[Music] Board meeting of Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 5:45 p.m. Is there anyone besides Lake Kim recording this meeting? Do you usually announce yourself? I can't remember if we do the announce if
you're recording. I can announce myself, please. Uh, yeah. My name is Thank you very much. And you're recording for the basket week. Thank you very much. All right. Now, we are going to call the board to order with a vote
because I just like it. We're going to start over here. I do. Carboni. Hunt. I And the eyes have it. Pledge of allegiance. Over to the corner. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, welcome everybody. Uh, agenda item number two is
the select board announcements today in honor of professional municipal clerk's week. Lillian Drain, town clerk, who's hosting coffee with our clerk. May 7th from 9 to 10:00 a.m. at the town hall. May 8th from 9 to 10:00 a.m. at
the police station. This is an opportunity for residents to get to know a little bit more about her, her office, and ask any questions that you have. Uh, the Lakeville Arts Council is holding a pop-up concert May 10th, 5 to 7:00 p.m. at the townhouse to precinct street on
center stage to celebrate spring and the completed build of the pavilion over center stage. The catnip junkies uh specialize in New Orleans jazz swing and brass band sounds. Bring a picnic dinner and join us. The traveling spirit will
be there with their mocktails to boost your thirst. Uh, the park commission is holding a Lakeville Day at Ted Williams Camp May 18th from 11 to 3:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Come see your friends and meet your neighbors. Try your hand
at games, arts, crafts, and food. They will all be available at Loom Pond Lodge. You can engage with local businesses, organizations, crafters, and artisans. There will be live music. Also, if you'd like to be part of Lakeville Day, reach out to Melissa Turkot at mm
surcgmail.com. Clear Pond is hiring lifeguards for Clear Pond Park for this season uh starting June 25th through August 23rd. Applicants must be at least 16 years old and have their lifeguard certification. They're also hiring for Clear Pond attendants, both full and
part-time. For more information, visit the Town of Lakeville Facebook page or the website at www.lakevillemmaa.org and find it under the find it fast tab, job openings. The select board is looking for three large members of the public to serve on the
town hall building reuse subcommittee. Details on these positions can be found at the town's Facebook page or on the town's website. Other uh committee commission bas vacancies. One at large member for the communications committee. One associate member from the ZBA board
of registra. One board of registars member two vacancies on the cable TV advisory committee. One vacancy on the conservation commiss commission and one vacancy on the agricultural commission. The annual town meeting will be held
June 9th 700 p.m. at Aonoquit High School. Does anyone else have any announcements they'd like to add in? No, just the um special town meeting um will be also held on June 9th and that'll begin at 6:30. Thank you.
Andrew, town administrator's report. So, I'll start with some uh bad news. So, when I um sent out an update uh to you all last week about the um smart growth aid, um I didn't quite realize this, but I've since got it confirmed that that
414,000 in reduced state uh smart growth aid is not just fiscal 26, it's also fiscal 25, the one we're in now. Um so, looking at potentially a $414,000 just hole in the budget right
now. Um, but I did talk to Senator Rodri. He did say he's going to try to put it in the Senate budget for that to come back, but that's not going to have any effect on fiscal 26 upcoming. So, this is again funded by the million. Is this being funded by the
millionaire's tax, too? No. No, this is just funded by the regular appropriations. Yep. Yep. Um, and so we're still um putting in the budget 246,000 for fiscal 26. Um, but based off kind of the conversations I've had, that
sounds like an optimistic number as well. So potentially next year we might not be looking at 246. It might be 100 just cuz a lot more towns are coming into the system. This is an egregious way to behave for the for the
state in my opinion. Um, we operated in good faith with 40R in order to come into compliance. Um, this this shouldn't be happening. This is very disappointing. I know other members of the board probably feel the same. Uh we
were around when the um when the hoopla began about it and and how much we really invested in it and then we continue to invest in it in in new uh units back even in 2019 and 2020. So this is very disappointing to hear.
Yeah. And the odd thing is so the the budget was basically fixed last year with this additional aid of up to 676,000. That really wasn't like a final number. I'm now learning. And so like the budget was saved last year, but it really wasn't. It was that feels disingenuous.
It does. And so we I I'm hearing that there's going to be a hold harmless clause potentially pulled by Senate House and Senate Ways and Means. And so it might be solved, but either way, I've decided to put in a non-essential spending phrase starting today. So
hopefully that saves some money for the rest of the fiscal year. Um, Madam Chair. Yes, please. Um, to clarify again that amount for that 400 and some amount that is clarify I I missed the beginning part that's for this you're saying
they're going to restore some funding for this year for this year which could result in a surplus for us. It would be the if the best possible way it would just it'd be equal to what we thought it was going to be. Oh. Oh, it's restoring
what you thought we originally budgeted for. Yeah. So, uh, the interim TA and the select board approved the budget of 676,000 for that line. Um, once our prelim number came out for the cherry sheets, it was 246. That was kind of
that sent the alarm bells around. That was actually fiscal 25 number. Okay. So, we're losing 414,000 off of the current year. Okay. So, this will help us to finish out the balance. No, the opposite. The opposite.
Oh, we're still in the hole for this for 25. Oh, okay. Now, both I understand for next year. Yeah, we have the hole next year. Yeah. Yeah, correct. And then there's obviously there's no guarantee that that money is going to come back this year. So, for FY25, correct? Sorry.
So, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. So, there's a lot of like bad news coming that I've kind of seen. Probably most likely will be on the bad side what I'm hearing as well. Okay. Yeah. Um, I also, uh, along with Mike Ellis and Pauline, I toured Wake
Lakeville MMA. Um, it might be 1,800 square feet on paper, but it feels like 600 square f feet in person. Um, quite remarkable what what they're able to do over there. Um, and so, uh, I'll I'll be bringing this topic back in a few weeks,
um, for hopefully a resolution. Um, I met with Apex, Radner Design, Michael Ellis, and Melissa Terott regarding the Clear Pond's park engineering plan. Um, we're planning on bringing that to a joint meeting on the 19th with the parks commission and select board to get a
first look through of the plan um for feedback and what else we plan on doing with the park. Madam Chair, was I not familiar with that? Was it there's probably something discussed at a prior board before we remember just a quick 30 second? Yeah. So, uh, the the board, uh, probably a year before I started, um,
approved an engineer engineering plan through the federal ARPA allocation. Um, and so they hired Apex to do it. So, it's really like a full look of the park and what they want to do with it going forward. Okay. That's it. Just simply to
look at what are the options to improve it, capital improvement. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Um, and then the last one, we met with the town of Dubberry last week. Um, Mike might have maybe some more opinions on this too, but it was one of the most candid conversations I've ever
been a part of. Usually, um, town officials are kind of guarded with what their secrets are, but they were pretty open with what their situation was, and it's not that dissimilar to what we have. Theirs failed, correct? Theirs failed narrowly. 175 votes. Yep. But
they they did a lot of recent debt exclusions. Um, their tax base is like 97% residential. Um really no commercial base at all. Yeah. And their average house value is like a million. Yes. And they bring they really only bring in 1.7
million in new taxes every year. Their new growth is small and it only comes from uh millionaires tearing down their houses and building new. So um yeah, it was it was good good information. Um they gave us a probably 200 pages of
information that they gathered good strategies going forward. Um, when you say it failed, did it fail at town meeting or did it fail at the the ballot? It passed at town meeting 10 to one, then it failed at the ballot by 175 votes. And that's what we find all
the time where, you know, that's town meeting. It's like you you think you've got it and you think you you can move forward with something. Um, and then maybe people come out to vote that just don't attend town meeting. And there's there's an additional five or six towns
going to town meeting tonight that I would say are more like in line with us like Hansen, Norwell, um couple other ones. So we'll get a good flavor of what the feeling is economically. Some bigger towns going for it like Milton. I know they have a
they're requesting a 9.5 million Milton pass Milton pass. Did it get passed this week? Yep. It was last week. Last week. Last week. Oh. Yep. Interesting. Yeah, it's all I have for tonight though. Thank you. Kindly anyone anything to add
to that? Yeah, just find us $400,000 this year. Yep. Working. Y get on that. Thank you. All right. Uh select board meeting minutes of April 14th and April 15th and
April 22nd of 2025. I make a motion to approve the um select board meeting minutes of April 14, 2025. Seconded. Motion a second. Any discussion?
Hearing none. Roll call. Block. I Carboni. I Hunt. I. I'll make a motion to approve the ap the select board meeting minutes of April 15, 2025. Seconded. Got a motion and a second. Any
conversation hearing? None. Roll call. Plug I. Candy. I. Carboni. I. Hunt. I. And I'll make a motion to approve the select board meeting minutes of April 22nd, 2025. Seconded. Motion and a second. Any
discussion? Madam Chair? Yes. I think I do have a mistake on the 22nd on the heading. It's Lakeville Public Library, but it has the police station address. So, I need to correct that. Thank you. All right. Motion with a correction.
So moved. Do we get a second? Second. Motion second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Plug. Plug. Eye. Candid. I hunt. I see.
Look at all that extra teamwork going on now that you move seats. Smooth. All right. Item number five, discuss and vote on articles to be placed on the June 9th special and annual town meeting warrants.
Andrew, you want to walk us through? Yeah, we'll go with the short one first. The special town meeting. Um, so we've gone over it before, but article one is really to uh allocate the
rest of the retained earnings for capital purchases at the transfer station. And this completes our retained earnings and can never follow again because we have switched over to the enterprise correct
format of accounting. Okay. Does anyone have any questions specifically on the items or on the dollar values? Not on item one. Okay. Article one and
and then article two is um unpaid uh bills. Okay. Any questions for anyone? Um on article two, um there'll be some content context to what we're voting here because you
know we're transferring $10,880.82 from free cash and 57 from parts earnings. But to pay for what bills? Usually they're listed. Yeah, we have a template on this now. It's going to be motions on the final draft. Okay. We'll have them all broken up. Okay. But
this can find some more. Yeah. And uh as we finalize the motions, we'll build on that. So, I'll make a motion um to place articles 1 and two on the June 9th, 2025 special town meeting warrant.
Seconded. Motion and a second. Any discussion? hearing. No discussion. Roll call. Plug eye. And I carbonia. I And then just to be noted, Andrew, the um I think I mentioned it to you how we
used to do it. We'd have the article and then we'd have any uh the motion as it's supposed to be that Lil is is writing out, but then we'd have any supporting documents as well. So, if there was something behind this just in just like member Carboni has said like the listing
of of what's going on, we just want to make sure we're highly educated on each and every item that's going on there and then we can answer any questions posed to us. And then next item, so the next one is the annual town meeting.
So, article one is the classic um account budget article and we're submitting this as summary items still like it'll still be like summary department like how is it being
presented to the public and how are we going to show people the budget this time around? We used to do a complete itemized list back in 2018 2018 and then moved to kind of a a summary list of salaries and expenses
for each department. It's probably going to be a summary list. Um we were talking about maybe switching it up a little bit, but yeah, we doing for function. So function, public safety function. Um because how
do you vote it? Um kind of up as to how you could transfer money to both the year. So if we had a short and that's why we did summary because it was the transfer lines were easier. Yeah. So if we had a shortfall in one drive line um and a surplus in another give us the flexibility to move that money throughout the
year. So Andrew and I have been thinking about maybe summarizing everything by total salaries, general government, total expenses by general government, public safety, education and so on. So okay. And then we'll have a separate one with all the individual lines for people
with specific questions or comments so they can hold the line if they want to at time. Yeah. Like the one like you normally do. Yeah, we can do that. Yeah. Y I want to make sure everyone if anyone has questions we have answers for them. Madam Chair, that'll be read by the
finance chair usually, right? Yeah. It's a long one. Mhm. It won't be me this year. Yeah, it is a long one. Is this something you want to see behind the motion or would you want just as one of the handouts that we
give? Yeah. Yeah. And in in the in the book itself um that we use just to have a reference material because invariably we have one person fold and you know having having the same thing that we can reference and look really quickly at it. Okay. Will be a benefit. Agreed. Any
comment problem? No, I think it's good to have it there. just reference it. It's good. Um, please see appendix A. Any comments? Nothing. Just clearing. That's all right. Paul, I'll allow
it. Um, article two. Article two is the parks enterprise account. Um, article three is the first capital um, improvement uh, program article which is funded solely by capital stabilization and article four is the
same but just funded by free cash. So we wanted to split out by funding source. Okay, makes sense. Um, article five is the classic OP article. Article six is the um
CPA appropriations budget. Um article seven is a specific project that the CPA has chosen to fund which is all of that data for us and their vote. Yep. Yeah, we have that. Yep.
Um, article 8 is a article I've mentioned um a few times which is a compensated absences. So um a pot a pot it's a the start um it could be from retirement
resignation different things. Um but that's a we're going to start the pot at 25,000. Okay. And on one of the lines, when you're having this, will that also be salary? So we can just make the change from salary to salary. Is that how we're
wording this? I would keep this outside the budget. Okay. In my experience, that's a free cash article and then it's open until we decide to close it. It will cross fiscal years and if we ever have it's going to have its own account number and if we need to charge a salary
there, we directly charge it to that line. Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions on this? Um, article 9 is the um really the enforcement mechanism that we uh had had not had in there. Um, which is really
just adding the building commissioner or police officer um who enforces the bylaw. Um, article 10, um, is a local option that we're exercising, um, which is essentially just an alternative
procedure for abandoned funds. Right now, there's kind of this convoluted way of getting money back. This kind of makes it uh, quicker and the town can kind of do what they want to do. Um, article 11 is the Harrison A
confirmatory layout and this is tied to the Route 79 project. Article 12. Did I have it wrong? I thought we had taken that one off. No, that has to be on there. Yeah.
No, we took something off. Yeah, that um 12 is a roadway alteration. um layout acceptance for Mrick's precinct, Harrison, Johnson, and Bedford and Rhode
Island Road. Um that's also tied to the Route 79 project if I can, Madam Chair. Now, if the if article 11 doesn't pass, which I don't understand why it wouldn't, but if it didn't, does that affect article 12?
Okay, you can't do 12 without 11 passing. Well, I mean, theoretically, she could do 12, but then you you it wouldn't mean anything because article 11 also has to pass. You if you wanted to come back and do like a special town meeting again, you could do article 11
on its own. It's just it's just trying to align. They they realized when they were going through their research that the layout for that Harrison um avenue wasn't accurate. So, so this is just correcting
an oversight, I believe, housekeeping. Yeah. Um, article 13 is uh tied to the ADU definition. Um, article 14 um also changes that ADU definition. Um, then article 15 is the
biggest article obviously. Um, KPR suggested I kind of put most all of it in there just for context and it is tied to the site plan of view bylaw. Okay. Does anyone have any comments
specifically on 15? You know, you could read it a hundred times. I know. I I I do see some good improvements since the last time I've seen it. Um some of the bold um portions and I believe um you know
the planning board when they're going through their functions and you know they're cycling through they made notation of some challenges that they had to try to um you know tighten up the the language a little bit. So, but I'm sure that you
know they'll be speaking to this on town floor too. So, if the residents have questions um if we could go back to article 9. I do have concerns still with article 9 that we're not addressing other issues with the language on um the violations
and penalties that we haven't made it broad enough to apply to other things that violations and penalties could have been uh applicable to. So, if you could do a scan of of that
because I know it was not only the storage of vehicles. What was the other one? There was um I know there was quite a few discussion points regarding this particular um addressing of the bylaw um
and that we were trying to blanket it throughout the whole general bylaw. Yeah. A general zoning bylaw. um so that we wouldn't have to come back. Yeah. Could we do that in this specific one or is it better uh for us to create a
blanket that goes over all of them and then we wouldn't have to mention this one in specific? We would make all all of bylaws tied to this particular civil violation and penalties. Yeah, if I can. I was just
thinking that even if we wanted to get this one addressed because this was a priority. This is what um started it. It's on fire. Y um we are, you know, we've got our Zrack back that could actually we do, but I ra if we have the
ability to put it in, we should. I don't want to wait for things because then they get missed uh for other things that are on fire. Um, if we could just also have language
for blanket uh violations and penalties bylaw. I did a very very high level. I didn't get into the nitty-gritty, but I did see a lot of it. It already kind of said building commissioner in a lot of cases,
but but it was like I saw some where it was like not clear. It didn't say who it was going to and and I I remember it was related to either junk or uh or cars. Okay. Besides this one.
Okay. If he g gave me 100 bucks, I still wouldn't remember right now what it is. But yes, uh I just worry that some of our language is vague. Um and that if we if we do get the opportunity to tighten
that up, we should do have a question, Madam Chair, on article three um number three of the irrigation well in sight work 75,000. Yeah, we had uh I thought
we had had a conversation about Yeah, there wasn't like a formal vote to take it out. Um I'm not necessarily tied to this project. So, if that's something the board wants to take out formally, that's that's fine. I thought it was I thought you were it was not something
that the police chief Yeah, Madam Chair. I thought I thought that's what you had said earlier that the police chief wasn't set specifically on that $75,000. Well, yeah. If this was a $10,000 project, I think it would be more
palatable as far as but this is a really massive number for a well, which I I wouldn't be thinking and I know site work is kind of all-encompassing. Um, but would the
board like to take a vote to keep it in or remove it? Because I thought we we had said that we didn't want it at the not the last meeting at the meeting before. Yeah. It was more of like a it was an informal Yeah. discussion. I mean, I didn't take it out, but we
could. All right. So, if we took it out, is this going to help our situation with 40s? Should that not No, I mean I think originally we had this out of free cash, but we changed it
to capital stabilization, so it wouldn't really affect that at all, but um keep 75,000. Keep 75 in the pocket. Yeah, that we could use for something else down the line and we could always come back to this project. Would you like to take the
future? Do a little What's the What's the What's the vote to remove? the vote to remove the irrigation, well, and site work from article three of the annual town meeting
for $75,000 out of capital stabilization. So, your vote would be remove the irrigation well and site work line three of article 3. Would you like a motion on that? Motion.
Yeah. Do you want to make it? I make a motion that the board remove from article three uh section three the police irrigation well and site work out of capital stabilization at $75,000.
I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion a second. Any discussion? And this just for purposes. This is going to bring it down to four. Mhm. Roll call. Plug eye. Carbon. I hunt. Hi,
Madam Chair. I know um we talked about we we vote the warrant, you know, as a a whole, but we've never um voted a recommendation for the articles um individually, but we talked about that previously. I know it was very important
to a former member that we did it individually. Um, if this board so desires, we can do the same thing where we can individually vote the articles in order for us to have it on record what
we support or just as a making sure nothing goes through that we're not solidly aware of. Now, is that something that we can do on more review? It is. Okay. Yep. So we would do that at the same time that the
uh that the finance committee is making their recommendations. Okay. Then I will make a motion um to approve to place articles one through 15 as presented in the draft warrant
article for the annual town meeting for June 9th, 2025. Could you amend that to say about the blanket warrant item? Are you interested in doing that or should we just bring it
in another meeting? you know the for for the for article with the possibility of an additional article for violations and penalt civil
violations and penalties. Okay, which would make it 1 through 16. Yes, thank you. I know that's a convoluted motion. Sorry. Tracy, could you repeat your your addition, please? I have with the possibility of an
additional article for civil civil violations and penalties. Thank you. Making it 15 or 16 articles total. Madam chair, do um the article to allow
finance committee membership on EDC. I saw that some I saw the proposed language for it. Yeah. came through. I didn't want to add it to this yet. We can add it later. We can add it. We can add it anytime. Anytime. Um I know it's not it's it's going to be discussed tonight, right? I saw it in the packet.
Yeah, it was in the pack. I think it was in the packet. Um I saw it somewhere. I sent I think I sent it by email today, but I did get it's just an easy way of getting um the economic development committee membership to include a finance committee member. We could add that to
the warrant. Um, it's up to the board. I suppose it's really only adding three words to the bylaw. Okay. Can we uh we get that on the next meeting so we can and then we can just we can revote this. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. As many times as we want. Right. Till the bitter end, Madam Chair. Yes. Not after May 19th. No, not after May. You are. And our next meeting is when? May 19th. Oh, what was it? I thought we had one in
between. Oh, all right. Good to know, Tracy. Thanks for keeping us honest. Um, we have a motion. Get a second. Second the motion. Motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. I candy. Carbon I. Hunt.
I. All right. Thank you everybody. We're on our way. Uh, agenda item number seven, discuss and possible vote to allow Red Hand Brewing to open for business on May 20th, 2025 from 400 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. to host Cranberry County Chamber of
Commerce. Um, I have a quick question to start off with. Um, why don't they just have a full week's liquor license? Is there dollars? Is there thresholds? Nope. It's um as
they're a brewery, they have days that they just brew and they're not open to the public. Um but does it cost them anything? Does it like for liquor license or like you have to be open to the public the hours that are on your
license? And when they brew, they open don't want to be open to the public. Thank you for that because I was like, why don't we just uh make it blanket so they don't request for us to to have those hours. Thank you, Tracy. That's great context. I'll make a motion to approve
the request for Renhand Brewing to open on May 20th from 4 to 9:00 p.m. to host the Cranberry C Country Chamber of Commerce meeting. Seconded. We have a motion to second. Any further discussion? Hearing none
I Andy I Carboni I Hunt I item number eight discuss possible vote on designating a select board member to review select board policies. Um I know that member Plona had expressed some interest. Is that on the
record? So I will on the record Madam Chair. It's on the record. He said he likes policies. It is on the record. I I be thankful to call. Are you feeling sheepish about that? No, I I I'm still interested. All right. Well, then I will
make it official. Um I move that we vote to designate select board member Blanca as our member to the select board policies. A second motion and a second. Any
discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Luck. I Carboni I Hunt I all your nights. We're filling up that calendar. More to come. All right. Discussion and possible vote on Christmas 2025 event.
Attached is information regarding a 2025 Lakeville Christmas event and map showing a parade route. Um this goes back a few months ago. Um, so Andrew, do you want to give kind of the how this came about? Um, you know,
from last year's snowman Jubilee. Um, this is I almost used the term snowballing and I apologize, but yeah, this is getting much bigger. Um, and we'd love to hear more about it and tell the people at home. Yeah. So, after the
2024 snow person Jubilee, I think it raised $12,000, I believe, for the animal shelter. So, I I think I just offhand made a comment that we should have like a bigger event next year and make it a just a annual big event. Um, and so
Michelle McKran took me up on it. Um, and so we made it into a big a big thing. Um, and so we've met with a lot of the public safety, Frank, Arts Council, Historic Commission, um, Sue Spieler. Um, we didn't have anyone from
the parks for that one. Um, but we really just kind of brainstormed a bunch of ideas. One included a parade, um, bonfire, potentially fireworks. It was just like a we tried to pretty much imagine the biggest possible event and
then obviously it's going to get scaled down as things become more realistic. Um but um sounds like Winterfest, remember? Yeah, Winterfest was fantastic back in the day. Love to have the newest version
of that. I know it was a big hit with the public. Um, and it got a lot of people uh in the same place at once, which is tough with no center. So, we were trying to imagine where we could have it. We thought it would just kind of be at the uh old town hall um and
maybe come here at the very end of it. We were trying to get like a best possible schedule and get Arts Council involved and maybe have like a I want to call it sip and show because that thing gets copyrighted now, but something similar to that where they'd have I think arts council has like a big um
they do their all that glitters. All that glitters. So, we thought maybe we could combine two or three events in one. Um there is the uh parade that the fire department does. We thought we could combine that. Maybe make it from like 12 to 4
So, um I think we were thinking of just forming like an official committee to do this. I love it. I This is amazing. I would love also for some of it to be part of the communications um committee um and have someone from
the communications if not the whole the whole communications um committee as part of that. But I do want to make sure that the parks is plays a very big part in this because I was concerned without like a lot of context from the parks in
here because um if we are using any of the space, we want to make sure that we've done everything we can to incorporate the parks in it. But other than that, I'm very excited about it. I think it's a great thing. Um yeah, I was trying to plan as far out as we possibly could because it's such a big event. There's a million things that go along
with it. Um, the parade obviously is the biggest wild card. Yeah, that was like that was more of an idea than an actual what we were gonna do. I think a parade is is awesome. I think it's a great idea. Um, I was just looking at the the
route, which I think is a great route. However, if there are people that want to go stand on that route, there's really nowhere, no place to park or so maybe that it's just a logistical thing. Yeah. Um, you know, I I think about middle burrows where, you know, people
do have to walk a certain distance to get to a spot that they can watch the parade, but uh there's parking, you know, available. So, right. Oh, yeah. There's sidewalks, too. But, um, so that was the only thing. But I I
really like the idea of a, you know, of a parade. Yeah. We're trying to stay off state routes because they have this whole big deal with them. We're trying to use as less police officers as we can because the detail costs are so high. Um, when you do all that, it kind of makes the parade smaller, which isn't a
bad thing. Um, we were thinking maybe come through obviously Ted Williams camp maybe once or twice and then it's very weather dependent that time of year. Yeah. Exactly. Very weather dependent. Um, Madam Chair,
yes, please. What is the funding source? Does he intend to be fundraising to offset any expenses? Fundraising um obviously maybe would be partially the select board gift account if that was something the board would had a favor in. Um but mostly probably fundraising.
Okay. Carry on. I'm I'm all for it. Uh I would love to hear more updates frequently as it gets bigger. But yeah, um even though I know it's more work, but involve all the stakeholders you can um and you know getting make sureing uh make sure uh
making sure we add in the communications committee to get the word out after we've decided what's going on and the parks committee for anything that will be specifically parks related. Fantastic. Anyone like to make a motion or do we want to move? I don't
necessarily think we need a motion. And I was just bringing this to your attention just in case you hear about it and you say, "What's this guy doing?" You know, so just for everyone, you say every day, just for everyone's knowledge, when this comes back, we'll probably be asked, as Andrew referenced,
to allocate some money out of the beautifification or the gifts and grants or one of the accounts that we have um that we can actually do some of these things. Madam Chair, yes. So, going back to the
article six, is that going to be tabled until May 19th to vote on the actual final warrants because you voted on the articles to be placed, but you didn't actually vote the warrants? Yes, correct. So, table it to May. It'll be the same. It'll be the same as the
finance committee. Okay. That's mad. April when that next meeting April 19th May 19th May but I'm not talking about the votes for you to recommend or whatever. This is
the actual final document. So you'll vote on the actual final document on the 19th. Okay. I just want to make sure we'll make it one one fell swoop. The only problem is is that I have to put the ad in before May 19th.
If you're going to have the entire warrant published, I have to give them a week lead time, it's got to be advertised uh May 22nd. So, if you decide not to spend the large amount of
money on putting the entire warrants in the newspaper, then it comes down to a $75 ad. and I can do that um the day after you vote on the works or I can do that before because I don't have to put the actual wording in the newspaper. So,
that might be something you might want to discuss under new business. Um because it runs $3 to $4,000 for putting the the actual warrants in the paper versus $75. Yeah. And this is not a controversial
meeting at all at this time either. It's not something that people are generally going to be up in arms and want more information. These are all pretty dollless dishwater articles as as compared to some years of meetings. We are going to be doing an outreach thing.
Um a few towns are starting to do like the meeting guides. I did see that. I I saw your your inspiration meeting guide. It it's fantastic. So we've actually almost completed one. So, and are you going to have the COA um printed out or are you
going to go out and have old colony or somewhere print? I think we could have COA do it. I don't want to do the the bond paper. That's just too It's too much. Too much. Bond paper. Too much. Yeah, it's extra. All right. Thank you, Tracy. Uh, are we on 10? We're on 10. All
right. uh vote on posting associate member for planning board. I do not see anyone from planning board here today, but there was a vote uh at town meeting in November of
2022, article 9 um that allowed for the special permitting process to create a position of the associate planning board member. We have not to my recollection used that as of yet. Posted
it. Y yeah. So this would be the first posting of an associate member and this associate member would be weighing in on just special permits. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
So, just special permits uh if someone on the regular board was unable to vote because those items require a supermajority. Yep. Yes. So, those items require a super majority to vote. So,
needing a supermajority requires more people. So, I'll make a motion um that we post the associate member for the planning board um which would be a term of one year.
I have a motion. Do I have a second? Seconded. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? M. So, this was approved town meeting 2022. Why was it left vacant until now? planning was that up the planning board to come back under the purview of the
planning board usually to bring it forward. So for whatever reason they just just didn't happen. I know we have the ZBA also has associate members. They've been using the associate members as well. Yeah. And what they and conservation as well and what a lot of
those associate members do is a little bit more broad than this role specifically. And um what happens is those associate members go on to become full-time members when you know positions open up. So thank you. All right. I have a motion and a second.
Roll call vote. I do I voting I Hunt I item 11 we vote to reimbursement on Lakeville Lions for mulching of islands. I'm actually going to turn this over to member Blanca to speak about it. Yes. So, I just want to clarify this is
reimbursement for uh Gary Langer for Beaver Tree Works. Um so, he um provided the mulch to the town at a significant discount. He provides the provided the mulch and the Lakeful Lions did the
work. Uh so this is simply requesting approval to reimburse for the amount in uh which is the invoices attached to the packet. It was 10 yards a remote of $215.94. All right. So as most people know, um
the Lions have been working on those islands since I can I just I can't remember a time when the Lions haven't worked on the islands. Long time um for years. uh they were being paid out of and I forget her name, but it was Sher
Baron's mom's uh account and she had money for flowers and mulch. Um I don't know in the last two years which account it was coming out of. If it was coming out of beautifification or gifts and grants, but usually um we get a heads up
ahead of time from uh from the Lions. They let us know um what they're proposing to purchase and the price and then we reimburse them because it does make the town look beautiful and it is something that the members of the town have always expressed a desire to see as
a continued practice. I'm going to Andrew take that away. So I don't know about the last two years but I think historically comes out of beautifification. Um we have about $460 in it today. I think there's going to be another donation into that account. So great, we have the funds for it. All
right. So, uh, if the Lions, and I know we have some members today, uh, if the Lions can get out the word to their friends to donate to that account, we can continue to, you know, do this in perpetuity as we're just a a collection
point for gifts and grants. And we hold it for the Lions until the Lions complete the work and and just to clarify, so we we do the islands about every two years. if you didn't do them last year. And so this is this this is the one that we're not going to be seeking anymore for this year and
probably I'm I foresee nothing next year. So it's but it' be two years. All right. Well, I'll make a motion um to No, let me back up a sec. Lions didn't pay for this yet, correct? Okay. So then
this is going to be worded a little differently, right? Because we have the invoice from Beaver Tree Works, right? So, I will make a motion to approve the Beaver Tree um works invoice number 1114 dated April 3rd 30th, 2025 in the
amount of $215.94 for the mulch um in the um islands. Okay, move the second. Seconded. I'm going to get a motion and in a second.
Roll call vote. Plug I do. Carbon I. Punt I. Agenda item 12. Um, member Carboni, would you like to speak to this item? EDC.
Oh, that's right. I am that person. Okay. Okay. So, um, is the charge in here? Because I'm trying to recall what the No, I guess I'm going to have to have a book of the charges. So, I can remember
how many um members at large. I can't remember if it was four or if it was three. But anyways, uh we have two members that u at large members that we voted at our last meeting and we have in front of us this evening
um a letter of interest um to participate in the economic development committee. And did you happen to note um Tracy, did you let um this individual know that we would be discussing this
this evening? No, I did not. Okay. Um anyways, this is an interest a letter of interest from Brian um sold um to be appointed as the member at large uh to the economic development committee. Uh there is a letter and a
resume in the volunteer application attached and this appointment would be for the term which would expire July 31st, 2023. I think with adding this this member, I think we can get started. Um, fantastic. Scheduling our first
meeting and then um getting it rolling. So, fantastic. Um, it's three at large and there's two associates. Three at large. So, this would be the third, correct? Okay. At large.
Very good. Someone like to make a motion. I can make a motion um to appoint Brian Sodtoilla um as the third member at large for the economic development committee with a term to
expire July 31st, 2026. Seconded. I have a motion to second. Any discussion? Just thank you Brian for yes putting your letter of interest in um looking forward to uh getting this up and running. Yes, this would be
fantastic. It's been six years. Yep. Six years. So, time to get it rolling. All right. Uh, roll call vote. Plug. I Carboni. I Hunt I. Item number
13, subcommittee updates. Old Colony Regional. Well, you haven't had anything happen. We've no meeting since. Yeah, we have a meeting a week from today. that will be attending. No updates.
Okay. Um and then are you a member at large there or No, I was on finance committee. All right. So, we need to make some changes. So, we'll add that on next
meeting. All right. information technology advisory subcommittee information should be stricken from there it's just technology advisory subcommittee at this time any
updates from Andrew nothing okay and then the communication and community outreach subcommittee okay um I'll pick this one up here uh so we have yet another uh
person interested in joining one of our boards, committees, and commissions. Uh Lisa Johnson um has submitted her letter of interest. Her resume, I believe, is in here as well, and the application um is all been completed to be a member of
the communication and community outreach subcommittee. I think it's very impressive. And um I'd like to get this this committee up and running because it's that's us. All right. So you like to take a make a
motion? Sure. I'll I'll make a motion to appoint Lisa Johnson uh to the communication and community outreach subcommittee with a term to expire July 31st, 2026. Second. Seconded. Motion and seconded. Any discussion, Madam Chair?
Um, uh, I've kind of lost the bubble on this one. I think you guys discussed this primarily before we came on board. I think the community outreach. Yeah, just a quick refresh. The membership of the committee. Yeah, we need our charges. This is where I need the charge. We need our charges.
But I believe it was um it was one select board member, two members at large. you. Yeah. Y um and it will be a a person from Yeah, I think it was the previous assistant to the TA was the support person on it.
We'll just go through Andrew until you know hang. I can request a copy of the charge. Sure. We should have a nice book of charges and I know we are no longer in possession of the select board policy
book. We have it. We have it. Yeah, I have a I have You have it? Okay. So, um love to have everyone have a copy of what's in there. Dearly a digital copy of it. Digital. Wait, I said that
before. Digital copy. Working on that. Working on it. All right. Excellent. Do we We have to close it out. Yeah. I'm good. Thank you. Oh. Oh. Bon I Hunt I Excellent. Welcome
aboard Lisa. So we have some new business today. Um and the new business is the uh is the resignation of member day from
the select board. Um, I don't have the letter in front of me, but he submitted his letter of resignation on Friday, effective for Friday, noon time, noon time on Friday.
Um, so member Day has done a fantastic job as a select board member both on his first term and since he's been here, he's a valuable member of the select board team. um he pulls more than his weight on duties and committees and um
this committee is going to or this uh this board is going to have a tough time um filling his role uh at all uh even with an election. Um if Mr. Day is listening, I hope he reconsiders uh and
uh and we won't take a vote on it tonight. I would like to vote on accepting his resignation next week to give him some room if he would consider. Um yeah, I'm hoping for a different outcome. Um but with that being said, um
we will have some decisions to make as a board. Um in the decision, our guiding principles will come from Mass General Law Chapter 1 uh chapter 41 section 10. um and that is
filling the open role of uh select board member. Um so there's been some p past practices where we have uh had a special election to fill the role. Um it's
less ownorous on us now that there's more members. before when it was a three member board um it if someone was out sick the board didn't meet for you know a week or two or you know something could be um more significantly impactful whereas in we have a much larger
membership now um that could absorb some of the tasks and we could continue to have quorums um when necessary. So, not for this meeting, but for the 19th, we will be voting on whether or not this board would like to have a special
election to fill that role or if uh if we think that we can uh manage uh without filling the role till the next election, the annual town election,
April is it? 7 April 7th, 2026. So, um I didn't want to vote on it for this at this a agenda. We'll wait until put it on the next one, but I know um I know people already know that um member
day has uh decided to leave. So, I want to make sure I addressed it in this meeting today. Madam Chair, it's April 6th. April 6th. Does anyone have anything they wish to discuss besides that for new business?
You guys are all just excited. It's going to be a short meeting tonight. All right, Andrew, is there anything you'd like to add to what I said? Was there anything incorrect for Mass General Law or anything? Um, just that if we were to
schedule a special election, town clerk needs 65 days. Yeah. And do we do we have a price what that would be? That is that a $13,000 price tagish? I've heard from 10 to 15. All right. Thousand. Okay. Um and then some people kind of floed maybe
combining it with the old colony special election in November, but we're not thinking it's possible. Yeah, that there's multiple ballots there and it's just not clean. Kind of a that's already a cuz they're covering the they're covering the expenses. I don't think
they would cover that. So, we would still be on the hook for it. On the hook for it. Yeah. All right. Yep. Okay. Moving on. Old business. Um, discuss and possible vote on proposed charge for
Zebra. Um, and appoint a select board member to serve on the committee. Um, next page is the charge for Zebra. Does everyone have that? because we made some updates in our last meeting. That's why it's in front of us
for adoption. Correct. Yep. Okay. I think we did. We move it down. Was it July 21st? One planning board member, appeals board member, board of health, conservation member, one at large member. Appointments will be for
one-year terms expire on July 31st. Does anyone have any amendments or anything they'd like to make to the charge or is the charge good as stands? Okay. And I guess I'll make a motion um
to adopt the charge for the zoning bylaw review advisory committee as presented. Okay, I have a motion. Um and second part of that we should probably do it in one thous or two. Let me do it
in two. Um let's do one part and approve that. So can I get a second? I second. All right. I have a motion and a second. Roll call vote. Plug I can do. Carbon I. Hunt I. And the second portion is to appoint a select
board member to serve on the committee. Well, volunteer time, Madam Chair. I would uh I would volunteer for that. Fantastic. Because it's not policies, nor is it finance. Yep. It's It's calling your name. It is. It's calling
your name. I'm happy to make it official. Let's do it. I would like to um I'll make a motion to appoint U member Paul Hunt to the zoning bylaw review advisory committee with the term
to expire July 31st, 2026. Second motion a second. Any further discussion? Roll call. plug eye. Nicely done. And at this point, this is when we would go, we would notify the
other boards, committees, and commissions where they have representation. Yes. Um to designate their nominated special, especially seeing as it's been defunct for so long, most of the city people wouldn't wouldn't know the u the impact.
So, okay, Tracy, can you send out Thank you. I appreciate it. And next item on old business is, and I don't have anything in front of me. If I got an email, I didn't see it. Uh, the history of the Clear Pond Park water line. We
got some information late from uh former member day. Um, I'm not ready to really talk about it tonight. Um, but I am speaking with the city of Taton, okay, this week on the water line. at the uh the three requests from last week. Okay. Can we table this to the 19th? Yes. We
can have a full discussion on everything. Fantastic. How about an update on the town planner role and filling the role? Yeah. So, we we have one applicant that is qualified to interview. So, we're
going to be interviewing this person probably next week. Um but like any position, we're still kind of envisioning what we want to do long term. Yeah. Because in the last few meetings, we've had a lot of questions on if we're committed to filling the
role as that or if we want to split it sometime with support plus special projects and what does that scenario look at? So we'll be depending on you to keep us updated. Yeah. So I'll we'll interview this person then I think we'll
shift or have a little reevaluation. Yeah. Okay. All right. I appreciate that. It's a thoughtful way to move forward. Um stipen for planning department uh clerk. Yes. So uh as you know, we're still
discussing this as well. Uh I think it's going to come finally to a resolution on May 19th as well. Excellent. Hate to kick it down a road again, but I think we found a solution. We had a meeting um select board member Candido um Nate
Darling, myself and Lacy discussed what we think would be a good thing for it. It was just Friday afternoon and we didn't want to turn around too quick and make an error. So, um I think the 19th would be the best to come to the board with a solution solution on that.
Perfect. Um, and my favorite unficed plan. Where are we? So, it's finally completed. Um, I'll just do the shout outs now. Um, so obviously the big people that had the biggest hand in this
were Kathy Murray, Tracy Craig McGee, uh, Joan Morton had a big hand and Lisa Cordderero. Um, there's probably others that I'm missing. Serpent being one of them. Um, but we're sending it out to the chairs of all the boards and committees that are interested in this.
Um, as well as DCR, Serpid. Um, yeah, we send DCR the hard copy. They'll get all their comments, edits, they'll send them back to us. We make those, and then we run with it. Yeah. So, for the people at home, um, the open
space plan is a key to unlock uh, grants for the town. um we haven't been able to go for some of the the conservation uh grants or the anything for like parks or anything for um since 2022 when it
expired. Um so we will do a much better job at the next go round. It's every seven years. I hope it's on everyone's calendar uh now um because it needs to be uh completed on time so we don't get ourselves in a situation where there
might be a grant that we could go to to defay some of the costs of operating um any type of recreation or parks or um even some open space uh with uh with some grant money and not be able to do it because we have not had our ducks in
a row. So, I appreciate everyone's effort into it and um it was a learning experience for sure. It's not accomplished in a lot of the grants that this opens up. So, I think you'll be feasting on a lot
hopefully. Uh right 15th uh is announce the next select board meeting dates. The next regularly scheduled select board meeting is May 19th, 2025 at 5:45 p.m. at the police
station. Um, I would like it to be on everyone's mind um that we probably want to when we're having selecting meeting dates and calendarizing everything in the future,
um, I would like us to look townwide at the calendarization. on scheduling and room assignment, especially as we are going to have a new location being available to us potentially with the historic um town hall as a meeting
space. Um, so I I think the people of the town would like to have their select board in a consistent space though and I I would like to see uh the police station dedicated to the select board just for that reason to be able to find
us when they need to because there's been times where we've been to the library um and then I have calls from people you guys didn't meet tonight or you guys weren't there. Um so bringing that consistency um will be something
that we should strive for for all our meetings. And that's not just for our board. It's it's for every board. We should try to find a a home for everyone. Um it's something applicable to the size of their their their membership plus um you know how how
oftended their meetings are. Um because there's some that you you you couldn't you know give away tickets to the stones and people still wouldn't show up. It's a small small base that show up and then there's some that have a lot of people a lot of the time. So making sure we're
properly allocating our meeting space should be a nice project for someone. Uh hopefully when we get um some additional staff members on uh in in your office um it would be a nice uh starter project.
Definitely. Uh no correspondence. And is there a need to meet in executive session for the school committee or do we Yeah, I no update. No update. All right. So, we do not need to
go into executive session. We will most likely have to put that on May 19th for executive session. And with that, unless there's anything anyone else would like to discuss, make a
motion. So, move to journ at 656. Do we have a second? Second. Motion in the second. Plug eye. Very good. See, Brian didn't know what he was missing.