Okay. Um well, good evening everybody. Um I am going to call our board of selectman meeting to order it at uh for July 1st at 6 pm. We're going to do a roll call attendance. Um, Eric here, Kim here, Missy here, Don here, Carl here.
All right. And we will begin with the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. All right, we've got a few announcements for tonight. Um, first, 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 of this at this time. I can't see the room, so is anybody
recording? Does not appear to be. No, I don't see anyone. Okay, thank you. Uh financial assistance applications are available on the town's website or by calling the selectman's office. Uh Kingston Capital Planning and Finance Committees
currently have open seats needing to be filled. Finance Committee has three openings for residents interested in helping review and recommend Kingston's annual operating budget, uh school budgets, and fund transfers. Capital Planning Committee with one open seat
studies and prioritizes funding requests for municipal capital improvements such as vehicles, equipment, technology, infrastructure, land, playgrounds, and public buildings over a 5-year plan. There are several other boards and commissions with vacancies. Um, to see a
complete list of the openings, um, please visit our website at kingstonmma.gov. If you're interested in serving, please contact the Selectman's office at 781-831-6023. Also, check our website for any additional events um or notices. Again, it's kingston.gov.
Uh we just started our new townhouse uh hours this week. So, the new hours are Monday 8:5 p.m., Tuesday 8 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesday 8 to 5:00 p.m., Thursday 8 to 5:00 p.m., and then Friday closed. Um,
also effective, uh, today the town of K Kingston is changing its emergency alert system from Blackboard Connect to Code Red. So, it's a different vendor. Um, which is administered through the Plymouth County uh, Sheriff's Department. Subscribers to the old
system were brought over to the new system and a test message was sent this evening at 5:30 p.m. Um, anyone who did not receive that message is encouraged to enroll for the new system at httpsw.pcsdmma.orgcode.html. More information is available on the town website and the Kingston Fire
Department will be happy to answer any questions uh that residents may have. You can reach their administrative offices at 781-58532 or via email at kingston firedept. So it's Kingston firedept
at kingstonmma.gov. Uh next, uh the Kingston Cultural Council is in need of members. Uh, the Kingston Cultural Council works with Mass Cultural Council to provide grant funding on an annual appropriation from the state legislature and funds from the
National Endowment for the Arts and others. Without new members, we will not be able to receive the funding to support these programs. Please reach out to the selectman's office if you're interested. Um, Keith, I also want to mention about the um, uh, transfer
station sticker. So, please correct me if I'm misspeaking. Um uh the highway department had posted this on Facebook earlier. They just wanted to give a quick update to residents that um they will be open um at the highway
department for residents to get transfer station stickers on two weekend days. So those days are going to be July 6th and July 12th. So July 6th, that is um it's a Sunday and July 12th I believe is Saturday, correct? Yes, sir. Okay. And
um on those two days, they will be open from 8 to 300 p.m. Um there will definitely be lines because those are going to be the the two weekend days. Uh there's only one employee selling stickers on those days. So um again, the window will close at 3 p.m. those two days. So please go in earlier in the
day. Um they'll still be open Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Um except this Friday. So this Friday, uh we're closed for the holiday. So again, uh, they want to thank everybody for their their patience. Um, before I move on, any other selectmen
have any announcements that I didn't bring up? Eric, can I just add in relation to the transfer station, just as a reminder, the hours are now Mondays. Instead of being open till 8, they're open from from 12:00 to 8 or 7:45, I guess, was the old hours.
Effective now this coming Monday, they will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. So just keeping that in mind as well. Um, and then just a couple of other things. The next farmers market is scheduled for Sunday. Uh, that is at Graze Beach from 10 a.m. to 2 PM. And
then just a update from the website. There's a serve safe food protection manager class on July 28th from 8 a.m. to 5:00 pm hosted by the health department. Registration information and other details are available on the town's website on the homepage. So, you're interested in doing that, you can
find more information there. That's all I had. All right. Thank you, Kim. Um, anybody else? Doesn't look like it. Okay. Uh, moving on then. Uh, open forum. Is there anybody uh there tonight that that wanted to speak at open forum? And
again, I can't see. So, if someone can recognize for me, no one is moving toward the microphone at the moment. And then before you start the first item, I don't believe we have a quorum for the planning board quite yet.
So, I don't know if you want to have Valerie do her quick update before you move on to the joint meeting. That that sounds reasonable to me. Okay. So, for anyone who has the agenda, that's item number five. Yep. And I'm just going to
provide a little assistance, Eric, with the kind of room reading. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Valerie Msar, town planner. I appreciate the board taking this out of order. Um, I'm here to give you an
update on the ADA transition planning process. Next slide. So, this is a 100% grant-f funded project in the amount of $60,000 that was awarded last uh last fall and um it's wrapping up. We are doing it um
through a consultant which is the um to look at it institute for human center design or IHCD. They do a lot of this kind of work on the southshore for towns and they've already come and they've done a detailed analysis of all of the town's facilities including their open
space. So next slide please. So what they do is they come to every building, every um every place where the public might have access and they do a thorough survey with levels and measuring tape and everything and they have a software system that helps them
keep track. We gave them the floor plans for all of our facilities. So they were able to get it ready ahead of time and do it as fast as they could. Uh there was a survey questionnaire to the department heads. Um and then they're doing the final report and detailed
writeups at this moment. So we've given to you the draft the next page. So every single um facility in the town in the documents that we made available to you on the cloud has uh one page
would look like this for Grace Beach where it has a summary of the background of the of the place when it was built when it might have been renovated and a series of recommendations and descriptions of all the things there. And uh next slide,
pictures of everything that they caught so that there's a visual record of anything that they think needs to be corrected. Um next slide. Oh, um there was another example that isn't in this group that is uh open space where they did the similar thing
with the trails. So there are maybe a dozen or 25 pages for Graves Beach as an example. There's several pages for each facility. And at this point, we're getting ready to um pull together the the final report over the summer and
have public comment and come back to you with a public hearing in the end. But we're looking for your conditional acceptance tonight as we get ready to do our grant reporting. And uh the what it does, why do we do
this? We lower our liability. If someone were to come to the town and say, "When was the last time you did an ADA update?" We would have said 1994, which is like 40 years ago, and we would look like we're not looking at it as management. But now that we have this in
place, it lowers our liability, and also it makes us more eligible. We score much higher on grant applications. Um, in recent years, we've been turned away from grant applications because of not having this plan updated. So, we even have an application in right now for town hall. We're hoping that that will
be considered because we already have the report for town hall and we use that as part of our grant application submission through the facilities department. So, um, with that, if you have any questions, um, any any questions or comments from
the board? I just had a quick question. The expectation of delivering what they've recommended, what is their expectation for that? Because a lot of the times the things they said they marked to zero dollars. Yeah. They're
not going to give us a dollar estimate for everything. Okay. Um but they are giving us priorities in terms of this is a mandatory upgrade or this is a notmandatory upgrade. But in reality, no town has the money to do all the upgrades. Um it's it's a it's meant to
be a plan that's implemented over time. Okay. And that the intent of the dollar estimates is more about giving us a cost idea relative to other projects and not necessarily an exact dollar amount of what the particular project would cost. That would come when we do the grant
applications. Okay. So like the priority one safeties are the ones that we're looking forward to. So for example, I think we have a grant application in for um $165,000 for town hall. Okay. Right now to to capture all the priority one
uh information that was in their report. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Yeah, I just want to add real quick and I I'm sorry, Val, if I'm overstepping or or stepping on you on this one. I think the important thing is
that we've identified the issues. We're absolutely able to apply for grants, but I don't think there's an expectation that we know there's $165,000 issue with the town office building, and if we don't get a grant, we have to go out and appropriate the money. Okay. All right. So, it's there's not a requirement, so to speak. There's not a mandate that now
that we've identified these that whether we get a grant or not, they've got to be improved. Correct. And so, I I I just wanted to make sure that was clear. Thank you. It's it's just a plan like all the other plans that we have to help us move forward and select our
priorities. And um these met a lot of the um town hall happened to meet a priority that we already had identified. The fact that these types of things the fact that these types of things go
into a written format though is there any concern that that suddenly makes it you know more apt to be an issue that needs to be taken care of sooner than later. It's less likely to be an issue if someone were to call us out on a
problem. It's much less likely to be a problem now for the town by having it written down in a in a plan. That if I could, that question was asked during with department heads and and Val made it clear at that point as well that um just because it's it's on the four corners of a sheet of paper doesn't put
the town at any more liability risk because we've identified it. We proactively are addressing and identifying the situations that we have and we'll be applying as aggressively as we can for grant monies to address those shortcomings that we have with ADA. But it does not put us in a does not put the
town of Kingston in a situation where we're more liable because they've identified that there's something walking in the front door, for example, that has to be addressed. And and I'm not trying to address liability as much as some government authority higher than
local authorities coming in and saying, "Okay, you've got this list of things. When are you going to take care of them?" No, the grant is funded by that agency. Okay. And they're working with us on the plan. That makes sense. All right. Any other
questions? Nope. All right. Would would anybody like to make a motion? Go ahead. I move the board of selectman conditionally accept and approve the ADA transition plan and self assessment as
prepared by the Institute for Human Centered Design pending edits to final draft after public comment. Second. All right. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Carl I. All right. It's unanimous. Thank you. Thank you
Val. Thank you again for working on this. All right. And we have a quorum of the planning board. So I don't know if you want to move back to the joint meeting. All right. Yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. Just going to do a roll call. So So as as folks are moving I can't see on the camera. Are they
planning is going to do a roll call vote to call their meeting to order. Okay. Alexander Graham here. Jonathan Bar to Bushad. They have a three person forum and it's 617 for anyone doing minutes in case you need that. Yeah, I know. I was like, you had to take care of something
on the way home. No, I wasn't. That wasn't what I meant. I just meant when they look at the recording and they try to do the sometimes. I thought you were picking on me for being late. I am not. You wouldn't you wouldn't do that. Although I could. You wouldn't do that. No. 617 for minutes. All right. Um so we're we're we're
joining with the planning board tonight because we had a failure failure to elect during the spring um election. There's there's a vacancy. Um they they do have um there is one candidate interested in filling the position u Bob Keter. Um and is is he there in the
room? He is here. Okay. So I'll hand it over um to the to the planning board. Um was there anything you guys wanted to say or do do we want to start with um uh a statement from from Bob? Typically what we've done with these placements because we've done it quite a few times
when people have resigned from boards is we've asked the candidate to introduce themselves, explain why they're interested in filling the role, and then you ask questions, we questions. Okay. Do you want to do that? Is that okay, Eric? Yeah, that's great. Thank you.
I'm Bob Kedar. I live have lived in Kingston since about 1999. Uh my kids went to Sacred Heart schools. Uh we didn't take advantage of the Silver Lake system and uh recently I've
been active in the Veterans Memorial that's out on the front lawn and I think that came out pretty nice, beautiful and uh yeah, as a matter of fact it it came out like we dream, but that that's a whole different issue. Uh, I became aware that there's an opening on the
planning board and my interest is is simply to help whatever I can to uh pick up the slack in the in the committee as it stands right now. Okay. All right. Um, planning board, why don't you guys go first if you have any questions for them and then we'll we'll
go. No. Um, I just would like to thank you for putting your name in. Uh, we were kind of desperate. um we can do most I don't mean that like that don't take it that way but when I say
desperate we um we're a five member board we can do business quite well with four members but when someone comes in u with a special permit they're required to get four out of five and if there's only four they need four out of four
votes uh in the affirmative to get their special permit and that's not really fair for the applicants so We're glad that you put your name and I thank you. You're welcome. I and I would echo that, Bob, and and thank you for everything you did with the with the memorial as well. Um I I know you put a lot of time
and energy and and and blood and sweat into that and um and I thank you for everything you've done for the town and continue to want to do uh continue to to do things for the town. Um is anybody else from the the board of selectmen who have any questions or comments before we
take a vote? I don't have any questions. I appreciate you throwing your your name in the in the ring. So, no, I I just want to add to that. I I think when I saw the smiles on the faces of the veterans,
it was pretty touching and uh it it took a while to get there. It took some direction um that we were numb to at first because we had thought of other sites and stuff like that. But when it
became apparent that the townhouse front lawn and then you look at it and you go, why were we thinking of any place else? No, it's a natural fit. It's awesome. You know, a little proddding here and a little proddding there. We got to where we were supposed to be. Good. Great.
So, Eric, typically in the past, we've had the other board or committee make the motion. In this case, it would be a motion to appoint Bobcatar as a member of the planning board effective immediately until the next annual town elections.
Yep. So Tom, if you guys want to make that motion, you can probably just say so move. Just so moved. Y second. You want to call for your vote? Oh, we don't we all vote together. You you get to call for it though because it's your
Oh, hey, I'm in Charlotte. half an hour recess. Uh, yes. So, let's let's u make a motion. We already made the motion. Just all those in favor. And you guys have sec Someone second it. You seconded it. Alex
seconded it. Um, all those in favor say I. I. Okay. And then Eric, we're going to just continue on to there. We'll just add on to theirs. So, you want to vote on it? Do do we need to make a separate motion or just No, we've done one just one big motion in the past. So, you can
just add on to theirs. Okay. So, um all those in favor, we need to do a roll call. Eric, I Tim I, Missy, I Don, I Carl I. Well, welcome to the planning board. You need to get sworn in in the town clerk's office when you get a chance. Yep. Okay.
I guess. Thank you. All right, Bob. Just um I don't know when you plan on coming in to get sworn in. Uh the clerk's out right now. The assistant clerk was out yesterday and tell you I don't honestly know if she's in if she's back tomorrow. So she's you're more than welcome to come in tomorrow if you'd like or Thursday. Thursday morning would work
out best. Okay. Um I'll let you know if she's not going to be here. I'll double check and make sure. I'm going to be over getting my transfer sticker first thing in the morning. Excellent. With everyone else in the morning. I believe the lines over there. But they were moving really quickly to give them
credit. And the and the people selling the stickers were very very patient and kind and positive. So I was I gave Sean all kinds of positive feedback for the folks working at the windows. They did great. Excellent. Thank you. All right.
So we are moving on to um item number two. We have um hold on. Planning board has to adjurnn. Did you have another question, Bob? You're good. Okay. Well, there you go. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I I I.
Planning board adjourned at 6:23 p.m. for the record. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. Okay. Okay. So, um the next item is a public hearing a petition from Verizon New England and NStar Electric uh proposing to locate a full wires, cable,
and fixtures on Tremont Street. So, I'm going to read the public hearing notice. Uh, notice is hereby given that the Kingston Board of Selecmen will hold a public hearing on the petition of plan 1 A7C6E from Verizon New England, Inc. and NStar
Electric Company doing businesses as Eversource Energy requesting permission to locate poles, wires, cables, and fixtures, including the necessary anchors, guides, and other such sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used in common by your petitioners along and across the
following public way or ways. Tremont Street. Install one J midspan pole P1 N 12 on the east side of Tremont Street near 163 Summer Street. The new pole will be installed in line with
approximately 80 ft south of existing pole P2 and approximately 101 ft north of existing pole P1. The installation is being requested by Eversource to support the relocation of a service pole and to provide for the distribution of
intelligence and telecommunications and the transmission of high-end low voltage electric current. The hearing shall take place on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. And the meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in room 200 Townhouse, 26 Evergreen Street, Kingston, Mass. People
interested are intended are invited to attend and be heard in this matter in person or via Zoom. Do I have a motion to open the public hearing? I move the board of selectman open the public hearing. Second. All right. All those in favor, Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. K.
I. Do we have anybody um here from Verizon or NSAR who wanted to speak to this? Yes. Uh my name is Matthew Pico. I work for Network Building and Consulting. Submitting these petitions on behalf of
Verizon. Okay. Um, we do have information on our handouts. Um, folk, anybody on the board, um, have any questions about this particular one? My concerns are always the same. Are we
are we just at we're adding a new poll but keeping the existing polls? That's what it looks like. Correct. Eversource is doing some upgrades in the area. one pole relocation in particular that will
require a another this proposed pole one and a half um in addition to that those upgrades and that relocation. So it looks like between P1 and P2 there
was 181 ft between those. So, this new P1 and a half is 101 ft north of of P1 and 80 feet south of P2 right along um Tremont Street. Um and and
is there a driveway or anything else in the It kind of looks like there is Eric. If I'm looking at the I mean hopefully he can speak to that, but looking at the satellite view, it's a whole lot of pavement, driveways, parking. Is that near the gas station? Right in front of
the royal garden and the apartment building. They have the new apartment buildings built there. Right. So, I guess the question I would have is where would this hole go on a satellite image because it looks like it would be
in the middle of a parking area. There is a big tree. I was envisioning it in front of that, but I could be wrong. I didn't measure it out. So if you do you want to look at this? Yeah. So there's I don't I can't share my screen. No, I can see it. Oh, I know. So
there is a big but there's a poll there already. Yeah. And there's a poll here. So my question is is it here? Matt, do you know where the poll's going? Uh it is going I know the sketch is not I saw I mean I can see the drawing. It's
just hard to tell on the satellite. I mean we've had issues before where poles have been placed in the middle of driveways and that clearly creates an an issue. So, I just want to ensure that we're not placing a pole in the middle of a driveway. Can I speak? Yes, absolutely. Okay, speak to it. Great.
Squat around one Tmont Street. I'm the owner of the property where this is going. Yeah. I actually have a plan here that I can show you guys exactly where it's going. Okay. So, you're supportive of where it's going? Are you supportive of where it's going? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. We're looking out for you. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
No, we need this to um it it's providing helping provide power to the new apartment buildings. Got it. You know, um and communication lines. Uh if you like, I can bring this off and show you. Yeah. Do you want to show me on here because I just brought up a
satellite image. Sorry for folks on the recording later, but Yeah. So, it is going it's going right there. See that um that island? The island. Okay. Okay. Great. It's hard to tell from the drawing exactly where it's going to be. Okay. Well, that's that's that's the
existing pool. But this is an island. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. That's the only concern I had. Eric, my question is this is out of the way of all the sidewalk work they're doing, right? So, we're not touching any of that or having to dig up brand new
sidewalks. It's on Tramont Street. We're not doing sidewalk work on TAM. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. No, it's not. The new sidewalk is on here before. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Just making sure. We've done stuff like that before, too. Perfect. Thank you. Just trying to
avoid making mistakes with the placement of those and Sean had no reservations, it said, right? Okay. So, we Anybody want to make a motion to close the hearing unless we have any other questions or comments about this one? I move the board and close the public
hearing. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle. I. All right. And another motion to approve. I move the board of selectmen approve the request from Verizon New England Inc. and Nsar Electric Company
doing business as Eversource Energy to install one JO Midspan pole P1 1/2 on the east side of Tremont Street near 163 Summer Street. The new pole will be installed in line with approximately 80
feet south of existing pole P2 and approximately 100 and 1 ft north of existing pole P1 and locate poles, wires, cables, and fixtures, including the necessary anchors, guides, and other
such sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used in common by your petitioners along and across the following public ways. Second. All right. All those in favor? Eric, I
Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I. All right. Thank you. Moving on to our next public hearing. We have a petition from again Verizon New England and Instar Electric um proposing a lo uh to locate full wires cables etc. I'm going to read that public hearing notice. Uh,
notice is hereby given that the Kingston Board of Selectment will hold a public hearing of the petition of plan 1A7A4YX from Verizon New England Inc. and NStar Electric Company doing business as Eversource Energy requesting permission to locate poles, wires, cables, and
fixtures, including the necessary anchors, dyes, and other such sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used in common by your petitioners along and across the the following public way or ways. Gallon Road. Install one JO
Midspan pole P295 6-5 on the south side of Gallon Road. The new pole will be installed in line with approximately 30 ft northeast of existing pole P257 and approximately 135 ft southwest of
existing pole 2956. The installation is being requested by Eversource to service a nearby property at 42 gallon road with a new 3PH primary riser and to provide for the distribution of intelligence and telecommunications and the transmission of high and low voltage electric
current. The hearing shall take place on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, and the meeting will begin at 6:05 p.m. in room 200 at the townhouse, 26 Evergreen Street, Kingston Mass. People interested are invited to attend and be heard in this matter in person or via Zoom. Do I have
a motion to open the public hearing? I move the board of selectman open the public hearing. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I. All right. So again um Matt, did you want to address this or um do you
want to just wait and see if we have questions specific? Yeah, I think the public notice spelled it out well. It's a a new pole to service a nearby building with uh additional power that Eversource will be upgrading on the
pole. All right. And any questions from the board? I have no concerns about placement. This is over near the extra space storage Sullivan Brothers area and there's there's room there for the poll. So, I don't have any concerns. Sean didn't have any.
All right. If there's no nobody is here in in the public either to speak. I move the board of selectman close the public hearing. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle. I. We are closed. Anyone want to make a
motion? I move the board of selectment approve the request from Verizon New England Incorporated and NSAR Electric Company doing business as Eversource Energy requesting permission to locate poles, wires, cables, and fixtures including the necessary anchors, guides, and other
such sustaining and protecting fixtures to be owned and used in common by your petitioners along and across the following public way or ways. Gallen Road. Install one JO Midspan pole P295/K sorry 6-5
on the south side of Gallen Road. The new pole will be installed in line with approximately 30 ft northeast of existing pole P2957 and approximately 135 ft southwest of existing pole P2956. Do we have a second? Second. Second. All
right. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I Don I K I All right, this one's been approved. We are good to go. Um thank you Matt. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. Sure.
All right. Uh next item uh is it is 6:34. Okay, good. Uh we have a 6:15 appointment uh continuation of a dangerous dog hearing. Um, we did hold a dangerous dog hearing at May 6th meeting uh for one of the two dogs owned by the
Goldsteeens who live at 44 Rabbit Road. Um, that was the second incident involving Bert Great Dane living the household. Um, the first incident involving both dogs was in 2024 when we deemed both dogs to be dangerous. So, we
had um voted for three conditions that that the owner needed to meet. And the conditions were um that B Bur and Hank would be confined to the premises provided that combined shall mean securely confined indoors or outdoors. Um an enclosed and locked pen or a dog run
area upon the premises. uh provided further that such pan or dog run shall have a secure roof and if such enclosure has no floor secured to the sides thereof the side shall be embedded into the ground for not less than 2 feet etc. Um also that she needed to provide um insurance in the amount not less than
100,000. Um and then we also um needed them to provide evidence that a veterinarian is is of the opinion that Burke and Hank are unfit for alterations because of a medical condition. Um, otherwise, Miss Goldstein, shall cause Bert and Hank to be altered so that they
cannot be reproductively intact. Um, so, Attorney Chaplain, you're you're on here. Um, also, Eric, I just want to let you know, um, Chief Holmes is toward the microphone, so I don't know if he has something to add as well, but I just wanted to let you know he did migrate toward the microphone.
Okay. So, Chief Chief, if you have something that you want to say, go ahead. Uh, thank you. I just I just have a recommendation for no further action. Uh the homeowner has come into compliance with all the directives of the board. Uh as far as I can see. Um and if attorney
chapel has anything to add to that. All right. Nothing to add to that. Um at this point, the order from last summer has been fully complied with. There was the additional incident uh from this spring. Looking back on my notes, that was uh that was late March. It was akin
to a u a headbutt from only one of the dogs. uh it wasn't a bite and the uh the victim of that incident uh said he was a dog lover and didn't want anything to happen to the dogs. So uh no further action makes sense. Yeah. And not not to make light of the issue, but I get
headbutted by my two great Danes on a daily basis and they don't do it intentionally. Um they have big heads. Um all right. Uh any any comments or questions from the board for attorney chaplain?
No. All right. Hey. Um so we did we did not actually take a vote to open the hearing. We didn't need to open it because it was continued from a prior date. So it's already open. Thank you. That's right. Okay. So no if there's no questions um no comments then I'll take
a motion to close the hearing. I move the board of select and close the dangerous dog hearing. Second. All right. All those in favor? Eric. I. Kim. I. Missy. I. Son. I. K. I. All right. Um,
now do we have another motion that we need to take? Yeah. We have to say one or just this one. Yeah. I move the board of selectmen determine that the owners of Bert and Hank have satisfactorily met the
conditions set by the original 2024 dangerous dog hearing. The dog owners have constructed a proper pen and the dogs are kept in while outside. Both dogs have been altered and the dog owners the dogs owners have obtained the insurance required by the board in our
initial decision. Second. All right. All those in favor Eric I. Tim I miss I Don I K I. All right. That's unanimous. Uh, thank you, Attorney Chaplain. We We've seen you far too much over the past couple years.
I'm always happy to help the board. We We appreciate your help and guidance getting us through through these second piece though. Don't need to. This wasn't an or I thought these were the or No, I think it's So, there was other there were other options. One is adding. Do
you need me do you need us to say no additional remedial measures or do you That's what my or was it sufficient to just say that they have satisfactorily met the requirements? One one more motion um a new motion. Okay. But one new motion uh either no additional
remedial measures or to or to take no further action on the on the March would would be would be perfect. Okay. Okay. So, I move the board of selectman determine that no additional remedial measures be ordered on account of the March 2025 incident concerning
which dog was the dog. I don't remember. It was Bird. It was Bird. Bird. Thank you. Second. All right. All those in favor? Eric. I. Kim. I. Missy. I. Don. I. Kyle. I. All right. Thanks, Don. Perfect. Yeah. That's what I'm here for. And And thank
you, uh, Attorney Chaplain. Um we again we appreciate all your help. Always happy to help. Have a happy 4th of July everybody. You too. All right. So number five we've already done. So moving on to number six. Our bianual update from the chief of police.
Uh chief you're up. Thank you. Good evening Mr. Chairman all members. Mr. Hickeyi, Miss Tucker. Um I sent a five-page document something somewhere about that. Um I don't have to read from it. You've had time to review it. We've each had individual conversations. Uh this is a periodic
update. I think you wanted two per year. So we'll see you in December for the same topic. And if there are things that you want added, just please let me know. I'm happy to do it. Um so as far as the department staff, um we have 24. We have one in the academy that'll make 25. Uh
we're slotted to have two additional positions. Uh one of them for October, the October Police Academy. uh one of them funded by school's uh excess and deficiency funds. Um the dispatch staff fully staffed right
now. I will note that two of the midnight shifts are only staffed with one dispatcher. So, in a previous request for a growth plan, uh we had asked for an additional full-time dispatcher to have those two midnight shifts filled and then some administrative responsibilities for like a program administrator type position to
do records accreditation, firearms licensing, and different things um including some uh dispatch oversight. Uh so, you may see that again. Um the capital items, uh I've broken them down here for you. Um, we recently had a
migration of a large portion of I think it was 167,000 for for tasers uh that was funded by uh annual town meeting. So, those are starting to make their way into the building. Um, it's not going to all show up at once. Uh, and we anticipate that
we're going to be training on the new devices in September. Um, as you see here, you staffing and professional development has been a priority here under the section titled personnel. Um, you know, that's something that we talked about
extensively uh with individual conversations and in in public meetings with the board. Um, you know, I'm I'm very pleased at at how the uh the department is responding to the professional development and training choices that we had. Um, you know, you have some stuff in here that breaks down
the things that we've done, including the WY EPIC disc assessment tool. Um, you know, the command staff has all gone to the New England public safety leadership institute. Um you know that they talk about self- assessment, regulation, team dynam dynamics, wellness, resiliency, transformational
leadership, all things that um would kind of acquies towards a uh succession plan so that um you know succession is is when I leave I want to make sure that the department in approximately 5 years is stable and that they are going to be
fine in terms of um their ability to do the job and they're doing very well in my opinion. Um, you know, I I I am um I'm happy to come to work every day and I'm not I'm not uh not shy to tell people that that ask me within the county or at meetings, how's it going? I
tell them it's going great, you know, and then I knock on wood. U we have a good kind of busy going on. There's a lot of things happening in the department and the department is responding well. Uh the fall I would like to see some leadership level stuff for the non-ranking members of the department and we're working on a plan for that. Uh we all appreciate the
support of of the elected officials, the appointed officials in the annual town meeting supporting the things that we're doing in terms of the growth and development. Um we have a whole bunch of grants in the works as you've seen here. Uh the state department of mental health diversion
program that would give us a clinician came to a grinding halt right before we applied. Um the funding was cut and uh the funding has since been reallocated back to the budget. Uh I think it went from 22 million down to 2 million uh in
the original draft of the budget and now it's back up to approximately 19 million uh which will hopefully get us some positive results on the application uh for the licensed mental health clinician that would benefit Kingston Clinton and Halifax as a co-response model. Uh the comfort dog, Clinton County comfort dog.
Uh there's an agenda item you're going to see later where we're asking for advanced authorization. um that's currently a pet project of the district attorney of uh Plymouth County and I can tell you that um the Plymouth County District Attorney is a differencemaker in the world of law
enforcement. Um his model is being pared throughout the country um for the comfort dog program and what it means to law enforcement in terms of engaging students uh elderly population, veterans, town employees or wherever we decide we want to have the the comfort
dogs. I mean our hope is that we have a comfort dog in the schools as much as possible. The engagement opportunities are very important right now particularly with this generation coming up. Uh the district attorney presents nationally. He's going to be at the international association of chief's conference in October to uh make a
presentation um about what the model is and how the DA are reaching out to him not just in Massachusetts but throughout the country. Um, the district attorney's grant covers just about everything. Everything except for food. Whatever way the law is
written. Um, it would, if we need to upgrade the truck that we we would have uh in mind for the comfort dog, uh, we could get a cage upgrade. Uh, it pays for the dog, it pays for the training. Uh, the grant currently pays for overtime hour for hour. What that means
is if a call out happens and it takes up three hours, well, we have a contractual obligation to pay a 4-hour minimum if it happens off shift. Uh I personally witnessed firsthand um last summer there was a tragedy involving a youth in Ducks and there was an event in Pemrook and
there were about 15 comfort dogs of all shapes and sizes. One of them even driving around on a skateboard. Uh but that made a difference to the vigil that happened that night and u it was a collaboration collaboration like none I've ever seen. these these kids and these families needed it for that tragedy. So, we hope to be a part of
that. The Bren Memorial Grant uh that's currently filed. Um I have the lieutenant to thank for that. I threw another thing his way and he threw it right back completed. Uh that's going to fund uh something that we one of the things that we put in for uh is called urban SDK traffic monitoring software
and that will be a shared resource with Val uh for any of the work that she would be doing. we could give her an account and it helps analyze traffic data uh through telematics module uh driven by GPS. So it's something that would be useful tool for valant in the
work that she does. The DOJ um has a grant for an accreditation manager. It's not going to pay for one full-time accreditation manager. It's going to supplement funding for overtime or the backfill of overtime for us uh to accomplish accreditation. Uh and there's a further
discussion on that. Um, I'm hoping that this one is a no-brainer for the DOJ and less of a challenge. Um, but it's something that I think would benefit the department and benefit the town if we go through the process of accreditation. the cops hiring program. Um
that's something that um we just I just finished that uh a week ago. And what it would do, it would fund for three years, it would fund approximately 20 75% funding for one full-time police officer with 25% match funds from the town. and
an additional to commitment that if we're awarded to pay uh to keep the position alive for 12 months after the expiration of the grant, meaning that we're committed to funding this position and absorbing it into the budget. Uh I titled it the crimerevention and community engagement officer position.
Uh it seemed to be a theme uh in the the background investigative process and the selection process for the chief, the assessment center stuff that the town is looking for more engagement from their police department. We're doing everything we can to keep the public informed through social media about the
things that we're doing and uh this would be a furtherance of that. We got all sorts of stuff uh planned out for what we could use that position for. Um we also had um I have a breakdown here of accreditation
and it's a lengthy process. Uh so myself, the lieutenant and three sergeants uh last week on Monday attended um the municipal police training committee facilitated a a one-day training for accreditation managers training at the Randolph Police
Academy. Uh it's about 6 and a half hours. Uh but they basically break down the process of what the job of an accreditation manager is. departments that go through it um will typically have a full-time supervisor to get the department through the process of first
certification which takes about a year and then the first year of accreditation to get the program up and running and then after you become accredited it's just basically it's maintenance mode for the the three years until you come back for reacredititation through a panel. Um,
you know, I I came from a department that was accredited. Um, what it does is it's it hardens up your policies, procedures. It bases basically makes them based on a national standard, national best practices. Um, a lot of it comes from the the national model of uh
commission for accreditation of law enforcement, which is the national accreditation uh agency. We would be going through the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. Um I have a breakdown of timets and estimates about what would happen and when. Uh and the initial walkth through would be
happening probably late summer but fall of 2025. The walkthrough is really the pivotal moment. The walkth through with a a member of Mass Police Accreditation Commission. Uh they have an assessor come through walk through the building and you know you have some preparatory homework to to get ready for the
walkthrough. But it's a 14-page document where they might say unless you build a fence around this generator, you're not going to pass. So, uh, what I could come up with after the walkth through, uh, is yes, no, definitely not, or yes, but you're going to have to spend a little
bit of money on these items. And I'm not going to do that without the board being informed of what we're doing because it would involve requests for uh for fall town meeting if we get that far. Uh so certification um you end up getting certified under 178 standards. A lot of
those are duplicitous with the actual accreditation standards. So you end up knocking out a lot of them through the certification process. Um after you get certified sometime between um your your certification and an actual um assessment, you do a mock assessment and
accreditation commission can tell you you're ready to go or you need to do work on these 10 items or whatever it is. Then you go through your actual accreditation assessment. There's a three-year period of the maintenance of the accreditation standards and then there's the reacredititation period.
Um we actually we would do our best to make it electronic but EMPAC is big on um redundancy to paper. So, uh, for what it's worth, uh, we would be doing as much as we could, but like especially for your first year of accreditation, you kind of get to get a visual of of
what standards have been met and which ones have not. So, I'm going to give you a print out. I can email this electronically to you, Eric. Two, three, four. This
all this really is is a list of towns that are accredited. Uh Kim, you would ask me how many. I wasn't that far off. It's 120. Uh of the 351 cities and towns that are actually been awarded accreditation. Um there's an additional eight towns that have been awarded
certification. And then everything to the left side of the document you're looking at, they're phase one applicants. U preassessment or self assessment. I think right now we're in phase two self assessment. Yep. Right at the bottom. Right.
So that's the long and the short of a really long conversation about uh accreditation and I'll keep the board posted. Um I want to skip back to the um Plymouth County Comfort Dog program. In your packet you should have gotten
something that looks like this two documents. It looks like that. So we can talk about that when that comes up as an agenda item. I have a summary of some outreach that we've done here. You've had a chance to read that. And like I mentioned at the beginning, if there's additional categories that you'd like me
to break down for the periodic reports, just please let me know and I'll do it. Uh did anybody have any questions for the chief? No, this is great. I really appreciate it. I think this is exactly what when Don first suggest getting up suggested getting updates from both
police and fire departments. I think this is the kind of update I mean um Chief Douglas has done this before as well but providing us what you're working on what you're thinking kind of what you see for the future where we are on different initiatives it's really helpful to us in you know looking at the
whole picture so I appreciate the detail agreed and it breaks it down for the public as well I think it's important for people to see what we're doing I you know I just I have to say I've said it before but I'm not doing this job alone. I did the typing alone, but
you know, we don't we don't get here unless we work together. And again, you have my lieutenant, you have my assistant, the other lieutenant, members of the command staff. Does he really do the typing, though? I'm just kidding. I'm I'm pretty quick for for an old guy with the typing, but uh I can't do it alone. And um you know, it's one of the
things that that I love about coming to work is is the people working together. So, I appreciate that. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you, Chief. Thank you. and and we'll have you again in a few minutes. Look forward to it. So, the uh next item
uh is the fire chief review. Um included in our board materials was the fire chief's um self-evaluation. Um unless anybody has any questions or comments. Um I would entertain a motion. I move the board of selectmen approve
the annual self-evaluation provided by fire chief Mark Douglas. Second. All right. All those in favor, Eric, I, him, I, Missy, I, Don, I, Kyle, I, and I just want to add a big thanks to to Chief Douglas as well, as well as to
Chief Holmes for the excellent job um that both chiefs are doing with our with our public safety here in Kingston. Um, both both departments are doing great work and and our um citizens, our residents are are thankful for sure.
All right. Uh, next item is approval of a new common victual license, Ellis Grill. And we chuckle because I can never say the word victer. I don't know. All right. Uh, does anybody have um a motion? Uh, all
the applicable department heads have reviewed and signed off on this. Uh, does anybody have any questions? If not, uh, a motion. I move the board of selectment approve the common vixular license for Ellis Grill effective immediately through
December 31st, 2025. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I. All right. That's unanimous. Uh, next item is a consideration and possible adoption of our tax title custodian process. Um, at the June 17th
board meeting, uh, we had a request to review the final version of tax title custodian process and possibly vote to approve it. Uh, the draft provided to the board on June 17th has been reviewed by selectman Pike who offered some minor changes. Um, those changes have been reviewed by Mr. Franklin and
incorporated into the final version for our consideration. Uh, the working draft document in the is in the meeting packet. Um, so, um, at this point, any questions, comments, concerns? The only thing I would say is there were
some notes included in the final version from Mr. Franklin. So, I would ask that we just take those out as this if we approve this policy. We shouldn't have his notes on the current status within the official document that we approve as the process.
Yeah. So, here here's my question. the working draft. So the first page that we have, we have month is scratched out, quarter is written above it. Was was that right? So if you look at the second document in the meeting materials, it has all of the changes
from Mr. Pike Incorporated, but on page uh let's see, page one three I guess it's EI has a note. This has been requested has not yet been received. I would just say for the policy that we're
doing, we should just take out the current status out of the policy. That's all. Can I just ask Trish? Was that a PDF action? Probably. So, if we could have Mr. Franklin make the make whatever changes he wanted to make, that'd be great. Like, so we'll remove the words working draft and we'll remove the
comment. But otherwise, I didn't have it looked like everything that Mr. Pike had suggested was added and I didn't have any concerns with the changes. So, So Carl, did you have any additional concerns or or or comments at this
stage? It looks fine to me. Okay. Okay. I move the board of selectment approve the tax title custodian process offered this evening. Second. Uh as amended. As amended, sir. As amended. Second. All right. Um all those in favor? Eric
I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. K. I. All right. That's unanimous. Um, okay. On to additional items. Number one, we um a discussion on advanced authorization to accept a grant for comfort dog. Um,
so Chief, you're back up. He's coming back. He's coming back. He's making his way over. Uh so uh we're looking for advanced authorization because this is not like you apply for a grant and the board later accepts the grant. This is you go through the process of working with the
district attorney making a commitment. Um dog and the handler get selected together. The dog handler then attends I think three weeks of basic training to make sure that they're the right fit. Um so it's it's a little bit backwards that you know if we apply for a grant then
the board accepts the grant uh which is the normal course of business um we wouldn't be able to show a commitment up front and that's really kind of what this comes down to. So if you're looking for um advanced authorization to accept the grant on behalf of the board of uh
applying for the Plymouth County comfort dogs through the district attorney's office. Uh right now there's currently research that's happening through the uh Bridgewater State University's partnership with the Plymouth County DA. Uh it's the school's uh university
school of social work to evaluate and measure the program's effectiveness. Um it's in the document that you have says Plymouth County Comfort Dogs. Uh right now the district attorney has 16 towns and a total of 20 dogs out there in the
in the county. um and he was pretty excited at the prospect of adding another um in Kingston. We obviously we have a lot of students uh at the regional school district so we would touch three different communities with the schools alone. Um and that's
the long and the short of it. All right. Any uh comments or questions from the board? No, I I just the only comment I have is that we um I've seen the success in this in a classroom environment to have the
comfort dogs come in and just to see um how that affects the students. I think I'm absolutely in favor of us exploring this. Any anybody want to make a motion? I move the board authorize the police
chief the to accept a grant on behalf of the board for a comfort dog through the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office which will be assigned to and handled by a member of the Kingston Police Department. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I.
Kyle I. Thank you. Thank you chief. Um all right. The next item uh chief might be might be back. Um don't go too far. Declaring surplus property. We have uh the interim superintendent of streets,
trees, and parks looking to declare two trucks as surplus. Both trucks are being replaced. A 2002 Sterling L7500 dump truck. I'm not going to read the bin. And a 2000 Sterling L70 dump truck. Um, and then the police chief is also um
requesting that retired K9 Billy be declared a surplus as a necessary procurement step for the town and allow ownership to be transferred to the current handler, Sergeant Latra. Does sound funny to declare a dog surplus. I know.
The the Pop Heads meeting today was great. When that subject came up, it was like, you know, right? But it is considered property of the town. The handler has to write a check for $1 and then the ownership transfers over. Well, is it should Sergeant Latra
be declared? Should we have an option? I'm just kidding. I'm totally No, he's got he's got at least 10 years to go. We need him. Okay. All right. So, um, if there's no questions or comments, does anybody want to make a motion? I move the board of
selectmen declare the 2000 and 2002 Sterling dump trucks as surplus and further declare police K9 is it? Okay. Yes. As surplus and approve the sale to Sergeant Linatra for $1. Second. All
those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Sorry. Carl I. Thank you. All right. That's unanimous. Does he get the dump trucks for a dollar too based on that motion? Right. Just kind of the wording. Mhm. All
right. So, up next and and uh hey, the the chief might want to have something to say about this as well. Jeez. Maybe. We'll see. Um so, the Don had had brought forth the idea of um requesting that we consider updating the Hawker and Peddler bylaw to include new language
creating a do not knock registry. So, the intent of the registry would allow residents to be voluntarily included on the list indicating to door-to-door salespeople that they are not allowed on the property. Um, including in the board materials or examples from other communities who've adopted the do not
knock registry bylaw language. Um, so this is something that um, you know, we would want to work with, um, our our the town administrator to work with town council to update the bylaw that would be presented to fall town meeting to
update. Um, Don, did you want to um address this and if anybody has questions, answer? Uh, yeah, sure. No, I I I actually had I wish I could say I came up with the idea myself. A resident brought it to me. Um,
actually he brought it to me as a way to make money for the town. Um, and in further research, most towns in Massachusetts that are doing this are doing the registry as a free service. Um, and basically what it does, at least my understanding, is it kind of gives
the police a much easier mechanism to find solicitors that are ignoring these rules. So, I I personally I think it's a great idea. um $100 per application.
The only question I had was whether it makes sense for it to be fall. I think of fall town meeting as being kind of urgent or time-sensitive um articles. So, I just didn't know if that should be an annual town meeting question to change the
bylaw or if we needed it to be fall. I don't know. Solicitors are urgent, right? I'm just asking because typically fall town meeting is reserved for things that we must I don't have much of a thought on it. I haven't thought about it. I mean, I'm okay with having um the town
administrator resurgent. Just with the caveat that if we if we want to have it in the spring instead of the fall, maybe we talk about that when we do the warrant, right? Carl, you have thoughts on that? I definitely would prefer it to be the
regular town meeting. I probably don't like the idea at all because it's adding another piece of government. It's adding a another administrative chore to somebody's uh plate, whether it be the police department or the uh town
administrator, some somewhere. It just adds work that I'm not in favor of. Fair enough. Um so who would handle it? This would be the police department handling this. Am I right, Keith? Uh, so
yes, most of the departments that we looked at, the police department were was the department that would administrator this administer this, excuse me. One of the things that a lot of the departments have done and I and I don't want to speak for the police department, but I think I can on this situation is that we would like to have
a fillable form online that a property property owner or a resident would have to fill would have to fill out themselves and be responsible for completing that. Uh once it's completed, it's submitted and automatically added to the to the list of of do not knock.
um to eliminate uh some of what Mr. Luckman Pike um was concerned about as far as adding adding some responsibilities to people's plates. Um one of the things that that I would like to see in the in the bylaw that the board considers and the public ultimate
considers is having the responsibility of of uh registering on the do not knock list to be the responsibility of either the property owner or or the resident who lives at that property rather than Yeah. a department uh a department themselves. Yeah. Other than setting up
a form, there should be no overhead because solicitors still have to go to the police department. Correct. And this would just be an extra piece of paper handed to them. So the actual the overhead is on the solicitor now and it just gives the police a way to find them if they're
breaking their rules. So Lieutenant Sca uh and I had a quick conversation today and he's done a little bit of digging. We haven't found an answer yet, but we will before we bring this back. Um, I certainly appreciate Select Malcolm Brightite's thought of may having this be an opportunity to make a little bit of money. Um, one of the things that the
other the other approach when I take with this, frankly, is, you know, are we charging an appropriate amount for a license and if there's an opportunity to to bump that up a little bit uh to be more in line with some area communities, we'll look at that. So, Lieutenant SC took a quick look at the bio at the
estate law to see if there was a a requirement for what the fee would be. We didn't seem to find one in a quick search, but we will. And if we have the ability to uh propose a modified fee, we'll certainly have the board consider that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because my my when I had talked to you previously, my
assumption would be we're not making a lot of money from this. So, if the fee if there's a max, it should probably be the max because I don't know. Does anyone like solicitors? I don't think anyone likes solicitors. So, no. Whenever they come to our house, they get the lecture from
me of where's your lanyard that you got from the police department. Did you call and ask for permission to knock here? Sorry, I know the rules. Bye. I also see it as another step to make it difficult for businesses that a business, you know, small business wants to do some
house to house, we're going to make it more difficult for him. I would agree with you if we weren't having people essentially being harassed regularly near us where they're knocking constantly, they're hanging around. It's not a great business model currently. So, typically I would agree with you,
but in this case, these folks are not they're not Yeah. having having seven solar people come to your house the same day is just it gets old, right? It gets old. I don't know. But I agree. I don't want to add administrative process. So if we can find a middle
ground. What I will say is it doesn't apply to everyone. Um like I believe like religious things are exempt. There's certain things that'll be exempt from this things are also exempt. Um okay. But yeah. Okay. Um
anybody want to make a motion? Uh, I move the board of selectman request the town administrator to work with council to develop the knockknock language to be included in the existing hawker peddler bylaw and present the rise bylaw to the board for
consideration at the fall or spring town meeting. I guess we can say oh sorry we got a solicitor pocket pal state law solicitor solicitor by I will accept that friendly amendment
second. All right. All those in favor, Eric, I. Kim, I, Missy, I, Don, I. Kyle opposed. All righty. All right. Next item. Number four, request approval of endofear line item
transfers. So, we saw an updated spreadsheet um from the town administrator um with with a few transfers. Um, are there any questions, any uh comments or any motions?
If I could just say one quick thing. Um, m Mr. uh, chair, this we believe are all of the transfers. We don't expect another transfer list to come forward on the 15th. I want to just qualify that that if something unexpected comes forward, you may see us again, but this is what we believe to be the lion share
of the transfers. They are scheduled tenatively to go in front of the finance committee on the 14th of uh Jul of July. I can't believe July. Um and if there is any additional transfers um that aren't reflected here, if
they'll go to the fincom on the 14th, they'll come to the board of select on the 15th. So we meet the uh the deadline uh required by Mass General Law. Okay. I move the board of selectmen approve the transfer presented this evening.
As presented. As presented. Second. All right. All those in favor? Eric. I. Kim. I. Missy. I. Don. I. Kyle. I. All right. That's unanimous. So now we're moving on to donations. Would
anybody like to um make a motion? I can do that for the donations. All right. I move the board of Selecmen accept the following donations. It's $100 from the friends of the Kingston Council on Aging to the Kingston Council on Aging to cover the cost of mailing
the COA's monthly newsletter and $35 from Robert Tacinary to the Kingston Council on Aging. Second. All those in favor? Eric. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. K. I. All right. Next item. Appointment of a
council and agent van driver. Currently, there are two vacancies. Um, upon completion of the recruitment process, uh, the the director, Holly Nigelli, is recommending Deborah Jenkins to fill one of the positions. Uh, do I have a motion? I move to appoint Deborah
Jenkins to the position of COA van driver, a grade three step two non-exempt position within KTU Labor with the Council on Aging Department with an anticipated start date of July 2nd, 2025, contingent with the terms in the offer letter.
Second. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy. I. Don I. Kyle. I. All right. Next item. Annual board and committee reappoints. Included in the board packet is a list of annual board and commission reappointments with their expiration dates. If the board supports
the list as presented, a motion to accept the list as presented can be made. If we want to remove one or more people, a motion could be made to remove those who were not supported. Um, so would anybody have any questions or would you like to make a motion?
I move the board of selectman approve the list of candidates up for reappointment to their board or commission shown on the master list as presented. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I.
All right. Uh, next up is appointment to the affordable housing trust and the agricultural commission. So, the board of selectmen need to appoint a board member to the affordable housing trust and also to the agricultural commission. I was on the affordable housing trust. I'm fine continuing. I haven't made it
to all their meetings. Um, they also don't have any money. Uh, although we're looking at grants and whatnot. Um, I'm fully willing to stay on for the affordable housing trust. I move the board of selection and appoint Eric Cone to the affordable housing trust as a board of selection representative with
the term ending June 30th, 2022. Second, that happened really quick. Uhhuh. All right, Donna. All those all those in favor, Eric, I. Sorry. Go ahead, Eric. I I said all those in favor, Eric I. Kim
I Nissy I John I K I All right I was on I am currently on the agricultural commission so I'm happy to also remain I move the board of select and appoint Missy Baitment to the agricultural commission as board of select representative with the term ending June 30th 2026 second all those in favor Eric
I Kim I miss I do I call I All right that was quick well you guys volunteer we're going to sign you right up I know it I know all right uh update on the status of establishing a department of public works. You know, we had a um a
public hearing last meeting. Um we had quite a few people show up. We're doing another one the end of July. Um I have some followup to do. Um there is uh there are a couple DPW directors that
live in Kingston. I need to reach out to them. Um I'll try to do that in the next week or so. It's a holiday week, so not sure how how well I'll get in touch with them. Um, but I will do that. Um, does anybody else have anything or any questions, comments? I mean, I think
just as an aside, I think anyone interested in understanding why we are pursuing a DPW can just watch the most recent sewer and water commission meetings and you can see for yourself. So, yep. That's all I'm going to say about that.
All righty. Um, town administrator report. Keith, do you have anything? I do. Thank you. Um, just to update everybody, the uh, if you haven't been down to the re read tennis courts, uh, the project is complete. Uh, I've got a couple of pictures in my report that's online. Uh, the courts are
open for anybody to use, so enjoy those if you can. The OPI well replacement project is also complete. Uh, the the well is now providing the necessary irrigation for the playing fields as was as was planned. Uh the two yield to pedestrian sidewalk signs have been installed on Main Street as requested at
a meeting a couple of weeks ago. We had one in stock. We had to order another. Uh so those are now in place. The uh the road paving was supposed to start today or this week, but it's been it's been pushed back a little bit because there's a there's a the plant is down, frankly.
So, not a great time for the asphalt plant to break, but uh they aren't sure when it's going to be online again, but they expect sometime in the next week or two to have paving started on River Street. They'll move from River to Crescent, and they they're supposed to stay in town until the six or seven
roads that we have planned for paving this year are complete, which is great. It was uh mentioned today by our interim streets, trees, and parks superintendent that it's the first time in four or five years we've paved the road. Um, I think that was the the timeline. So, nice to
see that moving forward. Um, we have, uh, now three strong candidates for the assistant treasur collector, I'm sorry, assistant treasur position. Um, we're doing the final background checks now and we will have a hopefully have a recommendation for hiring at the July
15th board meeting. Um, want to apologize. I guess we've been pushing or promoting the online transfer station decals uh to be available to be online in June. We've had some um
self-inflicted errors in my opinion um and unfortunately haven't been able to move forward with that this year. We apologize for that. So, as me as the chairman mentioned earlier in the meeting, we have established uh Sunday, July 6th and Saturday, July 12th for for those who who aren't able to come in
during the week uh to stop by on the weekend at Streets, Trees, and Parks to pick up their their decal. They are online 5 days a week uh otherwise between now and then. So, just to make sure people are aware, if you go to the transfer station beginning today, uh, and you don't have a new decal, the
attendants at the transfer station will scrape off the detail that has expired. Uh, they'll allow you to throw your trash when you show up. Uh, but you can't go back into the transfer station till you have a new decal. Uh, so you can pick up a decal.
Uh, the the 2nd and the third, they were closed the fourth. Uh they we're not going to be available on the 5th, but Sunday the 6th you can come in. Um but again, if you're going in for the first time with that old decal, you can do that until July 12th when you're not going to be able to go in and get a
decal. So we are trying to be somewhat um cooperative uh flexible to to allow people to throw their trash. Uh we've we've been selling decals now for the better part of a month. Um, so, uh, just so people are aware, you can go to the transfer
station that one time with a with an expired decal, but please get your decal, um, prior to July 12th, Saturday, July 12th, you will not be able to get in the transfer station without a new decal. Um and then just one last thing just to I
confirmed today with the state that the the shelter uh that the state was operating at the Baymont has now officially closed as effective yesterday. What I was told uh via email was that the the residents who were there uh were either uh located to a
different um uh housing location or they found more permanent housing. So the concern that was first raised when they announced that they were closing June actually at that point was December 31st was they might be homeless. Fortunately, the
state has stepped up and um we aren't dealing with a potential increase in our homeless population, which becomes more of a concern for police and fire uh and health and human services certainly. So, um the the Baymont from what I understand is going to be closed for a period of time while they uh assess and
and potentially do some renovations. Um but that that facility is now is now been closed. and appreciate everybody in town who um helped out as much as they could and made donations and and whatnot with for the the individuals who had been placed there. So, uh on to the next
chapter. Happy to answer any questions anybody has. Perfect. The last thing you had in here though is the public hearing for the DPW. I'm sorry. Yeah, I I me I I thought Eric
had said it already. I apologize. Uh I believe it's the July 15th here meeting, Eric, that we're going to have a public hearing. 5:30. Is that what we said? So, just remember, I'm I'm on vacation. So, it's the 30th. Yeah. The 30th. 30th. I apologize. The 29th. Yep. Whatever that
day is. Yes. 29th. 29th. So, I apologize. So, the the the next public hearing for a discussion on the public works department will be the 29th of July at um Did we say 5:30? 5:30. Okay. 5:30.
Yeah. So, Eric has until then to do all the homework. I've got some thoughts, too, Eric. I'll I'll send along some information that I'm trying to put together as well that might answer some questions. Sounds good. Okay. Um,
anybody else uh any any questions or comments? No, we just have the minutes, but I don't have any questions for Keith. Okay. All right. Yep. And we are on to meeting minutes. Approval of open session meeting minutes for April 1st, June 17th. Um, and then June 17th. I
move the board of selectmen approve the open session meeting minutes of April 1st, 2025, June 17, 2025 public hearing and June 17, 2025 as amended. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I.
All right. Um, any selectman comments? Have a safe and safe and happy fourth. Should I be what I always say every year? Fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts. No, you're just a reminder. They're they're not at some point. Are
we gonna have a joint meeting with school committee about the budget? Yeah. Okay. Because we got to start talking about that now. Yeah. I I emailed Eric about a little while ago. We're going to just find a date that works. Um Yeah. And try to have that joint meeting started. Yeah. Excellent.
Is there anything else that that other selectmen would like us to to to do or to schedule over the next coming months? Um, you know, you don't have to tell me right now, but and Kim, you're always good at this, too. Just um uh shoot me a note if there's something that we want
to have on an upcoming uh for an upcoming meeting. Yeah, sounds good. I would say the Eric, we had talked about if you if we can potentially add a third warrant signer. Oh, yes, that's a very good idea. I
don't know if that's possible because I'm going to be gone and I think there was two I think there was a week where both of us are gone. Let us double check what our options are and we'll let the board know. Okay. If not, you just need three signatures, right? That's the It might just be once. So, it might not be the end of the world anyways. I just
figured Okay. It's that week in July that I think both of us might be Yeah. town. So, all righty. All right, folks. Um, our next regular meeting is July 15th. I won't be there. So, have a wonderful time at that
meeting. Put everything on till the 29th. Move to adjourn. Second. All those in favor? Eric I. Kim I. Missy I. Don I. Kyle I. at 7:24. All right, have a great
Fourth of July, you guys.