Pledge allegiance to the flag to the one nation >> under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for First up, we have a continuation of the poll hearing. So, I call this hearing to order at
5:30. Um, make sure they >> heard the 16th. Yeah. >> March 16th at uh 10B West State Street. This is regarding a poll um between Kendall Street and West Street. >> Uh Kell Street. >> Kell Street. Yeah. Would you like to
come up? All right. My name, sorry. My name is Torren Hamilton. I'm a distribution design engineer with National Grid. Um, so we have there was supposed to be a vote for this 6 weeks ago, I believe. Um, and it got tabled to see if I could get an
easement for the change service line that would go across 36 Kellogg's property. Um, after meeting discussing the terms of the easement and the scope of the work, um, we ultimately couldn't come to an agreement that worked for
both parties. Um, there were stipulations added that would have affected our storm restoration effort as well as just liability issues. Um, so I'm back representing the company and we would like to propose our original plan
which is installing one new pole on West Street and relocating another pole. >> Okay, >> that's just >> Is there anybody else here who wanted to speak on that issue? >> All right, discussion. >> No discussion.
>> Um, so all those in favor of So I make a motion. >> Oh, go ahead. So, I will make a motion to allow National Grid to install one so on West Street and
relocate one so pool on West Street beginning at the point approximately >> 1140 ft east of the center line of the intersection of Hammer Street and continuing approximately
180 ft in an east direction. Installing a new pole number 26 approximately 165 feet from existing pool number 25 to relocate service to 100 West Street and
remove existing aerial trust pass. Replacing pole number 25 and relocating pole approximately 15 feet east to allow for proper guing and remove old tree
excuse me tree guy. New distance between pole 25 and 26 will be approximately 180 ft. >> Is this a motion? >> That's my motion. >> I'll second it. Uh, any more discussion? >> No discussion.
>> This has not been the Polar Express in terms of getting this done. Um, all in favor? >> I I sure we'll see you again. >> We sure will. >> Whenever there's a poll to be put. >> All right. Um, we have uh Crystal Drain
is here. Crystal, if you want to come up. Um, she's got some information on opioid task force and I think >> Crystal Drain 11 Taylor Street. So I am still the chair of the opioid task force committee and we met today. Uh we had
two workshops that were done at the high school for prevention. Um there they were plays that were done. We had one done in the fall and then we had one done in Novemberish. Um unfortunately the community event because of the big snowstorm that came, we had to
reschedule it till next Wednesday at 6 p.m. for the rest of the community. But second act got a hold of um Miss Jordan, the principal from the high school. And we originally were going to have the social workers and the guidance counselors do follow up from that
workshop to speak to the kids and kind of do some role playing like one-on-one or in a smaller group. Um but they thought that it would be best to leave it to the specialists which is the second act prevention uh company. So they brought forward four workshops, two
for the sophomores and two for the juniors um to just follow up on those four short scenes that they did and to work with the kids one-on-one uh for social emotional learning. So
the reason why I came here as um citizens participation is because we're kind of on a time frame now. So, you guys weren't meeting for another 3 weeks and the company needs to know if we're going to move forward with this so that we can book it cuz it would be on April 17th, >> which is the Thursday before April
break. So, they're asking for four workshops, $800 a workshop, so a total of $3,200 plus $250 for travel. So, a total of 3,450 to do these follow-up workshops with the sophomores and the juniors.
>> So, and you had said that it was very good. Could you tell us a little bit more about um when they came last time? >> Yes. So, what they did is they talked about social media and how that affects not only the person who's posting but the person that they're posting about. So, they did a lot of roleplaying with
that. They also did a lot of role playinging with prescription drugs and how it can very quickly spiral out of control and how someone in the family who is addicted to prescription drugs, how it affects everyone else and the spiraling that occurs within a family
and um whether it's extended or direct and they also do that with alcohol as well. So just to give you guys a little background, the social worker and the guidance counselor that are part of the committee talked to the committee a little bit today about the personal needs assessment survey that is given to
students at the school. And the reason why they are asking for sophomores and juniors because there they found that after taking the survey, the data showed that the 10th and the 11th graders are showing more use of alcohol and drugs as
they are getting their license. So they're trying to target them in 10th grade before they get their license and then when they have their license. So that's really why we're looking at those two age groups. >> Good. And I saw was there um saw the play in September maybe.
>> Yes. Yeah. >> That was very powerful. >> Yeah. So there they have another one next Wednesday 6 p.m. if you want to come >> the um Okay. And the money, just for the record, comes from a settlement over the opioids. Um, >> and companies in that were involved in
taking advantage of people and destroying a lot of lives. So, um, the money we're appropriating here is coming from a grant. >> If we're appropriating, >> do we have a motion? >> Yeah. Uh, can I just ask the dates again, Crystal? >> For this one? >> Yes.
>> So, this one would be April um Oh, 16th. Sorry, the Thursday. >> Okay. I will make a motion to allow the opioid task force to spend another $3,450
for follow-up workshops for opia opioid abuse in the school system for the sophomores and juniors on April 16th, 2026. >> I'll second that motion. Any more discussion? >> No discussion. >> All those in favor? Hi, Alex.
>> And may I just get your signature cuz you were the chair so we need yours and then that way the chief doesn't have to or you know the acting TA doesn't have to forward it to me. >> Thanks Crystal. >> And do you need a copy of this item?
>> It to me afterwards and I can submit it to build the next bill section. >> Perfect. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you Crystal. Have a good night. >> Okay. Next on our agenda is a common victual's license for Mad Eats food truck. >> Okay. I will make a motion to certify
that Mad Eats food truck of 107 Carver Street, Graanby, Mass, 01033, is hereby granted a common Vic license at the address Graanby Liquor Store, 60
West State Street, Graanby, Mass 01033. And that place only expires December 31st, 2026, unless sooner suspended or revoked. for the purpose of the discussion. I second that motion. Um,
Chief, you got anything to say about that? >> I do have a few concerns about safety with the food truck and possible tables and chairs sitting in a parking lot at a liquor store on a, you know, I don't know what day they're going to have it,
but um, I I have some safety concerns that I don't know how they could address. That's just, you know, at a quick glance at it, you know, >> is this for a single day or >> I don't know. It's I I think they announce the day and then they have to
still contact the fire chief and let them know that what day they're doing it. I believe that the select board as well needs to be notified what days they're doing it just so they know. >> I'm not sure about that. >> Supposed to reach out and let somebody know that it's issued for the year, but they're supposed to check in probably
the board of health and it must be board of health and fire then. But um fire uh again they inspect the truck. I know I talked to the fire chief. He has some concerns as well about something being held in a parking lot which I would assume was going to be a busy busy
afternoon. You know, first the 202 traffic and then just people in and out of that very congested driveway. So >> yeah, I can't say I support it, but >> um I have some of the same concerns, you know, with uh traffic and pedestrians
and so on and so forth with the amount of problems that we have here close to Five Corners. Um the other concern I have is I believe this is the second time that something like this is happening. The first time we let it go
or we approved it, I should say. And I don't know how much the businesses in town are suffering from a food truck parked in front of their places. So that's
another concern of mine. Um, you know, everybody needs to make a living, but do you have to do it in front of a near a pizza joint and across the street from a pizza joint and in front of a package in >> front of a package store where people are going in to buy and
>> or where we have an accident car accident a week and 25 cars backed up and two directions got up. So, all those in favor of approving that, all against it, I
Um, common license is not granted. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Um, did you plan a speech today? I mean, I did it last time, I think. >> Yeah, I think you did, too. Yeah. But if
you could show us like give us an example how you direct traffic. >> All right. We're here tonight with uh well act you've been acting lieutenant um Steve Marriott and we are here. We've negotiated a contract and tonight we are here to appoint him. >> They sign it.
>> Yep. They both the same. >> They're both the same. One one copy for him, one copy for us. >> Okay. So, I will make a motion that the town of Graanby appoint Steve Marian officially
lieutenant and with a new contract made effective as of January 5th, 2026 by and between the town of Graby, Massachusetts and Steven Marian here and referred to as police lieutenant.
>> Second that motion. Any more discussion? No discussion. >> Want to give him a hard time or make fun of him or anything? I think we already did that. >> All in favor? >> I think we need to let him off the hook. >> I All right. >> Do I need to sign anything there?
>> You'll need to sign it, too. Y signed it. You signed it. I guess if it's going to be blue, it means you're told. >> Yeah. So, you had a 50% chance of it being red. So, >> all signs away. Congratulations.
>> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Sign this one, too. Or I keep this one. >> I'll sign that one, too. I always have some full signed copy. I'll be appreciate >> here. I'll sign that one and then your copy. >> Okay. >> Sir,
you're welcome. >> Um, do we have a specific time to point to the schools or >> I don't think so. So I think they they knew the meeting was a >> no good copy here.
>> That one that stays here. >> Perfect. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Stephen. Um, so we have the communications commissioner here tonight to give a report. >> Come on up, Tobias. >> Hey folks. >> Hi. How are you?
>> I'm good. I'm Tobias Wilson at 54 North Street. Um and I'm the chair of the communications committee and I'm joined here by two other committee members. Uh so we wanted to share an update on the work that we've been doing in this past year. uh which was largely to survey the town on their communication needs um and
their sort of desires for communication from the town a and with a bunch of recommendations that we have from that survey as well as some um possible changes that we'd like to suggest for our charge going into next year to make it more specifically targeted to our recommendations.
I shared a bunch of materials with you prior to this meeting. Um, I don't know if you had a chance to review it, but I was going to go over some of the highlights of what our survey was and what we found and then we can dig into the recommendations if that works. >> Sounds good. >> So, we did a survey between November and
February. Uh, we did it via Facebook. We also had it in the committee uh or the Council on Aging newsletter at town offices through the schools and then we put inserts into the censuses. So we got pretty broad exposure throughout the
town and we got uh 429 responses which is about 7% of the town and I think that in and of itself really says something about how many people are thinking about communication in town and how invested people are in this. We did a whole bunch of data analysis, a lot of which I sent you um if you want
to dig into the statistics of it. But kind of very high level, we asked questions about how people were getting information about the town today, what the gaps were, and what they would be interested in hearing more about. What we heard was that about 60% of the
respondents were unsatisfied with town communications as they stand today. uh 95% of respondents would be interested in subscribing to a newsletter and the vast majority of those would be happy to do so via email. So we didn't see a strong need for like mail newsletters although some people
would have been interested. Um we also found that 99% of respondents do have access to internet and email. Obviously our survey was filled out online even though we reached out to people with paper QR codes. So there is like it's not perfect but we did make a strong
attempt to get to people not just using Facebook. Um in terms of sources of information today the vast majority use social media and social media here really means Facebook. We didn't get any signals that people were on other platforms. They're
using Facebook. Um usually a couple main Facebook groups. The next most common source of information was word of mouth followed by the town website. Um, and I think it's really striking that the two most common forms of information used are ones in which the town does not actually
have an official presence in any way, right? Like where people get their information from most is hearsay. Um, things that are shared, things that they see promoted through Facebook feeds. When we ask what residents wanted information about, pretty much everything. Everyone really wanted to
know more about everything, but the top contenders were events. Um, and we're reading that largely as like town events. So, not, you know, not garage sales happening down the road, but like things that the town is hosting or doing. >> But there was also a lot of interest in town meetings and town government. So,
it's not that people aren't interested in what's happening in the town government or on boards and committees. It's that they're having a hard time getting that information. The richest source of information, I think, is really the free text responses. So, we asked people, "What could the town do to improve how you
receive information?" And we also asked them, is there anything else you'd like to share about town communications? So, we sent you the full text responses if you want to look them over. Um, but we also had them sort of summarized, and there really not that many main themes. So, the common pain points that people
identified were first that the town website is out ofd, difficult to navigate, and unreliable. Um, this week, of course, we very excitingly launched the new website. We're thrilled to see it. Um, it looks great, but I think there's still a lot of work to do because we just moved the information
from the old one over. And people mentioned finding it really complicated to find their way around it, being unable to find information. When they did find information, it was like posted in 2017, so maybe a decade out of date at this point. Um, sometimes more than a
decade out of date. Uh, so that was a common frustration. They also mentioned that meeting announcements, warrants, and agendas weren't posted early enough for them to be able to take action on it. So, posting it 2 days in advance meets the
requirement, but it doesn't necessarily allow them to clear their schedule on a Wednesday night if they want to attend one of those meetings. um if they couldn't attend a meeting, they can't catch up on what happened because committee and board m minutes don't get
posted reliably on time in an easy to find way. So there's really a barrier to participation when you're trying to find things on the website to get involved in, you know, meetings, things you want to know about. Um, moving away from the website, the
town has no official Facebook presence, which means that there's not an obvious source of truthful information on Facebook. Plenty of people are posting on Facebook about the town, but there's nothing that's signifying this is the town saying it. So, it's hard to vet, you know, is this real? Is this
somebody's opinion? Um, town communications and documents are hard to understand. So this means like the uh the warrants in advance of town meeting are written as they must be in legal language, but that language isn't necessarily accessible if you
don't have experience reading it or you don't necessarily know the background of everything that's going on. It's hard to parse that and it's hard to feel confident that you know what's being voted on, what the outcome is going to be. Uh several people mentioned that there's just no single source of truth for town communications. You've got to pull in
details from all over the place. You've got to go to all of these different Facebook groups. You got to spend 20 minutes on the website. You've got to read the sentinel. You've got to go to all of these different places. And even then, it's hard to put together a complete picture. And lastly, what we heard is that town
communication today uses what I call a pull model. So residents need to come to the town to sort of pull information out of it. They need to go to the website, look around, try to extract data. But what residents really seem to want is a push model. They want the town to tell
them when they need to know something. So they want that kind of proactive reaching out. Um so we asked you know residents especially what do you want? What would good town communication look like? And we heard for the town website to be a single upto-date and central source of
information. So easy to navigate, easy to go and find exactly what you're looking for quickly and also regularly updated so you're confident that you're looking at information that is modern and relevant. They want that proactive communication. So people generally today expect to be
told what they need to know. They don't expect to have to go to a website or a newspaper or a bulletin board. They expect it to come to them proactively via email, text or a Facebook feed. So there is broad interest in an email newsletter. As I said, that's one form
of proactive communication, subscribing to a newsletter and getting updates regularly. But there's also interest in subscribing to more frequent updates when things are happening. So, for example, somebody might want to subscribe to the board of health and get an email every time the
board of health has a new meeting scheduled or minutes get posted for it so they can follow along with what's going on with the board of health. Um, or maybe they want to subscribe to changes in the trash pickup schedule so that when there's a big snowstorm, they get an email that tells them if trash is
going to be delayed or not. Another thing respondents mentioned is that they do want an official town social media presence. Um, and to be clear, it was called out in what residents themselves said. This is not meant to be a space for discussion or debate or comments. So, they're not
looking for like a town forum. They're looking for an official town Facebook page which can post the same kind of content that gets posted on the website today, like trash pickup is delayed. um and that that information can be shared to the relevant Grandby Facebook groups
so that they can see that this information is coming directly from the town, right? To use our recent snowstorm, Mark, I think I saw your post about trash pickup being delayed and that's great and we all know to trust you, but it would be even better if it came from town of Graanby because then it would be clear that it was official
communications. And I think that's very similar to what uh the Graanby police post and they have, you know, that has a Facebook page which occasionally gets shared. So based on that we have some recommendations. Um and this is sort of loosely in order of priority what we recommend the select board and the town
administrator consider for town communications. Top priority is investing in the town website's organization relevance and clarity. Now that we're on the new platform this is the right time to start reorganizing the website and making sure
that it's easy to navigate. Next and aligned with that is setting up an official town Facebook page and using it to post timely announcements and updates. Along with that is ensuring that minutes from meetings get shared in a timely
manner and setting up working email subscriptions by topic so that residents can come to the website and sign up for the topics they care about and receive email notifications. Our new website does have that capacity. We talked to Munit and made sure that it could
support that. So the work there is making sure that residents can subscribe. So setting it up so they can do it and then ensuring that those that information does get sent out via email when it's posted on the website. And then lastly, since there is such
broad interest in a newsletter, we recommend that we do distribute a town newsletter regularly via email and social media and we can make some hard copies available in town offices for people who don't have access to internet. I have some recommendations about how
these goals might then reflect in changes to our charge. But before I just want to pause and see if there's any questions. >> Uh not at this point. I did read through all that thoroughly. So, you know, it's good that you're repeating it because I'm hearing it again. Um
there's a lot all at once. >> Yep. >> But I think there's a lot that people want to see. So, I think it's possible that we can work through and get to a common goal. Yeah, I mean I think this has to be incremental, right? This is this isn't something that we're going to go out tomorrow and just >> correct
>> get it done. But I I hope that these recommendations coming from the survey can give us a kind of data driven road map towards where we want to be and we can start taking the steps available, you know, as as we can. >> Yep, sounds good.
>> Um so our charge recommendations I did send or I had included uh our charge for this year if you had a chance to review it. um it was fairly broad and kind of open-ended. So, as we think about the upcoming year, I think the committee
wants to recommend that we narrow our focus a little bit down to some specifics based on these goals so that we've got some kind of clearer responsibilities and we know that we're getting them done. So the first thing that we recommend is that we make it our responsibility to audit the town website and then work
with the website administrator to recommend and if appropriate go ahead and implement um improvements to organization and content. So this isn't necessarily generating content or you know writing text for it. It's thinking about the ways that it's organized, how people are clicking through, how we
could move stuff around, identifying committees that like should be surfaced maybe and have more materials available, that kind of work. Uh, next and aligned with that is reviewing communications and recommending improvements to the town in conjunctions with surveys of residents
as needed. I don't expect that we're going to want to continue to send out a big communication survey every single year. I don't think it's that interesting. Um, but if there are questions about how town communications are going or there's some tactical surveying we want to do, we think that that should be in line with our
responsibilities. >> Can you explain that one more a little bit more to the >> Yeah. So, I think this goes along with auditing the town website. It's also thinking more broadly about communications. So, if we were to look at materials for town meeting, for example, and just read them in advance
and make recommendations about how we could make them more accessible. Um, or if there was >> Okay, >> I'm having a hard time thinking of examples, but like any sort >> trying to figure out what your time is specifically. >> Anything that the town is using for communications. I think the committee wants to be a resource to help view
those from the lens of town residents and figure out how we can make it more accessible um and easy to find. with the newsletter uh writing and distributing a regular town newsletter. I think the cadence is up for discussion but we were going to
recommend that it starts quarterly uh just as a initial phase. That newsletter would contain updates from town offices and boards and committees as well as information about upcoming official town events. So the idea is that we would be reaching
out to various offices, boards and committees asking if they had updates. Um, you know, we've looked at Belchure Tom's newsletter extensively. We can do things like feature fun things, maybe profiles of select board. Um, but also, you know, if there's if there's
something that's coming up that we want to do an article about, um, whether it is an upcoming vote or an upcoming, you know, Christmas tree lighting, like all of that I think would be fair game. There are actually things um like things that are off the radar that might
not even be happening right away, but um if there's ongoing issue or um with the forge pond dam whether that's going to be we're going to be able to do anything with it at all and if so how much things like that that are just not on the on
the radar at all because we talked about them briefly at town meeting or at our meeting rather and then it just I mean I'm keeping track of it. I know assistant town administrator O'Grady or no acting town administrator O'Grady um has has been involved in following that
but that's just something it's not on people's radar so yeah would be good >> I think the newsletter could be a great avenue to kind of raise more awareness of things in town that aren't emergent aren't about to be voted on but might be interesting to residents
um with regard to annual and special town meetings we wanted to recommend and that the communications committee collaborate with the select board to prepare and distribute prior to town meeting accessible materials explaining what is being voted on. So this is not something
we would be passing out at town meeting. This is prior to um and this is to get at the idea that town communications are not always accessible. They're not easy to understand and if you don't know what's going on, it's hard to read them and figure out what's going on. So, this
would be preparing materials that get either emailed or shared on social media that explain in plain language what the vote is about, what the warrant means, what the outcomes would be, not to make an argument, not to make the case for anything that's getting voted on, but
just to purely sort of explain what the warrant is. And lastly, uh, we recommend that because we heard a lot from residents that it was difficult to find minutes when they were posted, that minutes didn't have all the content that they
needed in them. Um, and speaking as a chair of a committee, it's sometimes hard to figure out the right cadence for who I submit my minutes to, how I get them posted on the website, is there a template I should be using? We recommend that the communications committee create
communication guidelines that can be shared with town committees and boards. So that could be thing like here's a template for your minutes. >> Mhm. >> Let's standardize the way this looks. Um here's a recommended cadence. Here's a checklist if you want to set up a meeting. This is who you tell. This is the form that you submit. This is how
you take your minutes and then this is how you submit your minutes. Um especially for those who are newer to participating in committees. I think that could be really helpful. So if we created those guidelines um then we would work with the town administrator to disseminate them to chairs. They would just be guidelines. It's not a not
a requirement. It would just be an offering to help streamline the work for committees and boards. >> Good. >> So you so in the next year you'd like to work on five goals. Is that correct?
>> It's audacious but yes. Well, I mean, it's good to have, you know, high expectations, right? Hope to get there. >> Um, the new website, I hope, will help. >> I think it'll help a lot. >> Holly, how is how is that? Um, how does that work with Munabit? Do we
make suggestions to them and the changes that we would like or >> I think they they have a submit form that I think goes breaks down. >> Okay. >> But people can also email me through the website if they have suggestions. All right. >> If they can't find something, but it
probably isn't going to be a good month before it >> really kicks off. >> Yeah. Before it really has kind of everything on >> Okay. >> You know, I'm noticing some of the stuff pulled in, didn't pull in right or went to the wrong page or tons of little things, but that'll take a while.
>> Okay. So, I guess that's an avenue to start with as they proceed through things. um you know hopefully you can make that website grow with some of the goals that you want to put forward. I mean I I agree with a lot of it. It's a
good way to educate the people and let them read it at home without the pressure of coming to a meeting or have to make a meeting. So I'm all for it. >> Okay. Um, I don't have any disagreement whatsoever. So, um, and the Daily M
Gazette may call you as it pertains to the website. >> Great. Just so the board's aware, um, something I ran into a social media account for public um, administration is fine, but you have to make sure you archive it because that has to be backed up somewhere.
>> Oh, public records. Yeah. >> Yeah. To public records. Uh, ju just don't jump in and say, "Okay, let's start our Facebook page tomorrow. How's it being archived afterwards? Because Facebook does not archive. You have to pay an additional company to >> grab it and archive it for you.
>> All right, >> just keep that in mind. That's all figured out. Yeah, >> that was one of my other questions. You know, I do have some concerns with the social media obviously because it's easy to sit here and say we don't want comments from the public. This is
purelyformational. You know, you're going to get it. But you have to have to jump and you'll have to be consistent with that too. Being a public entity, you have to go and change it. There's a place where you can allow comments or not. But you have to consistently shut them off. You can't pick and choose what you allow.
>> No, the public records that discrimination Susan says. >> Exactly. >> If we keep it that way because it could get really chaotic. >> Absolutely. >> People start coming. >> I think it's a great idea. I don't want to make it sound like that, but I just want the stuff we dealt with with the
police department. It has to be backed up and >> Yeah. Okay. >> I think it's worth maybe looking at what some neighboring towns do because I believe that both South Hadley and Belchure Town have an official town Facebook presence. >> Um, we would absolutely recommend always comments off and that the Facebook page
is only sharing essentially links to the website, right? Sharing information that is also being posted on the website. It's just another way to make it more visible. >> Okay. Do you find that any of these um charges actually contradict the previous charge or do you think they're more specific?
>> I think they are more specific. >> Okay. >> Um there are some things that are on the previous charge that are not on this charge. Um candidates night is one. I think this year we're going to try to host a candidates night prior to the election. >> Yeah, I did call um the Lions Club. I call spoke to Jim Peters to have a
meeting tomorrow. Okay. >> To see just to check to see if there was going to be any Is that a problem with us doing it? >> Yeah. Um, if it feels important that we host candidates tonight, like I think we're we're open to adjusting this charge or merging things, but um I think
the feeling of the committee is that this one is in line with the previous charge, just more specific. So, fewer questions of interpretation. >> So, anyway, um for the rest of the year, you should be able to continue with whatever the charge was and do this without a problem. And then when it comes times for reappointments in June,
we'll just change the charge. >> Okay, great. >> Very good. >> All right. Thanks for coming in. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And thank you for your work. >> I've been sorry. I've been on my phone trying to communicate with school members and I don't know this the super
just says yet have it on the calendar 16th. I said that's today. So I'm not sure. >> All right. Um, >> let's take a look at it. They don't have to sign off. I think we have to sign off. >> You have to sign off. L, there is a letter that she she sent you. Yeah.
>> That explains basically that this is just to stay in the queue. They're not asking for u you should have got that. They're not asking to actually do a project, but as long as you stay >> keep it keep a letter of interest basically. And that's what it sounds
like this uh agreement is here. Yeah, I don't have um >> um >> Do you have a problem voting on it? Cuz >> I don't except that Glenn is not present for this one. >> Um does that matter? Should that matter? No,
>> shouldn't. Right. >> Okay. >> I don't think I need to read the whole thing. if you want to explain it because I was at the meeting and I talked to the superintendent. Um, so we're going to be signing here. I'm not going to read the whole thing because I don't think
anybody really wants to hear the whole thing, but um, a statement of interest submission to the U MFVA. What this does is it keeps us in the in the queue or the pipeline if we do somewhere down the line choose to do something with I think
it's a high school. um you get in line for a project and if you if you get out of line, you go to the back of the line and you start all over again. Uh and we're not in a position right now to do anything at all, but we do want to be in that line. You know, if
two or three years down the ring, that's what happens. Um so I'll make a motion that we approve >> statement of interest. >> Yeah, the statement of interest. um for the Massachusetts em Massachusetts
school building authority. Close enough. >> Yeah, I mean it's all >> Yep. >> I will second the motion. >> Anyone discussion? >> No discussion. >> All those in favor? I >> I >> Yeah, I just can't stand reading things
that don't Nobody wants to hear it. I don't want to say it. >> Well, it's something that comes by every year. It's common knowledge to a lot of us, I guess. >> And we have to keep that. >> We have to keep going with it because if
we do end up doing something down the road with the high school, then we'll need that in place. >> All right. Okay. Uh, Acting Town Administrator Alerty, I think you're up. >> Yeah. Correspondence. Uh, Mr. Smraki
stopped by last week and just dropped off a news article. Just asked to give this to you just uh talking about small towns and some of the issues they're hitting with the budget. Um also we got a letter from the
office of the governor talking about chapter 90 money and as long as contingent upon legislation approval of the 1.2 2 mill billion multi-year bond authorization. Our chapter 90 money for fiscal year 2027 is scheduled to be
$463,47346. >> I got to say we got to thank our state reps state senator because they've been fighting for Western Mass for a long time, >> right? The way the way they calculated um the amount of pavement and aid we got to our town was terrible because it was
based not based on the number of road miles or traffic. It didn't really respect rural communities and in the last couple of years there's been a lot more parody than there was before. And finally, we have a petition for inclusion of the following article in
the warrant for the Graanby annual town meeting, which is going to be, it's not filled in, but that's going to be May 11th. Um, it's a resolution in support of changing the state flag and seal of Massachusetts. Uh the clerk received
this and asked if you want if it's going to be on the warrant. She has not approved. She has not um certified the signatures. But if you're interested in putting that on the warrant or you're going to put that on the warrant, she will have those uh signatures certified. >> Okay.
>> We don't have a choice. >> But we just have to have it certified first >> to add it to the warrant article. All right. >> So, I'm just going to add it to the warrant. Um, >> we don't have to sign anything. >> You don't. As of right now, I will just
get that we'll get that back to >> um >> Emily. She'll certify them and then if they're they're all good, we'll get it back and we'll get it. So, we'll get on a warrant. Yep. All right. Good. Thank you. Okay.
They actually have departmental reports. I don't know. I went through them all. So, >> yeah, they were really interesting. >> Um, motion. >> Yep. I will make a motion to accept the departmental reports as printed. >> I will second. Any discussion?
>> No discussion. >> All in favor? >> I mean these build your minutes. >> All right. So, um we're not going to do December 1st ones this time. >> I will make a motion.
to approve the select board meeting minutes from 22206. A second. Any discussion? >> No discussion. >> All those in favor? Hi >> applied to yes my stuff anyway.
Nope. Had something else. Oh, is it done? >> Great. >> Yeah. Hold off on that. >> Going to hold off on that. >> She did the two two. That should stay in this one. >> This will stay here. Okay.
Um, this one >> I think that's just a stone. They're not already got approved this. You guys already approved the u >> Okay, I will make a motion for executive meeting minutes of January
5th, 2026 for the Grahamby Select Board for approval. Um, why do we have an executive session tonight? >> Yeah, that's that's a different one. >> That's a different one. >> All right.
Oh, good. I will second that motion. >> Yep. >> So, that's what happens. >> Fill in the blanks here. >> Uh, news. We usually usually initial and date.
>> Okay. Somebody else can vote. >> Yeah. Once once we sign a date. >> All right. So, your motion should be to release those publicly. >> Motion to accept and then she'll release. >> Okay. >> So, I seconded that. with picks up. All
in favor? Okay. >> Hi. >> Used to be able to multitask better. Now, if I'm thinking of one thing and another thing comes up, I'm thinking of one of those things. I can't think of both of those things. He's just on the tunnel. >> I will make a motion. the town of
Graanby. Approve warrant D57 dated 313 2026 for a total of $44,6341 right to the penny. >> I'll second that. Any discussion?
>> No discussion. All those in favor? I Another attorneys don't read the room. >> I will make a motion. in the town of Graanby. Approved warrant number 055S dated 36206 for the sum of 47,24658.
>> I'll second that. Any discussion? >> No discussion. >> Is there one cent that time? Is there more? >> Nope. 58 cent this time. >> All right. We'll discuss that. >> All right. All in favor? I >> I really has 49 warrants in there. >> Okay,
I don't think I can listen to that numbers. I will make a motion the town of Graanby for approval of warrant number 55 dated 36 2026 in the sum of $88,86253.
>> Second. >> Any discussion? >> No discussion. All those in favor? All right. Make a motion. in the town of Graanby. Approved warrant number D054 dated 227 2026
for the sum of $430,6152. Second. Any discussion? >> No discussion. >> All those in favor? I >> I I think people really appreciate the degree of excitement involved in approving the words,
>> you know, I will make a motion the town of Graanby approve warrant number PR05. 56s dated 313 20226 for the sum of 36,56381.
>> Second. Any discussion? >> No discussion. >> All in favor? I >> I read that. So, acting town administrator of Gy >> um assistant now acting town administrator of great that's a lot of
syllable it is >> um we're ready for your >> okay uh a few things um >> Dave Todd Dorman's asking if we can you're the I believe you're the school liaison for um if we can try to get together with them, the school committee
chair and the finance committee chair um about their budget. Uh they have their first public hearing on March 24th. I have sent a couple emails to Mr. Lober. I haven't heard anything. I'll try to get something scheduled. See if we can uh coordinate. >> Okay.
>> Um Mark, you mentioned the Forge Pond Dam. >> Um we did have some communications with Dave uh Leonard. um decided to at least move forward with the grant to see what we can uh qualify for and then
present the the options to you to the board once we see what we qualify for and what we can do. So Dave Leonard and um Dave Desilelettes is uh are working on the grant. So they'll submit it and we'll go from there.
Um there was some minor communication at one point that uh possibly Andre's construction may have been operating partly on town land. Uh we met with one of the Andrix. Uh they had a survey company go right out and it's not on
town. It it was approaching the roadway, but it's not. Um they also said that there is an area that is a little elevated compared to what they did and there's some gravel there and at some point if the board would like to engage with uh Andrex they get they kind of
level it all out and give us market value okay >> for it. Um I can start talking to them if you want to or um for safety concerns I think we' probably be smart to just level that area anyway. Um, so something to consider.
>> Is that the end closer towards Kendall Street? >> No, this is closer to Chicky Street. They have a pulloff. I guess there was I guess there was an access way that was when Attorney Ryan was alive that they granted an access way. So it was better for the trucks to pull out instead of
coming out on a corner. Um, so they've been using it for year that access way for years, but the they they came as close to the the border as they could with with taking the materials out. So now there's a pretty good hill. It's it's behind the fence, but still should
probably be addressed at point. >> Um, and finally, the uh kind of dual role here, the feasibility study came out for regional dispatch. Um, >> little light reading here. >> Yeah. So, some some information
uh and state 911 will be happy to send the rep to come out and talk to you folks if you have any more questions. I can try to answer questions, but best to probably just review that and then we can discuss at a later time, but that's what we It took a while. I'm
sorry. That's what the it takes, but that's what I was asked to do that about a year, year and a half ago, and finally came to fruition. So, >> good good um >> under advisor >> and you did uh you guys did approve the union getting a copy of it.
>> Um so I just want you folks to see it first. So if you're okay with it, I'll I'll release a copy to the union as well. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um that's all I've got. >> Okay. Um agenda seven is executive session.
Is there an agenda item seven? Okay. Motion. I will make a motion to vote to enter executive session per MGL C30A section 21A subsection 7 to act under the authority
of any general law specifically MGLC3A section 22F. the minutes of any executive sessions dated 12125 and executive session minutes.
>> We add at that point that we will when we come out of executive session we're just going to come into open session to adjourn. >> Correct. Yes. Sorry. Okay. Um Bale I Labonte I Okay.