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Part 1 (Video ID: F52htk754o8):
- 00:00:00: Call to order, roll call, approval of minutes
- 00:01:11: Stanley Lusco Introduces Himself for Council on Aging
- 00:04:44: Continuing Council on Aging Appointments - Held for Later
- 00:05:33: Christy Livingston Introduces Herself for Council on Aging
- 00:08:19: Cheryl House Introduces Herself for Council on Aging
- 00:11:12: Mary Schaffer Introduces Herself for Council on Aging
- 00:15:15: Denise Miriam Introduces Herself for Bandstand Committee
- 00:18:25: Additional Bandstand Committee Appointments Held for Future
- 00:20:24: Resignations, Appointees Confirmed in Council, Oath Status
- 00:26:04: Human Resources Director Description and Appointments Status Discussion
- 00:36:36: Upcoming Meetings Schedule and Adjournment


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Right. With today being Tuesday, March 31st, uh 5:00 pm, I'd like to go ahead and bring the appointments committee meeting to order. Um if the clerk would go ahead and do a roll call. >> Councelor Heath,

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>> present. >> Councelor Hegler, >> present. >> Councelor Kazilkus, >> present. >> All right. An announcement of opening meeting recording. Uh we have a we have a notice on the wall over there. Is there anyone here that's recording today's meeting?

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All right. Um, there is no one recording. Reading of minutes of private meeting January 28th, 2026. >> Mr. Chair, uh, move to dispense with the reading of the minutes and accept them as presented. >> Second.

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Um motion made by council Hegeland, second by councelor Kazinskus to take the meeting minutes as presented. Is there any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I I all those against

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the following appointees. Um item 11666 a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Stanley locals locals uh to the position of council of aging member for term expiring August 22nd

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2028. If you may come around you can take a seat if you like. Hi. Would you like to introduce yourself? >> Pardon me. >> Would you like to introduce yourself? >> Stanley J. Lusco, 84, BLF, Garden of Mass, lifelong resident.

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>> Awesome. And um what interest uh what interests you in the uh council of aging? >> Well, I'm getting up there in the years myself. Uh I've been in the senior center for three years now

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and it's very interesting as to what the seniors are doing and what's available to the seniors. So I hope to be able to expand on that

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for them or to help them in their projects. Awesome. Uh, council, do you have any, uh, questions, comments? >> Thank you for coming and nice to meet you and for your interest in being on the Council on Aging. Uh, overall with

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the the few years you've been involved, happy with how things are going over there and the programming and >> Yes, very happy with how it's being presented and the results of the programs. >> Awesome. That's good to hear. We like

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the feedback, so it's good to know. Thank you. That's >> keep, you know, keeping the the aging population of gardener active is very good. >> Awesome. Awesome. >> Thank you, Council Pascus. Any other questions, comments?

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>> Um, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think it's an incredibly important resource that we have here in the community. I'm so glad that you're willing to give your time to be part of the Council on Aging. So, thank you. Thank you again for being here today. As the council confirms appointments, it's

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good for us to meet the members that we are confirming. Uh the mayor does a write up on each of uh the different appointees that he puts forward and he was very thorough, I think, in in his write up of your abilities to do so. Uh so, thank you again for being here today and I certainly appreciate you for your

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time and your effort that you put into it because again, it's an incredibly important resource that we have here in the city and it and it is thriving. So, we can't we need people to help us do that. So, thank you. >> Well, thank you very much for your interest. >> Well, um I just like to say um thank you

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for your service first of all. Um it says that you're a marine. >> Yes. >> And um you also served at the Oh, you worked >> firefighter for the city for 20 years. >> Yeah. >> Yes. That's awesome. And currently right now, you are >> actively working at the senior center.

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Yes. >> And you just want to take another role >> volunteering. >> Yes. Awesome. That's great. Um, wish we had more people like you. Um, thank you. >> Okay. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, if there's no objection,

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items 11667, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Nancy Herbert to position of council age council and agent member for term expiring August 22nd, 2028. And item 11672, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Daniel Kelly to the

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position of council on aging associate member uh for term expiring August 22, 2026. Um if there's no objection, can we just keep this on the calendar? >> Yes. >> Agreed. So we'll keep this on the calendar.

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We'll um for the next meeting, we'll go ahead and we'll schedule them. I think it's uh April 14th. >> Yeah. Yep. Hopefully we can do both. >> Yep. Vote. >> Yep. We know that they're on deck. >> Yep. All right. Um item 11677, a measure

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confirming the mayor's appointment of Christy Livingston to the position of council on the agent associate member for term expiring August 22nd, 2026. >> Mr. chair, just before we go through, I just um I think some of these I I have

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questions about some of the expiration dates on some of them. So, we might want to correct those before reading forward, but either way, we can continue with Miss Livingston. >> Okay. >> Hello, Mr. Livingston. Um would you like to introduce yourself to us and the

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camera just to let you guys know this little owl over here that is a camera? >> Okay. >> I'm Christy Livingston. any more than just my name? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Give give us a little background about you and uh your interest on

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>> Sure. Yeah. Well, I um graduated from Clark University and got a certificate in gerontology. Um and I for the last 15 years I've worked at Hwood Wakefield Commons, our assisted living community. I'm the assistant executive director there and very passionate about serving

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seniors. >> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, Council Hegman, do you have any questions, comments? >> Uh, no particular questions, actually. I know Christie from her work in the community and with Haywood uh, Wakefield Commons. I think it's it's great work you're doing over there. So, I I believe you'll be a strong asset to the Council

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on Aging and obviously it's a natural partnership that I'm sure already exists to some degree between the two places and organizations. So, thank you for your interest and willing to willingness to do this. Appreciate it. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um, Councelor Kasinsk, any questions, comments?

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>> Thank you, Mr. Mr. Chair, thank you for offering your time and for being here today. Uh I agree with the counselor the partnership is excellent. Um anything that we can do to get more seniors to the senior center and make them aware of the programming and also to make appropriate programming that they want

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are looking for. Um I think is important and I think you'd be a great resource for that. So I appreciate the time you're willing to give to the Council on Aging as an associate member. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um, I just want to go ahead and I I guess I can echo everything that the, uh, the counselor

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said and, um, thank you for your, you know, your interest in wanting to go ahead and go do this. Obviously, you're already at a at a capacity. >> Um, and want to expand that is great. So, I just want to go ahead and go say thank you. Um, this is a new appointment. Um, just to let you know,

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the next steps would be the um, and this is for everyone that's watching um, or that's um, sitting in the back over there. the uh mayor's office will go ahead and go reach out and let you know when the oath will be administered. Um so right now we're just interviewing and

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then they will contact you and give you the date. It'll be a Monday in April. >> All right. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you. Item 11678, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Cheryl House to the position of council and on agent

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associate member for term expiring August 22nd, 2026. Mayor >> Would you like to go ahead and introduce yourself to us? >> My name is Charl. Um I am a retired registered nurse and I have been going

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to the senior center for nine years now and uh been volunteering most of those years and um seen great um strides in the senior center over the last I've been on the

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board for six years and I have seen great improvement of the senior center since Mike's been there. He's done an amazing job and um >> thank you questions, comments. Um thank you again for your interest and and we're glad to

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hear you're enjoying what's going on over there. Um >> are there any changes you think you need mean need to be made or is it going great now? >> Oh, it's going great now. Yeah, I've seen like just the flyer alone go from like four pages to I don't even know how many pages it is now. It's got so big.

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Yeah. >> Yeah. It's It's really great. >> That's it for me. I'm just curious. Thank you. >> Okay. Y councelor Kasinskus, any questions, comments? >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh I appreciate your background in the medical profession. I think that's super important to, you know, recognize the

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needs of others. Um also, you know, giving your time to be able to do that, I think is super important as well. And I know that the communication senior center is incredibly open um to different programming things. And again, I think you're probably a great resource for the types of things that might fit

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the needs of seniors, but are also um you know, there might be new interests that they have as well. So, uh I think that you're a great asset to it. I'm so glad that you're willing to give your time. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Um, I just want to go ahead and

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again echo on everything that they said and say thank you for everything that you're um willing to go ahead and add on to your busy schedule. Um, the the city definitely um will appreciate everything you're going to bring to the table. So,

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>> thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> This doesn't affect Sure, but this was the uh I noticed this write up um was accidentally stands twice. So, I'm going to email the mayor just to Cheryl's actually right. Okay.

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>> Yeah. Nothing she did just to make a clarifier or something wrong. So, >> so as as you're saying that, right, cuz I have them here and I'm like I know I read it seen this one >> and I'm using it as a reference point and I So, thank you for that and helping

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me get right back here cuz I thought I was going crazy. So, all right. Um item 11679 a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Mary Schaer. Is it Schaefer?

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>> Schaefer. >> Schaefer. >> Shaffer. >> Schaffer to the position of council of aging associate member for term expiring August 22nd, 2026. >> Good evening. I'm Mary Schaffer. >> Uh I've been active in the senior center

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about seven years on the board for a number of years now as an associate member. I'm interested in the exercise programs they offer and I try to lend my time and talking to people in the classes to see if they have ideas that

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they'd like to present or questions or comments that they'd like to bring to the the board in general. Um, I like to help support the uh director and the office staff. and I'm active in taking classes and supporting events and

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volunteering at events. And um I grew up in Gardener and I worked for the post office for nearly 40 years, most of it in Gardener, so I was right next door. Um so I'm happy that you know I have a chance to see lots of people from the

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Gardener area and I'm happy to help wherever I can. >> I knew you were familiar. Please stop. as soon as you start I was like yes >> I know you somewhere >> I get that a lot I think I know you from somewhere

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>> um council he have any questions comments >> well thank you for your interest and your membership there and and your help and it's a great I think um you know list of things you've already jumped into and your time being active with the um the senior center

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um so no particular questions but I really appreciate the work that you and the their volunteers do is huge and it really is um something that the city relies on the senior center. I know director Ellis is incredibly grateful for um so we appreciate it. Appreciate everybody. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you councelor Kazinsk. >> Yeah, I echo the counselor. Thank you again for your service. I'm so glad when people have such a legacy in Gardener or time they spent in Gardener and they want to continue to, you know, give back to the community and give their time in a certain way, especially to be around people they've seen for 40 years in a

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different capacity. That's pretty cool. Um, but I really appreciate your time and again you clearly have a lot to bring to the senior center having your interest in being an active part of it as well. Uh, again the mayor gives us, you know, writeups for each of the people as well before um, they come in. So, we have kind of an idea, but on the

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council side of it's just really important for us to meet with each person who he's appointed even though he's put you up, it's our job to confirm you. So, I really appreciate you coming in today and um, giving us an introduction to what you do there. And thank you again for all the time you put in.

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>> Thank you. >> I got one more thing before I just left me right out of here. So, um I just want to go ahead and go say um thank you. Um and two things. One one thing is you helped me over there when I needed a

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passport over at the uh post office. >> So say thank you for that. But um the other thing is um thank both you and your husband for the work that you guys have done volunteering with the seniors um because they both have in in the right

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up there I said that you guys both have done so well. >> So that's great. Um but um I definitely want to just go ahead and say thank you for everything that you do that you're going to be willing to go ahead and go do and I'm looking forward to the insight that you're going to bring. >> So that's

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appreciate it. Item 11673, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Denise Miriam to the position of man committee member for term expiring August 22nd, 2028. >> Hello. >> Hello. Would you like to go ahead and

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introduce yourself to us and the public? >> My name is Denise Miam. I'm retired from City of Ghana DPW and I've been on the band stand committee for six, seven years or so. So,

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>> awesome. Awesome. >> I Well, I want I know >> Well, I know you're fighting the six seven years. >> I am. I was >> a teacher. >> This happens when you're a teacher. >> Yes. >> U counselor Kaziscus, any questions, um comments? Well, um, you know Denise a

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long time. She does a fantastic job. She is incredibly involved in the city. Um, thank you for your time. The Vans is a great crew. They do a great job um on the committee and um I'm assuming for this year it's pretty much the same plan with

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>> uh we've booked everything already. >> Yeah, that's that's the >> we're going to have um 10 concerts this year. >> That's fantastic. >> We we've built up a pretty good crowd. >> It is. It's wonderful um to see the crowd there and the use of Monument Park and the stage and the local um music and even the ones that are brought in from a

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little bit further away. They're fantastic. Um and the dedication, I mean, if it's going to rain, they're out there up till the last second before it goes and usually we'll be able to pull it off. But even just getting the sponsors together and having the band committee work together, we're lucky to have such a great group because it does

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bring such a good crowd and it's another great asset of the community. So, um I know the work you do and I know you Denise, so I think do a great job. I'm so glad you're willing to stay on for for another appointment. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Council Counc. Any questions, comments? >> No question come. Likewise, we've known

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each other a while now. I feel like we're just here doing this as well for your other one. That one's done now. >> That one's done now. Yeah. But thank you for all you're doing for the city still um in retirement. And yeah, having been on the band stand before was really

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formalized with Mike as well. like it's it's a lot of fun, but it is a lot of work and it's all that leadup and then being there every Saturday and giving up that time. >> So, we really do appreciate it um and everything you and and the crew are willing to do. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> I just want to go ahead and say thank

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you as again um it shows that you started doing this in 2018 and obviously you helped the city in multiple different capacities. Um I do look forward to reaching out to you and working with you through the youth

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commission as well as um that will be getting restarted this year. So I will be in touch with you on that um aspect. But um I just want to go ahead and go say thank you. That's good. >> Welcome. >> That's appreciated. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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Um, so just to let you guys know, um, you guys can actually, we're all done. You guys can go ahead and go leave. If you guys like or you guys can stay, it's up to you. Um cuz the next three items right here I'm going to go ahead if

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there's no um >> so and the next step too is just that this will go to another one of our meetings and then it will go to the full council and then you'll be contacted um by the clerk's office if the council when the when it's scheduled for the council at the council meeting if it's

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confirmed you'll be sworn in at that meeting or the clerk's office will contact you >> after the fact to do your own. >> Thank you. >> I just didn't want to act like it was guaranteed because it's technically not. We have a step. So, I just want to clear that. >> Yeah.

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>> And some of these folks have done this for a long time, but this is the first time that this way. So, clear. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you everybody. >> Good to see you. >> Thank you. So, if there's no um

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if there's no um there's no objection, um items 11674 um a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Edward Leon to the position of Bans committee member. Um item 11675, a measure confirming the

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mayor's appointment of Nancy Finer to the position of BAN committee member. In item 11676, a measure confirming the mass appointment of Michael Zlotnik to position of band committee, a band stand committee member. Um, I'll just go ahead and ask if we can just keep this on our

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calendar for our next meeting. As that the mayor's office goes ahead and reaches out, I'm going to I'm going to email him as well about adipons. It just there's another it references Miss Miriam which is Denise who we just met in his write up because I just see we got a fresh one for the

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next meeting too. >> And I I do have qu Oh I'm sorry. Can I go? >> I do have questions too on that about some of the expiration dates. So I know that they were clearly taken from the spreadsheet that's in the packet. Like all of these um that are on here that

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end August 22nd 2026 2026 2026. There's like item 672677 678 6679. Um, it's clearly on the organized sheet that we have. That's what it says. But these are new appointments. So, are they are they

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just for a year to start and then they go for 3 years? I guess that would be my question for the mayor, but he's not here. I just don't know. like I know it's taken from there but in their new appointment so I'm thinking that's the case but >> I do actually have I don't know if you do but I do know the answer.

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>> Well I I I you can correct me if I'm wrong this right here but I think on the fact of like what we did with um department head um Melissa >> where she got the one year and then we go ahead and go after that it goes to the three years. >> Is that the case? is actually they're

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associate members. So I think they get the associate associates get two associate gets >> where is the full members in three years. >> Okay. So I didn't know >> like I said I know the mayor puts the sheet together and those so it would have been a question for him. So if we didn't have that answer I didn't want to

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like but if that makes sense to me because council on aging I think is one of the only ones with an associate member. >> I think so. >> So that would be okay. Great. That answers the question. Which is another question I'm going to check on cuz they can have 7 to 11 full and five associate. >> And I know I just want to see like how

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full we are in each set just out of curiosity. >> Oh, full versus associate. >> How many full members of the up to 11 do they have? How many associate up to the five do they have? >> Okay. >> Yeah. Just to see where they're I compared and I was clear that this matched this, but I just wanted to double check because it looked

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>> odd. All right. So, um, next up we have Are we Good. Thank you. That's helpful. >> Um, up next we have resignations. Um, we have them. Um, discussion of

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appointees. I don't. All right. Um, item six, appointees confirmed in the council. Um, clerk, if you may comment on that right there. >> Yes. So, these appointees here in section 7 have all been confirmed in

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council obviously. Um, but they've yet to come in to take their oath. So, I've attached all of their certificates in the packet showing that they were confirmed to council. Um, they have been contacted at least once. Obviously, we'll give it a little bit more time and we'll reach out again if we need to

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>> so that they can come in and take their oath. >> All right. We got to get the building commissioner. She has to walk down the hallway. >> Yeah. >> So, um, so that's right there. that covers over the to the um confirmed in

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the council and both the um again the appointees both administered they're all set that's great I really like this section having that in >> it helps with accountability and make sure that everything is great um >> I do too I also think too if we want to entertain and I don't want to like do

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this out of turn or put the clerk's office in a position to do something that would be like wrong but um I do think too like like the police officer I do think it's I would think it'd be appropate to like reach out to the chief at some point or to reach out to like

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for conservation commission to reach out to the conservation agent, you know, like or kind of like the chair of what that person does and be like, "Hey, like I've reached out to them and they haven't, but they really need to take their oath if there's any way you could maybe communicate with them that they got to get, you know, or like maybe you CC."

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>> Yeah. >> You know what I mean? That is sometimes kind of what we do a lot of times with positions where we might not talk with them or else we'll contact a a point of contact per se. We have like a chair or

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department head. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Something like that. >> Okay. >> To to kind of nudge them like hey this person still has their appointment to take their floor. >> I think that would be appropriate cuz I would do that. So I >> we've kind of done that as needed. But if you wanted to have some sort of like formal

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>> I mean I would say if it's if you've done it as needed and it's worked my opinion and you guys please chime in. I think that's fine. But I just for me I was like >> it I mean the building commissioner is a department head so that's one thing but like if you have a historical commission

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member and chair Alan Agnelli who you can get in contact with and it's been a little bit cuz sometimes people aren't around all the time or you know if they're community member it's one thing but like in the police department it's probably good to grab the chief because this is the person who works for the city and you know it's it means for

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certain things they can do in their job like same thing. So, I would say like a chair, department head, if you do that, great. If it works for you to get them in because it's it's, you know, it's it's important for them to be um sworn in, but it's also your job to get them

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there, but also how you know, you've done your job, like they need to come in and do it. So, >> um it's kind of that you're doing them >> um you know, you're trying to get them to where they need to be up to speed. And and to be clear, some of these

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positions are more well, they're all important, but like um you know, like a police officer, you know, they have to go ahead and assign them because they're getting full authority to go ahead and you know, enforce the law. So, >> right, you don't want it to lapse. >> Exactly. >> Yeah. >> Um so, yeah.

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>> All right. Um communications. Um items 11797, a measure approving the job description change for the city's human resources director. Um this right here,

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is there any discussion on this before I go? No, I think we're still kind of waiting on right the side by side description and so we really need the mayor to >> I think for these next two items the mayor needed to be here. >> All right. So if there's no objection

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items 11797 and 11798 we will just go ahead. We will keep it on the agenda for the next meeting. Um and then hopefully um the mayor's office, whether it's the mayor or uh his assistant, can come in and um you know, speak on it. >> Well, and I mean to be fair, we did

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expect up until like an hour ago that his assistant would be at the meeting. So he did assign someone to be here and that didn't work out. So you know, we would have been able to we expected to be able to um >> discuss those items. >> Discuss those. Yes. All right.

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discussion on uh current status of appointments. So he's given us a list um the mayor's office has given us the list of them. I am actually going through I have the next list of names that are going to be

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added on with the ones that didn't go ahead. Um so that list will be coming out. Um I'll have it by the by the end of the week to you. Um, I have it written down. I can write on your email tonight. >> Um, so that we can get them contacted so

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that they can go ahead and go be here. Um, >> other than that, is there any other discussions on the status of appointments? >> Just a couple quick things. Um, I know obviously we're waiting on I assume you haven't had any updates on the 40 or so that lap within that 90day. It's okay if

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not. >> So, these appointments that we just did are some of those. >> Okay. Um, but no, I still don't have an answer and that's left for the mayor to go ahead and speak on. >> That's okay. No, thank you. And then I

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I'm going to just flag for the mayor, too. It's come up a couple times just that letter regarding appointment length of one year versus three-year and clarity. So, I'm going to flag that for him again as well. I know councelor Kazinsus did it at our full council meeting. I did at a previous appointments meeting. Um, so just as an

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FYI. And then at our finance committee meeting it came up just that um with the treasury department update still some issues by the time certificates are oath sworn in signed sealed delivered to HR

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with the onboarding payments and there's still some disconnect there. So we it came up so I figured I'd mention it just so you both know that that part of the appointments process is still hopefully getting ironed out. It sounds like the treasurer collector is going to meet with the HR director to find some solutions and make sure they have a

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system that they're on the same page. But just, you know, FYI, no one's up on that, too, >> I discuss >> some discussion, too. Um, looking at the end of the packet with the this the

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spreadsheet um that's here, I I still would like some clarity on some of it. So, um, you know, it looks as though like looking at some that we had tonight, for example, like it's supposed to be

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updated so that the the expiration date should not be updated until the person is actually like sworn in to the new appointment. And that's up to the the mayor's office needs to go in and change those things.

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It looks like there's that expiration date. It's it's just confusing because it's hard to know what's coming up when you're looking at something that's like, oh, the the new expiration date is put on there, so you don't know what's coming up in 60 to 90 days because you don't know when it actually expires. So, it's great that they did that preliminarily, but they should have had

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the previous date that they were on, what their current expiration date is, and then there should be another column. Like, we've already talked about this, and this hasn't been updated, and it's, you know, it's it's their department's job to do it. we've already established

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that and then the chair of the committee and the clerk's office is now going to be relying on that and so we need that information to be correct so everyone's time is best spent and most efficient. So, I'm going to be requesting that. And then um I do think

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to uh I think we've done a lot of progress on our you know, we adopted our rules and we have the new form that he's going to use and we know what to do in order for the chair to be able to put everything on the um on the calendar. And my kind of discussion piece of that

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is these our our meetings, it seems to me from what we put in the rules, our meetings should only be scheduled once we know that everyone on the list has been contacted and they've responded saying that they're going like they've

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responded to the clerk's office's inquiry that they're going to be at the meeting or they've or we have the letter in hand if they're not able to because um like the non-stipended positions like many of them on here tonight. We could have taken a letter from someone just

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basically their statement of interest. They don't have to show up and they can if they want, >> but if the people who weren't here, we wouldn't have to hold them till the next meeting and it's not necessarily >> um again a lot of these people have done this for years and years. They're not used to this new process. So, we just um want to be clear on that. And I think

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that that's something that should also come from the mayor's office. So, for example, like right now, we require in our rules that the appointment certificate and the write up is in the folder in order for the chair to know, okay, we're good to go and we can schedule these people. I am also going

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to suggest that we the mayor's office um when they ask someone to be newly appointed or a reappoint supplies that person with like a statement of interest which I'm glad to draw up piece of paper form whatever you want to call it very simple that

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just says requires a few sentences of them and maybe like a signature that's like yes I want to be you know I've I I would like to be reappointed to this next term or I'd love to be a new appointment to this next term to this committee and here's my name and here's two three sentences or whatever it is

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that they want if they want to attach their own letter whatever but this is why I want to do this committee and that way the mayor submits all of those to the folder that the chair sees all of those are in there so then when it comes when we do schedule a meeting it's in the packet along with it so if the

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person is unable to come to the meeting or would rather not come to the meeting and just go maybe to the council meeting down the road if it goes that far we have everything we need and we don't have to um wait for a letter, wait for you to get a response. It's already all there. So, basically, when they come up

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to a scheduled um committee meeting, we still reach out. If they respond, they respond. If they don't, we have their letter. We still entertain the appointment cuz they have they've acknowledged in writing that they are entertaining the appointment and that we're going to see this info. Um and

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that way, like many of these probably could have just been done if we had already had that today. Um, and then I think we stick to the rule that a stipended position in any way, they do need to show up in person and be interviewed in the meeting. And that is when they're able to be here to do that.

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And so I think the step is the mayor's office does all of that. It is the mayor's appointee. The full package includes that one more piece of paper. That is the one thing the appointee has to do. And then really not much else changes on our end except

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for the clerk's office won't have to reach out, follow up, all the other things. It'll just be known like this person is already interested in this appointment. Um the only ones would be the sideended positions which I would guess if you're getting paid to do something or a department head or whatever it is, you're probably going to want to come to the meeting. Um but I

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don't know is it um you know I think I think it was all in good faith to put in place that kind of first rule that was like well they can submit it or not but I just I after now just a couple of meetings it's like I don't want to be in a position where it looks like someone didn't show up when maybe they're just

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not used to the process or they're in Florida for the next two months and we don't know you know whatever it is. Um, I think we need to develop the process more and it's all good, but I just proactively would like to say, well, if the mayor's office has to reach out to them anyways to ask them if they want to be reappointed or appointed or whatever

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it is, they just have to submit this one thing that we just have on file anyway and we're good to go. Um, so if the committee is okay with that, I'd be glad to draw something up and bring it to the next meeting for this for this discussion piece of it. That's cool. >> Sure. No, I like it.

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>> I like it. Um and going back to the question that you had, if you look at the um as far as like expiration or expired >> um so I know so we haven't got a response as far as um the

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late not oath administer those ones right there. Those are the 30 that you're speaking of. So like he's still the mayor is still supposed to go ahead and answer for that. But as far as the I guess the late appointments, expired

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ones, um they're in red on and we've attacked them all. I was >> going to say it was >> there's there's a couple that's going to be in the next meeting, but that should cap them. So that should be right there and then

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we should be caught up as far as the uh ones that we have to go ahead and get in. So those those that's the list just to let you know. >> Okay. >> All right. Um >> so I'm sorry to have a question. So those are the ones that we had started with that needed to get brought up to

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speed and now we're doing we have a couple more of those and then everyone else is going to be current. >> Yes. And >> even with the ones those red ones there I still have the 60 to 90day window that we're going to have to go ahead and start adding in with them. >> Right. So that we don't end up with a

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backlog down. We don't have to go back. >> Yeah. So, it's going to be a mixture of just to keep it all compliant. >> Um, so that's that right there. Um, is there any other discussion? >> I think so. >> That's a great discussion. I like it.

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>> Um, upcoming meetings April 14th, 2026. That's the next one. >> You guys got the email >> 5:30 works for me. >> No, the email as far as the um the remaining calendars. I sent you guys email and everything else. So, if we can

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get that posted up um and make that a a public um um for the public to be able to go ahead and go see for those that want to go ahead and at least they'll know when they're coming up when to expect. I mean, obviously you guys are contact, but they'll know. >> Um >> for the April 14th meeting, you mean?

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>> Well, April 14th, the 28th. Um those are just the dates I remember. >> Well, don't but like doesn't everyone have to respond? Like I don't know. Did you see the full >> I haven't looked at the list to confirm the dates yet, but I will do that. >> So, I responded to that. >> So, we just Yes. We're um So, yeah. So,

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>> I sent it over I sent it to you as well. All right. And um I sent it over to the um >> cl to go ahead and um look at it as well. And um you know, that's that's it. You know, I apologize for it being so well.

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>> We've made a lot of progress this year in this committee. So, we're just going to keep doing it. was all that was all good. >> But um yeah, so we we should be all good. Uh the 28th is questionable. Um just give you guys a heads up. Um somebody may or may not have a birthday

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that day. So I'm not sure. Might be in my ID. I haven't looked. But anyhow, um other than that, is there any other discussion? >> Not coming to make entertain a motion to adjurnn.

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>> So moved. Second. >> All right. Um, motion made by councelor Kazinskis to adjourn, seconded by councelor Hegman. All those in favor say I. I. All those against good say no. Motion pass. Stand the journ.