good evening Littleton and welcome to the second board meeting for Monday February 10th start with the pledge Al United States of America repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all uh we have a fairly quick agenda for tonight um we'll start with reading in the
mail um then we'll do an update from Sam Park uh at 650 we'll uh talk about the DPW snow and ice budget um execute a um a document for the m m Mass clean water trust water infrastructure project um uh have a presentation from the Transportation advisory committee Council update on the noova board's of Health transition and uh a disclosure for
a municipal uh employee having a financial interest uh then we'll have a select board updates public input uh durable a one- day liquor license and then we'll approve meeting minutes and adjourn promptly before 8:30 so we'll start with the mail thank you Mr chairman members of the select board uh we've got uh some vacancies in some of our town boards in uh particular the agricultural commission conservation cultural Council Economic Development historical
commission master plan implementation committee permanent Municipal Building committee Transportation advisory Council and Zoning Board of Appeals and one appointment by the school committee would be on uh the finance committee everyone sign up to receive public notifications for the town uh go to www. Littleton ma.org subscribe uh get alerts from Community impacts Public Safety activity town
meeting changes town events public health concerns Transportation issues we also have a gift acceptance form uh for EHS uh in the amount of $1,000 from Peter bar bar barbella and barbella family for the tread fund tax relief for the elderly disabled thank you very much for your generosity another one for EHS from Mr David plumber $500 for new building gift fund a donor wall for the
new uh uh uh for the new center on shadik street and thank you very much for that and we have uh another one for EHS uh from Sandra Miss s thank you Miss s for amount $2500 a new build gift fund room naming uh naming of B bage table number two which is excellent and uh the proper paperwork behind that we also have
um an email from Littleton robotics uh the first robotics competition team 6328 mechanical advantage is hosting an openhouse on Saturday February 22nd from 3: to 5:00 p.m. at 20 Harvard Road building D on the Patriot beverages campus in Littleton the students have been working hard since kickoff on January 4th to complete this year's robot by March 1st for the for their first competition um they
would love to they would love to show what they have been working hard on and to say thank you for your support please feel free to forward the invitation to others as appropriate so I've been to that event the past couple years I it's great to go down and see what they've done I highly encourage everyone to go down and uh look at their robot and kids get very excited telling you all about it so yeah it's a lot of fun that's fantastic and uh that's it um that's it
thank you thank you uh Sam Park thank you as you know we uh consider ourselves I this is just informal right so I have to say my name and all that stuff Sam Park yeah owner of the point um I was going to have a few notes but I think this should um periodically I like to come to all the boards and just basically share where we are where we've been and where we're going with the point it's a
pretty big project um we've completed about half of maybe more than half of uh total 500,000 square feet and um quite candidly between covid which was one massive delay um the impending uh the Doom and Gloom of inflation followed by the big box pullback of uh that whole era Then followed by increasing interest rates we've been kind of forced to sit tight for a while um but we're thinking most of that since we survived all those
four hits we should be coming out of the ground again the near future so with that on mind I thought I just give a quick overview of what we have for anyone who might not be familiar with it if it helps I have a had two words but I have handouts if you like Chuck and Gary couldn't make it thank you very much thank you thank you very
muchas basically a while 540,000 ft of total and basically more Market BK the stail buildings Emerson
emergency care to AMC so that in mind given the uh challenges we faced since 2018 and 2019 um building not build
and include what we call buildings J K and M and it includes basically the back office thing Market baskets building which is close to this is not that said that's pretty much what we're getting ready to on with this it's started now retest markets about what we can look fors with
thing we're focusing on primarily entertainment retail uses this for up here building on and day this Building Set Side for mostly what resurface EV it's a second Hotel there's been a lot of hotel we actually had permitted um know plans for a hotel here when we did the
mar and unforunately that kind of di environment Happ so we hope that they come back to do that one know I think Mary has the exclusive rights to do that hotel if they want to do it so hope deci will probably be another use objection but that's much it so go up there you'll see that there's a know grain fence and a little trailer
that kind of show know little sign for that that is where the next will go then we move on to that last here then holding this one on the highway for hopefully another hotel concept so that's pretty much it it was uh um it's always better than TR kind get fact and fiction um we are getting ready to start on the second phase of our was water treatment plan uh we permitted a plant
to be built in two phases first phase basically supports what you show us existing and this second plant will basically accommodate those four buildings how it was designed pered years ago and uh that's it so you know obviously we've never been shy Shar what where we are with things I would like to think they were pretty easily accessible if anyone has any questions or concerns about the
development we're always around so L people have my email does anyone questions so you said the building K is the next one likely going up and you have time frames on anything or next month oh
I'm sorry um is next month and we would hope that would be in the construction sometime this summer uh but it could you know it's still subject to us getting some lease commitments for that building uh we are going to do a kind of a brainstorming session over the next couple months on what uses we could put there as you may recall we were permitted for mixed use of retail office entertainment restaurants what have you but it's always sowh of a mix that changes with time as you build out
things so we're now we're in the markets right now trying to identify which types of tenants make the best fit for the center um if there's you know uses you think the town needs we're happy to consider those as well um but we would think that possibly by this time next year we'll be sort of announcing real PL lands and the buildings and tenants for them so it'll probably be a solid year of still unfortunately um back of house type work on it
so so the goal is to start on the wastewater treatment plant over the summer and a new building we've always known that the plant needed to be built in two phases and you know contrary to fact and fiction there is um the plant had to be sized in two phases because you can't oversize a plant it has to be you probably found that out with your own sewer studies you have to have a plant that fits the demand it's sometimes a little bit of an art um we've used a local uh
company uh called small water systems they are running the plant now it's running pretty well we're about to do a quick um normal 10-year maintenance upgrade on the plant um this month um but that's somewhat independent of the fact that we also have to then build a second plant have it ready and permitted and built before we can build any of the additional buildings so that's hopefully get um we should basically be ready to move forward with that as early as the summer I don't know if we'll start
the construction this summer but we're hoping to start the construction on the second plant this summer in anticipation that the following year we'll have identified real tenants for the new building and and the building do you have an idea um like the design of the building is it going to of the existing buildings which one is it most similar like what we'd like to bring there is um uh quite frankly is um a little bit of a like the economics of building it the economics what people can pay to do it
aren't quite in line yet we like to expand on the entertainment component we found that a lot of the town really wants things that they can do uh more than shop so things like bowling alleys are on the top of the list something that would you know um um I know people have recommended um indor pickle ball things that are larger scale but are really Community Based um um I'm not sure the ice rinks will work there because of the competing ice rinks in
the area but ice rinks would be great actually if we could do it um but you we'd probably need some subsidies from the state or town to get that done um that said um I think in the you know Forefront of what we do as a company I think the entertainment and uh you know combined with some retail infill is probably what hoping to get uh we've just built a bowling alley up in tingbo one of our other centers and we'd hopefully um once they've sort of stabilize over the next year there we can get them tracted back down here to do
a wet type you know some type of you know large scale entertainment complex and you envisioned the same type of use for building J uh bing J is a little different because it's more on the back of the hill so it' be a quieter type use um it is all likely we've kind of earmarked that more for um some um medical office type uses uh that I think would be very beneficial especially given all the craziness going on um in
the uh Health Care industry so I know we've been approached by some R&D companies that would like to be here in Littleton um you know it's so we're that one we're still exploring we don't have we you I'm scared to say something that we can't deliver on quite frankly so but it's um we're open for suggestions for K and and we're just kind of setting aside hoping that we can get the uh Hotel economics to work again so
so leaving Emma side K's probably if all goes well next sum and J is probably the following year correct and I is just subject to I is really owned by Market Basket it's uh their spare f i they've had different ideas that they've looked at putting there back a house office back a house you know stuff just for their own employees uh so I really can't tell you what they might just find that the parking is the most valuable thing they can do
because it's an awesomely successful Market Basket um probably one of their more expensive ones but they uh definitely claim it's one of the most Pro you know one of the highest grossing stores in their chain what I'm told so it's a it's a good spot for them so I is just subject to whatever they're so I come in at any you come in at any time I have a feeling I is not their Focus right now they happen to own the big vacon building that runs next to Market Basket uh which they claim have they should have tenants there as well this year
so frankly what's driving our decision to be here now is that we understand that they have tenants for that building what is known as Building B um and soon as they announce those tenants we'll feel comfortable moving forward with building building k um so you know I know there were the mass D had some issues with the first phase of the treatment plan sure so what what um so I assume that the second phase is not related to that upgrade
or or Corrections or whatever um so just for for the record what happened on the first phase uh we had hired a company called NSU National utility company to design build and operate the plan it turned out that some of the um it wasn't a volume issue as much as it was kind of an octane issue as I was described to me and I'm not a sanitary sewer engineer um the strength of the uh bio-organics
was higher than the originally estimated for the plant so they had to do some adjustments to something called ation to be able to aate it out uh they fixed that um a couple years back and we basically had the fortune of running the existing buildings on that plant uh without any problems for the last couple years this uh but yes Matt and answer your question the new plan is designed for these New Uses they'll besid the coring but basically it's a a replica
the existing one albeit that the existing one was greatly upgraded maybe a several years ago I think the upgrades are almost as expensive as the plan itself but and the new one isn't is it has all those upgrades in it as correct that's correct thank you you have um can you talk about the square footage of the buildings oh yeah sure so what you see on the floor plan is basically around 30,000 the floor plate what's on the ground is 30,000 for building K which is about the size of
a reference Marshalls or TJ Maxx you have on the next building building K is I think shown as 45,000 foot floor plate which is really meant to be two to three ten it's on the ground level but it's actually been permitted for 60,000 ft in case we go it's a little bit of an F thing is like we could go two stories at 3 thou at 30,000 but if we only do single story it probably would not be more than 45,000 and then building M which is
opposite all which is the hotel side is a 15,000 square foot FL plan I think the dimensions are actually shown on the plans in really small letters if not I can get those the exact ones for you with the hotel be yeah the hotel is obviously going to be 60,000 Square F feet um you know with on you know four stories like the Marriott if for reference the Marriott's floor plates actually only like 12,000 square feet great thank
you but it should support I mean Mary um LEF France Hospitality came in five years ago with fully permitted plans to build 110 rooms Extended Stay Hilton product um on that site unfortunately the economics they got back you know backstabbed by Co like most developers did we're kind of excited and that's probably why we wanted just to at least share with you uh we've been quiet for the last couple years a lot of people thought I retired or died so I'm just
here to say I'm still alive and we're uh hopefully uh with Jim here as well um you know we we say what we'll do and hopefully we'll be back in the next couple months with more plans I don't believe that we can ever overcommunication is or what we'd like to do and it's clear that if there's things that you think would be great to include you know since we build to own we probably have a little more flexibility to be ACC coming and a lot of developers who are building for Wall Street and um
just on the robotics issue just I gu for a second it is a great program and um I wasn't hit up this year but if they need any you know funding for that I'm happy that that is actually a really fun fun initiative school is doing it so if you know who's doing their passing their hat tell them feel free to call me sure we'll pass that on thank you sure do you expect you'll need to go back to the planning board for any of the right now we're fully
permanent we've been progressing along yeah um it's kind of an interesting our our plans were approved under the overlay District which you know basically crafted a lot of flexibility for us to sort of weave and Bob with market conditions so we are um long as we don't dramatically change like if I want to propose a 32 story Residential Building I'd probably have trouble but it's um for the most part we're looking at one or two story buildings were appropriate and it's really limited I think to the fact that we won't build more than
in total 100,000 square feet on those three pads total um so it'll probably be less than what we're permitted for because we you know we don't need to press it that close to the envelope so uh where on the plans is the new the second the second phase of the wastewater treatment is right with the first pH yeah it's right next to it actually if you look back here there's a little orange um speckle okay what people don't realize is that's just the head house underneath
this entire area is all the processes so there's huge Chambers and tanks um underneath here that sort of is actually the plant but the controls are these two little buildings one's been built and one is SL for phase two okay thank you set great thank you very much thank you very much thank you
Sam next up DPW yes this is a uh Mr chairman and members of the select board this is a an annual occurrence uh that uh we are near exhaustion of our budgeted snow and ice and we would just needed a a vote to uh to extend beyond that original budget amount uh currently we're at almost about $169,000 that is spent and uh we've
got with two more snow events we we've incurred an additional $36,000 and uh we also have a bill for $331,000 for some for salt and another 500 ton ordered so uh we are quickly coming upon um uh spending beyond beyond the allotted $200,000 so we request uh the ability to to spend Beyond it please so we've already had 169 we've spent and
we have more that we've encumbered but we haven't cut the che correct exactly and that's before the next two storms that are hitting this week well I I think tomorrow is going to be it's going to miss us it's going to be South but Thursday Sunday yeah something like that yeah oh there's one on Sunday now yeah stand corrected I'm sorry Joy I don't see why we should do this move the select board vote pursuant to Mass General La chapter 44
section 31d to approve incurring expenses in excess of the available appropriation for snow and ice removal for f for fiscal year 2025 second by Matthew second by Karen roll call vote Matthew Matthew's yes Karen yes Mark say yes you're welcome Steve we just didn't follow private Ro oh uh treasure uh the mass clean water trust infrastructure project so this is
uh um a u request for the board to approve of um uh new Bond this is the boxboro um water extension so this is not for the entire amount the entire amount uh was approved at the May 1st 2023 annual town meeting was Article 2 uh in the amount of 19,2 200,000 uh this Bond before you this this evening is for 15 million um this is sort of an interterm step that
we're taking to get to that point um Matthew had asked me about this earlier we do not need to read the entire um motion which I provided to uh the board earlier but rather just uh what's on the screen so this is in keeping with um uh the other votes taken a town meeting and this is just the means to actually begin to fund the project which is um uh underway so when I was clerk I had to read that I know and I'm I'm
sorry trying to relieve you that so my understanding is we're not necessarily bonding this whole amount depending on what comes through with mass D and mass that's right uh a whole bunch of State organizations Transit as as we understand it too that um uh lwd is actively speaking with the state and trying to uh provide some additional relief um with this so um so that
is impos that is possible but um at least authorizing the debt at this time doesn't preclude us from um any sort of pay down or things of that nature so um and I also spoke with Nick today and the contracts actually came in below what they were anticipating so they might be in better shape there as well why couldn't that have happened with a sue uh move that the select board adopt the vote prepared by Bond Council in connection with the interim financing agreement for Massachusetts
cleanwater trust dwe ec-12 13633 my as corrected dwe c-23 d136 second moved by Matthew second by Karen all those in favor documents for sign thank you uh Transportation advisory councel everybody
someone's phone who Sams yeah okay you can have it it's a free thanks good good evening everybody um so um I am here because say I wanted to give an update on the transportation advisory Council kind of where it's at um or where it's not at um Mark asked me to to do some homework and figure out what some options might be as we
look at potentially reconstituting that group or maybe disbanding that group uh going forward um so my agenda is to give you a little background on the TAC for those who weren't around when this got started I'm going to quickly go through the first two bullets kind of just give you some background and then talk more about the status and challenge because I want have more of a dialogue with you all about what you want to do with this group um so first off it's you the tack was established back in 2018 it came right out of the master plan which I was also a member of and the master
plan implementation committee and um it was intended to be a means for us to have a place to talk and work on Transportation issues because there were a number of Transportation issues in the master plan and someone has to carry the water and moving these things forward going as part of after master plan in effect um uh plan's only good is if you kind of keep referencing and working off of it so um the charge the next slide uh the charge was to uh promote collaboration in the town and
dealing with Transportation issues because Transportation issues don't reside in just one body or one entity in the town they're complex and it's more than just more roads and Paving trans Paving roads and things like that um so there's a couple of things I want to note in the work plan that was that was uh identified that we would establish Collective goals and priorities removing the means of transportation in the town consistent with the master plan vision and we would present goals and recommendations to the planning board and
board of selectman annually um those are kind of our objectives um the background further the membership that was agreed to with the select board was that we would have this was not intended to be a separate committee term council is important here because I remember the time there was a discussion about having another committee that maybe is not fully staffed and what do that look like and it was like no these are people who all have skin in the game regarding transportation in the town so it was agreed on with the select board this is
this was a discussion that it would be it would comprise of people who already had roles in the town um select board that had to do with Transportation issues select board planning board Finance bpack disability and Council and aging and that we would have three at large members as well um and then we would get input from the DP W Elda Services Etc so next slide please um and uh and then we were having issues with quorums it's a rare thing in Littleton I know uh we having issues with
quorums and so we got a we adjusted the the charge in 20121 to add additional at large members so that they would be uh alternates so they would count in the positive if they were there but they weren't there they won count against us and that's was good in theory if we had people willing to fill those positions uh and the other thing that we talked about at that time was to um continuity was that when you have representation from other boards they are floating through here
every year or two and changing and to have continuity it would be good to go from year to year because you don't want to figure this all out every single two years what the heck we're doing so they at large members other reason why added large members was for that reason so um and then quickly know I'm the original chair of the TAC uh I uh advocated for its creation coming out of the master plan implementation committee and I've been staying on the board as a member since it was started in 2018 I am not the chair despite what the agenda says
tonight of of the of the tech I just a member the only member actually left of the large members in the TAC um so quickly background on how we how it operates we meet every two months um this is the typical agenda I won't read it but this is kind of what we typically cover uh it's really more of a check-in and just a status on what's going on in town relates to transportation and sometimes there's an issue that we might want to tackle or talk about like some potential
improvements at a on on a at intersection or something like that and just discuss it but most part it's really just a check-in um and once since the board was established was I asked for yearly input was the was the tack as for input despite what you saw in the charge and only once have I met select board that was I asked about forums and issues with that and what to do about it so um there's little happening in terms of means of setting goals and priorities um um the actually the prior
DPW director before this one really didn't want to hear from us about setting priorities in the roads because he thought that was his job to set priorities which which roads he Paving and things like that which we didn't argue with but in terms of uh some of the things that we said we were going to do as part of the group never really happened like you know briefing you guys setting goals priorities those kind of things that really just ended not happening um but we did do a few things that I think are worth noting and I'm just going to quickly uh note what some of those things were the next slide please
um uh I think one of the things I think that was most beneficial was the second bullet was um Marin uh to planner I I think she appreciated having a belly button to send information of things that were kind of coming across her desk and saying hey do you guys want to wait on this I think that was a good thing because it made a job easier um to just send it to the chair of the TCH and they would get it to the people who are least members in attx at least they have interest in the transportation issues
um um I personally Lobby successfully for getting some mitigation funds to to um pay for the B pedestrian master plan if I if I had done asked for it we wouldn't have got it simp we put um I just had the idea and um Anthony was open to the idea and we got it we've been talking about that like T she master plan for 10 years and that was really just a matter of asking um and and and the last B kind of similar what I mentioned that Mar would just send something to us and we would provide
input and we provideed input on variety of mass do plans and um what to do with the March shuttle and what to do with funds we were getting from Workers Credit Union which you still have $5,000 that just so you know $5,000 from M Workers Credit Union that really hasn't gone anywhere yet um so there's still stuff out there that we've weighed in on other things um early on we took um next slide please we did do some advocacy and advocated for um a mass Trails grant
for that bridge across the uh across the Brook at go at Koopa Farm um but I think the biggest one here is that I think we have changed some of the mindset in town uh I think we've improved the the mindset of uh continuing the the the complete streets uh advocacy which started before us that we want to have not just roads that for for cars we want roads that for bicycles pedestrians and other types of things and I think we've helped change that mindset in town in my
opinion um so I think we have some some done some good some good work in the last seven years but where are we where are we now so next slide um so we have not met since the spring of 20124 we've had a couple of times we've tried having meetings but we didn't have enough of a quorum so uh did we don't have aurr chair Michael G stepped down in the summertime um we continue to have issues with quorums over the last few years um the main reason in my opinion is that those who were appointed to the attack
from the other boards it was 5050 whether they would show up um so if they were going to be a charge with this um then I I I would request that they would honor those that position I know W and other board members are busy and they have other things but honestly if if that they shouldn't be assigned if they're not going to be able to show up and we tried adjusting those meeting times to accommodate everybody and it's always tough because we have members from who are paid employees we don't want to have them attending another meeting at 7 o'clock at night they don't have
to so we'd have these meetings typically around four to 5 o'clock or something so we get an e tie time between people who are working have other day jobs and people who are Town employees um but it doesn't matter what we did we typically didn't have had trouble getting people to show up so of the six other boards it would rotate sometimes it would be planning board sometimes it would be disability but I would say consistently half the board of the the other board members would show up half of them win it just every year might be a different group who would who wouldn't wouldn't show up
and then we have had um we have yet to have I think all the three at large positions filled at any time maybe maybe maybe in the last maybe two out of the last seven years we've had all three at wi positions filled so um and then there's um you know why are we doing this um why are we meeting um the meetings that we have are uh again the mostly it's a check-in
and so the question ask why are we doing this uh and so that's a valid question uh it could we're not really honoring the charge that we had originally so going back to the charge that Mark gave me um when I asked me to look into some of the things to do um I talked with next slide I talked with those who have been active in this group um those are listed there and asked for some feedback about what do you want to see in this group what do you think we should be doing with this um and this is where
I want to spend a little more time telling you what I heard that some of the input was that um we've had trouble with meeting this group as it's constituted getting attendance and getting active participation and so and some I think people don't even realize what the meeting is for you know they they use the agenda to talk about other things that aren't necessarily Transportation because they got a voice um and so you know what do we what's is the structure is not functioning as
it was intended simply put um either in terms of getting people from at large or getting participation from the other boards um others thought that it's been it that they'd like to see it continue that we talk about things that we we've we wouldn't otherwise bring up it's a place for those committees like the bpac and others to have a place in the at the table and hear what's going on um that also that um gives them a chance to talk to some of those folks in the
boards that they maybe wouldn't engage with otherwise so there's an opportunity there that if wouldn't be there if they they didn't have this um we saw the accomplishments that we've made in the last seven years and I think those are some of those would have happened without us but but some of them wouldn't have happened without us so there's been some value over the years um and uh Mark actually suggested the third B was maybe if we gave them taskings some more uh advocacy type taskings to do um maybe you know that's
more of a focus and maybe that would be of some value um my personal opinion is these are all volunteers and if he wants to do a traffic study we should hire Consultants to do traffic studies and those kinds of things and if he want us to oversee that kind of work that's fine but I don't think we should be doing we work you know I think we should be to oversight work but not doing any actual like studies ourselves we're not professionals to do that kind of thing so some mixture of that might be okay but we have no budget assigned to us so um that would be another issue uh and then the other part was overwatching maybe
we don't maybe we don't need us anymore um there is some sentiment that the select board and others have uh are more aen to some of the these issues um I mean this group started with Keith Bergman who was very interested in transportation issues and I think when he was the select he was the Town Administrator and there's uh the select board does does not select board and other boards are more more attuned to some of these
issues um they're not being neglected in effect um and so that's goes to the prior comment about we change the mentality and so maybe there's less of a need for an advocacy group in this for doing this kind of thing um that the good work we've done is rubbed off and is less of a need um um but also yeah so I mean that's that's that's a possibility so what do we do about it so the last slide is some ideas or some options that I'm I'm I'm
kind of just dropping on your lap to give you as uh as I don't have a recommendation I'm just kind of throwing up some things for you to consider and I'll give you my opinion if you want and we're done but first option is next slide please is I don't think that this is I just this is what we have as your last slide well I know I had the last slide I can see options going forward in the pack packet sorry yeah okay so the options going forward for those who don't have the slides and can't see them was one decide
to keep it or not so keep it um um and my options going after that is if we keep it what do we do about it um but if we don't keep it um disbanding is an option um uh lack of participants uh lack of at large volunteers uh e you to do you want to keep it that's a real issue you got to have fanes in the seat to fill these board fill this group and so people who care about these issues so um if you decide you want to keep it you we kind of have to address the issue of
who's going to be on this group um but if you do keep it then uh you could maintain the attack as it is but I don't somehow light a fire under those and the other committees to actually show up and be part of this if they're going to be you assigned to this group where um so that would be one because that if they showed up then we'd have we' have quorums and as it's intended if intended to supposed to be cross communication between boards and they're not showing up it's really not doing what it's
supposed to do um so another option if you keep the tack would restructure it get rid of um maybe get rid of some of the other me other Town boards that maybe haven't contributed that much or haven't been haven't contributed I'm not talking about individuals so much but haven't contributed issues related to what the groups that they represent haven't been that big bigger driver so um Finance for example and maybe um disability committee would be two that I'd probably recommend could come off and
I don't think it would change what we're what we're trying to do very much um um go with all our ler members as a possibility assuming we could find folks um that would be another possibility it would address the continuity issue um and obviously the people from the other boards would be welcome to attend but they wouldn't feel compelled to event attend because I know they're stretch thin um another option would be that was discussed as a possibility was merge the function with BAC there's a perception in
town that BAC um is cover covers like you know if overlapping circles that there's a lot of overlap between bpac and teac I personally don't agree with that bpac has specific goals and objectives which awaits to Bicycle pedestrian and the transportation advisory Council was intended to service and to address transportation as a function and a service not just you know sharing the roads it's it's I mean we should be looking at traffic studies we should be looking at the S Park development and we should be involved with that kind of thing when it comes to comes to traffic studies and be part of
that so it's not just bpack right it's it's it's other things um that's but that's that was an option that was thrown out there by some folks and then uh obviously reassess the charge and that probably goes with any of any of the above what do you want this attack to do um so I kind of put it I I think we serve it your leisure um what does the select board want to do with this group do they see a value in it and what would they like to what are their thoughts about how to reconstitute this um just so you know one last comment
about my role I've been on this group since 2018 I I got it started I'm proud of the fact that we we fact that I did that and I think it's um I think I helped make a difference in town but I'm not looking to take it over again I have other things in my life going on right now and so I'm happy to be a member but I'm not looking like pick up the flag and keep this thing going on my own no committee and no council no idea can sustain itself on the on the backs of one person it has to have life on its own so um uh I'm willing to be part
of the solution but I'm not looking to like Drive the solution if you know what I mean so I know it's a mouthful so thank you I just open up to your thoughts so I I'll start with a little bit of background because I have been actually attending quite a few of the TAC meetings since I was on the board and I um and the bpack meetings actually too when they don't conflict with other meetings that I have to attend um and I do agree that um there isn't
a complete overlap between the groups there's a fair overlap on the memberships I think of the people that are the people that are um passionate about it seem to go to both sets of meetings um but they're not um they're not necessarily one and the same like the bpac wouldn't take up you know anything going on with the MBTA or shuttle services in town or things like that um or um they probably
like wouldn't weigh in on you know the 495 Bridge replacement so much you know other than we need a bike Lane right um so I think there is value to the tack I just don't know how to make it a vibrant committee going forward and give it more um of a charge um and I you know when Gary and I talked about this a while ago it was because we were pretty much the last people standing at the meetings and trying
to figure out how to make this a productive if we if it would be productive or if it wouldn't be wasn't worth keeping so so so I think um that there are some um organizations committees that are driven by a need some that are kind of more personality driven like people who have a have a a specific interest or cause and you you mentioned Keith and clearly you've been like super invested in this which is awesome but I wonder if
it isn't time to say to say goodbye to it not and allow anyone who wants to take up the mantle as it were you know let's find something with a specific charge for them to do because um getting rid of meetings and committees is the hardest thing in the world but it's so so necessary sometimes you know and not to diminish what's been done but I do it does seem to
be more like focused on like this committee seems to be more focused on the people who have been doing these things and less on the specific need that was identified for the committee to to achieve I guess yeah so just to comment on that I don't think we ended up really doing the things that we said we were going to do um why is that different chairman come on board and different you know objectives and what
they're trying to do and things um um um yeah I don't know I it just it it's it kind of evolved into what it was yeah and we even more of a sort of demonstration of this was this was some people who really cared about something who wanted to like make a difference and have ideas about it rather than being driven by process or goal or a specific outcome from a document or you know yeah and so I think if you go back to
our charge I mean there was about 12 items in the master point at way to transportation and so that was the Genesis of those things and we've been trying to work those things in effect you know that was a bit of a charge that we had yeah okay just so just to play Advocate Devil's Advocate on that a bit I mean we just spent how long at the end of the year talking about whether to lift a truck exclusion right and none of us up here were on experts on the whether we should be doing that or not and it'd be really nice to
turn it over to someone else to do the investigative work and not necessarily the you're the expert on it but at least maybe you have more interest and bandwidth or focus on that than we do and just pointing at you since you're the representing the Comm but and you know we were asked for feedback on the 495 Bridge replacement deck and I mean everyone could weigh in but it would be nice to have someone that's you know their their Charter is
like Gathering that feedback and um and filling out those forms and advocating for what we want because I mean I don't have the time no I don't either keep up with all of it but it's someone and maybe it's not so much a committee that meets regular but they're more like a standing committee that you know when these issues come up there's a group that we can turn to I was going to say I don't know if there's enough work for some someone to do this all
the time right but you're right you're absolutely right it would be great to hand it to someone who was interested in it invested in it and wanted to find out answers for us I I be measuring what you asked for right because these people are volunteers with a variety of backgrounds and then they're not going to be the ones who gonna do I'm not traic study or to do like you know you know the pros and cons of of that I would hope you would give us resources from the town to like work with who are potentially equipped or
Consultants to that would then do the leg work and you know pull that forward and say here here's the white board you know like a subcommittee in effect for you guys yeah basically yep I guess um in the 495 example I'm I'm questioning what another layer would have been helpful in that regard I mean we did get the ask disseminated across the people who needed to be look at it and we got their feedback um I'm not sure that adding another layer to
that would have been productive or efficient um it you know you sort of precluded my question which was you know when have we missed Tac since they stopped meeting in Spring of 2024 um and you've brought up a couple examples but if I'm understanding Gary correctly I think he's sort of saying you know we can we can give you our opinions but we're not subject matter experts per se and we can't
take the place of subject matter experts or Consultants um but it is a place for those who are um for the citizens or for those who have an interest in this to participate that would they wouldn't have otherwise parti anticipated so I don't think you're going to go for these guys for the answers necessarily but it's a it's a place to get input from those who care about the issue
that's that's kind of already in place and um a group that would then also be a good form to discuss the particulars about those things outside of you know this type of session and what does that look like um when the membership is changing and and in flux that's okay and you're not meeting regularly well um regularly it was every two or three months we were meeting every two months until this past year um um
and so we did kind of have we we always attuned to what was going on in the town and what was coming up and and Marin would keep us impressed of what was potentially coming um and there was a couple of times I can think of when they talked about a shuttle service related to um kind of way to Amazon that was being done you know where we pulled together an out meeting to talk about what some of those things were um so we I I
think you guys haven't seen it and I say you guys the select board hasn't seen it probably because there hasn't been a regular form for check-in okay sometimes you'd have a member like Mark who's active and so he could come back to you guys and talk about what's going on the other half the time there was nobody from the selectboard there and so and so you have a mixed bag of you know knowing what's going on with the tech or what's what is you want them to do because at least if a select member was present then you had a chance for us to to engage with them but there A lot of times there were years that
you guys had nobody from the board attended meeting for two years and we didn't come to you we went to ask for goals or objectives like it was asked for in the charge um so you don't know what you don't know there's other examples of things that like the tech could do like I mean there's we get the MBTA advisory emails all the time and I don't know if anyone ever attends an mvta meeting I've attended I've attended a couple of them when they talk about
electrification but we don't necessarily know what's going on unless we're you're actively paying attention I don't know how much the T was paying attention on that there was the whole issue uh the state just to that study on improving route two from I don't know from Gardener to conquer or post and we weren't necessarily paying attention to that and I don't know who would have represented us at those meetings either right and when the state was
doing the presentations without the tag right why wouldn't what the person who would otherwise be serving untack in the select board attend that meeting yes I've been attending yes so yeah but now basically making a select board member of committee one to attend and report back on things right and a sub and becoming more of a subject matter expert than
than necessarily the committee yeah I mean I think there's a place for for that kind of in between to do to not carry the water completely but do some leg work right in between you know when you have something come up and then have then have a chance to fall back with that so there's a place for that I think but this way if it's not doing it right now the group could do those things if it was decided that's what you guys wanted the attack to do comments I think I
thought I I I think um the mission as it stands now is probably done I think the fact that you're having such a hard time getting people to show up and find a quorum is evidence that you know that there isn't a or group that's super invested so I would suggest disbanding it and um finding other ways to contribute because I hate seeing anyone
who wants to help not help you don't like the on call status idea I mean I I do like that idea and I'm not con vinced there's enough things that we could use that they'd be effective at but I could be wrong we can absolutely try it I just wonder if it if it l
langers if it sort of languishes for six months or nine months or a year and we call them up is is anyone still going to be invested in doing that's the part that's the mechanics part right the pragmatic part I'm not sure how we would make work if we don't have anything for six months and we you know put out the bat signal is anybody going to be paying attention or available fair question um if just thinking off my feet if I was gonna if
if that was kind of what you wanted to have is it would be less about having the the the obligation to talk every two months about stuff that really hasn't changed much because things don't really change that much in two months um but it seems practical to have a mostly at large group um that would with engagement from DPW with engagement from um Elder Services periodically and just at least
every six months um this usually and just as a way of finding what's going on confirming with things and then and then um being available on as an ad hoc basis if something comes up to to to weigh in on those kinds of things that I think is a a more focused role and and maybe a lesser expectation that could be within reason and people are busy and maybe that
kind of thing uh it it can also can adapt to who we get for volunteers and see where they want to go with it I mean I started the NRG thing coming out of the TAC because I cared about that and um then it kind of did that separately from tac but you know those things can happen organically so that's a possibility I mean I was going to offer up my I was going to offer up if you guys get rid of it because I have a background in engineering because I have interest in these kind of things I was willing to be on your back call so when you do have something personally did you want to like run by me like Mar sent me
a copy of the highway 495 Crossing and I provideed comments just because I have some background on the subject you know I'm just a citizen I'm going to do that kind of thing but you know I don't have to be an attack to do that personally so I I'm at the point where I I'm kind of torn on this one because I think it has value but um if you're the only member at large then yes then
it doesn't have as much value as a committee as opposed to me just sending you all the emails that I don't give me all the emails but um but um I do think a push to get more P members if we talked about if we could come up with what a focused charge was and put the word out for volunteers you could see what we get do you think BAC would be open to expanding their mandate to include they weren't interested when I brought that
up why don't I work with you and we'll see if we can put out a charge and focus Char find members and we'll talk about dis banding okay thank you for your time thanks G thank you Gary thank you uh the shogo Board of Health well all right Mr chairman so this is as a result of the conversation that uh took place on Super Saturday so June 30 with the deadline
fast approaching uh what's next for uh really uh for support uh when the when the the health director is on vacation or extendedly for some reason or anything like that there has to be a mechanism that is going that needs to be established to in the event in there is an event uh some kind of a a health event then uh it needs to be an individual to go to that for questions and answers in in some direction and so that he or she can converse with our
Board of Health uh we have uh been reaching out to neighboring communities and we keep just going out a little further and further and further to establish an IMA for such such things and it's and it's requiring a conversation that EXP explaining like no this is the person doesn't have to be here if if if our health director is gone for two weeks or anything like that it's really matter of a point of contact even in in the event there is something but ultimately other than that um
anything uh normal everyday routines can be are already established and can can continue as as is uh with maybe checkin or or a conversation with the chair on the board of health so we continue to explore the IMA we did confirm with Town Council that an IMA is appropriate with uh with a community uh but we just continue to explore a community that uh has uh has the ability to to do that to to partner with us yet
and we would be we would reciprocate also obviously that would be something that is clearly uh so that and to make it as simple as possible so it's not like okay well you did three hours and so we'll pay you x amount of doll is and nothing like that it's really just a a professional courtesy if you say through the IMA so we continue to to explore that and understanding that we have a deadline fast approaching
so are we talking like reciprocal fees or we're just paying their I'm sorry how do do we have any idea what are we proposing this a structure to these communities I you said you reached out right right and so far no one's taken the taking the bait right but are we proposing like we're going to pay their director we're giving them any fees they would collect or well we were open for that discussion but it was because it is
such a thing just to be a point of contact because someone is on vacation um if if that is is if that's being proposed by a potential Community then you know absolutely we'll we'll entertain anything but it's not my intent it's really just looking at a professional courtesy back and forth he or she would be available to us and Francis would be would be available to to reciprocate uh uh within that Community is basically what the goal is but if
we have to look at some kind of a financial agreement then we'll work that out with Town Council and are we differentiating between like standard services and an emergency service like Francis is out for a week of for vacation so we don't he doesn't have anything scheduled right he's planned a vacation but all of a sudden you know there's an emergency inspection that has to happen or something it's it's the fan and we need someone for that versus Francis is going to be away for a
month and we have things that have to happen in that month right are we approaching them together or separately or no we'll approach we'll we'll hit it uh together I mean that would be worked out through the Ima to in the event of a an extended leave how how how do we work that out and uh and something that uh during you know we have a a health a Health crisis or situation in the community then uh Town Council is is prepared to to work
out those details but you first have to find the uh willing partner okay and this is independent from the IMA with actin for the nurse correct that is still going through the paperwork is uh we have provided um uh the the requested uh uh the recommended changes to the IMA uh from Town Council the select board uh in acting did
adopt as presented did adopt the agreement as presented which uh does not include the the the the the changes and the town manager had expressed to me dependent upon the level of changes we may have to go back to the ACT and select board to to you know to to adopt that so um and this was uh after you know there was a you know a warning that Town Council is working on it please continue it but they they continue to move forward to
uh to adopt it so we'll continue to communicate with that work that through those details okay are we looking at private I assume there's nothing private we can look at we have to it's only municipalities for I have I have not even looked at private okay okay thank you thank you uh Human Resources uh this is a typical uh vote
to uh request to exemp uh and disclosure for Town employee that will have that will hold multiple positions it's often done as you you you've expressed through through pox and wreck here it's being done through the school department uh Mr Austin uh would have uh uh multiple positions within within the school department whether it be on call or part-time basis and the request is for uh to being U deemed an exempt uh
make an exemption or the request of Mr Lyn basically the work of the Tiger's done as a substitute teacher okay any discussion no um no sorry so exemption is in addition to the substitute teacher it's also for the tiger St work and athletic department work right taking tickets uh doing a schore board
something like that on a as needed basis I'm just surprised they can't I mean the number of high school students who are scrambling for volunteer hours I'm surprised they can't find folks demand that but I take them at their word so I'm good thank you move that the select board vote to acknowledge a Disclosure by a Municipal Employee of financial interest in a municipal
contract and approve the exemption request of Austin Lynn as a Municipal Employee in accordance with mgl chapter 268a section 20b second by Matthew second by Karen all those in favor I thank you uh public input members update um start sure um I say this I think once a year I want to
thank dpw's um excellent plowing up um activity I spoke to a Charming young man yesterday morning who hadn't slept yet and I know that like um they stay up all night and they plow the roads and they don't get nearly enough credit so I want to thank them for all the hard work that they do and I tell them how much I appreciate it um and I want to also do a brief update on the orchard um we have a scheduled a meeting for
this Wednesday the 12th at 6:30 in room 103 with John bransfield who is a potential lesie for the property that meeting will be only about um a question and answer session about his plans for the orchard um we're not going to discuss the uh process of lease versus Cell um we have scheduled an mapc meeting to discuss
that specific item um and like an overarching discussion of the process and you know are we leasing are we going back to S to meeting on March 10th March 6 oh I'm sorry March 6th thank you very much yeah is it the 6th I believe so uh it's also room 103 I think it is you're right it's the 6th that's on the town calendar we'll continue to update it and I got we got a letter from mdar they have done the they they
um hold the uh preservation restriction on the Orchard and um did a um monitoring report and noted we were out of compliance they sent us a letter um should the town be unable to secure leasing operator for the 25 growing season the department will consider the property to have entered a second year towards abandonment status which may result in violation of the terms although the town has made some concerted efforts to address the property's use the department requests the town to provide a firmer
timeline um within 60 days along with the business plan and a map showing proposed uses and locations so I just want to make sure everyone understands that andar is not um they are they are very um they're very serious about enforcing the APR and um I think people poo poo the idea that they could come in and do something with the land but they have the right to take
it over if they want so we will continue to work as quickly as possible on um getting this property in agricultural use um two other things on the orchard we're looking to schedule another meeting with mapc in early April to talk more about the parts that aren't necessarily covered by the leads like the house and longer plans on that uh we should hopefully know the date of that either by the hopefully by the 12th um
um what else was I going to say on the oh the all the information about bransfield is in a packet that's online so people can see the management plans and the APR the APR restrictions everything should have all the inform people need to review brassfield's proposal and how we got here before before before the meeting the me the pack meting back yeah for for the meeting on the 12 yes so and thank you to Ryan for putting
that together so quickly that's all um I wanted to thank um rotary uh from the showa valley on Saturday I attended the rise against tunger um thanks they sponsored at Littleton High School where we packaged um 18,000 meals for people who need them um it was an amazing turnout lots of um high school students believe it was co-sponsored by the um the Honor Society there
at the high school and it was um it was a great event um I wanted to thank them for putting that on and for including the entire community in that um that's it um so I attended the ntial Valley the tech the tech school U breakfast uh what is it a week last week week sounds good something two weeks ago uh where they presented their budget and um
and um and what they do over there is very impressive um um and they do it um Fair on a fairly shring budget for the services they provide so um it was very impressed um I also wanted to announce that starting with our meeting on March 10th we will be meeting in room 103 rather than in this room um for any meeting that is not a joint meeting with like fincom or something where um it just
doesn't fit so well in 103 so uh we will be moving to 103 so uh any updates on the other projects sure U couple project updates um so uh we're still on target for March 10th for the opening on the center on shadik street for at least to be um at substantial completion uh we are working currently with um our Audi visual vendor to get in um as quickly as possible once
we have a contract locked down to get in and do work in the large group room as well as to do um installation work on the lctv studio there um they will be Landscaping that'll be taking place after that uh the contract will be coming back um in the April May time frame to finish that but um we are looking to have a u ribbon cutting ceremony sometime after town meeting so um once all of that activities uh Beyond
hopefully past us and um to be able to do an event there for that uh for 36 King Street uh the pmbc uh last week approved of a number of change orders uh Associated um what what we need to actually uh keep open and um to a lot of structural issues and unexpected things we didn't see um that uh time frame for that building is a little bit later uh
looking in the um likely in the May time frame in terms of um substantial completion on that end uh so we're talking now with um vendors from moving uh so movers will come in and and take the school equipment and and parks and wreck uh so we that we're fairly close uh and then getting to the end of that project as well if I can just do a quick update on theber Valley so the the chief of the
13 communities with the the chief is uh spare heading a smaller group of four Chiefs that uh that act as the representative uh for the for all 13 communities uh they have uh as you all know we went and we met with the uh the chair of the Ways and Means uh with Senator Elbridge uh and um uh beyond that there was a local delegation both Senator Eldridge and representative siero uh Littleton was well
represented to Administration and finance recently the legislators uh did meet with the Secretariat uh for the governor's office in regards to the financial investment as a result of the closure that's going on uh the chief along with the three of the Chiefs will be meeting on this Thursday with ANF to talk specific uh uh dollar months and numbers and and understanding and any questions that ANF may have uh so we we're optimistic we continue to be optimistic with the progress
of of meeting with the the way the ways and means and then now uh having two separate meetings with withf uh in regards to the opening of a of a new location the Chiefs also recently met with the CEO of UMass uh Medical Center uh to to go through a number of different issues of of questions and and and understanding the needs of of the 13 communities uh and uh they are uh
looking at a a number of uh different sites and it is once and for the timing wise once the it's been determined the location and depending and once that is in the ownership of uh of you Mass uh that it would take approximately 18 to 24 months to uh to make it into the emergency uh Emergency Center that uh that has been discussed so uh things continue to move forward and uh
thanks thank you to our state delegation Senator Eldridge representative rcer for uh their efforts and their support in this uh in trying to come uh have support this to come to for worship that's it so one on the msba Shaker Lane um um my name chair vudi threw together a nice website our web page off of our site that a financial calculator so people can
go and see roughly what the tax impact of the new school would be at its current projected cost and reimbursements and everything else so he did a really nice job and um uh I thank him for that that and I suggest everyone go check that out and just to say Mr chairman the the Sher Lane School building committee is meeting again tomorrow at 7 uh one of the things we're going to be talking about is looking at um construction manager at risk uh versus standard um procurement process
we've used construction manager at risk with uh good results here at the library and at the center of shadik street so um want to necessarily say that that is where we'll end up but uh we'll say we have had some good experience with that so we'll be disc that's one of the things topics on our agenda tomorrow night uh public in foot charlot Russell
Foster Street um I'm here as a friend of the nishoba praying Indians about the Orchard and I respectfully urge the select board to consider the document that was given to you by the Littleton conservation trust considering the proximity of the orchard to Native American lands and
the importance of the Sacred Landscapes that are already part of conservation LS and Littleton I really hope that theaba pray Indians will have a fair chance at some opportunity to regain stewardship of that land thank you thank you I'm Joan der from Howard Avenue and I wanted to talk about the orchard as
well I wanted to say thank you to whoever it was that put together the FAQ on the town website it's really cogent and helpful thank you it's great um I still really think it would be a mistake for the town to lease the orch we've already shown that we're not good at managing a lease you know the orchard is a wonderful asset and it comes with a house that used to be an asset but now it's a liability because the pipes were led to freeze we just don't have
the expertise the money to manage this lease and we've already shown that the last lease collapsed and that's why we're in the position we are now so I really think that the town should put it to a voted town meeting again and try to you know educate people first I think if people realized the liability to the town of continuing to own it that we would get you know a better result to town meeting and be able to sell the orchard sad as I am about that it's really the best resolution for the Orchard
and for the town so I wanted to know um is there any chance that the select board will have an article to sell the orchard on on the town meeting in May on the warrant so we are still negotiating the lease currently um there is potential that we put an article out to sell the house uh we haven't really discussed that in as a full board yet um
the house isn't included in any of the lease negotiations because it's uninhabitable and it cannot be leased so um we will be looking to do something with the house separate from the rest of the property I don't know um what the status will be for the property as far as an article for sale because we are negotiating with the tenant currently um so with three possible tenants correct just branfield
only one we're only negotiating with bransfield so the others off the table then bransfield is the only one we're negotiating with at the moment if we don't go with bransfield then we'll be starting the process over either for a sale or release regarding the house like a couple of years ago at the orchard working group meetings there was talk of doing some kind of restriction on the house so that if someone were to purchase it they couldn't make it gigantic or you know three story it would have to be pretty much a similar
footprint to what it is now is there any thought of doing that just to protect what it looks like basically the historical commission's looking at putting it a historical preservation restriction on those and is there any chance that the select board would um consider putting an article again to the town on in the Maytown warrant for the rest the actual Orchard to sell that instead of leasing I think the napc meeting that we're having is basically
to discuss the process with the residents and people who want to come and and give input and it's partially educational session and information session for people to understand where we are and how we got here and also for us to listen to what you have to say about what you think we should do so it's in order to inform us I think for the board to make a decision one way or the other so it's not impossible that it's not impossible at this point we don't have any plans to bring an article
that would sell the orchard do you know when the warrant will close be the next um I don't know the specific dat is but next couple months two more months yeah okay thanks so much thank you hi I'm Christine nordhouse starh Hill
my experience and living situation give me an extremely comprehensive perspective on the orchard I'm married to Matthew I'm a farmer I'm a board officer of the Littleton conservation trust and I'm a former member of the Littleton agricultural commission I got ousted from my Adcom seat in 2018 for pushing the town to deal with the orchard back then I poked way too many bears that select board's failure to plan ahead ruined the Orchard and
put the land at risk of seizure for non-compliance with the APR so instead of dealing with it they booted the squeaky wheel off bag comment pushed the responsibility down the road to this board this board made hard decisions to protect the land even if that meant that they had to sell it when the vote to sell the orchard failed I kept myself informed on the potential tenants when the management plans came back with the RFP responses I read them and aside from members of the select board and working
group I haven't spoken to a single other person in town who has read these publicly available documents most notably those yelling the loudest that they weren't included in the process everyone needs to put the Forks down and do their homework because what's best for the land is written in black and white in those management plans I want to return the land to the nooba praying Indians but based on their
management plan they won't be ready to farm the land in accordance with the APR for several years at minimum and not without significant financial investment from the town I'm not opposed to that investment but if the land isn't farmed in accordance with the APR mdar will take it the town's RFI process provided mdar with multiple proposals to buy it that far outranked the nooba tribes from an agricultural standpoint and agriculture
is what mdar is there for bransfield proposal to restore the land through permaculture farming is a dream come true for that land apple orchards are extremely herbicide and pesticide intensive brassfield's permaculture plan will undo the environmental Devastation caused by Decades of those farming practices in use of the orchard to do what's best for
the land we have to take the Long View so here is what I propose first I recommend the sound the town sign a 20-year lease with Mr bransfield for the Barns and APR lands he will restore the land to a condition that will be so much healthier which equates to more productive agriculturally speaking than it is now or even as it was than it was as an orchard this is
a service that he will be providing that we could never ever ever afford to pay for as a town and he'll be paying us to perform it this type of restoration takes time and if you're unfamiliar with permaculture farming you should read up on it because it's incredibly cool or you could do your homework and read the management plan um
so my second um suggestion is that we give the house and the non APR lands if that's allowable under procurement law to the nooba praying Indians to restore while bransfield tackles the APR lands just give it to him the NPI can get ready to take over the APR land when the lease is up and the town can steer everything in that direction because that because
the voters clearly want that now I know that by rights the nooba praying Indians shouldn't have to wait a minute longer to return to their ancestral land but the APR exists we are all legally baned by it we're out of compliance and at very real risk of losing our say in what happens to it so I think if you're as passionate as I am about returning the land to its rightful
owners first let's keep it from being seized and give Mr bransfield 20 years to restore it thank you thank you good evening Dustin Neil 17 Lakeshore Drive also currently the president of the Littleton conservation trust want to thank everyone for their impassioned comments tonight and along the way also thank you to the board for the FAQs
that were produced they were very helpful to both uh highlight where there's flexibility for what's included in the lease uh potentially versus what's not um so I'm here to encourage to keep the lease as small as possible to satisfy the APR because it's clear that the APR sat uh satisfying APR is the major motivation both in terms of timing and the letter of being able to stay within the the bounds of that agreement um I think there's good options for what to do
with the non APR land so I very much encourage the board to think about all possibilities whatever the combination of APR land um to a lese versus non APR land that's set aside for sale or some other plan to um give folks a fair chance to acquire it I think would be very prudent um I'm glad that the mapc process is continuing um I think in addition to the large amount of public input that uh the town has seen over the last couple of weeks I think that voice
will also be Amplified in the uh output that comes from mapc at least I'm hopeful of that um so I'd encourage you to uh not commit to at least until you hear that uh feedback as well thank you thank you anyone else okay moving on durable well uh it's a one day before you Mr chairman we've got a one day liqu license request from derable for for
a liquor license for March 14 2025 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m for the mini golf fundraising event here at the library that's a an annual event which is which is uh it's it's pretty impressive pretty impressive and uh no one has uh everything has been filed appropriately with um liability insurance and the appropriate departments uh have signed off on the event I love Min
just say that right now move that the select board vote pursuant to Mass General Law chapter 138 section 14 to issue a special license also known as a one-day liquor license to Colin nerk and Christopher luring of Gible Brewing Company LLC for wine and Malt Beverages to be served during the friends of the Ruben library's mini golf event on fi Friday March 14 2025 between the hours of 6 pm and 900m second M
by Matthew second by Karen all those in favor minutes this is going to be your favorite meeting ever M it's already I did not have any corrections I didn't have any comments on the minutes either all good all right move that we approve move that the select board vote to approve the meeting minutes from The Joint select board meeting with finance committee on January 21st 2025 and the select board meeting on January 27th
2025 second moov by Matthew second by Karen all those in favor I I motion to adjourn second by Matthew second by Karen all those in favor I I thank you go home and see the wife