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Part 1 (Video ID: qcJr4wJMNWM):
- 00:00:31: Call to Order and Lakeville Finance Committee Meeting
- 00:01:18: Pledge of Allegiance and Select Board Announcements Begin
- 00:04:22: Town Administrator's Report: State Budget and Building Project
- 00:06:01: Override Outreach Update and Minutes Approval Discussion
- 00:07:46: Second Round of Budget Discussions with Department Heads
- 00:08:19: Town Clerk Budget Overview, Expenses, and Election Preparations
- 00:15:14: Town Clerk's Override Budget and Governor Election Plans
- 00:17:30: Council on Aging Budget: Accomplishments, Goals, and Expenses
- 00:20:44: Discussion on Senior Food Pantry Needs and Community Support
- 00:24:04: Veterans Department Budget: Chapter 115 Benefits Update
- 00:26:58: Cemetery Commission Overview: Projects and Funding Needs
- 00:34:44: Inspectional Services: Budget, Redundancy, and Revenue Streams
- 00:37:39: Board of Health Budget and Conservation Agent Update
- 00:40:49: DPW Budget Analysis: Road Maintenance and Chapter 90 Impact
- 00:45:26: Snow and Ice Deficit, Street Lighting, and Transfer Station
- 00:51:59: Animal Control Budget and Services for Other Towns
- 01:00:54: Capital Plan Overview: Projects, Funding, and Priorities
- 01:11:26: Parks Commission Budget Review: Revenue, Wages, and Expenses
- 01:18:35: Clarification on Parks Budget and Rubbish Contract Review
- 01:22:22: Parks Commission Strategic Discussion: Prioritization and Future Plans
- 01:39:13: FLAAA Donation Agreement, Disc Golf, and Loon Pond Lodge RFP
- 02:02:32: Clear Pond Employee Wages, Lifeguard Pay, and Rates Review
- 02:13:26: Bedford Street Speed Limit Discussion near Fire Station
- 02:20:43: Special and Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles Review
- 02:32:52: Lifting Hiring Freeze for Planning and Police Positions
- 02:35:29: Appointments, Licenses, and Committee Updates
- 02:45:45: New Business, Next Meeting, and Executive Session Motion


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All right. Good evening everyone. With a quorum of the select board being present, I'd like to call the select board and wage and personnel board on Tuesday, April 21st at 5:45 p.m. at the Lakeville Public Library to order.

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We'll allow our finance committee who has >> Thank you. >> not had enough of us of to get enough >> call their meeting to order. >> Thank you. I will call the Lakeville Finance Committee meeting uh April 21st

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to order at 5:46 p.m. >> Tenini I or here rather. >> Manovsky I. >> Deal's here. >> See who's >> I know I messed it up. >> We'll get it right one of these days. >> Well, you have next week too. Yeah, that's a lot of practice.

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>> All right. Um, real brief. Um, we have moving right on to, um, pledge of allegiance. And if we can all rise, uh, the flag is right out front of the building at this time. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Hey, Mr. Blanco.

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Here announcements. >> Oh, looking for your budget. >> Was that my budget? >> That's my budget. >> My budget book. >> Did you forget? >> Okay. I'm going to just go ahead and start with the select board announcements. Is that okay? >> Hm.

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>> My apologies. >> That's okay. No, no. >> A little behind. No, no, that's all right. Um, okay. So, we still have a few um vacancies on some boards, committees, and commissions um that we're still looking for some participation. So, an

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associate member of our for the zoning board of appeals, a member for the board of registars. We have two vacancies and one at large member for the cable TV advisory committee,

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one at large member on the economic development committee and one at large member for the zoning bylaw review advisory committee. So, if you are interested in participating in any um one of these boards, committees, and commissions, feel free to reach out to any of us sitting up at the table.

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Contact the uh town administrator's um office as well, and we'll get you signed up and get you sworn in. All right. Uh something that we've posted um it should has gone through all of our communications channel is the FY27

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override community outreach sessions. Um I'll just go over the dates and times with you for now. Um but feel free to check out the um the town calendar because they're listed on there as well.

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Community Outreach on Saturday, this Saturday, April 25th, from 9 to 10:00 a.m. here at the Lakeville Public Library. Wednesday, April 29th, from 6 to 7:00 p.m. here at the library.

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Wednesday, May 6th, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. here at the library. And then Wednesday, May 13th from 6:00 to 7 here at the Lakeville Library. and any other um information on that

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will be posted on the the website. Um are there any other announcements from any of the select board members? Income, you good? >> All right. Um town administrators report. Andrew,

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>> thank you. Um just a couple uh quick items. the fiscal 26 state supplemental budget um is still going through the works, but what's been proposed is uh about 206,000 at least for um chapter 90 supplemental

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which can be used for snow and ice deficits um which are deficits about 240,000 or so. Um we expect I think the remaining amount of money will probably be able to cover that which is a big deal. Um, I think this is probably the first time that's been done on the state

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level. So, that's good. Um, I might turn the next update over um because we don't have committee updates later on to member Planka about the old colony building project election specifically. >> Talk now. >> Yeah. >> Oh,

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sorry to put you on the spot. I'm on spot. Um so the update um is that the school committee is going to vote on the election day um and we're tentatively proposing

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June June >> believe it's 24th or 25th. >> Uh yesly proposing June 25th confirming uh our availability to support that date. It it obviously remind everybody it's

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it's a all five communities are going to vote on the same day, same time, most likely 12 to 8 hour block. Thank you. >> And I can turn the next uh little bit over to Emily her. >> Sure. So, um I just wanted to give a

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quick update on some of the override outreach that we'll be coming out with. So, um, on the town website, we have a page dedicated to both the override and the budget, which has materials for residents if they have any questions to review. And I've been working with Mike

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and Andrew on four kind of like one page, one or two page infographics with like highle summaries of some key information. U, they're going to be on tax impacts, operational impacts, revenue impacts, and then an explanation

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of the ballot. So, we're trying to get those out this week. Um, if anybody has any questions about the override or the budget, they can send it to communications at lakevillemma.org and we will address it. >> Budget. >> Anybody have any questions for town

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administrator's office? No. Okay. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you, Emily. Thank you, Mr. Blanca. Okay. Uh, we have a set of minutes here um for approval March 5th. Did everybody have a chance to review

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them? >> Yes. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve the select board wage of personnel meeting minutes of March 5th. >> So move. >> Do I hear a second? >> I'll second that.

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>> Okay. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll please. Fabian Fate. >> Plug I punt I >> Carboni I. >> Okay. The next portion of our uh evening

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is going to be our second round uh meeting with our department heads to have some discussions about their budgets. Um, so at the end of or the conclusion of that segment, then I will certainly invite any of the public up if

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they have anything that they'd like to ask or make any um comments. We'll open the floor up for that. So, okay. Our first department for the evening is our town clerk.

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It's on page 60 in the general government tab. Uh, >> did you say 60? >> 66. And then the line items start on page 64. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Hi, Lil.

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>> Good evening. Thank you. >> Just I know >> I feel like we're at the uh the White House with all the microphones in the press. Thank you for inviting me. All right.

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Um, as you can see, you already have my accomplishments um throughout the year. Um, I do want to emphasize that for Lakeville, we had a dual election on November 18th, which was our first dual

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election, which was really challenging to uh to accomplish, but we did it. We managed. So, um, and then our goals for next year, if if the budget allows

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it, um, we were thinking of getting clickers for town meeting. increasing dog licenses, compliances, preventions of um preservations of vital records, and the preservation of archives um archive files in the um

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basement, but it's something that we need to think about in the future. I know our budget doesn't allow that, but it's something to think about. So, so the town clerk budget for salaries um budget 1A does does show the

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3% increase along with a step increase. Uh that includes my assistant town clerk and my um part-time clerk that I have in the office for town clerk expenses.

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the contracted services. I did need to increase that by a thousand due to the our legislation amendments to the general code keeps changing and so

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between the planning board and the select board making changes to our bylaws. Um that is uh an increase in my budget for that. Maybe in the future that could be transferred that line item could be

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transferred to the um select board to manage the um e-code but for this moment I am managing that um also the retention destruction of our records in our basement that is done on

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a daily basis. we do have to um destroy records that come up for retention and that's usually around $400 a year that we have to um have that shredded. And for town clerk printing, I did ask

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for a $200 increase due to um tax that we have to purchase. Um currently we have around 2,300 um tags that by the end of the year we do end up using. Um, currently right now we have 1,500 dog tags that we've issued so far and we're

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only into April. So, we do have a lot of dogs in town. Um, I did want to emphasize that on my hourly wages for temporary, I did remove that $1,000 and added that to my

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election expense professional service line item. I do also want to emphasize that my part- timerr that I have, she started in my office in 2024 and she was able to carry me through the year for the presidential election. Um just the state

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primary alone, we were able to mail out close to um 1,600 vote by mail. The general election for the presidential, we were able to mail out 4,400 vote by mail um ballots. So that extra person

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that I have in my office is needed. Um I couldn't have done my job without her. For election expenses, I did ask for the voting equipment maintenance um an extra 1,500 and that's because the

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poll pads affected January um July 1st of 2026. they're charging me $300 per uh per per elections to be programmed. So given that um I had to add 1,500 just in case

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we needed two extra elections in between that uh between the year in case I don't know if old colony decides not to have the June election and they want to come back in September. There's one maybe next year the town is looking for

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um let's say another election there's another one. So I just wanted to make sure that I was covered. Uh, and then on my elections other contracted services, my line item was

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500. And the reason why I asked for that is because I need to send my media card to back to the vendors and I didn't have that line item. I was using the postage line item from the treasurer and collector's account. Um,

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next it would be registration expenses. The only thing I asked was 500 for the printing and that's due to census. Census right now currently I have um spent 4,345

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just the first round itself was 2700. The second round was 1,500. Uh I'm still chasing close to 2,000 census right now for them to answer. So uh we do by law have to send these out

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by January 1st. Um because as you know the census is very important throughout the town. >> And will when when are they due back? Is there a particular date? >> They're due back 10 days after they're sent out. Um so in the middle of January

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they're due back. So, here I am, April, and I'm still chasing for the census. >> Well, this might be something that we can add um to our select board announcements um >> communications. Yes, sure. >> Thank you.

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>> Um other than that, that is my my budget. It's somewhat small. It's a little bit of an increase, but it is due needed. um budget 1B.

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If the override doesn't pass, we do see that the um the salaries do stay the same and my expenses uh are reduced and some line items still

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stay the same along with my election expenses. they are reduced and some line items still stay the same as well as the registration expenses.

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Um, budget 1B still looks the same. We state the same on the line items which is is is needed and that is it. Okay.

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>> I'm a little bit off course here. >> Does anybody >> I know coming from a sit still to get to a run. I know it can be a little difficult. Um, anybody from the select board have anything for Liil? >> I have a quick question. >> Sure. >> So, November is governor.

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>> The governor's race. Yes. >> So, that'll probably be a lot of um mail in >> Oh, yeah. The vote by mail applications, those are going to be mailed out in August. So, we'll start processing those. Yes. >> And you've covered your postage here for that. >> It's not under my postage. It would be

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under the treasures. >> Okay. We've covered that. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> I made sure that they did that. >> Yeah. Because I'm sure that'll be another big one. >> Very Yes. The only thing with that is, you know, you do request for a vote by mail ballot. We do send that out under

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our expense, but the um the voter doesn't have to pay anything. Of course, that's covered by the state postage. >> Yeah. >> Can do you have anything for town clerk? >> All right. Thank you very much, Lil.

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>> Oh my god. All right. Thank you. Huge long speech here. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Council on Aging. Come on up, Lauren. >> Good evening, everyone. So, Council on Aging starts on page 122.

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Um, that's under the Health and Human Services tab. And then the individual budget line items start on page 128. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. Um, real quick on page

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122, we have an overview, department description, then we go into the FY26 accomplishments and FY27 goals. Mine are very lengthy, so I'm going to skip over them, but I do hope you take the time to

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read them as I am proud of both the goals and accomplishments. All right, and go to the salary. Okay. So, salary with an override, budget 1A,

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all staff will receive their step and cost of living raises. Salary without an override, which is um budget 1B, you can see there are no step or cost of living raises across the department.

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We go down to our expense lines. You can see um from FY26, I was able to cut two salary lines due to newer employees being hired at a lower rate than than was originally

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budgeted for. So $1,368 was cut from the outreach worker line and $2,493 was cut from the van driver line. That's a total salary savings of $3,861.

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And that is with either budget 1A or 1B. That'll be a savings. With or without an override, I have made significant cuts in my expense budget wherever I felt that we could comfortably do so. You will see I have

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reduced the heating fuel line from 6,000 down to 5,500. So, it's a $500 savings. I have cut the printing line at 750. I have cut the council activity supplies line at 550. I have cut the food service

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supply line at 1,200. I have cut the instate travel at 150. And I have cut the dues in subscriptions at $100. That brings it to a total expense line savings of $3,250.

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Total cost savings to the COA, $7,11. And that is with or without an override. I have done that kind of straightforward which is okay with me. Are there any questions? I guess

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>> you have any questions, Chester? >> Lori, I I was noticing on your accomplish can you hear me? >> Oh, I I can hear you just because we're close. >> Okay. uh on your accomplishments, you referenced um you know both your accomplishments relative to the food pantry for our seniors and also your

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initiatives for next year increasing awareness. >> I just wanted to take a moment to point out we're going to be talking about an override, but you're also talking about increased food security needs for the seniors we do have here in town. >> Absolutely. >> Would you like to expand on that at all? Um, so as far as the food pantry goes

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and how we'll assist them, >> so we will probably advertise a little bit more um on the town side of things. We advertise in our newsletter monthly. Currently we take um appointments for visiting the food pantry. We do that for

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confidentiality reasons. Um our older adults um they like their privacy and we have found that a lot of them are actually nervous to come in. They don't want to be seen by friends or folks needing to use the food pantry. So, when it was constructed, we did have an

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exterior door that they can come in through. It's locked from the outside so they can only get in if they have an appointment. We lock the interior door so no one can come in and interrupt while they're shopping. At this time, most of the appointments are um handled

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by our outreach worker. We've done it that way because she can also speak with them about fuel assistance, shine needs, housing assistance needs, any type of OCE needs that can also be brought into the household. So, our biggest goal is

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to just get more folks. We have had an increase, which is great. Um, but we just want to get even more folks into it. So, we do advertise that we will provide van service free of charge. the COA will cover it. If someone needs to utilize the food pantry and they can't

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afford the cost of the van, it's not a problem. So, I think it's just going to be continuous advertisement that will get these folks coming in even more robustly than they are now. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome, >> Madam Chair. How do you stock the food

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pantry? >> So, the foods the food pantry is stocked by donations from our generous ever so generous community. Um, in the newsletter I update what needs um are required because we don't want to get an overabundance of something we may not

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need. So, every month we update what's needed. Southshore Community Action Council is our largest um spot that we go to pick up donations. Um, but honestly, right now we're doing so well with donations from the community. We just had um a panicquet um regional high

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school uh student council. They just brought donations last Friday. They did their dog be nice week and they did a food uh fundraiser food fundraiser for the COA food pantry. So it's mostly from donations and Southshore Community

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Action Council. >> Okay. Anybody else? >> Well, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Have a good night. Thank you for your work. >> Thank you, Laura. Okay, Christine, come on up. Um, moving

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on to our veterans department. Good evening, everybody. >> This one's on the very next page, 129 it starts, and then the line items are on 132. >> I probably have the smallest budget, which is good for me. Um,

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so as you can see, um, I don't have an extreme budget like most. Um, so let's just skip right to it. Um, I have made significant strides in the chapter 115, which is going to be the veterans

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benefits for the med and the few. Um unfortunately this number is ever waving due to people passing on or dropping off of 115. So in the past 3 months that number has gone down significantly sign

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whatever um by about $4,000. Um but again you can't really capture that because it does vary. Some people will come on to chapter 115 and some people will leave chapter 115. Um so that is about that. Um

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yeah, anything. Usually what I do is I usually just come out of pocket for a lot or I rely on like vets.com um and those uh other entities that are helping out veterans as well. So it's

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pretty straightforward. Any questions? if you will, the software or the the program that um you're utilizing >> um is that imposing any increase or

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expense on your on the town end? >> Not on the town end because it is a state. A lot of my stuff that I deal with is per the state or federal. So, it doesn't have really any impact on the town. It's all funded by the VA or the

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state itself. So, a lot of the things aren't funded by the town. Um, if that makes sense. So, you know, the VA I go through all the VA websites if I'm doing a claim or the chapter 115 is also through the state EOVS site. So,

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everything is maintained per state or federal government, not by the town. >> Okay. Anybody have anything for Christine? >> I just congratulations on designating us as a purple community. I noticed that. That's a wonderful.

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>> Thank you. There's a lot of other things I would like to do, but with, you know, with where we're at nowadays, >> we're just going to hold off a little bit and wait further when when the town can actually enjoy the things. But

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you're welcome. >> Okay. Anybody else down here? Okay. Nobody. >> Oh, thank you. >> So, cemetery commission is on page 114 under the Health and Human Services tab.

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>> Hello. How are you? I'm Debbie Krampus. I know you're used to seeing Ken up here, but uh he's turned over the reigns to me chair in the reorganization. So, here I am. Um

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so, need a little, you know, a little a little grace for being nervous. Um, I have a list of things and I I'm not sure if you have my the accomplishments that we had last year in the pockets, but um, you know, we did do quite a lot.

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We uh, last year was the first full year uh, that we opened Cemetery for um, purchases. And so um, we did a lot there. We also did uh several burials um mostly at the um the veteran cemetery

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and then some of the others around town as well. So um I think we did a lot of good work last year. Um 2025 we finished the pond cemetery repairs which the wall was originally um was um crashed into by

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a uh an uninsured uh driver and vehicle. And so that um amount that you see in the 2025 actual budget includes that repair to the wall at Pond Cemetery. I don't know how I drive by it every day so I don't know. I

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see it. It was very important to me. Um, in 2026, uh, we took a look at Strobridge up on Kingman Avenue and that, um, cemetery had several, um, places where the walls had been

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really damaged by growing trees. It, you know, because it hasn't been open for a while, we haven't done a lot of of work up there. And so we um with our wonderful vendors giving us very very kind quotes um got a cost repair uh for

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two different vendors um for about $13,000. And so the first half of that which is removing the trees and grinding the stumps that was able to be done but um through the sort of early winter last year and then the big winter that we had

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um so the stone walls are still under repair. And so, um, I I talked with our vendor. He said that for every, you know, breach, he has to go 3 to 5 feet in either direction in order to because they're such um antique walls.

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Um, and so we will be able we will need $9,100 to um he's not sure he can be finished by the end of fiscal year, so we'll need that $9,100 to pay him next year. Um,

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and hopefully we can encumber some funds to uh help um support our budget 1A or 1B. Um, we're talking about software. We use the cemetery software to manage our uh

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purchases and our burials and that pricing has gone up and will continue to go up um considerably. We are looking for to add Strowbridge. Right now we have Precinct the veteran cemetery and Clark cemetery on that software. To add

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Strowbridge is a very high cost. We're looking at different options and and possibly a different vendor. But even still transferring the data that we have already entered to a new vendor. It's probably going to be costly. We don't have a a firm price on that yet. Um we

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do have some maintenance that's not done by the DPW. They they're terrific um with all the things that we asked them to do and you know come get this branch and you know um uh as as trees are are um shedding into the cemeteries. Um, but

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there's a couple of spots at the Veterans Cemetery and Pierce where we need to have um separate vendors take care of those because um because of the marble um headstones in the veteran cemetery can be um discolored by grass clippings

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and things if they were just flying through. Um and Pierce is on a uh you need to go through private land to get there even though it's in Lakeville. the um and so the the homeowner um we pay them to be um to do the the

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maintenance necessary on that cemetery. Um, we also have some other quotes from this year that we are not able to act upon because of all the work at Strobridge. And so that is um still either being pushed off to fiscal year

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2027 or um or beyond um and that doesn't include any of the unforeseen repairs um from now through the end of September that we might come across in our cemeteries. So, we're asking for about $13,000 to

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manage. I know that we are at a a level um a level funding situation, so just throwing it out there. Does anybody have any questions about I know there's a lot of cemeteries in town. How many cemeteries does our

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commission oversee at this time? >> You know, I counted them up. Um I I think that um we're overseeing about 28. >> Okay. >> Um there are several more that are private or on private land where um they

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take care of it. >> A lot. >> Yeah. >> Ken normally brings the sign show the map to show everyone. I don't see the $13,000 um request in here. Is that >> It's It's I didn't submit anything. I

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>> Oh, okay. All right. I just wanted to know if it was >> held somewhere else at this time or >> No, just just we you know based on what we've used to date here and not knowing whether the walls were going to be

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replaced, you know, repaired in time for this fiscal year. Um right now I think we have about $2500 left in our um budget for this year that if we could encumber that that would help >> towards that goal.

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>> Anybody have any questions for regarding the cemetery? >> No. Well, I thought you did a marvelous job. >> Thank you. as Ken sitting home watching you now. >> Yeah, exactly. I'm sure. I'm sure.

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>> Well, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Is um is Dave the animal people coming or we can skip it for now and come back to it? >> Yeah, we can skip it for now. >> Come back to it. Okay.

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>> Not sure if he's showing up, but um we can we can discuss it after it's >> Well, I know that inspectional services was showed up early so they could bump the animal control. >> Come on up, Nate.

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So, inspectional services line items start on page 96 under the public safety tab, but uh Nate kind of oversees some general government departments as well, so we may have to kind of flip to as we go.

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>> All right. Good evening, everyone. >> Where do you want to start? >> Start with >> Start with inspection. >> Start with you. Yeah. All right. So, if you want I can go through the lines, but I'm kind of thinking that um you can you've all had

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a chance to look at this. Um the 1A budget is shows the uh cost of living increases. 1B uh is static, no cost of living. Um we did reduce the assistant inspector again uh last year. If you

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recall, we went from 10,000 to 5,000. uh if we if the 1B budget brings that from 5,000 to 2500 just so everybody knows that it's going to represent probably 2 to 3 weeks um if something were to happen to me or you know go on vacation or you know injury or anything like

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that. So we're really kind of whittling down on what we can sustain if you know something were to happen. So >> as far as succession planning that's not that great. So that's that's really inspectional services. As you can see,

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we're we're mostly um we're mostly personnel. We really don't have much in the expense line items. Utilities are paid through the general account through uh select board's office. Um we did reduce uh gas

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inspector a bit on the 1B budget. um that would reflect the fact that we're decarbonizing everything. So there's far less gas being installed in new homes than there ever was before. Um sometimes we see replacement commercial buildings, but other than that, we're not seeing

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much. So um we could reduce that uh in the event that we don't get an override. Same thing with plumbing uh inspector and electrical inspector. Um the sealer weights and measures, animal inspector and health inspectors, those those are stipen positions.

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Really not much to it. If you guys have any questions, >> select board finance committee questions for inspectional services office. >> Okay. >> So the next one is uh board of health.

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That's on page 119 under health and human services. So one needs >> same thing as building side um with the chair uh second and third member of the board of health as a fixed cost. Uh health agent salary uh same deal. Uh

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cost of living increase with an override, no cost of living increase without the override. Part-time assistant inspector uh stays the same. That's for redundancy filling in when uh when needed. in the part-time

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clerk. All other all other lines are are the same. No increases. I think it's probably worth mentioning uh too that we are looking at other revenue opportunities. Um we every single year we kind of reach out to

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building departments in the southeast of Massachusetts and see what uh permit fees are. And right now we're we're still right where we need to be where, you know, commercial fees are one and a half% of construction cost and residential's 40 uh cents a square foot.

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$40 a square foot. >> 40 cents. >> No, it is 40 cents. Yeah. Was looking at a lot of numbers. >> Any questions on the board of health? No. Okay, >> the uh last one is going to be page 69

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under the general government tab. It's uh conservation. >> So, conservation agent um as you recall, we've kind of tried to bring this number up over the last several years. Um building locations are getting more and more complicated. Uh more often than

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not, they're inundated with wetland um implications. uh they become harder and harder to per to permit and then review after the fact. Um with the override, we're going to keep that number static. Without the override, um we're going to

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reduce it significantly and um try to leverage the revolving account that we approved at town meeting last year. So, as revenues come in, uh permit fees and and that type of thing, uh they go into the revolving account now. So, we'll be looking to use that money for the

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conservation agent versus what was intended to be used to um protect and maintain conservation land. Okay. Anybody have any questions on that? always just takes a minute. You know, you can read it

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um you know, for when it's onedimensional, but when you're actually hearing it, you know, from the person that's you know, running the department, you know, it just kind of sinks in a little differently. So, okay. >> All right.

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Well, thank you, Nate. >> Super easy. >> Thank you, All right. Department of Public Works. >> Hey, Franklin. How are you? >> 107. >> Yeah. Uh, so that's page 107 under the

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public works tab. >> 107. You said >> that's correct. And, um, Frank kind of overseas transfer station, snow and ice. Those are also corresponding pages after 107. All right, guess we'll jump right into it. Budget 1A um captures cola and um

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step raises and that's the only thing in there for the DPW budget. Um 1B with no override will be um we cut quite a bit out of that. Um,

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we're cutting some money out of repair maintenance on buildings, money out of grounds maintenance services, cutting the entire line item on roadway maintenance, the entire line item on line painting, entire line item on catch basin cleaning, um, portion of the

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office supply budget, and a portion of the public works materials budget. Madam Chair, is it okay? >> Yes. >> Um can you discuss how um the override not passing will impact your department specifically just because you do have a lot of line items and it what you do

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impacts the entire community a lot on a daily basis. So I' I'd like people to hear that please. >> Yeah. So whether budget 1A or 1B, even a level funded budget to me is um still not technically level funded with the with the cost of almost everything that

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we do increasing. Um and would one be obviously with all those cuts. Um it's going to kind of we've kind of been leaning this direction the last couple years, but being more reactive than proactive I guess would be the best way to put it. um we're we're kind of um you

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know reacting to the to the worst the to the safety issues and things of that nature. Um what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to start eating away at our chapter 90 money um to do a lot of these road preservation things that we're capturing here with

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roadway maintenance and things like that. Um so all in all even with the cuts so in the past if you look through the budget there's quite a few you know four or five six lines on this budget that year after year we're or most years we're

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overspending on those lines so we're having to cut back in other areas. Um which is why I'm saying over the years we've kind of been going a little more to being reactive than proactive which isn't ideal for us. Um, I guess I don't know if that's the best way to put it, but so we're going to be

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leaning more on chapter 90 now. Um, which means we'll be doing less road miles. Um, which our RSR right now road surface rating is about 78 or so. Um, 8 years ago it was in the low 60s. Um, when you start taking money away from

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doing those road resurfacing projects and things like that, your road resurfacing number goes down. Um, obviously less safe roads, things like that. >> Thank you. >> Anybody from the select board? >> Madam Ch, if I may. So, um, Frank, if

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you do the clarify statement you made, um, you can use the chapter 90 funding for the roadway maintenance line painting and cach basing. >> Yep. >> Not ideal, I >> admit, but yes. So you can >> okay

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>> and again just so everybody public understands that's going to mean less money applied to road reservicing projects which you guys have been f we all know last year you guys banks have kept 90 did a great job and >> yep that was a combination of chapter 90

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the capital money that I'm getting and then along with my what I have in my budget which I do most of the road preservation stuff yes >> with the roadway maintenance line. >> Yep. >> Great. Thank you. Okay. >> And then transfer station.

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>> Um I think snow and ice might be next, but if you want ice >> transfer to >> uh nothing changes with snow and ice. Um as you know, we're in a deficit this year. Hopefully we're not in a deficit next year for multiple reasons. Um but I

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guess with the one A1B snow and ice needs to be funded. So can't can't change that. >> Madam Chair, can you repeat for 2020 uh the 2026 budget? So we budgeted 135,000 total and you're say how what is the

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cost assuming there's no other uh issues in the next couple months? >> I want to say it's upwards of 200 right now. We we ran a $241,000 snow and ice deficit in FY26. >> That's the deficit. >> That's the deficit. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Did you say $200?

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>> $241,000 deficit. So 135. Okay. Thank you, >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> And Andrew, can you clarify? I I sorry I knew I was still setting up in the beginning. There's there's a possibility that that's going to be covered by state funding.

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>> Yeah. the Senate uh supplemental that's been proposed. Um they've offered us $27,000 for that. I think there's going to be additional on top of that. Generally speaking, Chapter 90 is just used for Chapter 90 purposes. The Senate and the House are kind of talking about opening it up to snow and ice. So, that'll be

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covered. >> That that should cover all the deficit then. >> Most most of it. >> Good. Is that a one-time um >> payment or is this going to happen every year going forward or just because the winter was so bad? >> It's probably going to be a one-time

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thing, I'm guessing. Believe it or not, like our deficit, as bad as it is, it's I think Freetown's like 600 >> thousand deficit. So, we're actually in a not not a terrible position. As bad as that is to say, I guess or good. >> Andrew, just as a point of clarification,

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>> this is actually um the millionaire's tax is it chapter 90, correct? That's correct. >> I do want to add too, this is the only line in the general fund operating budget that you're legally allowed to deficit spend. Any other line you have to find a funding source immediately to

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identify it. So the reason for not increasing it due to deficits is because then you have to fund it. Whereas you can find other funding sources as the year goes on. So uh it's typically normal in municipalities to kind of keep it level. Great. If you want to talk about street

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lighting, >> street lighting, we just uh 1 a um want to see level funded 1B cut the electricity use which which we we may be able to cut that electricity

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use now anyway um due to the fact that we've done some LED lighting projects um with the help of MG& throughout uh all of Kenneth Welch and some of commercial and Riverside as we're replacing those

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lights we're placing them with LED so Madam Chair yes I have a question um the increase cost from um from last year's actual to this year's budgeted is that a reflection of us having additional um

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lighting fixtures that need to be lit or additional electrical locations or is it an increased cost or is it a combination of both >> for the electricity or the maintenance? >> Electricity. >> The

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>> we show 2025 actual was 11,342. >> Yep. >> We're voting for 20,000. >> Yeah. So that that's what was voted in. That's been kind of the steady number is 20. Um that's why I was saying even without the override or with the override we could still probably lower

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this number. >> Okay. So we're just it's like a placeholder and then we have the extra transfer station. Um 1 A again CO only capturing colas and any um step increases. Uh 1B without the override

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obviously no colas, no step increases. And we'd be removing the household hazardous waste day out of this which is a $7,500 um line. I'm sorry, Franklin. Where was that? >> Yeah.

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>> Carried >> the >> citus waist stay. >> That was under the expenses. Um 520 700. >> Okay. What about hours of operation u for the

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transfer station? I know they're um are they going to would they be affected in any way at this time? >> No. >> Okay. FE structure. will remain the same pretty much >> for right now. >> Right now,

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>> yeah, it's something we definitely we have um done some work on and we do have some proposals put together, but I don't think right now would probably be the best time to >> to do those. Um but it is something we'll have to look at in the near future.

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>> All right. Any members of the select board incom have any questions for Franklin transfer station? >> All right. Thank you, Franklin. >> Thank you. Thank you. Um, can I flip to our town

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administration to uh provide the overview for the animal control? >> Yeah. See, So, it's uh page 100 in the public safety tab. Um let me just put it up on

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the screen. So um the animal control budget uh largely made up of salary. Um up top is the animal control officer. Um next is uh call back or longevity. So outside hours um if there's a an emergency or

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service needed um those charges are charged to that line item. Um the longevity pertains to the animal control officer. And then there's a small uh contractual clothing allowance um or non-contractual

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clothing allowance I should say. Um large amount of his expenditures if not all go to the upkeep of the animal control facility. Um heating, electrical, buildings and grounds. Um we have tried to shift some of the

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purchasing of food and supplies, cleaning supplies for the animals to the donation account because as we know um there's a healthy balance in the donation account. So we've shifted some of the burden from the budget uh to that funding source. Um as you can see the expenditures stay

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the same both 1A and 1B. Uh but the salaries there's no cost of living adjustment or step um in the event the override fails. >> Quick question. Um I know we charge uh you know fees for other towns um to for

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us to provide the service uh for their communities. >> Um and are we feeling a more positive or is there a negative impact to those fees that we've been charging being reflected in the budget? Meaning

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have we seen any difference? We don't collect a whole lot off of those towns. I think it's like 500 per town. I think it's something that we're going to look at, I think, right sizing in the future, maybe up a few grand because it's quite the service that we

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provide towns and there are additional towns that are looking at joining Fair Haven being the the main one. So, that's something I think we're going to pursue probably by the turn of the year with those communities, but it it's not a huge amount that we

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see off of those. I'm sure I have to wrap my head around it a little more. It just seems that um you know, the burden obviously is falling upon Lakeville, >> but >> um how do you measure that? How do you

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know how do you put a number on that? But I just want to make sure that it's not a a negative, you know, impact. >> One thing could help. I know the the animal control facility needs a new roof

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at some point in the future. Ideally, if we get a lot of money from these towns, we could do that completely with that funding source and not have to tap into free cash or any other funding source. So that's that's probably the best rationale for that money I would say.

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But we do do a lot of work for the towns. Um I think every time I tell someone about it, it's kind of like shock that we we only charge them a small amount. So >> you through you, Madam Chair. So we charge a flat rate and not like a per

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animal fee. Is that what is that how I'm taking that? We charging a $500 flat rate and then that's it or >> so we do charge uh $500 for the flat rate. It's it used to be called capital fee. Now it's a capital or operating capital fee. Colleen, do you know

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exactly the fees we charge per animal? Is it 25? There is a $20 charge for the animal control officer and then it's I think $25 a day for boarding and then that depending on how much that um

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tallies up to when the dog is either I assume adopted then that gets build to the towns. So the towns pay in addition to it. This is my first year so I'm hoping to have better statistics than we've had previously. >> There is quite a bit of medical care that we provide.

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>> There is. Yeah. >> So that's it takes a hit on donations and the budget >> definitely. >> So that's where we kind of feel it. >> And I do know that there was a a study started um in the select board's office

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prior to your arrival. Um I'm not sure where that if it ever came to. I don't recall it ever coming, you know, to the table um being finalized because it was looking into a lot of all you know that information. So, um I'm sure

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that it's there somewhere. >> Um might have to dig it out a little bit, but I think that the the groundwork might have already been started, >> Madam Chair. >> Yeah. Um I think the animal shelter is still coming out ahead though, right? It's not

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operating in the red when you consider donations and everything in. Right. >> Right. Yeah. We he Dave bought a new vehicle with donation money and he has quite a healthy balance. Mike, do you know what it is? >> $85,500 um as of February 28th

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>> in the donation account. >> That's correct. >> I'm sorry I didn't I didn't hear you that, Mike. >> Uh the balance in the donation account as of February 28th, 2026 was $85,549. >> Okay, >> Madam Chair. Okay. Um, so this to me and correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just having

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this conversation with my friends here, but my we we keep turning rolling around this idea that we have a structural challenge, right? We have that we kind of, you know, the reason this budget override may be so large is because we have we have to make some significant

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changes. To me, when I hear us using a charitable account to manage our operating expenses on our animal shelter, to me, that feels structural. I don't know if that's right, if I'm taking that the right way or the wrong way, but as a donor to that particular fund, I guess my expectation is that the

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base level stuff is being taken care of and anything that I'm providing is above and beyond in terms of a standard of care for those animals in our care, whether that's surgery or whatever that is above and beyond what the standard would be for any other municipality. So, I don't know what anybody thinks about

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that, but I just kind of wanted to tail on what what Leah was asking. Madam Chair, I think we had discussed at least a couple three years ago that maybe we should be charging more than $500 because towns are getting a lot for

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that $500 like like you said. Um, and also look at the per day charge because the per day charge should really cover food cleaning and all that.

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And honestly, I know just from speaking with other towns, it's way too expensive for other towns to start up. >> Mhm. >> You know, so they want to use our service because it's cheaper than them doing it

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themselves. So, I would love to see that whole thing looked at the, you know, the fee per year. Um, the daily rate. I'll give one example of a community that saw the benefit. I guess un

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unfortunately is Fair Haven's going through an override just like us. They're choosing to potentially go with us and shut down their entire budget. So, um, that's a it's a big it's a big savings for them. So, >> right.

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>> Yeah, >> I would say so. >> I would say that's a red flag. That's something we really need to look into. >> I agree. I agree. >> All right. Anybody else on animal control?

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Thank you for stepping in for that. >> Okay, we're getting into the capital plan. Capital plans on 151 in the capital tab. So, the the full capital plan is online uh in the override budget tab. It's

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about 450 pages or so. It's probably going to end up being about 500. We're trying to show everything that we have on the capital plan, whether it's quotes, requests, studies, like a one-stop shop for all that. I thought that was too much for the budget books. Mhm.

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>> So, this is like a short summary version of it. Um, you can see a 5-year capital improvement program by the year and then by the funding source for fiscal 27. And then behind that is um we kind of built off

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the years prior. Um, we're trying to get into capital assets. So, we have a list of all the town's um open spaces, town cemeteries. Uh, we get into roads and road infrastructure. And then we gave a listing of all um

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equipment and vehicles. Um so I'll just kind of go through the list of everything. Um now it's I guess it's probably a good thing to qualify is that some of this stuff is still in flux depending on how the budget goes. I held back quite a bit

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of free cash. So, there are items on here that I potentially plan on funding either now or in the fall, but they've since dropped off for one reason or another. The first one like that is the town meeting clickers. Town meeting clickers are the classic um you can kind

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of vote from your seat and kind of be anonymous. Um just speaking as me myself in when I go to a town meeting, I kind of vote depending on how people are looking at me to vote. So I mean this kind of works I think a better method

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for voting how you how your conscience really feels. Um so I think this gets 500 five or four 250. >> No close to 1500. >> Oh well I'm way off. Uh totally 1500 clickers >> just in case of like what we have for

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Cisco for that kind of numbers. >> Right. So that I didn't uh recommend it for approval quite yet, but that that's still on the per periphery. Um we have increased Paul's operating capital line

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this year um to 75,000. The fitness court um was an idea we wanted to run through CPA, but it became clear to us that we would have had to put a lot of free cash to fund that, and that was something that the select board um had advised not to do. Um, we put on

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Clear Pond Park, um, just for kind of illustration purposes. That's something we can probably discuss with the parks commission tonight. Um, MS4 engineering, that's tied to storm water management in the town. Um, council on aging furnace and AC replacement that will be funded

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out of the COA Learon um, expansion account. Um, so that's not going to hit any sort of free cash or town accounts. Um, AES sidewalks. That's something I had the idea to do. I think anyone that sees Asaw Wamps Elementary, you can see

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the sidewalks are in disrepair. So, we u put some money to fund a study um for that. You can see that in the major capital 450 page document. Um, the goal I think is to one day try to fund that with free cash and then try to go for an

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ADA grant to fund that full cost. Um the next one is the Asawwamstead Elementary School roof. Um we're going to fund that through two uh accounts or recommend for two accounts. One is free cash and one is a existing smart growth density bonus

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account for a total of 750,000. That wouldn't get the full roof, but it would get the two shingle roofs, one in the front, one in the back. Um and then there's also contingency on that. Prices are rising daily. So, we thought um we

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could fund maybe that little extra um IT equipment. Um as we all saw, I recommended to cut 30,000 out of his IT equipment line. Um that's something that might come back onto the capital plan, but that's for kind of major capital

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type purchases. It's almost like Paul's operating capital. So, I'm potentially recommending an IT operating capital. And then I put this just for illustration purposes, but this is our chapter 90 allocation, which is $666,000.

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Um, that's up historically. Historically, we're around 350 to 400,000. So, we are getting more, but as everyone knows, um, fuel's going up, road, it takes a lot more to build a road and pave a road than it did a year ago. So, um, but we just put that on for

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illustration purposes, just to kind of show that the roads are being invested in. The next, um, subcategory is police. Um, ordinarily, uh, Chief Perkins recommends two police cruisers to be funded. This year, we're just doing one.

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The reason that it's 77,000 is that we're choosing to, um, oh god, I'm trying to think of the word. Um, we're going to turn it in and then use the existing vehicle, the credit credit vehicle credit. Um,

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then we're going to turn the existing vehicle over to the board of health. Um, so there's a savings there. We don't have to buy a new vehicle for the board of health. Um, unmarked police cruiser. That'll be something in the future. Uh, fiscal year 30. Um, bodywn camera. Uh, Lieutenant

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Maltes and Chief Perkins um applied for a grant. I'm blanking on unfortunately um right now, but they received about $60,000 60 $65,000. Um we're choosing to supplement that

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with 15,000 to get the full um ask essentially from the grant. Um and then the live scan, I'm I'm kind of blanking on what that is at the moment. Chief, you want to >> fingerprint >> fingerprint um fingerprint machine. Um

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for the fire, uh as everyone knows, we've uh purchased a vehic um kind of contribution. It's $175,000. Um similar to the IT operating, I'm going to potentially recommend a fire department operating. Um that's just not

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quite funded yet, but that's likely to come in. Um, and then an ambulance was requested this year. Um, fairly cheap from what he normally um, buys, but um, that just fell off at the last second. And then there's some other um, major

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vehicles that he's looking into buying in the off years next year, fiscal 28. Um, and then I just put this just for illustration purposes as well, the new fire station. Um, so it shows that we're investing in buildings as well. Um,

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public works. Uh, Mr. Monise generally asks for $375,000. Unfortunately, we just don't have the quite the capital to do that. So, we've put about 125,000 into that this year. And that can be used for any sort of

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roadway maintenance. Um, but permanent material removal, that massive pile of uh kind of contaminated soil behind the DPW, we're required to kind of take chunks out of it at a time. um unfortunately it's going to cost a lot of money over the years and we can

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just contribute 25,000 at this time. And then we have quite a bit of um equipment that he's requesting this year and it kind of it builds up into a lot of money. Um this I'd like to fund in its entirety outside of the sidewalk plow.

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Um actually it's just the cabin chassis and the two churn mower with equipment. Those are desperately needed. I'm sure Frank when he comes time to capital, he can explain exactly what those are for. Um, and then the 4x4 pickup is 120,000.

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Um, and then the library, they have quite a bit of uh capital requests. As everyone knows, this building's been standing for about 20 to 25 years, and now it's basically when things start to fall apart. So, um,

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Jennifer Jones, the library director, kind of put these together with, um, Paul knee to kind of say the these are the things that are going to be needed over the next 5 years. Um, and then the last one is the parks enterprise, um, commissioner field playgrounds.

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That's going to be about $10,000. And then we put this just for, I guess, illustrative purposes as well. they want to buy a gator um and that's about $15,000. They will spend it um out of

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their parks operating budget, but anytime we're trying to put anything over 10,000 one purchase on the capital plan just for transparency sake. Um so that's everything right now. Like I said, it's still in flux depending on how the budget is um or how it gets

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finally I guess voted. But um there's quite a bit of flexibility at this point. Um open to any feedback from anyone. So >> when is your next um capital expenditures meeting?

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>> We haven't scheduled it yet. Probably in the next two to three weeks. >> Okay. >> Anybody have any questions on the capital? Well, thank you for that. You're >> welcome. >> Okay. Um, I'd like to invite the parks

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up at this time. >> We have a quorum this evening. Um, we do. Oh, there's four of us. four out of five. That's right. You had two over here. >> So, the parks start on page 147.

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So, >> I'll give you a moment to call your meeting to order. And then you want us to do that now or do you want to do the budget first? >> Um, what time would you call to >> um We I didn't 6:45 was our group meeting, but >> Okay, you can do it now if you'd like.

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Okay. >> I don't even know what today is. I'd like to call the Lakeville Parks Commission meeting on April 21st to order. Is there anybody recording

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besides Lake Ham? >> No. Hearing none, we'll start the meeting at 6:57 p.m. >> I'm sorry, Mike. I missed which um which page we're starting on. Um it's >> for our budget >> page number 147.

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Okay, >> that's the park revenue. I put that first. >> You have Do you want me to go through it line by line or do you have any questions? >> No, I think just a an overview from you

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would be wonderful. >> Okay. Um, so if you want to start with Clear Pond, Clear Pond is um, we raised most things like our season passes was up by 21% because we're

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hoping to open it up to more communities and we're hoping that more people will see the value in buying the season pass which brings our gate fees down because we're hoping they buy the season pass instead of purchasing a day pass at the gate. Let's see.

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Then we have the rental studios. It's up by I brought my ruler so I can do this. Our rental studio is up by 27% because it's a fixed fee and this we

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redid it this year. It's a fixed fee. The same thing with the lodge. It's up by 3.7% because in March we bump up to the highest level. So, we'll get an extra $500 a month from them there.

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Uh, I believe the transfer from general fund, unless you guys are going to give us $22,000 this year, I think that belongs on the line above it into retained or earnings for others. >> That's correct. So, you'll be using 22,135

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of your retained earnings uh to balance the budget. >> Thank you. >> And I will provide updated pages. Does anybody have any questions on the revenue? Um, no. I think we're good. Okay.

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Page 148. Wages. The hourly wages maintenance is a part-time worker, so he stayed the same. our hourly highway staff wages went down a little bit because we lost our highest our DPW worker had maxed out.

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So, we have a new worker that came in on the bottom level. So, that saved us a little bit of money. Um, lifeguards, their wages will have to go up. Auxiliary staff because we're going to have to hire more auxiliary staff because our lifeguards can't do the

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snack shag anymore. So, we'll have to hire more auxiliaries. Clear upon director. This year, we're looking to hire a director and an assistant director. So, that's why that went up 36% because that's for two people. Um,

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the next line says highway police clerk part-time. Scratch out highway police. We don't have any of those. It's just a clerk part-time. And the rest are all taxes that we have no control over. Any questions on our salaries?

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Perfect. You guys are making this too easy. Okay. Expenses. Electric. We'll keep the electricity and the heating the same. Water services. went up. Um we added Clear Pond last year, so that increased our water. Um

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Lon Pond's water goes up, but they Lon Pond reimbures us. So the electricity, the heating fuel, and the water services are a little mis misleading because the park pays it out and then Lon Pond Lodge reimbures us for their share of all of

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those and it's recorded in one of the revenue sources. Repair and maintenance on buildings, we put that down a little bit. Vehicles, same equipment, the same. Rubbish removal that goes up. Um, last year we

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switched from Wind Waste to Harvey and it was probably a better deal for the town, but it wasn't a better deal for the park. Um, it was a flat rate probably for you guys to get it picked up maybe once a month. During the summers, we get it picked up once a

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week. In spring and fall, we get it picked up every other week. So, every extra time that they come out to pick up our dumpsters is an extra $100 that we have to pay because that's a the town went in on a contract. So, that's how that happened.

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So, that's why that's up. See, let me go down. Office supplies is down a little bit. Groundseping supplies was down 40% because soccer took over. fertilizing their fields, the soccer fields, which is a large chunk of Ted Williams camp.

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Um the $15,000 Mike mentioned, club car, and any other equipment. Um the last couple years we've been buying a piece of equipment because they keep breaking because they're really old. Um what else? Dues and subscriptions. It

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went up by 75% which sounds like a lot but it's only $150 because we have calendar wiz currently and we're looking at a reservation system again indirect charges comes from it's not our choice well it's Mike it's

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what we share with back to the town for the services you provide us >> that's correct >> part of it >> yeah being >> I know that's a a lot to take in. You guys must be sick of looking at numbers. >> No, but your numbers balance out.

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>> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> Um, can we all look at the rubbish contract again? It sounds like >> I don't know the answer to that. >> Yeah, you can all >> It's an extra $100 per time they have to

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pick up. I can see that. Plus, you don't really want the trash hanging around. >> No, it gets it gets picked up because the >> the dumpster's full like >> May, June, July, August, September, and October with Ludon Lodge and the

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weddings that it just fills up every week. Like there's no option. It's got to go. >> That's a good question. >> Madam Chairman, yes, I got a question. Is it correct that that this this the parks account is actually operating in

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the negative? >> We should come. >> Is this what it looks like from a revenue and expense perspective? >> It's off by >> 20,000. >> I'm sorry. I didn't I didn't catch you. >> Where are you? >> 325 by 35.

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>> What page are you on? 147 >> 147. >> Oh, because of the bottom line. >> Yeah. >> 325. That's 2027. >> What about the prior year? What about 20? >> You talking about 2026? >> Yeah. So, where we pointed out that the

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22135 needs to come up is a $20,000 use of retained earnings to balance the 26. So, that's when I said I'll provide you pages. >> Um, so the use of retained earnings is kind of held typically outside the operating budget. It's just a reservation of

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funds. It's not actually a revenue source coming in like the throws me off, Mike, every single time. >> Yeah. No, that that's an error on my part. I apologize. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Anybody else have the parks budget?

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>> And um just one point of order for the select board. Um, Lake Cam's recording this evening. Is there anybody else recording? Seeing none. Okay, we're good. Thank you for reminding me.

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All right. Um, I know we just finished up all the department uh budget discussions for day two. Um, we'll be coming back for day three next week um to finish those uh discussions. But is there anybody here in the audience that

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had any questions um with any of these? Okay, I guess we'll hold them till the end. Fantastic. Okay, so that does conclude that um portion of our uh department head meetings. Um finance committee, would

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you like to stay for the the rest of the remainder of the evening? >> No, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn. I >> second. Tanini I >> Manovski I >> I don't think you guys um did that fast enough. >> Moving faster next week.

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>> He was thinking you could have thought about it for like 10 seconds. >> We we pre-planned. >> Thank you. >> It was nice to see you. Thank you. Okay. So, we're starting a little later than 6:45, but um this is nice. This was kind

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of a nice little addition um when we were going through the preparation of the agenda uh to have the parks here and um all the items that you guys are overseeing um and bring the two committees together which I think is uh

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which is a great idea. Uh so for this joint meeting um Andrew would you like to um kick us off? >> Yeah. So, um, as everyone knows, there's there's overlap between the two groups. Um, there's always constant kind of

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questions of like who's doing what and who's responsible for what. Um, a question I haven't I guess I've always thought is and it's hard to like get a a true answer is what's what's like the priority of the parks commission? Like let's say we had a billion dollars. Like

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what would we choose to fund? Like cuz I know I don't want to pick a park and then I know everyone likes the other two parks. So I want to like see if there was grant funding or funding that came out of the sky like what would be the priority? John Pond, Ted Williams, Clear

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Pond maybe. I'm sure probably sure probably all of them but >> yeah I think it would be little bits on each like at this point I would say that the fields at Ted Williams camp the baseball fields would be the top priority. Don't you think?

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>> Yes. >> Um, after that I have well I put what we're working on currently. So currently Paul is looking into bathroom locks for us because we always have a problem in the bathrooms. Last year we had to bring

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in portaotties because the bathrooms got clogged because the prior year somebody thought it would be funny to put in t-shirts and rocks and probably see how many they could put in before it didn't fluff anymore. So it took that fall and

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then the next spring to get that all worked out. And we also haralar as I know switched from two ply to one ply. Believe it or not that has made a difference. Um, so last year we spent a lot of time with the bathroom

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portaotties and the bathrooms locked. So it seems a shame because we have the bathrooms not to use the bathrooms. But after hours and early mornings of when it seems to happen, never during the week, it's always first thing Sunday morning, you get the phone call that the bathrooms overflowing, gushing water

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everywhere. So, we wanted to put in locks, remote locks, so that it would automatically lock at like 10:00 at night and open up at 8:00 in the morning, but we couldn't get the smart locks to fit on the doors. So, the town hall apparently has um key fob ones that

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lock and unlock themselves. So, Paul's supposed to be looking into getting that for our bathrooms. >> Alternatively, we'd have to buy new doors to get the smart locks to work. So, we're kind of weighing our prices. So that is another big thing. Anybody

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else have big things at Ted Williams camp? >> Farther? No. I was thinking farther down the road with um John Pawn where the engineering just got completed. You know eventually a playground there would be

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great but I think the things that you have talked about are more pressing. >> Right. So, the park grant came online last month and the park grant is a we

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our town is gets a 60% reimbursement. So, if we spent $700,000 it would reimburse us the maximum of $425,000 that they will give. Um, it has to be protected land, which at Ted

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Williams at our parks, it kind of gets into a wishy-washy, not really clear what's protected, what's not protected. Um, so that's step one we have to figure out before we go further. And step two is we have to put 100% of that money aside. Like we have to go to town vote

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and say, we'll allot $700,000 for this project, and then they'll reimburse us the 60%. But we have to have a binding vote saying that that money will be there. So again, if that money is not there and that's not something you guys want to do, there's no point in going

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further on this these grant things because we might be able to get all the fields at Ted Williams camp done and the fields at John Pawn Pond John Pond Park done with that same grant. And I know we had somebody come out last spring for

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the fields at Ted Williams Camp and it was $150,000. So that might all come in under that $700,000 budget so that we could get them done at the same time. We haven't gotten the final draft for the engineering plan for

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John Pond Park. So not totally sure on that. And then if the budget's unlimited, I would say a building at Ted Williams camp so that you could actually have camps. Right now there's no build, you can't have camps because in case of lightning or bad weather, there's no

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indoor facility that we can use because we rent out we lease um Lon Pond Lodge. So that's not we can't have it there. Can't have it in the maintenance shed because you know it's full of lawnmowers and tractors and

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>> so unlimited budget. That's what I think we could do. Anybody else? >> Yep. Yeah. Yeah, that's where the orders like Ted Williams camp and then >> um you know the John Palm Park improvements we already looked at. >> Clear font we have the engineering plan.

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I mean there's a building there too that was $600,000. Um the parking lot I was there again this week opening it up because we have Johnson Johnson coming to do a volunteer day and the debris that's in front of that gate was unbelievable. And then I stepped in mud

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and had some few choice words because the mud it just comes pouring down Clear Pond. It don't know how it knows but it takes a right into Clear Pond in the parking lot and makes puddles. So I think if we need fix that and that's on the town issue, not a Clear Pond Park

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issue. Um somehow if we fix that, that will solve some of our water in the parking lot issue. Didn't they go through that um when they were going through the design on the plans of how they could divert that water so it wouldn't become an issue there?

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>> Um no, they did in the parking lot itself, >> not to the parking lot. So right currently if there's a heavy rain the whole parking lot floods, >> right? >> So that's where they diverted that water and in that heavy rain it comes down literally like if it rains go to Clear

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Pond. You won't believe it. It comes down Clear Pond, turns into the parking lot, keeps going, and then turns into the this way. So, you get when you drive right in, there's a puddle, and then when you go to turn the corner, there's a puddle, and then when you start to go into the parking lot, there's a puddle.

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And that all comes from Clare Pond Road. >> I was shocked when the first time I saw her, >> which we're going to have to get a visual on that at some point, too, >> through the chair. So that would be technically town property and not park.

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>> Yeah. So when they did the the engineering plan, she said that was beyond the scope because that was town, not just to clarify. >> All right. Yeah. I'll have to get a set of eyes on that just for my own benefit just to to see it too. Um

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>> Okay. Do we still have more money in that billion dollars to spend? It's getting lower. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And what is your like give and take? So, what's your We had a Andrew can scrape

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up another billion. What are your plans and dreams for the parks? >> Me personally, um I've always been I've always wanted to see like a like a walking trail in town, like ADA accessible one. So, I thought maybe like

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an exterior at Ted Williams or somewhere like a paved kind of like area. We can kind of walk around the exterior of the whole thing. I don't know if they necessarily worked at Ted Williams or not. >> Yeah. So, I know you and I have talked about this before. The trails at Ted Williams camp currently, they're

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actually great because they're in the shade, so you can walk them all summer and it's you're in the shade, so it's not overbearing. But, we can't pave that, right? Because you got big pine trees on either side of the trail and the trail is full of roots. So, as soon as you pave that, a root's going to come up and crack it and it'll be a nightmare

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to take care of. Um, so I'm not sure where we would put that at 10. >> I'm almost thinking like around the soccer fields and the baseball fields. It's probably going to be Titan that >> there's a um there's a pathway that goes from the the library out this back corner through to

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the edge of the baseball field, soccer field. So you could take that, you could go up the thing, but and then maybe do a sidewalk along the road that goes around all the way over to the senior center and then back or something like that. But through the woods, that just doesn't

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make any sense to me. >> But now that you say on the edge, like I can I can see it. >> Yeah. Perimeter of the entire park. >> Yeah, exactly. Um, it'd probably be cheaper to do with that than go through the woods probably. But I don't know if it makes sense or not. I don't know if

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the spacing is quite there. And then the other one is John Pond Park, whatever. I don't think it'd be as expensive as Square Pond Park to do probably what the the plan's going to say. So that's probably a cheap option to upgrade. >> Yeah. Well, so John Pond Park, and I

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know it's another controversial thing, is the softball fields. They really want bathrooms for the girls. Like that is the softball team's main focus. And I said, you know, I know that's a hot button issue. Portaotties just as easy.

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And they're like, no. They said, you guys put in the thing and then we'll maintain it. Cuz I always go back and when Nate when I first started was like, you know, portaotties are just easier. They might not be as attractive and they might not be as fun as a ba fun as a

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bathroom, but they're easier. And he was absolutely right. Like, we have the bathrooms. It cost us over $2,500 when we had all that money, the the shirts and the rocks and getting it pumped and getting the lines cleaned and then you turn it on and it clogged right again. So, we ended up having to bring in the

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porta body for the rest of last year and because it was just cheaper to bring in the portaotti than it was to keep cleaning the lines. So, and I brought that up to them and they're like, "No, if something happens, we'll clean the lines. We'll take care of it." Yada yada yada. So, they really

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want the one-stop shop building. And I know it's what we want, not necessarily what they want. That has the bathrooms, the storage for all the leagues because we have three leagues. Last year, we had four leagues there. and the snack shack because currently their snack shack when

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they re when they reupholstered the not upholstered sided the outside apparently they didn't make it watertight. So between the outside siding and the inside plywood is we're starting to grow mold and have

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water damage. So that's going to be a necessity to do. Of course, it will have to be redone because it's not we can't wait for it to have the John Ponhole plan done. So, it's just one thing, you know, you know

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how it is, one thing after another. Nothing's cheap. Everything's prevailing wage through the roof. >> So, Madam Chair, I think we had worked on some kind of engineering study, right, for John Con >> for the water to get the water line.

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>> It's like it has to be portable. We can't get portable water there, which is part of the problem unless we >> Right. It was another half million dollars to go around because Blueberry wouldn't let us have it. >> Yeah. We have to run a water line. We don't have a water department. So, the

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maintenance would fall to DPW. So, it's >> you might need a billion dollars to bathroom there, right? >> And there is a well there. There is a well there >> but then where? >> So currently we have portaotties there

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and with our portaotties now that the whole non-portable water thing has come up um we have handwashing stations. So that's what we can do. But we can't. We have a well at Don Palm Park that they're going to use for irrigation this

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year. But we don't even have a place for anybody to wash their hands besides the little teeny tiny hand washing station that we have. Which if you have if you haven't seen that also kind of cool. It's a foot pump. Like how does how do you It's a foot pump. Only works when

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you're pressing it with your little foot. It's fun. >> Yeah. But if we use the well, didn't they tell us that we have to do all the water testing because it's a public drinking supply? >> So if you had a sink or anything else? Yes. So they're just going to use that

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for irrigation. >> Yeah. I know when um I think about it all the time of trying to get water, you know, down there. So I think through the economic development strategic plan um you know, infrastructure is a is a key

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thing. So, of course, we're always trying to keep an eye on how, >> right? So, yeah, you have ADA compliance because none of our parks have it. Um, we have girls equality at John Palon Park because the boys have the bathroom,

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the girls don't. Like, it's just there's a lot of options, but it's just doing it. And I we don't have grant writing experience. Like, I'm always like the fire department and the police department, they're so lucky. Like, they write their own grants. like we don't really have that option. But um

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human resources, Lacy Marshall said should work with me on the park grant because we looked into the land grant last year, but the land grant is a little bit different. It was matching. So you give me a million dollars, they'll give me a million dollars, >> but it has to be n chapter 97 land on

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and again we're all like is it or isn't it, you know, and then we can always assign it as that, but it has to go to town meeting and you have to approve that and then that's and I don't again don't know if that's something you're interested in doing or not. >> Yeah, those are match grants. Um and

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we've done them in the past for other you know for other things. So >> um >> it's a good deal. we just >> I wouldn't say that it's not something that we wouldn't do. Um I think that you know anybody can put a Warren article

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you know for town meeting special or annual. Um you know obviously there'd be discussion. It wouldn't be like oh here's our article you know there'll be some like preliminary conversations before it gets there. um use you know

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use our office like if you if you come across through your research if there are you know grants or you know other funding possibilities um we have a great resource in our office too um and I know Lacy's been you know always

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know very helpful in trying to help facilitate those things too so I just know that we have some really good grant writing people >> through the chair um there's also CPA But they're the same stipulations with

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land use, all of those things. And as you know, there are um a lot of requirements with it. And I think that when you have an initiative, personally, I would love to see um Clear

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Pond used somehow year round so that it can be an a destination place for for the town, however that looks, you know, fishing, ice fishing, whatever. Um

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but when you look at those initiatives and you say, "Okay, here's a cost around this. We have to go through the boxes. Does it fall into the cate, you know, the criteria for, you know, CPA funds? Is it a match grant? Is it this? Where can we check our resources? Because somebody might think of something that

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you might not be thinking of, although you think of everything because you know everything, Mr. So, but anyways, um, anybody else have anything that they would like to see future park?

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No. Okay. Um, moving on. Um, we have what? The Freetown Lakeville Athletic Association, F L AAA donation agreement. Yeah. So, when I went through it today, it um, and it's funny because

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I had the same thought as Andrew did. This seems more like they just want to do a field day. Excuse me. And maybe it's because they want to bring in small equipment to do it, but this really isn't what we had talked about. And in

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their email, they went into a little bit more. So, I'm not sure if this is really needed for a field day. Um, you'll have to tell me, but the my understanding, and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, and Andrew, you

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were there, was that they actually wanted to redo the fields. So, scrape it off because, um, if anybody wants to walk the fields, I'd be happy. Let me know, contact me. We'll walk the fields with you because they're in a worse shape than you think that they are.

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Like, it's bad. some places is a 6- in gap between the baseline and the field. Um, so they definitely need to be red bead and I think I mentioned it's $150,000 to do that $30,000 a field. We have six fields. The softball fields and the T-ball fields are a little bit less

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cuz it's not as much infield. It's just the field mix. Um, but that's not what this volunteer agreement says, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. My understanding is that they would do two fields per year, total of six, and they would like redo the whole thing.

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>> Yeah. And that's what I thought this agreement was going to be. And then when I read it this afternoon, I was like, whoa, that's >> So I don't know if you want to keep doing this or if you need this for a field day or what your pleasure is. >> Um,

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this So this was sent to us by FLA. >> Yes. They It was a little bit deeper than this. They said that they couldn't do the whole field because that would reduce playing time and yada yada yada. But it's and I get that they don't want to lose the field, but you can't use the field that someone's going to get hurt

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on. It's just, you know, it needs to be done. It needs to be done. Everybody has to sacrifice a little bit to get it done. >> So, >> we can reach out to them. If it's just going to be a field day, I don't think it's needed. Okay. >> But if it's going to be like a full scale reconstruction, >> it definitely would in my opinion. Um,

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we can meet with the the group again and see exactly what they plan on doing. >> Okay. So, if you want to hold off on this one. >> Yeah, we can do that. >> Unless what do you guys think? I know Andrew, you had this. >> Yeah, I think from from reading it, it would be good just to like see exactly what they're planning. Um, especially

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since part of our goal is to redo the table. So, if we're thinking the same thing, like what what we're planning on, what they're planning on, and be could be thinking the same thing, but we'd rather talk and yeah, you know, identify exactly what we're doing. >> Yeah, this just seems overkill for that.

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Um, and then we have dis golf that you know, so we might need something like this for dis golf, but then again, we might not because there's no real like this was like digging up the field and whatever. Disc golf is just more or

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less cleaning out the brush for each of the holes and then putting the pipe in the ground to put the disc catcher disc catcher. >> The net the net basket. Yeah, >> the basket. Thank you, Nolan. I knew he would get it. The basket in the ground

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because the tea where they throw off them doesn't even need anything. It's just like a mat on the ground. So, there's no digging up of the fields. was just cleaning the brush and putting the thing. So, I don't know what your pleasure with that is if you want to do a volunteer agreement for that. Um, he

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is the most Robert Drew, he is the most organized person who's come before the parks commission in the four years that I've been there. Um, he came to us with his maps. He forwarded more detailed maps to Andrew. He's already gone out and been approved for his 5013C for

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Lakeville Disc Golf Association. And when he wrote his they wrote their bylaws, it was for all park improvements so that if something happens in the dis golf doesn't continue, we could use that same just have go for a name change and

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keep the 501c3 number and use it for park general park improvements like a friends of group only it's not a friends of it's Lakeville disc golf association. So he was like forward thinking can because we asked him to kind of include that so it wouldn't be pigeon holed and

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he did and he's already done that. He's ready to go. He's got his volunteers lined up to do some brush cleaning. So he's meeting with us Thursday to go over like a final mapping and everything for the parks commission to get final apples to continue.

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>> I think I'd just like to see the full maps when he has them. >> Okay. Okay. >> And then come back and approve like a donation agreement. That'd probably be the best I would say. >> Okay. It's ultimately it'll be a 18hole course, but we split it up into two ninehole ones. So, first we'll do the

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nine whole one and everything goes okay, then we'll approve him to do the second and make it a full course. But if the first nine don't go okay, then maybe we >> Yeah. don't do the next nine. But I have I have the full confidence in him. Like I said, he's the most organized person

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I've seen in four years. >> Impressive. >> Yes. >> Good question, Melissa. Where in uh Ted Williams is it going to be located? >> The first nine holes will go from the >> Do you know where the old ice rink was

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at Ted Williams camp by the tennis courts? The first two holes there and then it progresses over to the edge of the soccer field like the path that goes from the library to here. The last couple holes are right over there. So, it stays in the front and then the last nine will go in the back. But we are not

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talking about the last nine right now because we're only focused. >> We I didn't include the map. Do you >> I didn't include it cuz it wasn't right. >> I want to see the full nine. I think it was just three or four. Maybe >> he sent you the details for the three or four. Yeah. Yeah. So, we have the full

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He did 10 holes in case one didn't pan out, he would have extra. So, we can get we can forward you that. >> That would be great. Yeah. I'll have to get a visual on it. All right. Anybody else? Disc dis. Okay. Um, second reading for the

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Lon Lodge RFP. Um, so the changes um from the last contract were incorporated into this version. Correct. >> Yeah, for the most part. >> Okay. >> Yep.

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>> The big changes are we change we're recommending the change from 3 years to 5 years. When you do that, it would require town meeting approval. >> Yep. >> We're thinking of doing that probably in the fall. >> Okay. >> Um we're keeping the flat fee at this point. Um then we're going to recommend

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a cost split on capital improvements. So that 60% would be covered by the town, 40% by the tenant. Right now it's 100% on the town. So those are the two big changes. And then obviously I think we're going

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to be a lot stricter with reporting. Um we've only seen one report to date >> right to date in the four years that I've been there. >> So >> So and Andrew, you saw it? >> Yeah, >> you got it. >> I I have one. He's going to send me a

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full um wrap-up for all of calendar year 2025. Um, it looks similar to what we've already seen, but it'll be a kind of a detailed more detailed, >> I think. So, it'll be it will give a good picture of how much he's making

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and then how much we could make either with a flat fee or a percentage fee. Um, I would recommend a flat fee myself, but I don't >> that's the only option in this contract, right? Is a a flat fee. >> Correct. At this point in time, >> did you run the numbers from the

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information you have? Did you run the percentage numbers to see if it equaled the flat fee? >> Not yet because the numbers he gave me included deposits for the next year. >> Okay. >> So, it wouldn't it wouldn't have been like an easy analysis, >> right? >> Um Okay. But with that number, I think

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it was just less than the flat fee amount. >> Yeah. So, it's not that far off, but I think we're definitely seeing >> a more consistent, less stressed budget because otherwise you you're kind of hoping and praying that he has enough advance and enough revenue,

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>> right, >> to balance the the retained earnings. >> I'm always hoping. Okay. Um, do you want to hear my edited questions? >> I'd love to. >> Yeah.

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>> All right. On page eight, it's an edit number three. Right at the top, it says form A1, flat fee based on yada yada yada the price of value and based upon the average flat fee for three-year contract. Um, page 19.

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So, what was your comment there? Just >> edit. Oh, >> it's a 5year contract. Okay. >> So, that was an edit. Okay. Um, page 19, 1.1. So, it's the end.

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Outdoor space adjacent to the building. Um, I'm not sure. Like, is that just next to the building? Is that across the street from the building? Is that too vague? What do you

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>> I view that as just the back portion >> where it is, not across the street. >> Correct. I can make that more obvious. >> No, that's as long as that's clear, that's fine. Um, another one on 1.3

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it said certain town sponsored functions. That's any town sponsored function. The town reserves the right to use the property for federal, state, and local elections in certain town sponsored functions. >> Just anything?

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>> Yeah. Like I I think of uh we had employee appreciation day there. Yep. >> Um they've had all the glitters has been there. >> Um stuff like that. >> What are you thinking for like the parks? >> I didn't I don't know that I I mean

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that's probably fine. It's just like when I talk to Heather who manages Loon Pond, well, yeah, Lon Pond Lodge, she's always like, "Well, this is how it's been, like this is whatever." So, I

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didn't know if like we made it more specific, like it would clear any other thing. And then the other thing is well I guess that goes into fees and we'll discuss that but um bereavements

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don't pay a fee which is like okay that's okay with me but um like things like that do we get like it's okay not to charge bereavements like but only bereavements not like who school functions get to use it

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like they could use it for prom prom like right cuz a prom would be a town sponsored event. Right. >> Right. Right. I didn't even think of that >> through the chair. It does it does sound like it needs to be made more specific.

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And what does come to my mind immediately if because a community event, what about the snowman Jubilee? What about having that event there? That'd be wonderful. So, so I'm and I'm I'm advocating for that, but

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at the same time, I think we're realizing that this is vague. She's right. It's quite vague where I think you need to be more specific. Um, so there's an understanding and so that it's not like, well, wait a minute, you

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know, you're using this all the time now. You do you know what I mean? Um it and I I'm sure it'll take some thought about what events specifically. >> Thank you, >> Madam Chair. Didn't it used to say something like with the approval of the select board?

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>> Yeah, there's another part later on that says something about the select board and the park commission. >> Um >> I mean because my opinion, the school is the district. It's not really the town. out of town.

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Um 2.1 it's just the 5 years beginning on blank and ending on the third anniversary thereof. It should be the fifth anniversary. I know it sounds like um >> we have to this contract.

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>> We've been through this contract four times and these things still keep popping up because you look at it and you just don't see it anymore. >> Yeah. Um 2.2 the parties agree that after 12 months and again after 24 months of the term shall have elapsed the town with the cooperation of the

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manager shall perform a review of this agreement and the manager's performance here under. Now that was for the three-year term. I didn't know if we wanted to change that to like 30 months which is halfway through or if you want to do it once a year.

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>> I don't know. >> I guess I'm open to whatever you'd want to do for it. I think I would do it at least at the 30-month point, the halfway mark, because if you do it at the 24 months, you're still stuck with them for 3 years if something's not going right.

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So, either at the 30 months, which is halfway, or 36 months, which is three years. >> Mhm. >> I don't know. What did anybody else think? >> Could be done yearly. >> Yeah. I like the thought through you, Madam Chair. I like the thought of a yearly

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review because >> when you stop >> when things go bad, they go bad quick. >> It's not going bad. You know, you're on your second yearly review. You're 24 months in, you still have 6 months left. If you're if you're looking at a 30-month break, >> right? >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. I tend to agree with the annual >> and I know um Miss Howard isn't here this evening, but um contract law is something that um she's pretty passionate about. So I'll be interested to see uh what she comes up with through

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this review. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. So on page 20, this is where it says um town elected or appointed boards or committees shall be permitted to use the event function space for no fee with approval of the park commission and select board. And then the next one

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down says um upon the you approval of the parks commission. So I didn't know if you wanted to keep it the same and add the approval of the parks commission and the select board to the second one as well as the first one. to keep it uniform.

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>> Say that again. I I you mean for the >> Yeah. So in 4.1 on page 20 >> y >> um I >> Yes. >> says >> yes >> use um permitted for no fee with approval of this park commission and select board. I I just says upon

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approval of the park commission >> through madam chair. We're looking at controlling the function space combined with the park commission and then the park commission alone would control the open space.

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>> I don't >> I don't take issue with that. You you would >> No, I just didn't know if you wanted to keep the consistency >> in open space than us. Okay. Okay. >> But when you start talking about the use of of the interior of a building, which

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then may potentially lose money as we close, you know, somebody else's event out because of that. You know, open space is a little bit more free. I don't I don't take issue with how it's written there.

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>> Thank you. I while we're on this page. Um, so it was noted that the current vendors only provide one report in what, three, four years or something like that. >> Probably one of them. Yeah. >> Does the current agreement include a record keeping clause like 3.4 here. It

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was just new. It does. So >> the one we're on now, >> right, >> it gives the town the option to look at the books. It's not We added the yearly >> Okay. >> part. It gives the town the option, but the town has to say we need to see it. They're not just going to give it to

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you. Whereas now in this contract, they're going to have to turn it in yearly >> and whenever asked for it >> and they f Okay, so currently they're in violation of the current agreement. >> I don't What do you mean? >> By not providing a report as requested

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or was >> they they have given they have given me a report. >> One >> just one. >> I've only asked for one. Oh, okay. So, so they're not in violation of it. Okay. >> Through the chair, we also in 4.1 V

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triple I um it that mentions that just the parks commission for these special events approves it. But if for if if we're going to say that for um normal events that that is the parks commission and the select board, what

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differentiates these normal events versus these special events? >> Um one's inside and one's outside. >> Okay. >> The first one is inside. She'll use the event function space for no fee and the other one is the exterior areas for no fee.

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So the outside areas, they have fire pits that they've built that a lot of times people ask to use them and that's not they belong to Lon Pond Lodge. They're on their side of their building. So we have to say no, you can't use them. We've actually had to call the

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fire station because people just come and they light the big fires inside the giant fire pit and the fire department comes and puts them out. Okay. >> Oops. Um, same page, page 21, 5.1F.

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All room rental fees will go to the town C attached fee schedule. I couldn't find a fee attached fee schedule. >> This would be when that when that gets turned in. >> When it gets turned in. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I looked like three times.

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Um Jay says, "Collect all on the next page, page 22, collect the charges from users and vendors and remmit to the town within 30 days of the event." Can we put something in there that has the flat fee, the monthly fee turned in at

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the first of the month? Because right now there's no day that they turn give us their check for the month. They just give it to us whenever tier goes over and gets it. And it might be ready, it might not be ready. There's no like set

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date for that to be picked up. So like they know what it is. So it's the same. >> Do the first of the month. >> I think that's it. I think I'm good. Anybody else? >> Good job, M.

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>> Yes. Go ahead. >> Um, Andrew, I refresh my memory. Why would we recommend the five here? Yeah, I think we discussed this about a year ago, but when we recall what the rationale was of going with five, you

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three when and I don't know if this was decided before I was elected or maybe it's around the time basically recall discussing but are we missing out on potential revenue opportunities if we're locked into a 5-year contract when after 3 years we can go out and get new bids?

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My my rationale is a flat fiveyear would make it so that he feels more comfortable and give us more money as a result. Um there's different ways of doing that. You could do one year and then one year renewals and then maybe

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ter there's different rationale for it. Um five years it's a he I I would say he would feel more comfortable and then um I don't know. I don't know how I'm trying to explain it, but

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>> they do the reservations, so they need it as well. >> Sorry. Yeah, the the reservations. So, he books events out maybe even two and three years out. >> Two years, >> up to two years. Um, >> so I think he almost kind of feels like when he gets the contract, he's almost

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like looking for the next contract, you know? So, >> he had asked for a longer contract and he had also asked for us to do this at 18 months prior and now we're we're under a year. I'm like, we can start two years out and it would still cuz it just

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gets pushed and pushed and pushed because other things come up. So, now now he's sweating because he has events booked a year out and he doesn't have a contract. So, but it's not saying that he comes back. Like last time he was the only one

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who actually bid on the contract. So, this year we're going to have to like beat the pavement a little bit and get other people maybe interested. It's not that they weren't interested, it's that they missed the deadline because they said they didn't know about the deadline. It was this big thing,

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>> right? If I recall, there was another person, another interested vendor but missed the deadline. That's what you were talking about. Okay, I remember that. Okay. >> Yeah, I recall now, too. >> Yeah. Okay. So, the plan is to just go back, update

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this, and um >> bring it back to the select board for app final review and approval. >> Okay. All right. All right. We just for Clare Pond employees. Okay.

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Um so, we had the assistant director position on last your last meeting that we pushed to this meeting. Can we do that now too so that we can get that in the um out? Do you

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want to come sit with us? >> That one wasn't actually approved. You're just changing. You're just requesting the wages. >> The wages. Okay. >> Okay. And this is the the scale here. Yeah. So, I actually had Peter print out a

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more comprehensive one for you and for us. >> Thank you. >> So, this is the page thing for everybody, not just that little piece. The other option. >> Thank you.

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detail. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, >> this year we had a issue because when one of our families did their taxes, they got all upset because their child was only making $14.65

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when minimum wage should have been $15. So, you have to explain that. Um, we go we don't have to pay state wage. We pay federal wage, which federal wage is $7.50. So, they should be happy. I did not say that. That's horrible. So, um, just

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because we can pay them this, it doesn't seem right to pay them that. So, we are asking you to bump up their wages. Um, our lifeguards have been paid $18 since before I got here. They've never had the 3% cost of living wage. They've never

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had any step or anything. It's just been $18 flat for the last at least five years. Then we have to add an assistant director position. So that needs another pay level. And we have the director

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position. So these are the recommendations that we made on your little tiny grid. Um laces were the same as what they were making now, which was for right the 1465 the

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>> Okay. I don't know if you can understand my little >> circles with the arrows. Um, so Peter did the math and raising their wages to those steps only increases our budget by

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$3,000 a year, which with the $500 extra that we get from Lun Pon Pond starting in March, that's $6,000. So that would cover this deficit. Again, it's not

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it's hard for me like sitting at home watching this on TV like you don't understand like I don't even want to think about what you guys have to go with your budget. You don't think of everything that goes into the parks. So, this is one of those things. These high school kids that we're paying and to pay

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them $1465 to work with us just seems wrong. And the lifeguards at $18 an hour. They're there to save somebody's life. Like that should be more than $18 an hour. >> If I can, um,

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it's your expense and revenue account. So if you were to increase the salaries through obviously through approval as long as they're funded right through your expenses

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I mean your revenues. I guess that's up to you guys. This this is what we suggested. This is what we voted on at our last meeting. So it just needs your approval. So, we're looking to vote support the

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recommended by HR CPP wages. Is that the the grid? >> No, you're looking to approve. >> This little one is what you're >> This is the one we're looking at. Okay. >> Is this >> Okay. >> The payroll with the stepped up wages. >> I see.

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>> All right. >> Mike, do you have any thoughts? No, not at this time. >> And then, well, you know what? While you're thinking about that, let me run this by you. We also talked about our rates for this upcoming year. And we

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decided that we should, given the economic situation that everybody's in, that we would leave all the rates the same. A Lakeville resident season pass is $120. Uh out of town season pass is $210. And last year we had it open to

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five six extra towns. This year we were thinking about doing if you buy a season pass, we don't care what town you're in. So, open it up to Tata, New Bedford, any of our towns because we feel that if you're going to purchase a season pass,

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that's your stake in the park and you're not going to ruin it, leave your trash and all that kind of stuff. Like, as a day people, when we opened it up to anybody, anytime, from anywhere, that's when diapers were left all over the place, trash was left all over the

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place, people were hanging out in the woods. So, we don't want to go back down that route, but we feel that if we ask them to buy a season pass and limit them to four guests that that's enough ownership that we can try that out for a

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year and see how that goes. Thoughts on that? That's a pretty That's an easier one than the last one. Um, anybody thoughts? Well, and a note on that one too, like we would be able to control like the limit of season passes

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that get, you know, purchased, right? All of a sudden there's a huge blow up for season passes. Limit, >> right? I put a cap on it. >> Yeah, put a cap. >> Thank you, Andrew. >> Um, waiting list for season, >> right? Because the other issue they had

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when they opened it up to anybody is that people were actually lining up in their cars down Clear Ponder and waiting to get into the beach. So we don't definitely don't want to go there again. And also um would like to keep the

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seniors, veterans, and children under two free, but we thought maybe if you just put a jar and put in whatever you wanted to pay, but I didn't know if that was too close to being a donation that not to do that for seniors or the it's been that's

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what we chose to do. But people have mentioned that if we charge them like a dollar, like it's not too much to them and maybe it adds up for us. I don't know what your thoughts are for that either. Okay.

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Well, with regards to the uh the wages being presented, do I hear a motion um to approve the recommended? >> So move. >> Okay.

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>> I'll second >> discussion. I feel like if it's being covered, then >> like you said, a lifeguard is could potentially be saving someone's life. So,

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>> can I can I ask did you discuss these with HR? I mean, I noticed that your current wages and HR's wages are the same. Is is there a was that discussed with HR at all that

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you would like to go up to the proposed? >> Um I don't think we gave Lacy the this is what we want. >> Did we give you that list that what you want? >> Peter did. >> Peter did. Let Peter go. >> And you said you have to take them to the select board. >> Yes. >> Look at you being so thoughtful.

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>> So here we are. >> Okay. Just don't I don't want you circumventing Lacy. And >> I would never >> and then we and then we get in trouble for that. >> Yep. So there's a motion, right? >> Yep. And a second and we have some

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discussion. Any further? >> That was good discussion. >> That was very good discussion. Okay. I'll call a roll. Baby and I. >> Luck. I >> Carboni. I thank you. Our biggest problem that I can foresee in the near

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future is we don't have anybody that has applied for our director position. So if anybody knows of anybody who would like to be a director, has their lifeguard certificate and wants to come and hang out with us for the summer, pass it along. Anybody? Everybody.

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Okay. Thank you. Okay. Anything else for the parks? Let's do this more often. Maybe uh you know we'll see >> ones a trace a year. >> Yeah, I'd like that. >> Does anybody else have any questions for

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the select board while we're here regarding the park commission? >> Well, welcome to the parks, Nolan. >> Thank you. >> Really? >> Okay. We have a motion to adjourn act 758.

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>> Motion to second. >> All in favor? Hi. Hi. >> Hi. Thank you all for having us. Meeting adjourned. Enjoy your evening. >> Okay. So, I will get you the map of the dis golf course and I will get you

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closeup pictures of the dis golf course. Anything else that I I have to get you? I think that was it. Right. >> Good night, Mike. >> Okay. Thank you, guys. >> Thanks, Melissa. >> Good night. >> Okay. Okay. At this time, I'd like to

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invite uh Chief O'Brien up to the table. And I'd like to invite Chief Perkins. >> I am. It's nice having you both here this evening. So, there's a request. Um, so we're on

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I don't even know how to read my agenda numbers, but so discussing possible vote on Bedford Street speed limit in uh relation to the fire station project. Uh, so this made it to the agenda uh per the request of Chief O'Brien. Would you like to

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explain to us why we're having this conversation? So, one of my um my concerns uh we have uh designers that worked on the fire station. Some of the things that we discussed about sight lines up and down the the uh back of the street so fire apparatus can safely uh

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enter the roadway. Um one of the things that was discussed was the use of a traffic light. In my experience, traffic lights actually cause more problems than they they fix. Um a light that only cycles four or five times a day. People aren't used to stopping at it. Um the traffic light I had in front of my

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previous station caused in the area of 10 to 12 accidents a year. Uh you'd hear screeching brakes and near misses on several other occasions. So it didn't change the behavior of the firefighters. They still had to come to a complete stop at the end of the ramp, look up, look down that road, know that it was safe to enter the road and then take

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off. So you didn't really gain anything by having a traffic light. I do think that we need some signage perhaps a flashing light. That's stuff that's being investigated right now. Um, but one of the things that I I would like to look into or investigated is the reduction of the speed limit. Um, at 50

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miles an hour in front of the station, if we can lower that even, you know, 10 miles an hour, our our driver operators will have uh more time to react to the traffic coming down. Our people driving down the road to have more time to react to our vehicles. Uh, you know, decelerating from 50 miles an hour is is

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is pretty significant if they're doing 50. Um, and I think as a as a resident, I think, uh, you know, I kind of heard um the public mention the difficulty in getting in and out of Ted Williams on the on the camp road. So, I think there would be some benefit there. Um, the

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police chief would speak to any benefit if if there is any benefit at all to the police department, but I think common sense would uh also it would also like lend itself to saying that, you know, maybe making our intersection out here a little bit safer. some, you know, we have frequent car accidents there as

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well. So, I think maybe a reduction in speed just prior to just north of of the new fire station site. Um, whatever that that speed limit reduction would be, um, would would make our firefighters a little bit safer entering, make our our people use the road a little bit safer, and there would be some secondary

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benefits as well to for camp traffic, Ted Williams traffic, and possibly even the intersection further on down the road. >> So, I know that there were traffic studies done for this area. one I believe right when your police >> so historically the uh route 18 Bedford

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Street was regulated many many years ago uh there have been changes since that since that speed regulation which includes that uh that e exit to Ted Williams camp the addition of the police department and now the the new fire station. Uh so there are changes. So you

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would have to petition the state to do a speed regulation or a study. Um because there are changes. Some of the the misconceptions are that it could increase when you do a study could actually increase the speed limit uh

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based on the number of accidents based on the average speed of the car. But there's no way in this section that it could increase the speed limit. They could just say, "Yeah, it's regulated. We're going to keep it at 50." or they could they could decrease it to a 45 or even a 40. Um, and the current speed

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limit change is right around the tennis club right by the cemetery. That's where it changes and drops down to a to a 40 going into uh through the intersection and then it's a 50 going towards towards the rotary.

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>> Right. Okay. So, we'd have to get the ball rolling. Now, obviously, there's going to be some kind of a a cost associated with the study. >> That's part of the study. Uh Franklin would know more. It he he could probably get a quote or something to find out how

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much the study would cost and then uh you'd have to get it approved by the state to even uh proceed. >> Right. I do have um a document, a speed regulation document that I could I could share with uh the town administrator and he could send it to you and it's just a a step-by-step guideline on, you know,

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what needs to be studied. >> Okay. All right. So, how do we get started? >> Andrew, what do you think? >> Um, is there interest from the select board in pursuing this path?

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consensus nods. >> Yes. Um I would say I'll consult with Chief Farens and go over that what's required. Um it's probably going to be reaching out to Mass to get the ball rolling. I I have the contacts probably with Mass Dot to do that. Um they can

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kind of give me the layman's terms of what needs to be done. Um but I don't think we would necessarily have to refer to the fire station building committee. It's kind of tied more more towards the SL board. >> Okay. >> All right.

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>> Okay, >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> Um I would recommend we enlist congressional support to cover that fee. I find it ridiculous that we need to pay the state due to safety road that goes through our town that impacts our public

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safety. So, I'm aware that Senator Rogers being a campaign here is handing out a lot of earmarks at the moment, especially the Freetown. Be nice to get in on that. >> I'll reach out to his office. >> Thank you. >> Yep.

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>> Be nice to see that go from a a 50 down to a 40 and then actually down closer to 25 through that intersection. >> That would be lovely. >> That's a mess. At times, it is. I mean, I think about 35 years ago,

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there was like nothing there. So, but now the whole intersections changed. Um, I still can't believe the state hasn't changed it themselves, but >> I think the uh and when you see when you

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have events like the arts the arts festival and you see people crossing the roads. I know the officers are on detail keeping them safe, but it still kind of makes you concerned. >> I remember when there was no traffic light there. How many accidents were

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there? That was crazy. >> All right, so there's no vote on this tonight. you guys are going to work on this um get something going and it'll come back um on the agenda if if there's a vote that needs to be taken and we'll make sure it happens on this end. >> I appreciate the action and support. Thank you.

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>> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Now we're getting on to the acceptance of the special and annual town meeting warrant articles. Andrew,

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>> um, this was something that I think has been it's departed from maybe oh we started about two years ago where we bring the article to the select board. They actually take a vote to then send it to town council. Um,

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so this is what we have for the special town meeting warrant and annual town meeting warrant today. This isn't necessarily to put them on the warrant, but this is to accept them as concepts to send to town council for legal review. Um, any questions on the process

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for that at this point? >> Nope. The um the warrants closed on Monday, >> April 13th. >> Okay. So, they were closed. Everything that was um to be submitted was submitted. We don't need to open for

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anything. >> No. >> Okay. >> Nope. >> All right. All right. So, if you can just run down here. Looks like there's some of these that were crossed off. I just want to make sure that >> Yep. So, the special will be potentially two

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articles. One is to pay off any related gateway deficit. That's the insurance um we currently have for health insurance. There may be a deficit, may not be. This is just in case. Um, article two is unpaid bills. It's the

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classic um unpaid bills from a prior fiscal year. We don't have any right now that have come up, but this is just in case something pops up tomorrow, let's say. Um, that's it for the special. The annual obviously is the bigger one of the two. Um, we're still kind of

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deciding on how this is going to look, but the first two articles are the budget. Um, some towns do these as two different articles, some do it as one article with two different motions. We haven't quite decided which one yet. Um,

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but it I mean part of that it will be contingent on the May 19th. Um, how that kind of gets structured. Um, but those are the first two. First, um, article three would be the parks enterprise account that sets the parks commission budget for the year. Article four is the

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capital improvement program omnibus. We do capital improvements um all with one article in Lakeville. Sometimes do them all up separately. Um article five was going to be OPE. Um I don't think that's going to be a reality

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this year at this point. Um another one was going to be the capital stabilization, general stabilization deposits. I don't think that's quite feasible at this point in time. Um but the the actual article five is going to be the CPA budget. That's to set the CPA

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budget. Article six is the CPA project um each individual project gets voted on um at town meeting. Article seven is the school recall provision. That one's finally ready to go. Article eight is compensated absences. These are for

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retirements or employees that leave um the town. We have a mechanism to pay for it out of free cash as opposed to the budget. Um, with the budget being tight tighter next year, we want to make sure that we have money set aside for big retirements.

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Um, article nine is the adoption of chapter 53 section 18B. This is the adoption of what's considered a red book. Um people may know um on the state level they might get a book for like ballot

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initiatives kind of like a layman's terms explaining the pros and cons and then the uh just a general outlook of that. This is a local option we can choose to adopt, which would mean we could send home a book for a special

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election like a debt exclusion and override that lays out both both items. There would probably be some type of um cost associated with this if we were to go do to do this because we would obviously have to um increase the

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postage because we'd have to mail these home to people. Um, article 10 is the adoption of a meals tax. Um, that is a local option right now 6.25. This is that the state collects. The local option is to collect 75 on top of that.

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Article 11 is of the funding of a water consultant. This would assist with general IMA um negotiations and overall water issues in the community. Um, this would be paid out of a water account. We have about

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$350,000 in a water account from the sale of the water tower on top of the landfill from the city of Taton. So that's how that would be funded. Um we were going to do the ABA program but um the policy isn't quite ready and

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then we would have to look at what land we we recommend for surplusing. Article 12 is an earth removal. This would kind of tighten up the regulations on that. Um, you would reduce how much is needed for an earth removal permit

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from about 2,000 cubic yards to about 1,000 cubic yards. And then we would get rid of the incidental kind of loophole that exists. Article 13 is going to come off. That would have been the storm water bylaw

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>> that's coming off. >> That is coming off. Oh, >> we just received a memo from the planning board. I think it was on Friday. >> Ah, okay. >> Yep. Um, that came in late. Um, the Won Pond Lodge was going to be scheduled. That would have made it a 5-year

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contract. Any contracts in the state of Massachusetts that are over 3 years have to be approved by town meeting. Um, article 17 would have been the dilapitated buildings bylaw. It's not quite ready for uh showtime, but it will be in the fall. Article 18 would have

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been the open space residential uh district bywalk. Um the planning board wants to have that in the fall. Now um the next one is a revolving account. We as everyone probably knows we adopted a

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revolving account bylaw in the fall. This is something you need to do yearly. It's to set the limits of the revolving account. Basically any money that you can collect and then spend out of that account needs to be a yearly article. Article 15's a d a data center bylaw.

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The planning board submitted this. This is just to put where data centers are allowed in town. It' be an overlay over the cannabis district. So any um areas where canvas is allowed, they would want

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data centers in that same location. Any questions on that? Um, that just came in late last week. Um, article 16 is a citizens petition, which is a wetlands bylaw.

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Um, if anyone was around in 2016, I think it's the exact same one. Um, so article 17 is the cryptocurrency ATM bylaw. This was submitted to us by town council. the new one. They thought it'd

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be a good idea if we were proactive with this. Um, this essentially would prohibit cryptocurrency automated teller machines. We don't currently have any in the community, but these are generally what are used for scams on elderly in a community. Um, article 18 would be

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excise tax delinquency fees. Right now, the town collects $20 um when an excise tax is late. The state allows you to collect up to $30. This would raise about 20 to $25,000 yearly

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on top of what we already get. And then the last one is article 19, which is a non nonbinding motion for municipal decarbonization. This was submitted to us by the energy advisory committee and it's a requirement for becoming a climate

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leader community. Um people everyone's probably heard of green communities. This is like the next echelon of that. This is I think there's five criteria if you want to explain them. >> I don't know off the top of my head. Yeah. But I do know this is one of them. Basically just to affirm the community's

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like buy in to becoming um to decarbonizing. >> Another one is a a new type of stretch code. >> So we would have to adopt that one. I think another one's a road map for decarbonization where we kind of it's almost like the

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energy reduction plan. You have to identify how you're going to make buildings net zero. Then there's a couple others. >> EVs is another one. >> EVs. It's if if I think it's if feasible, you you strive to get electric vehicles. Of course, there's all sorts of

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qualifications on that. You're not going to get that for a big DPW truck. >> And I'm blanking on the last one. Can I use something solar maybe or batteries? But this is the first one non-binding motion basically supports shows the support from the community.

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>> Okay. So just um for the purposes here, this is just um to approve um you know the articles going to town you know go these would then go to town council but um there will be another vote during uh we

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warrant review where the select board will be asked to vote their recommendation for the record going into the town meeting as does the the finance committee. So, um,

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you said something about I just wanted to just point this out because I want to make sure that, um, the data center. I I haven't really kept up to date with, you know, what the planning board's been talking about with regards to this, but

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it is a heavy topic, you know, in quite a few communities. So, I I think that there definitely should be a bylaw. Um, I thought I did see something where it did say the overlay was in the industrial park, but at the same place

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where you said the cannabis overlay. in the way that it was worded and I'm hope and I'd just like to add my two cents. It could be considered the the data center um overlay district but not tied to any other existing district because

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>> right >> it should be it standalone but they could use the same meets and bounds. >> Yeah, I I misspoke. Yes, what you're explaining is how >> Okay. >> My understanding of what they were discussing. >> Okay. >> Is that I don't want to put you on the spot. >> So it's really

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any discussion. com. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. I'll just I'll try to keep my eyes open, too. Um because when it comes to zoning changes, um you know, that's a it you know, obviously it's a big deal because it has to be a town meeting

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vote, twothirds. Um we want to make sure that we we get that right. And because this is a new um would be an overlay, we want to make sure that we get this right. So >> I would hate to have it tied to any other overlay district.

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>> Yep. >> Okay. Um do I hear we have the motion in here? >> I move that the select board vote to approve the article listing as presented. Madam chair. >> Second. Discussion hearing. None. Roll baby I

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>> love I hunt I >> Carboni I thank you very much. Okay. Um discuss and possible vote on lifting the hiring freeze uh specifically for planning department clerical position

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and police dispatcher. Andrew, can I pass this on to you? Yeah, I would invite up Lacy Marshall and Chief Perkins to discuss. >> Hi. Hello. >> Hey.

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>> Okay, so based on the hiring freeze, we're looking to backfill two positions that currently became open. Uh first is the planning clerk. Their last day was April 17th. Um, looking to backfill that

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one as soon as possible. The position is currently funded and is funded also for FY27. There's no change to the job description. There's no change to any of the budget at this time for that position.

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I would just add in both U 1 a and 1 A and 1B budgets, they're both they're funded the same way, so there's no concerns with that. >> Okay. Do we take these individually or do you want >> You could or you could not. Um I have it

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structured that it's uh for both. >> Okay. Okay. You could split it out if you'd >> So, the the police is a full-time police dispatcher position. Um it's currently vacant being filled with overtime funds. Um it is a funded position this year and

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it is covered in both uh the town administrator's budgets 1A and 1B. >> Okay. Okay. And I'll entertain a motion um to approve the waiver of the hiring freeze for the full-time dispatcher in the planning department clerical

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position. So move >> seconded >> discussion hearing none. Roll >> baby I >> lo I hunt I >> carbon I get them. All right. Appointments and licenses. Um

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I don't want to use you sticking around for that one for the parks commission. Are you just enjoying our >> uh and the later ones? >> Okay. >> Okay. Okay. We have a public way uh

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license application um from the parks commission. So, for this one, because there's still some stuff outstanding with the police chief and the fire chief, I'm going to have the board hold on this >> because I wanted to pin Melissa down

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more on her agreement to work with the chief and his suggestions. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we'll put this on the next agenda or one after that. Okay. >> All right. Move to the next agenda or future agenda. How's that? Yes.

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>> Okay. Um, we've got a t Tuesday club of Winona would like to place their signage um at the intersection intersection of precinct and Rhode Island Road for the Strawberry Festival. Um,

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this is what is the date on this? June 21st. Yep. June 21st. Okay, that I was just thinking about the um Route 79 project. It shouldn't I know that

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they're working on that particular area, but anyways, we put we've allowed the sign in the past. So, I'll entertain a motion to approve. So, moved. >> Seconded. >> Discussion. Um they've always been really like compliant. They pick it up

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right away as soon as the event. So, I'm sure if there was something that you needed to reach out to them. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure that they have the the opportunity to put it up. If not, maybe they looked at a different option, but okay. Roll and I >> I

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>> carbon I um town use property for the historic townhouse by the Samson Cemetery Association for their annual meeting at 6:15 on May 6. Everything here the way it should be.

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>> Yes. For that. Yes. >> I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> Go move. >> Seconded. >> Discussion. I didn't know this was a thing. >> I guess it is. You know what they do. >> This is an independent organization I believe that is just holding their

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annual meeting there. >> Okay. >> For one of the local cemeteries. They've done it previously. I didn't see any problem with it. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay. Roll, please. AB I >> Garbon I.

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>> All right. We have a request for a one-day beer and wine license for um Running Brook Vineyards and Winery for wine tasting and paint night on May 9th, 2026 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Lakeville Lions Club. Looks like

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everything's in order here. Um are we missing anything? So, they have not provided their um certificate of insurance to me. I know he was having some trouble with his company trying to get it and he was supposed to get it to me today. Still do not have it. Um I

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don't know if you want to vote contingent on that or I can bring it back next week. >> Well, we can we can vote contingent on that if the board >> So, >> I'm happy with the contingency. >> Okay. I did prepare the license for the board to sign tonight. So, >> Okay. >> Yep. Mr. um Hunt made the motion. Do I

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hear a second? >> Uh second with the contingency. >> Yeah, the certificate of insurance that shows the liquor liability is what I'm looking for. >> Agreed. Okay. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll, please.

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>> None. >> I probably should abstain because I'm Yeah, abstain. Hunt I >> Carboni I Okay. Uh the next one um is a member had submitted a letter of

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interest to the community preservation committee as the housing representative. And after review of this um and I know member Fabian had mentioned something this weekend and I went back and I went okay. We had it on the annual uh excuse

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me, the fall town special meeting where the language was changed in the CPA bylaw that they would make a recommendation to the select board. And I don't believe they've made that recommendation yet. So, I'm going to table this, let this go back to the CPA,

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well, CPC, >> Yep. >> Community Preservation Committee. Let them vote recommendation and then it'll come back to us. Okay. So next is discuss and possible vote to amend the technology advisory

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subcommittee. Um this was brought back from the last from last week because we have a new select board member who was sitting on that IT subcommittee as a member at large. So we were looking to

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change that membership to incorporate two select board members. So it would remain um the rest of the charge would remain the same but with the addition of another select board

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member and would now we'd be looking for an uh unless we squash the >> um a member. >> Yeah. Um

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um >> how many are on there total? >> Five. >> Correct. Five members at large. >> Oh, >> because we had that night that everybody came in to interview and we had a lot of people, >> right? Under the prior,

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>> right? Yeah. >> How many total on the total? Yeah, seven. >> Uh, eight. I haven't done the math in a while. I should know. >> Um, this this chart here was it never up. It

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said this has two at large members. I >> Right. So, this is an old because we made the change. Is this all you found? >> Oh, sorry. It was never updated after. >> There should be seven. I'm just doing the names in my head. >> Should be seven.

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Maybe we could um see if we can put it in the format that we were looking to try to get everybody so that we could it was nice and easy for us. >> Yeah. Defer >> we're going to defer the vote until we get updated. >> Yeah, let's do that. >> Okay. >> All right.

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>> So, you want to hold off? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, we'll move this to >> we'll potentially move it to a future me future meeting, but we'll look at it to see about next >> next meeting. >> Okay.

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>> Should we put on there if we're going to want to appoint Kristen to also appoint her or I think we have to wait till we have the charge because we already have a select board member already currently >> in on that same meeting to go right to

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>> Yes. add in the appointment. >> Yes, >> good point. >> Yep. >> Okay. Um Okay. Uh lost my spot. Okay. Veterans Park Committee. So, this is just getting this

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um together up and running. Um, so we already have two members at large, two select board members and the veterans >> agent >> agent. So we're just looking for two select

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board members. Oh, one historical um commission member um which would be voting. We got the two members at large and the town administrator which would be non- voting liaison. And I think it could be fine if it was a a delegate too and the town

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administrator if somebody were to sit in for him. Okay. So, two select board members. Um I'll entertain a motion to appoint anybody that's interested.

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>> Oh, you and I were running now. We're doing it. >> Well, we weren't we've never formally voted on it. We we voted to form the committee. >> Okay. We talked >> we voted the the the membership and the charge. Okay. >> And then it's just starting to come to

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to fruition. So, >> um I know you had interest. I had interest, but if anybody else has interest, >> no, I I would I would move to appoint Lorraine Cabone and Christopher Plonca to the Veterans Park Committee with a term to expire in July 31st, 2020.

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>> Second. >> Okay. >> 26. Yeah. H 26 >> 26 okay was was seconded before I finished >> all right discussion >> hearing none roll please baby and I >> blood eye

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>> carbon I and ratify the vote um for Kristen Howard to the economic um development committee I move to ratify the appointment of Kristen Howard to the economic development committee with a term to expire July 31st 2026 Second

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>> discussion hearing none. Roll baby and I >> I carbon I. Okay. New business. Old business going once. Okay. Next select board

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meeting. Um April 28th next Tuesday. Yeah. >> 5:45 here. Um, and that would be that'll be the wrap-up of the department heads, but we also

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need to schedule the wrapup meeting with Fincom. >> Yep. >> That will be a standalone so we can try to coordinate the best date for everybody involved behind the scenes to get that so we can move on that and get

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that posted. Okay. Um, I don't think there was any correspondence in here that I didn't see. All right. Then I'll entertain a motion to enter executive session pursuant to

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Mass General Law Chapter 3A section 21A6 to consider the purchase, 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, the Lakeville Country Club, and not to

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return an open session. >> So moved. >> Sorry. >> Seconded. >> Motion in a second. Roll please. Baby and I. >> Bug eye. >> A hunt. I >> Carboni. I 8:32 p.m.