozzles on garden hoses. That's all I have. Any questions? Oh, thank you. Yes, Mr. L. And have we learned of many instances of non-compliance with our uh our
restrictions? Have there been complaints about people watering their lawn or excessively and so? A lot of people have been calling in um and we making work orders and what we do then is we put a door hanger on the home that was um ir
using irrigation. Um if that continues and we hear another violation, they'll be um getting a fee. Exceptions for new new law. Yeah. New new lawn watering. You can hydro seed, but it has to be a full new lawn. cannot. There's a bunch of different um
uses that are not restricted. For instance, all of our baseball fields and our youth fields, those those are allowed to have watering um because they're not on the restriction list. Um however, if you or if you had a actual vegetable garden, you can hand water your garden. But if you only had a 4x4
spot on your lawn and you're saying, "Oh, I need two zones to you to wash to um to water my lawn." No, that's not acceptable. Thank you. Question about the the field. I was there yesterday and the field's absolutely beautiful. It is. Jeremiah does a great job of it. Thank
you. Okay, Miss Goldstone. Yes. Um, understanding that uh it can take a long time to to get out of drought. I've I've heard a lot of people in the past couple of months say, "It has done nothing but rain since March. How can we still be in
drought?" So my question is, is there any way to estimate how much rain we would need to get out of drought conditions at this point? So down here it's it's a little more tricky because you have the you're on a peninsula. So when you think
of rain, it's not just going to go all to Long Pond. It's going to hit Long Pond and then disperse out into the ocean. So it's a little more complicated to figure out how how much rain we're actually going to need. And then you have other variables like the wind. wind just causes evaporation. If it's very
dry, it washes off into the catch basins and then it takes longer for it to leech back into the groundwater. Um so I don't I don't know. It's not looking too promising to um to get out of this level right now. Um but it looks like the long range forecast there is some rain. Um
but for right now, we need to follow state guidance and um conserve our water the best we can. Absolutely. Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, Mr. Brown. Uh Mr. Phil, we had an email recently from a local landscaper who said that we're missing an opportunity with the outfall
and we should be repurposing some of this non-pottable water, maybe send it to golf courses or ball fields. I know that would be a huge infrastructure uh expense, but I wonder if it's something that's on your radar at all. Uh mo as far as I know most of the um
golf courses in Falmouth have their own wells and I cannot restrict them right now in our current level to not water because of of their use. Um if they don't have current uh irrigation there I can't imagine there being a golf course
there. So I was thinking more about like talent facilities like the balls and stuff you just mentioned. Yes. I mean for instance Fuller Field over here is on its own well. Um, so it's not on it's on town water. I don't know how many other um facilities in town have um
require or are on town water off the top of my head, but it's definitely something we could consider in the future. Um I just don't know how that would work with contamination and taking non-pottable water to turn it to be safe enough to um readminister into the
ground versus having actual pot water. because you have to think if a kid if one of those irrigation heads pops up and their head, you know, like put their mouth over. I don't know. There's all sorts of crazy stuff that could happen, but we'll definitely look into it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Richardson. Mr. Did you want to add something? It looked
like you had something to say there when Mr. Lannon was saying anything. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Is there anyone in the audience that has any questions or comments of Mr. Lannon or with respect to the uh the drought situation we find ourselves in?
Okay. Well, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay. Uh, our next matter is consider a request from the 250th anniversary task force for a variance to sign code section 184-7 placement and 184-32
off premises signs to hang 14 banners on polls on Main Street. Uh, Mr. Johnson, do you have anything to say or Mr. Mr. I I do have a couple of comments just to get us started. I believe the applicants Karen is in the back. She may be able to
answer any specific questions. Uh Mr. Chairman, select where 12 of the banners contain quotes related to the American Revolution and two contain information on the Felmouth Historical Society's new exhibition on the American Revolution in Felmouth, which is free and open to the public. And also, the task force is requesting placement of the banners from
uh tomorrow, July 1st to September 1st. And uh Mr. Chairman, if approved, I've spoken with the DPW director. If approved, uh, the DPW would install these 14 banners. Okay. Mr. Ronaldo, would you like to tell us a little bit about this or the
application speak for itself? Thank you, Chair Mscali. Um, I believe that the uh presentation speaks for itself. I'm a member of the 250 committee. I'm here on behalf of the 250 committee uh requesting the uh uh
display of these 14 banners on Main Street. We've selected six quotes that we think are appropriate, timely, and interesting and historically accurate. Um I think the town will enjoy that. Okay. Um any questions on the
folks can see what they We need to vote on this vote, right? Yes. There's a smoking kid going across the bay. as the uh select board lay on to this uh
this committee, I can tell you that the members of the committee struggled very very mightily with respect to finding appropriate uh comments and and uh and statements for uh for the bad news and I
think they certainly reflect the history of this t of this town and the importance that it had in American Revolution. I agree. Okay. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak to this matter at this time?
Okay. Then I will entertain a uh a vote with respect to the variance. I will uh make a motion to approve the request from the 250th anniversary task force for variance to sign code 184-7 placement and 184-32 off- premises signs
to hang 14 banners on holes on Main Street for a period of July 1, 2025 to September 1, 2025. Second. Okay, we have a mo we have a motion in a second. All in favor? I Okay, thank you very much.
We will now proceed to discussion of sewer betterment policy and grinder pump approach. U and I'll ask Miss Low to to to step up. But I will say that we are obviously aware that there are many people in the audience that are uh
interested in this uh in this matter and rightly so. Uh as you will hear during Miss LOL's presentation, there will be an appropriate forum for people to ask questions and get further information. Uh so uh after Miss Lel's presentation
uh I will allow some public comment but uh I would prefer that we limit it to a couple of minutes. Uh and if you want to submit written information to the select board I urge you to do that as soon as possible because this is something we want to move on pretty quickly that Mr.
Wshaw has given us a pretty tight time frame. So uh you know we won't hold have too much public comment. Mr. Reno, you want to tee us up here? Uh, as Yes, Mr. Chairman. As Amy is getting ready, as chairman just indicated, uh, we do have, this is kind of the first review. We
wanted to get this information from the select board to begin the process. Uh, there is going to be a pretty robust public uh, uh, comment period uh, public dialogue community uh, forum that uh, we're going to schedule. I don't think we've selected a date yet, but Amy, you may have more information on that. But,
um, as chairman indicated, uh, this is the first review. Um, and there's going to be plenty of opportunity for more comment from the public. And we want that comment. Believe me, we want to hear people's, uh, people's thoughts. So, please roll. Hi, I'm Amy Lel. I'm
the wastewater superintendent, and um, I passed out, uh, the, um, the presentation to the board because of the the arrangement in here. Um um the the goal today is to provide background and recommendations on sewer betterment
policy. Number one um in initiate discussion on a grinder pump approach for the next project. The select board is not being asked to vote on either of these items this evening. Um the focus to this evening is on the Great Pond
phase one project, but this of course could apply to excuse me to future projects. Um just over just reviewing uh the the uh Great Pond phase one sewer project will sewer the area outlined in
black there. Um and uh it we're expanding the sewer system to the east. Uh there will be a lift station at the north end of the town parcel on brick kilm between brick kilm and 28 and the wastewater will be pumped up uh using dual force mains up to the existing main
treatment facility. Uh the project is moving forward based on the town meeting vote and the may uh vote as well. There is there has been a a relatively late design change which was is that there will be no lift station or gravity sewer
in Falmouth port. Um, all of Falmouthport will be served by grinder pumps just like the rest of the properties on the Ticket Path Peninsula. This reduces the expected cost of the project by approximately $2 million. Um, this is uh zooming in on the sewer
area. It's approximately 600 parcels. Some properties will uh connect to sewer by gravity. Most in the sewer area will connect by grinder pump. uh the project schedule as you mentioned there will be a information meeting for
property owners in July and we will publish and notify folks uh I think it'll be late July um and we'll let everybody know when that meeting is. Uh we'll be bidding construction uh contracts, two of them, by the end of the summer, awarding contracts by the
end of the fall, beginning construction before the end of 2025, and ending construction, it's a two-year project, by the end of 2027. Sewer connections will be made, of course, after the project is complete. So, not until after the end of 2027
to start with on the betterment. So select board is going to need need to consider three uh subjects. One is the betterment method whether it's fixed uniform rate or uniform unit method. Two what portions of the project are of
specific benefit to the sewer area uh and therefore which costs will be included under the total cost for betterment. Uh and which will be split 7030. Therefore, as um as voted by the uh April 2025 town meeting and then
which remaining costs will be paid entirely by the town and the last thing is how sewer equivalent units will be assigned to non-s single family residential properties. um betterment method options as I
mentioned there are two uh the first fixed uniform rate is based on rot uh lot frontage or lot area or both uniform unit method is based on sewer equivalent units or seus and that's related to water use
um I'm recommending that the that we proceed with the uniform unit method or seus this is what we uh what the towns employed on the previous sewer projects and it better refct reflects the contribution of each property to the need for the sewer system uh because
it's tied um to water use which generally reflects the property septic system discharge to groundwater. Uh on the second topic general versus special benefit facilities um general benefit facilities will not just benefit
the sewer service area but will also benefit the um future sewer areas to come. Um so examples of the general benefit facilities are the brick khilm road lift station and the force mains from there to the treatment facility. Uh
the special benefit facilities really benefit specifically those in the sewer area and those are the grinder pumps which we'll be discussing later and the sewer collection system which includes the gravity sewer mains uh the low
pressure mains and the laterals. Uh so that's that's um I want to go then to I think it wouldn't be satisfying just to talk about it in a general way. Uh I got the feedback that we need to be specific for in order for the selectman to make
an informed decision. So I'm going to I'm going to talk about the estimated uh project cost at this time and then how that's gets translated using one this set of assumptions. Um so this slide shows uh the cost
applicable to the service area and it's and it you'll see that I've made a recommendation about how to do this but there are other other options this board can can come up with. Um so the first column there is the total project cost
for each of the um main uh project components. The first is what we're calling contract one which is the lift station and the force mains to the wastewater plant. Uh contract two is the collection system which is the the pipes in the streets. Grinder pump
procurement. Um then grinder pump subsidy. Uh construction engineering services, police details, and fiscal and legal. Uh the the items with an asterisk are not um they're not applicable under
the 0% loan. the SRF program will not uh will not fund those items, those three items with an asterisk. So those um are not funded under the 0% loan and they would not receive a the 25% loan
forgiveness that's el that is available under the 25% loan um um commitment. So the second column breaks those costs down a little further to show what the total cost is with that 25% loan forgiveness. So those three items that
don't get loan forgiveness um are you see that they're the same same amount in the in the two columns that then uh the next the next column there I'm I'm making the the first uh recommendation about what costs then are applicable to
the service area and therefore would be split 7030 in accordance with that town meeting vote. So you can see the two uh the four lines that are that are darker shaded darker in this table are um costs potentially applicable to the service
area. So um I'd said before that the collection system is a spe is a special benefit facilities or represents special benefit facilities as does grinder pump procurement and then construction engineering services and police details
um relate to both categories both contracts one and two um but also are split 7030 under this arrangement. Um so I' I'd split this table that was in your um memo into two pieces. So this is the
second half of that table. Uh the first column is the same um the the second column is is again transferred from from the first table to show the costs that are applicable to the service area in that uh according to that
recommendation. Then um if we then employ the 70 70% uh to that first column the amount that the that would be covered under the betterment um or 70% of the amount in
that first column totals $22,512,000. Then the remainder of the project cost would be paid for by the town as a whole which is approximately $24 million. So that is that's how it breaks down if you apply the recommendation I was or the
initial recommendation I was making. Um so how does that um how does that translate to a betterment? If you based on the numbers in the previous table the betterment per sewer equivalent unit would be $27,000.
um that is determined by that estimated total cost that's going to be covered under the Betterment and the number of sewer equivalent units. Um Betterments can be paid over 30 years at 0%
interest. So um that cost over 30 years or annual cost over 30 years would be $94 a year. This is an estimated maximum at this time because there's now almost 19% project contingency uh included in this
in this budget and because the final number of SEUs is uh is is still not final and we I expect it to uh continue to go up as we get final feedback on um on the the units in the sewer area.
Uh so now the third topic under betterments was sewer equivalent units and how those are assigned under the uniform unit method. One sewer equivalent unit is a single family residence. Uh so a home a single family home multif family and commercial need
to be assigned seus based on their residential equivalents. Um the recommend and my recommendation is that we apply the sewer equivalent units for the great pond area in basically the same way we did for the little pond project except when it comes to
commercial properties. In the Little Pond project, one SEU was assigned for each commercial use, no matter the wastewater flow or water wastewater flowwater use except for the two biggest properties in the little pond area which were based on uh flows in um D
administrative consent orders. Um this so my suggestion then is that commercial SEUs be based on average meter water use over the past three years. Uh, one seu would be um one seu per 135 gallons per
day. 135 gallons per day is the average water use for a single family home in the Great Pond um wershed. Uh we'd have a minimum of one SEU per commercial unit or property. Though if their their water use average is less
than 135, they'd still be charged one seu. Um, in my opinion, this is more appropriate than using title five or peak flow for commercial use because uh peak flow would would generate some very high um uh betterments for commercial
properties in this area or for any any commercial property. Uh so this is a table that summarizes what I just said and um I don't think I need to go through the whole thing. Um but but as I'd said, a single family residential um
home or a single family residential condo unit would be 1 SEU. Multif family units up to four bedrooms would be 1 SEU. Multif family um and apartment buildings would be 0.25 SEUs per bedroom and those would be best based on the
assessor's records for bedrooms. A motel uh would also be 0.25 SCUs per bedroom. Uh all other commercial as are as I just described one seu per um 135 gallons per day of water use and vacant lots would
have to be will have to be assessed based on the current zoning and acreage of the property. Multi-use would of course be the sum of the sus according to the other um to the remainder of these classifications. So, the final couple of Betterman or a
couple of final Betterman notes. Uh, there are many fewer commercial properties in the Great Pond phase 1 sewer project area than they were in the Little Pond sewer area. And there are no very large commercial water users in this next sewer area. And in the future
after the betterment is assessed um the town's sewer privilege fee can be applied for redevelopment which would increase the water use after this um betterment is voted. Next steps on the betterment uh is
obviously to discuss the policy based on this outline uh and to vote the betterment policy at a future meeting after the bids are open which will be later this fall. Um we the select board will vote in order of betterment assessment which would include a
betterment plan and list and the maximum assessment per property. After the project is complete which should be about fall um fall winter of 2027. Uh the selector will vote to finalize and certify the final SEU value which of
course cannot be higher than what was voted in the order. Grinderp moving on. Let me just stop you there. Do do you want to maybe take questions with respect to betterment and then we'll work to grinder pump? I think that might be flow a little better. So
uh if anyone has any questions with respect to what this low has pointed out, you know, subject to what I said at the beginning that would like to keep public comment to a couple of minutes. There'll be plenty of time for people to comment. Just if you have some question, please come up and identify yourself. I
have one that I'd like to ask. Oh, go ahead. So, Amy, it sounded like you were saying then the anticipated total cost to the homeowners is around the $27,000 range maximum. Yes. And could you remind me in the Little Pond sewer project
area, I think we were at like around 19 and it came in at 136. Not that that's a real indicator, but was it something like that? uh the the final betterment was in the $13,000 range and yeah the earlier assessment was something below
20,000 right so it it did come come down okay thank you did you have a question this I do but I'm um miss you you mentioned that the final number of seos is expected to increase is that as a
result of looking at the commercial and larger bedroom count property properties or or what accounts for that increase expected increase. So, um I've been meeting with the town assessor and looking at the properties in this area and we are going to send out a a letter
very shortly to the multifamily properties in the area and ask for um an inspection to verify the you know the assessor has done that they don't they don't they may not have recent inspections for all these properties. So
um there will be a an we'll request an inspection by the assessor department of those. So yes, it's about multif family and commercial or multif family and multi-use properties and verifying what's actually there. Okay. All right. Okay. Please identify yourself. Uh Brian
McDonald, uh sorry, 39 East Harbor Drive, uh resident there. And uh I just had a couple questions with regard to there was no mention about the fact of um connecting is that not considered part of the betterment and there's I
know there's a lot of questions with people like getting a plumber to get in and do all those things and where it goes on the property. Is there going to be a time for the um residents to meet with people to say this is where it's going to come in and how they're going
to connect to it and things like that because I know that's of concern that you did a great job explaining the betterment on that side of it. But I think other people have questions about how do we connect and what does that mean to us? Yep. Thank you. Um and go
ahead and answer that. So yeah, please. Um so you're right. I was focusing on the betterment and the betterment is what the town charges the property owners uh in the service area. Um as as as how the
town charges property owners in the service area a portion of the project cost. there is there is an additional cost for each property owner in the service area and that is the cost to connect their property to the sewer system and that is not the subject of
discussion tonight but it's an important discussion I will I will say so we are going to have a public meeting um or a a property owner information meeting which will be public of course um by the end of July and we will talk more about that
but I will say again then that it is more than two years before anybody could connect to the sewer. So there will be additional meetings and and much more information in the future about the connection process and about connection costs then we have we will have
available this in July. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, please. Hi, Eric Venev Highway. I was just wondering with determining the number of sewer equivalent units, is there thought to
like additional housing and stuff because I think a big barrier to affordable housing in the town has been like every time an ADU gets approved, people have to remove a bedroom from their home and whatnot to meet the same, you know, nitrogen discharge for the septic systems. So, I'm wondering like is there forethought or how's that being
factored in to like the long-term planning for number of equivalent units? I'm not sure I understand the question. I'm sorry. Well, like is these microphone please? Sorry. Is the capacity being planned like is there
thought towards like additional bedroom units in the future as people add ADUs, maybe duplex conversions or whatnot? Right. So, a couple of things. One is that the town's flow neutral bylaw uh limits uh to a certain extent the
redevelopment within within sewer service areas anywhere in town. um for for single family residential uh the the flow neutral bylaw limits the number of bedrooms in the area in on a on a single family residential property to four. So
you're grandfathered with whatever whatever you have and you can increase by right to four but it you need a variance to go beyond that and uh that's that's the the bylaw at the current time. As far as vacant lots, we are not
trying to project um the infinite realm of possibilities for what could happen on any vacant lot. We would apply um the zoning as it is now and uh and look at the acreage and come up with what would what would normally be
developed there. If further development uh is approved or is considered in the future, as I mentioned pre previously, the town does have a sewer privilege fee which can be assessed to try to um make up for a property for example paying a a
betterment a smaller betterment now um for what later is a larger impact on the system. You can't go back and change you can't go back and change the betterment. You never can, you can't charge a second betterment on the property, but you can assess a sewer privilege fee for the
increase in flow. But I think you're coming more from are we planning to accommodate are we designing this to accommodate more flow like to allow for more flow? And the answer is not really at this point. Um the town is pretty
limited on its uh discharge capacity and the the goal of this project is to um provide sewer service within this area to reduce nitrogen load. It's um we're not really planning at this point to for
uh significant growth within the area. Okay. And anyone else? I just have one question and maybe address it to Mr. Johnson, Mr. Renure. Unfortunately, I was not at town meeting or uh or the select board meeting before, but on page
one of uh of Miss Lel's betterment discussion memo, it talks about the 7030 split and all of the related costs of the project shall be paid by the town. And it goes on to say, or as may be determined by the select board consistent with the law. And I'm just
kind of wondering, I mean, I don't want an answer tonight necessarily, but I'm just kind of wondering what does that mean? Does that mean that the 7030 could be adjusted one way or another or I mean because it's an interesting you know
kind of tag to uh you know to the provision. So I I'm not sure exactly what the reference to the law is. Town meeting did vote to set the 7030 split. Mhm. Um and I I think maybe the statutory
reference there is um the general law defines betterments and how they can be applied and how they're applied in sewer situations. So the select board, you know, there are parameters under the general law under which the select board can define what the what the special
benefits are and the general benefits are. Um, all right. As I said, I mean, I'm not looking for a definitive answer, but I would like to, you know, explore it a little bit in my own mind, maybe with council and, you know, and, you know, you guys as to what what what we
can possibly do if we chose to. Okay. Now, we are on to what we Yes. I'm sorry. Did you have comments? Question. Please come up. First, is this PowerPoint available online? It will be tomorrow. Wonderful. um on the town's
wastewater division web page. Please identify yourself, sir. So, um identify yourself, sir. I'm sorry. Oh, I Steven Petiti. I live on Nev's Way. Okay. Within the scope of the project. Okay. And
um what was the question? Oh, the the PowerPoint presentation broke down all the costs of the sewer, but I didn't see where it is and maybe it's built in there. These roads are
going to be dug up. They're going to be repaved. And I live on what I believe may be the only dirt road that Gary Nevs paved the town in 1960 to
pave and it never got paved. Will it be paved while we're doing this project? So, I sent you an email. I never heard back. I'm sorry about that. I I don't I I'm sorry I didn't reply to your email. I
don't recall it. Um, so paving is cover will be covered under each of the construction contracts. Uh, I didn't break down all the all the pieces of the co of the project, but that would be covered under each of the contracts. The plan under this project, we've budgeted
to repave the um do a full full width mill and overlay paving for the where the road is already paved within the existing sewer area. um where we're just putting in a force mane which is a pressure pipe with no connections
off of it. We expect to to pave one lane of the road um not to do a full full width. So a road that is not paved right now the the intent is not to pave any pave pave that road as part of this
project. The the goal is to restore um paving where it was previously paved. Understood. Um question there that would be added to that is that my road would
be will cost less in this project because you don't have to reclaim pavement and you don't have to dig it up. You don't have to reclaim it. You don't have to repave it. But we're going to be bettermented the same like every other property.
So that's a food for thought. Thank you. I hear what you're saying. I I will say one thing which is that um costs are not um 100% consistent you know from one street to another from one area to another you know it is it is very
difficult to make things 100% fair in a project and in general what we're doing is restoring what's there now. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions Miss Miss Goldste? maybe more of a a comment and a concern
um given uh changes in state law regarding ADU by right. Um the comment that we're not planning for additional density in this area raises some concerns about situations that we may find ourselves in
the future with regard for with regard to the question that was asked about desire to add ADUs um and the capacity that we might have in our sewers. So I I think what the gentleman was saying, so ADUs are not my specialty. I am I'm not in the planning world, but I like I
said, maybe more of a comment and and food for thought, but just but I think what the gentleman was was uh referring to was that properties are having to reduce eliminate a bedroom from the home in order to allow a bedroom um in the in the ADU. So that is keeping our
fourbedroom assumption consistent to Mr. Chair. Yes. I I also share vice chair goon's concern is like I I think there are there's a number of empty areas in this proposal and and this will happen with future projects too is we are going
to see growth I feel. Um, so is that is that baked in the not projecting for uh more units or or more folks or is that something that's up for So um
we certainly designed the project the sewer mains at the sewer pipes and the sewer lift station and all of that can accommodate more flow. Um, so we have definitely designed the project to allow more flow. I just mean in our I Yeah,
what I meant was we have not gone out and forecast growth for this area and we're not going to try to do that as part of this project, but the the the town's limitation is discharge capacity and the town is working to alleviate
that or solve that problem uh with an outfall. um the the collection system in the street is not the limiting factor and it won't be for and the lift stations will not be the limiting factor for this project. Okay. Okay. Mr. One final
question. Does does the Betterment need to be paid at the time of transfer of the property? I mean, I know it's a bit of a discussion between buyer and seller, but is there anything that would mandate that it be paid at that time? Oh, if you're selling the property,
right? So that is up to the two lenders. If if there's a bank on each side, the banks um the banks involved um have a strong opinion about that. Um and some are more flexible than others. So there's nothing in the policy. It's
really up to the parties themselves. So, so there I know there's been a lot of discussion of that and then people have examples where they they had to pay off the Betterment at the time of sale and it was be and in those cases it's because uh one or the other of the banks required that uh there are I as I
understand it banks out there that don't require it but it is a consideration. We're not making them pay for it at that time. No. Okay. We'll move to what we are now calling at this stage grinder pump approach. Oh, sorry Doug. I thought you Sorry. I just wanted to say that
with regard to the baked in additional capacity with the flow neutral bylaw giving uh the right to have four bedrooms now for most people that will be give the opportunity to have an ADU if they you know for instance have three-bedroom house they can now add
that fourth bedroom so even without actually accounting for it there is probably some potential for growth. Thank you. Anyone else? No. So please right yes I I should say on growth our
our planning did assume did take into account some future growth um I just meant that it wasn't the goal of this project to plan for how that might work and where it might come from um the the
goal of the project is to sewer uh on grinder pump approach uh was that it questions? Yep. Good. Thank you. Go ahead. So, in 2014, the town petitioned the state legislature to
allow the town to use borrowed funds for costs associated with grinder pumps that were going to be installed on private property for the Little Pond project. Uh because that act was specific to the Little Pond project, uh the town is planning to petition the state
legislature to allow the town to borrow funds for this purpose for future sewer projects. Um, this requires a town meeting vote. So, it will be up at the November town meeting. The select board voted a grinder pump policy in 2016 for
the little pond project. A grinder and it it is a little pond policy. So, the grinder pump approach needs will need to be adopted for the great one great pond phase one project. Um the draft approach that I'm outlining
here tonight was prepared by starting with the town's 2016 uh little pond project grinder pump policy and modifying it to clarify it where I felt that it was unclear and to reflect how the 2016 policy has actually been implemented was actually
implemented for the little pond project. Um this approach is provided for discussion purposes. The word may is used here uh for town responsibilities. Um and so it will be up to the select board to um decide if the word may you know
decide whether that's a shallow or a or not. Um so provision of grinder pumps uh the town may buy grinder pumps and provide them free of charge for single family residential properties and for individually owned residential
condominiums. Under the Little Pond project, the town provided grinder pumps to 681 uh single family residential properties. A few of those were single family residential condo units. Um but the town
provided bought and provided those grinder pumps to property residential property owners. The town did not provide pumps for multifamily residential, commercial, or mixeduse properties. The town also didn't provide pumps for
properties that were developed after the municipal project was completed. So, for example, a vacant lot where somebody came along later and built a house. When we were done with the project, we were no longer buying and giving out grinder pumps. Um,
pump installation. Uh just as with a gravity sewer connection, the property owner will be responsible for connection of the buildings on their property to the sewer lateral installed to the property line by the town. So the town's putting mains
in a street and a lateral which is a pipe from the sewer pipe in the street to the property line and uh and then the property h the property owner will hire and pay a contractor to install the pump and the piping and the electrical to
connect their building to the sewer lateral at the property line. Uh that's what happened with the the little pond project for grinder pumps. And like I said, it's it's like a gravity connection in that that that responsibility from the street from the
property line to the building is the property owner responsibility. Pump ownership and right of access. Uh at the time of pump transfer, the town may transfer ownership of the pump to the property owner and the property owner may grant the town right of access
to the property for future pump maintenance and replacement. And the way this worked on the little pond project was we had a form that was signed by each property owner when their contractor came to pick up the pump. And when the the property owner had to sign that form and it said uh that the
property owner was taking ownership of the pump even though the town was providing it free of charge and but that the property owner was going to allow the town access for future maintenance. Pump maintenance. The town may provide pump maintenance. Currently uh in the
Little Pond sewer areas, property owners call the the pump service contractor when there's an issue and the service contractor comes out does whatever maintenance is required and then bills the town and those invoices are paid from the wastewater division's operating
budget. It's the way it works now. pump replacement on reaching the end of the pump's useful service life with no evidence of abuse and improper use, which I'll talk a little bit more in a minute. The town may pro may provide for the replacement of the pump. So, there's
a pump unit, which is the tank that that the pump goes in. There's the pump itself and the all the items inside the pump. There's a control panel. the town has been uh so grinder pumps have been out there in in the little pond sewer
area since 2016. They were installed between 2016 2018. Um and we have replaced that pump core, the the pump itself in in uh a handful of uh of uh on a handful of properties, but in most
cases it's small it's smaller maintenance that's been required. Partial comp compensation or subsidy for pump installation cost. The town may provide a flat one-time partial compensation or subsidy for the cost of the grinder pump installation. For the
Little Pond project, on average, it costs residential pro property owners about $1,800 more on average to complete a grinder pump sewer connection than a gravity connection. Though the caveat is of course that sewer connection cost
varied widely even among gravity connections or among grinder pump connections um due to all kinds of factors like the size of the lot and where the septic existing septic was on the property and what the elevation was and all those things. So I we had
hundreds of actual costs for installation and we looked at those and this was the average cost difference that we found. The town paid $1,800 to each of the these res of the property owners to whom the town had provided a pump uh once all the sewer connection
requirements were met. Temporary power for properties that do not have backup generators during a power outage. The town may to the degree reasonable and feasible provide grinder pump pump down service up to once per day. Um the the
um little pond policy on this uh was that the town would provide generator service. I have provided a little bit more clarification um because this is this is tough or it is potentially a very large commitment. Um this involves driving a truck with a
portable generator on the back of it to each property that calls for the service. um and using the generator to power the pump unit to pump down the chamber. Um this provides a limited amount of additional storage. So the property owner still does need to
conserve um water or limit water use until um until the power comes back on. Uh this service may be challenging or even impossible in some circumstances to do for all the properties in the area. If, for example, the power's out in the
entire area or if they're down trees, blocking roads, um, deep snow, you can imagine that the town can't commit to this 100%. Uh, but the town's certainly committed in the past to do this and and we have done this on several occasions.
Property owner responsibilities after installation. Um, there are a couple of them. One is proper use of the pumps, i.e. discharging only sanitary waste to the sewer, not grease, rags, hard items. Uh if pump maintenance is required due
to improper use, then the town has the right will have the right to charge the property owner for that specific maintenance. Um and the property owner is also responsible for protecting the pump after sewer connection. Meaning if the property owner is going to expand on their property and expand their their
home, they need to protect that pump during that construction. funding for all of these items. So, funds have been included in the capital appropriation amount to allow for grinder pump purchase and a subsidy
equivalent to what was um provided last time. This doesn't necess necessitate a certain approach, but it it would enable the town to proceed with a similar approach for the great pond project as the town employed for the little pond project. any grinder pump purchase and
subsidy will not be covered under the state revolving fund loan uh and therefore we won't get the 25% loan forgiveness on it uh and would be paid for by the town. That again is covered in the financing plan, the funding plan for this project. Funds will need to be
included in the operating budget each year for the wastewater division to implement whatever um maintenance and pump replacement approach and and uh power outage uh approach is is voted. uh pump next steps. Obviously, to
discuss the pump approach, there will be a November town meeting vote to petition the legislature and the legislature will need to vote on that um um on that request. And then any reminding you that any town pump bid and purchase like if
the town's going to go out to bid for grinder pumps, we won't be doing that now for until mid to late 2027. So there's there's some time before this is actually going to happen. Um and then any pump subsidy would of course occur
even later after the the pump is installed and the permits are closed out. So late 2020 or 2027 to 2028. That's it. A question. Uh are you aware of any third-party providers that cover the
power outage situation in other municipalities? In other words, a town contract with a provider to take on that responsibility. I'm not aware of that happening in other towns. Um, it is possible that that it that it so the
town found took on more responsibility and helped out property owners more than occurred in some other towns. Um, I'm not aware of other towns doing that. We have not. In the occasions where we've done it, um, we weren't doing it ourselves during a power outage. the
wastewater division is, you know, potentially occupied with with other issues. So, we've had a um another contractor do that. So, I think that's what you're asking is can you have a contractor do it? And the answer is yes, we have. I don't know if another town
has provided that service for property owners. And one more question, do I understand that the grinder pumps will be given to the property owners free of charge? That's what happened for the Little Pond sewer project. It's uh so the the select board's going to need to
deliberate and and decide if that is what's going to happen again. Would the cost of that be a special benefit cost that effectively the property owners would be paying 70% of that? So that's how I let's let me go back to that.
Um, so I had the grinder pump procurement um as in um as in the project cost to be paid for um in 7030 as part of the betterment. Um I had the grinder pump
subsidy if it occurs um as as being a general benefit cost not not being um charged to the property owners. Right. Thank you. Anyone else? I guess just clarifying on that. So that in actual fact means that the homeowners
are paying 70% of the cost of the grinder pump. Yep. Not that it's completely free and that is that's what happened with the little pond project. Grinder pumps uh were part of the betterment. Yeah. Okay. The grinder but not the subsidy. Okay. Thank you, Mr.
Brown. Do you want him to stand up? Let's just uh let Mr. Brown ask a question. and Mr. Richardson if he has one and then we'll get to Amy, this is a question I should have asked in advance, but it just got me thinking now. Um, can you give us any indication of how much more expensive it
would be if we tried to do this with all gravity rather than using the grinder pumps? Was there any numbers that you can So, it's not possible to do it all by gravity unless you have lift station sites for all that would allow all of it
to flow by gravity. Um so um you need you need a lift station site that is with that is at the right elevation and the right distance from all the properties in order to get it there by gravity and it is very
difficult to site it is very difficult to site lift stations and um uh and we were we were not able to do that in in part of this project area. So I'll I'll say this gentleman here was had spoken a question
out loud which was um is all of this going to be served by grinder pumps and the answer is no but a lot of it. So um the entire tick path peninsula this peninsula on the right in that figure um
is entirely served by grinder pumps or it's a low pressure system. um this area on the on the west side um that's on Marav Vista, most of that will be served by gravity, but the properties on the far edge um where the where the land
starts to drop off at the end of the streets um will also be grinder pump. Um so we can talk more about that at a at a future meeting, but yes, much of the service area will be serviced by grinder pumps, but not all. Mr. Chair, if I may. Yes, Mr. Richardson. more more a comment
than a question, but the governor Healey just released an affordability bill on energy and environment and I think there might be I just texted our legislative director couldn't hear back from him, but um I think there might be some movement in this area. Um where I don't know if you've seen anything about that
was literally released last week, but I thought there might have been some carveouts to reduce the costs. I'm not aware of it. Okay. Thank you. I I when you get more information, let me know. Yeah. I think you have to leverage federal funds to access that. Oh, is it?
That's never mind. Okay, there's no other questions or comments. Stay tuned. Yes, sir. Mr. Walth. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Tom Walth, precinct 3 precinct captain, and uh phase one of Great Pond Project uh
really surrounds our particular precinct. And I would just say that, you know, to the board to take um what Amy has put together and has worked on for so long under consideration because it's not only the $94 for the betterment, but
we have is going to have that installed cost that we know about and more importantly after it's all said and done, our water and sewer bill is going to at least double and possibly triple. So that's that'll be there. That's a forever cost as well. So that's all I'm asking for. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Yes, SC. Um, is it possible to even ballpark what the cost to
homeowners in different parts of Felmouth will be when we're done with this whole thing? And I don't mean this project, I mean with all of the sewing. understanding that this is happening over a very extended period of time and costs are going to change. But I think
one of the things that keeps coming up is is and rightfully so. We're we're talking about the inequity of what uh residents in one part of town have to pay when their part of town is steward or when they have to do IIA, but then
we're all paying into the 30% if it's, you know, a 7030 split for all of these projects. Is there any way to get at what that total cost is or will be by the time we're we're
hopefully at some point. That's a good question. Yeah, I certainly don't have that now. Um I wouldn't expect you to the the um the and there's a lot there's a lot we don't have numbers on yet. Um but I so
the town will be doing watershed planning over the next couple of years and can come up with a better answer about that. Um there is as you point out additionally the cost of the outfall um which will be borne by I assume the town as a whole. So yes, there are a lot of
costs related to uh sewer infrastructure. Um and uh we can we can look at presenting that in the future presenting it in that way in the future. Can I also ask one uh much more specific
question other end of the spectrum. Um in the little pond project you noted that um grinder pumps were provided to single family residential properties but
not multifamily residential properties. Do you do you know the the reasoning behind why they were provided to single family but not multi multif family? So
um that that's something that the board can discuss. Um the discussion for Little Pond was all around single family residential. There were that that property involved 1,400 sewer
connections and the overwhelming majority of them were single family properties and so that dominated the discussion. Um there was really very little discussion at the select board level about or you know at the town
level about other types of properties and how they would be handled as far as grinder pumps. So it was really more of an interpretation after this policy was my interpretation after the policy was voted because the discussion was entirely around um single family
residential. So something we should consider as we're thinking about SCUs and betterments is also that grinder pump benefit at the other end. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Well, no other questions or comments. Amy, thank you very much for as always a wonderful
presentation. Stay tuned. Uh we'll we'll certainly let everybody know when the next uh community session is going to be and if you have any specific questions or comments, please send them to the select board so we have them in advance of the meeting and hopefully be able to answer them uh at that time. So thank
you. Okay, our next uh matter is to read. I'll let the uh audience uh settle down a little bit. and actually read it. I don't know if we actually read it out
loud. If you want to, I mean, you know, if you want to read it, go right ahead. I mean, it's kind of forceful and I wouldn't mind reading it if you want to. Okay. All right. Okay. So our next item is to read and discuss a statement and letter regarding
local ICE operations and practices. As many of you will remember, we did have a discussion uh Chief Lori, Sheriff Buckley, uh and some some public comment and our decision was that uh we would fashion a statement to uh to reflect the
position of the of the town of Fmouth with respect to ICE operations. uh member Richardson and member Goldstone uh work together to uh to draft the document which uh which we have before us uh this this evening. So
uh going to ask member Goldstone to go ahead and write read it. All right. Uh the town of Falmouth is committed to enabling our residents, businesses, employees, and visitors the opportunity to live, work, and experience our town's unique charm today, tomorrow, and for
future generations. We strive to be an inclusive, welcoming, equitable, and diverse community. And we take seriously our responsibilities for economic prosperity and the health, safety, and well-being of residents and visitors. Trust, including trust that constitutional and civil rights will be
upheld by all law enforcement officials, is foundational to the kind of community we strive to be. Our local police work diligently to build trust and relationships, acting as guardians first, enforcers only when necessary. In contrast, some of the tactics employed
by federal immigration and law enforcement officials operating in Falmouth in recent weeks have contributed to a climate of fear that undermines the work that our own town staff, including our police department, do each day. This has been reported in our local newspaper, shared on social media, and communicated directly to
members of this board by concern concerned constituents. We do not dispute the rights and responsibilities of federal officials to enforce the laws of our country. However, it is essential that this be done in ways that respect and uphold constitutional and civil rights to
freedom from unlawful discrimination, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom from self-inccrimination, and access to due process under the law. In addition, especially given recent events in Minnesota where a man impersonating a police officer shot and in one case
killed elected officials and their spouses, it is important that all law enforcement officials do their utmost to respond to lawful requests for identification and legal documentation. It is not enough to simply wear fatigues or invoke the name of a law enforcement
agency. Finally, while Massachusetts state law stipulates that local police do not and will not assist or participate in federal immigration enforcement, it is important that they be aware of potentially disruptive activities in our town. We encourage the traditional
collegial sharing of information between law enforcement agencies to ensure safe, effective operations. The town of Felmouth has many resources to offer residents and visitors and all services of the town are offered independent of immigration status.
Information about immigration status is not requested by town staff. More information about resources can be found on the town's website, www.falmouthmath.gov. We encourage residents of the town of Falmouth to avail themselves of these resources to become familiar with their
rights and address concerns. And as always, if you see something, say something. Report suspicious activity to the appropriate authorities. Very good. Thank you. Um, I just make one comment with respect to the one,
two, three, four, fifth paragraph. In addition, especially given recent events in Minnesota where a man impersonating a police officer shot and in one case killed I would just say an elected official because it was only one and her
spouse only one. That's the only change. Two shot two cases one two fatalities instead of Right. Right. Yeah. I was focusing on the killed but just my comment that's all. Yeah.
Okay. And the only thing I add is I think we should consider a separate letter directly to our uh federal delegation, not our state delegation. I think it's important to make that distinction on this issue. Um because frankly, you know, working in the state house, there's not much our state
representatives can do and I think we can, you know, be more pointed to our federal partners. Um and I think that this is a great and thank you. Hats off to Heather who's more her her leadership than mine on this one. Um but I think that it echoes uh the seriousness of
this issue. U but I also think we should have a separate one directly directly. Um frankly I've been I've been pretty disappointed particularly in our congressman uh and his leadership on this issue is a failure in my book. Um and I think we should have a separate separate item for that.
How does the board want to proceed? Are we good in issuing this statement as we discussed some edits and then work on a a second statement as Mr. Richardson suggests a separate different letter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A I think because this one I
think is more our town's stance if I'm not mistaken and that one would be more what do we actually want our elected officials to do for us. And then one other thing while I have the mic uh perhaps in Balak and I don't know the legal of it but maybe this exact same thing in Portuguese if that's something we can do. Um I think that would also
make sense. Can we would we put this on our town website? Do you think? Yes. Good. Okay. So, that's where we will go. We'll go with this everyone. I mean, I don't know if you want to make a motion to adopt the statement as uh amended with some edits. Edits. Yeah. Okay. Mr.
Brown, make a motion. I would move approval and uh post this to the town website. That's our select board position on ICE immigration action. Second. Uh have a motion to second. Any further
discussion? Yes, Mr. Reno. Go right ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Vice Chair. Just wanted to mention also to the public, we are planning on a holding a community conversation, community forum meeting uh where we're going to have hopefully an open dialogue. I'd like to invite some some guests to that,
some some of the federal agencies. Chief Lori mentioned that um in the past uh he's had good cooperation and dialogue with DEA and FBI. Unfortunately, not so much with uh with with ICE. So it' be nice in my opinion to have full participation of all of the law
enforcement agencies and have that dialogue. Thank you. And I I'm glad we're moving towards that kind of a forum. Did you have anything else, Miss Goldstone? Yes, just on the um separate letters. I think what we had talked about was sending this statement along
with a letter to um legislative representatives. Um, and uh, I guess I didn't feel in in kind of drafting this that that I had enough of a sense of what the board wanted in those letters. And so I don't know if we
want to take a moment to to discuss what what those requests might be. I think I heard common sense immigration reform last time um, ensuring that members of our community right now um, get some clarity and some confidence in what
their status is. Um, we talked about making sure that Falmouth is is represented and recognized as a as an impacted community. Um, and I uh agree with with Mr. Richardson that I think those requests are best directed to the federal level. Um there has been uh
motion in a few states recently actually to um create state law clarifying the or reinforcing um the need for law enforcement officials who are not uh explicitly conducting undercover
investigations to be in uniform and um not wearing face coverings. And so I wonder if that is something that um because those those tactics are part of what we talked about in our last discussion being um contributing to the climate of fear that is so problematic.
Whether we would also want to address a letter at the state level um to request consideration of uh of that sort of measure. Well, that's fine. I mean, I would like to get this approved and up and uh as our statement and then maybe asking you
again and Mr. Richardson to work on one or two letters that we can convey to our elected officials, federal and state, you know, suggesting the importance of what we see in some of the suggestions that we have. Absolutely. Okay. So, we had a motion and a second with respect to the statement as edited. Any further
discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I adopted. Thank you. Okay. We are now here to review uh the RFPs for disposition of town-owned land for affordable housing as approved by the
November 2024 town meeting. Mr. Renure, you want to tee us up? I do want to tee us up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to setting up the presentation. I wanted to make a make a statement. Um, I understand over the weekend there was there's some postings on social media uh to the effect and I'll paraphrase that
this is a uh a land grab, cash grab for developers. Um, what you're Mr. Chair and SLboard, what what uh the town planner and the housing coordinator are about to present to you um is based upon quite frankly the number one strategic priority in the subboard strategic plan.
These folks take direction from me and as you know I take direction from you as the elected governing body. Um, so I want the community to know I I made this comment a couple of years ago as well. Um, these folks have a job to do. Um, and unfortunately, um, sometimes they they're they're at the uh the the end of
of people's eye in the community. Um, and and again, I wanted to refute uh strongly the uh the statements in social media over the weekend that this is about a land grab. Uh, these were identified as surplus properties in the town. There are over 100 such
properties. Um the town planner did a really thorough and excellent job in my opinion vetting these properties. Staff discussed them. We presented a town meeting. Town meeting approved these as you all know. So again I just wanted to make that statement Mr. Chair and get it out in the community that um you know the town planner, housing coordinator,
the staff in general are following my direction to pursue affordable housing and increase the inventory of affordable housing in the community. And that's all it is. It's not about a land grant. Um if I can ask either you Mr. wrench or or Jed or Kim as as they go forward. Can you just kind of give us a brief summary
of how we got here, you know, from town meeting and where we are now and how things got to be developed. Maybe you're talking about that as any way. So, go ahead. Floor is yours. Well, thank you very much. Um, for introduction sake, my name is uh Jud Corno, the town planner,
and I'm Kimberly Fish, the housing coordinator, soon to be director of community development, just minutes away, potentially. Potentially. Right. Right. Still vote. Depends on how good he does, too.
So um as as you covered just briefly u before um we we started uh tonight's agenda is really to introduce the topic of these uh requests for proposals. We'll go through the sum the sites themselves and summarize some of the
characteristics. Um Kim and I will uh sort of tag team the the um presentation but we'll cover some uh details of the request for proposals and then of course we'll take any questions that you might have. So to start off and to sort of repeat um
a little bit of of what the town manager had just mentioned, in 2023, the planning department started this analysis of town owned properties to try and figure out what the best um case would be for potential future use. Uh
that was an exhaustive effort. It took approximately a year and a half to to complete that. And here we are with uh four properties that we think are are ready to go, if you will. So then again in uh November of 24, we came before a town meeting. There were two articles um
sponsored by the town to dispose of uh a total of four properties. We'll get into the details of that in in a second. And then there were two petitioner articles for two additional properties to be disposed of. And then moving forward from that uh we worked with consulting
firm to draft the documents that you have in your meeting packets and that Kim will uh be posting on the website uh after this meeting this evening. And so we'll walk through some of the uh specifics of those uh sites and the uh RFP in a second. So first and foremost,
the first site is Zero Locust Field Road. That includes two properties. Um and those paral IDs are listed there as you can see up on the screen. Um they're just north of the uh high school property. So if you traveled north of
the uh high school, you'd see them on the right hand side. Together they um are approximately 6.1 6.2 acres. They're both vacant. Um I'm going to go through some of the characteristics here, but I'm not going to spend a ton of time. The zoning is um AGA, agricultural A. Um
the other category is um some of the challenges or uh overlay districts which would um further restrict potentially uh development in that area. The WRPOD is the water resource protection overlay district. It both of these properties
are in the minimal flood zone. So we consider those to be flood zone X. Uh there are no environmental concerns that we saw on both of these properties. They were acquired uh individually as you can see up on the screen. both by tax title and we do not see any deed restrictions
on them. So that is the first site. Second site is zero westmouth highway. Again two properties. This is just west of the ciphet uh interchange as you can see on the image. Together uh they are
2.8 acres. Again both of them are vacant properties. Zoning is public use. Uh there is no uh concern in terms of any other overlay district that would restrict development on the site. Again, flood zone X, minimal concern, no
environmental issues, acquired in 1931, and we do not see any deed restriction on both of these properties. Now, these are the two petitioner article sites. Uh first is 20 Brigantine Drive and the second is 21 Feasant Lane.
As you can see up on the screen, they are smaller properties as compared to the previous two. Uh, Brigantine is larger of the two. It's approximately just over half an acre and pheasant lane is just under or just about a quarter acre. Both are vacant properties. Zoning
is AGA which again is agricultural a RC residential C. Uh, Brigantine has some challenges uh related to the fact that it's located within the zone 2. and further reducing the number of bedrooms on the site also that's in with within
the water resource protection overlay district and NSA refers to a nitrogen sensitive area. So again, those are limiting factors if you will uh when you talk about development on the site both within flood zone X's. So minimal concern there, no environmental concerns
on the sites and uh as you can see up on the screen, they were acquired uh separately and no deed restriction that we know of um are on the sites themselves. So at this point, I'm going to pass the baton over to Ken. Excuse me, Jen. Just do we know how they were
acquired? Were they acquired by tax title or were they sold to the town or do we have that information? Believe they were both tax title but um I can verify that. Hi. Um so the request for proposal
details um we thought we'd go through um to try to streamline this. There's a lot of elements of the RFP that's going to be the same on each RFP and then there's going to be some differences
because of the individual sites themselves. Um this is the components site comparison. The first three you'll see are different and then it and I'll discuss those later in another slide and
then it goes into um what is the same which is the building design, amenities, energy efficiency, accessibility, wastewater and permitting. So this is everything that's the same. So I'll briefly go through what is in
each RFP. So it's the standard information. Section one, introduction, summary, background, contact information, timeline. Section two is general information, availability of RFP,
procurement rules, proposal, submission, site briefing, optional, and that's optional for proposers. And um section three request for proposals the purpose development objectives afford which we'll talk in more detail in another slide
affordability unit types tenure building design and aesthetics energy efficiency accessibility wastewater disposal and site information site map utilities and project permitting. Excuse me. Kim, could I stop you one second there? Could
you explain what it means when you say each unit shall be visitable? Um yes, I'll get into more of the detail. Okay. In the next slide. Okay. Thank you. So the development object um objectives
which is um more just a more detailed explanation. The building design and aesthetics, the appearance of the proposed development should be harmonious with existing norms for dwellings in the town of Falmouth. Energy efficiency. We understand this is
a priority. So in the proposal, we include net zero energy efficiency will be considered high highly favorable. That will be in the criteria accessibility. And um Mr. Mr. Chair, this is what um you were asking about.
Uh the town seeks proposals that maximize accessibility both in the buildings and in the design of the site. Each unit shall be visitable, which is no stair access to the unit and wider
doors so that wheelchairs can go in and a bathroom on the first floor. But but that's different than accessible as far as a standard when when building. And which one is more what what's the difference I guess between accessible and visitable is my question. Do you
want to go into the detail of that? So just briefly the the main difference is um full accessibility has a lot of other factors. So you would normally have lower countertops, you might have uh spaces exactly handbars, you might have audible alarms. Visitability is
more just about um providing an opportunity for people who want to visit you. Okay. Uh who may be challenged in that way to be able to get into the into the property. Okay. Thank you, Jeff. And then we have wastewater disposal
which we just heard from Amy um is extremely important to our community. So, um, the town will require the selected developer to install an innovative alternative septic system, um, acceptable to the board of health.
So, we do understand that this is more of an expense, but we felt it was important to include uh, moving forward with with new builds. So this is um going back to the components but and what's different between each site.
The locust field road this highlights um the affordability we're suggesting 30% to 120 AMI multifamily and it be a rental. We also have in the RFP, we're
suggesting a max of 40 units. Um, and it would be, we included it when you take a look at the details in the RFP, uh, to be highly advantageous to include multiple buildings instead of one just
one building on the lot. Zero West Famouth Highway, it's about 2.8 acres. um 60% to 140 AMI duplex or triplex and um these are we are suggesting these to
be home ownership and um in in the RFP we're suggesting up to six units and the two smaller lots um so there might be a change on this one just to let you know when we drafted
this um we had all of the permit permitting under chapter 40B permitting which would require these two to be at 80%. But we since found that um we need to do a little bit more research because under the new um governor's bill we may
be one of them may be by right um so not have to go through chapter 40B and the other one may be able to go through another permitting process would which would allow flexibility of the select board to decide if they want to go to a higher AMI on this. if you go to a
higher AMI, it just wouldn't be able to go on the subsidized housing inventory. So, I'm going to pass the baton back to Jed. Okay. So, section four of the RFPs uh gets into the technical proposal that is
required for the proposer. Again, this deals with non-pricere related items. So as you can see up on the screen um the developer and the development team is to be uh essentially described um tell us more about the team itself that is um
proposing um to take on this project their past experience some of the past projects that they've um been you know involved in. Um and then the development concept and conceptual design drawings are somewhat similar. The development concept really is a verbal description
of um exactly what they're proposing and how they plan to meet the specifics of the RFP while the conceptual design is essentially what that is. It's um site drawings where you would see the buildings placed with landscaping and uh
your driveways etc. you get a sense for the overall uh development scheme uh so to speak and then of course building elevations and floor plans which are very important to um identifying whether or not they meet uh the requirements of the RFP.
Then the last two um components are the management plan. So, as you can see, it's all about the proposed sale price uh for each of the units, uh the strategy for marketing of those units, and then the financial plan. Essentially, what they plan to offer the town uh for the properties. Again, this
is a component that the select board will want to um uh discuss about what type of um amount you're going to be looking for for someone to purchase these properties, be it very small, large, etc. Um and then of course um
what their financial package looks like in terms of financing the actual development itself. So the last section of the RFP deals with the evaluation criteria. Again, as these proposals come in, we're going to have to score them against one another.
And so we want clear and objective criteria. As you can see up on the left hand side of the screen, there are seven of them. I won't read them aloud, but you get a sense for how this might work. When the proposal comes in, we'll essentially have a committee that reads through them. And grades um on the right
hand side, you can see the acronym um uh definition here, highly advantageous, advantageous, not advantageous, and unacceptable. So, essentially, each one of the proposals will be scored against each other um on those seven criteria.
And um here's an example of for example site design what it might look like to be advantageous, highly advantageous etc. So in the highly advantageous as you can expect they meet all the requirements of the RFP. They take into account all of the
um criteria that we're looking for up on the slide um but in an advantageous uh circumstance they may not have addressed everything um and so on and so forth. So you get a a flavor for how the proposals might be scored against one another.
So the important component the timeline. So uh tonight we are here talking about the first read if you will of these draft RFPs. We plan to hold a public forum on July 23rd uh where we
essentially will have this very same presentation. um maybe tweak a few things, but explain to the public what these RFPs uh mean. Um they'll get a chance to ask us questions um and of course we'll be taking their input. Then we'll report back to the select board on
July 28th. So it'll be a fairly quick turnaround um to essentially give you an understanding of what people said, some of the comments that they might have had, and it'll give you an opportunity to consider some of the edits that that may have been suggested. And then at
some point in August, anticipating a favorable vote from you folks, uh either that evening of July 28th or another meeting a thereafter, we would essentially be releasing the RFPs um to to have folks bid on it. And so that
essentially is the timeline and we're open to any questions. But before I stop, um I just wanted to reiterate the fact that these documents are draft uh and they are meant to start the conversation. Um and we hope that you know folks spread the word and um come
to these public forums because that's where we understand what's important to the public. Everything will be posted um at um the housing page and comments can be emailed to um the the email address on the um
slideshow which is housing ma.gov. Thank you. Thank you both. Any particular questions? Member Goldstone? Um well and I also before I get to my question want to build a bit on um what Mr. Renshot said. I also saw some of the
comments on on social media. Um, and besides the fact that this has been an extensive process to get to this point that has gone through approvals at multiple levels, um, I would typically be the first to bemoone the loss of forested land in our town. Um, there are
tough choices that have to be made. I actually went and looked at an app um that was uh that's been developed by some colleagues of of mine at Woodwell. was looking at the town of Falmouth land use change from 2011 to 2021.
Forest loss has been minimal. Right? As we just recognized earlier tonight, 40 years of the 300 committee, we've been very successful in preserving open space and forested land. Some of the largest loss of forest land in that period of time was actually the restoration of
grasslands at Crane um at the Ottabon Sanctuary. Um so we do have to make tough choices. Um, and I and I think these parcels um are good choices. Um, I'm curious what your if you could share a little bit more of
your thinking about the rental versus ownership model, how you decide. I mean, we we need a mix of both. So, how how you were thinking about which ones were were which. Um, and I I guess building on the question about visitability,
um, especially I guess in an ownership model, what's the feasibility of taking a a home built for visitability and and actually turning that into a fully accessible home? Is that a possibility or or would there be such differences at that that you're stuck at that that level of accessibility?
Well, the rental v home ownership was um the the ones that are earmarked for potentially earmarked for home ownership shship are the smaller lots and the larger lot just makes more sense for rentals and 87% it says in our housing
production plan 87% of um housing in Falmouth is single family homes um home ownership. So, we would like to see our priority according to the housing production plan in 2024 is rental units. There's a drastic need for it and it
makes more sense on that larger lot on Locust Field. Um, and as far as the visitability to turn into accessibility, it is it is a much different um having to lower the um counters and um widen
the even the bathroom is different. So that there is a major difference between full accessibility and visitability, but the visitability we do think is a major um we've really been with with the Falmouth affordable housing fund working
group. It's been a priority there at that level too to um win funding. We really like to see more visitable units especially for the aging community for people for the home ownership too for aging in place. I guess I'm wondering if it would be possible or desirable to put
into for the the two multi-unit sites a fraction that are actually fully accessible in addition to visibility for the rest of the units. Yeah, we actually we could put that in as a suggestion for the from the select board. Absolutely. Put it in if that's what you'd like.
I I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that this has taken a long time and I know that uh the fault doesn't lie with either one of you. Uh and I'm heartened to see how quickly what what your proposed timeline is is going forward.
Uh but you know I just want to make that statement and impress upon you which I think you know that there has been much some dissatisfaction with how long it has taken to get us here. we're here. That's spil milk, but very anxious to uh
to move this along. So, thank you. Okay, Mr. Richardson. Um thank you. Um I echo um the chair's comments. Um you know, this is incredibly important. Um member of town meeting precinct 9. Uh, I remember there was concerns about zero
west found. This might be outside the scope of this, but I remember there were concerns with zero westmouth highway about the entries and exits given its proximity um to the highway and you probably answered it. I just don't remember because there's too much stuff going on. Um, but if you could just speak to that um what you guys have
found with looking at the property. So, thank you. That's a good question and and it sort of dubtales to um one of the responses I was going to provide um member Goldstone. So this site in particular, yes, it is um right off the
highway. Uh it provides for or it essentially limits the amount of development that we wanted to put here simply because of that sharp curve. Um we would be looking for someone a uh potential proposer to move any sort of
roadway or driveway as far west as possible away from the very sharp curve. And it, as I mentioned before, it that's why we centered or settled on six units uh in that site because although we want to try to maximize as many uh housing
units as possible because of the housing crisis we're in, we're also cognizant of the fact that there's a potential safety uh issue uh with creating a a lot of housing at that location. Thank you. Uh a question maybe for Peter or Mr. Renua.
what's the disposition of the property process? I mean, and you what what'll actually go forward in order to actually do that? Is there procurement or are there, you know, with respect to the RFPs? I know there's mention of maybe, you know, charging for for the property
and whether I mean, that's going to be a decision we're going to have to make, but I'm just wondering, you know, going forward how this will all play out so that we can get going here. Yeah. So the the RFP is the um sort of the last procurement last piece of the
procurement. So town meeting has authorized it. The select board now has the authority to sell the property. So the RFP is used to select the party to whom the town might sell the property and if there is a successful proposal
after all the evaluations and the board of course retains the right to not sell the property just you know if if the results of the RFP are not to your satisfaction you're not obligated to sell but if you get proposals that meet your requirements then there would be a
sale on a deed transfer as a result of the RFP. Thank you Mr. Brown, is there going to be some sort of minimum bid on the property? I had assumed that this was going to be like just kind of given away to do the
housing. Yeah. So I, you know, certainly that would be my feeling as well. Housing is very expensive. Your goal is to create as much affordable housing as possible. One of the ways that we subsidize that housing is by providing the land at no charge. again through
this RFP process where you determine you've got a housing proposal that meets your needs and requirements. So to go off of that, would we set the like or like I guess two questions. Is there like a standard profit margin for something like this where it is the goal
is to have it be negative whatever uh or do do we have any part in setting that goal? So that's that's a a more interesting um question and one reference point I can offer is that
under 40B there is a profit limitation. Um and there are folks in the room who know that number off the top of my head. Um and I'm not going to try to remember it. Um, it's it's always a tricky number, of course, because a developer can put numbers on a page and tell you
what their profit margin is, but it might actually be something different. Um, you know, I I think we have a a decent understanding of what it costs to construct housing. Um, and you know, all of the metrics that
we're seeing says that it's it's very I was reading an article in the Boston Globe today about the struggles that the city of Boston is having in creating housing and a lot of projects are sitting and that are permitted and they're not happening because the financing doesn't work. So, you know, I
think I guess the the simpler simplest way for me to look at it is are we getting housing that meets our requirements? there's only so much town only so much money the town can offer to subsidize that and and then we're meeting our goals. Thank you very much.
Well, I was going to say I mean it was very comprehensive uh presentation with respect to the RFP and what goes into it. You know, I think we were all a little surprised to see that we may be trying to get money from somebody, you know, for these lands. So, but we that's certainly something we'll discuss as we
go forward. Yes, Miss Goldston. Question related to that that maybe for Mr. Mr. Johnson stub or or perhaps um for Mr. Cornock and and Miss Fish. Um my my famili when you're trying to get put together funding when a developer is trying to put together funding for a
project. Um obviously having the support of the town is important. Sometimes having matching funds um or demonstration that the town is invested in the project um is important. Would we be able to get I guess credit for an
inind donation or the the land being put a a monetary value on that and and have the land be counted as the town's investment in those projects in in such situations. So there yes I think it's a short answer to your question. It depends on the
funding um that the developer is is looking for that you know they may be financing the project in such a way that that's a non-issue. Um but there are certain state programs that do require um some sort of a a local contribution. So this would be the town's local contribution.
Anyone else this time? I guess I would just say in terms of of how we craft these RFPs um and we're going to be talking about more RFPs later on our agenda. Um, I think we should, um,
I think we should shoot for the stars in terms of these RSPs, at least the first time around. What is the housing that we really want? What would we really want to see there? And if we encounter if we're not getting the bids that we want, if we're encountering challenges, we can always kind of try again and walk that
back. But but let's ask for what we we really want to see. Very good point. But we want to get this thing moving as well. I think that's going to be part of our discussion. Absolutely. Uh July is going to be a very busy month. Uh we have a public forum on this matter on
July 23rd and spoken already about uh about the betterment policies. So um I'll ask uh members of the audience if they want to come up and I'm going to limit public comments to just a couple of minutes. Uh you'll have more than enough opportunity to come before the
public forum, make your points, have your questions answered. Uh I urge you as we have uh from Miss Moyahan already today, you know, received very detailed comments and we always respect your your comments and and you help guide us and
and coming to a, you know, to a conclusion. But, you know, we would appreciate getting those statements well in advance of this particular date so that Jed and Kim can have an opportunity to go through with it and u uh you know,
and and and make some proper responses. so we can move this forward. Uh but I'd appreciate if you just keep the public comment to a couple me couple of minutes. Uh we will be dealing with this in a more appropriate forum where there's going to be plenty of back and forth. Miss Moahan.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I I will actually be away on July 23rd. So, um we weren't really given notice of that date until today. So, I'll just be very brief. Um I am Laura Moahan. I'm the executive director of the Felmouth Housing Trust. Um, our organization
provides home ownership opportunities for working families in Falmouth since the 1980s. Um, for those of you that don't know us. So, a couple of things. Um, you know, these RFPs are all based
on um 100% of the units being deed restricted. There's no profit for anybody. Okay. So, the rule is 20%, you know, limit to 20% profit on home ownership for a for-profit developer.
But that's why we were surprised to see in the RFPs that there's this reference to the town requiring payment for this property. I mean, in my view, that's just not appropriate. Um, you know, in the past, the town has conveyed these
properties when they put them out for RFP. St. Marks Road, for example, they're gifted. They're sold for a dollar. And the development budgets take have to take that into account. So when you're looking at a development budget, you're looking at how the developer is
financing the project to have a a zero out. You know, no loss is what you're looking for. How is this developer going to do this project without a loss? So not what profit are they going to make? There is no profit. Um, so on the couple
of technical requirements, these RFPs are different from some that we see in that they're asking for engineering in terms of drainage plans. I mean, that's an incredibly um significant expense for somebody to be providing for an RFP who
may not even be getting the award. So, for a nonprofit, that's a very ownorous expense. So, I would ask that you consider changing that to what we typically see as a preliminary site concept plan. Um, also, um, on the two
single family house lots, 20 Brigotine and 21 Feasant Lane by July 23rd, we'd like to see that verification on the zoning. I I mean I submitted information on pheasant lane in April of 2024,
you know, saying that it is a buyight buildable lot. We referenced at town meeting last November that um or excuse me, that was Brigotine. We referenced at town meeting in November that 21 Fezant Lane was now buildable under the state statute. So that's a very significant
point because limiting those two lots to 80% AMI means you're not going to have developers lining up with RFPs. There's going to be a significant loss um on those two lots. You know, if you
can only if you could build the house cost 550 600 to build the house, you can only sell it for 250 maybe you get 150 from the town. you have a gap of about $150,000 that has to come from the public
fundraising. So the higher that AMI goes on those lots, the more feasible it is to actually build those houses and not have to go out and do significant fundraising. So I would really appreciate if that work could be confirmed through the building commissioner in the next couple of
weeks. He will not give it to us, but he will give it to you. and it's very important to confirm that so we can move ahead and up those AMIs on those two lots. Um the only other comment other than what I submitted today was with
respect to locust field. I know Linda's going to talk about this. I do think it's shortsighted in not including the ownership element. Um, you know, we these projects should be designed on six acres to cover the whole sphere of
affordability as well as ownership and rental. There's two other projects, one in Orleans and one in Edgartown where they have discussed, you know, including four or six ownership units as well as 3640 rental units. and that's important
to address all the needs of the community on a 68 68 acre parcel of town land. Um, I also would ask that if things get hung up on the locust field parcel because of the size of it, that the select board vote to move ahead with
the other ones, segment this out so that we do not have to wait months for uh these smaller project lots that if everybody's satisfied with it, issue the RFPs and and continue working on the other ones. But this lumping everything
together is is just causing more delays. So I will submit a formal letter for your July 23rd. But um I think there is a little bit of work that needs to be done in the next couple of weeks and we would really appreciate given the time
that's passed here that that that be a number one priority. Thank you. Thank you. Uh lady in the rear first and then Miss Clark please step up. You did you want to speak? You had your hand raised. Yes, I did. Please identify yourself.
Identify yourself. Do I just pull it down? You can take it out or pull it down a little bit. There you go. Okay. Thank you. Uh Cynthia Eisen, um Bringine Drive, um Falmouth. And I just wanted to speak to the lot that's been discussed here because it hasn't been brought up. I had an email
um with both the assistant town and yourself. Um a large portion of the lot is designated as an easement, drainage easement for the neighborhood. Significant portion of the lot shows up here on the plot plan. Being a neighbor
for gez 26 years now at 26 Brigantine Drive, it does its job. a large pool of water settles right into the middle of the lot as it's supposed to from the road where it drains off and then goes into the lot, absorbs back into the
ground. In the email from both of you in the town, it said that this needs to be maintained. If this is going to be a development as it is now, if it's going to be a house built on or whatever is going to be built on, it needs to be maintained by the developer and then that would
transfer on to whoever purchases the property. But according to the plot plan, it's a very significant amount of the lot. So, I just wanted to make it hasn't been brought up. So, I make people aware of that the select board. Okay. Thank you very much. I don't know if you have a copy of the plot plan, but
um I haven't seen one copy and I have not seen it up on the screen or anywhere else, but okay. We'll certainly be looking at it and considering it going forward. Thank you very much, Miss Clark. I'm sure you'll be able to reach it right away.
Good evening. Linda Clark, president of Felmouth Housing Corporation. Uh we are the largest nonprofit affordable housing company in the town of Fmouth. We currently have 300 units, as you may or may not know. Um
and I'd like to speak a little bit about the zero locust field. I think the best use of six acres of land is going to be a mixed use, which would include ownership. So, looking at six houses and 40 rental,
I think that's a perfect use for that parcel. Um, it's why are we going to waste land? That makes no sense. We are currently over at Little Pond Place. That parcel is 11 acres.
We had to pull four acres out of the flood zone otherwise the project wouldn't be feasible. We can't afford flood zone flood insurance. So we have another seven acres in the rear. We really can't do anything with
um but that's not the case at Locustville. That's a whole different scenario. Six acres of land is a lot of land. And we can make good use with affordable housing. We can cover every area of
need. Home ownership, 30%, 50%, 60%, 100%, 120. We can cover it all. We can help every every affordable housing housing need within the community in one shot. Six acres. So, I think the draft
should be revisited in regards to strictly rental. 40 units for rental is a perfect number. We don't want to go any bigger than that. We wouldn't if we responded. 40 is
perfect. Um, and I think that the partnership with an ownership and rental developer would be a perfect scenario. Are there any
examples in town model? Not yet. Not not in Felmouth. Not in Fel. Okay. Thank you. there Orleans um Prince uh Governor Prince um I think it's Hack is getting involved
with that and so is um Habitat. They're partnering with rentals and ownership. Um like I say, we don't want to waste land. This doesn't make any sense. I think that whoever the consultant was
that that put this RFP together, I don't know that do they know our town? Do they not know our town? They in the habit of wasting land. I don't know. But that's my opinion. We do have right now on staff, we have a tenant relations person who works full-time. Um, and we're
currently we're we're assisting our rental tenants in moving forward. That's the goal. I mean, we have a right now with we probably have six to 10 tenants that are ready to move on, but they've
applied for lotteryies. They didn't make the lotteryies. Their credit score wasn't high enough. Our tenant relations person is working with them to understand before the lotteryies come up, what this is what you need to do, a list, and will assist them with their
lists. Get to the bank. what does my credit score have to be six months before the application is due? They can correct they can make corre corrective measures with things like that. But we currently have I got to it's got to be six to 10 people that are ready to
transition out. We we basically have um we've got a log jam like this is in order to free up more affordable housing. the ownership piece is in need.
Um, right now we so is so is the rental. Don't get me wrong. We currently have,274 people on weight lists. Uh, that's a lot of people, a lot of families and individuals looking for housing. But again, we need
to transition people out of the existing housing, move them along. This is the goal. Um, Thank you for your time. Thank you. And please, as I said before, please put put your comments in writing, getting them to us as soon as you possibly can. I most certainly will. And we will
certainly take all of that information. Great adisement. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for all you uh you do to help us out the housing problem here. Mr. Gasso. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Michael Gasso 107 link. Just a couple quick comments on process. Um, I
participated in a lot of RFPs over the years and there's actually two ways to do them. One is the way that you guys have outlined here this evening. The other is a two-step process. The first process is to qualify the developers um by looking at their resume and what
they've done before and then narrow down that list to a few qualified developers to go on to the second phase which is then to provide the plans and the documents and everything which you know cost developer a lot of money to do. I
think you get a better result from that two-step process. Qualifying people, select a few that meet the qualifications of what we want and then have them go on to the second phase and that's when they start to spend the money for plans and and everything else
that's required. So, I don't know if that was considered in your um discussions about uh putting together the RFPs, but that might be something that would end up with a better result for the whole town. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Classo. Mr. Garrison,
Chair Mccaly, and members of the select board. I'm Dave Garrison, chair of the Fmouth Housing Affordable Housing Committee. On behalf of our committee, I appear before you this evening to express our strong support for the RFPs before you to dispose of town owned
parcels for affordable housing. This past year, the first year of the implementation of the town's revised housing production plan, our committee has been tracking the implementation of several strategies set forth in the HPP.
One of those strategies, number 14, calls for making suitable public property available for affordable housing. At each of our meetings, we have inquired of the housing coordinator and often of the town planner as well on the status of the process for identifying
suitable parcels. We're impressed with the care and thoroughess that the town planner and the housing coordinator took in bringing forward the first group of parcels and we acknowledge the important effort that the family housing trust did in bringing forth the two petition articles. The
support provided by the town manager's office and this select board in moving the process forward was much appreciated and the approval of the town meeting last fall was a welcome statement of the support for this important effort. Now is the time for the select board to move this process forward as I hope you will
do this evening and we can learn from what the biders think would be feasible on the four lots. We're confident that the excellent work done so far by Jed Cornac, his staff, and Kim Fish on this project, and that they will continue to do a good job as
they work their way through the responses to the RFPs that will come and will bring us closer to having more affordable housing in our town. Thank you very much for your encouragement and support. Thank you, sir. Um, anyone else, Jed or Kim, any final
comments? There's Oh, sorry. Yes. Again, Eric 243 West Highway. I was wondering like under 40B often they allow like a fair number of
market rate uh units. What's kind of the plan around that? Like are you accepting proposals that have market rate units as well as the um deed restricted or is the deed restriction going to prevent those sort of things? That will be up to the select board if they want to incorporate
any market rate, but right now uh the proposal is all deed restricted units as affordable. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? No. Anyone on the board? Mr. Brown, I'd be interested to know if any of those constructive
comments could be implemented if you feel like it's still uh some flexibility in your planning. Absolutely. I think that's the purpose of this and the forum that we're going to have on in July 23rd. So, correct. So, yeah, just be on the lookout. We'll
be blasting out the announcement for the public forum on July 23rd. Okay, great. All right. Well, we're not being asked for any decisions, so we will move on to the next matter. And thank you, Kim and Jed. Thank you. Uh, the next matter is a
project eligibility site approval letter from the select board to Mass Housing for the property at Zero Sandwich Road. Mr. Wrenchure, would you like to see us up there? I think I'm going to turn this right over to Kim. I think Kim's going to lead some discussion. Yeah, it's kind
of the Kim show right now. Sorry about that. Um, so for the record again, I'm Kim Fish, the housing coordinator, and um, the select board in the past has been
asked to um, sign these letters. Uh, but we thought that it might be good to really explain why and why they come before you. So, um, developers,
they need to go through a subsidizing agency prior going to before the zoning board of appeals for affordable housing. They either will go to the executive office of housing and livable communities or mass housing. This the
the developer regarding this letter, it went before Mass Housing. So he files they file an application and Mass Housing goes through the application and part of the process is the town sending a project eligibility site approval
letter to Mass Housing if you choose to. You don't have to. It's not a requirement, but I just want to be clear. Um the name of the letter is very misleading. We are not we are not asking the select
board to endorse or promote the project. That that's what Mass Housing calls the letter project eligibility site approval. We're not asking you to give a site approval. So the the title of the letter is a bit misleading. We're not promoting or um endorsing the project.
Um what we are doing, we're asking you to do is sending the town's comment to put it in the record for um the developer application to Mass Housing. Mass Housing will then send out they'll take everything into consideration, what
the town comments are and what their um feeling is upon the application. Take everything into consideration and they'll issue a project eligibility or not. And then the developer takes that project eligibility to the next um stop
uh in the process is to the zoning board of appeals to file their comprehensive permit. Regarding this letter, the developer first met with myself um the town planner, assistant town planner and the zoning administrator. Then uh the
developer went to the land use group. Then there was a site visit with the developer, town officials and mass housing. the information that was gathered at all these meetings have been incorporated into this letter that is before you tonight. So, um that's the
process and that's what the letter is in that process. If you'd like, I can hit some of the highlights in the letter or um any questions. How would you like to handle it? I just want to respect your time.
Uh I'll start and and u you know I appreciate the uh the time and effort with respect to drafting the letter. Um I'm not comfortable with moving forward with the letter tonight to be honest with you. um you know the the letter takes a rather dim view of this
particular application possibly justifiably but uh as far as going on record tonight with respect to the points that you've made very well uh I would prefer to you know consider it a little bit further you know maybe have
some more discussion about some of the points I mean certainly we need housing for el older people uh and you raised a number of good points with respect to why this doesn't fit within the town. So, I'm not saying that I don't think we
should, you know, have such a letter. I'm just a little uncomfortable with proceeding tonight with that letter. Sure. My view. May I ask um when you do decide um tonight how you vote um how the vote goes, we do just need to request an extension. We have a deadline
of July 14th to get the pro this letter into mass housing. So, we'll just need to know when. Is it difficult to get an extension? No, but it does affect the developer timeline, but mass housing will grant us an extension. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else how they feel with it?
Mr. Brown, I think the letter identifies a lot of concerns that, you know, it's not in line with our housing production plan and I'm wondering what the what the reason would be for delaying it. I I thought it was a pretty good letter. Okay. I've stated why I think uh I I
would prefer to take another look at it and uh digest some of the points that uh that that the letter makes with respect to the application. Mr. Richardson I don't have anything yet. I'm thinking well I mean that's the point. I mean I think it's a very strong letter and it's
one that I think we need a little more time to digest. That's all I'm thinking. Please call them. Miss Fish, you said at the outset that sending this letter is not a requirement. Correct.
What are the ramifications for the developer if we don't send a letter at all or if we send a letter that is clearly not hardily in support of the project? Um, well, the ramifications of us not
sending a letter, there isn't any really, unless we're going to 100% support the project. Um, where there is a safety issue with this one with the sighteline, I think it's imperative that we send a letter because
it's a safety issue for our community in that area and it's a heavily traversed road. Um, so I think it's very important we get this letter in and on record because that is extremely impactful for mass housing. Mass housing, um,
I'll be frank, does not probably mind the rest of the comments in here because they want housing, but when it's a safety issue, it piqus their curiosity and they pay attention and this is absolutely a safety issue. When you're pulling out the sighteline, you don't
have enough time to look the other way, too. So they need we would like that to be addressed if the developer moves forward with this project and we feel very strongly that needs to be on record. Anyone else on the board? Anyone in the
audience would like to speak pro? Uh I just want to thank Yeah, Jack now that you've had a chance. Vice Chair Goldstone for saying what I was going to say. Like I was trying to think of a way of like would this be too damning or or how like what is Mass Housing's thinking on it. Um that I I I share the sentiment
from from from the vice chair. Thank you. Okay. Well, I guess we would uh be looking for a motion to approve the letter at this time as drafted. There's a motion. I would make a motion,
but I I was just curious if would there be an edit or two that you would want to suggest since it is sort of timely. It's a little bit more than just some edits. I mean, honestly, I just think there's a lot in that letter. If someone wants to come into our town and provide much needed housing for a population that
this town needs, and I just think that developer deserves our looking at this, you know, maybe a little bit deeper than we are with a, you know, a letter that was very well drafted and just presented to us tonight. There's no need to proceed. If anything, we might, you
know, delay the developer a little bit. uh we can get an extension and that's all I'm asking for though. There may not be any evidence but there's a lot of information in there that I'm just not comfortable with proceeding. I don't know that the extension is guaranteed and then if we don't send the letter in
time then it means we don't care. Right. Can you speak to the extension? Most likely they'll give us the extension but I can't guarantee it until we reach out. Right. It's a developer that has to offer it. Right. Excuse me. It's the developer that has to grant it, isn't
it? No, it's mass housing itself. But they had already give us given us an extension once. Oh, so it's less likely. How long was that original extension? Do you recall, Jed? Two weeks. Which that was an easy give for them
because they had the site um the the we took a look at the site and then they they expected us to get it in two weeks, but we need to come before the select board. So that was an easy give that extension. Yeah, I'd be reluctant to gamble on another extension.
And as I recall, a lot of the issues that are addressed Oh, mic just got louder. Uh, a lot of the issues that are addressed in this letter are things that came up in our first conversation about this development with this board and that that's still the the state of the
application. I I think is um is an additional concern. I I I I'm prepared to to move approval of the letter as drafted. Uh Okay. So, we have a motion in a second. All in favor? I.
No. Okay. Passes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to H. Discuss and consider the application by Micro Pubs LLC DBA, the Irish Goodbye Pint House located at 444A.
Did we miss G? Am we Am I the next chapter of the of the Kim show? Trying to move this along here. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Kim shows up. So, we are considering Mr. Chair is just
sick of me up here. That's consider approval of an application of the board found with affordable housing fund shared regional housing services. Miss Fish, for the record, I'm Kim Fish, the housing coordinator.
Um, in 2023, Barnesville County launched a 2-year program providing shared regional housing services, for short, I'm going to call um SRHs, free of charge to the Cape's 15 towns. The Department of Human Services and
Barrett Planning Group have collaborated to develop regional resources, provide technical assistance to towns, and plan next steps for the program. The ARPER funding, which was used to fund the program, will end um today actually. Um,
so I'm a member, thank you for reappointing me um, for a second term of the Barnesville County Home Consortium Advisory Council and I have been working on this with the town of Barnstable along with the other members of the home consortium and I'm also the town's point
person for the shared regional housing services. So, I've been participating in a virtual office hours that that they have every other Tuesday and the office hours uh allow the communities on the Cape to bring their housing questions to
the project team. These disc discussions have created a constant opportunity for the town staff from across the region to share their experiences in insight with each other which is imperative. There's not a lot of support for housing coordinators or anyone that works on
housing. There's not a lot of places to go for information. We network but and especially with our spe with what we have here on the Cape is very unique. Uh so I have found this resource amazing and um it has broadened my network as
well. Also, um the shared regional housing services has developed regional resources which include a summary of municipal housing trusts across Cape Cod, an analysis of Cape uh preservation act housing fund allocation by town,
short-term rental reports by submarket and continued work developing a data of deed restricted affordable housing within the region. That means I can access deed restricted um house uh units through this through this database and
actually click the link that brings me to the deed restriction itself at the uh registry. It's an amazing resource uh because I can't tell you how much time I spent when I originally became housing coordinator to update the subsidized housing inventory. First, I had to find
I had to update the actual list of all the affordable housing in the town and then see what was missing from the subsidized housing inventory. It was a lot of work. And this is going to be you can just pull it up and it's right
there. Um, so also part of the pilot program, each community on the Cape was allotted the 30 free hours of te technical assistance and Falmouth has been using hours um with drafting of the RFPs for
the town owned land to be disposed of for affordable housing um as approved by November 2024 town meeting. And I just want to put a little caveat here um because I feel it necessary. There was a delay in getting them, but I feel that
so strongly that we had such a wonderful resource of a highly valued um consultant that does this work and now we have RFPs because we have not done it and we if we did it in-house most likely
it would have taken longer where we don't have the experience doing it. Now we have a model for RFPs moving forward indefinitely. So there was a delay but I feel it was worth it because now we have this model moving forward.
Um so while the ARPA funding for this program will end today, discussions are underway to determine options for the communities who wish to continue receiving regional housing services. They've created a tiered approach for
municipalities to quote unquote buy in for services. So I um in the packet I had attached their proposals for your review, but I have a summary of each tier. So tier one is a base fee only
$4,590. That's the regional activities only. Uh so it's just the b the bi-weekly office hours, quarterly research. um additional guidance documents and quarterly progress. It's things that affect us as
a region, not individually as the town of Falmouth. Tier two is the base fee plus suggested minimum minimum add-ons, which is 8,480. That's the regional activities. The lo there'll be local support, but no more
than 12 hours for miscellaneous support. I can call up and ask questions um but only up to 12 hours. and monitoring but not to monitoring for affordable housing but not to exceed 15 hours which is not a lot for what a family's needs are.
Tier three and the one that I'm suggesting uh is the base fee plus local support plus town specific monitoring recommendations $26,740. It includes the regional activities, local support, no more than 12 hours.
But this is the one that really um is most important to me as housing coordinator is the specific monitoring recommendations not to exceed 140 hours. This is based on the complexity of thus shi
um the we have over 1,500 deed restricted affordable units. only a small portion of them right now are filing their annual their um monitoring reports annually. There's a significant
amount the majority of that free 1500 are not which means we don't know if they're doing the right thing and one of my goals when I became housing coordinator was to create this program to start this monitoring process. It was
unre unrealistic goal for myself once I started digging in. It's impossible for me to do by myself. I need support for that. So I'm asking um for the town to for the select board tonight to approve this um so that we can get the support
through the shared regional housing services to create they're going to do the research and figure out who's supposed to be monitoring. Some of them are lip pro are were done through LIP and the way we lips were before the town's supposed to monitor them. I don't even know which ones are specifically
because it's not just easy to find out if it was um if the housing was developed through a lip and also they're going to find help me in for the other ones that aren't that the town isn't required to they'll assist me in finding out who is supposed to and then we'll be
able to move forward with drafting a letter and requesting those to start doing the annual monitoring. Then I thought when the year when we're coming up to that year, we can re-evaluate and see where we're at. Is this something with the town owned one that we can do
oursel? Are we going to be able to do this monitoring oursel? Do are we going to have to buy into the program again? I'm not sure, but I'd like to get to that point where we know what we're even talking about as far as the 15 over 1500 units. We just heard tonight that we don't have a lot of land to build
affordable housing anymore. Um, and there's we're still in a housing crisis. So, I'd really like to protect what we already have. And I feel like just shy of $30,000 is worth that investment to protect what we already have. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone on
the board have any questions? Um Kim, I just have a question about what is the actual entity when you said the county started it, but is it like a is it a private consulting firm that's doing the work or It is. It's Barrett Planning. Okay. Pat Barrett Planning
Group. Got it. Thank you. Okay. Prepared to make a motion. Okay. Go ahead. Uh I make a motion uh to if I have it here. Uh I'm not prepared to make a motion.
Motion suggest the motion right at the end. Could we get to the finish the uh item and then we scroll back and we'll work on the format. It's page 379. 379. I see I'm on It might just be me because I'm on page 379. Uh I make a motion uh
as the the select board acting as trustes affordable housing fund to approve the application for $26,740 in funding for the shared regional housing services as presented. Second. That was just totally my fault. We have a motion and a second. Any further
discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. Now, you Thank you very much. And this is going to help me reach my final goal as housing coordinator when I was first hired. Thank you. Just just to real quick go after Doug's
point you just made like maybe like just underneath like town manager comments like the recommended because that's basically what the motion is, right? It's it's it's often times a duplicate. We've gotten to have said motion to approve, motion to deny. We can work on
the form. Okay, cool. We're a little bit boxed in as far as where it appears on the agenda report, but we can work on it. Got member Goldstone has suggested it's a late night. Mr. Corn has been here for a while that we take out of order and deal with item K, which is
consider a vote to And is anyone okay with that as far as it goes? Oh, sure. Carrie can wait. Yeah, I was saying. All right. Well, we will have some discussion on the country club and whatnot. So, u consider a vote to affirm the appointment of Jed Corno as director
of community development and to wave the residency requirement. Is there a motion? No. I would move as community development director. Okay. Do we have
here? Okay. Uh, I don't think we have any questions. Oh, well then, Mr. Chair, could I just Yes, please. So, real quick, then I didn't want to take your I appreciate your thunder away from you. I appreciate you moving this around, but this is this this is huge uh for for the for the town. So, just want to and I'll
keep it really brief. Um, Jed's got a tremendous amount of uh experience in in in local planning. He's been an asset in the two years that I've been here. I lean on him, rely on him. He's an expert in his field. Um, I could go on and on about his qualifications. Um, but bottom line is my opinion, and I think Peter, I
can't speak for Peter, but I think he shares this. Um, his leadership and management capabilities, um, really impressed me over the past couple of years. So, with all of that, um, and again, I was going to keep it brief. Um, it's my recommendation that the board affirm the appointment of Jed Cornach is
the town's first ever uh and hopefully last for a long long time director of community development. Okay. Thank you, Mr. and wave the residency requirement. And wave the residency requirement. So, is that the motion on the table? It is now. And there's a second. Okay. So, we
have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I'll just say I think this is a great move for our town both in terms of creating this position um and also the person who's going to be filling it. So really excited. Good. Okay. Vote. All in favor? I I thank you
very much. Good luck. Thank you. Okay, we'll jump back. We'll check back to number eight. Discuss and consider the application by Micro Pubs LLC DBA the Irish Goodbye Pint House located at 444A North Falmouth Highway
North Falmouth for a change of manager. Uh Mr. Clower. Uh thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Uh Jed, before you leave, I I was happy when Jed got the position as town planner. I'm thrilled with him accepting this position as director of community development. What he's done
with the planning office and the accessibility he has and and uh I would I would go as far to say his user friendliness that he has is is really um a testament to to his character and that his role in that position and I think it's a wonderful u move for the town.
Thank you. I would say that even if I didn't have to go ask probably I'll bring baked goods. All right. Thank you. Okay, proceed. Mr. Chair, um, for the record, Kevin Clower. I'm before you tonight representing Micro Pubs LLC,
DBA, the Irish Goodbye Pine House. I'm joined tonight by Tony Etri, who's the proposed manager for the liquor license. The former manager has moved on to a new position. Uh, Mr. Ry has almost 30 years of experience in hospitality and restaurants. Um, most recently at the
Maride Restaurant in Dennis. Um he holds uh an alcohol intervention method certificate which is an equivalent of tips which we typically see. Um he'll be at the restaurant you know 40 plus hours a week. Uh I I think I think if you only had 40 plus hours that would be a good
week. Um you know I think this is a relatively straightforward request. That said I'm happy to address any questions you might have or uh defer any questions to Mr. RI as need be. Uh, does any of the members of the board have any questions? Mr. Clower or the
manager? What? No, I said any questions of Mr. Clower or the manager? I was going to say the only question I was going to say was how much time do you think you'll spend? And Mr. Clower already proposed it would be 40 hours. So, at at a at a at a bare minimum, I would suggest, you
know, I think most restaurant managers, especially during the summer months, are running closer to 50 or 60 70 hours. Two last week. Yeah. So, okay. A lot. Yes. Well, thank you for your patience. It's been a long night. Uh, anyone prepared
to make an applica uh a motion? Sure. I would move approval. Is there a specific uh motion? Motion to approve the application by Micro Pubs LLC DBA, the Irish Goodbye Pint House for a change of manager for
its all alcoholic beverages restaurant license as presented. I'll second that. Okay, we have a motion to second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I. Unanimous. Thank you. Thank you very much, guys. We appreciate your time tonight. Okay. All right, Mr.
Johnson, Stab, you're up already. Yeah. tell you how time flies. Uh thank you. So I will try to make this concise. Uh it is an important topic and one that several members of the board
are very familiar with. Um uh and you know recognizing we have two new members, one of whom is here tonight and also for the sake of the public um just start very quickly at the beginning. So that the town has been leasing the Balmouth Country Club Golf Course uh
since it was acquired. And recently 2014, a request for proposals was issued and a lease was entered um with Billy Casper Golf. That was a 5-year lease with a 5-year extension expired December 2024.
We then issued a request for proposals to seek a successor uh private operator and that proposal did not result in any um any responses. So, I'm going to uh
overview what our goals are um for this lease and what the um a a a quick overview the highlights of the lease of the request for proposal terms, the lessons that we learned from
the unsuccessful solicitation last year and then next steps. Um tonight the the purpose is again for um you know a brief presentation and then a discussion input from the board on some of the key terms
for the request for proposals so that we can come back in July with a um with an RFP draft for your consideration and approval. So no vote sought tonight. So policy goals for leasing the golf
course. Um it's pretty simple although in application it's not as simple as it seems perhaps to select a quality firm able to effectively manage all aspects of the golf business. And um what we
mean by that is it's in the town's interest for the private operator to be successful on for a number of reasons. You know first of all what does a success mean? It means, you know, maintenance has to be good because you need to be able to continue to attract
customers. Uh, it also means that marketing needs to be good because the private operator needs to generate revenue so that um they can cover their own costs, make some profit, and meet the town's um terms in terms of the lease payments and the rent.
Uh secondarily, you know, or more specifically in terms of the financial issues for the town, there is still remaining debt on the acquisition of the course. That's about $620,000 per year for 10 years. So, that's a
priority for the town to recover that revenue so that we're not using tax dollars to pay for um the debt to acquire the property. And then over and above that, we really need to begin investing in capital improvements for the course. And um so that revenue needs
to come out of uh or that those funds need to come out of golf course revenue. So we really need the private operator to be successful in all facets of the business. So again, just very quickly overviewing the terms of the request for proposals.
In order to make sure that we select an a private operator that is fully qualified, we have minimum requirements. I've highlighted them here. Experience is obviously really crucial. We're looking at a minimum for an operator that has five years of experience operating at least two 18hole courses.
Um, we also require that they have experience with a computerized point of sale, marketing experience and expertise including the use of analytics and experience managing capital projects. Those are the minimum criterias. The selection criteria, we had 11 um
actually I've consolidated some. I think there were 13 separate selection criteria um or thereabouts in the 2024 request for proposals. Um I've enumerated them here. I won't I won't read them all. Um again, the you know the experience of the firm, the
experience of the staff, um the the references um of the operator with their current and prior clients, um and credit rating of the firm are among the criteria that we look at for selection. Um but we
never even got to that point with the with the previous RFP um because we didn't get any proposals. So, um I'm going to go I'm going to go through the the financial provisions, the key provisions of the RFP that um that um as
I said did not result in any proposals being received. So, I have a table here that compares the ex the lease that expired in 2024, the the terms in that first column. The next column shows the terms that we had in the RFP that was
issued last year. And then the final column on the right, we entered a one-year extension with the current operator, Trunolf. And so we're showing what the terms are there. And you know, really the the the key input that I'm
looking for from the board ideally tonight is the length of the lease. uh with the last request for proposals um for reasons that that we've discussed, we were looking for a a longer term lease, a 25-year lease with the 5-year
renewal. And had that been successful, it would have been um it would have been terrific in that we would have been able to fully delegate some of the capital improvements to the private operator both with respect to financing them um
and uh oversight of those improvements. Um and that has some cost savings benefits and certainly time-saving benefits on on the part of the town. um as we've discussed, you know, that that um proposal did not generate any
responses. I don't think it was exclusively because of the length of the lease. In fact, the feedback that we got, the length of the lease was not in and of itself the problem. The problem was the financial um provisions. So, we attempted to thread the needle, which is
to say to set the financial um terms high enough that the town was assured we were going to get a good return on our investment. Um, and we attempted to craft them in such a way that the private operator could still make a
profit. Apparently, um we we were off in our um in the terms and and we did not get any proposals. So, the base rent that we had on the expired lease was $400,000 flat base rent with no escalator. Uh the RFP we issued last
year was $400,000. Kept that the same, but we did add it an escalator of capped at 2%. Um and it would actually be zero if there were no revenue growth. um property taxes. The there's been a an evolving understanding of the
application of real estate taxes in a leased situation and we now understand that full property taxes are required in a lease situation. So that that is included here and that is an increase in revenue that the town will be receiving under this under the next lease as
compared to the expired one. Moving on to some of the other financial provisions, the revenue share threshold. Um so that the the prior lease and and the one that we were um looking at for
last year's RFP set um a revenue share above a certain threshold. So for the expired lease, it was revenue above $1,420,000. 50% of the revenue received above that
threshold would be paid to the town. Uh in the RFP we issued last year, we increased the threshold to a million750,000 and added an escalator to it but reduced the revenue share percent. And then
lastly, um, with respect to capital, uh, there was a very minor contribution, uh, included in the 2024 in the lease that expired in 2024, which was $145,000 from the private operator. The town actually
committed to 1.3 million in capital improvements um, for that uh, lease term. What we looked at for uh for the last RFP was an a private operator minimum contribution over the 25-y year period
of $2 million um with the town investing $965,000. Uh so again with the one-year extension, so that's you know one sort of a snapshot in terms of what the current private operator's appetite is for
financial contribution. Um they agreed to a um I have it on the previous slide. The uh the base rent is Oh, that's actually Sorry about that. That's not accurate.
The base rent was is 400,000 in in the current 2025 lease extension. Um there is a revenue threshold. There are actually two revenue thresholds. The first is at $2 million and there's a 35% revenue share at $2 million. and then at
$2.5 million a 50% revenue share and there is no capital contribution for this for this one-year lease. So that's a you know a again a snapshot an indication of what the private operator's appetite is for financial
contributions. So I I think I pretty much said it the the lessons learned from this last RFP um our financial terms were too restrictive. So we either have to reduce our financial minimum financial
requirements or make the financial requirements more flexible in terms of the um what the um respondents to the RFP are allowed to propose. Um I do think that the one of the
challenges with the structure of the last RFP is because it's a longer term lease. Uh it it's there's more risk for both parties with with the longer term more unknowns in terms of you know are revenues going to grow? Are they going to grow steadily? Are they going to grow
substantially? Are revenues going to decrease? That that has happened in the golf business over the last 30 years. is the revenues have actually gone up and down. They can they can um go down and plateau and stay down. Um so there is um
and then that combined with um inflation and the private operators costs going up again it becomes very difficult to predict with certainty a formula that's going to work for both parties. So we had a couple of conversations with
the golf advisory committee about these terms and uh there after quite a bit of discussion there was a committee vote a golf advisory committee vote to recommend that we reduce the length of the term to 10 years with a 10-year
renewal. Uh and I've outlined here and these are not your only two options. Um but just broad outline of of a couple of different ways that you could approach uh the next RFP.
So one option would be to stay with the 25-year term um possibly a 5-year renewal option and to make the financial terms less restrictive so that we are um we have a much higher likelihood that it will be an attractive financial
opportunity for the highquality private operators. Um and with that longer term again we would hope to have a a private operator capital contribution but again the mix of the financial contributions would need to clearly be more flexible.
Um another option and again this is more the direction that the golf advisory committee was recommending is to reduce the term to 10 years with a 10-year renewal option. Again we still need to make the financial terms less restrictive uh in that shorter term. we
would not be able to require a substantial capital contribution from the the private operator because they're not going to they're not going to get a return on that investment. You know, most of the most of the capital improvements are going to have a useful life of greater than 10 years and
they're not going to have a guarantee of 10 years. So um so any contribution capital contribution that they make is probably going to be um pretty limited perhaps just to for example the uh the rolling stock the the maintenance equipment but not investing in bunkers,
cart trails, um irrigation system replacement, etc. So that's pretty much it. the the timeline. We are looking for select board approval of an RFP by the end of July so that we can issue the RFP in
early August with proposals due back midepptember. Um and that would allow for us to execute a lease in November in time for a January one start date for the next lease. Um that concludes my remarks. Um happy to entertain questions
and discussion. Well, I I for one think the 10year uh lease is is the way to go. I've said that, you know, before the original goound. Um and that's about all I would like to say right now. Does anyone else have any questions, Mr. Richardson? Um
just looking at what the current fees are um for residents and they're and they're reasonable. Uh and you know a priority of of of mine is is making you know found affordable. I mean this is you know golf perhaps at least affordable sports uh nowadays but
keeping things like this affordable is incredibly important to young people and to to income restrict to everyone. Uh I don't know if this type of thing exists in leases. Uh is there any way to somehow you know have an agreement where the they cannot raise the rates uh by a
certain amount per year? I don't know if that exists in anywhere, but uh I just want to make a priority of mine to keep the relatively low uh rates that are currently in place for people want to golf. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for that comment. Um that is a question that
does often come up with municipal golf management. And um I I'm I'm wearing a suit to hide the scars that I have from my experience in Yarmouth managing golf. And apologies for some board members who have heard this before, but um it is
very uh it's it's dangerous to limit the revenue opportunities of a private operator because a it you know it can discourage quality operators from bidding. B, it it limits their revenue opportunities and particularly again
when the the private operator faces all of these unknowns about what are the future costs of of operation going to be, what is the what is the demand going to be? Um, so, you know, it is it's common place to have some form of a
resident discount, which we do have worked into this RFP. Um, but we we really want to be careful about not going too far with that. And you know, this the scars that I have where where communities have gotten themselves in trouble is when they set fees low and
the select board is setting those fees and the politics of that is very challenging and then you have this legacy that becomes unsustainable and you end up with an operation that can't support its costs. Okay,
Mr. I would say I like the idea of going to the 10-year lease. It reduces the the fear of the unknown significantly. And I wonder if we could consider 10-year lease with an opportunity to renew for five or 10 years. Maybe that could be
more flexible also to maybe they might want to have an exit strategy. I'm not opposed to the idea of the town investing more in the capital planning. It's after all it's our golf course. Expecting other people to invest in it,
you know, is kind of not practical, I don't think. So, uh, I think I think you're on the right track with the the golf committee's recommendations, I would agree, um, and Mr. Mr. Mscali,
you and I had conversations going back almost a year um around best practices regarding lease lengths and understand why we were going a different direction um at that point. But I think the the 10-year um feels much more comfortable
um uh agree with Mr. Richardson that keeping um uh a residential discount in there is um an important policy um piece to this. But also um very much agree that that this board should be at
the policy level for the town and not deep in the grass or turf or whatever you call it on a golf on a rough. There you go. On a This is not my sport. Um and um I guess just couple of clarifying
questions. So when you're talking about the revenue sharing that is revenue not profit. Correct. Right. Okay. Um, in terms of the capital investment, is your thinking
and the golf committee's thinking at this point that that is those costs are entirely borne um by the town under this this this version moving forward. So, my goal would certainly be, you know, I I
look at all of the town's capital needs, which are pretty daunting. Um, and the, you know, in terms of setting priorities, it's it's hard to put investment of tax dollars in the golf
course, you know, above the bottom quartile of those of those priorities. So, so my goal, and it's not, you know, it's not all in our control because it depends a lot on the golf economy. Um, the goal would be for the golf revenues
to pay for golf capital improvements. even if the town's in charge of them. We do have a surplus of or I shouldn't say a surplus. We we have a million over about a million uh $200,000 uh million 2 million three in a um a a
special revenue account that is um golf revenue that has been received that's available to use to pay debt if the future lease doesn't cover it or to pay for capital improvements. um that's not going to cover the capital improvement requirements, but the hope would be if
the golf economy continues on the trend that started with COVID, then we should be generating a surplus that can pay for pretty significant uh capital improvements. Um just just two comments. One to Mr. Richardson, the the current operator
does is very generous with respect to youth programs and Fmouth High School and so forth, and they've been very good in that regard, and we expect that that will always be a situation. Yeah, I was I was looking on the what I've been scrolling through on the website. I just want to make sure that that is still the, you know, to the degree we can make
that a written case, you know, just like that. And and the only other thing I'm saying is it seems like the Cape Cod Country Club solar expansion is going forward. Uh, and I think we need to take into account or consider that there may
very well within the next couple years be a real influx of rounds at Found Country Club as the Cape Cod Country Club may may close. So, um, yes, just one last uh thing and and Mr. Johnson
Stop, you you mentioned this. Um, I do think that both from a revenue perspective for the town and from a a mission perspective, and you guys are going to start thinking I'm a broken record, but um, if our
vision is to be the premier Cape Cod town, then this is part of that, right? And we need to actually be finding um, an operator for this course that's going to make it a destination. um and and
really make it successful. And so figuring out what that um what that looks like in terms of flexibility and I know we'd also kind of constrained that a little bit last time in hopes of making it easier to compare offers and then we ended up with no
offers. Um, I guess I would say let's heir on the side of of more flexibility and and do that work on the other side to evaluate what those different um proposals might mean for us with the goal of of really getting um the best operator that we can and understanding
that that this is a situation where their success means our successes as well. Anyone else other m Mr. Murphy, would you like to say something? Hi. Um, thank you. Carrie Murphy, I'm the chairman of the golf advisory committee. part. I'm not confused, but I lost the I
lost that vote at the meeting with about the 25 to 30 year um to go to 1010. So, at the end of 10 years, Peter, it's an automatic extension or it doesn't go back out as an RFP, right? No. So, that would be a mutual option. So, the town could decide to go out to bid again. The
town So, the town could opt out, right? The the town could opt out and the private operator could opt out opt out. You'd have to have both parties agreeing to extend. All right? because that the foundational part of this is the years. I mean, it it creates a mutual an atmosphere of mutual investment. Um,
you're not going to you're not going to rent a place and put a roof on in 10 years. You're out of there, you know. So, um, just for the record, this is probably the largest open space acquisition the town has ever made of open space. And we and we do the town does have a 14 acre parcel that's cut
out from municipal use in the back side of that property. So, it's been a it's been a huge home run. They actually when you talk about the finances before co they actually were losing money unfortunately co was very good for golf um unfortunately they're very good for golf but they were actually you know
they were losing money at that course um and we have you know the trune company that's in there now is probably the largest most professional company we could find. So you know we're right now we're in a great position. Um but I wanted to come tonight and support Peter and the committee. um we'll meet again
and we'll and we'll look at the we had a robust discussion about the terms and and Bob Mscali was there and that the timing is a little accelerated now which is now gives us room gives us flexibility and things so I appreciate the board's you know consideration of what we're doing you know moving forward with this we need to get it right this
time thank you agreed so we have two more meetings coming up to meet your July end of July deadline so uh anyone else uh so you're looking for direction from us with respect to the 10-year lease. I Yeah, I I I think I've got it.
You're the board is saying yes on the 10-year lease and let's air on the side of more flexibility for the financial terms. All right. I don't think we need any formal action. I think you understand where we're headed and appreciate. Yeah. With that, I will update the draft and um I can have that ready for the 14. Okay. Thank you very
much. Okay. Our next item is u discuss select board committee assignments. uh I have received from all of you uh your preferences with respect to board assignments. I hesitate to you know make Colin you know the layers on to every
committee going forward. Uh so I think what happens when you go to Venice I I I think what we'll do is I'm going to try and work on a matrix puts everybody's preferences down and circulate something at the next board meeting when Colin's here. So, uh, with that, we have the,
um, review and consider a vote to approve the minutes of meetings public session, June 3, uh, 2025 and June 16, 2025. I noted one typo that um, David Eisenberg was
quoted, but uh, his name starts with an IN rather than EIN. Okay, good. Thing I had on that meeting. Okay. Great. All right. Does anyone want to make a motion with respect to minutes?
Just that one with that edit. Just that one. Or do you want to do both? Me? I found another thing. Yep. No. Yep. Let us have Well, in the second uh minutes, I was quoted as saying, "I'd like to send a letter about um the ICE
activities." But what I was saying was that I was mentioning that there was a letter sent by the county administrator, right? Protesting the that was your sanctuary designation. So that's my only edit for that. You want to, you know, you want to hold off on approving it and
make sure Diane has the proper terminology for what what it was you wanted to say. We we certainly don't need to approve them tonight. If you're I'm fine with it. It's just that it was in reference to the county administrator's letter. It wasn't a letter that I was proposing. All right,
that being said, motion. Motion to approve with those edits. Second. Okay, motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I thank you. Uh Mr. Wrench, supplemental report. Quick update. Uh
very pleased to announce uh hiring uh decision recruitment uh completion. Uh Mr. Eric Hammerland um is our new associate town council. Eric is going to start tomorrow actually. Um, attorney Hammerland owned and operated Hamlan Law
Office, a busy general civil practice on Martha's Vineyard for 17 years. Uh, most recently, Eric worked as labor counsel for the Commonwealth. Attorney Hamlan has been a trained mediator since 2005 and has served as an elected member of the Martha's Vineyard Commission, the regional planning agency of Martha's
Vineyard Island, and the Elizabeth Islands. Attorney Hammerland looks forward to returning to a specialized generalist. Um he really he cracked up the interview panel some of his uh his uh slogans and sayings. The specialized generalist I think is one of my favorites. Um most importantly um he's
going to be a great um team player and I think integrates uh well with with the staff and with the select boards and and with his experience he's he's well versed in land use experience. Certainly something that that we need. That's all I have this chair. Thanks. Okay. Select
board reports. Mr. Richardson, what day is it? Don't feel compelled to say anything. No, I I actually I don't really have anything. It was great to attend uh with with Mr. Brown and you, Mr. Chair, the uh uh another terrific u opening of uh
the the conservation area ticket right next to public housing. Um I think that's again another great example to steal from you. you know, the 300 committee is almost at a time to rename to the 3000 committee. You know, by the time the next project's done, they'll be there. Um, so just more projects that um
is is what we need. Uh, you know, don't have anything from a state house perspective necessarily. I think, uh, you know, I like to when I can see how my day job applies. Um, I think there are some good stuff in the governor's environmental bill that we should keep an eye on, um, that will drive down energy costs for people in regions like
ours. Um so when when I have more details on that I'll share with that the budget's moving forward and yeah I guess that is something I guess I can uh is that uh the yesterday or actually today the Senate approved the fullear budget. Um so the Picasset mental health
facility right up the road from us which serves us is fully funded guaranteed. Um so the second Governor Haley strikes the pen that will be set in stone. Uh and you know um shout out as well. Um Representative Moley did was the highest
grossing freshman uh in terms of money brought back to the district. So good work to uh to Thomas. Given updates for our legislative delegation. Yes, Mr. Brown. Nothing big to report this week. Okay, Miss Goldman. Um the beach
committee um first of all the the last meeting uh was a a terrific meeting uh with our new uh coastal resilience uh coordinator there sharing new drone data um on our beaches and um what uh these
drone surveys uh can do and and will be able to do for us moving forward. um which was really terrific and I think the the whole beach committee as well as uh staff at that meeting very enthusiastic um uh about uh our new near new coastal resilience coordinator who
is clearly very very knowledgeable. So um that's great news. Um uh maybe less great news the the beach committee and I've been hearing from the beach committee a lot um uh fielding uh some
um some comments and and some complaints about early season availability of beach stickers and how the um you know with the the new online system and availability of the bath house. And so just uh I think a lot to to continue um
working out there with that that system to ensure that we have um beach stickers available certainly um by the time we have parking attendants um at our at our beaches. Okay. Um, a couple of weeks ago I I met
with uh two members of the East Palmouth Village Association, Terry Rogers, uh, the current president, Tom Zin, and we floated the idea of uh, of some of the village associations. I mean we've got 40 or 50 village associations but the
ones that are geographic we floated the idea that uh that they would maybe get together on a periodic basis chat about issues that affect them all you know in general and and then specific issues
that they face. Uh I did attend a meeting uh last week. Uh there were representatives from uh Ticket West Falmouth, North Falmouth uh through through Mr. Z speaking on behalf of the North Falmouth uh Mara Vista, the main
street and uh and Woods Hole and it was a very productive uh meeting and uh I think the uh the group is looking forward to continuing to do this on a regular basis. they asked if I would ask uh whether we would be able to supply a
speaker now and then to to the group and uh you know I said I would certainly pass it on. So uh that's my report. Um future agenda items, one thing that I'm looking at is AI and how the town is
dealing with AI or thinking about it going forward. Um just, you know, throwing it out there. Everybody's talking about it. Let me know. And uh you know just have you have you enabled it on your phone? What? Have you enabled
AI on your phone? No. I get it. It's when you when you get a text. Yeah. It says, "Are you going to be working at my house on Tuesday?" And it suggests, "No, I can't make it Tuesday." Or, "Yeah, I'll see you Tuesday morning." It's certainly scary. So, uh but I think
that, you know, we need to start at least thinking about it going forward. you you're lucky because I was reading the news and the there was an amendment in this big bill that's going through DC to prohibit municipalities from regulating AI, but it's been removed
from the bill. So, um Oh, yeah. Um yeah, the only one that I would just like to mention, I know I've texted you about this was almost a single issue candidate. Um, but I do think we were talking about big capital issues and I would like with some
urgency, you know, to and the previous board, uh, Bob, you were on it. You were definitely on it. I'm not sure if you were. Um, what about the the tax rate and looking at the seasonal that's in in motion, I think, Mr. Wrench, right? It's
on the list for it's on the list for for us to to address. Yeah. I just I that's the one I appreciate it, but that's my big one. So thank you. Okay. All right. If nothing else, we are, you know, 45 minutes late, but I will entertain a
motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. We have a motion in a sec. You know, Nancy used to always turn to me for the motion to adjurnn. So uh motion second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Thank you very much.
Really good meeting. Thank you very much. There are some