Good evening everybody. It's Monday, December 1st, 2025 at 6 PM. With a quorum being present, I'll call to order the Freetown board suck meeting. Uh tonight's meeting will be on Zoom as well in person. This meeting will be recorded and will be available on our town's YouTube page. Um first up, we
have a public hearing. Um this is going to be continued by we'll open the public hearing and then continue it to a future date. which we will discuss. Uh so the
I think this this one right here. Nope, that's a different one. It's just I just have to read this part right here. Right. Okay. Uh the retail board of selectment in conjunction with the board of assessors will conduct a public hearing relative to selection of a residential factor that will um that
will determine the percentages of the tax burden to be borne by each class of property for fiscal year 2026. The hearing will be conducted at the police uh station community room, 15 Memorial Drive, East Freetown, Mass uh 02717, and virtually on Zoom on Monday, December
1st, 2025 at 6 p.m. Meeting information and further agenda information, including Zoom information, will be posted on or before the close of business on November 26, 2025 for Temporar Suckman. This was signed by uh the board. Uh so the public hearing is
now open. Um, so we do not have the information we need yet um from the board of assessors. Um, so we have communicated with them and um, we're thinking of continuing this until
Wednesday, December 10th at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom only. Does that work for everybody? >> It does. >> Yes, >> that work. Okay. So, um, I will continue I guess I'll
understand a motion to continue this public hearing to Wednesday, December 10th at 4:30 p.m. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I sle >> Yes. >> Sen Zagger. >> Yes. >> Suckermanman Matthews.
>> Yes. I follow all all correct procedures there. >> All right. How you doing? >> All right. So now we will move on to agenda item
two because agenda item one was related to the uh public hearing. So agenda item two is discussion of vote whether to approve the open session minutes from November 3rd and November 17th, 2025.
Any discussion there? >> No. No. >> Okay. Okay. So, I'll I'll entertain a motion to approve the open session minutes from 11:30 and 117 2025. >> Motion made. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Fleckman Lopes. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zager. >> Yes. >> Blackman Matthews. >> Yes.
>> Agenda item three. This is a discussion of vote on which option of proposed four corner improvements to put forth in our application to the state. To zoom all the way down. This is a continuation of the discussion regarding the improvements to the four
corners intersection in Asonant Elm Street North and South Main Street and Water Street. We've been working on this for some time. uh had a couple of umformational session meetings with the public and we've met independently with
the Abutters directly regarding the the need to make some improvements for safety concerns in this intersection and the proposals from the engineers have been uh of course a four-way stoplight or a mini roundabout.
Uh neither one is perfect and ideal. Although the engineers strongly feel that the roundabout is a much better application and and provides uh better safety and you know continuity and fluid fluidness through that. The concern with
a a light while provides safety but the the the traffic will back up to the really far and you'll be at the light for quite some time. So, there is a grant called Complete Streets that's open right now that we have to apply by
January 6th. I believe it provides for a million dollars um towards these kinds of situations. And we'd like to apply for it, but prior to applying for it, I want to make sure we apply for the right application, what the town wishes to do
for this intersection. You know, it's I'm not going to say it's not controversial in terms of what how people feel about this intersection. I will just tell you from the engineers point of view, they feel like the mini roundabout is the best application for this section. I know Chuck is here
tonight. I don't know if I don't know that there's a perfect solution to this intersection either. >> Yeah. Is there anyone on Zoom? Um >> several people >> that want to talk about this specific topic? I think Chuck saw an accident this weekend.
>> I believe I drove by >> Friday night. Yeah. >> Um there's always been accidents. Luckily, they're nothing severe. I I kind of agree with Debbie. I mean, we've hired an engineer who's a professional. Everybody has an
opinion and some are great. Um people that I really look up to, I've gotten great opinions from, but they are opinions. I think all opinion should be forwarded to the engineer.
And again, if we don't get the grant, does the entire town have the appetite to pay a million and a half dollars for a roundabout. The one in East Street works fantastic.
More room, more a bigger layout. I don't know if a Sona Four Corners, even with a mini roundabout, can support bigger trucks going around it, you know, on a constant basis.
Um, but again, I I think we should put all our trust into the hands of the engineer who's designing this and let him come up with what he believes to be the very best solution and from there see if the town has the
appetite because yes, we can put in for a grant. That doesn't mean you're going to get the million dollars. You might get $100,000. You might get you might get all all the money, but you know, does the town have the appetite to pony
up that kind of money if necessary? Because it affects us because we drive through a Sona. We drive through that intersection 10 20 times a day, but most of the town doesn't. So, does the
person that lives on Dr. Bailey Road have the appetite to to be taxed a million and a half dollars for an intersection that they're never going to drive through? I mean, ultimately, I would let I would dump it in the lap of the engineers firm that we we've hired.
Um, they're more than competent. This is what they do for a living. And let them decide the very best decision. Is Yeah, that's a good Is is there a like they gave us three options. Is there is the suggested option option
three with the roundabout or is it >> the suggested option from the engineer is the roundabout. Correct. >> Correct. >> And and the you know the application the grant is a million dollars and there would still be we would still have to fund residual numbers. So this would still have to go
to town meeting vote for additional funding. Um, if we don't get the grant, I don't see it getting done at this point in time with other with other things we've got going on. Yeah. >> But I don't want to miss the window of
opportunity. And again, if we don't pass MBTA communities, that's another issue where we probably wouldn't get the grant either. But be before I put it forth and ask for a million dollars to do a roundabout, I want to make sure it's the direction the board wants to go in. And
we can we can forgo the grant application. It comes out twice a year. Comes out now and I believe again in May. So we can forgo this round. We applied last round but because of MBTA communities we we were denied. Um
so it's it's it really is up to the board in which direction. you know, we can forgo this round and we can continue to do a little more outreach and um moreformational sessions for the public because we started this like a year ago and then we stopped when the road wasn't
laid out, which is what we're working on right now. Um so it's it's all really what direction you want us to go in with this. I guess my question would be is why wouldn't we continue on with this and try and get the money, but if we
find a lowcost solution that'll work, right, Chuck and I, as you know, have already spoken about some different things that we're trying to do and I don't know that it'll work, but why wouldn't we try for this? And then we don't if they accept the grant and we
don't use it, is there really an issue? >> No, you can always stick. So then why I guess why wouldn't we try for it and then if we all of a sudden decide I mean I don't know how much a traffic light is if we decide that's the route we want to go >> a little bit less >> 735,000 says I didn't
>> and take all those numbers with a grain of salt. My experience with these numbers is they end up being about 20% higher than what's on there. >> So when I tell you the roundabouts 1.5 million I I think it's probably not on those >> it's 840,000. >> Yeah. But when I tell you at the end of
the day, realistically, it's going to be more than that. I'm giving you real numbers because I' I've been through this before. >> Yep. Yeah. >> Which one is it? Is it the compact mini round? >> Number two, >> the large because I've got both. I just want to make sure I'm getting the right thing up.
>> I think page 28 is the one that the mini roundabout. >> Oh, yeah. You're right. Sorry, I didn't realize there was two ones. The mini roundabout. It's page I think it's the page four, the last one. >> Yeah. >> And we've done some tweaks to it because we did do a mock trial out at the
elementary school and we did change um some of the layout out there on the um ground. I am trying to get a cost to do a mock roundabout there by using paint barrels different things
and you know see if we can't do that to make sure this thing works before we actually >> Well, I thought that this roundabout and correct me if I'm wrong was something that could be driven over. >> Yeah. >> So, so with barrels even work because some of the trucks couldn't navigate
around it because of the size. So, we would have to be able to >> Yeah, we're waiting to see what they come up with. But yes, the middle is all mountable. So, if you have a large truck, you because you have to, right, that right-hand turn there, they go now, they take a right-hand turn, they take up both lanes. >> Yeah.
>> Um, so the middle would be would be mountable. >> So, yeah, I guess what's the difference between three and four? Just >> three and four looks like the center >> the center is a little bit bigger. The >> There's me there's mediums in four. to see how it splits the road so that um
you can get you can walk across there. >> But so but four is the suggested option. That's the suggested from the >> and then we so we did get a letter from KR >> with some concerns. >> I just got that today. Yeah. Um, I'm not
sure if anyone from Keral is on the on the Zoom, but one of the things mentioned is that the fire department's loud truck could not navigate this. He had trouble but um they weren't concerned with that because they felt like they could go up and around
>> up and around or like and I this I don't know what I'm talking about here but like I would if it's a rounded you know if it's a drivable surface on top of it are they're saying it's still because that thing sits so low it still can't >> No it's it's because he can't make the turn.
>> It this roundabout that they're designing is a little different than the one in East Freetown. >> Yeah. the one in East Freetown. You have a mountable surface and then you've got >> the center the where the vegetation is, the grass. >> This is going to be my understanding is the whole thing's going to be concrete.
The whole thing's going to be mountable. >> Yeah. >> So, >> if somebody's not paying attention and they they're going to be able to drive smack dab right through the middle. >> Yes. >> But I mean, it's going to be it's going to be just think more of a grooved pavement.
>> Yeah. Okay. It's going to have a maybe a two to 4 inch elevation change. >> Yeah, I think they said three inches on the elevation. >> So a truck no matter what is going to be able to drive over it. >> It's like a speed belt. They get a speed bel. >> So the So because that's a this is a big
concern for me. The fire truck would still be able to go through there. They would just have to drive over the center. >> Yes, they have to drive over the center. But you were there, right? They couldn't they could not make that turn. But didn't he Neils just say he would go straight and up and around?
>> That's I'm not positive. But >> again, it's hard to for us to visualize. >> Yeah. >> You know, hopefully they can the engineers maybe in the spring can come out and we can >> with some paint, draw it out, and then watch it, see if
it'll work. >> Okay. >> Even if we put mini cones or something. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> And and educate the people that this is what we're going to do. We're going to do it for a 30-day period. Um, and then if it totally fails, then okay, on to plan B.
>> Yeah. And we can always, but I I agree with with were saying like I think we move forward now with with this, try to get the grant money. If if it doesn't work, whatever. We just we don't take the money. I mean, that seems to be the like let's just keep momentum when when we have it, right? >> Just because we're saying let's move forward with this doesn't mean that this
is what we want to do cuz >> No, it's the best of a bunch of bad options. >> All right. Well, this one was the one that the residents, the the butters and everybody else kind of looked at vote and not voted on, but they agree this was the least, you know, cumbersome one, right? But I think we we move forward with the grant cuz, you know, they'll
say you can't make money unless you spend money in a sense, but we already spent the money for the engineering cost. Might as well continue forward with the grant process. >> If we do get it again, forget to test it like live test, then that's the way to do it >> and then go from there. because I just I do want to try and get clarification
from Neil or whoever because I I know that they might say, "Okay, well, it's no big deal. We'll go up and around until it's one of us that they're trying to get to our house and they have to go up and around, you know." Um, so I guess I do I just would like some more
clarification as to what that means as far as them not making that turn and >> because that that to me matters, right? Safety is everything. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, safety is the thing. I mean, listen, this is this is an intersection. I mean, we've said it before, right? But I was in an accident
at that intersection. I was hit by someone hit by someone at a complete stop. So, um, you know, it clearly needs something done to it. So, I'm all for trying to do something. I just don't know. >> Like you said, it's trying to figure out
the best of all the bad options and >> story of our lives. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So with that I will I'm gonna entertain a motion that we uh move forward with option four from the packet which is the mini roundabout. >> Motion made >> second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Matthew. >> Yes. Okay. Moving on to agenda item four. This is discussion of vote whether to approve the agreement between the town of Freetown and Greement Patterson Inc. for engineering services for proposed um
North Main Street sidewalk. Looks like the total here is $49,120. >> Correct. >> Most of that being the labor sounds about right. >> Engineering just the engineering for the
sidewalk engineering and construction oversight and bidding I believe of the sidewalk. >> The actual price of the sidewalks more like they're estimating about 220,000. >> Yeah. um the engineering to do the survey to do all the engineering, do all
the the bid documents, you're looking at that's at 48 $49,000. >> And then because we talked about this last meeting, right? >> Yep. >> The one of the issues we have there is that the telephone poles go directly through the middle of the sidewalks, right? And this is not going to be a
>> opposite side. It So I walked it with Mike and I stood corrected. The telephone poles are on the opposite side. One of the issues I had was the other thing I had said was is the sidewalk gets narrow because there's a stone wall that bumps I hope
>> it actually stops at that this section that they're trying to do so it doesn't impede on that. So, >> okay, >> there's some uh there's some stumps and stuff that >> there's two stumps. I've already talked to someone about having those ground. Yeah, that should be done probably in
the next week or two. Mhm. >> Just just a preliminary thing. I mean, that's in my book, I think that's a tree warden deal, but we're taking care of it. >> So, the stumps are coming out no matter what. Whether this gets approved or not, the stumps are coming are going to be
ground. >> Uh had lots of phone calls. I know we the last town meeting there was a petition. The residents want that stretch of sidewalk done. Uh, this will bring it up to ADA standards.
It's basically going to go um I'm going to say Jorgensson's house >> south. >> That means nothing to any of you but me and probably Debbie. >> I I know now because Mike walked me up there. So, it now means something. >> It's going to bring it right down
basically to the four corners. It's going to address u the way the the front stairs of the town hall just kind of empty out in the middle of the road. >> Mhm. >> You're going to have a curb there and
going to tidy up that a little bit. Um again, it's it's not necessarily what I want to do. It's what I've had a lot of phone calls on it and a lot of people ask me about it. So, I'm just putting it before the board because it's what the
people want. >> You know, I would rather spend the $250,000 on paving a road somewhere, but this is what they want. And that sidewalk, I mean, no, no sidewalk in town is like used extensively, but that sidewalk, you
probably have maybe 20 people walk that a day. Um, again, it's what the people have asked me to put on the on the front burner and um, that's why we're here. I've talked to
Jim Noise from GTI. He and I have walked that numerous times and uh, this is what it's going to cost. >> All right, >> we have the money. Um, so yeah, we could sign the contract. we
get the engineer rolling and we'd get it done before the 4th of July. >> That'd be perfect. That's what I said. Yeah. >> What about from beyond that point, Chuck? Because of like I was just talking about with the bump out of the uh and so I'm assuming because the way
that is that there might be some more additional work that would need to happen as far as if the stone wall and I don't know >> that that where you're talking about again I'm going to throw out a name. Angus' house or doctor's way. Um,
again, I I I think just the way that is, it's almost like an apron to to that laneway there. >> Um, you've got it's wide enough. It's ADA compliant. So, if you had anybody with wheelchairs or baby strollers or
anything, you can get around that. >> I really don't want to move the stone wall. I don't have to because uh I think it's that stone wall represents probably a boundary between
what we own and what they own. So >> I mean if it's that much of a hangup to anybody, we can always reconstruct that stone wall, but it's not anything I want to do. And I think basically from that point north,
>> it's wider wide enough to meet ADA. uh it's compliant in that way. I mean, we built that sidewalk 26 years ago, 27 years ago. >> Mhm. >> Prior to that, there was no sidewalk.
Um that sidewalk went from the town hall of the four corners up to again Jorgensson's and it stopped. There was nothing there. >> And that's kind of a common theme we have in town. We have sidewalks everywhere and none of them go anywhere. >> Yeah. They don't connect.
>> There's no continuity between any of them. >> Yeah, that that Yep. That was found in one of the >> That was a complete street. >> Yeah. I mean, in in I I in an ideal world, we we could run the sidewalk >> like on Pleasant Street. >> Yeah. >> And at least you'd have a complete loop,
but now you you're talking crazy money. >> Yeah. You know, you you you're looking at to go from I would take a guess from the top of Pleasant Street to the bottom of Pleasant Street, you're probably looking at a million dollars, million and a half dollars
because you do have telephone poles that you got to move. And there's, you know, fire hydrants and things of that nature. And there's places down there where you'd have to do land takings because the town doesn't own >> Yeah.
>> It doesn't have the layout. So um but I mean eventually that'll happen. >> Let's hope after five years from now. >> All right. Thanks, Chuck. >> Five. >> It's not
here on Friday. >> Not not opposed to sidewalks. Unfortunately, this one did not pass a town meeting 87 to 69. >> So if we're going to put this out there, >> I'm all for sidewalks. I'm all for ADA compliance and I am concerned about the stone wall as well. I don't think you'll meet 36 inches up and down all the way,
but it might be tight. All right. Um, but I think if you move forward with this, this goes back on a warrant for the people to vote on it because they didn't say no to the 250,000 originally planned for, right? And you said it it was going to cost around there. You think in your estimate about 250? >> That's what that's what he's thrown me
its numbers. Two anywhere between 250 and 270. >> And why why is it so high? 49,000. I know we we got one from last year for another sidewalk, the Nadant High Street that you got us for us and it was about $6,000. So that's a big difference between this
one and that one. >> Probably because South Main Street's already been surveyed. This hasn't. >> Yes. >> So we have to figure out what the town owns, what the town doesn't own. I know he's he's farmed it out to multiple companies to do the survey and it's come
in $20,000. He's had another one for $11,000. So again, I'm just My job is to present it to you and your job is to say yay or nay. >> It's easy. >> Yeah. And I agree with you. >> Once I pass the buck on your app, it's
your problem, not my problem, >> right? And our problem is we we have to follow your bosses, which is our bosses, which is 9200 residents. So if we're going to do it kind of doing it right like the roundabout that people on Dr.
Bailey Road have no care about a sidewalk on North Main Street. >> We use that analogy all the time. People in the Sona don't care about the sidewalks in East Freetown and vice versa. And this this this fell to that same thing at town meeting. It's >> always been that way. >> Correct. Absolutely. >> What whatever whatever the board wishes is fine by me.
>> And I agree but I also disagree. And part of the issue was is that that a lot of the the the kickback was is this should have been brought to Chuck rather than by petition to the people. Right. So So I I I agree
with you, but I'm just saying that that was a I'm just going based strictly off of what we heard at town meeting. >> Based at town meeting, Margaret came up there was asked and it was punted to the finance committee and the finance committee said her first move would be to go to Chuck for his opinion. >> Yeah. Um, and I don't disagree.
>> It's just But ultimately they said no. >> So >> they they said no to the money >> 250,000. >> Yeah. >> So uh again we're looking for the engineering agreement to be signed. That's
ultimately up to you. Um whatever you want to do. >> I mean I Yeah. >> I think easiest cleanest way to do is put a town meeting. Let them decide. Give them all the facts. Last time we kind of had half the facts and see if they have the appetite to spend $50,000
then another $250,000 the next day. That's what it comes down to. If we spend $50,000 and they go to town meeting, they reject it again. We just spend $50,000 for for a report that says in the desk. So why not do both? Have a warrant article for 50,000 then to another
warrant for 250,000 for the sidewalk. >> Well, we already have the money in house. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> It's already it's there. Yeah. >> To be used any way I wish and choose. So, >> because this is you're you're saying you're going to use chapter 90 money.
>> I'm going to use money that the town has appropriated to us for whatever projects I choose to use it on. Uh the last two years, we've done roughly a million dollars each year in our paving program.
we can divert $250,000 that I have in cash for this project again. >> Well, if that's the case, right, then why not? This just came up. So, there's other sidewalks that have come up prior to this or other projects, why jump
those projects to this one if we can do that. Don't we have a pecking order from >> for sidewalks? >> Well, for sidewalks, any other projects that we should be using this money for? >> Uh, right. Like I said, we we've we've been pretty proactive in our paving
program the last two years. >> Absolutely. >> Um and we're in pretty good shape. >> Uh if everything goes the way I plan, we're going to have another million dollars to spend on paving projects, not including this. Uh again, I only br this
up because my phone rings all the time. Hey, when are you going to do the sidewalk on North Main Street? Yep. >> That's the only reason I'm here. I just soon be home and go to bed. Um, again, I'm not My job is to bring it to the
board. It's now in your lap to decide what you want to do. >> Yep. All right. I'm >> If you bring it If you bring it to a vote at the January special town meeting, I'm I'm perfectly fine with that. But you're not voting on the money. You're just voting on doing the project.
>> Yeah. Yeah. which is >> again I I don't care one way or the other. I just I would prefer and again it's only a month away in all reality. But the sooner we get the engineering done, we got to do the
survey, get the engineering done, get the bidding done, I want this project done before the 4th July. I don't want to be in construction during the 4th July because that's they'll be hell to pay. >> Yeah. So, and we
got to move if we're going to do it. >> As you know, I have all the respect in the world for you. So, I'm going to ask you, do you think that this is priority 1A for doing sidewalks? Because I'm feeling both sides of the equation and
trying to think about it. And I who better to ask about the roadways of town than you? I I I am a firm believer of taking care of what we already have before you build new. >> Mhm.
>> The sidewalk that we have there now, people have deemed it as inferior. Again, I truly believe you take care of what you already own >> before you move ahead. I know there's
there's queries about a sidewalk on South Main Street on the opposite side of the sidewalk that we just did. Crickets in my office. I have I have not had one inquiry about a sidewalk on that stretch.
Um so yeah, you know, I I have to listen to my constituents. >> They call me or they see me and when are you going to do something with the sidewalk? >> Mhm. I walked that sidewalk. I walked that sidewalk when I was a kid. It's the
same sidewalk. It's not horrible. It's not great, but you know, we just spent $1,500 fixing up the sidewalk on
Water Street. There was holes and pieces and we cut out a bunch of stuff and and we patched that in. It's not 100% wonderful, but it's way better than it was, and it only cost us 1,500 bucks.
So, again, it's really not an issue worth arguing over. >> Yeah. No, I'm listen, like I said, at a truck. I'm asking you because who I haven't heard. I haven't fielded any complaints about it, right? I heard what I heard at town meeting >> and that's the only thing I've heard
about it. So, I understand what where you're coming from. The complaints or the concerns are those of the 25 people that walk that sidewalk, >> right? >> 9,200 people in this town could care less.
>> Yeah. >> Means absolutely nothing to them because it's the same 20 people a day that walk that stretch of sidewalk. I don't care. I don't walk that sidewalk anymore. Like I said, it's the same sidewalk that I walked on 60 years ago.
It's the exact same sidewalk. It hasn't been improved. It hasn't It hasn't disintegrated that bad. It's what we're proposing is to bring it up to ADA standards. Try to address that
entrance to the town hall. Try to give those front steps a little protection. Make the crosswalk that goes to the library. put it in the appropriate area with ADA compliant ramps and so have everything at the right angles.
>> But again, >> and that's huge to me as well. >> I mean, this is we're playing bad mitten here. >> It's it's on your side of the the net right now. So, I just I don't care because if you don't hit the ball back, that's one less thing I got to do.
>> Yeah. So, >> I don't think we disagree on it. That's just how we fund it, how doing it the right way in my opinion. >> So, so I'll put up for a vote. So, I'll enter a motion to approve the um agreement between the town of Freetown and GPI for engineering services for the
proposed North Main Street sidewalk. >> Yeah, I'm going to hold off on that one, I guess. >> Same here. I'm a no. >> All right, so no bush made. All right, so that means fails. I think it feels for today, but I think I honestly think putting it at the town
meeting is the way to go. >> I I mean I >> unless you want to approve the um the contract and then bring the actual funding to town meeting, but then at least the the engineering can get going. >> Well, through the engineering. Yeah. I
mean, >> I know it's a lot of money, but actually the engineering piece of it, if you didn't actually go out to bid and do construction services, is about 20 grand. I'd have to reach out to Jim. >> It was broken down in the contract.
>> Not sure. >> Survey maybe survey construction docks bid docks. >> Yeah. Survey and base mapping is 10,000 or 10 and a half thousand. Preliminary design plans is 22,000. >> 22,000.
>> 23 almost 23. >> All right. So, I guess we just got on, you know, we'll have I'm not sure what's next, but that's okay. >> Should we add it to the warrant? >> Well, add it to the warrant. >> Well, we already have funding,
so it's just a yes or no vote on whether we move forward with it, right? >> Well, he has funding that he's going to reallocate away from. >> That's his discretion anyways, right? >> That's his discretion. Yeah, cuz he was saying people. So, I guess
>> yeah, I was just killing him. >> If 20 less people are calling him every week, I'm sure he wouldn't mind doing it. >> Well, yeah. I'm not trying to give him give you more headaches. I'm sure you got plenty of those. But the only thing I have to stand on is like give the residents a revolt. The 87 residents that voted no, even the 69 voted that
voted, sorry, no and yes, they voted the correct way for or against the project. I'd give them another shot with more information to give them the opportunity to say, "Hey, listen. This is needed. We all agreed it's needed. Just the the way to do it is ask them again. It's like, "Hey, now we have more information. Here's the design studies. Here's what's
going to cost. We do it now. We get it done by Fourth of July." That's all pros. Just going to take an extra month. >> Okay. >> I agree with that. It kind of just And it covers your butt. It covers my butt. >> Yep. >> Dump it on the on the voters. >> If the the the people that show up
>> Yeah. >> If they want to spend the money, they spend the money. If they don't, again, that money I can spend on paving whatever road, you know, in the spring. >> I I don't want to not I don't want to put stuff on the voters, but what I in
what's kind of winning me over is what Sleman Lopes just said is that, you know, they voted a certain way already once. So, I don't want to go against them, right? They put us in these positions to make decisions. >> That's with Freetown tradition. >> We never accept no, you know, we never
say no. We just chase the dog until we catch the dog. >> That's what but you know to take the heat off of everybody just and it's only a month and a half away. We'll wait for the special and like I said we can just reassure
that we I know I have the money >> and just put it to them that it's not a question of we're not asking for more money. We're just asking for >> permission >> permission to >> spend your money on the sidewalk instead of
>> whatever road we chose, you know, next year. So either way, it doesn't mean anything to me. >> All right. >> Thank you, Chuck. I appreciate it. >> Have a good night. >> You as well. >> So that so that moves on to agenda item five, which is discussion about whether to close special town meeting for uh
warrant for submissions. So before you do that, I'm probably going to need a motion to add >> a warrant article uh for if we're not going to ask for money for the reconstruction of the North Main Street
sidewalks. >> So I was I was wondering that Wait, so like agenda M6 says add or remove articles. >> Yeah. >> So I think submission >> it's just other other people submitting articles. That's what I That's what I was interpreting it as. Do you agree? >> It's fine.
>> Okay. >> Well, once it's Okay. >> I mean, or I can just come back to and we can do five after we do six. >> It's fine. You can close it to submissions, but then >> we have an article already on there for >> I would skip that and go to the next one. >> Okay. I'll skip five. I'll come back to
it. Okay. So, agenda item six. So let's just uh agenda item six is to review or add review add or or remove articles for the special town meeting warrant for 126 by 26 and authorize sent to the town council for review. All
right so how detailed of a this could take a while I'm just going to go through the article titles let me know if you guys want to discuss them if they're not >> obvious right? >> Yep. >> All right so we have uh fun fencing at the free elementary school. Yep.
>> 200 $25,000. Yep. >> So that number is highlighted because as there is there is I think is there an agenda item about the whole fencing originally when they came to a selectman's meeting the PTO was
requesting um an area of fencing in the back. I I thought for the preschoolers um and I thought they said 17 or $18,000. So I put 25 to make sure we had enough to do it. Then they send a quote with all kinds of options that total
close to $100,000. So I need to know what you want to fund here, if anything, because there's three different or four different options for the um fencing. And so I think in your packet you have >> I see I was conf I didn't know if
>> area one area two. We can leave the article right now and the but the dollar figure we're going to have to come back to it once we decide. >> That sounds good. All right. Uh next one's fund the replacement of a police uh department all-terrain vehicle 34,000 which my buddy actually had a used one
of those in Swansea this week because he got in a bike accident. So they're good to have. Um that makes >> I believe the chief has a grant for >> Yeah. >> part of this and this is what he needs to actually purchase. >> Yeah. So they're like so it's going to be like 50 four alto together. Okay, so
you have a $20,000 grant. All right, that's good. Good go with me. Uh fund um completion of survey of Quaker Hill Cemetery for $3,350. Sounds good. Fund update to backup communication center radio equipment for
$12,500. Next one, fund review of Freetown sub uh subdivision rules and regulations and Freetown rules and regulations for storm water management. This is uh for $19,300. >> Pay a consultant to come and look at our rules and rags and help redo them.
>> Okay. >> Planning board. >> Uh we have a few next articles, uh prior fiscal year invoices. Riverhawk, we owe them 1,800. Greater New Bedford. um for with the dump or regional refuse is
uh refu I say that wrong 900 bucks. Interstate batteries $252. Home Depot 329. Eversur 761. Freetown police they owe us >> for detail.
>> We owe each other 1,283 and then city for 350. Okay. Fund purchase for equipment uh for water sewer uh water sewer commission 30,000.
So just laptops and tools and stuff like that. Replacement of the Freetown Elementary School Boiler 1.25 million. Uh fund the purchase of of a new fire engine 1.17 million.
Fund the uh funding of the tree warden additional expenses and salaries. This is 6,000. Okay. >> You didn't do that already. >> Funding of reservicing driveways and parking area of fire station 2 for 100,000.
And then we have an article here for funding for North Main Street sidewalk which is requested placeholder which makes sense now. Yep. >> Um so what should we go with the assumption that this is >> so we don't want funding? Do you want me to put the funding forth or you just
want me to put uh >> like so if it's >> is that does that belong on the special though if it's not funding related? >> It can go on the special. >> It doesn't matter. >> No. >> But funding special town meeting when we
we're at our annual town meeting means we can fund it immediately as opposed to annual which can't get funded till July 1st. But we've already funded so this is just getting per you know. >> So yeah. So, so what we're going to add here is a article to for you know
>> see if the town >> I I don't know how that how that goes. Is it a simple majority? >> Like there's a lot of rules that >> it should be simple majority. Yeah, I think it's >> uh yeah, just approval from >> voters to utilize existing funding
in from the from Highway Surveyor's budget to complete the North Main Street sidewalks with a total estimated cost of around 250,000. I think it's important >> it's going to probably be 275 with engineering. >> Okay. >> I was going to say, are we going to lump
engineering in the end >> into one? Yeah. I mean it would be >> we don't we're not ask for the funding. We just have to tell we should tell him how much it cost. >> Well, yes, but it would be closer to 300, right? Cuz we said two He said 250 plus. >> He said 220. >> Oh, >> I I'll get the number from him. That was
I'll I'll fill it in that article. So, >> do that. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Next one. Fun engineering um and modification of bleeder pits >> water sewer stuff. >> Yeah. and it's coming out of their funding, out of their retained earnings.
It's it's just some um drainage. We have to bleed the water system and it has to go through like a filtration system before it lands back into the rivers because it's got chlorine in it. >> Yeah. >> So, we've got to get some engineering done to determine how to do that so that we can get those uh drainage.
>> Okay. That's 50,000 for that one. Uh next article is just fund PAS mitigation. We don't have a number there yet. the the number is I'm sorry I should have drafted this is around $35,000. This is for obviously the the PAS
situation that we were not fully aware of when we did our annual t meeting and we didn't budget enough money for the engineering piece with all the testing that we have to do for the waters. So I signed a contract or I think the board signed a contract for a six-month
contract just to keep us moving. We need to fund the other six months of that contract for all the testing we have to do for the dump closure. And the cost is around $35,000. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Uh, next article, approve transfer and sale of map 210 lot 108. This is one we
talked about recently, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah. This is the the one that you I think um voted with surplus and now um >> conservation wants it. >> No, DCR. >> Oh, DCR wants it. That's right. There was two I think we talked about this.
Yeah. Okay, that requires two3 vote. Um, that's right. And then this is the other one I was thinking of. This is transfer map next article. Transfer map 21 lot 30 35 from uh treasure collector to conservation.
>> This is one we already own that we just actually take it out of the town's name and into the conservation still town but conservation purposes. So you wouldn't be able to do what you want with it unless conservation agreed to >> sense over.
>> All right. Next article. Readoptinal law. >> This this is coming off. You can take it off. >> All right. Taking it off. >> It's been done in a prior meeting. >> All right. Everyone agrees with that. We're going to take this off just to make the easier >> transfer. The OPED. >> Oh, the OPED. Okay. >> The OPED was done in 2018 and found all
that paperwork for me. >> Okay. Next one. uh update bylaw for disposal of personal property. >> Yeah, this is just another procurement law that basically uh this would allow the selectment to dispose of uh surplus
property without going under a certain amount without auction just which 30B allows >> just making it so it's just a little less >> a little less work. >> Yeah. Administrative drag to get that kind of least little things done. Okay.
Uh, next article, approve road layout for Arizona four corners. >> So, we've had a meeting about this before. This is just allow is just now taking the four corner layout that we have had created because it wasn't laid out, bringing it to town meeting for approval so we can get the plan signed
off on and now we'll know exactly where the property lines are. >> Okay, any questions? We good? >> Except uh, next article accepting Fall Brook Lane and Algangquin Way as town roads. Yeah, that's just procedurally those
roads are complete. We will get a recommendation, I'm sure, from the planning board that they get accepted at town meeting as a public roadway. They >> Are these the ones up off Powder Acres? New ones or where are these? Yeah. >> Cool.
Um, next article is solar pilot agreement payment in L of taxes. We've done this with all the other solar. >> Don't we kind of have to do it now, too, isn't there? Like,
>> it just makes sense for a town report taxes evenly over a 20-year period instead of frontloaded. >> Yep. >> But I think we're still waiting for the final information. >> All right. Next one. Update position title in person and personnel bylaw. So,
this is uh set of confidential secretary police assistant confidential assistant. >> Okay. just kind of >> Does this change salary at all? >> What's that? >> Does this change salary at all? >> This is not this this article does not change the salary. I think that will
come um probably within our next negotiations >> because of this. Is it because we changed because >> or because of like the the title or the description of position itself? >> Like why why would it change? just
because >> just trying to get an answer. >> Says to keep up to keep with the times. I think it's just like a a kind of a archaic title for that position. >> Yeah. >> Is that that's what I'm understanding by the chief. >> Yeah. We really don't have secretaries anymore. Um people are either clerks or
administrative assistants or you know assistants >> like maybe a connotation with the word or >> Oh no, that part I understood it was more of the salary change. Is it because >> Yeah. I don't know that the s the this would reflect a direct sale. I get what you're saying, but I don't think it would reflect like, okay, now all of a
sudden because they're changing this to this, they're going to get an extra $10,000 of throwing a random, but I I get what you're saying, but I don't think so. >> I I will say that that there will be probably a recommendation or a discussion about the salary in budget season, right? change in the budget
season in in keeping with other assistance to police departments. I think that that discuss >> that would happen regardless of >> titles regardless. You're right. Um so that this wasn't something that was asked and I you know it's one of those
things you don't really think about but to some people it's important and it's it's meaningful and so I think it's important that we respect these positions for what they are. Mhm. >> I agree. >> All right. We good with that one? >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> All right. Great. Next article. Bylaw
change. Fingerprint submission for certain license is with uh with police department. >> Yeah. I'm not sure this is ready yet because this was the one that the chief brought in here and now this one just is wide open and says it's at the chief's discretion or something. I I don't know that that's I think that needs some
work. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, what do we do with that then? >> I don't know. I'm going to review it and see if I can't put in the ice cream truck one. >> Yeah, we can still send it to to council for review and then if we we can always remove it later on if it's not.
>> All right, next one. Um, amend free town's own bylaws uh for the ADUs by eliminating access department. >> This is just all of the regulations that we're allowed to put in for the ADUs because you we they just stay changed
that law. Yeah. >> So, it's just changing it to >> It's not changing the law, but it's just putting in some restrictions. So, you have setbacks up the front of the yard as opposed to just there wasn't any, right? There were no regulations when when it came to ADU, so you could put it in the front in your front lawn. You
could put it. >> So, this just gives some framework. I know that the planning department I wasn't involved in this process but Nancy worked diligently with um the zoning board chair Nick Boozo and I know Kevin Dearos was involved and Carl
Bizaro and they worked as a team collaboratively to come up with these. >> Okay. All right. Sounds good. Next one. Next article is uh amend the bylaw 300-5.1 free time zone by laws uh eliminating
the ADU table. It's just this seems like just >> maybe because it doesn't it's not applicable anymore because you can you can put ads. It's making so these are like um small setbacks like they're only six
feet off the property line side and wrist. So it's saying that that you can only build a smaller building 200 foot building like a shed basically. >> Yeah. >> As opposed to a 300 which is a little bit bigger >> because the state law though says like I I remember when this came out >> 240 I think.
>> No, it was like as long as it's like half the size of the house. remember half the size of the main unit or >> Oh, was that are you talking about? >> Yeah. Is that >> square feet or no more than half of Yeah, I >> Yeah, something like that, right? This
is so amend bylaw 300-51 zone free time zoning bylaw eliminating the ADU table. >> Yeah, you got me. I have no idea. >> So, it says to see if the town will vote to amend this the free time zoning bylaws by eliminating accessory
apartments from the use. So maybe instead of accessory apartments that's being replaced by ADUs accessory dwelling unit is different than accessory apartment. I don't know. It's been by the pl board. I I'll have to explain it but I don't I
don't have a particular problem with it. >> I'm kind of lost where you're at here. >> I'm on page nine. >> Yeah. >> So I must have jumped ahead. I think I'm pretty sure what this is saying like at one point maybe these accessory apartments were prohibited and
now they are >> well we had accessory apartments right and and now we you have ADU >> it's like a it's a new state kind of okay all right that's fine all right next one uh accessory apartment definition to see if the town
will amend 300-1.4 Four of the three times zoning bylaw is by limiting accessory apartments from definitions and words used by removing the language. So it's yeah so it's getting rid of everything that says accessory apartment. >> All right.
I think this is just removing the language because like I terminology has changed. >> Yeah, >> I agree. >> Uh amend the bylaw 300-6.1 free time zoning bylaws for height and area regulations to see if the town will vote to remove 300-6.1F free time zone bylaws by eliminate
height and area regulations for additional dwell units blah blah blah revisions bold and text strikeouts removed. So it's saying that setbacks accessory buildings less than or equal to 200 square feet in area 50t from
street line 6 feet from rear inside property. And then so it says residential accessory building greater than 200 square ft. Okay,
let's add some more like here. This was I think the one you were thinking of before. >> Yes. And there so an accessory building used to be able to be 10 feet off the property line or six feet depending on where you were. Now has to be 20t off the sidelines
um depending on the neighborhood or six feet. And so they're reducing the size of what anything greater than 200 ft. So if your shed is 300 feet, you now have to meet
these >> makes sense. Okay. Next one is accept the personal bylaw update to see if the town will vote to amend its general bylaws chapter 4 entitled personal personnel classification and compensation plans by deleting in it in its entirety and
inserting in place therefore the text set forth below. and further to authorize town collector to assign the proper heading, chapter and section number two to set bylaw consistent with the current numbering system or to take. Okay, so this is just changing. >> So this is this is actually pretty big
change. So currently we have the um personnel classification compensation bylaw. So anything like changing the title to a job description has to go to town meeting. >> Yep. changing uh vacation time or anything to do with
any of the personal bylaws has to go to town meeting for the town to go on. This actually takes that and puts it onto the selectman. So the selectman has the uh authority to then change those bylaws as
opposed to town meeting. Now, in that draft, it allows for the the bylaw employees to sort of petition the selectmen and have a public hearing if they want to make changes to that to the, you know, to the bylaws, so to
speak. So, I'm recommending this be adopted effective July 1st. I'd like to work on the bylaws, the policies that you would put in place, that you would adopt. I have met with all of the bylaw employees so that I've talked to them about what
they'd like to have and what they'd like to see in the bylaw um regulations because they're very very outdated and they're a mess because they've been ad hoc, right? Things have been added at town meeting and and it doesn't it's not
fluent. It talks about a classification chart that's no longer even in there. It's very disjointed and and and it's a mess. it needs to be addressed one way or the other. But I think this is a better approach if the selectman have the authority to um make the policy
changes as opposed to every time I want to make something or we need to make a change, we have to go to town meeting. It would still involve a public hearing and it can only be done, you know, every six months or so, but so this is bigger than it looks on paper, I guess. >> Yeah. No, that makes sense. So any
questions on that, Jess? >> No, this is long time coming. Yeah. All right. So then the next one is the uh new MBTA district bylaw. Last but not least. And so um
here. So this one does require a two-th3 vote. >> It shouldn't. It's only a majority vote. >> Okay. All right. So we know that has to be in there. All right. So
I think that So I'll entertain a motion to move forward with the article, you know, the um articles for the spectile meeting as written with the addition of the
funding for North Main Street sidewalk and the removal of the OPED and send that to council for review. Motion made >> second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Sleekman Lopes. >> Yes. >> Sleekman Zagger. >> Yes. >> Matthews.
>> Yes. >> Okay. Great. And then now we will move on more minutes. See if I get one more on him. >> So, do we go back to five? >> I'm going to close it for submission. Right.
>> Yeah. >> Back to five. Yeah. >> Yeah. I'll get a motion to close the special town meeting warrant for submissions. >> Motion made >> second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I l >> Oh, sorry. Select Lopes. >> Yes. >> Selectman Zer. >> Yes. >> Sickleman Matthews. >> Yes.
>> It's a long day. >> Got me. You got me. >> All right. So, agenda item seven is going to take a little while. So, we're not going to do that yet. We'll come back to that. We only have two minute or one minute now before the next public hearing.
Um, how about the contract for contract court for the municipal fiber project? >> This is just an extension time. Yep. >> All right. Any questions or concerns on this extension? >> No. >> No. >> All right. So, with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve the contract extension for the town of Freetown and
contract Corp for the municipal fire fiber project to April 30th, 2026. >> Motion made. Second. All >> in favor? I. Blickman Lopes. >> Yes. >> Zagger. >> Yes. >> Blackman Matthews. >> Yes. Um, okay. And then
I don't remember what companies we have for the roof design. Who won >> another school? >> Yeah. >> So, the We've talked about we actually voted to fund the repairs to
the roof. >> Yeah. >> Then when the architect that's been working on the roof said it's too late to do that now, um he said suggested that we just go into bid to do the the roof project and do the wet insulation
when we do the roof. And I said I don't know that we were prepared to do this next cycle. Um so that's decision probably number one. But in the meantime, he put out a quote to get three quotes for engineering to actually have the like an engineering firm do the
technical uh part of the roof and then do the bid documents and oversight oversee the work. Now, if you remember, this is that applied uh liquid like applied pied roof that we're doing.
>> And it's going to cost a little more than $2 million. >> Okay. >> We can do it in phases and do it probably like probably 1.1 or 1.2 million each time. He suggests we move forward getting
quotes and uh for the roof and bid. we would have to go to town meeting in the annual town meeting to get this money because we just we're just appropriating $1.2 million to do the boiler. >> Okay. >> Which I think is a priority because it's
it's it's on its last leg. We're lucky hopefully we get through this winter without any major problems. >> Um so and we already have a half a million dollars towards the roof that we put aside for the the wet insulation. So it
is probably more of a funding if you wanted to do it in two phases is probably under a million dollars that we would need to do phase one and then we need to come back and do phase two the following year. So this is more than just deciding on the firm. It's more deciding on are we ready to spend that kind of money and I have no idea if
we're going to be able to afford it. But this is step one. >> Okay. Would this still and and jog my memory if I'm wrong, there was stepped approaches that we looked at that were more expensive than doing it all at
once? >> Yes, it will be more if you do it in two phases as opposed to >> I don't remember by how much. And does it make sense? >> I want to say it's like a quarter of a million dollars. It might be. >> Yeah. >> But that's the way we will bid it, right? We'll bid it in phases and then we'll bid it as one project.
>> All right. So, we we'll still bid it as one and then that way we can decide if we have the money in order to do it to save the quarter of a million dollars because we're going to have to do it. But if >> we can do it, great. If we can't we can't I mean if as far as >> we're running out of time. I don't I mean I would suppose we have another
year. We could probably push this off for another year. >> I I don't want to push it off. I guess that's my point, right? Is but if we So if we can do it in one lump sum, you know, then that's what we do. >> Okay. So, what do we do here?
>> So, if you want me to put the project out to bid, there's the three three architect firms. Um, >> so Derby, >> we don't necessarily need to take the lowest bidder because uh we're under $30,000.
>> Yep. GRL. >> So, I will tell you that I've talked to the consultant and Derby's the highest bidder out of the other two. uh RTG is sort of um a smaller firm and
I think may have time constraints of getting the project where it needs to be. Uh he really recommends Gorilla I call it Gorilla but it's >> GR LA. >> That's who they recommend. >> That's who they recommended. I kind of
looked at all of the quotes. They're pretty well matched in services. Derby did write a letter saying that they were gonna they won't be able to start for a while, but they're the highest price anyway. >> Okay. >> So, um I
>> think that makes sense to me. So, >> do you have any recommendations or anything? >> I don't have any regarding the engineering firms? No. >> No. Got it. >> Um yeah, I mean if they're going to if that's who you suggested and it means moving forward with them, then yeah.
>> Yeah. No, I'm all for GLA. Go, go, go. >> All right. So, with that, I entertain a motion to move forward with U GLA for the Freetown Elementary School group design services. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I slept low. >> Yes.
>> Select Zer. >> Yes. >> Select Matthews. >> Yes. Okay. Now, it is past 7. So, I can open up the second public hearing of the day. I'll just read the notice. So, uh, Town of Freetown
public hearing notice 11:21 2025, NSA Electric Company, DBA, Eversource Energy, request permissions to locate poles, wires, cables, and fixtures, including the necessary sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used by your petitioner along and across the
following public way or ways. Bulock Road, Freetown, installing two new poles uh foees in the right of way of Bulock Road. Wherefore we pray that after due notice and and hearing as provided by
law, we uh will we be granted locations for permissions to erect and maintain poles, wires, cables, and other such sustaining and protecting uh fixtures as we may find necessary said poles to be erected sustainably in accordance with the plan filed here within here with
marked plan number 22513945 dated October 2nd, 2025. Also for permission to lay and maintain underground cables, conduits, wires, and necessary equipment in the above and intersecting public ways for the purpose of making connections with the poles and
buildings as each may desire for distributing purposes. Your petitioner agrees to reserve space for one cross arm at a suitable point on each of said poles for the fire, police, telephone, and telegraph signal wires belonging to the municipality and used by its uh
exclusively for municipal purposes. A public hearing to discuss the above matter will be held on December 1st, 2025, 7 p.m. at the police station community room, 15 Memorial Drive, East Freetown, Mass. Persons interested in commenting may appear at this meeting. If unable to attend meeting, comment may
be submitted in writing no later than close of business on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 to the Freetown for Slackman. So with that, um the public notice public hearing is now open and I think we have a representative here from NSAR
or Eversource. >> Good evening. >> Just state your name for the record when you're ready. >> Good evening everyone. represent Jessica Elder representing Eversource. Thank you for having me this evening. >> Thank you, Jessica. >> Uh so this particular job is one of our
uh system reliability jobs. Uh the FO for anybody that doesn't understand is fully owned, sorry, fully owned poles owned owned by Eversource. Um and they're going along Bulock Road. So this is the end of a project starting in Dartmouth. And there's just the two
poles that are that are um involved. And these are midspan poles. So they're poles that were will reduce the slack that you know when there's so much length between two poles, the the length the uh heaviness of the wires will pull on the poles and that's what ends up
getting some uh outages. Um so these poles that uh they're replacing, they've been installed since probably around the 1960s. Um and some of them are shorter. Most of our pole poles are 40 to 45 ft poles. Um, and
they have to withstand these heavy new wires that they're putting in with all the transmission, all the technology that has come upon us. Um, so in order for us to uh have a more more reliable service, these we have to replace these
poles. So we're not doing any three phrase. It's just again the two poles um that are uh right in between these these long spans um that will stand wind, snow, the weight of branches which cause causes a lot of the tension. Um the goal
of these uh ongoing project is for fewer p power outages obviously and more reliable service. Um they've already started in Dartmouth and you know we'll continue down for these last two polls. Um this is kind of the end of the project. Um it shouldn't take more than a couple of days. Really not anyone
that's going to be affected in the area as far as any outages, people respond, you know, concerned about not having any power for any period of time. That wouldn't happen. Um and we will request a detail if it's necessary. I don't understand it being a very very busy area over there. But if so, you know, we
definitely want to do it for the safety of the town and uh crew members. >> I am going to request that anytime we have someone on the road like that that we do try and request a detail. Yeah, they normally normally do. Yeah. >> Yeah. And I I understand what you're saying. That area is not that busy of an
area, but it just takes one. So, I would request that we do put detail there. >> Okay. >> You got it. >> And And you So, you're saying that these are existing poles that you're going to remove >> and replace with taller poles. >> We're putting two new poles in, but the other ones that they're replacing along
the way are existing poles. Okay. >> So, we're putting in two. >> Okay. Sorry. Yeah. I I just with the way it was phrased, I apologize. I just wasn't I thought that you were putting new polls in, but I would just want to clarify. >> Yeah, no problem. >> Uh and we did I know there was some
discussion we had with earlier that these are in Freetown. We weren't 100% sure, but they are. >> They're on the tail end of Bulock Road. As you >> crosses a couple Yeah, it's kind of weird over there. There's a lot of different Okay. Now, you said this was a project that was coming from Dartmouth.
Are you planning on doing additional polls down the road in Freetown? Is this one of >> I didn't get any more information as far as that. This is as far down as the information I have. Um I can find that out if that's um >> Well, it's just good to know. You know, if you have you have a dozen of them come by, you might as well just come by
once versus they normally would. I I would imagine that this is the end of this project here. >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> And I have to ask for the residents that are watching at home by assisting Eversource in this way. Is there any way that this helps reduce the transmission charge or delivery fees to our
residents? just have to ask. I have you and I have you here. It's a rare >> department. It's not my department. I'm sorry. But you know, if I if anybody has the questions, I can trans transfer I take that information. >> If you don't mind, our residents, I'm sure they're asking at home going, "Will this help reduce costs?" And if it does,
great. >> Um, >> reliability is what it's doing. I mean, because there's nothing more than having your power going out during these storms. Um, so this is definitely going to reduce that. I that I know. >> Perfect. Um, do you know if there's anyone on Zoom that has any questions
related to this public hearing? >> Can ask them. >> All right. >> Just chatting. >> Anyone else have any questions or concerns? >> No. >> Are we going to change the language so that the town can use the space on the poll for any municipal purpose?
>> For any municipal purpose? >> Any municipal purpose. It says now fire, police. No, for any municipal purpose. We can use that space >> on the poll. >> On the poll. Okay, >> that's what we just initial when I added the word. Danny, >> I just want to make sure we're all clear
because I I >> you know, we're working on putting municipal fiber up. >> Yeah. Which fiber will be used by all of the town, right? >> All of the town. Yeah. >> Yeah. Right. >> And I just want to I don't want to be fighting with um
>> it probably won't necessarily be on those polls, but just in general, I think this is that >> No, it won't be. every petition that comes before us moving forward to have that language in there that we have the right to use it for our space, the space that you're allocating for us for any municipal purpose.
>> The space on the poll. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Because right now it just says police, fire, telephone or telegraphs, >> right? >> We're going to telegraph. >> We do have horses running around still,
so you never know. Um and I it's a safety issue as well. >> Yeah. >> So >> yeah. Yeah. And Okay. >> And Okay. And again, what was it? >> We've changed it in the past. They have changed the language. I want it to be on every time you come in now. Just give us
that language that the town was able to use the space on the pole for any municipal purpose. >> Okay. >> Because it's because of our FIOS like our our fiber optic program that we're trying we're implementing right now. >> And you don't know what technology is going to come forth. >> Yeah. Exactly. And it could be to your point it could be in Dartmouth and need
to come down that way and then we might have to go and fight back. Not fight back but go back and ask for permission. So it's just clarifies us this is for just town purpose. It's not >> okay. >> Yep. >> All right. Is that is that it? Is that >> Yeah, that was all I had.
>> And then so when when we vote on this, should I mention with the updated language discussed during the public hearing? >> Okay. >> All right. So with no other questions, I'm going to close the public hearing. So I'll enter in a motion to close this public hearing. >> Motion made. Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I. >> Blackman lo. >> Yes. >> Blechman Zer. >> Yes.
>> Blackman Matthews. >> Yes. All right. And then agenda item 29. We'll jump to that. >> So I'll entertain a motion to approve the request from Ever Source in the uh public hearing. Um with the updated language discussed during public hearing. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Slickman Lope.
>> Yes. >> Sleman Zer. >> Yes. >> Sleman Matthews. >> All set. >> Thank you so much. Have a good evening as well. >> Okay. Now we're going to jump back to Agenda item seven which is um no seven.
Sorry. >> Seven. Yeah. >> Seven. >> Yes. >> Seven. >> Okay. Yeah. Fence. All right. Discussion of vote. Which option, if any, to add uh the fence to add the fence at Fre Elementary School to the um special town
meeting warrant for 126 2026. My view is going to die. So again, originally the P this this request came from the PTO. >> Yes. >> Requesting that we fence in an area for preschoolers >> because there's no fence at all,
>> I believe. And sort of towards the back of the school, which now you have drawings, but then when I get the price updated quote, and I believe the quote was originally 17 to $18,000, >> right? Yeah. And when we got the quote, we got that plus another area of another
25,000 plus another section for another 15,000. And so I I I'm like I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with this. So I can um this is Sarah Dudley from the PTO. I can speak to this for a sec if you'd like. >> Please.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Um yeah, so I just wanted to so for context, I guess. So when we came um so we're we brought it to the town's attention because the school staff members had asked the PTO to purchase or to you know pay for this
fence um specifically for it's the kindergarten and preschool um playground which is in the rear of the school as you mentioned. there's currently no fence structure there. Um so it's open, you know, to the neighbors um and things like that. And we have actually had
recent situations of students um running into the woods, you know, and staff members have to kind of go chase them and corral them back. So it it certainly has been an issue. Um so the initial quote that we had gotten was for just that playground to have that fully fenced in. And Deb, like you said,
that's was around 17 or 18,000. Um and so we, you know, spoke to Dr. Starky about it and they agreed and we agreed that it didn't feel like an appropriate use of PTO um funds and so that's what they said you know this could be a town um funded project. So at
the I think it was in August 19th maybe um board of selectman meeting we came and discussed it. Um and that's I think it was selectman Zerger that mentioned you know like are there any other fencing issues that you're having like should we do kind of a larger scope um assessment here and just kind of do it
once and do it right if there are any other fencing needs. And so I think that's when um Mr. Higgins or Mr. Goodwin from the district worked with the fencing company to do that broader scope of needs for fencing. Um, so I know that part of that was the Memorial
Drive, the playground that's used for first, second, and third grade is not fully fenced in. It's threequarters of the way fenced in. Um, and the gate is currently broken. Um, so I'm assuming that that newer quote includes fully
fencing in that piece and fixing um, the broken gate. >> Okay. Thank you. So, what I see here, if I'm understanding this, so I have two different quotes pages. They they're they look very similar. Maybe it's just a duplicate in the
>> No, no, it's not. The prices are different. >> So, there's area one, >> which is the original preschool area here in the back. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That's the kindergarten and preschool playground. And also the afterare program uses that one as well. >> Okay. So, that that's 17,800,
>> right? And then there's area two which is >> the Ted Just baseball field that's right on Bulock Road there that's currently not Benston at all. >> Okay Sarah, do they and sorry to cut in guys. The do is that used currently by
students during the day? >> It is. >> It is. >> It is. Yeah. For gym class. Gym class uses that field. >> Okay. >> That's kind of sketchy that there's no fence there. But there's fence along Bulock Road there. >> There is. >> Yes. Yes. Sorry. There is a fence um along Right. That's correct. But not
along the driveway and not along, you know, the neighboring property there. >> Okay. Understood. >> Yeah. >> And then area three, we have three different options for area three, which here.
>> So that double red line is where the broken gate is. Um, so I assume that that's repairing that that gate and then the other red line is closing it off. So that would be fully fenced in. Um, right now it's not. So again, theoretically
students could run from that playground onto Bulock Road. >> Okay. >> Or the driveway. >> They can't really run to Bulock Road, right? They can run to the driveway, but they really can't run to Bulock Road. >> Yeah, that's Yes. The front fence runs
along right. There's an opening to at the driveway. So, they would have to run to the driveway to Bulock Road. >> Gotcha. >> So, they'd have to run up the hill. Does that happen? >> Um, that does not happen as much. They don't. No, I've only heard of that being
an issue for the kindergarten playground. Um, because that's the kindergarten playground is also where the South Coast Collaborative um students use. So those are your special needs um students who are more likely to have uh flight issues and things like
that. I think and this I I would say and I I shouldn't speak for the district but I feel like this one is more of a nice to have not a need to have whereas the K playground is a little bit more of a need to have. >> Gotcha. >> Yeah.
>> Prioritize that that's exactly right. When when this was originally brought to our attention, we went through the process of uh going through the site visit, identifying what the options would be in order to um to fence to fully fence in the different areas where
the students are out during recess, though not necessarily things that we had listed as as needs for the district. But when at the last meeting in a or in the meeting in August when it was asked what are the larger fencing issues it was necessary for us to take a longer
look at it. So from that perspective there are I would suggest there are two primary issues. One being the playground the ca kindergarten playground kindergarten pregate playground and then the gate um the access gate from the
parking lot to the playground area which is now in disrepair. So the replacement would be it's pretty wide span uh but it's also on a hill. So the suggestion from uh the fencing company would be you would we would design it in two as it is
currently with two gates because it's too big to have as a single gate. One gate would be a sliding gate and the other gate would be a swinging gate. >> The only reason for that is that the sliding gate is going to be is going to last longer than a swinging gate.
>> And is that that is one of those options there? >> It's it's included in all of option three. Okay. >> Or area three. >> Area three. >> Right. If you look at the uh d if you look at the bottom of each one of those um maps, you'll see the breakdown of
what's happening and what what's being explained in the >> apologies for the pictures. This is the this is the quite right at the limit of my abilities rel relative to creating uh the images. But you can see the arrows
there that are crossing over the the gray uh path. Um yeah, and that's the that's the gate. And then the other red lines again are without a lot of direction just the question of what are the fencing needs
for the district or what are the potential fencing needs and wants. We put all the needs and wants in front of you. >> Yeah. So my thoughts guys are is if you look at those options,
the gate obviously needs to be repaired, right? Like that's an obvious part of it. The one that would run the gate, the first option one would allow that one would allow the
most space to be used, right? And I guess because my fear is is if a kid gets around the front of the school and no one notices them, we say they have to run up to the to the entrance, which is it it's notable, but at the same time
they could if no one sees them get around. This will help keep them in the area and it would be the least amount of added fencing. >> Well, be fixing one fence, right? fixing the fence, the sliding fence, and then adding that bottom sections. Are you
saying? >> Yes. >> Versus if you look at the other options, you're actually cutting off like that one, you're actually cutting off part of the area. And then the other one, it's cutting off even more of the area, >> right? >> So, if we were going to do anything over
here, I would say that it would make sense to run that one across the front to keep the most space available for the kids. >> So, that that one right there, >> this is option one. Area three option one. >> Y >> I mean obviously the the backside one has to be done the one for the
>> So that's area one >> area. >> Area one. >> Yep. >> Right. But it but when but to their point was is that I had asked what what else would we need to do if we were going to do it? Let's do it once and do it right
in that first meeting. So they to their credit came back with this information for us. And that's something I had said but we all agreed upon that we should do >> and area two is the more of a nice to have. >> Correct.
>> Okay. And then so funding wise >> I I mean I'm I'm not I think it's a struggle right now. Right. We're talking about funding $1 and a4 million for a boiler and then we're talking about spending another $2 million at the next
meeting for a roof. So, I think that I mean I I think it's doable. It's it's always doable, but I think it's just there's a lot of competing needs. I think you maybe you do area one. >> Now that you've identified this, Jack, has this been added to the capital
improvement plan for the district at all as far as some of the fencing? Because at the end of the day, I agree with the fencing needs to be in certain areas should be done, right? It'll help alleviate the the burden of the monitors and the teachers and the paras that are out there watching these kids. It's easier to corral them in with the fencing and everything else. A lot of it
has to do with programming, right? Um I know the baseball field's used for for for gymnasiums. I'm just trying to see what what fits into the district versus like the special project number one is really a special project in a sense, right? To get that in the back done. uh because it was discussed years ago and here we are finally talking about it.
with the other ones. I'm just thinking out loud going do we do we add these fencing in and later on they change the project or what they're going to use the property for or program I should say and then we chasing our tails in a sense to add more fencing trying to alleviate tomorrow's needs
with today's today's budgets right so how do we do that >> uh so relative to the the capital plan yes it is in as a you know drafted into the pencile in maybe into the larger plan um >> with the idea that not all of those area
three options um if we were choosing we would choose the one that is creating that's offering the most amount of space which would be option one. Um and we would there is no with that being said there
is no current curricular plans that would cause the fence to become outdated. >> Okay perfect. So then do we just do area number one then and go back to what originally >> or do you want to maybe 31 which gives you the gate that's like a total
35,000ish I think we asked for that at the special town meeting that takes out the two higher highest priorities then come back to the next meeting >> right >> we can address the nice habs right once we once we have a better idea of >> we know the boiler is going more expensive than we think the roof's going to be more expensive than we think
>> and having heat and no water leaking through the building is far more important this was just you know us talking about it at that point and >> well it's also good to take care of the kids and everybody there. So I you're right. I think 3.1 the version of 3.1 in and number one that's probably the best bang for our buck as far as improving
the school and keep the safety in mind. Right. >> Completely. >> So updating those the fence which is great maybe automatic fence in the morning for drop off. >> Right. I will I do I think it's important to note that um if you look at 3.1 there is there would be a gate uh
again that little triangle shape >> that's going to be a that would be a personal a like a humanized gate. >> Okay. >> But then in option in area one sorry for the prek playground >> it is in the it's in the direct in the explanation but we we would also be
putting in an equipment gate. We would want to be able to get in equipment, you know, a front end loader in order to >> the ideally we'd be putting in new newer and better um ADA compliant equipment in the future and we don't certainly don't want
defense to restrict that. >> That makes a lot of sense. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, the folks on Zoom any kind of last input? I think what I'm going to propose for a vote here is that we go forward with area one and area 3.1 um and ask for 35,000 for funding at the
special time meeting. >> I think that would be very much appreciated by the school staff and students and and community. >> Awesome. That would be great. >> Awesome. >> All right. Great. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thanks, Sarah. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you. Appreciate your input. >> Awesome. Thanks, Jeff.
>> And yeah, I think I think the map the graphics look pretty good. >> Yeah, you do. you're kind. >> Okay. So, so now I'm going to go back to this agenda item seven. So, um I'll entertain a motion to vote uh sorry, I'm
going to enter a motion to have um area one and area 3.1 um utilized or put forth for the special town meeting with a total funding of $35,000. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Select Lopes.
>> Yes. >> Select Zer. Yes. >> Matthews. >> Yes. Do you think 35,000 that's good? >> I think so. That gives us some wiggle room. Sometimes Southeast Fence doesn't always budget for prevailing wage. >> Okay. >> So, that gives us some wiggle room and I'm sure if we're short, they can PTO
can make up the difference. >> All right. Great. All right. Uh I >> nine >> 10 >> n >> uh >> uh 10. We didn't do 10 yet. Okay. This is related back to nine which we already did which is the roof.
>> So um this is just to authorize Deb to sign the documents. So I'll enter a motion to authorize town administrator to sign documents associated with the Freetown Elementary School roof design services. >> Motion made second. >> All in favor? >> I I vote. >> Yes. >> Slew Zer. >> Yes. >> Sleman Matthews.
>> Yes. All right. Agenda item 11. Discussion vote whether to close town hall libraries COA and highway at noon on Christmas Eve for the holiday party at the town hall. Anyone want a Grinch? Although I saw that Suck Loops is wearing a Grinch shirt. >> My the advent calendar today. I will
give them credit. And they said I have to wear this shirt, this sweater to my meeting. >> So, thank you kids. >> Well, I hope you're not a Grinch on this on this. >> No, I'm not. I'm >> Usually the we we request the close of town hall on a on an odd day to have the town hall to have a party. Yeah.
>> But this year the um employees would like to do this instead. Um they'll probably order some pizza in >> and just have it at the town hall time. >> You know, I think that means that we made a long a lot of strides forward with the town hall that they want to
hang out there. >> Heating and air conditioning. >> They'll be the fast they should be the fastest eating pizza eating contests ever because I bet they'll be eating that pizza and they'll be out. >> Oh, that's great. It >> is looking good in there. It is looking good. >> I mean, it looks so much better in the last, you know, it really does. All
right. All right. So with that, why don't we try a motion to close town hall libraries council on aging and how it at noon on Christmas Eve for the holiday party town hall. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Selectman Lopes. >> Yes. >> Zagger. >> Yes. >> Selectman Matthews. >> Yes. I'm 12.
>> Discussion of vote uh for library and council on aging to observe same holiday schedules as other town buildings as follows. So this is A through D. A. Christmas Eve close at 12:00 p.m. B. Day after Christmas regular hours. C. New Year's Eve regular hours. D day after
New Year's regular hours. >> Okay. So, one change on that is on New Year's Eve, the libraryies technically it's it's a Wednesday, I believe, is open till 700 p.m. So, I think that um regular hours for everybody else is 8 to
4. So, when we close the library or >> Yeah. No one's going to the library on New Year's Eve at 7 p.m. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So, I'm thinking 4 p.m. >> 4 p.m. Okay. Anyone any anyone good that? >> Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Good. >> Okay. So, I'll enter a motion to have
the library and custoing observe the same holiday schedules at the town build other town buildings except for New Year's Eve. They will close at 4 p.m. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I >> Sleman Lope. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zer. >> Yes. >> Sleman Matthews.
>> Yes. Okay. Jamm 13 discussion and vote whether to approve the following class 2 motor vehicle dealer license for 2026. I'm going to read these A through I. >> Mhm. >> Bob Motors Works Craig J. Cabraw DBA
Evolution Auto Sales C. Nuno's Auto Repair Unlimited Inc. D. Basic Equipment Inc. Basic Used Cars, Trucks, and Equipment. E Chop ahead Industries DBA uh Inc. DBA Choahhead Custom Cycles. F. Roger L. Denell, uh, DBA, Bowler's
Garage. G, Christopher Jacob, uh, DGA CJ's Auto Sales. H, Armen H. Claremont, DBA, Claremont's Auto Sales. And I, Mark H. Bullock, DBA Auto Sales. Everyone's got all their paperwork in.
>> Anyone questions or concerns? >> No. >> All right. Okay. So with that, I want a motion to uh approve the class 2 motor vehicles listed in the agenda A through I. >> Motion made. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Sleekman Lope. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zer. >> Yes.
>> Sleman Matthews. >> Yes. Okay. Moving on to agenda item 14. Discussion vote whether approve the following class 3 motor vehicle duo license for 2026. These are A through J. J. Wow. Uh A. uh Petty Auto Salvage LLC
B. Milan S. Westgate Jr. and Milan S. Westgate Third, DBA Westgate Auto C. Daniel Cryson, DBA Hometown Automotive. Uh D. Jeffrey Raposa, DBA, Freetown Auto
Salvage. E. Joseph F. Costa III, DBA, J&T Auto Salvage. F DB Fabrication Inc., DBA Bugs uh Stevens Freetown Auto G. Um John Bordon, DBA CSA Auto Parts.
H Donald F. Mendoza, DBA DM uh Auto Enterprise. I Big Wheels Truck Sales and J. Milis Industries DBA Pick and Pull. Everyone's got all the paperwork in? >> They do. >> Anyone have any concerns? >> No. >> All right. All right. With that, I want
to try a motion to approve the following class 3 or the class 3 motorcycles listed in the agenda A through J for motor vehicle license dealer license for 2026. >> A motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Sleman. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zer. >> Yes. >> Suckman Matthews.
>> Yes. All right. Agenda item 15. Discussion of whether to approve the auto auctioneer license renewal for 2026 for Joseph F. Kaso third DBA J&T auto sales. Any they have their information in Lan. Everything's here.
>> Good. All right. I'll a motion to approve the auctioneer license renewal for 226 for Joseph F. Costa the third DBA J&T auto salvage. >> Motion made second. >> All in favor? >> I lops. >> Yes. >> Zagar. >> Yes. >> S Matthews.
>> Yes. 16. Discussion vote whether approve the motor vehicle graveyard license renewal for 2026 for Milis Industries DBA pick and pull. They have all their stuff in the win. >> Correct. >> Any questions or concerns? >> No. >> Entertain a motion to approve the motor
vehicle graveyard license renewal for 226 for pick and pull. >> Motion made second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Sleman Lope. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zer. >> Yes. >> Sman Matthews. >> Yes. All right. Agenda item 17. This is uh discussion of vote whether to approve
the following restaurants, all alcohol beverages to be drunk on premise. License renewal for 2026. A through C. A is Profile Rock, Inc. The Profile Tavern. B Carsley, Inc. C Narrows Road Events LLC. They have all their
information in. >> They do. >> Any questions or concerns? >> No. No. >> All right. A motion to approve the all um to approve the f the restaurants A through C for their all alcohol beverages to be drunk on premise license
over 2026. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> I >> Sleman Lope. >> Yes. >> Select Zer. >> Yes. >> Selectman Matthews. >> Yes. >> Agenda item 18. This is for the VFW. So discussion of vote whether to approve
all alcohol beverages club license renewal for the Freetown Memorial Post 6643 VFW for 2026. Anyone have an issue with that? >> No. I'll entertain a motion to approve the VFW's all alcohol beverage uh club license renewal for the free time or
sorry free time war post 6643 for 2026. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Iman Lope. >> Yes. >> Selectman Zer. >> Yes. >> Selectman Matthews. >> Yes. Agenda 19 discussion and vote to approve the following 2026 all alcohol beverage liquor license renewals. So A
is M&H Juniors Inc. And B is K& E Liquors, Inc. They have all their stuff in. >> They do. >> All right. Any questions or concerns? >> No. >> No. I'll entertain a motion to approve agenda items 19A and B for 2026 all
alcohol beverage liquor license renewal. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Suckleman Lo. >> Yes. >> Blackman Zer. >> Yes. >> Blackman Matthew. >> Yes. Sorry that one. >> It's all good. 1020 discussion vote whether approve the 2026 wine and malt
beverage liquor license renewals. So A through C M&H Grandpa's Inc. B Mason Road food mark Corp and Cumberland Farms of Mass Inc. which that's must be the Neon, right? >> Correct. >> All right. Previously known as Neon.
Okay. They got all their information in. >> Correct. >> Any questions or concerns? >> No. I'll entertain a motion to approve the f the uh agenda items 20 A through C for 2026 wine and malt beverage liquor license renewals. >> Motion mid >> second. >> All in favor?
>> I I >> I >> SLman. >> Yes. >> Zagar. >> Yes. >> Blackman Matthews. >> Yes. Agenda 21 discussion vote whether approve the following 202 I think we have 2026 right now. >> 26. Yeah. >> Yep. 2026 entertainment license renewals
A and B. A. Profile Rock Inc. slash theprofile tavern and B Freetown Memorial Post 6643 VFW. I'll entertain a motion to approve those licenses. >> Motion made second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I sle. >> Yes. >> Selectman Zer. >> Yes.
>> Selectman Matthews. >> Yes. M22. Discussion vote whether to approve the following annual license renewal for the Freetown Memorial Post 6643 VFW for the jukebox and automatic devices license. Any questions with that? >> No. >> No.
>> All right. All right, I'll entertain a motion to approve that license. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I. >> Sleman Lopes, >> yes. >> Sleman Zagger, >> yes. >> Matthews, >> yes. Agenda M23, discussion and vote whether to approve the seasonal population
increase estimates form for 2026. I don't have it in front of me anymore. >> It's just bumping it up by 30 people, but 9,236. It's the same number we used last year. >> All right. Anyone's got an issue with that? >> No.
>> No. >> All right. So, with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve the seasonal population increase estimate form for 2026. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Select Lopes. >> Yes. >> Sleekman Zagar. >> Yes. >> Select Matthews. >> Yes.
Um, acknowledge the disclosure of the appearance of conflict of interest form for Nicholas J. Vlo. All right. Any questions or concerns on that? >> No. >> All right. No vote here. So, thank you,
Nick, for >> Yep. >> Good job, Nick. >> Yep. >> All right. Agenda item 25, discussion of vote uh whether to declare the fire department Canon image runner 4225 a surplus and have it uh and to have automated solutions remove the old
copier. This is actually great if that they'll take the copier. >> Any questions or concerns of that? I'm sure no one else wants it, right? >> Nope. We asked all department heads. No one had need >> cuz that's really old. >> Yeah, those are a pain to get rid of. >> All right. So, with that, we had a
motion to declare the fire department Canon image runner 4225 as a surplus and to have the automated solutions and have automated solutions remove the old printer. Copy. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I >> I. >> Slew Lopes. >> Yes. >> Select Zer. >> Yes.
>> Select Matthews. >> Yes. Now, we'll kick it over to personnel. I was going to say you can just keep going knock them out. >> All right. And agenda 26 discussion and vote on a stipen for Tim Macintosh for website implementation and support. So as we know the website is being updated.
Looks like it's going to go live in a few days on the 8th. Um couple big changes. I don't know if you saw the email from today. Um and this was the discussion we had last time regarding the stipen. I believe we're looking at 12 or $1,500 for the stipen. >> Mhm. >> 1750. 17
>> 1750. Was that the change? >> Okay. >> And and he's done a lot of work and this was a heavy lift and we would not have been able to get this done without his help. So >> he's great at this stuff. >> He is really good at it. He's he's been
diligent with it, taking care of everything. So this has been a a blessing for our department because it would have we could have done it, but it would have taken an exorbitant amount of time and a lot of other things would have gone by the wayside. So, I do thank Tim for all of his help with this.
>> Yeah. And if you are interested in any, he offered to come by today or do a Zoom today regarding like a almost like a trial run. Obviously, I said no to him because we had a big enough agenda, but he did say if any of you um and myself want to sit down with him or even do a
Zoom this week to kind of see before it rolls out that he'd be he'd accommodate us. >> I did see it with him already when I stopped by the office and it looked really good. Um, you know, he had some other little tweaks he was still making at that point. This was, you know, only a few days ago and but yeah, what a
difference. So, right, hats off to him. >> Yep. >> Um, so yeah, so the question at hand is, uh, Evan okay with the the stipen that's been mentioned, 1750. >> Yes. >> Um, all right. >> Is Tim Tim will be okay with that? Yeah, I had a discussion with him because, you
know, he was he agreed to do this work and um it's above and beyond obviously his regular job and he's been doing it outside of office hours like he's been doing it at night and on the weekends and things like that and I had a discussion about where his thoughts were and >> what he thought um and I I said what
about this and you know he was he was okay with that. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Awesome. >> All right. >> Thank you, Tim. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. So, I entertain a motion to approve a slight of $1,750 for Tim Macintosh for website implementation in support. >> I'll make that motion. >> I will second it.
>> All in favor? >> I >> I select Lopes. >> Yes. >> Slew Zager. >> Yes. >> Slew Matthews. >> Yes. >> All right. Item agenda 27. Discussion vote. We have to approve the appointment of Keith Sylvia as truck driver effective 11:18 2025 through 6:30 2026.
This is one of two that we've been interviewing and looking to hire for quite some time. So, I'm happy that this is on our page today. So, as as it says, this is a truck driver that that's that Chuck requires uh for duties in town and we finally got somebody that wants to
work for free time. >> Not finally. It's you know, you know what I mean? It's like we found somebody that we're we're great with. >> Discussions, issues, concerns? >> No. >> Open. All right. Maintain a motion to approve the appointment of Keith Sylvia
as truck driver effective 118 2025 through 6:30 2026. >> I'll make that motion. >> I will second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I. >> Sleman Les. >> Yes. >> Sleman Zagar. >> Yes. >> Sleman Matthews. >> Yes. >> All right. And then number 28. Discussion and vote. We have to approve
the appointment of Heather Johnson as assistant animal control officer effective 122 2025 through 6:30 2026. Again, another one that we've been looking for a while for to help out our animal control officer. So happy to have more people on board. So >> awesome. >> All right.
>> Uh entertain a motion to appoint approve and appoint the Heather Johnson as animal control officer effective assistant animal control officer effective 122 2025 through 6:30 2026. >> I'll make that motion. >> I will second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> I select Lope.
>> Yes. >> Zagger. >> Yes. >> Matthew. >> Yes. All right. Parker tunnel will begin. >> Nothing parks. anything Deb you want to talk about while we're signing here? >> I I can't believe it's December 1. >> So we'll be um our office will be
working obviously on town meeting warrant and getting that ready to go out and be posted. Um I think that's between the you know the holiday schedule and town meeting warrant. That's what we'll be working on. The COA parking lot as we talked about
is underway. um looking bigger and better. >> That's awesome. >> And um that's about it for right now. >> That's and everyone's happy with it. I've talked to people from the food pantry who are thrilled with it. People from
>> um COA, they're happy with it. So, hats off to everyone because you know that that wasn't easy. >> Now, are we going to get an overview like a sky view of all the parking in that area? Just thinking for >> ask the police chief to use the drone and get you whatever you want. >> Oh, true. Yeah, we could also do it.
Yeah, I guess. So, I just want to make sure people know where to park in those areas for school events, baseball events, HOA events. >> I think like you might want to wait till it's all striped and finished. But I mean, that's the thing is it will definitely be used for the um ball fields as long as the COA is not open,
>> right? That's why I want to establish that that boundary between the two. go ahead and use it when it's able to be used. But the primary function for that area is >> usually baseball is like weekends, right? So the COA is not there. >> Uh in the summer times it can sometimes weekl long tournaments throughout the
summer. So that might so getting that that's why I'm trying to get it ahead of ahead of schedule, >> but then you could use the school, right? So >> um but it's needed to happen and I think with all that we have going on in that building, they're so busy at the COA and then of course the food pantry after
hours. So, I think it's a win-win. I'm excited for them. And then we'll just have to do the the Lulu lift. And then that that building should be good until we can for all municipal purposes, but until we can get a new COA and move in the annex
people possibly in there. >> Make your hands cramped. >> I know you need a stamp. >> As we were going through all those and that's one of my thoughts was is we're going to have a lot to sign. >> Yeah. Looks like my verse is going to
crack. >> Actually, Dev, any updates on the uh the memorial, >> the helicopter? >> The helicopter? I don't have any updates on that. Do you have any updates on that? >> No, I think they mitigated where the birds are coming in.
>> Yeah, they filled it in with foam or >> I think and Bobca on top of it. >> Carl S going to fill it in with the expanding foam and then cut it out, make it look neat so that the birds wouldn't go in there. >> The paint is engaged. Then they have the
paint, but he can't do it until >> the weather is better in the spring. They have some kind of a resin in. >> Yeah. What is the weather for tomorrow? I I'm already got messages that some schools are talking about closing. I'm like, what is the weather tomorrow? >> Supposed to be potential snow up to a
couple inches. >> Yeah. Nothing crazy. >> First one of the season. People, you know, people drive first time for the winter season. They see snow, >> especially the young drivers. >> So, we just got to make sure Jared stays away from the four corners.
Well, you you did hear that there was another accident there. >> There was. I drove I drove as as soon as it happened. The airbags were still going off, all the powder, and I saw Chuck walking out. So, I was like, "All right." >> A lot of calls today. Lots of coins. >> Yes, it's every day.
>> I almost got hit on the way here on right here. Truck came all the way into my lane like right in front of the COA pretty much. >> Yeah, I had a swerve like off the road.
Wonder how many times I I my same chair over the last six years. >> So Lan was cleaning the office and she found some old files from the COA building from 1988. You don't know how excited I am to go through them when I have a minute.
>> So like things that we couldn't find like I think the old septic system. I love this. 37 years old. >> Yeah. And then you see all the old signatures from like Sam Ferry. And if you're from town, you know who these people are. It's It's neat.
>> I have one to sign. >> I said we're almost done. They keep coming. >> So I forget how to sign my own name. It's like jeez. No, I noticed that like not all the businesses in town were in here. Are they more coming? >> There's some that haven't sent in their
need and if they owe taxes or utility bills, they're not on this list because they have to pay them before. >> Makes sense. Is that it? >> Yeah, we got a >> got the slowing things down >> a lot.
>> I know. >> Excuse me. >> Jerry keeps giving me more and more. >> Well, at least as you shrink the pile down now, it means that you're getting closer to the end. You can see the end is near. >> You can tell which was signed first and
which was Christmas is in three weeks. >> I know. >> How did that happen? >> This year has flown by. >> It's like the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is really better than Christmas shopping. >> All right. So, with that, I'll entertain
a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion made. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Say hello. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Thank you. Good night.