U good evening. Welcome to our May 27th meeting. And I will call this meeting to order by reading our public participation uh at Town Hatfield Swickboard meetings. The Hatfield sweatboard welcomes everyone to its meetings and all other public meetings of the town of Hatfield.
All regular and special meetings of the boards and communities committees of the town of Hatfield shall be open to the public and shall conform to the open meeting law. Executive sessions are closed to the public and will be held only as prescribed by the statues of the
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from members of the community and conducting the required business of the Hatfield select board. For the public's information, this meeting is being recorded. I would like to start with announcements. I'd like to thank Diana
Sol for her years of service to the uh board and whoever uh my colleagues picked tonight as chair will have big shoes to fill and I know that it's she did a great job. So I want to thank
Diana. With that being said, I'd like to welcome our new colleague uh Luke Long Street to the board uh after a successful campaign. Congratulations and welcome. And I know that in the past with Diana and Greg, we've been able to
accomplish a lot of stuff. And I know with you, we we will continue to accomplish and and also be a board that can agree to disagree and have respect for one another. So, I'm pretty sure we can go on with that. So, congratulations
on that. My second announcement will be uh thank you to uh all the people that attended Memorial Day exercises. Uh thanking the veterans, the police department, the fire department, the schools, and all those folks that
donated vehicles so some of the older veterans could take a ride. So, I thought that was nice. And also, I want to thank all everybody at town meeting. I think we had a very successful town meeting. A lot of stuff got accomplished and hopefully this year all those
articles that were passed we'll be able to accomplish and get those items done. So those are my announcements and I don't know if Luke or Greg I have announcements. The only thing again just to echo what you said, thank you to
Diana very much for everything that she's done for the town and um I'm excited to be here and to be a part of this board. So wonderful. Okay. Now we're our posted business will be
uh the minutes which I'll make motion on. I'll make a motion to approve April 2nd, 2025 and April 29th, 2005 meeting minutes. Okay. I'll second that. A motion made. A motion seconded. Any discussion?
No. All in favor? I I. Motion carries. Okay, those are accepted. Now our our first topic will be to uh determine on the board rec reorganization. So we need first to uh have a chair uh for this
year and then we'll go to designated department liaison. So uh if any of you would like to entertain yourself at chair, you can put your name out there. I will put my name out there if if no
one else would like to be chair, but I that's all I'm going to say. So, it's up to you to decide. I'd like to nominate Ed as chair. Okay. Do I have a second? I will second that. Uh,
all in favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for taking that. I'll take on the chair. Now the next thing will be reorganization. So what we do here is we have uh determine who's going to be the
department liaison. is what the the Nissan does is basically act as a person to go to uh the department's head and deal with if we get a complaint from a resident or if the department had has a
particular issue he wants to be dealt with they have someone to talk to or go to. Luckily, since I've been on a board, I've only had a few instances where I was asked and requested to intervene in some situations. So, I feel pretty
fortunate. So, um, as far as reorganiz reorganization, I guess I think it should be fair, I guess, to go by seniority. So, if that's fair with with you guys. So, uh, for building inspector, Greg, you had that
previously. Yep. Do you want to continue in that or? Yeah, I can take that. Okay. So, Greg, you have I'll stick with that. Okay. Council of Aging. Diane, I had it before. Are you interested in that or I am interested in the council. Okay. So,
Greg, that's two. Uh, Department of of DPW. I mean, you gotten two. So, I'm going to go back on this side here. I'll gladly take DPW. You want to be DPW? Okay. Luke's got
DPW. Uh, fire department ambulance since you're both firefighters and you're acting on a fire department. I don't know that'd be a conflict of I'd prefer not to, I think. So, moving forward, uh, Luke will be recusing himself from anything uh, regarding the fire department. Okay. So, um, it's either
you or me, Greg. I'll let you decide if you want it or not. Yeah, sure. You want it? Okay. So, you got fire department. Okay. So, right now we have building inspector be Greg. Council of
aging is Greg. And you have fire department and I have uh and Luke has DPW. So, I don't have one yet. So, I guess I'll take police
cuz that'll even things up a little bit. Schools. You had schools last time. So, do you want schools this time? No. No. No. Unless Greg wants to get rid of it. Oh, no. I can keep the schools. I get along with them really well. They're
nice. You want to stay with schools? Sure. Okay. So it would just be for me if they have to meet during the day to to get over there. So the next two should be between me and Luke to make it fair because there's only eight of those and you already have uh what? Four,
right? Yeah. So Okay. So town administrator, I'll take it. Okay. We've got town administrator and treasurer collector. I give you the option if you
want it or not. Um, you can take it if you want it. Okay, I'll take treasure collector. Now, for the the three down below, I'm I will not take PVPC. So, um
I don't want I don't want Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. I I'm willing to take that. I worked with them on the comprehensive plan committee. So, I know a whole bunch of them there already. Okay. So the other two would be divided to be us us two.
Um do you want to get involved with capital improvement or do you want to go with uh PVPC FR FRTA I can stay with FRTA. I've been going to them a bit.
So yeah. So, I'm gonna take PVP PC and Greg's going to stay on FRTA. Okay. So, you'll take PVPC. Yep. And uh and I'll stay put. And you'll stay put. So, I will take capital planning.
All right. So, that'll that'll finish that up. All right. I'll motion that we accept the liaison as written. Second. Okay. Motion made. Motion second. Any discussion?
All in favor? I I motion carries. Okay. Topic two is a one-day liquor license. The Beer Guy LLC for one day wine and malt liquor license for a graduation party at the Hatfield Pavilion. Uh 15 Billings Wayfield,
Massachusetts on June 7th, 2025 from 100 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Any discussion? Well, looks like it's all in order. And and police chief's happy with this or he wasn't. We didn't have police chief. I
don't know. He never contacted them because it's private graduation. It's a private graduation party. So, it it was it's private. So, uh you guys are both got the license and there's I think it looks
good. Okay. Do I have a motion on that? I'll make Go ahead. I'll make a motion to approve the one-day wine and malt liquor license for graduation party of the Hatfield Pavilion at 15 Billings Way, Hatfield, Massachusetts on June 7th, 2025 from 1
p.m. until 6 p.m. Second. Okay. Motion made. Motion seconded. Any discussion? None. Okay. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Topic three. There is a request from the
treasurer for let's see I have it right here. Yeah, there's a request from the treasurer to uh increase the cost of municipal lean certificates from $25 to $50 because of time that's required in
order to do that. I don't know if you want to comment on what and tell the folks what a municipal uh lean certificate does or what it is. A municipal lean certificate is usually called upon when um someone's buying or
selling a home. So, they want to make sure that all real estate taxes or water sewer bills are up to date. So they check with the town and the town then gives them a certificate letting them know um what is outstanding if anything
or if it is up to date or if there's any leans or it might be in tax title or something like that. Okay. Thank you for the explanation. Uh any other discussion on questions on this? No. Okay. Do I I'd
like to entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the increase for the cost of municipal lean certificate from $25 to $50. Second. Okay. Motion made. Motion second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I. Motion
carries. Uh topic four will be a update from Andrew on DPW hiring. Very good. I'll keep this pretty short and actually it goes nicely into topic five afterwards as well. So um we have a
screening committee that was set up by the select board of five members and that committee is met twice uh once to review the resumes that have come in. Uh we received 11 résumés so far. Um and the the group read through those and u
selected a number of candidates that was interested in interviewing. also selected a couple candidates that they thought um rather than being interviewed by them makes sense to be interviewed by by this board uh a couple internal candidates who they think are are qualified and worth going right to select board interviews. Uh and after
some some screens they uh have a number of candidates that they think are are ready to be interviewed. So there's three right now um reserving uh the idea that it's it's possible that if we get one more really qualified candidate, maybe they'll want to send them to you as well. um they're ready to spring up
again if they need to. Um but we right now have three candidates that they'd like to send to you for uh your review. And those would be public interviews. So anyone who wanted to attend could because we're at the stage now where after preliminary screen um once it goes
to final interviews, those would be public and their names will be released to you. So I guess at this point we can uh put together some questions from from the board members on what we want to ask because we have to be a consistently ask the same questions to each each person.
So um I guess we can send you our questions and yes and I can put those together and and combine them as necessary and put them into basically a set of interview questions and we'll set up a date for the uh interviews. Yes. And after talking to to you and the
candidates, I'm recommending we uh do interviews on June 10th, which would normally be what our next meeting would be anyway. Although we typically only do one meeting in June, I think we'll end up with the two since um we we should do one just for DPW interviews. So, if we
do June 10th, it's a Tuesday. Uh and if you can do 5:00 PM, uh that would give us a little more time for them, but we could also do 5:30 if needed. Okay. 5 PM. Is that a problem? Either either one. That's good. Okay. So, great. Okay. We'll move ahead with that date.
Everybody seems in agreement. 5:00 p.m. 6:10. Great. So, I'll uh look out for questions from you. I can put together some as well. And um we'll have a I'm trying to think the
best way to look at questions in advance. I'll I'll put questions together and send them to you and you can get in touch with me if you have any issues, but I don't think it'll merit any any deliberation on them. I think we should be in good shape. If you send me any questions, I can put them together.
Okay. And we should um limit it to say a half an hour or something per candidate. That would be So that would be what 10 or 12 questions or something like that. Yeah, I think that should be good. Yeah. And then um would we be in a
position after the third interview to be able to feel comfortable with making a request to put an offer to somebody that night or would we have to then have another meeting to do that? Uh we'll put an agenda together if the
board agrees. Uh that would give you time to deliberate and choose somebody. Um you enter into executive session to talk about potential contract putting together. But um yeah, I would I would recommend that we um try to be ready to
make an offer that night. Okay. Yeah. Cuz everything's still fresh in our mind. So that's probably a good time to to sit down and determine our priorities and and I think we need to determine if the first candidate we select doesn't take
it, whether we want to move and offer to the second candidate. So that could be another discussion too to give us options. I agree. That's good. Would you like to have these interviews filmed pending availability of the HCTV director?
Well, it's it's been done in the past with anybody we're interviewing for a top job. Uh we've done it with the fire chief. We've done it with the DPW director. And I was hoping John is available. So you might as well Will you be available that date, John?
So far I consider yourself booked. So good way to introduce to the town that we're trying to be transparent and trying to make the right choice here. Agree. So I think that's important.
Great. Okay. I'll schedule them 45 minutes apart in case you know any of them go longer than expected and so no one has to wait too long. Perfect. We'll start at five. Good to go. And then we can try to see if we can come to a
consensus and make a decision. Great. I like it. Okay. Very good. So that was hinting at issue um topic number five for uh future meeting dates. So we will
uh add June 10th to this list. But in your packets you see a set of proposed dates. We have June 24th, we have July 15th, and August 19th. As we said, we we will plan to meet only once uh per month in summer. Um so July 15th, August 19th,
and then get right back into it with September 9th and 30th, and then October 14th and 28th. November 12th would be a Wednesday rather than November 11th, which is Veterans Day. So we're proposing we do the Wednesday that week. And then November 25th is the Tuesday
before Thanksgiving, but I don't think there should be any conflicts there unless anyone knows travel plans and we can definitely reschedule if needed. Then uh December 16th, we typically only meet once in December, so we've booked the 16th that needed. Yeah, of course. I
mean, I I'm I'm happy with all the Tuesdays. I know we have to go to one Wednesday, which I don't have a problem with. And of course, if anything important really comes up, we can always get together and find a time to get together, whether it be an afternoon or
something like that for any unexpected important issues. So, uh, anybody else have any concerns on these dates? The 19th is going to the August 19th date is going to be a little tricky for me. Okay. Um, would you need it a different
week or a different uh day of that week? I can realistically probably make it work. Um, if not, if we could just slide it back to the 26, that would work for me. I think that would be fine. Or the week before prior works for me as well. Any
preferences from this group? I don't the 12th. I mean, that's fine with me. What date is that? [Music] Yeah. Make me do the minutes. Mhm. That' be a 12th instead of an 18th. I would push for the 12th so that we have
meetings that are three weeks apart. Okay. Mostly three or four. 12 sound good. Works for me. Thank you. No, no problem. Any other concerns? Okay.
Sounds like a plan. One other question I I have for this group. Um some boards, you know, when they have a new board that comes together will do a select board retreat of some kind. They'll typically meet outside of like standard hours um to to give just a different um
complexion to the meeting where you just instead of taking up any of the normal business, you talk about goals for the year and and how the board intends to work together or anything else. I think that could be a good thing to do, but also in the summer months, you kind of have time anyway. we could build it into
your summer meetings uh to set goals and other things if that's of interest. So, something to think about. Um if we want to try to schedule another meeting um do it during the day or something else. Um but we could also build those sorts of uh items into your next couple summer
meetings. Well, we can do that. That's that's an option. or and the other thing is my colleagues can always send you some some ideas of what they think goals should be in the future and I guess we can make a
list of uh things that haven't been done yet so we can follow them up and get them accomplished um and that's not a bad thing. So whether it becomes a retreat somewhere or whether we work it in
somehow I I don't have a issue with it. I don't know your thoughts. Sounds good. We retreats are more uh effective in some way because it's informal and you can work on things and have thoughts
or I mean I we've had retreats like at where I used to work and it was effective but that was a larger group. you'd break it down into different groups and everybody would work on different things. So, I guess we'll just we'll just work it work at it and see.
Yeah, we can always start with building it into the agendas and if we feel like we don't end up having time or brain space or something else gets in the way of it, then we can schedule something else. Right. Yeah, we can work on that for the next meeting because right now we have a few things that are incomplete
that I know you're working on as far as getting contracts out for some of these other items that were voted on at town meeting and stuff. So, yeah, it can be a work in progress too, right? So, yeah. Good.
Okay. Perfect. So topic six uh we have under DPW report and this is uh an issue that had come up um reported to me by our highway superintendent. I've taken it to um former chair who recommended that we do have a a conversation on this because it
would potentially be a matter of policy that would affect some residents. Um, so the highway superintendent has flagged that uh we do have a a brush pile that's kept at uh the DPW headquarters. It's meant to be the service to to residents that they can leave brush they've
cleared there. Um there has been a lot more that's been left there than you would expect from just individual homeowners. Um it seems like it's being used by area contractors and others, but you know, we don't know for sure. Um, so one suggestion was to limit the the
times when that's available so that um we could just open it during uh regular transfer station hours, treat it like any other uh items being left transfer station, have folks, you know, check to make sure it's it's being left by residents and then move on. Um, so if
you if you open it at certain times, then they would have would the objective be to have somebody there to actually monitor to see uh who's bringing in what and or would it be just open and nobody to monitor? That's I think either you monitor or you can tell if there's like
something large that's being left at that time. If it's only in those certain hours, wouldn't be done after dark. Um that's one option. Um, another option is just, um, perhaps, you know, just have some, uh, cameras there or something and just monitor that way. And, um, we could
also put some signage up saying that this is meant only for residents. Uh, and that will send a bill to anybody who leaves too much. That's certainly something we could do. So, just wanted to bring it to this board to talk through kind of what the overall purpose is. Uh, and if you have any thoughts on,
you know, as a matter of policy, what would be good? I mean, on one hand, if you have somebody there to monitor it, if you have certain times, then you're ensuring who's putting what in there, I guess. I mean, it costs a little bit of money, but you're I mean, it does cost to get
rid of all the brush, right? We did have a situation a few years back where somebody put in dumbbells into the brush and it got put in the machine and ruined ruined the machine. So, I do think the convenience for residents though of
having it open so they can come and deliver brush, you know, outside of their work schedules and stuff is is important. I personally think I'd be more in favor of a of a camera system and make it part of a daily check for someone at the DPW. Just the drive-thru,
they see a large pile that's been dumped, they can roll the footage back and and either grab a license plate or if it's a contractor, a name on the side. But have have a sign made that, you know, says that we're going to
charge x amount of dollars per yard if you're illegally dumping. And then they get a bill and you're you this area has got a camera monitoring. Yeah, they used to have a camera I think years ago up there. I don't know if that's I think we
we have we have um we either have some right now or it's easy to get one out there. And Greg, your thoughts? I think it's I'd like to keep it open because if it's a contractor, it's probably being done during the weekdays. I wouldn't think a contractor would be dumping stuff during the weekends, but that's
when people like me who want to use that thing. You're probably going to want to use it on the weekends. And you know, if we're going to I guess we have to establish a fine or it just would fall under the dumping fine. I don't know what. Uh, I know there's a sign up there that it says it's for residents only now,
but I don't know how much more restrictive we have to be with that. We have Do we have to put a sign that sign says it's for residents? Do we have to sign Put a sign up there that says what it's not for? You can say there's a limit potentially. Yeah, I like the idea
of a camera. I mean, that that sort of probably is better because then you have a record, right? And I would say like my personal thoughts in terms of the dumping like what we could charge for it. I would say a flat dumping fee of
you know a legal dumping fee. Let's say it's already $300 or something like that. And then I would look at um like what other area disposal places whether it's like Valley Recycling or something like that and what they charge per yard of brushes and then that gets
assessed as well. So, if you had a contractor came and dumped illegally dumped 10 yards of brush, they'd get the $300 flat fee and then each yard, let's say we're going to bill out at $130, you'd multiply that by 10. So, they
could end up with a pretty hefty bill. So, you're talking a fee for penalty. Yes. Yes. A penalty fee for for specifically illegal dumping. And those fees, my suggestion would be, you know, if we happen to collect any, we use it to help offset the cost to be
able to grind the pile at the end of the year. Now then the question becomes if we impose a penalty whether that becomes whether we have to uh create a bylaw or we have to vote or come up with how do
we if we wanted to have a fee there's a process in order for to make that correct whether it be a part of our bylaws or part of our fee schedule I think I think the fee schedules we can vote on if we come to a consensus
as a board. Yeah. If it's to cover costs, then it's something that the the board can vote on at the recommendation of the department head. Um what we could do is put a policy together that would then live in the rules and regulations of the DPW, which are due for an update
anyway, and we'll be talking more about doing that. Um but we can put that policy together and just add it as an amendment to the DPW's policies, which is an appropriate place for it to live. And that policy could include video monitoring part of that policy, right?
So, so maybe that's what we need is to put a policy together to include fees and monitoring and and because we've always residents to to dump their their brush and and but if if contractors are
coming in, well, then I guess the question is, is a contractor picking up their brush from the residence? Well, that's a contractor taking a brush. side of town. Yeah. If it takes my tree down, can they bring the stuff up there? To my understanding, no. I pretty sure the way
that the sign that's up there already, it's for like there's no commercial vehicles allowed. Uh it just says residents. I believe I actually took a picture of it. I knew I'd forget. So that becomes the other question. Uh
if if the if there is a contractor picking up residence like your tree Yeah. Are they allowed to bring it there or not? My personal feeling would be no. That if a contractor is charging a a resident or a customer to be able to get
rid of that brush removal service, they should be fee disposing of it in a proper way. That's not bringing it to the townard. Okay. Yeah. But if anyone wants to, you know, any resident wants to bring their brush in their pickup truck and bring it over, I mean, I guess
it could theoretically be the same volume of brush, but right when you hire a contractor, typically you don't get to dispose of it. The contractor doesn't get to just dispose of it for free. The sign does say residents only brush only six inches. That's about Okay. So, but
it doesn't say no contractors, I guess. I don't know. Could be that simple, you know. could be that simple. Maybe maybe they're not being malicious. Maybe they just think they're doing the right thing by bringing residents stuff up there. I don't know. We because we don't know who
it is. We don't know what their thought is cuz it's not clear that you can't do that, right? If somebody were to ask me, I wouldn't know if my tree guy could bring stuff up there or not. I would assume he can because it's coming from my yard. So that's why it's important to come up with uh new guidelines that we
all can agree on and then we can post it. Yeah. So, I'm happy to work on that with staff and then the DPW liaison and bring that back here. Perfect. Good. First job. It makes sense for us to get the ball rolling at least on getting the cameras installed now and then we at
least have some sort of, you know, we can immediately have some footage to look at. Yeah. Yeah. I would say make sure they're good cameras, not like the bank cameras, you know, so you can see stuff at them, you know, not John's camera. Yeah. Yeah. Get pictures with get blurry
pictures. It doesn't help us. Any more discussion on this? Okay. Then we'll move to uh topic seven. I know the police chief wanted to trade it in his vehicle when he gets a new vehicle and get some money for it.
So, this was where this came from. Exactly. And this is something we've been meaning to work on for a little bit because um so Mass General Law um has kind of two uh paths you can take uh when it comes to surplus property. No matter what you need to be following um
NGL 30B, which is a procurement laws and the procurement laws say that over $10,000 you have, you know, strict procedures that you follow, including uh some kind of of sealed bids that you receive, which could include an online auction. We typically use the municip
system uh to dispose of property at that point uh once it's been declared surplus by the select board under $10,000. You can either follow that policy which is pretty prescriptive and timeconuming and doesn't always uh result in in the best
deals for for the town under under that rate. Um and doesn't distinguish between something, you know, with a $1 value or a $9,000 value. Um or you can have your own written policies. And what I've recommended uh is that we have our own
recommended our own policies that we adopt. And that's what's in front of you tonight as a draft. And it's certainly open to any um revisions, but this has been reviewed by town council and it's also been taken from uh adapted from some other towns that have a similar
policy. So, um, what you'll notice about this is it does mostly keep the the policy where we need to be, you know, advertising that something is available rather than have to post, uh, that it's available in the local newspaper, which isn't necessarily the best place to find things anymore, we'll post it on the
town website. We can publicize that more broadly as as needed. Um, and then uh we can um hold an auction if we want to. We're not prohibited from still using the municipal bid system, which has worked well for us on some items. Um, but we we have th those paths there. Um,
and obviously for anything over 10,000, we still will follow the 30B requirements. And if we think something only has scrap value, it it gives um the town administrator as the chief procurement officer the ability to dispose of that as as they see fit. Um,
and then we also would have the ability to uh sell or donate uh to a governmental or charitable organization at below market value if we wanted. Um, I had hoped that that could be a vote of the select board, but um, under Mass General law that would be required to go to town meeting because you're deciding
what to do with town property, which makes sense. Legislative body would have to agree with that. And then this other section that's added is exactly what the chair was talking about for police. Um, we could trade in a vehicle once we're done with it and we think it's less than $10,000, which would be, you know, more
convenient and probably give you as good a deal as you would get from a an auction. um and would just be an easy thing to do if a vehicle is already being replaced. Just trade it in for whatever the trade-in value is um at the time of purchase of the new vehicle. So that
would be allowed under this and it would not apply to real estate of course and would not apply to anything uh received through um civil forfeite through the active police department. Any questions? Nope. No, makes sense to me. Okay. If
there's no questions, uh, I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to accept the surplus property policy. Second. Motion made. Motion seconded. Any discussion? All in favor?
I motion carries. Topic eight would be now since we have that done uh the Ho Police Department is requesting that you allow the chief to make the 2018 cruiser available as
surplus for trade in a new 2025 cruiser that is being purchased through MHQ upon completion of the new cruiser. So um any questions before we move to a motion? Just out of curiosity, is this going to be in soon? Do you know? Um,
that's an excellent question. We we are still awaiting the quote uh for the new cruiser and they have not given us a timeline yet. All right. So, hopefully soon. Go ahead. But we'll see. Gotcha. Cool. Entertain a motion then. I'll make
a motion to delegate authority to the police chief to declare the 2018 police cruiser as surplus at the time it is ready to be disposed of. Second. Motion made. Motion seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion
carries. Topic nine. It would be to declare the 1929 Fire Buffalo Antique Vehicle Surplus and allowed to give to the Hatfield Firefighters Association. So,
we won't do the second part of that. I had draft of that before I realized that a town meeting vote was required to gift something um at below market value. Now the market value here uh according to our insurance rules is $1. So I think that the association should be able to
swing that if needed. But if they pay a dollar that that would be considered market value based on um our insurance roles. So, uh, we would be looking to for that motion to declare it surplus and then we'll go through that first process that was outlined here in which
we will post it, uh, on the town website and I assume we will probably only have one interested bidder. Um, we should be in good shape there. Okay. Any questions? Well, before we do that, what does the chief know that we're going to delay this? Um, it wouldn't be delayed.
We would start the process for um for for disposal. We just we just won't gift it tonight. But if we declare it in surplus, yeah, they won't be able to use it for whatever they're going to use it for if it's in limbo like that. Um they won't be able to have it registered or
anything. It's a good question. Um I I just don't want to like put it in surplus and then they won't be able to I don't know. I don't even know what if we want we can follow the same process we did on the police vehicle. Um I think if you declare it surplus um that allows us to start the process of of the disposal.
Um, I don't think they're planning to to do anything with it until that time. So, I I think you should be still safe. Okay. Um, it can still be this like it is now, I would think. So, you're requesting two motions on this. I I think we would just need the
first motion. We would not need the uh the second about the Hatfield Paris Paris Association. Okay. So, any more questions? No. Yeah. Like I said, as long as they can use it still, that's Yeah. While it's while it's in limbo. Make sure. Or
would you like you can use the text of the first motion to to uh delegate authority to the fire chief to dispose of it at when when it's no longer needed. It's ready to be disposed of. That was the Okay. Yeah, that's a good idea. All right. I'll make a motion to
declare the 1921 Buffalo Antique as surplus at the time it is ready to be disposed of by the fire chief. Sounds great. All right. Motion made. Second. Motion seconded. Any discussion? All in
favor? I. I. Okay. Motion carries. And we're holding off on a second motion or you're all set. Okay. We'll hold off on this all. Okay. Topic 10 will be executive session.
Um unless there's and we will not be coming back [Music] into So I guess we could move to topic 10 then unless there's any anything else
that popped up. Nope. Okay. So, um, I'll I'll make a motion we go to executive session. You know, they're all read. Present to MGL chapter 3A section 21A2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for
negotiations with non-UN personnel or conduct elective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-UN personnel, the treasurer cont collector contract. And we will not be coming back into uh open
session. Um, so by roll call vote I do I have a second? Yes, we have a second. So u Jorski I Long Street I Okay. Uh, thank you. And we're moving into
executive session.