All right. Good morning and welcome to the select board and wage and personnel board meeting of Friday, April 3rd, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. This is a remote meeting uh in accordance with the provisions allowed by chapter 2, the acts of 2023
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at a later date at http uh www lakecam TV. Uh is anyone else recording this meeting besides Lake Cam? Hearing no one, I'm going to call this board to order. >> Who's in attendance today?
Arbony here. >> Blocking here. >> Oh, Hunt. I just got a message from his audio says blocked. Can you unblock member Hunt so he can affirm?
One moment. Okay, member Hunt, it's not on record that you're here, so we will have to affirm you when you get your audio straightened out. Um, today it's going to be mostly about wrapup and updates.
Uh, and uh, Andrew, would you like to take us through the latest update? Actually, there was actually one thing I wanted to say. We didn't have a community updates on here, but there is one very sad update that I would like to let everyone know, and that is the passing of our planning board member,
Jack Lynch. Jack Lynch passed away, and he has been serving on our planning board since 2020, so almost six years. Uh we were very sorry to hear of his passing and I'd like to pass on my condolences to his uh friends, family,
and board members. Uh it was a very sad um it was a very sad notice that we got. >> Andrew, would you like to move on to the hospital update? >> Yeah. So um we received a communication
from a company called Dream Development. They have signed a some sort of agreement with Rhino to do some investigative work of what it would take to make the project viable. Um so they are looking at that. Um I think
inevitably it comes back to the same kind of major issues which is demolition. It's um utilities, specifically the wastewater um treatment plant is very expensive. It's I think it's north of 5 or 6 million. So um
people have been probably been hearing this for 30 years, but the the best thing to help with development on that site is a sewer connection to Midboro. Um so that's something we're going to explore with the town of Mboro. Um, I
know Middleboro has quite a bit of development going on over there. >> Yeah, we haven't always had the best ability to work with Middleboro, but um, I think that should all change. Uh, I think we should have a lot more synergies with Middleboro going forward.
I think um, I think whatever was holding us back before, we can move forward from. >> Yeah. And I know I know I've talked to them before, it's a capacity issue. Um, what I've heard from the state legislators is that the state is willing to help out with any sort of upgrades
that are needed. Um, what that looks like specifically, but that's something we'll explore, I think, with metro at some point soon. >> Yeah, and the collaboration and the teamwork to to get everything done will be uh imperative. So, thank you. Anything else on the hospital? Uh,
anything else anyone should know? >> Okay. that this company, Gene Development, has 30 days to kind of look at project viability and give a recommendation to Rhino on what they want to see. This could mean potentially they think maybe a recommendation to
Rhino is to change the development. >> Okay. >> More housing, maybe change it from 55 to less than 55. We don't really know yet. >> Okay. And when did that 30 days start? >> Uh the other day. >> Okay. >> Exactly. But
>> very good. All right, town of Lakeville, you know what we know at this point. Um trash update. Uh this past uh fall, we sent out a trash survey. Um knowing that people are kind of struggling with the
prices that have been increased and trash and um the delivery. Uh Andrew and team sent out a trash survey of the people. Um, and there was one more thing I wanted to add in for the trash update.
We talked about it briefly in September, but the dumpsters and their proximity to the street for individual dumpsters. Um, we need to send an update to people that are doing business in our town that
they're not complying um with the rules of the town. Uh, I believe it is it has to be 10 ft from the road. Um, and I'm not sure if it's the road layout or the actual road. Um, and you could probably get clarific clarification on that, but
these dumpsters are pretty much touching the side of the road. And um, they're they not only does it look bad, it's it's hazardous actually for traveling um, especially uh, for the people plowing. Uh, I know there was some incences uh, with dumpsters uh, with the
plows. So, uh, it's important that we send that letter out reminding them of our rules that are already in place. This is nothing new, just a reminder. I'll let you continue on. Sorry, Andrew. >> No, I think that they're licensed to the board of health. So, I'll I'll reach out
to uh Ed Colin on that and see what we can do. Um, I can turn it over to Emily to go over the results themselves for the survey. >> Thank you. Um so the results were attached to uh the meeting materials so feel free and the they it included all
the individual responses as well. So if anybody would like to take a look at those we have them. Um overall most people are relatively satisfied with what service they use right now. Um but it is very expensive through private
contractors. So, as far as respondents opinion on whether or not the town might be able to, you know, uh, do a contract with the pickup company, it it was dependent on cost. So, I think that
really people for more information. >> What would be the cost approximate in order to just let people know? Do we have a ballpark? >> Uh, I don't know. I don't have a a ballpark. I don't know. >> Okay. >> I think um what I pay now just as it's
just a one town example is Swansea. That's I want to say it's 200 bucks maybe annually. >> Yeah. >> Right around that point. It's not very expensive. >> Yeah. And I know I'm I'm paying around $600 for my service just um I don't know
what other people are paying, but that does seem to be >> there's a lot of variables. I mean Swans's probably got like maybe twice the amount of houses. I don't know if that's that plays into it for the the hauler to like maybe be interested in something like this. >> Yeah. >> And then there's no transfer station in Swansea either. So I don't know how that
would play into this as well. >> But um >> No, it's something we can investigate with an RFP if that's what the board wants. >> Um uh we'll let the board decide. We'll put it on another meeting for an RFP to
see if anyone wants to vote for an RFP for trash. Um, I was just surprised how many respondents we had in general and I think this format was really good for us and that's something we should use uh going forward with that level of
response. it might just have been the issue, but um I I would have to say that's three times the response I've ever seen um in town for any type of um question we've asked anyone. >> We've actually Emily, do you have the exact number on the open space survey we
just did? >> Um I think at this point it's around 200. I can get the exact number really quick. >> I thought it was four, but we're getting a lot of responses on surveys we're putting out. >> Fantastic. Um I remember back in 2019
did did the first electronic surveys. Uh I I got 11 people the first month for master plan. I was like all right that was disappointing. Let's let's reorganize on that. Um the exact number for the open space survey it's about like 220 people have
responded so far. That's still That's still nice numbers um for a town this size. So, good. All right. Uh next update is on the outreach for the override. So, um I know you have a plan in place, Sandra. You shared it out. Uh I just want to make
sure the residents know that this next election um the annual election is not the override uh election uh election ballot vote. And we want to make sure that people are not confused and we have all of the outreach that we could
possibly do in order to answer questions and to educate. >> Yeah, we're going to do quite a bit. I think there's uh there's three budget hearings. There's going to be four community outreach specifically um both on the weekdays and then the weekends.
Um we're actually filming a senior connection episode at 2:00 today. Um, we're thinking of going to the COA on Fridays every Friday to answer questions and give presentations outside of these community meetings. Um, and then
additionally on the website, we're going to be posting quite a bit on Monday and Tuesday. Um, both proposed budget and then, um, a lot of just handouts and how it affects people,
>> tax tax impacts and calculators and all that. Yep. And then like just we got to just make it clear on the dates so people aren't confused and showing up on Monday in order to um to vote for something that's um not until
>> uh we firmed up the 19th. Correct. >> Yeah, that's going to be a vote on Tuesday. Um yep meeting, but it'll be May 19th. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yep. And uh on
Thursday or Friday um we saw a lot of announcements. If you guys are on social media or if you're reading any of the stuff that's going on with Middleboro, they're in a bit of a pickle right now. Um, and one of the things that they're
doing is um considering um 50 positions is my last number that I saw uh to reduce in order to make their budget. We're not in as dire of position um just because of our size and and our our
numbers are going to be smaller. Uh I had a quick convo with Andrew and uh asked where Middbor is as far as something that could be shared services. So when we're talking about turning over every rock and trying to find every
nickel, um Middlebar is doing the same. Uh, I would love for us to be able to find some synergies on some of our positions and some of the things that we're not filling now because we can't afford to do a full-time role and Andrew
has spearheaded that and had some conversations with Middleboro. Um, I I'd love to hear, you know, what the take is on it. >> So, I reached out to the interimm town manager uh earlier this was late last week maybe. um you seem to have an an
interest um just knowing how we're doing the override right now and kind of our financial problems things kind of can change daily. Um so I don't know if uh what's been going on midbar the last week. I don't know if like maybe they've found ways to do this or not but I plan
on checking in maybe this weekend and seeing where they are with various positions. I gave him a couple I think we because we we having a hard time finding an assessor. So, that's potential opportunity. A town planner is an opportunity. Um, so I'm going to
check in with him, but yeah, like you said, they they have a lot of positions that they're going to have to probably cut or reimagine. And um, we're close enough that I think a regional approach could work on a few different departments. >> Yeah. And it's one of those things that um we could use going forward in general
and just have you I don't want to say leaner because we're we're very lean and always have been really lean but leveraging sustainability um with our current revenue projections until we start getting more revenue um in the books. Um this will be you know kind of
something that we should all be looking at as far as a way to turn over every stone. Definitely members questions. >> Madam Chair, I'll just say I applaud your initiative thinking outside of the box and proposing the uh collaboration
idea middle. So thank you. >> Yeah, sometimes it's not always strategy. you just see something that you're, you know, something current and you're like, "Wow, this could be an opportunity." Um, and I think that goes to what I was saying for just collaboration in the future. Um, state's
not coming to save us. We need to save ourselves and I I know Middleboro is in the same boat and, you know, having that crossf functional collaboration between regional partners could be a real strength of ours in the future.
Awesome. All right. Um update on investment issues and resolutions. So again in the interest of finding every nickel um and going forward um we had done some work
in the treasurer collector and we found some areas where we can improve our policies and um and the way that we move forward. Andrew, do you want to speak to that? >> Yeah, we so we um like you said, when we were trying to find every nickel, um
this even goes back before I even started. When I was looking at the books when I was researching this position to apply for it, I noticed a few kind of odd things like our investment income was pretty low over the last like 5 to 10 years. And I I was I never really checked on in on it cuz just the wild
nature of starting a new position like this, I pulled in million different directions. But when we were starting the fiscal 27 budget, I started to look around and say like how what can we do for investment income and then it it kind of dawned on us that a lot of our money is not in
uh interest bearing accounts when they probably should be. Um, so, uh, in coordination with Mike, Paula, um, Angela Chandler, our um, treasure collector consultant, um, we've pushed a lot of this money that was just kind of
hanging out with 0% and now we expect to probably get maybe 200 grand for fiscal 27 when we were expecting, we actually received 20 grand last year. Um >> that would be that would be amazing if
even half of that number came to fruition um just due to like better sound business practices um and and and looking at that what what are what are kind of some of the steps that you've taken?
>> So when Angela um Chandler first started I kind of said to her like just look around at different accounts and see like how we can make um more money. Something we also kind of did was we had and I don't know the the the ingenuities of this but a lot of we had like maybe a
hundred bank accounts and you really you don't need that many. So like we have just different pockets. So I'm sure everyone knows when you have more money in one one or two or five accounts they'll make more money because they're kind of uh focused in one grouping. So it makes more money. Um, so we've kind
of um brought all of our money kind of together to make more. Um, so that's that's one thing Angela looked at and actually we've moved money around already. Um, another issue we found is some of the stabilization accounts
weren't making a whole lot of money and we were kind of curious why like why there was a discrepancy between the capital and the uh general stabilization. Um, we found one was like 4% and one was like 0.25. Um, just I I maybe just no one was I
guess really checking on that. Um, so I kind of asked why why aren't four why aren't both accounts making 4%. So that's something Angela and Paula and Mike looked at and now both accounts are making 4%. Um, so
>> that's fantastic. I know back years ago we had Uni Bankank um and they were always scanning and looking for those type of things. Um I I know that you said we're working with another um institution in order to do that. Who was
that institution? >> Well, we brought in Rockland Trust to kind of give us a sense of like how we could improve our operations. We haven't actually signed with them or anything. Um, but they gave us they gave us a lot of ideas of what how we how we manage this. And one thing they kind of said is
you have to be proactive. You can't just put your money in an account and just say, "Hey, it's good for the next 3 years." You have to like constantly see what the rates are changing between banks. Um, they say don't be afraid to change your money in different accounts to different banks. Um, because I'm sure everyone knows um, but just with our
personal money, there might be a CD or an investment account that makes more money. >> Yep. month to month or year to year. And so you should say, "Hey, let's move our money to a higher interest account." So Angela has kind of said to us, we need to be proactive. And that's something I think Paul is doing.
>> I love it. I love it. That's getting better and not having to go for extra revenue sources when we're just not maximizing our resources is is the quickest way to be successful with the lowest lift. Um, do any other board
members have any questions? Uh mad madam chair if I may. Um uh the uh I'm aware that the lack of accountability and oversight with some of the prior employees has resulted in this situation. Um so I have some
concerns over that. Can I assume a report that will address those issues uh will be provided in the future? Yeah, I can uh get a list of everything that's kind of been going on and then um how it's been solved. We've checked a
lot of these issues with our internal auditor and do um and they say it didn't really rise to like the level of um where we'd have to like go to town meeting or do any of those kind of strong u solutions I guess the way to put it. I guess maybe methods to fix it.
Um, a lot of it's kind of been uh in I guess I don't want to say immaterial, but fixes we can do internally without doing anything crazy. >> Member Planka brings up a good point though, like when when we have our auditors, are they not looking at that?
Because we pay them $36,000 a year. um like that seems like something that would have come out in an audit for the last 3 years as it's as it really wasn't you know that big of an issue before the last 3 years obviously.
>> Yeah. So I don't I don't know if like so basically how we kind of found this out is we have two stabilization accounts with the same roughly the same balance 2.4 4 million and one was making 6,000 and one was making 180,000.
And I thought that's weird. Like why why is it like that? We basically found out that one's making a lot less than the other. And then we also kind of found out that some of the balances weren't weren't proper, I should say. Um don't know how an aud could couldn't
catch it. >> I don't know. So, if they're not, then again to member Panka's point, it's important that we're catching it and we have a strategy to catch it. Um, and I know that um talking to uh to Mike um on some of the things that he wanted to do,
they would be great to enumerate them and send them out as a control program for the future um and you know, for future people uh as everyone, you know, turns over and and moves around. So, yep. >> Yes. And something we're we're trying to do and we've been doing is we have
finance team meetings monthly. Um I think in the past we kind of just I don't want to say we stay in each other's lanes, but um I think going forward we're going to kind of say like where are the bank accounts at? Are they making enough money? Like what's the what's the investment return we're making? We didn't really get into the
weeds in the past because we didn't really felt we really needed to just because of how I think it's kind of some of it's so um I think if we're kind of keeping each other accountable, I guess. Um, >> yeah, I know there's problems and we
don't want to co-mingle on on the finance side in order to ensure it, but they should at least know those conversations should be happening and and reconciliation should happen um at at the monthly or at least the quarterly level um for all of these things. I do
like the proactive approach to moving things around because that just hasn't been done here before. >> Right. Right. Right. No, I think I think think going forward I think we're we're in good shape. We're all kind of new to our positions. Like I'm only I'm like a year and a half. Mike's a little less
than that and Paula obviously she's been here a while but in her position only a few months. >> It's a fresh set of eyes. So it's you know it's really appreciated that everyone's turning over every stone as far as dollars and as policy um in order to
>> just get a little bit better every day. Um any other comments or anything on the updates? Uh what's the update on the time and attendance software? So back this fall, we had theorized, you know, that it it's
time uh and um a lot of we were having a lot of wasted time of our department heads um in old-fashioned paper time cards and and stuff like that, you know, and and we did have some availability
through our payroll uh connections. So if you want to give an update on that. Yeah. So, we did some digging with our uh payroll serer, which is Harper's Payroll. I thought it was possible, but they're they're saying it's not. Um I thought we could just kind of um track
kind of a cools and time and stuff electronically without having some sort of um uh component to it. But they said we either have to have like a biological like fingerprint signin for employees or
we have to have like a cell phone app um that would be like geoenced in order for that to work. Um >> so I could see that if it was an hour hourly employee, but that's that doesn't that doesn't track for how I I know it works for other systems. Um
>> yeah. Uh that that's not up to this board as far as like tracking and stuff like that. we we just want to have a system in place that computerizes it and we're not going forward. That was what the vote was. So,
uh if it needs to come back before the board to find a software that fits, um I'm I'm sure we can do that. There's millions of them out there. Like this is that seems really weird that So, I don't know if anyone else uses that this type of software, but I've used it for at
least 15 years. And what they do is you you have your 40 hours a week and it's set if you're a full-time employee and you're only managing the exceptions. And that would be my assumption on this software that you're only managing exceptions.
>> Yeah. So we actually had this in Taton. Um most employees I get I guess are not salary. I mean a lot of department has a salary but a lot of like clerical staff is hourly. And then it got into this big like is it in the contract or not? Um so
that'll have to be sorted out. Um but they have >> yeah we're using geo fencing. I could see where that would be a complication. But as far as people working the hours they're scheduled that should that I I don't see that as a union issue. Um this
is it's the same as putting it in paper but you're putting it on thing. I don't think the union would have would have any steam behind it on trying to put something on that. But if you're geo fencing on your phone, yeah, I could
see that not being something anyone would go for as far as that goes. But uh yeah, I I think and anyone on the board can tell me the intent was just to modernize the process um and not to um
not to do anything that would be compromising. Um >> yeah, Madam K that that was my understanding as well. I don't we don't need to go to the next level geo fencing just a automated way to accurately record time. >> Yeah. Instead of having our department
head sit down for an hour and a half a week, they sit down and approve in five minutes. You know, it's it's a big it's a big time suck to do paper stuff. And I mean we're we're 15 years behind the curve here.
>> And there is a uh pricing component. I think it's like between five and 10,000 for this. So that's another >> Yeah. And I I would say that we would save that in the time of our employees that are using it currently. Um we would
be able to save that right up front because it is such a time hole for everyone. But we can add it on for another meeting if that's not the right software. But I will say there is no shortage of software that we could it
that's probably agnostic that we could hook right up and and and be in business with. Um yeah, I would think maybe if we're having an issue, we could push it to the technology subcommittee in order to find
um the right software. Madame Chair, if I may, we could possibly need uh re-evaluation of our payroll provider, too. >> Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We've always
>> Yep. Yep. >> Yep. We've always gone with them because they've been reasonably priced, but at the same time, if they're making us incur a lot more time uh than than we need to and they can't provide the services, I think that's a really good
call out >> and and my understanding of um you know, this type of change as far as unions go, it's not a change in working conditions. It's a it's a unilateral change to to benefit the town as a whole and is I I
do not believe it's going to be a bargainable situation. >> I I believe you are correct because uh we had the same conversation in 2019 about direct deposit um as opposed to uh the way the checks were being cut
before. So it was it was kind of in the same vein that it is a a modernization and a benefit for the whole organization. >> Yep. >> Great. I look forward to seeing that come back around and getting some better
info. Um I had uh two people reach out to me about uh what we're going to do about a farmers market. So uh 2020 I think. um started the conversation um
in in in earnest about having a farmers market and um and then COVID hit and everything fell apart and I'd love to see where we are at with that um with the agricultural um committee if they're
interested in pursuing it and uh is there anything we need to do as select board to help push this along. Madam chair, if I may. >> Yes, I I ha I thought you might have some knowledge on this.
>> Uh uh yes, we uh back in 2020, we did have some push back from people regarding uh the starting of a farmers market. the eggcom of which I am still the chairman uh has
still has an interest in doing something with the farmers market. Um we have had some discussions as a group. I was recently approached by uh
inspectional services Nate Darling regarding uh some upcoming changes on the Bridge Street property or potential upcoming changes on the Bridge Street property. >> So the Bridge Street property meaning the uh owned by the state, the farming
land owned by the state. >> Correct. the the leased land and the possibility of um of a farmers market or or something of that nature there uh seems to be gaining some traction with the state and they're looking for the
input from the town as well on that. So that is certainly an issue that could continue moving forward and we as the eggcom um have been very much in favor of that.
>> Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic. So, um, Andrew and team, can you coordinate with, um, with the director of inspectional services and with the agricultural um, commission to, I don't know, see what next steps would be and
what that would look like and and then connect obviously with the communication subcommittee um, if there's anything to be communicated out to the general public. >> Yeah. And then eight and nine are really um things that
we've done in the past that I haven't seen in the last two or three years and it was just one of those things. Um we used to have a hazardous waste day at the transfer station for people to get rid of their paint etc etc. Um I didn't
see it this year or last. I might have missed it. >> It was last year Madam Chair. >> I did miss it. Okay. >> No. Um it's that's been going on every um every year. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we'll just get the word out um when that is and make sure that
it gets communicated through that communication subcommittee um and moving forward to make sure everyone's aware of it. And then are we doing paper shredding anymore? Um we used to do always do paper shredding but then again a lot of our documents um that we had
were duplicative but printed um and we used to have paper shredding days. Have we have we need the need for that any longer or is that something that's gone by the wayside? I >> think they've done shredding
like public records that have fallen off the schedule. >> Yeah. So, it would be public records that have fallen off the schedule, duplicate records that we don't need to keep. Um, and uh just basically housekeeping um in order to make sure
everyone's doing stuff at the same time and going through the records. Um I know we had a massive glut of records in 2019 that it took, you know, months to sort out and get rid of. Uh, I just want to make sure that we're not filling up
space in town hall with records that we don't need and doing any paper shredding um that we need to to make sure all documents are taken care of properly. >> Yeah, I believe they did a big couple years ago
doing systems. >> Okay. Just making sure. Yep. Just making sure it's happening in a in another thing. And then the last one is just the update on the warrant articles. Andrew, if you could give us a latest and the
greatest on the articles that are ready, some that uh if there's anything not ready and the board can chime in and make sure that everything that they want is on there. >> Yes, I'll
>> Oh, Andrew, your audio just went soft for me. Did any Is everyone else hearing the audio? Okay. >> I don't know. >> No, no one no one answering. >> You're all on mute. Maybe. >> Yeah. No, it it's it's it's a little
weak, Andrew. >> Definitely. >> That's better. >> Yeah. >> So, we have this special kind of meeting warrant. generally the unpaid bills if there's any and then there might be a payoff a
deficit. Don't know what that is but we don't think it's going to be very high. So that's good. When we get to the annual town meeting we're going to have article one which is to set the budget. That might be either
one or two articles depending on how we structure with your um articles three, four, five, six and seven. Those are like the usual capital improvement, the CPA budget, CPA specific projects
enterprise, the same ones you do every year. Article eight is going to be the def school officials. That's pretty much finalized. There was some questions, but basically kind of
>> and that's exactly the same as Freetown. You've been collaborating with Freetown, so we don't have that issue where one thing gets changed and and and everything gets muffled. >> Correct. Correct. Then we have R, which is state absences. That's essentially
when someone retires instead of paying out of the operating budget they out of special account which is to pay their vacation save whatever time they entire so it'll come out of this pocket instead of
um so it saves on a deficit. Um we have a maybe a half a dozen employees with a lot of pay trying to be proactive to pay those Um, article 10 is adoption of chapter 53
section. If everyone knows state elections, ballot questions and knows what they are, get like a packet in the mail that basically outlines what what they are, what your options
are, like pros and cons. Um, I think that's generally a blue book that comes around. This chapter gives us options that local elections special
exe basically tell them about it and also the pros impact all that. >> Is this sponsored by the town clerk? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um the next one is the meals tax. We've
gone over that times, but this would be the local option doing a meals tax link. Um article 12 consultant. This would help with IMA issues.
Right now we really don't have myself to kind of sort through all that stuff. So, this would take money out of the water account that we have. Um, >> did you say the water? What did you say? Account.
>> Water account. So, when we sold water >> Oh, okay. The water tower. >> Yeah. It's got about 350,000 or so left in it. So, this would draw about 25,000. Article 13 would be the ABA program.
We've presented that policy. This would be essentially to uh step that up the town. It would depending on what properties we choose would actually list out properties for this purpose only.
Article 14 is the bylaw. We had discussed possible changes to that bylaw. That would be what this would be. Um article 15 would be a storm water bylaw. I think the planning board still that would be changes to what that
um the lon contracts I don't think we're going to have it ready for that so we're pushing this point in time dilapitated buildings bylaw be essentially like I say I guess it's a penalty throughout
certain definition of u >> and this is just commercial and business buildings and not residential for protect the bylaw. Yep. >> Correct. Just businessial. Um, we're still working on that. We should have got it ready in time, but
just in case by open district by this one, it's got ready. We're still working on it. It's likely. Then article 19 is a revolving account
observation um which sets the limits by which comes into the account given here. Um that's an annual. Then we have two other ones that aren't
on here. One is potentially pass to get to a specific property in town. Then the other one is actual data set by law.
So um I haven't seen on that yet. >> Perfect. And then members for the next meeting um warrants will be on there to discuss. If there's anything we didn't discuss or or didn't get on there, we can chat about it in um the next
meeting. Um and then my question is around who's reviewing these warrant articles at this juncture. So these will have to go to new council
is I'm assuming um and yeah could you outlay uh the process because we are in a transition. >> No I'm trying to look at the list. I think old council obviously was involved in the recall provision. Um I think we
just kind of we we kind of talked that one to death. Um I don't think there's any issues with that one, but the rest of them would likely go through new council. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Right.
>> And new council is starting to on board now, correctly? Like the >> Yeah. So the transition is kind of ongoing now. Um KP Law has kind of told us they're ready to leave. Um so I we set up >> Can I clarification on that? So KP Law
who we have until July 31st. It we appointed them through July 31st of this year that they have decided to leave early because we're not renewing with them.
essentially. Yeah, that's that's correct. Um I I don't necessarily view it as a bad thing. Um right now is a good time to transition before town meeting and the budget and everything else going on. Um obviously the board
has the right to not do that on Tuesday. >> I have it we have it set to do that. >> All right. Madam Chair, um >> Madame Carboni, >> I thought we voted or I thought it was the new um
council was starting the end of July. That was the transition, but they were transitioning now, I believe. So, like they were going to work with KP Law in order to transition and they were going to do that free of charge. Andrew,
wasn't that correct? Correct. >> So they So all right, let me just understand this. So they officially start the end of July, but are they I guess I I don't want any liability. So
are we in a contract with our new um >> I think that's what Andrew said that we would have to vote that for next meeting if we wanted to >> transition to them now officially. Right. >> Is that okay? I just misunderstood what
Andrew was saying. Okay. >> Some more of the background is we've never really had a contract with KP Law. We just kind of do an appointment yearly for that. Um, and so MTC kind of sent me a contract. I didn't sign it because it was basically going to be effective July
31st. Once you we actually did that on March 17th, KP emailed us the next day and they said we want to transition on April 1st. Um, so what I what we recommended on Tuesday night is to transition on April 7th. And so, uh, we
take a revote to basically start MTC on April 7th. And then from there, we can sign the contract that they gave us. We'll have it on the meeting. >> Yep. >> Great. And that's it. Any qu any other questions from the board members on any
of the updates? Um, I did have one other update that just popped up and it's not a anything to vote on. It's just for the board to know. So, uh, a couple months ago I reached out to a company that does billboards
um, uh, high like highway sign billboards. Um and uh I invited them to come talk to us um and to talk, you know, to the town of Lakeville just on uh that they could meet with economic development, they could meet with zoning, they could meet with anything
that, you know, we're we're here and we're looking for additional revenue sources. Um they'll be reaching out to contact uh your office, Andrew, to coordinate some of that. They'll be reaching out sometime this week. Uh, I
know that there is potential to um with some billboards on some town properties. I know there's a lot of uh there's a lot of issues with billboards on town properties and they have to do some municipal advertising and some other stuff in there to make it a criteria,
but it's the potential to get $100,000 a year in revenue for the town of Lakeville. So, yeah, they gave me a call back, so I figured I'd I'd update the the board um on that. >> Yeah, sounds good. It's a lot of money.
>> It is a lot of It could be. It could be. Um and if it's placed in the right place, obviously. Uh but uh hopefully uh you guys can coordinate and come up with something and um you know be able to help sustain
the budget going forward. Any other issues for open session? Okay. Hearing none, I move that we move into executive session. Possible executive session MGL chapter 38 section
21A2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-UN personnel or to conduct condolctive bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-UN personnel fire chief and number two possible executive
session pursuant to MGL chapter 30A section 21A3 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. And the chair so declares clerical
labor, police, fire, dispatchers, and educators. And reason number three, possible executive possess executive session pursuant to MGL chapter 38 section 21A6 to consider the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of
real estate if the chair declares that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on negotiation position of the public body. the Lakeville Country Club. And number four, not to return into open session. Do I have a motion?
>> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second. >> A motion. A second. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Roll call. Harboni. >> I hunt. I block eye.
>> Candid. I. Thank you everybody.