i will call the meeting of the board of license commissioners to order and this meeting is being recorded by the city of Greenfield if you are recording it please notify us
now all right so uh first on the agenda is uh um let's see so that's right but I'm look Oh Amanda is on did you want to do roll call for us oh yeah yeah yep um
that's why I was looking to see if Amanda was on amanda is one of our um our board members so I'm going to introduce Randy Bernard
amanda remember her last name abramson abs we need you we need you to show up so remember your name and and Phil Cornet and myself with M henry
um so the entertainment license for Soulfest is being requested for August 14th through August 16th only 25 time is to be determined at the fairgrounds so do we have uh someone here from
Soulfest we have two people via Zoom this is the new organizers for Soulfest we have uh Frank Tate and we also have Beverly they're the team managing the new Soulfest so what happened to the old team uh they moved on to other things
but uh they'll let them present uh basically they have we've been working with them since pretty much the end of the last Soulfest in August uh between myself and Michael Nelson at the fairgrounds and they have taken a lot of
the input that was received from Soulfest in 2024 in stride and have I think a really great vision for what Soulfest will look like uh this year so um if both of you are either would be interested in discussing
Uh yeah no thank you so great to meet you guys uh the what happened to the other team so um Dan Russell the founder of Soulfest has been one of my best friends for 30 years and Bev and I were just there socially last year and uh and when we got there and realized the team
that Dan had had a stroke during CO and um and so he wasn't able to run it uh well and he had hired a team that had really great hearts but they had very little entertainment experience and so we walked into quite a a chaotic scene and uh really felt like it was going to
kill Dan um from the stress and so uh literally just going from being there socially to telling Dan that we'd buy it if he would focus on his health and so we bought it from him and um immediately again they had a they had really kind souls working for them last year but
they had almost no experience in in big production so um so Bev and I took it over and um let let that old team go and we've basically been reinventing it um to be far more centric towards uh what you know more friendly to the community
there but also a new focus on what Soulfest is actually about and just to give you an idea like last year they had 63 bands this year we're going to have 24 uh bands so a big difference there and our focus is really both Bev and I
are super concerned with the whole loneliness epidemic and and just the the stress that kids are going through now so we're really focusing it away from just a music only event to really a friendship making event and so we're going to have a lot more uh classes a
lot more speakers a lot more old school fun things but really trying to get youth to to get to uh create a great community and get to know some new friends and have some uh some fun outside of their cell phones so but as far as the mitigating some of the issues
from last year the biggest issue I think was sonically and a huge part of that was that they were facing the um the grandstands so everything that they music is just a wave and and when you shoot a wave at a at a structure that is
that uh that big it's just going to bounce right off of it so there was a whole lot of of just sonic bounce happening and then they also had to shoot the the speaker so wide to to cover that area so uh how we're mitigating that is we've moved the main
stage back to the meadow um behind the grand stands and then we're using all what's called line array speakers so um so we're just ju just for some background I've been in the entertainment world for 40 years so I I started at MTV doing all their live specials which some of you guys look old
enough to remember when we MTV was cool so we did all their live specials there and and then uh owned my own record company back when people paid for music and my own produ you know production company and such so so we're using a lot of the science to mitigate the sound issues that you guys had and that last
year the speakers were pointed at structures and this year they'll be pointed at humans and at grass so that we shouldn't get any slap from that um we've we have voluntarily uh agreed to uh cut the music at 9:00 p.m on Thursday night just knowing that it's a work
night so um that way we won't be keeping people up late on Thursday night and as I said we're we're going from 63 bands down to 24 so there'll be a lot less sonic uh chaos as there was last year um and uh and you know far more cautious of
where the speakers are pointing as well as uh as how often the speakers are playing so super excited about that i I think another big issue was the parking um which still blows my mind i have no idea why that team uh decided to do it differently than the fairgrounds had
always done it but they they actually reversed it so what we're doing this year is is um we're only doing prepaid parking up at the fairgrounds so the people that buy the 3-day passes will be instructed to go to the fairgrounds everyone else will go to the um satellite spots so they won't even come
up there and then they'll just get in a bus at the satellite spot and and come up uh that way so that should mitigate a ton of the traffic that we had last year as well as it you know it last year was the first time so people didn't know but um Bev does a great job of communicating with everybody so they'll get an email
the week of letting them know you have a prepaid parking pass this is where you'll go to park you have a satellite pass this is where you'll go and and so that should mitigate a ton of that but super excited to work with you guys we've had a blast getting to know the community um Bev and I still pinch
oursel when we deal with Michael because we think he's a droid we don't think he's even human he's so kind and uh has just been a gift to us so um so we're really excited to serve the community we're um we were very happy to know that economically that we brought in as much a benefit as Green River that was a a
beautiful thing for us and we think that we'll outdo that this year by really encouraging uh our main stage won't start till 400 p.m this year so we think we'll have a lot uh lot more people heading into town and heading to do the other activities that are available in in your area so that should spike the um
the economic boom a little bit more as well but uh certainly open to any questions you have but just wanted to thank you um you know I've been doing events for 40 years and I I literally have not met a kinder soul than Michael as far as a menu manager and we're just
so impressed with the the fairgrounds gets better each time we go there the community is so nice so we're very honored to to get a partner with you guys and see if we can uh help uh take on this lonely loneliness epidemic and and create some fun community there frank I'm curious where are you based
out of and also where the satellite's going to be so uh Bev and I both live in Kona Hawaii and so we're uh so we're we're uh I'm in Nashville this week uh uh talking to bands about next year's event but we're based in Kona so we're a
full six hours behind you guys and uh and loving that and then um Michael is still uh we're still negotiating on the satellite uh areas we're talking to one industrial park you froze you froze oh sorry so we're we're uh
I'm sorry can you hear me now yes am I on yes yes you can hear him so yeah sorry so uh Michael is uh we're we're talking to the industrial park there in town and then we rented What Bev what's the name of the girls school that we
rented um only Burnham donley yeah we yeah we rented that that um we're renting out their dorms and we'll be shuttling um all most of the staff and volunteers from there we rented the parking lot back behind the fairgrounds um behind the the um the horse barn
there that owner has been really wonderful to us and and we can get about 90 cars back there and then we're looking at one other lot that's about a mile and a half away but we still haven't heard back from the owner of that yet can you give us an idea what the tickets cost like for three days or one day what
they cost uh 140 for per day no for the 3-day can you buy a day pass yeah the um they're right now they'll go up each month but right now it's I think 50 for the
Thursday only and 65 for Friday or Saturday so in the interest of uh promoting downtown Greenfield you might consider having a shuttle available say from the parking garage people would just Yeah we've been in talks about that actually
the the similar to the fairgrounds for the fair week in Green River all the municipal parking lots will be free and then we'll have the shuttle bring people from the fairgrounds to the downtown yeah we're excited about that we're a little nervous about the Thursday uh
because there'll be so many you know pe working people there but um but on the Friday Saturday it should be great uh for the city parking so there's a website now people can go to to buy tickets yeah thesoulfest.com what about vendors
yeah we we're uh we've got uh currently about 11 uh food vendors we're doing food trucks this year um and uh got that a little more dialed in we had too many last year so that uh they had 19 food vendors last year and that kept each of
them so some of them did great but most of them just did okay so we're lowering the the amount and then I think there's two or three of the permanent buildings there that are going to be open for that and then we're also having uh um the arts and crafts stuff so we'll have some
some vendors selling you know jewelry and t-shirts and that sort of thing um and then we're going to have a lot of because again we're really pushing the old school fun so we're going to have a four square tournament um we're going to make some pickle ball courts out there um having a a bunch of just frisbes and
hula hoops and stuff for kids to do as well so it's going to be it should be a really fun thing last year the focus was far too much on just music and not enough on on shared experience so we're going for way more shared experience we'll have two giant tents 2400 foot
tents that'll be coffee houses um so people will be able to just go in and visit and you know a lot more rain protection than last year as well we'll have enough tents for 4,000 people to be undercover if it starts raining hard i think that answers a lot of questions
did the town have any concerns from last year because you No it's it's been actually excellent working with Frank and Beverly because the first day we met in August they were very cognizant of the things people had issues with and remedies for improving them so it's been
a great relationship uh you know working to plan these things they had a meeting with the neighbors in November of last year um so they've been very you know considerate with reaching out they've been reaching out to the GBA to look to do partnerships with businesses and the
chamber uh so on our end uh we're we're very excited about the the new direction for Soul Fest it was uh almost late getting here when I looked up and saw it was quarter four i was busy reading all the rest of the emails didn't get through all of them but uh it was nice
that uh you represented the town so well and and we do agree about Mike Nelson's is there anything you can do for uh you said your your mission is to a uh aim to help with the loneliness epidemic in our country especially with our youth my
sense is some of these youth maybe would like to attend but they're not going to be able to come up with$140 or whatever it is or 50 or 60 yeah that that's been a well to give you an idea of what we're already doing is is a typical um festival pass is about
300 to 450 and so we've already lowered that down a ton and we do have a a scholarship fund that we're that we're working on but we've already we've cut every dollar we can out of it to um to make it affordable um but it just it's
really you know it's really tough when the you know when I was first in the music business we toured to sell CDs and now that that there's no CDs they tour to make money and so the our cost have gone through the roof the the event lost a ton of money last year that's why we
ended up buying from Dan cuz you know it was it was really going downhill and and uh so we we've revamped every part of it it's actually an incredible deal for the amount of of bands that people are going to see and then um lots of youth groups are doing fundraisers for it and such
but um but we there's there's no way we can get that price any lower and and still be able to to you know get the the quality of of bands and such so and the quality of production as well because what uh you know music now is it really
is just a science so we're we're spending over $200,000 on the production of it so that we can point the sound right where it needs to go and and not you know so that it bleeds into town so we're very very excited about that and just you guys
have such a beautiful community like people tell me all the time why are you going to the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts but when we tell them how amazing that you know like we went to the the um Chamber of Commerce meeting a couple weeks ago and just couldn't believe how kind the souls were there and and you know Michael and and Matthew
have been so great so really partner with you because is there aren't as nice of people around i mean we're normally dealing with jerks that are uh trying to rip us off at every point and and you guys have just been
phenomenal so so we'll do our part to mitigate the traffic and the sonic chaos and to and to really try to help get as many people there as possible not to be labor things but should we see if Mike Nelson has a comment he's here
oh there you are uh no I would just kind of echo what uh Matt said earlier about u this team being great to work with um to use the old prover proverb of night and day um the old Soulfest team versus the new Soulfest team our night and day um we
first met Bev and Frank on uh I believe it was actually the last day of Soulfest um when they let us know that they were going to be uh transit transitioning into the new role and uh Matt and I kind of shared with them the the laundry list uh and then some of uh concerns and
issues and I would say 80% of those things were checked off before we even left the fairgrounds that evening um they had already come up with plans and u identified the the issues and strategizing how to uh to deal with them so um the first couple days of soul fest
were extremely stressful for everybody um but I think once we kind of had that debrief and started uh realizing how we were going to make it better um there were a lot of uh there was a much more positive feeling going into the new year
thank you before I uh go continue I I might mention Alan Ball who is also a commissioner is absent today for the record and Be and I would love to know how we could you guys best as well so if you
have ideas of what would you know help the town or what would make us your favorite festival to work with we'd love to we'd love to know well one idea would be when when uh Bill mentioned about youth not being able to
enjoy it maybe you have volunteer positions for them you know trash pickup or whatever um where they would be able to come in and and give up their own time as well as enjoy the soul fest
there's always track yeah yeah we we uh have a great volunteer program so there and that's on our website if they want to sign up to do that that uh that's already fully in play and that would be wonderful and uh and we're soliciting funds to to try to
help people get there as well so thank you so I'd like to make a motion that we grant the entertainment license for Soul Fest August 14th August 16th time to be determined second the motion well we have a motion on the floor to
grant the entertainment license as stated in the motion um is there any further discussion m chair if I may um just to uh highlight a point that Frank said earlier about
their end times um Thursday night it's 9:00 and uh excuse me yeah Thursday it's 9:00 and Friday and Saturday is 10 o'clock so while the start time may be uninter thank you hearing none I'll call for the vote
um Randy yes amanda yes phil yes so it is unanimous thank you thank you yeah thanks guys we sure appreciate you working with you
thank you byebye thank you so much okay agenda number two Nighton Guild uh and Company has uh stepped away from being here at the meeting and uh will be in touch with us
at a future date so moving on to item number three christopher Demar's Black Veteran Services Memorial Day parade assembling at the middle school and processing along Sanderson Street Federal Church
Franklin and Main Street to the Veterans Mall May 26th um 10:00 a.m to 11 a.m thank you for being here how's it going
so not much changes to what we usually do every year um we may have one change or it may go a little bit longer because we've uh put a request in for a new memorial to cover from um Grenada Panama Desert Storm Co Kosovo Bosnia um Iraq
Afghanistan and the war on terror in general um we don't know if it's be completed or not it's going to be tight um so if it is completed we're just going to add on another like five t minutes um to do a presentation about the memorial with the rest of the the
ceremony that we usually do that's very interesting um I've might let you know that I was a trustee of soldiers memorial for probably about 18 years and was on the board when the Vietnam monument was you guys
and we positioned it sadly should there be more need for space you know and if you look at if you stand looking at the memorial area it's it follows Yeah
pattern yep yeah so this will be to the right of the Vietnam one we have to remove one of the Japanese maples and just move it over a little bit further so there'll still be another space hopefully we won't need another space for future wars but um it'll it'll be just to the right of the Vietnam
Memorial about 10 15 ft if it doesn't come through then we'll have a special I'll be coming back again to for another uh a special uh occasion permit yeah i'm curious how many wars did that
cover uh so eight nine and the ongoing war on terrorism which unfortunately is continuing on save more space yeah one thing we didn't do with this one is we're not putting names on
it because it would it would be enormous for I don't think people realize how many um you know just out of just for Afghanistan alone I brought a whole company of 141 men and men out of Greenfield i was the first army over there so we couldn't do the names it
just it's such a long period of time and we're fortunate we're I haven't found any yet no KAS for that time period for this town of Greenfield to be great if we did we would definitely put them up any questions i'll make a motion that we
accept the application for the pray permit from the veteran services to be held on Monday May 26 from beginning at 10:00 a.m
ending when they end second so we have a motion on the floor that we uh grant the permit for the parade is there any further discre
discussion hearing none I will call the role randy yes amanda yes phil yes so it's unanimous thank you thank you very much for being here we'll
see you guys in another day thanks do you have a subcommittee who's working with you on it so the the trustees have done the all the work i've just kind of sat in on their meetings and they've done all that oh good y was challenging yeah it is
thank you thanks Chris all right so now uh agenda number four we have Empress Benu Nepad not here you're on Zoom
hi everybody good afternoon hello from uh Moving Mountains requesting use of the common and court square uh for sidewalk sales downtown on June 21st yes ma'am 25 from 2 to 7 p.m or other dates
and times to be determined so yes so first of all I just want to Thank you first of all I just want to apologize i'm usually in person but it is tax day and I'm a procrastinator and then I have a Rotary meeting after this so it's like I kind of like it this in
in between so like I said sorry about that but yes so um this year this is my fourth year doing Junth in the wonderful city of Greenfield um this year I wanted to do something different bringing it more so downtown and involving our downtown businesses and bringing more excitement about our wonderful downtown
businesses so that's what just the sidewalk sales are about where our where our downtown businesses could actually set up sidewalk sales it would be June team sales um I will also be opening the floor up to um vendors um because it is early that's why I didn't really have any vendors on the list right now for
the application um but I do know the process so if I do get some more I'll just send the information over to the city um as the vendors come in they usually come in in around May um I'm sorry my head's all over the place yeah so um um this year I'm doing it on
the 21st it's a Saturday versus the Thursday um a lot of feedback why why why like I said it's the fourth year and I've always tried to keep it on Junth but I know like a lot of people missed the opportunities years prior because it was during the week so I wanted to try something a little different just like
bringing the event downtown Greenfield so everything's a little bit different this year is there anything on June 9 June 19th um I was actually um going to have a conversation with with the mayor's
office about having some kind of proclamation or just you know just some kind of proclamation on that day um just saying you know this is Junth but as far as the actual event it would be on a Saturday but yes but that's already it's in my ticker field it's in my ticker
it's up there okay well sounds good anything to bring people downtown it's wonderful and it's such an important uh day of remembrance yes ma'am for sure so I'll make a motion
uh we uh Empress Benu Nempart moving mountains use of the common and court square sidewalk sales downtown June 21st uh 2:00 p.m to 700 p.m and then you have something about other dates to be determined so I don't
know if you have a rain date but anyway that's the motion yes Saturday i have a second amanda seconds it any further discussion hearing i hope to see you guys this year everybody who's watching to see you all
right hope so um so I'll call the role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes so it's unanimous thank you we'll see you then keep up the good work thank you
so uh agenda item number five uh CapeMason Interfaith Council birthday parade assembling at the common and processing along Main Street and Mile Street to Energy Park April 21st april
21st okay from noon okay went from noon to 12:50 p.m and vendor host license for the event so you're welcome to sit with us here so yes it is uh less than a week away so I'm hoping you pass it because
we're all set um uh yeah so I think this is just for the Joyful Noise Parade it's not for the event at Energy Park this is for the parade yeah just the parade okay so we're gonna have We have another agenda
okay um the it's sort of a New Orleans um jazz band is um called the Expandable Brass Band and they're going to be playing music they've got 12 people um fund and then we're also going to be
having life-size puppets trees and birds and uh a bike with a salmon um all sorts of puppets i'm anticipating maybe 20 some odd people marching with costumes
or jugglers or stilts um it's um and and we're so we're going to be meeting at noon on the 21st there is going to be a police officer who's going
to lead the way down the road down the the the right side of the road down to Energy Park um and um and then at Energy Park we'll have we'll have um more fun
that's a Monday it's actually Patriots Day so it's a holiday and um April 22nd is officially Earth Day but we thought that um doing it on a Tuesday wouldn't work so well and doing it on the weekend
it's Easter weekend so we didn't want to mess with that and um and it's also the first day of school vacation week so we are hoping that we'll have some families kids involved sounds like another fun event
questions here no amanda you want to make a motion i cannot right now but I will second whoever makes the motion she has a young baby randy's
yes make a motion that we accept the application for the parade to be held on April 21st from noon to 12:30 um for the interfaith council
second all right we have the motion to uh grant the permit for the parade as stated i'll call the role randy yes amanda yes
and Phil yes so it's unanimous for the parade okay so also included is your request to be a vendor host vendor host license so I assume that's all happening at Energy Park that's right um we we
have somewhere around 15 tables at this point of um Green and Greenfield and um some churches are going to have booths um Stone Soup Cafe is Stone Soup Pay What You Can Cafe is
going to be the only food purveyor and it you know it's basically donation and they're getting their license from the health department um and um so then yeah so the tables are going to be available and what what what
are the hours of that because this is 12:00 to 12:30 12:30 to 3 and on here it's 11 set up and that's the application two different applications yeah so she she's all set with us um energy park all
right okay cool nice nice flyers yeah so I should say that um that um Sean from the city Keller has been doing our our posters
and um who's the recycling coordinator and Athena Athena is also involved with us um so it is co-sponsored by um the city of Greenfield awesome
yeah and a bunch of banks cool so I'll entertain a motion why turn up um okay a motion for K mason of the Interfaith Council Earth Day parade assembling at the com no oh we already did that yes go so this motion
is for Kim Vendor license for mental health and wellness fair May 21st this one is for number five i know that's what I was doing the last we already did the parade it's two two separate oh it's two separate that's the
first one number and two se two separate ones yes this the first uh so the main so then this was more complicated so the motion is for the um for the interfaith council from the noon to 12 no from for
the vendor host 12:30 and the vendor host license for the event yes second so we have a motion on the floor i second it to Thank you to grant the
vendor host license uh for uh April 21st is there any other discussion questions hearing none I will call the role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes
it's unanimous awesome thank you thank you all right so item six on the agenda is uh Kim Tibo Brit uh vendor host license requested
for the mental health and wellness fair May 21st 10:00 a.m to 2:00 pm at Energy Park uh that is correct okay
awesome so this is something that has happened for quite a number of years quite a number of years correct and it's um at Energy Park um we approximately have about 45 tables um from last year
for V uh vendors um usually they were um information sharing of local resources in our community but also um some arts and crafts will be also sold so this this is the same time the interfacing's going on no good this is
May oh we're we're up another month okay yep and it's a Wednesday correct yes a Wednesday ruth they're also all set with us oh very good yeah it's good that they know to actually
approach rec department so I am going to ask for a motion make a motion that we accept the post vendor license application for
the 23rd annual 23rd oh mental health and wellness fair and it will be held on Wednesday May 21st from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m at the Energy Park in Greenfield
second so we have a motion and a second to grant a vendor host license as stated in the in the motion any further discussion hearing none I will call the
role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes it is unanimous thank you thank you for sitting in with us join us please join us on that day
all right thank you and moving on to item number seven Becky Clark use of the comments september 17th from 1 to 2 p.m rain date September 18th do we have Becky Clark with us
don't believe so okay so so this is a purse too for me this is for wedding oh a wedding I didn't flip that page yet don't have
many weddings on the I know of one it was just a very small thing a few years ago it's an interesting uh does the count have any input into that or we respect it you know people
are allowed to use the common i think that's a fun use of it it's nice that uh that they're asking or making us aware that they're going to be using the common that day yeah they're going through the right channels um because uh generally permit's not needed because
it is a public space but it would be nice it is nice to be aware of it um what day of the week is that 17 they're only expecting what is it 50 or 30 let me look for you what the day is
september can you read that number it's a Wednesday it's a Wednesday so there's no that is 50 I believe or No actually I think it is 30 it's a small they just curve the This is not a wedding for 200
people no I don't think we could facil facilitate that in common oh that was my wedding date they need our approval they don't That was my wedding date no they don't really but they're there it's nice that they're asking for use of the comment we don't
have to make Yes we should it's on our agenda we should Let's hear that motion i'll make a motion that we accept the application for the use of the common or court square for the wedding
on Yeah it's lost september 17th from 1 to 2:00 p.m second we have a motion on the floor to grant the use of the common and court
square for Becky Clark uh for the wedding any further discussion hearing none I will call the role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes
all right it's unanimous wherever Becky is hope she's dressed pretty would have been my anniversary oh the 17th yep september 17th
so and moving on to agenda item eight public hearing for Verizon utility petition to place a new pole near 166 Southshelurn Road and to relocate an
existing pole to near 228 South Shelurn Road and um we welcome any public comments uh but no discussion or comments will be entertained unless
requested upon by the chair or of the board of licensed commissions so another moving poll indeed uh Don Bono with Verizon and I am uh Edward Yadi with light engineer
so um the first one on the agenda I believe is Sal okay um just visited the site for both bowls um pretty much what you see there is accurate um on your diagram the
measurement uh from pole existing pole 31 to new pole 312 is a little less it's about 8 ft less so 102 is what I got otherwise everything you see is accurate um and the reason I know this is because
the polls are already there they're already put in place now the point of me coming to you today driving an hour and a half was to ask your permission to put in place was there a lot of traffic um well it was
too so it wasn't so bad um but the point is I don't like it when I come and the polls are already in place because now I need to come to you folks with tail between my legs um they were not supposed to be put in place there is a very good reason for them uh as I'll
be happy to get into but I need to let you know that um this part of the process has been jumped so all right um it does look accurate there is a very good reason because as you go up and down um South Shel Shelurn Road at that
juncture the lines are very low u they're only about 13 to 15 ft somewhere in there over the roadway so a box truck comes through that's probably happening um and it's even lower at one of the poles cuz it's an uphill climb and the
the lines string a little bit lower um none neither of the anchors have been put in place yet um so I think what happened is they probably realized their mistake when they put the polls in place and they said "Oh stop." Um too late for
the polls themselves though so u but process-wise do need to ask your permission still i know that the polls are there but we do need to ask permission to continue the process uh finish putting the anchors in string the wires up and get those wires up over the
roadway uh which is the point of this whole process um but I do need to let you know process was not followed as it should so um there's two different polls right before I uh we go any further I'm
going to open the public hearing on this at 4:44 p.m um so that uh if anyone here is wanting to make a discussion add to the discussion hearing none
um the time hasn't changed so since no one is adding to it um I will close the discussion in less than one minute it's 4:44 still so I appreciate the fact that uh they
became aware that they hadn't actually asked us for moving the poles and um sounds like it's uh very needed for we did the design work uh I'm a representative from Lidos Engineering we
do uh work for Eversource that uh also is on that street um so the reason we did for uh those two poles on that street so pole 27m which is going to be a midspan pole between pole 28 and 27 uh
the spin is very very long we're going to be reconductoring the lines also um and we're going to be increasing the voltage from 4.8 kV to 13.8 kV uh on that street so it's going to be thicker
and heavier uh primary wires that are going to be also installed um and for that to be installed we have to upgrade uh the poles for them to be a little higher and to be a little more durable so uh that's why we're adding pole 27mm because it
was a very long span and then we're moving pole 31 about 50 ft to the south because the span was also a little uneven so we try to make it as even as possible in uh at that location as well so those are the reasonings for those
two poles uh to be one relocated and one to be added okay um so um I'm just curious because we've done a lot of those pollings over the years but who screwed up in the process
i I'm if I had to guess I don't know because I just recognized the fact that they were put in place when I got there this afternoon um if I had to guess it would have been a Verizon's uh team that because this is a Verizon petition
Eversource asked for the polls but it's a uh Green Greenfield is a Verizon set town so we Verizon sets the polls so they must have told them "Get this on your radar and get ready to put them out so that once they're
approved by the board um that you can go ahead and do them." So that's it it if any fault has to be attributed I believe that's where it would be it happens i'm just thinking of a future whole request
though does it keep happening exactly right and um I mean I' I've been here several times now right because sometimes you have neighbors that are not have questions exactly and that's that's the point is of an open hearing is so that if a voters have issues they
can be adjusted if they need to move the poll sideways laterally um it can it can be done um but right now they're there he's the poll expert right okay so I'll entertain a motion for item
agenda number eight make a motion that we grant continuence of work on the ps located in the area of 228 South
Shelton Road to be completed we have a motion on the floor um any further discussion questions hearing none I'll call for
roll vote randy yes and Amanda yes and Phil yes and it's unanimous so now we have another public hearing to move on to on agenda number
nine so before we go any further I am officially opening the public hearing at 4:49 p.m so this is uh Verizon utility petition to place a new pole on the east side of Lower Road approximately
335 ft south of Wisdom Way um is there any here for public comment i thought I saw a hand yeah is there a hand Stephanie i um Stephanie Duclo Chapman
Street Greenfield um I just had some concerns about um whether or not this is the proper committee for the public hearing is it just a licensing and the poll already exists or is this placement of a new poll and maybe it needed to go to ZBA uh I'm just wondering about
process this is under under the purview of the license commission for a relo so it's the same you know the same district the same area the same abutters that's that was my concern was whether or not if it's a break i mean I can
understand replacing a poll that already exists if we're putting in a new poll does it need to go through another proper channel before a licensing board i mean generally I thought that the licensing board was what you're putting on the pole not putting the poll into
the ground because So we are Thank you um so I'll ask I'm sorry this is Is this a p I'm sorry I wasn't done speaking but if you've closed public hearing then I'll then I'll stop thank you no I haven't i haven't um closed the public hearing but um just for in some insight
I'll ask our representative here from uh Eversource sure um as as to why we're asking Oh sure for a new toll sure the um the purpose of this poll um is because from Deerfield on up uh
we've we just finished going through the process with Deerfield actually uh all the way up lower road almost to Wisdom Way which is where this the city town line is um they've been doing their Eversource has been doing their reconductoring project um so we dozens
of polls I would say pretty much up and down a lot um and then this is one poll that is just over the line that they're asking for in Greenfield um which is probably why this poll is
also in place i think they just continued going up the line and put this one in too okay so it's already there too it's already there too this one has a span that is way longer than either of the others and actually I I could I couldn't almost
touch but I would say it's about 10 or 11 feet up which is really low for a power line so and then going into the substation entrance yeah it's it's running low you're going to have a 14T boom truck going under a 12t wire
it was like a 400 something span from a whole Yeah I see it so one you pull two I think is correct i mean 300 300 and something anyway 310 ft and logic tells you put one in the
middle yeah right so the again the same thing as the last hearing we just finished the purpose of this poll is specific and needed um the process was not followed um and you can bet that I will be going
back to the road department when I get home tonight and I will be I will be writing him an email and then following it up with a call tomorrow morning all right well hopefully that answers your question stephanie you have your hand up again do you have another comment
no I do not i'm sorry i forgot to lower my hand okay hi thank you so at this time I'm going to close the public hearing at 4:53 p.m and um now we will
uh move ahead i'll entertain a motion make a motion that we grant the permit to com do the completion of the work already started in the area of 274 Wisdom Way
uh for the the uh new ball on the lower road just the Blizzen Way intersection do we have a second second phil second
it any further discussion glad you guys know what you're doing and correcting okay hearing none uh call the roll randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes
right so it is unanimous thank you thank you for being here sorry about your long drive oh I like being out here anyway where I live there's that too all
right so agenda number 10 Better Body Foods of Mass i guess the MA stands for Mass massachusetts 74 Fairview Street East permit to perform work on restricted holidays columbus Day October
13th Veterans Day November 11th um it's pretty self-explanatory is that the Granola Place i am not really sure near the Fairgrounds i haven't been over yeah it's it's Fair
View Street East so yeah I think it's the Granola East yep i would say it's probably that same building so what's the wish of the board make a motion that we grant them
permission to work on Columbus Day and Veterans Day do I have a second second all right we have uh a motion on the floor to allow uh Better Body Foods of
Massachusetts to perform work on those two holidays Columbus Day and Veterans Day vinnie's wife any further discussion hearing none I'll call the
role randy yes amanda yes bill yes all right it's unanimous so moving on to agenda number 11 charlotte Triber of Madhouse Multi Arts vendor license for sale of art
saturday April 26th to November 1st 2025 9:00 a.m to 3 p.m on the common is Charlotte with us yeah all right hello come on up here oh okay
uh yeah so I'm just applying for a uh year-long vendor license um to sell paintings and drawings in the common so what paintings and drawings um on the common during the farmers markets and I assume you've had discussion with
the with the director or chair of market because it's like they're doing like Court Square right i haven't talked to them at all they sometimes use some of the common but it's usually right next to where they have the booth set up on the east side of the I can provide some clarity so we met with the farmers
market coordinator last week and we mentioned that your license was coming up they said it's okay just make sure when you get there just they'll try to find them and just coordinate your spot with them okay but they have most of the common is available so there you'll have a lot of real estate to pick with but
they might just have one or two things going on at like part of the common yeah sometimes they have music sometimes they have tables set up for one thing or another but um I think the south end of the common is seldom used during farmers market
yeah thanks for This is your own paintings yeah they're colorful and like inoffensive what kind of art can I ask you for oh um like mixed media on this i mean I can
show you i have a daughter who's an artist um so this is my display she just at the room yeah the art space show you the picture okay yeah nice
you're I see you want to put a banner what are you talking for band i mean that's the next foot oh it's okay oh I'm sorry getting ahead of myself no worries
all right well um it's good as long as it's in interest of further discussion I'll entertain a motion you're starting to grant the vendor license next you're going to start next week this week the first farmers market's the 26th so
it'll be the first one okay great what's this weekend next weekend okay no other events no happening you know i know sometimes
throughout the season you know just be aware that they they do have I think you have a list of anytime there's things that come up like if someone books the court square for like right after the farmers market we always coordinate with them to let them know cuz sometimes
they'll just Yeah who evolved so what are the what are the hours of the farmers market uh it's either 8:30 to 2 or 9 to2 I think I asked for longer this year i'm pretty sure it was longer this year let
me search on that while we talk um so yeah we need a motion so we can discuss it further if need be make a motion that we accept the application for use of the common
by Charlotte for pad house multiards this is uh not use of the common yet we're still working on her vendor license she goes for the vendor license okay for
it will be on the common but she needs her vendor license first i guess I don't have that in mind it's uh it's sort of it's combined on this application but we have two separate agenda okay i'm doing the vendor all
right for the vendor license for the sale of art on Saturdays from April 26 through Saturdays on November 1st from 9:00 a.m to 300 p.m
all right did we get an idea what the uh Oh you want to get a I need a second second i'll second all right so Phil second it now we have other Did we get an idea of the size of the banner um that's the next so hearing no other discussion about uh
granting a vendor license I will call the role randy yes amanda yes phil yes all right it's unanimous so you got your vendor license now we discuss agenda
number 12 charlotte Triber is that how you pronounce it triber of Mad House Multi Arts V um banner on the common for the last Friday monthly beginning April
um 2025 so that's an issue banner so tell us the size of your banner um I don't know is it going to be put into the ground
yeah i don't know unless there's a better way like I just want to advertise like that the arts walk is happening that day like right in the middle of Oh so it wouldn't be a permanent thing it would just be Yeah just that morning the uh last Friday of every bond and we
don't usually uh um allow roping to trees okay so you wouldn't even be there you just leave a banner there last Fridays yeah and then like take it Friday night
so it only be up there for But you're not sure about the size yet you haven't produced it yet yeah I haven't made it yet um I don't remember what we have for size
of any sign not Not too big what do you think yeah um do we have a lot of banners that people leave on the comments i'm going to ask our our illustrious Lori
can you help us out with that what was the question about the size of any signage that would be on the common announcing things you know like the ski and skate sale we allowed them uh
typically they're um if you want me to answer they're like um yard sale um signs you know like right when you're running for office for like 2 by3 or something that you can get them printed um or a banner like 2x4 I would think
would be plenty big her arts walk maybe you could just put it up in a couple stakes charlotte i guess Lori's not with us she's on the phone well I asked her to add a Yes hello
hello i am here um as far as I know the board doesn't have any size restrictions on sizes but you do normally keep them limited um so it's up to the board's discretion i'm not aware of any restrictions for sizes for signs on the common yeah we wouldn't want it six feet
across and 12 feet high and anything anything that's going into the ground is going to need approval from DPW yeah seems like you got to figure this out more right get your banner made up and go to DW and then Yeah okay so the table
so we could word a motion to that effect we table it yeah sounds like so so the motion I would be that we table Charlotte Triber Triber Triber Triber Matt House Multi Arts Banner
uncommon last Friday monthly beginning April 2025 all right so we'll bring this up uh well the motion is to table it do I have a second on that second yeah so you forget your banner may go to the DPW and get that done yeah
drive stakes into the ground you don't want to be hitting any underground stuff sometimes the chairman can approve things without waiting for the monthly meeting so yeah okay so um since we have a motion on the floor I'm going to call the role just to
make this uh more formal randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes all right the motion to table the request for placing a banner until next month okay or
when you have more info check with our with Yes and with Lori Poran okay good luck all right thank you um I have the check for the vendor license um I can take that on Lor's behalf i have her
paper here moving on to agenda number 13 waterfield Harris Hobbs Incorporated doing business as Seymour deadline to show progress toward activating the liquor license at Five Bank Row so do we have a representative from uh
that corporation i'm here jason DiCaprio from Weatherfield Harrison Hops can you hear me yes thank you did we meet with you before or was it somebody else nope it was me uh we've met a few times in this process it goes
by six months so yeah you have reached your your uh yes requested times your her I think the landlord's on to right Jord's the landlord um correct correct okay all
right thank you enlighten us on what's going on sure so I have made some progress but the license still hasn't transferred um and is still tied up at the ABCC um my next steps what I'm hoping to
do is get an extension to put a new application in for sale to sell the assets and move on so that I'm out of that loop because I am the one holding this process up um so that's that's where I'm at at this point didn't you indicate that about six months ago the
same the same dialogue pretty much um no you were thinking of maybe selling it if he if this didn't work yes but you can't have two applications in at once and my attorney was telling me that and has been for over a year that I'm kind of one step away from getting the approval
so it would require sort of giving up on that that process to then sell and submit a whole new application and take myself out of it at great expense um so yes and no that this is so I'm on to
plan B is what what I'm saying I guess now from a historical perspective has it been three and a half years since it's been closed uh it's been since the pandemic so more than three so
um so if we uh allowed yet another extension say three months would it would that be ample time to clean up the me clean it all up so two two things would be possible i would hear in the
next within the next month um whether that got approved or not after all this but because the application to start a new transaction would take a month with the advertising and then another hearing you you would all have to approve um the
new buyer um at that point so getting all that done is going to take another month um so three within three months of getting that of either it being approved or submitting a sale yes one of those two things would happen within three months so I'd like to hear from your landlord since we haven't had that
opportunity sure i'm curious where you Oh Mr harold do you have input as a landlord do you have any input here uh well um I'm coming I'm coming to this uh primarily as an an observer but the the background on this is that I
purchased the buildings at uh uh at Bank Row uh starting in 2008 from the city with a a charge to be the person who would take them and put life back in those buildings and we I was very happy that by 2009 we had those buildings
fully occupied with uh uh exciting businesses going on in them we continue to have them fully occupied ex except for the fact that Seymour uh which has even substantially been paying rent since that time has been closed
since the pandemic so you know my charge from the city which I don't take lightly is to keep life in the building and uh my and my feeling about my tenants is to at least to try to take care of their their good faith efforts and um I think
that you know seeing more for the uh you know for the the the many years that it was open I think uh seven years open to the public u was fantastic addition to town and so we remain wanting to see that succeed and remain uh you know not
wanting to see you know I mean Nathan Blahar who started it you know got his investment back from Jason and you know Jason has put substantial money into it and substantial money into keeping it uh at least substantially current with his obligations so that he could reopen so
we feel like uh even though everybody is feeling a little bit of pain and frustration that there's a good faith thing going and it's a beautiful establishment and would would be a good establishment for town so I I I guess my my my input is that you know while I'm
not happy and I reserve my rights in the situation you know so far as what's happening you know from a strictly financial business perspective um I I think that it's it's a great business and that there are people who have
worked hard to keep it there um and have demonstrated that to me so if we can if we can be helpful in it finding a way forward um we will you know but you know we um uh you know the license that exists there uh is actually a a license
you going back historically that uh that that uh my company bought from uh another business in town with the sole aim not for me to get back into the bar business please help me know uh but to enable a younger entrepreneur to do something for downtown Greenfield and we
did that so if we can keep when whatever way we can keep that moving forward um we would very much like to and if that you know if Jason gets some determination or information from the ABCC or that that he can move forward
then that's good by us and if he can find a a credable person to take over the assets and the license uh uh with or without him in partnership then our lease agreement provides for
Thank you let's for the second discussion let's say this goes on for another two years are you able to like sublet it or get something going on in there in the meantime because it's really uh discouraging to people in the community to see that empty because it's prime location i think I I don't think
uh I don't know from a business standpoint I know you're getting your rent but for the sake of the community is there some way if you felt this is going to go on for another two years or whatever that you could get somebody in there to something going on well the issue the issue is the license i know
the license i know but part of my dialogue is extending the license if I I have is knowing that the use of the building that's what I'm concerned more about at this point but if if we if this license is dropped it's gone for for the
city's sake for everybody so we'd rather So if we can give Jason three more months to get going my thought is that everyone will benefit from it
the doors can be reopened if he you know whether he stays in or he finds someone to take care of it jordy's you're the own you're the building owner you'll just you know
you'll have someone there and we'll have an occupied building but if if if we don't work with him I No I'm not I'm not I'm not saying either or but uh like Jordy is this is this Can you comment is this lease
indefinite or is there some point where you know Seenorse doesn't have to pay you anymore i don't have I don't have the lease agreement open in front of me so I don't know i'm just curious but I don't think it's gonna happen in three months okay i don't want I like Seymour i'd love to
see it open i don't want to come back two more years from now and say you know I told you so is there anything that can be done with that space in the meantime to make it useful i don't because I don't think Jason's going to get it done in four months i think he pretty much told you that well we'll know in three
months so then we'll be talking the same things meanwhile the building will be empty for another three months so the what what I had mentioned a moment ago was submitting a sale document to get me out of that loop within two months um so which would then
take another month so that is I understand that's longer no one I certainly don't want to be paying for space for a business that I can't use um and no one wants it empty uh especially me um so that being said I'm confident that I
could there I've had several offers for people to purchase it that already have liquor license that uh obviously would require Jord's approval and all of your approval too um but I'm confident that they will be approved quickly um if if I
don't hear back within in during this month and I don't have five years or two years so just to clarify this uh this liquor license is uh address sensitive or Lori do you have that on at the tip
of your tongue is it only to be h held and active at that site um I believe it's not a legislatively derived license and therefore could be transferred to another location but I'd
have to double check that Ruthie all right not positive all right you're welcome so you have potential buyers for that license that don't necessarily at that not necessarily be at that location correct no the potential buyers would be at that location oh they have
to be that's part of the stipulation yeah well it's part of the lease and it's part of it would just be part of that deal um some of the offers I would want to be involved in or they would want me to be involved in in some capacity and then others um which wouldn't be my preference others that
would not be my preference I wouldn't be involved in so that's my that's sort of the last resort is that I'm out of it completely um but like I said we would be submitting another sale document for the license transfer a whole new a whole new thing without me on it would be the
kind of the goal well I personally am willing based on here to give you another three months but I'll tell you right now at the end of three months if it's the same old same old which has been since co I I have not supported you all right so I'll entertain a motion in interest of time i'm not sure if there's
another meeting coming in after us here but um yeah Ways and Means is I'll make a motion that we extend for 3 months the Seymour liquor license located at five bank
row um to come up with a solution and uh some finality into the situation either it's either going to go or it's gone i'll second that all right we have
a motion on the floor in a second uh any further discussion i would I would like to you can you can you can make make the motion e either before or after this i think Lori has
been clear that that the that the license would in essence evaporate because the license is uh I I understand although it's not it's not it's not uh restricted to the location it is an over quota license so it's one thing to say in three months he needs to sell it
anywhere and Greenfield continues to have the benefit of the economic activity and the the uh and whatever other benefits there are to the the town having a license but if you if you say after 3 months that's it we're done talking to Jason and we need to find
another solution that's that's one thing if you say after three months the license is pulled the license will evaporate into thin air thank you thank you for making that clear so um I will call the role randy yes and
Amanda yes and Phil yes so it's unanimous thank you i think this one so now we have the annual junk dealer and collector renewals question
Chris um we weren't giving the list or was we had it last last month and I just forgot i can't remember u but I do remember if did you need her
first well I thought she was going to be on I thought you were staying because you wanted to talk to us about but I'm just And I saw your booklet here that's great and I didn't know if you could comment on are you involved with this at all or this was something different okay i was just curious okay so um you're good i don't think there was anything
that jumped out at me on uh far as the junk dealers are concerned so I can't comment on it i wasn't here well but you you received the paperwork right no no okay i I get I get
Oh I don't have a You don't have a Okay all right yeah just so Lori can you help work us through this um approval of the junk dealers's license you didn't have any uh society
i got you covered um that was in questions i'm sorry you're you're renewing the annual junk dealer licenses and nothing there was no issues anywhere i don't think not that I'm aware of
either Ruthie okay so I'll entertain a motion to uh renew those licenses as applied make a motion that we accept the or we renew the annual junk
dealer/collectors licenses that are on file so good okay i have a motion on the floor for agenda number 14 the annual junk dealer collector renewals um any further
discussion hearing none I will call the role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes and it's unanimous okay item number 15 is any updates from the
mayor's office no no no updates to report on our end all right i'll be in Florida next month but I'll probably be on virtual i'll be playing Randy for my back okay so everybody has a chance
to renew the or review the minutes well we got just what this has already been changed so the uh the green fuel Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Ram um is requesting a change from which they
don't have to ask for a permit so what does that make from a new dealer new car dealer to used at the same location used cars just the use some of the from Chevy
so So class two is just used right from what I understand u the uh manufacturer I guess you would say Chrysler um wanted a new building
and not yet so but they want to keep that that location active as a used car dealership so that's something that um was fine so the minutes
Um nothing jumped out at me do I have I was here i'll make a motion to accept the minutes as present i have a second second any other discussion hearing none I'll
call the role randy yes amanda yes and Phil yes all right it's unanimous um make a motion to adjourn the meeting so we are adjourned at 5:24
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