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and allow you to focus on growing your business 877-6342638 or meganet.net good evening and welcome to the meeting of the Fountain Select Board it is Tuesday April 22nd 2025 at exactly 6:30 p.m i'd like to call to order this
meeting and I would ask that everyone please silence your cell phones and double check that indeed they are silenced and if you are making an audio or video recording of this open session please notify me as the chair thank you and please join me for the pledge of
allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
okay we'll go right into recognitions are there any recognitions from the board mr chair I would recognize the service of Jerry Thomas to not only the town of Balmouth but he's an army colonel I believe long career military he was our wastewater superintendent and
went on to serve on the zoning board and uh he passed very suddenly he just spoke at town meeting called the question on article 15 and uh it was a very disappointed surprised to hear that he had passed so suddenly so best wishes to
his family and wish them the best thank you Mr brown any other recognitions from the board okay announcements madam Chair I'd just uh like to announce that on this Sunday uh April 27th the uh Felmouth Museums on
the Green in collaboration with the 250 anniversary committee will be holding uh events starting at 2:30 at the museum uh culminating at 5:30 with events on the uh on the library lawn so hopefully uh
many will will be there in in attendance to celebrate the uh beginning of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War thank you Mr mscali any other announcements Miss Goldstone a little bit further out but um wanted to put uh
a new event this year on people's radar the Opal Lee Walk uh will be on May 17th uh this is kind of a prejunth uh event that uh is a 2 and a half mile walk uh in recognition of the 2 and a half year delay between the emancipation
proclamation and uh the date when uh the last uh enslaved people in the country were freed um so that's May 17th uh I think it'll be a really fun community walk event great thank you any other announcements Mr brown it's early yet
but I just want to give everyone advanced notice that the uh Wounded Warrior ride will take place on June 6th this year it's the 14th year of them coming to Fment and uh it's going to be on a Friday 7 to 8:00 a.m kickoff and uh like to welcome them i'll remind you
again as we get closer great thank you any other announcements okay let's move into 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 and since the matter has not been included
on this agenda the select board may not participate in any discussion or debate of your topic is there anyone here for public comment mr duby mr duby I'm going to ask you to come up and sort of stand kitty cornered so you can see the camera and so we can hear you combat can I ask
you um town meeting I asked a question about article 4 that um Mr johnson style answered nobody else did um the question I asked was there
were there were um new paygrades proposed and there were actually two new positions um both of which were internal promotions i wanted to know how we come to what I call the compensation package i understand salaries but do you folks
plug in a figure so that you know what the total compensation was for any given employee or approximation thereof not to the method of the dollar basically I was told no there is none um that you don't use one but I did my research and you'll
see on spreadsheet one that that was done for the fire department when you increased um the number of firefighters and you look down at the bottom and there was a fringe rate of 48% that is basically what I was looking for but you can't use the fire
department as a good um skeleton for that because they have specific needs that most employees don't have uniforms equipment and all so what I did was I just went to the wrong book and quite simply I looked up the salaries for
every department in the town listed on the spreadsheet for you took that total and then you don't mind and then after that simply went to all the total fringe benefits added those up
for the town then it becomes quite easy to determine a percentage is just simple percentages for instance in 2025 that percentage was 32.12 using my figures in 2026 is projected to be
35.3 why is that important well it's important because take one of those salary packages that you folks approved the one at $70 an hour that's $145,600 a year but the fringes the
fringe at at the rates that I projected is an additional $51,396 so that $145,000 position in reality is a $196,000 position my question to you folks is when you come across these
requests for either pay grade upgrades or for a new position what do you use to figure out what it's going to cost the town your two minutes is up good timing thank you and is anyone else here for
public comment okay we will move into our committee interview mr french welcome thank you and is there anything about you Mr french that we should know that has not been included in your application i
don't believe so i think it the application I think I pointed out this this committee bears up two of my my strongest passions which is history number one and in particular American history and number two uh my love of fellow coming
to I I want to make a comment on your resume um it's you didn't mention the NFL you mentioned it here I'd like to hear more about the NFL I'm a huge football person so I thought that was Very interesting all right well and I'm
just kidding i I thought that was great and very interesting i had that one down questions from the board or comments questions for Mr french i would just thank you for the in-depth uh background that you've shared with us appreciate
your service yeah impressive i've known Mr french uh ever since I moved to Felmouth uh I think he'll be a wonderful addition to the uh 250 anniversary task force and I'd like to make a motion to appoint Peter French to fill the four member 250th
anniversary task force vacancy with a term that expires December 31 2026 a second okay I have a motion in a second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor i welcome and thank you thank you thank
you don't forget to show up on Sunday okay we're going to move into business presentation by the found Chamber of Commerce affiliate partnership with Cape Cod Chamber mr kasparian yes please great well thanks for having me so I did send out some uh
FAQ sheet but I'll tell you a little bit about it um we have decided to merge with the Kate Cod Chamber of Commerce it is going to be an affiliate membership affiliate partnership but in fact it'll be a merger of the two organizations together this has been ongoing for about a year
that we've been discussing them there's a couple of different reasons for it one is the business side and the other is the mission side like any other business we're not immune from rising costs and our revenue line is pretty flat as a small town chamber uh we have about a
65% market share in f of businesses our revenue line is the same today as it was 5 years ago as it was 10 years ago pretty much um primary reason for that is we don't really raise our rates for our members or we haven't very infrequently because we're a membership
organization however the expense line continues to go up pretty much from precoid to now our expenses are about 30 30% higher than they were and that has really started to really uh take a toll like any other business any other
nonprofit uh as a result that you know looking forward that could have had an impact on us going forward unless we increased our revenue part of increasing revenues is to grow geographically and one uh option that the board had taken a look at prior to this was possibly merging with the other upper cape
chambers and forming an upper cape chamber of commerce um but in talking to some of our businesses people were really not interested in that uh in us going into other communities and taking away from perhaps some of the business in Fallen and so we started another
course which was to um really talk to the Cape Cod Chamber that really came as a result of our partnership with them over the last three years when Paul Nwiki took over as president and CEO person with a lot of regional experience regional thought obviously we're all dealing with a lot of the same issues
for us personally for me personally when it really came to light it was about a year ago when Phil Gesson um offered a petition's article to eliminate all plastic um in Falmouth and we were very instrumental in working um with him and with others to come up with the uh
Falmouth plastic reduction advisory as you know we didn't serve on it because other people but we knew that it was important we fully believed that there had to be a solution and that in order for it to work that those people who were most affected had to have a voice
in it and I think for Falmouth this was an amazing experience i really do i think what they were able to put together was just outstanding but every other town on the Cape was going through the same thing and we started thinking why is every town doing something different why why aren't we working more in collaborating
more cape Cod Chamber has a lot of uh not only financial resources but human resources and they have a regional approach they have um uh these assets that we're going to be able to use to help solve our local issues u primarily this also coincided with the
time when Susan Zavala our office manager is going to be retiring by the end of the year and so rather than replacing her we could merge our backroom operations so that's a huge savings for us on the on the business side and then with the resources we'll
get with them we're going to be able to um expand what we're doing for our businesses so some of the most important questions um when we first started talking to our members about it was are you still going to do the Christmas parade i think that was the number one question and then of course the the other things but yes we are so from the
outside nothing's going to change it was really important to our board of directors that everything remain the same we'll still be the founding chamber of commerce it'll be a DBA under the Cape Cod Chamber leadership will remain the same in so far as both Mora Baldridge and I will be uh signing
five-year contracts to stay on the Cape Cod Chamber to make sure that the transition is smooth the board of directors uh will be um replaced by a Falmouth advisory board that will be made up by someone from Fmouth public schools uh Falmouth uh public safety
fire and rescue the scientific community the hospital a for-profit business a nonprofit business and a tourism member and that group will have a seat on the Cape Cod Chamber board of directors to ensure that Falmouth's interests are always at the forefront so as a result
um what will happen is we will be able to get regional resources and be able to apply them to our local businesses and our own community we're the second largest chamber on Cape Cod we have about 560 members they have
about,00 members but only 80 of our members are their members so for them it was really important they really wanted to come into Fallon um they're very strong in the blue economy they get a lot of funding from sources that we don't we're a 501c6 membership driven organization we kind of eat what we kill
is what we say everything that we we get to spend we have to raise they get a lot of other uh monies that they can target for uh affordable housing coastal resiliency uh the blue economy things that we're going to be able to have access to now to direct toward Falmouth
organizations um so the the uh the cultures and the offices are the same it was just seemed like a really good opportunity so our boards of directors both boards started talking about this both boards agreed um to pursue and then we've been working with a public relations firm um and have put this all
together so if you have any specific questions I'm happy to answer i thought the FAQ sheet was very helpful um questions from the board Mr brown so you'll still have the Fment Chamber board they'll stay in place right it'll be an advisory board so there won't be a board of directors because it's going to
be one organization we are we are merging with them so from the business perspective we're going to be part of Mora and I will become employees and Susan until she retires at the Cape Cod chain right so a 51c6 we we're going to have an advisory board that's made up of just these Fmouth individuals these
seven groups that are going to have a voice on their board of directors okay so the business community board will no longer be in place that well our board right now if you look at our board of directors what's been very important to us since we've transitioned this into a community focused organization as currently like
deputy chief Loen is on our board Deb Dy represents the hospital uh we have Colin Reed that represents the scientific community uh we have Henry St julian that represents Fountain Public Schools so our board has always been plus nonprofits and there's just we're going
from a 15 member board to a seven member board but we're ensuring that every aspect of the community is represented on that board to maintain the fact that we're going to be more of which we're going to remain a community focused organization and that's something that was very important to them and their board as well they are really a tourism
business focused organization which a lot of chambers tend to be and they like our model they'd like to be more involved in the community i think we can help them so it's a really good marriage because not only they're going to help us through the resource the back office end and the other resources that come along that we're going to be able to pass along but we're going to also I
think be able to help them in maybe better connecting with with their local communities that they make up so again we have the um we have the relationships on the local level with the businesses the organizations etc they have the relationships at the at the regional
level and the Boston level so we think it's going to be a really good win for Felmouth that's good thank you M your um your local members of Felmouth Advisory Board they're going to also be part of C the chamber overall board of directors so they'll have a they will have a seat
on that board of director that group will have a seat on the board of director yes okay correct they will seat on that board as well any other questions or comments it's kind of exciting i guess we're very excited about it you know like any other business we have to look forward and how
we're going to continue and so you know and this by the way uh just to say it's it's a growing trend in the country so mo most recently locally the New Bedford Chamber and the Fall River Chamber merged to form a whole new chamber the South Coast Chamber the Greater Worester
Chamber of Commerce they have a different model they have eight or nine local chambers that they act as the fiscal agent for so even though they maintain their independence they handle all the accounts receivable accounts payable etc run their insurance through
them etc that model probably you know to us it didn't seem like that was going to make a lot we really want to be a part of that chamber so we could bring those resources here rather than having them just you know it's like combining our back room operations but like going even
further so we're thinking long term great thanks Miss Goldstone i know in the I think in the paper it reported that uh this wasn't necessarily something that the Cape Cod Chamber was looking to replicate with other towns but I've definitely heard there might be interest or people are thinking in that
direction curious what your thinking is about whether this is a Fmouth unique thing or something that's likely to spread it's a Fmouth unique thing at this point i can say we approached them they didn't approach us i know a lot of people are like "Oh uh you know are they trying to take over the Cape?" They are not it doesn't make sense for them to
merge with a lot of the smaller chambers we actually had a lot to offer you know we're we're we're a fiscally sound chamber at this point we're looking ahead what is it going to take to m maintain you know our independence and our ability to provide um and then I think we're both giving each other you
know some benefits to make it a whole thing i I don't believe that a lot of the other chambers on the Cape are going to fit that mold certainly they're not in the mode of trying to take over so yes Mr johnson does this have any
implications for your lease of the Warren School building i don't believe it does um you know as you know we're very successful in getting the money for the um the CPC grant we're going to be there the lease on the building runs through
2030 so that's when the you know the every intention is to stay in that building to maintain that building there'll still be a visitor center part of our lease is that we have to maintain a visitor center maintain a restroom now we have the uh um the water filling station thanks to the found water stewards so none of that will change
we'll still maintain um the same services we'll still be doing all the same events still be the found chamber of commerce thanks mr zinski the insurance on that will there'll be an added insurer on that i mean since
it's a different entity the lease is the lease has specific language that Peter is that what you're talking about i was speaking even more basically just if they were going to continue to operate out of that facility there would have to be some language change in the lease I would imagine right because
you're having another a totally different entity take that over as well you're merging with them yeah i'm not sure you know I'm not sure i mean we're still going to be you know operating as the founder Chamber of Commerce i mean there still all the insuranceances will still be in place whether that's going
to be direct bill to also through the Cape Cod Chamber I don't know but that will all be maintained any other questions or comments good luck with the work great great thank you very much appreciate it
okay business number two consider approval of seasonal and spring license renewals for 2025 mr renshaw thank you Madam Chair uh as you all know it's that time of the year where the select board is asked to review and approve the seasonal uh licenses license renewals um the
seasonal and spring renewal applications and all the checklists all the required documents and payments that are due were sent out to the lenses uh the below listed or the lenses listed in your packets this evening all um received those renewal requirements on the
checklist and are ready to be reviewed and approved tonight by the select board with the exception of some of the seasonal commoner and seasonal restaurant licenses that are still pending building and health inspections u which we anticipate to be completed a few days prior to the restaurants actually opening u madam chair after
your after the board's review tonight it's my recommendation that the select board approve the seasonal annual license renewals as listed in the board packet this evening question Mr brown did you say that there
are some that are left off the list or they're on the list but they're pending the inspection they're on the list but pending the inspection so then our our motion would be to approve them pending the inspection yes peter do you know if that's correct i think they're on the list but pending those those health department and building inspections i
believe that's correct yes and I think we've run into that before right just about Yeah inspections conditional right i I believe the way it works is the board authorizes the issuance of the of
the licenses but then we don't hand them over until we have every final correct questions or comments no I would move approval uh with sending any inspections or other things
that needed i'll second the motion to approve the 2025 seasonal and spring license renewals okay we have a motion and a second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor i
Okay we'll move into the consent agenda we only have one item consider a vote to approve a special 1-day wine and malt liquor license for Heroes in Transition Rockport hit Cape Cod Fairgrounds 1220 Nathan Ellis Highway East Saturday
42625 from 8:00 a.m to 300 p.m madam Chair I'll move the consent agenda in second okay i have a motion and a second to move any further discussion amongst the board seeing none all those in favor hi select board reports
um Mr mscali we'll go to you and then Miss Goldstone uh this past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the uh grantee reception for the uh Felmouth Cultural Council uh as the board will remember we uh gave them $10,000 this
past year uh using that money and other funds they uh issued uh grants to 29 uh different organizations 26 of which are either no cost or low cost uh to uh to
the attendees it was a very very good uh good reception there were a number of uh grantees there a couple of music musical performances so money was well spent great thank you thank you Miss Goldstone um so also this past Saturday um I had
the the pleasure of attending a tour and discussion at uh the green center it was really interesting to um meet and talk with uh some folks from Bourne from Haritch I think also Yarmmouth um and hear how uh this was not necessarily uh
elected officials but how folks from other towns on the Cape um are thinking about um urine diversion and where that might fit into some of their um planning as well so that was really interesting um I also did attend and gosh this is going back what a week and a half i forget exactly when it was but the um uh
community forum on the bridges um that Senator Fernandez uh convened at Mass Maritime i say that was about a week ago um a lot of really good information they had the the team from uh Massdot there uh talking about both the Sagmore and
Horn projects um obviously a lot of the community uh comment and concern was around uh the recent announcements of taking of properties by eminent domain um in Sagamore um so that was where a lot of the the
uh the conversation was focused um less around uh the Borne Bridge but I think was also uh just reassuring to hear from Mass Dot uh the updates on uh federal funding and uh just interactions with
the federal government in general around uh permitting and uh regulations that that there have been uh a couple of bumps uh in the change of administration and some of the changes of regulations but for the most part things seem to be um still moving slowly moving smoothly
not maybe slowly as well slow and steady slow and steady is what we're we're going for wins the race thank you Mr brown mr miss Scalli and I both attended the Cape Al municipal leaders monthly meeting last was it on
the 11th and Julian Seir and another representative from the lower Cape was there and they were answering a lot of our questions about sewer funding and uh planning for budgeting so it was pretty informative uh we're going to have our
next tape announcement meeting on Nucket anybody wants to go they got some tickets that are going to be paid prepaid for so we don't have to pay the tickets if we want to go we're going to go tour the uh waste treatment facility and composting facility over there
state-of-the-art facility and you know trash for them is a big problem so they have to be very careful with it it'll be good to go over there and get it i've seen it once before but it was kind of a quick tour and then uh on Monday Mr johnson stop and I attended the walkway
to municipal uh agreement meeting with Sandwich and Mashby and uh that was very informative to learn about Mashby's plans they're making good progress they're going to have their sewer pl uh up and running in about 3 to 6 months to serve the Pineset area and then they'll
gear up to do another section in the uh the more central area of Mashp and uh it's good to work together with them because we learn a lot from what they're doing and they learn a lot from what we're doing it's good great thank you anything else
Mr zinski i had mentioned that um we hold the seat we the seat that I hold right now on the Cape Cod U Metropolitan Planning Organization we hold that seat so I can I can turn that seat or Falmouth holds that seat for subsection
sub region three i can turn that over to a colleague on the board or department head if you guys anybody here is interested there is a meeting kitkodcommission.org at 1:00 on April
28th uh at 1:00 to check it out to see if that's something you may be interested in or have time for i'll be attending that till I'm done on the 20th but uh the organizers I asked that question he said it's our seat so if it can be a
a department head or a colleague of mine or a new member but there's a lot our our information is out quite a bit felmouth you know with respect to money coming in and projects match matchby is about as close as we get but it has a lot of bridge information on it on the
reports weekly so I mean monthly so if I'll see you in the audience if if somebody you know shows up on at 1:00 on on the 28th I'll check it out thank you should probably wait to see if I get reelected before I commit to another
statement well he said I could stay on it but it didn't make much sense for me if I wasn't going to be on the select board right so okay that was an elected seat though right wasn't Scott so is there would there be No it's Falma C
right until the end of the term until the end of the term that's what I'm saying so and how what's the term i believe it's another year okay so think possible extension if you Well yeah oh that because they make the
nominations right from within the department you know once you get on there and nobody else is opposed they make the vote right there those are the ones that all the select boards in the uh on the Cape Cod Commission vote that okay but once you're in there a lot of
guys have been there for quite a while because they do a good job and they know what they're talking about because they're in the in the role but we need representation there so I I I probably should report as well that I was at the u uh the board of uh
the CCRTA uh board meeting last week you know obviously it was a shock that Tom Caher passed away so so unexpectedly uh Kathy Jensen who was uh Tom's uh right-hand person is in the position of the acting uh administrator for the
CCRTA we adopted the uh the I think it was a $32 million budget for the upcoming year and uh I and one at least one other maybe two other members will be uh involved somehow with uh with
looking for the replacement administrator whether it's Kathy Jensen from within or some other uh some other person thank you Mr mscali mr renshaw you're up thank you Madam Chair uh two updates um first off if you recall a few weeks ago I gave an update with regards
to our coastal resiliency specialist position um as you also might recall we've had two recruitments during the first recruitment we drew 21 uh candidates the second successful recruitment I'm going to blow my punch line we drew 67 applications and I want
to thank um Susan Lumping our outstanding HR director um she really went above and beyond um in terms of the outreach and getting the information out um that we also helped we offered a relocation bonus this time around um and upped the uh the starting salary by one
grade I think as well so um it was really successful recruitment the second time around i'm very pleased to announce um following uh some successful first and second round interviews that we made an offer which was accepted to Mr joshua Wrigley um Joshua is an East Felmouth
resident um he's coming to us from the Woods Hole route where he served as their coastal permitting specialist he also has about six or seven years of experience uh with the town of Sandwich uh serving as their assistant director of natural resources so Joshua has a vast amount of experience we're excited
to have him on board um and we have a May 5th or May 12th start date for Joshua so not too not too long he's going to be as you all know working out of the DPW administration building so he'll be reporting to Peter Peter McConn directly
and the second update um that I have is in regards to the um Eversource uh cabling project i want to uh start there's several elements as you all know i'm going to start on Surf Drive and this is hot off the press uh Peter McCann already reached out to uh Eversource a contact there um as you all
may know the water and electric utility work on Surf Drive has been completed lawrence Lynch is currently in the process of installing drainage manholes and piping under the Surf Drive under Surf Drive in the vicinity of Thomas Lane which you know is cause of great concern with the storm water flooding
for runoff and also installing uh the piping and manholes in the parking lot for future drainage chambers uh proposed sidewalk work is expected to begin shortly um which is going to be completed by the DPW the sidewalk work and the curving and the entire roadway from the short shore streets to Mill
Road is going to receive a 2-in asphalt milling and asphalt over we're expecting all of the work along Surf Drive to be completed by miday as it stands right now so I thought it was a positive update um Surf Drive parking lot specifically um as you all probably have
seen um that uh noise uh attenuation screening has come down uh indicating signaling that the directional drilling work is complete uh the drilling equipment has been removed from the site eversource has a final electric vault that is expected to be completed this week and Lawrence Lawrence Lynch has
been has had dewatering pumps and siphon lines which y'all saw along Surf Drive running continuously to draw down the water table so that ultimately Lawrence Lynch can install the final electric vault is kind of that remaining step lawrence Lynch is also installing
drainage piping and another manhole in the parking lot for future drainage work that will be installed in the fall by RTVW the drainage work is a public works project and is being installed to relieve a large portion of surface water in the ponds and Surf Drive at the end of both Walker Street and Thomas Lane
the parking lot will receive asphalt patchwork in the areas that were excavated and the parking lot itself will be cleaned up by miday so we should be go for a beach season opening in the fall again public works and Lawrence Lynch will be returning back to the
parking lot to install multiple drainage chambers under the parking lot surface at the completion of the project the parking lot will receive a new overlay of 2-in asphalt um and lastly the Millroad parking lot directional drilling work is also completed there and the drilling equipment has been
pulled from the site parking lot has been graded just this morning I went by and saw them completing the grading of the parking lot the swale the swailes outside of the parking lot area are still uh in need of repair and cleaned out this work is scheduled to be completed some final punch work items
that are going to be completed over the next couple of weeks uh for all of the above mentioned projects um our DPW director is advising me that um the resource is substantially complete the majority of the work that's being performed at this time is for public works to complete this work includes as
I mentioned uh the proposed sidewalks from Shore Street to Walker and the required drainage work of those uh basins to help alleviate the pounding and safety hazards for vehicles pedestrians and bicyclists in the Thomas Lane and Walker Street areas um and a
final update there's been a lot of questions in the email regarding the bike path i wanted to hit on that real quickly um I asked Peter McConny to go by this afternoon to take a look at um the bike path we're currently on track for a May 4th formal opening of the bike path uh Peter advises me that he's in
contact with Ever Sources a couple of punch list some uh some some safety trip hazard items that they're currently working off of we're confident that that May 4th formal ribbon cutting or reopening of the bike path is is on schedule to be completed and that's all
I have i just Thank you question were there any I didn't hear but were there any complaints about the noise that uh you know was going on with the drilling do we receive many complaints complaints great question i Madam Chairman and this board member Kelly I didn't receive any complaints the town manager's office
didn't receive i got no phone no i didn't anything either and you know what a clean well-run job and they pretty much stayed on schedule did everything they said they were going to do i would agree good the only blip was I guess a little late with opening the bike pad
that got delayed a couple weeks but understandable safety well yeah that's the complaint we got couple of people upset open right as we suspected because there's so many people commuting and driving down Palmer
as we predicted so but I mean there were precious few real incidents i know uh you know there were a couple of close calls but with that whole detour thing it really went pretty well a lot of good you know information out for people you know the routes and and you know good
advanced information everyone did a good job including the bike committee okay i will entertain a motion to adjurnn so moved second okay i have a motion in a second any further discussion amongst the board seeing none
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