okay good evening everybody it is Monday March 10th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. and I'll call to order the Freetown Bard select meeting um this meeting will be recorded and will be available on the town's YouTube page um we are going to go a little bit out of order today um we're
waiting for selan Lopes he is stuck in traffic so uh we're we're going to go for the gend item two this is discussion and vote whether to approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and Gman p u Pon Inc GPI for survey site planning
procurement uh and Construction Services for improvements for existing walkways and walls um by the front entrance to free toown Elementary School yeah so if you remember at the last town meeting we um had an article on the town meeting to do some
improvements at the elementary school and one of them was to fix the apron which is Brick and it's all uneven yeah um time sort of ran out because by the time we get the funding at meaning and I had to do all the procurement I had I think there was six projects we did procurement for last summer for the
school that I just couldn't award that contract so uh when it came up again this year we still have the funding in the article um when I went to when I met with uh Greg Goodwin and uh principal Ward and uh Mr Higgins they wanted they then
talking about the retaining wall and that they need to remove that and it became a much bigger project so I said this is beyond my scope of just putting out a bid for um putting down some concrete so I decided to ask GPI to do a
plan so that we and put it out to bid so that we all are on the same page of what's going to be done there and get you know get comparable bids to do the work so this is his contract to do that it can be paid for out of the ticle funds um once we get a bid if we're
short we have $100,000 left in the article originally uh we had uh we had thought that that project would cost $80,000 so we're close to whether we have enough funding but um you'll see if if we're short I'll come in with an article to supplement that at the uh
special town meeting using free cash that we have available so that's this is the work just to get that done get first step so 12,800 is what we yeah for this particular one all right sounds reasonable any questions or concerns no
so real quick it's just you're saying now we're going to remove that wall and redo that whole wall and everything that would around it yeah so um they all met I didn't get to the meeting I forgot I might have been in Union negotiations or somewhere else so I had Greg and Chuck
the principal all go out and decide what and they met the engineering they met him out there so they're all on the same page I'll get loed in when I see the plans yeah I think there's issues with that wall and and whether it I think they're going to take it out and take out all of the fil so yeah yeah we just
curiosity very good but beyond that you know step in the right direction all right so with that I a motion to approve the agreement between the town Freetown and P and uh GPI for the survey site planning procurement structure Services
improvements for the existing sidewalks and Walls by the front entance of the free T School motion me I'll second it all in favor I I okay and then agenda item three discussion of vote approve the amendment one to the agreement between the town
freet toown and GPI for survey and site planning Services toose expansion of the existing COA site so this is an amendment to the original contract for the vesu and the
um pod here this is phase two which is the whole parking lot now we need to extend the parking lot we need to level it and make it more um Ada accessible we're talking about going right almost to the street bringing in some fill leveling at building a retaining wall by the street
so this this uh GPI will do that site work uh plan for me and then we'll have to get a price for that because we are out of funding uh that we allocated for the part itself we help you go back to town meeting and either reallocate more of their money that they have set aside
or ask for more money um my guesses we're going to be probably in the1 $125,000 range to do the whole parking lot and be saled because it has be du up FL and probably I'm sure I don't know and bring in a bunch of fill yeah and then level it and then they want a patio
sort of between the Pod and the front of this building um and Chuck's going to be on board uh to do as much of it as he can but this is the next step in that project okay and so for this planning it's 4,000 yeah an additional yeah and that committee's on board with
everything with what we're doing this next steps and I'll have them meet with them but yeah they're they're this is always been sort of The Next Step yeah um I'm going to move the entrance you know how it's kind of a now it's kind of like a tight Corner when you pull in
here MH so okay okay thank you so that I'll agend a motion to approve Amendment one to the agreement between the town Freetown GPI for survey and state planning services for the proposed expansion of the COA motion made second all in favor I
I right J item four discussion of vote whether to declare the 19 94 international fire engine is Surplus and then decide what to do with the vehicle so we have the recommendation here start the
uh to put it on um munity bid the starting bid of $5,000 crazy I wonder how much said it had an engine block is cracked and it has 37,500 miles on it it doesn't seem like a lot but maybe it is lot for a fire engine I know it's a
1994 right yeah yeah we've got a hello we've got our minds out of it so yeah I think $5,000 is reasonable because you can't go too low because the price of scrap something could just we could take it and turn it into scrp for yeah for more so I think $5 is a fair amount I am
confident that if Harry could do something with this he would absolutely yeah 100% absolutely yeah a cracked end block in a 1994 fire is probably not the cheapest thing to
address yeah J item uh four Carlos and um we talking about to declare this fire truck uh Surplus it's got a block uh and hole cracked in the block and it's not worth
saving now I heard of Taylor in the conversation I agree if Harry thought this could be saved he would y So reading the followup on it yeah I agree all right so um with that I'll entertain a motion to declare of the 1994 international
fire engine Surplus and to list it on mun bid with a starting bid of $5,000 motion made second all in favor I I all right um why don't we just kind of dang out the rest of this and then we
can Circle back is that ises that work with you okay cool sure I don't see anything here this going to take a ton of time right and if if something does take too much time then we'll pass on and come back to it um all right next agenda item five is
the uh vehicle use process so this is discussion and vote whether to approve the vehicle use process and didn't get it back so we have submitted this to Town Council as we do with all our policies and we have not gotten it back yet so I don't know if you want to hold for his recommendations yeah yes that makes sense you can pass
that I'm sure there's it's got to be a tricky one it's probably lots of things we're not thinking about you know but it looks pretty comprehensive yeah I mean and we're you know because now we have so many new vehicles we have a lot of um Personnel driving them it's never had a policy in
place it's fine okay all right so then um with that we'll pass on five um and I'll move on to AG item six discussion vote whether approve the ambulance of payments and writeoffs for February 2025 in the sum of $176,700 any questions or concerns
no all right um so with that um and we actually collected 59,000 just for the record so I am getting some more details from the chief for our budget discussions about our Collections and
what we're not collecting and you'll have more information moving forward about about this yeah this is just one of those old school broken systems that I think everyone it's crazy like I think we' be fighting insurance companies F anything right
yeah like Medicare only is only going to pay you if they charge $2,500 for an ambulance run Medicare pays 500 we right off the other 2,000 because otherwise you know um it's it's hard to collect and we and but we set the prices right yeah we set the prices and it is around
2500 in ambulance run okay all right nothing we can do that about that right now so um that a motion to approve the ambulance abatements and writeout for February 2025 well motion M second all in favor I I might want to skip seven for
now I Y come back to seven um all right J item 8 discussion of vote whether to approve and sign the recall provision disclosure and consent letter from KP law so this is just that both channels if you you recall uh town of Lakeville and town of prown are looking to get a
recall provision for the school committee members so where both towns are warning to draft this and use the same Town Council they're just looking for permission to work for both towns and they're going to split the cost between the two towns so this is just agreeing to that yep any questions or concerns on
that no makes sense okay I figured this would be coming uh so that motion to approve and sign the recall provision disclosure and consent letter from KP law a motion made second all in favor I I all right and now j9 discussion a vote
to adopt the warrant for the April 7th 2025 annual local Town election and direct the town cler to have said warrant duy advis and posted in accordance with the bylaws of the town of freaktown and the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and do we have the
actual don't is there usually actual motion you want me to spefic so I didn't um proposed motion on the bottom of the initial memo you should have a heart copy of the warant should be signed
awesome you have that yeah is there anything anyone questions or concerns on this think we no still on a post yes that's the best
is okay so um here by a complete B be the best um I hereby move the board of Select and adopt a warrant for the April 7th 2025 annual local election and direct the town cler to have said warrant duly advertised and posted in accordance with the bylaws of the town
of freet toown and the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do I have a motion motion made second all in favor I I all right great thank you Cheryl
okay I don't think yeah so now we will uh jump back to J item one this is interview um with Town planner finalist Nancy dery Nancy if you want to step on up think right there all right thank you very much you're in the hot seat now you feel it
too I am a I'm a little nervous I've never interviewed in front of a board before like this so yeah this is new it is a a kind of an interesting thing that we have to do yeah yes yeah yeah thank you well it's good practice though because you're going to have to come from the
board absolutely well I thank you so much for having me here tonight absolutely truly do we appreciate it thanks for being here yeah you so um we had the opportunity to obviously review your your uh CV here resume and there's a lot there so um you know um I guess
for the people at home you want to just kind of give a high level elevator pitch about yourself and your background sure um all started planning back in the 2000s um I got my start at serid uh which is a southeastern regional
planning and economic development District I was fortunate enough to work on some on the south coast Rail Project for one it was something I spent 99.9% of my time on and I just had to stop for the rail going by and I mean like I was
like this is this is coming full circle right here right now um and there was a time when we thought even you know sometime around 2012 where we thought it might not happen still um because there was so much concern surrounding having a
rail come to communities and the growth that it entailed we did uh do priority protection and priority development and I think that project was the thing that gave me like if you're a planner or in any possession that you find yourself in and you get goosebumps when you get to
that moment where someone's you've got an opportunity do something very rare and unusual that was that was it for me um I was able to design uh the the look of how each community may decide how they wish to see their Community grow
and where they'd like to see protection occur and I got to do that in 27 communities in the South Coast so I got very intimate because we wanted to definitely do this as a bottomup approach um and i' I'd mirror that with the very uh top down approach that is
currently occurring from our our Massachusetts legislation so um the oppos it's quite the opposite and so um that was probably one of my aha moments but then I learned that uh I I was enjoy grant writing and getting funding to do
various projects plans um within the communities themselves at the regional planning agency you sometimes don't get to push anything forward right it's I do the plan I give it over and then you know it may or may not be implemented
but as a local planner that is where you get the opportunity to help with the plans and then you help to guide the implementation of them they're not written in stone nor should they be but you should be able to be able to morph and change as things change on the
ground because who would have who would have anticipated covid um and and how to plan for that so so those types of things you have to be uh you be able to change with the things that are changing on the ground and I think I've been able
to do that in my role in various positions and I I've definitely had great opportunities I can't say that one is better than the other but I have to say I've had you know the opportunity to serve communities and the capacity that I think is most
helpful great yeah I mean we are obviously it anticipating changes when the train actually starts to run right um and I don't want to be in a position where that you know we were not prepared properly which you know we're getting really close starts like next week right
but there's still opportunity I think to plan in the right way so that you know the mistakes of other similar towns are not made here right if we can anything we can do to um to prevent those kind of mistakes from being made but you know as you mentioned the top- down approach
that the state is taking right now um it's kind of made that whole process maybe a little more difficult but we're working with what we what you know what we got um so want to speak about any certifications that you uh hold um so
when I was um uh working with Bristol County Agricultural High School I did a lot of educational opportunities around the environment my my background is an environmental engineer and an environmental geographer so I had um a
lot of opportunity to work with all ages um because we had the museum over there and I was working from you know two months to on to 99 and I realized that um folks won't necessarily just change
that sometimes they need impetus to change and mapping was that for me right you could look at a map and it could tell you a story almost immediately so it drove me to go back to school to get my um my further my further my degree
and get my rgis licenses and and things of that nature which is key to all planning is to have a map and be able to figure out where you are what you're doing and and how that how those different layers of attributes we call them interact with one another because
you're going to have you could have a project right but it could have Wetlands it could have natural heritage and it could have um you know Highway close by all of those things converge in planning and without a map it's really hard to see it and it it tells a quicker story
than me trying to write a 100 page you know um you know report on it so to me it was it made perfect sense um and then I also a flood plane manager I got certified through through FEMA um I worked in many classes going to Maryland
and training exactly with all the all the different FEMA entities to learn about flood plane management how best to help residents with insurance questions and how to best secure their home and then also the the flip side when a
disaster occurs I was working for the town of situa as their first postal resource officer and I was able to do some some amazing projects with them um writing the first plan that gave them a coastal look as to how best to approach
the type of situation that they are enduring they have they see coastal flooding regularly it's it's it's now nuisance flooding in a parking lot that's you know full-time uh for residents as well as shoppers and and people's homes are are are destroyed
regularly so this was a really good opportunity for me it was at that um at in situ that I also was able to to work on Shoreline protection projects you know learning about um beaches and Beach nourishment dredging um and I'll have to
say this is no good dredge project yeah was a really hard to do but yeah uh that was a a really great opportunity to to get my my CER certificate in in flood plane management they take that very seriously and I did see your in your resume that you were able to through
that project right reduce some rates for for folks but was the flood I paid flood insurance so uh I'm very interested in CRS is a program that um when when completed helps residents in the flood plane lower their insurance it's it is a
heavy lift on a community but for communities that have a lot of residents in the flood plane it it's a benefit it's a benefit to the resident so that they can stay in where they are and maybe improve their situation so they don't feel the damage um so so
treacherously yeah yeah actually I'm not sure if this is really GIS map related but I did hear about a story this week where I think it was from Plymouth where um they misreported the percentage of affordable Inc affordable housing which has a big impact on you know lots of
different things right and they were down like half they didn't report half of their so you need someone who knows how to interpret the data and report that data properly which you know I'm sure does come from the GIS maps right and you're spot on that did happen and they are now finding themselves in Safe
Harbor yeah so because of of you know just miss oversight and then going through the mapping process they were able to identify other locations within the community that qualified and then now they were able to report that up to the state which is a huge difference
right huge difference yeah huge difference um so communication Styles I guess um you know obviously I think you have a lot of experience communicating with both public and internally within the different towns you've worked in um I
don't know if you want to highlight or anything that speak to any kind of H how how you think or what your thoughts on different communication Styles and how you do how you go about that so um individually so uh with other department heads and staff sometimes you have to
meet them where they work um I wouldn't expect a DPW or Highway surveyor to be able to answer my email uh within a certain period of time because they shouldn't be sitting they generally won't be sitting at their desk so I can't anticipate like getting an
immediate response if I need an immediate response then I have to reach out to them in other forms that work for them and you generally you know you you you tend to learn that with each individual person how best is is it to speak to them is it in person is it on
the phone and and sometimes it's about the topic as well I wouldn't want to send an email on something that was more sensitive I would want to call someone on the phone and and give them information like that so I need and you do that with residents as well um I have
had the opportunity to work on a project of my own where I was on the other side of the table which I shared with during my interview process um and it gave me a a lot of humbling opportunity to learn how best to treat residents who come
before the planning board or the zoning board or to the planning department office and be able to kind of help and guide them really none of the the the bylaws are intuitive they're they're they're very difficult for people to understand so taking that time to to
speak with them and try to you know educate them and teach them about what that means for them and their property uh so it again it just depends on the topic the people that you're working with and and how that how how best I mean there's there's so many forms of
communication today it's it's hard to keep track of them all but certainly texting phone email um are are the key tools of our trade today and and I I like to believe I'm a good communicator because I also appreciate it when it
when it's told to me too so I like to be that for others I take all all the questions here so you guys have any additional questions um you you have some experience in some small towns and stuff so I think that's
going to be relevant um because we are a small town right and it has a much different feel so so that truly makes me happy um I guess I really I envision your job as being something that uh selectman
Matthew spoke to before is kind of being that proactive right looking ahead of you know with the train coming and different things happening in um growth natural growth um have you done any have you had any successful things that you've done in other towns to help kind
of mitigate that so that it can continue to have the small town feel that we all now one appreciate is it's a it's quite a number of pred approach um and I can't say I can do it by myself it is definitely something that has to be done
as a team a team effort knowing exactly where um that growth should occur and how you wish to see it occur um I would be taking cues from all of you uh to understand how best to do that and then in places where it should be protected
then there are places and things that we can do to help nurture those as well um I've known freaktown since long before I became a planner um I was a an mountain bike racer and I used to use
Freetown State Forest as my playground so often I would be here in the community using your assets and then going to the asonet in for a brew and and a stuffy not going to lie uh Freetown has
been a community that I have spent a lot of time in over the years and I've enjoyed all the assets that you have and I think that you know small large it doesn't matter you are who you are and keeping that is is very important to
everyone and I'm sure all the residents feel the same way I I I'm know like free time before I'll exchange notes later on yes I haven't done it um I I I wrote up until I was about eight months pregnant and then my friend said no you can't go
anymore and that probably a good idea but it was it's such a great place to ride absolutely and it's got It's a great asset for the community to have the free St helps helps the whole character of the Town absolutely so um you know I I
always wonder that there's um no shortage of opportunities out in the world right for your position in particular so what was it that selfishly I wonder what is it that drove you to come to Freetown as a two-parter your
job description was actually on I don't think I've ever seen my position described in the way that was in your job description so often um communities get the wrong impression about what a to planner can should do where should they be F
focusing their energies and much of it lies with the planning and the zoning board which is is definitely key as to the position but there's so much more uh my resume I think shows you that like there is so much more Town planner can
and should do if allowed and then the conversation with Debbie Petty your Town Administrator was the second part that was the part that made me know that Debbie has also been a town planner she understands exactly what I do and we had
that kind of a rich conversation made me go yeah that that spells it out for me those those are two very key things that very few communities understand well we're lucky to have our that I think you are
yeah yeah you're absolutely right it's having Deb has a town plan or having a Victoria our previous planner doing so many things for the community it's it's opens up your eyes what a town planner actually can can't do right and putting it out there in that fashion you know and it took us a little while to have you here right so waiting for the right
person to step in or one reason or the other didn't work out so a big believer and taking your time and things will come in right but as as a free as a longtime traveler to Freetown do you have you had any ideas or you always
want to do a pet project in town you drove it around going do something different there and if so what would that be oh that's a that's a really good question I don't know that I have a a a um high level answer for that question I
don't think I've um I've driven through town with any thought of what I think would be best for the community I have found and learned over time that the best thing that I can do for the community is for them to tell me what
they need for me to do do and me not to dictate to the town what I think you should do I've I've definitely had the experience where I have done that in the past and a younger planner self of my and I learned that's not the best
approach that you really need to listen to what the people want like and then follow up with those items as best you can or explain why it can't be quite that way and maybe we could do this in its place and would that still satisfy
by how you envision free toown becoming in this whether it be an area will it be throughout the community but yeah this that's the way I I would like to to approach it that's that's a great answer and the people watching that answer ask exactly what they're looking for as well
it's easy to like you said when you're younger um you're not young or old your younger in your career toally correct um it's you know you want to do so much right you much energy and you want to keep going it it's refreshing to hear that you still
have that drive right and the key is listen to the residents and see what they want and work from there and using your vast knowledge over the years to give them exactly that so perfect answer thank you yeah I mean like yeah personally like I think you know things that we should I hope you could help us
with that I just don't have the right answers to um like we've seen a lot of our restaurants in town go out of business son in was is a is an example of that and and a lot of the other ones like the you know Cathy's coffee shop and over the time y y my theory on this right is that it's because we don't have
city sewer right and and you can't build a septic to support that yeah that's my theory right I don't have any hard evidence to to so I I'd like you know I think one thing we' like I at least like a directive is what how can we you know
move forward in Direction and maybe it's not that or it's figure out why these restaurants and are not here and what can we do to get them back right in new ones and also I think just you know our Town's not super friendly when it comes to W walkability right um so that's
something else I think you know I want kids and let bike around and you know if there's means of Trail Network or walking trails things of that nature um that's something I think would be great to have um I mean and and then also the big the big one though is is to prepare
ourselves for what will most likely be you know I think a population influx or least big traffic impacts that are related to the train right that that's Priority One those are all very very good um uh
top level items to be working towards um certainly a restaurant in the community can help with bringing tourism and bringing people into the community who will spend their their good hard-earned dollars and it equates to tax dollars
for the town a free toown the fact that you have the the forest it's a draw the uh the asonet river that's a draw but when you you get here if you have no place to go to eat or to dine um those kind of go hand in hand yeah we can't
take advantage of and you can't take advantage of that I can see where that would be an interest for the community to do it just helps Elevate you and providing those opportunities for all be it schools or the um down you know through the ASA Village in places like
that where people could be walking um one of the things I've also um kind of begun to believe that walkability and bikability can happen uh across not just roads but through fre like the Freetown State course or Open Spaces where the
state has always been interested in connectivity right they want to purchase properties next to each other so that it grows the size of the open space that they have so that also offers residents in those areas who are but those or are within you know a walking or biking
distance could get on that trail within the forest and get to the other side of the Town potentially yeah or to another local within the town where they could go pick up what whatever sunry they may need or go to the you know the library whatever whatever they're looking to do
yeah it's weird interesting free toown we're a town of Two Towns really like we have East free toown which has its little economic Center then we have a son it and they're so a capital free Town yeah and there're and they're far apart from each other like right um provided by the Freetown State Forest yeah which is like we have these buildings that are centrally located but
there's also there's nothing really here but these I used to live like neighborhood right over here and I'm tell you there's to go get a carton of milk it's a 15 minute drive each way at least so that's another you know kind of something it's a it's an interesting problem we have right and there's no
easy solutions here right but you know and any kind of investment that you make in one side of town you know you have to kind of offset that by do something fair for the other side of town so that's there's always that balance that takes place right um so that's just you know we we um you know through Debbie
received over $1.1 million in Grants to do you know to do the survey to bring in the sewer line extension because I am 100% with select Matthews that the reason why we've lost business there rather than gain is due to the fact of
not having SE line extension but we can run a sewer line down the road and that's great but what do we do around it is you know one one of the talks that we've always had and that's really where you can come in and helping us I feel like with growing what how how it fits
because to your point before with walkability between those places and I want to have Outsiders come in and look and say that's nice but I also want our town residents to go there feel comfortable to you know push a scroll
down the road or go to dinner from their house and stay in town so not just draw people from outside but also keep the people in within 100% so I I think that you know with your experience if we do things right that we can make that
happen much depends on where you put the lines you don't want to put lines where you don't want to see more growth you put lines where you wish to see the kind of growth and development that you're hoping for mhm and then you then you mirror that within the bylaws so that
they're they're matching all the things that the town wishes to see you can shape it through those processes absolutely yeah and so and obviously the other headwind that we force fa face right now is you know our town thus far has voted
against adopting the bylaws to put us you know in compliance uh for the transit orian designer I always for NBTA NTA um I think that you know so obviously so grants are you know they're not they're not getting you know they're
actually clawing back some grants right uh so that that is a head one that we face I think that uh I'll take blame for for some of maybe not um communicating that how our town I think
is in a unique situation where we have an area of land that's already zoned for for increased density right that we can utilize that piece of land and and meet the criteria to be in
compliance even with the current higher density of this area it has not been developed at all because of other you know just the economic situation there right so we kind of have a a way to to meet the rules without having a large impact just because the lands either
privately owned by are owned by folks who have no interest in developing it or it just doesn't make sense economically right sewer line lack of that might even be one of those things which is a little bit of a you know double-edged or catch 22 in there but um I think one thing I
would like you know we need to better communicate and and put some you know actual maybe some better facts around how we might be able to be in compliance still get our grants and not have a huge impact right and I think we're in a unique position where we can do that and I haven't done a good job articulating
that to folks cuz it's a very unpopular um you know rules to pass right now bylaws to pass so we're not the only ones the only no not the only one obviously um that feels that way as
well um it it the the uh MBTA requirements was to Zone it not build it exactly and I keep saying that but people don't it's hard to believe that that would be you know what what the actual ask is to keep the Grants open um but yeah there is there is some of that
that's you know educational potential um yeah yeah it's a it's and it's very difficult too you know I can I can certainly sympathize with with you know residents in the community as to the impact that might feel to them as to how
many people will be potentially able to live there and without like you said without water or sewer spe specifically one or the other it has to be a fairly large site if you're going to make the water or if it's missing one or the other it's you have to have a large
enough site so that you can install those types of amenities is it's not something that you can go live without it has to be or it has to be a very large site because this sewage treatment plant that they would have to build for the types of units that they're looking
for is is quite large yeah so absolutely yeah yeah it's definitely a tough one you know especially for a planner let's say let's take you for instance you were very passionate about like your work with the NBTA and you come to a community like free toown that like like s bath you said it's not very popular
here so communicating that might be a little tough you know for you but our job is to give the facts right so we take solace in that give him all the facts all of it good bad and the ugly and hopefully it all shakes out in the end they get to the side right as it goes to town meeting so yeah all you can
do is give them all the facts as you said and then the the residents get to decide which you know I have to say as being in this position for for the years that I have I appreciate that home rule is important and it shouldn't be
disregarded so quickly I I feel with the residents like it feels you know like maybe some of our our ability to do the job is being taken away from us our ability to make those choices is about our community and and I I can sympathize with that they're giving us a choice
doesn't really feel like a choice yes yeah and and and residents know then they not yeah they know they know the difference absolutely yeah absolutely and they should be given you know the state should give us all credit for that
for that knowledge of what we want for our communities absolutely and hear us say that yep I agree sometimes easier said than done it is yes that in on the webinars all right that's any any other
questions oh he's the hardest one any questions for us um Debbie has done a a really fantastic job um of answering questions and I I feel like I know uh Freetown as well um and I I hope that
you would you know feel free to guide the process that's the most important part is making sure that the guidance is there so we're going in the right direction together um I don't want I would never want to come into a community and step too far out and then
realize oh like it's harder to pull it back once it's gotten too far out there I certainly wouldn't want to do be that type of planner for the community so guidance would be I mean I'll be the first to say we're here is a board right so you know if you
need stuff you can rely on us I mean we're going to rely on you for stuff so it does have to be a give and take so never never hesitate you know directly to us through Debbie ran whoever you know communicate with us because we want to see this work and we want to be able
to have a good long-standing relationship with you so too me too yeah you come in a good time let's say we we move forward with we select you you know it's actually a very good time to come work for free time in the planning space you know all the departments but this for planning the the open space plan has
been recently done the master plan is is on itation plan so there's a lot of things that are you won't be bored won't be bored that's true that's good we have active grants that are are some are expiring some are new some can we can renew so there's there's a a lot of lot
of stuff going on right um so it be it's kind of fun right if you like that kind of stuff and it sounds like right up your eyes speaking my language and singing my songs yeah absolutely yeah and so so much of of the grant writing is the backside of the administration of
it it's it it you know you you like I have it I'll have it on my to-do list but the to-do list the actual to-do part of it may change from day to day but it's still continues on until the project is complete whatever that be a plan or an actual you know
infrastructure project or something you know small it doesn't matter there's still some Administration on the back side um I've had a lot of experience doing that and I I like it I enjoy I enjoy working through details and and things of that nature to help get to the
to the final product absolutely everything you present at a meeting or an interview is those are the things that you've refined and find- tune over the course of months years for that finality of that project so when you go to to a meeting that's like the next level of information right a million
other things have occurred in the background that no one will ever know the countless hours and and emails and chasing of things especially when it comes to funding um so knowing the business and still loving the job speaks volume so thank you for your honesty and your candid just thank you apprciate all
right there we good so thank you very much N I appreciate it so much I really appreciate our discussion and in this interview process this has been really lovely meeting all of you and I think Freetown is well served yeah I've watched your meetings as well before I came so I was familiar with who you were
too and yeah that's off to you thank you very much thank you we appreciate that thank you again thank you thank you Debbie thank you for for having the discussion with me um that that turned me right into saying yeah this is good stuff thank you
thank you Louanne too for helping me it's impossible L for sure yeah thank you all right so I think all we have left then is Gen item seven right it says um I'll intend a motion to vote to authorize Town Administrator to finalize
details of town planner motion me I suck it that's no brainer all favor I I I'm ready I am so ready so uh just do some signatures and then we are
going and then we're done right yep thank you again thank you I'll be in yes I I understand you need to get on here Wednesday at 4: a.m. I'll talk to you before then thank you so much it's been a pleasure meeting with you all today I really appreciate
it thank you Sur we're backlogging that's right it's going to be left handed sometimes book oh there you go call has two Pages you know I'm mess this we're not
going to mess stop signature nothing let just BS your shoulder it's all good keeping us from doing it a third time or a second time or chasing us
down all right thank you that ninja thank you all set to a CH all right so with that I'll entertain motion to adjourn a motion made second all in favor I I