Oh, wait. You're such a jerk. Good evening, Littleton. Welcome to the October 6, 2025 select board meeting. Um, we'll get started with the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Um so the agenda tonight we will um
start with uh mail and then we'll move on to department and board updates from parks and wreck and the charter committee. Uh we've got a couple appointments to make. Then we'll have a public hearing for Tavern and the squar's liquor license change. Moving on from there to public input and
members updates over to select board discussion on the um application to use the common and the um special town meeting warrant town administrator update minutes and we will promptly adjourn at
8:35. Okay. Thank you madam chair, members of the select board. We uh we have some vacancies uh in uh boards and committees that are appointed by the select board. We've got the Agricultural Commission, Clean Lakes Committee, Committee for the
Exploration of Real Estate Tax Relief for Seniors, Economic Development Committee, Master Plan Implementation Committee, Permanent Municipal Building Committee, Personnel Advisory Committee, Sustainability Committee, ZBA, uh appointed by Littleton Electric,
Light and Water Department is one member for their finance committee. And okay, and we have sign up if you haven't already to receive public notifications for the town of Littleton.
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Uh, parks and wreck vote to approve a 40B exemption for Perry Kenny, Marggo Gillan, and Abigail Warner. Come on. Come on. Don't Don't be shy. Come on down. Hello. Um, okay. So, this is just uh
standard practice here. If we have anyone that works for the town um that would like to do any uh program or um work for us for just some uh after school hours. So, um Harry Kenny and Margot Gillan are both uh has that come
back. Um are both teachers and they would like to do some after school programs with us. as always. Um the time that they put into the programs with Park and Wreck um do not interfere with their school time at all. Um and then Abigail Waro is also
a teacher and she's going to help us with out of school time programming. So that would be like Veterans Day or February vacation. Um so the 20 exemption is required um for all three of these individuals for them to be able
to do programs with us. Any questions? No questions. Um, could you ex just um explain more exactly what they will be doing? Sure. Um, so Perry Kenny and Naro Gillan um are both doing uh different programs.
So Perry Kenny does an afterchool program um with uh kids at Shaker Lane. And then uh Margot is doing a uh cross country program. Um and then a like I said, Abigail uh Waro would work for us
for programs um that we do on days that the school is closed. Okay. Thank you. Right. I'll take a motion. Move the select board vote to acknowledge a disclosure by municipal employee of financial interest in a municipal contract and approve the
exemptions of Perry Kenny, Marggo Gillan, and Abigail Waro as municipal employees in accordance with Mass General Law chapter 268A section 20B. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. You're going to be saying that a lot tonight. Yes, you are.
All those in favor? I Thank you. I have the documents that you guys want to sign. I think it's just you. Is it just the chair? I think it's just the chair that signed it. Is that the same thing as this? It's just on the last page, but yeah.
Congratulations on a great event. Thank you guys so much for coming. I really appreciate it. Yeah, we estimated to have around like two was it 2,500 people come through during the day. So, and it was lovely to see rep uh
representative RCO. It was uh really cool for him to come out and have a great day with everybody else. There we go. That's it, right? That's it. That's the three. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.
Appreciate it. Have a good night. There is one more there. Sorry. Oh, I signed that one. Okay. All right. Thanks. You too. Okay. Uh, charter committee update.
Hello. Welcome. Hi, Betsy Bowling. Um, so just a quick update on what's going on at the charter committee. We have been spending the last month or two on elected boards and directors. So, um, this is going through the process of all these different
boards and should they continue to be elected or should we and some of them also appoint their own directors as opposed to having to go through the other process. So, rather than originally we thought we'd have people from the committee go and talk to these people individually and bring that back, but we determined no, we really need to have them in so everybody could hear
everything. And so, it took a lot of time, but um, but it was very worthwhile and very helpful to do that. Um, and we don't have any decisions on any of that. So, we're going to deliberate this week. We have a meeting on Thursday. We'll deliberate on that. So, this isn't to give any update just that we spent a lot of time doing that. I'm
sure you've heard that from people because everybody's been in to talk to us. One of the things that I would like to um talk about is when people hear about especially if we talk about people being appointed, whether it's to a board or a um an employee is appointed by somebody
at town hall as opposed to by the board. I think people in their heads have this idea of an appointment that there's somebody in a back room, you know, saying, "Okay, you're it. You're it. You're it." And that's it. And and that's not obviously the process. If somebody's appointed, there still is a process. There's still a committee. You're still going to bring all the right people together that have have a a
vested interest and that know things and so on and HR and so on. It's just that more if you run the process through, then somebody owns the process to get it through. And you've got a full-time, you know, town employee who's running the process to go through. So I think it's just an important point for people to understand that that when we talk about
appointments, it's not a one person deciding. It's still the same case today. What we found today in a lot of the discussions, especially on some of the the boards where, you know, there's the things that consultants tell us to look for on on these things is is are
they are they usually competitive elections and um is it a knowledgebased thing? Is it like any good well-meaning person could run for this and take this position and do it on on the board now we're talking about or do you really have to have some particular skill or
knowledge to to do it well? And so we found out is a lot of places where we have elections in effect people are appointed because what happens is there is no contested. It's just one person. What happens? We have an opening and so the people that are on the current committee or board go out and they find somebody. they use their networks and
other people's networks and they find someone who's qualified and interested and they say, "Oh, great. Either get your 50 signatures or just do a ride in and we'll get you on the board anyway." So, in effect, they're being appointed. It's just it makes it look like it's an election. We go through the election process. So, those are the things that that we're looking at when we will talk
through later this week on some of these should some of these be appointed really be appointed rather than that because there's some downsides to that. So, one of the things we talked about was the um you know when people get the especially the ride in votes with some oh you know I got the big joke is I got
seven votes you know I'm in well you know you could and that was it was a good person and you know all that was fun it was good but you could have the wrong people come in and do that too and so you're actually at some risk for doing it that way as opposed to having a more defined process. Um, the other thing we talk about is in some cases
some people might be very interested in serving and helping, but they really don't want to be elected. They don't want to go through that process. Appoint me, fine, but I don't want to go through the election process. So, things to think. Yeah, I know. Exactly. So, these are just some of the, you know, the conversations we've had and so
on going through. Um, so again, we're going to talk about that more this week. Then, um, it did impact our timeline a little bit right now. We're a little behind our original timeline. So, we'll see how that goes. We're going to try to make it up, but you know, you do this once every 20 years. You need to to do it right, not
hurry it along. So, that's where we're heading. That's the our approach. The other thing that came up that which kind of interesting that we did not expect when we started was talking about, excuse me, um, Littleton Light and Water. So, it turns out through the charter process, we could combine those two
boards. So, there's a fact one because right now when we have people run, we want them to run for both light and for water. And they they run as one one board, one meeting. They have one meeting but there's two different elections and so you could have a case where somebody runs for one and not the other and that would kind of disrupt things at Light and Water according to
the people who know. So people were interested in pursuing that. So that the um consultants had some things from other towns they had done and Light and Water actually went out and had their consultants look or their lawyers look at some wording and so on. So that is something that we're pursuing and they
may very well come through. I haven't still heard anything back saying why that we shouldn't pursue that. Um we spent a lot of time on that but that was kind of an interesting thing like but so yeah cuz that wasn't originally part of your what you were setting up to to review right.
No it wasn't as we was talking to people that just kind of kept coming well you know we have we have to get both people to run for both and says well okay this is something we should just we could address and we can through the charter you can. Mhm. Is that something you're looking for? Whether they should be elected or appointed as well?
No. Well, I I shouldn't say that only says no. We're going to talk about it on Thursday before I get the committee look at all those things. I think a lot of us probably have opinions on either individual boards or philosophy based on this kind of a board
or that kind of or what their how community oriented they are versus other things and so on because the other part this was also the fire and police chief was another discussion on this all in the same line like do they report to the select board do they report to the town manager or town administrator whichever way we go although I think it's pretty clear the committee is going to
recommend we use the term town manager and I think we had this discussion before that in itself doesn't mean anything it's just a title and and what happens in the charter is what determines is what the responsibilities and authority that that person would have. Um
okay that and then the public forum which thank you very much for that plug Tuesday October 14th. So people that are out there, if they want to know more, understand the process more, what a charter is, how we got here, what we're doing, what the process is, and have any questions, you can come Tuesday, October
14th to the center of Shadic Street at 6 o'clock, and we'll be happy to answer questions and share anything we can. Betsy, is the uh October 14th event, is that more of a um briefing or is that more of a gathering input or is it a little bit of both or
It's mostly a briefing, I think. I mean, there's just too we've gone through so much knowledge gathering to get here. It's really just not a any but anybody that has an idea or a thought or opinion, we want to hear it. I mean, we've been told that when the the boards come in, you can tell some of them are a little bit nervous and like if you if
you leave here and say, "Oh, I get to say this or I wish I'd said that." Well, just call us and tell us. I mean, this is not a we're not trying to get you on anything. We want to we want to hear from people and if there's something that that we're going one way and if we knew that it would make a difference, we want to hear it.
So, it's just that simple. Jenny. Um, so I've actually attended the last two meetings. Um, and I found it fascinating sitting there listening to when all these other boards come in and talk about how how they hire the directors because I don't think any two
followed the same process, right? Um, and and even to subordinates of the director, how they were hired was also very different depending on the board. So um standardizing that process will be a good thing for us. Um I will say I was
also very impressed with um so the other thing that came up is the a lot of the boards like Betsy said um they basically have to recruit for new members. I mean we've all been there having to recruit new members to run for an elected position. Um
the library has started doing something that um where they actually hold uh info sessions to like what does it mean to be a trustee? What does it mean to be a friend? And um and it's basically a start of like the citizens academy we
talked about before that I really strongly think we need to pursue further so that people actually know what the planning board does, what the select board does and all these boards because if we did more of that we could generate more interest in these positions and we
wouldn't have to be the one sitting up here. Yeah. what the library also said I I thought it was very um good of them I think just to also branch out because if you're just talking to the people you know well then it's just the same circle over and over again it's really wanted to branch out and get some people that would never even have known about or
consider it so that's good thank you thank you okay thank you appreciate it thank you appointments vote to appoint Alex Mccertie is the retiree representative to the insurance
advisory committee with a term expiring June 30th, 2026. Nobody here. Oh, hello. Hello. Michelle Bard, human resources director. Uh, this is pretty straightforward. Let me give you a little history. We have begun
conversations regarding our health insurance and potentially making plan design changes. As part of that process, there are two committees um that we need to establish. One is our insurance advisory committee and the other is our public employee committee. On those
committees, there are um a retire there is a retiree rep which before you is Alex McCertie. Uh the town as the appointing the public appointing authority needs to establish Mr. McCertie as the insurance advisory committee rep. It makes sense because
the public employee committee also has a retirey rep. We tried to keep the same membership and he has been named by the retirey state county municipal employee association. They appoint him on the public employee committee. So in trying
to keep the same membership on the IA and PEC, we are recommending he be on both. Um the non-union representative we only have on our insurance advisory committee. Um the town clerk in conjunction with the town clerk, she
recommended that we appoint um with the select board. So I just had a question. Well, as I was reading this, it said there's seven there's this is an eight member committee. Seven of them duly elected appointed by organizations of the
employer. So who so those are the unions. So each union gets one member on the committee. So it's usually the union president unless they deem somebody else but they do that. So there we have seven unions that are doing these appointments. Yes.
Okay. Okay. And they've appointed people. Yes. Okay. We are in the process right now of the insurance advisory committee is done um pending this one and then the public employee committee will be next. Okay.
Um so you want Okay. Move the select board vote to appoint Alex Mccertie as the retirey representative to the insurance advisory committee for a term expiring June 30th, 2026. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I move the select vote to appoint Tim
McCusky as the non-UN representative to the insurance advisory committee for a term expiring June 30th, 2026. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I. Thank you. Thank you. We got 10 minutes before the uh
point of time for the hearing. Do you do public input? Yeah. Is there any public input? Anyone? Shocking. I'm shocked. Um, does anybody want to do a member update? I have a couple small things. One is,
um, for those interested in the orchard happenings, Mr. Bransfield will be doing an open house on October 18th, Sunday, October 18th, from 2 p.m. till dark. Um, I it's he's it's a fascinating what he's doing there. It's a beautiful place. I
hope the weather's good, but I would encourage anyone who is even slightly interested in the orchard to go and and see what he's doing. Um, also I want to thank EHS for the COVID and flu clinic. My arm is still a little sore even though it's been more than a week, but it's great that we can get access to
that. It's really great. So, I appreciate the I appreciate the all the outreach. And uh there's another one. Diligence. I know what what's the date of the second one? Can you tell me? I can. Will you? Yes. Okay.
October uh October 21st. Thank you. I'm not going to get I'm not going to go back and get more. No, I I feel good. Okay. Okay. I'm done. You look good, Mark. Uh so I went to It was a busy weekend in Littleton. The Lysum on Friday with the
Love Dogs was a great concert, very well attended. to the country fair on Saturday uh which also was very hopping fire station um was happening and October Fest. So thank you for everyone that participated in the events and
thanks to all the staff and everyone that put them on. They were great. Um in addition on the weekend of October October 17th to the 19th the friends of the library will be having their uh semianual book sale over in the library. So that's Friday, I believe it's Friday
evening and then uh Saturday and Sunday during the day. Um I held office hours a few weeks ago now it seems. It seems like it was just yesterday but um and one theme that kept coming up is customer service that um we need to do a
better job of customer service through out town departments. people were getting um frustrated that they would call and people wouldn't call them back, right? And it wasn't like one department, it was multiple. So, we should figure out what we can do to
reiterate that we are a customerf facing organization and um and be responsive. So, yes, sir. So, um that's all I have. Okay. Um I was at October Fest, too. Um,
perfect weather, great attendance. Um, and many thanks to Parks and Recre for for putting it on. Um, personally, I loved having adequate parking over at the high school. So, uh, hopefully they'll uh they'll be continuing with that next year. Um
the podcast um was with the most recent one was with Charlotte Dolan and Michelle Zelena to discuss uh the sustainability committee's work um specifically article 13 with the climate emergency declaration and a climate action plan. So anybody who is
interested in article 13 or would like to know more about the climate action plan or sustainability committee encourage you to uh to listen and um Charlotte's got lots of good stuff to tell you. I attended a Shaker Lane forum on September 29th. Um it was pretty good
turnout all things considered. Um there were about a dozen people there. Um and including uh some abutters and um new folks to Littleton. So that was that was nice. Um
I don't know when the next forum is. I meant to look that up. I'll catch that up in a minute. Is there another one before town meeting? There is there is I'll look it up. Let's say like the 21st seems to be the date I remember but
um September 30th I had office hours in the center on Shadic because the library was closed. Um many thanks to those who came. Um and then over the last um week or so especially, we've been talking a lot about childcare at town meeting and
we've got that all ironed out it looks like by and large. So we'll have um the Boy Scouts will be in the cafeteria to help keep kids entertained whose parents are voting and speaking and
listening and such. Um there will be um drop off care in the sixth grade corridor probably for um ages five and up with um Littleton Public Schools um staff and then and volunteers from the
high school and uh there will be care drop off care for ages three to five in the library and that is sponsored by um and manned by Parks and Recre. Cool. Yeah. Wow, that's great. So, we're hoping that'll uh that will help encourage um
and just make it possible for for folks to uh to make it on October 28th at 7 p.m. Um met with Justin and Steve to discuss uh town meeting presentations for Shaker Lane. Um
everything progresses a pace. No real news there. Um let's see. Oh. Um, I wasn't sure. The planning board had requested Littleton email addresses. Is that something we actually have to vote on or is that something
that can just be done? Did anybody have any questions about that? I'm I'm in favor of it, frankly. I It's just a funding thing, right? We need to um we should pro probably have Nancy look at what it would cost for most of the boards. They already did. So,
oh, it's uh $31 per month per person. So, it's about $10,000 a year for for all the boards, right? And that's what we're right now running at about 8,500.
So, for the individuals um to have everybody to have their own email address such as the board of health does. So, they had it because they were pretty they were autonomous. I mean they were, you know, it was out of
Nshoba. So now that that is not the case, there could be one board of health email that goes right into Francis or um Heidi uh the administrative assistant uh and
then dispersed accordingly. Um and there is four individual ones for the uh for the charter review committee. Uh but that was there was a sunset associated with that. When Ryan originally had established had established that there
was an understanding of a sunset. It was not going to be permanent. Um and I can uh let me let me just look. Uh so that was a conversation I had with Nancy on Friday.
um just here it is um cost breakdown. So, we've got uh Okay. So, uh some so Littleton PMBB PMBC has one email. Um PRCE commissioners have one
email. Historical commission one email. sustainability uh committee has has one email that goes that is directed to go to one particular person. The select board has individual um ones but as I explained before about
the board of health and the charter they are uh they're they're they're against the norm trust fund commission has one email. So, we're looking at costs at it's uh so the boards with 20 with
emails which are 26 it's $832 per month that uh that it's about $10,000 a year as as it is. It's $31.80
per user per month. That is more than I ever would have thought it would be. Me too. Exactly. So, and then the other thing is and then it's the matter of uh maintaining cyber security training and uh not everyone does that
that that that currently has one. Um, and uh, and that's that's that's another thing. I don't think I guess I don't think we need to give everyone on every board an email address, but I think regulatory
boards especially like I can't imagine that I would be using my personal address for all the select board emails I have. And I I can see the planning board getting an equal number of emails and conver conversations and communications. It makes sense to me that the board of health and the
planning board and you know the white light and water commissioners maybe and perhaps the ZBA could have would have their own email addresses if they have to do a lot of communication. The other boards if sustainability is okay with a single email or you know the rest of them are okay with a single email that's
great like let them continue that way. Okay. But I I would absolutely encourage if the boards want to use that it's it's great. I would also encourage Nancy to look at it the email light because I think she I think the email system we
have set up is really meant for town employees and not for board members and that's why it's so expensive. Like the whole running MCAST on all of our attachments is just silly, right? It's meant to prevent me from infecting a town computer, but I am never ever on
a town computer. Right? It's we're paying for things for the boards that we don't need. Like we don't all need one drive for example, right? And some of the other stuff that we get with with that subscription.
So maybe it it's hard to untangle it, but I think I'm with Mark like if there's a light version that's just email that's cheaper, go for it. Okay. Okay. All right. I think there's a difference between um appointed people and elected.
I can see why um anybody who's elected as an individual should have an individual email address. Mhm. Um that makes sense to me. So for that would include planning board for example, but not sustainability. Yeah. Right.
Um it's interesting most of it as we're talking most of it falls along those lines anyway. Zoning board of appeals etc. Um but yeah, if we could look into if there's any way to We'll do. Yeah. Thanks. Understood.
And uh Mr. Vice Chairman, you are correct. What about October 21st? Oh, sweet. There is a a tour and a question and info session after. Okay. At the All right. So, October 21st for the next
Shaker Lane forum. Great. Diane wants to say something. Can I just add that um the EHS is going to be um doing rides for the night of the town meeting.
Oh. Oh, EHS is providing rides for town meeting. Okay, great. Um where would 6:45 until 10 p.m. Wonderful. 6:45 to 10 out. More more information will go out onto the website. Okay.
But um She did mention it today and um it's over 6:45 what she said. Okay. Well, when she said stealing thunder jump, did you want to plug any upcoming events, Diane? What's that?
Did you want to plug up any upcoming events? I I like I will be mentioning it on when I go with Mark again. That'll be going. Sorry. Sorry. Oh god. It's fine. Please. Yeah,
just do the rest of it. All right. Uh, so it's 7:03. So we could start our hearing. Tavern in the Square Liquor License, change of officers, directors, LLC managers, and change of ownership interest. Uh, good evening. My name is Dawson Cooper. I'm an attorney with Uptons
Canel and Devlin. I'm here on behalf of Tavern in the Square Littleton LLC. um Tavern in the Squares applying for a transfer of ownership interest in a change of their LLC manager um from Broadway Hospitality Group LLC to Tavern Holdings LLC. Uh this is the result of a
change in upper tier ownership structure only as Garnet Station Partners has acquired the business. Um it's important to note that operationally nothing is changing. Um it's still going to be a tavern in the square. All of the employees are going to stay the same. Venue is going to stay the same. people, unless you're at this meeting, are
probably not going to know that anything has changed at all. Um, just the corporate structure tree is changing names. Um, additionally, it's important to note that these applications have already been reviewed and approved by the ABCC, which is a little bit of a backwards
process, but because of the amount of Tavern and the Square locations that had to do these, we did them the other way. So, they've already looked at them, um, got them in order before we brought them to you guys. So, um, with that, I'm happy to answer any questions, but like I said, operationally, you guys are not
going to notice anything different. Um, just kind of change of some boxes there. It all seems straightforward to me. Yeah. You read all the pages? No. Every single one. Like 80% of our packet was was this document. Oh, no. No. It's like 95%. Yeah.
800 and some pages. Yes. Yes. So, nothing for me. Nothing for me. Um, move select board vote to approve the application of Tavern in the Square LLC for an alcohol all alcohol beverage on premises license change. Actually, wait.
Yeah. Did we have to open the hearing? We have to open and close a public hearing. Sorry. Move to open the public hearing. Second. Actually, do we have to read the notice for the public hearing as well? I don't have that. You can here. This is it, right?
Is that it? opening it or is that the motion itself? That's the motion to change. That's move that we open the public hearing for the change in Tavern and Square electric license. I'll second it. All right. Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor?
I. Okay. Okay. Any public input? Any public input regarding the application? Hearing none. I move that we close the public hearing. Second. Moved by Matthew, seconded by Mark. All those in favor?
Call. I. I. I. Thank you. Okay. Now we can vote. Move the select board vote to approve the application of Tavern in the Square LLC for an al all alcohol beverages on premise license change of owners,
directors, LLC managers, and change of ownership interest. requested under Mass Journal Law, Chapter 138, Section 12, submitted by Tavern in the Square, LLC, 810 Constitution Avenue, Littleton, Mass, with hours of operation Monday through Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:00
a.m. Thursday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Second move by Mark, seconded by Matthew. Mark I Matthew I
Karen's I thank you the check as well for the legal fee that goes to him. Thank you. He gets all the money signing this. Is that for all of us or just you? All of us.
I think it's all about your bed. Sure. Okay, we're scrolling. We're scrolling through 800 pages. Let me see. Can I see somebody's printed out agenda
here? Took me six years to scroll up. Y I know that's hilariously. So we did Alex. Yes. Alex Mccertie select board discussion. Select board discussion. An application to use the common by Barbara Ward for a
rally on October 18th, 2025. We still need to talk about the rules for Oh, sorry. Please come up. So, you had the application. Who could you say your name and Oh, Barbara Ward,
eight spart little um yes, we um uh petitioned back in September uh because we got notification from the national group that there was going to be a nationwide standout across the country for Indivisible. And given
that we've used the common June, July, August, and September, and we feel that we used it in good faith, kept it pristine, I think everybody respected it according to what guidelines we had. But I applied
for a um a application this time because we think or we thought at the time that we were going to try and have a speaker and as of today we are confirmed that we have Jamie um Eldridge coming to speak. So that would require um some kind of
speaker system, maybe a podium, maybe a table, a little bit more than uh probably a little less than we had in June, but a little more than what we usually have. So, I just wanted to be sure that we had access to the common and that we could use the electrical
facil facil facilities and um be in the good graces. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. We appreciate that. Okay. We and just attendance could be anywhere from 1 to 200 people. We have a registration system. very
often more people show up in what we register, but we'll keep you posted if you want. Yeah, that would be helpful. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh move the select board vote to approve the use of the lower Littleton Common for a Pro democracy standout on October
18th, 2025 from 10 to noon. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I. Thank you. And now we've got vote to approve, sign, and post the special town meeting warrant, discuss the special town meeting schedule, and vote to assign
articles for the October 20th, 2025 special town meeting. You're in chucking them all as usual. Makes sense to me. Um the uh as the articles uh that were uh recently uh
uh different committees. Uh right now the select board has uh unanimously supported articles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11
12 and 13. Uh no vote was taken by the select board on on 14 and um the article number eight motion will be made on the floor because of the because of the recent confirmation of the expenditure
for the uh that we're taking out of the um uh uh um stabilization account. Uh and uh that's what uh is going forward. Uh in regards to that the other uh FINCOM
has also supported 1 2 3 4 5 10 and they did not uh support article 14. uh trust fund commissioners uh supported article five and sustainability uh
committee um in in combination with the select board uh uh approved article 13 and uh that's it. Great. All right, ready to close it.
Sign and close. So, is what I'm I'm a little confused by what was in the packet because it doesn't have any of the um endorsements on it. It doesn't say any of the recommendations and it doesn't have like any of the like
narratives. So, right, that Okay, [Music] if I might, tonight is really for the warrant versus um the special town meeting report. Okay, thank you. Thank
you. [Music] And for the the report, if we can speak to the report uh is uh we'll be at the post office uh by Friday of this week and then it'll be uh then you know
hopefully be mailed out by Saturday, Monday at the latest and uh the postage was delivered to the post office a couple a few weeks ago. Yeah. Wonderful. Thank you. Move the slip forward vote to sign and post the October 20, 2025 special town
meeting warrant. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I I [Music] um Do we have another meeting before?
We do. We do have another meeting before. Um I think we've got one on the 20th, right? Um, and we could assign then. Seems like we should then when jumping to Gary here.
It's the 20th. Yeah, it is the 20th. It's the 20th. Okay. Schools are closed for Dvali. At least they give me the but schools are closed for what? Dvali. Oh, but that but um I think offices are
open. So I think we're fine. So, let's do an assignment of the articles on the 20th. Y since Gary and Chuck aren't here. Yeah, understood. I don't think it's going to be It's a missed opportunity, but All right. I think it would be hilarious to assign every single one to maybe like 12 of
them to Gary and one to Chuck or something like that. All right. Let it be entered into the record. Um, okay. Um, Mr. your town administrator. Yes. Do you have any updates for us?
I had one, but No, I do. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, so uh we have our bond rating call next uh next week. Uh actually, it's on the 14 the 14th. The S&P for a
bond rating call. We have uh received all the of questions that we're going to be getting from them and the questions before the test. Uh they they tend to go off off script quite a lot with with with questions, but uh we anticipate it's
going to be a successful call. Um special town meeting child care. you all received the uh the flyer to today and I'd like to uh really my hat is off to Chairwoman Morrison who has been very involved in making sure that uh this is
uh the child care and uh and uh making it a a finely tuned operation along with Superintendent Clenchy uh is is also uh making a tremendous effort and working hard and making sure everything is going to be is going to be fantastic.
Fantastic. Uh, also I have a meeting coming up uh with the owner of the point uh in regards to the the camera situation there, especially something some disturbing thing that was reported just recently and uh and also going back to
the fires uh with the uh electrical um charging stations that were over there that uh um I'm not sure that anything was ever resolved on that one. Uh as I had I'd had mentioned earlier as part of uh the town meeting uh the we finally
have come to agreement with the insurance company and the uh the contractor that to repair the the damaged areas in 36 King Street and that is an $87,000 uh uh price tag that is on on us of the
the total the total cost of the of all the damages is was uh $106,524 and uh there's a $50,000 deductible in there. So that was the that's a that's a huge chunk of uh of what our responsibility is.
So the 86 includes the 50. It does. So we are responsible for 36 more or less of the damage. Yes. Yeah. Yep. um met today with uh the Conquered Building and Design Center uh the vice president there of some questions that
they have in regards to the the for the project at 410 Great Road and actually about access and the location in relation to I know that DOT has expressed concern that what has been
proposed and I believe what has been uh what was um accepted at the at the planning board. You have the access for 410 Great Road is directly across the road from the access up to the 410 to the 550 King Street across you're just
like going right across the street on Great Road and um uh and that uh but uh DOT has uh um has has expressed concern about that. So there is discussion about moving it down further. Uh, and I would
have to show you on a on a on a map, but it's a it's a land swap between uh Conquered Lumber and uh Leolei companies in order to and it's pretty it's pretty much even for even even steen. The question that um is still um is out
there is about the easement down there and because that could be used that area down there to move that access point further down closer to the light. So there would be a reconfiguration of that light. So a light would be not only up
and down Great Road but also facing uh the um the exit to 410. Thank you. Yeah. uh to to be there, but there's a lot of questions there um that uh so I'm going to continue conversations and engage DOT with uh uh
with conquered lumber. So like conquered lumber would get some land behind and and Leolei would get the land that conquered Lumber has up next to to the road. Basically, basically
Leolei owns this parcel further on, you know, further down the hill and conquered Lumber owns this parcel. Okay. Which is closest to the road. Okay. Okay. Near where you go on 495. Okay. What they would essentially do is switch
it. Yeah. Okay. That's what they're looking to do. Okay. So, and Conan Lumber is is is great with that. Um but they are uh there are still some outgoing concerns that he he was posing for um DOT which I
obviously I I I'm not in a position to uh to answer. So I'm going to try and coordinate that meeting uh with DOT for him. Um okay. um uh business uh business recognition and there is some so um what
I would like to propose to to do is uh every month uh with the newsletter uh to identify uh a Littleton business and uh highlight them uh and take pictures uh interview
the um uh the proprietor, the manager or anything like that and make that part of the newsletter. and maybe even, you know, increase it, have maybe a couple uh because uh there are over 300 registered uh
businesses here in Littleton. And I had shared with the select board uh during my update a narrative that I think um I would propose to be sending out to everybody that has a uh that has a business certificate uh through the
through the town clerk's office and um as they come in it's uh the as as as and Nancy has identified also a portal that would be set up. So, anybody that wants to submit their business in, they would have to put their business certificate, the name of the business and the address
and so on and so forth. And then they would send it in and it would arrive in the town administrator's office and Tony, the assistant uh town administrator, Lisa, or myself will all get the same email just to make sure we're uh we're on top of it. So, this is something I'd like to be able to
highlight and uh and and and reach out to all the local businesses and uh um I think it would be it would be it would be uh a good thing to do. I've checked with town council and they're okay with it because uh none of us I'm not
benefiting from it from whatsoever. It's a platform and they're registered users and if you don't but if register certificates if you don't have a registered certificate you know that that's the rule. Um and uh it's got to
be up to date and I believe it's it's it's not expensive. It's $30 for three years four years four years even even even less expensive. So it's um but it's a you know I think it's good
that if we if we're reaching out and uh to the town that we you know we we notice we you know we we give uh notice to our the people that made investments in our community. That would be my that would be my recommendation. Um, DPW is a few weeks few weeks away
from fall paving starting and the last rapid flash beacon is going to be installed the week of the 13th at Shaker Lane School. Nice. Yeah, DPW is installing the bases next week and the contractor will be in the week of the 13th to set them up.
Uh, let me see. Um and we have as far uh as as far as the climate action plan uh one thing that uh Michelle the regional energy manager through NIMCOG has requested is to meet with specific
uh uh committees uh building I'm sorry uh um departments and we're going to have that uh that meeting with it's going to include everyone is welcome but uh but specifically buildings facilities planning conservation DP PW pox and
wreck and uh the fire department schools and um uh LWD and the schools will be included and um town committees will be invited to an evening focus group. This will be done during the during working hours and it would be it would last
approximately 1 hour. Um let me see is the committee one the same same day I believe so which make yes it makes sense. um our new uh veterans agent um uh has been
doing a tremendous amount of outreach and as a result he's up to 40 clients. So which is uh he's been uh doing a great job. Good for him. Absolutely. And uh there is a van through sorry that was already said. Um
the town clerk, town clerk's office, 1,300 ballots were sent out uh and 30 were returned over the weekend. Um the our town clerk uh should be receiving uh the clickers back uh being reumbered. That's why they were sent out. Uh and
originally they were numbered I believe 1 through 700 but because everyone around is is particular like that really she really took the uh Diane took the initiative and it's starting at 1,700 to 2400.
So when you go to a neighboring community like we did for we're doing for this special town meeting um there is 500 we're borrowing from Bolton and 600 from from Groten. So those will be much lower numbers. We'll be way out of
the that area and uh so we'll have have enough. So which is great job uh by our town clerk. Um let me see uh October 21st is another clinic. Uh they had 110 vaccines that
that were uh uh at the last clinic. Uh the fire department had an open house over the weekend. Very very successful. uh PR and pox and wreck. October sess October Fest was very successful. Trunk or treat is October 25th. Uh Wickham
Field is coming along if you haven't have an opportunity to see it. But uh it is um it is coming along fantastic. It looks absolutely beautiful. And as you know, the tennis courts are are all done. And uh last thing I will and we're
working on making sure putting out the special um special town meeting newsletter. Okay, great. The ambulance is in service. Yes. Yes, it is. No, you know, you know, they finally found the keys. Quite a journey, huh?
Yeah, without a doubt. Without a doubt. So, uh Yep. Everything is everything is great. Wonderful. uh minutes. I don't have any corrections on that.
Let's go. Move the Slick board vote to approve the meeting minutes from the Slickboard meeting on September 22nd, 2025. Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I I don't know if we're an hour early. Can we quit? Yeah, we can. Motion to adjurnn.
Second. Moved by Mark, seconded by Matthew. All those in favor? I. Good. Good night, Littleton.