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Martha's Vineyard Bank. Your goals, our guidance. >> Okay, it is 6:30. I'm going to call the Town of Felman Select Board regular meeting for Monday, April 13, 2026. It is 6:30 p.m. I'm going to call it to
order. I will note that member Jack Richardson is on his way, but we're going to start. We have a long uh a long agenda. So, please join me with the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Uh this a reminder to please silence your cell phones and notify the chair if
you're making a video or audio recording of this open session meeting. The placement and operation of the recording equipment should not interfere with the conduct of the meeting. Uh and I will now turn to Vice Chair Gold Stone for a
proclamation. A proclamation in honor of the Shining Sea Bikeway Day, April 25th, 2026. Whereas the Shining Sea Bikeway was established in 1976 after nearly a decade of sustained and dedicated
advocacy, planning, and collaboration, this achievement stands as a testament to the collective vision and commitment of the entire community and the strong partnership between town staff and residents. And whereas the Shining Sea back bikeway stands as a cherished
resource for residents and visitors, offering a scenic, safe, and environmentally safe route through our community. And whereas the bikeway encourages healthy, active lifestyles, promotes local tourism, and fosters a sense of stewardship for our natural
surroundings. And whereas the bikeway sees over 350,000 trips per year by residents and visitors on bicycles and walking. And whereas the Shining Sea Bikeway, a jewel in the crown of Falmouth, is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of its founding. Now therefore, the Falmouth Select Board does hereby proclaim April 25th, 2026 as Shining Sea Bikeway Day throughout our community. We urge all citizens to celebrate by visiting the bikeway, participating in cycling and walking
activities, and recognizing the value this pathway brings to our lives. Let this day serve as a reminder of our commitment to active living, environmental appreciation, and community spirit. In witness whereof, we have here to set our hands and caused the great seal of Falmouth to be affixed
this day, Monday, April 13, 2026. It's um yeah. >> Does anyone want to come up with respect to the proclamation? Mr. Sylvia? No. >> I'd like to thank the board for doing this. >> Come to the microphone, please.
>> Thank you. She did not have an accident on the bike way as far as anyone is concerned. >> I have a new titanium hip. >> Uh thank you select board from the bottom of our heart. Um and please I hope you can join us on April 25th when
friends of Fmouth Bikeways will have a celebration with free ice cream and music at depot station. Thank you very much. >> What time is that? >> Uh 2 to 4 pm. Okay. >> Thank you folks. >> All right. Uh do we have any recognition
uh from any of the select board members? Mr. >> Brown, >> I would just recognize uh I don't know all the founders of that uh the work to get that bike path started, but I know Joan Canwisher was one. She was a a lady that I got to know in her senior years.
So just thinking of her today. She's no longer with us, but nice a very nice job that they did to come up with that idea. It certainly was. Uh, as far as announcements, I just want to mention that Farming Falmouth will be hel
holding the fourth in its series tomorrow evening at at the Herman room uh from 6 I believe from 6:00 until 7:30. Uh there is a request that you register in advance as seating is limited.
Anyone else with any announcements? Okay, we will move on to the town manager's report. >> I have uh no announcements, no report for this meeting. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Uh and we have some time for public comment and I just will
remind everyone that 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 who would like to speak to public comment this evening? >> Thank you, select board. Uh I'm Mike Jackson, a Falmouth resident and a board member of Chapu Yach Club or CYC. Um, thank you for considering our plans for
use at the town dock in West Fmouth to provide public access to our youth sailing program. We no longer have access to the harbor from Chapoid Island, which has grown increasingly private and exclusive. And for the first time in generations, youth sailing in
West Felmouth was suspended last year while we developed a new plan. Harbor access is essential for both youth and adult sailing. CYC is a 501c3 community sailing organization. Membership is open for all ages. We're
the only sailing organization in West Felmouth. We understand that there's no select board approval required for such use of a public access facility. However, we want to assure you that we're working diligently with the
appropriate town authorities to relaunch the youth program from sailing floats mored in West Falmouth. CYC will offer a local smallcale sailing program. Our restarted youth program initially would involve fewer than 12 children in total
and could grow to 20 children for the morning and 20 for the afternoon sessions based on the sailing float capacity. Small and local means walking, biking, boating, and car pooling to get kids on the harbor
and have minimal impact on parking and traffic. Finally, there's a long track record of community benefit. CYC has taught generations of youth sailors in the in the harbor and on the bay for more than 120 years.
We're among the oldest sailing programs on the Cape and our kids learn small boat handling skills, sailing safety skills that last a lifetime. They and their families also learn how to protect and value our harbor in the process. Isn't Felmouth nice? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Jackson. Okay, we're going to move on to the consent agenda, but before we do, I would like to um to make an announcement with respect to item C under business. Uh the vote with respect to the uh Sea
Coast Shores Association. Uh I know most of you in the audience are are here for that matter as I understand it. Just want you all to know that this is not a public hearing. Uh it is a renewal application. uh and we will hear from the applicant.
They will be given a five minutes for their presentation after which time the board may ask some questions. We will then give five minutes to the friends of Cosores Association and then we ask questions uh and then the board will
deliberate. We will have no public comment from anyone in the audience. We have received numerous emails. We understand both sides of the issue. So, we're not going to have any more public comment. You're free to stay, but I just wanted everyone to know that that's how
we're going to proceed this evening. Okay. So, uh with that understanding, we will move on to the consent agenda, which is a rather lengthy one. So, if I start coughing or something, please uh bear with me. Consider a vote to approve
applications for renewal of seasonal licenses pending issuance of 2026 food service establishments, permits and certifica certificates of inspection. Seasonal all alcoholic beverages restaurant license. Common vict license,
entertainment license and Sunday entertainment license found with raw bar inc. DBA found with raw bar 56 Grandon Avenue. Seasonal all alcoholic beverages restaurant license and common victer
license quickshole Takaria LLC DBA Quickshole Takaria 28 Water Street unit C. Number two, consider a vote to approve an amended annual retail license certification for 2026 for the Falmouth
Country Club 630 Carriage Shop Road. Cons. Number three, consider a vote to approve the application by Fmouth Community Veteran Center, 300 Dillingham Avenue, for a special one-day wine and mall beverages license for Saturday,
April 18th, 2026 from 400 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Number four, consider a vote to approve a special one-day all alcoholic beverages license for heroes in Transition, Inc. for the ruck for hit
event at the C Cape Cod Fairgrounds 1220 Nathan Ellis Highway East Malmouth on Saturday 42526. Number five, consider a vote to approve the application for a change of office suits for 2026 by Felmouth Yach Club,
Inc. located at 290 Clinton Avenue Fment. And number six, consider a vote to approve an application from Buzzards Bay Coalition for a Sunday entertainment license for the Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride Finish Line event at the MBL Swopee
Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole on Sunday, 104:26 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Moving on to administrative orders. Number one, consider a vote to approve and execute a confirmatory discharge of mortgage 460
Lucern Avenue. Number two, consider a vote to approve and sign the land disposition agreements by between the town of Falmouth and Falmouth Housing Trust, Inc. for the properties located at 20 Brigantine
Drive and 21 Feeasant Lane. And I will note the to the select board members that both of those documents are in the signed uh uh binder and would appreciate your vote uh your signatures on them before you leave this evening. Number
three, consider a vote to approve a request from the Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod for a variance design code section 184-20 variances A through C and section 184-32 A through C
off- premises signs for the placement of five off- premises promotional signs for plant sale at Cape Cod Fairgrounds on 51626. Six. Number four, consider a vote to approve
a request from Fmouth Theater Guild for a variance to sign code section 184-32 and 184-30 for the placement of a sandwich board at the corner of Depot Avenue and North Main Street to advertise a theor theatrical production
of James and the Giant Peach. Number five, consider a vote to approve a request from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for a variance to sign code section 184-37D. Wall and roof signs and sign code
section 184-20 A through C variance for a temporary promotional building wall sign in excess of 8 square ft on the Smith Laboratory high bay wall. >> Hold please.
Number six, consider a vote to approve a request from Spore Gardens Trust or a variance to sign code section 184-20 variances and 184-32 off- premises signs for the placement of
10 off- premises sandwich board signs advertising daffodil days at Spore Gardens Bells Road from April 12th to 26. 6, 2026. Number seven, consider a vote to approve
a request from Buzzards Bay Coalition for a variance to sign code section 184-32 off- premises signs for the Buzzards Bay watershed ride event signs in Woods Hole on Sunday 10426. Number eight, consider a vote to approve
a request from the Junth Community Celebration Committee for a variance to sign code section 184-7 placement and 184-32 off- premises signs to hang 14 Junth flags on light poles on Main
Street. Number nine, consider a vote to approve the petition of NStar Electric Company, DBA, Eversource Energy, and Verizon, New England, Inc. for permission to install a new JO pole to be labeled 206/45-75.
This pole location is necessary to provide electric service 255 Hall Lane in Falman. Number 10. Consider a vote to approve applying for a small grant opportunity $4,600
from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries for green crab removal on Cape Cod. Number 11, consider a request from Cape Cod Guangping Taiwan Club for a waiver of the special event
permit fee for the Taiishi practices on Saturdays from April to December 2026 at Marina Park from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Number 12, consider a request from the Arts Falmouth, Inc. for a waiver of the
special event permit fee for the arts alive event being held on library long in peg nunan park from Friday to Sunday June 12 to 14 2026 number 13 consider a request from arts foundmouth inc for a waiver of the
special event permit fee for artisans at the harbor at marine nup park pen van shellside close pen on Thursdays from June 25th to August August 27, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Number 14. Consider a vote to approve the emerging contaminants in small or disadvantages disadvantage disadvantaged communities in PN EC SDC grant for conceptual design
of the Schumit well new source approval. >> Please. And number 15, consider a vote to approve a request from the Falmouth Police Department to accept a donation of $2,000
for bands for badges, as well as in kind donations of dog food and treats and a 30% discount on K9 related items from Falmouth Pet Center in support of the Falmouth Police Department's reestablished K9 unit.
Do I have a motion with respect to the consent agenda except for item B5 and item B14? >> Could you uh could you repeat that, Mr. Chair? >> I said no, I'm just kid. I was just kidding. I'm mo motion to approve uh withstanding
holds. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion in a second. All in favor? I >> I >> Okay, Mr. read with respect to number five. >> I just have to recuse myself from the vote. >> Okay. All right. >> Mr. Chair, I move approval of
administrative order number five. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, Dr. Goldstone with respect to number 14. Uh given uh the well first of all the name of the the grant title emerging contaminants um and the history
of the issue well uh I just would appreciate a little bit more detail on what this uh grant to reactivate the issue well will entail. >> Thank you. I had the same question. Thank you. >> Thank you. So we have water superintendent Matt Lannon to respond to
that question. Um so the additional funds from this grant um will help expedite the process of the conceptual design um to put this well back in service. Um it is a very long process. Um however the initial
funds we requested um at fall town meeting did not um meet the full criteria to finish the project. when this uh grant opportunity came about uh we decided to pursue it and this is where we stand with it. Um this would be for all of the different parameters that
we have to look at before we even conceptually design a treatment facility to put fresh seasonal and assume it back online to have one additional plant for the community of Falmouth. I guess that was kind of my my biggest question is what is that due diligence that we have
to do to ensure before we reactivate that well that we actually are are pumping clean water. >> Yes. So basically we have to take all the different u uh variables like what type of water it is if it's raw if the well is still active um any any u
chemical analysis that all has to be reviewed our pump data that all has to be reviewed by Tenhire engineering firm and then after we get to the the conceptual design then we can pursue getting new sorts approval for that well but we have to have all those um
parameters in place before we can even move forward with D recommendation for new source >> and and the amount of the grant >> I'm sorry >> is there amount of the grant >> I believe it was $100,000 >> okay thank you Mr. Brown
>> yeah Mr. Lannon, um could you remind me what was the uh outcome? I think there was like $8 million appropriated by uh was it Congressman Delahunt, I think, or who was the quite a while ago. I'm not sure who actually did it, but there was
some large amount of funds that were put in place, I think, by the federal government in order to do carbon filtration there to to eliminate the PAS. >> Um >> I'm I'm not aware of that. Um maybe that was before I started here. do get um temporary funds for fresh seasonal right
now um under a three-year agreement that was reviewed with town council. >> Um so eventually once the conceptual design is done, there's an agreement in place um for uh the Air Force to build us a new facility at their cost.
>> Okay. Oh, I see. That's we got to get >> So we pay for the conceptual design, military would pay for the actual >> I see. So the money is probably still there. We just haven't accessed it. >> It could be. Yeah. Okay. I'll look into that, Doug. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Okay. Approval of that. >> Any more questions? Move approval. Is
there a second? >> Okay. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> I. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. L. So, we're going to move on to our first public hearing. Uh, and I'm going to ask uh Vice Chair
Goldstone to read the notice. Sorry, one second. >> This is always a challenge on this particular device. >> Do you want me to read it? >> Go ahead. >> You have it. Sorry. Um I always forget that I don't have the same navigation on
these tablets that I do usually. >> No worries. Notice is hereby given under chapter 138 of the general laws as amended that Wicked Shuckers LLC DBA Shuckers has applied for a seasonal all alcoholic beverages license to be exercised at 89 Water Street B1 Woods
Hole Mass. A common victular license application has also been submitted. A hearing on the above will be held at the Falmouth Senior Center, Old Surf Old Silver Surf Drive, 780 Main Street on Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. >> Okay. Okay, thank you. Is the applicant
present? Okay, please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about the application. >> Mr. Chair, if I may, as as the applicants are approaching. No problem. So, um I I just did want to um mention that the application has been received.
It is complete. Uh it has uh there was no no concern raised by the police department uh or other staff members. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Go ahead. >> Hello and thank you to the select board for having us this evening. Uh my name is Tom Holmes. With me is uh Robert
Bell. Uh so we purchased Shucker's um Woods Hole. Probably many of you familiar with it. Uh last year we did not operate the restaurant last season. This will be our first uh season actually operating the restaurant. Previous to this it had operated as Shuckers. the way we intend to keep it
for about 45 years. >> We all know the establishment, I think, pretty much. Uh, anyone have any questions of the applicant? >> I'll make the motion because my parents met there. >> So, >> all right. Well, I'll make I'll
entertain a motion to close the public hearing. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second to close. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Any discussion with respect to the application? Uh, I think it's all in order. Uh, I think we know the
establishment. So, um, someone want to make a motion? >> Yeah, I move approval. >> Okay. >> Approval and second. All in favor? >> I >> I Okay. Well, thank you very much. Good luck. Okay. Thank you.
>> Okay. Our second uh public hearing is to Well, I'll turn it to uh Dr. Goldstone. >> All right. This time I actually have it up. >> Okay. Uh, notice is hereby given under chapter 138 of the general laws as amended that Gordon Hospitality Inc. DBA
for Vines has applied for a transfer of license for an all alcoholic beverages restaurant license to be exercised at 291 Main Street, Unit B, Falmouth, Massachusetts. A common Victer license application has also been submitted. A hearing on the above application will be
held at the Felmouth Senior Center, Old Silver Surf Drive, room 780 Main Street on Monday, April 13th, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. >> Okay, thank you. Okay, please introduce yourself. Tell us a bit about the application. >> Good evening. My name is David Lawler.
I'm an attorney for the Gordon family. This is Kevin Gordon beside me. Uh just a brief history. You may be familiar with the Gordens. have been uh partial owners of uh the chart room in Katamut for forever and uh also u have owned and
operated uh the chart room in Austerville uh for over 10 years. They have a tremendous amount of experience in the in the business. Kevin's been in the business since he's been a little kid starting as a dishwasher working up to running Austinville and working in as is his
brother and his father. Um, I I believe we've met all the criteria of the application. I'm more than happy to answer questions and get into his qualifications, but I think the application is complete and I know you have a very long night, so I don't want to just go on and on. >> Just uh I think we're all familiar with
what the location used to be. >> Y Blue Fin It's going to be American Fair. >> Yeah. I was just going to ask you if you get a little free advertising here. So, uh, um, they're going to take, uh, the opportunity, um, especially with the ABCC, it takes a while and going into
the summer season, they're going to fix it, get it right. So, probably it won't be operating for, uh, you know, certainly the beginning of the summer, possibly not even until the fall. Uh, as uh, you said, you know, we're not just opening for this season, we're opening for all of them. And they want to get it
right. Uh, they have a American fair uh, you know, reasonably priced, excellent. the quality of the food in the other two restaurants has been, you know, it's renowned and they bring that expertise and experience. I think it'll be a a great fit for Falmouth, uh, you know, on Main Street with a, you know, where the
Blue Fin was. Um, and they're very excited about, uh, you know, operating in Falmouth and with the Falmouth community. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone on the board have any questions? Anyone in the audience have any questions with respect to this application?
And we do hope that people >> roll I ever had. >> It's unbelievable, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And the baked lobsters, they're incredible. And hopefully some people will meet and get married there, too. So, yeah. >> All right. Well, if there's no uh no one
wants to speak, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I >> I Okay. With respect to the application, is there any discussion amongst the board? >> Uh in the interest of hopefully future
couples uh meeting, I'll make this motion too. Uh and I move approval uh of this license as well. >> Okay, second. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I Okay, thank you very much. >> Thank you very much.
>> Good luck. Thank you. >> All right. Surprisingly, we are ahead of our our timeline here, but we will have a report from the Edward Marks Building Advisory Committee. Uh we certainly appreciate
the report. It's uh it's been our our agenda for of future items for a while. Uh and we're finally uh able to get you on the agenda. Yep. >> Maximize for >> a little
too much space that Sorry. >> Do you want me to advance? >> No, it just >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got it. >> Lots of presentation stuff.
>> All right. Well, >> take your time. >> Think of this as an presenting. >> We can't hear you without the mic, please. Sorry. >> Oh, you need this internally. That's not film. >> We need everyone who speaks to use the mic. >> People at home listening, too. >> Oh, I know that part.
Okay. Hi, I'm Barbara Wayand. I'm the chair of the committee that has been working for the last six plus years now on um the renovation restoration of inside and outside of the poor house.
And I do have something to share. Every year there's new members. Those are my last three coffees. >> Okay? So I ask you to pass them around for because we have new
select board members every year. I just want to do a very very short bit of repetition. I'd like you to think of the poor house Edward Marx building as the opposite end not only of the street but
of the economy. And back in colonial days, it was required that every town in any colony have some services for the poor. Let me explain further that by the
word poor. That could be anything like a widow with children whose husband never came back from an expedition on the sea. Uh it could be a person who is mentally disturbed. could be somebody who is
disabled. There is it's just a big uh it embraces a lot and oh and alcoholism I'm sorry was a big issue. So that also any any addiction.
So every town was uh required to have this. The picture you have up on the screens right now is a photo that was taken in 1888. So it is late relative to the main block
of the building which is the late 1700s and then an addition which you'll see which is around roughly 1825. So we're talking about a very old building um and several years ago
um the town made an agreement with the Mass Historical Commission that in order to get uh funding uh for restoration it would uh allow for a preservation restriction it's called
and that means that anything that gets done in this case both inside and outside um it must go through a lot of auditing and nothing can be done that can't be
undone and that's the way of preserving as much as we have of the original look and feel both on inside and outside. Um so we use we have used for the last
six and a half years the photo the 1888 photo that you have here which is actually progression from its or original as you can see there are two out there's a barn and another outbuilding because it this was a period
the name changed by the way from poor house to workhouse to working farm etc. and the poor who rented these miserable little bedrooms um had to put in an
effort to earn money to to uh offset their their ability to stay there. So, eggs, wool, you know, a some of the some of the obvious things that you'd think of in the 1800s for a a small I call it
a farm at um so having said all that and having shared you whoever gets the green copies from uh the Woods Hole um u edition please please feel free to
keep it somewhere. are safe. And this is a book. I'm just want I'm just showing you the cover of it to show you that there is substance to the point about poor houses. They these were not something that like Felmouth didn't wake up one day and say, "Gee, we've got to
house the poor. Every town had a poor house." The Felmouth Porehouse is the last one. I keep calling it that because that's, you know, its origin and what we're working on. Um
the Famoth one was not just a whim. It was a requirement as I said for every town. It is however the last poor house in the state of Massachusetts that is municipally owned.
Okay. Now the the plus on that is uh terrific in the sense that we for example after working for almost three years were able to get the interior uh renovated so that now the uh health and human services department is there.
So that's a big plus I think for for the town. The downside is from a funding side because it is um municipally owned. We are not eligible to go after foundation monies uh state or federal
and we are um restricted to uh the CPC monies and um mass historical commission monies. And the reason we haven't done mass historical commissions is that you know I'll tell you later it's too annoying
and boring. Um so that we have a restriction in terms of what we can do to help get the rest get the um excuse me it's not moving there. Huh.
Why isn't it going forward? Should Oh you That's what I asked earlier. Just >> Yeah. Do where now? >> No, just the wheel. >> Okay. Oh, I see.
Okay. Uh, so moving along from roughly 1818 to right into the 1900s. Um, at which point the arrival of hospital care took displaced the
function of the poor house. and the poor house Edward Mark's building which for those of you who are not aware is almost right outside here. It's right next to the driveway coming in. Looks like a big old federal house.
Uh excuse me. Uh the town wanted to honor one of its select board who were was very very popular. That's Edward Marx Jr. and that happened in 2004. So it has a kind of double nomenclature and
I'll try and show you how we're uh hoping to balance that. Okay, back to this. All right, Jed, you lied. Okay, here we go. Excuse me.
All right. Uh, a number of things have have held us up. I don't have to talk to you about COVID and what that did to a number of projects, not just ours, but everything has been very slow um up until now, but
we are feeling this is the year of traction for us to get make a big forward step on the exterior. Um we're supported tremendously. We were a select board uh committee. That's how
who originally uh put us into business. Uh Doug Brown mercifully still on the select board is our liaison. and Jed Corno whom you know who's back
there with a hand up modestly gives us tremendous support and assistance from the planning perspective and working with the uh architectural firm which this year will be assuming project
management responsibility uh for the bidding document the bidding process and then managing the contractor. So that's a huge bit of difference that's going to happen this year. One of the reasons we haven't appeared
before. Oh, it doesn't like Why is it like spinning? That's weird. Okay. So, this past year was pretty uneventful and we we in part requested deferring
our our report because we wanted to be at a really tangible milestone where you could understand that you were actually going to start to see uh changes. Now, so DHK is the architectural firm. They're in Boston. Uh they are the the
people who will now have project management responsibilities. You all have drawings of what's going on. This is the loosest mouse. Okay.
Can I put aside for the moment the one thing that's in red, which is strictly I hope you view it as something that you just have to act on pro or con. But let's just put that aside so I can just finish up the narrative here. So we're
now trying this year since the document is going out to bid and that represents approximately well 2/3 maybe even 3/4 of the anticipated changes that we can make to the building. Um keep in mind please
that this is not an exercise in aesthetics. We're trying to leave a building which has an appreciable historical provenence. May not be glamorous, but that doesn't detract from its importance uh in social
history. We're trying to leave a building in really good shape so that the town is not looking at spot repairs all the time. Um I can remember shortly after the committee was formed that um
the previous town manager found leaks happening in the attic and a roof was put on in haste and the next thing you know guess what it was leaking again. So, we're trying to get out of that patchwork quilt of doing things and be
able to say, "Here's the building." All everything that we're talking about here, everything in that list means that it we're contributing to the sub stability and endurance of the building
to have a useful uh a use going forward. Um, if you look at the first drawing here, why does it not like to do that? There we go. What we have uh called out here are
areas where you can expect to see really tangible change. And it it's not getting more glamorous. We're not putting in Corinthian columns the way you can expect in DC. This is going to be as close as possible to the appearance of
the building as shown in that photo. If you have any questions at any point, please go ahead. We are lucky. By the way, I I I'd like to stress the incredible effort that's gone in by the committee. We're only uh
six people. three um well-known um general contractors who have worked on um historical buildings. Mike Duffany, who's here tonight, Christian Valley, and Tom Renshaw, who who has
done I'll try and point it out, free work on this building over years. Um, and thank God because uh I can report firsthand that I know what it's like
when rabbits get into the building and die there. Um, anyway, so any questions on the south elevation? >> Sorry, >> just to let you know, you have about three more minutes. Y Okay, thank you.
All all I need. I'm just showing you again the next one. And this, for example, that that window had disappeared. By which I mean at some point, for whatever reason, it was removed and Tom completely
um fixed the panes of glass and everything. They were all sitting around in the attic and he made that window happen. So that's again a little touch of authenticity. Okay. Come on. That's interesting. The ball on
this uh cursor is not happy. There we go. All right. This is the back. The back right now is an unattractive beast, but it's going to be the main entrance to the building. So,
our goal is to draw attention to the Edward Mark's identity. We're thinking right here right over this is the entrance and then there is a ADA um compliant, you know, approach on
there and there's a for us to put Edward Marx Jr. uh building and inside we're planning in the fourth this is in the last stage to um have a presentation on him there and also on the history of the
building. So we're trying to jockey those two things I think. Okay again here. old. Now, this was that's the HVAC system sitting behind
some fencing that we asked for because otherwise, especially from the street, I mean, you can see all of the rather ugly HVAC stuff. I I don't mean to impugn those people. This is another window that that
had gotten lost and it was put back in, repaired. And I don't think there's anything exciting about the next one. Okay. And last but not least, I just want to leave you with
the the notion that the final phase which we will be working on trying to capture all the specifications, get all the spec specking done, we hope this spring in order to apply for CPC monies, the deadline of which is August
of this year. Otherwise, we're losing a quite a gap of of time and money. Having said all that, my last request is can you please go ahead and extend the committee's
I called it resz on detra here because we ran out of it. We are illegal right now. So, we would like to be blessed by the uh select board to complete our work. We we'll have to do that at a future agenda uh future meeting, but
we'll we'll definitely attend to it. >> Thank you very much. You bet. >> So, that's it unless you have any questions. >> I just have one question. Has has there ever been any thought or discussion about uh transferring title from the
town to a 501c3 or an organization that would be eligible for state funds? >> Yeah. way back seven years ago, I tried to make that appeal and had an interested 501c3
um organization, but the town at that time, I can't I'm not casting aspersions or anything, but had no interest because the interest was in using the human re getting the human department, the human health and services department into that
building because it's no rent or no rent organization. Whereas where where the department had been back in town square, they were paying rent. So that was the driver on what I think. >> Okay. >> Why it never happened.
>> Well, maybe we'll uh we'll we'll have that discussion in the future as well. >> Oh, good. >> Okay, >> Heather. >> Yeah. A couple of questions. Um one, has there been ever any discussion of um putting a fence back? It's just a very >> Yes. said, didn't it? Oh,
>> very notable. Uh, >> does it not say defense here? >> Oh, sorry. Did I miss that on the >> Well, I apologize, but Oh, this is intended to represent the fence. Okay. Because Yes, that sort of sets it apart,
gives it stature, so to speak. Yes. My second question, you mentioned balancing kind of the um the history of the use of the building with the name which >> doesn't much relate to that use and I
love the actually the continuity of use right that that's where health and human services is now so um serving >> there is continuity it's >> many many parallel parallel needs um essentially and I'm curious um if the committee has talked about how to really
bring that history. We've got fabulous books and such if you find them at the historical society, but if folks are walking down the street and walking past this building, a way to know what the history of that building actually. >> So on the front, this represents one of those external, you know, the way
they're produced. They're they persevere year after year. So, we're planning a big historical display that provides the outline at least of what this building was. >> And then with the fence, people can get in there to see it. Well, you see this
is not an entrance and exit. It's strictly an emergency uh ent. So, the fence is going to go across there. We'll have uh a gravel path would be um historically accurate. So, we want the
front to be very appealing to people walking by and to your point getting the story and that's where the story is. I also have some ideas for the fourth thing that don't require money. I mean, they require a little bit of grunt
effort to turn out some literature, etc. And hopefully to have something inside the building. >> Okay. Anyone else? >> Doug, are you >> I don't have any questions. I was just going to say that uh when I remember
when I was a kid, I used to have my friends over and we'd eat all the food and my my mom would come home and say, "Will you stop doing that? You're gonna put us in the poor house. >> Very good. >> Well, thank you very much. Your your committee has been doing a lot of diligent work and we appreciate it.
Sorry that we didn't have this discussion a little sooner, but >> thank you. GL >> Glad we were able to do that. Okay. >> Thanks very much. >> All right. Um, our next uh item is a presentation the Cape We Shape Land Protection Initiative
from the Association to Protect Cape Cod. And we have Mr. Andrew Gotautle here to give us 15 minutes of a presentation on this initiative. >> Great. >> Okay. You know, I can't do this stuff by myself here.
Um, thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to address the board. Named Andrew God. I'm the executive director of the Association of Preserve Cape Cod. Here to describe our latest uh uh project campaign uh the Cape We Shape. And
from our organizational perspective, uh, we see a number of problems that the existing development patterns of Cape Cod have resulted in U14 estruaries. I don't have to tell town of Falmouth about the impact of uh development patterns and the choice of
um septic systems, what that has had on on our estuaries. 90% of Cape Cod's estuaries, every south facing estruary on Cape Cod facing Nucket Sound, all but one facing Buzzards Bay and an increasing number of uh north facing
estuaries, all fail to meet state and federal water quality standards. Um more than a third of the ponds that we monitor uh exhibit poor water quality at any given point during uh a summer and um uh more than half are sort of on the
margin again driven by nutrients and land development and wastewater management choices. Um environment and economy intertwined on Cape Cod. So economically our current development pattern has created a lot of challenges manifesting itself in the
high cost of living um high uh housing costs and as a result labor shortages which put a lot of pressure on the employment market and cut down the productivity of the region. Um we've tended to fragment our natural
landscape with a single family subdivision that has um you know an effort to reduce impact resulted in many areas in large lots which is spread out development over large areas resulted in fragmented habitat. Um that's bad for
water quality. It makes it difficult, more difficult for the 132 rare, endangered, and threatened species that call Cape Cod old uh to do as well as they ought to, especially in an era where they're experiencing a lot of additional stress associated with rapid climate change. And then we've increased
our own vulnerability to storms, sea level rise, intensity of development, and in particular put ourselves at risk um for uh having uh built environment in um everexpanding flood zones.
So to to to understand what's happened to the Cape and why we are working on this issue, I want to run you through a handful of maps. This map shows Cape Cod early stages 1900 to 1929 largely green undeveloped.
Um 1930 to 1959 you start to begin to see especially in the uh era right after World War II there was economic boom cars people had disposable income. They had the ability to move. They started to recognize Cape
Cod um as an attractive place to be. And you begin to see in the distance from the back um the coastal areas starting to infill and get developed. Things really change in the 60s to 1990.
Um and you see uh infill happening in a lot of different places. Starts to move in away from the coast. Um, and you'll see on the right hand side more development happened in that 30-year window than had preceded it in totality
since colonialization of Cape Cod. So things really changed in that era 1990 to current um further infill um and you see that you know the coastal areas areas around ponds largely uh
built out and so you're seeing those pockets of additional development. the rate of development has slowed um because it reflects fact that you know a lot more so called more attractive land for development purposes had already been consumed um but still
relative to historical levels uh we're still seeing significant change in total 86% of Cape Cod is either developed or protected okay
what that means is we have 14% % left whose fate is undetermined. >> Could you >> and of that Andy could you explain protected? >> Protected means um subject to um durable development restrictions either
publicly owned associated with article 97 um and or owned by um land trusts or other land owners who have put a conservation restriction on it. It does not by definition include although some
portion of it is all municipal lands all not all municipal lands as you experienced in Fmouth recently with the properties around Long Pond. Just because it's municipally owned doesn't mean it has conservation protection. Okay. >> So there is some public land in that
14%. It's not all privately held. So 80% of that 14% is in what we have and the Cape Cod Commission has defined as uh priority natural resource lands. So what are those? It's not everything, but it
is the areas that support our drinking water, our zone 2 wellhead areas. Falmouth is unusual for a lot of respects. You're the only ones that have water supply from a surface water source on Cape Cod. Everybody else gets it from wells. you get a substantial portion
from wells due. Um but largely this is driven by groundwater protection. Um and then areas of potential public water supply to meet future needs. It's also incorporated. Uh from a habitat perspective, there are a number of layers that the Commonwealth keeps that
spe that are around specific habitat areas, rare and endangered species, other sensitive habitats. Um included in this the water bodies themselves. Obviously the wet areas are an attractive draw to Cape Cod but also of incredible importance to them the
wetlands adjacent to and near them 100 foot buffers and also the areas around Vernal pools. And then lastly in this categorization are coastal inland floodprone areas. Uh for those not conversant in federal emergency management speak azones are the areas
where water accumulates and if you stay during a sufficient enough storm you will just simply drown. Vzones are the area where you get speed and velocity where the water will take you away and then you will drown. Neither place do you want to be um and neither place do you want to uh encourage growth and
development. So this is an all cape opportunity and an all cape risk. The areas in orange on the screen are
the areas that fall within that 14% critical h critical landscape area. Um these are all the parcels. Some a lot of them small, some of them decent size that are up for graphs. And so whether you live in Falmouth, whether
you live in Mashby, whether you live in Truro, um there are lands near you, near someplace that you care about that are vulnerable and may be best protected, but unless somebody does something to do it, there's no guarantee that they will
be. So this affects everybody everywhere cares about Cape Cod. The other thing I want to just quickly point out is when we say there's 40% of the Cape's protected, that 40% is not evenly distributed across all communities. If
you look at on the upper leftand corner of the Cape in dark green, Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve, um 15,000 acres of contiguous forest, it's got more protection than a lot of land, but it's not, as we learned in the recent machine gun range conversation, it is not
completely protected against development and alteration. Second major holding on the upper right hand side, Cape Cod National Seashore. If you take those two away, they're a big chunk of the 40%. So don't walk away thinking that every town in Cape Cod has 40% of its land mass
protected protected open space. It's highly variable and it depends upon the town. So with that as a backdrop, we've launched this campaign uh which is intended to draw attention to uh the
issue of protecting what needs to be protected. So the campaign has a strategy. Um, it's intended in its initial phase, which we're currently in, to educate and equip people. Most people don't know what's at risk here. Uh, they assume any land open
owned by a town, that's good. Nobody's ever going to develop it. We've learned here and other places. Not the case. They've learn they people don't know that the open space near them that might be the reason why they bought it in their home um is owned by somebody who's
allowed to do something with it by zoning. So, we need to educate people what's at risk, how the process works, and begin to give them the tools to begin become advocates at the local level to address what needs to be protected. We're looking to build a coalition of
people who will bring this issue up in the public arena and the public debate space so that the needs of open space as they support your water quality to support the habitat, they support your ability to um adapt to storm uh changes
and climate change um and to provide the quality of life that a lot of people came to Cape Cod. Engage those people to become effective champions for this issue. We also believe that there's a base that can be widened. A lot of people when you talk to them about if
you say open space protection, maybe they don't know what what you mean. Talk to them about drinking water protection. You talk to them about improving water quality. Talk to them about uh increasing recreational opportunities. Then they go, "Oh, I support those things." We're trying to bring people into this um into this construct so that
they can then mobilize um to work on this issue on a local basis, work with the boards of each town, u work on financing, work with their local land trusts with the whole goal being uh to increase the level of
conversation about this. So, where are we right now? We're in phase one. We're raising people's awareness. Um we've got our campaign going. You might have seen some of our uh team SOS signs. Um, we're going to move people starting later this
spring throughout the course of the ongoing year and frankly as long as we're doing this because education is a ongoing need um to train people and let let them understand how you work, how to interact with town government, how
finances work, um how to engage effectively in the political arena to be productive advocates for outcomes that support a better environment. And then the last part is to make this part of what we are and all of you are doing as
a long-term course of business. So, how does it work? We've got our CapeCod uh the capewhape.org website and that's going to be our resource page. Um and people can see it. This is a long-term commitment from us. We're a almost
60-year-old advocacy organization. We pride ourselves in being rooted in science, both political and natural science, and stick with issues for the long haul. Increasing land protection is a now issue for us, and it's going to be an
issue for us for the long haul. Um, this is really intended to, um, you know, create the beginnings of a long-term political movement that brings conservation to the forefront of the public discourse. Um, more information
uh, can be had at the capewhape.org. Um, we have um, uh, Facebook and Instagram pages and we'll be, you know, working with you and our and your broader community. people are interested in it, they can sign up sign up at the
teams sosapcc.org and we'll start to interact with folks. So, we really like to we're introducing this initiative to towns across the region as a beginning discussion. You know, we want to support local initiatives developed by local people
that reflect the needs and considerations that are unique to each one of our 15 towns. And so our role as an organization is to provide educational support, tactical support, um basic campaign support, but we're not
in this to tell anybody what to do. We're in this to connect with the people who want to do more on the environmental side in each one of our 15 towns and support them in the best way that we can to get an outcome that works real well for folks. That's what we're doing.
>> Thank you and thanks for all APCC does on on the Cape. Um a question though, do you anticipate there being discussions also with developers that will uh you know work with you to uh to to protect
you know natural resources but at the same time help with the housing crisis that we have here on the Cape. >> Yeah. So you know we're not insensitive or unaware of the challenge around housing. We're employers. I have
staff that can't live on the Cape. I It's the same old story, right? So, we get that. Several years ago, we did a joint project with the housing assistance corporation um called Grow Smart Cape Cod. And in that, we identified areas
that based on the resources of that comprise them that are best suited for protection and this work sort of built on that and we expanded and understand that more. The flip side of that study was to identify the areas on the Cape
that when supported by wastewater infrastructure current or planned by a municipality. There were three areas that we focused on jointly with hack that to designate those areas as most appropriate for intensely disturbed areas and underdeveloped
areas. And the premise that we're putting forward with this, Mr. here is that as an environmental organization, we can speak um loudly and definitively about the need to protect certain resources
because they need to be protected. Um and that is a separate and distinct conversation from where housing ought to go. The need to protect critical landscapes doesn't change whether you have housing pressure or you don't have
housing pressure. You want to protect the areas that protect your water supply. You want to protect the areas that provide habitat. You want to protect the areas that provide storm resilience. And you want to protect the areas um that protect your water quality. There are other areas in which
housing is most and more appropriate. And it doesn't become in our mind an eitheror. We'll talk to anybody about anything related to this, but the objective here is to educate and raise the awareness around public need for
additional open space to a level comparable to that which has already been achieved about the housing debate so that we can have a fair discussion on a level playing field about where you ought to protect and where you ought to build. >> Well, that's that's what we need. We have a great example here in in Falmouth
with the collaboration between the 300 committee and Habitat for Humanity and the and the development of the property in in North Falmouth. So where they're collaborating and preserving open land and at the same time building housing. So >> again if that can h from our perspective
that can happen the areas that development is appropriate and served by wastewater infrastructure so you can do it without sacrificing water quality that's great. There are some areas where it just should be protected because it just should be protected and those areas
we want to have enough and you've got it in Falmouth in many respects. We want to have enough of a base that understands this issue well enough in each one of the 15 towns so that when the equivalent of the conversation that you just experienced around Long Pond happens, there are enough people to stand up on
the political front and say no, not here. We should maybe be doing it over there, but it shouldn't happen here and you shouldn't have to make that sacrifice for that critical land that once it's gone, you can't replace it. >> Okay. Thank you, Chair. Anyone else? Mr. Richardson, >> first I just want to thank you uh for
your partnership with the Kunsa River Trust and your appeal to Mass D. Uh we can't get into details because it was executive session, but this board has expressed serious frustrations with the way 40B is working. uh where where you've managed to piss off uh nim
nimbies, environmentalists and housing people in one group are all pissed off together uh about this law. So my question for you is is if is part of this movement, you know, driving policy changes on Beacon Hill uh because we as a board have all expressed frustration with this particular law and really
handicapping us and our ability to you know do address affordable housing but also have like you said and where places it make doesn't make sense. the ability to literally say no to these mega projects across town. >> So we have
this is not frontally directed at 40B. Once a property gets identified and a 40B process starts, it's pretty hard to derail it. The purpose of this project is to identify the lands within your community
that might or might not be subject to 40B that are better left protected and off the development scale and to identify them and come up with a plan and a financing approach to be able to acquire them so that you never get in the position of having to respond to a
40B because if it's worth protecting and you care enough about it, protect it before somebody tags it as the 40B cuz once they do you're going to lose, >> right? So we don't we're not using this s oh use this and there are people who are seeing what we're doing with this
and saying oh here's another soldier in my fight against the 40b you know in my neighborhood you know our involvement in the Saxon appeal is not about 40b our involvement in the Saxon appeal is about water quality standards and appropriate permitting and I don't care whether it's
a 40B or not a 40B just happens to be one uh but that's not the issue for us but we have people in other towns who are concerned about them and saying, "Oh, we're going to use this. We're going to hijack this campaign in order to fight the 40B." That's not what we're in this for. We're in this for
identifying and protecting what needs to be protected because it needs to be protected. Not getting into a fight over 40bs because you can throw a lot of time, energy, and money at it. And everybody loses. >> Anyone else? Uh, Mr. Brown,
>> Mr. Godly, I'm wondering if you um I didn't see farming property listed up there and we have a lot of folks in Felmouth, Felmouth Agricultural Commission, Farming Falmouth, very concerned about the fact that it's always farmland that gets targeted for development and there's not much left. I
wonder if there's any room in your program to to add farmland to the open space idea. It wouldn't be exactly open space, but >> yeah, we really dug and we've had this discussion numerous times with a bunch of different people in different contexts. We picked the areas we picked
because we're really focused on undisturbed natural spaces that serve those functions that we talked about. It's not to say that farmland and preservation farmland isn't an important thing. it didn't fit within the four
walls of the way we're we've chosen to define and the commission's chosen to define um these priority natural priority natural landscape types. >> Um and so we're happy to work with the farming community to share the information to share the the techniques
and the guidance that we're providing on how towns work, how to motivate and work with your community are as applicable to farmland preservation as they are to open space. So, we're happy to open that conversation up, but it's not part of the the specifics of this particular
campaign. >> Okay. Okay. >> I have one more after Heather. >> Okay. Two two uh quick questions. Um I think it's safe to say you're speaking to a board that's eager to work with our residents, our local nonprofits, and and do the work ourselves um to protect land
in Felmouth. We have a 30% by 2030 goal. Um, and we'll be getting an update on where we are on that with the the recent vote um on lands around Long Pond. My questions are, do you know off the top of your head roughly what that breakdown
of public versus privately held land in your priority category is? >> Yes. >> And the map that's on your website, can you actually click all of those red priority things and get to a parcel and and figure out what it is? >> Not yet. So when we So we're setting up these individual teams by town. As we
begin to work with them, we will be able to sit down with them and the local land trusts and zoom in on Falmouth. We're gonna we're going to break these down into that Capewide map into 15 town maps that will be somewhat static, but we do
have already in the system who owns it, uh, public or private size, you know, and it's all on a, you know, interactive GIS level scale. So, as we roll this out, we'll be able to engage in those conversations um with folks about that.
We're not quite ready to pull push that functionality out on the website yet, but we have it. >> Mr. Brown, you had another question. >> Yeah. Do you um how do you plan to fund all this? Is that still in the works? >> Um we've made an organizational
commitment to finance the staff and the um and the support of the teams from our own internal resources. So um we have a funding plan. doesn't mean I'm not out there looking for money um and wouldn't happily accept it to dedicate towards
this project. But we've >> developed the means within our annual giving cycle and our budget process to be able to prosecute this ca this this campaign. We're in the process now of hiring a campaign manager. Um our advocacy director, new advocacy director
Christy Johnson's in the back, hiding in the back. um and she's overseeing the day-to-day input, but we're getting support by this new person that we anticipate having on by May. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay, there no more questions. We'll let
you go. Thanks very much. >> Thank you for your time and also thank the board and the town for working with APCC and other partners on the Red Brook Road project, the uh various Kunameset River projects that we're working on together. Doing a lot of work together. We appreciate the partnership of the
town. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Likewise. >> Okay. Our next matter is consider a vote to approve an application for renewal of a seasonal all alcoholic beverages club license, common victual license, entertainment license, and Sunday
entertainment license forc coast shores association inc 7 view lane. Uh while Mr. Johnson Stab is setting up the uh the podium. I'm going to ask town council Maro O'Keefe to give us a little bit of a
introduction with respect to this matter and the um um action inaction that was taken at our last board meeting. >> Thank you, Chair Mscali. Uh Mara O'Keefe Town Council. um you have some
information here in the agenda item summary and I just want to um give you a little bit additional background and frame um the the legal concepts that are before you tonight. So, we are here this
evening um as you'll recall because at the public meeting of the select board on March 23rd, there was an uh an item before you for a renewal of an application to sell alcohol um to the applicant Se Coast Shores
Association. Um usually renewals are wrote, they're simply done as a matter of course as long as the application is complete. However, at the March 23rd meeting, um there were people who who appeared at the public hearing in
opposition to the renewal. Um it the renewals are not hearings. So, um no notice was sent to the applicant to appear before the board. It simply isn't the way that that's done. Um the opposition was allowed to have a couple
of minutes to speak um as a matter of courtesy. However, because the applicant wasn't here, there was um a matter of due process really where the applicant wasn't allowed to counter the opposition. They weren't even notified
that um that there would be an opportunity to speak and simply because of the constraint the procedural constraints in chapter 138 the board had um limited options
um in the face of opposition and uh instead of um the board couldn't continue the matter because it required ascent of the applicant who of course was not there and so we you're looking at taking no action, in which case the
application would have been deemed denied or simply denying the application and allowing the applicant to be able to at least take um take hold of their appallet rights. And the appelllet rights are very short when you're talking about licenses. The um appellant
had 5 days from the date of not notification of denial to file with the ABCC. Once the decision to deny the license was done, um I uh had communications with attorney McCarthy and um the uh I understood immediately
that the appeal was filed with the ABCC and I reached out to general counsel of the ABCC to see procedurally where we were because it this is unusual. Um, right now the ABCC has retained jurisdiction, but they want this to be
resolved at the local level. They want for this board to make a decision tonight on on the application. Um, there is a hearing still scheduled for May 4th in case the board um cannot make a decision or decides to deny the renewal.
Um, but the hope is that this will be resolved here without the need to proceed to the ABCC. So that's convoluted procedural history. That's highly unusual, but um here we are. Um so before you um I I did include some
criteria in the agenda summary for you to consider um in the face of this application. And what is before you and what you are required to determine is really limited. It's limited to whether or not you're going to grant or deny
this license. And um the considerations for any local licensing authority when reviewing an application for a license to sell alcohol are that you are to consider the public need and the public want the appropriateness of the
location, the character and suitability of the applicant and the number of existing licenses. And I just want to go into a little bit more detail for those four criteria so that you have an understanding of what we're talking
about specifically for alcohol licenses. So as far as talking about the public need and the public want, what you are to ask yourself and ask each other is, is there a genuine demand for the establishment to serve alcohol in this
proposed location? That is the question you are to ask yourselves when you're talking about um an appro the appropriateness of the location. You're looking at whether there's um proximity to schools or churches
um and the proximity uh to residential neighborhoods. Also whether there will be an impact on traffic congestion or whether there will be an impact a negative impact for the um for for noise concerns.
Um, when you're talking about character and suitability of the applicant, what you are to ask yourselves is, is the applicant qualified? Are they capable of holding a license? And that means uh, are they 21 years of age? Are they a citizen? Is the person
holding that holding the the license statutoily qualified to do so? Are they a felon? Those are the things you're looking at. And that should have been weeded out before it even hit the desk. So um and then the last part is what is
the desired density of alcohol licenses in the area. If there are too many alcohol licenses in one particular place, you can deny a license based on that simple fact. And those are the criteria that you're to consider. Um
lastly, you are able to hear support and opposition for the license and that may factor into your decision-making. Anything outside of the criteria that I have just enumerated and explained is not before you
>> and could you just tell us where that criteria comes from council? Yes, this is developed not only from um the language of the statute itself, chapter 138 section 12, but also um it's teased out of decisions before the ABCC and in
some case law. >> Okay. Thank you. And just so I understand um the application includes uh other u aspects in addition to the all alcoholic uh with respect to u to this uh to this
particular application. Uh it's a Sunday entertainment license, an entertainment license, a common victual license, and a club license. Um can we parse them out? Are we allowed to parse them out going forward this evening? So the seasonal
license is the club license and that's an important thing for for you to note here because club licenses under section 12 they're a particular subsection of a restaurant um section 12 pouring license
um for club licenses they are given to um private organizations nonprofit not for-profit or nonprofit organizations organized under chapter 180 or to fraternal organizations and what they do is they allow um the license holder to
limit access to the license premise to membership members only. >> But I guess my question is going forward and we'll see where where the board is with respect to the club license, but
would we be also uh taking action with respect to these other three licenses that are part and parcel of this application? the common victual or the Sunday entertainment and the entertainment license >> there as a package. So section 12
licenses um are required to also hold a common victual license. So those go together. Um you you could grant the entertainment license without the alcohol, but I mean abandons and music they go pretty well together. >> No, I just want I just want to make sure
we understand how what the proper procedure is. >> Okay. Thank you. Um question if I could. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Sure. >> I'm curious about other parameters u of other information that was in the packet
unrelated to the few that you mentioned. Like for instance, I have some questions about the contradictory language in the bylaws compared to some of the other uh proceedings that followed and I'm wondering how that comes into play. So
those are not before you. That is not something that this board is qualified nor has the jurisdiction to review or to opine upon. Um what is before you is simply the license to sell alcohol, the common victual or the package of of
licenses. um anything that uh is that any information that you've received about um information contained in any of the deeds to any of the properties and in SE coast shores anything about private
litigation that is not for your determination and I think the best way to look at that is to think about that um there are two things going on here um this board can determine whether or not to grant or
deny the license. And these private matters that are also going on bubbling under the surface here that is for a court of compet competent jurisdiction to determine about whether the license can be used. So this board gets to grant
or deny the license and a court will determine whether that license can be operated. >> Okay. But it seems um I'm just trying to clarify because it seems like if >> if things may or may not be in order, but if they're found not to be in order,
do we have the right to to do the license? >> Let's let's let's hold these questions uh you know, and listen to the applicant. I mean, it's certainly a good question, Doug. I'm not trying to stop you. I just think uh we we should hear from the applicant. Uh as I said at the
beginning, uh we're going to hear from the applicant. Uh and then if the select board has any questions of the applicant, we can ask her. Uh and then we'll let the uh friends have five minutes and then we can ask questions of them. Uh and then we can discuss it
amongst ourselves and certainly at that point ask council any questions that we want to to help us reach a decision. So uh uh >> is this in the right order then? Is is this this is not the applicant's presentation, is it? The >> what?
>> Yeah, this is the >> No, that's this is not their presentation. Do you have a presentation, attorney? >> Yes. >> Oh, okay. >> I'm going to read from it. >> Okay. >> I need it. >> It's only my notes. >> So, you don't have You don't have no slides.
>> You don't have a slideshow. Okay. I didn't think you did. Just >> Oh, it doesn't matter. They're fine. Thank you. >> I didn't think you did. All right. >> Thank you. >> Um >> Okay. Please introduce yourself. My name is Andrea McCarthy. Um, before we start, can I just have the people who, as you
said, there are a lot of people here in support, can they just stand up and raise their hand so you know who's here for the um renewal of the liquor license >> for them to agree to the license? >> Thank you. Okay.
Um, >> could you speak into the microphone, please? Just to give you a little background, I'm a full-time resident of Felmouth and I own property on Secure Shores. I was also involved um as a member and as the attorney for the
initial liquor license were 2012, as well as the building of the new clubhouse. Um, in 2012, the initial application for the liquor license, all of the documents that were required at that time were sent in and that was reviewed by both the town of Falmouth as
the local licensing authority as well as the ABCC. As a result of getting everything, they approved the license. We have had this license for 14 years. It's come up for renewal every year. There's never been a an issue with the
police, with the fire, with noise complaints, nothing. They have had this automatically renewed every single year for 14 years. Um, nothing has changed since 2012 when
the license was first issued to secures. The objectives in our opinion have no basis to challenge the original decision of the ABCC which they were attempting to do under chapter 138 um section 23 which governs the issuance and denial of
liquor licenses. It's clear that they as opponents have no authority under the statute to seek a declaration that SECOS should be prohibited from selling alcoholic beverages. Additionally, under 138 section 16A, which governs the
renewals of liquor licenses in Massachusetts, seasonal liquor licenses, it sets forth that generally they're renewed automatically by just the submission of a renewal application to the town. This is all that should have been required to justify the renewal. In
Massachusetts, a town can't legally deny the re renewal of a seasonal liquor license for no reason. And as long as the application is filed timely, the license is seeking the same type of license for the same premises, and the fee is paid, the license should be
automatically renewed. In SE Coast's case, there have been no issues, as I stated, for the past 14 years. The remaining arguments that were made on March 23rd by the objectives should not be considered because they're clearly outside the scope of the renewal of a
seasonal liquor license. They're not applicable. They're completely irrelevant and without merit. Notwithstanding, I'd like to clarify a few items included in their submissions. They claim they're a buddies, whereas not one person on the list of the 27
households that sign that form are a buddies within the 300 ft. Um the closest one is approximately 6 miles from there, which is 3,100 ft. their list of 27 households out of approximately 900 households in Sea
Coast with approximately 400 of those being members of the association and you've seen many letters have been sent in in support of the liquor license renewal. Um it's very unfortunate that a very small handful of people are causing such deourse in the community but again
this is a community issue. It's not an issue that the select board should be dealing with. Eight of these people have filed suit in Barstable Superior Court which included an attempt at that point to get rid of the liquor license. The count was dismissed by the court and
they submitted the exact same documents that they've submitted to the board having failed to nullify the liquor license in the superior court. The same people have submitted the same argument to the select board. They're attempting to use the select board uh to circumvent
the court's ruling which is completely inappropriate. This isn't the first time that they've been before a board, this small group of people in Felmouth. This is the fourth that I can count where they've attempted to use misuse the town's resources and their time in an
effort to try and cause trouble for the members of the Secos Shores Association community. In 2011, S Coast gathered commitments from its members to pay for the building of the new clubhouse. This plan was financially supported by at least five people who were on that list
to oppose the liquor license. Then they no longer are are active in the community uh with the association. They were the financial supporters that helped build the initial clubhouse when the initial liquor license was obtained. And this includes Mr. Rean who spoke on
March 23rd as well as his wife Sicily who the documents were written by and they were among the earliest financial supporters. Our position is that any failure to grant the license renewals would be financially devastating to the association. The restaurant which
includes the bar is the financial engine which helped the transformation of the area from one of the highest crime neighborhoods to one of the lowest in Felmouth. They host many events such as kids weekly bingo, weddings, funerals, bridal and baby showers, birthday
parties, and have se several already scheduled for this summer. They've provided over 50 jobs last season alone, many of those for people who live in the community. This year, COST will celebrate its 75th anniversary. So
clearly what was submitted by Foss which was also dismissed by the superior court that entity and all of their um uh anything that they filed with respect to the association. It's a personal grievance as you can see by one of the
members holding up a picture of a Halloween costume. >> There was not any dispute regarding the safety or operation of the clubhouse liquor license. The neighborhood dispute has no place before this board. wrap it up. Attorney, please. We gave you five minutes.
>> Uh, can I once again just finish? >> I agree with Town Council's advice given to the select board on March 23rd and having no issues with the operation of the license. All papers having been properly submitted in a timely fashion. We would request that the board vote in
favor of the renewal of SE Coast licenses, including all of them, as well as the seasonal all club license. Thank you. >> Okay. Mr. Chair. >> Yeah, Mr. Richardson. >> So, um,
the cases like this is why we brought I believe the previous board, which I was not on, went forward with the separate licensing board. We should not be policing neighborhood matters. I think we should just approve the license. This is not our this is not our debate to handle neighborhood matters. >> We are going to hear from the uh friends
though. So just want you to know. >> Sure. I I understand that but I just want I think that >> everything they've been doing is in order and that's not our job to you know I understand there are valid grievances that the friends have but that's not this board's priority to police them. >> Okay. Anyone have any other questions?
>> Just to clarify. So there's no more legal pending. >> Oh, the superior court case is still pending. >> Oh, excuse. >> But it's against the eight individuals. Foss was dismissed and the liquor license count was dismissed >> at the early stage. The motion to dismiss stage. >> Okay.
>> Thank you. >> All right. Uh stand by council. But okay. We'll now hear from the friends Mr. Orian and he does have a PowerPoint or a presentation for us.
Just got to make sure I can operate the uh PowerPoint here. Um you can hear me. Okay. Um thank you uh chairmancoly and members of the select board. Yeah, we you know we do have a lot of information that we submitted. It's a binder full. It's a lot. We'd like to thank you for
your time to hear here from the friends of Seico Shores. And basically um what we are is our mission is that we're dedicated to advocating for inclusivity, fairness in our community. We believe that every voice matters. It's not a popularity context, folks. >> You speak up, please.
>> I can't hear you. >> I can't get over that quickly to the microphone. Okay. Can you hear me? Okay. In the back there. >> Okay, good. So, this is not a popularity contest. This is this is something speaking to the rule of law. And how we started is that in 19 or
2015, Edmir Ritz around his kitchen table is that SSI implemented a beach police program. denying neighborhood kids access to the beach without proof of membership. The select board did intervene in that matter and open the beach up to all the residents in Secos
Shores. But let's talk about what Seo Shores is. And this is I think goes into what basically is what type of a neighborhood it is. It's an environmental justice zone. And we speak for the people in this community that have two characteristics. There's a
minority population of 12% and the medium household income is under $50,000. And what that means is that in this neighborhood when we have affordable housing crisis is that half of those people make less than $50,000 a year. So what happens? Yes, the land
does matter. So the standard I think the town council pointed out is it must serve a public need and be in the public good. Yes. sees if the formality is a met and yes you can renew a license but however section 16A does not strip the
family select board and that's you of its oversight role it addresses timing and form of renewal not the merits when cause exists we believe that exists and addressing the Barnal superior court matter yes it's an active uh case and
yes the uh that count on the lyric license was dismissed however is That decision referenced by SSAI does not deprive the board of its independent statutory discretion under section 23 to
re-evaluate the license. And that's what we're asking the board to do. Um, so let's talk about what C Coast Shores is and what it's become since its inception is that it operates a private resort in a residential zone. We're in a densely populated neighborhood on a two-mile
long saltwater peninsula with one single access in and out of out of uh Ziko shores. It's a dangerous intersection and uncontrolled. But I also want to point out is that expansion plans, we have a pool, we have a we have a clubhouse and we have a tennis court. And what they're doing is that, and I
have and I have it here if you'd like to see it, is that what they're doing is that they're they've hired a manager, and this is on zipcruiter.com, is that what they want to do is they they're asking this manager, quote, this is what it is. They're expanding their operations outside of SeaCoor's uh
community. And what the membership engagement well this is what and I and this is reading from their own listing here and I I can provide the copy with it is that what it says is that correctively membership engagement growth proactively engage with members
and potential members especially from the surrounding communities that's outside shores we also know is that they have 51 employees that strongly indicates a resort is being operated in a residential neighborhood. So
>> okay then please please >> may I be allowed to speak Mr. Chair? >> No please go ahead. >> Yeah so what what we're here is saying is that what was a common area and it does we do believe that you have to read the deed in there is that what they've
done is they put up a payw wall and people have easement rights and a land that was dedicated to um to basically to the community all of the community there. Um but the other thing is there is a lack of public need. The financial instability of the liquor base where
they're selling liquorbased model demonstrates a lack of demand. They lost $50,000 last year and they show a chronic from 2006 to 2024 from the scant records that we've been able to get at is that it's not financially self- sustaining. And why? Because they put up
an exclusionary tell there's no economic necessity for a liquor license. and the liquor license preference that they've that they've chose exacerbates the equity and legal concerns rather than addressing financial challenges. So yes, we can go in there. It's in the package here and in the interest of time is that
there is a there is a restriction in there. The premise is not allowed to sell license because when they got the deed is that to the property it says the charter said it shall not include the right to apply for a license to sell alcoholic beverages. That premise is not a license. That charter has not been
altered and ended. The bylaws cannot overcome that. So operating a licensed alcohol serving bar in this deed restriction par parcel we believe is ultravirus and we'd ask you to consider that as part of your decision and that deed restriction still runs with the
land. So in the interest of time I just want to say is that we have unrestricted deed easement rights in that land. We're excluded. There's a payw wall there. And also and lastly when we got we got into getting in there and I guess somebody wanted to take a personal shot at my
wife. Thank you very much. But also is that we were able to get in and dig at the alcohol records and we found out some things that were misstated as attorney Steven Moloffin signed an affidavit to you this very board back in 2013 when they applied for liquor license and he stated under the pains
and penalty of perjury that all the construction funds were raised through cash contributions from members. There is no other person or entity which has made financial contrib contributions as donations folks. It's not the sale of investment shares or investment certificates
and they marketed these things as investment shares and resellable investment shares. So and what that does and they promised return on investment. This is a nonprofit corporation. So after collecting all the funds from investment shares purchasers and SSAI in
2012, they required people to record investment certificates. So people have easement rights. Yeah, you may say it's a you know no neighbors would squabble, but it goes to the legality of the operation there and it goes that these construction funds were not
contributions but th sold through the sale of investment shares promising a increase in return. But last but I want to I want to wrap up here is that you know is that this is this is what they think of us. This is what they think of friends of CO shores a 501c3 nonprofit.
What they what they think of us is that they have a practice of denigrating the very neighbors that we that they deny access to. At their Halloween party last October, the award-winning costume was a clown wearing a t-shirt that says Foss,
Friends of SEC Co Simpletons. And the clown wearing a sign that says, "Stop SSAI, stop making our community awesome." Mr. Keller, when he spoke to you a few weeks ago, he spoke about the 75%, the
people that don't have a voice. And what they're going to do is if they're allowed to continue is that they will convert through this vehicle of the liquor license and this resort style clubhouse. They will take away affordable housing and they will they will turn it into an expensive resort
development. Now they mock they laugh >> but this is this is what we can see that's happening and this is this is what's happening in front of you and I would just and I would just like to thank you for the time Mr. Chair, members of the select court and any questions?
Does anyone have any questions? >> Yes. Uh, Mr. Brown. >> No one. >> I asked my questions in advance and I >> unfortunately I feel I have my answer. >> I would um motion to approve seasonal all alcoholic beverage club license
common uh victer license entertainment license and sun entertainment license for SECO Shores Association Inc. 7 View Lane as presented. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> I would simply like to say that um I
hear your passion um for your community and there do seem to be issues uh but they are well beyond the scope of a liquor license renewal and to council McCarthy I hear your frustration with the time and the process. We were
confronted at our previous meeting with an allegation of uh a legal matter that in my mind spoke to suitability to hold a license with the additional um and the idea that that may not have come to light in in previous
licensing. Um and so I felt it was important that we do our due diligence and ensure that things were in order with the additional documentation that we've received. Um, I I feel that we've we've done that and and I'm happy to grant this uh these licenses to the Sea Coast Shores Association
>> and I would >> I would just say that if this were before us today as a new application, there would be questions I would want to address before we went forward. But given that this is not really the forum for that and I think our purview is
limited, I would agree that we should approve this license because I don't think we have any other legal option. >> Yeah, I have to agree as well. I think the u I think the friends have u other alternatives that they can pursue uh and
maybe there is something there that needs to be addressed. But as far as as council has advised us and given what our uh our role in in this um in this renewal application, uh I will also support the granting of the uh of the
application. Okay. >> Okay. So, uh >> we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing or seeing none. All in favor? >> All right. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Good It was it was inevitable.
>> We are going to take a twominut recess to let everyone leave. >> Okay, we are back from recess and we will hear on the status report on the design of the new police station at 100 Brick Kil Road. Mr. Dlo.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um surprised no one wanted to stay around listen to this presentation but you know >> Mr. Johnson stopped. Do you have any uh introductory comments or you just want to turn it over? >> We can turn it right over to the chairman DLA. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. So um this excuse
me this presentation is uh similar to the one that was given at town meeting uh last week. Uh so once again I'm demo the chairman of the police station advisory committee and these are the other chair members. Uh here with me tonight is uh Steve Kirby from Veritex, their owner's project manager and Tecton
Architects. They're not here tonight, but they're the design firm on the project. Our project schedule uh remains ambitious. Uh the committee is meeting just about once a month right now while we're in schematic design and and design
development. the working group, the internal working group of the police department along with the with Tecton and Veritex meets uh bi-weekly uh currently going over stuff and there's been uh scheduled times with the engineering company, the uh eight track
companies and all those little subcontractors on the project starting to work through the design of the police station. So, we were last before the board here in uh January on the 28th of January. We had two community forums. One at the on the 2nd of February at the
Herman room at the library. Uh it was attended but it was sparsely attended. Then we had a community forum here at the senior center on the uh 16th of March that was uh much better attendance that meeting. And we did hear from some of the abutters. The town had notified the abutters on the project and
encouraged them to come and ask questions and see what we're talking about. The uh schematic design came back. Excuse me. came back on uh March 20th and the design estimate uh is due back in this week. Uh we're going to continue
updating this board uh going forward. We we hadn't been here since we hadn't been here in February and March only because there was really nothing to report. We were in the schematic design phase and there was nothing excitingly new to bring to you. Um we're going to plan to have uh
several more community forums uh long before we start bringing this back to uh town meeting again. A couple things to note from the community forum uh meeting and I'll get to those when I bring up the site plan. Um currently on the site the phase one environmental assessment those were
conducted in mid January. No areas of concern were noted on those. Geotechnical borings and site surveys were have also been completed and a traffic study that was underway through the Department of Public Works and Peter Mcclante and his uh departments uh was
expanded to include the Oxbow Road intersection and that expansion came out of the community forum here on March and uh we're thankful for the DPW and their input on the project along with the other town departments that continue to work closely with us on this project.
Once again, here's the 100 Brick Hill Road property site. The blue uh shaded area depicts the area that the police station is proposed to uh occupy on this uh large parcel of land and the light green lift station is uh located next to
the police station. That'll be two projects that are kind of going on simultaneously. The sewer work project has started already. Oops. Okay. >> It's a little slow on the bigger slides. >> Would you?
>> Oh, you would, Steve. >> So, when I get There we go. Back. There we go. Thanks, Steve. I know we brought Steve for a reason. Um so the conceptual site design is how it sits currently. Uh we
presented a slightly different site plan uh to the community forum back in March. We heard from the abutters and took in some of their concerns and we've uh Tecton has revised the site plan to this current plan that we have before us today. Uh one of the concerns was the uh
neighbor across the street. the uh staff driveway as we're referring to it as which is on the eastern side of the property uh was coming right out and and the headlights were going to this gentleman's house and uh he jokingly said he doesn't have room to put a bush in front of his house. His house is so close to the road and if you drive by
there you he's absolutely correct. So the driveway uh that staff driveway has been relocated a little farther west on the property and now lines up more with that new 40B development that's going in off of Brick Hill Road. we have less of a headlight issue on the homes over there. Um, another butter was concerned
about the uh noise that impound lot may present during, you know, overnight hours or or, you know, trucks coming and going, tow trucks. So, we moved the impound lot and the out building to the back of the
property away from Brooken Road, which allowed them to scoot the building a little closer to the road. Uh there is going to be some tree clearing uh on the along Brick Hill Road. That that front parcel there contains a lot of scrub pine and stuff that that can go and
provide a better uh landscape design for the property. The what else do we have? We had the uh a lady at the meeting that brought up the traffic study which we implemented into with Peter McConnay to include the Oxbow Road intersection uh
to determine the traffic there. And those are a few of the plans. So currently this is the conceptual site plan for the police station as it sits right now. And with that I'm going to turn it over to Steve Kirby from Tech Time for the floor plan presentation.
Steve Kirby from Vertex. >> Sorry, >> that's okay. >> I move Steve. >> So good evening everybody. I'm just going to go over the uh the current floor plans. Um right now the building is at uh 47,713
square ft. Um the uh lower first first floor level is a little bit larger than than the second floor only because of the sallyport and the uh training room. But I don't know if you can see my cursor, but the the entry to the
building is here. We'll have a ramp. It's it's it's been configured to be a protected area. Um that was specially um noted because of what happened at the Shouway Police Department. It's not a not a a clear run down down the the driveway to get to the front door. And
that's obviously going to be uh protected by Ballards also. Uh but you come in, you've got the lobby, you've got the u the main desk. Um, we got the training room and and EOC
area. Here we head down the um uh towards the uh the east. Uh we've got the um uh the uh evidence uh suite I'm calling it. It's
uh the evidence lab storage. Uh as you as you head down to the back, you've got your your booking and your holding cells. And the Sallyport is right off of uh off of the booking area. You come back through to the center of the building is the men's lockers and the
women's lockers, associated toilet facilities. Uh with that, coming back to the front, you've got your your records area. You've got um some some office space. You got your community engagement office. And then you have your IT office that will actually have some uh working
workstations for staff. Across from that is your fitness area. And then as you come down to sort of the back of the house to a degree, you've got your um your mechanical electrical rooms, uh your canine section, your armory, your weapons cleaning, and your
SRT bay. Any questions on the first floor before I go to the second? Okay. Oh, there's no more basement. Is that >> There's no basement. Okay. >> Right now, this is slab on grade two two two-level building.
>> Okay. >> So, second level is is uh a lot of your your your admin areas. Your we come up uh starting at at this section of the building. This is your your chief's office, your deputy chief, your admin, a
conference room. And as you head down uh the the corridor, you've got your your detectives area. You get your um your various uh captains and lieutenants offices, conference room, um some toilet areas. You come back down the hall. Uh
you've got again uh there's multiple lieutenants offices. Uh along here you got your traffic office. You have your um can't can't read that unfortunately. Sorry. Uh um I think that is
traffic. That's Oh, the report the report uh writing room. Uh across you have your uh defensive tactics room. You have your your uh simulator room. Then you have your your patrol sergeants office space, your roll call room. And
then there's a little bit of a break in the building uh with a separate stairway. And this on the far side is your dispatch your communications office suite. Any questions? >> Where's boss sit?
>> Boss is sitting >> right here. >> Okay, >> chief and the admin in between and deputy chief. >> Thank you. >> And then a conference room off off of their area. >> Sorry, can you go back to the first floor? >> Yes.
>> I just missed what the description of the uh area behind the locker rooms is. Let's see. >> Oh, right here. >> No, no, no. Sorry. You were at the at the L right there. You're on top of it now. >> This This is the This is the men's locker. This is the women's locker side.
>> And then you have fitness next to that. >> Okay. Thank you. I was misreading. Okay. >> Any other questions? >> Finding any ways to save on the budget? Well, let's let's get into that here, I think.
>> Well, we are we can talk about the rendering first. >> Yep. Yeah, we'll get >> So, so this is this is again, you know, preliminary conceptual schematic design. This is this is a rendering you may have seen before um that Tecton has derived
uh you know, they they're trying to make it look um in the Cape Cape Cod style. Uh, but we also want to be able to utilize this the second floor. So, what they've done a and not having it look like a tremendously
tall two-story building. So, they've they they put the the roof lines at this point and basically have dormers to to uh create the the office space up on on the second floor. And you can see there's the bank of dormers here. And there's individual dormers as as we go
down uh the middle spine of the building. Uh it's the the outside is a combination of fiber cement clapboard siding or maybe uh shake style asphalt shingles and then there is a uh a masonry um knee
wall uh that comes off of the uh off of grade uh before it starts um with the with the uh either siding or the shakes. What what is the roof material idea for those dormants? They look almost flat.
>> Uh I think I think that may be just a little bit of a >> architect. >> Yeah. Optical illusion at every everything's going to kind of pitch to drain. >> Okay. Just thinking that >> it it does it looks it does look flat. >> It's not going to be a rubber roof, I would hope. Right. Because such a short lifespan for that stuff.
>> Okay. Excuse me, Peter. One one quick thing I forgot to mention and I apologize, Peter. Uh, one of the things that came up and we're looking at still is uh the uh module indoor gun range that was proposed. You can see that on the site plan. Uh, we are planning to run the conduit and the pad and stuff
out to that. We're still looking at the pricing and the purchasing whether it's going to be uh we can purchase it now into the project or that's a uh, you know, an ask down the road later on. And lighting on the property is all dark sky compliant as required. And I think that was it. I knew I left out a couple
things, but we'll let Peter get on with that. >> Could I ask you one question about the site plan before Peter starts? >> Assume there's a call at Stop and Shop. Okay. How's somebody going to respond? Where are they going to go out of the
police station to get to stop and shop? Are they going to go through Brook Hill down Oxbow and onto 28? Or are they going to go on that side road or that road that leads out to Beyond Wood Lumber? uh found so and I think Brickill
Road is going to be probably the more traveled road that that road to the back. We're still working on the the ins and outs or the what we're going to do with that piece of roadway to there's some question with mas dot whether we have to get some more permitting to to make that connection on
to 28 or not. That's something that we're working with uh Peter and and the engineers over the DPW on. But I would say primarily, I mean, if you go out, you can go Brick Road to Oxbow to 28 or you can go Brickill Road to Gford Street down to the Stop and Shop or or the Sandwich Road intersection.
>> All of those are pretty busy, busy intersections. I still wish there was a way you could access or leave that property through that road that's beyond Fmouth Lumber. No, >> I agree with you. And there's there's quite a few busy intersections in the town. Currently, where it's situated now, we go through a lot of busy
intersections, too. So, it's just the nature of it. >> Okay. >> Also a question also a question on the site plan. Um, >> actually, if you could go back to that slide, there's a a dotted line. I'm assuming that's a fence of some sort.
>> Yes, there's a a Yes, there's a fence on uh indicated on the property. That's um >> security. >> No. Yeah, it's a security fence. It's in around the building. If you look, >> it starts right here and runs around the
building. >> Yep. >> This dotted line is just outlining um some of the area that the police department is taking up. >> No, I guess I I'm just curious why that fence needs to come so far forward. And you mentioned um taking down the trees along Brick Kill, and I thought we'd
talked pretty early on in the site plan about trying to maintain as much of that vegetation along Brick Kil Road. And I know this is just an overlay on a satellite image, but it looks like there's a number of mature trees there. >> One of the neighbor the budding uh neighbors pointed out that there are a
lot of uh I call it scrub pine. I'm sure there's a different name for it, but there are some good mature trees in that property, too. But the scrub pine, it can get cleared out there and cleaned up the site, but still leave a decent amount of of tree growth in the area. We're not looking to take out any any uh mature trees that we don't have to take
out for the project. Most of this where it's sitting now is is was vacant, you know, flat land with the use of the airport and the drive-in. So, the mature trees, you know, on the outskirts of the property. >> No, I was just trying to maintain as many of those along brick killing road. >> Were you asking about this that dashed line?
>> Not the not the dash line. No, I was asking about the security fence. Okay. >> Um and just seems to be really far toward the road. And then there was also those >> again it's it's conceptual >> and some of that area may be used for snow storage removal and stuff like that. So
>> we may not have adjusted the fence either when we move the out building back but again conceptual drawing. Yep. >> But you know, certainly I think we hear the intent that we want to save trees to the extent possible and there may even be a discussion about what some people
view as scrub pine to be removed and other people view as native pitch pine. Um those those details we will uh we will get into. Um, I did want to speak to the cost and I I will say before I get into the the tax impact um
assumptions and estimates uh that just as recently as a week ago, we were talking about the staffing levels being um based on the the size of the facility being based on staffing projected over a 50-year period. And you know, what does
it look like if we were to come down a little bit on those staffing estimates? uh how much space can we save? How much cost can we save? Uh and and the answer was not much actually because a lot of the
a lot of the additional space that you get at when you grow the police department is more patrol officers. So that they need a little bit more square footage for locker rooms, but they're not the patrol officers are not all going to be in the building for a long period of time anyway. So it doesn't
drive a huge amount of space. There might be a couple of offices for lieutenants and captains. Um, but the, you know, I I think the the vast majority of the building that we're designing is going to be used is going to be is going to be needed right at the
outset. Um so with that uh with that said I wanted to lay out these are still as you heard we're um just in a week we should be getting our first um real cost estimates based on the schematic designs
that we now have. Um we have retained two different cost estimating firms. They'll be providing independent estimates and then we'll go through a reconciliation process to get the best possible number. Even with that, it's an early cost estimate based on schematic
designs, not construction documents. So, there's still a pretty um significant uh contingency and and uh variance between that and and final cost. Um so, we're still working on our preliminary number
of a $65 million construction cost. That's in addition to the $5 million already borrowed within the levy limit and without a tax impact. So with a assuming a $65 million borrowing amount, um we have yet to determine whether we would borrow that
over 20 years or over 30 years. That decision will be based on what are the interest rates at that time and what are we looking at for other projects to be borrowed within the near term and what's the best way to layer that debt. Um so you know I I felt it was important to
provide a range of tax impact to represent those unknowns. Um, so we looked at 20 to 30 years, an interest rate of four to 5%. Uh, and what those assumptions lead to is annual debt
service of 4 to6.5 million per year. And one more one more assumption that we need to make depending on whether we have level debt service or um declining debt service that dollar amount that annual debt service could be fixed over
the life of the bond or it could be a declining balance creating um additional debt drop off and reduced tax burden over the term of that bond. So with the um with that assumption of $4 to $6.5 million estimated annual debt
cost for the life of the bond, the tax rate would range from 17 cents to 30 cents per per $1,000 of property value. Uh, and what that looks like for a tax bill impact for the median home value
for a single family home of $792,000 is 135 to $225 per year for that median value home. And that and again, that tax impact would be temporary and would expire when
the bond is fully paid off over that 20 to 30 year period. Again, these are very early estimates, but that's what we have for the estimated tax impact. >> When when do we get more concrete estimates, Peter?
>> In about a week. >> In a week. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> One more question. >> So, we'll be back to see you again. >> Just to clarify, you do have a budget for furnishings included in that 65 million, correct? >> Yes. >> That's all in total project cost. Yes. >> Any idea what the rough uh allowance is
for that? Generally speaking, soft costs are generally speaking soft cost when you you saw a rule of thumb is 20 to 25% of your uh construction cost. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> I have a lot of contractors telling me that's of expensive price per square
foot, but I think they're forgetting about all the elements that go in the building as well. >> Okay. >> Other questions? Mr. Reid? >> Yeah. Um Mr. Duffany got up at the town meeting and expressed concern about the
financials. You wrote that in the uh memo and the need for the potential to use the long pond property before the vote again in case this was voted down. Do you have any background into why or what he was meaning on that?
>> I I'm personally I'm not familiar with Mr. Duffy's comments. I wasn't at town meeting when he made them. I I couldn't speak to what he was and I I I haven't had a conversation with him about it. >> I if I could just say I I don't think it was related to cost savings. I think he
was just saying that you never know when you're going to need land. That's why he wanted to put off the preservation related to the cost of >> I must have read that wrong in the enterprise. My fault. Um can you just describe a also the slide from um $50
million to 65? The only reason I'm asking this is that was right after we um voted and made the commitment to get you the new building, but um the minute it went to the new um property, it moved to 65 million pretty
quickly. Um there's a growing amount of concern that I'm hearing from uh constituents that I'm familiar with that are concerned about the overall price. We're left to defend that. So, I'm just wondering what that 15 million given
that in the in the site planning slide, it didn't seem that there was any um environmental or site plan concerns. Just 15 million is a lot to slide quickly. >> We I we've always, as far as I can remember, we've been at a $65 million
cap on the project. There was no increase on our proposed cost coming off of the previous site on Brick Road to where we are today. Is that what you're asking? Oh, so we didn't start it I thought we started at $50 million. >> Not >> we actually came down a little bit if
>> we came down some originally there was a 23% reduction in the size of the building overall from the initial uh first time that Tecton did the a fly over with the police department of what the what they possibly want and then we reduce it I think about 23% from there
>> going forward. So there was a reduction that may have been that cost there. I I'm not sure sir. >> Gotcha. Thank you. Yeah, I I I just want to uh reiterate we're committed to this site. So, um we don't we don't see any reason that um that cost is going to
move us off this site. And uh there was a time when we didn't have a good number or a real number. So, there may have been some other numbers floating around, but I think if we go back to the records for the November town meeting where the design funds were appropriated, we were
at 65 million at that time. Uh, no questions right now on the finance. Um, very glad this board voted in favor of the 10% residential tax exemption program as we have these fiscal troubles. Always will bring that up when I get the chance. Um, but I
attended the meeting on in March. Uh, and I just want to say that from a uh community relations standpoint from where we started in this process, I I just want to commend you guys for how that meeting was ran. Uh, and all the butters are happy you the change you immediately made with the driveway. So I
that's the blueprint for how we move in this process and I want to thank you for the way that that meeting went. >> Thank you. And that's that's the goal of the committee as a whole. We want to keep talking to the community. We want to make the changes. We were fortunate those changes that were proposed at that meeting were easy to make and and quite frankly it was kind of eye opening for a
few of them there. So uh we're happy to accommodate the changes that if we can do them and stay within our cost. >> Seems like a better site plan too. >> Pardon me. >> Seems like a better site plan too actually. >> Yeah. Overall I think it fits a little bit better. It kind of flows a little better. >> So, we're happy with that.
>> Okay. Any questions? Anyone in the audience have any questions? Please. >> Dan. Well, precincts three. I just I'm trying to figure out what's the out building. You mentioned the shooting range, but I don't know if that's the out building. >> So, there's an out building on the
property, and there's a potential for a indoor module shooting range on the property, which is located on the eastern border. out building would have um ve equipment storage that is normally needs to be undercover certain u all-terrain vehicles other stuff like
that has a wash bay in that outer building. >> Thank you. So >> the the reason we went to the outbuilding sir is that was part of that reduction early on that outbuilding for those needs in that building can be built less expensively in that in a different type of structure than putting it into the main structure.
>> I have one last question. >> Sure. of all the talk of trying to keep it small. I just was looking at the sergeants uh reporting office and it seems like that might be a little bit small. >> The which office? >> The sergeants. Uh >> it's a suite. It's it's an area if I
recall it's a suite up in there. We we worked with the police department closely. We did reduce that area early on a little bit, but I I it's a workable size for right now. The other thing you need to remember too is the dispatch center. That's a whole different department in the town of Falmouth. We have the police department, then you have the dispatch, uh, emergency fund of
emergency communications, which does police and fire dispatch. So, we're actually incorporating two different departments into this building. If you want to >> Yeah, but I was just referring to what I thought was pointed out was the sergeants uh office area. It just kind of looked like it was a little crowded there. >> It might look a little crowd, but again,
we haven't had any push back and it everyone's been happy with it. Okay. >> All righty. Thanks. >> Okay. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate your time. We'll see you again soon, >> I'm sure. >> Okay. The next item is to discuss and
consider a vote to appoint members to the Lawrence School Building Committee. Mr. Johnson style. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. So uh we are as the board will recall you have already appointed a first uh trunch of members
to this committee and those members are select board member Doug Brown, select board member Heather Goldstone, school superintendent Lorie Der and principal of Lawrence School Tom Bushy. Uh the school committee has uh has indicated
that it would be supportive of a total of 13 members for this committee. So the board has asked to consider appointing five new members this evening. You have seven committee members that were interviewed at a prior meeting. uh and
the board is uh you know may wish to consider the criteria that were set out uh the qualifications that were set out um by the uh Massachusetts School Building Association for this committee and that is um community members with experience
in architecture, engineering, knowledge of educational mission and function of school facilities andor construction experience. And of course, you do have um some of those qualifications represented already among the eight members that you've already appointed.
>> I mean, in in addition, I think we've also there were two school committee members that have been appointed. But in any event, I think we've we've we've narrowed it down. There are eight uh and we want to uh be no more than 13. So,
uh, we have seven very qualified individuals, all of whom appeared for, um, interviews at the meeting couple of meetings ago. Uh, Mr. Bandini, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Duffany, Miss Jassen, Mr.
Lewis, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Zamori. Um, I just want to remind the uh the members, I'm sure they've seen it, but we did receive a uh an email from Lynn Whitehead uh expressing support for Dr. Taylor's uh application. And we also
received uh the day after the interview a very uh heartfelt and passionate email from Miss Jassen uh indicating further her uh her desire to uh to be on the committee and and why she would be a
good committee person. So um I don't know how we want to go uh go go forward if we want to just take one at a time and see how people feel about them within the criteria that Mr. uh Mr. Johnson stab laid out for us.
>> Are you guys locked in on 13 >> at this point? Yes, we are. Um and so that would mean that we would be picking five out of the seven at this point and that's as a result of discussions with
the U. I mean honestly 13's a big committee to be honest with you but uh uh we wanted to have you know there was >> a number of uh of of of appointees that were more or less required uh and now
we're dealing with the uh the construction engineering architecture knowledge of the education and the mission and so forth. So and we want to have good community involvement. So >> Mr. chair. >> Yes. Just before we get into however we're going to do it, whether it's
individually or a slate, I'd just like to say that um all applicants are would indeed be great on this uh on this committee. I think the new names that we have show um a a chance for a new guard
to uh help, but that's not taking away anything from Dr. Taylor or Mr. Duffany. I think uh the slate looks great. Um I'm excited for the new folks and uh I hope that we can find a good balance cuz uh
um it's not often that we get so many new names on something. Um so I'm I'm really pleased by the outpouring for the folks that want to be on here. >> Actually, uh I'm I'm a little less prepared to knock some names off when I
asked about this at the last meeting. I thought the answer was that we could put all the people on if we wanted to. >> So now we now we got to cut the >> That would be my preference. >> Now we got to cut the team a little. I would I would be a little more careful
and a little more thoughtful about this process if I had known that that was going to be the number because I was honestly I was impressed with all the candidates. >> I I think we all are impressed. I mean I think uh I think we felt and and and I
still feel that uh you know honestly 13's probably a little little much actually 15 would be terribly unwieldy in my in my opinion uh you know possibly we could uh think about alternates I don't know uh if that has been has been
thought you know this is going to be a very uh the duration of this committee is going to be for a for a while so maybe we could uh appoint five and and consider two alternates as a possibility. >> That's yeah, that's that's one tactic, I
guess. I just like I said, I just wish I knew that I had to think more critically about it in advance. >> Well, would you I mean, I don't think we're under any major time constraint. >> Let's play devil's advocate for a second, which is if we're already
unwieldy at 13, what's another two people? I mean, in all honesty, >> I so I I I wasn't really a party to the conversation. I know the town manager and the and the school superintendent spoke. I will just say for my own
judgment, I think 13's really too many. Um, it's on it's on the large side. You know, it's it's for for my personal comfort level, it's a little too big for a functional committee when you get down to, you know, the logistics of scheduling meetings. Um,
>> but we're already there. Well, >> I mean I >> Okay, >> that's your that's your discretion. >> The the alternates the I don't know that there's been any discussion. Certainly, I have not had any discussions um with
the school superintendent or the school committee members about the whole concept of of alternates. I I assume it's not prohibited. If the board has flexibility with respect to the size of the committee, I presume you could um appoint alternates and the nice the
advantage of that is is you it gives you a cushion on the quorum. So it's it's helpful in that regard. >> I will say that going forward notwithstanding Mr. Reed's very apt comment about new blood. Uh that I think
this um this committee needs also uh you know people who have been in the community for a long time uh involved with the schools and and involved with projects uh such as construction or renovation of of a school such as the
Lawrence School. So um you know I'm I'm certainly supportive of those individuals. But if um and and again uh this was kind of a discussion that was between the town manager and the uh school superintendent and rather than um
rather than make a decision until we've had an opportunity to discuss it further, uh I'd maybe consider tableabling this at this time until our next meeting uh so we can get some clarity about alternates and and size of the committee. So that that would mean
just to be clear putting it off till May 4th and I don't know what the timeline was to get this committee actually convened. >> Yeah, I I was under the impression they wanted to start meeting in May, >> right? >> I think there is there was some urgency. I can't give you a concrete reason, but
my impression was that there was some urgency and you know I suppose the board could appoint an initial compliment and potentially expand the committee after its first meeting. I do know um as a member of the committee already that uh
they have begun making site visits to other recently constructed schools and the next tour of I believe multiple sites is on May 4th. So having additional um ideally the entire committee um together by that time seems
would be advantageous. Um, and you know, I I certainly hear that this is um an embarrassment of riches in terms of the the slate that we got. Um, I wholeheartedly agree with uh Mr. read
that in addition to um some truly veteran leaders in our community, we heard from uh a number of folks in most cases uh names and faces that were not familiar to me who bring
immense expertise um multiple school building projects um and uh construction and finance and and other um expertise in this area that I think would be incredibly valuable. Um, so if if the
rest of the board, you know, Mr. Brown, hearing your concerns, um, I'm certainly ready to to put some names out there to to nominate some additional members to the committee. >> Sure. I I have, uh, and again, I all the applicants are incredibly uh, talented,
uh, and 100% qualified. I think we should appoint uh you know five tonight and then do two alternates if possible or expand if possible at a future meeting. Uh the two candidates that I would like to nominate um are um Stacy Jason and and and Dr. uh Nancy Taylor
are the two that I would like to put forward. Um I think um >> I' I'd second those two. >> I would like to add to that list uh Mr. Skip Bandini. experience with uh the Massachusetts School Board Association or School Buildings Association I think is really really invaluable um in this
process and something that the committee does not have. I also agree is that um every member of this board or this committee despite its rather large size um is also going to need to wear multiple hats. Um and uh Miss Jason
brings in addition to um professional expertise brings uh her experience as a parent in the district and there are only a couple or a few of us on this committee so far um that have the parent perspective. So >> so I agree that uh Miss Jason, Dr.
Taylor, and Mr. Bandini, I would support all three of those. >> I would like to add Mike Duffany even though he's a veteran of this, but I don't see any reason to disqualify somebody. experience. >> I agree. I think Mr. Duffany has done done a lot for this town. Has been
involved in a number of applications. I believe uh is a graduate of Lawrence School and uh I would certainly feel that he would be a uh a good addition to the committee. So, uh >> did we get Mr. Duffy's graduation year
at uh town meeting? >> I think I don't think it was quite as long as Mr. Latim was, but close. So I do I mean do we have consensus on Mr. Bandini, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Duffany, and Miss Jason?
>> Yes. >> So a motion and a second. >> Do we have a motion, Mr. Richardson? >> So >> and a second. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor of those four anyway, at this point say I. >> I. >> I.
>> Any oppose? >> Okay. So now we are faced with Mr. Lewis, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Zamore. All of whom uh are wellqualified and fit within that rubric of new faces. So um
uh I've looked at um I've looked at their resumes as I'm sure all of us have. Uh I was particularly impressed with Mr. Lewis's application. uh and I would move his nomination. >> I would agree that I think Mr. Lewis's
uh application rose to the top uh for me uh for his his combination of um professional experiences. >> So, >> okay. So, that's a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> I >> I
>> Okay, so that's our five. Uh let's uh they're moved. they're on the committee and uh let's hold with respect to Mr. Barrett and Mr. Zamori for further discussions between the town manager and the school school superintendent about
expanding the uh the membership to 15 andor uh to consider alternates and we thank all of the applicants for their interest. >> Okay, >> great. >> All right, well done. Thank you. Uh we
are now uh at uh we have two license agreements uh that uh that we're going to deal with, but I turn to either Mr. Johnson Stab or council to uh to give us a little bit of a background as to why we're going to license agreements as
opposed to what's been done in the past. >> Sure. I can kick that off and then certainly if the board has any questions, uh town council will be happy to respond. Uh so we have uh tonight just to start off with the first license
um the Fmouth Commodores obviously very very well known and beloved by the community um and they have been calling Gov Fullerfield their home for more years than than actually I should know that number because there was just an anniversary
but I don't recall what the number is. Uh in any event, we have been operating in the past under a memorandum of understanding. The most recent one expired December of 25. Uh town council has advised that a license agreement is a better method for addressing this
situation. um because it is used for transactions like this where organizations are allowed to use town property to the exclusion of other entities and it is contemplated that they will make some improvements to the property including a fixing structures
to the land whereas anou is simply a generalized term for an agreement that does not accurately describe the relationship between the town and the licenses. Um, so with that said, the license agreement that is before you uh has been drafted uh by town council in
consultation with uh Julie Williams Tinkham, your recreation director, and myself, and in consultation with the uh the Commodores. And we do have two members of the Commodores um who are with us tonight should you have any questions for them. The terms of this license agreement are
not dramatically different from the terms that were previously spelled out in a memorandum of understanding, although the form has changed. Um, one change that we did ask for relating to the select board's change of venue um,
meeting here, uh, is that we did ask them to avoid scheduling Commodore's games on Monday nights because when they have a game here, they fill up every single parking spot here and um, and at 300 Dillingham and and the surrounding area. So, they have agreed to that.
There are some um some points in the schedule that they cannot control. Most all of the scheduled home games are scheduled well in advance and they can avoid Monday nights for those games. What they cannot control in advance is rain dates and in the fortunate
circumstance of making the playoffs, those uh those are scheduled beyond their control as well um and could well be scheduled on a Monday night. Um, so we we talked about that and we came up with uh what we feel is a workable compromise where um later this evening
we will be I will be asking you to consider moving some of your scheduled meetings in August um each of them a week later that would avoid any conflict with the playoffs. Um and in the event that there is a conflict with a rain date, what we would do is mark off 50
spaces um for the meeting. So they would be left open during the commoder's game so that um there is parking available for the meeting. And the commodors have offered to staff that um to you know mark it out and and staff it to make sure that um that we do have those spaces for a select board meeting if
there is a conflict. I mean, we'd also discussed the possibility of meeting back at at town hall in those instances and and as opposed to this, you know, marking off 50 spots and, you know, policing it and, you know, so forth. So,
certainly something we can think about as well as an alternate. >> Sure. And and depending on how much notice we have. >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> Um, so with that, uh, happy to take any questions that the board may have. >> Yep. Uh couple of questions. Uh the term
through the end of 2029 any particular reason? It's like three and a half years just any particular reason for that that term of of cont or license. >> Yeah. So I you know I think we just wanted to run it to the end of a calendar year is the date you know that's the the term that we've been
looking at and three years just you know allows an opportunity to revisit if you know any any of the um terms need to be adjusted but no no real science behind it's just you know more than one year at a time and not too long
>> and the schedule's provided by December 1st of the previous year is that realistic and what's driving that? That's their normal procedure as I understand it. >> Either >> either one. >> Um Chris Fitzgerald, president of the
Found Commodores. Uh the schedule begins um conversation in Novemberish, uh October, November. Uh we send it, the Cape League sends it down to Johns Hopkins where they put it through an algorithm and a schedule is spit out and sent back and it goes back and forth.
um preliminary schedules should be available by that date. Um the final one that's published probably maybe January. So >> okay, I've never frankly tried to look at the schedule for the Commodores
before about May. So um >> there's a lot that goes into it between the different teams and the different uh fields and it's uh it's a lot. >> Excellent. >> Okay, you ready? You ready for the season? >> Uh, yes. Ready for this? Summer. Ready
for >> making the playoffs this year? >> Uh, that is the goal. And >> it's not a guarantee, right? >> If it was, I'd put it in here. Trust me. >> All right. Good luck. >> Can we make a motion to approve the grant of licenses presented? >> Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
>> No, no, no. Uh I was just going to say I know um the schedule has already been posted but there is that one Monday on July 20th uh Brewster at Falmouth. Uh there was no select board meeting uh scheduled for that day. So it wasn't
deemed uh conflict but I just wanted to mention that just so you guys aware. >> Thank you. Yes, we were aware of that. >> Yep. >> Okay. Mr. Reed has made a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Multiple seconds. a motion in multiple seconds. All any further
discussion hearing and seeing none, all in favor? I >> Okay, moving on to the Youth Lacrosse League. So, the next item before you is a license agreement for Falmouth youth lacrosse uh for their use of the George
Gaspa Sports Complex located at 900 Sandwich Road. this would be the first this um the lacrosse association has not um taken responsibility for substantial improvements in the past. So there has not been anou or a license agreement in
the past. Um they do have plans to um to carry out some improvements and we wanted to lay out a legal um structure um that clarifies the roles of the party so that they could do that. And of course they this is not for exclusive
use of the field. So we would be following the normal practice in terms of they would be scheduling. Um and then when when there are days that they're not scheduled, there are other groups that use those fields as well. >> Does this mean now that all
if they haven't already, all clubs um need to be getting a license for use of town fields? >> So if they're making improvements, then then we want to have a license agreement with them. So, if they're just we we do have a number of organizations that use fields
um that you know don't participate in the maintenance or provide any capital improvements and those you know those are simply scheduled as rentals and there isn't a license agreement required. >> Where where does the little league fit into that category? >> Um I they have the Falmouth youth
baseball or the Cal Ripken. It's not technically little league. I don't think they're under the Cal Ripken rubric. Uh yes, they have had anou and so that will be one that is going to come before the board. >> Okay. >> All right, Mr. Weed, you want to make a
motion again? >> Second. >> Okay. I think we have a motion and a second >> to consider a vote to approve license agreement for found with you cross use of the George Gasper Sports Complex. All in favor? I
>> I >> Okay, now to the uh August calendar that Mr. Johnson just mentioned, right? So the only change here is for the month of August and it is purely
driven as as um was mentioned by the uh the desire to ensure that the comeers make the playoffs this year and that we don't have a conflict. Motion to move the revised select board meeting schedule as presented. Mainly because it opens up my birthday in one
of those weeks. >> I wish to remove my second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Hi. >> All right. Okay. Now for the potential for retail
cannabis sales in Falmouth. This was an item that has been asked for by member Richardson. Uh Mr. Johnson Stop, do you have some background here for us with respect to the issue of retail cannabis sales in Fal?
>> Yes, thank you. Uh and I believe that Mr. Richardson is aware that um the town has previously voted to prohibit uh the non non-medical purpose marijuana establishments in town. Um but just quickly to review those. So there was a
town election May 16th, 2017 uh where the town voted by a vote of 4533 to 2514 to approve the following question. Shall the town of Felmouth prohibit the
operation of one or more types of marijuana establishments within the town and adopt the following bylaw relative to marijuana not medically prescribed to be included in the code of Fmouth chapter 156 peace and good order and that was followed so that that
>> so a yes meant to no >> correct that was a yes to um have a adopt a bylaw that prohibited non-medical >> the same way the state ballot is apparently worded as well. >> And then a no.
>> And then there was a uh following that election ballot vote, there was a town meeting vote to adopt a zoning bylaw. The first was a general bylaw, the second was a zoning bylaw, and the zoning bylaw mirrored prohibiting non-medical marijuana establishments.
Uh, so the procedure, if the board were inclined to pursue allowing non-medical marijuana establishments to be licensed in town, the procedure would be a ballot vote and a town meeting vote to undo those adoptions.
>> That would also require the planning board would also be involved with respect to the issue of the zoning. >> Correct. >> Right. So the re Thank you Peter for the background. The reason I have been wanting to talk about this is um
>> I think uh you know I was 14 you know 10 years ago uh so I obviously didn't know the the politics then but I think that uh the politics now and the science now behind marijuana has really changed and some of the regulations we have here in Massachusetts. Um, so I think that and
I've been hearing from a number of not only constituents across town, but also from a number of interested business owners uh who are in this space and they think Fmouth was would be a tremendous uh place uh to have a dispensary. And I'm not saying we need five five, six or
seven of them, but you know, when I I can name dozens and dozens of folks who are driving just to mash beer or to border to sandwich and we're losing that tax revenue um to nearby towns in the time of I am honestly approaching this more from a from a revenue standpoint of
there there's a a key percentage we're missing out on of of a key business that is big and and you know I was talking with in my former state house role, Senator Fernandez is vice chair of cannabis commission. Um the average person who's purchasing marijuana now is
a is a six-year-old 60-year-old woman who's purchasing uh CBD gummies. So the the whole business model has completely changed from what it was 10 years ago. And there's a lot of misconceptions on it. And I think that, you know, even if we just, you know, ask for one in town, I think that would be a big revenue
source. And I've heard from constituents, I don't like to look on Facebook, but on the other day in one of the Facebook forums, people were asking, "Well, why don't we have this in town?" I guess they haven't heard me for the last six months. But um you know I think that this is something where the politics have rapidly changed because of
the science and because of the regulation on it and I think that we are in a position uh you know to uh may potentially propose a change. I will say to the ballot initiative Mr. Chair I did meet with the owner of a dispensary guy owns a dispensary in Carver the other
day. Um so we are it's interesting what happens that ballot initiative. I'll say the lead petitioner of it. Uh, and the group behind it is an evangelical group out of Louisiana and they have paid people who are running that petition. So, it's kind of a bad faith petition. It's not people in the Commonwealth
actually looking for change. Um, but, you know, if we started the process now, I mean, the B it wouldn't get on the ballot for this, you know, election. It wouldn't it would be after this November election already happens. even if we acted, you know, with the next month of me on the board, um it still wouldn't be
the vote on the November ballot would uh would happen before the town referendum. Uh I believe that's correct. Um I don't know if you guys know otherwise, but um so I think it's something I support. I would support action on it. I know this is a discussion item, but I only got a
month left. So um yeah, interested to hear your guys's thoughts on it or where where you stand. I' I'd certainly like to know some of the um revenue results from some of the towns that have u that have retail cannabis sales and uh
whether they've been peaking or you know going down or what their experience has been. So uh it certainly is a potential for for revenue. We're revenue strapped. Um u personally I'm I'm not I don't
believe in favor of it but I certainly think we need to think about it and have a discussion about it uh because of the potential for revenue uh in town. So maybe we can start getting some of those numbers from some of the towns together.
>> I would second that. Sorry. >> Go ahead. >> I would second that completely. you know, from a business degree, you quickly look at what is the market, how crowded is it with our neighbors that are already doing it, what would our portion be? Um, because I think I agree with everything that people have said so
far. We do need new revenue. This could be a way to do it, but just how much is it worth the um the lift or not? Um, but those are that's where I kind of stand. I guess I would say with this question
um I think there are for me three legs to this and yes revenue is one of them. um community culture is another and public health is another. And so in addition to um the the data on revenue,
um I would really like to hear both from uh the uh substance use uh commission and uh the board of health. Um I know that that this is something that uh the board has discussed uh in the past and
based on their experience also with um tobacco retailers I think would have a really um valuable perspective for us to bring into this and and perhaps it's something that we do some information gathering and um put a question uh back in front of town meeting to gauge
interest because you know this was a a very strong um decision by the town. It was it was not a a close margin. And so there was um and that was both at town meeting and and the whole election ballot. And so I
think if we're going to reopen that, I agree a lot can change in 10 years and a lot has changed in 10 years. Um but I do think we want to really make sure that we're um we're in step with the community as as we pursue this and it it can't just be um a revenue decision in
my mind. >> Okay. >> If I could Mr. Right. >> I was new on the board when we discussed this and you know legalizing marijuana was a new concept at the time and we wanted to be cautious and which we typically do when there's new things you
know let other people practice if they're more you know um more anxious to seek that revenue. And so at the time we just felt like it wasn't worth being the the ones to be practicing it. And also at the same time
there was some concern about how the society impacts would would roll out. And uh we also at that time I don't know if people are aware but we maintained a $300 fine for smoking in public places smoking marijuana because we were concerned that it was just going to be
you know like a free-for-all like you know hippies on the library lawn or whatnot. So we did we did keep that uh >> heard that in a while. So anyway, that was the thinking at the time. Maybe it is time to look at it
again and think about it again. But I agree with Miss Goldstone's comments that >> we really need to think it through because, you know, we we've faced the problems of addiction. I read articles now that, you know, it's not like your grandmother's marijuana anymore. It's
really powerful and it's not it's not a minor thing to think about. So we'll have to we'll have to really think carefully about it. Yeah, I just wanted to start the conversation on it. Fortunately, I'm not seeking re-election. So, future members,
you know, keep keep an eye on this one. Um, but, um, yeah, uh, I appreciate your all openness to it and you're absolutely right, Dr. Goldstone. It was a resounding no. Uh, but, you know, there's there's been a lot of votes in recent history. I think if you did them again, they would be different. So, >> no, I think it's healthy to revisit
something and that has changed so much in in 10 years, but again, just given the the strength of that vote, I think it's it's important to keep gauging the where the community is on this. >> Okay. The next item uh which is Mr. Brown's item that he has asked to have a
discussion on with respect to correspondence and media inquiry practices. Um I I will say that I think the um you know the issue that we had with Sea Coast Shores earlier this evening and
the trove of uh of emails that came in did focus me on the on the question of uh we need to make sure we're all on the same page as to what happens to emails
that are sent to us individually. and not necessarily, you know, to the entire select board. Uh, you know, in a number of the emails that I forwarded to the members over the weekend, uh, I realized that they were
addressed just to me, uh, and were not going to the necessarily going to the town manager, the select board, uh, or individual members. Um so um you know I I felt that they were all important for
this evening's discussion. That's why I folded them. But I guess the question is uh when we do get individual emails um you know how do we respond? Uh should we share them with other members? At what
point do we share them with other members? So that's open discussion. Well, that wasn't really the reason I was asking to have it on. What I'm hoping for is that we can reconsider a policy that was not a formal policy, but it was in place when I was on the board
many years ago, and it remained a policy for quite a while, be it informal or not, which was that the either the chair, the vice chair, the town manager or assistant town manager, one of the four, whoever felt most inclined, which
you know, sometimes the questions are really something that only a town manager or assistant town manager is qualified to answer because it's more of a mechanics of government and you know questions that are appropriate for that. But others are very appropriate for the
town uh the chair or the vice chair to answer. Why hasn't the select board talked about this? Why is the select board not feel uh bowling alleys are important or you know something that's a political and when will we talk about
this? the chair sets the agenda and the chair can can answer some of those emails and just to me it takes some of the load off the town manager who's very busy and the most important thing I feel like is whoever's answering should copy
the whole board so we all know that somebody's been getting a response because right now they're just getting for the most part an automated response saying all members of the board have received your email and then I hear from people that geez you know I know I got this automatic response but is it really
are you really getting these messages because it's not a a personalized response in many cases >> but then isn't it isn't the procedure then Doug to say well let's get this on the agenda and discuss it as opposed to you know uh engaging in an email chain
or conversation with with a member uh with a member of the public as opposed to you know where the board has come to you know maybe hasn't come to a decision Oh yeah. I'm not saying that you get into a debate with the people, but you acknowledge and sometimes you can say,
uh, I'm sorry to say that the board has already talked about that and you know, we've been through it. Maybe you missed it. Sometimes that's the answer. Sometimes you just say, we'll put this on for discussion at some point in the future. Or sometimes you might say, I
agree this is urgent and we'll address it as soon as possible. You know, those are the only kind of responses that people are expecting is just acknowledgement and you know whether or not you're going to take action. Sometimes no is the answer but you know at least they should get an answer not
just a an automated response and we should know so we don't have to wonder. My only thing is I think there are some issues you know I mean we obviously we we all don't agree on everything um which is how how this works but um I think with the respect of there's some
items where it's like I want to have a conversation with the person and learn more and give my opinion not the board's opinion I think it's appropriate to respond as an individual if it's an individual email to an individual select board member asking about individual
support or non-support for an item I I I don't think it's inappropriate for me to respond to a person if they if they reach out to me individually, I don't think it's inappropriate to say, you know, defending my position on why I voted for something or, you know, just
explaining to them whatever it is they're asking about. >> I think we have that. I think that's our individual rights if we want to do that or not. I personally, I think I'm okay with that as an elected member to say, "This is why I did this. This is >> revenue problems, Colin. This is what you did to us. Now we got to turn the
lights off. Um, >> yeah. I mean, I don't feel where that's >> I don't feel super strongly about it, but I just I I like to respond to people and say, "This is why I did this." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You know, I Doug, I hear you in terms of
um a fully automated response not necessarily being very satisfying. I I don't um and I think there's probably an intermediate step. Um, and I've seen this in in action on the
school committee where there's a fairly standardized response because you can't deliberate. It's on, you know, the entire board is on that email. And so, it's some fairly standardized language, but it's not immutable and it is actually um in the case of the school
committee, there's an elected secretary who's responsible for that communication. So that that's not an additional um yet another additional responsibility of the the chair. Um but whoever that is, right, there's a little bit of discretion to say we discussed
this last week, you might review that meeting or that's already on the agenda for two weeks from now, right? information that is not deliberation that any member of the board would have um and and um the ability to to tailor that response a little bit within the
the bounds of open meeting law. You know, I think there's a an additional challenge which beyond us talking about this and um whether it ends up in the enterprise or not or on FCTV, however many people see that this was a
discussion, how we also educate folks because I've had the conversation countless times to explain we can't get back to you with our personal thoughts on X, Y, and Z because that email came to all members of the
board and for open meeting uh law reasons. All we can do essentially is reply to say we got it. We'll talk about it, you know, later as a board, you know, we'll cons we'll take this under consideration. Um and every single time, including talking to people who are very
involved with the town, the response I got was, "Oh, oh well, I guess that makes sense, right?" But it hadn't occurred to anybody. So, how we also help educate um the rest of the community about the constraints that we're working under
when we're communicating in these ways that feel really stilted and artificial and cold that that's not necessarily entirely by choice. >> Can I >> Well, yes, Mr. Reid >> agree with everything that's said. Can we get uh can we look at the old policy
just cuz I have no idea what we're written policy was just a practice that we had evolved into which now has seemed to kind of fade away. >> So is the primary thing that you're asking to reinstate that that when there's the reply that goes back that
says everyone has seen this that that it's on a reply all so that all members of the select board see there's been a response. That's how we were doing it years ago and it seemed to work. And I agree, it's not deliberating. You're just saying, you know, we'll get to this
when we can. It's we know it's an issue or >> I mean saying we know it's an issue is >> kind of deliberating a little bit. You know, I think that's where the No, I mean I mean that's where I'm a little, you know, I listen, I'm in full support of, you know, getting letting people
know that we're getting their emails that they're, you know, being, you know, considered and uh and action will be taken. But I think there's a very fine line there that we need to be careful of with respect to OML open meeting law. So, but we'll we'll continue the
discussion now that it's uh now that it's on our uh on our radar. Mr. Chair, please. >> Yeah, I just wanted to reinforce your concern there. I um you know, certainly if the board wanted to adopt a policy where a select board chair or vice chair
is responding to the writer without copying the board, that's that's fine. Um and technically Doug is correct there. there. If you if you're very careful and you do it just the right way, you can give some responses and
copy all the board and it's not deliberation. But it's so easy to cross the line >> into stating an opinion. um or you know this is what I think this is what the board thinks you know as opposed to clearly established facts
that are not deliberation that you know I I I think you you may want to hear from town council on this as well but I would be very cautious about um about having a practice of consistently copying the board on a message from a board member
>> and you know I certainly think that uh when the new board is reconstituted or constituted after the elections that uh open meeting law discussion with council would be uh would be a good idea. >> Just one thing maybe to consider as well
as individual media requests. I had gotten a couple. Uh I just turned them down because I was like I don't want to comment as an individual. That might be something you should review in in May. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, were we just about to hear something from council? I think you
were just going to say >> I just wanted to say how proud I am of all of you for being so conscientious about the open meeting law. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh now uh the next matter is
discussion of the adoption of an artificial intelligent use policy. Uh and uh Mr. Johnson So I think you gathered some of the information for us. >> Sure. I'm happy to kick this off and just to be clear, we're not
contemplating adopting a policy tonight. This is purely an initial conversation and and potentially at some point in the future uh we could look at adopting a policy. Um so as probably many of you are aware there, you know, are more and more municipalities adopting an
artificial intelligence policy or a generative uh artificial intelligence policy. And the purposes include to establish guardrails to avoid inadvertent disclosure of confidential information, setting guidelines to
mitigate the potential for disseminating inaccurate, misleading or biased information, but also on the flip side to encourage safe use of AI to improve efficiency and of municipal operations and service delivery and to enhance
transparency and dissemination of accurate information. Um, so we have included in your packet for this meeting sample policies adopted by the towns of Rockland and Brooklyn. Um, I chose a couple that were slightly different from
each other so that you would have some different examples. Um, and you know, tonight we're seeking input in terms of, you know, what direction you think we might want to go with crafting our own policy. >> Does MMA have anything on this? They
they they have held a couple of workshops. Actually, the town of Nantucket was uh one of the panelists on a workshop that the MMA held recently, but they do not have a model policy at this time. >> Well, I agree with everything you said, but I I also think it's incumbent upon
us at some point in the very near future to adopt something. I mean, it's just absolutely critical for us um to have a policy on this. Uh, I think we've got to figure out a way to get that policy, you
know, drafted and before us. So, uh, I'm opening it up for discussion as to how people might think we should go about doing this. >> I think you should just copy the Brooklyn model and just go for it. >> Is that the one the two-pager? >> Yeah, >> that's pretty uh, that's pretty simple.
Yeah, Mr. Rich, >> I want to approach it from a different angle. Uh I I think the Brooklyn one was good as well. But uh I also am concerned about data centers and the kind of I have some friends who live in uh Virginia and their communities are being destroyed by multinational corporations just buying houses and destroying them
and building data centers. Might be worth considering and maybe it's a warrant article for town meeting rather than driven by the select board, but I think potentially looking into banning or restricting data centers. Um they've had very adverse impacts on the environment already and they're not good. They don't bring jobs to
communities either. um something that I think we should should be looked into considering banning in Felmouth. >> Yeah, I'll say um I think that's a a really important discussion. Uh I'm not sure how much that rests with us versus
with planning board. Um but I do think that that data centers are a really important concern. what I'm about to say may be uh informed a little bit by a little bit of trauma from trying to uh create AI policy at my
workplace. Um but what I would say is that while both of the draft policies were very thought or not the draft the the example policies were very thoughtful and different discussion. I think there were parts of those policies that we
should really look at adopting like the revisions history and the roles and responsibilities at the end of the policy. Um what I'm struck by looking at those policies and reading through the other information and just thinking about my experience with AI is that one of the
first challenges is it's hard to even define what we mean. And part of that is because AI is this big sprawling thing that in a lot of cases is just the evolution of algorithms and machine learning algorithms that's been happening for decades and there are some
very new things and there are some you know other things that are not as new and then do you also include the automation algorithms that are built into all sorts of software now do you even know if you're using AI and I think that difficulty in even defining what it is
has prompted me to look at it a different way which is what are the actual things that we're concerned about that AI is pushing us to think about more AI is not the problem cyber security data privacy intellectual pro uh privacy or intellectual property uh
work quality environmental concerns those are the the concerns or the problems that we need to solve for and and I think we might be better served by looking at what our I guess policies are but but all of these are essentially workplace policies
and I I also wonder how much of that is is select board um versus it it it I mean it's literally at at my workplace it's in the handbook right these are the expectations um whether it is a human being or uh an AI chatbot that helped
you develop your ideas you're expected to disclose who informed your work product um whether it has AI involved or not or is you know as chat GPT you cannot put data private data into um a web-based application that has not been
approved by it. Right? Is that a select board policy or is that just a workplace policy? But I think there are some nuts and bolts things that we don't have to necessarily pin down what is AI and have an AI policy to address these concerns that
generative AI in particular at the moment is is raising for us. I will say I I wondered the same thing about many aspects of the policy did seem to be town managers domain. Um
maybe some others are not and and I I took note that Brookline and Rockland um I'm not as familiar with the town charter honestly in Rockland. I think it's not as strong um town manager as Falmouth, but I believe Brooklyn is is a little closer to Felmouth. So I was
>> and and I'm not trying to toss a hot potato. I'm happy to have that conversation. I I just to me it doesn't necessarily feel like what we need is some big AI policy in part because it's going to change in three months and six months and right and so addressing
those underlying issues of of what is it pushing the boundaries of and figuring out how to address those feels to me like the the better way to go. Well, >> I'm just concerned that if we don't adopt it or stress the town manager role in it that
we might face some liability at some point in time without having such a use policy. So, so anyway, again, just like the other three, we're starting the discussion. MScali, do you have any examples of
litigation that is ongoing that you know none come to mind but I couldn't say that it's not possible any you know there's a latigious society and if there's a something that happens that
you know somebody in the workplace you know used AI improperly and we didn't have a policy of some sort there could be some responsibility whether it's legal or you know just uh you know out in the newspapers uh it
could come back to and affect us though. >> I mean I would argue the same is true though whether or not it's AI right if data is shared irresponsibly then data is shared irresponsibly and there's a liability for that I mean do you Mr. Johnson stop. Do you know do we have I
should probably know this but do we have a cyber security policy intellectual do we do we have policies or guidance for staff on data handling cyber security those sorts of things? >> Yes. So we we do have a um a policy on
the use of of information technology resources um that would address um that and we have training around um protected personal information. Um and at this point, you know, we're we're probably behind the curve in terms of using AI. I
do think that there are some simple applications that um could be helpful for productivity uh that we're not using and I I do think you know I I do think having the guard rails in place even if while we're still sort of working on the question of what
exactly is AI and where is it that we don't even think it is I I think some simple and it may be it may be at the town manager level where we just have a simple policy that says look you know here are the cautions here are the things that you cannot do um but you know let's by all means start looking at
ways that we can improve our productivity um with proper involvement of you know whether it's the town manager or the IT department depending on what the use case is. >> That's the other thing I was going to say is training for staff is an incredibly important part of this equation not just policies. So the Brooklyn one is the longer of the two
and it's correct >> got a lot of details and >> I mean I would say just review this and if there's anything that needs to be added to be applicable to Felmouth >> you got a pretty good template here. >> We could we could certainly use that as a starting point that would be right
>> and the sooner the better because as you said you know how many things could you do so much more easily like press releases and just every dayto-day stuff. I do think there's um there is a definitely a values component
to also thinking about how we use AI and ensuring that and I think there was the the description in in one of the background documents of humans in the loop, humans on the loop, humans I I don't know over the loop. It was all
sorts of like um the basic idea being that um at least in their opinion and certainly in my opinion um AI should never be in the lead and should never be making the decisions. It should be a support to human
decision makers, human creativity, human activity. And so making that that's one thing that if we're going to adopt a a policy, I would feel really strongly about a a stance that this is not to replace people. Um and it
needs checking and handholding and oversight. Um and replacing people is not my goal. Period. Even if we could. >> Absolutely. must be >> But do you use uh >> do you use it on like uh texting?
>> Yeah, that's what I'm saying, right? Yes, I use autocorrect. Sometimes I cursive autocorrect, but we have machine learning and AI in various forms so embedded in our lives that we sometimes don't recognize even what it is. Right? Yes, I use uh I don't use Grammarly, but
like you know, I've got Spellchecker, >> right? That's learning, that's pattern recognition. Um, I tend to find that AI summaries of my emails are gobbly and I try to disregard them. Right. But so that there's variable quality and it requires a human mind to actually think
about it. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. But like right now if I get a text, I look at it and I've got two choices. Sure, I can help with that. Or no, I'm sorry, I can't. And you just click one. So you mean the human still chooses, >> right? And I'm like that I'm not saying
that we shouldn't touch AI. Um, I'm not saying that at all. I just, you know, my any shyness I have about an AI policy is just because it moves so fast that I think pinning it down and trying to create a policy that is specifically around AI is >> that's kind of what they said about the
internet, right? >> Doomed to be um >> maybe our policy should be that we uh authorize the town manager to >> just deal with it in any way he feels is appropriate because that's really where I feel like it belongs anyway.
All right. Well, as I said, we started the discussion. So, the last item is to vote to execute the May 19th, 2026 election warrant. Mr. Johnson, stop. >> Thank you. So, we have
>> we have two agenda items. Um, sorry, two ballot questions for the town election. um both relate to charter changes which have been voted by uh town meeting as well as this board. The first is relative to the town clerk transition
from elected to appointed and the second with respect to establishing a licensing commission. Uh and you have in your packet the uh the specific content of the ballot measures proposed for the election ballot. Happy to take any
questions. >> Motion to approve. So the motion will be to execute the May 19th, 2026 election warrant as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is that enough? >> Yes.
>> Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Moving on to the minutes of February 25th, 2026, March 9th, 2026,
and March 23rd, 2026. Motion to approve minutes as uh presented. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I >> I
have select board reports this late hour. >> I have a quick uh report. I should have probably said it in announcements, but tomorrow is the uh meeting for the um crosswalk improvements project at Route
28A and Route 151. And uh I printed out a large set of the plans. >> Is is that the roundabout? >> No, the roundabouts gone away. >> That's done, right? And now it's a simplified uh crosswalk improvement where they're going to be, I believe, adding new curbing, but in the same
footprint as the existing uh roadway layout. And they're going to be changing the islands instead of planters. It looks like they're going to top them with concrete. We'll see what the uh village association might want to comment on that. They like to plant them, but it is kind of dangerous out
there. And I see the new configuration of the crosswalk walks right through those two little islands, the traffic islands. But the big improvement is the crosswalk safety features, the push button lights so that walkers can safely
cross and the u road sensors so that if there's no cars in the parking spot, the traffic light doesn't change and keep the traffic moving more quickly. And I imagine that also would include the uh upgrade for the public safety. You know, when the fire trucks coming along, they
can switch the light to enable them to cross quickly. So, personally, I'm pretty happy with the uh that they've toned it down and got rid of the the roundabout. And if anybody's interested, I can send the link, but I'm going to
attend it and I'll report back to you. I had originally wanted to attend it, but I wanted to also get over to the farming Falmouth meeting tomorrow. Right. So, >> um I uh spent today and will be back tomorrow at uh the Cape Coastal
Conference. Um a lot of really interesting uh talks and sessions. uh spent part of the morning at uh a session that uh laid out a a toolkit um for communities to uh
work their way through uh climate resilience uh planning and prioritization uh that was honestly a little overwhelming but really interesting. Um and uh I can share that uh Mr. Johnson with with you so that that can be potentially shared with the
board. Um uh some interesting projects presented this afternoon on uh use of dredge spoils in ecological restorations and best practices in ecological restorations. Uh multiple members of the beach committee were in attendance as uh
was our uh coastal resilience coordinator Josh Wrigley um split up at some of the different uh sessions and Josh will actually be the keynote speaker tomorrow morning um presenting our surf drive project. So I'm excited to be back there for that and not only
hear Josh's update but kind of hear what the discussion in the room is um around that project. >> Good. Uh, I'll just report that the town manager and I, Mr. McCanny and and some staff had a uh a very good conversation
with the DOT. You may have heard that um they wanted to uh to put a bus stop on Woods Hole Road essentially where the u the rock and the anchor are for the old stone dock which we felt was a very
foolish location. Uh and um and originally originally DOT was very adamant that they were not going to uh to change the location that they had started to you know do the work and
thanks to uh Senator Fernandez whose legislative team got in touch with DOT, we were able to have a very good uh good conversation and they have agreed to uh to put the bus stop uh in in a different
location further down on Woods Hole Road towards the uh Cape Cod Apartments. So, uh you know, thanks to Senator Fernandez for for for doing that and thanks to uh you know to to DOT for listening for
once. We appreciate you. >> I got one more thing I wanted to uh share that last week I attended virtually. the um inspector general went over to Nantucket and had a sort of a hearing to hear from the Nantucket
residents about the report that they put out on the steamship authorities missteps with the website and so forth and that was informative. I did comment only to say that I hope that when there is legislative overview, they think about the fact that they've just raised
their debt ceiling from 100 million to 150 million and they're spending a lot of that money now between the the new terminal and the new boats. and think about the impact of the the ticket price of what that might be in the future because at the start of the meeting,
Senator Seir said, "One thing we all appreciate is how the Steamship Authority always pays their own way with the the fair box, but it seems that that is probably going to change. So, I hope that they're keeping that on their radar." And then they had another meeting today. I just listened today
because I don't want to take up the time. And there was a large group of vineyard folks that were there talking and they had a lot of good points. A lot of the comments that you hear from folks in Woods Hole, you're hearing similar comments from the folks on the island now. So >> yeah, >> it's not that >> I was wondering why uh why the didn't
consider coming to Falmouth as well as Nantucket and the vineyard would have been a nice development for >> He was not discounting that today. >> Okay. >> And he did point out that he seems to always get invited off season. So maybe if we invite him in July, he'll be happy
to come. >> Just uh FYI, but at our May 4th uh the board meeting with Mr. Krisa, the new general manager is going to be uh be coming to introduce himself and talk with us. That'll be a good thing.
>> Okay. >> All right. >> Motion to adjourn. Hold on. Can I add in um a couple future agenda requests? One is uh maybe at the financial meeting we have on the 27th or thereafter uh
discussion regarding a temporary moratorium on all fever waiver requests until we discuss a potentially updated policy therein. Uh second um I know it's on Mr. Renshaw's um list but receiving the
afteraction review from the winter recovery. And then three related to that is an afteraction review of crisis communications both for the winter recovery and our school safety. Um I
think the duties of a uh of a public uh information officer and having that evaluation would be very helpful. >> Thanks. Now I'll make the motion to adjurnn. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All
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