[Music] Good morning. Good evening, Color. This is a meeting of the Hampton Select Board of the Board of Health being held in the townhouse auditorium May 5th, 2025 at 6 p.m. This meeting is being conducted in person and remotely using video
conferencing technology. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Is anyone
else recording the meeting other than ourselves Christian Rivers from the Wilraham Hampton Times. Good one. Good evening. Good Monday. Good Monday. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Okay, what do we got here? minutes. The
first item we have on the agenda are minutes of the April 7th, 2025 executive session, which was negotiation with the highway superintendent for his contract for um John. This is the
sequence of minutes over the contract things. Is this going to be one of the ones that you are going to recommend for release? Yes. So, I might as well go ahead and approve and not do the not release. Motion to approve minutes with the release. Second. All in favor?
I we have the May 1st, 2025 regular meeting minutes. Uh discuss the senior center building committee was here. fire station with their their warrant
article. The hood town treasurer gave a financial update review talked about the move to Thorn and Bird to school and we had our usual reports. Motion to approve. Is that the one I zoomed in on? Yes. So
I was there. Yeah. That was made last. Oh, this is the municipal building meeting we just had on Thursday. May 1st. Yeah. The one you zoomed in on is the only other set of minutes that wasn't ready yet. Okay. So, this is the Oh, there's a municipal building meeting. Okay. That's municipal building
meeting. Yeah. And it said Yeah. Okay. So, we don't have minutes of last Monday. No. No. But you I made second. All in favor? I that was
easy. That's how you roll. Okay. Budget. Oh my god. Okay. Next on my agenda is discussing the police department budget. We have the chief with us. Hi chief.
So, this is something I have to put on and part of I don't know if you heard Brian's update on the projected budget for this year. Um, but as I think Brian, you said this morning at the senior center building committee meeting, you could be looking
we could be looking anywhere from 8 to 10% an increase this year. That's the numbers advisory gave for the operating budget. I think it was like said between seven or eight%. Yeah. And just for clarification, according to Dick, that's not the in projected tax
rate increase. The operating it's the increase in the operating not not the tax rate increase. Correct. No, not at the point. Just because sometimes that gets confused offsets yet, right? No. So, what I talked to the board about in something last week is are there opportunities
maybe to look at requests and bring it down a bit? We had a pretty big impact last year for people. Things aren't getting any better and bring in different apartments and see is there anything we can do with the police budget knowing that there's a good
potential in the fall and the spring. We talked before that you're going to need some new vehicles. You know, we're all approaching I think the last one in the 70s at this point probably. So there's a good chance that we've had I think two years without a car. Yes. Yeah. So
you're going to probably be looking at I wouldn't be surprised at two vehicles in the fall or at least one fall, one spring. So looking at that going ahead, is there an opportunity for any other savings in the budget that we can make motion at at the
town meeting? The one I I know I've spoken to you before about is that you know we have the SRO for Green Meadows and I wonder if there's an opportunity to rather than bring somebody in on
overtime task that with the officers that are on duty at the time. You know, right now they go over for I think two hours twice a week. Four hours twice a week. Four hours twice a week. Could that be split into a couple hours daily type thing for the officers
on duty? If they have to leave, they have to leave. I know that the SRO doesn't do the classroom work anymore because the school is too busy, you know, but they can't fit it into their schedule. So, typically it's interacting with the children during cafeteria time,
perhaps recess. And is that something that you've always really encouraged your police officers to do? Community policing interacting is the mantra that I think both Jeff and yourself have really
endorsed. Does this really allow that opportunity for basically the people on duty as well? So po post has changed the guidelines from what we used to when I first became chief. The push was for the board is I would like a school resource officer in
the school. We share a school resource officer with Will Grant which we know that uh and we've always had by like you said under Jeff between myself and Sergeant Joy Dare officer somebody in the school and you could take someone from patrol or you could have assigned people who went to extra classes for
that particular stuff. when post came along when I first became chief. That's why I came to the board and got your grace to support our school resource officer program was we have to have someone certified has to be approved through the uh superintendent's office and not all schools were on board with
that. Our school was on board with it previous superintendent this memorandum of understanding to have that certified school resource through post through a municipal training council uh to be certified. So, for me to send an officer
during a day over there, I can't do that. I can send him in there, stop by and say, "Hi, walk out and that's fine, but technically a school resource officer um is is supposed to be the one going into the school assisting in the school." So, it's that certification thing that really is the the impediment
at this point at and that became when Post became current with all of our SER certifications. What does it take to become SRO certified? a 40hour uh a week training online. No, 40 hour a week training or 40 40 hours to be trained. It's a Nashville training. It's called
National uh School Resource Officers Association. Uh you send one of your officers selected through your agreement with the chief of police and the superintendent believing that that person's the right fit for your school to go to this training for 40 hours. And then there's
inservice uh usually uh which could be done uh actually the inservice for the SRO is in person again also that's done in Norwood. So that's a three-day inservice to keep keep that going. So it's a 40 hours and then a three-day service too. So do most departments only have one person or it really does depend
on how many schools allow this and they match up per school. Like for instance Wraham obviously have officer Manard certified for the high school they but do they have SRO in other schools? No, they should. They're they're down. They They use one officer. Officer uh SRO
Manard has retired since and they put a new one in there. He's been accepted by a superintendent and by the town to be their SRO. He's been certified, but uh fortunately, he has to spend most of his time at high school. He doesn't get to field out to the other schools as much
as he should. They probably should have a district that's way. They should at least have free school resource officers easily. Uh we again being a shared and being a different agreement sharing a school district. Um to be honest with you, you probably really don't even need
to have a school resource officer if that's something wanted in there. I've always gone for that and looked for that and said it's nice to have a report. I've experienced uh the kids coming up to me several years later recognize me and go the one we had in the school. Right. And and so it's always impressive
upon me to keep somebody in there. Well, I've seen that. You know, we do read aloud together and I know when I go there and you're there, the kids come up and greet you, right? Because they have that understanding that they back the blue in this town, right? And they get that from their parents as well, right?
But again, looking at it just a cost standpoint, is there a way we can accomplish this without the overhead? And I go back to like you say, you and I go back to the DARE days, which was a lot more interaction with the kids. At this point, we just don't look like the
school has that opportunity for the it really the immersive interaction that SRO really wants to do. And I'm sure there are many things in the 40 hours that are covered that we don't do right now just because the classrooms are so busy, they don't have the opportunity to
go into them. And that's what I'm getting from the principal. So my question I guess to the whole select board is this one member or is this a select board uh decision or or or thought process on the school resource officer at a Green Meadow School? It was
more of a budget thing but uh yeah more I mean you take that one incident where you have that officer that could have been there should have been there that might have been there for 4 hours right and then so I mean all day long we can sit here back and forth and and argue. We did have a way in there at one point in time when we had our detective who
was used as a utility detective. We lost that. Um I don't I've been trying not to send um the officer over there for both shifts. I've been trying to be conscientious on the budget already. Uh and uh so what happens now if you send him over there? Do you have to get someone to So that's that's the thing.
So because if he's working, if he's scheduled to work tomorrow being Tuesday, 9 to5, say he's scheduled to work 9 to5 tomorrow, I send him to the school, I replace him on shift so I have someone covering the shift. Before with a detective, I didn't have to do that. I
could take that detective and put him in that place. The new contract negotiations, I can't do that. I have to offer it up for overtime because that guy is gone. Now, if it's on a day off and he goes over there, he gets paid overtime. So, so the the monies that you see in the budget line item that I have,
which is I think like 32 $36,000, it's by shift. So, it's for two 4 hour shifts per week to be over there. And uh what it includes is an average. So, like the $68 an hour that's that averages out to get that that that line item of 36,000
um is an average. If I was sending a sergeant who took that overtime shift at a special rate, he could be making 80,000. I mean 80 $80 an hour. The other one, if I sent the had an opportunity to send a reserve officer over there, he could be making a $25. So, we had to do an average. So, I'm not spending that
whole 36 that's in my budget line item on this. I mean, you're thinking worst case you're wor that's a buffer really. And I'm actually really giving money back. I mean, last year we gave money back on that line because we had a situation where this particular officer
involved had to give us community resource officer hours to be there and so he wasn't getting paid to go there. um this year the person you bring in like you say but they're paid overtime if you have to bring somebody in for the 4-hour coverage right it's also an overtime thing as well that becomes the
overtime out of that particular line area that's why we have school resource line budget in my the 4hour and this is informative as well the four hours that they're shifted at green medals is that because of the the block the minimum block time for No that's that's accepted
that's above and beyond that minimum 40 hours no I mean because I say if they don't go into the classroom and they're just basically whether it's during lunchtime or maybe recess time is four what are they doing for the full four hours if they're not in the classroom? Well, they're supposed to be
as you said they're supposed to be in there as as an officer in the building for safety number one. They're supposed to be in visiting the classrooms. Uh they're supposed to be at the re the lunch duty recess um inside the lunchroom and just being available for assistance in the school and assisting in some class. I think there's a little
bit of spontaneity there, too. You're you're not locked into a schedule. Yeah. You're there for the lunches. You're that body in the building and there's a spontaneity of you don't know when he's going to be there. So, there it's a that's a a deterrent as well, right? So,
I mean, Scott, you asked if the whole board was in favor of that that reduction, and I'm not in favor of that reduction. I backed you with the school resource officer from day one, and I will continue to back the school resource officer. I understand there's the the question of the overtime that gets involved in there and unfortunately
that's our doing on contractual negotiations. Um I'm not in favor of cutting that line. All right. I I take a little umbrage because I don't want you to characterize what I said. I never said cut the SRO. I know I know I know
you didn't say cut and I'll rephrase that. Okay. I want to see if we could fold that task into the budget under the normal patrol operation is what I was saying. And unfortunately, the way I think the contract's written, I think we're where hands are tied in that position. Okay. And I think the chief has done a pretty good job of explaining
that and that's what I appreciate. But where I was coming from, could it be done in the normal operation? You're saying because of certification, that's the biggest impediment at this point. You have one person certified. Right. Right. We used to be able to get away with that three, four years ago.
Whereas it's all changed for sure. Post has done another part of the whole oversight thing they've done has changed. An unmandated overtime that goes back to department said if you want to have this program then you're going to go ahead and have a certifi certified which I which I believe you should have all that training. I mean you could it's too bad you can't certify more people
but again then you're going to be paying for them to go to the you're going to be my train I'm going to come to you and ask for a training budget to be increased because now I've got to certify two three school resources. got to be the right fit that myself and the superintendent have to agree to be in there. Um what happens if a vacation
comes up at that time? It just doesn't go in that week. Correct. And that's where the savings do come. I I mean I and I've been trying trying to be conscientious knowing we've had some concerns and issues with it. He hasn't been going over the full eight hours. Matter of fact, he's been uh out of it right now for a couple other things
going on. But so there are savings and like I said, that line isn't always being spent each year. Sure. Great. And just on the the point of the whole SRO thing, you know, to the positive aspects of it, I've seen in community events, you know, the nights out or if the fireworks, whatever, you know, children
in my son's classroom see the SRO in another atmosphere and they're comfortable enough where they can go up and talk to him and say, "Hi, hi, you know, officer, you know, I think that's what I was saying with the chief interaction as well." Right. I went back from his day. That's why I brought to the board in the beginning that I would like to continue to have someone in
there if we were able to as it was supported by all three members of the board at that point in time. So that's why I asked that question. Right. Like I said, I think the clarification you brought to us is well appreciated. Okay. Keep us in the loop. I would think going forward with vehicle concerns
right now. Is there anything extraordinary we should know about or No, I mean you you you obviously our cruisers are getting up towards 880 and that's why I frowned upon last year when I had asked for a cruiser. I think that's the way we've been able to at least throw one. Now we're going to be looking at two. The other throwing thing that I went for was the handguns. Uh
obviously we're going to be coming up on definitely handguns um being um replaced. That's you know sooner rather than later. You're hitting that 8 n mark where we were at the seven eight year. Um and and last thing you want to do is extend it out. um 224 especially now
that everybody around us is going to plus it's a cost savings if you go to a 9 millm I was just going to ask that is there a cost savings in the uh the caliber change alone um between the 9 and the 45s we carry um so is what's a ballpark for the for the revolvers I
think uh revolvers I don't want to go back to revolver that's ballpark 9 79 or what 20 we we were up around 20 I mean now again I don't know where it is now I mean it could be far more because of everything that's going on. Um, you know, we had
had the company that was working handinhand with us that was going to take our weapons in as a trade. Uh, which that's still there, but I've got to also look to get a new firearms instructor to do some research for me on that. Okay. How's your going?
You got any wood? We are we are going okay. Um, but at some point in time, that's another thing we're going to have to discuss a second position. Uh and then you know do we train someone outside of our agency um besides having someone inside which does know our basic which is good but then maybe having
someone who over oversees that too on the outside. Um but we definitely should be looking towards another officer or person to to do that. So our it cruisers are coming up new firearms. So those are some concerns that we're going to go to. Sergeant, excuse me. Sergeant exam.
Wasn't that this week? The exam was just uh was Saturday. There was four uh officers that took it. Uh I should get a results back tomorrow morning and then what I'll do is I'll have interviews and then we'll look to a point um rather than sooner or later. I know in the past
sometime that norm or something would attend some of those. you had mentioned that previous sergeant when we when we appointed the previous sergeant. Um yeah, the policy basically states uh two two sergeants a minimum of two sergeants from the Hampton Police Department, the
chief of police and then uh uh chief of police from another community which I utilized Mudson's chief of police um last last time. I'm not sure if I'm going to use him again this time or if I use just another one um once I get the results. I think just a dinner certificate to whoever you you know pull
in from outside. Cookies on hottest. Save some money. Hungry? I know. I'm all set. Thank you. I had my tacos day. It's not Tuesday when it's Monday. But I had a taco tonight's. Yeah. I'm done with this witness.
I really appreciate any further questions. I have no questions. John, you got anything for me? You're free to go. Doing a great job. Thank you. Appreciate that. Are you doing a lot of detail requests for the water project yet? Yes.
There's I think two there's been at least two two officers, three officers there. Yeah. Wow. That should be pretty steady for a while. That's Yeah, I saw that come in through. I did get that email. Yeah. I I hope those were set up beforehand, though. Of the schedule. No, today's
actually called this morning at 6:30. Oh, that's nice. Oh, but uh notice are you able to keep a lot of it local news? you guys are most of our guys are are really u parttimes and are full-time. So yeah, there's a big pull for that, you
know. So now that rate is the $70 rate for town projects. I um don't believe so, but uh I I Do you have the contract? I'll take my wife. John, you know what?
they've been 75 or 70 that I don't know. It depends on how Mark actually builds it out. Um is my understanding the way it's been for the town. Um but uh if so, we'll have to definitely jump on board of making a change because they've been working it for a couple weeks already
and there's been paid at one certain rate, which I'm not 100% sure if that's a 75 or 70. But I know what it I know what the contract does say about the $70 rate for an in town um detail. But um that was my understanding if Mark hired
the in town detail for the highway department to do something. But when he contracts out to another group, the $75 an hour is put into that contract to them of what they're willing to We don't pay it anyhow. No, you get the 10% right now. We don't pay it anyhow. There's
another clarification. We're doing good tonight. I'll stay here. You want me to continue? We're building up that OP duty account. Nice. Yeah, but we can't. But probably can buy some guns with it. No, I again we I looked into it. We can't buy cruisers. We can't buy guns. But we did buy a cruiser. Well, it doesn't mean
just because you did. No, let it go. I mean, if he wrote the check, what would you say? Huh? I I like four years ago. Something paid prior to me. I've been here four years. Chief of police. Prior to me.
Time flies when we're all having fun, right? All right. Need a Kabota? Well, maybe. Oh, okay. Lawnmower. We can get a lawnmower with it. Okay, I'm I'm think I'm going to leave on that one. I think we're Dan on the
way. Better go before the welcome's up. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Grass is dead. Nothing. All right. State Department water district update. Where are we? Brian, do you want to kick this off?
Hey, where's the new guy? Good question. Good question. Oh, um, yeah, I'll kick it off. Um, I guess I'll kick it off with the question. So, we Is it still 25 out of 28 that you've heard back from?
So, how many people are connecting that you know for sure out of the 28? All but with two. We're still waiting for responses. Yeah. From We sent out three three letters from the three and I have yet not heard any of them respond. So So 25 have said yes. Yeah. Right. And
there's three outstanding. Right. And well one of those 25 is 129 scantic crow. Yes it is. Correct. And that's the that's the service line connection. And that's like over and under 500 ft through the woods grandmother's house.
He's requested that they do directional boring underground. And the original quote was $90,000 and we have yet to get any quotes back from any of the contractors that do that type of work because Paul
does not do that. They contracted out to some. We don't know what the cost is. We have been over to that resident's home two maybe at least two times and you know he's really concerned about
how his property is going to be impacted by this. This is also the resident that had no detection. He's the farthest one in the district as well. Correct. And I think I said is there a way that we can talk to D and have this location removed
from the list? We try. early we asked if D if we could take some of these homes off the consideration list and they were reluctant to support that don't seem to be ready to make any kind of changes.
Yes, they just hemmed in and hot under but there's a potential if we could get them to say yes, we would potential we could get a change order to Baltazar and save a considerable amount of money from what they're saying. I got a whatif scenario here if you guys are interested.
Okay. All night. Yeah. There we go. Okay. Cuz John and I like he said we went up there and took a look at it and going on site. It's a lot uglier than it's it's a lot more work than I I think anybody
realized. And I thought from conversations prior he didn't want to hook up originally. Well, he's kind of he feels like they're between a rock and a hard place. He's worried that if he passes up on this and down the road they
have a hit, he's going to be on the hook for the whole thing himself. And he who's who can afford it, right? Right. So, he doesn't want to pass it up, but he's concerned about what is it about 900 ft somewhere. Yeah. It's It's a long
way up and we walked it and the stream like I said the mold growing and all that two streams there's boulders everywhere. Mhm. So when engineering went in there to bl the plans did they account for any of that? I don't know what they did quite honestly. I think those were estimates
because John and I have walked on other properties and the prints and reality are two different things. But the impact is minor compared to 129. The estimate as you can see on here if you want to we can go through this.
The estimate right now we have is 90,000 and I think there's significant upside on that. We were we met with the Albaltazar crew and they walked it with us and they're scratching their head going we got to get some numbers on this. Is option one a real option? Can
we do nothing? Well, I think that's the that's the option I would recommend is option. What will D allow us? We can do nothing. We'll just be on the hook for testing. Yeah, they would you would just have to continue testing. We don't have to go if they allow us to maybe even reduce the amount of testing to maybe
Okay, so option one is actually do no remediation but continue to test. That's where we are. Exactly. And that cost water has never had never had any detection. Mhm. He's happy with the water. Um
he really would support option one. Yeah. As long as he knows that if we all of a sudden we start detecting POS or any of the VOCC's, we'll put a filter in. We'll take care of it. We could go to option three. Option three is what he would re he would like to do if option
one wasn't available. What's the cost of option one? Option one, if you go to the top, no $4,500 initial plus 7. No, no. That's the filtration thing. What's option one? Option one. Test. No, it's testing. Testing. Testing. It's $2,100 a
year. That's what I'm talking about. Option one is 21, right? Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah, but correct me if I'm wrong. The testing costs for option three are the same as well cuz you still have to test plus fil post and pre, right? Yep.
The test would stay would stay the same, right? I see. You are if you look at the expense over 10 years, it's a third of booking up. Yeah, we're looking at 30 years. Mhm. And there was a possibility in the meeting that if we kept seeing zero results,
they would do a reconsideration. Wouldn't be immediate, but perhaps after two or three years of zeros, they dropped the testing requirement maybe to buy annually, right? Annually as well, right? So, this could be worst case and could get better. Yeah. Right. Could it
definitely could, right? And I think if I remember correctly from that meeting with D that the the filtration would only be required if there's positive hits, right? If there's, you know, if it's coming up clean time and time again, they wouldn't require filtration. Correct. Correct. So just right now it
would just be annual testing costs and I think those questioning testing costs are high, right? Because we can reduce it to once or twice a year, right? From quarterly down to annually. 750 about 750 if you test, right? So you'd be under that 2100 a year. And that was the
that was the was that the second location after South Munson? Yeah. The first one on the corner, the old Pe's household. And I thought they were also a zero as well or no detect. I don't know if they're next door or
farther down. Or is there one more in between? There might be. And then right next then we got across the street. Uh, who are you hooking up Morardi? Yes. Yep. I thought that was the last one on the south side. That's 148. Isn't that
148? 104. 10 that Okay. And then we have this resident that we were talking about tonight. And then there's two more down the road. There's one where you know across the street from from
uh who used to live there before passed away. He and his wife in White House across the street from where um 29 is. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't remember. I can't remember his name. I'm
sorry. So that's almost done to Larry Smith. I can't Larry Smith. There you go. Really that far? Okay. Wow. But then there's a house after that. They were here at that meeting we had uh several months ago discussing what and they were really all, you know, supportive of
getting a good clean water in there because they're nervous when they start because it's they're talking about the plume and you know the possibility. Aren't you down to another? Isn't there another small covert as you're coming
down to the Smith house or something you have to like directional drill under? It's I don't think so. It's the one after the Smith house. It must be. I don't I don't remember that, but I could be wrong. It's not I I mean those little hidden ones you don't see. We don't
screams down that road, so it's possible. Yeah. So, of the three homes that have no response, one of them is 129, which No, he responded. He responded. So, there's only two homes then that are No, no, there's three last I knew. Okay. So, there's one on three
and 12. Three and 129. Okay. So, the three that we have no response from. Are any of them testing positive right now? I don't believe so. So, they're all negative and we've had no interaction with them. We can't get a hold of them through multiple tries, certified letters and whatnot. They just Yeah,
they sent out a certified letter at the end of last week. So there's one on cross. So I would say if there's three that have no response after certified letters, we just take no action. They're still stubbing in. Yeah. Right. So So the hookup if
they're close, it's no worse than that 9 to 10,000 you had hook. Yeah. Any those houses are not not bad. Can you read that 21 South Bunson if you want to just say whatever happened? You said that would turned out to be a rental or they're living somewhere else. So, she
is living in California, renting a house now. I've been in communication with her. She wants to hook up. So, it just took forever to finally get in touch with her. Do we ever finally get a test? That was the one at the meeting we had. They had never actually gotten permission. We're going to have to deal directly with the
renter. Okay. So, the other option was if they were testing positive, then it' be a border of health concern. Yes. But since they're not testing positive, technically there's no health concern there, right? Well, or just it's the D, right? I say order or whatever. So,
we're recommending option one for 129 scanic at this point, right? I still don't think it's a bad idea to keep the dialogue open with D and say, you know, is there a way to mitigate the district map as we go
further? Sure is. You know, because you may see I know you're talking about the ones further down on Scanic on the south side. Are they zeros also or NDS? I believe so. I believe so. Yeah. I mean, you're really pushing the limits going down the road that far. And there's
multiple there's at least three streams buffering or between those properties and the dump. I almost feel like some of those are upstream too, you And also when Ty and Bon originally Tom Cooer said everything hydraulically goes to the west cuz that's the flow of the river to think that that plume would go
against the river flow to the east is I mean we have one house on South Mson I think it's the second the one in very corner south Mson and uh and Scandic you would think would be affected. It's not the next house up on South Mson we got
ratings on that one. Mhm. So fracture at that point. Yeah. Geology is is a big issue here. Or it's not related. Or it's not related. Or it's not related, but there's no way to prove it. That's a solid point. Right. Right. And the and the odd thing too is going we hooked up
48. Mhm. And their numbers went through the roof and for years they never had any kind of detections at all there. Mhm. And just for for knowledge here, other homes in town, nowhere near any town owned property, have tested
positive. Yeah. Mhm. So, I mean, it's it could just be something that's naturally occurring from years of other, you know, household contaminants. I mean, this stuff's been around since before World War II, right? Who the heck knows where it's been and deposited? How or these uh
dumps as we call them? No, not even dumps. It's just it could be it could just be a backyard burn pit from somebody had in the in the 40s and 50s. Yep. So I mean it doesn't have a case well something like that something on it and that's just going to be it's only x
parts per trillion. I mean it doesn't take much. Sure. I mean you're talking a rust inhibitor. God knows what it was put on. Mhm. And where those things ended up sometimes it's not always our fault. Yeah. Far as this project overall is moving
along very well. We're in the second week of digging. They ran across some pretty good size rocks in the corner south months ago, but they that sent them back almost a week or a week, I'm sorry. Day they found some rocks in Ham.
Go figure. Someone must have put Was it redstone or was it the good stuff? But then No, they got past it. They're working up uh south months ago. How's the pump station project? They just started clearance. Yeah. a little bit and
so they the schedule they're they're going to move forward. These Altazar does not Yeah. let grass grow, right? But they'll replace the grass after Oh, while they're out working in the auto count those deer pellets at the
Take a drive down on Crossroad to see the job. Yeah. Real nice job they did. Well, I think also the kudos to you guys for taking care of that homeowner on Scanic right away. I mean that was bipop done and boom that person was hooked up
and great response. Very happy. Yeah. That was within a week. Yep. And the best part we saved, right? I mean because it came off the Baltazar quote basically, you know, you did the work and they and when he sent me the invoice, it was $500 less the way
quoted. So good day. We're going to have you work on more of our stuff. We paid it right away. I I maybe you can help with those cruisers for Scott. I rushed up. Well, I listen to it. So, we're gonna we're gonna it's going to be option one. Huh. So, we'll have to
we'll have to Yeah. I'm just trying to think basically. So, Mr. Faro should be okay with one and keep them on the testing schedule basically. I think he'll be very happy with that. At what at what point do you think with Baltasar's work do we stop testing the
household? I mean, are we going to be able to just pretty much not test the bulk? What are these 20 20 something by the end? Come online. Right. Which is projected for the fall. Right. Right. The end of the year. And I'm looking at So, we budgeted for we did cut that back
a little bit this year. But we still should be able to be fine with two testing cycles at the most instead of four. I would say we'll discuss that with homeowners. Make sure he's comfortable with it because
This is the problem. We're a supplier. The water scanty valley water district is the water supplier and fast and boc's is part of the for health. All right, that's it. That's the plan for
now. Plan. Great. Great job, people. You know, thank you. And we should get those right of entries out. Want to touch base this week? Yeah, I've got a few emails from people saying, "Where are they? Where are they? Be out soon." Okay. And they think I'm
just ignoring them. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, John. Paul, you've been involved in this since the original. So, you've lived it since. Yeah, it's it's been a journey, I'll tell you. I know. But, uh, back when you were younger and not so gray. Yeah, I
had no gray. Comes quick. Ever since he's been on this water board, he's got really seen him three years ago. We'll keep you updated if anything changes. Good night. Uh, what do we got here?
Review and assign the motions for the annual town meeting and warrant articles. Sorry. Did you have your meeting this afternoon? Yes. I'm going to preface this with
that licenses first while Dan's here. I want to do Dan first. He wants to stay here while Dan want I don't mind staying. I got to keep an eye on He's got the entertainment and then one of the liquors. Well, we can do that. Okay, we're going to skip over to
vote. We We're going to do the one entertainment license. So, what's the status? You talk to the school? No, I'm not school. I'm talking to you guys first. there's no sense to talk to the school. So, I think the easy one is to do the entertainment license. Hopefully, you'd be willing to grant that. And then, um I
also ask that you wave the fee given that it's community event so that I don't have to spend 50 bucks on application for that. Jeez. 25. 25. The other one's 50 cuz yeah, when I asked for that one, do you have an entertainment license or
no? Didn't Don? Oh, Don's got it. What? You have the his entertainment license then? I do. You have all the license? No, I got a lot of I got liquor license, but I don't I can't find the entertainment license. Oh, here we are. What's after the liquor?
Okay, here it is. Here. Request away fee $2 per entertainment license. Is it What day is this? Is it What's the date of the week? Is this going to be a Thursday? June
19th. I think it's not a Sunday. 5 to 9 p.m. Parking lot will open at 5. Show goes 6:00 to 9. We got check types of entertainment. They're going to have dancing, live music, live music, concert. There may be
dancing. I can't somebody There'll be no nudity. I thought that was public show. No, no promises. What are these X's here? What are these X's? That's what he Those are things that are going to happen. It's just the questions
on application. Well, it says check mark. It's an X. So I think this could be a we're going to have a long talk on a liquor dancing live music concert and public
show with an aster must be defining public show right it's printed on that paper they Astric is request to wave $20 fee. Oh, asterric is if this is a public show, stay where the show will include dancing by patrons, dancing by
entertainers or performers, recorded or live music, use of amplication system, all above so far. Theatrical exhibition? No. Play or moving picture? No. Floor show of any description?
Sounds like theater. Light show? Nope. Any other dynamic audio or visual show whether live or recorded? Oh, you got all you see you saw you put in here. There may be dancing by patrons but I'm not sure. It's an outdoor concert. There will be implications of
them. It would be encouraged then people want to dance the loose situation here. I don't think like what's 100 to 400 benweather parking police officers
hired security first aid food vendors what kind of food you got? Uh it's just the normal ones. Fernandino I reached out to Bond and then Batch Ice Cream is good. They can't they like will not get back to me. I don't want that. Are they not going to have those food
you like food trucks? You know like so batch Ice cream is a truck. is a truck and then um I don't believe that Bond is a truck. I don't think I think they just I just going to ask them to do burgers and hot dogs. So there's a bit of cheap option there for people that want to just get an easy bite.
Yeah. That's the permit request. Here's the I mean the only caveat is next to a residential. Is this more right behind the gym you think or? Yeah, right behind
the gym would be the station. So, as far as far away from the homes as possible or Yeah, it's located in the back of the property. There's a week night and you know I don't know if I I don't know. It doesn't say anything. Do I need to notify the people on James Circle? Is that what it is? Or perennial lane.
Perennial Lane. I don't know. Don't see anything. It's not in there. I just didn't know. I thought Well, I mean, it wouldn't hurt to just tell them, you know. Hey, you want a motion, please? I move
to grant the entertainment license for 619 for parks and recck department from the hours of 5:00 p. a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at TWWB for the event listed. What's it called? Rock into summer. Rock into summer. Are we going to make it
contingent on the W regional school? I would make contingent contingent on approval from the regional school district. I'll second that. Well, I've already got that approval for the for the I've got approval for the concert. I haven't reached out to them for that. I
have the facility and I've got approval for that. Oh, you got that. But you not you haven't liqu Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Any further discussion? All in favor? I sign that right now.
And then the next thing we have is the one of a series of one of series. Let's let's do get to his for this is the back. What? Dan's liquor permits all the way in the back. John technically, but he couldn't
be here tonight. I um maybe I can just start a little bit and you know provide you guys some highlights from his application. Um and Craig had talked about you know I you know came up with kind of a safety plan or the safety issues that we talked about in the last meeting. So um yeah,
so the reason we're going for the beer wine license is uh pretty simple. and encourages adult participation in hopes to bring more families out to the event. Um, you know, talking a little bit more about safety. This is geared towards the responsible adult adults. It's uh, you
know, it's not a place or a venue where we think that we're going to have a bunch of 20some things coming to look to get blasted or drunk or anything like that. Um, you know, and I I wouldn't expect a lot of the older teenagers to attend this event either. you know, as far as, you know, having trouble with
underage, I don't think it's going to be um an event that they're looking to to occur. Um so, I just wanted to go through some other highlights um from John's application. Um he provides basically full service beer, wine. Um it's a cart that he has. He calls it a
garden, but he brings a cart in. Uh all of his servers are TIP certified which is for those that aren't familiar it's a training to prioritize responsible alcohol service and present uh prevent alcohol related issues like over sererving serving to minors um and
and um he's going to have a controlled fast stop entry point that'll be 20 21 plus only which will have checkpoints for ID checks and everybody will receive a wristband once their ID has been checked um to ensure Alcohol is only served to those 21 and older. Um
there'll be clear 21 plus signage at entry points to that beer garden. Um and John's staff will be held solely responsible for the ID checks. Um as far as portion control goes, we're limiting that to beer and wine like we talked a
little bit about because um to slow the pace of consumption and the alcohol content. Um it's basically standardizing drinks, right? You can't have a tall pour on You can have a tall pour on a hard liquor beverage, but you know what you're serving when you serve a 12 oz beer or 16 oz beer when you serve a
glass of wine. You know what you're serving to the people. Um and then part of the reason that we're having food trucks on site is to have something in people's stomachs so that you don't have um you know people coming with an empty stomach. Hopefully it's hard enough to to put something in their bellies. Um
and that's why we're not going for a full night. We're trying to be as responsive as possible. um security and law enforcement. There'll be on-site police. I believe we have to have two officers. I was talking to the chief before this. Um and there will also be private security staff provided by John
as well. They can quickly handle issues and deter over consumption and misconduct at the event. Um their presence reinforces safety for all attendees. And uh you know, we will also have security on the exit routes um after the concert is over to make sure that people aren't taking beverages to
go, alcoholic beverages to go. be asked to dump those out if they are walking out with a cup or whatever they may have um to make sure that we don't have people taking beverages on them. Um just a little background on John Sullivan. He's a Hampton resident. Uh he's very
active in our community. He's a coach for us and he's supported town events like Fall Fest and Safety Night. Uh he is the owner and operator of East Village Tavern, Nathan Bills, and the Boulevard Tavern and Grill. So he knows his way around serving alcohol and the
requirements around it. For the last two years in 23 and 24, he's run the East Long Meadow Carnival Beer Garden uh and had zero issues at all. That's a much larger scale event than I would sus I would suspect this one is going to be. Um he also has experience serving
alcohol for class reunions and alumni gatherings at schools. Uh he just ran a beer tent at the Van Horn Park in Springfield this past weekend for a 5K race that was being held there, a benefit 5K race. Um he has a perfect record with the Massachusetts Alcohol
Beverages Control Commission. Uh no marks on his record at all for that. Um what else can I say? John is really going above and beyond for us for this event. He's donating the stage for the band. He is dedicate um he's giving
a portion of the proceeds to the recreation association of Hampton uh and he's assisting with banners if we need anything like that. Just there's nothing this guy won't do to help us out. So, um he's really pretty wonderful. So, at the end of the day, if you're going to issue a one-day beer and wine permit, you
know, John Sullivan is the guy to give it to. So, question I have the events from 5:00 to 9:00. Y the application's from 5:00 to 9:00. Okay. What's is there a last call? Do you think that's a good question? Certainly we can do that. We
can establish a time 8:30, 8:15 for last call. I think that's a good idea. Yeah. So that way you're not able to consume all the way up until the very end. Yep. That would be my only caveat. You want to establish that time now? I'd still like to hear from the school.
I guess I'm in favor of what he's talking about, but I mean the school property is the school property. I think we'll get a positive endorsement. You brought it up before, you know, we got to check all the boxes as part of this. I did speak to somebody on the school committee today
and they were not they did not think it would be a heat, but that that's just one person that I talked to. Um, you know, that doesn't mean anything. My next step would be with approval from you guys is go to John Robos and see what he says. And I'm hoping that he'll be kind with 11 days left on the lease.
That's what the lease says is right at 6:30. Do we know that for a fact? Yeah. Okay. So, you know, I'm hoping with 11 days we have um they have our John is fully he just gave me his um insurance certificate today. He's getting another
million on top of this. 2 million I think that he got for this. So, um he's fully insured. the town is fully insured and I'm hopefully that will be enough to sway the school that or sway the school district to let us do this event with the beer and wine garden.
So would you like to put it on the record that we endorse his application to the school committee for the school department? Yes. That was Yeah. And I think we should put in Craig's idea that last call should be like quarter and I something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I was
thinking 8:30. I like Yeah, I'll say 8:30. I mean, talk about the people next door. We want time for them. I mean, this can't be like a cleanup takes till 10:30 and there's still, you know, it is a work night. So, I would imagine once the music is done that it'll be it will not be loud after that. Oh, no. But, I
mean, it's still going to knock the stage down. Maybe they come back the next day and whatever. Yeah. So, I'll make a motion that we endorse the application of parks and wreck for a beer and wine permit on June 19th. uh to the school district.
Second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. Thank you. Just one quick followup. So if I do I need to come back to you. Do you guys have to vote again if I get on the permit? Actually, we're going to have to vote the actual permit. Can you vote the actual permit based on
approval from No, because they might have some comments and I think you know we'll take that into effect. I don't think you need to be here for it. Okay. But it would probably come up in our next meeting. We get if they get back to it quick enough, we do like a half hour of business before the town meeting anyhow. Yeah. Okay. So, so we could do it next Monday, right? Okay. Perfect.
Cuz I just I do need to get start getting promotional materials out and if we do if I do have a then I'd like to get that on the promotional material. All right. Thank you guys very much. If you have any questions, I'm out of here. All right. See you. Thank you. Bye. Okay. We're going to review and sign
motions for the annual town meeting warrant. All right. A quick recap, Don before we do that. Uh, just on the warrant thing. Don Bren and I attended the school committee or sorry, senior building committee meeting this morning and
they're they did endorse uh that they will offer an amendment to their amount on the floor. We'll make a reduction in their ask and split their renovation or sorry repair costs over two fiscal years.
at worst possibly even come back in the fall depending on our cash. I recap that sounds right, right? Yeah. Okay. So, so the initial motion, you still want it to read 2:30
or is the initial Oh, let's see. reduced. So Gary is going to make the motion at 2:30 and then after that's seconded, I believe Don Collins will come forth and offer an amendment to that motion for a lower amount.
Explanation will ensue. You'll need two votes, one to the amendment and one for the motion as amended. I did say, you know, you could just motion blower amount, but they made a point. It's important they make the
point that this is all needed. They want to really just they're not going to take it forever on it, but Right. Yeah. And they wanted people to know that they're doing something to help, right? You know, right? Think Gary's going to make the motion. So, Don, you got the consent. Okay. So, what's
You got the list. You I got It says reader if necessary. No, at the reader right there. Oh, reader consent. Uh the in the blue. Won't the moderator do that or do we have to I think Rick is going to do the explanation first. We still have to
make a motion on it. Yeah, I met with Rick and Rose earlier today. So So Rick's going to have this um two paragraph explanation of what the consent agenda is process and what's included. Okay. So So the reader if necessary only if the if they vote no,
we want to we want to hear everything. There has to be a consent agenda. So Rick's going to do his two paragraphs and then there needs to be a motion from a registered voter in town to accept the consent agenda as written. So that would be as currently written. We probably
should. So backup readers by the way typically you know a library let's just assume it's not going to be needed but I think everybody knows who their things are in case they're accessories conservation library state. You can stand up there and do them all. Yeah.
Just okay. Let's hope we can plow through them. Right. All right. I got When you spoke when you did you talk to Rick and Rose today? Yes. Did Rick say is he going to uh not read all of them? Correct. That he he he is going to uh
summarize the article and then ask for a motion. Okay. So that way we're not duplicating efforts. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. So now we're on to seven, the annual budget. Which going to go through that? I got eight. Eight is the enterprise. I res is is funding for the
150th anniversary event. Is that what you wanted for the motion? Right. That's what was discussed in action. No action. Um, article 12. You don't think one of the assessors wants to make that motion? They might be able to speak to it
better. Yeah. I'm took us two. Took us two meetings to understand it. I just I still don't understand it. Yeah. So, they were hesitant to uh they were hesitant to take ownership of this article during the Oh, really? They're the one who presented it to us. Senator Phil was supposed to do and I would Why
would they be hesitant? I guess my point is here. Anything I've seen from other towns, almost every town has put this on this town. I think I I think it's something that the veterans state veterans are kind of pushing. J Yeah. I don't know if Jason can Right. He's not
a resident in the Hampton, right? You'd have to be assessor. But I mean one No, one of the assessors. One of the assessors. Yeah. Phil was pretty knowledgeable on it, too, wasn't it? Seemed. Yeah. But but he might not want to because I think he he Oh, he is. He's a recipient of Okay. Or Bob then. Yeah.
I I would offer it to them first before we take it. That's all. Okay. Yeah. How about Kelly? She's not a veteran, is she? She doesn't live here. Really? I've been I'm a I mean, if I have to read it, I just need somebody to give a better explain.
Free one. You got the one for free. Nice. I got to ask for money. What's that? You get the change of use, but I'm the one asking for money. Wait till the next one. I'm doing this. You got more money. Office prior year bill. No prior year bills, right? We don't pay them
anyhow even if we have them. Let's see. Additional veterans exemption. Thorenberg's change of purpose. Okay. Well, there's no money, but that's that's going to be a little might be controversial. I did talk to Rick about maybe holding a I think John had
mentioned holding a general discussion about these three articles and then yeah having and like you say you almost think that without the first one going the second two are kind of like I don't want to say moot are really in question at that point. Yeah. Right.
All right. Capital projects move. What's this form or third? Oh that's okay. Uh the lawn highway [Music] lawnmower. Do those amounts look right to you from what from your memory? I'll double check with advisory, but
20,000. Yeah. 20,000 then 23. I think it was 20 after you got down a bit in the after. Yeah. And then we have the parks and wreck [Music] lawnmower. They're going to make that motion.
I'm sorry that was my stomach there. Then the senior citizens repairs and renovation. Yeah, that's not actually me. So that'll be Gary. Gary the first one. Yeah. Okay. Then the fire department. Who's going to do that? Probably Mark. I assume Mark.
[Music] Okay. And is it pretty much Michelle for all the school committee ones? So many. Yeah. to her or rich. It really can't be one of the other. It can't be anybody else, right? Yeah. Rich is in country. Yeah. You can
tell them regional high. So, what what are they doing on that now? Well, I liked what you said before that we almost could have radio contact from the high school and these could be moot
by the time we get to them, right? Especially after the if it's after the fire station, we could be talking we could be on these at 9 or after 9:00, right? And by and all of a sudden you get the word that by the way turned them all down, right? So they're voting as one but they're taking I saw they're
taking Yes. five four separate votes. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, how are they going to do that? They're going to group them, aren't they? They did it before. There's what one they have one warrant article. I know. Yeah. They're going to say, "But we've done
that for CPA once in the past, too, where we've had a one warranted article, but subsections for separate votes inside." Do you make the mo you make the motion that this is the war? I move we amend or
that in duel or I move. Well, no. So, let's say so do you say do I move this is just for my own knowledge really. I move uh so they got this warrant article that says they want $100,000, let's say,
right? So I move that we replace the split AC units for six, you know, for 10,000, right? Y what does that do with the warrant article though? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because the the overall because the other things aren't
mentioned, right? Yeah. It's right because we received one lump thing. Yeah. Maybe they have to take a motion to separate them separate. I don't think they within within the article maybe or amend it. They don't have a total dollar amount
until all the all the cart addins are I thought we went through this last year. I thought we had that straightened up. Look, make them separate piece so much easier for and again I don't know how they do it. Made a problem. Made a problem. We didn't need to have a problem. It wasn't four
separate capital requests, but We could be moving no action on all four. Right. So, we'll see what happens. Yeah. I don't know. We may have and we t I talked about this last week. Do we have a sense of our our stance on some of
these? I think we we beat that last week. I don't know how we felt on some of the uh the the three green metal ones and some of the miniature ones as well. And didn't I hear where we going to amend? Didn't I hear there was a bit
of a uh discussion about the number for the K Cabota anyhow was over requested? Mark Ducey had a concern about that. Yeah, I'd seen a number request had nothing to do with
the quote. Matthew said she cared a a lower Mhm. quote amount for that Kabota. Yeah. So, I don't know if this if the district is planning too still pretty cheap offer lower amount. Yeah. If I go back to one article, I do
want to share a conversation I had with uh Mark today. Can we amend this 30? Is that back on them? That gets into are we allowed to Well, if that gets back, are we allowed to amend C or is it like the school budget
up down? Right. Right. Cuz we had that discussion last year too. Basically, we turn it down. There's no amendment per se because if we turn it down, they can spend what they want. If we amend it lower, it's not our bill technically cuz it shouldn't even
come to us at 30. You know, if it's 30,000, it's in your budget. We pay we pay 20%. And we pay the 20% as right. So, yeah, that wouldn't warrant an amendment then because then they can say, "Oh, well, you authorized the
payment, right? for $299.99, right? What to think about that one? We got a week to go. Talking to Mark about the uh just about the mowing thing. And the one thing that really hasn't been discussed because
this took place outside of us is that the increase to the hybrid department looking at schedule he's doubling the space he has to mow if not larger. His equipment doesn't reflect what needs to be done. And I he said
well I need to know a mo mowing schedule. I said you should be reaching out to Herb. They've got that mowing schedule they've used for 20 plus years. just ask how they do it. But you're using a walkbehind or whatever they use
now or the the zero turn over a space that's much larger than you need now. So perhaps your request for a mower should be larger, you know, and it goes back
to why then is somebody going over what you're mowing with another mower. So I did say to Mark Meg, this might be part of your discussion when you come in on the 19th with the construction thing where you know what's the overall plan for maintenance at
Lorton Burgess and really what do you need for equipment because you know the it's a zero turn like they use garish park all the time on the trail. Yeah. And you look at the garish park, the town hall, all the properties they're doing don't
even equal what they're picking up, you know. So I think there needs to say a little more thought about what we're doing as an overall plan with ground ground maintenance. You think they'll all hinge on a couple articles prior to that?
Could be. I think that colors our discussion about those articles, you know. school department has a mower they've used over there. Lead it. So, and that pretty much gets down to the end of the school things. And then after that, we have now your planning
board stuff. Well, we need a volunteer for 28. 28. 28. That should be uh I think the I think that should be Doug. Oh, no. It's probably going to be pretty
sure I would think. Yeah. Or that Jen Jen Jen bag. They've done them in the past. MLT has done them. Jen's done. Yeah, I believe they should. Yeah. No, that was that would be my preference. I would suggest that I was going to that
was the sole vote no against it. I would suggest and you should push it. Yeah. I I I would suggest that the butter this is going to be a difficult discussion because no one's going to understand what's going on here. Right. Technically, even though it's no money,
it's it's tough to cuz you've already authorized the purchase, right? Right. We've authorized the money the money from CPA. Again, it's just But these CPA ones take the most. This
could be bigger than the fire station will be there, right? And you consider this really 28 goes along with 29B. Yes. Yeah. The reason we couldn't approve the purchase of the lot is cuz the lot wasn't created at the
time it wasn't ANR of the of the previous town meeting. So the ANR is completed now, right? Yes. Okay. The lot exists now. All right. Anybody buy the lot that's
for sale? I have not heard. Wow. Nothing stays on the market. I'm surprised. Landing board. That's been up there for a while though. 3 years. That one on Allen Street went pretty
quick. I don't know. So, planning board, the question that has been kicked around is how does the how does a planning board recommendation, the text of the proposed bylaw get into town meeting
record essentially, right? How does it become uh properly in front of the voters? And according to Rose, um the motion can can refer to um a printed text of addendum of the
bylaw essentially the planning board report as long as we have um as long as we we refer to the text. So she's recommended having a handout, right? So, as long as we refer to that in the motion and the town clerk certifies that it is available at the
town meeting, it will be sufficient for the attorney general's purposes. I have posted copies of both of the proposed amendments online on the town meeting page um last week. So, it's there's about two weeks in the you know in the
public eye apart from the whole planned board process of developing the bylaw, having the public hearing and all that kind of stuff. So I mean residents did have the chance to to warn about it in Rose's opinion. So
um she thinks it would not be proper to do it that way. The attorney general would would be okay with that. Okay. Go back. We get the advisory theory financial us. So, it's what, 64
articles? 34 articles. All right. Uh, we got some liquor licenses here. One day liquor licenses. So, I have a the Hampton Senior Center for the uh
May 29th 6:00 to 7:30. This is for the river artisan learning throughout through art program event. a June 21st, Saturday, June 21st, 11:00
a.m. to 400 pm um beer and wine for a one day for art show reception. That's just the stuff left over from the June 20, Sunday, June
22nd for a uh this was surv weekend show. Oh, this was for the another art show. Weekend. That's the weekend. Saturday, Sunday. That's the weekend. Oh, yeah. Okay. And then the uh the August 23rd from 5 to
900 p.m. for a Looking for a dinner dance. Right on your calendar, Don. At the at the Hampton Senior Center. No. Motion to approve the four requests
from the C. Second. All in favor? I. Now we have the we have requests from the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Dance. Dinner. Dance. Nice. Entertainment. Yeah, we enterainment.
Fishing of Foreign Wars, uh, for a ladies auxiliary purse bingo fundraiser on May 9th, 2025, 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., what's purse bingo? I think you win a purse. I know St.
Michaels had the few months ago. Yeah. Change maybe. Oh, really? Part of the prize. Okay. Saturday and May 17th from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. a Jack and Jill party. Saturday, June 7th, 2 to 10:00 p.m. A what is this? Another Jack and
Jill party. I think it's funny. There are four Jack and Jill's all with different times. That's what I have earlier. We have a birthday party uh June 14th 3 to 11 p.m.
older adult. We don't know what we don't know if that's adults or not. Must be adults. There's older adult on here. Where does it say? Oh, not right there. Okay. All right. Uh, do we have the June 22nd 1
to5 high school graduation party? And that gets into our conversation. That gets into our conversation. That's when we already approved. That's when we already approved. That was the one that Yeah. Oh, that's last. Okay. All right. Then we had June 28th, 3 to 8:00
p.m. A uh Jack and Jill. You're a popular couple. Jack and Jill are really partying up here. I got a big hill to go up. Let's see. No wonder they fell down the hill. Motion to played. Motion
to we have a Saturday, July 12th, 1 to 6 p.m. a celebration of life. Is that really? Okay. And then we have a Saturday, July 26th, 2 to 10:00 p.m. Um, what is this one? Baby shower.
I don't think I should be there at 10:00 on the baby shower, but that's all right. That's just me. Baby shower. Dad got to be here. 2 to 10 baby shower. Okay. Then Jack and Jill is back with us
on August 16th from 5 to 11. The longest one. This these people are standing there 11. Okay. Well, I think uh Craig, you you saw that discussion with um you know, with the BFW. Yeah, I was online for
that one. Yeah. So, I mean, I think you know, we've had discussions in the past about, you know, different ages being there, but I think uh it was great having Laura in. It's time to rethink it a bit. And yeah, I don't see a difference between outside
and inside. I don't see a difference between not the pavilion or whether they're inside the That's why I think the point we made there. So I'd make a motion to approve the two seven eight nine requests. We're not doing the August 30th because
we don't have yet. Yeah. Second. All in favor? I I Okay. And then we have next thing we have is uh this is your consent agenda. We approve the release of the executive
session minutes. So for consent agenda yes basically uh but nobody can. So just to recap uh we take minutes every week. Sometimes they're executive session once a year. We're supposed to review and see if some are supposed to be released to
the public. Some may not be. Don has gone through the executive session minutes for the past year or so. I thought it was important to get them done before Craig left the board because many of them involved his participation. And Don, you have a a list that you
would suggest. Holding or not holding. So the holding first. So the holding I would suggest there are 528 24 624 24 72924
11625 1225 and 12725 because all those either deal with personnel matter or litigation that's still going on. We'll make that motion to hold those executive sessions without release
minutes without release. Second. All in favor? I and then the remaining uh I don't know 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I know there's about 20 of them. I'll make a motion to all their executive session
minutes in 24 up to this point in 25 as detailed by the chair be released. Second. All in favor? I and those are basically all our collective bargains. sausage is being made
around sure there'll be no uh selectable reports. I have one thing for the board of health board. No, still board of health. Uh we have uh the annual quote from Fabry Consultants for testing at
the landfill and this is in line with the budget we had in our thing. So total estimate 37800 for WJF authorization to go ahead with that contract.
How much? 371 378 the annual for the landfill testing. So moved. Any discussion? All in favor? I I have nothing to report. Thank you for coming back.
Right. We're not signing the U East Tavern thing until next. We're going to we're going to wait until here. Oh, we did have a permit for I didn't realize we did. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we got a permit for waiting for Bryant town
administrative report. Um, so we are still hiring for two positions with the highway department. Mark and I had uh Mark had scheduled two interviews that I set in on today um
with two individuals and uh he's we're going to be uh continuing to think about it and uh move forward with that. So um we still have this positions as of now. Um, one thing I wanted to ask the board
was in terms of um any sort of handouts for town meeting or an articles related to TWWB. Um, I shared that that one page document with the board. Um, is that
something that um go out beforehand or should that be something that's handed out at town meeting? I'd like to see it online as soon as possible. I think people, you know, it's a great recap and I think people walking
in as informed as possible is good. Have some there for handout. Yeah. But let's get it out there. Put it on post. Okay. Because there there was there was some concern that it was written in a manner that it was uh uh persuading uh attempt to
persuade voters to vote a certain way instead of being uh factually based I guess. Um but I'll read through it and I'll Well, I think the facts you presented in the cost of the upgrade fixing gear are evidence-based. Those are facts. Okay.
Yeah, we spent a lot of money with consultants and they told us the other thing just on town meeting real quick. I don't get anything else, but have we found if the um high school was bringing providing babysitters again babysitters for the town? Steve said he
could do it at 8:00 again, which uh only till 8. Yeah. And last time at least we started at 6:30. still wasn't bad, but seven to eight doesn't really do as much. No. So, is that is that still doing it? Is
that something we're going to advertise or not advertise? I don't think I think an hour gets it done by the time we check everybody in and stuff. I anticipate another pretty good Oh, that gets that's a good thought. We
have a big number in the thing. Um, is this company setting up for the second room? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We should I should have touched base on that. Yes. So, we're setting up the same as we did for the fall. Okay. Um, I did talk to Eva. Um, talk to Bob for who for backup personal. I I I talked to Rick and I
suggested that he should reach out to Bob. Reach out to uh reach out to whoever he wanted for the assistant moderator. I think he said Bob. Okay. Um, so that should be all set if if we reach capacity in the cafeteria. I talked with Eva this Those chairs are
still there. Oh, so speaking of chairs, so I did I did check in with Mark and we're going to uh uh he can trail over the these bluer nicer chairs over to the gymnasium. No, but actually that's a question. Are the chairs still there? Are the
auditorium chairs still there? Oh, the the ones in the cafeteria are still there. Right. The last ones they had borrowed from some other school. I thought the ones in the gym. Yeah. Right. The ones that were used in the gym are no longer there. So, I I checked in with Mark and his guys can bring over a load of Okay. I will just and I'm sure
Dan would say the same thing. Be careful what chairs you put on that floor. That floor is Yeah. very susceptible to children, right? Yep. That's why I was thinking these blue ones are pretty are newer time of year. Maybe the backup room could be outside where the uh going
to be. I'm all about annual meeting outside, but really speeds it up. sit on the grass on the hill. What they did during co that be so cool town they had it outside and we could be set up in the gazebo. Perfect. I mean
I'm sure they can set a baby outside. So yeah, extra people can just go sit on the first fairway and just watch us from there. Only if they have a membership. I checked So I checked with Eva. She was planning on checkin starting at 6.
Uh just to make it official, I heard there were two candidates for the special election that have turned in papers. So that's moving along. Uh just for information, I did talk to Jim Smith. We're both chairs of the two respective town committees, and we are going to reach out to both candidates to see if they're interested in a
candidates night. Oh, good. All right. Anything else to come before the board? Lauren Ryan. All right. Set motion to adjurnn.