All right. This meeting is being recorded um by the local TV. Anyone intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting should notify the chair at this time. Okay. Roll call.
>> Missy I here. Joe I >> I >> uh Okay. Meeting minute approval from our December meeting. >> Make a motion to accept the meeting minutes of Monday, December 8th, 2025. >> Second.
>> All in favor? >> I I um want to go right to the appointment. >> Sure. >> Okay. speak. >> Um, so Brian, uh, St is here. Um, he had come to talk to me about requesting some
field use space for, um, uh, an event or community activity that he's involved with for many years and is looking to bring it back home to Kingston because he lives in Kingston. So, Brian, you feel free to come up to the table if you want if that's easier for you and introduce yourself and
>> my name is Brian Stass. I've uh lived on Penrook Street outside the high school and I've been there for 30 some odd years and I grew up here. Um moved here in ' 65 when my dad got out of the military and we moved back up here. Um [clears throat] I have a presentation
together here who I was um last s >> this is a magazine of the group that I belong to that is the predominant um
backer of model aviation, which is what I'm here to ask you about. You can flip through that. It's um everything to do with model aviation from radio control to drones to gliders
to rubber powered indoor to helicopters, boats. So everything you can think of radio control or control these guys are the governing body basically. So um thank you for taking the time to meet with me tonight. Um I'm here
[clears throat] to request your support um in hosting a model airplane contest at the old chimpsky field complex. We've been flying at Silver Lake High School. We'll get into that reason why we need another site. [clears throat] I sat with a group of guys that were all
members of AMA model academy model aeronautics which is that magazine um the AMA governing bodies worldwide um people from every country on the world are AMA members and there's competitions worldwide in every country there's world
championships national championships it's very big not a lot of people know about it some guys like oh yeah I think my you know one of my kids has a drone well that drone flying started with radio control which started from control line which started from
freef flight form kind of progress to drones. So um AMA um the group assist model airplane clubs with flying site improvements and they give out scholarships to the kids that
are interested in furthering their education. [clears throat] um they provide liability insurance to all the fields and any of the contests that we we have sanctioned. So [clears throat] when we hold a contest, we have a application for a sanction. [clears throat] We fill it out, we pay
fee, it's usually $50, send it off to AMA, they approve it, then they provide us with liability coverage. Uh I believe it's a million dollars, I think. Uh, and it covers the the guys flying uh, property owners and everybody in case
something happens. Sometimes radio planes have gone, they lost a signal and flew into the ground, they can actually go to and say, "Hey, uncover insurance and they can actually recoup some of that. If it happened
somebody's house, if drone hit a house, something like that, they're covered with that, too. It's a big blank cost. So, um, as a group, we're always hoping to encourage and get more people involved. It's tough. It used to be a
lot of kids flew in the 30s, 40s, and especially 50s, right after World War II, model aviation exploded. You go to a contest, one of the guys I fly with who started in the 50s, he says it was not unheard of to have this [snorts] to have the contest on a weekend, whether it's a
Monday, because you got 200 people. Now we get eight or 10 left and that's from all over the place from you know New [clears throat] Hampshire western Mass from Philadelphia Maryland area so not a lot of people do it anymore so spaces
are getting less and less um AMA also provides opportunity and encourages STEM which you best probably know is science technology math and um >> engineering >> engineering so it fosters have education, teamwork,
and spark creativity. Um, I've been a lifelong resident of Kingston. Like I told you, my boys play the little league here in Little League field. We came to all the whatever they had here. Um, basketball, we all came as my wife, my kids, we come to playground in the
summertime. We all did that. So, I've been a Kingston guy my whole life. My brother still lives here in town. So, I've been born and raised just about that. >> [cough and clears throat] >> My father originally got myself and my brother involved in this when he was
discovered he lives in France and when we returned states side uh we moved back to he was stationed in Langley and then when he retired he came up to here the house in 65 first grade right then there and by the
time I was eight so he had a startup line with the guys in France and we came back here. We got together with a club in North Ply called the North Psalugs because they used to fight at the Soite High School. So my house uh we grew up
right across from school. Um and I since bought my neighbors right next to my mother years later and so I had my mother in my backyard so it was great for my kids. Um and we would as kids we'd hear the guys flying planes. We'd get on our bikes. We tailor across the street. We'd watch the guys fly and we
just but I've been doing it ever since. So probably eight or nine years old. [clears throat] Um my son Matt, the one who works for Eversource, he's got two two little girls. My granddaughter, the oldest one, she's three and she comes out to the field now. She flies. So she's starting
at the beginning. And if you guys saw that, this is actually her plane. This is her little beginner plane. This is an elective version. And I'll take these out and I'll show them to you the difference between the different planes. Um, so we've been flying at at the high
school for a long time. My dad after he get out of the military, um, worked as a custodian for a few years before he finally decided to retire. And my mother used to do guiding eyes dogs. She was a a northeast coordinator for guiding eyes out of New York. And she would um have
people would raise their puppies from 10, 12 weeks old up to a year, a year and a half. And then they'd go off to school to be trained guide dog. and my mother came here. She was at the school all the time [clears throat] and the principal just got to come right into the school at any time. Whole idea was to familiarize um the puppies with
people, stairs, loud noises, everything they could. And um so we had we had good working relationship with the principal and staff [clears throat] at the school. So when I went to principal Kelly and asked him about using the field, he was like, "Absolutely. What do you mean?"
And he had the same field use form or similar field use form. Um [clears throat] and uh we flew there for probably from the late 90s until just last year when the school committee decided to um start charging $100 an
hour of field event. We we we're nonprofit. We don't charge people to show up to fly. We basically have we raise enough money with guys with donations to be able to pay for our sanction and just keep ourselves going is all we do. So it's not we're not a
money pick. So we can't afford that type of price. So we're looking for a place to fly. We currently drive all the way up to Sus. So it's on the other. So it's not bad on a Sunday morning. You get there in 45 minutes, but it's 2:45 sometimes. [clears throat]
So it's a long way to go and some of the guys live Stoke. I'm here another guy Brockton. So we're close to the South Shore. So for us to stay locally is what we're looking for. So, the Okachinsky fields, we're looking
to see applying. Um, I know the furthest back is probably most advantageous for because it's far away from everybody and everything. There's no houses around. Um, it's just [snorts] it's a perfect spot just um I never thought of because the school was right across the street.
So, said, "Hey, can we fly?" He's like, "Absolutely. What do you need?" I said, "Nothing. We don't need anything. All we need to do is be able to get onto the grass." Um, so, um, that's pretty much it. Um, we fly on Sundays. It's usually between 9 and 2 or
3:00 depending on how many guys show up. And, um, that's that's pretty much it as far as what we do and why we do it and and where we want them. Um, the style of planes that we fly are mostly something like this. This is a
it's called a combat plane. You notice there's no banging here on it. The idea is to be light, very maneuverable. It's pretty. So when we fly, there's a handle that when I call control line, we control with lines. There's a two wires
that go out to the to that. It's rolled up on here. It's 18,000 stainless steel wire and it connects to our hands. and we start the engine and we tie a streamer to the back. Uh, six feet of string and six feet of streamer and it takes off. It just flies around in a circle and they're very maneuverable.
They do loops and figure8s and all this kind of stuff because they they're they're designed to be chased and to get away from each other. So, um, the idea is to try to cut your opponent's streamer with your propeller. So, this is a little gas engine. Um, it's got a little, believe it or not, that's a fuel
tank. It's just a piece of um silicone tubing like you'd have on slingshot. Um we fill it up and it squirts the fuel back into the engine. We adjust the speed with that and these are designed to go 70 miles an hour. It sounds fast, but it's on 60 foot line. We climb a
circle. So it takes three and a half seconds to go around a circle. We time them. Um so you can It's nothing but styrofoam and balls up and >> it's like a whole science lesson. >> Yes. Um, a lot of we build them ourselves. We
cut the foam with a piece of hot wire. I just hit a whole bunch of them before I came. [clears throat] It's also with fuselage. Um, sometimes we hit the ground, sometimes we hit each other. I I explain to people that it's and it's not good control is
as as I move the handle up and down in my hand, it moves that elevator in the back and that's all it does. Just pulls up and down. And the idea is to run and hide from your opponent and not let them get your streamer. And it's we fly for five minutes, the fuel runs out, we land
them, whoever got more cuts from the other guy win that round. And we fly we fly four rounds. Everybody gets to fly. It's not an elimination thing. There's different levels of combat. It's more involved than what you guys want.
It's just basically bigger models and faster. Yes. >> How high do I go? >> 60 ft. So, it's connected to my hand all the time. It's >> all of them go up and they're all Yeah, they all have the the idea is as the planes are chasing each other around
like this. One's not way up here or one's not way up here. They're the exact same distance. So, we measure the distance before we start. We do a what we call pull test to make sure the wires are strong enough, nothing breaks. Um,
circle up. This is same style except this is a builtup model instead of being foam. This is a design from the 50s and it's still very very competitive. >> This is like such a nerd question, but um what's the fuel?
>> The fuel is methanol, like alcohol and oil. Um it runs like a two-stroke um like a weed whacker. >> The engine is internally lubricated. >> Is it loud? >> Uh yeah, not as loud as a lawn mower. >> Oh, >> yeah. Yeah. So you've got two lawnmowers running out there with
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I've seen them fly it to the lake. You can hear them. They're not like crazy, but I just >> Oh, so you probably saw us one day. Yeah. >> Yeah. So a lot of times when we're flying over there, especially to school, people come over the track walk, they
have their dog or they're going the trails off that they stop and like what are you guys doing? Like this is combat. We've had guys like I used to do this when I was a kid. My uncle did it. That type of thing. So this is a 50s design. Very very nice. Um the problem that they
went to from this to foam was when you hit each other or you hit the ground hard fix takes a lot of pick the foam really easy. [clears throat] So in the 50s this was what everybody started off with. This was called the ring master. This is land landing gear
takes off on the ground. Has a muffler. It's a little quieter. Flies real slow. And we teach [laughter] the kids how to even just go around in circles with something like this. This is what I learned on and I'll bet you every guy that's flying has flown right now. He's
like, "Oh, my my uncle had one. My dad had one. Me and my brother broke 10 of those. I had those things." This is built up from Balsa. It comes as a kit. Everything is cut out and glued together. And then this this is silk
that's um painted on. And at this this style the guys use um it's almost like a lapper. So when you paint it on it dries and it shrinks up tight makes it tight and uh you can wipe the because when the airplane flush has oil so the oil comes out of the
exhaust you have to wipe you wet the oil. So this is same thing but it's slower and this [clears throat] what we teach the kids to fly on. So this is called the ring master and we call this the ring wrap. This is this is the newest technology.
If you notice, it's kind of a similar design on the on the rudder in the elevator. And this is electric. Plug the battery into the speed controller. There's a receiver on the side and receiver has a little button. You push it, walk up to the handle, you
pick it up, and you wait cuz it's all it's all programmed into the little tiny aboard the side of the postage stamp. The engine speeds up, stops to let you know it's getting ready to go and telling you, okay, starts up. So, you can actually take this by yourself. We don't have to anybody have anybody hold
it when you start it. Stand up the handle, it speeds up, takes off, you're flying around for a certain four minutes, five minutes, whatever you programmed in, it shuts, excuse me, shuts off and it lands. Very quick and easy kit. This is my my granddaughter
when I made this for her. This was She's only three, so she's not quite ready for it, but [laughter] my son's like, "Dad, slow down a little." So, this is the newest technology. Now, everything everything Oh, combat hasn't gone electric, but um
the other I'll call it group of guys that fly. So with with model with control line, we have combat, we have racing, we have stunt, [snorts] which is one guy all by himself and he's
got a predetermined set of maneuvers, loops, squares, triangles, figureates, and there's judges watching him fly and they they know the pattern what you know it's wobbly and they downgrade your score. So that's what stunt is. That's what these were designed. That's what we all learned to do first. And we went to
we saw we went to see combat. My son when I took him he was nine or 10. He's like dad let's do that. Said okay. And we broke a lot of stuff because we hit the ground. We just weren't good but we stick with it and >> so he still flies. So now we're almost to the fourth generation with my granddaughter. So [clears throat]
>> that's that's what we do. So we're looking to fly the ok field and dates were wide open. We can move the dates that we already have established with the SUS is a radiocrolled field with little control line circle.
So they kind of do both and they just like yeah whatever you guys need take the circle. We don't have anything big going on and we don't make donations to the club. So because they cut the grass for us and that type of thing but um as far as what we need at the field don't need anything. We don't need
custodians. We don't need lease. We don't we only have eight or 10 guys. We don't leave anything but footprints in the grass. We're done. When the planes hit the ground, they hit the grass and really sometimes it makes a little clump. We just push right back down. That's pretty much it. So, we're
very selfsufficient. We don't need a whole lot. And we just need a place to go. That's pretty much it. >> And the number of dates, it wasn't a lot. You're not looking for a lot of dates. It's just a few days. >> It could be one. It could be four. It's whatever. I'd say we start off with just
maybe one or two to get started to let people kind of know what we do. You know, uh hopefully there'll be people coming out, kids come down, we'll watch it and see us and that's how we can grow and get more people involved in it. You know, sometimes when people show up, I'm like, have you flown before? Sure. Like,
well, soon as we're done, let's go. You can fly. [cough] I don't [clears throat] want to fly to go, I'm going to break it eventually. So, let's it's we're not afraid. It's like going to a um [clears throat] um demolition derby. If you're afraid to scratch your paint, don't go. These planes hit the ground, they hit each other, they break. I build I build them
20 at a time because of that. And um the guy that I fly with, he's been doing this for I kid. I tell him he's 100 years old. He's he's 80, but he's sharp. And we go out to Indiana every year to the national competition and he won three out of four events out there. So
he's national champion and three out of four. I've won it a couple times myself, but he's just he's just such a good guy. I wish he could have come here, but he lives in East Brookfield, so it's a two-hour ride, but he's just he's just a gentleman, and he's he's easy to talk
to, and he he's he's a [snorts] he's the guy that we all go to like, "Hey, let me think about this." Here's what I think. He's just he's just that guru, you know? You always have that one guy, and Neil [clears throat] is our guy. So he's a he's a character to fly. But we we mock them up pretty good out
though. So I'm his guy which means I I start the plane at launching and if it comes down because of fuel or propeller or something I have to repair because we're on clock once it's a five minute match. So when it hits zero stop. So we went through
that. >> What type of time frame are you looking for? Like I mean over the next couple of months or is this like an annual thing or throughout the year? Yeah, we fly from May to November. >> Okay. >> Um and we fly probably two times a week. Every every two weeks we have a contest
which I want Neil to kind of back it off a little like that's a lot of contest we have. So we have like 12 throughout the summer. Um excluding uh the month of July when we when he and I go out to Indiana for five or six days. Um but yeah, so we we have two two a month. Um,
but I'm only looking to come down maybe get one maybe maybe one in the spring, one in the fall and you know nothing we don't want to interrupt uh football like we do on Sunday. I don't know how many games practices and things are going on out there but and if if somebody's using
the field and this has happened at the high school where we showed up have permission from the field from the school to use it and the field hockey team shows up and they're like what are you guys doing? You're on our field. Um, so I talked to the coach, my pick both, we could move down there. So she said,
uh, so we're very flexible because we had we could go, you know, the high school fields, varsity baseball is where we were. Um, and I said we just moved down to the girls softball. So we just picked up our stuff, put in our cars, drove 100 ft, went within that date, we
flew down there. We're very flexible because there's so much fuel bus and it's easy to move our stuff. It's just, you know, a tote with our handles and lines and our fuel in it. And then I have a table that I set up. We have a timer with a little clock so the guy does the plan look over and see how much time this look like. And that's pretty
much it. >> So Brian came to me about a month or so ago or whenever it was. I just thought it was a great opportunity, something different, something kind of unique. And um >> just also like you said, I said it'd be great to have, you know, let people know so watch it. And
>> um you know, you keep talking about the guys. It would be nice to get more girls like you said in your granddaughter and just have more. >> Yeah. One of my guys daughters, she's very >> Yeah. So have just just have the kids get involved in something like that. I just thought it was a great thing. Weren't they weren't looking for a lot of time and space, you know, have the
dates or anything like that, but because it was new, I just thought it would be good for him to bring it. >> Yeah. Very cool. I mean, obviously depending on sports schedules down there, you know, >> some days during the spring can be very busy in that back area, soccer, you know, lacrosse and everything, but
>> I think at that point, even if if it were available, we could move up to V2 because that's the biggest baseball field we have up there. >> And chances are that wouldn't be used. I mean, it's a 300 foot fence. So, if you're only going 60 feet around, you know, >> when you come in to the right,
>> uh yes, you you come all the way into the complex, right? Right behind the um the children's garden, that big field on the opposite side of the football field. >> Yes. >> Yeah. My son played big roof there. Yeah. >> Yep. I mean, if that would work if Yes. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. We could We're very flexible. We could we played in the
outfields for a lot of times schools and parks at different times than we were before. Uh it was baseball fields, even little fields. Sometimes we flat no light towels on that. >> Yeah, we stay away from the the trees
and the plates and everything else. And that's pretty much it. Um, >> awesome. >> Yeah, it's a lot of fun. uh when we get the kids involved. So my son, one of the things I told people
um his exposure to coming to the contest with and meeting at the time we have eight or 10 guys. These guys didn't treat him like a 10-year-old little kid. They treated him like you're one of the flyers. Get your crap ready. Let's go. We're not waiting for you. They treated
him like an adult. And he liked being treated like that. and he he excelled I think and he became very comfortable with older people. NFL's college was a breeze for him. He he works fiber now
what we're at is and he's he's just outgoing very confident and I believe having this and being able to watch him even when he was younger 10th wall I could watch him going over he wasn't afraid to go talk to the guys and ask them something and instead of he wasn't
that little meat kid he was he was out there and was I think it made a world of difference with him so my youngest son never wanted to play he was more baseball Oh, okay. That's awful. I say go forward in the spring. I mean, if you could just give
us a couple of dates you'd be looking for and we'll do everything we can to accommodate. >> I have all the dates that we have scheduled for contest. If any of those you want, I can give them to you now or >> Yeah, if you have them and then we can take a look at that. Um,
I'll Pat is our um representative on the board on the commission and partnerships with new sports association. So we can take a look at some of the dates that you have here. What what's the times again? Did you say >> um 9 till about 2. Okay. 9 to 2.
>> Um so I don't know if you guys Well, if you have any more questions, but if you want to just vote on approving the activity and then we can coordinate space and availability um just because [clears throat] something that would you guys want to [clears throat] make a motion
for it? I'll make a motion to approve. Um what is the name of the >> uh we are called the New England Control Line Combat Association >> as as said that for um whatever works for the
complex and timing and dates but I approve them. >> All in favor? >> I I >> So thank you very much. Um a little background. I'm I'm retired from Plymouth P. I was a detective there and
um I used to put on we did a road race Williams Liam's run for 10 years. So I was a road race director for that. So this this paperwork is exactly what I used to Plymouth and I'm comfortable being with people and running events and things like that. I'm a contest director
through this which um makes us a little bit more responsible for exactly what's going on, who's there, how things are run. make sure everything was safe and neat and there's no issues with things like that. So that's also my little bit of a background. So [clears throat] we had no problems with the road race.
It was very successful. We had a lot of fun. We uh raised a lot of money for all right the name again control line. >> Control line. >> Yeah. Control line combat association.
>> Okay. Thank you. And if you go on Facebook, um we're on I think it's New England New England combat and you'll see pictures of the guys and contests and >> Okay. >> all the planes that we build and all all the focus. >> Great. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you very much. >> Okay. I appreciate >> appreciate [clears throat] that. So thanks for bringing all your stuff too. >> Thank you. I appreciate you got a little show and tell >> Brian my presentation at work. >> [laughter]
>> All right, >> administrator updates. >> Um, so luminary recap. Just recap. [clears throat] Um, oh, Eileen, do you have a gray jacket that you all received? >> Oh, it's not yours. We have a jacket
from the luminary. I thought it was yours. Um, so thank you guys for coming. Um Joe and Andrea and I were able to join us. It was a great night. I thought everybody there was a lot of people because the weather was really good. Uh and then
just down here we did things a little bit differently down here and um we had a ton of people that stayed and hung out and we had the I think having the community um music and entertainment really obviously makes a big difference. course that gets packed because it's the little
kids and then after that it was high school course and then the jazz band was here. So you got a lot of families coming and participating for that. So another successful year I think. I don't know if you guys have any other >> I loved it. I thought it was great. It was great. >> You didn't show up.
>> Yeah. [laughter] >> Police department fire department got them. Not sure what they did. >> It was really crowded. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> So excited. There's a lot of we had some of our seasonal staff come and they love seeing the kids too. So that was that was
awesome. Um just the program updates for the winter. Most of our programs are online. We're still getting more coming in, but just to give a heads up of what we got. We've got um again some great things with our schools. Um we've got
the Let's Get Sewing. We've got [clears throat] uh what else do we have? Beading beyond bracelets and necklaces. We have art fun embroidery and needle points. So, so many so many more things. We do need one more registration to run
the beading workshop. Um and then at KES we're doing books and art. Um we have the Horus Club happening again. Uh so so many fractured fairy tales, dinosaur things. Um just a lot of great programs.
Then we also added some adult programs. We're doing an adult poverty wheel workshop. Uh Bayer Academy is doing basic life support. We are also doing a waterfall workshop for adults. Uh so a lot of those things are pickle ball training is coming back with Cindy
Reagan. She's doing some more pickle ball lessons. And then um we have some of our babysitting and some other programs. But there's a lot of stuff that's going on. So great to have some new things and some new adult programs too. So that's kind of all we've got on
the program updates. Um something else. Oh, the 300 gala too. Still more sold on that. >> January 31st from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. $75 a person. Tickets can be purchased either through direct.com or Paul Barry
call her directly. I bought it. >> I don't know how many have been sold. So, [clears throat] >> we have a meeting Wednesday, so we'll probably get an update then. >> So, let me know if we need to shut it off or if it gets close or anything like that.
>> Call >> I have her number right there. So, >> super easy. just how you normally register and then you just click >> how many tickets and who I know some people ask about tickets and I'm like you don't really need them but
it'll have their name on the list so that everybody has that too [laughter] >> and uh I realized send the annual report to all of you to review. >> No. All right. So, it's due probably before our next meeting. [laughter]
I did update it. Um, sorry. I thought I sent that, but I forgot. Um, but I did update it. Added some numbers, changed the numbers around, added a few more things of programs, different events that we did. I'll send that off to you if you have any questions or comments, just let me
know. Um, but it's pretty much the same similar to what we do each year. So, I apologize for not sending that to you ahead of time, but let me know if you have any questions. Uh, summer planning, believe it or not, we're starting our summer planning. I'm starting to work on the letters for um the returning staff. I usually send them out the beginning of
February and ask them to get back to me by March of the mid-March at the latest so that we can start the next planning for new hires. So, returning staff should be getting those probably beginning of February, I think, somewhere to the beginning to the middle of February. Um, and then we should find
out >> [clears throat] >> Who else we have? [laughter] >> Thank you all very much. Have a good night. >> So, we'll be working on that. Then we'll be working with um some of the returning coordinators. I've got a couple of them that are working on stuff with me now.
Um looking at the dates and all of that and the fees and trying to think about things. So, we'll try to get that online early again like we have been able to do the last few years sometime in March, probably end of March hopefully. Um, not looking to change too much about the
program. So, everything else should be going along pretty well. Uh, property policy discussion. I know Missy, you had sent to me um some documents or some information. So, um, a lot of the stuff that you had sent we already have. So, just a reminder in case anybody wants to
see it too, we have these binders in case people ask that um it's just our policies and procedures binders, just all of those things like what are requirements to rent the space and all of that. And then we have a separate one that's specifically um kind of our relationship for the field and with
KYSO. So, we do have those policy and procedure bindings. So, I wanted to talk a little bit more about the specific property piece that we talked about at the last meeting. Um, and I can work with Missyu again to kind of craft another one maybe for the February meeting, but I just wanted to be clear
and I did bring what you wrote. I think Missy, >> I want you. >> So, yeah, I wanted we have a lot of these things that you had on here like the purpose, the general governance, that's kind of already there. >> Um, the recreation properties, we have
that already. Field use. So, the only thing we don't really have that we wanted to add was the um if somebody wanted to put some type of a memorial item, you had said benches specifically, but what exactly do you want to have
things? I'm just trying to get a clear idea for you [clears throat] all what you want. In the minutes from last week accepting future request from memorial on the Kingston parks and recreation park
that's right out of the minutes. >> Okay. So that's in the minutes. [clears throat] Is there anything else specific? I mean and again I'll send around kind of like a draft from we can have further discussion at the February meeting. Um >> I think the only thing that we discussed that maybe wasn't in the minutes was the
material that would be accepted. >> Yes, I know that was part of the discussion is that the material should be consistent with what's already there already there material that we are [clears throat] >> so sustainable and consistent with um
current with the more recent current the current material that is approved by the recreation And then we had talked about as well that the conservation commission put a stop on
all memorial items in any of their >> conservation then the number 10 in their policy. There was no memorial specifically. It's in their current.
>> It's funny you say that because it was actually there's bench at >> Did they do it right after that? >> Don't know what athletes. It just says it's on there. It's on the website. >> Yeah, I can find that out. Is that
something that I mean I don't know. Is that something that you guys want as far as that? have no more memorials or no memorials or is it do you want to have it be a case by case basis or do you want to try to be consistent with conservation then that's something
>> I think if you stay consistent with conservation then everything's consistent throughout the town >> I think so too >> right and there's no crosshairs that we have to go through everything's consistent now it's really whether it's special permission or not >> well and I think conservation stating
that you might and feel like >> right now or later it's going to be you're going to have like [cough] >> Right. Right. That's a good point. And I think if you're consistent and that way
I think you have to go there's something to straight that's it takes your decision making off the table. Mhm. >> So if you wanted to do that, then we can come back in February and I can just
draft exactly what conservation has and then you can vote it and then it could be as of February, whatever >> the rec commission has voted. Okay. So that makes sense. I didn't know that that was the case. So that that will be helpful. So we can just kind of draft it and have it be consistent.
>> I just pulled it offline on there on the website. Um, >> you put that on here. >> I didn't because I didn't know that's what we wanted to do. So, it >> do you mind sending that? >> It says all.
Yeah. >> So you guys would say all parks and recreation properties under jurisdiction >> there is definitely something being said for consistent across the board. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And that does make it consistent. So again if it was if they say no then
there's only limited that we have over. So >> right >> I think everybody here would not say you can't ever do it. >> Right. >> It has to be specific special >> special circumstance. And if there's something that's already existing and it's a naming thing, then that goes by the naming thing that the
town has now, we can't even do that moving forward. So if there's a building already there that somebody wants to >> name, have to would have to send them to the town to do that policy. [snorts] >> Okay, that sounds great. >> So I will I'll get that ready for the
February meeting. um on that uh budget planning. Um so we don't have information yet for the fis fiscal year 27 submission update. Our new town administrator just started today. I
believe Scott was his first day today. Um so as soon as I get more information about that, I will let you know. Um, but I'm assuming that we're going to be saying they're either going to ask us to come with some kind of a reduction or it
will be level service. Um, [snorts] so I'm not sure exactly what that means or how that's all going to come about, but as of right now, I've already done our budget, so I have it at level service or level not um not level funded, but level serviced. So unless we required to do anything different, our budget would be
exactly the same as it was last year, barring any contract negotiations with unions and things like that for salaries. Samson fund request. I submitted the Samson fund request for a raise each park community events. Um I did have um
Chief Holmes reach out to me also and he had been informed that there could be some additional funding available through the Samson fund this year [clears throat] and that possibly we could maybe try to look for that security system that we tried to put in last year in capital planning that
didn't get um voted favorably due to funding restrictions. So, if you guys are okay with that because it's due January 15th, so we won't have another meeting prior to that, but I have information from last year. If I put that together, is that something that you guys would like us to do? I have no
idea when they say additional funding for the Simpson Fund what that means. Um, >> me either, but that sounds fantastic. I would do it all as one and what I presented to capital planning. I don't know if that's what their thoughts or it was just one, but when um Rob Kos and I
had met with the chiefs last year, we had looked at both locations. The challenge at Great Beach is we don't really have we don't have internet down there. So, it becomes a problem with some of the systems that can become available. >> Did we look into the library hotspots? I know we talked about that. He did and I
have the information so I can't recall exactly how it all came about but if you guys are okay with me presenting that putting that forth on obviously we'll have time to make some adjustments if you needed to but um do you guys don't mind voting on that Samson fund request
>> for the security system for Grace Beach Park and the Oachinsky property. >> [clears throat] >> I would like to make a motion for security at Great Beach and using potential.
>> All in favor? >> I >> I don't know. >> You can buy the the stling panels and stuff like that and they just install right on the roofs. >> Yeah. >> It's like 247. >> Yeah. For down to Grace Beach. Yeah. >> Okay.
>> But it's not it's a standalone. >> It's your own >> Yeah. >> system. >> Okay. [clears throat] >> Worst case, the library has hot. >> Um the wording for the conservation says private should not be placed on
>> private. So, do you think that covers it enough to say if somebody's they're just trying to is that more like someone's just doing their own thing and they just put them down there or does that >> I think we'd want a little bit more specific being honest with you. Okay. Private
memorials might not be >> is that what So, what does it say specifically private memorial? Private memorial shall not be placed on conservation. >> Okay. >> We talked about memorials. Maybe that's
just [clears throat] [clears throat] >> still right. >> Yeah. So maybe just a tweet that can talk about >> just to make it a little bit more specific but off of that. >> Yeah. [snorts] So it's the same, right?
>> Okay. >> Yep. Great. >> I sent that to you too. So >> Okay. Thank you. And then the CPC application, I submitted ours um back in the beginning of December, January 8th, which is Thursday, I believe. It's unfortunately
I'm not going to be able to attend that meeting. I might have to take personal day that day. Um, so I believe I spoke with Trisha and it's not a voting meeting. It's just a meeting to review the applications to make sure the applications have everything that they need. Um, and they're not really talking
about it or asking questions to people that submitted them. That's for the next meeting >> is my understanding. >> Okay. >> Um, so I just wanted to make sure that was accurate. I mean, obviously you'll be there anyway. um if you need to reach out to me before then, but that's I just wanted to
clarify that because I didn't want to miss that meeting. Um but Trisha said that it was just more to look at the application, see if anything was missing, tell the applicant if they had time to put anything else together, and then the next meeting would be the discussion meeting, kind of the public
meeting. Um so that's that's the status on that. If Suzanne or I hear anything different, um I'll let you guys know, but as far as I know, that should be the case. I'm not able to be there. >> I don't know. I can't see Brandon.
>> Brandon Curton. >> Um, so that's just the review on that. And then just general property updates. Not really any updates during this time of year. Um, we're just doing them pretty much few times a week. Both us and the facilities department are taking a look at them. Grace Beach Park right
now, the property is open. Um even though it's got some light snow on it, so we didn't close the gates because it wasn't significant, but we will close the gates if we get a big snowstorm, so people don't go in there. Um it [clears throat] didn't go over to the fields this morning, but I'm assuming
everything's okay over there. And then John Crawford wasn't able to join us tonight from KY, so no major updates there. They're just working on things. And then I'll be working with them probably next month a little bit more to start reminding them of all the insurance policies that are needed uh
the board health for the concession stand as well as the time frame on the scheduling for um spring. >> What was it? >> The sign program too >> and the signed program. I did just send over um a new contract to them with Scott's name on the new contract for the
2026 signed contract. Already got our first contract. Um so somebody Yeah. So that was nice. [snorts] So nothing nothing else really that I have unless somebody else has anything else. >> Hey Brandon, are you there?
He's on mute. Brandon, would you like to speak? Anyone [clears throat] have anything for the next meeting >> that we haven't previously discussed? >> No.
>> All right. Next meeting is February 2nd 6:00. >> Um, would it be possible to switch it to the following week be out again? It's not imperative. I mean, I think there's a phenomenal job on the meeting minutes,
but she is not available on the second. So, I don't know if you want to keep it that day or you want to switch the >> right [clears throat] And then I'll work with Brian and sports groups and and that on these dates. Um they're not really looking for a lot. So
I think that would be great. It would be great. I was already thinking, oh, what can we do a program with them do, but I think it would be fun to incorporate something like that down there. >> All right, Pat, go ahead. >> Oh, I would like to motion. >> I will. >> All in favor? Bye. >> Bye.
>> Bye.