[Music] hearing for cable television license renewable. Uh we have attorney Bill August on here and we have people from
uh Gcam here. So um supposed to read something. Yeah, as I know this. All right. All right. The town of Grammy Select Board acting as a capacity of the statutory cable licens and issue authority will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 23rd,
2025 at 5:35 p.m. at Grand Senior Center 10 West State Street Grand Mass concerning Comcast cable Comcast water licences to propose renewal of it exclusive or non-exclusive cable license and possible issuing
authority approval of proposed new renewal of license. Members of the public are encouraged to testify at this hearing concerning the renewal of the performance of Comcast and a local cable needs license. This hearing is held in pursuit of I think
it's chapter 207 CMR 3.00 207 CMR point uh 4.0 or chapter 207 CMR 6.0. Public records pertaining to renewal
will be available for inspection and copying at the town hall select board's office. The hearing will be conducted by the Graanby Select Board as certain local cable needs and a possible final action or renewal. Further information, please contact the select board office
at 10B West 8 Street, Grammy, Mass 01033. And by order of the Grammy Select Board, the Select Board will also be making a motion to approve the contract. That was very well read. Thank you.
All right. Um, would you like to uh say anything? That was too confident. [Music] Before I get to the couple of highlights, I do
just want to uh say thank you to Chris Martin, administrator and Kathy Leonard could not have been more responsive
to each and every uh call or email. Just really very diligent and responsive. uh uh participation by town and also by Anthony Hughes over at G Camp who was my leazison and when every turn gave Chris
in the uh technical information we needed and also I the Comcast uh renewal uh representative who also uh met us more than halfway on
any uh important and significant um parts of this license. But the substance of the license, you know, the most important thing to most towns is to have the uh financial support of the local channels which have
grown in importance over the years for municipal media coverage and other local uh uh coverage. And the expiring license uh was at uh 4% of gross revenues toward
the uh uh local studio and local channels and this license increases it to the maximum permitted by federal cable law 5%. That's the most important part of keeping the channels going. Um and it's
important to get that slight increase going up to the maximum because the uh number of subscribers are going down. So the revenue base on which the uh franchise fee is slipping down a little bit each year. So this will offset that
somewhat depending on the rate of subscriber. Um, another really important it's like a real legacy of this particular renewal. And by the way, I've been doing this for over 20 years uh with Graham. So, it's
always great to meet that. I I worked on two prior renewals last time around with Larry Peters. I don't know where Larry is these days, but we've worked very closely with him. Um, so it's great to be back and doing
this for a long time with Randy. Um the a second area of substantial improvement under this license is that the podcast agreed to increase the number of local channels from two
public educational access channels to three. Um, so that will give you more ability to uh avoid scheduling conflict and uh kind of sharpen the brand of each channel as public education,
governmental or or mix it up however you want. It's a very valuable asset um uh to have a uh a local TV channel. So that's increasing from two to three. And also this license is the first time ever
that Graby is going to have not just the standard definition local bubble channel but a high definition channel. Comcast just started doing that in around 2019 after several years after
the last renewal. So now we're uh capturing the benefit of getting an upgrade of uh getting an additional channel which will be the HD and then the two existing standard definition channels will also be upgraded to a
higher resolution known as SDSDI. Those upgrades will occur 24 months after the effective date, but the increase to the 5% funding will be um as of the effective date. So the the
financial gain is immediate paid on a quarterly basis and the uh channel upgrades and additional channel kick in in 24 months. You know the other main points are that we have a very
comprehensive definition of gross revenue revenues that I call full. So the percentage is based on capturing a percentage of all revenues of all categories not telephone and internet revenues. We're not allowed to get a percentage of
that. That's just a percentage of cable related revenues. There's a senior citizen discount side letter for qualifying seniors. That's a continuation of side letter that we had under the expiring license.
This is a non-exclusive license. A lot of many members of the public wonder why is there only one company in town? Is there some kind of sweetheart deal or exclusivity? And definitely not. It's uh clearly totally nonexclusive license
here from another company came along like port cable license. Um [Music] and uh you know this panel covers all the other bases in terms of strong language about
uh reporting to the town on on uh complaints um has customer service standards about telephone response time right of way management protection from insurance
provisions. Uh so in terms of the uh you know the other categories you were very confident this is a uh uh a document that will uh is fair to both parties and protects the town interests and it's
also fair. So that's my uh overview of I'll also say that the initial draft of the license was our document not the contest boiler plate. So we used a license we
have as a starting point uh that we have uh used as our template embedded several renewals you know that have been very protective from the municipal side. So I really do
extend uh you know a heartfelt thank you lady even after the renewal is a great resource. She she makes herself available, you know, whenever there are questions and and tries to be responsive to to the extent.
I said, we're just building a break up, but it's Comcast. Oh, I was just, you know, closing with thanking Comcast for uh working with us to uh generate great uh renewable license and I'm confident about the end
product. That's that's really my highlights. Uh unfortunately, there's no rate regulation. So, that's just uh deregulated by Congress. And I know that is of course a top concern of everyone.
That's beyond the scope of our uh uh legal ability to regulate through the franchise process. But the other elements, things we can regulate, we have a very good package. So Bill, just to be clear for people who are at home, you represent the town in
these negotiations. Is that correct? That's correct. Yes. I'm the town's attorney in this. Yes. and have been over 20 over three licenses now over several millions. Yeah, we talked when I was president of
the GK. Yes. Good. Okay. Um, is there any questions for you? Nope. All right. Thank you very much. Right. So, you have a motion in the package and you know, we have to have a public
hearing. So there members of the public that here to speak like an opportunity for that. Is there anybody out there like you want to speak? Come on up about the cable contract. Yeah.
Richie Bachelor speak. I want to talk about the senior discount that's available at the Graby View residents. They never tell you how much the discount is. He mentioned discount,
but it's $2 a month. $2. Now, if you look at my bill, my bill is $176 a month. The discount I get, which is $2, is a little bit more than 1% of the
total bill. 1%. Now, most discounts are between 5 and 10%. So, why can't the residents of Graanby, the senior citizens, get a larger discount? That I I'll never understand
that. I was talking to the woman. We were out in 100° weather waiting. She said that uh I asked her about the discount. She goes, "Well, some towns don't get a discount. Some towns get a larger
discount. It all depends on how much effort you put into it and if you ask for it." So, have has the town ever asked for a larger amount? Um, this is I remember this coming up some time ago and that's one of the
issues that we raised was the seat and we actually asked the the amount and that was one they were going to look at. Well, they don't they never tell you it's only $2 a month. So, I called Comcast and you know I said we had a meeting and uh because the woman told me to call
from Exfinity from Comcast. So, I called and she looked it up and says, "Yeah, you're entitled to $2 a month." I go, " $2? That's not very much." So, she didn't know how to apply a $2 credit
to my bill. So, she said, "Well, what if we give you in and every 12 months you have to renew it or you know, you or you lose it." So, she goes, "Well, what if we give you the full $24 credit right now and that'll take care of the year?"
I go, "Yeah, sure." But so I got a $24 credit for the year, but why can't it be larger? I I don't understand that. Can may I address that? Yes, please. Right. And I would let I I a Comcast
representative address this too. We were uh we were have been informed several times that Comcast's position on the senior discount is
that because rate regulation is prohibited rates are deregulated that they do not negotiate the amount of the discount for many years now and that it
is a standard take it or leave it $2 uh discount non-negotiable and we've been told that at public hearings by Comcast representatives
in several towns. It's a uniform uh it's done in a side letter rather than in the license. We have a separate senior discount side letter. Most towns don't get it because they don't know to ask for the side weather. We knew about it
and asked for it. So, we just don't have the power to condition the renewal on getting a a bigger discount because of the deregulation. Well, have could the uh representative
from Comcast comment on that? She's here. I believe she said some communities get more than uh the $2. Oh, I can. Is there? Yeah. Could she just take take it? Yeah.
Good evening. Eileen Ley with Comcast. Um, Bill's correct. So, senior discounts are grandfathered in. We don't routinely have them anymore in community. So, if you have an existing senior discount and if it's asked for by the attorney or the town, we usually continue it forward. It's always been a $2 off in Graanby and
that's what Bill and I discussed and we continued it. Um, there's no one. So, because we don't give them out anymore and they're grandfathered in. Some communities are different from the $2. Now, things are different. I mean, we're in Western Mass. It could be different out in Eastern Mass. I only negotiate
Western Mass franchises. So, I can't I'm not going to speak to what happens during negotiations in Eastern Mass, but ours are norm $2 is the average um discount we give. It's off of cable only. So, when the gentleman talks about his bills hundred and something dollars a month, the discount's only off your
cable service. It's not off your entire grill. So, um that's kind of important, too. And in Comcast, we the people they call, they do know we have a senior discount. It's in a database. I make sure they they're aware of it once we sign a new franchise. Um and we are more than happy to continue the senior discount. I know that was an issue
during the public hearing. Um when Bill brought it up to it was never an issue. I said, "Of course, we'll continue it. You know, we're good with we're fine with that. We think it's important to continue and we'll do so." So, um I just just a $2 discount. I just hope everyone's happy with it. And if I don't
know, we build we did talk at length about it though, so it wasn't something that Bill glossed over at all. We had we had conversations. Every time we talked about the license, it was like, "But don't forget we have a side letter." And so we I always made sure of that. So, I don't know if you have any other questions about it, but Bill is right.
It's something that can't be negotiated. It's not part of really the perview. It's something Comcast does. That's why it's a side letter, not in the franchise. So, that's why. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] I think we have to think out of the box
a little bit. We have to demand seniors get more of a discount. I understand that it's only on the cable bill. It's not on the internet bill, but why is that? Why can't it be on the total bill? I think we have to fight for the
residents uh because I do recall I believe is the city of Springfield, the senior citizens uh demanded a higher senior discount and they got it. They won. So, I don't know how they won when you said it's limited,
but I think we have to think out of the box and demand more. Uh the the next qu the last question I had was that I thought I read in the paper where uh I read about a month ago Xfinity was selling off their Comcast business,
their cable business to another company. Is that true? And have you heard anything? I'll let Eileene address that. What I heard is there was a restructuring but it is not spelling it off. It has to do with the internal
uh placement of it within the same you know the larger umbrella company. Okay. Still under the same parents but with in like a divid division of the uh services. Irene can you address that?
Also, we cannot we're we're prohibited from uh regulating internet uh rates or telephone rates. But I just want to say to the member of the public, you're in good
company. I mean, what you're asking for a larger discount and the ability to apply it for to internet and telephone, those are valid ideas. I applaud them. I'm with you a thousand%. It's just that
legal council cannot ask for things that have where the courts have admonished municipalities that have conditioned renewals on things they're not allowed to ask for and and it's written into the Telecommunications Act. If you exceed
your regulatory powers, it it even becomes like a liability because then they say it's a restraint on trade. It's you know unreasonable restraint on trade. We can't touch internet rates and discounts
on internet would be internet rate regulation. Same thing telephone rate regulation. So we can only condition the renewal, you know, when we try to be forceful and have conditions on the renewal on on conditions that are
lawful. And that means not regulating rates because we're not allowed to. So we take the uniform uh discount when we know about it, which most towns don't.
So it's baked into the law and we take what we can get. Yeah. Um, yeah. So, as far as Comcast level and selling off its cable business, no, I that's news to me, so it's not happening. Um, and as far as Springfield goes, um, their senior discount is $2 off as well. It's the
same discount. So, um, that was part of the renewals and and that was it was I mean, it was like in this town, the seniors wanted to make sure they continued the senior discount. And again, when that was um it was an attorney, I guess who negotiated, but that was that was one of the things that was negotiated and they wanted us to make sure we continued it and and I just
looked it up and it's a $2 off monthly, so it's the same discount. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. We don't have any more questions, any discussions. All right. Do we have a motion? If those are 12, it was it's right in your paperwork and
in the appointments right by your um one all those folders. [Music] There you go. Do I close the public
close first? I believe. All right. Motion move to close the hearing. We close the public part of the hearing. Then we can deliberate. Yes, sir. Our thoughts. All right. So, motion to close the hearing. Is that
what we Yeah, I should write second the motion. All in favor? All right. All right. Any discussion? I think it's motion. So I'll make a motion uh for the Grammy Comcast license
renewal ruled by the Grammy Select Board acting in its capacity as a statuto cable television licensing authority pursuit of Mass General Law 166A and finding the cable license renewal proposal of Comcast reasonable meets the
cable elected renewal needs and interests of the public and town and finding that Comcast financially and technically qualifications and Comcast local programming channels facility and services are reasonable to meet the town cable license needs and based on the
recommendation of the town's renewal negotiations team to approve the proposed Comcast renewal license. Grammy select board hereby approves shall execute the proposed Grammy Comcast renewal license which will be
effective October 6th, 2025. That is the motion. I second the motion. All in favor? Hi. Hi. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Bill. We will be We'll need a signature date.
She asked me to mention that, but if it's convenient, uh that's a request from uh my leg. Uh other than that, I just want to say thank you. when I hear uh Chris Martin is uh public is moving
uh on to uh yeah we're going to continue to enter um I just want to say congratulations and thank you keep introducing you good night folks good night all right um
so we're going to need you doing a next meeting or no we got 63 signature. Is that acceptable? Is that [Music] [Music] There you go. I like it.
[Music] All right, Tom. Looks like you're up again. Or no, no, it's the chief. Go ahead. You're an hour half an hour late. [Music] I believe you guys have already been
forwarded u SRO policy. We've had a uh up until currently the there's a standardou that came from the state um and now the superintendent said was looking for a policy. So basically, I contacted some other local departments,
took their policy, compared it to the last twous, and it's nothing that's not the only thing that's not in theou that was spelled out at one point was what the SRO wears for uniform. That was something that the state was concerned about. So that's in there saying it's
either basic uniform or business casual to my approval. Um, so this this is basically taking the MUS and putting it into a policy for DESIE. All right, look at me. Okay. Yep. I did
see the changes to you just mentioned. So, we have the the approval. Yes. Because if not, it's going to sit 30 days if you guys don't act. I make a motion to accept the SRO policy
for Graanby um effective date with revisions of 52825 policy and procedure number 1.26 Massachusetts Police Accreditation Standards referenced 11.2.1
16.2.2.2.2 33.6.1 and 44.2.4 four. I'll second the motion. All those in favor. Thank you. You want to wait another half hour. Are we good? No. We'll figure
something out in Framingham for a reunification training today. So driving that reunited. It's all about if we have a problem. So it was good. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. That's true. All right. Next up, Tom.
All right. Just wanted to uh give the board an update at 34 Carver Street. Um we have some concerned citizens. Um we actually Tammy and myself met with with um someone from the other day and um I attended the conservation. Let me start
by uh what happened was there was a permit issue by the prior um to be taken over here. Um, and it was issued, the permit was issued. Um, we got exactly what it was. Um, please be aware that the permit issued was to
construct a 4,000 square foot shell building use of occupancy to be determined by amended amendment or application laid letter. So, um, I'm I'm on them that we need to get they have a design professional um,
which they've been to the like I said the uh, conservation. they're working with them. They've been to the um board of health which they're working with. Thank you. And in the letter that is going out today um you know telling them that it's by right a farm business in
that district by uh the zoning. However, they're going to have to you know just prove that it's all agricultural. Um you know so they'll have to do that otherwise it's not allowed in that that zone. Um, and we're working on it, but there is there was conservation of at
least 12 14 residents there very concerned about it in the neighborhood. So, any questions? [Music] I mean, you're working with them and the other uh committees to make sure
everything's being done correctly. Yes. The trouble is is the um federal money is very short limit the time limit to get this project done and you know working with this let them all know put the put the application before you you know you're getting the funding so we
can start the process you know in the future but that's I I I understand the funding piece but they can't skip no the responsibilities on the town side as well correct all right thank you thank you um Rich you have a citizen participation
You want to come up which I am basic already. Uh I just want to say that the description you give for executive going into executive session is not
really adequate according to the attorney general. Now if you look at what you have executive session 30A 21A3-3 nobody knows what that is even it says to discuss strategy with respect to
collective bargaining or litigation. Now what is it is it collective bargaining or is it litigation? Uh, I approached Chris Martin when he was here for another description that he gave for executive
session and he I told him, "Chris, it's you got to give more detail and he proceeded to yell at me and then he told Kathy Leonard to change this the description." So instead of it saying
with respect to collective bargaining, it said to negotiate non-UN employees of the town of Graanby for their annual raise. Now you got to that's at least a description of why you're going into
executive session. And that's that's what the attorney general has consistently said. So the or part bothers me too. Is it collective bargaining or litigation? Is it does it involve one person? Is it a
group of people? Is it a bargaining unit? Is someone being sued? So is that correct or incorrect where it says poor litigation? So, I just wanted to bring it up that is uh you know the description that's used
to to say why you're going into executive session doesn't give enough description. Okay. Take it under adisement and check with their attorney. Okay. All right. Just uh for the record here, I'd like to
reintroduce our town administrator, Tammy Martin. Um for those of you that didn't tune in to the last exciting episode, this luck board meeting um or town meeting. So um actually Dave, do you want to do next? Cuz he says it's still hard. I was
going to wait. Make him wait till 6:30. Were you having fun? It's like he's not trying working in this water, you guys. Yeah. All right. So, your boss is sticking up for you. Yeah. All right. Go
ahead. Storm water regulations. One of my favorite topics actually was coming also. 6:30 to be here. Oh, yeah. All right. That's a good one. I like this.
at 6:30. Yeah. So, yeah, you guys can you can do your stuff. My side didn't take long, but you might want to finish. Well, here's the other thing. Department a little bit. So, also in case anybody
wants to come in case anybody else wants in case anybody wants to come. Oh, yeah. speak on it. You really should wait till 6:30. Sounds good. I thought you were talking about refreshments. So, there's bread over there.
All right. Um, accept departmental reports. Motion. I'll make a motion to accept reports. All right. We'll second the motion. All in favor? I height
inside Venus once [Music] a lot here. It's a lot of maintenance. Heat. Heat. [Music]
[Music] [Music] [Music] I'll make a motion uh we approve war number 78. date uh amount of $259,190.92. I'll second the motion. All in favor? I
I [Music] got this new pen. Somebody told me that my pen should look good. Should have been the first time ever to say that it's all in the pen. It's hot up
a little bit. I make a motion to approve warrant 76s in the amount of $26,546.70. I will second the motion. All in favor? I action my lawn today.
Even on a rider, it's not like was that comfortable. I'll make a motion to approve number 77. [Music] The amount of $775,6438 [Music]
for pay one for the motion. a little fair. Even though you're going to pay me my salary all that good here next 250 years or something like that
[Music] museum tracks SP [Music] road. Is that [Music] [Music] A long I'm steroids. All right. Make a motion to approve a
payroll warrant. This is number 74 in the amount of uh $475,134.51. That's the He's got the wrong one. It's the top one. Glenn, what's that? It's the top
one. The 483 number. Is that correct? Yeah. 43 483,515 31 not the one that you sorry $483,515.31
withholdings I second the motion all in favor I I [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. I make a motion to approve warrant
number 75 in the amount of $13,62648. I second the motion. All in favor? I I So people are wondering at home what we're actually doing. We are authorizing the payments of many things. I make a motion to approve warrant
number 76 in the amount of 67,36743 cents 47. I second the motion. All in favor on my favor right there. [Music] I didn't see one in there for the select
salary. That was a 775 775,000. Obviously, we both had necessity for the select. I get direct deposit so I can budget. All right. Common mix. Bring out too many of those. There's one. One.
Yeah. [Music] Back. Kathy likes it. Take the paper clips off. Yeah. Just put all together. Put all the little stickies on them. [Music]
I know, Kathy. This one's going to last as long as the other one. The other one was strong for like three or four years. I don't think they don't make things the way you think it's going to hold up. All right. Duct tape.
Uh, okay. We got a comic license for uh Barretts Aquarius does business as Crazy Arapas 85 Tory Street, East Santi, Mass.
This was for charter day. Charter day. They had just got it in. It was a one day pass only for chart days only. So I get a motion. I second the motion. All in favor? I
don't know what they did. I'm sure it was crazy. Uh for us, the bounce house was the uh the big winner. Couldn't get my grandson off of it. Oh, bounce house. First time my my son-in-law pulled it
off. The second time he smartened up and he would just like shoot through the opening. [Music] All right. At least for the annex. Is that what you got? [Music]
We moved through town council. Yes. This was that I did with town council instead which was here too. Uh, we looked it over and if you look at the last page, we took out um it was out that I took out and I added
our town council on exhibit A where it says on the bottom for which June 9th special town meeting 37,500 is appropriate for said PE repaving. That was all we changed on that.
Heat. Heat. You have to read the entire thing. No, I'm looking to find out name of the company. I think it's MH the month at the top like M AJ O MU. Oh,
yeah. Is it? Yeah. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the lease agreement between I guess MJ MU LLC with the town of Graanby
for the premises located at 215 West State Street in Graby, Massachusetts. And this is for um our town offices offices that that
are currently there. And this is what was approved at the June 9th uh special town meeting. An agreement uh for the sum of $37,500 will be used for uh set paving of the
driveway there and that will be in lie of rent for uh the next 18 months. Can we add to that just uh we authorize Tammy Martin to sign on our behalf? We just did. You did. You ditched it.
All right. Very good. A second. I'm sorry. Second. He was actually doing work. He wasn't like doodling. He actually was writing and writing on it. So, um, I was a favor. I
Some people doodle. He wasn't doodling. No, he's not doodling. Want to be clear about that. No doodling. All right. Um, affirm the appointment of Can we just uh affirm that I'm now the fire chief of
Cranby? [Music] Um, can we? Yeah. So, I'll just read this. Dear Marshall Divine, plea be please be advised on November 22nd, 2024, the fire chief of Graanby resigned effective December 5th, 2024. While we are still
in the process of selecting a new fire chief, as chair of the select board, I'm asking for full delegation of authority so that the department may continue to fulfill fire prevention obligations and inspections. And please nobody worry will not be preventing fire or inspecting anything.
We have professionals for that. Um so can I have a motion to affirm accept it? Yeah. Accept it. I'll make a motion to accept as read. Second the motion. Okay. I don't know if I
should abstain. All those in favor I you need to copy this. Yes. I'm going to send it. All right. Affirm the appointment of the fire chief search committee. Yep.
So I can get off the hook on this. [Music] somewhere. [Music] All right, before I get a note from Russ Anderson. Yeah, it's um
Oh, yeah. Yeah, those names. I'll just make it. Um, so I move that we reappoint the following people to the uh fire chief search committee. Paul Moriceette, Richard Gay, um, George
Randall, Ryan Peas, and Russ Anderson. Second. Okay. All those in favor? All right. Bye. Now reappointed. All right. Ah, sewer time. All right.
[Music] [Music] [Music] We're approving a sign of sewer commitment. Um, it's also an amendment. It's been a long time. That's where Dave
That's where Dave can help because we we had no choice to It was a perfect transition into uh getting Dave out of here before uh his next birthday sewer use rules and regulations. Storm sword, right? This is just Is that
what this No, this is the people on the sewer. It's from the tax collector so she can raise the money she can build. Oh, okay. I couldn't find that either. All right. Let me read it again. Go ahead. No. Um,
make a motion that we approve the solar use fee warrant number 25-1 dated June 23rd, 2025. And what this does is it authorizes us as a sewer commission to collect
um fees for $137,550. So um has a limited amount of sewer access and think does this also include the community septic
around Smith Avenue. So this is basically authorizes to collect stuff. Yeah, we collect we collect the fee that is paid to the town of South Avenue. I'll second the motion. All in favor? I got a better copy.
There's definitely no doodling there. He's going to highlight. [Music] Oh, this is actually awesome. [Music] So Dave, what's there's three copies?
Three copies. All right. Two copies. Here's [Music] this. [Music] [Applause]
[Music] Fall asleep. just nudge me because she's uh Cammy goes on anyways. Yeah, caving is going to be kind of crazy. Yeah, I signed the lease.
Yeah, you need two for the lease. They were all good. So Dave, tell us what's new in the world of storm water uh usage trying to avoid being fined by EPA. You've got the regulations in front of you.
We're pretty much up against the deadline at the end of this month. If we didn't have these regulations passed, we will be subject to a fine. Um, these are not the end all be all. There going to be have have to be some
revisions in the future. They're going to have to be tweaked and there might need to be some other um coordination with other like plan board and other departments. Um, I would suggest
maybe putting in the DTA grant valley planning commission next fiscal year. have them review all of the [Music] other things that might be affected by storm phase 2. Um
there's a lot of things in the permit that require us to do and approve and accept many different requirements like new subdivisions making the roads a little narrower to reduce the amount of runoff um and and
encouraging green construction. So there's there's a lot of coordination that needs to be done. this regulations that you have in front of you are just bare minimum to get us through here with no fine from the EPA. Um, a lot of this should have
been done 5 years ago and as you you all know remember what happened then the whole bylaws went down in flames and we didn't move forward with any of it but um we should take another look just to make sure that we kick off anything that
EPA would be um looking at in the future. The the two standards that they were very very concerned with right now is on redevelopment. They wanted the 80% total suspended solid removal and 50% phosphorus. That's in the regulations
that you have for you to approve tonight. So hopefully um they will be happy with what we've got at this stage and give us a little bit more breathing room and time to the rest of the coordination.
So is this our bylaws? We already passed the bylaws. Yeah. Those are the regulations that you as the storm sewer commissioners um were authorized to pass. We already have the hearing, so this is the final step. You have to
approve those bylaws. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them, but I know they're it's complicated. It's just they're no easy [Music] I've got no questions. Okay. No, I
don't. I read through it. It's all legal paperwork. So, yeah, it was drafted originally by Valley Planning with a few tweaks, but
Hopefully we've got most everything that'll make EPA happen. Says final 12 12 2017. Um I don't even have that much in front of me. I grab a lot of the regulations
left. Yes. This is the regulations I believe. Yeah, this is the regulations that he's going to be submitting and making sure everything's going forward. Correct. [Music]
Oh, I have it. The top one that's that's basic 2017. So these people see changes they recommended right 2017 actually for Right.
[Music] So, we're going to make a motion that we approve uh store use rules and regulations as updated. [Music] I will second the motion. All those in
favor? I You're welcome to stay. I'm done. It's been a long day. I can get up early again tomorrow. Okay. Just for everybody's knowledge, too. Um, we did not finish the road today. It was just unbearably hot. We were having a
lot of difficulty. We couldn't open traffic as soon as we would normally be able to because we're cooling fast enough. We're spraying water on it to try to get cool so it doesn't damage the pavement. Uh we're about 800 ft short of
finishing new level road one lane. We'll finish that in the morning. Hopefully it bubbles. If they come back, I don't know. Everybody was pretty grumpy when we left today. And we're moving over to Truly Street
right after that. Both of those streets should be done tomorrow. Um street was done last week. The library was done last week. [Music] How about the annex now? That's a pusher. But if it doesn't cool down, I'm
not even going to get all day. Just we don't we don't have enough guys to just thinking, you know, if we keep it in the queue for Yeah. No, as soon as we wrap as soon as we wrap up all these other things. I know there's a little bit of work that has to be done at the library.
Yeah, there's uh aprons that are going to have to be done on Try Street and uh as soon as we wrap those up to good press of time frame so we let them know.
Yeah, I mean it's towards the fall at least. There's a I'm hoping we can get it over the summer, but um a couple weeks anyway. Yeah. Would it be fair to ask if uh you know just give us two weeks two week heads up so we can
just schedule? Yeah. Yeah. Just let people know that as soon as soon as we start wrapping up all these other things I'll I'll give you guys a heads up. Uh that's what happened with the library too. We were going to schedule library earlier in the year back uh because of
some programs that they had running at the library. So everything got compressed into a very very short window here at the end of the fiscal year which is killing me. As soon as it cools down a little bit hopefully we can uh take care of that
one. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Stay close for the next 8 hours or so. I hope so. Be worse tomorrow. Yeah. Right. All right. Turning Brian out to
[Music] Good evening. So, you're here tonight to talk about Old Grizzly Road. Old Grizzly Road. So, it's somehow affiliated with Notch Place. It is
off of Ammer Street. Um, as you may have received in your materials, uh, the town has been contacted, uh, by an attorney for the, uh, for owners of property on
Notch Place, also known as Old Ridley Road. Um at first requesting and uh slowly but surely um well maybe
not quite demanding uh uh but that it be recognized by the town uh that this um for lack of a better term road is a town public way.
Um I can only speculate as to the reasons. Um my guess is for this piece of property that is some ways up uh notch place um is uh being looked at to
be conveyed sold um and they probably want to do so uh uh as an ANR plan uh where subdivision is not required. Um, Attorney Pill, who represents the
property owners, um, has had a, uh, land surveyor, um, go to the records at UMass, um, and it's her opinion that in 1770, um, I did not misspeak there, 1770, that
at a town meeting, um, that there was a vote uh, to establish all the roads that were laid out by the select men between March 25th 24th and March 29th, 1770. Um,
and as such um, it's their position that this is a a town road. um perhaps on face value what they're looking for is a determination or or
some sort of um acknowledgement that this is a town way so that they can dispense with the subdivision control rules. Now normally this would be something that before the planning board. Um however uh the question then would become if this is a town way or a
town public way um who would be responsible uh for bringing this road that has most likely been in disuse for at least 100 years if not longer. Um
who foot who foots the bill for that? That is a very good question. um Mr. D. Roer who just left the um if it were the town's responsibility um as may be under chapter 84 section one it would be the town's responsibility
um and that it would um require extensive work and obviously this road as described is um fairly long. How far would we have to go?
Now, uh, in 1986, uh, attorney Ray Randall on behalf of the town, if not for this specific parcel, somewhere very close to it, uh, determined that um, this portion of
Notch Place/Old Grizzly Road was not a public way. Okay. Um now back when we had county forms of government uh he apparently uh and I believe that letter is uh hopefully within your uh records there. He made that determination based
upon a few um sources. One was um going to the town clerk. Um it it stayed in the town's records that this is not an accepted uh public way of the town. Um, also through atlases from
1993 and 190 um 1953 and 1922, both showing that they were um at least discontinued. Um,
we've gotten to a point here where the property owners um are getting restless. Um my guess is that um um if the town does not act one way or the other is that they will commence litigation
um um for determinative um adjudication as to whether or not this is um a town public way or not. um Attorney Phil, he's a very intelligent
person, but what I would note is that he had somebody else go and do the historical detective work, for lack of a better term. Um, a lot of these records are going to be old and it's going to be the facts that are, I would say, determinative. the burden is going to be
on them to prove that uh in fact that the town did um um have this way um establish it at own expense, paid damages um which is something that is not
um discussed in the uh um in the surveyor's report here. Um, but I think we're at a point right now where whether it's in anticipation of litigation, um um it's not so
imminent that it warranted um executive session. Um, but does the town um want to uh uh be proactive in terms of um authorizing me to try and go out and
find somebody such as um an Emily Holberg here uh to do the town's uh to do research on their behalf um to figure out where exactly it is that where we stand.
Um I'm not prepared um to suggest to the town that we should acquies uh to attorney Phil's um request. Um I think there are too many question marks and uh the potential stakes are too great.
Um trying to figure out what happened in 1770 is going to be an arduous task. uh what uh and and thereafter and before. Okay. Um these these so-called ancient
ways um uh while fascinating um uh case law reading um that kind of shows the uh development of us as we approach our 250th uh um founding as a nation. um do
require a lot of um minutia and and research. Um, so I'm prepared to uh go to attorney pill to say that the town simply does not have enough um information uh to uh
either acknowledge or not acknowledge and um they'll have to do what they have to do um in order for that to uh to be determined. And if they do go down that road, well then we will need somebody um an expert um to uh is that special
counsel or just do you hire someone? I I think it would be much at this point right now. Um we we could probably talk about that later on down the road. Um but I think certainly uh the town would have to have an expert u who if
necessary would be able to testify. Attorneys can't testify at a saying that your honor the let me speak on behalf of the town. I went and did the I'm not under oath. I'm not nor could I be council and be a witness.
Um, so I I'm not necessarily here to go into the um um the merits of this here because I don't think uh
we we we don't have anything to actually go into that. So I would suggest um to at least authorize me to start calling around and getting um some sort of quotes. My guess is that's not going to be cheap. Nothing.
Okay. Um, so are you going to get quotes, requests for quotes from experts like surveyors or whatever these kids were called? Exactly. And honestly trying to find somebody um I know of
Miss Homeberg. She's well regarded um um and and local and she's working for for attorney. So whether or not um there would be somebody qualified, I don't think I could just call up any
surveyor and say, "Hey, can can you do this or or please do this for the town?" I think we would have to get somebody that is is wellversed in this historical detective work. Um and then see where we are. Um
attorney Phil may not be happy with the uh the idea and if he feels as though or his client tells him to uh to push this along, well so be it. We have no control over that, right? Um
so that's where we are. Okay. And I mean just to be clear, we could be talking millions of dollars to bring this road up to Yes. to bring this road up to public use. So, it's something that we need to address and hopefully fight and
hopefully win if necessary. Yes. So, um so technical question, where do we get the money? Like is this just part of our regular year on retainer type of things that we're getting money? Yeah, that would be different
than our normal piece. We're going to ask our town council. Okay. It is in anticipation of potential legal issues and certainly if if attorney Pil moves forward um and
then question can he go straight to court or would he actually have to maybe go to the building inspector, request a building permit or go to the planning board, request an ANR, be denied and then that would set up a u a basis for an appeal to the courts. Um, I guess
this would be the land court in Boston. [Music] Um, [Music] certainly if I were doing it, um, I would be I would be billing for it. Yeah, I would imagine would come out
illegal. Um so uh to the extent that semantics are important, I'm requesting this in order for uh to make a an informed legal opinion on behalf of the town.
Um having read through some of this case law, Brian, it appears that it's really not a public. Well, this this up until 1836,
it was kind of a free-for-all. Um, um, private individuals were fighting over would lay out a way, dedicate the land without input from the town and they would say, "Here you go." Okay. Um,
so the case law, uh, at least that what's important in my preliminary review is who paid for the lane. Regardless of the fact that the town um laid it out and established assuming
uh that the uh that the records trying to to read some of those photograph or photocopies of the old town records are are are difficult to figure out. I'm sure when you're there and you can blow it up a little bit more, you can see that. But those things
that most likely aren't contained within those records. Do we have to go to old select board meeting records if those exist to figure out how did this all come about? And
just because it was before our um our founding as as a nation with the constitution, even before then the idea of the town when they do a taking to pay damages. Um that would be something that would be
important too. You know, was it a form formal taking? Um, and again, I don't want to go too much into um an open session here. Uh, but I think there are still um questions
uh as to whether or not it is or not. I think uh Mr. Gosher had had indicated that Elder Town um recently and by recently I'm not exactly sure whether we mean this this century or or within the
last 5 years. I I've had a chance to go over it with them, but uh that Belure town did get hit with one of these 1700 um um roads and were founded in the property owner's favor.
So, so they're very fact specific. Um, so that's where we are, right? So, I think we need a motion to authorize town council to look in at this point looking into not
hiring. I at this point, yeah, I I would want to come back uh uh to the board. Um so yeah with with with what we found because obviously if the price is right astronomical or or we have a choice
between uh some we may want to uh look into it a little bit further um so that the board ultimately has the final say. I'll make a motion to allow town council to uh entertain
and search out surveyors for potential property surveying. I'm going to call it the old grizzly rope. Grizzly grizzly rope. Constructed the motion. All in favor? I
Yay. If you ever want to get sued, you know, just run for select paper. It's like think like the first time I ever got served papers was uh on the select board. I don't think I've ever got served papers when I was on the select. You get used to it after a while. Yeah.
Well, I'm sure you can. Thanks, Brian. [Music] All right. Yeah, we're going to take a five minute recess. Okay, let's take a five minute recess.
All right, here we'll see you for a lot of them. Really? Oh, yeah. You get sick, just sick of town doing it. Say we'll pass it up. Yeah. Scary.
groups. Mike, superintendent 71. A motion to approve the first. Yeah, we'll go through. Are we approve or we affirm? Cuz you're affirming point. We're affirming. You're affirming the appointment. Yes.
You got it. All right. Well, I'll make a motion to affirm the following committee members to more white street fund. All our uh wedding street fund.
We have a Diane Barry, Barbara Hostile, and Brenda Wishard expires uh December 31st. July 1st. Uh June 30th. 230 and 2026. I second the motion.
Um, do we want to do them all at a big I can do by do by page. Yeah. Yeah. Do page. Y. Uh, next one is Americans with Disabilities Act Committee. Jennifer Crosby, Tammy Martin. Expires June 30th,
2026. Animal Control Officer Kimley Premier Goldsmith. Uh, expires June 30th, 2026. Board of Appeals is William Johnson unexpired term. Brian TR. Nope, just the
ones in highlighted, just the yellow ones. Uh, Stephen Nally, Pro Temp, Ronald Har, Robert Chovin, and Donald D. Rosa, associated member.
Those are all to June 30th, 2020. Nope. Ron Herab and Oh, I didn't see that now. Um her was it and uh Robert Jun is June 30th of 2028.
Yep. Uh board registers Michael. N just Oh, I'll get that. Don't worry. Sorry. I wouldn't have got it if you had pointed out for half an hour. Cable TV advisory board, Thomas
Quinnland Jr. No building. Yeah, right. Building commissioner. Now that makes more sense. Building commissioner Thomas Quinnland Jr. and Jason For. Yep.
Special local inspector. Souls expires. Now I know where we're going with everything. Expires June 30th, 2026. Uh also uh David Johnson with that expired June 30th, 2026. Capital
Improvement Planning Commission uh Joseph Arabic, Robert Schovin, Charles Joe Mayhew, Chair, Jeffrey Rule, and Thomas Rousel. Uh all expires June
30th, 2026. Charter Days Committee. Uh Leroy Burgron, Sue D Smier, James Gavin, Donna Harmon, Kimberly Kibby, Martin Liberty, Stacy
Lombardo, uh Nicholas Robinson, Beverly Saborin, Steven Saborin, and Jonathan Sonic. Sonic. All expires June 30th, 2026.
Uh, chief procurement officer Tammy Martin expires June 20 June 30th, 2026. Let me stop right there. That's the motion for all them. Motion to affirm this. Do you want to second that? I will second that motion. All in
favor? I I Okay. Uh, Commissioner Trust Funds, Barbara Hoschild, Kathy Leonard. Wait, wait. Hold on. [Music]
This again is a motion to affirm uh and Dian Morgan uh all to until June 30th, 2026. Uh conservation commission Edward Chaplain
uh to June 30th, 2026 2028, sorry. Uh, Robert Fernandez to June 30th, 2026 and Ann Batter, associated member to June 30th, 2026.
Constables, uh, Lewis Barry, Mark Johnson, Kevin O'Grady until June 30th, 2026. Council on Aging Advisory Board. Barbara Hashchow. Lynn Sain.
Saving. George Randi expired term, excuse me. Uh, his is June 30th, 2027. Barbara Hash and Lind is June 30th, 2028.
Uh Stephanie Pratt, Associated Non- Voting Member, uh June 30th, 2026. Electrical Inspector Arth Arthur Bushain Jr.
Bruce Pelatier, assistant Richard Rosaza, assistant all expires June 30th, 2026. Emergency Management Director Kevin O'Grady Tammy Martin Assistant expires June 30th, 2026.
Ethics Commission Leaison Kathy Leonard expires June 30th, 2026. Finance Committee Charles Joe Mayhew, Chair Mary Anne Munger, expires June 30th, 2028.
We have gas inspector Fred Marian uh Michael McCain. Expires June 30th, 2026. We'll stop there now. I'll second the motion. All in favor? I I. Now, how do we vote
on ambulance and fire? So, they are 2025. We still have to do they are union contract. We still appoint them. Well, they're still working. They're just not. They're working without a contract. I just want you to know. That's just so we know. Yeah.
And theirs would be to through um [Music] 28. Yep. Okay. All right. Make a motion to affirm the following. Grammy Argicultural
Commission Evelyn Hatch until June 30th, 2028. Uh Hampshire County Group Insurance Advisory, Tammy Martin to June 30th, 2026.
Uh Hazard mitigation mitigation committee. Uh David D. Roser, Tammy Martin, Kevin O'Grady, William Sheen, James Troky, all until June 30th, 2026.
Historical Commission, Terresa Johnson. June 30th, 2028. Historical District Commission, Steven Nally, Promp, June 30th, 2028. William Johnson, Associated Member, June
30th, 2026. Land of View Committee, Glenn Ston, William Sheen, James Troky, June 30th, 2026. Local Emergency Planning Committee,
Fire Chief, what that may be, Dave Roser, uh, Lee Lant, Tammy Martin, Jeffrey McFerson, and Kevin Grady to June 30th, 2026.
full-time police officers Ryan Bartlett, Alan Brooks, Earl Earl Brown, Kurt Carpenter, Zack Green Gilly, Eric Johnson, Steven Marian, Jason Richard,
Jason Sergeant, Steve Marian, Sergeant Ryan Cyn Kurt Carpenter page. It's uh James White and Kevin O'Bri
chief until June 30th, 2026. Municipal Hearing Officer Tammy Martin till June 30th, 2026. Opiate Task Force Committee. Sarah Bearden.
Bearden. Bearden. Oh, Sarah Bearden. Zachary Gilly. Charlene Corza. Kevin Grady. Chief Crystal Design. Uh Aaron K. David and Susan Nightly. All till June 30th, 2026.
Parking clerk Thomas Quinnland Jr. Mark Johnson, assistant two. William Johnson, assistant two. Janny H, sorry, June 30th, 2026. Parks oversight ad hoc committee.
Timothy Abbott, Jeremy Kerry. Kerry, Kathy Leonard, Nicholson, uh, Robinson, and Megan Slozic. So, what? Slozic. Slozic. Do you know her? So, uh, till
June 30th, 2026. Yes. Uh, Park Police, Ryan Barthollet, Alan Brooks, Earl Brown, Kurt Kirk Carpenter, Zachary Gillis McGilly,
Eric Json, Steven Marian, Sergeant Kevin O'Grady, Chief Jason Richard, Sergeant Ryan, Ryan Cynical, James White, until June 30th, 2026.
Police Matron Lorie Heert and Marissa Bailey until June 30th, 2026. Part-time police officers Ian Howard to June 30th, 2026. And
stop right there for those. I will second the motion. All in favor? I. All right. I'll make a motion to affirm the following. Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Anita Abbott, until June
30th, 2026. PVPC Joint Transportation Committee, David D. Roer until June 30th, 2026. Uh, police advisory board, Mark Johnson,
William Johnson, uh, Lynette Kamiga. Kamiga, uh, Lynn Mercier, Wayne Wilson, and Zachary Gilly, non voting member, all until June 30th, 2026.
Public safety leaison Kevin Orady Chief until June 30th, 2026. The right to know coordinator Jeremy Kerry carrier. Carrier. Carrier. carrier until June 30th, 2026.
Sign officer Thomas Quinnland Jr. until June 30th, 2026. Storm water phase 2, David D. Roer, Thomas Quinnland, Lee
Mulan, William Sheen, all until June 30th, 2026. Town Administrator Tanny Martin until June 2026 or June 30th, 2026. Town Council Brian
Tul until June 30th, 2026. Town of Graanby harassment officers, fire chief and Tammy Martin until June 30th, 2026. Tree warden David D. Roer until June 30th, 2026.
Veterans War Memorial Committee. Joshua Brushard, Robert Shovin, Jason Richard, Jeffrey Rule, Thomas Rosel, Brian Soul Zel, and Steven Weatherbe until June
30th, 2026. Oh, also sorry, Fire Chief and Tammy Martin all June 30th, 2026. All right. Westo Metropolitan Development Corp. Uh John Laa Jr. till
June 30th, 2026. West Street Building Committee, Steven Shinaki, Daryl Clark, Lyn Mercier, Kevin O'Grady, Micheline Chan, Jennifer Silva, and James Troky. All until June 30th,
2026. Zoning Enforcement Officer Thomas Finland Jr. until June 30th, 2026. Zoning Bylaw Update Committee, Steven Nally and Emily Reed
until June 30th, 2026. Also, Thomas Quinland, Ken Conia, Conia, and Charles Joe Matthew, chair of the June 30th, 2026. [Music]
And last but not least, Junior Senior High School Future Committee. Actually, I'd like to make a motion that we stop there. Yeah, this hasn't been discussed with this with the schools. Schools are in charge of them. Also, I will second the motion to
the last name of Charles Mayhew. All those in favor? I I um yeah, this future thing I just want to say is this school committee should be involved here. We should be appointing a committee to determine what's going to happen with our high school without the
complete input of us in the school committee. But it's not our um I mean I agree to be honest. Did we did we reach out to these people or No. Okay. So I agree with that. Yeah. I
spoke to Jen. They were vaguely aware of that. So Okay. Um so um I've also started to make contact with people from other towns about like realization just informally. I also do it too. So researching it as well. So um
I think until we have we want to have some informal discussions before we go too far into a point but we also should have people just calling and researching it down the road. We should have a uh some type of charge that so we have one person one
person doing this people get different people calling and researching and stuff like that. It's not official yet. Mine wasn't any research plan to be honest. It was just a simple conversation to see if we could move forward on something. So I suggested it to Tammy. So I kind of
left it. Okay. Well, I would think Tammy should be the person to work with the chair of the school committee. I just think we should have cuz then people start, oh, I heard this, I heard that. So I I reached out to Jen Bartos before
I was elected actually and we talked about meeting with counterparts from another town. I think when it comes to boards, you want to have boards meeting with boards and then you want like town administrator meeting with town administrator, superintendent meeting with superintendent. Um, so I don't know
how to get into detail about who I reached out to, but yeah, it is on the website. I can send you guys up. Um, TMS, who used to do our school of business management and uh, Judy go used to work for them and she they did a
report on North Brookfield with it. There's been talk about it. I'm not sure. Anyway, they did a report and it didn't do the financials on it, but I can send you the copy of the report. Um, it just tells you what's involved like
from transportation to, you know, like so say Grammy has pays their teachers more than family. Everybody has to be proud of that kind of stuff. Um, but I'm hesitant to create a committee
to start committ like they're big and awkward until you're actually ready to do something, right? But I just want to make sure so that the the correct message is being sent to people that we not just going out there when other
people are asking because now when any one of us or Tammy or school committee member that you know that's in their official capacity. So that's I just get concerned with that. So we want to make sure that you know the school did put out a thing in on the school committee
you know cuz several people y um so the school is very aware of this when I talked open discussion when I talked to Jim Marto she was not well it was on there and uh Jenny kept
sending me people's names uh who were interested because it was on the the school committee mentioned What was that? Um what was at your last meeting? You had I had like five names. Yeah. Yeah. I had
the Yeah. So they they put it on their um website. So um just to back up on the zoning bylaw update committee, there's a select board member. Does uh one of you want to
be that member? No. Um, no. Yeah, not really. I'm on the land review commission. So, yeah. Mike. Hey, Dave. Yep. Okay. So, will you guys um approve
that? Um, you want to move that like a motion to affirm David to the building by Thank you. term expiring June 30th, 2026.
Yeah, second the motion. All those in favor I if we were giving you money for it then since I think you're the one who's going to pay on that one. All right. All right. We got all this stuff. Um there was the communication
committee. I think you were Yeah, I will present that the next. Okay. So, I'll send you names. So, I'll send Tammy names. Okay. So, wherever there's blanks, then I will put it on the website that they're looking for um people. Yeah. Do you want to send me a
list? I'll put on Facebook, too. Yep. And uh and we do have a form I can fill out. Yes. So, I'll do it too. Good. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. All right. Are we ready for Tammy? I'm ready to be ready. All right. Cool.
All right. So, first off, we're going to talk about the highway bids. Um, I'll go over all of them with all the ones that came in as low biders. So, we have to low biders anyhow. And what I'm looking for is after I go over is just
looking for who to be able to appoint to sign the contracts on behalf of Facebook so we can move forward and make sure that nothing gets postponed. This is just online. So, it's all written all over the place. So for the first one, geoteexiles
primary contract to core and made me da Putnham and secondary contract to EJ breast for the guard rail products. Gar rail solutions is awarded as a low bidder picked up hot mix as well for patching.
The low biders are all state century aggregates northeast and polar and the you can choose the plant that makes the most sense for our municipality which I will discuss with David going over these. Um the next one is highway line painting.
K5 corporation is no chapter 90 eligible painting. Highway line painting. Um this is not chapter 9 eligible for pavement markets from prospect connect and then K5 corporation was the second
low bidder guardrail installed low bidder was guardrail solutions road crack seal crack seal fiber and rubber PCRM will be awarded to indis they were the only bidder rubberized chip seal 10% and 20% all
states construction will receive the contract as sold there for this one. Hutch mixed asphalt applied to roadways and uh driveways and parking lots. So the first one's 15A. That's their contract. That's how they put it in in their contract. That one goes to Warner
Brothers, Palmer Paving, Eurobia Northeast Paving, Peekam Road Corporation, LB Corporation, Mass Broken Stone, Andre Materials and Recycling, and PJ Keating. And what they do is they share the contracts for this particular work. For 15B, this is the driveways and parking lots. It's Warner Brothers,
Palmer Paving, Eurobia Northeast Paving, and Andre Materials Recycling. Again, they share the contracts for driveways and parking lots. For asphalt reclamation, um there was a tie and um their policy is
they do a coin flip. So with Graanby, based on the coin flip, primary goes to all state. I know it kind of too. goes to point. And the second one would be Murray Hut and Place Recycling, Highway
Rehabilitation Corp. was the only bidder, so they were the lowest bidder cuz they're the only co-planning and milling. Um, majority, actually, no, that one's scary. Asphalt for Grampby. to look at the map to find some of these tree services uh northern tree services
as splendel tree expert and east metal enterprises and what they have to do is when which Dave will know all this but they have to clearly state the scope of work and expected cleanup requirements when requesting the work because there was a bunch of them on there but these are the ones that have won the the bid
motion to authorize Tammy to sign contracts. I'll make a motion to allow the town administrator to sign contracts. I will second the motion. How's in favor? I I
So this one is for the forest cutting plan that we have. They sent this over to us. It's appointment of the agent form. They just need the chair to go ahead and approve them to continue going forward with the cutting of this. So all right. You want to vote on vote on that
or do we? We already voted on it. Do it again. Just get uh make a motion to allow the chair more bill to sign off on a forest cutting plan. Second motion. All in favor? I
today is 23. Should know that. All right. And now I'm putting my birthday now. Never mind. It's actually my birthday. It's your birthday. Happy birthday. Birthday. Yeah. What did I get? What did you guys get me? A select board meeting. Thank you. There's a whole bunch of
bread for you. I think you asked for it if I remember right. I did. I think it was the only chance I had. So the next thing is for uh Forge Pond Dam. So this I just actually received this under section 404 the clean water
act. It is required that pre-construction notification PCN form be signed as specific regulatory thresholds must be met. A federal wetlands permit is necessary for us to proceed with the work on Forge Pond Road as part of the next step process. That's why this needs to be signed and a notice
of intent will be presented at the conservation committee meeting on July 8th. I just also need you just to authorize me to sign this contract to move forward. I'll make a motion to authorize the county ministry to sign off on the contract as read. I will
second the motion. All in favor? I don't need this. Yeah, it's nice and open. So, the next thing, um, this is my last Mercier and I had went and tried to apply for an ADA grant. We're trying to
for 15 West Street. Um, with that being said, we went ahead, we voted all up together. I sent it in still and I put this as a draft for ADA. It's a uh Americans disability uh non-discrimination notice and an ADA grievance procedure. We didn't have
that. So when I asked the state if we could still apply for it, I still pushed it through, put these in there saying that I was going to have you look at it and then approve it the next select board meeting. They said we had to have it. So, I'm hoping that once we look at this at the next board select board meeting, I'll have you um if you don't mind approve it and then we can apply
for the next grant in the spring. But I did give you a copy to review till next select board meeting pass it down. And I looked on the website with ADA and it's where I got my they give you like um like drafts to look at.
It should be an ADA. [Music] That's pretty much boil. It is. I mean, it's pretty simple. And um I'm also as important as the ADA coordinator because at the time Chris Martin was the AD
coordinator. Any [Music] other business? That's it. Um, the next meeting July 7th. Yeah, they still got one. Oh, yeah. Minutes,
but July 7th for everybody. Sorry. Right on. [Music] motion. I'll make a motion to approve minutes from May 20th,
2025 and June 2nd, 2025. I second the motion. Is there another all in favor? I I thought we were taking July and August off. The what? I thought we were taking
the summer months off, right? Good try. Good try, Glenn. Nobody's with me. Oh, got me scared there. What? Motion to good. Yeah, I'd like a motion to second motion. All those in favor?
All right. Okay.