talking. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Uh I am going to call our board of selectmen meeting for Tuesday, March 10th to order at um 6:01 p.m. And we will start with the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> All right, just a few announcements. Um,
this meeting is being recorded by the local scene. Anyone intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting should notify the chair at this time. Uh, financial assistance applications are available on the town's website or by calling the selectman's office. Um,
for anyone interested in volunteering, there are several vacancies on various committees and boards. Uh, to see a complete list of the openings, please visit our website at kingstonma.gov. Um, Kim, you don't know any offhand what's still open. I know it's we always
have finance committee, >> capital planning, finance committee, affordable housing trust, community preservation committee. >> All right. >> Commission on disabilities. Trying to think. Those are the ones that come top of mind.
>> Okay. And as I've said at at all of our meetings, if anybody is interested, you know, reach out to anybody who's serving on any of the current boards. Again, you don't have to be an expert in your area. just be willing to listen, to deliberate, to, you know, make um intelligent decisions. Um, you know, be
open. Um, that that's really it. You just want to be willing to serve, you know, your town, your community, your neighbors. Um, that's that's why we all do it. The pay isn't great. We don't do it for money. Um, but you do get a lot back. But if there's something
specific you're interested in, specific topic or area or you have a concern, just let us know and there might be an opening that would be a good fit for you. >> Right. All right. Uh also, please check our website for any additional events or notices. Uh again, it's www.kstonmma.gov.
Um our annual town meeting will be held on Saturday, May 2nd at Kingston Inter Intermediate School. Um our warrant for that uh will close on March 24th. So that's two weeks from tonight. Um also very important uh nomination papers are
available in the clerk's office for the annual town election. So the last day to obtain nomination papers is March 26th. Um the last day to submit the nomination papers um is March 28th by 5:00 p.m. Uh you can use the Dropbox outside the
townhouse. Uh the last day to object or withdraw would be April 14th. Um the last day to register to vote in the annual town election is May 6th. Um and then the last day to request a vote by mail is May 11th. And the annual town
election is May 16th, 2026. So in years past, um I can't remember when it was last year. I think it was also in May, but in years past, we have had the election during spring vacation week. So that's not happening anymore. So hopefully we'll get a good turnout. Um, anything else to add about nomination
papers or elections or any other announcements from the board? Okay. Um, so at this point we'll do open forum. Um, did anybody want to speak at open forum tonight? Just go ahead and introduce yourself. Go ahead. >> I'm good.
>> You're good. Okay. If you Yep. Uh, good evening. I'm Holly Nigelli. I'm the director of elder affairs for the town of Kingston. I'm here to share some exciting news with the members of the board of selectmen as well as the residents of Kingston. In your board packet, you will see a letter that I
sent to Chairman Cone dated February 18th asking the board to accept a donation to the Council on Aging from the estate of Virginia Barbara Potter in the amount of $50,000. Barbara, as she was known to her friends
and family, passed away on November 8th, 2025 at the age of 94 and was a resident of the town and country community. She proudly served stateside in the women's army corpse during the Korean War, enjoyed a successful career in the
information systems division of Stop and Shop Grocery Chain, and was a loyal Red Sox fan despite being raised born and raised in New Jersey. At the senior center, we knew Barbara as a quiet, peaceful bridge and bingo player who told it like it was and didn't mince
words. She was always friendly, respectful of other people's opinions, and generous with her time and her bingo winnings. In February 2024, Barbara donated a smart TV to the senior center, which is currently hanging in our library.
As directed by Barbara's nephew and executive of her will, Mark, the donation was made, quote, as sincere thanks to the Kingston Council on Aging for the support, services, and sense of community you provided to Barbara during her time living in Kingston. Thanks to
her generosity, we will continue to do that for many other Kingston seniors for many years to come. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. And we're going to vote on that in a few minutes. Um, anybody else here to um, uh, speak at open forum?
No. Okay. Uh, on to our appointments. The first one is, uh, John Bartlett, the chair of the 300th committee for a parade on July 25th. Um, as part of Kingston's 300th celebration. The committee is looking to hold a parade in Kingston on July 25th. Um,
John, the floor is yours. >> Good evening. John Violet, 428 Elm Street, chair of the 300th committee. Um, I'm coming to you tonight to get approval. U, we need a letter from the board of selectmen approving the parade and the route. Um, as we know, pretty much any road you go on in Kingston's a
numbered route, so the state has to have their say. Um, I've been working with the administrations from the police and fire departments. We've come up with the route and some uh detours. I don't know if you I did submit them. I don't know if you've seen them. So, I'm requesting that the board of selectmen approve this
for the um parade on July 25th. All >> right. Any questions from anyone on the board? >> Would anybody like to make a motion? >> I move the board of selectman approved that on July 25th, 2026, a parade will be held in the town of Kingston to
celebrate the 300th anniversary of the town and request that the chair sign the letter to the state that they will not be held liable for any damages to local roads caused by the increase in traffic generated by the detour. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> I like that one.
>> I really like that one. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Because the parade's the biggest problem on state roads, right? >> I know. All right. Next item is uh uh police chief um Chief, are you here? Yep. You
wanted to um >> hiding over there. >> Provide a formal introduction. Good evening, Mr. Chairman. Members, uh, Lieutenant Detective Scoa is going to provide the introduction and then I'll provide you a program update. >> Okay, perfect. >> Thank you, sir.
Thank you all first of all for having us. Uh, I want to thank you for calling that virtual meeting last week to officially appoint uh the clinicians to the team. And tonight, it's my pleasure to introduce you to them. Uh these two outstanding professionals will be serving our community as our newly hired co-response clinicians uh with the Kings
Police Department's family services unit. First, I want to introduce you to Kate Eldridge who brings more than two decades of experience in the fields of mental health, substance use treatment, and forensic counseling. She previously was employed as a clinical program director overseeing a multi-disiplinary youth mental health team. She has
previously worked alongside law enforcement as a police corresponse clinician providing onseene crisis intervention and diversion services. Kate holds a master's degree in mental health counseling and a master's degree in criminal justice from Suffach University. She's dedicated much of her career to crisis response,
trauma-informed care, and helping individuals access treatment instead of entering the criminal justice system. Next, we also have Gabby Cohen, who previously worked as a co-response clinician in multi-town assignment similar to our program. She was responding with police officers to crisis calls, helping connect
individuals and families to behavioral health resources. Many of the police officers she worked with have joined her here tonight showcasing their support. Gabby has extensive experience in mobile crisis response, addiction treatment, and clinical counseling, and she holds a master of social work from Simmons University. Her work is focused on
helping individuals in crisis stabilize in the moment while ensuring they receive the support and services they need afterward. I also want to recognize that they'll be working closely with clinical supervisor Caitlyn Liry and Kingston Police Sergeant Ryan Coulter, who has put a ton of work into making this program operational. Both of them
are extremely excited to welcome them to the team and continue building the program together. The addition of Kate and Gabby represent a major step forward for our community. This corresponds model allows trained clinicians to work sideby side with police officers to respond to mental health and substance use related calls, helping deescalate
situations, connecting people with treatment and diverting individuals from unnecessary involvement with the criminal justice system. Their work with our unit will also extend into additional outreach with Sergeant Coulter. Before I hand it off to Chief Holmes, I wanted to pro provide uh to provide an update on the family services unit. I want to make mention of how
excited all of us are, not just the family services unit, but all of us are to work with Gabby and Kate. Their experience, compassion, professionalism will have a tremendous impact not only on our department and our residents, but on all five communities they'll be serving. Please join me in welcoming Kate and Gabby to the team.
>> Well, if they stand there, they're going to have to talk. That's the rule. >> What would you like us? >> Just try like can Gabby, can you stand on this side and you stand on this >> and then we'll get the picture down to
the big flag. Okay. It's only one page. Uh so the clinicians, Kate and Gabby, uh yes, uh we are very excited about that and uh once again, I want to thank the board for your support in this initiative. Uh this will benefit five
communities including Kingston. Uh they spent uh the first couple days here going through some orientation with learning the department, learning the people, learning the policies, and getting used to how we do things. Uh they've met with uh the fire chief today. We're scheduling them to meet with um other members of the Kingston
Fire Department. They're visiting the partnership departments throughout the week. Um they're going to be meeting with uh Plymouth County outreach. Uh they met with the Marshfield clinician today who's got an active program to compare some notes. Um we're going to continue until you know the program
rolls out on Monday uh fully operational. We're going to continue with partnership outreach. Uh some departments have liaison that are assigned. Uh some departments uh will h handle it directly through the chief of police. Uh they did meet with Silver Lake staff and the guidance at the high
school and the middle school. Um we are going to be working with uh reaching out to Sacred Heart. The program is operational effective Monday. The intermunicipal agreement, one of them has been signed for Halifax. Uh Hansen has approved theirs with a final review
by council which is also our council. uh Plimpmpton and Carver, they have a different council and they are awaiting final review from council but approved the IMA's pending the final review and we anticipate a signature for this board at the meeting in two weeks if you have
room on the agenda for us. Um that is the update for the program. If you have any questions, we're always happy to answer. I just want to say um thanks again for thinking outside the box um you know in in partnering up with with uh
neighboring communities um you know especially uh once you started going through the recruiting process and realized you wanted both of them um we found a way to make it work and I think um uh work even better for everybody just to have the the double coverage. So
um you know we we appreciate it for sure. >> Thank you. and getting the grant. I know getting grants are not uh an easy thing to do. Um especially in a time of disappearing money, so keep up the good work with that. >> Yeah. No, it's certainly worth the work
and and um you know, it's um it's it's the way that we have to get by, >> right? And I I hope the public realizes that as well. So, I mean, we're we're able to do this with um you know, grant money and and partnering up with other towns so that that Kingston was not um
you know, bearing the brunt of of this. So, um, I think it's huge. Any other questions or comments? >> It's okay with you, Mr. Chair. I'll just have both of the ladies say a quick hello to the board. >> Sure. >> Good to see you. >> Official.
>> Thank you. Congrats. Oh, >> yeah. Welcome again. >> Welcome. Good luck to you again. >> I know. >> All right. Oh, we get it.
Yeah, Chief needs to come back up. >> Um, Chief, >> you're up again. >> All right, folks. So, the the next the next item on our agenda is to discuss the and possible authorization regarding use of lot 456.
>> Wait, no, you made the update from the police chief. That >> you already did that. >> Oh, okay. Never mind then. >> Yeah. >> So, so we're up to number four. So, discussion and possible authorization regarding use of lot 45-62 6 Maple A by the police department. >> Um, so Chief, I'll give you the floor on
this one, too. >> Thank you again. Uh, I put it up there as a discussion item. You're certainly welcome to make a motion if you want. Uh, it's I didn't put a suggested motion in there. Uh, I was motivated to put in for this request uh last week because I saw what the storm did the week before.
It was a circus. There's nowhere to move the vehicles to. Um, and we are completely out of space. Y >> uh in order for us to be able to safely and effectively plow the lots, we have to be able to migrate all the vehicles out of the lot. U so we were using the front lot, uh we were using the access road. There's nowhere to put them.
>> I did research on the grant with the assistance of the um assessor and she pulled up the sheet. There were no restrictions on the use of this lot other than the fact that this supposed to be a fence between the abuing property lots. Uh it was deed to the
town in 1911. A school was built there. Uh a school was at some point raised and it's basically empty grass space with a few trees on it. Uh it's space that we actually need. So I'm seeking the board's authorization to have authorization for use of that land. If
we do end up trying to pave it, which I can assure you we will provided there funds available, uh we'd go through any of the hoops that we'd have to jump through in terms of uh conservation, water runoff, or anything like that. So, can somebody explain um do we need
to go before a town meeting on this um >> to repurpose the land? >> Yeah, >> I would think so. >> I It depends on who whose custody it's in and then depends on if in and I think they did a little research on it whether
there was any sort of deed restriction on when it was given to the land, given to the town. Barring all of that, then it should just be up to the selectman. If it's in your care and custody, just another piece of property. >> Okay. >> Can I ask question? >> Yeah.
>> This is the piece of land where you had folks park when you did the haunted house at the police station. Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. I just wanted the pictures. It's hard to tell cuz it's all >> one big snowbank. So, there is an access road there. It's uh reclaimed material.
So, it's compacted reclaimed asphalt and it's there's a lot of potholes in it. I had discussions ongoing with Mr. Turner. Um, he had intentions on trying to find a way to get some uh whether it's leftover uh chapter 90 money or something to give that an actual asphalt
top coating so that we can get in there without having to put the vehicles in four-wheel drive because there's no no safe way in or out. Um, and every time it gets plowed, it just gets further beaten up. So, without a coating of asphalt, uh, it's going to continue to be like that. But um then I you know we
had this evolving discussion and and Mr. Turner seems to believe that we might be able to find enough in the regular operating budgets to pave the entire lot uh if we have the authorization for use. So, um, in in Brian's email to, uh,
Trisha, um, he did mention that when we we did this with the range property, um, we held a discussion, um, and then we, we had a public, um, a second meeting seeking public input. So, we could do the same thing, do another, you know, do a public hearing, um, and then see if
anybody any neighbors have anything um, that they want to say. This isn't going to be a range, it's going to be a parking lot. >> Right. Right. So, >> seems to me that this is a piece of surplus land that the town owns that
it's doing nobody any good. I, for one, would support 100% of it becoming used by the police department instead of just sitting there as a piece of land that neighbors can dump their trash on or
whatever. So that uh I would like to see us consider voting to authorize them to start. On the other hand, I don't want to see us spending $100,000 to get the piece of land in shape for the police department.
>> All right. So So what are the thoughts? Do we want to make a motion? Do we want to um ask for a um I I don't think legally we are required to have a public hearing, but >> do we need legals approval that we have the ability to repurpose the land
without anything else? I mean, you said you didn't think we needed >> No, it's I mean, we've looked with the and I think uh the chief's worked with the town planner on this and looked at see that is actually okay. >> A piece and it's obviously obviously something we've been using. My only
recommendation would it probably would be good to meet with the neighborhood >> before doing anything just to make sure that they're comfortable with it. >> Fine. I'm I'm good either way. I don't mind having the neighborhood >> buy in. I'm also fine with moving forward the way that Carl suggested. I'm
good either way. >> I'm good either way as well. >> Yeah, I'm fine just moving forward. So, on >> I'll move that the I'll move that the board of selectmen approve the police department using this vacant piece of
land. >> Second. >> Uh, any discussion? All those in favor? >> I >> That sounds like 500 to me. >> Well, thank you very much. >> If it needs funding to be paved though,
that's a different discussion. >> Of course, no problem. Uh, no. Like we said, we'll jump through any hoops that we are required to jump through for any kind of water runoff or anything that we need to look at and I'll certainly have a continued discussion with the town administrator on that. >> Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you, Chief. Uh, next item is approval of a one-day liquor license. Uh, Widow Maker Brewing. Um, Kenny Simkin of Witty Widowmaker Brewing is requesting a one-day liquor license for Punk Rock Flea Market
located 101 Kingston Collection Way in April 18th from uh 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. Any questions, comments, or a motion? >> I don't know. Their their brewing name sounds dangerous. >> I know it. Uh, I move to approve the request from
Widowmaker Brewing for a one-day liquor license for Punk Rock Flea Market located at 101 Kingston Collection Way on April 18th, 2026 from 12 to 5:00 p.m. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> That's unanimous. All right. Next up,
uh, winter storm afteraction report by the emergency management director, Chief Douglas. Welcome, Chief. Good evening. I'd like to just give you a well, it's not a quick update, but it's an update on this uh the winter storm that they
named Hernando. They called blizzard Hernando uh from a couple of weeks ago. So, to start off the weather description, the snow began late evening on Sunday, February 22nd, became heavy with high winds in the early morning hours of Monday the 23rd. Snow and wind continued along with higher gusts
through the late evening hours on Monday and into Tuesday. During that time frame, numerous power outages occurred due to the heavy snow and high winds. As we all know, these conditions also caused several down trees and limbs. Travel conditions became difficult with
many roads impassible for periods of time during that day. Uh on Monday and into Tuesday, the tides un uh fortunately I should say the tides were not a concern for this particular storm. So, streets, trees, and parks
department, uh, affectionately known as highway, uh, along with water, sewer, and facilities began storm operations at approximately 10 p.m. on Sunday night, and continued day and night at some level through Monday, March 2nd. At 6:00 a.m. on Monday, February 23rd, winds and
snowfall rates increased significantly, making it difficult for crews to keep up. In these cases, in this case, I should say, the highway superintendent was required to adjust roots, um, equipment that was on routes and all of the things that you can imagine to
accommodate a heavier snowfall, which in many cases approached 4 in an hour. Those adjustments of tasks uh, continued through Monday of the following week. Throughout the storm, the department
operated and/or supervised 11 dump trucks, eight town pickups, three large loaders, one small loader, seven skid steers, commonly known as Bobcats, one trackless snowblower, brand new, by the way. Uh 32 private contractor vehicles.
Posttorm cleanup was also assisted by the Vermont Transportation Authority through MIMA. They provided three 10 wheel dump trucks, three front end loaders, one pickup size, one pickup size vehicle with a plow. These assets were used to remove snow at intersections and their operational
period was Wednesday through Saturday. On the public safety side of things, both police and fire departments were very busy during the the storm. During the entire operational period, each experienced difficulty in responding to calls for service over snow covered roads, around obstructions, and under
low hanging wires and trees. excuse me. On occasion, there were response delays, but we responded to every call for service and assisted each other wherever possible. And I think that um is something that's important important to highlight. Uh all of us,
whatever we were called on to do uh called for service, police and fire made sure that even though there was a prioritized call or a slight delay, we responded to every single call for service within this community for that period of time. Staffing at the fire department was
increased beginning Sunday evening at 6 pm and continued at varying levels through Thursday, February 26th. Each station responded to numerous emergencies within their assigned geographical areas throughout that week. On Tuesday morning, additional staff were recalled to assist in the
relocation of town and country mobile home residents who were without power. On the police side of things, they increased staffing Sunday evening and continued at varying levels through Tuesday, February 24th. At the height of the storm, patrol units were brought into the station for safety and
responded to multiple calls from there. Along with their many other duties during the week, the PD assisted in relocating residents at town and country, managing traffic for snow clearing and supporting the fire department where needed. Our public safety dispatchers were hard at work. They received and dispatched all police
and fire calls for service as well as assisted in the coordination, excuse me, of emergency responses with the highway department, Eversource and other utilities. Our dispatch our dispatchers handled about 300 calls in that operational period with 105 on Monday
alone. Staff was not added in this area. As we all know, we are in desperate need of a police station and that area of dispatch simply does not allow um additional dispatches to be placed in there and work efficiently. So, uh it was the police chief's decision not to
add and that was a completely sensible decision. They would have simply been banging into each other. That makes it very very difficult to hand an in handle an incident like this with two people. Our facility staff also hard at worked worked with the highway department on snow removal throughout the storm and
cleared sidewalks and entrances to town buildings in preparation for reopening on Thursday. Posttorm, the facilities department coordinated snow removal from the library roof, evaluated building conditions and coordinate yes coordinated necessary repairs.
Communication with the public. Here's a couple of places where um during our meetings, we've had a lot of discussions on what's the best way to do this and how often. Smart 911 calls. The initial and second notifications were informative, but additional updates
throughout the storm of this throughout a storm of this magnitude may be helpful. Certainly as needed emergently, but perhaps one per day with simple storm updates similar to what Sean does on Facebook we thought would be appropriate. We don't want to overuse that media. Uh but I think in a in a
storm like this a once a day update is reasonable. Social media in that area we can improve upon that a little bit. We can assign one person in an alternate to post on uh the official town pages uh social media and the website.
Eversource often a bone of contention if you will in terms of their storm responses. In this case I would categorize their response as very good. A large amount of mutual aid assets were mobilized and staged early. The emergency operations center and community liaison programs were
activated at the appropriate time and function as planned. Response by the field crews once the wind diminished was relatively quick, even though it often doesn't seem that way. Unfortunately, several circuits, including the one that controls town and country mobile homeless states, were
damaged to a point that required extensive work and extensive time. Going forward, KFD and KPD staff will receive, including dispatch, will receive training on the Eversource Municipal Hub. That hub is a website that allows us to enter the outages directly into
the hub and prioritize allows the emergency management director to prioritize those within the hub without having to make 100 phone calls to do so. >> Uh, MIMA uh also activated the OC in a timely manner and mobilized assets a lot
quicker than they have in the past. And this um proved to be very effective. Requests were made early by us uh in the storm when we learned that the statewide mutual aid resources were available and that also was helpful in getting the
Vermont folks here reasonably quickly. Through our rep at MIMA, we provided a list of assets that we were requesting. Those assets were entered into the web EOCC, which is the statewide um system for requesting assets through MIMA. Once
that's entered, uh, it goes through the MIMA system and is approved at varying levels and then those resources are assigned. The Vermont transportation assets were here again Wednesday through Saturday. That was a result of those MIMA requests. The National Guard assets
also requested through MIMA to help us evacuate or what we believed we were going to do was evacuate or relocate the residents of town and country. Uh, two trucks, four soldiers completed their assignment on Wednesday. They were here for Monday through Wednesday roughly.
I'd like to extend a special thank you to Representative Kathy Lanatra. Not to be political, but Kathy uh was very helpful in pushing some of my requests through MIMA as quickly as we possibly could get them pushed through. Um she did help me avoid a couple of glitches
or hiccups in that system that are unfortunately in place and they're aware of. Um things often get bogged down in approvals. Um, and if your piece of paper doesn't make it to the top of the pile, well, things are slower. And, uh, Kathy was helpful in getting the piece of paper to the top of the pile. Red
Cross sheltering was not necessary in this storm. If it had been, uh, it would have been at the Silver Lake Regional High School. We do have to have some continuing discussions on how that gets cleared, how quickly it gets cleared, and so forth. Typically, sheltering is done posttorm. Uh, I'm not a big fan,
nor is the Red Cross, of sheltering pre-torm, um, because you're kind of creating a hotel they may not need. And the school administration does not care for pre-storm because they want to go back to school. So, if you don't need a shelter, they don't want you to use it
if they can help it because that shelter cannot be operated at the same time the children are in school. So, that's something that a lot of people are not aware of. Um, and certainly she has uh Jill has made me aware of that on several occasions. So notable events that happened during the storm. Uh we
had two generator failures. Uh town hall and the COA. Uh both were as the result of snow blowing into the air intakes. The one at u the town hall has been repaired and is in service. The one at the COA will require some additional
work and that's um in process by the facilities department. our fuel pumps for some reason didn't like the generator brand of electricity they were using I guess and uh they stopped working midstorm and then later on came back so
we're not 100% sure on why that was but I would like to thank the deputy fire chief Adam Hatch um when that happened I asked him to quote unquote handle it um and he did he he went uh met with Scott and did everything he needed to do to
get three facilities in town that were able to sell us fuel and we could operate the vehicles. Uh we had a plow driver on Monday in the area of 59 Grove Street that was struck with a large tree limb that came through his windshield. I'm sure you most of you saw that striking his seat near the driver's
legs. He was very lucky man. Shaken but not stirred as he told as he told one of our guys. Um and that story made regional and national news. Town and country resident relocation as I mentioned due to an ongoing power outage. Um, we used the National Guard,
police, fire, uh, resources, cleared walkways, assisted the residents to the clubhouse and where they were sheltered in place until the power returned later that evening. The Sacred Heart Gymnasium, the newer building to the rear of the Sacred Heart
High School, collapsed on Tuesday. Um, we believe that was largely because of snow, but without um, an autopsy, so to speak, um, it's tough to tell exactly what caused that. It seemed and we were having this discussion today. Very unusual circumstance. That building has
been snowed on for years and never had this type of failure. So very interesting if you're interested in that stuff. Um one thing that this is a real uh a little emotional I think for a lot of people. We had an elderly gentleman who
was blowing snow um and went into cardiac arrest. A bystander performed CPR and uh he's now recovering. Um that bystander saved his life, no question, uh and did the appropriate care until the station two crew got there. Uh he
was transported to the hospital and he's recovering. So in summary, uh we had afteraction meetings with uh police, fire, all of the stakeholders. Um and we've come up with some recommendations here and there. Uh some stuff internally we need
to do. You always do that after a storm. You find some stuff you can tweak. Things that went well. communications, often a strength and a weakness, although our departments did communicate very well with each other through the storm. The new townwide radio network uh worked pretty much flawlessly as we had
hoped it would. That was the one that you funded through the CARES Act three years ago. I lose track. Uh but that was flawless. That was perfect and that did everything we hoped it would do. Um the coordination between public safety, highway, other departments was excellent, whether by radio or cell
phone. Evource response was good. MIMA provided resources quickly. So those were all very good things that happened in the storm. And I think for those of you who were looking out the window, you could see that it was challenging. Um but I can't commend highway water facilities and the
contractors enough. That was an amazing job. Excuse me. things that need a little work. Communication, as I said, always a plus and a minus. Uh we can do some work uh to get better at that. Um losing the internet as a result of the
generator, losing the internet and the phones uh as a loss of the generator town hall was a little challenging, but we got over it. And the same with the town fuel pumps. So each of those things um require a little bit of work, but there is nothing that we found in our response that was huge u that we would
say, "Oh my god, we screwed that up." Um there's always going to be the little things. So for future storm preparedness, a couple of side notes. Um remind everyone that FEMA asks that you be ready or self-sufficient, I should say, for at least 72 hours posttorm. I think this storm proved to us that there
are going to be times when while as much as we try, we can't get to you. That doesn't make us comfortable. It doesn't make us feel good, but it's a truth. It's a fact. There are going to be times where that's difficult. Um, please be aware of that and we're doing our best.
Finance, hold on to your seat. Um, we submitted an IDA, an initial damage assessment to um the state for $440,000 for this storm. Um, is that the real cost? subtract out because we added in
intentionally some costs that I think FEMA will take out when the time comes um or that they won't want to fund which is the straight time for our employees that will work in regularly scheduled shift during that time frame and stuff but the state is looking to meet a threshold um so we were helping them
along with that at least through the IDA uh so in closing I'd like to say thank you to everyone um some of the people that don't get recogn recognized after some of these storms are you folks. Um the boards, committees, residents that
provide us with the equipment and the staff to do this kind of work often go unnoticed. Um it's always, you know, Facebook posts about fire and police and all of us doing out out there doing all that fun stuff. Um but all of you make a huge contribution to this effort and I
thank you all for that. >> Thank you, Mark. And and I just want to say thank you to everybody. I mean, we have such, you called them out. You said our our department heads and and the staff um did such an amazing job pulling together. Um you know, I think we're
lucky to have great leadership in in you know, fire, police, highway, water, like you said, facilities, all of our departments pulling together and all the staff working together. And it's not a competition, but when you look around other towns, we certainly fared uh
better. And we and we typically do through our storms. Um but you know these afteraction um uh reports um are phenomenal that you know we go through and we analyze what we did right, what we did wrong, what we can improve. Um and and and that's why um we're lucky to
have you guys in these leadership positions because you're able to you do these things and and and I know working knowing you guys for so many years and working with you um you guys really take these jobs um very much to heart. Um, and Mark, I know you do. I
mean, we talk about roads that aren't good and, you know, we can't plow them and you're like, "Well, guess what? I'm I'm going to go to whatever, you know, house we need to go to." >> Yeah. So, I mean, you take your job seriously and it and it and it's um very appreciated. >> Thank you.
>> So, thank you so much for everything you've done for the town. >> And he can't say it this way, but I will. We have an outstanding emergency management director in this town. >> Yes. >> And he will not get up there and say that, but I can. And I can say thank you for all of your hard work and communication and coordination. I and I
know you can't be when you're out there, you can't be on Facebook, social media doing all of these things, but you keep the people updated that need to know and hopefully they can push out information. >> We'll get better at communication. But
Kingston is better off because we have people like you. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. I you may probably don't feel it, but I appreciate I appreciate the thanks. You know, I will say this and I very rarely will get emotional in public. Um but I
will say this to you, saving that gentleman's life made it all worth it. >> Yeah. And you all know why. >> Yep. >> Um it just makes it all worth it. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys.
All right. Um, next item is acceptance of a donation to Council on Aging. We heard about that earlier and I actually wanted to read the letter. I just had it up and I closed it by accident. >> Oh, here it is. So, I just want to read this quick letter. Um, very short. Just
please accept with great appreciation a donation in the amount of $50,000 to the Kingston Council on Aging from the estate of Virginia Barbara Potter, a former Kingston resident. Barbara was a weekly visitor to the senior center and directed that a portion of her estate be donated to the Kingston Council on
Aging. Um, so with that, would somebody like to make a motion? I'd like just like to make a comment before I don't know if anybody knows or if Holly was still here I'd ask her but $50,000 I would hope number one I'd like to know
if there were any restrictions a lot of times when you get >> saying no >> I asked Holly >> no restrictions okay then my I think that's great my second comment would be I would hope that this would be used on
on an ongoing basis for what I would call almost special things that I would hate to see this $50,000 used over the next year to supplement an annual operating budget, something like that. I think that I I would like to see
that it's somehow used over a number of years to benefit the current res current people that visit there or to do something special as opposed to just
using it as a supplement of the budget. >> My only thought. >> Yeah. You want a motion? >> I think Scott heard that. >> Yeah. Um, >> yeah. >> All right. >> Yeah. >> I move the board of selectment accept the donation of $50,000 to the Kingston
Council on Aging from the estate of Virginia Barbara Potter. Thank you. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. Uh, next up, uh, recommendation of 2026 transfer station sticker fees from Streets, Trees, and
Park Superintendent. Um, so we do have in our board materials a recommendation from um uh for some of the changes. Uh, Sean, did you want to >> Yeah, good evening. Uh, just here tonight to talk about the uh the sticker fees. I know we went up on them a little
bit last year, but unfortunately with the way the budgets are and everything increasing, we need to talk about going up on the fees. I know I've talked to some of you guys and I sat down and had a discussion with Scott. there's some money we need to incur and the way to do
that is raising the sticker fees. >> You know, you have to have the users paying for what's being used. >> Um, we're going to be looking at maybe a three-year plan to increase to make it so it's almost self- sustaining,
but this is the first year and, you know, it's not much, but we're looking to go up about $20. Also, what we were looking to do was um eliminating there was so many different age ranges in there. >> It just got f it was just hard to track. It got foolish.
>> Um why there was ever it is what it is. So now we're just looking to make it 65 and over >> is the same rate as veterans >> and eliminating the 62 to 65 that was there before. >> We've had this discussion with other departments as well and similar discussion that we had last year and
probably the year before that. So >> I I have a quick question though. Is this a um I don't know if this is a typo or not, but in the when you have the 25 to 26 and then you have the 26 to 27, most of the numbers are the same, but the regular you went from 1312 to 1512.
>> Well, what what that would be is taking that 62 to 65 range. >> So, taking the residents that were 62 to 64 aging out, >> they would now become the regular stickers. >> I got it. Yeah. >> So, we would just take and again, it's estimated. You don't know who's going to come back the following year, but
>> the math major >> just throwing out some numbers there. So, >> math major for the win, >> you know, by these increases. >> But some of the people from the other range will >> it could generate another 116,000.
>> Yeah. >> Just from these increases, >> which >> we don't raise fees lightly. Everything is getting more expensive. We had a conversation with the shelfish constible about this exact thing is it's like we need >> we need to get away from subsidizing
budgets where we can, >> right? >> And actually having the users pay for the service. >> Well, as it should and that's what a lot of towns are gearing towards. >> Yeah, >> it's either that or some of the discussions we've had about pay as you throw, >> right? >> Is moving in that in that. But that's still we're still having discussions.
That won't be this year. >> Okay. But we'll continue to have discussions on that and some educational sessions for residents to come in and hear from. We'll bring in Todd from D and but that's just another avenue. >> I I do have another question. So the one
thing that stood out to me was mattresses in box springs going up, you know, 50% up to 60 bucks. Does it cost that much? And the reason I asked, so >> I have a sticker for a town in Maine and mattresses there five bucks. So I took like six mattresses from here and took
them up to Maine to >> Well, for instance, I mean it it costs us they're going up to 50. They say it may go up to 55. >> That's crazy. >> So we have to you you get have to make a little bit on it. You still got the employees that are dealing with it taking them off a car stacking them. >> For instance, like Scott and I will look
in the town of Plymouth is 75. >> Wow. >> Mhm. >> I think the town of Hansen was 70. >> So we're we're still below them. What? What? >> I believe in Whitman it was also up in the 70 area in Abington. >> Are are we going to I mean that's one of
those things that you see you know thrown in the woods. I mean are we having much of a problem with people disposing garbage like we it was happening a lot behind the um on Rabbath Road and back in the woods. Not anymore. >> No. Because we're in con we work with the conservation agent. >> Yeah.
>> And if and the police department a lot and uh monitor in those areas. Yeah. >> And if we find there's an area these cameras. >> Oh, good. >> We're setting out trail cams to catch people. >> So, no, the uh the illegal dumping has gone down >> quite a bit.
>> That's great. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You're still going to find it here and there, but it's not >> Yeah. >> These simple increases aren't going to cause any more. >> Yeah. >> And if it does, >> we'll catch them. >> All right. Any other um any questions? >> I was trying to look in the budget book,
but I can't move that quickly and there are no tabs. Um, how much is your budget approximately off the top of your head for the transfer station costwise? >> How close with the sticker fees? >> Well, no, in general, like what's the total? >> Oh, it's uh 815.
>> Okay. >> Okay. >> Give or take a couple thousand right now. >> We're still over 200,000 short of actually paying for itself. >> But not not necessarily. You're probably looking at about >> What do you think's going? >> You said almost six. You said eight. I think at the end of the day, we we looked at it and there was still going
to be a deficit and that deficit would probably be about 200,000. >> Yeah. >> Cuz we're trying to sort of bridge that 300 over that threeear span. >> Correct. >> Yeah. We're trying to bridge that like Scott said. >> That makes sense. I'm just curious. >> I just >> because the other thing like we discussed is we've already caught Monday
night overtime, >> right? >> We know we can't bring that back this year. >> We've already cut the chipping down. >> So, it's either we raise these fees or what's the next thing we do? We have to stop cutting either days, close another day, or
>> cutting some of the services like stop taking mattresses, stop taking stuff that costs us. >> So to keep those services to the residents, it's >> we have to go up on the sticker fees >> and we're talking about three people that work there. So there's not a lot of ability to cut.
>> Yeah. You really can't. You got you have three people and you need all three up there all the time. >> Exactly. Because usually during the week two are driving or one is driving and two are on the ground or if two have to drive then one from highway has to go up and fill in on the ground because you always have to have two. >> So yeah. No, this to cut somebody up
there. It wouldn't >> No, >> it wouldn't work. >> No, I just for the benefit of everyone, >> right? >> Good to know. I I personally think the fee increases are very reasonable even though bottom line in the the general
stickers it is a 20% increase 116,000 against a 589,000. I think it's very reasonable. Um my attitude uh towards town government is I'd like to see a lot more things be
self-supporting and I think one of the objectives here is to get this to self-supporting over a period of time. So thank you. >> Yeah know it's not something Carl that we wanted to hit all at once >> right >> you know we had this discussion with Keith last year and it was trying to do
it all at once >> would have raised the stickers almost to 340 >> from 260 or 240 in one year. It was just too much. >> Nope. >> As long as we keep the senior citizens at, >> we'll keep them somewhat reasonable.
>> Hey, we still pay full price. >> I mean, you can compare it to curbside, too. No, I think maybe a few of you guys have the curbside pickup and that's climbing as well. That could be anywhere from $40 to $60 a month. >> Yeah. >> Keep going up. It's up to Mine Mine
started at 45 and now it's like 72 because I got $18 fuel sir charges and >> Right. So you're looking at that could be $7 $800 a year. You can't get rid of half of the stuff that you can at the transfer station. So >> interesting. >> Mhm. >> Okay.
>> Any um other comments or a vote or motion? Uh, I move the board of selectman approve the fee recommendation from the superintendent of streets, trees, and parks for the 2026 27 transfer station sticker fees. >> Second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I.
>> All right. Thank you, Sean. Thank you. >> Question about this. >> Um, sure. >> For my constituents of the town of Kingston, why would >> name and address, buddy? >> Oh, sorry. Will Kushman 273 Main Street King Mass
for my constituents? Why for the people who who I'm trying to help in this town recently? We my main focus is the >> Hey, hey, Will. Actually, I'm going to ask you to hold this till our next meeting at an open forum. >> Yeah.
>> Okay. >> All right. Um so our next item is recommendation from shellfish constable for the 2026 shellfish fees and regulations. So uh we had discussed this was it our last meeting or the meeting before?
>> Um anyways um uh the constipal had recommended reverting back to 24 prices. Um but then we discussed minimizing the number of categories and and whatnot. Um after that meeting um the constable met with the office and discussed removing
all the different categories and recommendation is as follows with uh residents 50 non-residents 125 and then 62 plus a $10 discount. Um Dan, did you have anything else you wanted to add? >> I just I don't know how he got away with
only 20. No, I'm just kidding. >> You want to bring your stickers up to 260? >> Uh no. Um, I think basically we we're just here to revisit the fee schedule, the the rules and regulations for 2026, which haven't really changed other than
um the state has reclassified each area and and I've detailed that on the map that I gave you guys last time I was here. So, >> basically, um, we're just here to get the approval and start selling stickers to uh, licenses tomorrow. >> I have a question if you that's okay.
Yeah. So, I love the fee schedule. I think, you know, we've been working on this for a couple years. The only concern I have is the 62 plus veteran discount. I would like to >> increase that amount to 20 >> because
we made a huge jump in their license fees. So, that's just thought. >> So, instead of 40. >> Yeah. M >> just looking at their prior ones, I felt like that was a big jump. >> Just a conversation.
>> Um, >> yeah, >> we'll tell you that. >> Oh, sorry. Am I not loud enough? >> No, I'm usually way too loud. Sorry. >> No, I can't hear you. >> I'm glad I turn my mic off so I can project. Um, >> the She was suggesting the discount be
$20 off instead of 10. >> That's fine. Yeah. >> Again, we're taking care of the seniors, right, Kyle? >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> No, I'm off of that. >> The only thing I don't love is 62 and 65. Like, we're not we're still not
quite aligned, but >> that is what it is. >> Why not just change it to 65? >> We put a lot of thought to that, but >> Okay. All right. >> Good question. Good answer. >> So, do you want do you want to make a motion with your change? >> Sure. I move the board of selectmen
approve the fee recommendation with a change of the increasing the discount for 62 plus and veterans um by $20. So increase the discount to a total of 20. >> Yeah. >> Can you hear me over there? Sorry. Um and
from from the shellfish constable for the 2026 shellfish licenses as well as accept the new regulations and map as presented this evening. >> Second. >> Did I say that right? Uh, any discussion? Do I call those? No. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And Dan, when those 70 year olds come to complain, you can just send them our way. >> Yeah. >> Thanks, Dan. >> I got it. You got my number >> one. >> Michael.
Michael. >> No, you have to. >> Jesus Christ. meaning laws. >> Jennifer Kushman, Main Street Kingston. As for the mattresses, that might not be a bad idea of getting rid of the mattress part because I've always I
can't lift those things. So, I've always had the paper when I buy a mattress, I pay to have them take it. >> So, it's cheaper. >> It's cheaper and it would save us money for the town. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, that's something to think about. All right. Uh, next up is recommendation
from the recreation commission for the 2026 beach stickers. Uh, the rec the wreck commission voted their recommendation um at their Monday, March 9th meeting. It's recommended that the fees stay the same. Um, because they did increase in 2025. So the 26
>> increased already >> residents 30 bucks, non-residents 60, and then seniors 62 plus and veterans get a $5 fee reduction. Um, any questions, comments, motions? >> I mean, I'm not a fan of
>> keeping it the same >> keeping the same rate. I mean, it's the same speech for every department. So, >> I mean, I would I would want to increase it at least a little. The only conversation that I guess changes it the thought on it is we're not offering a
service >> unlike the other >> that doesn't mean that other things that are associated with the park aren't increasing. It gets absorbed into the recreation department >> but >> and the sticker fees go to the general fund. They don't go back into the recreation
>> budget. That's true for um all the stickers though, right? >> Yeah. But it doesn't increase our budget at all. like our budget doesn't change >> a lot of these >> over years do the same. >> So that was the conversation is that the rec budget has stayed the same for all for years over time and so the stickers
that was part of >> I can also you can for sure no but just the conversation about it >> but all those sticker fees go into the general fund. So it's the same argument for the transfer station. It's the same argument for I don't know if shellfish goes to the general fund. I'm not sure if that goes it does. Okay. Yeah. So,
>> but I I think one of the things we that we can say is the costs at the town hall have been going up that still support the recck department. So, those are indirect costs to the rec department even though your overall budget isn't going up at the cost
>> HR, accounting, like all this stuff, the treasurer. >> I guess my my reservation for not gradually increasing fees is I don't like to see holding the price the same and then having a big jump. We've seen that with other departments where they didn't increase fees and then it was a mistake.
>> Do you know what it went up from in 24? >> Does anyone know? I thought it was 20. Was it 20 to 30? >> I could I guess what can happen tonight is we can make a motion to accept. Well, hopefully here's a question.
>> If we set them higher, do they have to meet again to vote? You know, because we're setting it right. their recommendation. >> We're recommending it, >> but it's a it's almost it's >> I'd rather kick it >> back >> back. >> I get you. >> The only ride it if that makes sense. We
did the same thing with the shelfish constable. We could have just voted what we wanted, >> but we asked him to come back with different >> and I guess the only thought is that it's a board versus a individual. >> But either way, I still like buy in I guess and understanding the thinking of
yes, it is going to the general fund, but so are these others. >> Yeah. I'd like to buy in with what they've uh recommended. >> So, I'm going to make a motion that we people can vote against if they don't agree. I move the board of selectment
approve the 2026 beach sticker fee schedule presented this evening. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those against? >> No. >> That's four to one. >> That's fine. date. >> Um, >> is it?
>> No, we can you do it after the meeting? So, >> ask. >> Yeah, >> you can ask me after. >> Okay. >> All right. So, uh, next up, discuss the condition and long-term planning needs of the town's core infrastructure systems, including water, sewer, roads, and other municipal assets.
>> Scott, you are up. >> Yeah. So, just one of the things I've been thinking about um as I get more familiar with the town's operation is >> the long-term health of the core infrastructure systems, you know, water, sewer, roads, uh drainage, and our other
municipal assets. So, um you know, much of this infrastructure was built uh decades ago, and like most communities, we're seeing increased pressures from whether they're aging systems or regulatory requirements or just overuse in construction. Uh so some of these
systems are managed directly by the town and others fall under uh water commission, sewer commission um and they do have a good um institutional knowledge of what's going on in these systems. So I think it would be helpful for this board to consider inviting um the water and sewer
commissions to participate in a joint meeting that we can have a broader discussion on uh long-term infrastructure planning um asset management uh stuff like that. I think obviously we need uh buyin from DP uh
from trees highways and from >> it's on my list. Can we rename it highway? I think we would involve the the town planner in the >> article of the warrant. Rename the department. >> Yeah, that makes sense. >> Do you need a You don't need
>> Oh jeez. >> Good catch. >> Destroying pictures to you. >> Wow, that was scary. >> Sorry for everyone at home. A picture just fell off the wall. >> Yeah, >> the ghost is here.
>> Okay, we did. Was that was that like a former >> Chief Homes? Good instinct. >> That was >> He jumped immediately. >> He doesn't like DPW. >> Yeah. >> All right. Back to it. So, I think that's a great idea. I support it.
>> Yeah, I do, too. Yeah. I don't think I don't think a a vote is required. >> No, but I support it on >> Great. >> We'll make it happen. >> Wonderful. I like it. >> Next item. Uh we have meeting minutes. Approval of the open session meeting minutes from February 10th and March
3rd. Any questions, comments, motions? >> I move the board of selectman approve the open session meeting minutes of February 10th, 2026 and March 3rd, 2026 as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> That's unanimous. Town administrator report.
>> Um, so I did send you folks a winter storm event. I won't bother uh reviewing that report. Um, as the emergency management director did a very good job explaining, uh, I do agree certainly we have talked about, um, communication
and, uh, decimation of or dissemination of communication coming from, um, town halls. So, we're definitely going to work on that and, uh, I think that's a pretty easy fix, but it will take a little bit of time. So, we will get there. Um,
beyond that, I think the overall cost I did send you folks a copy of the budget. I believe you have folders now in there should be an updated page in there. The at this point our budget is um
balancable. It's very close. We have a sort of that wild card coming out of uh Silver Lake in in their um capital ask. I think that is really the the big thing and we still haven't um settled with um
all of or any of the unions for that matter. But we are in a much better place than we had expected to be at this point and we will get there I think in um I would request that we do a full budget presentation probably on the 24th. I think we'll be ready for that.
We don't have our free cash numbers yet which is going to make a a big difference. I would certainly hope that we have them by then, but we have to be prepared to move forward one way or the other. I think that once we do get our assessment from Silver Lake and the full assessment package, um then we can have
a discussion on um how we want to move forward with that and with that capital request. So I think at that point, you know, we have to look at the options of how we want to whether that's something that's outside of our um normal budget
and that that is a request uh for be you know beyond the levy or is that something that we want to maybe look more into doing next year as a bigger package or is that something that we're going to have to make severe cuts
to be able to afford it? So I think that we like I said I I feel like we'll be in a much better position to have that discussion on the 24th. I think we should schedule it and let all parties know that want to be a part of that. >> So would we have uh capital planning or or finance committee join us for that
meeting? >> I would invite them for that meeting. Um certainly let them know about it >> and uh you know we have been meeting finance committee we're meeting on Thursday this week and so I think I'll you know we'll let them know as well. Okay.
>> I I'd just like to add to um what what was just said that the so-called Silver Lake capital item, okay, was approved by the Silver Lake School Committee and
it's included in the assessment number that uh was voted by the Silver Lake School Committee already. so that we really do have 400k in addition to what this current budget
is. Now, I have a couple of items that I'm working on that I would hope we may be able to cover most of that 400k with. Um that there's we're still carrying a couple of items in there that may be
negotiable. Uh but as far as I know, we don't have much, you know, control over that magic capital number except maybe how we're going to cover it, but
it's included in the uh assessment package that Silver Lake has put together and that they voted on um a week or two weeks ago. >> But that assessment number is not in our budget. >> I >> not that full assessment. The last I
looked, I don't think we had the full amount in there. >> So, we would have adding the 400 as we just said. Yeah. Okay. Got it. >> All right. >> Does that balanceable budget include snow recovering the snow and ice money
from somewhere? >> So, I think that we'll present those options as well, but that won't come from within the levy. Obviously, >> hopefully. But I just mean that's think I think of that as a debt that we need to >> it is a debt that we need to take care of and it's up to somewhere in the
$700,000 range right now um between that last storm and where we were before that. >> So we will um present some options for that once we have a better handle on free cash and knowing what our lease payments are that will have to come out
of that. we will make a determination if we want to use that or do we want to actually um the other option is stabilization as well. So you have a very healthy stabilization fund. Is that somewhere that we'd want to go to for a snow and ice deficit?
>> Right. Um another question. So typically we have the free cash numbers I don't remember October I think. Is that right Carl? Does that sound right? Um, given that it's early March and we don't have
that information, do we need to be thinking about moving town meeting to a later date? >> Um, let me answer that next week. >> Okay. >> Okay. It's fair.
>> All right. Any other budget questions, comments, concerns? >> Can we rename the highway department? Highway department. I don't know how to do that structurally. Is that an article? But it's streets, trees, and parks is ridiculous, and I would like to rename it. >> We've cost us a lot to change the
signage, I would think. >> Fine. Sorry, Carl. it as somebody who's worked with the finances here in town for a good number of years, I agree with um my that we really this may be a year that we
consider using some of the reserve for something like the excess snow and ice or you know to help cover the capital something that you know we we're over $3 million. I've been involved for 12 or 13
years and we've done nothing but increase that reserve. So that you know I think that there is some rationale for using it somewhere along the line >> for moments just like these. Right. >> Everybody heard that. He agreed with me.
I believe so because, you know, ordinarily if if we had overrun the snow and ice by $300,000 because of normal winter, I would say, "Hey, no, I don't want to use it." But when I have a storm of I'm calling it
the 50-year storm. Okay. So, then then I think it's reasonable to consider using that. >> Yeah. >> Anything else? And I do think that, you know, the sooner we get it on the table,
the better. That the schools have worked with us pretty well, I think, so far this year, and have approved both local school budgets and the Silver Lake budget, which results in our assessment
at just over 3%. And so I I commend them for being willing to do that. And um I I think that uh it's an example of finding ways to work together and uh to compromise and um
>> g get things done. >> Agreed. >> That's it. >> Okay. >> All right. Uh anything else? We are Let me go back up to where we are.
>> We did meeting minutes. So let any other selectman comments. All right. Our next regular meeting is two weeks from tonight, March 24th, and we'll be discussing the budget in more detail. We'll let the finance committee, capital planning committee know about it
if they would like to come and discuss. Um, >> all right. >> Move to adjurnn. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I 7:11 p.m. or 7:10 p.m. >> That wasn't bad.