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wage and Personnel board meeting on Monday February 10th 2025 at 531 p.m. here at the Lakeville police station Lake cam is recording this meeting is there anybody here recording no all right with that can we all rise for pledge of allegiance to flag of the United States of America America and to the repu for
it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you all right go pass Oh wrong wrong time frame sorry um okay that was bad nice to see everybody um I just wanted to bring your attention to um a suggestion that was made by one of our residents um for those that are watching
at home might not necessarily know when they tune in what agenda item we're on so member Fabian has graciously um brought us our I don't know what we call it is it our volleyball scorecard or our agenda score card counter um so agenda counter I don't know um so that our members from the audience will be able to see exactly what agenda item we are on so very much thank you for that um for all other boards and committees
we're going to leave it here if anyone else wants to borrow it I'm going to leave it right in the drawer over there excellent was a good suggestion uh member Donna hu will not be present this evening um she let me know earlier today so we will miss her uh we do have a few select board announcements to make here uh there's there are still a few positions for the annual election that no one has pulled papers for uh to run the deadline to
pull these nomination papers is February 12th which is Wednesday of this week and the deadline to return them is February 14th which is Friday if you interested in running which I know there's quite a few of you out there that are just sitting on that fence and we are going to push you over if we can uh please reach out to the town clerk's office at 508 94688 and they can give you information on pulling nomination papers and if
you're interested in any of those positions um you can reach out to any one of the select board members or Town Administrator um and we can answer any questions that you might have if you're on that fence Madam chair do we have the specific list of open I do not but that list is on the town clerk's website um so if you go into the elections tab on the left um and scroll all the way down um to the bottom um you'll be able to see the listing men yes um I just talked
to the town clerk a little bit before we came here um one of the positions is going to be filled um one of the candidates there were two candidates running for one position so they're going to withdraw their nomination papers and go to the other one that was for the cemetery commission so that one's filled um and then there are two Park commission vacancies that no one has pulled papers well okay all right thank you uh the treasurer collector would like to remind residents that real estate and personal property taxes are
due on February 3rd 2025 if you have any questions regarding your tax bill um you can contact them at 508 94688 the community preservation committee will be holding a public hearing on February 20th at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakefield police station to gather input from the public on community preservation plan um this is I believe an annual
requirement um to hold a public hearing and if you are interested in learning more about it of what they do um or even having some suggestions for the plan to please attend the Council on Aging is in need of volunteer drivers for the Meals on Wheels delivery program or as an outof Town Medical driver these are very important programs for our seniors and our only able to run with the help of
volunteers you can volunteer as many or as few days a month as your schedule will allow and for more information on volunteering please reach out to the Council on Aging at 508 947 7224 and a little fun fact here in 1959 former Red Sox star Ted Williams and his partner Al Cassidy purchased land in Lakeville to establish a base Camp Ted Williams was a regular
participant at the at the camp over the years and including an annual fundraiser event for the Jimmy fund Williams who spent summers at various locations in Lakeville was a regular visitor to various establishments while he was in town fun fact all right anybody else from the select board have anything for announcements yes I was just going to say regarding the cemetery commission if somebody did want to run they still can it's not filled until it's elected so just because some somebody's moved what they want to run for somebody else can
true that well thank you for that people are dying to get in I know I had to oh I was yeah I was waiting for that okay uh Town administrative report Andrew yep thank you um just want to first thank Frank Mon and his DPW guys um it's kind of something you don't really realize how how much they're out there on the roads the way the storm hit it was around 11:00 at night on Saturday so I assume those guys out 15 hours
they're probably Walking Dead today so it's greatly appreciated they did a great job yeah um we recently returned $26,000 in arpa funds to Plymouth County ouch um they're knocking down our door to get that back but shouldn't say it's necessarily a bad thing they have a a project that's going to benefit the whole County um Public Safety Communications equipment so it's not going to go to waste um let's see Community onetop um came out I
know everyone has a lot of ideas potentials if uh if anyone has anything feel free to let me know I have four or five kind of working potentials um but the deadline's in June so there's plenty of time would you be able to send us out um I know that you would sent an email on that if you could just send us the listing of of what the um opportunities definitely um and
also uh L and I the chair attended the South Coast whale Municipal briefing on Friday the start date for South Coast whale is officially March 24th so that's actually I had kind of Hadad a schedule of what they thought they were going to do I think it was May or June um and the last thing Mike Ellis myself and Chris Blanka attended a meeting with the schools today to kind of go over like our first budget um
meeting kind of an introductory um I think it goes without saying that the budget is very tight this year probably more so than the last 5 to 10 years so it's going to take a lot of work from us the school committee free toown to make it work mam chair yeah I just had a quick question though now we've always gotten um a binder um from the school department um for the will we be getting that again this year yeah
they dropped off four four copies on Friday oh okay I gave one to the finance chair one for myself one for Mike I'm going to have all the copies actually Jack's making the copies he's going to get it to us this week I have one because I made a bunch of copies so I took mine home so I made sure I didn't miss anything and I did miss making one of the charts and color so as soon as I'm done I'm going to do that tomorrow I'll give you back that binder yeah sounds definitely want that in hard copy
so okay add to that the last Regional fincom Jack asked like or stated I should say his primary is to go electronic because it's way faster for them to update pages in it but he said if people still do want paper copies let them know but he's going to default to electronic because then he doesn't have to worry about sending out two sheets of things and having to recate everything and no and I think that's great too and I don't know what the cost savings would be you know in time in preparation of getting the hard binders but it at least if we had one at Town Hall yeah we'll
have one then he's going to print out like five or six extras yeah sorry Mar you have something I'm sorry no no my my question was around um officially did they present the official preliminary budget yes and is it the same as you guys were talking about it in the regional fincom right sort of yeah it was kind of we didn't have a we didn't have a real number at Regal fincom they unveiled it at the school committee yeah last Wednesday last Wednesday it's 1.6 million increase over
the prior Year and that represents about 11% so um both Andrew Mike Ellis Chris PLA and myself were there because I don't think you got any numbers ahead of time right no no now are we giving them numbers we can just get there yeah yeah cuz we haven't seen ours yet
either so once we we get our preliminary budget presentation I'm sure you'll let us know exactly what the landscape is going to look like yeah I've tried to kind of give an update on a few times the last week or so um I don't want to give a hard number right now but it's not looking too good I think we anticipated that um that this was going to be a really difficult mhm um here well we usually do like a TA
number and then a select Board number so you know so transparent as we can be on either side to make sure everyone's knowing where we're coming in at I think so through you madam chair um the presentation that Jack did is mostly online I think all the um charts and everything he used are online um but he did say in I think three times
that oh well we underfunded that last year so we knew we had a big deficit last year and like for example the one that sticks out of my mind right now is substitutes and he did say well we underfunded that last year so I'm really curious because we were told that the budget the $800,000 was taken care of but I didn't think it was taken care of through underfunding things that
shouldn't have been underfunded so yeah that Madam chair um just very concerning with all the irregularities in the budget and what's what's a one-time charge versus you know what's going to be ongoing um were there discussions about where the extra numbers were coming from specifically yeah it's I think it's mostly tied to the they haven't settled yet the teacher negotiations but I think they're kind of making assumptions and
they're building that into this 1.6 increase correct okay well that's rather than not I guess and I think also the insurance was and he was counting on it going up I thought he said 8% but I think it went up 11 I think it's double I think it I thought I heard 12 maybe but I'm not certain I don't think it's not final who do they have for an insurance may they they had said but like without any increase at all I think it was just contractual updates was
going to be a $300,000 increase without anything without insurance without this new contract like that was just fixed cost that they had no control over which is not a small number no but it's you know on the big scheme of things it's you know not devastating um so Madam chair I have a few questions on Andrew's um first page under continuing to review
any and all existing Financial policies and other town or city best practices can I maybe sit with you cuz I don't want to be working on the policies that I'm working on if you're working on some of the same ones so um yeah uh we haven't really put any pen and paper we just kind of collected a few different communities okay um and I can give an update when it comes time but but I've just been um
because maren and I have to book a meeting which is kind of tough for us um I've just been working with a few people around town to say hey does this still apply has the law changed um so that I can have that information and set that all up for when maren and I actually work together um so there was a couple of other things um the potential tax title auctions I I mean I know
we'll we'll talk about that but on the um APC I think one of the properties one of the addresses was actually on the street where the water is I think it's in Clark Shores they both are yep okay so one I think is around the corner but one is on um and it's one that floods and one of the um one of the action items for the AP PC plan is just not to have someone living in
those houses if the towns could afford to buy them so if we already own it then and we're going to sell it then it perhaps goes against what the action plan is telling us to do so I just want to make sure you know that yeah part of the of one part of the game plan I want if I'm I forget the addresses was to potentially demolish the house and then just make a covenant that no one can build anything there yeah so that mean we would keep it right yeah but we're still kind of game planning it
clarification on that couldn't we make a covenant and still sell it to increase someone's size of their lot so they could get you know in a butter you know so they could get like a septic on there or something on their lot and not on this one and and not have to have care and custody of it because I always worry when we you know have the care in custody what happens there are we trimming it are we are we maintaining it or anything like that Hing for the best
of both world I don't know how that would park out because last year there were 3et of water in the front oh no I'm not talking about doing anything on that lot just using the entire lot size for the but I don't know the answers to that question all I'm saying is that one of the action plans is not to if at all possible if those you know municipalities can buy some of the land around the water so if we have one then perhaps
we should be selling it in that kind of way or not selling it at all so M chair I have a question that ties into uh what member Fabian is saying um we have GIS maps that um all our various boards and committees could have access to to prioritize anything on the GIS maps right or is that just too expensive a of a proposition to throw one more layer on for like area of opportunity and that way when any board or committee starts
looking at it it instantly pops up because obviously we all struggle with communication between boards and committees y that you know there's a lot of people doing duplicate duplicative work in different areas if we could have one just general layer that we you know assign and it's you know you have to see these boards and committees because they're interested in this and then every time those properties come up it shows it I think that could be a really use communication tool for everyone to
use as you know use it the same way um in that way we would have known like oh let's check with the APC before we even look at this one or you know or something like that because I'm sure we all have little lists sure yeah yeah so I think um what's going to be key going forward is how we um place I hate to put it that way place like Nancy dery on the APC so whether she picks up the lia's onp spot or she picks up got it you know so that's going
to be a future discussion so I think if this a lot I remembered I'm trying to find out our GS too it's a double lot back to back two streets so we shouldn't rule out that it's entirely useless because it's possible they could demo one side and build in the other side I was trying to build pull up the 100-year flood map but it's being a bit slow right now um so there there may be possibilities there and we'll talk about this February 24th maybe maybe in the first week of March the latest Okay so right um so next on the list uh with the
finance team meeting there um I really don't want to get too far into the Enterprise conversation without the parks department in front of us because I think um that was spoken pretty loudly at the town meeting that folks want the two boards to work together so I just don't want a whole lot of work to be done just to um whatever and it has nothing to do
with do we want to see it do we don't want to see it what we said we would do was work together so um is is it not the TA and the accountants purview to have all the data ready for those discussions well all I know is we told the folks at town meeting that we would sit down with the park Commissioners and discuss it first so I'm just doing what I said we would need that data to have that discussion would we not or else
we'd be having a meeting for I don't know there was a discussion Brian that you you know you referenced a couple of weeks ago if I had known that conversation you know I knew that um Andrew was going but to a Parks meeting but that's what we said um so I don't think we should go too far at all um but in the same respect if we're going to put the enterprising
on the warrant again then we need to meet with the park sooner than later so sure but didn't didn't the chair put that on there yeah he he just kind of put like discussion I think with I think he kind of said my name his name and J's name because that was part of kind of part of the the discussion beforehand um I don't think we're going to necessarily put this on the spring agenda it was just kind of like a almost like a ation starter to eventually have that conversation um I envisioned
probably a March or April joint meeting with the Parks Commission yep um this 92 number is not meant to scare anyone it was just like a an exercise that we just did yeah I just feel like we said we would work together so I feel like work just meeting at the get-go with the parks and saying how do you want to handle it what do you want to know I mean I have questions of my own know like who takes over making decisions if
they if we de Enterprise who takes over making decisions for Park fees and you know so I want to know what they want for questions too um so I just use this doesn't say de enterprising it doesn't at all this is just talking about um the chargebacks for the Enterprise account so but that's what the conversation was about and I know it's obvious the chair of the park commission is in favor but um you know if this is something that we
all feel is the right thing to do then I feel like we should not even have all these outside conversations because you can tell there's contention on their own board about it so Madam um shair this is as member candido said entirely about indirect costs which is a state requirement for Enterprise accounts which everybody openly said we're not doing correctly right now it appears that the town administ Town accountant are doing an investigation to say if we
did this correctly what would this even look like it it doesn't look like there's anything beyond that at this point other than getting budgetary practices in order at least understood to potentially whatever you say March April to have that conversation of like hey if we're staying this way this is maybe what it's supposed to look like I had a comment if I could um now I think Leah and Brian both remember 2020 um we ended up suspending all of the billb backs for them because they were making no money there was no
uh Clear Pond Park there was no um no events no nothing no leagues for a little while as well um so I know that there was a temporary decrease in that massive spreadsheet that used Rita used to keep in order to calculate what that was I was kind of surprised that it didn't go back in 2021 to what it was prior to co your point Miss Garett got at the town meeting and said we charged a little but not what we should have
been got it so it sounds like it's a practice that's gone far beyond any of our time here but there was chargebacks I can't remember specifically right there were never you know but full right but again um you know if they're home watching right now they're like look they're already talking about it we're not even in the room so it's like I think first thing we need to do is bring them in so it's not a two-hour meeting and say this is what we're
talking about what is it that you would like to see us provide I I don't I don't really see the harm Brian in asking five people to come maybe they come maybe they don't if they don't then we take it on ourselves but if they do and I simply do not see the connection between trying to establish proper budgetary practices to oh we're trying to De Enterprise them this would come up during our budget meetings whenever those are held regardless of the state right I don't know why we're arguing this point
because you said why are we talking about the enterprising and we have now been for 10 minutes but that's what the park meeting was about was de enterprising how could we not discuss that go back and watch the 23rd they talk about that concept and they talk about indirect charges right I did but even still even still the accountant said that it's not illegal what we're doing and a few other things so maybe they I feel like I wouldn't say that listen that's a twisting of words I
don't understand why can't we ask five people to join us before we go any further I don't understand we can absolutely we can absolutely have a meeting but I mean I you know for the record I think that Our Town Administrator and our um accountant what is what is Spike's title um you know meeting with the parks to get the conversation going um because I think this is you know Fallout from that me and you know what there's a whole history there's people on the park
commission who I think out of everybody on the park commission right now only one person was here in 2020 when we made all the changes so I think there's a lot of information to be shared and if someone has questions submit them so that you know the Town Administrator can start getting answers for us I just don't want to come in and throw all these numbers at people having us have the opportunity to ask questions and them not that's it right well this was just a report from Town Administrator so
no point taken we right so um all right I'm going to keep going because I have more questions um so I know where you had the conversation with Dana Hansen um so I will say what I have heard them say what the um Congressman has said to me sitting right next to me he can't help us like create new funds
to contribute to but if he can get us money to contribute to already existing funds that's something that's better suited um and he does no matter what he comes here for he asks us what we need which I think is great but um usually we like to try to put something together too like regionally because the last couple times he's been here um we did a tour of Long Pond we
did um he was actually at the senior center so you know he likes to um see projects that involve I I think it would be really nice because we had told him that um we were working on the addition uh to the senior center I I'm sure he would be really happy to see that because he he seemed very concerned that you know that we were lacking in some space and whatever and you seem very
excited about that project so that would probably be really nice okay yes mam chair through you um are they looking for to gather information from us on some of the things that we would like to so send you I had reached out to Dana Hansen um because it came from the fire station building committee to potentially research federal funds to maybe offset some of the payments up front especially for the line for the new fire station so that it was kind of
like an open-ended conversation from there and she said there's like a forget what it's called Brian had sent me it Community some sort of like Federal fund oh um I forget the name of it right now yeah they they fund it every year I don't think Lakeville is really taken advantage of it no but it's a difficult process so it's competitive so it's a Federal grant yeah it's like a I don't I don't want to call it a federal Mark but it's something somewhere Community Project funding request is that the one
yeah they generally take a couple years there string strings attached to stuff and okay I I like I love the fire station I think that's a great candidate but I'd also like to see um water infrastructure at Clark Shores yeah we we had talked about that afterward that's I think that's something that it's it it's a very unhappy thorn in my side for years um and I'd like to to see the people of Clark Shores uh have some really robust water
infrastructure yeah I can share a a USDA communication about Clark shows that came in Friday afternoon okay yeah excellent um then I'm curious met with Frank Mon and representatives from school department on the Storm event did they ask us for help or something um they had a couple plow drivers down and so they were just kind of saying should we cancel school or should we not okay based on the circumstances all
right um we kind of said like it's probably probably have school and then all the school districts around us started to so it was just it's not like some long-term plan that they're asking us to help them with no you know okay all right um and then I'm actually under the assessor update I'm actually shocked to see that the RFP is going back out again
um are we begging people to to get them you know um we have candidates so I'm still not sure why we're just not hiring a candidate um I think it's up to the board of assessors to appoint someone and we can't make him appoint someone unfortunately well they can't hire someone and I mean if we take a vote and no one wants to hire someone then what
are we not going to have a principal assessor yep yeah right now there's no assessor so we did have a strong candidate come in but I don't want to get too much into it no but I think it's a good option okay okay um I think that's it thank you anybody else okay agenda item before um we have some minutes to approve did everybody
have a chance to look at the select board meeting minutes of January 27th I'll take that as a yes and I will entertain a motion to approve said minutes move second Motion in a second any discussion hearing non roll please baby and I Carboni I Andy away
okay and item number five so I asked this to be put on here um so now that the um vote had passed uh for the fire station this is going to leave our town hall building um with an opportunity so
I was wanted to bring this this evening to the board um to discuss and possible vote on the creation of a town hall building reuse subcommittee um if we were to vote on the creation of it excellent and then um direct the Town Administrator to draft a charge um in committee makeup and then bring that back to a future meeting for a vote I have a question Madam chair yes
um I could not find a charge for original feasibility study for what they gave for criteria originally for the town hall does that exist anywhere I couldn't find it on the website I couldn't find in 2022 yeah um I'm pretty sure we did a charge can can you see what you can find on that Andrew yeah I I actually I do seeing something but would I be able to put my fingers on it probably
not I have them chair I have one from 2011 I have a police station oh that's committee charge I I do have the public feasibility one from 2006 no we're looking for the one 2021 2022 yeah let's see if you can find that um cuz I think that will help you know in the draft of it but that's that's when I found the extra person that is no longer on the select board listed as select
board did that one go my timelines are all off now did that charge even go or committee part of their Town Hall go forward where the funds are voted down at town meeting or is that so it after yeah that was after this had already been done and created by got sof soch soch um prior to that happening so I think that was like $80,000 oh gosh I don't even remember the the amount I don't know but I couldn't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist I just couldn't find it in order
to understand what was already asked of it compared to you know maybe some other questions yeah it's not included in the I just found the document that they created in the end and it's not included as part of the document itself I saw that which is odd yeah because usually they're asking and answering a question in these documents right here's the here's the ask here's the answer I'm pretty sure it's somewhere I know we were discussing it way back in the day yeah um I have some stuff going just
so Andrew knows um it would be before October 5th 22 because we've we created um Town Administrator had created some FAQs back in October of 22 so it should have been before that yeah the the ionly is dated September 2nd 22 which is right in line with before
October okay thank you so I guess I'll entertain a motion um to create a town hall building reuse subcommittee so move second discussion um yeah so this committee will it will be part of their charge is is this your intent to have
them not just say okay the living quarters we know we can turn into office space it's going to be for the entire right okay yep make sense yep so Andrew can draft um a charge with the committee makeup um I know we had a library reie subcommittee um when we built the library um for so I know that that's out there as well um so I think it would be prudent of us to get started on this right away so we can start to
plan I agree someone should be looking at every option like you every option you know what does it take if we take this part of the building down what if we do redo just this part and leave the other part open whatever whatever it takes us to yep all right any further discussion hearing none roll please Fabian I Carboni ey Cy I yeah all right so um would you be able to bring it back on the 24th or would you
need to go into March um 24th would work I have I just don't want I know you've got a lot of stuff going on now but if you could start maybe drafting it if you get it ready for the 24 that would be great yeah I already have nine or 10 different towns and cities so I'm going to have like a blend of all those ready to go excellent you can do a I was doing a compare and contrast on AI the other week just to find the differences between multiple documents I thought
that was actually an actual good use of AI I I have documents that I want to compare tell me what the differences are okay agenda item number six um the select board um can discuss and possibly vote on the schedule of the annual town meeting which is scheduled for June 9th 2025 um there's a timeline here it looks pretty reasonable to me um we would open the the warrant this evening if we were
to vote on um the schedule warrant would close on the 31st of May I mean March articles would need to be into town Council for review for the April 4th um votes on the article and the final um warrant um vote would be sometime in April um the legal ad would then go in at sometime in May War posting would be in May War review sometime the beginning of June and then town meeting would be
June 9th so all right um I guess I'll entertain a motion to approve the schedule for the annual town meeting for June scheduled for June 9th 2025 um so move with discussion second okay discussion so um I know through the last couple months
we've been saying oh this may need to be exactly everything that we're talking about earlier like do we bring back another um vote for the enterprising the park commission whatever so I feel like there's a lot of lingering warant articles out there um to my recent recollection I know the OS Rd may or may not happen um there's some
kind of a zoning language change that potentially on one of our other permitting issues that we've had um there's the issue with not being able to enforce like some of the um fines and everything so should we all just send our Recollections to Andrew or just and I believe that Our Town Administrator in the past um has always just done like a blanket list of potential and then we
vote on each one to put them on the warrant um yeah I know for the fall town meeting we really didn't see them much ahead of time so I would really love to be able to see them actually written out to not just a list um you mean going to council first and not just a list um well I wouldn't mind seeing a list as soon as possible but then being able to actually see them written out so that we can each be able to sit down and read
them and digest them um but so going back to the veterans one for the fall town meeting so remember the exemption yes yep so maren had submitted that to Bob um a couple of other people wanted to do it but they were like oh the assessors will do it so I'm glad you did it because if you hadn't done it but my question is should we all just be
submitting our own ideas to the Town Administrator or do we want to like talk about it as a board if um we all have other ideas before we tax him with writing up all these to like vote the ideas in as opposed to just hand them in that's not horrible I mean we could just see how it
goes and if it becomes a lot we could you know um well I I I'm on board with that I know that um even you forgot one the recall for the Regional School District yep um so we have our standard annual town meeting articles um and then we'll probably end up scheduling a special town meeting as well I don't know that we've never
not had one on the annual um but as discussions come up if there's Law changes or language changes and obviously those might be you know we might say how this could be a potential article but yeah if there's any in yeah so if he Andrew puts together a draft list by I don't know whatever Earth REM one of the meetings say we
wanted to fix the Earth removal I I didn't want to say I can see right so a lot of these are things that we've talked about right but um so let's say we all come up with even one that no one's ever talked about right so now that's five warrant articles that you know we're giving the Town Administrator I've I just am asking the question especially
because I'm working on policies here too does every select board member for going forward just get to say oh I'm going to throw all this on the warrant or should the actual select board take a vote and say before it gets on before it gets on the warrant and then you know the Town Administrator is doing a ton of work for something that only one select board member thinks is valuable let's say it's just a question we don't have to vote the warrant all up I mean we could vote to remove something if the board doesn't like it I'm just looking at the the
calendar here that we were looking at the other kind of wild card here is currently it says to send the Articles Off The Town Council on the 4th and the elections right on the 7th so then you've got like potentially any from one to two people just being not included in this whole process that's always weird to me yeah I was very surprised that I couldn't get any traction for changing the election versus the thing because I've always found it to be Brian your example was the best it was the day
it was like the day before Brian got elected and it was town meeting he's like sitting there voting on things that he had nothing to do with yep nothing yeah yeah and it's just a question especially because I've been working on some of the policies you know and and I'm like we could wait and see how it goes maybe you know we all pay attention and we work together and no one's coming in with their own ideas um and we are working collaborative ly as a group but if there's different people and they're all like oh I'm I want to become a
selectman because I'm going to put five warrant items going forward it's just just a question I don't think it's a guarantee they get to but Madam chair the warrant if we use this proposed C the warrant closes on March 31st a Monday we then send articles to Town Council on the 4th that Friday I mean there might be no reason why we couldn't literally have a meeting somewhere between there just to have that like let's run through the the play card and vote up down before we send things off to council um now there I wanted to take it
that much further so our finance committee um they vote recommendations you know on money articles pretty much will stay away from zoning articles and they make their you know recommendations I think it might be a good idea if the select board were to do that as well um because I would hate for us to have a warrant article on there and then just say oh we don't want that on there and it wasn't not something
that was brought forward by a select board member but maybe it was something that you know our Town Administrator brought before us and we said nope we don't want it on there well I mean we could use the Earth removal thing as a perfect example so you know we all feel like it needs to be changed so we can all say take a vote and say we recommend approving this so I can see your point right um but we might not we might not support a Warren article however a town meeting might support a
Warren article so that's the hands that would go in but we could vote a recommendation of whether or not we support the article board wise you mean yes cuz our fincom does it right why was there any reason like a statute that we didn't endorse them in the past or did we and I'm just like fading well I think I as from what I've seen and heard I think there was only ever three people
so there was only three opinions to pay attention to I mean five people's a lot of if everyone starts working individually it could be a lot of work and are we all working individually I we're doing a pretty good job you know just trying to get everything on in front of the board for discussion in an open meeting so but yeah for clarity because I honestly can't remember even though it's only been a year when we vote on the articles is that the actual article language back
from Town Council because that's no the the article voting on the article to present so I don't know why we just swap vote on articles and send articles to Town Council miss something I think in the past it was always voted on as one let's say so then maybe we do vote on individual Madam chair so the send articles to Town Council for a review those are draft articles that go to Town
Council and basically the TA you know drafts them they go to Town Council they check them for legal ease they check them to make sure we're not doing anything we can't do then once Town Council does all that then they come back to the board and the board votes to place the articles on the warrant that have been receed from Town Council and then the board votes on the final warrant so um but you got to get those articles to Town Council before you guys vote on
them cuz they may come back and say oh no this this needs all rewarding so then you're going to have to go back and revote them again but I think even before that to even go to to council I think we might need to have a discussion um so whatever meetings I would just say that I know we're going to be scheduling our meetings um toward the end of this agenda so let's keep that in mind
finalized um I mean the warrant closes on the 31st but that does not necessarily mean we can't discuss the Articles prior to that close it on the 30th and talk about them the next day and vote on them so in the past there have been some very um I don't know what the word is there's been some some select board members who have taken it upon themselves
to put all kinds of Warr and articles I guess that's my point and you know should anyone select board member be able to just flood the warrant with their own articles without the rest of the checks and balances right I haven't seen that play out though what are some examples I feel like we've always I don't want to name names name the articles I don't want
to okay um so maybe we Institute the practice of our recommendation well you know what we just yeah we just wait and see what it looks like and already most of us are like working with each other and working with Andrew so and just see how it goes and I got to say that you know M candido putting that one forward I was I don't read like she does so um I know that she finds stuff in I have no
life thank you no I would never say that but I I do know that you you're an adid reader because you know the dialogue and and discussions that we've had but I didn't even know that that was even out there so I was glad that that came forward right um so M CH I can add another line here um selectboard meet to discuss draft articles or meet to make recommendations on draft articles so I'll add that in between warrant closes and send articles
to Town Council yes I that would do we envision a world just for your point that we allow things to go on warrant without the recommendation though because we think it's important for the town to v on it yeah oh yeah so just I want to make clarification cuz I do think that's an important distinction a lot of times when we get articles it's not it's not really for us to say I it's something that's it's there's plenty I don't agree with personally but put for the people though put for the people yeah okay so I just
want to make sure that we don't squash anything that should go before the people and I know that in the past there have been um proposed articles for the warrant um and they've gone through the process and then got pulled because of you know not having information right so that was not you know a decision of this board but you know chicing do we I think we're still in discussion right we have to vote the closure date tonight or is that it's we can change that too I'm
just saying it's 7 weeks open is that does sound significantly longer than I remember but maybe that's y special is usually really small oh that might be what I'm thinking of then now that we've moved our official meeting date back to June we have a longer time period before when it was the the second Monday in May the period was a little shorter that makes sense cool okay so um we'll do the 10th um warrant closes on the
31 and then um uh warrant um review by select board before the fourth before the fourth or we yeah I'll add a line in between warrant closes March 31st and we'll back up the send articles to Town Council we'll move those down once you guys set your meeting dates I'll be able to this up a little better okay and then we can move that April date further out y okay
that works excellent and so um I have the motion to schedule the annual T meeting for June 9 2025 and open the warrant to close on March 31st 2025 we usually close it at 300 p.m. 3 p.m. today do you have to designate a start time or is that in the warrant it's today no the meeting itself on the 9th oh I think that's part of the it's part of the bylaw now it was changed 7:00 it's the actual bylaw it is oh the time time 7:00
p.m. 6 p.m. it's 7:00 p.m. for the we always usually do 6 7 for the annual 6:30 for the SP be part of the motion tonight that's all oh well I can make it I can make it part of that motion if you wouldn't mind amend it my motion to include the 700 p.m. start time I have to schedule the annual town meeting for June 9th 2025 at 7:00 p.m. p.m. and open the warrant to close on March 31st 2025 at 3 p.m. yes I like that um Madam chair
to Tracy we're good with the school we already cleared it with the school I have to now that you've set the date I will reach out to the school tomorrow got it all right any further discussions hearing n r please baby and I gbon ey Cy okay just to item number seven okay so this was kind of a new one for me me to discuss impossible vote to
sign order of taking and waiver of Damages for um Gillian Drive Jillian Gillian I messed that up on Town floor too Gillian Jillian say Jillian Jillian okay so the last step in the acceptance of Jillian drive as a public way is the board um to sign an order of taking um and to sign the myar plan for recording which must be done prior to March 12th the order of taking is how the town
acquires a permanent public way easement on Jillian drive as well as drainage easements on lot one of the Lots Town Council has submitted the attached order of taking for our signature um so if we are to pursue this um they pre um prepared waivers of Damages should the town that would be this board um want the abutters to sign them um or we can wave them to not sign
them Madam chair I've never heard of that in my life neither have I this was a new one for me we take roads frequently semi-frequently every 3 four years at least Y right mam chair this is the last step in our road acceptance um procedure that was prepared by Town Council um so if you choose to sign the order of taking um that's great I've got the meline here for you to sign if you want to have the
abutters sign waivers of Damages which Town Council did say it's not typical but it's up to you whether you want to do it then what would happen is you would not vote the order of taking tonight you would have to wait until the waivers come back so we have roughly 30 days for all this to happen if the waivers don't come back well cuz we would need to have all waivers and do we know how many of Butters are affected there's how many
there's a list here right there a lot there's like this many nine so um what would happen is the attorney would take these the attorney for the applicant would take these and have them signed off and then they would return them to us and then the board could vote on the order of taking and sign it and then it would have to get up to Town Council and then they would have to record by March 12th Andrew do you have any idea if we
decide not to have the waiver sign um what the issues could be or concerns would be I have an email from Town Council um but I couldn't put it in the packet because it's confidential um but she did say most towns do not how to obtain wavers as the benefit to the property owners of having the town assume the cost and liability for maintenance of the roads outweighs any detriment that
the abuts may [Applause] suffer okay I've never had to vote on this but I just know that I've signed so um what is the recommendation of Our Town Administrator I would say don't do the waiver damages personally myself do we also have a recommendation from Council building inspector to DPW yeah would be
DPW yeah for the road layout and any other well it's already been accepted yeah so we're already in the process so this is the last of yeah I remember the so we um this is the legal piece I mean this basically says what they get a dollar if there's damages I'm reading it yeah $1 I just don't get it I feel like I just don't have the
pros and cons in front of me was this in the last meeting I missed should have asked that this is this is the first meeting I was like okay we'll put this on and so Madam chair I would make a suggestion um that if to council had additional info that the board members even though it's confidential that believe I emailed these to you I did not see it if that was the case I apologize me too but yeah I believe I did email
them to you okay so you read them okay all right so um do we want to move this to the next meeting um for vote yeah I just don't know enough about it yeah that's going be really close because we've got to get it to Town Council and then Town Council has to record it you meeting the 24th so that will be give them 16 days oh it has to be done by Mar 12th yeah um I
make a motion to not um include the waiver of Damages second all right any further discussion I'm just not comfortable I don't know the pros and cons here and I don't let's see I see the one uh wait no I brought it in she wanted to look at them thank
you got the um I've got the docs from KP on the fourth you sent as well as a follow-up answer to a question second I just don't understand
it all right so am I going to go really slow to call the vote no i' abstain or no CU I just okay feel like I don't have anything all right the discussion hearing none I'll roll baby and I Iain okay um don't let us leave unless we sign that myar so now you got to make a
separate vote to sign the order of taking in in the Mila plan but I wouldn't worry about the Mila just that motion I have at the bottom that came from Town Council okay um I'll entertain a motion pursuant to article 13th of the November 12th 2024 special town meeting to take by eminent domain public we easements on Gil Jillian drive and any drainage and other easements related th too for which taking no damages are hereby awarded and
to execute in order of taking to accomplish that acquisition Su second Motion in a second discussion hearing none roll baby and I carbon I okay so we'll sign that myar thank you now I know should that ever come back up again all right agenda item number eight um in
front of us are a couple of procurement policy and a a procurement policy and a purchasing card policy this would be our first reading uh I'll turn this over to um Andrew Our Town Administrator as believe you have put these together yep um so when I came into the position when I came into the position um I'll start with the PE card first so the PE card is something that's kind of done more and more often in different
communities when I worked in Virginia um both communities I worked in I saw a huge benefit in it it's basically a a way it's not you don't cut a check to someone you use a credit card instead it's tax exempt you get reimbursements on it typically 2 and a half% of all purchases come back to the community so the community I worked in the reimbursements were 100,000 over the course of a fiscal year um and it just essentially allows easy payment
um and that's that's all it really is um what we find frequently now is a lot of trainings through MMA um just different conferences they don't take checks anymore um and so they usually like PE cards that's that's the new uh new thing to do is it's basically a credit card um now there is room for I guess malfeasant and this policy is a way to combat that um in Taunton there
was 30 30 P cards all around I even had one um I only envisioned having one in Lakeville and it's going to be locked up in the Treasure collector's safe um and this policy essentially outlines how it's handled and every time you you want it you have to come in essentially sign it out so if anything happens or there's a screw up we know
how to trace it back that was my my question to you was the control factor in that you know especially if there was more than one part out there I mean and not that you know any of the individuals that would have it would we think would you know commit a fraudulent um act it's just what am I want to say it's it's like preparing the town for any you know potential liability should there be mhm
situation Madam chair I have the same question if we had more than one PE card would they have multiple numbers in um to ensure that we had um segregation of duties or or tasks or anything like that so if we are just planning on having one because of the size of the Town makes sense just the one I don't see the the amount of purchases being so high that we can't just have the the one yeah we had a debit card before yeah we I think we couldn't overspend it cuz we only put
enough money in there for the purchase um the treasurer would move the money into that specific account and then we would make that purchase right and we have it's going to be through Bank of America if we choose to go that way um everything's free there like there's a free dashboard that kind of sees everything free cards um they handle the rebates once a year um how do how do you how do we get rebates like how does that so they they
calculate how much money you spend in a course of a year and then they cut you a check usually September because they're taking my money because I'm a Bank of American customer and giv it it's like any it's like any credit card essentially they want you to spend so I know I just it would just seemed odd's probably paying a 3% transaction fee that and so this is less so they make the money there and then hand some back yeah okay so yes so the question I had for Andrew was is all departments are
all departments still like purchasing supplies individually and I think they are right yeah so I was just curious if we're going to tighten this all up then maybe we should try to buy in bulk too but it's going to be another policy at some point but I'm thinking of through the budget it's kind of organizing all the training budgets in one and then you would come to HR or Town Administrator
and basically have to explain what training you're going to go to yeah and that would or procurement you would have someone dedicated to procurement that would be right managing it or you know something more centralized long time since I've like done bulk buying of supplies but is there still a benefit to doing it or you know yeah definitely there is is it worth yeah doing it all my question is
we have one Department that buys things in a different way than everyone else that's the parks for all of their stuff for like The Snack Shack and and all that stuff would they be subject to this because if we're writing a policy we should try to make sure that it's inclusive of all so like yeah that's honestly I never thought thought of that okay um I can Al it's the first reading but we can go back and see if we who because I would love
to you know my cash handling anywhere where there's cash handling like um the the um the animal shelter and um yeah there's still cash and checks and all those things so anywhere we can make that because we're paying the um the uh the the animal hospital and things like that so if we could pay with peard I think that would be benefit cuz that's where I see a lot of expensive flowing when we have like injured animals it's like $4,000 bills like that they're
they're paying out and stuff like that would I don't know what process Parks uses but would a second car that's tied to them somehow be beneficial or or they using cash or checks they are using cash in some instances yes um not checks but cash um and probably cash that hasn't gone through the circuit yeah I think they were still using some cash up until a couple years ago but I know that um our Treasurer was like
what yeah so I'm not sure if she's worked on it or plans to work on it but um QR codes and PE cards then then cash would be great well maybe we start with one card see how it goes revisit yeah and actually the the way Bank of America handles it they do a pilot program the first year they basically hold your hand through the whole year just to make sure okay so well now that might be good and then we can see where the need is
greater right right so excellent all right so um can we put this on the 24th yes and then this will give everybody ample time to ask their questions and yep so then the next one is the procurment policy um so when I came on board um I was a little kind of surprised to see it was just like a two-page kind of like a onepage really policy um it's not really
followed uh in any way that I've seen um we really don't do purchase orders for one the way the way this yeah we don't have a purchase order system that was supposed to be implemented in 2021 with munice you're supposed to implement purchase order system with munas and I don't know what happened but we can make purchase orders but they you don't look like a purchase order um and then the other one I'm
trying to see so the way I've seen it handled here the last couple years is contracts are approved at a select board meeting this policy says they don't need to be and I don't think that's really how the board envisions it should be um just my first meeting was a a zero a z change order that was pretty controversial it was really something that I I guess I shouldn't even brought to the board um I remember yeah and then just another big
one is like I guess technically the I would I would never do this but the like the assessor appointment like of of a contractor I don't think you would have to come to the select board under the existing policy under the existing policy which I don't feel comfortable with so I think the new policy provides more trans transparency so essentially the big change would be anything over 50,000 has to be approved by the select
board anything under 50,000 would not would not yeah um and that 50,000 as you've listed it um I didn't see um so not to make procurement over 50,000 was hoping to see some language that said you know 50,000 not for payments of 50,000 like something to say in total because I know I had heard and I think it was you Leah that said yeah 50,000 was that 50,000 every year 50,000 every
quarter because I actually thought the threshold was lower but yeah um I remember you had said something and I thought it was the total contract amount yes yeah and that's what you wanted it to be but that's not what it ended up being so like the total contract amount does not exceed 50,000 as opposed to you know 50,000 a year for 3 years where it's $150,000 procurement right yeah I can make that more clear in this
um I'm surprised how small this is yeah it's just the one page and it doesn't really get into like it's not a procedures document it's not like a guide right um it's more of just like you said a memo um so what I what I did in Taunton is I created it's probably three times the size of this I tried to streamline it down to what more Lakeville I think would need and would like um and there's a few attachments that kind of get into just backup documents that we don't
really handle we don't really do right now but the fact that it's contained in one area so like if I had a question about you know the procurement piece on this I know that it's you know it's in here right I don't have to go looking for it separately two clicks and I'm it's more too too much for me more than that but and another thing is and I know it drives me and Tracy crazy is um
construction procedures like prevailing wage and everything else I don't really think it's it's complicated it's a lot of moving parts and I don't think the average Department that just makes a few purchases a year really know what it entails so I think this policy kind of outlines it really makes us have to handhold people until they learn it I I had one other note and I not seeing yet no I had one in here
too um oh um I just wanted to make sure that everything was um and I know you said it in here but I didn't see the language where I was looking for it um under definition for the chief procurement officer um I just wanted to make sure the balances were there um for contracts
for the select board and I I'm sure it's in here and I'm just not seeing it cuz this has a lot of stuff to it there's a lot of sections so I might be missing it but it did look to me like it was like this one pager was doing a little bit where it was cutting some of the select board language out for signing the contracts or awarding the contracts
rather you know I don't think the original policy mentions really the select board other than just the the headline it the old old one used to mhm uh the old old one and I I think that one goes back to like 2017 is or somewhere around there with u the last big update of uh mcppo like standards um did have you know all contracts to be signed by the select board i' like to there is a section on contract
signing just don't know the exact um like I said it's probably in here and I probably just see that to I was just looking lost over no I saw it as page 20 I think it is it's 700 7.2 awarding and executing the contracts got it see it
oh the last paragraph got it all right as long as that doesn't conflict with the um chief recruitement officer on just my those are my only two comments for this version
okay we'll bring this one back too you have something Bri I was just going to say I was impressed at the level of detail and all the references to mnal law and such I think you know whenever this does get passed I hope um Andrew's given an opportunity to then like present this to department heads or whoever you think it's necessary and go like deep dive into it it's a very professional document it is and um one thing I was going to ask that's I don't know if it's it belongs in the well first the board's opinion I don't know if it belongs in the policy or not but I'd really like to see us in a better
way publicly document like what contracts were issued and what process was used to get them issued was it an RF R Who bid on it who has awarded it and for how long it is we can do that we can set up a tab under the you know on the select board page um you know contracts and we do it by year or whatever um as actually you just joged my memory on my other thing making sure all rfps are on
our website for the people of Lake buy that's been like you know one of the things that people bring up I would have bid on that if I knew I would have bid on that if I knew so I want to make sure not only comb etc etc but we have on our own website and maybe even that's a use for Facebook maybe maybe that's a that's where people are getting some of their information now and you know something quick quick little link to it um sends you right to the here's our you know can you bid on
any of these projects are you qualified like I much rather if if given the choice have our local people be able to participate in anything um than have someone from other towns and we can and we can once we get that going we can make sure that through our announcements you know reiterate you know two or three times that you know this is a practice this is a practice here go to the procurement page go to the procurement page and I you know even the ones that are awarded like um
remember candido said that it's I think it's good for people to at least see I know that I've seen it on other community um Pages I'm like oh this is really good and then I forget to bring it back but so important to involve everyone and make make sure they know how you know we're doing with them I had a really cool procur I didn't it wasn't mine but the city of Taunton had a really good procurement page that really helps it out well we need to we don't have the module on our current website yeahp it's
a separate a separate thing we don't have a lot on it I know city of tunon I emailed you Brian about today I saw I saw Madam I will I will say one thing the reason why we didn't put them on our on our website page is you lose control over who has the documents so if you need to issue an addendum you don't know who has the documents that's the only thing and if only certain people get the
document get the amendment see right now the way it is is you email you email in so then we have your name your company's name all the information goes on a on a sheet a spreadsheet so if an amendment comes out you go to the sheet and go okay here's the email here's the email here the email you send out a mass email to everybody that has obtained the documents through you by putting it on the website I'm not I don't think that the the key here was to put the document on the website I think it was to put the
fact that it's out there yeah I actually would like the document on the website and I think a Google a simple Google sheet would be able to capture anyone's email address if someone was actually thinking on bidding it um I think we're you know with the local people that bid also we have the ability to bid through comis I mean we could the page be simply a link to comis absolutely be a link but to Tracy's Point she wants to make sure she's capturing if there's a change to be fair to everyone so CU then you can
have a big protest and then you got to sat all over again so as long as as they have access okay everybody has you know secure access or equal access to participate so okay I'm going to go check out your city of Taun it was cool cuz like it was so low maintenance she just uploaded document it just shoots it out to everybody without even a second click so you have to work one click did I hear
one click yeah it's really it's easy I I went and looked at it but I I did ask Civic plus about it and they were like you know your website doesn't have that probably break it yeah cool okay so we'll bring these back the 24th all right agenda item number nine um we have a memorandum of agreement between the town of Lakeville and Massachusetts laborers District Council
of laborers International Union of North America North America okay AFL um CIO Local 22 um 272 Andrew would you like to take this over because this is for discussion or possible vote to approve this memorandum yeah so um just some things have dropped off Union agreements over the years and I I'm not sure why they did um like let's I'll just take it from
the top like the select board voted to approve the plane board cork job description but then it was never added to the Labor Union contract and I think that was just a slip you know you list out all the positions that are in the union and just didn't make it I don't um was that after the contract though I think when they um finalized it they just never added it I don't know why why it was but in that
same this would be theou that fix it never had anou no nope and in that same contract it listed out Deputy superintendent of streets that's not a job title in Lakeville so they are changing it back to Deputy DPW director um so that's those changes um the other one I also don't know why this happens
um under a previous HR Director they um made a couple mistakes they listed out DPW director in one when it was actually the deputy DPW director they listed out differentials and this is all the 2023 yeah y um they will s differentials um incorrectly and so this is kind of making the edits to those um M chair if I may uh I'm trying to
understand have we been paying the differentials without a contract so I think they've all trying to let's see I believe I believe so one of these positions is vacant um another one yeah they have been one just retired so there's really only one incumbent in these um positions it's a highway mechanic that's just difficult to know
that that's been missed for two years but it says it's budgeted for so how did that everyone kind assumed cuz it's a carry forward it's in all the spreadsheets because it was it was voted so it was in there but it just never made it back to the the actual document just for old uh stuff we added those in in the 20 20 contract Leah for the differentials so I would assumed either They Carried forward and we would have
them in there or they would not carry forward and we wouldn't have been paying them it's kind of concerning that we were paying for people for something that wasn't in the contract as far as just a control um or anything else could have happened it's it's like I hate to go back to having checklists you know for things like this that should be done so once the you know select board votes um you know in agreement with the contract there are certain steps that get taken and one is that the language
gets into the into the actual agreement and then the document gets signed well it gets signed and get thing get into the agreement but I'd hate to I mean it sounds like it was there in 2020 and then just missing is anybody remember missing and signed by every yeah all right well I'll entertain a motion um to approve the memorandum of agreement
between the town of Lakeville and Massachusetts labors District Council of labors international Union of North America afo CIO um Local 22 as presented so Mo second Motion in a second any discussion hearing none R baby and I Carboni I Ando i crazy all
right number 10 go dis look at that double digits it's not backwards over there right double digits um discuss the notice received from the Massachusetts um State Lottery Commission regarding aino monitor at Joe and Chloe gas at 33 Bedford Street impossible vote to send letter if the board is not in favor of
it so I believe that the Lottery Commission um has I don't know if it was a request or that they're looking to put this in there um if we if we object to it then we need to send a letter if we don't object we do nothing so all of the pertinent information here is um which I you know had not thought of um I don't think this
has ever come in front of the board before I don't remember ever doing anything since I've been sitting here but um but these questions were actually running through my head like how many people coming through the door and you know what does this mean but um if this increases the lottery receipts you know to l a nickel well then if they're standing their plan
they might be buying more stuff at this money all right so um do we have to take a vote that we're vote take or just no action just but we don't it doesn't necessary we don't have to vote on anything it wasn't really on here um only if we were to not support it so no action all right flip I'm okay with it okay okay onward and upward all
right and agenda item number 11 um discuss and possible vote on the request from redand Brew Brewing to alter their hours of operation to allow alcohol to be served on Monday March 17th 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. typically um we well we had voted um and their hours of operation did not include a Monday but because St Patrick's Day is falling on a Monday they would like to extend their
hours for that day from 11:00 a.m. to 11: um p.m. so we would have that would be a vote of the select board so it's a local just this one or every St Patrick's Day well this is the only one in front of us they're going to come before the board every year now if it's on Monday next year oh yeah yeah oh Brian so smart all right so I guess I'll get the
um I'll entertain a motion to allow redand Brewing um Company Inc DBA redand Brewing to serve alcohol as permitted under their current General on premise alcohol all alcohol beverages license on March 17 2025 which is a Monday from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. so move second motion and a second discussion hearing none roll please baby and I carbon I Cy do
IA and then um I did reach out to the police chief and he reported no incidents there since they've opened oh well thank you that good okay agenda item number 12 um discuss impossible vote to award Department of Public Work Services awards for South Eastern Regional Services Group which is otherwise known as serges um this is something that we
do um every year uh this particular group uh will buckle down and try to find the best rates for all those um involved and I think that we've been very successful um with pricing or competitive with the pricing and purchases so um I will entertain a motion uh to award the following contracts with pricing as noted on bid award sheets all commencing on March 1st
2025 and expiring February 28th 2026 and authorize the Town Administrator to sign award sheets um I'm trying to remember if it was required to State these you do okay I thought so so the company would be Pella Enterprises which would be um the permanent trench patch repairs PJ King Super pave hot mix
asphalt Zone D Indus micro Paving Indus polymer modified crack ceiling hot as what is it asphaltic filler filler okay l l construction sidewalk Construction and setting of curbs and edging allate rubber chip seal Tasco structure work RM Pella gr
grade all excavator Services G Lopes tub grinding in Maltby high production tree removal and or trimming so move second thank you Motion in a second any discussion hearing none roll please k n
carbon I and there okay agenda item number 13 um discuss andoss vote to issue letter of support to Verizon regarding Verizon FiOS Broadband expansion so attaches a request for a letter of support from from Verizon regarding Verizon files Broadband expansion and a sample letter um and I believe if we can if we can
invite um our director of Lake cam Jose and vco I'm not here to support or oppose this letter sounds like a good idea um the only question I would have for Verizon is does this mean they're putting 5G transceivers on poles as their FiOS expansion vers ver is what they done previously which is direct to the house uh fiber so this would jump pull to
pull um it sounds like they're looking to put fiber to the pole but then 5G so it jumps to the house perhaps the the the ultimate goal of Comcast and Verizon is to go straight to 5G and skip the wir connection m and therefore they don't have to have their customers pay um to support Lake cim that's the
concern so your concern is if it technically goes Wireless and it's no longer transmitted by wire correct that negates their agreement to continue to fund any type of cable access that's that's what I believe now most access centers believe yes to questions f one I don't see anything about 5G services in here I didn't know if there's another another source of information I mean I
see it says I just moved my page and I lost it uh expand Verizon's fioptic Network for Broadband but then I don't I didn't catch anything else saying that they want to terminate on the polls and there is no no statement that they're going F G the question is are they oh you made a statement that you thought they were so I was just wanted to see if I missed it in here no that's the concern are are they not telling us that um does mass access have an opinion
on this on on that those particular state and federal programs on this they on this I haven't asked them okay so if I purchase a Verizon FiOS TV plan but I use their wireless access there's no Peg Grant in that no even though I'm purchasing TV access correct is that a state level law we need to get changed it's a state level law that that is dependent on on a federal on the federal tele
telecommunications law M Madam chair yes can you say that again Brian so my question was is a lot of the isps are going to either you can get copper or Fiber at your home or you can use the same Tech your cell phones do now because it's gotten so much better so my question was you today I have Verizon F in my home so I've got a hard line to the house if I subscribe to a TV plan you pay Peg Grant and everything else but it sounds like if you subscribe to the wireless version of your service and get your TV through that you might not
be paying Peg grent correct that's weird yeah so it's a simple question are they is Verizon looking to do 5G on the polls in Lakeville I don't know but I can get an answer for you letters are due to the 19th that's my only question thank you otherwise I think uh providing s service to places they haven't gotten to yet is a great idea well just says to unserved and
underserved residents you know in businesses so have they already done an analysis um as to you know CU When I read this you know it's it's accessed for you know unserved and underserved residents so you know if you have residents that um you know may not be able to afford the access you know I read that in here as that they're going to be providing I do not so well
the the state and federal program they mention are specifically for that purpose that it's just for low income yeah underserved underserved is a pretty broad term though yes but I again I hav I support it but it's it's question that should be asked before giving them approval to go ahead and do this and we they wind up putting
5G on every other poll I can I can reach out to someone that I talked to about it previously getting an answer it's kind of too bad they only sent it to us on February 6th is it because this is something we could have also tossed over to the cable Advisory Board yeah um the chairman could not be here tonight that's why I see um I would also suggest if uh Mass access has an opinion on it they are
they're kind of the go-to thank you see the 19th that's what that just challenges me yeah we don't have me so we'll just have to have um a quick you can make a con maybe a contingent vote if I don't know if it is 5 G don't do it I don't know I'm not sold that I wouldn't access because there's some people that would live I'm not saying for Lakeville
but in certain areas there's like my only option is company and like and they feel like they're getting mistreated by company and they would welcome a second company to have options and options what we want right and it does say there's an income cap and some other things there was talk of Jose probably knows way better um the government was trying to force like a 20 plan or something like that for intern Broadband intern access SEC was raising the definition of broadband yeah I'm not sure that ever
went through okay um I'll entertain a motion um to issue a letter of support to Verizon regarding Verizon bios uh Broadband expansion uh so moved I he a second I don't hear a second so there's action so I might not invest in us were
we going to do that subject to getting this answer or no my understanding is I think they could still do this it's just it helps them get the grant over other towns like or other places so if Mr J is willing to revoice it and say I didn't make it I I so moved it you so moved it you so moved it oh um I don't know subject to the approval
of the Town Administrator so I would like Andrew to just get more information and if there's something that he finds egregious then we don't move forward with it but if he finds all systems go then we move give him a guideline um gosh I guess the guideline would be um if it severely impairs our ability to have cable access in the future okay and then everything else is pretty
much acceptable I would suggest we come back and discuss a letter of support to the state and the FEDS to say get with the times on the way you're doing Peg Grant because people are moving to wireless access as a primary form they know we've been talking about that for like 15 years um and the the states and the federal government has made no move on it it's very unfortunate to see I mean we value very much our Public Access uh
I know all to towns do um it's one of those few things in life that actually gives insight into what's going on instead of it obscures it with garbage so um it's an important part of our government and our schools maybe um our it subcommittee if they me and put that on the agenda could send a letter of recommendation to I think that's cable Advisory Board Madam chair defer conjuction with so was that the second
morningin yes second all right any further discussion hearing none roll Fabi and I Carboni I IND you do it I okay 14 good say thank you discuss a possible vote on requests from Board of Health to appoint Sophia deosta as the assistant Board of Health
agent um this motion would include that her term would be appointed through January 31st 2026 so we have um a letter here that the Lakefield Board of Health voted on February 5th to recommend to the select board the appointment of Sophia dcosta as the assistant Board of Health agents so I'll entertain a motion um to appoint Sophia dcosta as the assistant Board of Health
agent um with a term to expire January 31st 2026 so move second Motion in a second any discussion hearing none R uh F and I harbon I I yes um I have Sophia's appointment form it's back at the office so if you guys can come in and sign it that' be great sure you can do that okay um agenda item number 15 so
we've gotten to that place now um where we need to schedule the next round of Select board um member hours at the Council on Aging so the next one we have which is Valentine's Day um February 14th then March 14th April 11th May 9th and June 13th so does anybody have any um I can do February March cuz I am up for reelection so I don't know if I'll
be here the rest of those months and I know brena's not here but I know she enjoyed her time mhm at the senior center so well she's up for real well I don't know if she's running or not but maybe I can do um February and she can do March okay we'll put that in there and she can't do it maybe you can check with her and see you want to just hold off on the other ones till after the election or well these three will still be here yeah I'll take April 11th
okay can do May uh actually sorry I can't uh June June I got May and Marin's got May okay Tick Tac Toe okay Brian's got June I think so okay excellent so we can get this over to to lri Y and um we'll work it amongst ourselves El should something come up and would you want to check off the rest of the mar so you know no I only need to know mine just yours just about just you yeah it's all
about you okay um so our next meetings um for March and then April so we have some suggested dates here um we're meeting on February 24th which I would be announcing later on but we it is the 24th of February um let's
see and then the next one would be the 10th of of March and the 24th Town Administrator is looking to hold budget meetings the week of March 17th that may change okay yes I will not be available at all from March 19th to 29th okay no
Mar and likely the same for me from 17th to 21st so earlier the better pressure yeah push it up a little B get it done the Andre come on I don't think that'd be an issue I just I wanted to give myself a week but we just dive into it that week no I appreciate it and I know I don't have to be there for everything I would like to be there for some of it if I can though
okay okay so is everybody good with the 10th yep check anybody else other than mein not available on the 24th because that would be regular business I think on the 24th looks good is the 20 is the 31st out of question I can do either so was that 24th or 31st no it just said 24th I just threw the 31st out
there oh okay as another one as a full compliment of the board but then maybe the week of the 20 oh no cuz mein won't be here for that I won't all right so you know what you're working with I might be able to come remotely I have surgery so I might be able to come mam chair yes if you do a if you do um March 31st that does line up with April 14th and April 28th if you
do the 31st I'm make sure I can come remotely okay and we could do the article discussion because if it want to close at 3 on a 31st mhm right yeah REM a little behind here no one like I'll be back to that oh we're not we're not policing you on the spitball on the volley turning up the Andrew needs to make a sign I bet someone wrote it on Facebook change the number oh wait a minute I just got it you need you need a sign like like
something like that change the or just delegate that to him but you're not usually in the those camera shot right I don't think I am no you know in all honesty I don't think he needs to do this he's very busy taking notes good times good times um okay so we want to do the 31st yeah that's fine all right so we'll do March 31st and if we could make that hybrid that would be
fantastic and then you'll work your budget around yep the pre 17 and post 29 yep so no 24th no 24th I was also going to ask selfishly if the board would entertain like 545 as a start time 5:30 is just been really tough lately no I like to see you guys running in like it's so
mean all right put that in the data Bank okay remember that running in here I don't have a problem with 545 I don't have a problem with it I'm fine with that I'm all for it okay all right do you have an alternative to suggest all right so good 5:45 starting on the 24th of February we're going to move our meeting time to 5:45 okay appreciate I know that would help a lot of residents too cuz some folks are like I just can't get there like I know and forgive me when I keep saying 5:30
cuz I think I've been saying that for a very long time so 5:45 okay and then going into April the 7th and the 28th are those good this like we're meeting my birthday theth will back meeting that's how you're going to celebrate with 31st so you could do April 14th and April 28th and that would be a two week Span in between well the election is when the election 7th yeah that' be a little
weird is the election on the 7th y okay then we don't want the 7th right so we'll make it the 14th and 28th okay okay all right so not April 7th and not April April 14th and the 28th so just as a recap March 10th March 3th 1st April 14th April 28th we good
mhm and I missed the part can we try to get a couple of budget meetings in the 24th or the week of the 20 I'm the week of the 24th or are you guys away away Marin's away I'm away so it was either pre 17 or post 29 okay so we had the 31st as a regular meeting cor right yeah but now hybrid
hybrid okay yeah we usually have like what that week or two of like a whole bunch of meetings four nights back to back to back yeah four nights four nights okay subcommittee updates um agenda item number 17 select board policy subcommittee so as I mentioned earlier I've been working with I had a discussion with Andrew and I told him that um I've had a couple of
conversations with a couple of department heads um like the ambulance billing policy so I asked the fire chief to take a look at that um the constables why we have the number of constables that we do how does the new post law affect all that there's some Corey policies that I've talked to Lacy about so um you know if Andrew wants to sit in on these he can but I'm just trying to get preliminary information how has this
stuff changed like if you read through the Cory policy most of that is a function of HR now so perhaps one option would be um we don't even need to have part of that policy anymore so just working with a few people to do some like work but I do just want to sit with Andrew to make sure we're both not working on some of the same policies so question for Leah chair for you um when you were saying
that we had separate Corey um policies we did have separate cor Cory policies until 2020 when we moved um fire and police under HR is that still happening um that it's all combined or did it split again um so it's basically the way the policy was written way back when um and it just says you know this is how a Corey will be done and so a lot of that is just the function of HR now okay
so I can see us as a board these are some of the things that you know I'm like okay so what could it be that we might want to talk about so um it may may um come down to does the board want to make a policy on if someone has you know some sort of not great driving record as long as they're not driving a town vehicle or whatever but that's yeah that's what I'm trying to um just like
work with some of these department heads um just to figure out is it still appropriate is it not appropriate I mean like the ambulance billing one says it'll be looked at every January I don't even I know the current chief looks at it but for a while it wasn't there we had no increase in how many years so we just need to make sure these are um current and not traing on what Andrew is
working on on his and that we were tracking them because to your point like if something's not being done one year that like is it a policy at that point or has know has it gone from it right we even need to to be doing that yeah if it does need to be done tracking it we're saying hey all of our stuff is done on our policies Etc right and then what I'd really like to do with you Marin because
we do have to post a meeting is for you and I to sit down and like come up with some of these scenarios like so we know that this totally is irrelevant now so how do we want to you know either present it to the board or um come up with scenarios or I think that's a fair yeah so um and then I don't necessarily think it's for us to say yes or no to an opinion part of it you know like I mean
in my opinion it's the um police chief's job to oversee the constables right we do the appointments but so how much in you know the policy says there's going to be X number of appointments so at some point when things change um we need to be alerted to to those changes I don't even necessarily expect the Town Administrator to know some of that very specific information on um some of that stuff so but for
example we just had um a weather incident and according to our Weather policy it's the chair that calls so that's not really any Mass General law around that so that one there I can see us just saying this the way it is do we want to leave it do we want to change it was I supposed to do something you miss my policy what did I miss I was
going to bring you in the loop if it was a serious enough St so the select board is the uh the chair of the select board is the one that actually lets people know that town hall is closed for weather related events um whereas in I would just call Franklin and say should we be closed and he would say yes and that's I mean so do we need a policy or should it be is there any history of why it's that way not just the
TA you know I'm sorry I tried to find out a long time ago six years ago and I could never really find an answer now to my benefit and Lorraine's benefit we live on pretty M drags if our streets haven't been sanded or plowed no one's going to work but for someone who lives you know in a cue or something the main roads could be clear so that's another thing you know that um but who would know that better than Franklin
Franklin Mr y right but that's a that's a that's an example of a policy that really isn't based in Mass General law in any way yeah so we can either just say yes let's continue this no let's change it and if we're going to change it how are we going to change it so and I think Mar and I can probably come up with a couple of pretty objective yeah um Excell Alternatives so but anyways getting lots of work done on that sweet
in case I don't get reelected I can just give someone a whole binder marin oh I love a binder and um I believe you handed out a couple of I did these aren't old policies these are new policies so this isn't something work being worked on that's an existing um thing this is just net new to the Town um there was two of them um one of them it's an old favorite I'd like to bring it back every once in a while everyone flow have it around um
it's a uh code of conduct policy and it it doesn't just apply for select board it applies for every board and committee and it's all about maintaining um civil discourse and uh making sure you're not speaking for the board um in type of events or you know in social media all those type of of things so just wanted to bring this for a first reading for everyone and then we'll put it on as an actual agenda item um to talk about at another point but I wanted to give
everyone an opportunity to look it over and then Mark it up and have their questions um and there is some and I just took a look at this when we got here tonight but there is some overlap with a mission statement that all the department heads had worked on would that be the icma code of conduct it was something that all the department heads had worked on I don't have it I remember it's hanging in every office yeah what what's the overlap and it it
does have a lot of this stuff in there but again but these are boards and committees like as opposed to well this is supposed to be townwide so we'll have to compare and see what parts are but this is for this the policy right yeah this is for appointed and elected officials okay yeah yeah so all members of town boards committees and commissions yeah and that one's supposed to be St townwide staff elected everybody so um okay the challenge with
some of these though is like it's the policy but what's the punishment well that's you have any elected person say but that's I can do what I want that's a good point like you know violations may result in removal from assignments public censure or other appropriate actions as determined by the Lakeville select board so you you know public centure does it have anything you know is it just you know their Force majour like it's but we can't remove a different elected board members from
their Ro no nope we can make recommendations though um we can have discussions on it but it they're going to be the ones signing the code of conduct they're all subject to it it won't be voluntarily it wouldn't be like I'm not subject to this everyone else in town is but I understand your we we've got personalities that might say I don't don't have to if it's a if it's a bylaw you could put it in as
a bylaw then they'd never be able to undo it but I just think it's a very important part that since 2020 um there's been an increase in just really really difficult treatment of people like back and forth and it has increased and it has come to a fever pitch in some cases I want to see that we're calling it out when we're seeing it and it's not the
norm and it's something that we're able to talk about in a respectful way and relate to each other using kind of the same set of rules so it's the goal I know it's been here before in different forms but I'm hoping this board will uh come to some type of agreement on at least in part making some of these things part of our everyday commitment as being board members for the town and
then the second thing I this quick question the ethics um ethics training within 30 days that's controlled by the town clerk right that is controlled with the town clerk so I just wonder if you say like in accordance with town clerk requirement something changes later sorry they're just stuck out the rest of it good feedback um but I know Tracy used to have to chase people regularly that
didn't attend board meetings she keeps attendance of people to know you know how many board meetings and yes she used we did away with that during Co yeah but it was one of those things where we would have people that would run for a board they would never be there like these are important things if you're going to show up and and be that like we should know what we're expecting we have that in our appointment Lil's new appointment no our old one I believe we
have that in there about attendance um lack of attendance could be caused for removal yeah we do have an appointed I believe yes yeah I remember that um and the other one is a select board policy on utilization of Town Council um in the last few months on this board I've heard multiple members reference their conversations with Town Council and I I'm never able to fully understand what the question was that was asked and what the answer was that was given because it's usually a verbal
conversation you know it's usually a phone call or a face to face I would like to know if there is something that we're basing some judgment on or some knowledge I would like to know what that is um I think I think we utilize Town Council probably maybe a little too routinely and without being able to share it so just for context um Andrew I don't know if it's still there but I used to keep a book um and I it was
Read's tradition I keep a book of all decisions of Town Council because invariably new boards would come in and they'd have the same questions so a board member would come to me and they'd say hey Moren you know do we know anything about this my first step would be going through the book and seeing if there was anything Rel to what that person was asking for what Town Council you know their decision was and how that came and I know that it's gone away from that you know in the last few years but
it was such a great tool um and it allowed people to not have to go to Town Council on things and it gave him a deeper understanding to ask better questions if we still had to go around town Council um and then there's been some instances where there's been more than one board member talking to Town Council which I I don't see as a value um and I understand there's various reasons that someone might do it but having two members talk to Town Council without the benefit of having a meeting with the rest of the members in
executive session um but I goes right up goes right up for me it's not it's not something I think is indicative of a really healthy board Dynamic and it should go away and you know individual conversations happen but I would like to see Town Council give their answer like here here's the answer I gave um and that way we're all subject to being able to understand what what was asked and what was said because I can't tell you how many times I sat in a room with a
selectman and had a conversation with Town Council and then time comes to the meeting and it sounds a little different than how Town Council had put it because they're putting their own interpretation on what Town Council had interpreted so being able to know what the answers are I think that benefits all of us two quick thoughts one I think sending the initial question is easy it's when you have the discussion with them where they give you an answer and that Sparks like a corner case you had thought of and
you're like oh what if the what if the what if like logging that and getting that back is a little more difficult um I also be curious we've had a number of times where something get on the agenda it's Thursday of Friday we get the packet we reach we scramble to reach out do we just say at the next meeting Monday like I I just want to table this because there's not enough information to answer well or I'm not comfortable because I haven't gotten council's opinion or we need council's opinion I I just well I think better vetting of of
questions and Fuller answers is always a good thing but I have no issue if Town Council wants to send their opinion on a matter to the board like if you call Town Council and they they summarize cuz that's what I used to do I used to make them summarize what they had told me and so I could put it in the notebook mhm so if you're calling Town Council I want you to summarize your decision and instead of just sending it to one member they could
send it to everyone because it's a legal opinion so figure work it I can definitely see the reason why the chair would have more um need to talk to council whether something is relevant for an agenda uh you know um Direction on things with the Town Administrator so I don't necessarily
know that the chair position could you know follow this to a te especially when but the chair has no special rights when it comes to no the chair doesn't but when it comes to like should something go on an agenda or not you know um is it ready to go on an agenda or whatever they need guidance so that's kind of tough to constrain the chair I do agree with you that and I remember Rita would literally forward Town
council's response and with the question so you saw the question and you saw the answer and she would forward it to everyone and again you know everyone knows better than to sort of you know start chiming in but um you know I'd be really curious know um I think I've called Town Council twice since September and worked through Bob once
on the um 160 Bedford Street which was also in September and the last time I called Michelle Randazzo was because of things I heard in the school Union negotiations so um so I felt like you know um so I'd just be curious how much are we all reaching out to Town Council is it really even such a big
deal but if so if you reach out to Town Council Devil's Advocate you get an opinion from Town Council you come armed with that opinion to a meeting because you have legal stand to understand you know what that means and none of us do I don't know that that benefits the town it all right so I know that when I've been chair and that did happen I would ask the Town Administrator to make a
summary because again to your point when I'm making a summary it could be influenced by me which could be breaking open meeting law CU that's my opinion now so and I did that many times I have plenty of emails where you know I would have to we had to talk about all kinds of things some complaints that would come in and whatever and I would always say you know whatever we know the other two board members should know yeah but to my
to my earlier point I don't always feel that that is kind of what ends up happening and not through malfant of any sort just through like oh yeah I forgot you weren't there or you know or that didn't seem really relevant but it would have seemed really relevant to me CU it's an important point so to agree with everything because you Peak my curiosity I'm really curious what the legal bills look like since April can we get copies yeah yeah
see you know and I and I did put that on there about just being able to review them I mean it's also like some of us work on different committees and you know like last year Brian was on the what was the zoning one that you were on the four Ys wait committee yeah wasn't it that one so I mean just out of doing that they may need to call Council sure but that's going to be cified somewhere in a result or or something there'll be
some type of evidence I just worry of all the knowledge just lost through you know I mean I the grand oral tradition of calling counil everyone should just have a best practice of sharing what they learn um versus trying to but again to your point sharing what they learned comes with unintentional bias it comes with some interpretation um as opposed to getting it from the source and sharing it is not
putting it in a binder and keeping it for future reference uh I just uh I I think we can do it better and I think uh transparency towards the other board members however there are times where I don't think the other board members should be involved and that's of questions of O am I you know would this be an Ethics violation those type of things that are strictly personal to that person's role as a select board member but not relevant to the others I think those are you know completely should be off limits and those are you
know um questions that should be only answered in between because that's very personal to the person but uh as far as knowledge I think it's if it's something one member of the board should know I think it's something that every member of the board should know I have a possible solution for for this so we're getting Dropbox for like a couple different committees in town now you can like lock like say you five and me in one one
column so no one else could see it and I can attach all the legal opinions that I get in there so you guys can always just but you'd have to get them going and yeah just save an email yeah but I mean most often we should be working through the Town Administrator great wouldn't be a heavy left and cuz sometimes when you forward an email sometimes you don't I send like a million emails so people probably don't read them all or oh no I think this should be an easy way to like go in catalog and say these are all the
opinions the town has yeah because again it was great and like if there something came up and usually it was zoning related like if something came up and I could have something and I could just turn right to it look if there's anything on it and then ask some really good questions like I was super knowledgeable about it cuz I already up on it but um yeah but those are my two that I'd like everyone to think about as part so I'm adding these into policies right yes okay can we get like word
versions of these so we can make comments on them somebody or you can I will send word versions to Andrew and then he can send them to you thanks excellent I think I have all the policies Brian but they're not in any order no those older ones definitely yeah those because there were there's some policies included in that folder if you want to call it that that we never even approved so and there's also policies that
Christina had on the sh drive and then I have policies in my H drive so so I don't know how that's got to get fixed y's got to fix that up all right all right fire station building committee update so um we know that the um de exclusion vote has passed um we actually the fire station building committee met
uh that Wednesday night after um so right now uh we're not meeting again until the first week in March our OPM and architect are putting together the um the construction packets the bidding stuff I know there's something that I was unfamiliar with there's a pre-approved pre-qualification of contractors thank you pre-qualification and I believe that's a a pretty extensive and time consuming process so it's very aous yep very tough yeah right
because if any projects that's over was it 10 million 10 million that this is a requirement through Mass General law yeah it usually there's all sorts of timelines statutorily you got to follow and typically takes two or three months to to do it unfortunately good better or worse so um I can also just you know piggyback um on what Andrew was saying in Town Administrator reports that um you know now we have an
opportunity that we have the funding approved we can start to really look at opportunities for um you know for Grants um or other funding sources to offset um you know the expenses on that so and I know the water line was one I know you looked out um looked into the infrastructure Bill yep and then there's community on stop we could run that water line down 18 if you wanted
to Madam chair um is this also inclusive of a stop light there go back into my legs I do not believe I think that there was a contingency built in in case it was one needed but the traffic study indicated that doesn't need it h is it I'm not sure uh well I don't know I'd like everyone to consider um because we have
a police and fire um it's not just um fire trucks that will go out or police cars they're both exiting from the same area but police typically are a patrolling not responding from the station I guess depends what up 8:00 I know this has come up look this conversation came up I'm trying to recall my my brain but I think that but it's supposed to be free from the state to get the light there but I believe we have to but I
believe we have to pay for the design is the way that it goes and the design last last count for the design on Bridge Street that still hasn't happened is like 225 I think it's it's definitely a couple mil oh for the yeah it would be uh 3 million for the light in like 225 or 300,000 just for the design of the light because it's very special to design a light they need to make sure they get it
I you have to handle the easements too right um it's Route 18 um and we own all of the stuff on the side so I think talk about Bridge Bridge Street oh Bridge Street yeah yeah um I don't know 20 2019 should be long enough to get easement yeah um but I know that there was discussion about um the way that the uh building was you know the site plan where it was located because of having clear access so people coming
down this way and people coming this way would actually see the station as the apparatuses were coming out if there was a a concern that it was closer to the road um they might not necessarily have that opportunity to see have you commuted down that road at 5:00 at night it's no fun 4:30 it's chalkra block full if we don't have a light and I know there there's going to be descent on
that we don't have a light there we could have a gridlock going on or you know I I just have big concerns over the safety of having both fire and police coming out of the same area at the same time multiple building bus multiple people multiple Vehicles noted we'll certainly bring that back to the I appreciate it because again you're
not you're just you're saying fire department but I'm saying police and fire I hear you I call oh no I was just say on fire I forwarded to Andrew um I think I've done this the last three time administrators sorry um the municipal vulnerability group again that we ran out of it it it were out of compliance mhm what yeah okay came up in a meeting just came up in a meeting last week or the week oh the one
I missed yes oh fantastic when we had the joint meeting with the planning board y we we're just out of compliance all right about 6 months never mind about that I did find out you can still apply for Action grants when it's inactive so we we still could well so you can go back to your thought all right back on um just in general because there was this this precedent in the state of that being used to build new fire stations so like with us having the existing one like not itself being in a
flood zone but surrounded by a flood zone and you know not being able to get to your apparatus is a bit of a problem it seemed like it wasn't too far of a stretch to say hey look we're improving our vulnerability by putting in a better place and not having to buy a duck boat not only that we're removing the possibility of uh contaminants coming in the water away for the washing of the fire trucks and the location that we were washing them in and the storm water run off we could do the same at DPW you
once spoke of a washing station I did speak of a washing station you know I love a good washing station for boats and vehicles contained okay any updates on the Old Colony um not at this time there was supposed to be meeting tonight but they actually moved it to the 19th um so I'm probably not going to be able to make the 19th due to a work commitment but I'll follow up if there's anything new okay all right uh t uh we had our first
meeting so on February 4th we all met here um it's a large group but everybody got along nicely um kind of just went over the original charge we decided that we would aim for the second Tuesday of every month not that we necessarily need it but we just pencil it in and if there was business to discuss we would um everybody was re open to the idea of helping the select board or anybody else that needed investigation or suggestions um Bob being a member of it
was there from Green River to answer all sorts of questions um it was a good just first meeting for people to get a lot of like knowledge about what's what's the state of the the town right now U we did go over the um the cyber security report that was completed by cyber Trust Massachusetts we do finally have that um they were already pleased with the results and we all kind of were in agreement of yep these are good places to focus on like for year one or so um that did have to be done in executive session under reason number four du to security and actually the documents we
also um Town Council informed us that the documents are also um exempt under state law one of the conditions that actually says cyber security in it so those are we have to likely be redacted if ever requested but great first meeting um I was chair Kristen Howard is V the vice chair and um likely on those reports themselves I know cyber trust would like to do a presentation of the select board as well well to find a time that to do
that productive y all right bren's not here for communication and community outreach um CI oh I had a question on communication and community outreach that it was actually for all of the board um with everything that we're all working on it seems to me that we should all be when we're done connecting with the communication and community outreach in order to not just do what we are tasked
with but to share it with the public so I was just thinking that isn't the challenge right now the committee doesn't exist yet it is true in well a member still exists of the committee a member still exists but is that a quorum number one a quorum of one I'm not sure I'm not sure well they don't have to you know there's the community newsletter too yes there's a community newsletter too but um however
we end up getting it out I would like to just impose on board members that us knowing it exists is not good enough and that whatever we're doing we should make sure the people of Lakeville know what it is as well because a lot of times we do really great things and it just goes unnoticed because no one's talked about it or no one's put it anywhere um so well I know that um Lacy had sent out
her email um looking for information for the upcoming March newsletter so I say send it out it subcommittee met for the first time no action item yeah seriously just yes there uh Citizens Academy subcommittee um we have not met and we were going to
meet um but Lo behle our MMA um is holding a virtual meeting about um Citizens Academy subcommittee and funny one of the um towns that I had mentioned Danvers uh the person that had put this together is actually part of the panel for this so uh I figured we would sit and go through that and then um we'll schedule a meeting right after that um did we decide who we wanted to add for
the yes it was Andrew right Andrew you just didn't have enough to do so you want to come hang out no it's fun I'm looking forward to it m can I just ask the board when I get like invitations like that do you want me I don't want to blast you with constant stuff so send it if I think it's of interest to you guys cuz I don't always I try to stay relevant with the
MMA uh and the things that they have coming up but I miss things sometimes so yes I think it would be great if you could just you know send it out if you're interested let me know I'll reg this to you or something like that so so to swing back to an earlier thing Andrew's key card policy one of the MMA events I attended um it was like a finance committee seminar they held we were all told like oh you can do a PO and we'll charge you after the fact and we got to the front of the line like
yeah where's your credit card they wouldn't take it anymore so we had to pay personal card and then submit reimbursement request the town lovely lovely other reason for that's happened to me before that's why I kind of proposing it right um any new business coming before the board um I don't have anything that wasn't okay old business um we
have the American Recovery planned act does anybody know what that's that's arpa cuz we didn't put it on here as a acon his little it's a violation of the open meeting law that is correct that's why SP everything out everything's out yeah so you had it on your um your report and that it was a little over 200,000 but you were looking and hopeful that they
would be at doing a regional initiative right yeah Regional communication to Public Safety as far as the projects are concerned are we um I know they're still working on the the old townhouse correct old townhouse um The Pavilion we put not to bit of Park lot at Ted Williams shortly COA is pretty much completed they're just doing final internals probably going to have a ribbon cutting so yep you'll all be invited to that
when it happens excellent yeah good stuff any updates on uh clear pond water line or is it just the season is done for now it's pretty much done I don't know what's left I think it's like 99% on I be a to put the water um meter in I think that might be it oh I have a question on that are we embarking on a plan with the parks yes on what to do with that swath of land
that has been carved there yeah we did a um s sidewalk I think it was last two weeks ago with the designer Parks myself Mike Ellis um yeah we did like a whole walk around the whole place and they're going to try to encapsulate that big sloth of land that they cut through potentially walking trails maybe something else but they're they're going to be designing that over the next 4 to8 weeks okay so they'll have like a fancy plan
to look at if something good can come out of something bad that's you know the best that you can hope for in a situation like that I'd love to hear of more walking trails for the people of Lakefield to be poop around and it's pretty wide open though all right um um are we done with old business no if you had something um so I do know that the Middleboro Gas and
Electric person was at that meeting on the 23rd at the parks I remember we approved the electric charging stations um why didn't they get done does anyone know why they didn't I saw that letter I don't know where I saw it but I saw that letter they claimed we never signed a contract but I saw that we did we sent it to them it was all we did it at a meeting the person was here yep so okay yeah and then I know there was
discussion that night but I'm they I thought they approached us about putting it at T Willams did um so I don't know why ideas came from that meeting to locate them here or elsewhere or at the new fire station but am I am I on the right page y couple at Town Hall and a couple at Ted Williams right nothing's changed no
no okay parks that night seemed like against them and was like well can't we put them at the fire station can't we put them at the police station like anywhere but down there yep um it was the first I heard those recommendations I mean I honestly didn't recall and I could have forgotten en that it was supposed to be 24-hour access because technically the park isn't 24-hour access um but I'm sure the police patrolling will know the difference
between a hoodlum and someone sitting there at the charging station with an out ofate license plate or driver's license who says they can't be both you're absolutely correct there some Eevee hoood it sound like was saying that they had to reapply for the money now I mean I I thought it was a done deal we have all the paperwork that it was kind of a done deal all the all the paperwork was done yeah okay lost in
transmission apparently okay another one of those moments okay um so we have a couple of correspondents here uh leave off with the letter from the Carver select board um to the Lakeville select board um on behalf of the town of Carver and the Carver select board I'm writing to express our gratitude to the town of Lakefield for your steadfast partnership and support over the years in serving the needs of our animals through the
animal shelter through your collaboration we have been able to provide a safe and nurturing environment for countless animals offering them the care they needed it is Partnerships like ours that make a lasting difference at this time Cara will be utilizing the services of another neighboring community and will not not be renewing their shelter agreement once again thank you for being such an intrical part of the journey um Glen Cannon Town Administrator okay
um and then the Department of Public Utilities has a memo here uh looking for um what is it I just lost my train of thought uh pole attachments and conduit access of public rights right rights of way um Andrew can you elaborate on this a
little more um I read it and it just yeah I got nothing I think it's just something they send out um CU they have to essentially um yeah I think they when they anytime they make changes in the right way like clearing or changes they have to let us know okay before they actually enact yeah so if there's any anybody looking for comments um or if anybody has comments or on the
data yes on page three um oh there it is establish a deadline of February 18 for interest of stakeholders requ to be added to the electronic distribution list going forward okay so I guess the board asked do you want to be on the electronic distribution list dying to be you know what what's another email for 15 yes could you please add this came in electronically I guess that would be great um I know there was some
language that came out I think it was a DLS bulletin about double poles of you know the safety of having two poles the two poles I know there was something that came out I think it was just this week yeah so I'm sure this is referencing that um we also had a letter in here from uh Verizon bios program changing so the wwdp shop HQ which is channel 46 and 546
changed to wwdp to be determined which features comedy programming okay um I also have something here um from the chief um that was shared with us but it's a letter from the chief to um Ram Berkeley Freetown and Middleboro fire departments um it's a letter expressing the Gratitude of the members from the members of the Lakeville fire
department and the leadership of the town of Lakeville for their fire department's uh recent Mutual Aid response to the Conway fire uh Farm fire on January 23rd 2025 um the Personnel performed at a high level and provided essential functions throughout the entire um entirety of the incident the department enjoys a long-standing partnership um and you know just to continue to to save lives jointly um they're very grateful for this um partnership and um the execution of the
mutual Aid so um I thank the chief for you know sending that out to our surrounding communities because I know that we are working together I Happ to be going up um Southward street that that farm is on the night it happened heading towards um mbrook and it was impressive the amount of apparatus that just suddenly like appeared out of nowhere and running the
tanker trucks back and forth so definitely that could have been a lot worse had all these towns not showed up the H the communication between each fire department and each town has increased so much over the last 20 plus years compared to where it was it's it's just amazing how um collaborative everyone has really become so much thanks okay with that um I'll entertain a motion to adjourn at 802 so Mo second Mo B and I Bon ey