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All right. With the time now being 5:00 pm on uh Tuesday, April 14th, I now call the meeting of the appointments committee to order. Um let the record reflect that council Hegeland, Council uh Chair Heath, and um

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we uh council consensus is not here. Um and we have from the mayor's office Ryan Egan. Um announcement of open meeting recording. Um is there anyone here recording

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today's meeting besides staff? Um there is none. Reading of minutes of prior meeting um February 10th, 2026. >> Mr. Chairman, move to dispense with the reading of the minutes and accept them as presented.

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>> All right. Um second motion made by councelor Heglin, seconded by councelor Heath to um dispense of the minutes um of February 10th. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those against no

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motion pass. All right. Interview of the following appointees. items, if you guys don't mind, items 11621 and items 11642. Um, if you guys don't mind, neither one of

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these individuals are here today to go ahead and um represent themselves to be interviewed. So, we will go ahead and schedule them for the next meeting of April 28th. Um, agree. Okay. So, we will keep those on the agenda and schedule

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for the next meeting. Um item 11647, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Miller Cornet to the position of zoning board member for term expiring August 21st, 2028. Um this item here, we did get some communication

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earlier from the mayor. But um Mr. Egan, if you would like to go ahead and speak on your behalf. >> Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um so as mentioned, the mayor did reach out to uh share that Mr. Cornet um was pro

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provided his resignation to the mayor. Um upon filling his seat, he will serve continue to serve um until his seat is filled. Uh so we'd be uh withdrawing this um reappoint. All right. So,

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with this item right here, if there's um and you you're going to have to correct me on this, if we have to make a motion to withdraw. >> Yeah, I'll move to take it off of our calendar. >> Okay, I'll second that then. All right. Motion to remove item 1647

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off of the calendar um by council Hegman, seconded by Council Heath. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those guns say no. Motion pass. Item 11644, a measure confirming the mayor's appointment of Pette Burns

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to the position of board of assessors member for term expiring August 21st, 2028. You can go ahead and sit down if you like. >> Excuse me. >> You can sit down if you like. uh report from the mayor.

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>> Um so I'm just going to sort of summarize and read the appointee information um from the mayor uh on the appointment sheet. Miss Burns has been serving as a member of the board of assessors and let me know if I get anything wrong. Um for over a decade uh

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during her time uh she has acted with fairness and reason and dealing with the issues of property valuation disputes. Um, as someone who grew up in Gardener and owned a local business, her and her husband for many years, she knows gardener very well and understands the community. Um, the mayor feels uh her

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perspective is key to this role uh in being uh able to be fair and properly assign valuations to properties um based on all of the requirements set forth by uh MGL. Uh we'd certainly like to thank Miss Burns for her service and her

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willingness to continue to serve and ask uh for her reappoint. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um >> Mr. Burns, if you'd like to go ahead um just let you know this is all through YouTube, so right here is the camera. If you like Right here. >> Oh, okay. >> Yes. So, if you'd like to go ahead and

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let the um people at home know exactly who you are. >> My name is Pette Burns. I have been serving on the conservation not the conservation that's the one my husband serves on um on the board of assessors for over 20

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years and it's pleasure to be able to give back to the community. >> Awesome. Awesome. Uh council helin any questions comments? >> Very nice to meet you and we really appreciate this process of getting put names and faces together if we don't

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happen to know each other. So, thank you for your service to the board of assessors. I appreciate you being here today. Um, sounds like giving back is your motivation, but is that what keeps you coming back? >> I'm getting old, so it is giving back.

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>> Well, we really do appreciate it. Um, and thank you for your service and I I think I will definitely be supporting your reappoint. Thank you. >> Awesome. Um, again, I can only echo what um, Council Heck went ahead and said and thank you for your service. Um, If I read right,

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the mayor. >> Do you want me to come in at another time to be sworn in at the city hall? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Um, you you will definitely get contacted by the office and they will let you know when that's going to be. >> Yep. >> But, um, I just want to let you know

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that I don't think the mayor gave you enough credit. I think he only put a decade, over a decade. And you said 20 years. So, um, I just want to go ahead and go say thank you. Um, I've been at my job for over 20 years. I didn't know how much of a, you know, struggle with um the way it was versus the way it is

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now. Things change and um >> they have to change with the time. >> Yeah. And you and you know, you got to be strong to be deal with the change. Exactly. So, I just want to go ahead and go say thank you for everything that you do. Um >> and obviously it's both you and your

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husband are, you know, helping the city out. So, >> and this is the attorney for the city. >> No, I'm in the mayor's office. >> Oh, you're in the mayor's office. He does look like an attorney. >> He does. >> I'll take it. >> So again, I just want to say thank you. And yes, um as long as everything goes

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through, which I um I will definitely be in favor of. Um >> the um the clerk's office will be in touch. >> Um and if I remember right, it'll be like the first meeting in May >> that um you could expect to go ahead,

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but the clerk's office will confirm. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Nice to meet you all, too. >> All right. So, we have items 11661. Um, and if there's no if there's no um I

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always forget the word to go ahead and go say >> no. Yes. says there's no objection. Items 11661, items 11662, items 11671, items 11667,

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item 11672, item 11674, 11675, and item 11676. Um if there's no objection um we'll go ahead and keep this on the calendar for the and uh reschedule for

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the April 20 8th um appointments committee meeting. Um agreed. >> Um we don't have to make a motion on that. Am I correct? >> Correct. We can just keep Yep. >> We just keep going. All right. Um resignations

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Um, is there any resations that you know of except for the one that we received today? >> Outside of that one, not that I'm aware. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Discussion on appointees. Um so just for the people at home the

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discussion of the appointees are um people or appoints that have already came in the last meeting to be interviewed and which right now we will go ahead and discuss um items 11666 a measure confirming the mayor's

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appointment of Stanley uh Lucilles uh to position of council of aging member for term expiring August 22nd 2028. Is there >> Mr. Chairman? >> Yes. >> Uh, you know, again, if there's no objection where we did meet on these or

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we did interview these, um, if we are interested in just bundling this group, I would be interested in for 11666 through 1173. Moving to recommend to the full council the measures be confirmed.

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>> Second. All right. A motion made by councelor Hegland, seconded by councelor Heaveath to recommend the mayor's appointments um on items 1166, items 11677, item 11678, item 11679, and item 11673.

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Um to the full council, um is there any discussion? >> I'll just say they were great interviews. It was a they were a really good meeting that last time. It was a lot of fun. Uh so I'm excited to support these reappoints. Awesome. I um I I definitely concur. Um I did um butcher

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um Stanley's last name. Um I apologize. Um but with that being said, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Um all those oppose say no. Motion pass. All right. Item number six, I mean

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section six, appointees confirmed in the council. Um just to go ahead and confirm um clerk. >> Yes. So these appointees um have gone through and passed in council. Um I have contacted them to come in and take their oaths. There have been holdups for

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various reasons for all of them. Um so the only hold up is they just get to come into our office and take their own. >> So hopefully sooner than later this will happen for all four. >> All right. Um, with that being said, we'll just keep them on the um on the agenda until they go ahead and come

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through and do so. Um, all right. Um, appoint the oath administered. There are none. Everyone's already through except for those four. Communications. Um, items 11797, a measure confirming the job description change for the city human resources

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director. This item is bundled with item 11798, a measure, a measure approving the job description change for the city's youth center director. Um, is there any new information? Um,

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the last thing I knew was we were waiting on the old job description and I still have not received that. Um, have you received >> No, correct. Yeah, we just want to do the comparison of the old and the new

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chairman is saying for both for HR and the center director. >> Uh and I think on the other one we had proposed just some edits and suggestions and so that's something we just have to circle back to discussion. >> Yeah, we can get you those. Absolutely.

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>> Yes. And and just a FYI while we're on um those two items right there. Um >> the job descriptions are something that we're going to be going through. >> So I would suggest basically just having all the old job descriptions

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>> ready for submission when we go to the next set of job descriptions and things and such. So I mean this is our first group so we're going to learn as we're going through them. Sure. >> But um you know >> it'll be a good reference tool. Yeah, agreed. >> So, with that being said, we'll go ahead and we'll leave this on the agenda as

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well. Um, and then we have item 11819. Um, a communication from the mayor regarding ordinance requirements for length of terms for appointments. Uh, Council Heg,

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this was a this was a you question. Yes. You've uh requested paperwork from the mayor. Have you >> Yeah. No, I I want to thank, you know, through Mr. Egan and the mayor for putting that letter together as a reminder, too. This was just a change. We'd had a previous appointment who had

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been given a three-year appointment. Um, the mayor had read sort of our language and our charter that it was a minimum of 3 years unless stated otherwise. Um but then upon some further review was interpreted that could be up to three years. It was not beholden to the three years. So he did have some flexibility

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there. So using that flexibility later gave a one-year appointment to a different department head and so just to help clarify that for the council um provided us this letter of information. I thought it was very clear, very thorough and matched what he'd explained in other meetings. Uh so yeah, thank you

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for that. I don't know if there's anything else to add, but >> no. Um, I'd just like to go ahead and go add that um, you know, I appreciate you asking the question. I know I made mentions of the one, the three, the appointments meeting, city council meeting, things as such. So, this explanation right here, and I got to be

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honest with you, I can sometimes I can read it better than I can hear it. So, being able to read it made me understand it a lot better. So, I definitely want to uh, thank the mayor's office for going ahead and get this over to us. Um, I truly appreciate it. >> With that, if there again, there's no objection. would move the communication

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be placed on the full council agenda so they also have the information. >> Awesome. Um uh motion made by council Hegland to move this item 11819 to the full council

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um for reference. Um is there any discussion? I have none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those say no. Motion pass. Um.

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All right. Um discussion on the current status of appointments. Um this right here and this actually helps out um just given this for this topic. So, um, on Friday, I sat down with, uh, uh, Clerk

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Kumar, and, um, I stopped into the mayor's office to go ahead and go speak on, you know, the status of appointments and it was hard to be able to read the, um, the live communication, the draft that

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he's given us. it. What the mayor did is he added in the expiration dates, things of such that helps us be able to go ahead and look at the upcoming appointments and put them in that 90-day window, that 60-day window where we can go ahead and go see almost to the point

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where we can already know which appointments are going to be seen in July, August, September, and such. Um, so I I I I'm happy that this was done. um should have been done, but we we're

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here and we got it done. And I I want to say thank you to the mayor for going ahead and um you know cooperating and getting this with us. So I just like to go ahead and go say thank you for that right there. Um, also the well the next meeting as of April

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28th we should be caught up on all past and we were all on you know upcoming um appointments. So that's also great because we definitely had a plethora of um ones that we had to play catch up on

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>> um things and such. So um again thank you for the cooperation. Thank you for the help. Um, Clerk Kumar, thank you uh for the assistance. Um, again, sitting down with you, getting everything ready. We definitely got a good focus on what we need to go ahead and go do.

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>> So, I just want to say thank you. Um, >> thank you. >> That's all I have for discussion. Did you have any? >> Nope. This actually clears up the two I think hangover things was the expiration dates and the status of those, you know, 40 or so employees. So, this is fantastic and I think this will work

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much better for everyone going forward. >> Yes. should be pretty streamlined. So, I'm uh really happy with that right there. Um upcoming meetings, uh we have April 28th. Um again, all the appointments that we're

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not able to if we can reach to them >> and then the same uh the appointments that we spoke about on Friday, go ahead and we're going to get them scheduled. Um there was a um error on my behalf on the actual scheduling of the year, but

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um I went ahead and I sent over the PDF if you can attach that to the minutes. Um I sent it out to everybody for the remainder of the year. So now we can um we can uh be more uh how do you say it?

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we can be more um more organized to be able to go ahead and have these done the right way. So again, thank you again for the help of there. Um so yes, April 28th we have upcoming meeting and then May 12th we

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have another meeting as well. Um any comments, >> questions? Sounds good. >> All right, with that being said, I you know I did not expect today to go so quick. Um but um I I would like to entertain a motion to adjurnn.

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>> So moved. >> All right. Motion made by councelor Heath, seconded by councelor Hegeland to uh adjourn. Those opposed. I mean I'm sorry. All those in favor say I. I. Oh. Those opposed say no. Motion pass. We

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stand a journ.