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Good evening, Littleton. Uh, welcome to the July 13th, 2026 select board meeting. Uh, this evening we will be starting in executive session. Um, and we will come back out of executive session at approximately

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6:30. So I declare that the board enter executive session for two purposes. Could you please uh give the >> move the select board vote to enter into an executive session pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 30A section 21A1

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to discuss the physical condition of a municipal employee and move that the door vote to enter into executive session pursuant to master law chapter 3A section 21 A2 to conduct contract negotiations with non-UN personnel specifically the police chief to return

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into open session upon completion. Second. >> I moved by Mark, seconded by Kyle. Uh, roll call vote. Kyle. >> Kyle. I >> Mark >> Mark and I. >> And Gary's and I as well. Uh, we will see you in approximately 40 to 45

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minutes. Thank you. Good evening, Littleton. We are back out of executive sess session. Uh I would start the evening with the n pledge of allegiance. >> The national anthem. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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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. So, this evening we will um be having a joint meeting with Littleton Housing

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Authority to appoint a new member. Uh we have some board updates, uh treasur, human resources, town clerk, um public works, conservation, sustainability committee. We'll be discussing and possible vote on the climate action plan. Um we will have

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public input members updates some other discussions. Um we'll discuss briefly uh the contract negotiations with the uh pending police chief. Um we'll talk about a vacancy in

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board of accessors and talk about some other appointments and then we will do our minutes and then we will adjourn. So hopefully we can catch up. I apologize for us running over on the executive session. Um, so I guess we'll start with the reading of the mail if you

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>> Sure. >> So above on the screen, current vacancies on town boards available for interest residents. Um, information regarding these uh vacancies are on the town's website and applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Um,

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those interested in serving are encouraged to apply or contact our office or the town clerk's office for more info. Next is the select board office hours. We have a full schedule months months in advance. Um, a complete

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So, the complete schedule, dates and times are on the website. They're also on the town calendar. Um but just to preview for this month um we have the date of Wednesday July 15th from 4 to 6 u with selectman

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Rambacher and Friday July 31st from 3 to 4 with selectman Bup. >> Next we have two notices uh from the board of appeals. Um there are two public hearings for this Thursday. Um the first one that you see here is uh

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359 King Street and it's a petition for a special permit to convert a single family to a two family dwelling. The second one is for 27 Lake Warren Drive and that is for a uh residential

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addition. And next is a notification to a Butters. This is from the Conservation Commission. It's a notice of intent and it's u an application for a proposed boardwalk at 300 King Street um also

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known as Castle in the Trees. A public hearing is scheduled later this month. >> That's the one that's going to run across here. >> Yes. Yes. Um the hearing is scheduled um on the 21st or next Tuesday and the application materials and all the information is on the conservation's uh

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web page. I will note too later this evening um we do have this as an item as well um with a memo provided from from conservation and a um a sketch showing the layout. Great. >> Okay. And Mr. Chairman, that's all.

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>> All right. Looks like we have a joint meeting this evening. So, do we have a a quorum with the joint Littleton Housing Authority? >> We do not. We have a single member, it looks like. [laughter] >> You can handle it. >> Wow. Hi, good evening. Matthew

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Nordhouse. >> How are you, >> member? >> Very well, member. Littleton Housing Authority. Our chair is on vacation and can't attend. >> Tough time of year for that. >> We are here. Uh, but we unanimously would um enthusiastically support the appointment of Miss Albert Telly to the

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housing authority. She's already been attending meetings and participating into some discussions. We're currently undergoing a bit of turmoil with our executive director um leaving and then another executive director leaving. So, um, we are scrambling and Miss Albert Kelly is sorely needed with her

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experience in, um, being nice to people to, uh, help us out. So, please appoint her. >> I do like her her resume that did say, um, 60 years of empathetic, um, humoring, I guess you would say, [laughter]

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uh, hum humaning humoring as well. But, uh, no, I think many of us know Batelli. She's not here, right? But um years, couple decades maybe of realtor in town and other I think she's an interior

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designer though. That's Yeah. So I think she'd be a great addition. So any we have any other discussion and you said your vote your board voted or >> um >> discussed I guess you don't >> we've definitely discussed it. Um I don't think we have a vote in this. I think it's your appointment,

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>> but no, we we are all absolutely in favor of >> want to make sure. >> No, I like like you said, I think we all know Kim and uh she is a lovely individual and I think she should uh add value to housing authority. >> Awesome. Any other questions? No. We

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look for a motion. >> Um I just want >> Oh, sorry. >> For this he votes as well, right? >> It's joint. Yes. Even though I we don't have a quorum or is it just five votes? >> Yeah, >> we we will have a it is a joint quorum.

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Okay, it's five of us. We're good. >> Move the select board and the remaining members of the Littleton Housing Authority vote pursuant to Mass General of chapter 41 section 11 to appoint Kimberly Albertelli to fill a vacancy on the Littleton Housing Authority through the May 2027 town election.

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>> Second. >> Okay, it's been moved by Mark, seconded by Kyle. All those in favor? I >> had a lot of those. >> Yeah. Chuck. Chuck is I >> Matthew. >> Matthew is Yes. >> Kyle. >> Kyle's eye. >> Mark. >> Mark's an eye. >> I'm nice. Well, thank you.

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>> Kim, get red on. She has to get >> She has to get sworn by the clerk. So, can you let her know that? >> Um, I will let her know that. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks, Matthew. >> Good summer. >> Are you going to adjourn? [laughter] >> I can't. I don't.

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>> Make the motion and second it yourself. be stuck in a loop. All right, we like volunteers. All right, we have a department head board updates and request we treasurer discussion and possible vote to approve fiscal year

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2026 endofear transfers. >> Hi, >> here we are. How are you? >> So, you all got the transfers. >> Tony has them up there. Um, I can run through them. I will say that last year we had 25 transfers in the general fund budget. Um, this year we only have eight in the general fund. So, we can go line

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by line if you want then. >> We can. >> Yeah, that works. >> Certainly. So, um the assessor's wages came in um in a deficit because we had to hide. We brought Nate in over the summer to help u with the full

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evaluation with DLS. Um this is way smaller than I thought it was. [laughter] >> Is it is it better look up here, Robin? >> Um maybe. Yeah. Um so, okay. So, field maintenance. Um we uh things weren't budgeted in field maintenance for um

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licenses and stepups when they got stepups. So that was missed. Um health department that is uh the transfer of Francis leaving and then hiring a contract service agent there. Um information technology the

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munis budget came in higher than it was budgeted for. We didn't have that number. um street lighting. Uh that was the electric bill from Light and Water and the rate was much higher than we expected. Uh >> we'll have to talk to them. >> Uh next year we budgeted 19,000. We

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still might be a bit short next year. Uh the town clerk Andrew started like the first or second week of July last year and in the system he doesn't step so we approved a step for him because it was like a week. Um so that's the deficit

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there. uh town meeting reports. I believe the most of that is uh getting Meridian in >> to work the town meetings. >> Okay. >> Um and then the treasur is the transfer of funds from the TA budget for the MCPO for Kim and for myself as the finance

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director. >> So that's those and there's the totals there for the salaries and the expenses. And then for the first time um the sewer as you know is new. Um, so that's the last one. And the sewer was some they

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paid um stipens out to some of the staff to do some training and certifications that they needed for the sewer that were not budgeted. Um, and for the water department, the 600,000 um is a transfer between from water

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miscellaneous to capital. I did speak to Erikica about that and actually I have some notes here so I can >> that's the staggering number on the sheet. Huh. That was a staggering number on the sheet. >> Yeah. And um Fincom asked about it too. So I reached out to Erica and she

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responded, but let me >> while you're looking that up, uh FinCom did meet last week and they did vote questions, but they did vote to unanimously unanimously support the >> So what she said was they build 200,000 into into the budget for reserve always.

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So that they had that extra money there. um inventory purchases came in a h 100,000 under because um they charged things directly to projects that they didn't know that they would have the money to do. Um there was also um some

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supplies that they got for chemicals and solids and lead service lines that came in under budget. That was about 170,000. So they just picked up money in other lines. >> Okay. >> So but it was it was a big number for sure. And then um the the last one that 1,800 is with compass. That project was

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out of balance and we addressed it this year with them. So >> um >> that is it. >> I'm going to pause real quick. Just reminder, I I've asked uh Light and Water to come in over the summer to give us a

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a brief a yearly brief of all the projects they've done. Lots and drops. >> Yeah. What's going on, >> you know, this >> Sure. somewhere in the next [clears throat] couple meetings if we could. >> All right. Go ahead. >> I was just going to say that the on this report it is quite small even for us but

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um the last column with reasons for deficit is very helpful I think for us to to kind of >> kind of wrap our brains around but if you have any questions that helps us to those questions >> which you saw them so good >> yeah it's great that's yeah it's a >> but the font is very small. Yeah, [laughter]

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>> you know, last year was two and a half pages, I think, and they were pretty great. >> You said go over the highlights last year. >> Yeah, they were like, >> um, >> thanks, Rob. >> Any other questions? You guys good? >> I'm good. Okay. So, we >> move the selection board vote to authorize the town accountant to

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transfer the amounts outlined in the table presented to the finance committee and approved at their July 9th, 2026 meeting to address deficits within the town of Littleton fiscal year 2026 operating and the water and sewer enterprise budgets. Second by Mark,

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second by Kyle. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Thanks for coming out. All right, we're on to human resources discussion and possible vote to designate the position of elected school committee member as a special municipal

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employee position pursuant master in the law chapter 268 alpha section 1N. All right, we are kind of briefed up on this. I think everybody's had a chance. No. Okay, sorry. >> That's okay. Good evening. Michelle

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Vibbert, human resources director. Um, for those of you that don't know, we have a candidate who applied who is a current school committee member. They are elected and under the law since they have an elected position and they are working to get an appointed position, they basically need to file a disclosure

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form which we already have filled out by the candidate and it does go on file with the town clerk if they are appointed. >> I know what this is. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right. So we have um member of the school committee that is

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going to be working for the town. Um and this is one of those we as I thought the state had to decide this. They had the author but we have the authority as a select board for every committee and board that's falls under our jurisdiction except our own. So if we if

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this was us we could we couldn't do we would have to go outside to be approved for this. >> Yeah. And I I would reference the the memo that um Jim put together. Yeah. Um articulating that and it and it does require action a vote of this board to allow for such and the designations

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relative to the position. >> Okay. Um >> the you you're making the designation for the school committee member position. You cannot make it for the person. So if any other school committee member wanted another appointed position, they could get it.

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>> Yes. So fortunately or unfortunately when we make this designation we're allowing all school school committee >> employees >> to have the ability to do this to work for the town in some capacity. It would come in front of us again but this is

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your authorization. So any questions I don't know we're familiar with Sean everybody I mean >> great going to be a great employee for the town. [clears throat] It's a it's a great hire. >> Went to a great high school. which the variant.

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>> Yeah. The um my I guess the only concern is the uh does it have anything with school budgets and stuff? Does he have to is there recusal process for that? But >> um so he there will be no conversations with school budgets. Um that would

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involve him and in his position that doesn't that doesn't involve his position. That's my concern as well. >> All right. You've got you got it. All right. Um, the other question is this is so that he could work for the town but not for the school. Correct. >> Correct.

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>> So he's limited. I'm just making sure the way it's worded it. >> Well, it's any appointed position. So as long as he holds the school committee member position that's elected, this designation is allowing him to get an appointed position. But he would still

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have to file another disclosure form with if he wanted a school position with that other >> there's there's more forms that would be needed if he was trying to do that because then on top of it is he keeping his current role that he is getting >> I'm well it's beyond him right because

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it's any school committee member right so what I'm asking is what does this just say that any school comm member can work for the town if they file the disclosure or can a school committee member now work for the school as well if they file a disclosure.

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>> The town includes the town, [clears throat] school, light and water, anything that is appointed. >> They're all municipal employees. >> It all falls under the town of Littleton. >> Okay, >> that would be a concern, but that we're not going to cross a bridge unless we have to. [laughter] So, it's not the >> burn the bridges

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>> and this is a forever designation like >> reverse it. >> Well, yeah. >> Yes. I mean, we'd have to if we decided we didn't want this anymore, we revoke it and >> correct. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Or if it stops working for the Talo, we can revoke it at that time. >> Okay.

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>> Um, we probably want Well, we anyone would have to file a separate claim. Any So, this this allows him to do it, but then there's another process where we still have to approve him for a specific job or

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>> for for this one. No, this is it. So, he filled out the disclosure form and it's going to get filed with the town clerk. >> So, so the next employee, what do they have to do? >> Same thing. >> Same thing. They would have to fill out their own disclosure form. >> They fill out their own form and file it with you, but they don't come in front of us.

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>> No, not if we make this vote tonight, then that's >> we don't have to do it again >> because it's for [clears throat] all it's it's for all school committee members. >> Yeah. >> So, what you're making is the designation for school committee. Okay. So, if we voted this today and he's

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hired tomorrow and then at our next meeting we revoke it, he still can be an employee but no one else could. >> No, >> stop. >> No, I'm asking cuz if you're opening up the box, how long do you want to what box you want to open? >> So, all you're doing is taking away the fact that it's it's considered a special

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municipal employee is all you're doing. and [clears throat] and and under a special municipal employee, it it allows him to have that position, but it doesn't not allow him to have that position. It's just it's just

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under the law because he's elected. You have specific positions, select board, uh school committee, you have certain boards and committees that you have already made, especially when you're school employees. The school committee is one of the ones

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that you did not make as a as that because most most people that are elected aren't employed by the town, right? >> Okay. >> That are on boards, right? So, this

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specific one happens to be that. So in in his decision to become an employee of the town, he reached out and asked the school committee asked and he asked can this our position as school committee

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members become special municipal employees. Is that such a thing? Yes, it is such a thing and yes it can happen. It does not have to happen but it is a good practice to have the school committee members especially municipal

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employees if you are going to have someone who is going to be working for the death. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. your motion. >> Move that select board vote to designate the position of elected school committee member as a spe special municipal

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employee pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 268A section 1N. >> Second. >> Okay, it's been moved by Mark, second by Kyle. All those in favor? >> I thank you guys for your time. Um, you're

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up again. Is that correct? We have uh discussion um and possible vote to appoint Rebecca Kaine to the financial analyst position at grade 10 step six effective July 20th 2026. >> Yes. So, um, currently Becky Kaine is

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our, uh, payroll and finance coordinator. And she is looking to move to a higher grade, which is the financial analyst position in accounting. And in order to have her not lose money, um, we are putting her at the step that is closest to her current salary, which is grade 10 step six.

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Under our personnel bylaw section 3315, select board must approve the pay rate if um it exceeds the midpoint of the position's pay range. So in this case, it goes above five. So we are coming in front of the board for approval. >> Going to miss her name on the warrants. So she's still involved at all.

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>> She's going to be on payroll. >> Payroll. Okay. >> She could be on this is uh good. We like we like people to take on more responsibilities. This is good for her. Thank you.

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>> Any think we're good. Any discussion? >> No. Happy to do. >> All right. The board appointed to the financial analyst position [clears throat] at grade 10 step six effective 720 2026. >> Second move by Mark, second by Chuck. All those in favor? >> I.

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>> Thank you. >> Um and you have another one. I have one more >> discussion and possible vote to appoint Kelly Kao um to the health director position at grade 16 step 7 effective

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714 2026. Is this a permanent position now but we're in higher? >> Yep. You are. [laughter] >> Hi. How are you? We're getting to meet you. >> Yes. >> Yes. So, um, I'm going to let Kelly speak, but just to give her a little bit of an introduction, uh, we are looking

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to hire Kelly Kell at grade 16, step seven. Um, again pointing to our personnel bylaw, the board approves anything above the midpoint, which is step five. Um, Kelly comes to us, she had extensive experience in the health department in Hudson, um, from May of

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2015 till about April of 2022. And then she worked in the Sedbury Health Department as the shared services coordinator and most recently she was in Carlilele as their health director. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Kelly Callo. Um I come with 10 years

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experience in public health. I grew up in Littleton. Actually I played field hockey. [laughter] >> Hi. >> Yes. Um, I'm excited to bring my experience to the town and to really build up your

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department here. You guys are growing tremendously since since I grew up here. Um, the point is awesome and I'm excited to bring my experience to you guys. >> Um, >> that's awesome. >> That's great.

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>> Yeah. Any questions? Thank you for coming back to Littleton. Are you a local resident or just >> No, I don't live in town. I live in Maynard, so it's not that far. >> My parents still live here, though. >> Great. Another growing town. Um,

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>> thank you for choosing Littleton. This is this is a very, uh, difficult position to fill and it's, um, a critical position in town, as you know, from doing the job in other towns. So, >> uh, thank you. Um, we look forward to you doing some great things.

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>> Yeah, me too. >> Critical. >> Yeah, I'm excited. And also thank you Michelle and whoever else was involved in the selection process because um this this kind of came to us somewhat suddenly >> and appreciate you timing worked out well. So >> yes it did. >> We wish the best of luck.

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>> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Move the select board appoint to the health director position at grades 16 step 7 effective 714 2026. >> Second move by Mark. Second by Chuck. All those in favor I >> thank you. I'm looking forward to

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working with you guys. All right, welcome home. All right, I'm with HR. All right, town clerk. Actually, Diane, I'm going to jump if I could. Um, Steve, I want to get Yeah, let me get you out

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of here. Dian's got a couple. >> Sure. [laughter] >> You want the 88? >> I'm doing it for a reason. [laughter] >> Steve was here at executive session for a few hours. I'm going to make this thing. >> Um,

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so this is discussion and possible vote to award a contract to tie in bond for landfill postclosure environmental monitoring and reporting services. >> Yes. Thank you, Stephen Young, uh, director of public works. Um, our annual

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landfill monitoring contract. About that simple. Uh it's a little bit less than it has been uh just as we slowly come into compliance after being out of compliance for so long. Um the uh sampling is starting to come down with

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the ultimate goal that we get into annual instead of quarterly like we're doing. So >> hopefully here in the near future we'll start really getting even to a extending annual >> five years. No. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I guess this been going on for a

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bit. So questions. >> Okay. >> What how's this number compared to what was budgeted? >> Uh I believe what is budgeted is 120. >> Okay. >> This is better off the top of my head.

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>> It's a very math. >> Uh quick question. Um, is there any vision for us to be able to reuse any part of the uh the capped landfill down the road? So, I know >> a horse track or something.

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>> Light [laughter] and water had looked at solar. I know administrator Dougen when he first came in, we had kind of brought that back to the forefront. But the way the grading is tipped with the angle of the sun, it's not

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>> I don't want to say it's not feasible, but it's not profitable, I guess, is thinking the word. You know, for the effort you'd have to put in to make [clears throat] a solar farm, >> uh it just doesn't seem like it work. >> As far as other uses, it's I, you know,

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disc golf. >> I don't know. >> Trail, I don't know. >> Don't underell it. It's a popular. >> Yeah. I mean, >> unfortunately, it's not >> it's round, right? So, if it was a little bit more level like some of them, you could get a athletic field on top or

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something like that, but >> that's just not the case. >> Off the backside towards Beck Pond is I mean, would somebody be able to navigate the backside? If we if we did decided we're going to put a trail in there, so it's kind of a passive recreation use. >> Yeah. I mean, there's more or less an access road that goes around it anyway

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because we mow it all. Right. Right. >> Right. Twice a year. So, you can get around the backside. you get down in towards where the brook is, it does certainly get a little um wet. Um but I mean we mow with the big road mower. So

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>> it's certainly something that could be >> just a thought. Yeah. Just I mean they're not making anyone land. So >> Right. >> It's just true. >> Yeah. >> Just a thought. >> So you mentioned they're they're doing quarterly testing now and you want to see it go to annual testing. Would that

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affect this number? Would this number go down when >> Oh yeah. Significantly. >> Significantly. >> But that would be in future years, not this year. >> Yeah. Not It won't be this year. The hope is in the next couple of years to like send me. >> Cool. Thanks. >> That's all based on the particles per

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million or what whatever. That's when we get to a certain point. Okay. >> Yep. I'd be happy to forward you one of the analytical reports. >> No, I've seen one and I [laughter] I went froite for like a week. So, I'm not Thank you, though. All right, there's a motion. >> Move the select board vote to authorize

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town administrator James Dugen to execute a contract with Tyen Bond for $114,900 for environmental consulting services for landfill postclosure compliance. >> Second move by Mark, second by Kyle. All those in favor? >> I thank you.

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>> Thank you. >> Have a good night. >> All right. My elected position. That's why I made you wait. [laughter] >> Wow. No, you have a little bit more conversation, I think. Um, I wanted to make sure. >> I'm fine with that.

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>> Um, good evening, Dian Corey, Tom Clark. Um, thank you for having me this evening. We've got a lot of stuff to go through. Um, >> but I will let me just say, >> sure, >> we'll preface it. Um, this is a presentation, a discussion and possible vote to adopt a ton of Littleton

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Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, self-evaluation and transition plan. So, a lot of work went into this >> um with the committee and >> help of the calling center. >> Yeah. Just >> y >> this is a >> Yeah. So, we got a grant um through mod

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um in order to be able to do this. So, we are basically two years ahead of schedule. Um and we initially did an audit which is what um this first section is about. Um we did

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buildings, we did facilities, uh we did um outdoors, um everything that we have for as far as pathways and um trails and um to figure out where our downfalls

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are, where our necessities to to improve um what we have to do to improve where where our transition plans are and everything are concerned. So our initially we did the audit through the Collins group. Um they worked uh with they worked with a group that came out

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and did uh went around with Eric and George um and went through not with a fine tooth comb but pretty close to that. Um and shockingly um some of our newer buildings had

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issues as well as our older buildings. Um but what came out of it were were these reports. Um and through these reports um we and I'm not going to go through every single one of these reports but um came out um our

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self-evaluation and transition plan and through all of this it is giving us a a look as to how we can slowly but surely fix the things that need to be fixed. a time frame of how to fix it from a

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one-year to a fiveyear plan. Um, and this is all for um for ADA issues that we have from um a simple um what they what we look at is say simple but really aren't simple things. They some of them

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are when they come into town hall, the slopes coming into town hall are incorrect that need to be fixed to parking um areas outside that are not marked properly for people to be parking. Um for the handicap parking

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spots uh to some of our major things that are at our um our ball fields. um people can't get onto our ball fields as well um as our our trails uh that are don't have proper parking there that you

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can't get to our our trails. So um this is what we have started with in the beginning of the year and we completed by June 30th which is what our our goal was to get it done and this is what we have before you. It's called the self-evaluation and transition plan

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which I'm presenting to you this evening and hopefully you've had an opportunity to read through some of it and um would like you to if you have any questions and comments or concerns that we can make those changes I will bring it back

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to the Collins group. We can make those changes and make a final determination as to what you believe uh we should do. you know, I I as I you know, I know we've discussed it on >> um the committee, but I think the uh a lot of it was you kind of expected, if

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you will, y some of the things that was >> surprising and I think to the disability commission the whole and George, I know you're in the pack as well. >> Y >> is >> the new buildings. You brought it up a little bit. Y >> we pay people to build these where you

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would expect them to be built in compliance with current laws. >> Yeah. >> Um and to some cases simple things where a hand dryer is the height of these you know just basic things and when you they're found out of compliance it's just very surprising. So I as we think

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about new buildings also the old ones we're going to bring up the code but >> new buildings we have a school coming in. >> Yeah. I I think it's very critical to get the disability commission in that construction phase. The design phase is one thing, >> right?

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>> You can have all the greatest designs in the world. >> If the construction team doesn't put it where it belongs or if they move something six inches, >> right? >> It affects people, you just one example, but I think it's >> I mean the heights the height of the the sinks are incorrect. Like I mean that's

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>> it's not huge money but it's >> big enough that when we have to change 10 sinks out you know your monies keep going up and up you know so >> so just something that we got to work I think you know with planning and >> whoever else when we're doing these new

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buildings or remodels make sure that the commission gets in there to to give >> and they're going to miss things too but it's just making sure we have the right people >> I was reading through some of them like I noticed like the library restrooms have said that the

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>> the uh the um paper towel dispensers were in the wrong spots or whatever. Well, the paper towel dispensers were put in there because of an ADA issue. So, I I like I don't Yeah, they weren't in the original design. They were added because >> Yeah. >> of other issues. So,

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>> right, >> these things all compound on one >> each other. I did have a question like you didn't do all of the school you did two of the schools but not Russell Street school or Shaker Lane school. >> Yeah. So they you know sometimes they tried to get into the school and the

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school you know either wasn't open or they couldn't get in for one reason or another. So um yeah so >> is there a plan to do the >> so they will come back and they will you know fill you know finish out you know the schools and and make recommendations and stuff for the other schools but yeah

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and plus they knew that shake lane was going >> shaker lane's less important to do >> right not that it's less important but it's just knowing that we're getting a new one that why make the recommendations if they know that they're going to get a new school so >> more effort into the new one

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Um, >> it's quite a bit. >> So, any anything that sticks out, I I think this is this is kind of like the starting point. I'm glad we could get this done, you know. I think try to get it a year ago, I believe. Um, so I think

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this is a good groundwork. I don't want it just to get lost. I think it needs to become a document that we either post, >> we have it up online, we also have it posted somewhere in the building just so that reminds people um >> of the work that we're going to continue to do when we're when we're talking

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about ball fields or re redoing trails um to really bring this document forward and say, "Okay, we're putting boardwalks in," which Littleton loves to do and they're fantastic, but >> right, >> okay, let's see exactly what's needed and what those boardwalks have to look

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like and exactly how they need to be designed if we want to meet this need of of this population. So, right, >> which we do. So, >> yeah. >> Okay. >> Um, >> so we should figure out like somehow you need to take all of the asks

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for the and move them into the capital budget, right, over a period of time, right? so that we don't they don't get lost cuz no one's going to ask for these things in their budget per se. >> So, one of one of the things that Jim

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and I had talked about is that um the disabilities commission um will be kind of taking on the forefront of um some of some of these projects and be looking at how do we prioritize,

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>> you know? I mean, yes, they laid out here's here's your oneyear um time frame that you should be doing, two year, three year, fiveyear. So, um when we when the uh disabilities commission meets on Friday, we're also going to be

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taking a closer look at everything that we've been given in this um plan. And in doing so, we'll prioritize what we believe are important projects going forward, as well as not just what's in here, but what has been

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brought forward as far as like with conservation and and some of the um the walkways at the at the um Long Lake and things like that that have been coming forward and people have been talking about making changes and and so you know, all those kinds of things have

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been brought forward and the numbers are like astronomical on some of those things. And every year, um, mod allows us to, um, ask for up to $250,000

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for projects for the town. And you can ask for one, two, or three projects. One of the good things about that is if you look at some of the smaller projects and you look at the town and say to the

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town you want um $250,000 from the town and get get the match from the state now you have $500,000 that you can make corrections and and make these trails better and and make

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all these corrections. and the state will say, "Well, the town's given $250,000. They're more more likely to give [clears throat] $250,000." So, it's it's a partnership between mod and the town. But if you're not if the

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town's not willing to give any money, the state might be not as willing to dish out money. So, those are the kinds of things that the disabilities has to look at when we do our next round of um request in next May. So, I did put in

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for um changes up at the common. I did ask for a grant uh for uh $70,000 for the for the crosswalks at, you know, up at the not the crosswalk, the cross um the walkways,

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>> the accessibility because Who would know that that simple walk is over five degree? Like you wouldn't realize it until Collins group went out and looked at and said it's it's too much for people to be walking across. So

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that's already been put through and we're hoping that we get that. So that project which is already in here has already been looked at and has been applied for. So we've already started making those requests.

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has um this report been shown to the departments or the affected like highway or park and wreck or the library so that they know these things. I'm in talks with parks and wreck. They couldn't get me on the agenda for tomorrow night because they're so busy. But I did talk

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to Peter Church and um so he's going to get me on the the next agenda and then you know um been talking with Tim um Pearson with conservation and and we're kind of talking he and I are talking offline trying to get things moving as

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far as that is concerned because um some of the things that he's looking at he didn't even realize that grades were so important and so he's already changing what he's looking at doing because of the grades and to because you don't want to go out and do something and then

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realize that you're doing it wrong and it everything has to be changed. So, um trying to bring in disabilities commission so that he realizes what he's doing is going to fall into place. >> I was just wondering like it's like some of these like affect the library or

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highway and they might be able to >> just start knocking off some of them in their own budget as they're doing things or facilities as they're going around fixing things. they can go through. >> Um I talked to um Steve Yanley and he um his um department is going to do the

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work at the common. >> So they gave me numbers as far as >> you're talking about Eric even. >> Yeah. >> I mean >> the other thing I noticed like we have an ADA coordinator that is Eric. Eric. Yeah.

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>> Is and I wondered if that is the right person or if you need multiple people. >> So Henry is also outside. So he So >> but it also seems like you need like Tom or someone on the IT side for because you have the physical and then you have the not the digital. >> So he's working on the digital part of

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it and that has to be initially it was supposed to be this year but it's been moved off pushed off until next year. So he's working on that part of it as well. So >> y this is great long overdue but I think this is a great start and we just got to

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we have to follow through now. That's the >> So after we adopt it, it'll be posted on the website after we approve it. Um, so if you if you don't have any changes, if you don't have any suggestions, if you don't um, you know, if you have some additions, then you know, those will be

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made and I'll send it back to the Collins group. They'll make the changes and then we will put it up on the website. >> Okay. Um, I'm going to take a question from Mr. Sanderson. You're he's on the disability commission as well. >> Okay. George S. 62.

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Mr. chairman. Um, based on Shaker Lane School is in the process of being built. The contract is doing this, the same contractor that build the library in the center. If so, we need to make sure that

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they get someone in there that knows ADA because there no sense in us spending all this money and having something put in wrong because now we're talking about elementary school kids which got a certain height here versus adults that

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goes into the library into uh the senior center here. So, we need to make sure that we got someone on board there that knows that because when I mentioned it to at the planning board for poly

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company, they said yes, they definitely have a guy that's on the team that know the ADA when we had the meeting with them. So, I just want to make sure that uh we don't repeat the same type of stuff that's going on that we're

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spending what 40 grand to be told that this is wrong, that's wrong, and we just spent millions for people to fix it. Thank you. It >> It's not the same contractor, George. But >> thank God for that. >> I don't know. There's there's a lot of things that we that

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Commodore did very well. Um, but it it's very much baked in to the Shaker Lane project. Um, that everything's ABA compliant and any new building, you would hope that the architect and that the contractor are are wellversed. Um, I

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guess some things do slip by and we just need to make sure that we're on top of this. >> Yeah. And it's >> make sure our municipality committee is on top of that. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. I think it's what we're finding, you know, on the disability commission is that laws change. um expectations

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change, state, community, uh and you um if the individual that's working on the, you know, the contracts or for whoever if they haven't got the most recent training, they're doing the best they can thinking that they're they're bringing things up to code. I think some

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of these things when I looked at it was probably the case, >> you know, that they didn't get the most recent training or the most recent. So that's the type of stuff that I think getting is all fairly easy is going to be critical. >> Yeah. >> Um so

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>> um >> it's pretty comprehensive. >> It is but it's uh definitely a good start too. So >> eye opening some. >> Anything else? All right. So we were going to do a motion but you wanted to make sure that

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we we do see the addition of this calling center come back in. make sure we we're hitting all the all the buildings why you know the comprehensive so we see >> some of the other the building wasn't done obviously >> before we adopt it. >> Yeah. >> Okay.

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>> And I think that look Eric and Henry are are certainly and Tom to your point the digital component um I think their eyes on this is much more critical than our eyes on this um just because I think they're going to be more discerning than we might be. They're the subject matter

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experts really. >> So, if they don't have anything to add, then >> yeah, >> if they're comfortable with it, I would say that I'm comfortable with it. >> Sounds good, >> right? >> Do we have a motion? >> Yeah, >> I just skipped over it >> to adopt it. We're not going to do it now. We're going to wait.

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>> Just going to push it out. >> I'm fine either way. >> If we want others to review it and then adopt it, I think that's fine. >> Yeah, >> I'm fine with coming back. >> Yeah. Can we I I think it's critical some of these other I'd love to park and wreck

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>> commission to get a hold of it. Um whenever you get some briefings done to the other Yeah. then we can >> then we can tie in and say okay with we can amend, right? >> Yep. >> Can we add this? Can we add this? See what their feedback is. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> All right. You're up again though, right?

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>> Okay. Yep. Um so based on um a a complaint that came in to me um regarding uh FA Park that it is unaccess inaccessible. Um, we took a look at uh

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what is going on over there and um I had a conversation with um Liz and with Jim and um so we kind of done a small uh scope of what we would like to do. Um we've made a little bit of

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changes. Um it's not the be all end all for what we're looking to do, but based on um what we initially had done, we were going to have to do what's called a switch back. We're not going to do the switch back because we're going to go further back um to the field. Um and we

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because of the switch back that was um about $30,000. We can take that $30,000 and make some of the changes that are actually in the transition plan that says that you know can't get to the swing set, you can't get to um the bike

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rack, you can't get to some of the other things. and we can use that money that's in the U project um cost estimate and use that to get to those things. So, what uh we would like to be able to do

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is um have the full um length of in the back length of the FA Park to the gazebo around the gazebo in the front around the gazebo in the back and all the way to the opposite side. Um it's 5t wide.

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It will be um stone um and it will be able to be you anybody that uses um a wheelchair um you know um uh baby carriages um anybody that uses

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canes or anything like that will be able to go across there without any issues. Um >> stabilized car stone. >> Yes. Um and as well we are looking to put six um uh benches or um also um we

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are looking to put um between the benches and hold on a minute. Let me think about this. What else are we putting? Um um not just benches but um now I've lost my thought. um park oh park benches as

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well as um anything else that somebody could sit down and relax and they're going across um because they need to be able to sit and relax and not get tired. And because the levels are so um are not

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even, this will give it a give them a chance to stop and relax and not have to go up and down. and we won't have to dig so much going across. So, this is the

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area where um as you're looking from the um street going across, there'll be three on the first side and three on the opposite side. So, it's going to go all the way across. Um, so as well, um, where the gazebo is, it'll come out and

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around in the front and in the back where there is a ramp, we're going to have to change that ramp a little bit because it is extremely steep. So, um, it'll also go to the back. So, um, that's where, um, we were looking to do

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it and it's because of an ADA complaint. >> Okay. And we can't I know that pox and recre um had put in a capital plan. >> That's I was about to ask is this part of the comprehensive plan? It's been talk.

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>> So here's um in talking with uh Robin um that [clears throat] basic plan has been pushed out to either uh 2029 or 2030. So we can't push off a complaint that far out. >> So this isn't a mandate. This is we're

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getting ahead of we're we're we're reacting to a complaint and making good [clears throat] >> making good on a complaint. Yep. >> Yep. >> Um All right. >> I'm just thinking there's so many other properties in town that have the same

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>> Well, I mean I mean if you have >> that's the problem is when you when you have a complaint, you have to address the complaint. And um yeah, we do have other places that probably could use the work or could use upgrading, but when you have a complaint, you have to

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address it. Um I have talked to Carolyn um about CPC funds and that's what we're going to be looking um to do funding. >> I think the um park and wreck plan, I mean, I know that plan can change, but it was a few of the commissioners, but

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we um a lot of it might be able to tie in with this. I don't know if it changes some of the ideas we're going to with the parking. >> Yep. >> You know, just the kind of the overhaul of of FA Park. >> So, one of the things that uh we would be having to do is u behind the fire

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station. There is plenty of parking. >> Yeah. >> For um handicap. We're going to add some handicap parking back there. Um which I haven't had a chance to talk to still yet, but we will have to add three or four parking spots back there for handicap. Um and um based on uh the

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report it says that there is parking and it's fine and it does not it's the suggestion is two parking spots. Um but if we can get a come up to three or four that would be better. Um and um the walk

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going across is fine. Um the slope out front is way too much and that's what most people look at and that's why we're moving the um moving it further back. Um so the grading um would drop uh drop

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from $25,000 down to zero basically. >> So I'm all for doing this. I'd like to see how it fits into whatever the master plan is for park and wreck because I don't think we've ever actually seen what the master of plan is for Fay Park. Um what the redesign of things were. So

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>> So this could be like phase zero, phase one, whatever of it. >> Um I also think whatever the the design is, you need to run it. It should be um vetted with the school because they use

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FA Park for cross country. Um, so that make sure that you know they they're aware of it and they can >> work I'm sure they can work around most of whatever you have. But if there's any suggestions or changes that they would ask, you know, that that would be a good

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thing to get before we put in benches that are right in the middle of >> their their cross country circuit >> becomes a steeple chase. >> Yeah. They don't need hurdles. >> Okay. So, do they typically go through the middle of or >> uh they they go around the edges of FA

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Park and back through the middle, but they change the course every year. So, um they adaptable. >> They're adaptable, but it would just be good to make sure that there was a coordination so that they knew what was going on and there wasn't >> So, so track the track code

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>> case. Okay. >> Okay. >> It's good stuff. But but I yeah, I think this is an important thing to get done. It just be nice to know that it was not in it was in agreement with the whatever the master plan was and not something

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we're going to rip up. >> Um and I and it might be like it's not worth putting in the path to the gazebo immediately if the gazebo is going to be replaced in a year or something, right? That >> Well, it would it would be going across to the gazebo so that people could get

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to the gazebo. Yeah. Um, I don't think that >> I would hope that they wouldn't be tearing down the gazebo that was donated to the town. >> I >> for hint hint, [laughter] >> but um,

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>> but no, I I mean, I get it. But, um, >> maybe we could get someone from the school to come to the meeting. >> Yep. I could I could send something to Casey. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. But yeah, >> you have his contact information. >> I don't

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>> I'll send it to you later. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Let's um have a motion to uh do we have do we need a motion here? >> Yep. >> Is this plan [snorts] in the the packet

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or >> this whole there's information in the packet? There's not like diagrams. >> We don't have a drawing. I know drawings. >> No drawings or anything. So I just right now just have like a an a project outline but not um showing everything

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outlined going across or anything. >> You can share that napkin with us maybe. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Does this >> but a dollar figure was figured done but >> does this need to go through the design bid the three the feasibility and

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everything stages or do we get to skip? No, I I it would it would have to go out to procurement at when the time comes. >> When the time comes. >> Yeah. So, I going to um CPC, I would need to have all that.

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>> Well, I didn't know if we had to like do a feasibil like we usually do feasibility studies and we hire an architect and then we go >> I I don't know. I'm asking if we do all three phases or is this a two-phaser? >> It's pleasure of the of the decision maker in

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that. Um certainly could do a feasibility study. You could jump to design. Um >> I mean I almost >> whatever the past practice might have been. >> But if we're going to do something like that, we might as well incorporate what Parker plan to do and it's all knocked out once with the drawings of where this

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is in this that I don't maybe that's just too much. But you we've got to address the issue at hand. I realize that >> I think we're compliant if we if we are making progress towards a solution. >> Yeah. >> From a reacting to a couple

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>> how long do we have to so we as long as we say we're making progress, we don't have to be compliant for a while. >> I'm no right. >> Okay. >> She gives me that look all the time. [laughter] It's reasonable accommodations and you really I mean you can't be looking I

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mean they're looking four years down the road. You can't wait four years down the road. You you really need to be I would like to have this to be honest with you approved for the um special town meeting. >> The good to know that's

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>> the whole funding or the initial funding like the design. Yeah. >> Okay. Great. >> Okay. >> No, I I I I think big, but anyways.

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>> Well, we'll look for a Warren article for special. >> Yeah. >> Well, it would be a CPC article. >> Yeah, but it'll be part of that. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Have a nice night. >> No, great stuff. >> Nice.

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>> All right. Up up up next um discussion and possible vote to authorize the creation of a trail including the construction of a boardwalk at 300 King Street from Castle in the Trees to the Ruben Library. This is fantastic. We >> we heard about this probably a couple

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years ago. So this is good stuff >> back when still in there. >> Yeah. So what is the Yeah. So we so we received the um uh memo from Tim Pearson, conservation agent, um formally requesting that the select board authorize the construction of a trail um

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including the construction of a 72 ft boardwalk at 300 King Street from Castle in the Trees to the to the library. Um you'll see visually the the area in red is the um access easement

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um carry along from the Hagar homestead um along the back there. To my knowledge, it's CPC funding and construction in the fall. I believe >> we approved the CPC money at the last town meeting. Um

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um my question on this is I thought there were two boardwalks. I thought there was also a boardwalk behind the ball field. is that we don't have to approve that boardwalk or >> honestly I'd have to circle back on that. Um >> the drawing's there, but it's >> Well, well, I know I'm I know there's a

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I'm almost positive there was a boardwalk back there. So, I I >> Yeah, I think what you're if I think what you're seeing in yellow is the um >> the trails of that. Yeah. And then the red is the easement area. >> Yeah. But I think there were Yeah, I think there were boardwalks on both

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sides. So, I just want to know if we're trying to approve one and we don't and someone else's. I think they're both under our control, right? It's not like school property behind the the ball fields. I think that was changed when we built the library. We switched.

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>> I think you're right. But I don't I don't remember if there were lot lines. I think it was all contiguous lot. I think that was the land swap. >> Yeah. Right. I think we I think we changed control over the select board. [snorts] So, so the question is more on the motion if we are extending it to board

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approving the trail and boardwalks in because I think there's more than one boardwalk. >> I think it's that covers it though. The construction of we could put boardwalk in parenthesis s >> covers the whole distance that we're talking

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>> it says from start to finish. So, >> I think we're or boardwalks as needed. >> It's probably a little It's probably >> We could put some language in there to kind of >> We're good. >> Okay. >> Covered as well. >> Um in this project, you said potentially in the fall.

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>> Well, I they're I think they're in the process of getting the permits through the conservation commission. >> That's correct. That's so um earlier in the meeting, the notice of intent um they've already filed, right? So, next um next week they'll be going before uh conservation.

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And um from what uh Tim's Tim couldn't should have started off Tim cannot make it could not be here tonight. Um but um he did know that the goal is to start um work in the fall. >> I walked this trail with them in the

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spring. Um there was I'm pretty sure they were putting a wider boardwalk um than like most of the boardwalks I think are four feet. I think they were going to put a sixt wide one at least in the castle end. so that like bikes could use it and pass

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>> 88. >> I think it was because I know we had a issue with some of the boardwalks have gone in the 80. >> There were questions of how wide it [snorts] could be behind the um the ball field because of the slope. Um but um >> the fire road back there too.

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>> Uh not where they're past the fire road, but okay. >> That's great. This is great news. So it's been a long time coming. keep keep kids off the [clears throat] street too. So, it's just great cut through. >> Move the select board vote to authorize

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the creation of a trail including the construction of any necessary boardwalks at 300 King Street from Castle Trees to Riven Library. >> Second. >> Moved by Mark, seconded by Kyle. All those in favor? >> I All right. Up next, we have the

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sustainability committee presentation, discussion, and possible vote to adopt a climate action plan. Is this a joint meeting or is >> Yeah, actually that'd be great. Thanks. >> Right. Okay.

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>> So, I won't recognize the quorum, but we have three members. >> One one member now. >> Just one. >> Sarah, quit. >> Yeah, [laughter] >> you got voted off the island. You voted yourself off there. >> Hi everyone. Um, thanks so much for for

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having us. I'm representing the sustainability uh committee. I'm Charlotte Dolens, the co-chair, although I am a co-chair with no one anymore. [laughter] >> Wow. >> A lot of busing. >> Well, maybe [laughter] maybe from the outset I do want to just

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give a big thanks to Sarah actually because even though she's no longer on the committee, this has really been something that she's been championing for a really long time. Um, so I'm here to present the climate action plan that we've been working on. Um, we do have a vacancy on the committee by the way. So

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if anybody's listening, um, you can, uh, apply to join us. Um, and before I get started with the presentation, um, I just wanted to say at first just how encouraging this whole process has been. Um, in building this plan, we've spoken to, uh, residents, other committees and

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boards, community groups across town, including the high school environmental club. And what really come across throughout the process is just how much people really care about this topic, how much Littletonians care about their environment, um, and about protecting the things and preserving the things

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that make Littleton Littleton and the things that we really love. um and some of what's at risk there is, you know, what climate change um is is potentially threatening. Um and so that's really what this plan is about. Um and what it

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focuses on preserving um and also just that this momentum isn't obviously only here in Littleton. Um the Mass Ready Act uh which is uh moving through the Massachusetts legislature right now. uh our state senator has been a very vocal advocate of um climate initiatives and

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climate action in the broader community. So I would urge you also to look at Littleton's climate action plan in the context of a kind of broader growing uh momentum uh for climate um action. Um so what we're going to do today is just talk through the climate action

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plan itself and cover some next steps. Um but with me this evening I also have Jenny Ra who is the executive director of the Northern Middle Sex Council of Governments Ed Cog. Um so before we jump into the plan Jenny do you want to introduce yourself and just say a few

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words? Yes. So thank you Charlotte and thank you to all of you for uh receiving this this evening. I'm Jennifer Raid. I'm the executive director of Northern Middle Sex Council of Governments. We're the regional planning agency based in LOL. Littleton is not a member of NIMCOG. you are a member of the

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metropolitan area planning council but and you'll learn a little bit about this later in this presentation we were working with four communities on various energy projects uh clean energy specifically uh through a grant uh that was funded uh specifically given to the

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town of Peril which is one of our member communities and it gave us the opportunity actually a wonderful opportunity to work with some communities that were actually not in our region including Littleton and I guess for me what I just want to quickly say is thank you definitely to Charlotte for her leadership and for seeing this

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through and uh moving this forward, but also very much thank you to Sarah um Rambacher as well as Diane Dickerson who uh really were the people who spearheaded this initially on behalf of the town and coming forward and and stating their uh interest in moving this

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forward and then also working very creatively throughout this process. Um, having uh 30 years of experience in local planning and regional planning, I can tell you that in the past I worked with the town of Littleton when I was at MAPC. Um, but I thought that this

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process itself, I'm just I'm excited of course for the results of it, but the process of working with this community has been a pleasure and specifically the amount of energy and creativity and thoughtfulness uh by specifically the sustainability committee but also many

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town members who participated in this process. So, I just want to say thank you and I'm looking forward to answering questions. >> Thank you for coming out. >> Great. Thanks. >> Oops. Very touchy little clicker here. Go back. There we go. Oh gosh. All

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right. So, we thought we would start here by just reminding everybody what a climate action plan actually is. So it is essentially a structured strategic approach to reducing our environmental impact and ensuring a sustainable future

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for Littleton. It inventories our sources of greenhouse gas emissions and it outlines the actions that we can take to reduce those emissions um to become more sustainable and to become more resilient in the face of extreme weather

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and climate change. So that is essentially what we're talking about today. Having a plan to make that happen. Having said I'm gonna drive now, can't drive. [laughter] Um, so some of you may recall that we

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hosted our first public forum in October 2024 when we heard from some of our neighboring towns, Canton and Actton about the process of developing a climate action plan. Um, we learned a lot about what that is and the practical realities of how we go about that. And

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then as uh Jennifer was mentioning in late 2024 uh following our engagement in the North Central Climate Change Coalition um we were invited by Peril to join these other towns um to share a sustainability coordinator and to

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propose what that coordinator was going to do specifically for Littleton. And so there were a lot of ideas at the time but developing a climate action plan was really the the idea that ended up being prioritized. And so we were um awarded in March uh the energy efficiency

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conservation block grant alongside these other towns which allowed us as Jennifer was saying to engage in COG and we've been really fortunate to have their guidance throughout the way uh throughout this whole process to really understand what are the core parts of a climate action plan um and what makes it

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actually something that is going to um uh support uh us as a town to actually move forward with these rather than just be a kind of piece of paper. It's actually going to be quite practical in moving forward. Um so since that point um we've held a community visioning

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session to get input from the community. We've had a townwide survey. Um we've had multiple drafts. We've heard from other town committees and boards. Um we've held another public forum. And so then today we come to you with this version one of the climate action plan.

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Um it is a starting point. Um, it was built to be revisited and iterated as conditions change, as new funding maybe becomes available, as technology um, brings new opportunities. So, I would urge you to think of it as a living

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document. Um, we will continue to work with other boards, other committees. Um, it also connects with other plans um, that the town has already developed. So the master plan, the hazard mitigation plan for example and the idea is to align with those and to sort of be more

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than the sum of its parts when it comes to climate action. And I think that's the strongest parts of the climate action plan are the places where there is this synergy with existing efforts um with the town. So, just really quickly to recap, when

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we did the greenhouse gas emissions analysis, um buildings and transportation, no surprises perhaps, were the primary sources of emissions, about 2/3 from buildings, and that's the blue that you can see, and then the other third um from transportation. And

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and within that, municipal operations make up about only 2% um of the overall emissions. Um but then you could break down that further and in the the full version of the cap that you have you can see how for instance those emissions are generated through either electricity,

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natural gas, a lot of it is for um heating for example. Um so then we take that and essentially that then uh helps us to structure the cap itself. So the climate action plan is structured around these five sectors.

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These emitting sectors if you like. We have buildings, transportation, energy, waste, agricultural, natural lands. Across the plan you have 33 measures that are designed to reduce our emissions. So on the right here you just have an

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example, an illustrative example. So B7 um resident education and support that is an example of a measure. Um, and then each sector is organi organized around a framework that includes a long-term outcome that we want to see and that's

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typically in the kind of 2030 to 2050 range. Neart near-term actions, that's things that Littleton can do in the next now to 5 years time. Um, and then also ongoing programs that um might expand incrementally and that we can take

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advantage of and leverage to to sort of bolster our plan. Importantly, it also includes who benefits from each of these measures, where we may see barriers, um, and what assistance and partnerships are needed for each action, etc. So, you can

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think of it as a sort of road map where each of these measures outlines a path forward for us to reduce emissions. I'm going to walk through a few examples. In the interest of time, I'll go quite quickly and obviously I'm not going to go through all 33, but just to give you

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a flavor of of what's in there. For example, in buildings, right, this large source of emissions, there are nine different measures um B1 to B9 and they encompass various themes like reducing energy demand or holding new development

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to high performance standards. We just thought talked about being ADA compliant but also thinking forward looking around how can we ensure the energy efficiency of these buildings. Um and so some familiar or maybe expected uh groups

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would be part of the championing um of these types of measures including LLWD for example. Um and if you look here renewable energy feasibility in new development, one of the actions um that could be taken would be to incorporate

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feasibility assessments into new development so that you can actually understand the implications of that from the get-go. So again not going to go through all the measures but this is just an example of what one would see within that building sector. Similarly, in transportation,

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a lot of this coming from uh passenger vehicles for commuting, eight different measures, including things like reducing vehicle miles, but also things like calming traffic to reduce stopand go emissions, anti- idling, um and some of those things that the town is actually

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already implementing. Um so, an example here would be um T7, Transport 7, reducing vehicle emissions. Um, one of the near-term actions uh that's listed here is transitioning the town's fleet uh to zero emission vehicles. And that's

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something that again the town's already made a lot of progress on already. So, this is really about accelerating and kind of doubling down on many of the things that the town's already adopted. Energy electrifying buildings and cars

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only really counts if that energy or the power behind it is clean in the first place. So here of course uh LLWD already has made great strides forward. Almost 40% of the electricity that they procure is non-carbon emitting. Um and some of the measures here then in collaboration

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with LLWD um include things like promoting their renewable energy option. Um it's tiny up there but maybe you can see this is a nice example of where there's that alignment with um the [clears throat] existing plan. So within

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the hazard mitigation plan, you already have a goal which is to integrate energy um efficiency and resilience uh into municipal facility planning. So it kind of echoes what's already in some of those plans. Um so in the interest of time I won't go

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through this one but there's also waste which is near zero emissions but a lot of benefits um in terms of uh disposal costs and affordability if we really um continue to promote things like composting the transfer stationation swap shop etc. Um and again trying to

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aggregate some of those efforts that are already um got a lot of champions already within town. And then agricultural and natural lands minimal near zero emissions but really uh an incredible resource for Littleton in terms of carbon sequestration, buffering

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heat, buffering flooding, etc. Um and so the seven measures in this group really align um with many of the things that um the town is already pursuing. And actually we talked earlier this evening about the the boardwalk for instance um so uh expanding public access to trails,

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open spaces um and strengthening for instance and protecting our working in natural lands are part of this as well. And so again, some of the champions there um include for instance the conservation commission. Um and where the champions and the support uh groups

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are listed, it's intended to be where it aligns with their existing stated goals and their existing uh mandates. So, as I mentioned, Littleton has already made progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the CAP is

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really here to try to accelerate that progress um and to ensure that there's a kind of concerted townwide effort um that we can actually be more than the sum of our parts when it comes to climate action. And in addition to being a green community, uh since 2015, we

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have an active sustainability committee. We declared a climate emergency at the full town meeting. Um, and approving the climate action plan would signal Littleton's further commitment to taking action, right? The A in climate action

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plan, action, um, and decarbonizing. And having the plan is a milestone in and of itself. It's certainly not the end. Um, but it really is an important step for us to be able to take those actions. Um and also builds on the growing progress

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that Littleton has made um especially towards even being a climate leader community. Um climate leaders is like the next level up after green communities. About 35 communities have achieved that uh status. Um that is something we could talk about pursuing

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for Littleton if there's interest. It would include um additional steps such as for instance adopting the specialized uh stretch energy code. Um but that's just something to think about um going forward.

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So finally here um next steps um well this evening the sustainability committee is requesting that you consider formal adoption of Littleton's climate action plan um at least this version one um and that we commit to as

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a sustain sustainability committee to reviewing the cap annually and updating it based on input from the select board from town hall from boards committees residents and keeping it a vibrant and living document. um that we will keep the community informed through regular communication

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and outreach and that we will work with other towns and boards um town boards and committees um on these CAP goals that we jointly share together. Um so I will happily take questions um from all

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of you. I know that the actual document we shared was a very long document. [laughter] >> I saw the packet of pages. There's a lot of annex. Um, but hopefully you will find that what it does in the meat of the document where the strategies are is

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provides some actions uh that can be used by the select board, other boards, other committees, departments to prioritize what we want to move forward. >> It is just through each section. It's >> um but yeah, I'll I'll pause there. Thank you very much uh for listening and

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yeah, happy to take any questions. Yeah. Um, so Lewd's all over this. >> So they >> presentation to them. I know they you had to extract an enormous amount of information from them to get some of this. >> Yep. So they they had an opportunity to

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review the full document and they were actually fantastic. They gave us a whole slew of comments um and so really helped us to also understand the nuances um specifically for Littleton. Um there are you know pieces of the plan that are really uh could be quite different

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depending on if you are national grid versus um like what we have in Littleton. So um yeah that was very helpful. And then also Connor Rearen the um sustainability manager has been very uh very actively engaged with the committee throughout. Yeah.

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>> Um you know I I was just I walked the police station with our potentially new chief. um the this morning actually and he had talked about some of the ideas that he had related to, you know, you bring up the canopies, the um solar canopies and things like

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that. Just >> it's a pretty good sized property they have there to be able to utilize and park underneath. It's one way to keep the vehicles from having to bring them in the garage every >> storm, but it also helps. Um so I was just wondering, do they there used to be

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an enormous amount of money available, grants and things like that. Is it dried up, you know, statewide? Is are you seeing federal, state, [clears throat] is it cyclical with administrations? >> I think what I'm and maybe you can add to this, but I think it's become a

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little more complex to navigate. Um, but in terms of state um opportunities, I think we still have access to that. Um, it's one thing we might want to think about in terms of competitiveness. Um, so there is there are resources out

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there. Um but again certain certain grants are only accessible um if you're already demonstrating that you really are moving towards that uh kind of climate leader designation even as a green community, right? We have access to certain funding that we wouldn't otherwise have. Yeah.

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>> And there there is a lot more competition because we used to we used to get a lot of green community grants and you mentioned Diane Dickerson and I know Keith Bergman when he was the town administrator was very very active um in getting us those. remember Keith and um more and more communities

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opened their eyes and said wait a minute we can get money for this so we we >> we're getting less and less so there is a lot of competition to it but we can certainly keep looking and there's there's always you know new opportunities sorry Jen >> yeah I just I will just say that the department of energy resources through the executive office of energy and

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environmental affairs has a lot of different opportunities for both energy audits of buildings to you know kind of the sweet to looking at municipal operations to uh fleet electrification to the green buildings uh you know sort of green communities typical building

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you know upgrade kind of projects that you might typically apply for annually and they come in two different rounds so there's a spring round and a fall round and I would say that Littleton is actually very well positioned to access those funds I I know that you have a history and a record of of capturing

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some of those dollars but you also for the purposes of the cap you might also pursue those other types of funding sources to help you with the planning initiatives a little bit more. Um, and then I'll just add that MAPC I know is your, you know, primary technical assistance provider and they can help with some of this work as well, whether

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it's energy efficiency work or other, you know, additional planning efforts. >> Thanks, J. >> Yeah, thanks. Um, I've just a aside a visual that or when I was I went down to DC for the c the 250th celebration

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>> and I had been down there in a couple years and I used to go down all the time and I noticed that their fleet of it's tripled in regards to scooters and electric bikes. They're they have a massive program where it's just easier to get around the city. So, it reduces

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taxis, Ubers, people. Mhm. >> We use them almost exclusively just to travel around wherever you wanted to go and you just park it, drop it off, and the next person grabs it. Probably not a big thing for smaller communities yet, but I didn't know if that was anything that we're seeing more of in some of the

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large communities or if it's something that would ever >> make sense to move. >> It's all over the Cape >> is it? >> Oh, yeah. Ptown >> touristy area. I just wonder if something like that would ever I mean small footprint as far as people that have to commute in town to get to work

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and things like that. But >> I mean it it is have you seen any anything >> in Cambridge Water? They're all more densely populated areas for sure. Yeah. Yeah. A lot. >> Yeah. I I think the bicycle and pedestrian um advisory committee had

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some really great ideas generally about just how we can promote um pedestrian movement and bicycle and one of the things that it kept coming back to is the safety of people being able to move through that in that method. So whether

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it's a rentable ebike or whether it's someone's, you know, personal bike or whether you're walking the walking the dog, having the infrastructure in town that actually allows people to either walk on a safe sidewalk um or have a bike lane like that the kind of the conversations kept on centering there.

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And that's also uh as we mentioned in the in the presentation you know calming measures um ensuring that the kind of traffic is is circulating in such a way to also encourage um people to say like yeah I'll hop on a bike right and and

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feel comfortable doing that. Yeah >> having like a pet an ebike event might be a good idea. I know ACT did the pet an EV thing last year right >> and there's some a lot in here about community outreach and education. Um

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Harvard Harvard recently had a um an openhouse for instance where they had invited people to come and see how homes that had for instance installed heat pumps or geothermal or had EV charging um and just ways in which we can encourage the community to learn about

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like what these things are and how one might install them and what kind of rebates could be available. um a lot of people are making choices about their their home energy or vehicles and don't necessarily always have the information at hand. So So part of this is also

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about just raising awareness about the options that are available. >> And those are the two biggest contributors >> buildings and yeah transportation. >> Yeah. And transport. Yeah. >> Okay. And I know this is

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>> unless we get a data center [laughter] >> working on that policy the um >> um where they know that the new buildings it's before it was even part of the discussion and I know

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>> um the library kind of kicked it off with solar and worked to get it into the the senior center as well and now there's a lot of discussion with Shaker Lane school how it can be integrated or at least ready for that. So I know that part of the planning phase has already started. So at least the the thought

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process started. I know it has a lot to do with members that have been heavily involved in pushing this forward. But I didn't see like the data points to get us to the next level. Was that in here? It's a huge like what's that >> you mean to be a climate leader?

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>> Yeah. What's what is what is that trigger? Because I don't that like you said maybe not directly but it does give you probably more access to different things. Right. >> It does. Um certainly we can have a longer conversation about that. Um one of the things is having this commitment to decarbonization which the the climate

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action plan actually checks that box. Um so this is one step in the right direction. Um having a zero uh zero emissions vehicle policy is also part of that and adopting the specialized stretch code is also part of that. So it

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is a a longer journey but but having the climate action plan which is again it's this roadmap. It's a commitment to saying this is how we're going to to look at prioritizing certain actions going forward. Um and it kind of nudge in in the right direction. Yeah.

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>> So things like the zero emission vehicle policy is something that the sustainability committee would be driving in one of these goals or some other committees. Who's the leader on these? >> So I'm not sure I could remember off the top of my head all 33 measures. No, but [laughter]

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>> but come on. >> So those are the big ones. You said those were the big ones for the grants, >> right? Right. So so some of them um so for instance with the stretch uh specialized uh code um that would have to involve planning department as well

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obviously the select board and kind of a collaborative approach like whether and how we were to approach that. It that requires going uh to town meeting for a vote for example. um something like the the zero emissions policy um that would be something that the sustainability

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committee would certainly be supporting. I think we'd want to again get the right people together to say within each of these measures what exactly is going to be uh the next steps. So at our next meeting, we're actually looking at creating our road map for saying out of

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these 33 measures, which ones are we going to be focusing on uh driving forward over the next six months. And then again, we'll look at it on an annual basis. >> And for the ones that just say that we're championing, you guys will be the ones that are coming to us every couple

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meetings and saying, "Hey, what have you done for?" Right? because we're not very good at following through on things that people aren't in our face on. So, >> we can definitely uh commit to that. And then also what we do hope is to to sort of if there are these um this kind of

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nice ven diagram, right, where there's a priority that you want to champion as a select board and a sustainability committee or conservation committee and just making sure that those are voiced priorities as well. Um and then we can like yeah hold each other accountable too. So, the other thing I was thinking, and

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I don't know if this falls on one of our AI experts, maybe um the we have a bunch of these plans that have all of these goals in them, like between the hazard mitigation and the master plan and the bicycle plan and the open space plan that we write all these nice plans with

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all these five and 10 year goals. But since they're all in individual places, there's no like master >> aggregation >> aggregation of these so that we can't actually see where they overlap and see that we're making progress on the ones that so that they don't all these plans don't get put on the shelf and they can

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be aggregated and followed together. So >> maybe someone that's good at claude can look at figuring out how to come up with one master document. >> Is there a reason you keep looking at me? [laughter] >> Charlotte, you wouldn't look the other way. Well, one >> I'll write that down. [laughter]

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>> So, one of the things that we're we're at at least I've been thinking about for how do we keep track of something like the climate action plan and you can apply it to whatever plan you like um is you know it is relatively easy these days to come up with a live dashboard um that can extract in real time updates

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and provide a kind of living scorecard um publicly accessible that can actually just live on the town website that says how are we doing against these things? what are the updates? Um those types of sort of aggregation of information and kind of putting it out there in a easy

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to digest way are yeah increasingly easy to do and I think it would be very much in line with a lot of the um community education um [clears throat] and community awareness uh measures that are already included in the in the climate action plan. We need people to know about what's happening

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and our progress towards those goals. So yeah, I would say I'm not signing up for anything. [laughter] >> Okay. >> But for the climate action plan, it is definitely something we want to keep visible um in terms of the progress that we're making. Yeah.

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>> You need me to cycle the second the Kyle nomination? [laughter] >> No, I I hear the message. We don't we don't need to vote on it. >> We need to formalize it and clify it. Did you do the survey before you kind of put this together or was it kind of during or after?

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>> Um, we had a very early draft. >> Yeah. Yeah, we had a very early draft. Um, but the measures were really um, heavily informed by the visioning session where people were able to really kind of articulate what they were interested in seeing. Um, and then with the survey and then also with the final

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public forum and there was a lot of feedback from um, the other boards and committees as well. um kind of understanding what their priorities were >> surveying the committee itself with prioritization. >> Yeah. >> After after we adopt this, are you

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planning on taking it to like the school committee and the planning board and presenting and kind of show them what they've signed up to do. >> So, a lot of that has sort of happened as we've gone along as well. So for example when I was mentioning that LLWD

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were able you know they submitted a lot of comments on each and every measure. So there's [clears throat] a sort of alignment already with what makes sense with their existing scope. Um but yes the next step would be to then come back to those committees and say okay you

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know we have this lofty maybe 2050 goal and we have a series of actions. what are we or what are you wanting to prioritize specifically in the next, you know, year, two years, three years, etc., and kind of mapping out what that looks like. So, we're not just um trying

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to attack all 33 measures together, but yeah, what are the current school committee priorities, for example, um and then following up with each of the the committees in in turn. >> Okay. >> I mean, I would like to see us get to be one of the climate leaders. So, I'm

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interested in helping you guys do whatever you need from our board to get there. >> Great. >> As long as it doesn't invo involve Claude, >> this will be real real humans.

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>> Did we really have any more questions? >> Thank you for all your work. >> Yeah, this is >> Yeah. To everybody on a lot committee. So, >> huge thanks to to Jenny and her team because I think we had a lot of ideas of what we wanted this to be, but being

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able to structure it appropriately, this was very very much what what MCO brought for us. So, yeah, huge thanks to you guys as well. >> Ready for a motion? >> Yeah. And I know Karen's >> Karen's Karen worked on this, so she's

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very much >> She's very Yes, she's very much in support of it. Move Move the SL board adopt the climate action plan. >> Second move by Mark, second by Kyle. All those in favor. >> I.

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>> Thanks again. >> Thank you guys. >> Thanks, Jenny. Thank you. Next, >> Sarah. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sarah. It's a lot of work. Wait, we will go to some member member updates. Who'd like to kick it off?

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You ready? >> Sure. I don't have a lot. I uh attended the Fourth of July festivities, listened to Kyle Reed uh intro to the declaration. Did a great job. Um I thank everyone for um their effort in putting

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it together. It was look, it was a lot of work. Um, and it was a hot day and um, decently intended. We need more shade at Fay Park if we're going to have more people. [laughter] But yeah, it was fun. It was a great event.

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>> So, >> yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Like Mark said, also attended the Fourth of July celebrations prior to that. The Littleton Historical Society had a a nice presentation. Uh, read the entire Declaration of Independence. I

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read part of it. It was is it was a good reminder. I mean, I think uh I think I even posted to social media something I rarely do. It's like every once in a while we should probably read this document from beginning to end just to remind ourselves uh what we're all about. So outside of that, uh I don't

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have too many updates from the past two weeks >> besides heat. It's been a hot same just when it is hot just for those that need relief. Um >> there was a lot of senator I know a lot of work went into it

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>> uh the fire department the police station has the conference room the council on aging library find find a place to get cool and hydrate >> y um yeah once again uh thank you for the

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you know the work you did at at park it did look like a good one from all accounts it's something that So um considering the heat I just you know >> Yeah. I think the heat was a major detractor

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>> and the fire department had the sprinkler. >> Yeah, exactly. >> That was great. >> A lot of wet kids. >> Um >> yeah, I don't I don't have a whole lot. I hope everybody stayed safe over the the fourth uh long weekend and uh

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continue to move forward um with um our police chief negotiations and uh hoping to get our our new police chief up and running and on board here um over the summer. And then we'll start growing

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the department, you know, as we uh look at >> a new deputy as we >> he sees fit >> um as Chief Patterson will be retiring September 1st. >> Um and then a new lieutenant and then you know probably new sergeant's going to the force is going to look a little bit different but um I know

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chief to be uh Landry is committed to you know really uh building a strong department and getting the right personnel to to work. So, I'm I'm excited for the future of the Littleton Police. So, um that being said, I'll open it up to any public comment and if

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you have anything, come on up. Rob Brown's 25 Juniper Road speaking as a resident and not as a member of any elected or appointed group. um uh didn't know Jim was going to be here, so it's easier to do this without

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him. Um a huge thanks to him. Um he convened a group of local residents around Long Lake Beach. Um I know from listening to previous park and wreck meetings, they tried it previously and nobody came. We had 12 households

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represented. We had three additional households that submitted comments in writing because they were out of state. We had three people that I spoke with the next day that said, "Obviously, you canled the meeting because it was pouring rain." Nope. We held the meeting under a tent. And and Jim did a

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phenomenal job. Uh Jen Davis was there. Rain Sammon was there. That's the interim director and the new assistant director, but Jim took responsibility for initiating the assessment. A lot of the people there didn't even know about the assessment. I did. That's more or

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less why he ran for park and recreation commission, but he took responsibility for it. He spoke very candidly with regard to we have new personnel uh and we're here, you know, that night, Tuesday night, uh in order to hear what

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you've got to say. And they talked and the hour went by very very quickly. Nobody monopolized. Jim did a nice job facilitating. But the the parts that I I want to emphasize is that I've spoken with five of the 12 that attended the

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households since then and each one of them immediately said they felt that they were heard and they identified that they wouldn't even have shown up previously. >> So it's that sort of leadership and change that I think is needed and I

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think that it speaks to potentially a very good outcome in the future. Obviously, words have to be followed by action, but I I find it generally the folks that I'm speaking with that attended, they seem hopeful. And I would say that in my five years living in that

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community, they weren't hopeful. They weren't even willing to talk about it. Um, so I want to pass that along because I think that doesn't happen by mistake. I think it takes risk and I think it's been successful so far. So I want you folks that he reports to you, I want you

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to know that. Um secondly, you all know I attended your retreat. Um I didn't attend the one last year or the one before that. I spoke to several members who asked me please don't come. We speak candidly. [laughter]

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>> You good. We well behaved. >> I didn't even ask this time. I just decided I'm coming. I don't care. Um, now having attended, I think there are probably things that you might have said a little bit shaded differently in your exact words, but I

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think transparency is critically important. Um, I think my experience in town um, speaking with residents is that trust is not easily come by. trust is of real vulnerability whether you're

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talking to other boards and committees that you appoint or they're currently elected and all aspects where I'm heading to basically this communist charter trust trust and a charter charters change and in order to consider change you have to have trust if you

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don't have trust you're weak and and so I just want you to consider in terms of your future uh as I will with the park and recreation commission who I think intends to have a retreat, but a retreat that may not be on LCTV, and I'm going to try to get it on LCTV. I I I didn't

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really hear hear anything that was so outrageous that shouldn't be on LCTV. And I'll give you a specific as I close, and that is that I heard with interest as you reviewed last year's goals and successes, and I was glad to hear all the positives, and some of you

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identified carryover because they need to be carried over. They can't be accomplished in a year. Um, but now in the minutes that you're going to approve probably tonight, there's 15 items identified and I know as I was taking notes um that some were identified for

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the town administrator and some were identified for the board. I think it's important to have a distinction as to what you're what you're each holding yourselves out for. We want to do this. Obviously, you do it through Jim and and staff, but there are other things that

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you rightfully should specifically assign to the town administrator for they need to get that stuff done. I find myself not able to watch LCTV. Believe it or not, I attend your meetings and then if I miss something, I go back and I watch it in order because I like to have clarity with regard to, you know,

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what's been said and, you know, the context that's been said. So, just want to leave you with that tonight. With regard, I think I think it would be a good thing to have open public meetings all recorded so that everybody can watch it. I think that leads to a better involvement in the community. So, thank

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you. >> Um, and I, you know, I probably should have put that in in our open just thank you to Jim for doing holding that meeting and putting it out there. And I think it's uh you know kind of the start of a

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a new relationship and a new future with the park and recck commission, the town administration, the select board and just the community as a whole um in regards to park and wreck and and programs and the just the vital importance of that the lake and that

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region and a lot more to come, a lot more work to do, but I I think this is a great start. So, and we're committed. So, thank you. Good evening, uh, Mr. Chairman and member of the board. Um,

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couple things, uh, I want to mention here this evening. I want to beat up on you a little bit. I can't believe that the town did nothing

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for the citizen of this great community. on such a special event of 250 years of this nation. It told that you know bring your lunch,

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bring your lunch here up at FA Park. Every time we have a town meeting, no matter what this select board and fin ask us for the people of this great community

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always hit that clicker. Yes. 98.8% of the time. It made me feel that the citizen of this community wasn't worthy of putting on some hot dogs and hot dog and

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have a ice cream truck up so forth and have the kids out there and so forth. Perhaps more people would have came. But it appeared that we weren't worthy of you spending any money

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to show the appreciation to the citizen of this great community. And I feel bad that the select board didn't do anything for the citizen of this great community

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on such a special event. that we had the opportunity to advance to um visit in our lifetime. Many of us won't be around for the next

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50 years when you do the 300. But nevertheless, I don't think any thought went into it in terms of this event that was going to take place in this nation.

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I feel bad about that. One of the thing that struck me, I went back and just tried to visualize from the time of the beginning the number of military personnel

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that gave their life to defend the freedom and the rights that we have today in this nation. that perhaps no other nation has it as

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much as these United States of America. I am proud to be an American. I'm proud to be a serviceman. And I'm proud to have given 30 years of my life in support of the freedom

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that we have in this nation. and I'll leave it there. The second thing that I wanted to ask, where are we at with regards to these flunk cameras in the town of Littleton?

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We need to make sure that we keep the citizens in this town a breast because one of the things that came up was people privacy and so forth and

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what are they going to use the information for, who's going to be collecting it and etc. So we need to make sure that we keep the citizens in this town a breast

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as to where the town is with regards to these cameras. I thank you Mr. Jim. >> Thank you. Thank you. Um >> yeah I don't really have bunch of commentary. I think um we will continue

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to keep the the flock cameras on our agenda as an item when there's information to be had. Um I'll just say I I have asked the police department to consolidate and create a presentation for us next few meetings. So be on the

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lookout for that. Um, I want to get the new chief obviously acquainted into into his role and then we'll we will uh be looking at some type of presentation to talk a little bit more about flock cameras, CCTV cameras and those type of

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um and what what his take and in uh the different uses of those. Um and then we'll talk more about the vulnerabilities of systems and ways safety versus um you know individual rights if you will. Um so I think there's a lot more

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to come on it but what I do know is there'll be the cameras will not be turned on until there's discussion continue discussion and the public will be able to speak before anything like that would ever happen. So um but thank you George. But I we will continue to

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have it on the agenda. Even if we don't speak to it, I'll I'll make sure that it remains on the >> on our updates. >> Can I throw out one more update before I forget? >> For the Apple man is this Sunday. >> Oh my goodness. >> Um I believe there's still time to sign up and if you don't want to sign up to

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participate, there's probably still time to sign up to volunteer and if you don't want to volunteer, you can go on. Um and um >> if you're not doing any of those, just be careful on the roads around the Apple

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Man what's may or may not be closed and be respectful of the runners and watch out for their safety. Yep. Just somewhere anywhere from 7:30 a.m. to >> 10 >> 10:00 a.m. uh in the Goldsmith New Town Road, >> Shaker Lane, >> Shaker Lane area that you'll be there'll

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be a lot of activity um in some road closures. So just uh beware during that time period. Um but thank you Mark. That's it's such a big event for the town. It's gotten really big and it's grown every year. So excited. >> Thanks Rotary.

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>> Yeah, thank you to the Rotary. Correct. Um, all right. I think we're on to let's see um we have an employment agreement. So,

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next on the agenda was a possible vote to approve the employment agreement between the town of Littleton and the police chief Doug Doug Landry. So, we're still in negotiations. Um, continue to to work uh with the chief on on the negotiations. Mark and I

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are the charged members on the select board to work those negotiations. We've met several times. Um and we will my goal and Mark's goal is in this board's goal is to have uh Chief Landry

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on board um the first few days of August. So e I said August 1st. August 3rd is a pay period. It lines up naturally. So that's still my goal. Um, so over the next couple weeks, we'll be um finalizing a contract, have it

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reviewed by legal, um, get it signed by our board. Hopefully on the 27th at our next meeting, we'll we'll have our we'll have this thing um done and we'll, um, Chief Landry will have a, you know, a little crossover with Deputy or Chief

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Patterson who will be retiring on September 1st. So, it'll be a good transition and um we can get a uh our next deputy in the in the hopper and that's that's the chief's the chief's hire. Um the select board um

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won't be heavily involved in that decision, but that there'll be a board process for the the deputy and the lieutenant position as well. So, we look forward to to those proceedings. Um so, that being said, that kind of covers that part. Um, next up is notification

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regarding a vacancy on the board of assessors due to a resignation. So, >> yes. Um, so Mr. Chairman, just um so that the board has it um on record is um a notice of resignation of Mr. Edward

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Mullen. Um the notice was received late in May. Um you may have noticed in the most recent uh or perhaps the last few um notices of vacancies, we have actually added this onto onto the list

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um for um it is a joint employment. Um it is again due to a a member resignation um as we understand has moved out of the community and um we are in receipt of this letter that you see here. Um the joint appointment uh term

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will expire after the May 2027 annual town election. To my knowledge, as of um as of Friday, um I'm we're not aware of any applications that have been received. Um but do want to take this opportunity to further highlight that

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that this is >> obviously a critical very important um um role and and it's open um and which at some some moment um hopefully in the near future um we would have a another meeting a joint meeting

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>> with with the board of assessors to to fill this vacancy. >> Thank you. Um discussion and possible votes to appoint two select board members to the capital planning work group and financial policy working group in accordance with the financial management

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policy. Right. So the capital plan working group is a new group that we put in the financial management policy in the last iteration. It's meant to follow kind of

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similar to the um operation budget where we meet with all the department. This is to uh a small group to go over the capital items and make recommendations um so that um it's just another vetting

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process so that when we come with a capital plan in >> it's February which makes it more efficient. Sure. So um and the financial management policy is something we update every year and we have a couple people

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um assigned to do that and it was just two committees that we did not put people on at our last meeting. Um so it can be um the same two people on both if it makes it easier. Uh I I don't know if

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there was a discussion whether they were going to meet at the same time or is it going to be completely separate? >> Um >> I think they're independent. They don't have to I don't think they're going to be necessarily meeting together >> and it's not it's not a heavy lift the financial policy one isn't because it's

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it it ramps up for about three or four meetings and it's gone for the year. So it's just a matter of going up reviewing policy what needs to change what's the what's the environment? how's it changed so we can keep thinking ahead for uh s you know sustainability as far as you

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know what type of uh stabilization accounts we might need or percentages that we want to see moved around. It's a good it's a good committee and it creates you know the policy that comes from that really guides us oh where we're placing our absolute money before

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we start talking about how we're going to spend other money. So, um, do we have anyone that's, you know, I don't want to bite Karen. I know Karen's been on the financial policy, um, >> meeting, but if anyone's interested in

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working on that, >> I'd be I'd be interested in the financial policy working group. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, >> I'll do either or both of them. I think Karen will do either or both of them. Okay. Um, I'd like to get on the

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capital. I think that's it. This is it's a new one. So, you know, try to have some good ideas to get ahead of some of the larger capital projects and just to get some discussion on how to get some things in the rotation so that

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there's no surprises. So, um >> why why don't I'll volunteer to work with Kyle on the financial policy and Karen can have the capital planning unless she doesn't want it unless you want it, Chuck. >> If she doesn't if she doesn't want it, I'd be happy to do it. some of the same reasons. But if she expressed interest in it or we can wait till next time

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between the two of us have a discussion. >> Well, let's submit have a motion to uh >> need a motion. >> Do we? >> No. >> No, you don't. So, you two are going to be on the financial policy. This look out for >> the chairman of the finance committee usually rallies the troops and gets

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everybody together. >> Um and then the capital. Um I I certainly will be and if Karen wants it, sure. And if not, I'll let you know. >> Okay. >> Thanks. That one will be a little bit more budget season heavy. >> Yeah. Just let her know that I'm interested as well. So if she doesn't

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want it, but if she has a passion for it. >> Right. Um approve the regular meeting minutes of June 22nd, June 30th, and board retreat on June 30th. And approve the executive session meeting minutes of May 26th, and June

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8th. It's a lot. [clears throat] What? Don't laugh. Um, where are we at? >> Good. >> Any it's quite a it's quite a few, but it's uh the retreat one. Mr. Rouse brought up

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some point. Sure. There was there's probably a lot more detail that could have been put in that, but I think it's the goal. I'd let you people know that the citizens know the goal of that retreat is really to come out of there with our our charge if you will to the Todd administration and um hence how

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he's going to what some of the goals we set forth forth forth for him and what we're trying to accomplish throughout the year and then individually we have goals that we discuss. We talk about what we did in the past and what worked and what didn't. Um as always >> and you just >> you need to justify it. Yeah, I don't

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probably justify, but I think it's important that people know the retreat. It's not we're not we're not going, you know, out to Chuck-E-Cheese or anything. This is over at the fire station. We just have a different place. Um we go over uh to that meeting room and we kind of sit there for 4 hours and really dig

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into, you know, where we're how our year went, what we accomplished, things we need to work on, um and really come up with a plan for the next year. Um, so I do think on our next meeting we should put discussion of the goals on the agenda so that we can more publicly say

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what they are. And what we didn't do at the retreat is assign champions to the goals. >> So we should >> yeah just follow it up a little more in our next >> good good point. >> All right. So I off my soap box. [clears throat]

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um move that the select board vote to approve the meeting minutes from the select board meetings on June 22nd, 2026 and June 30th, 2026 and the select board retreat on June 30th, 2026. >> Moved by Kyle, seconded by Chuck. All those in favor?

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>> I have some executive session minutes here. Move the select board vote to approve the executive session meeting minutes from the select board meetings on May 26th, 2026 and June 8th, 2026.

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Do we have to also put in not release them at this time or is that implied? >> That's implied, but we can certainly state it >> and implied not to release them at this time. >> It was actually moved by Mark, second by Chuck. All those in favor?

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>> Thank you, uh, Littleton will motion to adjourn. >> Thank you, Mark. Second, >> seconded by Chuck. All those in favor? >> I have a safe week.