Good evening and welcome to the select board and wage and personnel board meeting of Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 at 5:45 p.m. We are at the Lakeville Police Station. Is there anyone else recording this meeting besides Lake Cam? Seeing num no one, I'd like to call this
board to order. Hunt present >> plug here. >> Candido here. >> Carboni here. >> And let us go to the pledge of allegiance in the back of the room. >> I pledge 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, member Carboni, do you want me to read the announcements or Okay, we're going to go through the select board announcements as the first agenda item. Uh the current committee
commission vacancies include an associate member for the zoning board of appeals, a member of the board of registars, two vacancies on the cable TV advisory committee, one at large member for the zoning bylaw review advisory committee. We are also accepting letters of interest for the select boards two at
large member appointments to the veterans park committee and the deadline for that appointment is February 14th. Details on the positions can be found at the town's Facebook or the town's website at www. lakevillemma.org under news. Um there's anformational
meeting on the train impacts at the Freetown Police Station on February 11, 2026 at 6 PM. Um on our website, we have upcoming Lakeville COA events. Uh we also have Twisted Growers community
event this week and that is at the LI. Is it at the library? >> I think it's at their location. So >> what's the location? It's not in here. >> 8 Harding Street. >> Is it 8 Harding Street? So, if anyone is
interested in they're giving some input or learning a little bit more about Twisted Growers, um it is up on our website. Um and it is up on the Facebook page as well. Were there any other announcements on the Seleport announcements from anyone today?
Hearing none. Moving on. We're going to move on to the town administrator's report. Andrew, >> thank you. I attached a memo random from Frank Monise, DPW director, seeking authorization to spend um into a deficit
in the snow and ice account. Um as the chief administrative officer, I have the capability to approve that. Um it's not a surprise with the storms we've had. Um so we're going to have to take care of that at some point in the future with a appropriation of some kind. Um we had
Angela Chandler start last week. she's been a breath of fresh air and she's pointed out a lot of stuff that we can be doing better. So, that's exciting um for the future. And then the only um other update I have is the old colony uh building committee members had a meeting
last week. I attended as well as member Ploner and Hunt. Um it was pretty obvious to us that they're going to push for the revote and then they actually took a vote the next night as the school committee to have a revote um with a date uncertain. >> Okay.
>> Um I've heard a few different dates but probably in the fall >> and the revote is going to be at the annual um election and not a special or do they turn it over? >> It's not been determined yet. >> Has not been determined yet. Okay. >> Yeah.
>> There's one option but TBD. >> Okay. And Emily has a couple other announcements. >> Yep. I just have two things. Uh so the first is that the cyber security awareness program, we were notified today that we are accepted into the 2026 program. So um there's a couple orientations coming up and we're still
waiting on the official letter, but that's some good news. Excellent. Thank you for everyone involved in Blanca. Um >> Bob McNally. >> Bob McDall. And I was trying to think of the name of his Green River. Green River. Yeah. Bob McN from Green River. >> Absolutely. And the other thing is is
that uh today Andrew and I met with the uh website designers from Civic Plus. So we got to see the new website design for the first time which we are going to be sharing. Um there are a couple of like site admin trainings coming up that
we're going to participate in. And then uh they mentioned that there's an option for additional training for other like key website contributors. So we're probably going to be signing up for that as well. But it looks nice. So we can share that with everybody. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And hopefully the go go go live
date would be March 1st or before. >> Yeah. So, and I think this board has said in open session before that the goal is not to have it in the hands of very few except for the the very important things, but to have more hands in it to keep it robust and to keep the updates coming because I know our system
now is probably the one of the oldest out there and it's very clunky and I know there's a lot of trouble like um getting things on where they need to be. Um, and this will help us with our communications and the communications subcommittee going forward. Very good. Definitely.
>> Um I have a couple questions, but I'll Anyone else have any questions on the update? Okay. Um two questions here. Um one's for Emily. Emily, we had the grants and projects. Um we have a
tracker for both of those. I know the grants happen preu and I think that exists. It'd be great if we could start sharing that out again at least monthly um for the grants. And then we have the projects tracker and wrapping up all of the projects in town and sharing that out, making sure those updates are
happening monthly for the board and for other people. Other people are enjoying checking on the progress from the town. Um for the spend on snow and ice, um you're just going to transfer that from one of the budget lines like what's your
plan there? Um, depending on how how bad it gets, we'll have to talk to finance committee whether it's a reserve fund or we take it out of free cash at a town meeting. We don't know yet. >> Uh, is it 150 in the reserve fund or 75 in the reserve fund? >> 100 even. Yep.
Um, and then with the working committee, I want to make sure we're clear on the goals of the working subcommittee for Thorndikeke and that we are having collaborative conversations internally and bringing it to the select board and
then the select board will be able to negotiate the MDA. Want to make sure everything is put together for that. Um, there's one more. Oh. Um, please pass on thanks to Angela Chandler. Um, we're happy to welcome her
back. Um, for those here, she was our interim uh about four years ago. About four years ago. Um, and um, having her help get our, uh, new treasurer collector uh, trained and ready to go was great. So,
>> yeah. And she's a little bit of a Todd Hasset type where she's been in like 50 towns, so she knows the best practices across the region and the state. >> Yep. I think we're setting our team up for success by, you know, adding that focus in. So much appreciated to everyone ex, you know, pulling that
together. Um, we did have item number one that was supposed to be a a hearing, but we are going to table that tonight. There was an error in a clerical error in the posting and we're going to have it at our next meeting so we can strike the
first item off the agenda. Uh if there is no objection from the board, um instead of doing the minutes, I would like to move down to item number five. Any objection?
All right. Item number five, discuss and possible vote on budget communication to the Freetown Lakeville Regional School Committee. Um, we've had some discussion over the last couple months on the budget. We got the budget numbers back and there there's definitely a lot of
conversation that needs to happen around it. Um, I had sent my thoughts to Andrew about two weeks ago and we got the assessments back and um, Andrew, refresh my memory. What else had I asked for in
that? The the assessments. It was a lot of requests tied to that last meeting. We had asked um what a two two and a half% increase would look like. >> Thank you. >> Um stuff like that. We got a whole bunch of documents from the school. >> Got a whole bunch of documents. Yeah. >> Yep. >> So, do we have other requests of the
school committee and of the superintendent's office prior to us meeting with our counterparts over in Freetown? No, no, I'll No, I'll reserve comments until that joint meeting with Freetown.
>> Okay. >> Comments. >> This time I can't think of anything. >> No. Um, we have some members of just a few um of the school committee uh from the teachers and the superintendent
and the business manager. Um would any of you like to speak to anything regarding um the budget tonight? >> Speak. >> Please come. >> Have a seat and state your name for the record.
>> My name is Jeremy Marray. I reside at three Parkhurst Drive in Linkville. I'm here tonight to urge this board to strongly consider uh seeking approval for a two and a half override. Uh being fortunate enough to be a decadesl long
resident of this town, a proud member of this town and community. Uh part of that has always been our schools and school district which has provided an excellent education to our students and a huge and enormous impact on our community.
Without funding, our schools will suffer. Like other districts, we will face many cuts, including personnel cuts, which will ultimately impact student students and student services in this
town as a whole. If we succeed, we succeed together. And if we fail, we share in that failure. That's all. >> Thank you for your comments. Would anyone else like to come up and make a comment? Anyone else? So, my only comments um for
the next board meeting are that we would like at at least a representation from the school committee, the superintendent, and the business manager to attend the joint meeting um so we can all talk in tandem and have be on the same page uh on what we're looking at.
>> And that was my last of my comments for that. Does the board want to see I guess because a question I've gotten from a lot of people is a capital plan going forward. Do we want to see that like a year 20, five years, 10 years? >> What's the name of the big capital plan
that they spent $200,000 on? >> It was a basically it's a master plan, facility master plan. >> Yep. I would like to see that. I know it exists somewhere in uh in some of the documents somewhere, but I I looked online. I didn't see it on our our page
any longer. So, it might have expired off the page at some point, but seeing the master plan, seeing what they're going forward for the master plan and their rational uh their rationalization for the items on the master plan. Um I know there was um a lot of roofing,
there was some courts, um there was the red barn, which was the the biggest part of that, and then the pool. >> Mhm. >> Yep. Um because if we're going if and I'm saying if um if this board ends up endorsing having an override, we don't
want to have an override without knowing that we're having big capital projects as well. Um that's we need to make sure that we're aligned. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Nothing else. I know member Carboni uh made sure uh last time her
comments were around making sure all capital items were taken out of the operating budget as well to look at independent of the operating budget. >> Yeah. Excess and deficiency, I believe. Yeah. >> Yep. Um and then going over the budget
book this weekend, I didn't see and it doesn't mean it's not there. It's just a it's a big book. Um I didn't see the revolving income account for the four and aft and how that is structured. >> Yeah, I can ask uh schools for that.
>> Yep. >> Nobody else. There's a lot of you. All right. I appreciate everyone's time and your stro your show of strength here tonight. Um, but if that is it, then that is all we're looking for. And hopefully we'll see you at the joint
meeting that is to to be determined, but it looks like February 26th. >> February 26th. Yeah. >> Yep. So, it'll be February 26th at Do we pick the library? I'm hoping. >> Uh, it's going to be at the Aonoquit Library. >> Oh, it's going to be at the Aponoquit Library. Are you sure?
>> As far as I know. Yeah. >> Yeah. It's the only It's the biggest venue that we can possibly put like four people That wasn't the flooding over the weekend, right? >> No, not to my knowledge. No. >> To have the meeting on the 26th. >> Okay. >> And through the chair, I can tell you that the business manager and the
interim superintendent will be at that meeting. >> Okay. >> I can't speak for the school committee members, but they did agree to the date. So, I'm sure you'll have a showing there based on tonight. I'm thinking you might have some very interested teachers and par professionals and staff members who will be there to advocate as well.
>> Yeah. Well, much appreciated. Thank you very much for all showing up. >> All right. >> The chair. >> Absolutely. >> Sorry. Um with reference to the question involving the board app fund. Um if you
in in the section that's >> Can you have them come to the mic? >> Oh, yep. >> My fault. Um with regards to the revolving fund fund 240 which is um encapsulates all of the foreign aft as well as the uh community
w programs that you'll see um some of that information in the revolving fund under fund 240 but it might not be clear because of the the coding but >> I was looking under preschool and I I >> certainly I can also send over um the list of fund balances for all of the
revolving funds. >> That would be great. Um and then if there are any ancillary funds as well. Um >> everything that we have under a fund is under in in our general fund accounting list. So I can send that over. That'll be exhaustive. And then we'll also make
sure that a copy of the capital plan is sent to you as well. >> Yep. And then we just share it with everyone for finance and uh select board for both towns. >> Um perfect. Okay. Thank you. All right, moving backwards to se uh discussion and possible vote to approve
select board minutes of January 20, 2026. >> So moved. >> Seconded. >> You guys are too quick. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call. >> Idea
I >> Carboni I. Item number two, discussion and possible vote to schedule the date of the 2026 special and annual town meetings. Um, Colleen, where's your schedule that you
had? >> It's under um the next one, which is open and close. >> There it is. Um, if you go into the packet under the second one, >> you can see I did a breakdown of everything and the date is based on our own bylaws. So,
>> yeah. And, um, >> Tom moderator did get back to me and that date is fine and Lil did as well. >> Perfect. Um, hey, just a question for uh, seeing as we have the super when is the uh, graduation date for >> this year? >> Yeah,
>> first Friday in June. And I'll get the exact number for you in a minute. So that's the fifth. >> I did actually already reach out to the school and it's available for that date as well. >> It's challenging to hear back here. What is it? >> I That's okay. I did um speak with the
school and made arrangements for that date for the town meeting. I just have to turn the paperwork in tomorrow. She did confirm it. Rebecca confirmed it for me. >> What's the date for the town meeting? >> June 8th. >> June 8th. >> June 8th that we'll be voting >> graduation. June 5th. >> Yeah. >> 5th. Thank you.
>> Yes. >> Thank you. And we know the acoustics are awful in here. So it's not you. >> It's us. >> Um it's based on the what's the town's done previously. Um reached out to moderator. Great. Uh good fellow. So on
the next one is the the listing of all the dates that happen up and to the date. Is there anything else anyone wants to know about the date of the special and annual or anything relating specifically to the date and to the location?
>> Madam Chair, just the fact that the special usually starts at 6:30 and then the annual is at 7. >> Okay, I can fix that. >> We can fix that in the motion. >> Yep. >> All right. I'll take a motion. make a
motion um to schedule June 8th, 2026 as the special and annual town meeting uh to be held at Aponquit High School, 6:30 for the special and 700 p.m. for the annual. >> Seconded. >> I have a motion and a second. Any
further discussion hearing? None. Roll call. >> I car I. And next in the series, discuss and possible vote to open the special and annual town meeting warrant and close
them on April 13, 2026 at 4 p.m. >> So moved. >> Um second. >> Okay. Motion a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. >> I do I
Item number four, discuss and possible vote on a hiring freeze. Um, I asked for this to be on the meeting. Um, we should know all of uh the openings that we have currently. Um, and if they are immediate needs or if they can be delayed as we
are figuring out our pathway forward. Um, Andrew was nice enough to add in some extra context. Um, and then, uh, putting the hiring and free is important for allowing the flexibility, um, but also for planning to close the de deficit in 2027.
So, Andrew, I'm going to let you take it away. Um, there was a couple that I didn't know about on here. So, I I'd love to have that discussion with the board if we are interested in enacting a hiring freeze and if so, if we're doing it unilaterally or if we're doing it on
a case-by case basis. Um so myself, finance director and HR director have gone over um each of the positions which are listed as followed. Assistant treasurer collector, assessor, one DPW laborer, one custodian, one fire
lieutenant, one patrolman, and two part-time dispatchers. I've spoken with each of the department heads for each of these. And um you'll probably hear this, but we're lean in Lakeville, and they all feel that they're necessary. Um
my my take on it is that obviously we're in financial turmoil. Um so I'd rather cut stuff than cut vacancies rather than people. >> So one tactic we could use is to freeze the position depending on what it is and
then defund it for fiscal 27. Um I think of of these positions the assessor could be reimagined. We've had no luck um having anyone really solid apply. >> So when you're saying reimagine, are you
talking about not another RFP, but like a part-time position >> as opposed to >> um have you had a chance to reach out to >> the assessors organization, which I never remember the AA acronym, >> M AO. Yeah, we've reached out, but um
there's just no one really in the field right now. Um, basically you're stuck with a young person that doesn't really know all that much. >> Can we reach out to That's That's insulting. >> Yeah, I know. >> Um, can we reach out to a similar a town
that's in a similar quandry and they are looking to do some budget enhancements. >> There's two or three surrounding us. Okay. >> Having the same problem. So maybe we can split with someone. >> Yep. >> So that's one way to save. um the assistant treasur collector is is
pretty critical, but that's that's one job that maybe we could >> So here my take on that is we do have um um Angela >> Mhm. >> playing a support role in there right
now um for that. So we are having someone in there that is you know giving expertise. So, I I if I was to if I was to say what I rather have is someone to train properly the staff or a new staff
member, it would be to keep Angela in there for the for the five hours per week. Um, and then not hire anyone until we get a firm grasp on what it is we really need in that department. >> Yeah. Again, I don't I don't want to give out like names obviously right now, but there I think there's ways that we
could um be more flexible with different roles in town hall. >> Yep. I agree. Um just in in concept, I don't know specifically to what you're saying, but if we have people cross-trained and using them in other departments, >> um we may impact the way their role
functions, but we won't impact um their financial livelihood. >> Right. Exactly. Um, DPW, um, Frank Monise says it's highly critical. Um, obviously the snowstorm, he's short on guys. Um, he says it's mission critical
for him. Um, Matt Perkins, the chief of police, his patrolman's, he's not going to hire probably until July 1st. Um, so we'll save money there, but he it's it's a position he's desperate to fill. Um, custodian, I think that's might be one
that we could put a freeze on. And then the dispatchers, I think that kind of comes from not being able to find people but are necessary. So, um, that should cover most of them. Um, a question I have for the board is
if a position becomes vacant, how would you like me to handle it? >> I'll let board chime in. Before I answer that question, >> I would like to see some sort of impact
statements from the department heads regarding if these positions are not filled. >> What would that impact statement consist of? >> Well, um I guess what are the results if the position is not? Does it mean more I
does it mean more overtime? Number one. >> More overtime, right? >> Mhm. Um, does it result in maybe a safety issue? Things along those lines is what I'd like to see.
Uh, and can we get a breakout of what the cost savings is by not filling these so we can some sort of we can when if time comes if we have to make the decision uh we can take all that information and prioritize it. Right. I think madam
chair I think you concur with the good >> member hunt >> I was on the same page as member ploner madam chair as far as uh what would trigger overtime and what the cost would be there of course we understand that new employees are going to trigger
>> uh insurance costs etc etc and at this stage of the game >> where we're already into February if we were posting positions and we had some filling are we talking they'd This would be somebody onboarded prior to July 1 or, you know, would we be
talking about, >> you know, draining for a couple months in the current fiscal year where it could be put off until the beginning of the next fiscal year? >> Good timing. Member Carboni comments >> just that you know I'm I'm no expert in
you know the departments themselves so I have to rely on our department heads um and our administration to guide us um knowing you know the current landscape regarding finances. So um I would not want to put a hiring freeze um as a
blanket going forward if there were other positions that came vacant because we don't know what those positions would be and You know, I mean, I would hate to see a department head, you know, for some reason vacate and then we've already put in the freeze and then we'll
have to unfreeze it. But just want to be >> So, we want to be flexible about how we're doing it is what you're saying. So, would that go into where Andrew had laid out for administrative review? >> Yes. >> Okay. So I think Andrew, what the board is
asking for is an analysis of each position, what the impact is, what the possible scenario A and B >> is to that scenario, and then um having words in in the department head's own words on the impacts as well. Um so we
can see like an impact statement as it were. Um, but we would hold off on a vote uh until we get those and then we would I think we want to move forward with an administrative uh review in order to make sure the the positions
aren't just being filled automatically that they are being filled with the eye to maintain the existing roles that we have and maximize out our existing staff um in order to protect their livelihood
and the operation of just now. >> Yeah. Right. >> I don't think we need a vote on this yet. This is just some direction and um for the next meeting. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Thank you very much for that thoughtful
analysis. >> Believe we have the chief here for the next I saw him somewhere. Or did he >> he has to go? >> Did he leave? Leave >> he did the radial thing. >> All right. I'm going to push I'm going to push this to the end in case he comes back. If anyone has objections, we'll
just move that and take that out of order. Um, we're going to move on to item number seven, discussion and possible vote on peer review for fiscal impact analysis for the Lakeville Country Club Project. Craig Seymour, the original individual
that performed the fiscal impact analysis, will be updating and sending revised edition this week. Thornike Development has provided four firms that do similar services that could act as peer reviewer. Town planner Stephanie Crarampton has contacted these four firms to see their pricing and
availability. There's a tight window to do the analysis and availab availability is key in order to keep the project timelines on track. The four firms identified are Jeffrey Dono Associates, Fujer Planning and Development, RKG
Associates, and FXM Associates. Um, I see there was an update here and I'm going to let you guys take it away with the update because I see a supplement to the agenda. >> Yeah. So, we actually got these about an
hour or two ago. Um, so we have one is XFXM and it's $2,100 and they can turn it around in a week. Um Jeffrey Donho Associates um is charging 3250 um and they would take 30 days from
notice to proceed. Um we've kind of reviewed and we thought FXM has probably the most experience anyways especially with projects in Massachusetts. So we thought they were the best. Obviously the price not that we're paying it but >> yeah. And no did Fujer not uh respond
yet? Um, so Fuer, um, I'm not sure which one it is, but both either one said they couldn't do it and the other one never responded. >> Okay. Um, so we usually give this for them to decide on it because we're voting, we
would be voting for them. >> So they gave us the four names. >> Okay. So that's enough for them for context. >> So they're fine with all four of them. Um, they thought FXM was probably the best because they could probably turn it around the fastest. >> Yep. And I know this goes without
saying, but there are no conflicts uh of interest for any of them. Correct. >> Not to my knowledge. Um, we can check that before we any provide any notice to proceed. >> Perfect. Um, any motion would just have that as part of the motion as well. Um,
any reference checks and making sure there are any uh conflicts fully explored. With that, if anyone wants to make a motion, >> I'll make a motion um to
extend um approval of FXM Associates to conduct the peer review for the fiscal impact analysis for the Lakeville Country Club project contingent upon
um Yeah. contingent upon reference checks and um any type of uh conflict of interest. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> You have a second. >> Motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Hearing none. Roll call. >> I plug I do I >> Carboni. I moving right along. Uh item number eight, um first reading and review of the draft Lon Pond Lodge request for proposals. Um
just for this board's knowledge, I had a letter sent Andrew, you were on copy as well, a letter sent today uh from Hillary Wood um who works with Lupon Lodge a lot. She's a photographer um and she believes um based on her observation
that we could be doing more with our contract. So I want that to be in the back of everyone's head. If our vendors are coming to us and saying there's more um we should be doing with the contract then we should really be uh listening to that as well. And I know you guys have
been vetting it out and um and looking at the the financial analysis on that. I just wanted that context before we dive into the discussion. The existing Lun la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la launch contract with 58 Grow Street um DBA Cranberry Catering and Boston Tavern
ends March 29, 2027. Due to the nature of the business, customers booking out events and weddings. It' be good practice to put the RFP about a year ahead of time. And I commend you, Andrew, on doing this because we always get into the position where we're doing it four months ahead of time and it
becomes a difficult situation. Um, this is meant to be first review and to solicit feedback from select board. The draft document was previously sent to the chair of the parks uh commission and recommended changes have been incorporated in the document. After review of the request for proposals by a
handful of department heads, several changes have been recommended including the following. Change the length of the contract from 3 to 5 years. And then I have questions on that. This would require Oh, this would require the overall town meeting approval. only request one type of pricing proposal
which is a flat fee per month. This provides a more consistent revenue source. Capital improvements, maintenance, and repairs to facility should be performed by the town. However, there would be a cost allocation of 6040 which I'm interested in hearing um how that
came about. Um, and other than that, uh, there's a massive contract attached that I only went through about half of. Um, it's it's about 30 pages, um, of contract, which seems
>> robust >> for uh, for this, but I'm glad to see that it continues to get bigger as we get better information every year. Um, I think it was like two pages um, back in 2018, so much better. Um, now I would
like Andrew for you to go through and explain kind of some of the the reasonings on the changes and what your recommendations are. >> Yeah. So, um, obviously the biggest one is 3 to 5 years. Um, we thought if a company knew that they were going to be
more of a long-term stay, they're willing to give us more money and be more of like feel at home with where they are and they would give us more money. Um the reason we're doing it a year out is that they book events like a year and a half out. So we're really almost kind of
late with doing this. Um so the big fear is like if we switch to a different company, all the customers would have to like get switched over. Um so that's why we're doing it so far out. Any contract over 3 years needs town meeting approval. Um
the last RFP had two different price proposals. one was a flat fee and then one was like an event um kind of share. I didn't really care for that because basically you got even to respond to this you have to put two separate business plans together and some companies will say I'm not doing that
forget about it. Um, and then we found, and Mike, if you want to show up and or come up and answer any questions with this, we found that the flat fee was more consistent than the um per event.
Um, it provides a better consistent source. We gain um about $121,000 per year just on the fixed price, flat fee. um they actually have to pay utilities which is about 28,000 per year. Um I
know Hillary mentioned possibly switching the allocations away from Loon P from the parks to us that would >> bankrupt the uh enterprise account because that's probably 40% of the revenue source.
>> Um so we weren't really quite sure how that would really play with the parks department. Um, we I think are probably gonna beef up the financial reporting. Before I got here, I don't think they've ever requested a financial report. Um, I
asked for it. Um, we got a we got a basically a onepage kind of revenue. It was kind of basic. I didn't really get into the nitty-gritty that she kind of >> says she wants to see. Um, when I sent
this around to department heads like Nate Darling, Paul knee, Mike, um, I think Emily had involvement, we thought it was odd that if they came and requested a capital improvement, like a new roof or a new gazebo,
we thought they should have kind of had some skin in the game and pay for it. Um, because we get 121,000, but if we're shipping out capital improvements, it's almost not even worth it, I guess. Um and and really I don't know if the parks commission could even afford it. Um I
think my understanding we maybe free cash some of that over the over the time. >> So we thought it would be better if they put in like maybe 40% of capital improvement. Um >> but to your point Andrew we don't we don't know if we're getting a good deal
now. We don't have transparency on the finances. The old structure used to be we got a portion of X Y and Z. So we saw the finances of each of the components. We saw the event finances, we saw the food finances and the alcohol um
finances. So we were able to judge percentage- wise on each of those three categories, you know, that we were getting our percent as it were. But to your point, we don't know if we're going with the best one because we don't have availability to look and that's not in
their contract that they have to provide that. It says I think when requested. >> Okay. >> Um my thought with it is if they gave it to us, >> sorry, let me clarify. The old contract. >> The old contract. >> The contract they're under right now.
>> Yeah, that's that's how it is. It's as as requested >> and and it has not been >> I've done it once. >> You've requested once and it has not been. >> I mean, it's it's a decent report. It's just I don't know what me I don't know what the point of it is because it would say we're not happy with how much
revenue we're getting. There's no mechanism by which we could change it. We can't like renegotiate the contract. They would have to say yes to that. >> There's no performance clause in there. >> Not like I don't know what that would be. That would be like a legal document.
But by by my understanding and Emily, if you want to chime in with the procurement law, when they provide that fee, we can't say, "Oh, you're not raising enough money. We're going to charge you more or charge you less." >> No. No. No. For the flat fee. >> Yeah. So,
um, yeah, I don't I just don't know. We get a report, but I don't know what really the po the purpose of that is. I don't it doesn't really mean much really to me. Madam Ch, if I may. So, I and I'm I'm on board with what you're saying. I'd like
to see a financial report that breaks out by the categories like the food sales, the alcohol sales, >> event fees. I want a detailed breakout of all that. >> So, we do get that, but I don't know what what's the what would we use with that?
>> Well, we would decide what our flat fee is for the upcoming contract >> because, you know, we wouldn't want to if they're getting X, we would want >> 10% of X or 15% of X. >> Um, we wouldn't say we want 50% of X.
>> Um, >> but how would the RFP be set up? You'd say we expect at least for this for a flat fee? Well, if you're coming up with a flat fee, that's that's a number. So, you would assume that year-over-year there'd be >> growth because of the dollar amount,
even if you're putting a 2 and a half%, you know, inflation rate over it. But are you saying that you would have a flat contract for the exact amount for 5 years and with no >> That's what it is right now. >> With no inflator? >> Well, yeah, you would it would go up 3%.
I think that's they have to put that in their proposal. But what was that flat contract based on the the flat dollar amount per month? What was that based on originally? >> I think we just asked for an amount that they were willing to give and they they
came back with 10,000 per month. >> That's very unscientific. >> That's I don't know how you change it with and be with procurement law. I don't know how you would they have to give what they want. If we don't we can put in the contract or put in the RFP. We're only
willing to accept 15 grand per month or 10%, but if he puts in 14 grand, then we just either don't accept it or we can't we can't negotiate that price >> that they give out. >> So, you can't say 15% or X dollars,
whichever is greater. >> I suppose you could, but he might just say, I don't want to do that. I don't want to have a contract like that. Let's explore like, you know, I'd love to hear some recommendations on the price, but
there is no there's no point in uh I wouldn't sign anything that didn't have an escalation year-over-year or um >> well, there is an escalation, but it's not based off of his sales. It's based off what he said he would give us
>> at the start of the RFP process. All right, I'm going to dig in some more and make some more suggestions and I suggest everyone >> else get all 30 pages in. >> Can we get a detailed financial >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> report for one year. >> Yeah. >> Is that
how and breakout you know? >> Yeah. Where the all fees collected all revenue streams need to be identified. >> It it's broken out by about probably 10 or 12 15. >> Okay. >> Does it include costs?
labor supplies. >> Um I think it's Yeah. Well, it definitely we know what they're giving us. >> Yeah. I'd like to see what their costs are. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Labor supplies. >> Yeah.
>> That's two big ones. >> Yeah. >> We pay utilities. Who pays? >> They're paying the utilities. >> They pay utilities. Oh, 28 grand a year. Okay. That's a cost. Okay. >> Yep. That's great. >> Appreciative of that. Um comments on that? Anything?
>> Hold it until we see some paper. >> Um member Carboni comments. >> I'll wait until >> Yep. >> I'll do some more. >> All right. Myself. >> I'd love to hear about the capital improvements. Um because to your point,
if they're looking for a gazebo, why would the town be paying for the gazebo? We pay the most out of anyone to do any project because of procurement. >> Current contract requires us to do that. >> Okay. So, in the future contract, the
language would be >> 6040 split. >> But what happens if the the contract ends? Do they take it back? Like if they've paid for a capital improvement >> like for something that could be removed, would they own it? Like I I just want to
understand how that would work on >> No, I think town property >> the town would own it. Town owns any capital improvements. We're just asking them to reimburse us for it. >> Now, would they do the procurement on it
or would we still have to do it because >> town's doing it all? >> So, the most expensive way is what it is there. Is there any more questions from the board members on this first reading of
the Lumpon contract? I only had uh one comment on it and it would be about use of Lupon for the town and for uh specifically for
the town clerk. Um, did we get comments from the town clerk on using Loom Pond and the ease of um, holding elections, etc. There we had some conflicts for for years that it was very hard to hold town
events. >> Um, I didn't know if we've had anything in the last, you know, two years. >> I haven't heard any conflict. >> Would you would you mind soliciting um, uh, Lil's advice on here? Um, that's
important and using it for town events as well. I want to make sure it's available for the town. Madam Chair, I did have one thing um timeline because if we decide that we'd
like to put this out for five years and it requires a town meeting approval, we'd want that on our annual or our special town um meeting which would be June 8th because we just voted it. So timing wise, we'd have to it could be
June or it could be the fall because it doesn't take effect until 2027. >> That's what I'm asking. time wise to get her RFP back and >> ideally you put it out you put it out for 30 days. I don't think this is all
that complicated that we could couldn't turn it around pretty quickly for the annual but it's not the end of the world if it gets back to November >> in the fall. Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. Moving on to the next one. Um please
forward comments to who do we want to forward to? Colleen to Emily. >> You can forward it to me or Emily. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> All right. Comments for let us go back and
where did we go? Item number six. Chief. Hi. Come on down. Uh item number six, discussion and possibly vote on town of Lakeville ambulance service billing collection and
financial hardship policy. Uh chief, thanks for coming in today. Um we asked you at was it the 20th was it the January 20th meeting um to come back with an updated
policy on our ambulance billing because it hadn't been done since 2014. Mhm. >> Um and I'd love you to speak to it. >> Well, I'd like to thank uh Slept and Dona for providing me some feedback and
and um and point out some some issues with the original draft. Uh basically, after the instruction that I provided, I reached out to some comparable departments to see what they had for policies. And what you see before you is a mishmash of what I thought was the the
best features of the other policies. um how we have a valid policy is is it's um something that's equitable to anybody that we serve. There's some kind of there's some defic deficiencies in our old policy where um there's a non-discriminatory clause that should be
in there meaning that it you know your ability to pay uh doesn't you know it was kind of alluded to but the language was was a little weak. Um so basically what you have before you is um is kind of a cleaned up version. It's something that's um defensible against anybody who
wants to claim that our policy is invalid or isn't properly written. Um the last portion of the the policy or perhaps the the one that's really left up to the the select board as far as how they want to pursue um is the um
the standard for providing relief uh hardship cases. Uh I just basically brought over they have basically our old system has a a solid hard fast uh uh criteria which is the with what in the
old policy they called the uh the Halbertton standard. What I've discovered in my research is that's really not the that's not really a a standard. It doesn't really give you um hard numbers to use uh to determine a hardship. It's more of a criteria that hospitals use. So, it's not something
that we have to abide by, but it's something that we're we're it's best practice to use as a reference because it makes our policy more credible. But, um, the Sorry, my head's spinning. I'm trying to catch up. >> Sorry. >> It's okay. >> I was going to let you sit there for a
minute, but I figured you had stuff to do. >> No, it's all right. But the um the what's the the federal p poverty guideline is the true number that we want to we want to capture and that's that's uh that's number that changes it's recalculated every year. So putting
a specific dollar amount in a policy is probably not a good idea because it's a zombie that that changes every year. So just referencing that number if I get a request for hardship then then I just go back and research what the actual numbers are that at that time and that's what I would use for guidance. the these
this graduated, you know, 125% or 150% of of the federal poverty guidelines. It's a way for us to be more flexible and and provide some um uh maybe some more compassion with our policy and it's
something that I saw in in the other policies that I I borrowed and um and it's something that we didn't have. So, it's really I don't have a preference either way. Um, but if it's something that that you prefer that we include, I'm I'm okay with that, too. Is there any questions? I'm not sure if that made sense. I was kind of jumping
around a little bit. >> No, I had very little questions on this because it actually made more sense than the the last one we had. >> Shocking.
Um, and I can see your comments in the side. Um, my question for the board is on item number three. Did everyone have a chance to read over item number three
in the policy? for nonresponses about balance accounts. >> Yeah. Okay. >> I think the previous language was $100. >> Yeah. >> And which is very low and most of those unpaid balances are typically people are on Medicaid and Medicare and the figure
that usually comes in is 300 and below which I don't I mean usually it's a straight write off. It's it's not something that we even bother with. >> Okay. One of one of the other things that we were warned that would would get the town in trouble was the old directive instructed me to reach out to people
directly if they had unpaid debts. >> I'm sure they would love that. >> Yeah. I mean, >> they said that was a bad idea. >> Yeah. Yeah. I concur. >> Does anyone have comments? Anything they would like to see included? anything
they were expecting to see in the document and don't. >> Madam Chair, I just want the annual review of the policy. When would be the the best time to take a look at that? >> I want to include that. You say in
February? >> Yeah, it's probably something we could do very easily with the rate change consideration. >> Yeah. >> You know, >> each, you know, annually um in February. So, can we add in um to be looked at
annually in in conjunction with the rate change? Would that be acceptable language? >> For me, it would be it'd be u be the make sense to me. >> I don't know that I would necessarily put the rate change in there. Um but but that's usually the trigger for him to be
relooking at it, right? >> It's kind of why I include the policies just so you guys understand what our current practice just for new select board members. And I don't I don't know, maybe just have the dates mirror the rate change policy. Not to throw I I wasn't going to mention
this, but there's a there's a legislation that seems to have legs out there that could require us to reconsider this whole policy a little bit earlier than next February. Um I haven't really got my head around whether it's a good thing for Lakeland or not. At first blush, it's a probably a good thing, but I um I have to do some
more research and and figure it out. Um, but there there's some it's all connected to this federal no surprise, you know, the bet the >> Yep. >> So, they're they're trying to tie in a policy that would uh would kind of because the ambulance billing there's a loophole there and they're trying to close that loophole.
>> So, we do ambulance billing in December or January every year like as a general >> it's been December the last couple day couple years. >> Yeah. When the recommendation is and and then we doing what February 1st for implementation of any rate change >> correct. All right. So yearly in December, is that
acceptable to this board? >> Yes. >> Member Carboni. >> And as needed, maybe if I can make a suggestion. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> So yearly in December or as an ad needed
on ad hoc basis. >> Any discussions? Any questions for the chief? >> Madam chair, through you. I just had a question on uh number four, the financial hardship. Currently, we're using the standardized scale that we see there. Y
>> um but there is an opportunity for a sliding scale. You have no preference and no department has said one works better than another. >> No. And what I find is is in seven years I've only had two people petition
petition for relief. Okay. >> It's something that doesn't happen very often. That's why I'm not particularly in love. But if you want u if you wanted like a policy that was maybe a little more lenient or favorable, you could, you know, you could start at 200% of the
poverty level and and and go to 300% as the as the top range, whatever the number you prefer. Um but I don't think it would have a a big financial impact on us at the end of the day because not many people take advantage of this. Okay. >> The optics would be the benefit, I
guess. Any further discussion? >> Would someone like to make a motion? >> I'm not quite sure what the motion would be after conversations we've just had. So, um, we have a sample motion up front.
All right. I'll make a motion that the select board vote to adopt the town of Lakeville ambulance service billing, collection, and finance hardship uh, Hilbertton policy. um as discussed as presented and
with the provision to have it yearly in December or as needed >> and did we want to amend anything on the rates or do you feel satisfied? >> No, I'm comfortable with it as >> okay >> as written. I just wanted to app
clarification from the chief. >> I appreciate it. Okay, so that's the motion. Do we have a second? >> Seconded. Motion and a second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call. >> Hunt. >> I. >> Long eye. >> Candid. >> I. >> Thank you, Chief. >> Thank you for the support. Appreciate
it. >> Appreciate your time. Thanks for getting that back so quick. We're going to go down to item nine. Unless I've skipped something. Please tell me if I have. We're kind of all over the place tonight. Uh first reading and review of the Abutters program
policy. Purpose of this policy is to create a mechanism for abing property owners to purchase eligible town owned parcels in pursuit of the following goals. Reduce the number of underutilized vacant parcels. Return property to the tax roles. Encourage private ownership and
maintenance of land that is not suitable for development. Improve the quality of life by reducing blighted conditions in residential areas. This property applies to parcels meeting specific eligibility requirements with all applications subject to review by the land use review
committee uh committee. The approval of any property sales are subject to approval by the select board. The intention of this discussion is to conduct a first reading of the policy and to receive feedback from the select board regarding any revisions. The revised policy will be presented to the
board at a future meeting. An additional uh discussion and potential approval. Member Blanka. Um this is new to us or we had something a small policy. I >> was going to ask. Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm I'm not
>> this replace a something. >> We had something. It was a policy I think presented by uh a previous town administrator but we don't have any record of it being actually voted on and finalized. >> Got it. >> I don't believe it was. >> So it stands today. We we have nothing. >> Okay.
>> And m another question. Um so the intent is to basically they meet all the conditions noted here. >> You're offering the property to the buyers with the assessed value which gives them a break because we're not they're not going to buy it at market
value. that kind of them I think it only >> it was the assessed value of less than $35,000 which is not very big for land. >> Oh that's right. The possible needs to be Yeah. It can't be I understand. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. But the basically
it's a way to offer the property to the absor at a reduced assessed value versus them trying to get later on trying to buy it at market value. That's the incentive >> or someone that >> is not connected to the parcel or
>> um weird things that happen with parcels like Cherry Street um where it just went >> forever >> um not being assigned and it became like derelictked and then someone was using it on their own purposes and we we were still paying for the upkeep. So yeah,
>> if you all remember the uh Clark Shores Association came before us. >> Um there's about 20 maybe more properties in Clark Shores. that this would kind of >> this is yeah so this I could definitely tell this was get this is to help kind of help get those properties >> those teeny tiny properties and you know
it reduced nitrogen loads you know they can improve their septics they can improve their water quality >> um >> all of those things uh question >> now that there's no longer a merger
doctrine how do these parcels because merger doctrine was repealed with the ADU do. >> Correct. >> Not an expert on that. >> Okay. Um, so it used to be pre-existing non-conforming lots uh that were owned
in common or had control in common would merge if uh if one of them was, you know, if they weren't to size. Um, but now because of the ADU thing, they repealed it in order to put in more housing places. I'm just knowing was
there language and did I miss it in there that says if they the abutters has that it gets absorbed into their that one and creates one parcel or could they split it out again is my is my question. >> I believe they can make it into one
parcel but I don't know if they can split it back out after that point. So that would be my comment is I if they do have these parcels and they are doing it for you know the right reasons and the reasons we're stating um I wouldn't want them to at the time of just be able to
sell them and then sell them separately as two separate parcels. >> Oh there should be a condition to hear that they kind of they stay together. >> I I can let Emily maybe explain it because she actually developed this policy by herself. Um, my understanding is that we could put in the deed restrictions so they can't play funny
games. >> They'll always play, you know, everyone will play funny games. >> Well, we still have a legal document showing >> Yeah. >> We told them we they can't do it. >> Yeah. But my fun games is I don't want people to say, "Oh, I merged this and now I'm going to sell two parcels, >> right?" >> And and you know, go for two parcels. That's my
>> that's my two cents. >> Any other comments from any other board members? Again, this is just the first reading. Um there's a really good illustration on page two of eight showing you know where the abutter would be and um in location um delineating um
some of the benefits of some of the other parcels. Um and then another one on three. So it really it really gives you a good idea of what the intent is here. >> M another question uh Andrew is is this based off of an existing from another
community? So this is a kind of a Frankenstein policy. So you mentioned that there was a draft version of the Abuttos policy which is where like a lot of the goals and like preferences >> came lifted it up from the prior >> Yeah. I figured that probably already been discussed so I included that in
here but then uh yeah it was kind of a Frankenstein of a few others. >> How old was that policy was that? >> I don't know. >> 2023 I believe years old. >> Yeah. >> That's not too bad.
any pieces pic lifted from other communities. >> I wouldn't be able to pick out and say this is from another community. It's kind of just I pick out one cuz I actually used it for the next one. I kind of Frankenstein something too. >> Okay. >> Littleton. >> Okay. >> It's flattery.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Um this looks I I believe Sandwich has a very similar one to this. >> And does this go through legal review? >> This did not. >> It would have. It does, right? Just as a matter of practice. Okay. >> And at some point we would probably have
I think it would be because we actually have a a guidance from Littleton. They actually got these kind of surplus at town meeting for a specific uper program purpose. So this would ideally be on the annual town meeting tomorrow.
>> Madam Chair, the one the one that I like in here was on page um six, the last sentence. I'd like to be in charge of that. >> The coin flip. >> Yeah. >> I believe the parking clerk does get the
coin flip. >> Yep. >> Really? Is it? >> No. >> But you can show up because you'll have an envelope to open >> and a shovel. >> And a shovel. It's over there. I'll be there. >> All right, we can move on from nine and
we will bring this up. Um I know not the next meeting but the one after we we'll bring this up again. Um just in case people have comments, please forward them on to Emily. Um and that way she is able to incorporate
or for uh put a critical eye on the comments. Um item number 10, first reading and review of the sale of town owned property policy. Purpose of the sale of town owned property policy is to set formal procedures by which land is disposed. These procedures cover
requests from individuals, town initiated land disposition, the sale of a butter program and tax title properties. There'll be a formal committee made up of department heads that will review properties on an ongoing basis and an ad hoc basis which will assist in implementing the policy
and making recommendations to the select board and town meeting members. Oh, town meeting members of this committee um include the management analyst, the building commissioner, health agent, treasurer collector, town planner, and town administrator who is a non- voting
member. Um Andrew, do you want to speak to this? Um the date is wrong on the bottom just by the way. just that. >> No, that's >> I blame you all. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Um, we're really trying to nail down um
how we dispose land in town with official processes. Um, we get a lot of calls from residents, whether it's a butter type of programs or they want to look at a big piece of land. And I think this kind of would kind of set how that would work. Also tax foreclosures. Um
and really the main component that may be different than other towns is we have a land use review committee made up of relevant department heads. Uh more or less what would happen is they follow the procedures that you see under each. They would make a recommendation to me. I look at it, see if it's valid, then I
bring it to the select board to approve or disprove. Um, so we've kind of tried to get into every single possible scenario why which land would be potentially disposed of and then we actually put a real property request
form in here. So, um, they actually have to submit something to us. It's not just a phone call and I feel like we're kind of running around >> not doing favors but doing stuff that's not formalized. So, this is meant to formalize any land disposition and um how we go about doing it.
>> Is this like a Google form they fill out and then the data comes in automatically? I don't I just don't want handwritten forms. >> No. So, this would uh we didn't do it yet, but this would be a Google You fill a PDF fill. >> Yeah, we can do that. >> PDF fill will be submitted to my office. >> Okay.
>> I didn't have a lot of comments on this. Member Carboni question. Um so is it the same makeup as the land use? So where you say formal committee we have to be careful about that because um you know if it's a designated committee
from the from the main body >> they have to have minutes and >> right and meeting. So >> perhaps we call this you know >> advisory board right it's a land use advisory
>> board. a great it clarifies the basic needs of the board and you know who it's who it's reporting up to as far as the select board etc. >> Yeah, it makes sense.
>> So we don't vote on it. It's >> just the first reading. >> No, no, we don't vote on the the land use advisory. That's well this is the policy. I'm just saying that we're not voting on the the creation of a lands.
>> Yeah. Right. >> So, >> okay. But we do have that technical review committee that we should probably >> do something with where we have multiple technical like a land technical review or a like
just a lot. >> There's just a lot of sub subs. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, comments, questions. All right. Moving on. Got through our first readings. Um, discuss some possible vote to approve
request to use town property for Lakeville Historical Society to use the historic townhouse Friday, November 6, 2026, excuse me, to Sunday, November 20, November 8th, 2026 for their annual yard sale. That doesn't run into any um
voting time or anything for early voting for town clerk, right? >> No, it does not. No conflicts. >> Fantastic. Um, so I had a comment on this one just in general and I had made it um to the select for office that um
we should calendarize um the now that we have that as a location um we do want to have people using it. Um we don't want people overusing it. Uh we want to have people using it and we want to be judicious with how we do it because there's also
heat involved and lots of it takes a lot to heat that building when it's hasn't been used and all that. But we should have a nice calendarized. >> It's in the process. Yep. I just need my administrative access and I'm going to plug everything in. I'll give you a
print out. You can get an idea of how it's going to be used for the >> Fantastic. I love more space for the people of this town. Um and then obviously we should be looking at all our spaces and calendarizing all of our spaces um for public events and that way
we can >> maximize what we have and you know stop fighting for the same spaces. >> Exactly. Madam Chair, it should it be noted that the acoustics are not sufficient for Lake Cam >> yet. Um, so ideally, usually it's like
the smaller committees in there. Lake Cam can use like the tri the tripod without the the big setup if they need to or >> I'm not >> I don't have a problem and the board can um chime in. Um, if people take AI notes
as as well on some of these smaller boards. >> Oh, yeah. I'm not Yeah, I'm not saying Yeah. I'm just saying just so the >> board if it's televised, >> right? board of the committees are aware that don't expect a robust lake cam. >> Yeah. Whereas in you can hear on lake cam here, but you cannot hear if you're
sitting in the back row in this room. >> So >> it's not great acoustics at all. >> Oh, the fire station comments room will address those issues. >> Hopefully hopefully it will. >> Yes. All right. I'll make a motion to approve the request um the request to use town property for the Lakeville
Historic Society Historical Society to use a historical townhouse on Friday, November 6, 2026 from 10 a.m. to noon. Saturday, November 7th, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 8th, 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
>> Second. >> Motion is second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Welcome. >> Hunt. >> Plug eye. >> Candy. >> Gone. I um discuss possible vote to request uh use of town property for Lakeville Garden Club for the historic
townhouse May 7th, 2026, Saturday, May 9th, 2026 for annual spring plant sale, which is indic which time as indicated. So, I guess I'll just make the motion um with what you said, but added times. Um, yep.
>> On Thursday, May 7th, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the Fridays at 8:00, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. And then Saturday the 9th, 9:00 a.m. to noon time. >> Seconded. >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Roll call. >> I ly do I.
>> Cabon I. and discussing and possible vote to approve requests to use town property for Lakeville Garden Club for the historic townhouse the last Tuesday of every month for their meeting as follows for 224, 3:31, 4:26, 6:30, 7:28,
and 9:28 uh 9 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. >> Hunt I. >> Plug I. >> Candid. I carbon I and I'd just like madam chair if I can to um just comp
commend um member Lefave >> for her yes >> consistent um organizational >> she's getting ahead of it. She is. >> All right. Now, we're going to update
for the Okalony Regional V Technical Building Committee. >> Yeah. So, as uh Andrew Town administrator noted at the opening of the meeting, the uh school committee voted last Wednesday to move ahead with the revote. And it's
going to be exactly what was voted presented to the voters last fall. Um and again the goal is to ensure that the voters and the residents fully understand the financial impacts should the vote not be successful the second
time around. Um so there will be a a a dedicated um P campaign to help spread that information, ensure that the voters have all the facts around that. Um the uh school building committee uh date the
next meeting date has not been set yet. >> I had a question um and I I got an answer last time. I just wanted to follow up um on that. So is that going to be two questions on the ballot or just one?
>> I understand just the one just the uh the main uh overall district-wide election vote question. >> So here's my problem with that. Um, so I we did a great job at educating the voters of Lakeville. They did exactly, you know, they voted the way they wanted
to, but they also voted in a way that if it passed in other towns, it would not bake prep the town. So, I'm very thankful of that. I'm worried that if we go to them and we're not asking them for the other part, it it might seem
disingenuous like we had that in mind the whole time that if it came back that it would already be voted for. And I just want to make sure we put the education out there to let them know that that that wasn't even a consideration and and the same thing still applies that if they do that. But
I I just and I know it was no one's intent and uh we did it the right way. Um but this was an unintended consequence >> that I do not I want as much transparency around as possible. >> Yes. >> M I'll be sure to take that back to the school building committee and we can
maybe incorporate that into our >> Yeah. Because I don't I don't want anyone to think that we're like ha we've got them now because that was >> Yep. And as you know, the committee and the school administration pride themselves on transparency. So I will be sure to take that back and
>> really appreciate it. Thank you very much. >> Any other comments on the uh O colony um fire station building committee? >> Um well, as you can see, we've
done some clearing. So, um, we still need to schedule our, um, groundbreaking ceremony. So, that's to come. Uh, so we did at our last meeting, we voted on the required construction sign, um, layout.
Uh, we're going to leave that up to, uh, page construction. Um, as to, you know, the best layout. We had some concerns about putting the sign up by on what 18 so that as people are coming down if
they're trying to stop and look. So we had >> they're definitely looking anyways because there's no trees there. >> We'd like to make sure that it comes it's on this side um so if people are walking by they can you know take a look at the sign and so forth. But yeah, so um yeah, progress
>> there is indeed >> technology advisory subcommittee. >> Uh next meeting is a week from today, Tuesday. A week from today. >> All right. Very nice. >> Communication and community outreach subcommittee.
>> I'm happy to say that we um are scheduling our first meeting. Um what is it the 12th 18th 18 >> I'm very happy that you've >> got it going. >> So a little bit of >> little bit of a >> reached out to the members. Um I know
that we're updating the website and it'll probably go live March. Um but just for purposes, you know, for now if we can just make sure the full membership is on um that particular site because you never know, we might have some something to put out
there. Well, that's exciting. >> Very exciting. >> Yes. >> Yep. I'm really appreciative of all the initiative. Um, it's one place that every government entity has always kind of failed a little bit without some extra oomph and some push around it. So,
I appreciate you willing to take it on and move that forward. >> Um, town hall building reuse subcommittee. >> We have successfully avoided another monthly meeting. >> High five.
I actually have one quick update on it. We had a lot of the architect and background people stop by town hall this week. >> Okay. >> So, >> so they're taking pictures and measuring. >> Yes. >> Fantastic. >> So, the end is near. >> Yes. >> We'll be we'll be back at it before you know it. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Um NFG advisory committee. Um, where when is the next I have not been to one of these meetings yet because I've had conflict meetings, conflicting meetings. Um, so when is the next it's coming up,
right? >> The next one is on this coming Monday. So that's the the 9th. Okay. >> So you want it on Friday nights. >> I'll be I'll be attending that one. >> You want it on Friday nights. That's what I heard. >> Yeah. Uh but I have to say that um you know having the energy advisory
committee in place for Lakeville uh was monumental through the green communities initiative um and keeping that information and you know keeping it going. I can say that the the committee now um is really looking and discussing
opportunities for energy efficiency for our town um through you know whether it's grant programs um you know other initiatives and um you know tax savings and so they're looking for ways um to
help guide the town. they'll come up with, you know, suggestions and then those will be presented to the select board um to see if they they want to adopt and but I would say that this is a
proactive initiative at this time. So, >> thank you kindly. >> Um and this is just the Lraine show for the next two months, economic development committee. So, um we I believe we've come up with a a meeting
date um because we once we awarded through our last um select board meeting the the contract for the strategic plan to Serpent, we needed to coordinate um a date where Serpent would be coming in and meeting with the committee. So, we're
>> that was the 23rd. >> Okay. So, I'll be there. >> Um on a side note, how many serpent hours do we have banked? a lot, but I'm sure I just don't know the exact amount. >> Can we uh we get that number because I'd like to know if we need to allocate
some to to you guys as well, >> like for >> whatever >> whatever in economic development. >> Yeah. >> Uh Veterans Park Committee, as you know, um I believe we've had two interested. >> Yep, I have two.
>> Okay. And so we we have as of our last meeting the 14th of February um for entry and then on the next select board meeting we'll update and vote and memberships and we'll get that going.
>> Okay. Very good. Thank you everyone for your updates. Appreciate it. Um is there any new business to come before the board? >> I just have one thing. Um, we met with the MVTA today and they are interested
in developing the site again. So, they've kind of contacted us again. >> Are they talking housing? >> Um, they're talking about putting out an RFP that is all inclusive of every single possible use of that site, whether it's commercial, industrial, >> they're putting out an RFP for something
that's not zoned for that. >> They just want to get really ideas. >> I have an idea. >> Yeah. So that that's it's a potential agenda item in the next either the next meeting or the meeting after they're going to send us over the RFP. So >> well
>> so question Madam Chair. So we met with them last fall. >> It feels like a very long time ago. It was in the library. >> Oh my god. >> In the library, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah. I was how long ago? Oh. So they've done nothing to date.
>> No. >> I guess not no surprise, right? They don't exactly move at the speed of light, but okay. I guess >> other priorities is the reason. >> Yeah. >> No rush. >> Yeah. >> Unless it's commercial and we want it. >> Yeah.
>> I know. I don't think we could have said that any louder or any clearer >> in any way, shape, or form. >> I don't know if the message was received, but >> yeah. Um, old business to come before the board. I have um kind of old
business. Um, can I get uh a list of all the warrant articles that we had been working on? Um, things that didn't make it to the last meeting, things that we've been proposing over the year. Um, and anything that you know is upcoming and sent to the board. So, we're all
prepared to speak on all of those items as they come up. That would be great. >> Just started the list today. I'll have that tomorrow. >> Fantastic. Um, any other old business from the board?
Okay. Um, I do have February 17th as our next meeting date. Um, correspondence. I'm actually going to read out. Um, this is actually correspondence that people should be interested in.
This is the Verizon Form 500 complaint data and Verizon form 500 service interruption data for 2025. Um
did we put uh is there >> a letter? There was nothing I was expecting to hear. >> I did not get anything other than those two. So, is this what people had responded to already for complaints? Because I only
see like 23 compl like there's a very small number of complaints compared to the complaints I get about Verizon. Like the only one I see that there that
matches up. Oh, no. There's a couple estimated. No, it's estimated subscribers. So, the moral of the story here is um Verizon thinks they're doing a great job um because we're not telling them um
that we can't get calls through um that our internet doesn't work, that our our stuff doesn't work. So, um if you are having problems, please call Kevin Cassidy at 7188735854. Email kevin.cassy Cassidyverizon.com.
Tell him I do Kevin. Um and then Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project Report. Um this is up on the website cor on the
website. Yeah, on the website, right? Yeah. Um, so there's outreach on community uh mosquito spraying and I think they're just mostly doing larva spraying now. Um, we've had a couple two lucky years um
where we haven't um had high instances of triple E. I hope the the snow helps that and uh that we continue on the grand tradition of the only the last two years. Um, executive session, possible
executive session pursuant to GL chapter 3A, section 21 A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation. If an open meeting may have detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body. If the chair declares that an open meeting may have detrimental effect on
the negotiating position of the public body, clerical, labor, police, fire, dispatchers, educators. And reason two, pursuant general law chapter 3A section 21A3, discuss strategy with respect to
collective barting or litigation if an open meeting may have detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares and not into open uh to return into open session. >> So second
>> motion and a second. Roll call. >> Hunt I. Candido I >> Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful Tuesday. It's only 7:15. We did it. >> We did it.