[Music] good evening everybody it is Monday February 24th 2025 at 6: p.m. and I will call to order the free toown border select meeting uh this meeting will be recorded and will be available on the town's YouTube
page um so first we'll just jump right into agenda item one it's open session minutes from 1:21 2025 223 2025 2 and 214 2025 um any questions on that no no I'll
entertain a motion to approve those Open Session minutes motion made second all in favor I I all right and now we have uh building Building Commissioner here to discuss the next three items so Carl um we'll start off with G item two discussion on the appeal of the of building
commissioner's decision letter for 175 guog road so thank you just like gentlemen so this is a so we have a process when we had complaints first of all we going to reach out to people talk maybe it's a misunderstanding we have we work it out that doesn't work we send a letter when it runister to a level where
threatens neighborhoods or the town in anyway I go to the Town Administrator and we we talk about what the threshold imp we need Count Council representatives in the case of 175 I said with a civil man between neighbors water run off nothing we can do so we need representation for CS not involved
in that part of it um dirty roundswell we had a the neighborhood turn out to about 20 people life structure being proposed to be build in a property will be problem for the neighborhood it could catch fire so this is important it raes to the threshold we need representation make sure we fight everything we can to
protect neighbors and neighborhoods um and the other one we have on with us is 180 brely road so this this p is familiar to the board and to the town 10 acres of land is used as a Contracting J with materials to scrap uh that we tried numerous times to reach
out to the attorneys to the communication emails letters so that didn't work until finally we came to the board and said this raises to that threshold we have to protect the town in the area resident so we're successful call up with that one they have until May to show that they they more than half of the property cleaned up it's
going to be completely cleaned up by my July 1st so that was a win for the town it's going to protect the neighbors again uh the select board been involved in the beginning um so this is the one we had protect the neighborh it was worth the investment in spending the money on that but we do try everything else like I said we try reaching out
professionally we send out letters Communications so when it gets to this point then we need help and that help come from um Town Council okay thank you um and then so just the first two items so quog and rville so are those they're being appealed to the
state because they don't agree with like correct the decision that we've made right so uh it's a Building Department complaint of meaning fa to act in some way yeah the house got sign why came off on I did do the final Co since then they've added stff and they put some
driveway might cause the water ship natural down hill so we need that protection they'll go to the Border building regulations standing pbrs in Boston they adjudicated there so we hope to have obviously also yep that makes sense
absolutely the one on um 180 brille Road have we noticed or has anyone said anything about if they've started cleaning the property up yeah no so this goes back quite I me almost 15 years so this is the reg again the reg the threshold is St going be done enough
enough neighbors have enough talk about diminishing property value we have scrap yard next this is one of those situations so we're looking forward with the court Housing Court clear to clean it up yeah absolutely and if they don't clean up by those dates then there's got
to be some kind of recourse right by the courts yeah but in some case the courts could take possession from watch the clean up after that they have report to the court on every period of time so Court Cas controler gotcha all right great uh any questions no sure all
right uh well thank you very much appreciate the update have any other questions on these yeah yeah do we have one more yeah oh agenda agenda five five sorry thank you agend five is discussion of vote whether a wave fees for accessible um ramps on exterior of homes
in Freetown yeah car want to give us the run down on this one please this is a a schedule of building things this would be one we charge some $75 per ramp uh I would hope to board with the idea of maybe waving that be subing situations I don't want $75
preven be safe when they all stay La that's pretty clear yeah I didn't even know we were charging $75 fee for that so um and I mean it's not like it's a big Revenue generating item I don't think there's not that many ramps going in yeah town
no I mean as long as it's just residential right so if there's a fee Associated to a business that would be different okay yeah that's well should we put it at the discretion I mean I guess are we allowed to do is we put at the discretion of the Building Commissioner to wave it
or Council um I generally I departments can set fees select can review those but uh my concern when you when you implement discretion is that there can be a suggestion of
misuse of expression not so generally I and I think Carl has kind of described a particular circumstance uh if if you do it in a manner that's that's consistent across the board that eliminates any uh concern
about uh uh disfavoring or or somehow advant giving advantage to one individual as opposed to another so when you talk about waving fees generally um once you to inject that level of discretion it it can it can raise CH yeah what about if we do like I said
with residential and Commercial so we just wave just weave just residential then that way it's very clear cut there's a hard line that's that's a hard line as opposed to sometimes uh certain others you know you want to be
careful about how you implement that so you know it's something that uh you know certainly the board can consider and and we can review further next um depending on what policy the bo choose to the top yeah you on that absolutely what discussion would we have or would I have
we ask for that well I I don't think I'd even I think like it would just be all residential if you're putting a ramp in your house waved commercial for that to handic
yes I I mean I guess maybe I was assuming that the ramp would always be for any cap accessible has to be ADA Compliant conc concern you again um under the Thea and other regulations you
can't actually ask somebody to disclose or provide that was yeah so it does it does become more complicated if you said it's only going to be for those who can demonstrate a handicap um it's the same reason why when when when somebody asks for an accommodation you can't ask to prove
their disability so we we really you can't go to that extent that's why I was getting these hard lines as opposed to discretion because then you'd be waiting well you know does this disability allow versus that disability and you're you're actually getting into civil rights issues that uh really can complicate the
the matter that's why I would suggest if the board wants to come up with a policy or if you want to suggest a policy we can certainly review it but I I I'd like to see hard lines rather than any any injection of discretion and uh the idea of making people prove their disability
does does become very difficult yeah I think single resal residential yeah just blank it is residential and Commercial and that way so do you think the best option here I mean rather than voting on this right
now do you think if you want to get a policy together then we get that in front of the board stating that and then we can approve that policy or vote on that policy do that suggest that if Carl wants to draft it through through the Town Administrator send to us we can give it a quick review and then turn it around that is that make sense and that
that makes you happy as far as doing it that way you think that that fits yeah well that way we can back up whatever you yeah yeah we can get that on the next agenda it doesn't seem like a very complicated one right okay um are we all set there on
everything M okay great so with that so I'll move on to agenda item six uh discussion of vote on Waring Paving improvements at the highway Barn project um and we got a few bids in
right uh low bid which was looked at by our G's who is it G's GPI GP so looks like they recommended the um partlo and Sun Paving any questions or concerns no that bill I I I'm trying to remember was like
100 39 39866 which is under our like we had 150 okay yep so we good there any questions or concerns no it's needed all right so with that I'll a motion to uh award the paving improvements in Highway Barn
project to part low and Sons p a motion made second all in favor I and then um agenda item 7 this is just to approve the agreement between them so I'll intend a motion to approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and parlo and Suns Paving in for Paving
improvements at the highway Barn project motion made second all in favor I I great uh item eight discussion of vote whether to approve Bristol County Mosquito to use air sprays over Freetown for annual aerial applications scheduled
for April through October of 202 uh weather permitting everyone okay with this abely something we do every year right yeah okay so with that I'll intend a motion to approve Bristol County Mosquito to use Aerospace over free toown for annual a uh aerial
application scheduled for April through October 2025 whether permitted motion made all in favor I I now we have ambulance abatements and writeoffs so for January 2025 was $144,300
any questions or concerns on that it's good chunk it always is it really is but not much we can do about that so uh I'll end a motion to approve ambulance payments and rof for January 2025 in the 7 of1
1441319 motion made second all in favor all all we have a new snowall snow plow application for this winter um Bobby Emeral all paperwork's in
everything's good we he did do the last Forum yeah it was kind an emergency situation right questions or concerns no no they're needed yep okay so with that a
motion to approve the so CL application for the winter 2024 2025 effective as 25 2025 for Bobby and ra motion me second all in favor I I agenda it 11 uh discussion of vote sorry this desk is uh so 11 discussion
uh um the snow removal account for fiscal year 2025 I know I think we put like 100 Grand or something what did we do we do 150 150 and it's either way too much or never enough so that's just the nature of the Beast mhm and you do do we have the numbers
what we're at now I'm sorry I don't have okay yeah we were 20,000 over we 25 20,000 over before the last SN store before the last yeah so so yeah any questions F yeah needs yeah any questions good yeah it's part of
doing business we've been lucky over the years and now I got some stuff yep so y all right so with that I'll intend motion to authorize over sus spending this is no removal removal account for fiscal year 2025 motion made second all
in favor I I all right M2 this is uh discuss and vote on any recommendation motion recommended motion to the special TI meeting warrant for two for tonight 224
2025 is there anything we need to talk about there the only one is article three with the tax payment [Applause] so article three tax title yeah payment
bylaw change the language change so there's a I think there's a clerical era that it needs to be changed to and it has to be it is D2 D2 look at the second H3 right at the top it says in section
D3 but it's supposed to be section D2 got it I don't know that that's correct supposed to be D3 so like the bottom of page two and the top of Page Three yeah three it says the first says in section d.2 by
deleting there from and strike through language and insert in place there thereof and bold underling language as follows are we sure we not they're not talking about two separate sections like D3 like does it change to D2 and it
change to D3 there is okay yeah my my understand if I may my understanding is that we're making multiple changes section C1 as you see and then section2 um and there was an issue there right want yeah and then the third I
thought that was D3 I believe it is D3 I believe I checked that I I know but um from you but yeah that was my reference was
D2 oh I just see how I can conf I said sure that I checked the I changed them when I was crafting it you want me to just go ahead and yeah so in D2 you'll see that the the change all these
changes are to uh comply or or to to undertake actions that are allowed under the amended statute and they are they are intended to make it essentially easier to get these agreements and to make them apply broader broader sele of
individuals the change in D2 one of the things that was allowed under the new statute is it used to be you could you wave up to you wave you could wave 50% of the interest um and now you could wave whatever you know you wave all the
so the concern if you look on page three of the warrant at the very top it says um shall include a w of up to 50% it should be 100% no it can still be 50% if you see what we did was we allow that uh
and you would not include a waiver of Interest has already acur we're only looking at interest that acrs during the course of the agreement the problem is the up to language the attorney general has consistently struck uh agreements
that have any discretion in them so when you again this kind of gets back to our conversation just having moments ago that the the statute specifies you have to you have to specify what's going to be waved so if you're going to wave any of the interests you could wave all of
it you could wave none of it but you can't have it up to that that triggers a discretionary uh amount got we went through this this issue came up in other towns where there was there there were a couple of areas where there was some discretion and in the past the attorney
general has issued warnings and just advisories and consultant Town Council and now I've seen several where the attorney general has struck them all together so my recommendation if you want to wave 50% of the interest that acrs during the the course the agreement
just uh when when the motion is made strike the words up to so approve as written in the warrant with the the words up to uh uh deleted from uh section the new section D2 as printed in
the warant I think I think de you I most likely will have to make that motion to amend right so I'm just going to make a motion to amend the article to to strike the words up to y in the section uh under D2 right that's all you need to do
and so that make that motion as the main motion and uh uh if necessarily necessary I can explain it hopefully time that I just did and we'll just give Mike a heads up right hold up yeah I might have already actually um but yeah that's so that one
that's and I agree we don't want discretion I mean that's one of the reasons why we want this is so that no ambiguity it helps yeah makes it easier it's been sort of willy-nilly up to date like that and that's not the word that's
not the word that the BH want right nor does any of us I mean it's difficult because then personalities get involved and people I mean we feel bad we do we feel bad but this is makes it easier this is the rule and this is it that's exactly the issue and and like I said
the the the statute is is pretty straightforward and yet you know a lot of towns have implemented levels of discretion on the AG said no no this has to be because we're dealing with taxes yeah you can't have personalities and personal concerns
and I feel bad for this person I don't feel bad for that person to well then it changes as the Personnel changes right so we have so one person does it one way and then a new person com so this is much cleaner for us I agree way put
that's yeah that that would be the only change and then the only other comment here that Lan put in was under article 8 our citizen petition was the um the workplace violence policy that we have
um my thought was and you jump in Mark but is that the citizen petition this can be this can be enacted to change uh to exempt the town buildings from the state and and if so incline the select
me can always change the workplace violence policy we we have taken the position that that the select board has having control of of the the property uh and the buildings can enact and there act specific language in the
statute that talks about being able to enact stricter regulations but this is a contentious area as as you can imagine it's a local acceptance of a statute essentially be you'd be authorizing not you town meeting would be authorizing uh
individuals to bring weapons Firearms into administrative buildings uh well even you we're in we're in a school right now but you're using this as an administrative building during this meeting and so while schools are
considered prohibited areas where Firearms can't be brought into schools if you include if you exclude administrative buildings from the definition of prohibited areas and you use a building like this for administrative purposes like we're
seeing right now uh that that could potentially allow individuals to bring Firearms into the school so it does it it interesting it's not quite as straightforward as as everyone thinks did not consider that and yeah and we've talked about this a lot with uh
libraries that allow um again you have meeting rooms for for municipal purposes whereas uh some I I dealt with one where there's an ice skating rink that uh one of our municipalities had and they were concerned about that was you know tempers get hot during hocky games yeah
and so they they took the position that even though it was not an administrative building was under the care custy and control of the administration in that in that City and the city manager issued a policy saying no firearms uh we do think that there's a language in the statute
that talks about the ability to impose stricter regulations but there's a concern that if uh if if there this there could be unintended consequences is there a way there's nothing first of all there's nothing that supersedes with the schools
over as far as jurisdiction over this more than what we have in place right so if this go gets enacted there's nothing that would say because this is a school the Firearms aren allowed here regardless of how we vote and how our town hold What policies Our Town holds
again what's what's interesting is is that the sub statute talks about the ability to adopt it talks about uh um nothing in this paragraph in the statute shall limit the authority of any municipality count Department division
commission board agency or Court of the cono to adopt policies further restricting the possession of firearms in in areas under their control so there there is the the ability to further regulate not withstanding
so if if a town legally exempts from that definition there is that provision that allows other policies to be adopted but you're you you're you're dealing with an a an evolving area and area subject to challenge you know so the the
idea of accepting the statute is to allow you Firearms to be brought into buildings that otherwise would have been considered prohibited as Administrative Building there's not even a there's not even a clear definition of administrative building which is why we're talking about what's happening right now is school building by
definition is in a prohibited building you're using it right now for administrative purpose and somebody said if if the if the statute was accepted and someone said I'm not coming in for school purposes this is Administrative function town meeting and particularly
the board of sele meeting this is Administrative and so you're Now using this to transform this into an an administrative Lo now that to my mind doesn't necessarily mean that the school superintendent then the school committee having jurisdiction over this building because obviously you don't have jurisdiction I should say the Regional
School the school district has jurisdiction over this building they could impose stricter requirements but you wind up with that that possible um uh area of challenge so it is a concern I don't know obviously you know the
board has has has to decide how with whether it's going to make a recommendation on this added article you're not required to make a recommendation on added article whether going to and uh you know what considerations you give if you want to just let public debate but that's one of
the areas of concern is UN unintended consequences and a greater difficulty to say our town meeting accept the statute but uh the superintendent is imposing a policy or the board itself is imposing a policy on property that that you control
and then the other part is is this is in a different town right so we're in Lakeville right now so that that would free toown Elementary but if Lakeville hasn't adopted this even though we're using it it's
still under in Lake it run and that wow that's actually an excellent question sh because where we are in Lakeville but we're we're using this as a free Town Administrative Building and you you have you have legislative authority to have your meetings here uh your town meetings
specifically in Lakeville and and your you using this by permission as it becomes essentially an extension of free town here so the question then becomes Lakeville hasn't adopted this and and the superintendent uh imposed a stricter
policy but now Freetown is using this building it's this is open beinge open to any member of the public as a meeting of the Freetown War so you you do raise a very interesting question and uh you know this this this statute was hotly
contested on both sides as the special act it's hotly contested on both sides because it obvious it it was uh it it it came out as as a result of the the New York case where where the court struck down the New York ban on Firearms so Massachusetts imposed what was supposed
to be a stricter rule uh but uh it had you know it had this exemption and it doesn't in some ways have uh very clear definitions so that's that's the issue that we're talking about right now jar you just you point out that that definition is difficult
because you're using this as administrative if uh you if you decide to make a have a public meeting in your house and and which makes your house accessible for public well I'd be able to bring a firearm into your house if
it's Exempted by action of town meeting you know I I'm trying to take it to an extreme reason you can see unintended consequen so it's something you need to think about as as opposed to whether whether or not you believe it's appropriate and we've had the comment
made from some towns that uh Firearms have been brought into meetings for hundreds of years in this country you know in certain certain municipalities but we know people bring brought their firearms indry meetings and we haven't had a problem and I I know I have not witnessed I I I'm very well aware
Firearms being brought into meetings that I've intended and I have not witnessed an incident yeah but uh you know it it it's it's obviously a rare and and the statute was was enacted specifically to address this issue this
concern so again unintended consequences and uh uh lack of strict Clarity in this in the statute interesting it is interesting it's actually very interesting and difficult yeah it is yeah a couple
curveballs in that one yeah and and and that was the point of this discussion is you may have come in with a particular perspective on this but the curve wall makes you wonder you know where do you want where do you want to take this and and that's that's a a policy decision the selectman can always enact
a policy that uh if this gets if this gets um approved at town meeting um exempting the town buildings the the policy there is the the workplace which means the employees cannot bring gone to you can certainly have that in place but can they also say okay at any public
building you can't bring in a gun we've argued about that and again it's that language that I just read you that's actually in the statute that says nothing in this paragraph shall limit the authority uh to adopt policies further restricting the possession of
firearms under their control so that would be property that's under your control that would be property under the the district's control uh property that's under the school committee's control you know being the elementary school things like that so we're we're
we believe that you can enact and certainly from the Personnel side you can enact that so that you you other than and I've seen this quite frequently other than uh uh local Enforcement Officers your Police Department know can bring uh uh no no employee can bring
Firearms into into the building and then whether you can go further and not withstanding the acceptance the local acceptance of this statute exempting uh administrative buildings from the definition locations but you
can enact restrict policy that's the language that's in the in the statute and it seems like it gives you that ability not withstanding the action town meeting to still impose a restricting policy little bit uh possibly contradictory because it it it says you
there a legislative function town meeting takes a vote but then you maintain that executive function of a doctoral policy y clear as mud mud clear as mud clear as mud it is I did my job yeah it's definitely making a thing definitely seems like a policy needs to
be enacted after this to clarify what it is and isn't obviously I think we're all I can honestly say I think we're all Second Amendment right right we we appreciate it we we're we're for it the same time we also want to protect sure children are never in harmed in any way that I'm a firm believer guns don't kill
people people kill people so I got to look at that as well right um so it's a different yeah I'm saying it's not intended to you know take a POS what I'm saying is not intended to take a position so much as to give you an understanding of the curve B and and so
looking at it from a second amendment perspective U doesn't necessarily get you around the concern that do you want do you want uh firearms in in a building with with the unintended consequences and and what what position you choose to take and again you know selector could
choose whether to whether to take a position you're you're not you're not obligated obviously to make the motion on this uh some have to make the motion and and each one of you can speak as individuals whether the board wants to take a board position right
yep yeah all right so that's the only comments I had on yes and I mean the only thing we have in the agenda here is to vote whether recommend or not right we can't make we can't make any changes anyways to so right no just to um I guess to recommend the motion at least
on the other article on article three are you okay with me making that Mo yeah yeah absolutely yes so you have to vote on that yeah yeah vote on recommending recommending the the the amendment to the article right so
leaving the up to language yeah motion so yeah so I'll a motion um to change the language have a motion to amend the language on article three uh to remove the up to 50% part of that article if I may it is
possible de you if you discuss this with uh with with Michael he might he might do read it do it himself by saying you know it's brought my attention you know that there's an amendment and he could he could essentially read the article with the with the amendment and then if
somebody then questions it I can explain it so it might it might make it easier he's done that for us in the I think I'm sure he'll be happy to that if you approve it we we can discuss it with him absolutely might make it smoother yeah yeah okay yeah so would
that motion made the motion you said up to 50% do you want just strike up just up to so remove the words up to yeah yes that's my motion all right motion made second all in favor all right all right okay and then what I'm thinking about
for the rest of the articles I think we can um recommend all of them and then not take a position on article 8 based on the conversation we just had there's no reason for us I mean individually if you guys any of us want to stand up and
speak our piece on it um you already did you guys have already recommended all the Articles other than right so we don't maybe yeah right I know it's written here I just don't know if it's because we always do this last minute you know um so unless
there's a change but you guys have all um they have our recommended so unless there's something um you wanted to change no I don't think so so so are we good with this agend item then I think we are all right move on to agenda item 13
13 um this is just acknowledging setting up recordings clerks one Freetown ma.gov for nah Dumont and um transfer station one email address for Thomas Ashley no vote needed there just an acknowledgement we've set
up these email addresses which is great um agenda item 14 discussion on safe routs to school shared use path among Memorial Drive yeah I just I I received uh I you
should have it in your packet some information they're just looking for comments on this this is the grant that Victoria got to do that 10 foot wide shared use path on Memorial Drive um you know for people walking and bike riding we're trying to do sort of a
all-encompassing park over there so you can enjoy it and sort of tie the the walking trails together and whatnot and this is one phase of it um so it's a grant and they're they're sort of doing all over the work so it's just hey do you have any comments we're sort of
partially through this I sent it to the the board and also to the school to say is there do you have any comments because if anybody has any comments and and if anybody in the public has comments and wants to make comments Now's the Time to relay the comments so that was just that's really all that is
okay any thoughts on that no this is a great great grant to get um it'll tighten that Community nicely so looking forward I think it will I think that Park area will be really nice when we get it all done I'll take a look at that and try to see if I have any thoughts most
likely not sure there smart people looking at this so yeah all right great and then um gen item 15 discussion and vote on host Community agreement waiver requests from American so American reached out and asked for a host Community agreement uh
waiver um I'm working with uh Nicole constanzer with KP law on this because there's a lot to it American as you know has the grow facility in town but their tenant left so it's actually I don't know if it's vacant but they're not
growing at the moment and they're working on getting uh they're actually working on getting the license themselves to grow in their own facility right now they lease the building to somebody else and they need to get these host uh Community agreements in place
however the laws behind the host Community agreements changed in 20122 really can no longer get fees just for getting fees there has to be some true impact for the fees or you can just wave it all together and tell them hey
we're not going to get you know negotiate a host Community um agreement and you can just we'll just wave it I I I don't know that I'd recommend waving it at this time and that was sort of the um where we're going I I reached out to
Tim Kio from American he's going to get some information and we're going to work on putting together a host Community agreement there probably won't be any Financial impact to it but I'd still like to I'm worried about um order mitigation up there because right now
there's a 30,000 square foot building and I you know I can smell it personally some mornings you know they're proposing 20 times that so I think as if they are able to continue and grow their business as they're hope hoping to un intended
grow their business grow their business we may end up with some um we may want to be able to do some mitigation for for old control and want to have that opportunity to do that so Nicole KP LA and myself and Tim will kind of
negotiate something if I feel like he's in a rush for it so we'll probably have it on the next agenda and if we're not complete I might ask the board to give me the authority to sign theost I mean I support things but that makes sense to me I
I I think it it is in the town's best interest to keep them operating yeah especially with some recent news we we want to keep our businesses operating so um you know we don't want to get in the way of uh yeah and I think it's just Logistics at this point but with these licenses
you know they're highly regulated and they need these things so I'm working on it there's no vote that needs to be taken tonight I just wanted to uh bring it to you so um yeah I I agree and I don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by saying let's just wave this now
and then we can't have that I don't want to use the word power but you know the ability to to go back after that's kind of what counil you know if you do that then the you can't you can't negotiate anything at all yeah so although we have had zero
incidences that I'm aware of um since they've been operating up there but the smell thing make sense to me the smell thing I'm more worried about than trying to get you know a couple of dollars of Revenue lot of him somehow based on because I do remember when the they came in about that other facility on copicut
they were telling us you know the attorney that came in said that we can't get money from what you're talking about and seeing how hard it was to get the money to calculate it all out yeah I think if there's an actual impact that you can prove and that you can then send
along to them and you have to send a bill and document it then it's going to go to can I I and every year they do or every two years they send me something asking me for the impacts and I just I threw up my arms I don't have any you know yeah and honestly I I it's it is
fair that they've changed that laot because it adds a lot of yeah we weren't getting like what is it really what is it really it's really just like a when the statute when when the uh the question was originally passed and and through statutory enement there was a
concern about do impacts all kinds of impacts add added police support and added uh traffic issues and added uh activities of all sorts and the reality is so to a vast extent that that has not
materialized yeah some of the towns talk about we're going to see more road traffic to wear and tear on the roads you know kind of hard to show and even even the police uh presence has they're they're not much different than liquor stores now exactly and I
think it was just because it was it was a case of the unknown yeah and uh the state as this law has evolved State and the canidates Control Commission in particular have really clamped down on the concept of what you would collect because a lot of it became a revenue
generator opposed to and I heard you the reference to as an example revenue for rants the idea of these things these supposed to be fees fees are not to generate Revenue yeah it's not it's not supposed to be a big money maker it's supposed to reimburse the municipalities and in this case the impacts just
haven't been of of of that level of significance and uh there's a lot of litigation right now as to whether the retroactivity of uh of of the changes of the law that's that's a whole issue unto itself but going forward does become
very difficult to impose these impact P when there's no impct yeah how about water you know right now they're at 30,000 square feet give or take and they go up to 8 900,000 sare feet in the future they water right well they're pumping up they take from the well or
they got to be far no Town town so I'm less concerned about that all right their bigger problem is getting rid of that water because they've had already had a septic fail and they had to rebuild it right so they they need or yeah they need sewer and they don't have it right that
that's their biggest problem right and the over ratio obvious that's that's a natural mitigation is that's not a fe they manage which and I I got T they they do have the the things that are supposed to mitigate like it's like a NS
on the fan but I live we all live around each other you you can smell it you know now that it smells terrible but it's early in the morning and I peint all flavors yeah oh they they flavor it they they scent the the smell by peppermint
or whatever flavor of the week it is but you can still smell it I I too went to the facility and walked around and and uh it was pretty nice day of thee art but at the same time there's a lot of stuff growing and a lot of water consumption and stuff getting sucked out as far as uh odors can't control the
winds so stuff yeah all right so I think we're good on that yeah um so move on to agenda item 16 sorry I keep clicking I know I'm not supposed to click sorry for the camera uh discussion on utility leaking yeah
make sure I don't have a clicky pen next time I cannot be trusted so this is just an update to update the board there there's been um a water leak on Innovation Way That appeared I I don't
know when maybe 2012 but there's was talk about it in 2008 18 and this is a water line that was put in by the state at the request of the city of Fall River and paid for by the city of Fall River um to has to do with
Amazon I believe and that part of the road is owned by the state mot it's not a town-owned road and therefore it's also not a uh town-owned waterline yeah so like this is like deja vu for me yeah right so they the massot is concerned
about the leak because it's in the oass and of course it's dripping down and it's freezing and causing icicles and um could be a hazard and so they want to get it fixed so they're looking for the town freet toown to fix it because it's located in the town freet toown we did have a a meeting today wait wait a
second just happened on the other side of right located in Freetown but a state road and we don't on the water line so I was able to um track down the IMA with the river that talks about this particular thing that says that they will um they're going to put it in and
all the businesses on Innovation Way that get water like neon and Amazon all pay their bill to for River Town Freetown does not they're not a part of our Revol like our our water not part of our line that comes down Main Street so I did have a meeting today with mass do
at their request or actually at my request I wanted to have a meeting because I wanted to get them all in the same room but I was able to give them the IMA that pretty much says this is fa River's um issue but I just wanted to make you aware of it because I I I we
were're in this like similar situation as new bin and I'm like what is going on but I think this sounds like a better situation than new I think that we only had mot on the meeting so that mot is now going to work for R so I don't know how that will the resolution will be on
that side of it the language sounds clear but I think because we have the IMA that is active in in and it's not the I mean it's not 100% clear it says that they will um that they will bill for it and blah blah blah blah it doesn't say they will maintain it
because so um doesn't say that language anyway but it's still if you read it the intent is there and I think that we all sort of agreed so just wanted to make the board more aware actually this is going on um okay back in 18 when the leak
first arose the water is that line is actually shut down so it wasn't repaired and and they were there was questions about whether there was really leak or it's groundwater um now the dot is saying No this this is definitely a league and it's a different location so I just
wanted to make you aware that I am working with the water and SE Commissioners and of course truck is always um there to support to you know his this is not his Road um but just so you're aware if anybody complains about anything Innovation Way okay good to know
I'll keep you in the loop I appreciate it so anything else all right so we're going to adjourn this like we do after we sign up here we to go check in depd
than all right all signed All right so with without allend motion to adjourn motion second all in favor I I thank you [Music]