Good evening. Um, I call the meeting to order at 5:35 and this meeting is being recorded by the local scene. Anyone intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting should notify the chair at this time. Uh, first item is open session. No
one's here, so we'll skip that. And we have an introduction of our new board member who is Dan Hollow. Dan, welcome to the board. Thank you. You're welcome. And I should say Dan was on the board from um April of 2018 till April 21.
So he has three years of experience on the board. So that is great to have that experience back on here. Um I met Dan on my interviews when he left was when I started. So, um, I'll get to know you better as our meetings go on. Awesome.
You're welcome. Thank you. Um, okay. Next item is bills. Review bills for payment. There's just these are both vendors. The first one is vision appraisal, which is the cloud hosting and the GIS, which is
connected to vision. So when we're in the posel, we can map it out as well. Have Have they changed how we interact with it from the public's perspective? Okay. Let me throw this in. Okay.
Um and this is our CI technology which is all the mapping. Um and this is the bill for the year. So we bought them to just do yearly. So we Yeah, that's a good idea. So this is this is quarterly the that's for the year as well.
This is for the year as well. Okay. That's that's just a couple of their functions. So we did have which was called a web hosting. Um but what we have through C what we have
now is we'll show you the same thing. It will bring up the the vision card was a couple of things. there was a duplication of error of efforts but also financially with the budget. Um it's been I don't know if you've been aware
but the budget's been cut. So we discontinued that last year. I mean it's something we can bring back at some point but yeah the thing is how much did that save? It was like four. Yeah. 4500 or something. The thing though, the vision site was great at a
presentation to the public, but their GIS was Yeah. terrible. So, you have this awesome GIS site, which gives you the property record card on any parcel. Uh, gives you a four year hit value history. The the vision site could have given you like a
10 or 20 year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very few people need that. Um, so I I we opted I think it was last year or last fall but this fiscal year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That we we opted to just go to one because you were paying the same amount for two websites
and the one is the CA. Yeah. Yeah. I think people don't realize and you need to get out there because you're going into the mapping and they're not used to seeing the mapping. But once you put the possible ID in, you can get the CI property card, which isn't great, but your division's property card is also
there. Yeah. The the thing that's cool about the CI site, if you look up any house in town, well, you look up that site and you can then physically go to all your neighbors right around it right from there. Where the vision site, you couldn't do that. You would have to go
back and forth from the map and go back in and type in a physical address. So if people got used to or followed some of the prompts that CI CI has there, it it's actually a much more intuitive and much more giving you quicker information
to to data that people might be looking for. I actually thought they were always intertwined to be honest cuz whenever I would look for property parcels or go to the the town website Yeah. We have both. Yeah. Yeah. But it would they they seem to be linked. So, if you looked up a property
because you used to be able to type in like a a map block, whatever, or even a property owner or an address on I think it was Vision's website and it would usually take you I think it would take you to the CIN. I think it was Yeah,
I can't remember. It was take you to Google Maps. Yeah, you could click on map. It is that what it was? Yeah. Okay. Take you to Google Maps. Okay. Ken used it a lot. I know. Yeah. It's the treasury. Yeah. A lot. But, you know, right now we don't have
it and we're always willing if people call up, they can get information from us. A question on that. Functionally, what happened? Does does Vision send them a bunch of PDFs? Yes. Once a year. It's an extract. Yeah. That
Okay. So, they're not linking to the Vision website. They have they have all the PDFs for for each Yeah. Okay. So, it's right after the billing. So right in January is when they do the PDFs. So they only can change once a year. Whereas vision vision could change
whenever you change it, right? The rub with that though is and this was my this was my thought when I first started working with business. I'm like, "Oh, this is awesome. I can show really up to the date data, but it's never certified." So
it has to be synced with the billing. Right. Really? Right. And and that was the whole thing. So, um, anything that's in the assessor's database is a static thing. It's like what was approved last fall, what was what's going to be approved this fall for 26. So, um,
it would be nice to see new owners and stuff like that. That's on that. We have a program that just But that's not on the but it's on CI. Yeah. Yeah. And see, I I agree. CI is a little bit more difficult to read, but it is on there. You can
the owners like if you had an owner from two weeks ago, it should be on the website now once a week. The card is only printed in like December. So that's a static image. But when you look at ownership on the CI website that's updated, I think does that.
We do. They they do that. Yeah. There's a little widget that you run and it grabs the information. Do you guys still have to do those the spreadsheets? Oh, awesome. Even easier. Yeah, they run it into they'll do an
extract from our owners and Yeah. Yeah. put it on. Cool. And the property card that you're viewing are the vision the CI. Right. Right. So when you go to the CI when you look at a property card, for example, that's the vision property card from the beginning of the year, but
it'll update the owners. Right. Just when you're looking at the properties of So So the card may not agree with the owner. Correct. The honor is no. Right. Right. Yeah. Okay. Next item is meeting
minutes. Meeting next. So Jes didn't you already send me. Yeah. Okay. Do you mind? Let me just But yeah, we will send out
the minutes to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But executive we don't send so that we'll do those in executive session when we have that. All right. Next item is July abatement report. Okay. This these are all um motor
vehicle abatements except the one which is the eight of 58 I did and that's when it's not done during the time tomorrow means you're getting it done. It was easy but no it wasn't because it was so straightforward. It was a the
pilot. Oh okay. That was they wrote the pilot for land in the pilot the solar panels together and you're not that's not allowed unless you own both the properties and this is for the um Dshire
property that the town owns where the own the landfill the landfill. Yeah. So there's only there's just one signature page. So they got a a real estate bill and they were paying it in the pilot. Yeah. So the pilot was rewritten. So, we're
doing it a different way, but So, that was pretty I I remember that when that came across. Yeah, I actually don't think I signed off on that. They redid it a couple times since you Oh, since they since then. So, they had the pilot and then they had
gear charge which they hired and they took down the um wind turbine and then staff was signed. It started in 20 though. You were I had amendments after that cuz
wind that never should have been. Thank you. All right. And final item is executive session. We just did that. No, we did. Yeah. Oh, we did. I thought that was with them. There you go.
Oh, okay. There you go. Great. Sorry about that. Commitment number four. Oh man, I did. You made a commitment number eight for 24. We got a commitment eight for 24 weeks ago.
Yeah, I think a six a couple months ago. Up to eight. Sometimes we do get up to eight some years. Yeah, it was it was really a mouth. Do you have the motor vehicle schedule of when the commitments come out? It's on the um it's actually on the RMV
website. It's good because if you Well, the problem was is it was actually the R&B that messed up these three bills. Maybe that's why it's up there now. It it they messed up these three bills and didn't realize it till now. That's
why I had a 24 number eight in July. Like really and and just refresh my memory, the commitments are what is being build out to right. So those that probably um new cars newer cars are take out in the all the new guys cruising around town.
There they are. New used cars. I think I think that I think that market's got to be running dry soon based on what I see. All right. Uh moving on. The final item is executive session. I move to enter
into executive session not to return to open session in order to comply with the Mass General Law Chapter 59 section 60 to discuss exemption abatement applications the contents of which are not public record. Second.
All those in favor I I Good night.