[Music] Good afternoon everyone. It is Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. and I will call to order the board of selectman meeting. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and will be available on our town's YouTube page. We will be
going into executive session then coming back into open session. Uh we will be going into executive session for the uh following three reasons. Mass General Law Chapter 3A section 21A7 to comply with or act under the
authority of any general or special law or federal grant in aid requirement. Specifically, General Law Chapter 38A section 22 for the purpose of reviewing executive session minutes for approval and determining whether such minutes
shall be released in the matter of approving not releasing uh the executive session minutes from 33205 and 324 2025. Uh, number two, Mass General Law Chapter 30A section 21A2 to conduct strategy
sessions in preparation for negotiation with non-UN personnel or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-UN personnel, police chief. And uh chap uh number three, Mass General Law, chapter
3A, section 21A3, to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the Freetown Police Association because an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body and the chair. So declares I do. Um so with
that, I um entertain a motion that we go into executive session. Motion made. I will second. All those in favor? I I we are now in executive session. Selewin Loes. Yes. Select Zar. Yes. We are now in executive session. There's a minute
for All right, everyone. We are back from executive session. Continue on with the meeting. So, going right on to agenda item number four. Uh discussion on whether to approve the open session minutes from
49205. Um I looked them over. Didn't see anything wrong. Likewise. Good. So, all right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to approve the open session minutes from 49 2025. Motion made. I will second. All those in favor? I I agenda item number five, discussion and
vote whether to open, add, and remove articles, close and close and finalize the annual and special town meeting warrants for 625. Well, I'm going to ask you guys to open it because we do have to make some changes to open both of them annually
and special town meeting warrants. All right. Um, so I got to call out a separate motion for that. Right. Make a motion to open them and then I'll tell you what I think we need to do. All right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to open up the uh annual and special town meeting warrants for 6225.
So, I will second it. All those in favor? I I did you do a welcome memo. All right. in here, but it didn't have the last thing here. So, the special we have to there was a there was a warn article for the water department to purchase a truck. Mhm. So, that needed to actually
just be moved from the ATM to the STM. So, from the annual town meeting to the to the special town meeting, but the warrant article itself did not change. Mhm. So, um on the annual town meeting we're where that was the only um addition I
think was just moving that to the um special town meeting. For the annual town meeting, we're just removing the zoning map change. We didn't need it. We are not changing the zoning overlay district for the um MBTA communities act. were using the
exact same PMUD overlay district that's already in place uh because that was getting a little bit crazy. And then the only other thing that I did was I added some explanations. Um I expanded the
explanation on the MBTa Communities Act article one of the annual TOW meeting just trying to clarify what's going on. Um, and for anybody that may not know about that and I want to say there was one other
explanation I worked on, the actual warrant articles did not change and I will add the veteran uh the veteran additional tax benefit information under that explanation. They total cost to the town. Um, I will add
that. So, if you just approve those changes. Um, that's really all that we have. Anything that I missed, Lan? I don't believe so. Yeah. No, I mean, it was article 12 for the truck that got moved
water. Yep. Carlos, any questions or concerns? No. Uh, those are the questions and concerns I would over I would bring up. Um, so I'm glad they're being addressed. Yeah. and clarifying number one is the let's face it the majority of our people probably going to be there for that one and probably
hopefully they stay but as far as article number one the the overlay district communities act yeah I make that as clean as possible for everybody that you're absolutely right clarifying it makes it makes it I did um I think I added um $10,000 to the fund the
purchase of the land so that we could use that for closing costs I'm wondering if we want to add to that to use for engineering cost. Um, yes. If Yeah. In case we have to do some
more extensive engineering, then I'll have the funding to at least do the engineering. Here's my problem. So, if we we so we add we don't want to get too crazy, right? Because it makes it too hard for the, you know, makes it much harder of a pill for people to swallow to look at
the number. But we got to be realistic about the engineering that could have to happen on that property, right? Um what I mean I would think an easy 50,000 easy maybe. I think so. Yeah, I think I'm
thinking more of 100,000. That's what I was thinking actually. 100,000. I think an engineer. The the property in and of itself is you know rather large. So whenever you start doing anything engineering based on it, it's going to and and for the grant that we're
receiving, they want a geotechnical study for the library, which is a little more extensive than what you would normally just digging test pits as we had talked about previously, digging test pits, right? Having Chuck go in and just making sure we're not going to hit ledge or hit anything crazy or have
soils that are not suitable. This is actually having an engineer um witness the soils, do a report, make sure I probably do a compaction test, make sure that it can hold the building. I mean, which I I don't I'm not expecting any issues with all of that, but we still have to do the work. So, I don't know if
you want me to add I would rather do a little bit more upfront and save us in the long run. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You know, they talk about this building and that there was a large a million dollars worth of sight work here because we hit ledge, right? Because we hit ledge.
Right. And that can be fixed with a $10,000 drilling to realize it out ahead of it. So So do you want me to change that to 2,550,000? Yes. And then that way and I'll I'm only one college.
I'll be honest. I I I guess I never didn't really think about that. Well, I have, but not as far as on this article. Um, for some reason, I was thinking that the library piece would cover it on their grant, but it's not for that purpose. I I I think I mean I I will
pull as much out of that as I can. Okay. Um, I'd have to go back and look at the language. Um, I'd have to go back and look at the language of the article that we did at town meeting, right? Because some of our it's our it's the grant plus some of our funds.
Um, but I don't know that it specifically says engineering for this geotech stuff. There's going to be other things that are just relative to this land as opposed to the library. No, I agree with adding more money to
it. Make sure we do it right. What I don't want is like like you said, we start digging and all of a sudden there's a whole mountain underneath us and we have to blast versus Right. And these are the things we're trying to find out before we purchase the land to make sure that it's it's good value for the town that we're not just buying
something that we can't use for the intended purpose. Right. Right. Right. And the intended purpose of this thing is could be pretty pretty vast. Like you could use it for a lot of different activities from conservation library, getting the elections out of schools,
ball fields, more open space. There's a million things this town needs centrally located so that way you know it's just going from one end of town to the other. Uh not that the town is big in that sense, but it's big enough for the people that live here, right? So keeping it centrally located is ideal for
everybody. Yeah. So no, I agree. I So yeah. So I mean I would I would ask that we do add the 100,000 to that number. I'm I agree. I think that's all that we changed. So, I'll just need a motion
[Music] to make the I want maybe make add the move the article from the ATM to the STM. Approve the explanations and change
the what article is that? change article 8 to increase the amount to $2,550,000 to purchase the land including um engineering is what I wrote.
So you just need a motion to make those changes to the warrant. All right. So, um I'm going to entertain a motion that we um move the funding for the truck from
um ATM over to the uh special town meeting that we change article uh article 8 to reflect the the new number of 2,550,000
which will include the engineering and did I I feel like I'm forgetting one just just and we just approve the additional explanations. Oh, and to approve the additional explanations um that were added. I wrote it
down somewhere. There it is. One, two, three. Yeah, you got them. So made. Motion made. All right, I will second it. All those in favor? Hi. All right. Okay. So, I'm sure we got them all. Do Do we need to do recommendations on the way? Did I I don't think we've
specifically done recommendations. Yeah, I saw that in there. And is that a different mora? Is that a different It's article six is to confirm the recommendations. Okay. As depicted on the war. So, I don't know if there's anything that they want to change.
All right. So, we can just uh vote to close the warrant. I would do the recommendations first though and then close after. Okay. Yeah. All right. So then I'll move on to agenda item number six. Uh discussion vote whether to affirm the selections recommendation for
the annual and special town meeting warrants for 62 2025 is depicted on the warrant. Um so right now basically with the exception of um all the petitions it shows that
we recommend every article um which well let's face it a lot of the articles came from us right so uh I hope we would recommend them. Um do you want us do you think we should go through each article and say whether or not I would say I was going to say that which ones do you not
want to recommend? I mean um you can take no position on the petitions. I don't um yeah I mean yeah I was going to say we take no position on the petitions right um but I mean recommendations on the petitions we haven't done that so elers in that unless you don't want to
recommend them you can just make a motion to recommend the articles as presented to you in the town meeting. Yeah. Any questions comments? No. No I'm good. All right. So with that, I entertain a motion to um recommend all
articles on um special and annual town meeting warrants with the exception of petitions that we take no no position on uh for the meeting on 62 2025. So made I will second it. All those in favor? I I
now the only Yeah, that's all set. So, the only other thing is recommending um Chuck salary and Cheryl's ch salary, both elected officials. We talked about them at length at the um meetings regarding the budget, but
but uh did we take that off? So, it does ask for your recommendation in there and Chuck's we carried over the number that he requested as your recommendation number, but Cheryl's was different cuz I had changed the number, but I I want to make sure that you guys
look at that and tell tell me what your recommendations are going to be to town meeting for cuz it does matter, you know. Mhm. It's page two on the annual town meeting. So you see Cheryl Cheryl's number the second column is what she requested. Mhm. The recommendation is
that's my number. So that's not the selectment. That was my number in the budget. That's what I I um carried in the budget. So I just want your recommendation. Now Chuck's was flat flat because like I said by the time I got to Chuck and everybody was asking for a ton of money. I was just like you
know what this needs to come back before the boards to decide. Um, well, and I think it was pretty clear with Chuck. We were when he was in front of us that we agreed with him. Yeah, I think so. And I don't I don't think anybody really fought back with Charles either. So, I just that's why I'm questioning it
because I just don't want to I'm okay with recommending recommending her about the 79 766. you guys want to just I mean she she came to us with the the work the numbers to back everything up to show
and right and that's why I say you know I was trying to kind of get her in line with the rest of but then um so I just I don't I don't want to miss speak those
were my numbers and I wanted to make sure it was that the board's numbers are on there correctly so I will need a vote for you to recommend the numbers as
requested by by the highway and park if that's what you want to do. Okay. You good, Carlos? Yes. I I I agree with them. Okay. All right. So, so with that, I entertain a motion to uh approve the town clerk and
highway surveyor's um annual salary as requested. So moved. I will second. All those in favor? I I Okay. Now, I just need a vote to close and finalize and close the annual and
town meeting. All right. So with that, I entertain a motion to finalize and close the annual and special town meeting for 62 2025. Motion made. I will second it. All those in favor? I I
think need anything that betterment number right. What? The Betterment number one for the sewer thing. I didn't get a number. Okay. It's just a blank still. That's on page five, article 11. Right. But we don't have a number. I didn't I thought you might
going to have to make a motion on the floor. Okay. So, agenda item number seven, discussion, vote whether to send a postcard to each household for the annual and special town meeting on 6225 and which format to send. So,
obviously we have um you know some big decisions to be made and I want to pack the house well and for reasons of clarity, right? and making sure that everyone knows what's going on and um you know the end of the
day this you know looking at what we have here is not a not a large sum of money in order to make sure that we get get the information out to the correct people to to not to the correct people to everyone rather. So, um I do like the
full sheet. I I agree. I think a postcard based on the amount of information that we're giving will um make it too busy and and make it so that people get lost in it.
Well, we have the MBTA Communities Act, right? And last time we did the whole back on that. That's what um Lola was showing you. And I think that we want to do something similar so that people have as much information as possible. I am going to have
anformational meeting on the MBTA MBTA communities act um prior to town meeting to try to encourage people to come and ask their questions prior to town meeting so the town meeting can move forward. Um, hopefully I can answer as many
questions as I can with the town planner prior to the meeting. So, this will be good. I'll add that information to the postcard if it if it goes out soon enough. You know what I mean? I think in May 27th is when we're talking about doing the meeting. May 27th at this right here in this room
to bring as much information as we can to people ahead of time and let them vent. And you know, we're similar to last year, but hopefully we can do it prior to town meeting for I also think there's one tomorrow, isn't there? One tomorrow as well. Official meeting from the plan. Tomorrow is the
planning board's public hearing on the MBTA TA communities act. I'll be going to that as well and trying to answer as many questions as I can. Procedurally, they're required to hold that um public hearing before it can go on town meeting for absolutely a warrant. So, they're
just uh procedurally following through what they need to do. My concern obviously is that we're going to get a lot of people that are going to be voicing their opinion about the trains and not really about the MBTA communities act. And, you know, there's really nothing I can speak to. I
although I've started the process, you know, for the um quiet zones, there's not a whole lot of information I have yet to provide, but I'll bring I'll be bringing everything that I have. Um, but you know, it's like as soon as you say MBTA, they think, "Oh, they're going to
come and talk about the horns and lot the noise." And I get it, but they're two different things. So, I'm going to try to educate people so that they don't come thinking that it's one thing when it's really something else. There will be the opportunity. I am setting up anformational session soon about the
horns and the noise of the trains. I'm just not there yet. Got to get through town meeting first, I think. Mhm. So, do you guys like the full sheet? I I like the full sheet. I also like the full sheet. I don't know that we need color. I mean, I don't I don't see the
difference between the color and not color. People just got to scan that code and all that's going to pop up. That's in full color online. Yeah. The only Yeah. Yes. And I mean, I guess Yeah. The only issue, the only part of color that I like is for that little map on the
back, but Yeah. Well, I'm assuming it would be shaded, right? If it's black. Like, what's the difference we're looking at here? Not much from the moonlight being black and white to the color of KLA. Looking at under $100. 50 bucks. Mhm. For the
color for $50. Let's go. I'd say go color. That's about $200. $200. Yeah. Well, that's right. Full sheet versus the postcard. Full sheet. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? 200 bucks is probably worth it if it's going to show on the map and then I
guess we could try and by doing that we can do as much color as we want, right? So then maybe we can make it a little more appealing to grab people's attention. So yeah, never mind. I take that I take that statement back. The
only thing I worry about here actually so folded color. Mhm. Um, weird. Yeah, but it's showing that it cost I'm wondering if these two numbers were transposed because folded
is cheaper than Yeah, cuz you're going to send it out like this. Folded, right? Mhm. And if it's one sheet, it's probably more like a card stock like this, right? You know how you get those folded folded. I'm sorry. I'm
thinking of the the the cost associated with the company folding it. Yeah. No, I I think folding it is fine. So, I like the folded part. So, all right. We good with that? Yep. Sounds like it.
All right. So, um I will entertain a motion to send out a full full sheet folded colored um
um well a full full sheet. Sorry, it's been a long day. A full sheet color folded um list uh for the special and annual town meeting warrant for
62205. Um, and then it would be to This is weird to me. All right. So, color and have it done by KLA Printing. Yes. All right. I have that motion. A
motion made. All right. I will second it. All those in favor? I I Sorry for hacking that one there. No, it's all right. We'll keep we'll keep it track. I don't know why it's so built to get out. It's simple. All right. Um, you know what? It's after it's after
7 o'clock, so I can stop moving. So, I might keep [Applause] resing. All right, everyone. So, I apologize. I have to reread everything again from the initial meeting. So,
um I am going to open a public hearing um that was continued from um April 14th. April 14th, 2025. Um Verizon New England, Inc. and
NSAR electric company DBA Eversource NG request permission to locate poles, wires, cables, and fixtures, including the necessary anchors, guides, and other such sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used in common um by
your petitioners along and across the following public way or ways. Chase Road. Install one JO midspan pole on the east side of Chase Road. J O 52 and a2. The new pole will uh be installed in
line with approximately 30 feet south of the existing pole GOP 52 and approximately 100 101 ft north of existing pole JOP 53. The installation is being requested by Eversource to
support a new three-phase ever new three-phase service to 89 Chase Road and provide for the distribution of intelligent intelligence and telecommunications in the transmission of high and low voltage electric current.
Wherefore they pray that after the due notice in hearing as provided by law, they are granted joint or identical location for the permission to erect and maintain poles, wires, and cables uh together with anchors, guys, and other
such sustaining and protecting fixtures as they may find necessary. said pole to be erected uh substantially in accordance with the plan filed here within marked A7W5EB dated February 10th, 2025. also
for permission to lay and maintain underground laterals, cables and wires and above or intersecting public ways for the purpose of making connections with such poles in buildings uh as each of the said petitioners may
desire for distribution purposes. Your petition petition. Wow. Petitioners agree that the space shall be reserved and maintained for the limited purpose of attaching one-way low voltage fire and police wires owned by the municipality or
government governmental entity for public safety purposes only. A public hearing to discuss the requested will be held on May 5th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Police Station Community Room 15 Memorial Drive, East Freetown, Mass
02717, Freetown Board of Selectman, Trevor Matthews, Jarrett Cagger, and Carlos A. Lopes. So with that, um, public hearing is now open. Um, so welcome back. I know we have a couple of familiar faces. Um
uh you know based on our last meeting there was some concerns regarding what was going to happen with it. No one really had any answers. So we said we would step back. We would try and get some answers and um you know come back before you with what was going on. Um
Deb, I know you you said you I reached out to John Melo um on Friday. I was able to speak with him. He said that he is putting in a machine that bags manure and that the three-phase is needed for
this manure bagger. And that's what he was doing and that's what he's doing in the building and that's what he needs the three-phase power for. Um, and the only other comment that I have um with Ever Source
is that u at the bottom paragraph where it says that they're going to um reserve and maintain for limited purposes of attaching oneway low voltage fire and police wires owned by the municipality or government entity for public safety purposes. I'd like us to condition that
on being able to add the fiber for any government purposes because that's what our plan is, right? We're going to be adding fiber um to our polls and I don't want to be restricted for safety, although you could say it's for cyber security. I just I don't want to get
into that kind of a an argument. I want it for government purposes. um any government purpose, we should be able to use space on the polls that go in our public uh domain. So, I'd like to see if we can change that language for
from at least condition it on that being they can't do it unless we have that caveat put in place. So, that's all I know about um Mr. Melo. He was out of town and was not going to be able to make the meeting. and um who I I asked him to send a
representative and he didn't really have anybody that he felt he could send in his place. I'm not um big into understanding much about what a machine would do. A manure bagger. I'm not sure
bags manure. Is that writing? What is it? Can you push the button on the mic on your thing that big? So is that in writing? I have nothing in writing. I don't know what the where the application is. Right. So this is this is the problem with everything. It's
hearsay because I have stuff when I I went to talk to Carl. And Carl said, "Oh, I'm going to talk to everybody. Where is it?" Nobody's here. And he said, "I want to find out about what kind of permits there." I had a request from the town to issue me permits that
were issued to that property. So how does he have the right? It's a recycling area. Where do you get the ability to recycle? It's not just for farming because for farming it's supposed to be used for the farm. Why do you need seashells to rot in the back for farming
for cows? What is what is the purpose of that? I have a letter. I thought you guys were there to stand up for the rights of neighbors. This is coming from the board of health where um Kevin goes out there. Gary probably like to see this and says there's really no odor
there. He he got out. Um he could smell he could have there's some slight odor within 50 ft, but within 150 ft there's no odor whatsoever. You've been smelling all week. There's no odor. Now, this is a town representative trying to protect us
neighbors in in a this is a residential area. If I come back here with over a dozen people that can smell it from their property, so they don't even want to go out in their yard, is that something? Because I'm telling you, this is fraudulent that someone would say because I have other town officials that
said to me it's a problem. You said he's working on it. I said after I left here, I'm like, I can't do anything on my property where I think I'm working on it because I've gotten cease and desist from the town within 30 days. You must do this or else here comes the fines.
But with him, he's working on it. I don't want to swear, but I'd love to just be like, where does this go? I mean, you guys just let anything go. I don't hold it against John. I hold it against the town and that's where I'm coming after because the next time I will have legal rep when I'm here
because this this is what goes on. I mean, when someone says you can't smell it in this this is for farming purposes, those thousands of pallets, he just told you it's for grinding manure. I got something for you right here. I saw with my own eyes Saturday morning he pulled
in a tub grinder. Okay, guess what? The tub grinder uses three-phase electric. Guess what? Um, if you look up, just a quick Google, you'd think like you guys would be looking out for us. A quick Google, a mediumsiz tub
grinder produces 66 dB of noise at 300 ft. Who the health organiza, the World Health Organization recommends general time, daytime noise levels of less than 55 dB. How far do you think he's going to run that? He's going to run at about
100 feet. So now we're going to have stink and you're gonna have grinding and you're gonna have dust and you guys are going to say, "Hey, he's just that's just John. He's just doing what?" Nothing's in writing. I mean, and nobody goes and says, "Hey, look, you got to
tell the mark, you know, truckloads of stop and shop stuff comes in there. He's not using it. The farmers around the neighborhood are coming and taking it. The stuff he brings in is supposed to be for the farm, not just a complete recycling center because, oh, it's John
and he has a farm, so he can do whatever he wants. Why is there trucks coming? But I can bring in lots of other people in town who if they're not doing exactly to the letter of the law, the town's knocking on their door saying like, "Hey, you're not supposed to be doing this. You don't have the right to do this." This is
why you don't think it's a class action suit that all of us in the neighborhood can come back here and we could go to the bank and be like, "My property is worth half the value because of what the town has allowed to happen. Who's going to buy my property? Who's going to buy his?" And all the people around where
the seagulls are everywhere and the stink is every day and you can't have a cookout. You got towner guys like you saying like, "I can smell it. People are complaining." But then you got the board of health saying there's it's not detectable. And you know what's cute about this? You know, I know a little
bit about writing reports. There's no date on it. No date. I was just going to ask you what was the date on that report. No date. Exactly. Thank you. So that's a cute way of doing it. Like I'm going to I'm going to try to do something so that I'm protected, but I'm not going to do it all the way. It's
crazy. And to sit here and be like, he just said he's going to bag stuff, so he's going to make it nice. He He But it's the town. It's you guys. It's the town. Because he's not going to do it. I could list tons of things that have been
done that are until he got caught. He didn't stop. And I I don't know where we're going with this. I mean, I'm just telling you like if if you guys think we're just going to approve this that I'm putting on record that I'm being bullied by the town into just agreeing
to something because there's no what is he doing with that tub grinder and what isn't going to start grinding all summer long and then we're going to hear that and stink. I mean, you might as well just close yourself inside your house and not come out. But yet, the tax bill comes and the tax bill keeps going up
and up and up for all of us. brand new police station, BL, everybody wants all the nice things for the town, but how about standing up for the residents? You know, I wanted to come here and say, "Hey, I was I went down to the town hall before Heidi got murdered, and I know this has nothing to do with
it." And I said, "You better do something or else someone's going to die." Guess what? It happened. We witnessed it. We lived with it. It We're taking this way too far. Yeah. No, we're not taking it far. We lived that for eight years. You guys, someone's going to hear that. We suffered for eight
years through that and nobody did anything. And now here we go. Like and now this is starting because I can tell you other stuff 20 years a when I was in this property. I'm not saying I disagree with you. I'm just saying we're taking that down a whole different road that we don't you ignored for 8 years. Well, this is we did not ignore that. But can
I can tell you you can enjoy your front yard and your backyard, right? Well, we haven't for 10 years. Okay. Well, I'm saying that we very much of this town. Okay. The reason why it said mocking argue the reason why it said is because on video you were there with the build
inspector before and talked about our neighborhood and both you guys like I think they're working. Well, I said I think they're working on it. That was always the phrase. They're working on cleaning up. They weren't ever working on cleaning up anything over there. And again, now we're going to deal with it across the street. What? I commented
that yesterday. Yes. you and the previous build inspector when it was co time and it was all on videos. Trust me, we lived there years of pictures and videos. I wasn't even here during co Yeah, we were in court with with the property. You were in
court and there was different stuff and and I'm very much in favor of trying to help people. That's why I'm up here, sir. As is he and all of us, right? I'm this is what I want. I'm not doing this to put food on my table. I'm doing this because I love this town and want to help my neighbors, right? So, um, I very
much hear you and, um, you know, that's why we continued on and that's why I'm saying I don't understand what it requires to run a machine like that, nor do I understand what permits it has to happen. As far as a board of health issue, you know, that
that's something I I I hear you loud and clear on the date thing. I I do. Um, but I I don't want to comment on something that our board of health agent said or did because well that said from the last meeting we were going to get information. Why aren't the people here?
Because they don't care enough. The people that should be here to answer those questions. They're not here because they're just like, you know what? We don't care. We don't care. I mean, we can continue it. He's in Florida for the week. And and once again, I was just about to say that that
I don't need to I I we as a board that are here today don't need to approve it, right? So I don't want you to think that I'm for someone because of who's I'm not I and I won't and and there's plenty of times where we don't rubber stamp
things. So it's just at some point, yes, are you getting the the venom of 10, you know, over a decade? Yeah, you are. But at the same time, where does it stop? Like when does somebody actually listen to me and say or to the neighborhood and
and these people like you said, you know, there's complaints and when you see this report, you know how infuriating that is when he's like, I checked it's okay. And this is the thing like we're all on Mike that's on there. But you know the talk around town, everybody has an underlying of like it
depends on who you are and how things get done and and that's just the way it is. But that's going to come to light. I'm going to bring some people that will speak. And like I said, I'm coming to legal counsel because what do I have to lose? Half my property value. I already lost it. We've lost a decade. I mean,
listen, I don't hold anyone different based on who the I have to look at the information that's in front of us as does my fellow selectmen. I can see that's what we're going to hold everybody to. It's like just be fair and that's what we're trying to do, sir. But what I would say is when when in the
past many times there's bylaws on the books and people would say they're working on it. That's not enforcing bylaws because I have if I do the littlest thing everybody drives what's Frank doing? What's Frank doing? I get something. Um you know the the other
selectman that's not here. I had an article from Excel Recycling and he said we have to live with previous decisions. it's not really our decisions. And I said, "Okay, how about now? Now you got your own decisions to live with."
Because as as far as my understanding from the article on XL recycling, it was because arbitrary decisions were made by the select. They weren't following bylaws. They weren't applying the laws equally to everybody. This seems pretty arbitrary, but there's not a permit in
front of us to run a recycling plant. That's not what's in front of us. You're getting confused. There's a permit for a to add a telephone poll. Yeah, but there's not a permit for a recycling plant and I haven't seen any hasn't come to the selectman's office. If you have proof that he's running a recycling plant, then I think that's what you need
to bring forward. But if you're just following a line of common sense, you're putting in a three-phase. I just physically saw a tub grinder. What do you think that that's recycling? We see trash trucks from XL from Easy Disposal all day. We see it. So, do I have to
bring that? And then I said I did a request from all town department heads. What permits have been issued to 89 Chase? Still haven't seen some of the things that would allow those activities that. So that's a different issue, right? That's a zoning enforcement issue
that you need to bring to the zoning enforcement officer because putting a pole in doesn't mean I I've had three phase to my house. I not running a recycling plant. it just because we allow this and I'm not telling them what to do, but I'm telling you this like I understand your argument. I understand
what you're saying that you believe he's running a recycling plant, but that he hasn't applied for a permit that has come before this board. He if he's doing that, then certainly is an issue. Um I I'd have to go back and check the zoning, but that the zoning enforcement officer, you certainly need to talk to
Carl and the zone, you know, the zoning enforcement officer and say, "Look, this is what he's doing. If there's no permits, then he will take action about that. I did talk to Carl. That's what I just said to you before. I heard you say that. I did say it. Here's the information. So, so I guess here here's
my thought because we're just going to spin ourselves in circles. Is I'm going to continue this again until we can get a representative in here for the property. Okay. And and because I I mean I don't know what else to say. I have to
go based on I say I I think we have to go based off of what we have in front of us. I have you saying one thing and then this other thing that's just basically to Debbie's point is we're really not deciding on what's going to happen back there. We're deciding on whether or not
to allow the three-phase onto that property. It's a a poll. Exactly. So where that's what our jobs are. So sometimes what it is but I also agree with you. I will say I agree with you that you have to live sometimes with decisions that were
making made in the past. So we try to as a board very much so look at things from every angle but we also have certain things that we can and not can and cannot do on this board. There's certain things I can't make a decision that Kevin can make on board of health
because what I do is completely different from board of health. Carl can make decisions that I cannot touch. What I can do is certain things. One of the things is is I can grant or not the ability for Eversource to put it I keep saying I
we to put in and put it in poll that will support this three-phase. But if it makes you comfortable what I'm saying is is we can wait until because I guess how do I deny them on on what grounds? Because there's also the the other side
of it you're looking at it from your side. I guess I look at it is do we get sued from them for not allowing them to put in the the poll. He'll say I need this poll. It's within my legal right. You want to you just need to speak for
me please. I know you I did research the next day. I spoke to Verizon. I asked them can you please speak to Everource of everybody's concerns what's the power needed for and so on. Their legal teams reviewed it and came back. We had no
legal rights in knowing what the power is being used for. Just like if they were ordering cable TV from Verizon, we don't have any rights to knowing what channels he's going to watch it. You know, not trying to be smart, but so it, you know, every source takes our three-phase is not uncommon, especially when you get into these town towns with
lots of farms. It's actually more common than you would think, but they're like, "Yeah, we don't have the right to ask him and demand from him what what he's going to use the power for." So, it puts us in an awkward position because it's just a standard order. Somebody's ordering power or Verizon, you know,
fiber services and whatnot and and that's all I can speak to. So, I'm I'm glad you were able to speak to the gentleman because we also didn't have the right to demand them to come in. Right. So, I tried to call the town um about a week and a half ago. or I spoke to somebody in the select board's office
to the person who I left a message for was on vacation, but to let them know that we can't demand the property owner to come and do what we can deny it for. My guess is um you can deny it because it's in your in the town owned property.
So, you can deny the poll. The issue is we generally don't deny polls. So, I think that we would need something other than the fact that we don't like what the gentleman's using it for because that's a different issue. We can issue the poll, the three-phase can go in. If
he's using it to recycle, which is not allowed, they can still shut him down whether he has three-phase or not. I think that, you know, to deny a permit such as this, it might be something like a safety hazard, like a it's a road hazard, it's in the way, it's going to cause accidents, things like that that I think would be more appropriate to deny
this type of thing for just as a precedent. But I can research that a little bit further. But I will ask you to go back and ask for the language that I just asked you for because it's not in here at all. Doesn't even talk about the language that was in our public, right? You know, our public notice asking for the town's permission to use it for any
government purposes. um because I wouldn't sign this as it's written anyhow, but I can further research and have that. In fact, I was thinking maybe we do it on town meeting night because town council will be here. So, we have our town meeting is June 2nd
and we always have a meeting beforehand. So, that's what she's referring to. Town council will be there. So, then we have that representation at the same time. Because listen, you might think that we're against you. I'm not against you. I care about my neighbors. I've lived in
this town my whole life. So, I just need to look at things from both sides of the coin where I don't want to upset my neighbors, but I also and but we also don't want to be sued based on some simple mistake that we make now. So, I think I I worry
that's why I worry. Okay, do I if I say, "Okay, you can't have this." Well, then we get sued and then now we have to send legal counsel in to deal with this and we're paying them and then in the end we still have to put the poll in. So, my concern is the opposite of that. I don't think that you're out to get us. What I
do think though is so many times in this town I've been told whether it's police, town officials, whoever, we didn't know that. We didn't know that. Now, there's been, again, I have to bring this up. There's been bonfires 20 feet high right beside me. Oh, I didn't know that. And
town officials have to drive by this that property every day to get except the police station and the town hall. I didn't know about that. That's the problem. It's like now I'm here. I'm letting you know and I'm not going away because I'm tired of everybody saying like, "Oh, I wasn't aware of that." And
so when I tell you that this three phase is going there for the tub grinder, it's going there for a tub grinder. at this point and and don't take what I'm saying as being accusatory. I I'm just saying that I don't I need proof of that, right? Like I don't I I'm going based
off of you saying, "Hey, I saw this." Well, they can say, "Well, hey, we didn't we didn't bring it in." Now, it's like So, I'm just saying I'm listening to you because we have videapes. Okay. So, what I'm saying is I'm listening to you. Y and I'm saying we'll continue this on and tell them that we need their
representation there to tell us what they're doing. So that way we have everything right in front of us telling us right. I I yeah I think um was just with Yeah, we can have town council but the way I was talking about you know
town meeting time frames are tight. Do you want to do do you want to do it that night or not? I just you know tight we are for time. Well then we need to make sure we have town council here. Right. Basically right. Town council will be there. I just I don't want to rush this either. Right. That's going to be a hectic night and this this needs
attention. So I I look at it like this. Right. I'm listening to what you're saying. I wrote down most of it. Right. We do care. Right. At the end of the day, it's a cow. Cow smells. Cow takes a crap on the ground. It's going to smell. You're talking to a kid who I grew up. I know. I know. I'm saying like overall
like at as a farm things smell, right? So, are they trying like I'm I'm going through logically like are they trying to read? So, I'm looking at So, I did Google this tub grinder. It's massive. Is it on wheels or tracks? Do you remember? It was pulled by a semi. A semi. So, it's it's the big ones. Yeah. So, yeah. I'm concerned about noise as
well. Going in there at 1:45 in the morning. Shady business. So, let's all take notes here then. What about the seashells? What's the purpose for that? And is that allowed? That is there a reason for sea
cells on a dairy farm? Uh I five acres worth seashells. That's in the report. Five acres. Mhm. No smell though. There's no smell from five acres of seashells. Fruit that just sits in. And and once again, we're going down the the and I'm not trying to kick it off,
but we're going down a board of health issue, right? Where this guy's board of health. I understand, but you can't w I understand, but I'm saying this like to protect him. He can't talk board of health issues right now because he's only one. He doesn't have a quorum. He
He's not on I'm just We're talking here. So, because I was told that selectmen issue permits. Is that true? Yes. permits. So then yeah, some I shouldn't say that. So So when I say to you what permits have been issued and the last time we did talk, so like a building
permit and stuff like that is not through us. There's certain I'm not stupid. I know I'm asking about permits to do different business there. And last time we were here, he said, "We're going to check that." And you got you're a selectman, so why don't we know the permits? Because I had town clerk send
out a a notice to all all town uh officials markets request. Yeah. and don't have any response. No response from selectman. When was this? Do you know it? It was on the 5th. They gave two. No, I'm sorry. It was It was It was given two weeks.
So, the deadline is 512, but it was two weeks from 512. I'm looking right now. I got something from you, Len. So, I am from there. Yeah. So, you got the email. So, I got something from you. Did she say that there weren't any permits? I just We
just don't have them. And I don't have that's why I'm saying I answer the public record. So I get Yeah. So you represent the selectman is okay. So then what I'm saying is then it there's no permits for anything but a dairy farm. That's all that says. This is dairy farm. There's
no permits through our office. So there's no permits for recycling. There's no permits. So that's there's no road opening. The permits that we issue. We don't have any. you should be getting an answer from the other departments on what permits they I guess what I'm saying is if there was something that
was of the nature of recycling it would come through the select well I don't think we allow recycling so or whatever is going on so if it's a farm what are the guides to a farm because when you look it up legally it's everything that
goes in there is for use of the farm not use of of anything I want to do with it it's just like an open window and that's The reason why I'm making us think about an electric pole, I really don't care about the pole. What I care about is once that's in, then I can do whatever I want and nobody here seems to care about
whatever else he is going to do with it. And like I said, it's not him, it's the town. Why is nobody saying like, "Hey, this is a residential area." He has Janice Murray Way where Preferred Concrete is and there's just piles of of
gravel and nobody's down there and he could crush all the stuff and he could do whatever he wants. There's probably three phase down there. Why not there? The town never said, "Hey, you already have a spot for that. Not even two miles away or let's say two miles away, but let's put this in a residential
neighborhood and ruin all the residential because we haven't put up with enough already over." That's the point here. It It's the common sense of like the neighborhood of like you wanted a nice police station, you want things good for this, but like the rest of the town like too bad. It's we're not
looking out for you. And that's what's going on. That's what's going on. I I mean it's So I guess And like I said, this is definitely proof. I I'll be I'll give this to you if you want to read it. Okay. Yeah. I am curious to see which one that is. I'm going to bring it right
up. I don't have it. Like I said, I don't have I mean Kevin's embarrassed of this because he can't he can't print this and honestly believe what he says. So he just did it as a friend. Thank you. You're welcome.
I I I refuse I don't want to put words into Kevin's mouth about what he did or or or comment on that. I'm just saying, you know, that's so anyway. So, all right. So, if you want to do a town meeting night because you that's my only, you know, Yeah. No,
you you bring up will be there. Kevin will be there. They all have to come to town meeting, but we don't have a lot of time like this conversation wouldn't happen. You can do give us the time like but I know your time is valid. Like so how do you guys is there ever a special meeting? Is it something we have to pay
for to say we need to meet with the town? I don't want to be cutting you short because I don't want this where we're like well we can't speak about it cuz he's not here and we can't speak about it cuz he's Well, no. I think we're just doing it based on your your concerns and ours as well, right? Where we want to make sure that we get
everyone the answers and and do what we can legally do. And hence that's why I'm I'm agreeing that okay, let's get representation from him there. But I also want our legal counsel there because I don't want to go down the time
another idea of we're going to be sued from residents. You think so? Or or the business, right? So I'm trying to do and make sure that we do everything and and we pride ourselves as being as transparent as possible with stuff with everyone. So um So, we're just trying We
have a meeting May 19th. I can I can't ensure that town council can be there, but I can certainly vet the information through town council. As you know, I am capable of that piece of it and we can require Kevin and Carl to be present in
the conversation and ask Mr. Melo to send a representative. We can do that on May 19th. Yeah. and and let's try and get either council or or one of their representatives here, you know, to zoom in maybe once. Yeah. Worst case, zoom in here. Can I ask a question? Just more
curiosity than anything regarding a tub grinder. Let's say I'm going to play the advocate here for a second. That is the case, right? Three phases come in for a tub grinder, keep it charged, whatnot, or move it around. Now, if that does reduce the smell, right? Let's I'm not saying that what whatever it's for. If
it doesn't, I I don't know. First time looking at one right now and I kind of want to play with it more than than look at it, right? I want to see how it all works. But I can only imagine how loud it is, right? Cuz you're grinding things away, right? Rock, shells, he's going to grind those pallets, which you guys can all see as you drive by.
There's how many thousands of pallets there? That's what he's going to grind. Oh, yeah. It does grind pallets. Yeah. I'm just looking. I'm just going through the images that you told me. I know a few things. So, so thank you for bringing that up to our attention. You know, that's now when I hear grinder, I'm thinking it's picking up cow patties and it's composting it and it's reducing
smell. It's a win-win for the neighborhood. This grinder over here that makes mulch. Think of that. Okay. And then throw pallets in it. It's a good good perspective. Yeah. And grind. So, I think I I hate having to keep rehashing this, but I think I want to be
clear. So, me too, sir. Like, honestly, I do. I know. So, um So, all right. So, um, yeah, I I guess I'm going to can as the applicant, are you going to be available on May 19th or June 2nd? Um, I
will do my very very best. You get time and a half for this? No. Sadly, no. I get to drive an hour and a half to get um try to do Zoom. I want to make everybody happy. Yeah. Can you come in on Zoom? Yeah. Maybe we're going to do a Zoom option, so that might be easier for
you. Yeah, that would be great because it's not fair demand the property owner to come down. So, you know, it would be wonderful to I don't think that we can demand it either, but we can request and I think if he wants to get this in,
he'll he he'll make himself available. He is out of town. I I so I think otherwise he would be here. Um but if we do a Zoom option then at least you're not driving. Yeah, that would be it'd be wonderful. So either day, both dates, I'll make myself
available. I would love to see this wrapped up everybody happy. Yeah. Yeah. That it's not you. Trust me, if I think you should just be able to be like rubber stamped at home. Uh you don't need But so um there So I'm going to I am going to say we go to the 519 meeting
because um I I don't want to cut people short. Cut people short. Yeah. Yeah. If we could for the next meeting get a detailed explanation of what the three phase is for. explain why what the grinder is for, what the all the uses is that's going to be for so that we have a clear understanding and no questions are
being asked at last second. Um, raise them, please do. Please, the seashells. Ask the sea about seashells. How does that legally apply to a dairy farm? I don't know that there's any rule against bringing seashells into your property, though. Are you serious? I am
serious. That is a bio. That's bi biio material. You can't bring biomass in to decompose. That's what it's for. It actually in his report it says it's a compost pile. So you're bringing biomass into an area that
didn't belong there that's not for the cows that has no other purpose but to make money. I'm just telling you I don't think there's anything in Arizona by laws that doesn't allow but that's a cow decision. So it's a compost. So, um, you know,
hopefully we can get the right people here and the third time's the charm. Um, so all right. So, with that, um, because that's not going to let up. The the the issue of his property is not going to let up until it's known of like what is the what's, you know, what's the limits
here? Just anything goes. Anything goes just cuz why are the trash trucks coming and going? That's why you put that on your list. Trash trucks. Trash trucks coming and going. There it is. Oh, that's that's I have question. Disposal. Yeah. What's that all about? What about
dirt bikes and smells and I mean it's not cow farm, but All right. So, because I'm on a point if I hire an outside someone to do the health inspecting and then then I'll come with couple dozen people signed up
to say this stinks and then let Kevin say, I mean, maybe Kevin's got a nose problem. I don't know. But at some point, stop stop patronizing us and telling us that everything's fine. Exactly. Cuz I Well, I don't think that's the intent of trying to patronize anybody. I I Well, it's not fine, but
when Kevin writes a report that says it's fine, I'm not going to get over that. I'm not going to get over that. I I can respect that. Because you try to go out in your yard on a Saturday afternoon when the sun is shining to have a cookout and it stinks like rotten seashells. We always thought it was Heidi's house. It's not even closed. No
longer here, right? for her community that well I I don't care if you talk to people that work in the post office that are postal like that drive the postal truck that work in the town I could just name people but I'm not going to bring it up on this and then when you say to me like oh seashells it's okay I'm like
how about the common decency of the neighborhood okay so we're not going to and I I appreciate it um but we're not going to yeah that's fine we're not going to we're not going to solve anything else so you guys your email is public, right? Yes, sir. So then I will send some other
things to just say please these are the bullet points that we're looking for. Mhm. Because like you said, the purpose of this is not to come down here and yell at you. The purpose is to say I want to be heard. We need answers and we want it done fair for everybody. I've
said to John's face, John, make 10 million. I don't care. Just don't destroy the neighborhood. But that goes in one ear and out the other. So now I'm here to say to you guys, help protect the neighborhood. That's what I'm saying. We hear you. So I'm not here to All right. So with that, um I am going
to uh continue the public meeting notice to the well this public meeting till 519 2025. Do I need to do I need to do a motion for that? You think 7 o'clock? Oh, at 7 o'clock at the Freetown Police
Community Station. All right. So, back to um you have to make you made that motion. All right. So, yeah. All right. So, I that's what I say. I'm sorry. I was asking whether I needed a motion for that. So, all right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to continue
um the um public hearing to 519 2025 at 7:00 p.m. uh at the Freetown Police uh community room. So, moved. I will second it. All those in favor? I I You know what that means? I think you're
bringing coffee next time. Third time. That's on you. It is single deo. It is single deo. So, thank you guys. I appreciate it. It might be online. No, I mean I just I want it to just be able to be used. You had it on the
public notice. I don't know where that came from. I'm I'm actually down here representing my other colleagues. This is her project. Lucky you. I I just want to make sure that I I'll remind her that hey, please have that
in. Yes. So, so this says, "Your petitioners agree that space shall be reserved and maintained for the limited purpose of attaching one-way low voltage fire and police wires owned by the municipality or governmental for public safety purposes only. I want that to be
changed that we can use space on the pole for any government purpose because we are in the process of putting fire to connect our buildings to each other. Um, not necessarily just police and fire. Yeah. So, you can tell your your account
only I'm saying general government your account. Yeah. For for uh for our government purposes and for government purposes only. So, it's not to sell. Yeah. Yeah. It's just so that we can connect our use space on the post to connect. I can't tell you that you have
the answer because I didn't want to tell anybody that hey legally we're not entitled to that information. So, I'm so happy. Oh, he I mean he was he was pleasant. He was going out of town. So, um I think he would have come otherwise. So, we'll get him here if possible and we'll go from there. Feel up to
everyone. You as well. And thank you again. I do worry that you know I wouldn't want you guys getting sued over the property owner like you can't demand demand what you use in the power force. I hope every other patient uh
they provided help protect it again. Mhm. Yeah, we'll do our due diligence. Sorry, sir. And thank you again and I apologize. I mean, this is the ugly part of my job. This is where I don't get to
see the ugly part. Good luck, everyone. You as well. Thank you. All right. Do you have um where you can send the Zoom link? Yep. Okay. All right. Agenda item number eight, discussion and vote whether to approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and Coastal Medical Building uh for ambulance and billing
services 71 2025 through 6:30 2028. Um it looked pretty straightforward. I was trying to get to the the board already awarded it to Crystal and it's a 3% that's what it was. All right. All
right. So, um, all right. Any questions or concerns? No. No. All right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and Coastal Medical Billing for ambulance billing services 712025 through 6:30 2028. So, moved. I will
second. All those in favor? I I agenda item number nine, discussion vote whether to approve the public entertainment on a Sunday license for St. John Newman Parish annual Lakeside uh Lakeville I think it's supposed to be
Lakeside Festival on 520 25 20 25 2025 from noon to 11:00 p.m. So anyone who's lived around here knows that this has been a well attended event for a long time. Um and they did the
right thing and made sure that they got their permits to be able to have music and everything go on. Um, on the Sunday I looked and it looks like everything here is filled out correctly and
uh it's for amusement rides, car shows, live music, and miscellaneous performers. So, I look forward to it and hopefully it's a well attended event again this year. Any questions or concerns? I was just
reading the Fiesta Shows right after amusement rides unless someone does the same thing. Yeah, the I think Fiesta Shows is the company that brings in all the rides. Yeah. Any questions there? No, that's I'll be there. Come on down, folks. All right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to
approve the public entertainment on a Sunday license for St. John Newman Parish uh annual Lakeside Festival on 5:25 uh from noon to 11:00 p.m. So moved. I will second it. All those in favor I I agenda item number 10
discussion vote uh to list out specific street names designated Minnesota behed in attachment A per Mass DOT request and to authorize a town clerk to send a letter to the mass DOT listing these streets. Uh, so if you remember,
we um decided to change it and make it that it was a neighborhoodwide event that everywhere need to be 25 miles an hour. Uh, and it looks like we were um they came back to us and asked us to put in
um the specific streets to them. So, um it's really just a procedural thing to fix it just to make sure that we have all the streets attached. Absolutely. So, um I do have a proposed motion that I'm going to read off. Um I move that
the board of selectment formally designates the following streets as comprised in the Aona Bay Shores neighborhood for the purpose of establishing a thickly settled district pursuant to the Mass DOT regulations in accordance with the board's prior vote to implement a 25
mile per hour speed limit in that area. Ason Boulevard, Baker Street, Beach Street, Berkeley A, Bonav Vista A, California Avenue, I should say a Bonav Vista Avenue, California Avenue, Causeway Road, Central Avenue, Cliff
Drive, Cove Lane, East Public Street, Evans Street, Glenn Street, Gull Lane, Hollywood Avenue, Idol Way, Lock Lane, Nevada Avenue, North Hillside Street, Point Street, Short Street, South
Hillside Street, Valley Street, Washington Street, West Public Street. Further, I move the town clerk to authorize to submit a revised certification letter to the Mass DOT listed listing the affformentioned streets.
It's a lot of streets for a small area. It is. Well, I uh I entertain that motion. I'm sorry. I make that motion. All right. I will second it. All those in favor? I I. And some of those streets, if you can do 25 miles an hour on them, God bless you because my
street's about 200 feet long. So, agenda item number 11, discussion and vote whether to accept the following donations. A, $50 from Steven Vincent for general support of the Council on
Aging. Um, and then B, $50 from Romeo and Deborah M Messier. I should have known that for general support for the Council on Aging. Um, so pretty straightforward and I uh obviously want to thank both
parties for the donation to the Council on Aging. Um, absolutely. So with that, I entertain a motion uh to accept uh the following donations as read. A motion made. I will second it. All those in favor? I I. Agenda item number 12,
discussion and vote whether to create a a committee to make rules and regulations for harbor, shellfish, moorings, and other waterway related needs. So this is in regards to, you know, last year the harbor master and the issues that we had with the harbor and not
having any rules and regulations in place. And we um have um Mr. Ganon Ganon from Somerset, but you know, he kind of only said he would do this temporarily. It's becoming boat season yet again. So,
I thought I don't know who's he's given us copies of rules and rags that we can start with, but who's going to solidify these and come up with them? So, I didn't know if it's something that you think we should get a committee together um of of those people that um either
live, you know, live on on the uh bay or the ponds or whatever and and those people that also have boats and that use the way the waterways to come up with rules and rags that make sense for the town. I'm not sure where you want to go with this, but believe it or not, it's
been probably almost a almost a year. It's crazy. Time flies and you're having fun. I know last time we we got the was it Somerset Swansea. Yeah, that's who she's talking about. Yeah. So, he I know I was looking at it yesterday. All right. Cuz I still have the paperwork
that we printed out from what he did in those areas, the brand new ones. It wouldn't it be in my head I'm looking at it going instead of having I think the residents at some point need to get involved in it. But I think we establish the baselines right to get the standard operating procedures
in place based on what local localities have done. then take it back to the resident and say, "Hey, this is what we're proposing. What is what don't you like or or do you like about this?" Right? Because I think we do it the other way. We're going to get a lot of feelings involved in that versus the law. Let's get the laws out of the way
first before So, you want me to draft draft policies based off of other towns or I'll work on Well, there's some I'm sure there's some generic language in there, right? take the generic language from those drafted policies from other towns right as a baseline at a minimal so that
we have a good foundation as how do we move forward next because what I can see on this because everyone's from previous experience dealing with this right or hearing about this we have a lot of passion passionate individuals that want to be involved and and want to help in one way or the other which is great and
I encourage that but there's already established procedures at other towns so instead of reinventing the wheel let's take the wheel land leave it here right and and adopt from based on the generic information based on those and then if there's something unique to Son Bay
shores or wherever I'm going to draft them based on other towns. Okay. Then I'm going to set up a public hearing or something here for discussion and invite those people that we know are interested, but open it up to town people that want to come and make
comments or or even put it up on our web page or something for a comment period for those issues that they want might want to address. Yeah. And then we can hash them out. Yeah. I actually like that because then I started thinking of well like we need to then make up we need to become we need to do a makeup of
a board. Yeah, right. We need to we need to give that board a charge. We need to go through all that stuff for them to be able to make recommendations to come back to us for us to do stuff and then we have to have a public. So, I almost like that that we come up with something
ahead of time generic in nature and then have people come in kind of hash it all out and then I think it'll make things a lot faster. Okay. And and I actually think as much as it seems like it, I think it'll actually create less work long run probably. But I just I just
need to get it moving in some direction that we don't you know, as you know, we've been doing nothing but creating policies since I've been here for 3 years. So So I guess moving, you know, he did give us some literature, but do we go to him and see what he has like in
his current town and he did? He did give it stuff. I do have stuff and I can always pull from I mean I can pull from any town you know towns are towns are generally gracious let's just like us when other towns ask us for stuff we give them what we have um if I ask you
know one of the other towns like say Plymouth they must do a lot of voting and stuff I can say hey can you send me yours and we can pick through it I can pick through it and I mean we do that with everything right you pick through you pick and choose what makes sense to you see what kind of the commonality is between everything and start with that and then find the things that might be a
little bit different but Then Somerset might have some stuff that's similar to your point and then so we can start that process and schedule a meeting sometime in maybe July because we're just so busy. And then um invite the people we know that
are interested and try to get it out there publicly that we're going to have this meeting. So if anybody and I can always post it like I said for comments too. Hey, make if you can't come to a meeting, make the comments and we'll address them at the meeting. Yeah, I think I think longterm that that's a better, easier solution. Okay. Yeah,
we'll save us some time. Um, so, all right. So, based on that, um, I don't really need a motion. I was going to say I really don't I'm not going to make a motion to not recommend it, right? So, it doesn't make sense. So, all right. So, I'm just going to leave number 12 alone.
uh discuss uh 13 discussion vote on awarding the request for quotes on voting boots. So this um we got some quotes that came
in. Looks like only one quote, right? She sent it out to three and she received one. Got one. Yeah. All right. So makes it easy to vote on who. Right. So, the only one we got back was from Castow and
Harris. Looks like the final amount is 16,467 and she had um she did have some grant money that was that she had um so she she can cover everything through her own
budgeting process. Little I don't see anything else. I'm just wondering what they are. I know they're voting booths. Yep. That's all they are is voting booths for $16,000. I'm just wondering if like say this so
rudimentary wouldn't a blanket cover people or like a little partition. Well, based on the way that voting rules and regulations are now, I can guarantee that it's probably far more in depth than we would like to think about it. I
I'm sure it is. I'm just I can look it up if you want me to. Didn't include that in here, but there's 36 voting booths um with metal metal booths with plastic privacy panels and then three all metal. I mean, listen, it's it's pretty much all grant
funded, right, based on what she has. So, it's done. I mean, it's not not that I want to be frivolous with money, but I'm just saying that it's not like it's coming. Yeah. And I was just wondering like, you know, what the what their purpose. I'm sure there's rules and regulations for them, but then I start thinking go down the rabbit hole of
where we're going to store them, who's going to move them. It my head's out spinning. When I look at 39 metal plastic booths, I'm assuming that that's pretty much like replacing what we currently Okay. Right. Cuz that's kind of what those are. Okay. So, they fall
over. You know how they wobble? Yes. I'm trying to see. I want to say in something she submitted there was pictures, but I don't I don't I only see the She's pretty frugal things, too. So, if she's getting them, there's a need for them. But if you're saying that we're getting rid of the old ones, these are the replacements, then I don't know
if it was in the quotes. I saw pictures though. So, yeah, I didn't see anything on here. Yeah, it's just that one quote. Um, all right. So, yeah, I mean, at this point, I say it, but it is what it is. It's, you know, we only got one quote and um to your points if she needs them,
right? And what we're going to go with. So, all right. So, um, with that, I entertain a motion, um, to award, um, I I entertain a motion to, um, award
the request for quotes for, uh, voting booths to Castow and Harris. Motion made. I will second it. All those in favor? I, I. Agenda item 14. discussion and vote whether to approve and sign the quote uh between the town
of Freetown and Casto and Harris for the voting booths. So, do you want to see what they look like? I did look it up. They come to As soon as you see them, you'll be like, "Oh, those are that's what we're talking about."
That's what I figured they were going to be. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Okay. That's obviously people at home can't see that, but it's a very straightforward. That's what there's there now, which is updated. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, all right. So, back to
agenda item number 14. I I called it out. Uh, yes. Uh, motion made. All right. I will second it. All those in favor? I I. Agenda item number 15. Discussion. vote whether to approve the agreement between the town of Freton Freetown and
Netrospect LLC for IT supports services effective 7125 through 6:30 2026 um you know this was an existing contractor that we've used and yeah everything's pretty
straightforward just to update to the um to the agreement. Yeah, plenty of it in town that needs needs some work. Well, stuff that Lann can't do. She does plenty over there. So, all right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to
approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and Metrospect LLC for IT service uh IT support services effective 7125 through 6:3026. So, moved. I will second it. All those in favor? I
I uh agenda item number 16, discussion vote um to designate the COA library community building community building committee to act on the selection's behalf to uh select the OPM and designer
for the COA library building project. Yeah, we're not sure we can do this because Carlos is on this. Oh, she won't be able to vote on the other one. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Put it on the next meeting. Yeah. So, all right. So, um move it to the next meeting. I'm just going to I'm going to pass on that. That's a That's a good call out.
Obviously, man, she called that out. Thank you. We're going to pass on that. And now I am going to pass it over to you. Thank you, sir. All right. Agenda item 17, acknowledging the resignation of Sharon Dorian as senior librarian effective 611
2025. Thank you, Sharon, for your service to Freetown and the library. Uh item agenda 18, discussion of vote where to approve the following appointments. A through E. A. Patrick Lee as acting sergeant on a 42 schedule effective 51 2025 through 6:30 2025. B.
Lauren Goyette as beach and boat ramp seasonal manager effective 62 2025 through 93 2025. C. Harrison Goyette as seasonal parking control officer effective 5:15 2025 through 93 2025. D. Jameson Buyers as seasonal parking
control officer. effective 5:15 2025 through 93 2025 and E Joshurey E. Simmons as labor for highway effective 56 2025 through 6:30 2025 uh pending um is that a background and employment
checks are all verified and all set prior to um his effective date. That said, any questions, concerns or comments? All right, very straightforward. Thank you. That said, I entertain a motion to approve the appointments read as item agenda 18 A
through E. Motion made. All in favor? You got a second. A second. All in favor? I I thank you. All right. So, now we're ready to sign some some documents. Y This one's just famous associate
agreement. Lakeside festival. You're going to get most tonight. What do you mean? Voting booths just for you. That is retrospect for both of you. This is the
Did you happen to see the email I forwarded you regarding the Tuesday lunch program at the COA? Yes. So it'll be in the paper or back. It's going to be Yeah. highlighted in um Massachusetts updated age and dementia friendly action
plan from the state. So it's, you know, accolades to Rebecca and her team over there at the COA for knocking it out of the park with that program. Um that that's, you know, like a badge of honor and uh No, and and to your point
is it's it's what they should be it's nice for them to uh get recognized. Yeah, it is. And you know, it's a lot of work that's gone into that and and it's an you know, it's definitely a team effort over there. Um so I just wanted to mention it to you. I know I sent it
to you, but I Well, you did. I just want her to, you know, I told her to pat herself on the back that and and her home team, you know, she'll say that it's a team effort and it and it it very much is. When you go there, you can tell that it's a team effort.
So, um I I like ending stuff on a positive note. Yeah. And it's always nice when um you get funding and it and you use it and you knock it out of the park, right? Like cuz then they want to give you more. And so, uh kudos to that team over there. And I don't know if you saw this
week the picture that I took with the fire department and Senator Rodri's um and all of most of them in their new their um turnout gear that uh Senator Rogers was able to fund for the fire department of $65,000
except you know the chief didn't get himself a new outfit but everybody else got new outfits and they were uh shout out to uh Bugsy Stevens Auto because they allowed them to use their yard. They set up cars for them, one on the one on their roof, one on the side, so
that they could test their new equipment and and train on how to open cars and do whatever they were doing. So, um, that was real, really nice of them to allow us in their yard to to do that. And they and like I said, they even set the cars up for the fire department to work on.
Awesome. So, that was a fun time. I was I was there. Um, did you have to use any of the equipment? Huh? Did you get in there? Did you use any of the equipment? I I didn't. Um, I didn't. I'm I have my own equipment so that I can play with if I want. I'm sure my brother would say, "Hey, go to
work." But no, I didn't. All right. I think I'm done signing. All right. Anything else? Yeah, that was it. I think those are the two things. I'm I'm I'm losing my steam, so I might have forgotten something, but that's okay. So, all right. So, with that, I
entertain a motion to adjurnn. A motion made. I will second. All those in favor? Bye. Bye. [Music]