[Music] Five, select board and wage and personnel board meeting. Um, is anyone else besides Lake Cam reporting as seeing as we have no one else in the audience? No. Um, calling to
order. Uh, start over at my right. Here present. Candido here, Carboni here, Hunt here, everyone's here. On to the pledge of allegiance. Would everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On to the select board announcements. A lot of people here. The
annual Memorial Day observance will take place on May 26, 2025, 10:30 a.m. beginning at the town hall fire station. It will continue onto Dick Durant Square and then Old Townhouse. In case of rain, the event will be inside the Old Town
House at 10:30. And then that should say A.M. and not P.M. It will not it will not be an all day. Clear Pond is still hiring for lifeguards uh for Clear Pond Park. Uh their season runs from June 25th to
August 23rd. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and have their lifeguard certification. They're also hiring for Clear Pond attendants both full and part-time. For more information, visit the town website under find it fast job openings. Select board is looking for
three at large members of the public to serve on the town hall building reuse subcommittee. Details on these position can be found on this position can be found at the town's Facebook page or the town's website. Other current committee commission
vacancies. One at large member for the communications committee. An associate member for the ZBA. Two members for the wait board of reg. I think it's an associate member. An associate member for the zoning board of appeals. Board of registars. Member.
Oh, a yeah it should have been. Is it a member? One member for the board of registars. Two vacancies for the cable TV advisory committee. one vacancy for conservation commission and one vacancy on the agricultural commission. Is there two vacancies coming up on the
conservation or just the one? There's they just voted um a recommendation which hasn't made it in front of our this board yet for appointment and then and there is one other. Okay. So then when So this will still be one after
that appointment. Yes. And then there's potentially another one after that. Great. The special and annual town meetings will be held June 9th beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Aonoquit High School. Are there any other announcements from any of the other
board members? Yes, if I can, Madam Chair. Uh yesterday was Lakeville Day. I unfortunately was unable to attend. Um but every thing that I've heard that it was I think it was the third annual uh very very wellreceived um great participation. The weather was good um
for the day and so just wanted to bring that up. And these are fantastic events um mostly this one was really pretty much the perview of the parks department. Correct. Um they do a wonderful job getting people together. I'd love to see
more events like that. They're trying to get something together for winter. Um, which will be uh fantastic to have something to do in the winter. Um, but my personal feelings are we should try to revamp and get the um the farmers
market going again. Um, prior to 2020, we were supposed to start having a farmers market at uh at the in the one of the parking lots. Um, I would love to see that come back u before this board. Um, you know,
2020 kind of crushed everything. So, I'd love to see some more stuff getting people together. Um, and love to see the economic development uh committee and the a uh committee kind of run those things together. Yeah. Um, one other
thing, uh, the Memorial Day observance, I know, um, you know, in the past there's always been a select board member u that will usually attend Memorial Day or Veterans Day. I usually go um I do like to participate and I know member Palanka um has always been
um very active um there. So just know that you know we are represented there but um always okay check in with each other just to make sure that we have some perfect representation. Awesome. All right. Any other
announcements from All right, Andrew, on to the town administrator's report. Regional finance uh news weekend for debt exclusions as well as overrides. Handover was the one
community that passed their override. Um joining Dubberry is Whitman, Norwell, and Hansen also failed their overrides this week weekend. And then the Plimpmpton fire station also failed. All votes were pretty close. Um the new
principal assessor, Robbie Alfred, started last Wednesday. Excellent. I plan to invite him uh to the next meeting for us on June 2nd. Um I already have him working on a few things. It's been a decade since we've had a
full-time um assessor. So this is very exciting. Um, and I'm hoping the people of Lakeville um, take advantage and come in and say hi and get all their questions answered. Definitely. Um, and then two positions that we're uh, currently interview uh, ro to schedule
interviews for, management analyst and executive assistant. Both have received over a dozen applicants, some pretty strong ones, too. So, it's pretty it's pretty exciting. Um, and then the last one is Lacy, myself, and Mike met to go over town meeting materials. Um, as I've
kind of mentioned before, we're going to do a town meeting guide, which kind of um, plain English is the town meeting and looks kind of snazzy, so be good. You know, I'm a sucker for snazzy.
No, I'm excited to have something usable for the people to look at and for it to make it a little bit more visually interesting than what we originally passed out. Um, we did focus on actually getting information out in the last few years and making sure it was comprehensive, but it became
overwhelming and not very attractive. So, this is kind of that putting both those factors together. So, I appreciate that effort. All right. Next item is the minutes. Do we have any discussion on the select
board meeting minutes of the 28th of April? Well, I'll make a motion um that we approve the meeting minutes um of April 28th, 2025 um for discussion because I do have a couple. Can I have a second for
discussion? Motion in a second. All right. So, there were just a couple of things that I I had picked up on on page eight. Um, last paragraph, discuss the need and location of a new cell tower. Uh, second
line down, second sentence, we generate we generated revenue from the previous cell tower, comma, we generated revenue. So, you must have wanted to hit the point twice. Okay. So, if we could important. Okay. All right. Well, I figured you might have, but I just want to say that I picked up on that one.
Like emphasis. Okay. Um, and then on uh page 13 under the fire station building committee update. Um, last sentence. Well, second to last sentence. Chair Candido asked,
"Was there any recreation for land displacement for the project?" And I know what you were asking the question, but it wasn't that. Um, you were asking if there was any um request maybe. Is this where on 13 is this? I'm sorry, I'm not seeing under
the fire station building committee. Second um to last sentence, recreation. Oh, recreation as in where you have to recreate the um the exact environment somewhere else. Yeah. Okay, I can see I
can see that's an easy one to the auto correct. Any other adjustments? Yes. On page 14 under old business halfway down um on toward the left it says member Carboni
said chair Carboni. I think that would might have been I don't know what but I don't know what the heck that was. Can we just take that strike the whole thing please? Very good. And that's all I had. Anyone else have
any notes or corrections for the April 28th minutes? Hearing none. Roll call vote. I candid I Carboni. I hunt I and passes May 5th meeting minute notes. I'll make a motion
to approve the minutes from the select board meeting minutes of May 5th, 2025. Second. I have a motion in the second. Any discussion hearing? No discussion. Roll call vote. I candid. Carbon. I
untie 63. Well, we're way ahead of the game. Oh, you sure are. Um, anyone have any preference on what comes next? Probably pick up at number eight. Number eight. One-stop application. Please forward yourself to
agenda item number eight. Am I supposed to be doing this because I'm really bad at this? All right. Discussion and possible vote on FY26 community one-stop application economic development strategy. Andrew,
would you like to speak to this article? Article item. Yeah. So, I' I've mentioned this probably a handful of times uh since I've started here. Um, so I think the board at least the the last iteration of the board was supportive of
an economic development plan or strategy of some kind. So I submitted a um expression of interest and that is one of uh the feedback report as part of the agenda packet. Um and so I had the previous town planner put together a
scope of work on what it would look like if we were to go out and get this. And that is the other attachment. um and it kind of mirrors what a lot of other communities have done. And so we sent it out um to get an
informal quote which came back at around 95,000 which is basically the going rate for one of these um was actually about 125 but we kind of whittleled it down. Um and so in order to to do this
um obviously need the support of the board to submit the grant application. Um and based on the uh classification of this grant planning and uh zoning through community onetop you can only apply for one of these per year, one of these types. And so we we thought the
economic development need was critical. So we were going to go with this um going forward if we were to get it. I think the economic development committee would be the driver of this. Um, uh, the grant is due I think the first
week of June. Um, so there's coming up is coming up. So there is still time, but this is one of the grants that we have the grant writer helping us with to write. any discussion among the board members on the grant itself, on the grant
process, on anything they have questions on just um and I maybe I missed it when I looked here, but um with the plan, is there also the outcome of what um potential budget impacts would be to try
to implement some of these identified things? Um I don't think we put together any of that kind of language. No. Um, I've I don't want to give away the the vendor name that kind of put gave us the quote, but
um, they basically give us it's going to be like probably a 50 page kind of looks like a master plan kind of. Okay. Um, and it'll kind of identify what we have for weaknesses and how we can address them. Okay. But I don't think in those reports I've seen that there's any monetary financial Okay. No. No. I just
wanted to, you know, see if that was part of the the scope cuz I'm like I'm reading through this. I thought, "Oh, this is really good." I thought maybe I missed it. Okay. It just wasn't in there. So that's why. Yeah. And I I I would have preferred probably the economic development committee to look at this before we submitted it, but just
the timing. It's a timing thing. Yeah. Yeah. But going forward, this this might not be the final thing that we send out. So there's still time for that to happen. Yeah. But when we're looking for like this type of grant opportunity, um first of all, it doesn't obligate us to
do anything, which is good. we don't have to match uh funds or or anything like that. It's just a a straight grant um that comes directly to us. But this opens up the avenue for more revenue sources for us. So the having this be
our our one bite of the apple this year is probably the best use of our our fund our time um for our grant writer and for our people to be working on. Right. Well, I'll entertain him. Well, I'll enter I'm going to entertain it. Well,
I'll make a motion um to approve the FY26 community one-stop application um as presented. I have a second. A second. Motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote.
Ide. Carboni. I Hunt I. Fantastic. Andrew, you'll let us know when that is ready to go and just send us a quick copy before you send it out just in case anyone has some comments. Yeah, of course. Perfect.
Um, go to nine. There's a couple like really quickies. You want to go where? Like 16, 17, and 18. Let's roll. 16, 17, 18. What did I say? Yeah, now you've done. I've got myself into trouble
here. Discuss and possible vote to allow the Tuesday Club of Ason to place a sign at the intersection of precinct and Rhode Island Road for the Strawberry Festival. I know this is a controversial topic. I'm just kidding. Can I have a
motion? So move. I have a motion. Can I have a second? Second. A motion. A second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. I Candy. Carbon. I item number 17. Discuss and vote. Vote
to approve Taton Water application for 37 M Street. Uh attached is the application for Taton Water Connection at 37 Mix. They're requesting a 1- in line with maximum gallon gallonage of 440
gallons per day. Looks like a residential four bedroomedroom home. Looks like everything's here. Madam Ch, I assume this is a new construction. I didn't see anything that um it's normally this these new construction requests. I've never had
one unless the house changed from like a you know a one-bedroom house um to a four bedroomedroom. Um but I don't have the answer to that. It's not on if you go down here, but but I think it's new, right? Yeah. If you go down Myrix, almost right across from uh I'm not sure what that business is, but there's like
a new uh development that kind of comes in towards the end. That next one. Yeah. What used to be the auto placement center, right? Yeah. There's a for sale sign out front. Got it. New construction. New construction. Yep. Um was there any street? No, there's no there's no
new tar or anything down there, so all good. All right. Well, I make a motion to approve the request to connect to Taton Water for the property located at 37 Mrick Street with the maximum usage of 440 gallons per day. Second. I have a
second. Any more discussion? Hearing none. I carbon I Hunt I. 18. Discuss and possible vote to request the transfer of common victual license
for Fat Cousins at 166 County Street. Fat Cousins already has a license but has been sold. The new owner has applied for a new license. Um has supplied the board of health with certificate of insurance. And is there anything else
that's needed for this? Not that I can see. filled out in full. There's no notes there. No notes. Well, I'll make a motion to approve the common victula license for
St. Joseph and St. Rita Corp for the property located at 166 County Street for a term to expire December 31st, 2025. Seconded. I have a motion in a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. BL I do I
carbon I I agenda item 19 discuss and possible vote for the request of the town clerk to designate and appoint her as the national voter registration account coordinator. Attached is a memo from the town clerk requesting that the board
appoint her as national voter uh registration act coordinator for a term effective May 6th through July 31st 2025. Yeah, that seems that doesn't seem right.
It does. Why? That's it's an annual appointment and to be reappointed annually starting July 2025. So I guess it maybe it'll come back in front of us. I guess that seems interesting term. Yeah, but usually we
would just start it in July then. That's okay. We will have it come back before us. Sandra, if you want to put that on the on the note because that's definitely something we're going to end up missing if we don't say something about it.
Um I Okay. Can I get a motion? I'll make a motion um to honor the request from the town clerk to designate um and appoint her as the National Voter Registration Act coordinator um with the term effective
May 6, 2025 and expiring July 31st, 2025. Seconded. Motion and a second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call I. Carbon I. Hunt I
time. Oh goodness. Yeah, we're going to we're going to go through the whole agenda before 6:30. I'm just kidding. We'll be here for hours. Um discuss holding meetings. Oh, uh there was a request to go back to holding meetings on Mondays through July. Um and scheduling the dates for
July, August. Um if this board does not want to go back and wants to keep it on Tuesdays, I am equally fine with it. Um, just I believe Tracy put this on for her request. Is anyone interested in moving it to Mondays or would you like to keep
it going on Tuesdays? Uh, Tuesdays is Tuesday a little better for me, but I Mondays are okay, too. So, Tuesdays are fine for me. Yeah. I mean, we um it was always a challenge um to get our packets on a Friday, review
them, and not have much time um and putting a lot of pressure on our our staff to answer any questions that the board has. So, we decided that maybe we try a different day. Does Tuesday work okay for you? Either day works for me. Okay. Okay. I'll make it work. I'm not
going to vote on this. We're going to leave it as is. Okay. Yeah. The only definive date is June 2nd. Everything else is going to be moved to Tuesdays. Okay. So, so everything's fine then. Yeah. All right. So, June had So, June
2nd is a Monday and then June 24th would be a Tuesday. Is that that thing? Yep. Oh, I think we had those before. Yeah. This is just her like moving it back a day. Got it. So, June 2nd and then we
switch to Tuesdays. Yep. Okay. Yep. Uh, article 21, any updates for the old colony regional vote? Yeah. Yes. Building committee. Yeah. So, we have we're coming towards the end of our schematic
design phase. Um, the um SK the cost analysis uh phase will be during July. Cost estimated that's correct. the estimated cost estimated phase in July. Um we're
looking to have final costs um by the end of July, last week of July. The bill committee will review them and then probably release them I'm guessing the first week of August. Um and that'll be the number that will be going for the
vote. Okay. Excellent. So, um, yeah, so we're finalizing obviously building designs and last week we had we spent an interesting hour talking about heating and air conditioning systems. And just for kind of an FYI, it's kind of interesting. So, to maximize grants and
from NSBA or funding to maximize funding from MSBA and grants from the energy companies, you got to either go with solar. Yep. Or electric. No g, no oil, no coal, no natural gas. You can, but you don't maximize. So, so right now
we're looking at two options that we're getting final costs on. One is geothermal um heating and cooling. That's the most expensive, but if you average out over 30 year, that's the cheapest in energy. That's the biggest up front. Right. Right. Uh and then the second uh the
other plan we looked at is basically massive heat pumps on the roof. uh they have mini splits but they're massive and they go on the roof uh electricity of course generated uh with a electric boiler as a backup alternative to that
as a it's kind of a dual type system. Um so there's a possibility that the geothermal once we get closer the way it was explained to us sometimes it's the drilling costs the most and sometimes if you catch some of those drills at a time where they're looking for work they can give you some substantial discounts and
how much ledge you hit when you're Yeah. I don't know if they've done any studies on what's below the school yet. So, we're keeping those two options open and we'll come back and I appreciate you guys doing your due diligence to try to find Thank you. maximize the grants. Yep. That's all I
have. All right. Technology advisory subcommittee. Uh we lost our select board member um on that committee. The discussion should be around right now if we want to revise the membership and add another select board member or an ATL
large member. Um I I know everyone's plates pretty full at this juncture. I would be okay if anyone doesn't have an interest in being part of it as um as removing a select board member and just
floating it with a new atlarge member um and then having our um our IT director kind of be the lead or the liaison um type role on there. But I just wanted to hear everyone's thoughts. discussion. Is
anyone actually interested in being on the technology advisory subcommittee? Um, so you know, I've participated in some of the meetings and I worked with member day to kind of get that committee going. So I guess it's only natural that
I think I could I'd be happy to have it and I just don't want to overcommit you. I think in that extra 13 minutes a week you have it up to 13. I didn't know that you you only had seven minutes available. I have stuff for you to do then. All right. Um is anyone else
interested? I only have 11 minutes hearing uh hearing the interest. Um, I'd like to nominate member Planka to be our uh our select board member on the technology advisory subcommittee.
Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. I can candid. Carbon. I. Hunt. I. Um, congratulations with your last 13 minutes. Gone. Now that's it. I'm maxed
out. You're maxed out. No more. Uh, next update, communications and uh, community outreach subcommittee. We I have no updates at this point, but I do know that we're looking for another member. So, I will be um, working with I'm going
to reach out to to Lacy and and see what we can do to um, you know, really generate some some interest so we can get this meeting scheduled. So, and we have one member, so we certainly can get started, but yeah. Okay. Madam Chair,
questions. Do we have charge on that? Yeah, we have charges on all of our committees. Um, I don't think I've seen any of those. Can I put a request to I think from our last meeting, if I can, Madam Chair. Um, there was a request that um all of the charges for all of the committees were going to be put
together. Oh, okay. And given to you so that you can have them digitized. Okay. Um for easy access and that did not happen. Correct. Not yet. Okay. So question the communication that
involves max leveraging Facebook media outlets is that charge question real quick. So when you you'll see the charge um we previous member had put it beautifully elaborate um you know plan together uh
but there was a piece that I had asked um that we kind of include but we hadn't put it into the writing was to take an inventory of what we currently use um for communications for internal as well
as external. Okay. um newsletters. Correct. And social media. Yep. And then uh one of the pieces was to check in um and conduct some kind of a survey to say, you know, get a a feel for how people are receiving their
communications. Um and if if there was something that we weren't doing, maybe that's something that would come back to the board for discussion. Uh there was another piece that I was hoping to tap into Serpent for. They have a
program that and this will tie into with the IT which is I had mentioned it to Brian to see where we're vulnerable especially with our population to see if they have access to the internet if they
have devices. So, there's some studies that you can tap into from both Comcast and Verizon and you uh you could go through the cable committee and they actually have those numbers on town penetration for Yeah. Yeah. So, we can
maybe use Yeah. Okay. So, one of those pieces I would assume would be a town website. Oh, yes. Right. And as we know, we have money allocated. So, I don't know what member day has planned, but I'm going to talk with him. talk with
Tracy as well. Tracy was part of those conversations for the website as well. Correct. Andrew, too. Yep. Andrew, you're in on that, too. Yeah. And then we'll obviously um with the retirement of Tracy, we'll obviously have to find a
new home for that um for the website and for managing the website as well. Right. So, I I'll lead with the sub technology subcommittee. Yep. the effort to revise that whatever civic plus is offering later and then solicit and my point is
soliciting feedback from your group. Yep. Perfect. You'd like to see the website. Yeah, that would be great because that's I think that's our one-stop shop. I think that if if somebody was to look for information about what's happening, they would go there. And then what was your your
motto? Two clicks. Two clicks. Two clicks. You don't want to be any further away than two clicks. You don't want to have people have to go sift through multiple tabs and stuff for them to find their information. So, we need to be uh cognizant of um the tolerance of how
hard people are going to look for their information. Yeah. So, that's all I have. Thank you. All right. Um we did we take our vote or wait was that or was did we have the discussion
on that? No, we took the vote. We're good. Let's go back to agenda item number nine. Discussion and possible vote on Lakeville mixed martial arts license agreement. Attached is a memo from the TA and a proposed three-year license
agreement for the studio. Okay. So, uh we've discussed this a few times in the past. Um, eventually my first recommendation was to do like a one-year deal and then go back out and look for maybe a new tenant.
Um, I since took two different site visits. Um, the building's not nearly what I thought it was. Um, I think if we were going to go out for a new tenant or potentially new tenant, we would need significant capital. Yep. To upgrade the
building. I agree. Um and so I think um the increase of the fees I think for three years is a good investment. Um obviously what John Mirando and Lakeville um MMA does is
can't really put in the dollars. Um place is packed even tonight. So it's it's one of those things that draws people to the community, draws people to the entire um all the fields here that we have. So, um, anecdotally, um, uh,
prior to that studio being there, there's a lot of nighttime activity that would happen around, uh, a lot of vandalism, uh, a lot of other issues. Um, and so having someone there at night where everywhere else is kind of closed down has also been a little bit of an
ancillary benefit for the town. Um, I know the dollars are not where we want to see them currently, but to Andrew's point, having to make an initial investment at this time, um, that may or may not pay out is probably a little bit bigger of a gamble than we can be taking
right now. Um, but I also want to just caution people against something that used to be called like a McNamera fallacy and that is just going on the dollars for something and looking, you know, at at kind of some of those inputs
and just going by dollars. There's some intangible benefits or some other benefits that should always be weighed in decisions like this, especially, you know, around here. And and and I I think we've had a really great relationship. Do I think it can continue indefinitely?
No. Probably at some point. Um, we're going to have to put some investment dollars in that building anyways. Um, and move forward with it. But, um, Lakeville Martial Arts has been a a great tenant for us. Um, and, uh, I'm happy to be part of this agreement. He
also did referenced a lot of new ideas for improvements to general facility. So, it's obviously a discussion we'll have to have in the future. Okay. Madam Chair, I know from personal experience u having sent people to Mr. Miranda that
he has uh taken people in at his shop uh that have not had the funds or the means to pay for those with children that needed guidance and he has willingly stepped forward on many occasions
children. So he truly embraces that. He absolutely does what the parks are about and and that you know community spirit that allows um that to function so well. Madam Chair, quick question. Um the revenue generated goes into the parking
budget. Correct. Yeah. Um there was one question that member Day had that I might have missed it in here that I don't see it addressed. He was just uh looking for everyone to do uh Corey. Um yeah, we did add it. Check.
You did add it. We added it. I missed I must have missed it. Term 22 background check. It mirrors the the loon. Thank you. I see that now. Perfect. I appreciate that.
Excellent. All right, Lieutenant. I'll make a motion um to enter into the agreement license agreement with Lakeville Mixed Martial Arts um for 3 years starting
on May 20th, 2025 and ending on May 19th, 2025 as presented. Can I get a second? I'll second that. I get a motion in a second. She she ended on the same in the
same year. We have to go to 2028. May 19th. Thank you. 2028. I was looking at that. I saw the You was seeing if I was paying attention. That's right. Thank you. And thank you for paying attention. Perfect. With the change of 2028. Motion a second. Any
further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. Plug I. Carbon. I. Hunt. Hi. All right. Item number 10. Discussion and possible vote to sign
a purchase and sales agreement, deed, and/or closing documents associated with the sale of zero Cherry Street parcel. Um, without having this be the longest story ever told, can you just give a very quick synopsis of where we were and
how long it's taken us to get here? Um, it's probably been a lot longer than I would even think. 2019. 2019. Um, even even recently, it's been, I think, but since before I started to now. Yeah. Um, and so at the most recent fall town
meeting, town meeting authorized the select board to then uh sell the property. Uh, I think there was a a process where that the board followed last year that authorized the sale to this individual. Um, and so we're finally at the point where we're
signing a purchase and sale deed and closing docks for that property. And it's about the the property sale was $8,000 with uh taxes. It's like $8 and I
mean $8,000 and like $5. All right. So, does anyone have any questions about the article about the process? Yes. Now that is this property that they defaulted on one of those that the collect drag to
the office they deal with or they don't even better. It's kind of complicated history. Do you Yeah. So at some point the pl property was split and Cherry Street was I don't know if it was bought by the town or it was taken by the town. I think it was taken it was taken by the town. It was an
undersized portion of a lot that was actually attached to the house that's buying it now. But there was some advantage that the board at the time felt there would be there for was it a water infrastructure? I think so. Yeah,
there was some type of water infrastructure. Um so then we just had this orphaned parcel out there that we couldn't use and that wasn't attached and was actually being um conspicuously used for like a driveway for years and years and years. The buy the butters are
buying it. A good deal. There's quite a bit of these in clock showers as well. Yeah, it's pretty We get questions all the time. Yeah, it's pretty odd. Yeah. All right. Would anyone like to make a motion? Sure. I'll make a motion that we sign um the purchase and sale agreement
deed and or closing documents associated with the sale of Zero Cherry Street parcel. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. Block I. Candy do I? Bony eye. Hunt eye.
Um, I'm going to hold off. Is there anything else on here? Probably could do number seven. Oh, yeah. That's true. Let me see. I got to go back and play with these. Okay, this
is all right. Uh, agenda item number seven, discuss and possible vote, notice of intent, layout and alteration, public roadway for roadway widening, sidewalks and pedestrian curb ramps um off of Mrick Street. So, it's the following
roadways. South Precinct South Precinct Street, Mrick's Intersection, Rhode Island Road, Mrick Street Intersection, Rhode Island Road, Learon Boulevard intersection, Johnson Drive, Rhode Island Road intersection, Harrison A, Rhode Island Road intersection, and
Rhode Island Road, Pine Ridge Drive intersection, and Rhode Island Road, Bedford Street intersection. Andrew, would you like to speak to this? Yeah. So, this I think we've kind of talked about it a few times. This is in regards to the Route 79 project. Um, the state
requires us to have new roadway layout plans um for these alterations to to happen. Um, so this is on the town meeting warrant for approval. Um, and this needs to occur before the project can begin.
[Music] All right. Is this a hearing though? This one is not cuz this is the intent. Okay. Madam Chair, thank you. The hearing will be on May 30th at 9:00. Got it.
All right. Uh, does anyone have any questions on the extra tiny drawings that we have so we can test our eyesight? I think this is all as was presented for each time. I don't see anything different. I'll take a motion.
Um, I move that the select board vote its intention to lay out public roadway alterations and the locations shown on plans entitled layout alteration plan of land for Rhode Island Road, Mrick Street, Precinct Street, Channel Town, Lakeville, Massachusetts, dated uh May 9th,
2025 um prepared by Dawwood and to forward this vote and the plan to the planning board with direction to provide a report on such alteration um to the select board as soon as possible pursuant to general Law chapter 41 section 8 81.
Do I have a second? Seconded. Motion and second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. I Andy do I. Carboni. I I. Fantastic. And that brings us for another minute. We'll have a little
pause for a minute and then we will begin uh item number five, the public hearing. Vote to approve and adopt the layout of a portion of Harrison A. Um we don't have any more Lakeville facts from anyone. I didn't see any
Lakeville facts the last couple days. I thought you just took it off the agenda. No, I didn't. I did not see any Lakeville facts on the agenda. And Tracy was probably hoping that maybe you didn't I just didn't remember. No. Like anyone have a anyone in the audience? Lakeville facts. No. Nothing like that.
All right. What is that? Say 1 minute. Yeah, it's only 6:29. 629. We have a whole minute, guys. I have a joke. Not you, Carboni. Right. [Music]
[Music] 6:30. All right. 6:30. Am I to make a motion to open the public hearing to vote and approve and adopt the layout of a portion of Harrison Avenue?
So moved. Have a second. Seconded motion and second to open the hearing. Roll call. Plug I. Candid. I. Carboni. I. Hunt. I. Hearing is now open. Um, the town of Lakeville acting by and
through the select board vote its intention on April 14, 2025 to lay out as public way a portion of the roadway known as Harrison Avenue which may abut or be near your property pursuant to GL 822.
The select board has scheduled a public meeting on May 19, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeville Police Station at 323 Bedford Street, Lakeville, Mass, 02347, for the purpose of considering whether the layout portion of Harrison A as a public way as shown in the plan entitled
just titled not entitled layout plan of the Harrison A 222 from Rhode Island Road, town of Lakeville, Massachusetts, dated February 24, 2025. Prepared prepared by Daywood Engineering and adopt an order of layout. A copy of the
plan is on file with the town clerk. Um do we have a discussion? Do we have anyone that would like to speak to it? I see um one person in the audience, our DPW
director, Frank Monise. Welcome. Welcome. Um so this is just a simple uh engineered layout plan for the Harrison area that is affected by the 79 project.
Typically on the majority of our accepted roads we already have these plans in place. DOT requires this documentation of the having engineered layout plans um to coincide with the alterations and and easements that we're
going to see coming forward on May 30th in that public hearing. So this is a road we already own. This is the layout of it is already um was already accepted through town meeting. Um but this is simply just the documented engineered plans for it now that weren't on file.
It should have been. Um would is this the last besides the next hearing that's coming up for any type of um road layout for the Route 79 project or is Yeah. So this is the only road layout. There was one in Taton for Turner Street. Okay. It was the same type of deal, but that was
dealt with with Taton, we had to do the work on it, but because the same thing was in place, there was no layout um on file for that roadway. Perfect. Okay, Madam Chair, um because I know Harrison A went to so far and then they extended
it even further. So, is that do you think maybe that was the the reasoning for No, because even this layout we're doing is only a portion of the town layout. Um, we decided to do that just for cost factor. At some point, maybe in, you know, the future we'll get the
rest of the engineered layout put in place, but this was specifically what's covered through the Route 79 project. Absolutely. Great. Does anyone else have any questions? Yeah, it's the first time I've ever seen anything like I I know we go through regular, you know, accepting private road. So, if I
clarify, please um this is an existing town road. Yep. But yet the wording says um oh purpose of considering whether to lay out a portion of house nav as a public way. Yes. So clarify that. Um
it's it's really just we're just adopting the layout that it was already a town road but we're now we're adopting the layout as put forth by the engineers. So they went out and surveyed it all. So part of the 79 project. It's
for the 79 project. Yes. Is this kind of like the state saying Lakeville, we really don't trust you, so we want to ask you again if this meets state standards. Um, nope. It's more so at some point, not that I'll point fingers at anyone, but someone didn't document it or someone didn't do due process when
this road was accepted in town meeting in the first place. Perfect. So now moving forward, we do the peer review with ASB built and um, you know, everything else that goes with that. And then when a road is accepted, we have the engineered plans, as builts, all
that to go forward with. At that time, I guess that wasn't something that they did. Okay. Is this is a standard process for all private roads that become town roads? Is it or is this a little different because it's 79? I think with
the state funding, they have all these requirements and like they want to see what the layouts are before they approve the construction docks. It's the state a little different because it's state the state requires the the the document the engineered layout document in order to
move forward with the project. Different than a regular road where we accepted. Yeah. So like Johnson Drive is a town road. A lot of these other roads that are on here are town roads, but they're already documented the layout. You say it's good fire chief and then we vote on it. But this is cuz it's 79 is state funding. It's going to an extra hoop.
Yeah. Got it. So yeah. Thank you. Any questions? Yeah, I'm looking at the motion that was here um because we already like we did in the last um vote the intent to lay out for those others.
Um and we've already voted to our intention to lay this out. That's why we're having the hearing. Um, so would the motion be the intention to adopt versus the intention to lay out to lay out? I'm not sure. I don't know.
Motion's incorrect. Yeah, I don't that's I don't know why we could just add the word adoption, adapt or layout intention to lay out or layout and or all right do that. I just
to and and this and this will have to go back to the planning board, I guess. And or this is the end of it, I believe. Yeah, that's what I thought cuz it says it has to go back planning board. Yeah. So, this motion does not um fully b I think we have to close the hearing
before we make right. Can I get a motion to close the hearing? Unless there's someone else, but I don't see anyone. No. All right. Take a motion to close the hearing. So moved. Uh need a second. Seconded.
Motion and second. All in favor? I candid I. Carbon I. Hunt I. Um all right. Let's word smith this motion. I think Andrew is working on it right now. And I have it somewhere. I just have it. Thank you for coming out for this.
I just don't have it in front of me now. I know why. So, let's make a cobbled together motion ready and then if we need to amend it, we will amend it at another meeting, but I believe the language is the least important part just to we can finish that up when we
meet on the 2nd or the 30th. All right. So, I'll make a motion. Oh, I move that the select board vote its intention to adopt um and the layout portion of Harrison Avenue as a public way and the location shown on the
plan entitled layout plan of land for Harrison A Avenue 222 ft from Rhode Island Road, town of Lakeville, Massachusetts dated February 24th, 2025 prepared by Dawood. I think that would be it, right? Period.
Um, do we need to do um pursuant to GL chapter 41 section 811 or no? Prepared by Doward um pursuant to general law chapter 41 section 81 I your glasses are much better than all
right. I have a motion. Can I get a second on that motion? Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Again, for anyone listening at home, we might change a word or two on this motion, but it will not change the intent of this motion um for the
next meeting. All right. Hearing. Oh, wait. Did I get a second? Yes. A second. I got a motion. A second. Roll call. I candy I. Carbon. I. Hunt. I. All right.
Thank you, Frank. Thank you, Frank. Thank you. Um, article 13 over here. You get it next next winning. Uh, article 13 discussion possible vote on additional article regarding finance committee to be placed
on the June 9, 2025 annual town meeting warrant. I would like to ask uh member Plona to speak to this. Yes. So, this came about um we um there's an interest to have
finance committee representation on the economic development committee. Um so this article will allow um a member from the finance committee to um participate in the uh EDC as the current
bylaws do not allow participation on any other committees for uh the finance committee members. So this this simply it it modifies the bylaw and it grants um exception for a member to participate in the EDC. Simple modification. Do we have
any discussion? anything anyone would like clarification on or any comments? I just had one thing. Um I think we're going to basically I guess we'll have a discussion and make it so that finance committee can be on anything maybe going
forward. It's just uh too late in the game. Correct. Make that would like that in the future. We can discuss that at a late date. Yes. Yeah. Um, and um, I do know that there are a very few towns that have restrictions the way that we do, but they're
usually they're usually really specific and narrow. Um, the restrictions on finance committee uh, for Lakeville were very broad um, and kind of uh, overstep it seemed. So, um, this will be a correction of that if it passes. Uh, I'd
like to hear a motion if someone has one. I'll I'll make a motion to um vote on the um agenda item 13. Hold on. I like it. To modify the bylaw to allow econ
finance committee participation in the econ economic development committee. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Um just the fact that um this is to be voted to place this um Oh, that's correct. I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you. Um amendment on the June 9th um annual town
media warrant. That is correct. Thank you. Thank you for the language. I'm learning. 10 more years you'll we'll all get it. Exactly. Okay. Please. I got a motion. And who seconded? Paul.
Paul seconded. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. plug eye. Andoro I Carboni I Hunt I and if um Mad if if Tracy has any you know concerns when she goes to you know
rewatch feel free to reach out to me. All right. Uh we still have some more time. Um we're not going to do 12. Um 15. Yeah, 15 it
is. Turn those pages. Spin that wheel. Who's that? Um discussion and possible vote on select board designign on an interview panel for executive assistant to select board and town administrator. Um I have
thoughts on this right away that I will just express on this. Um, in past select boards, there was a lot of day-to-day operations interjection where a lot of the select board members wanted to be
very close to the decisions on hiring and um, and appointing people to roles that were not department heads and not strictly relevant to the board being a policymaking board.
Um, I would say that uh it would be my recommendation, and this is just me speaking plainly, that we stop weighing in on these type of hires and that we concentrate on department heads and town administrators and and those type of
roles and not involve ourselves in executive assistance and in um in assistance too. Um, and anyone can feel free to feel different than me. Um, I just think it causes extra time on these
and extra voices when when we're not sitting in an office working with these people and they're not working for us directly. Um, with the exception of whoever is chosen on the uh administrative assistant to the select board will be executing out the will of
the select board, but really will be reporting day in day out to the town administrator. So, that's just my thoughts before the discussion begins. I'd appreciate anyone else's thoughts or opinions on um designating an interview
panel uh including a select board member for uh these two roles. Madam Chair, could you clarify? Are you advocating no select board representation is I am. I think it just clogs the works um and it becomes more a political appointment um
than than maybe it needs to be. Um I would like the appointments ideally to be done by the person that's going to be overseeing them like specifically and I would preclude that from I would amend that to say with the exception of
department heads. I think department heads should come to uh to the select boards and those decisions should be made the chiefs the department heads all of those positions and so previously select board representation was limited to how many
members? So so it would and no this wasn't always so prior to 20 the select board was not involved in those decisions. um the select board started being more involved in those
decisions. Um actually, I'll just say sporadically because sometimes there was a select board member and sometimes there wasn't. It it wasn't like a policy. Um I don't think it's written anywhere about it, but it became just the way of doing business um
sometime, but it was sporadically. I know there was like one position um that was hired that had multiple people and then other positions nobody sat in. So it was kind of odd. At the very least we should be consistent. I don't like the
inconsistency. Exactly. If we are to sit in a meet in in these meetings it should be for positions that are X Y and Z and not you know do we need a policy on that? We we might need a policy on that. Um but do we have a policy? We do not
have a policy on it. I there it's nowhere. It's not in the handbook. It's it doesn't exist. So, this is just something that has grown in the last four or five years due to just different boards wanting different things. Um I I
think in this instance uh for the assistant um to the town administrator um I just executive session to to uh to select board and town administrator. We could go either way on this. I just want
to throw that opinion out there. I could benefit I could go either way too. I just I want it to be consistent. Anything less than that is appearance of hidden agendas or whatever. Yeah, I I agree. It's not a reflection of past flood board members, of course. No, no,
no. But different boards want different things, right? And if they don't have a policy to refer to to it, it becomes very adequate can help eliminate those personal whatever. Agreed. Agreed. Where they have to actually vote to change
something instead of just change it on a whim. M um what is the town administrator? So I went back and forth a few different times on whether I wanted it or not. I just figured since the last time we did
this was probably 25 years ago for Tracy um these appointments can be a long long time and um it's a position that you're all four of you are going to interact with pretty regularly. So, I just thought it'd be
something to just uh have a say in. Um, absolutely. I'm not like adamant that someone needs to be on it, but I'm not adamant against it either. So, following up on that question, would you feel the same about the your analyst
position or would the analyst that'd be separate than just reports? Yeah, this I feel like this had more of like a select board kind of interface to it. Could m if I could could I propose because this person does
interact with us. Um maybe something similar to like a TH committee where we don't need to be in on the big upfront but maybe if you whittle it down the last Yeah. the final two candidates or so. Maybe you could
pull an accordion member. I think that would be fine. I've seen I've seen committees do that. Yeah. Yeah. We have a committee ready to go on this either way. Yeah. Um like I said, there's a dozen candidates pretty well qualified, so I don't think we're going to have a
problem with that. That's pretty exciting. I I love hearing, you know, how many candidates we have for that role. Yeah. All right. Does anyone want to make a motion? Any further discussion first? Any opinions? Anything?
Somebody designate. Well, we'd have to make Well, does anyone want to do it? Do you have how do you have more than 13 minutes? Depends on Depends on the week. Um, yeah, I could certainly make time for
for this once we whittle down to the number of a number of candidates. And I certainly see I see both sides of everything. You know, the interaction is key. I you might as well learn who you're going to be working with. But I also see the the opportunity for
micromanagement and it can be especially us can be an issue you know and we're revolving board whereas in it shouldn't be the TA you know that's the person that is their direct contact and and well a
singular member doesn't represent the the board in its entirety and can't I mean we can't predict how things are going to go and and how trends are going to be. Yep. I appreciate the perspective. All right. So, do we have a
motion on who would like to present? I'm bad at making motions. I'll make fantastic at it. I know that. I'm looking at it. I'll make a motion um that we that we appoint Paul Hunt as the
um interview or the designate to interview um the executive assistant to the select board and the town administrator when you call the finalist designate. How about the finalist? Finalist. There you go.
There we go. All right. Do I have a second? I'll second that. All right, I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. Plug I can't do I. Hunt I. All right.
What else do we got time for here? Free mornings. No, mornings. I guess it' be 11. Thank you. Yeah. Agenda item 11. Andrew, would you like to speak?
Yeah. So, annually the select board takes a vote um to some degree to um vote a non-UN annual compensation increase. I think generally speaking, this has been 3% in recent years. it has matched
the budget the department heads increase or the overall increase. Um again no rules to it just okay that's what it's done in the in the last 10 years probably. Okay. Um and so through the budget we have the room to do 3%. So
that's what the recommendation is. Um, I had Lacy and I put together a memo. Basically, um, it's really only about $10,000 difference between one, two, and three. That's cuz a lot of the contracts stipulate 3%. Already, so can't really
go one or two anyways. How many people are impacted by this? Um, about a dozen to 15. Yeah, about a dozen. Magic. Yes. Question Andrew. So the
difference between 1 and 3% is about from doing the rough math about 24 23 million 23. Yes. About 24,000. Yep. Any questions, more or do I have a motion? I'll make a motion
um to support the recommendation of the town administrator on non-UN annual compensation increased at 3%. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second that motion. I have a motion to second. Any further
discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. Plug eye. Candy I. Carboni. I. Hunt. I um new business. Item number 22. Oh, I had one thing on
Yeah. Um, we need a new member for capital expenditures committee. Um, member day was the designate from the board and we're going to need to meet in the next week or two for that. So, um, preferably we can get a designate
tonight and then come back and ratify that at the next meeting. Um I can make time for that if no one else is interested. I make a motion um we appoint Moren Candido as the um the the rep the the
designate on the capital expenditure committee. Second. I have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Don't be jealous everyone. All right. Roll call vote. Pl I candid
I. Carbon I. Hunt I. All right. Any new business for anyone else? When I think of it during the day, I should make sure that I find a way to write it down or something. Just text it. Okay. New
business text. All right. We have five more minutes. Um, why don't we go for agenda item 23 and I think we'll make it through maybe A and B. Okay. Town planner update, please.
Yep. So, we interviewed this past week for a few um candidates. Um, haven't still haven't found anyone that we're willing to offer the job to. Um, so we're still going to keep it posted and still kind of evaluating the position as
a whole. Um, I think it's it's worth waiting to find someone that's good for the role, not just someone that could fill it short term. Um, so just kind of taking a wait and see approach right now, but in the background, we're kind of game planning what we would do if
that that no one ever interviews well for us. So, I'd like to propose to this board um that if we do not find like the perfect candidate on this search that we have another discussion on how we want to
fill that role in particular, I know from talking to the planning board. They have some immediate needs right now that they would like to fill with um with going out for an RFP for some services. Um, I know they quoted some numbers that
were sky-high and not feasible for us. Um, but I would like this board to consider um and put it on our next meeting agenda on the 30th on our our meeting to consider uh splitting that role up and having a land use
coordinator um someone to take care of like those day-to-day operations um for the for the ZBA for for for planning board and to do the tasks that are less dependent on some severe longtime
expertise and then farm out some of the expertise stuff um and kind of split I don't want to say it but I'm going to say it split the baby a little bit where we have a coordinator position and then we supplement that coordinator by having
a um a service come in and give us you know those really highlevel um insights into some projects I really want to make sure we're supporting our planning board. I know they don't feel it right now. They're not feeling supported. They're feeling uh like, you know, the
the board is kind of dragging their feet a little bit um and giving them something that they don't want. Um not that I want to totally, you know, just take what they're saying, but it would fit into what we were seeing for the
candidates for some of those planning candidates. Look like they'd be fantastic land use coordinators. They're not quite at the level that a planner would be at, but they would be like a tier down from a planner, someone that could grow into a planner role. Um, and
maybe we'd have the best of both worlds. But that would be my suggestion unless we find just this absolute, you know, person that fits every build that we need for this town planner role, which it really does. It sounds like we've had great candidates, but they're either
lacking in experience or, you know, just that extra factor. So, I would like this board at our next meeting to consider um switching gears on the town planner position and splitting it to a land use
and economic development coordinator. um someone to kind of run some of our grants as well and be a little bit more broad and be able to do it with a little less experience and a lot less salary.
Good news is we have 90,000 to do that as well as supplement with any services. So if we split it to like 70, we'd still have 30 like 70,000 for a land use coordinator which looks like a pretty average salary for a town this size. Um,
and then we would have $30,000 to be able to go um and just attack some of these strategic big projects and support our planning board and um and our ZBA as well for for some of the stuff. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this
um for kind of the structure uh going forward or or how we can support the planning board because you know that I I really do feel like they have not had a great support from us this year. Not intentionally obviously but we've had
the turnover where we weren't expecting it to happen. So madam chair your proposal is to use the money that would have gone towards a town planner for a temporary land use coordinator. Well I don't think it would be temporary. I think we would hire a
land use coordinator and then we would use the delta of that money to hire. So there would be no savings overall. It would be like a land use coordinator say for $70,000 and then $30,000 in a bucket for the planning board to be able to use
for high level projects to get other consultants. Yes, potentially. Yes. Oh, and we scrapped the full-time planner for now or for the foreseeable future. I would think for the foreseeable future, but I mean town needs could be
different. Um, but I don't know that at least for this year. At least for this year at least. I thought it'd be a oneyear I don't know how we would put that. I think you just have to put it in the budget as it is. Every year we're appropriating. If if if we if the the
needs of the town changed um then we would just not appropriate it. We would appropriate something. Okay. But we're not you're not proposing entering in like a three-year contract with a land use coordinator. 0% chance of that being in the interest. But no, but having a short-term contract going out um going
out for a shortterm contract with someone with some expertise for some of the stuff that we have coming down. Um you know, I I think I think that could be a real big support system for our planning board. I support that in land use.
Bring it back to the 30th one. Yeah. Okay. All right. We got through a We're going to table the rest. We're going to go over to our article speaking with the parks uh joint meeting with the parks
commission to discuss AP apex Rner design engineering plan at Clear Pond. Good evening. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Could you introduce yourself for the record? Melissa Turkot, parks commission chair and we have Andrew
Mora. Andrew Mora, park our commission member. Welcome. Um, where it's just the two of us. Would you like me to still open the meeting? You cannot. Right. Right. Cuz we need three. Yep. Right. We'll just borrow the drawer and not let anybody else in. All right. We'll just talk to you and uh then you can bring it
back to your board. Okay. Oh, do No, no. When we talk to you, you just bring it back to your board and then you have to vote on it there. So, you don't have to open. Okay. All right. I know there's questions. Um, board members, I'm going to open it up
to you first for questions. So, this is Are we questioning the Clear Pond engineering study? Are we questioning the Clear Pond rates and hours for the summer? Like, this is planned. Just the plan. Just the plan. Yep. That's all. That's I know they have a presentation.
Do you want to start with that before you ask your questions? I think that I think she had a question that you can clear up pretty quickly. Oh, yeah. No, I know that um just as a as a prelump as to why we're here um we had allocated I I don't know how much money at the time
right around 40,000 40,000 so that our Clare Pond um I mean our parks commission could do um an engineering study for Clare Pond Park. So it was 40,000 for the engineering plan and that's what we're receiving tonight. Okay. Want to make that clear. Okay. So
this is all brand new to me. You this has been discussed previously I assume. So just quickly it the board allocated funding for funding. Oh okay good even better the engineering study and based
off of these there's a proposal to execute some of these plans potentially. So we have we have the engineering funded. Do we have the project funded as well through or we we weren't able to get that particular project funded?
Correct. No, I can give some of the history if it helps. Yeah, please. So, uh before I start, I think it was probably a few months before I started, the board allocated $40,000 of ARPA funding to do an engineering plan. Um so over the last few months, Melissa,
myself, Bruno was a part of it, Mike Ellis was a part of it. We've kind of gone through and created what it would kind of look like and now we're coming back to present our find initial findings for feedback from parks and the select board. And once we kind of get
dug down into what we want to see happen, they'll go back and then uh give us pricing on what it would be and then from there we can build where the funding comes from. So, the good news is now that our uh open space plan has been completed, we could
actually go for grant funding, we've been ineligible since 2022 to get any grant funding for parks or open space. So, I'm anticipating that anything we're discussing here, that that's the first place that we would look for funding sources if there are not if we don't
have a benefactor hiding out there in in one of the bushes of Lakeville waiting to throw a million dollars at us. I was I was thinking park CPA and then Yep. capital sometimes. All right. Let's see what you got. Hold on. Yeah. So, real quick. So,
what's drive what was what's the driving factor to do this study? Was it just general improvements, safety issues, access issues, ADA issues? I would say all the above. But the biggest driving factor is right, we can't do anything.
We can't apply for grants. We can't ask for money. We can't do anything until we have the plan in place. Now we can say this is our plan step one. This is where we want to go. This is how much we need to complete this. Okay. One last piece. Uh we contracted Apex uh
used to be environmental partners. They have since subcontracted with Radner Design and that who's who's going to present tonight. Okay. Thank you. Um you can put it on the uh over there.
Yep. Poor design having this afternoon anywhere. My name is Katarina Kramer. I'm with Rand Design Associates. Um we were we joined Apex in doing the studies for the
Cliff Pon Park. Um I think the town is um approached us with the idea and please Melissa help if I miss something out or I don't say it
correctly but um yes to bring the park clear park to the ADA um um standards and then I think the idea is that you want to run maybe summer camps And so we
want to maybe look reook at the facilities and what the p the clear pond offers right now. Um so we went out a couple times and looked at existing conditions. Uh on this plan we are
highlighting the facilities that are there right now. As we come into the park, um we there is staff parking, but it's kind of natural to wood chips along with
the handicap parking is also just wood chips, right? So, it's not very really designated parking which we would like to um maybe it needs some regrading and resurfacing
um so that it's um handicap accessible. Uh then up here there is a little small secluded beach that is maybe because it's kind of divided from the main beach could be used for some uh private rental
uses. Um we can also look at what we can do there to um maybe make it interesting for people that they wanted to rent it. Um the main building right now seems um too small
for the for the purpose of having a camp there. Um I know that there is a desire to have a parks manager office in there. I think we need to look into
um shelter in in case of lightning lightning. Um and then maybe we were thinking of combining the concession and ticketing and and just all of the administration stuff that we need to
cover this area would just be in one building. So that would need to get much bigger and rebuild. Um there is an existing mini golf course that is heavily used by kids or whoever the visitors. Uh it just needs some
renovation probably not very major. Um so yeah the concession we would move. There is an existing playground. Um it looks like it's only for smaller kids. So that means other
you know children or or youth doesn't probably it's not very interesting or it's not a draw for them. So it's not accessible either right now. It's not accessible either. It's not compliant. Yes. So that that would have to be completely redone.
And uh yeah, we when we go further to the proposed um plan, I'll talk about what we what we were hoping to do. Um the picnic
area that's right now there, I think is it's got a good use and it's probably going to remain as we were talking about that. Um the beach is not accessible either. So we were talking about how can we help
with that. I'll get to that later. Um there is also an existing beach volleyball which we'll probably also keep. It's a nice um way of entertaining kids people. And then at the end of the park there is an
asphalt basketball court which is not in a very good shape and the size is not really um the size of a basketball court. So we could shrink it, re resurface it and you
know make it just a nicer sport court. Um, this marks the crosses in a circle. We noted trees that might be
taken out because you invited an artist and they determined that the trees are not in a good health. They may be um danger, you know, risk of falling down.
So that will help to clear some area for everything we want to fit in but still remain it as a woodsy place. We don't really want to change um the feel of the park.
Um what else do we have? And then these blue circles these are just uh existing grill stations. We mark them because, you know, it's also a feature. It's, you know, it's u
something people use. So, we just wanted to know where they are in the in the space. I think that's all for the existing. And I assume there's a lighting plan that goes on with all of those or or is
this all daytime? It's all daytime. There it's going to be closed after dark, right? Or is it? Well, cuz right currently it's only used for the summer, right? So it doesn't get dark until 9:00. So,
and is the plan to have all of these enhancements only be used for the summer? I'm not sure. Long-term plan. We put in the daycare, not the daycare, but the room for a summer camp
in case that was a plan in the future. So we we're making it so that it can be used and added on to as years go by. Um I know that there's a mosquito problem like they used to do movie nights in the park and they just the director said we
can't do them anymore with this. We have the people come in and spray the mosquitoes but 2 days later the mosquitoes are back so they can't even do movie nights there at night anymore. Got it. I have one more interruption before I let go. Is there a business plan that goes along with all of these enhancements as well? Nope. These are
just all basic enhancements that for ADA for bringing up to 20th century. Please carry on. So the next slide are just some
images of existing conditions which I assume everybody knows the park. So we just the the um programming that we talked about that's there that's what the images are
representing basically and the status of of um all of these. Um the next slide is the proposed functional
diagram. Uh we it says option too. We had two options but as we were meeting together with um Melissa from Rex and others um we kind of put it all together
in one plan. So we don't have to do that right now but we can go through things we are looking at and then maybe we get some feedback and then we can refine it even further. Um
so we are proposing the vehicular pedestrian access to be regraded and creating the handicap parking up here. Um I have some images as to the materials and programming after this. So
we are not really looking into paving with hard surfaces rather using natural surf surfacing like crushed stone compacted to the so that it's compliant with the um ADA
requirements. Um we are showing what needs to happen for the main building. So the lightning shelter, concession bathrooms, office. So everything will be combined in this area. Um, so we're not really changing
the location of where the main building is, just um redesigning it from there. Um, the the beach access we're talking about using uh we studied the slopes. So
it's uh compliant in in terms of the slope for ADH um ad ADA um but we we were thinking maybe using the roll out mats so that the surface is
yeah um usable for for wheelchairs and so on. Um, so we are keeping the mini golf area and then there is another accessible path
that basically connects all the programming and brings us all the way to the end uh which also would be just um compacted crush stone or gravel. And it's important that we have that so that
all of the pieces in the playground or greening areas or anything that anybody would want to use is all accessible. Um, for
the playground, the replacement, we were thinking to use up the whole woodsy area and sort of disperse uh natural play. And I think we can talk
later how that's done. It could be maybe I don't know if you have anybody handy here and crafty that could you know start working on this or we just uh look at some playground companies that do
already produce um natural looking um play play pieces and so do you have any pictures to like when when you're talking about natural play? Uh let me see the last. Okay. So something in you
know using a lot of wood ropes uh stamps and just create places where kids can do helpful context. Yes. Um yeah. So it it should feel like this is not an enclosed playground, but the
whole park is kind of for play. Um, what else is here? The hammocks. The hammocks. Yeah, we put some hammocks that we can attach to the trees.
And you know, there's another use of the place. people like to hang out and can lie down and either read or just wait. It's also an additional um accessible because people with special needs get
overwhelmed and over stimulated. So, the hammocks are a perfect place for them to go and take their break and rest and regroup without any child, right? Any mom, maybe we should put more. Oh, so I think that's for So we are not
really changing the look, we just improving, right? Um, and then one other request or idea was to provide for a fishing pier. So we looked and walk the site. This is
a little bit of a bigger scale um or I should say smaller. we see a more area. Uh here's the main entrance and then the parking
the natural parking over here. And we think that um just from access accessibility point of view this area there is already an existing path coming here and I think there was like a doctor
in the past or something. Well, something is thrown in here. Since the last time we've met, um, I found out what that is. So, that is a path going off of the back of the parking lot and that's where the kids from the hospital, they used to bring the kids from the hospital over and they had their own
swimming area away from everybody else. Oh, okay. And they are not using that anymore? No. Okay. So, the pier is next to that swimming area that other swimming. No, it's way past it. Yeah. So yeah, you basically don't even see it
when you are here. You can't really see behind these trees. It kind of, you know, the beach is in. So that's what we thought like you can access it accessible, but you are also far enough and separated from the main swimming
area so that people are not It was purposely done that far away so that any hooks, any waste, any Yeah. was nowhere near where anybody was going to be barefoot swimming. Basically, people who do want to go fish, they know where
to go. But if you just come to the beach, there's no way that you would start wandering around and going. Yeah. hopefully totally I mean you know you can find ways if you really want to but
um and that's the same approach that we would just use that crush stone to provide the access for everybody um and and just to as I said some precedent images we were looking at different kind
of shelter filters if we uh actually in the picnic area if we ever wanted to cover the the picnic tables um it's not you know we don't have to it's just an idea. So there are some open shelters
that basically just provide the shelter from the rain. Um and then different looks of you know of the main building. This would have to
be looked into further with either an architectural company and or there are some uh companies that are focusing on building buildings for the parks. So we could explore that route too. I think
one of them is ROMtech. Um and then you know supporting those grill grill areas, bringing in some picnic tables. Um we feel like that's not nice that's a nice feature.
Maybe even having some more permanent picnic tables areas throughout the woods. Um and then here is the examples for the accessible paths what they would look like. So, it's not really
um defined, but you know, it's more just flowing with the woods and the feel of it. The roll out mats on the beach. And this little photo shows uh handicap parking lot. So, that's
crashed stone. And I think there's um either concrete curb that's flash just to delineate the parking spaces so we know this is and then we put signs there so that we know this is for
handicapped people and so we already saw this one has all the play elements. Uh maybe there is going to be a desire for a zipline. I think we could fit that. That's always fun. The
hammocks. Um, and then we already have the beach volleyball. Is there a basketball court and maybe what the fishing pier would look like? Just something small and with the
railings so it's safe. And I think that's all for the landscape part. I see member Carboni has a question. Get an extra microphone, please. Great. I know we had talked in the past that you had some concerns about the drainage
and the the parking area was Sabrina's right here. So, if you have any questions on this, chat will help you. Absolutely. And then Sabrina, she thinks nobody's going to want to hear about the parking lot. Oh, no. You're wrong. Lorine's talked with nothing else. I know. It's just that if I was waiting
for the parking lot. This is really good. This was I mean I'm I'm envisioning this now cuz you know the parks have been talking you know quite some time about how to um you know improve it because it's been in operation for many many years. So um
looks like a lot of thought went into um you know trying to modernize this but still keep it rustic. Yeah, definitely don't want to make it different. No. When we I ask people like I spent a lot of time at the beach the summer and I'd say like, "What do you
want to see? What do you want to see?" And they're like, "We like it just the way it is." And I'm like, "Well, you can't keep it just the way it is." Like, "Nobody's coming. We need more to get people to come." So, I had a couple quick questions. And
so, historically, I I worked there from 82 to 85. which is almost a million years ago. Um, and I grew up on Clip on Road. Um, so, uh, have we are we now inviting people
to fish at at the parks? Let's not put that out there right now. They used to do fishing derbies there. So, I I wanted to bring it back last year and we didn't get to do it. So, I'm I'm talking to Doug. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. So, maybe. But if you um as a matter
of fact, I took the puppy for a walk today and we picked up a hook on 10 Williams camp right in the middle of the grass next to the water. We can't just open it up for fishing because then we're going to have hooks and mines and everything everywhere. And we can't have that at the beach. And I and I think
that the pier itself may may do that if you even during business hours now it's accessible and people are going to think that there's open access at other times, right? So, well, Clear Pond's all fenced in, so mostly, right? So, as long as the
gates are shut, hopefully they won't be climbing the fences to use the fishing pier. But, um, it's far away from the beach, but if they're on the fishing pair, that's they're not a rotten line or a hook isn't going to make its way
down to the other side. And I during my tenure there um we did have the kids from Lakeville Hospital that would be brought down there and that was their private beach. Um and that the reason for that was it was it is absolutely so shallow back there um that it really
doesn't lend itself to much fishing. I and I have extensively fish that pond and I was the guy that opened the gates during the winter time so that we could ice fish there as well for the town with the permission of the fire chief. Um, so I mean a super a lot of great ideas. I
know that the building remains the same that it has since my tenure there and it was a it was a damp dark building in the in the 80s. Yes. Tradition. Yeah. Yeah. Uh but I mean a lot of the other stuff
is just phenomenal that that we can maybe move forward with this for the town. Yeah. Yes. We would like to open up for ice fishing. Actually, this winter the police had to come and take somebody off cuz they thought they were going to ice fish on the pond. We just don't get cold enough now to have ice
fishing out there cuz like snowshoeing. I almost came this close to buying snowshoes and I'm like we get like 2 in of snow. Like they're not going to. So, it's hard. Like you asked, are we only open it for the summer? But I mean, what are you going to do there? You can't go to the beach in the winter. The water's
going to be very cold. Yeah. But the problem for me becomes it becomes an attractive nuisance when we get all those extra new features in there. Um it become that with this ve very narrow scope of like 2 months basically where
where it's open when we have all these features we're just asking for people to come in and and and be there without anyone there. Um, also it's a significant investment for two months
out of the year. Would we would we be able to pay for any of it? Would there actually be any more additional revenue or are you only going to get the people that were already coming already? And those type of questions. Um, those are questions I don't think we're going to
know the answer to until it happens. But I mean, you already invested almost half a million dollars in the park, right? If you don't invest more and we don't work on this, then that was all for not. It could have gone somewhere else, you know.
Is the use of a playground become does it become a liability because of the water? Honestly, I don't know. Maybe Andrew can answer that. Um, we have Clear Pond, which is all
locked up, right? So, it's only open the 10 weeks. But then we have 10 Williams camp that has is open year round and it has the same water access. People launch their boats from there. People fish from there. So I don't really see what the difference is. I agree. So I'm not sure.
Who knows what the insurance companies will say. I agree cuz I think like you know as parents I go and there is a new playground. People want to go and they go almost the whole year. Kids want to go out. So, you may be able to have a
use, but I don't know how that works with all of them, right? You know what you need to do. We'll have to find out. Yeah, I'm sure there's probably some small cost, but my I'm an outdoors person, so I go to all different parks around the state and they're always kind
of open uh spring through like fall. So, my thought is we'd open it up more, but it's up to the parks and board, but we'd have to have it monitored if it was open. there'd have to be someone there. So, and there's not a winterized structure on premise currently. So,
yeah. So, having someone be there. No, there's like no winterized treasures. That That's a cold building that they have. Great. Yeah. And even lifeguards, like so far this year, we only have two lifeguard applications for the summer. How are you going to get
anybody to monitor the water in the winter? I don't know. Or do you need to? I don't know. You would just put your ropes up swimming. We asked about kayaking last meeting with Doug and he's like, "Well, then we have to have a lifeguard
and a boat out in the pond." And I was like, "Okay, do we I don't know. I No, I don't I don't Would that be ideal?" Yes. But would we need to have it if we had kayak access? I don't
know. Our park dire our beach director said it was a state regulation. So I have to go with the only person that said it was needed a state regulation. So I guess if they were our kayaks. Yes. If
people brought their own kayaks. No. Like you can't there's kayak launches all over town. It seems silly. And like paddle boats. Like you go and rent a paddle boat and there's not someone following you around the boat. So, I don't I don't usually just have to post that there's
no lifeguard on duty. That That's my thought cuz I' i've been to so many town parks that aren't staffed like that. Yeah. No, you just have no lifeguard on duty signs. And cuz the Freetown Beach doesn't have a lifeguard at all. Nope. So, I don't know. No. I I I think that
is an ideal state. And would would that be the best way? Yes. But when we're talking about statutes or legal requirements, I think the legal requirement is just to post that you don't have a lifeguard on duty. But if we're supplying the kayaks,
that's different because I think 100% spot on. If we're supplying stuff for them to go through, that puts an extra onus on us. We have one another quick question. Was there any discussion about the trail
that surrounds the land? The existing trail this um there really wasn't. No, apparently that trail hasn't been open to the public in like many years. Um I know the DPW cleaned it up a couple
years ago while I was here. So within the last 3 years and um it's just trees are down again. It's narrower and narrower. So that has not been a discussion. I think we did it in 2020 as well. I think we cleaned it up. We cleaned it up in 2020 as well. I mean,
that's something that uh volunteers used to do, right? That used to be like a really big volunteer day where in trouble do the clean up. Maybe that's a different, you know, another discussion for another day. But, you know, maybe
what would be access and how Yeah. access from different paths and how people get there. how long the access is open. Um I just think in this is not any problem, but it's problematic of the
short time that it's open. Um, and that if we're adding these extra features, we should be adding them for people to use more often because it's not just the beach that the beach is great and it's good atmosphere, but if you've got volleyball there, like you've got these other
features, why wouldn't we kind of maximize that as much as we possibly can? Yep. Um, I will ask though that you guys take a walk around the access the walking path around the pond. you guys
go and look at it and see what you think if it's worth fixing up because we can stand here and talk about it, but until you've actually been there and see how it is and what would need to be done and then it have to be ADA accessible. So, you really should go and look at that. We'll do it in the winter time when
there's no tick cuz you know they feel we're we're the foundation of things that have not been identified yet in our natural resources. So, We had to sneak a Lakeville Day in Moon Pon Lodge. No, no, I'm just saying. No,
thank you. I know to get you for Christmas now. I know. I just opened myself up. Um, does anyone have more comments, questions? Um, I'm big fan myself of all the natural play areas and how that really ties into the look of the existing park
and it really fits with the feel. I think we'll still have to look at the safety surface which probably is going to be mulched but yeah that's we're not bringing in anything artificial for sure. I was just curious also if anyone had
any thoughts on phasing of the project. Um, obviously this even though we not really adding a ton of stuff, it adds up pretty quickly and so I think we want to build some sort of excitement around the park and so we weren't sure if there's any like you want to do the building
first or the basketball courts or anything else. Um, well after the ADA, right? But I mean that's only exciting for not everybody. um the basketball court and the beach soccer and the horseshoes, whatever else is going over
in that area would be the draw for like the older kids. Maybe we can get somebody over like 8 years old to come, right? I think but I mean I don't know. I'm waiting to play mini golf. I don't know about come anytime. Yep. Well, maybe we
um you know, you put it in your little phase circle and um you know, we maybe we assign, you know, a cost to it and then prioritize it and um work that way cuz I really I like the the shelter. I I
see that an awful lot with open fields and yes, recreation. Not to mention, you can just like one of the slides said, you could have small events as well. um you know family reunions like all of those things where birthday parties.
Yep. Kids birthday parties which are key like that that's an event that happens you know five times a day. I can't tell you how many times I went roller skating with my kids during their tenure cuz that's one of the only places
that hosted kids parties. you know, it was like roller skating, laser tag every weekend for 15 years. But, but yeah, I think there's endless possibilities and we should maximize our gorgeous, you know, natural resources.
Um, but that being said, I would love to see what a business plan looks like attached to this. And like if we're saying we're going to do these things, you know, do we think not making it about revenue too, making it about how we're going to
attract people and get people in um from the town, not, you know, not strictly on a revenue basis. I I would just like to hear what this is going to do for our people and adding more people in or getting more enjoyment from the people that already attend that they want these
services. I I know they look good to me, but you know, but to your point, you know, with the people of Lakeville, what what do the people of Lakeville want? Um is this does this appeal to them? Will this help them get outside more and be, you know, part of nature a little bit more? Yeah, I think this is going to
make a big difference at Clear Pond. Awesome. Question in the audience. Um, one, can you identify yourself and actually come up to a mic? So, I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry at all. Please have a seat right over there. Thank you so much. I just had a a quick
comment that that u you might want to uh I've lived in this town for uh just your name, please. Oh, I'm sorry. Kevin Dolan. Thank you, Kevin. And I've lived in this town, my wife and I and family have lived in this town for for 40 years this year. And the difference that I'm
seeing here in at Clare Point at Clare Point, we're older now. We have grandchildren. We had kids when we were in our 30s. The one thing that I find a distraction here is the
access. And in today's world, you don't necessarily see ma and dad and the kids. You see nana and grandpa and the kids cuz the parents are working both of them. So the grandparents have the kids. They're bringing them to to Cleop and
the access path to get in there. Um, I myself just find it kind of uncomfortable. And if if that got cleared up, that would be to me if I was going to take this on, that would be my priority is how do I get good access to
the facilities? Everything else can be a secondary thing, but if you don't have good access, Yeah. then you can put gazillions of dollars into the structures and everything else, but if you don't have good access, it it's just phenomenal. And that's why we talk so much about the ADA compliance portion of
that to give, you know, access and stability for everyone, right? Y it was Kevin Dolan. Yes. Any other questions from any of the board members? Thank you, Cat. Thank you. Parking lot time. Parking lot time.
Marina, didn't realize it would be such a hit. I kept telling you. I know. I didn't I didn't believe you. Um, hi everyone. My name is Sabrina. I'm with Apex. Um, as Andrew mentioned, so I am here to talk about the parking lot piece. Um, so this is just an overview of the existing conditions of the
parking lot, which it seems you're all familiar with in some way. Um, so as it stands, I went out and visited maybe a month or two ago. Um, it had rained a couple days before, so I had a good chance to kind of see what the pudding looked like um, in the parking lot. And I have a couple pictures
um which I'll wait until um I have a couple pictures in the corner that kind of show puddling about like 24 hours plus past when the rain had fallen which really points to the fact that there's some uneven grading and possibly high ground water that you can kind of get a sense of because of
the presence of the lake uh nearby to the parking lot. Um another feature that I found was this ditch that kind of runs across. You can kind of see over here in photo three that runs across the edge of the parking lot here and actually feeds into a corrugated metal pipe that runs
underneath and seems to connect to the wetland area that's kind of in this corner over here. And something interesting that we found when going out onto the site is that the water actually flows from the wetland area into the ditch and then presumably out into the
parking lot. Um, which, you know, if you go out there and it's just like tilted back, you know, right out back into into the parking lot, which is the opposite of what we want. Um, and I think, you know, this ditch, it's it looks like it's, you know, probably not maintained too regularly. It's it's
filled with leaves. Um, when I went out here, the water was about 6 in deep of standing water. Um, so that is certainly something that we want to look at. Um, unfortunately, we can't just due to like, you know, wetland regulations, we can't just flip the pipe and start pushing everything into the wetland, but
we do believe that we can do, and I'll talk about that on my next page, we believe we can do some things with this ditch to kind of, you know, have it not contribute to the problems that we're experiencing. Um, another area that we kind of highlighted in looking at this was the entryway. Um Melissa messaged me
one day and said that it while it was raining, she had, you know, driven by the park and saw that water was flowing from the street directly down into the driveway um entrance way and then right over here into the parking lot. So the parking lot is under siege from a couple different directions um which is
something that we we want to address uh moving forward. So going to um some potential remediation efforts. Uh one thing that we discussed um not related to storm water but was kind of uh looking at these sight lines and the fence along
the area um near the parking lot. Um you know with the several projects I've done with the town. I've spent a lot of time going in and out of this park area and I you know it can be hard to see around the trees just because of the angle of the road and and the fencing and things like that. So, this might be something that is worth considering doing some
small modifications along this, uh, area if we're already working over here. But, uh, moving on to the parking lot itself. So, one simple fix that we propose for the entryway is simply regrading the entryway of the parking lot. Um, making it so that the water instead stays on
the street, flows down the street, is not feeding directly into the parking lot itself, and kind of exacerbating these problems. Um, and for the parking lot, what we are proposing, uh, similar to, you know, what Katarina presented, we want to kind of keep the natural feel of the park. We don't want to propose
laying down a slab of asphalt to, you know, try and fix these problems. What we are proposing is first regrading the parking lot so that more of the um, you know, rain water flows off of the parking lot. It doesn't puddle there in uneven spots and cause problems. Um, and
we are proposing to do this using something called permeable papers, which I have a picture of up here in the corner. Um, which is basically kind of interspersing grass with like either a cement or a plastic or some other um, you know, biioaterial to kind of hold things in place. And you would kind of put that throughout the parking lot,
kind of create your parking lanes. And what this does, it provides stability. Um, if we were to do a gravel cover, this would help keep the gravel in place. Uh it also provides a permeable surface so that the ring water has somewhere to go instead of just kind of sitting on top of the parking lot. Um
and you know we propose you know how many parking spaces we'd want is something we kind of look at as we advance this and see kind of what the parks and and what the town wants um for capacity. But there is plenty of space over here uh that we can work with. Um
so yeah those are our high concept um proposals. We want to avoid doing any like hard drainage structures in the area. Um again the water table's kind of high um and we don't want to you know again mess with the natural energy of the of the park area.
Thank you very much. All very helpful context for us to understand. I'm horrified about the pipe. That was a big that were shunting water, you know, into a parking lot from a wetland which again there should be no transfer in or out of
a wet land. I don't think it was intentional like that pipe is already been there for a very long time and I think originally it was supposed to go out right so the ditch I still don't even think you can do that but not anymore not anymore
that was probably pre Paul's time was it Paul you were there I have no independent memory of that does do any of the board members have some specific questions um the the line that kind of dissects the would that
eliminate that? Oh, yes. So, that's our 100 foot buffer um for the wetland areas. There's a lot of wetlands, so we just kind of wanted to be aware of, you know, potential permitting impacts. Thank you. So, the parking lot is currently grass. Yes. And it gets mowed.
Sure. So, in this proposal here, putting the those um permeable pavers, uh does that have to be how do you maintain that? So I think typically kind of what we'd be thinking is something similar to this second picture here with the cars in it where you kind of have the travel
lane is gravel and then the permable papers go typically where parking occurs. Um generally I feel like the the from experience I've had with their projects the presence of the cars usually kind of keeps the grass you know at a manageable level. Um but I do also believe you know if the grass gets high
enough you could you know take a a weed whacker or a small mower or something like that to maintain it. So nothing too crazy. I was somewhere the other week they had done clover. Oh yes. Because it was low, you know, low nommo. Um, uh, they put clover in there and most of it
was crushed, but you it was enough it was enough that you could see that it was clover in there for that purpose. It has the same type of root structure. And right now, yes, the it's grass, but the grass has grown into all the leaves and pine needles and all the squishy
stuff that has actually fallen there. So once they grade that, that will all be gone and it'll be just a compacted dirt. And there's still a barrier that runs in the middle of it, right? If I'm if I'm trying to remember correctly, it was like a railroad type thing. Yeah.
like yeah, it's a just a wooden fence right now and cuz that's where it gets deeper and then sometimes with all the puddles the kids the workers actually have to push people out because they get stuck in all the mud. So yeah, couple times a year at least. How often does
that parking lot fill up? Every time we have a good rain. No, no, with people. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were still on drainage. Um on weekends? Depends. Depends, right? If it rains on the weekends, then not so much. If we have
90 degrees, then it's twothirds at least. Okay. Yeah. I was just trying to get a a grasp of what we currently have in parking in a messy parking lot with enhancements to a better parking lot. What? So, there'll probably be some
movement there that we would Right. And this was another thing that we like discussed like she it doesn't have to be all done at once because if we did the first half and then this grade it all but we don't have to do all the other stuff and then do the second half once
we grow and get bigger and we need that parking because that is a very big parking lot. Yes. And that's the right spot for a parking lot. That's really the only spot for a parking lot. And is it where the culvert is to the fishing
pier? Yes. Yeah, that's that same path. Okay. How big were we thinking for the handicap parking closer to like the structure? Um and I think that would just kind of meet, you know, ADA standards. I'm not sure if there's a certain one spot for
so many other spots, right? I don't know if all the handicap parking can be satisfied. You know, we might have to put some over here, too. Um, that's a I bet we can do it. That's a big That's a big area up there once you
get rid of all the pine needles and squishy stuff. To Mr. Dolan's point though, that that roadway's always been narrow and you know, you get people walking up there and then when you have people trying to access not only on foot, but then the handicap the people with with the
necessity of being closer, uh, you're creating a problem there. So, I think priority would probably be getting to the beach and then the parking lot itself, which has been it's been underwater since I remember. Yeah. You know, and I but I think that leads to
our mosquito problem too, right? That they're all intertwined cuz the beach itself doesn't have mosquito problems cuz it has the fish and the eats and it's all this big one natural thing. But when you have all the standing water, that's mosquito's favorite place, right?
Mhm. It is. All right. Any other questions? Any other comments? Anything else you'd like to summarize or speak to? Um, it's been exciting to see this kind of evolve. So, I I think um the town has really
committed and, you know, with the parks help to doing an awful lot in the parks in the last 3 years. like probably the most I've seen since Ted Williams was created like back in 1989ish. Um, but uh I think this is
really interesting and and and good stuff and I'd love seeing it and I'd love to hear what the people at home think about it. You know, all seven of you watching, please chime in and uh let us know what you think of the plan or um
yeah or if you want to be part of it. I think there's a lot to be done with it. This is a great first step and um I'm looking to hear it looking forward to hearing more digital. Yes. And as a as a communications liaison um I'm would like
to at least have these plans um digitally. I say I said it right this time. Um so that we can put them up as a you know presentation draft uh that we receive. So maybe we solicit some feedback. I think Andrew has them. Right. Yeah. I just wanted the board to
see this first before we put it out there. Everyone else is saying it and then giving you feedback for you and look at it. Excellent. Cool. Thank you ladies for coming and thank you Select Board for having us. Thank you. Okay, we don't have to close
anything. Do you want to do the easy stuff first and finish up the easy stuff? You want to go to the budget? All right, let's finish up old business. um stipen for planning
department clerk update. Okay, one second. Okay, so uh myself, Miss Candido, Lacy Marshall, and Nate Darling met. Um what day would it have
been? May 2nd to go over I guess what a stipen could look like going forward. Um obviously the issue is um trying to find a good balance of what a stipen could be. When you take a clerical job and then a department head job and combine
them, what's that look like? Past practice has been to combine those salaries and then divide by two. Um at the April 28th meeting, the select board and region personnel board didn't I don't think like that formula. So we
went back to the drawing board to see what we could do for it. and we came to 15% as the balance. So, if I could just interject um uh if I my memory serves correct. Um the board wasn't so much that they didn't like the formula, they
just didn't like it applied to something that wasn't strictly taking over the whole entire role. Um like it's not like when the police chief had I'm sorry, the fire chief had uh had left the position and um deputy. was a deputy deputy uh
was doing the job completely um and and wasn't getting paid for said job. So I appreciate that update. Um do we have the dollar figure that that Yeah, that to that dollar figure for the dates between March 24th and May 9th comes to
$980. And uh this kind of opens up. What do we do going forward after May 9th? Yeah. Um so 980 has already been paid out or is it going in this next payroll or I wanted to bring it to the board first. Okay. So do we want to vote on
that or I don't do we have language on a vote? Um, we can vote first on the stipen that has already passed and then have a discussion on what we want to do going forward. Um, would you like to make a
motion that we pay the planning board clerk a stipen of was it 980 what? $980. I know. Sorry. I thought I I think it's in the maybe it was in the name. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought too.
Mike went through it. $980 for uh increased responsibilities from the dates of what was it, Andrew? May uh March 24th through May 9th. March 24th through May 9th. So moved. Can I
have a second? Second. Uh we got a motion and second. Any discussion? Hearing no discussion. Roll call vote. Plug ID. Carbon I. Hunt I. All right. And then going forward
um are we asking the planning board clerk to continue on these tasks? Is this something that they need to do? Has the tasks been absorbed by other people? Those are my questions for going forward. So not yet that um the duties
haven't been kind of spent out yet. Um I've kind of gone over it with the planning board chairman. There are things that are she thinks are above the job description. Um, I think there might be things that either I could take on or Nate could take on in the meantime and
assistance because you don't have enough going on. Well, I don't know. But, um, there things that we could do. Um, I could see a stipen potentially on a few things. Okay. I just don't know what that would necessarily look like other than the same formula that we came up
with. Um, I don't know about the rest of the board, but I'm fine with the same formula as long as everything ties out. I do believe strongly that if people are doing more, they should be compensated for doing more. But finding that number
um and finding kind of that delta in between what they're currently doing and what they're being asked to do extra, that's where I'm going to rely on your expertise on how much how many hours that equates to um while using that formula. Right. And kind of a global
look at this is I think we're going to look at a policy for these kind of things. Yep. going forward. And we're going to are we going to put it in the personnel handbook as well? That'd be the most ideal. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Um does anyone have any objections to the same
formula being applied as long as this person is still doing additional rule? But do we know that that person is going to be doing the same? We don't know. I think and you said you haven't. Yeah, we've been kind of um we meet every two weeks to go over what she's doing. Um, I
meet with the planning board chairman. Yeah. Because she technically does not have a boss besides Andrew, right? Yeah. Because there is no planning department any longer. No, there's no town planner obviously. So, um, Right. For
for now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe for a year. Yeah. We We don't know. But there is no one that they're reporting to. So, reporting directly to Andrew. Right. So, are we saying that we could just we're going to be paying out 15% per hour indefinitely? Is that what we're Yes.
Only for the hours worked that are related to the increase in um tasks and responsibilities? They vary. Yeah. So, there's been tasks identified that uh that they consider outside the description. Um I'm fine, I guess,
talking with We're not It's not a flat. It's going to It's going to vary based on your Okay. Y it's going to be specific to the jobs being done like not just a blanket. Right. Okay. I'm fine. And and monitored. Yes. Yes. Y so we're
making sure because I would never want to, you know, undercompensate when someone's stepping up and doing more, but at the same time I I want to make sure we're looking at it fairly and evaluating it fairly. So, I don't think we have to vote on
that per se right now, but um when you can just bring it back to us and we can vote on either if you have a formula you want us to follow. Um but the that same percentage that we use seems pretty
appropriate. Um but if something else comes up, I'd love to hear it, too. Okay. Okay. Special election for select board vacancy. So, as you all know, uh Member Day resigned
uh over what is it? 2 weeks ago, about 2 weeks ago almost. Um uh Member Day's term was due to uh expire next April or this coming April. Um, and this
board is tasked with finding if they want to call for a special election for someone to serve for a few months in that role or just wait for the next election. There is no statute that says we have to uh have an election. The only
thing the statute says, and I don't have it in front of me, is if we get a uh 200 voters 200 voter petition. Yeah. petition um to have the election that we should. If this was a three-member board, I would say we should absolutely
have the election because, you know, it becomes dicey when you get down um one member on the board can't do anything. Um if you didn't have a quorum, we do have four members. That does present its own issue as well. if there was a tie. Um, uh, but I would love to hear the
opinion of our board if we would like to allocate $12,000 to an election for electing someone for a few months. Madam Chair, I feel very strongly about this. Okay. First and first and foremost, I'm
saddened that uh, former member Day did not heed your pleas to return to the board. public request, a public request to have him change his mind and submit submit a letter outlining such uh un
unless and until the members of this board continually come to impasses at two to two locks, I do not and I strongly do not believe that we need to have any type of special election. Um, for fiscal responsibility, I would hate
to see us spend 12 to $15,000 for a 7-month seat, which is probably what it would amount to be, right? Because you'd have to if they have 65day notice and so forth. Uh, I feel very strongly about this that
unless we all of a sudden start not agreeing about everything and it's 2 to two, you know, we made it 175 years with three, we can make it a few more months with four. Member Carbon, thank you. Any feelings
one way or another? I' I'd rather wait until April and fill it, you know, and have I think there's two seats available come April. So, um yeah, I would prefer to wait. Um
make it good. Okay. Well, uh we can just take a vote and um make it official. Um would someone like to make a motion to not hold a special election? Since I feel so strongly, I'll make said motion.
All right. Uh can I get a second? Keep making it. M madam chair I make a motion that we do not hold a special election for the uh select board vacancy we currently have you your motion is made and second any further discussion
hearing none roll call vote plug I candid I carbon I hunt I thank you everyone thank you for uh looking out for the finances of the town as well clear pond park waterline update
um member day before and after he left um wanted to make sure the board was apprised of the multi-year um history of the Clear Pond water line. um and um and some statements that he
believed were kind of erroneous um as to why there was a choice made um on where the water line went. Um I'll just read it really quickly. I'll just go through it real quick. On June 3rd,
2022, Environmental Partners provided the final water feasibility study for Clear Pond Park with two alternative options. Um, we were presented or the board at the time was presented with an off-road option for
455,000 and a clear pond shoulder option for 680,000. So, um, significantly different numbers in order to do kind of the same task. Um, and then it came back
to the board in 2024. Um, and we I don't know if we revoted it or we affirmed the vote. I think we just affirmed the vote because we had no new uh information that said uh it would be
any different and we affirmed the vote for the lower price. This was a pricebased decision. Um and uh we ended up it ended up actually even being lowering lower lower than the 455 that
was quoted um for the water line. Um I think member Day thought it was important that all members had sufficient background on the project to know that we were affirming an old project that had already gone before the board and been scoped out and the cost
was the driver in the decision. So, just to present that um to everyone if there's anything you'd like to add. Yeah, so we we did have um water application allocation requests come in with three neighbors. Um, so I met with
the city of Taton along with Nate Darling and they basically are not a they don't oppose a water line down Clear Pond Road, but they their opinion is that the one that we have on our property is a service line, not a true
water line. And so that they would not approve a connection. Got it. It's not going to be within our perview to even have a conversation about it. No. Unless they want to come down the road, but that would obviously be at their cost, not ours. Yep. And it looks like that
cost would be somewhere over a half a million dollars at least. Yeah. That this was a couple years ago, so it's probably around a million now. Yep. Yep. Were you able to let the petitioners know? Not yet. Okay. They know now. They
know now. But yeah, we should send a letter letting them know um that Totten Water uh has let us know that that is a service line and only a service line. Is there any more comments on this issue in particular or
questions? Okay. Moving on. Looks like item number 12 discussion and possible vote on final FY26 town administrators budget recommendations. I'm assuming everyone
read this lovely document cover to cover like I did on Sunday. That's That's how I spent my Sunday. It's good times. Um, Andrew and Mike, would you like to
present your initial budget? Yeah. So, uh, we've met Mike, if you want to come up to the microphones. So, we've uh met probably half a dozen times between budget hearings and the initial presentation,
the wrap-up meeting um along with the finance committee, and we've kind of taken all the feedback in and kind of done what we think the select board and finance committee want to see. Um and I can run down some of the highlights here. If you have any questions, just
feel free to hop in. Um so, the total budget is going to be $39,13,519. Um, so this will lead to a onetime revenues going up to 176,000. This will be the reserve fund at 100,000 out of free cash and there will be a interest payment paid out of
capital stabilization of 76. Um, so I want to kind of note that the town has has used free cash in their budget in years prior. Um, it's come mostly as um, subsidizing. Mhm. 100,000 for the transfer station and about 17 to 20 for
the parks. So, we're only up 50,000. It's still a horrible still a horrible precedent to use one time. I know Mike and I, we both want to see it at zero and we're hoping maybe next year we can try to get there. Um, this does include the the transfer station in the
operating budget, which is technically Mike kind of refers refers to it as a failing business. Yeah. That we kind of took on. Yep. So that what was it? $100,000 loss. So yeah, 102. Yeah. And we usually shore them up with somewhere around that amount yearly. Anyways, so
if we could get to zero for that or if we could have it's 100,000 off that we could be off the the onetime revenues. Um we did include the four opera funded firefighters. Do we have a scenario somewhere floating around for the three that the board had talked about and the
finance committee had talked about? Yeah, I sent it to the select board. I can't I did not see it. I must have overlooked it. Um do you know off the top of your head? I mean besides the just the dollar amount, I knew the the
impact of the um of the overtime line and all that stuff. I'd be shooting a number out, but probably 50,000 per firefighter thereabouts. What the scenarios kind of included. Okay. And that's just salary and not benefits. I think it would include everything. Okay.
Well, shouldn't say that. I don't think it would include benefits. I don't think that includes benefits, though. So, it would probably be an extra 20 to 30,000 potentially. Um, does anyone on the board feel strongly that we should explore three as
opposed to four or is four just going to be my opinion? No. considering the fine work that Andrew and Mike have done since that discussion I don't think warrants an additional okay discussion.
All right, continue on. Um, we did in include a OT overtime request from the police that which was 20,000. Um, just background information, we gave our entire 2 and a half% levy increase to the schools free lake
individually. um which it's tough to do that but we chose to do it this year. Um our remaining free cash balance will be above 600,000 which I think gives us pretty good flexibility um going into fiscal 27 obviously and
obviously fiscal 26 as well. Um the capital budget it's going to be around a million 1.1 for a total investment in fiscal year 26. Road improvements which is outside of that
number will be about 776,000 and that is due largely in part to the fair share going significantly up um which is funded through the state chapter 90. Um, some of the major capital improvements are library roof
replacement, town website, police vehicle replacement, and DPW cabin chassis. Um, and also there'll be some improvements to the transfer station. Um, some of the solutions going forward is obviously going to diversify
our revenues. Um, which this will be future conversations for the board obviously, but I'd like to explore Meals tax. Um, cannabis is kind of hovering above us. Uh, we're not quite there yet. And potentially a cell tower police
construction. Um, I found a quite a few bit of towns that have done that and they actually don't put in any construction dollars. They have the they have the uh whoever it is build it themselves. So, for me, I I kind of thought we'd have to construct it and then lease, but it sounds like we can
just push it all to whoever it is. No must, no cost. Um, exactly. And a lot of communities were getting 50 to 60,000 a year just off of that. Yep. Um, on the low end. Um, so obviously I've kind of
gone into the override scenarios. Um, fiscal 27 is going to be probably pretty unsustainable. I think after this town meeting ends, Mike, Lacy, myself are going to sit down and go over what a theoretical scenario looks like. It's
like $800,000 in the hole. Probably. Yeah, probably a pretty good number. Um, yeah, probably is. But we're going to have to uh shore that up somehow. Um, so it's going to take a lot of planning. Obviously, overrides take 8 to 12 months.
I don't want to say we can avoid it, but I feel like I just we'll try to I I I would love for us to avoid it obviously, but Mhm. the school uh increases year-over-year um have eaten away into
percentages uh of our budget every year. And uh we did vote to have a fire station which operating costs will add another 300,000 to our bill uh you know
every year. So I math does not math out to say unless we had massive revenue sources to the tune of a million dollars extra or a million dollars more than this year. I don't know how the decision
could be anything but trying to create an open. I've seen a date kind of flung out there in old presentations where it's June 30th of 2028 where the pension liability would be paid off. I've seen that and I've seen 29 as well. Yeah,
exactly. So, we're trying to reach out to P with county and find out a hard date because that could could save us 2.2 million. Well, you know, and I think they should have come to us and had a conversation about how we've incurred a 30% increase in um
in their assessment that they're charging us in these economic times. Seems pretty harsh. um they know they know how towns are operating. To throw that burden on them instead of pushing it out one year
seems kind of blind, right? If I I was just going to say with regards to the OPE um I I want to give you know props to the select board not currently but in previous that they were
very in tune with making sure that we did address that only one time in the last six years I think they didn't and then they did it supplementally in like a fall town meeting and I do see an OPED uh of 100,000 um for this year even
though we did have 310 for the last two years. But yes, so but that was a variant to making sure that we didn't fall behind and behind and behind. Yep. Knowing that it was a Yep. But now retirement and OPED is a very big
portion that hopefully will 2029 most likely go down significantly. But what happens in the, you know, the 3 years in between? That's why you try to, we're going to try to get there. Yeah. In one piece. And then what happens with the
40s reimbursement? Um because that has been pretty dicey this year. We'll be dicey next year. And you know, if we're thinking we're going to get 600,000, we get 200,000. That's Yeah. unsustainable. Continue on, Andrew. Yeah. It's not
great. Um some of the uh things we've kind of gone over, but I'll see them again. Um collective bargaining is all up next year. Um continued fixed cost increases. I don't see those going down for a few years. Like you had mentioned, operating cost of a new fire station
will hit us probably fiscal 28, probably maybe just a little bit earlier than that. Um educational costs are continuing to rise. Um and obviously limited state aid increases. Good news is we're going to have north of
600,000 in free cash after this annual town meeting, which gives us flexibility if anything goes wrong in the future. Um, probably going to have a pretty healthy free cash number. Hoping around 2 million. I don't want to say that out loud, but I did.
Um, minus 175,000. That's not free cash anymore. Exactly. I love to throw that fire truck structure in. I like the fire trucks. I don't like the structure. So, our stabilizations are in a good spot. It's about $5 million combined,
which is good for a town of this size. Um, our local receipts aren't very high, but they're consistent. Mhm. You don't see it dropping off, which that's where a lot of problems happen in other communities. Y um I just think I mean the the financial
practices of the select board and finance team over the years has been pretty top-notch. So, the town is in a good spot to combat kind of what we're seeing. A lot of these towns are like teetering, it seems like, and we're not quite there yet.
So, well, I think it's important for all boards, and I know this board um has made kind of a commitment to making sure we're staffed correctly and that our our people are are paid correctly um as well. And, you know, we're still not
100% where we we should be on some stuff. And you know, it makes it very difficult going into bad financial times u to continuously ask people to, you know, stick with us. Yeah. I mean, I think I put it in here as well, but we don't really have a expense problem. No.
On the general government side of the community, it's really like a it's a revenue. We don't really bring in a whole lot. So, Yep. And small businesses won't help so much as like a bigger um industrial business or or something like that. So, whatever we the economic
development committee comes up with, I'm hoping I can see some some bigger stuff in there, you know, along with some of the smaller stuff that, you know, brings people to the town, but something that's really um revenue generating for us, Madam Chair. Like a
warehouse. It could be. It could be a warehouse. Even though uh quite frankly, I don't I don't in the last 6 months I don't see a single warehouse going up. I see a lot of empty ones sitting around. But I think folks need to be reminded that uh potential revenue lost from the
warehouses voted down not once but twice is a minimum of a half a million potentially 34 of a million dollars in additional levy. Y it's a true statement. Residents need to be aware of that. Yep. It's a true statement. And can I ask another question? Andrew, uh,
can you give me an update um, from the state regarding um, 40s? You gave us some updates lat and I know this things are moving quickly. House finished their version. Senate I've heard from Senator Rodri, they're tweaking theirs as we speak.
What What's the latest of your hearing? Last last I heard he's going to Senator Rodri is going to put out a hold harmless clause which would bring us up to fiscal 25 what we were expecting. Good. So he'll restore what we budgeted for fiscal year 2540s. Yep. Which was
676,000. Then and then the last I heard on the smart growth for 26 was about I'm blanking on it right now, but it's 3 something. Went up about 150,000 over what we thought we were going to get.
Refreshment. What What were we thinking? We were thinking 246. Okay. That's up to about 389. So is it based on those you're able to early on we were going to use more free cash? Based on those numbers we kind of reduced what we were
going in. Great. Uh I'm also aware that chapter 70 funding has been increased significantly to 150 per student. Correct. Okay. Correct. Good news for the school department. Yeah. And I I got to sit down with the school department
and see what exactly they're expecting to get or not cuz that might change their budget which I know is still not final. So correct. Um unrestricted growth. I've heard also there's been some good news in unrestricted growth from coming out from the Senate for for
the towns. Yeah. So the uh the slaying fort is a go. Um but it's going up about 22,000. That's correct. Yep. Which is good news. Of course, none of this is final. Oh, and it's got to from what I said, it's got to go to committee and they got to
hash out between the House and Senate and generally the Senate reigns supreme. That's true. Yes, that is true. So, I would expect to get these good. Um, so few little nuggets helping us at the end of the year. Yeah, that smart growth number went up. Originally, it was 246.
It went up to 394,000. So, that was a big help. So, yeah. And I know um anything less than what we were promised uh is not acceptable to me though. Um so I appreciate that it it didn't get reduced as much but I don't consider it
going up. I consider it I consider they didn't fully reduce us. They reduced us still. I was shocked when I saw that check in the mail. Yeah. Cuz they already they send it to you already. That's how we found out about it. Wow. The 25 version. Yeah. 25 one. Yeah. but
very difficult to uh to wrap your head around when you've you've built all these programs around it and you've changed your zoning and you've done all these things and then they take the bonuses away. That's right. It's not trust inspiring. I maybe back to bad
news, but I think they kind of intimated that is this is probably the last year for good funding. You know, it's just it it boggles the mind that they're still pushing towns to do it and that they're using it as incentive and they're quite
literally if we added on another 400 units, it would equal out to zero. Yeah, I know. We have a lot of them coming. Yeah. So, zero. Here's here's a deal worth nothing. Yeah, I know. Well, I think that's
called an unfunded man deal. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much so. Um I I have difficulty with it and I would love to um you know continue to have the conversations about what the state had led us to believe when we were creating
these 40 are and what is actually happening. Yeah. We're the only talent that get it every year for like 20 years. Yeah. And well we're the only ones that apply but now the the other people are not going to get it as well. You know, I want to be looking out for the other towns.
Don't do it. If you think you're getting something for it, it's not right. But I appreciate all the updates, Andrew. Um, so we need to vote. We do. We have any specific questions on on anything. Um, I went
through um and I highlighted a bunch of things, but all my questions are already answered um on various budget lines um and changes that I've seen. Is there anything anyone has a specific question
on on any of the budget lines? We've looked at this 50 or 60 times at this point. So, um This looks good to me. I'm tell absolutely revenue sources. I think I
asked this years ago. Solar panels for the the transfer station is you know all the communities around us doing it but does it have something to do because we were in middle brow gas and they don't you you are correct. You're correct. Because why
they supply the panels or the incentives? I think it's because they were at 1430 for our for our stuff. So it was below what the solar panels could deliver at the time cuz the rate so low cuz the rate was so low as compared to
like Eversource who was like double what we were no return on investment. Oh it'll take 50 years. Whereas in now, not so much. You probably get something, but back 5 6 years ago, that makes sense. It was because we're sitting at such a really great rate at Middleboro Gas and
Electric that the solar was not a proposition that would make sense. Do you remember that? Well, yeah. So, couldn't we put solar panels and sell it back to endstep? Get another one that way. Have to have like a MLOU with Middle Cas.
their own entity. I wouldn't look too kindly. Yeah. Not Not so much. Okay. Not so much. Thank you. Um All right. I will um make a motion to uh approve and support
the budget recommendation by the town administrator in the amount of 39 million $13,519. Seconded. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion hearing? None.
Block. I do I Carbon. I Hunt. I do I need to do the same thing for the capital. You guys haven't met yet. You still It's It's a long story, but yeah, we need to meet again. Okay. To discuss that. All right. So, I'll hold off that vote then.
Yeah, that's I can bring it back in May 30th. Okay. All right. voted. We are voted. It happened. We had to bring it to us like a cajillion. Mike, Andrew,
department heads, everybody. Really? I know it was tough. Um, we are going to go to item number 14, discussion and possible vote on final warrants for the June 9, 2025
special and annual town meetings. So, we've got the final draft of the special and annual meetings and we've broken it out into the articles. Um, we've had some discussion on making
sure we're talking about the articles individually. Um, I don't think we want to dive in any deeper than individually. Um, do we want to So, what exactly are we Yeah, cuz
Aren't we doing this next week? We voted the articles last time. I thought we voted to put the articles. So, this is the final. It's the final Lawrence. Okay. So, this is what what's in front of us. So this is what we have.
It was um article one and two in the special. Yep. Um and then there were the the addition. So we had the I added the final at the end. Yep. Yep. Okay. So there was 16
articles. All right. Do we want to art we do we want to do it by article to approve anything or is everyone okay just adopting the special town meeting as it is written and I think your question was because of the
recommendation discussion that we had before previously that the finance committee votes their recommendation per article. Yep. Um, so we can vote the we can vote the warrants um because that has to be a formal
vote as is and then we can vote our recommendations on the indiv individual articles. Okay. So we'll just do this as is Madam Chair and then finance committee gets pulled in next warrant review. Oh the second Yeah. for
warrant review and the finance committee makes their recommendation. do that when is it the second? June 2nd. June 2nd. It's a we have a regular board meeting anyway. Correct. Yint. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Thank you. All right. So, I'll make a
motion um to approve the final special town meeting warrant um for Monday, June 9th, 2025 as 6:30. Do you need the 6:30? No. No. Okay. You can add it as at 6:30.
All right. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Seconded. Motion and second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. Plug I do I. Carbon I. Hunt I. And then um do we want to do the recommendation or do you want to do the
other one first? Um one second. Access to records and did we add where did we add on the finance? Is it the last 116? How am I
not seeing it? Oh, perfect. There it is. Town code by law 15. Got it. Um, I have no preference. Um, does anyone want to do it by article or do they just want to do the whole
Oh, no. I didn't know if you wanted to do the special and then Oh, I'm sorry. I'll You just did the special. So, do you want to the recommendations I was talking about for the articles? All right. But I thought we were going to do recommendations next week. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Do it with the finance committee. Okay. Okay. All right. I missed that. Yeah. All right. So, I will make a motion uh to approve the annual town meeting um warrant as presented in its final state for Monday, June 9th um 2025 for 7
p.m. seconded motion vote I do. Tarbon I Hunt I and then at our next uh meeting with the finance committee we can go through and make any
recommendations that we see fit on any of the articles or uh have a more robust disc discussion with the finance committee on the articles in uh in specific we should have all the backup this week okay over to the board so
you'll have perfect y Um, item 24 is announce the next select board meeting dates. Next regularly scheduled select board meeting is June 2nd, 2025 at 5:45 at the police station. Uh, correspondence.
Um, on the agenda, let's see, we have an email from the park regarding updated Clear Pond Park rates, a letter to Department of Communications for Verizon Cable License, uh, public utilities, letter from
Verizon, notice of filing for Eversource Gas Company and NSTAR, uh, notice of filing NStar electric company. Um, I will read the clear pawn park ones. Anything else? You can go on to our website and look at our agenda packet
uh in order to see the specifics. Uh but the Clear Pond 2025 rates and hours 2025 season pass uh Monday through Friday 11 to 5:30 Saturday, Sunday 10 to 6. Passholder rates for a Lakeville
resident up to six family members $120. 2024 it was $110. Um surrounding town pass up to six family members is $210. 2024 was two it was 200. Limited number of surrounding town passes to be
sold include towns of Freetown, Middleboro, Bridgewater, Akushnet and Berkeley. Um and then Carver and Rochester also have the ability to escort out of up to four out of town
members. Um, so you can look at all of this on there because there's a lot to look at. It's a little bit of an eye chart um to look at. Um, this is something that
should be a lot more simple to digest. So if maybe someone could rework this into a, you know, something to share out with the public that, you know, that was just much easier to look at. Yeah, we can do that for sure.
Perfect. Excellent. Thank you. And next item up for bids is do we have any other new or old business before I close? Okay. Hearing none.
Um make a motion. I'll make the motion. I'm making a motion to go into executive session pursuant to MGL chapter 30A section 21A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the educators association of Freetown Lakeville if an
open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the board and the chair so declares and pursuant to MGL chapter 3A section 21A3 to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with
non-unial non non-union personnel um or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel specifically the police chief and pursuant to MGL chapter 30A section
21A6 to consider the purchase of exchange lease or value of real estate if the chair declares that an open meeting may have detrimental effect on the negotiation position of the public body and the chair does and to not return into open session
Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. I candid I I. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful night. Thank you for attending. Hope you weren't too
crowded over there.