I shouldn't be looking at it, huh? No. Yeah. Get your best side, Ken. Thank you. Man, I didn't didn't know that. Good evening and welcome to the select board of health meeting for September 8, 2025 being held in townhouse auditorium. Please stand for the pledge of
allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. We are conducting this meeting live in the townhouse auditorium. Also
broadcasting on Zoom and recording. Is there anyone else recording the meeting? Kristen, welcome. Good to see you. All right, Kristen Rivers from the Times is recording the meeting. Uh, so do we have any minutes? Nope.
Nope. Welcome back, Lauren. Oh, thank you. Okay, first order of business. We have a public hearing for National Grid every week. Every week. It only seems that way.
They're putting the polls in one day at a one poll at a time. They can't put any more in it. That'll be all over like you have to take one out to do. All right. So, anyhow, so who do we have online from the grid? Ken,
Ken Creel, if you would unmute him, please. Come on down. Rearen Hoffman. Reen as well. Oh, yeah. Reen Hoffman. Okay. I see two names. You got to unmute them.
Spoke, but it doesn't show unmuted. Oh, that's on video. Okay, there. There he goes. Hey, good evening. Ken Creel. Uh, you have two of us tonight, but Rearon's going to be speaking over the petition. If there's any other questions, I might be able to answer them as the local designer. Okay. All right.
All right. So, this is a petition for a joint poll on Chapen Road approximately. a mile a mile from the intersection of Chapen and Rockad Dundy. So that's the wrong
way to measure it like that's the other end. I'm measuring from Connecticut back basically right anyhow. So if I'm looking at this and one thing I really not crazy about Europe, it doesn't give really any
relation to anything we can recognize. So, okay. All right. There's the stro 380 shaping road. So, this is a pole.
Looks like almost a uh a long line uh you know mid pole, right? Or no. Ren. Yes, correct. So, this is a continuation. We had a a previous
hearing on Chapen Road or Chapen Road, sorry, and they had a rejected easement. This pole 58-25 was actually on the opposite side of the road originally. So, this was the request to move it back to the left side of the road on this map.
And it just looked like it's a pole for a long span basically as well, right? Because it looks like, you know, otherwise 200 something, right? Yeah. Correct. Okay. Um, do we have any response from Mark
about this? The highway today. He has no objections. Okay. Good. All right. And there is no there is no poll in existence already. This is a brand new poll, right? Correct. This will be a brand new
midband poll. Okay, done. I have no questions. Do we have anybody any of Butters or somebody asked a question? I don't even know what what it's about. What's going to be next to 179 South Road?
Okay. So, if you see right here and No, there's one pole. There's one pole. Put in a poll. Yeah, there's one pole. One pole here. That line is like 250 ft. Let me see where we are. Where's the road? This is the road. Okay. There's the road. And so we're going
So this is this is 365 right here. Okay. But I'm on South Road. Yeah. Right. Right. So uh where where am I on this map? You're nowhere on this map. I don't know why you got no It said I was on a butter. There's no way you'd be in a butter.
Okay. [Music] All right. There's a different pole. Either way, they're putting one cuz the stand is well over 200 ft. So they got I wouldn't care about a pole. I wouldn't be here if I thought I went home. Oh, good to have you, Bar. Thank you. No, no, don't leave. We're putting you
on a committee before you leave. That'll earn you. All right, I'll move approval. I'll second that approval. All those in favor? I I sorry to drag you guys out like this. Rear Ken, please.
Right. You guys, we appreciate the time that you guys give us. Right. Thank you. Get those double poles down. Didn't miss that one, did you, Don? Never. Nope. Just about a poll.
Did you sign yours or Did you sign? No, I didn't sign that one. Okay. My civic duty to my You want a cookie before you go? Oh, no. Thank you very much. I'm going to sign the second one. You're going to sign the top one. Okay. Ready? Yep.
Okay. Okay. Next thing on the agenda is finally getting electric power to wow. Next will be cable. Uh next is the senior center bathroom renovation project. That was that did go
out the bid. Brian's got some information on that as well, but that was part of the omnibus motion article last year we had for septic bathroom and roof and it was about help me out 205 210 something like that. Brian the whole motion
I think it was 140 140 for the roof the bathroom and the uh oh the original they've reduced it from 210. Right. Right. So the couple things here. So you see we
have three bids. Um the low bidder is Maroy Construction, the people who did the police station plus the addition to the highway building. Uh both good projects done under budget and on time.
However, however, however, the original estimate that came up was going to be like $15,000 for the bathroom work. And you see the low bid is 47. Becky did secure a $15,000 grant
as well. So, we have 30,000 towards it. There is a request into the friends to fund the difference as well as there also may be some savings from the septic part uh of a couple thousand dollars that
could be applied to it. Um there's no guarantees but I would think the friends they've actually brought it forward. Hey, could they help out? And so they need a formal vote to do it. The other thing is that this was an
omnibus warrant article, so there were no specific amounts in the motion. They have not gone out to do the the roof part yet. And as part of our next conversation, um that roof part may not be done right
away because there might be a more pressing need that would push off the roof until that was taken care of. So, there is enough funding in the warrant article to get this done. John, I'm going to go. I got a pack to go to Yellowstone National Park.
Oh, nice. Wow, Harry. Oh, nice to see you. You are tireless. Good job to meet you. We'll just vote you on the committee while you're not here. Okay, we'll let you know. You'll get a letter. Do you have any animals still?
I do. Well, I I don't. I have a dog, but it's my son's dog. What? What but he he had a he had a child and I he asked me if I could take the dog for two weeks. Yeah. And you don't want to give it back, do you? It's been I do. It's been eight months. Oh, good.
He didn't tell me which two weeks. Yeah, but while your wife was gone, I gave you, you know, my companion. That's exactly right. There you go. Nice seeing you, Brian. I've been a veterinarian 52 years. All right. But I retired two years ago. Congratulations. Yeah. Well, all right.
I'd still like to be there. It was coming down and that's why I left. Bye, everybody. So, in order to get the projects moving forward, uh I think we would like to go ahead and award the bathroom project at least to Maroy and get that moving on.
Now, how fast will they act on this? What's approved? I asked that because being who who's that? the construction company, the the senior center people, the construction company asked that because, you know, we passed a $12,000 thing to
take care of the asbestous in the fire department. It still hasn't happened yet. So, it's been a year. Yep. I anticipate that it will happen much quicker than that. Yeah. Okay. Again, their their work on the Don, you were here for some of the uh highway department.
Yeah. Yeah. They did a good They did a good job. Yeah. Uh, I'll move approval. Hiring Maroy Construction to do the senior center bathroom renovations. Okay. So, award the bid to Maroy. Second. All in favor?
I I Okay. Do you want to go on that? You want uh We'll touch on the other part later then. So, asbestous abatement, Brian. So, we put out to bid five
classrooms to abate the um existing tile and mastic. And we received one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We received eight responses for our request for quotes and I am here to ask the board to award. Um,
so what let me back up for one second. So phase one is five uh continuous classrooms. The the what's called the e-classrooms. Those are along the front interface in the building to the right in the front hallway.
And we also asked for individual prices based on common square footage of the room. What we're looking to do um initially is to do the five classrooms in phase one. Um there's some cost savings to do them all as one unit. That's all the front
front hall basically. Yeah. The uh us us and the three libraries. Three library rooms. Yeah. Those are that the flooring in that part of the building is is in the is in the worship even if it wasn't as best type thing. You'd still be doing the flooring. We would still be doing the flooring.
Yeah. Yeah. Um so this is both take it up and replace or are these just abatement part? Um so this is just the abatement part. So this doesn't put a new flooring down. It does not. Right. Okay. Um, and what I would and we'd like this
to be done in short order. So, what I would ask the board is that they would award it. So, Apex Abatement and Demolition is is the low bidder at 23,976 in abide is the second 27675. So, I would ask that if Apex can't do it
in short order that that we would be able to go to the next um next spitter. Yeah. I and Abide also has the better prices on the uh the square footage as well, right?
Cuz we did talk about, you know, the other rooms possibly if there was Did you ask them is there any difference the more rooms they do? Does the per room price go down? The per room price goes down when when
they can do um less containment units. So if the classrooms are separate in different places around the building, it gets more expensive. So the cost savings is really if you can do one envelope. Couple of these rooms here actually, don't they have the biffold between
them? And they're actually more like one complete. The last library room has the Well, it had the biffold, but that's that's no longer there. Oh, no. So what period of time are you talking about then? I mean because I've never
done any kind of split award type thing like based on well it would just be if if essentially if we can't come to agreement with Apex that they'll do it soon then we could go to the next could go to the next uh better so if they tell us well sorry it's 3 months from now then
yeah we have to use them I don't know it does seem ambiguous though and a word a drop dead time and you don't even know if could do it in you know a month or something unless you count him I I suspect they can.
Okay. But yeah, you're right. I I don't know for sure if they Well, I'd like to see either way done by the, you know, any chance you can say we want done within a month because you have so much work to do on top of it. I got to replace the floor.
That's what I I would ask that it be done within a month for sure. All right. There's a 10-day waiting period notification to mass D, but then you can go forward. Okay. Well, based on that, then I entertain a motion to award it to Apex contingent on them being able to finish
the work by October 10th, a month from now. If they cannot, then authorize the town administrator to go to the second lowest bidder on the list with the same requirement. So moved.
Second. All in favor? I you think that's way What what do you uh your question will they if if they remove it, will they be able to put the new floor down before the town meeting? Well, that's you have you gotten cost on
We talked about the different type I know you had some samples in Yeah, I have costs from Yeah, I have pouring costs. Um they should be able to do they should be able to do it almost immediately once it's bated. I know you talked about and obviously it gets into cleaning and maintenance stuff
like that. Um, I'm not a huge fan of putting rug down for a, you know, just because of the work to be done to keep upkeep and stuff like that. However, you may have had conversations with, for instance, the library where their rooms they prefer to have rugs.
So, is that ongoing discussion or do you have a heavy put to bed? So for the for the for the children's library space, so that big room that had use of the Bible, their preference is to have is to have carpet there
for kids on the floor. I have not heard or I haven't followed up with uh I haven't followed up about the Roford reading room. I don't know what they are looking for there. Is that going to be one of the front rooms too? Yeah. Oh, they weren't using the back one. Okay. I believe it's I believe it's one of
those front rooms. I'll have to double check, but that was my understanding. Mhm. And the other ones are offices which will just likely want to do the I think it's the LVT. Um it's the vinyl tile. Yeah. Which doesn't require the constant
waxing and stripping of the floors like those other tiles do. I don't just some of those like we've seen so much composits going at the home now that don't seem to need that much, you know, care in terms of like waxing
or whatever. the you know we looked at putting one in our you know our basement area just those press compod you know what I'm talking about you know it just seems like we're not talking hight traffic areas here where we're going back in stripping and waxing you know every other week or
something like that so [Music] y a lot more deals out there for that type of thing okay that's the tell us about the draft surplus property policy.
So, Mass General Law 30B requires municipalities to have a written policy for the disposition of surplus property valued less than $10,000. Um, and I looked to see if I could find
one and I couldn't find one in Laser Fish or anywhere else. So, figured we they're pretty boilerplate. I I mean the law requires there to be an open and transparent and fair process for the the disposition of of surplus property, but it it so the
policy requires that uh department departments would submit a list um to the town administrator and then town administrator would get authorization from the select board to to dispose of the surplus property. Had you done this before in weight at all or
Okay. The threshold used to be 5,000 which was a problem cuz a lot of stuff is Mhm. Yeah. 10,000 has to go out the bid. Is that it? Everything over 10,000. Yeah. It has to
There's been notice of sale. Are we going to have a lot of stuff? You think? Yes. Furniture and cabinets and stuff like that. Yeah. Um, I'll likely have a list for the board if this property is adopted. I'll likely have a list at the next meeting. And again, we talked about possibly
having a walkth through over there. Get a sense of what we see over there. Um, I'll entertain a motion to adopt this and replace if if applicable any prior policy for this just in case there was something that we didn't have.
So moved. Second. All in favor? Right. Crank in here. Local lodging tax. Oh, yeah. So, it's pretty standard. I know a lot of towns have that. A lot of towns have it. Um, so I I like to put it as a warrant article. I sent a
uh an email to the tre the clerk, the treasurer, the accountant uh advisory committee and the and the assessors um with some information about it. Basically, it would be a 6% excise tax on lodging. Mhm.
Uh and the and the town has no town has no responsibility. The the the uh person who is providing the lodging pays the excise tax when they pay their their the state already has a sales tax on it.
They pay the excise tax at the same time the state reimbures the town quarterly. Quarterly. Okay. Okay. And I need to vote by the town meeting. So I'd like to put it on the agenda. So add this to the town war. Okay. And I think I think I sent a
sample war. Yep. Great. And I I contacted the department of of revenue today to give us a list of the they they think that there's six places that they currently collect taxes from for lodging in Hampton. And they they I
as a list to us so you know what they are. Okay. And they got an email back today said they'll send it in a day or two. Mhm. And they do nothing at this state. So busy. They're so busy. So busy. Okay. I don't think we need a vote to put it on. You asked to put it on. That's on.
Yeah. Opioid settlement. So there's u similar to the uh previous opioid settlements there's um settlements between the states opio opioid manufacturers.
Um so these are not the primary manufacturers but the secondary manufacturers. I'm not sure how they define those, but um the state is entering into this proposed settlement agreement and um all of the subdivisions
of the state are eligible to participate, which means that whatever municipalities want to sign up, they can. We currently receive um opioid payments from settlements that I just talked about. It's not a significant amount of money. It's probably a couple hundred dollars.
Mhm. Um that we get. I think it's I want to guess it's probably quarterly that we get it. Um I'm not sure that the town has has used a lot of those funds to date. Um but wasn't there some proposal that from
Wilberham or somebody that we would also their funds? Well, wasn't that was also that uh that group at the high school I think it's called above the influence that we would donate some of the money to help them something like that. Yeah. I don't remember her name line who was from the school.
They didn't I don't think I don't think it went any further, but that was one of the suggestions. Oh, the coalition was it called? Yeah. HP4 coalition, but Yep. Yeah. There was talk about asking for access to those funds, but then I think that
that request fell away. I mean, obviously these are I'm going to say secondary, but the big money came from what's the name of the family that had the big sauce, right? For dual pharma. Yeah. do from So we need a This does not need to go to
town meeting. We've already This is just adding them to the list basically, right? Yeah. I just wanted to make sure it was okay that I that that you want to participate. Join Yeah, we want to join the settlement. All right. Yep. Done. I I move we join the the uh second this
is the I believe this is the second secondary manufacturer. Second man secondary manufacturer settlement second. All in favor? I conservation agent position. Yeah. Really? So this this I think this stemmed from
uh Don's comment at the last meeting about um Damn it. Whether um you tried to recruit that guy into somebody you recruited to to be the conservation agent. Well, kill the kid. Yeah. I think there's interest in doing that. Um,
was it Zeno? Yeah, good. Um, I I don't believe you can be the conservation agent and a member of the commission. No, but we'll look into that. Um, I I couldn't find the only job description I could find was a shared job description between Graanby and Landon.
I don't know if if that job description was ever approved by the board, but I'd have to draft a similar one. No, I think it was. I mean, it was approved by the board. They had a guy. They had a guy. There you go. And a grant. A grant. Gambby decided they didn't want to do it, right? But the description is
So, I'll just I'll just uh they got the word. Yeah. Right. Um and then if we want to approve that at the next meeting. Um Well, now we're into funding, right? Right. And I'll I'll see what uh I I'll have a conversation with Bonnie about what what funds she carried in the
budget. I know she carried I know there was some left over each fiscal year at least since I've been here cuz I think she budgets for a certain I believe she manually budget for the position I just don't know at what rate really okay
okay that's good with Joe Xeno yeah and there was it was a it was a conservation agent/storm water right that sound right probably use one of those too sound like he had a pretty good background for that so it's I said it.
Um, so he is interested. He I he did call me and we we talked a little bit. So, excellent. I'll try to get that job. We'll get that job description for next week. All right. IT upgrades. I think I mentioned before, I'm certainly going through it in my office. I've got 11 or 12 that will not
run Windows 11. So, I mentioned to Brian the other day that this planned obsolescence is gonna bite. It's working. It's working well. Um, typically Andre does on an annual basis show
the rotation of what they'd write like to replace. And was this part of it? And I'm guessing that maybe this was not totally in their plan or um, no, the ones that we replaced at the end of the last fiscal year were also non-compliant. So, we took the old we
essentially took the oldest ones. Mhm. Um, so those would have had to have been changed out as well. Um, but it's a big number to Well, we carry a number in there for replacement every year, but this exceeds what we would have thought would have been this year's rotation.
Yeah. Ah, by about $700. Oh, so that would leave nothing. You mean if we did this, it would mean nothing left for if something broke or Right.
So some of this is them doing the upgrade. The ones that are capable can go to 11. That's fine. Yeah. Labor for that. Yep. And then some totally need replacing as well. Right. So for 20,000 please. Well, at least we'll be going into the
Nth with some new equipment, which is good. Like like this one. The Nth. Yeah. Keep working it in D. It'll roll right off your tongue. You get a nice shiny new laptop there. Oh, that one.
DD select two. Oh man. Well, I have a I don't have one. You're not your machine is not I don't have a laptop. Your machine is not compliant. Says JF laptop. Huh? That's Jane at the accessories. No, there's a Jane Fantino laptop.
It might be Joanne. Oh, maybe Jane. J. All these JF people here, right? No, I never never took one. I don't have mine on here. You think you're the new one? You're on the front page,
am I? Yeah. I got like a brand new one, but yeah, I get one of these things here. Oh. Oh, got to give the abacus back. Nice. Yeah. All right. So, I going to have to learn something new. Could run mouse and everything. Yeah. Voice
commands. That'll be nice. Yeah. Hey, Google. All right. So, you need authorization to exceed thing or just you're just letting us know, hey, we it's not really much of a question here. We got to do it. I mean, we have, right? We can operate them, but they're not
going to get security updates. Right. Just a bad idea. It's a bad idea. Right. Um I'm not sure. We'll I'll go We'll go through this list to make sure that these are all Mhm. Again, like really need. But Right. Just like we went through the email list and found a few that Oh, by the way, these weren't even being used.
So, we cut that cost down, right? Yep. All right. So, we basically authorized the town administrator to go ahead and get this done. Good. Done. Make it so. All right. All right. So, now we got joint meeting
with the Hampton Wilberham Regional School District on the 25th. Yeah. But we saw a couple emails back and forth. There are people missing. I is it still happening is my question. Is that a member of the finance wasn't going to be able to make it? Members or sorry the finance isn't coming. Member
of the select board wasn't going to be able to attend. Member couple members of school committee weren't going to be able to attend and hearing that the Warham finance is not interested in coming. And I think that may not be
the best decision. And I think this is a good opportunity for all people to get involved and have a good frank discussion without really locking yourselves in. There's no there's no downside to going hearing what other people say. So if the school committee would be
interested in pushing it off a couple of weeks so that other everybody who couldn't attend can attend, I think that might be prudent. Maybe they get the finance to to attend. I don't see a lot of value if one fifth
doesn't come. That's unless they change their mind in the next two or three weeks. Considering they're the ones that have the most questions about you start the conversation long before the thing happens. We don't want to be
11th houring it. So want to keep it on our radar and keep working the I don't know the high road with the other administrators. That's good. Right. Go ahead. Can express our concern about the Yeah. We want all all parties to be at
the table so we can have a good open frank discussion rather than the smoke filled room on we typically have right. What? What? Have a cookie here. No. Right on the mic.
[Music] Um, what else we got? A couple of questions I wanted to bring up. This came up uh today. Somebody asked what we're doing uh with the the dumpsters because the fire department actually
uses the town hall dumpster. Really? Yeah. I mean, rather than paying for a separate one, they just walk it down and so and there isn't one. the school department took theirs with them when they, you know, left the school. So, there's not one over there. So, I guess
they had talked about, okay, we're going to shift Mac over to the building, which will leave this one without one. So, at some point, we'll have to go ahead and book them a new dumpster or say that one's actually probably too small for the building we're going to have over there. If you remember, the one
they had on the side of the building down was like probably a 10 or 15 yard at least. Good truck. They could they got a truck. They got a pickup truck. Could bring it down. They could take it up on Tuesdays thing. Yes. That's something. The other question
that somebody asked me, these are crazy little things that fall to the crack. We talked about the tree. What are we doing for the tree lighting ceremony? We're going to light the gazebo up with a new tree. Oh, tree.
Oh, right. Now, I will tell you, well, no, I mean, that one's only been here a year. So, I wouldn't be surprised you could ask a guy, can you still transplant that? It's not huge. You can buy trees bigger than that. I wouldn't be surprised if they could like move that over there.
That was a little beat up. That was a little beat up. Well, we heard about that, too. Ate the bottom. It's going to be the same thing over there. Those guys are everywhere. But something think about it. If we're still planning to have an event this year, are we going to do a trade? I mean, they'll have those maples right
along the uh parking lot that we take one of those down and put that there instead. So, we do have power at the gazebo. So, it's possible to I got a 40footer that I light every year. I could drone coverage from your place. I don't
think you get all the way to the top. Yeah. So, that's little things. All right. Any correspondence? Nope. Sure. Uh, selecting report like to thank the fire department for or sorry the
fire department association for inviting the select board to their annual fire roast a steak roast. Um, and it's always good to thank them for all they do, especially the call guys
and women. Um, planning board meeting is now shifted to the end of the month. Uh, nothing on the agenda for this week. We had a senior center building committee meeting this morning attended by Brian as well saying Brian fill in if I missed
something. One of the major topics came up is that the next phase that was talked about the town meeting was replacing the windows. Since that time it's been more apparent that the HVAC system of the senior center needs a lot
of work up to replacement. Basically 25 years old. um quite a bit of problems with it. So Gary has gone out and got a preliminary estimate of what that type of money is. They would like to
uh put a placeholder on for replacing that while they're going out and getting a formal number for at this point. The other part that that ties into what I mentioned before about the roof is that working with the people that came
in and looked at it, replacing some of that that cuz that's up above, you know, there's a drop ladder in the ceiling uh may require access through the roof to get to some of it. So that's why the roof project would be pushed back a
little bit. What that also would mean, that's why I talked about the cost that when you push things back and down, we saw that with the highway building thing when the cost doubled when we went up. It may mean that if we don't do the roof project, if this gets approved, gets done, then the
roof is, you know, a few months after that. By that time, the price that they had, like every price we see nowadays, is not much good. So, so bottom line and Brian chip in they would like a article in the fall town
meeting warrant to talk about replacing the HVAC system. If there was a guest to it, it would probably be between $200 and $250,000. I think the preliminary number they had for it was in the 190 something like that. And that's that wasn't that was
just BG mechanical coming in and walking through it. Yeah. Most of that is cost of goods basically and I can speak to it because that's part of our business. Those things have shot through the roof. Uh Brian and Becky and Gary will be looking at if
there's any energy grants out there for that type of stuff. That may be fortunate because those things are getting much much more efficient nowadays. That's it for me. I got nothing. Brian, make it quick. We can set a record here.
A question. We got a question. You want to take a question first? You want to talk about pickle ball? Really? How's that working out? Do you have a paddle? Actually, they're enjoying it a lot. And we've got we're trying to transition people over into the team reach room.
Really? Okay. They're having a great time. So, it all worked out. There's a time schedule and everything worked out great. Yeah. Good. Team reach has changed some of their time slots to accommodate it. Okay. So that people aren't doing Wednesday morning our classes and then dealing with a class on Wednesday. I
mean with the regular play. So it's Wednesday cuz Don and I are making a select board team and we're willing to take on almost anybody. Are you When I say almost anybody, we mean reckoned with, huh? Are you a force to be reckoned with? Do you need a paddle?
Yeah, we're pretty experienced. Yeah. Yeah, sure. My mother used a paddle in the old days. Maybe that's it. Yeah. What was your question? So the question is when we're looking at roof repairs, replacements, whatever, do we look at solar?
We kicked that around and we'll just speak back to say we're not paying anything. Yeah, but I mean I thought the whole thing about the solar thing was all about the subsidies and I thought that there was a lot of talk they're going away. I think there's potential for that for sure. Yeah.
you know, everything we read that whether it's rolling off in Washington that the advantage of doing roof solar and I hear from people, you know, there's horror stories all out there. Oh my gosh, when they put that in, they didn't flash around it. Now it's leaking
in and you know we've had great luck with it but with anything that could be done. Mhm. But grants are number one the best fiveletter word out there not solar and grant right
cuz typically you don't have to pay it back and there's your money. After 5 years we are breaking even with two electric cars, electric stove, electric water heater. Five year breakin break even. Yeah. Yeah. Took to pay it off and now we're very clear.
I think that's what a lot of things when I talk to people at solar that's the part they don't mention is the fact there's an extra cost like oh my electric bill went down. Yeah but now you have this other bill on the side you're paying sometimes that you know you're paying for the equipment on the
side but the bill went down per se. So their whole Yeah. We bought so Oh you bought it. So, right. Yeah. But the other people who don't, you know, they're actually they're just seeing the electric pile go down, but they don't, you know, they're offset with the other part. You got to look at how much it's going to what's coming out of your wall at the
end of the month, right, Brian? All right. Speaking of grants, um, wow, Mark, can I put together the LEAP grant, whatever stands for local something planning assistance grant? I forget what it stands for. uh with from
MASDOT to um for funding to uh study the Summers Allen Palmetto Goam Road intersection to the traffic study and conceptual intersection design also including the main and uh Summers intersection as well. So to include that whole area.
Mhm. Um as part of a traffic study to to try to rethink or or find improvements that can be made there. um warrant articles for the fall town meeting. Um the deadline for those are September 15th.
We are current the town so the fire department's currently advertising for the fire lieutenant position vacancy. That's uh back to warrant articles. Yep. Didn't we get a notice from the highway department? They'd like to talk about just an email about a new loader
just to Yep. There was an article uh proposed. Okay. I did talk to talked to Joanne. They have no thoughts. Nothing from planning for this fall. Yep. Um police car police.
They haven't they haven't, you know, really come forward, but I'm I'm surprised. I think we should be talking about that. I mean, we didn't do one in the spring like we typically have one in the budget. They do have a couple that are approaching 100,000. [Applause]
So, and I think the chief did say delivery was pretty quick. Yeah. Um, so we're looking to filled the fire lieutenant position and also uh PD's still looking for a full-time officer.
Um, so I forwarded to the board the revised quote for the uh special town meeting that doesn't include the overflow room in the gymnasium. Um, I would recommend that we go forward with it at this point. Um, but I think we should
do six grand, but I think we should. Yeah. And I don't see an overflow happen. We're talking about now. No. So, I'll get that. I'm going to go ahead and put down 9:15. Oh, that's the other question. Do we start at 6:30 or 7?
6:30. Right. I thought it was dark early now. It'll be getting dark early. No. October. Yeah. You You'll be You'll be Hang on. fob back. Okay. And you got you got to get the lighting
too. Yeah. That wasn't wicked expensive though. No, that's not a um last thing is uh the facilities manager started today. We met for 3 hours about TWWB. Um Mhm. We got a uh very uh comprehensive
to-do list that I need to organize that a little bit more then I'll share it. Um we had good discussions. B&G Mechanical Perb also attended the senior center building committee meeting as well. So y B&G mechanical was uh was there
looking at the the the well issue um as it related to sort of the heating component of the building which has been resolved. So, um, you're getting Herb a phone, right? Yep. Herb will be getting a phone. We'll put his, uh, his email is what? Facilities.
Facilities at handmma.gov. We'll we'll blast out his phone so anybody can call him with anytime. Anytime. That's great. A plane in the tree, something like that. Absolutely. Um, IT upgrades. So, we had some uh funds available at the end of
last fiscal year to uh buy some of the IT equipment that we needed. So, uh, we'll start with those improvements, um, September, probably the week of September 23rd, probably. Speaking of money left over, could you get a a reading of where we stand on
filing for free cash from running into Cliff and he was like this, my last day is the whatever it was, 30th. 30th. available for questions, but that's they're supposed to there's um they
should have that next week. I'll just let me put it that way. Okay. Yeah, I I don't have a a good idea about what the number is at this point. No, I mean not asking for because that can be people take that out as a as golden. No, just off the cuff. There there's a process in place that
will get it done next week. Mhm. And then the work, how much do you apply the tax, that type of thing after that, you know? Right. And with the it's not too early to ask the assessors as they're advertising for
their extra person, are they going to be on the same schedule? You know, with Jane stepping up and working towards the tax rate, that's a lot on her for her first time, you know. Yeah. You know,
Yep. That's going to be a push. I know that Kelly did say she was available to answer questions. She's got a lot going on too, obviously. Right. So, and the other component for at TWWB is the what? The other component at TWWB component.
Oh, NTH. Sorry. Forgot we renamed it Nth. Um is to try to figure out how to uh cool the uh the office spaces that don't currently have cooling. Um Herb's going to be working to bring a couple people
in to Nth and the senior he's going to bring somebody over to the senior center as well. Can you move the ones from here or once I mean I know they're older but is there any um that's at at this point? Um he believes Yes. And that would that would be the plan.
You pick up three or four there. Yeah. Yeah. We could have I believe there's one, two, there might be four outdoor units and probably double eight, seven or eight uh base inside. So that would that would be a significant cost savings depending on on that cost and depending
on what happens if anything happens with the the earmark that's in the state budget that's on hold. Um we may need to ask for some additional funds for that depending on how much that is. Um, well, your timeline stuff, I'm concerned
about, you know, a how quick you get the flooring down. So, if you're not getting the floors ripped up, worst case, you know, middle of, best case, I would say middle of October and then you got to hire somebody to go ahead and put new floors down at that point. So,
I think realistic realistic date is probably early November, the middle of November. I think I think that's where we're going to land with the payment that's needed in the flooring. You know what? We talk about that town meeting date and the early time. I think I think we ought to say, "Hey, the
building's open for a tour at the same time, right?" You know, maybe if sign is this office, this is this office, this is this and just really get people worked into this is where you're going now. Here's where Eva's going to be, here's where the selectman are, you know.
Way in the back. It's like board. Yeah, right in the back. Yeah, right in the back. Yeah, we're behind park and wreck and library. Nobody cared. Okay. Anything else to come before the board? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor?
I Wow. All right. Wow.