##VIDEO ID:Om1DRzuvvkA## good evening everyone this is the uh Community preservation committee meeting of January 15 2025 happy New Year everyone um we have um a bunch of guests tonight and some agenda items that my agenda um some administrative um we did have a set of minutes from November if everyone had a chance to look those over they look great directions all look at them I forgot they came in sorry con yeah I didn't have any thank you M for fixing those I especially like the Bold facing of the eligibility requests the introduction of Graphics to them that's great getting fancy in this retirement Su retirement all right do we have a motion and move we accept the minutes uh from the Winston November 2 20th meeting we have a mo oh we have a uh remote remote person tonight so um Andrew I Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam hi carollyn and I Linda stain I didn't read okay and M hi so that's one two 3 4 five 60 1 great thank you everyone um I have just a couple of updates um actually leave those for later I did try I did ask um for some updated balances and I haven't heard back from yet she said she'd send them to me this week so when I get them I'll send them out just to see where we're at I did sit with uh Fred fauler and Jerry Brad Jerry brosi from the um finance committee last night Jerry wasn't able to make it to the meeting tonight she's our finance rep um just to kind of go over what projects we had so far that was really what they were concerned about um I have some information on the track which we can talk about um when we get to the um the budget uh other than that that was really all we we T it's just basically a review of what's going on so that wasn't so bad um we talked about the allocations and how we may need to rebalance those this year um but that was about it anyone else have any updates or I just have a a very quick one I know you guys um last meeting were curious as to how much money the concom has uh spent from the land acquisition fund that we uh created last year um so we haven't actually spent any money out of that yet that answers that thank you Andrew no problem and affordable housing trust we're going to need that annual budget report shortly I've asked for the total spent on L to date and I haven't heard back okay I'm sure they'll ask well we do name it's required yeah we have a meeting next week so we right great thank you okay um I have public input but if there you know as we go through the projects we can discuss things then unless there's something exciting and interesting anyone has to say um so our first uh item is the Littleton Historical Society funding application for the wicom commission and I have to recuse myself for this um Andrew do you want someone to do it here or can you do it remotely um I'm happy to do it remotely if you'd like Perfect all right uh so so as Carolyn mentioned uh our first project for tonight is the funding application for the Jonathan Wickham commission and I can't see the audience um but Andy I think I saw you in the out in the audience yeah perfect so um last meeting we did go over uh what the project detailed uh essentially the the conservation of the document did you have anything to add uh to the board tonight no not really I was just going to read the same stuff over again I mean it was basically the same as the eligibility form so Andre she submitted the funding application this is the funding application which came in after but it's it's sort of the same thing do you want me to read it um so yeah so this is the funding application so um I I think we pretty much got the um the project last time around for the eligibility do the board members want to hear uh the presid again or are we satisfied with the information provided I don't need to hear it I think your application was really good where you showed the document and you translated the document and it's very interesting Susan did that g gave the you know historic background of the person you guys okay perfect uh do any board members have questions for Andy about the the funding application clear I me perfect uh do any members of the audience have any questions or comments uh before we perhaps move to a vote all right well given that Andrew let's just get some of the details down so that uh when it comes to a vote and the vote is over we have it in minutes so this is the funding application for the Jonathan wicom commission from whom that's from the Littleton historical society and what's the amount let's see that please 3,9 hi Saul [Music] no thank you sure than that's all I I'm good Andrew Perfect all right uh Saul did you have any um questions or comments about the historical society's uh funding application for the Jonathan Wickham commission uh conservation project all right um well if there are no further questions or comments uh what's the pleasure of the board would we like to perhaps take a vote on the application I'll make a motion that we approve the application for funding for the permission [Music] warrant what you say second all right it's been moved in seconded we'll do a roll call vote uh Barlett I Jeff Hi Sam hi Linda hi mitt hi Saul hi and myself I it's unanimous with one um uh yes thank you Andrew that was great oh thank you yeah Andy thank you and the H Historical Society do you want you hear what happened while you were I think I I think I got the gist yeah it better be okay thank youy all right go on to our next here um nobody else is coming in here uh next is the clean Lakes committee the first one we have is the still harvesting for Lake Matan and we had you know a great presentation from you so I think um if nothing you have any changes or anything more to add um but I don't think we need to go over the entire thing again okay um last time you uh asked us to um be a specific about what our assessment cont would be for the um you know determining whether the ne harvesting was successful I don't know I didn't have much in there on the request for eligibility I don't know if you want to hear how we're going to go about doing that yes please um okay so um oh we uh there's there's like two kind of Assessments uh on the uh effectiveness of the ecoh harvesting one is uh how well did it remove plants in the first place uh and the second is uh is the what's the longevity to the effect of removing the plants um and so those are two things we would be uh working to determine um there's two ways that we're assessing it uh we're making use of commercial professional uh services to to do plant monitoring before and after uh the treatments um we've uh done this uh yearly for a while and we'd be using the same services to do it um but uh that cost money and so we're doing it before and after but then in addition to that uh the the links committee and FRP Pond are will be doing uh further frequent assessments throughout uh next summer and you know after the treatment and then uh again the following spring and you know into the later in the summer of the following year to see what's the uh what's the the effect of that um long term because that's that's important uh if if if it um you know is successful at removing plants but a month later they're back again then we're not really gaining much right um so um the uh the assessments are basically visual observations uh and because it's it's a large area uh and the the uh ability to assess it depends on how deep the plants are how I mean the water is dark in Lake ban that's an issue um and the effect of you know how bright it is how Palm the water is all all effects um and um the U there there may be some uh dependence in terms of the effectiveness on um you know how uh well on on the type of species in a given area it may have worked better on some species than others may depend on you know if it's deeper or shallower it may work better um uh and um it it may also depend on how much time the the machines spend in a particular area and how they operated this different ways F operate so if we are aware of those kind of differences um we might be able to um factor that in so um that's more information about doing exess now where's all that information reside does that reside with the clean lights committee I mean is that I mean I know that's the hard part with any Committee in town is we don't have like a repository of of stuff but do you do you keep there we have reports that are uh I don't I don't know I mean so our we generally our our um blaz is on with the water department I think is responsible for maintaining that and I don't know if it's publicly available we guess there's reason why it couldn't be do you have a project page on the town website we we have uh I mean our minutes are there you know you had at the last meeting you had the maps yeah uh something like that posted onto your you know maybe create a project page for this and start um because also the result of your uh what might be a called a study or you know pilot program you know everyone will be interested in hearing about it that's just the thing like to carry it on you know if if all of you guys resign next year and there's a whole new Cen Lakes committee then all that's you know in somebody's filing cabinet at home unless they recycled it which you know right yeah but that's true the website's probably the best Town theory you know in the planning board every time there's a project some you know a project page is created and then thing whatever documents hearings yeah so that might be the thing to do yes and it also might um this is an excellent you know in the application even if you you know this is a great outline of the issu problem you know how you seem to answer pretty much all the questions the Westford question you know so um yeah even yeah putting that up there could be yeah you know I mean it's a substantial amount of money and there might be people are curious yeah um i' I'd love to comment on that um as a member of the Wilton Queens Lake clean Lakes committee also um there is uh great transparency to the process and a lot of opportunity for involvement that committee meets almost monthly and there's all the members um that I've seen at work are do a lot of homark around it too so it's very thoughtful process and I'm sure that um people want wanted more information they could reach out to people like Dave or John or Leon and um and also other Advocates around town thank you any more information I think we not unless you had questions about what we had in the reest yeah I didn't I didn't have [Music] anything ID of curiosity how big is how deep does the whe fix the stuff up though so it uh it can uh it can go down as deep as uh about 3T maybe a little bit more uh normally they run it more like 2 feet U but um uh it um and it can they can run at different speeds right um and uh in the in the past when we you know the the earlier studies we've done uh we've been so so so limited in how much of the uh how how how big how long the treatments were that they were kind of Russian you know and so uh it it was U not not adequate for even covering the area and then the areas that they covered I don't think they were as effective as could have been was it as thorough yeah so I think um you know this will be we really want to be pretty definitive about you know is this a useful thing or not um one thing oh uh we um so like you know you could say well so if it's successful then what I mean it's expensive right how do we do that right um one of the things we're talking about with committee is you know if it's successful if it's useful I mean it's there are problems with herbicides that we you know we don't want to use herbicides on a regular basis we talked about you we might do one um ahead of the E har thing to just kind of knock things down and sea um but uh one of one of the disadvantages of herbicides is it you know it kills the plants they become part of the sediment and it it still continues to fop the lake right uh but one of the advantages is that it's pretty cheap right um so in a way to try to uh make Echo harvesting more cost effective one of the possibilities would be to uh if it's if it's determined to be useful and effective uh buy one and uh then rather than um you know paying a contractor and bidding it out each year and having that uncertain at all uh you know have higher uh uh worker to to run it in the summer and U there some cost for maintenance and storage but it could be cheaper than you know what we're doing right now right I think you had mentioned that because I remember talking with um the fincom members last night and is there would there be a possibility of like renting that out to other towns so there might be some cost savings there or didn't you say there was a town that has already bought one is it possible you could it from them so so but uh yeah the other possibility about having one is that you know uh you could have more time to you know uh be more effective right be more careful any last questions anything from the audience from warm weather right be fun to be on the lake out on the lake sure pull up fishing line behind you it would be very satisfying too like to pull all that stuff out would think like at the end of the day you can see what youve done vacuum I'll make a motion to approve the [Music] application second okay we have a motion by Bartlett a second by Linda Andrew oops Andrew sorry did have something yeah sorry carollyn did we want to just specify that this is coming out of the open space bucket oh yes yes open space reserves from the open space reserves M did you get that uh yeah move that the application for funding be granted from the open space res reses did we do that for the I don't think we did actually well we'll figure that out after you um so we have a a motion in a second Andrew hi Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam hi Caroline is an i Saul hi Linda hi and Ms all un okay so you guys are set well we um we'll recommend that to town meeting and we'll see what goes from there but so should we be prepared to talk about it I would be prepared if you want to you can I would be prepared for questions I don't think we yeah typically what we do is we just wait and if somebody asks a question then we we would ask you to I mean I'm not going to get up there and stumble through it so um if someone could be available for that on call and we can talk about that ahead of time yes yeah okay I don't think we would feel we need to present something obviously yeah I'm going to get these up on our section of the website and let everybody know so um if they have they can go look at it and our meetings they can watch our thank you Dave um since we just took that vote I'm looking back at minutes and I don't have what baret's motion was do you want to the one that we just did no the previous one for the historical commission John commission document uh can we revote that how do we do that Andrew how do we do that or help the language and I'll type it in what do you think Andrew make it from the reserves we and we're looking to insert just to like what I heard Carn say I don't I don't want to fudge this I don't want to make it up at home I don't want to get it wrong NE but can we get the language down that includes which uh it comes out of so Barlett did you make the motion I did I don't it is from historical commission buet historic bucket the reservation ofart what's the name Jeremiah document commission from whatever government entity was operating in 1739 and can I use the word the verb restoration of preservation preservation of thank you andit did you get the final vote for that yes yes it was unanimous by roll call Perfect one exstension without me without Caroline yeah and we what about the reserves Andre should we revote that or can we just uh we could revote it if if we'd like if it's in the application yeah it is in the application if you want Carn I just want to make sure it's right so that we don't have to wait for July okay uh so Andrew it's your call if we're going to revote it right now I have Bart move that the commune approved funding for the preservation of the wood commission document to the amount of $3,910 to be granted from theoric Reserve is that right Carol is that the right phrasing and then let's see would somebody like to do we want to revote it or do you think it's good like that I think it's good like that that's exactly what I said this is just stalling to let me catch up with the typing and there done perfect thank you m thank you Andre I also should have pass the out first those three this is the I don't know about you guys but I was so confused what we had and I had so much paper flying around that I I made a a chart of what we' done oh Andrew I should have email it to you um a chart of what we've done and what we still needed to approve um so we just did the wcom and we just did Eco harvesting so those are done then thanks for making this oh gosh it was crazy lost minut okay um so next up we have um the spec Pon boat launch which is this a resubmission of the eligibility eligibility phase and uh and gave me permission to continue on the only tweak I really have unless you want to go through the documentation the only tweak I have is uh the the board was correct that $220,000 was insufficient because well what I got from John was a new eligibility request I don't have a funding request oh no he should have passed the funding request okay so so this is like a re resubmission for the 30,000 which is fine we can do the funding we still have time it's not like there some there was some confusion on as documents were being passed around yeah but this is the uh this is the funding request thank you so I have funding application on the this is why I don't like to be really specific on the agenda but we do have the funding application so we can vote on this tonight perfect that's great yes again tweak was instead of 20,000 30,000 it's uh inflation and Co adjusted is that so TRC is the engineering yes firm you yeah previously uh Carl neelon was with ESS but now he's with TRC okay and that's could be higher could be lower okay but 30,000 comfortable he's going to do just what you outlined for us last time I my nice pretty slow picture yeah the only one you liked you want copies um yeah does anyone have any any questions further um Andrew I'm sorry we don't get it's it's basically the same the funding application is the same except it's got $30,000 now for the really nothing new here that we from what we heard last time is that correct that's correct just the dollars have any questions s or no and there's no questions I'll move that we approve the application for funding for the expectable Pond boat launch engineering study to come from the recreation Reserve Reserve second Andrew can have the second m is frowning thanks uh Jeff moved and Andrew seconded yeah Jeff do you want to restate that please uh to the application for funding for the spec iCal Pond oat launch engineering study uh from the in an amount of $30,000 from the recreation Reserve thank you so we have a motion by um Jeff a second by Andrew Andrew I Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam hi Carolyn is an Isa Linda hi and N hi unanimous all right you're all set as well and the same applies just be ready for questions and hopefully you don't get any okay all right thank you gentlemen Thank You Leon thanks FL okay good good who's up next Litton historical Commission also added to the confusion yes I know so we have you're replacing two and then the consultant for 12 Robinson ro we're all done we've done all that and that's stay it is but the um theog Hill Orchard and the um derky Farmhouse you're going to submit different applications for so I sent out the eligibility application everyone see that I have copies if anyone wants a cop so so the reason that I'm doing this is when I submitted these two applications last month to committee and you reviewed them and recommended them for approving I had very little information about what was going to happen with these two projects back then mostly what I submitted last month was followup consultations with our historic preservation consultant just so that we can continue to talk to her and get get her input on whatever was to come however since that time actually very recently I have gotten more information on both of these projects so I've I'm resubmitting those um I I want to replace the ones in December with these two applications um the one for um for nagog Hill um what we so the information that that I've gotten since then is that the town is in the process of leasing the land to a lei someone who's going to have the put the land in agriculture my understanding is he he or she I don't know who it is is going to use container farming only um and that person has expressed to the town that here she is interested in possibly leasing Maybe buying I don't know which actually leasing or buying the main house and the two barges so this is new information so since I've gotten that information I'm putting in a more detailed um eligibility request tonight to use our historic consultant to help the historical commission um survey the barn the the two barns the commission has already surveyed the main house with our consultant we used a Littleton historical commission Town funds to do that um but we're looking to survey the two barns and um get them put into the macas database which is really the first step in in going moving towards preservation um and then after we do that we want to use the historic preservation consultant help us write um preservation restrictions for all three of the um structures meaning the main house and the two bars so that's what's before you tonight so we take away our vote from last meeting yeah yeah this is just a more this is more more detailed work and is the same thing for the is that just for are we just talking now about the ne Hill Archard but we also have The derky Farmhouse is the same thing with that that you've gotten further information okay yes so the request tonight is for more money than last month um for nagog Hill Orchard it's $3,253 out of the historic Reserve that's the old one oh I'm sorry shoot thank you that's the old one that's why I have my chart yeah right yeah the new one is um $648 that's derky that's derky oh my goodness try again 682 you want a copy number no I got it now I got it now 6,823 it's the request for the origin or any comments or questions from anything from the audience in terms of the Restriction that would be put on it is it what do we know we don't we don't know yet what we're trying to preserve or no um no and this eligibility request it mentions that our historic preservation of so Len me would do a site visit and to to the house well she already did the house but to the two barns we haven't gotten into the interior of the house yet we don't know if we'll be able to because of the mold issue but once um she sees the the barns which she hasn't looked at yet um the interior and the exterior then we can come up with what we like to be in the preservation restriction and it this has to be worked at you know the owner have toed this or the LEC or well the owner either yeah the owner is Right town or if this person is interested in buying it it would have you know we would have to come we both have to sign the agreement yeah okay so the to the town could could put the conservation restriction on the historic preservation rtion on it as the owner prior to sale couldn't they yes and the offic and then derky the the work done in advance is on spec because we don't know if the owner would sign it is that correct and the so the owner has to agree to the preservation restriction well they have to sign it it gets recorded in the land Deeds you know this was the process at called Robinson yeah was right yeah sure well but that was that's a slightly different that was bought with the purpose of preserving it right not necessarily I mean it was significantly developed what you did in that case was you determined what aspects of the structure were to be preserved but it wasn't the entire structure right and we talked a lot with the owner about the previous with the new owner but to make the to make the historic preservation restriction that was done way years before the preservation restriction had to be part of the sale the closing so we wrote it first and then there were two closings the town bought the property right on just to preserve it and then then put a deed restriction on it and then sold it yes I mean more or less more or less and in the in the these two before us they are the town already owns the properties so the first we don't have to buy the properties um and so this is the time to put the restrictions on them if and and you your this process is I know you've done something on The derky Farmhouse but you know maybe there's not much to preserve I guess is what you this is to determine um I I think that so much you know Littleton at some point was basically 20 farms and to lose anything of that that's still existing would be really too bad and and naog especially I I can't you know in my view I can't imagine the town um selling these structures to the person who operates the orchard who may only be operating the orchard for 5 years or 10 years or you know whatever um but anyway that's neither here or there so without a preservation restriction on any of on any structure there is no guarantee that it would not be demolished in the future unless it was in a historic district and at current time Littleton has no historic districts so the preservation restrictions are really the only real protection inside of historic and the be not as honorous as it sounds people think preservation restrict we can't paint the house red but that's right obviously no no that's not that was not my direction I've actually just slightly puzzled that the owner has to agree to it well well well yeah no that that was quite correct on my part because we write it first we write it before the owner sees it we show it to the owner and then we work with the owner to be as flexible as possible um you know for instance at 12 Robinson Road we had some deviations from the preservation restriction but we allowed those we approved those that they can't you know they can't deviate from it unless we approve deviations and we did allow a number of deviations at yeah no I'm just I'm just trying to to wrap my head on the process and and but if you had a you know a building that was historical and but the owner had no interest in preserving it can you put a preservation restriction on it not if it's currently in private ownership okay it's only if the town is settling it unless there's a district unless right unless it's in the district I went before to meeting in 1995 to established a district in the won common and um I think we got 64% of the vote you know out of the 668 it was it was people were surprised at the level of support for it because most of the Town residents had that my so we have the eligibility before [Music] us do you want to say something G do good I move we accept the eligibility request from the historical Commission for $682 for AAL preservation survey of consultant consultant for neg hill farm house and two bars second right we have a motion by Sam a second by Bartlet Andrew hi Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam hi Carolyn and isol hi Linda hi and M hi okay you go ahead with that okay then the second one is to the dirty Farmhouse similar situation back in last month in December I didn't have much information about what was going to happen to it um and then very recently I got information that um that the select board has asked the historical commission to review and and start revising the RFP that was developed for 12 Robinson Road for The derky Farmhouse and barn only the historic preservation aspects we obviously wouldn't do the affordable housing aspects um so that is in this new eligibility request that was not in the original one last month um and then similarly to the um the dog Hill Orchard we would then want to hire the historic preservation consultant well first we wanted to hire her to help us review and revise the RFP and then we want to hire her to write uh preservation restrictions or one preservation restriction or two for the house and the barn in collaboration with the affordable housing trust who owns the site and that wasn't in last month's um submission because I didn't know about that sled is going to ask us to review the RFP and and oh and the preservation a preservation restriction is part of the the RFP that we're reviewing and revising so that is something we will have to do as part of the RFP B do you have anything to add is the portable Housing Trust rep I have mixed feelings about preserving that building but I think I think that what I saw at the Robinson Roadhouse is enough flexibility in that kind of a document that we can if if in general terms the building is salvageable we can work with historical commission to to keep what's necessary and to do what other things are necessary you make it into acceptable housing right so I I'm in favor of this yeah um our consultant and I feel that you know we could be flexible about what would be preserve there may be some members of the commission that feel more you know more strict about it but we can certainly have that discussion and come to an agreement anything from the audience Andrew did you have any questions uh no questions there's the age of a building have anything to do with the intensity of the preservation restriction not necessarily um I think you know if it's from the 1700s or the 1600s I think you know we take it more seriously but those buildings are often in bad shape if they haven't been taken care of all these years um so the informal standard is anything greater than 50 years old um but you know 1800s you it's often what we're looking at so we now have experience using these um restrictions would would we have done hegar homestad differently if if we had had this experience I think so I this is my point yes because we accomplished a little bit but not as much as we could have but who owned but but the issue about Hagar I believe oh we never owned it we never owned it it was from a private sale private to private so I don't know yeah we couldn't have really done anything however I would have been more aggressive as as a commission saying look you should look at a c and b or we could have hist consultant to say these things really should be preserved and right I mean maybe that would have been the method is to just insert his I mean that Community I think would have gone along with it yeah early on yeah yeah early on anyway so I you know I think this method is sort of um uh developed uh into a very useful tool and I just have to say the historic consultant we have is just invaluable um yeah so I'm sure others would be too but she's she's really great okay you want to cut face here Sam you wanna M are you ready to uh sure did hear a motion from he a motion from s eligibility request 6481 yes I make a motion that we accept the eligibility request of the Historical Society commiss commission to hire a historic preservation consultant for jerky Farmhouse environment from the historic Reserve historic Reserve in the amount of $ 6,481 second it's rounding again um just it sounds like an application for funding is this the eligibility eligibility I only submit eligibility I have times for the funding next month I will definitely bring the funding to this committee is it okay can I abbreviate and just saying it was moved by saying that the eligibility request for the project be approved as as and then let's you just use the title use the I'll use the title project title Y and as as to be approved as historic from the historic preservation Reserve but it's not about the money it's about the oh yeah you're right right you're right that's right told you I'm confused um that the project be preserve approved as historic as historic yeah okay yeah you're right that's right have the second I second Jeff second Andrew hi Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam hi Carolyn is yes Saul Linda hi and next all right thankk you all right go forward with those all right we got more more to come thank you Linda um Andrew oh Andrew we we should mention that we have a uh Cemetery commission meeting that was called to order is called to order yes so um as Carolyn just mentioned uh the two of us do make up a quorum of the cemetery commission and since we're discussing Cemetery business we have uh both boards uh currently in session to uh consider the eligibility and funding uh requests for uh this particular project and Carolyn did you want me to jump right into it yeah go ahead perfect so did you guys have a chance to see the eligibility and funding requests that I sent a couple of weeks ago perfect so essentially uh the cemetery commission and historical commissioner once again uh jointly filing these requests uh we're seeking $99,950 for a fifth phase of gravestone preservation work at Weston Cemetery um we're very appreciative of the funds we've received so far for the work um if if you guys take a look at the uh funding application you can see you know over the last four years or so um the amount of gravestones that we've been able to professionally preserve um and conserve and uh it's really just a great project and uh we're looking to do a fifth phase beginning this summer um shortly after the conclusion of our fourth phase which is currently ongoing and uh yeah we're just really looking to keep the the project going uh concurrently and and uh yeah and it's being noted we had a Facebook someone who was walking through the through westline and said what's you know asking are they new stones are they being replaced and so we we were able to say no it was you know your tax tax dollars that helped um do the restoration so that was nice to hear someone's noticed how do you decide which zone it sounds like you identified a large number of stones and then how do you decide what from that number which ones to work on yes so so Jeff um there were 247 gravestones identified initially in that assessment that was performed and within that assessment they were graded uh some were you know top priority some were you know secondary uh category for preservation um so what we essentially do each year is we take those uh really top tier really rough shaped gravestones and we select a grouping um and and then um you know we pick from that group you know 18 to 20 and change and our Consultants work with that and that's uh essentially how we do it Andrew is it true I think it's true that our consultant um who are very wonderful professionals at the restoring gravestones I think they prioritize the list is that correct I think they did and then so going down their prioritization list yeah so essentially that's um the assessment list um So within that list we have the category one and two gravestones and they typically come to us and say Hey you know of these ones uh you know we've got uh 20 that we could do do you have any specific requests for this phase from that list um so we we've just been chipping away at it and uh after this fourth phase is done we should have roughly uh let's see almost 60 gravestones conserved so it's uh it's really impressive work any other questions no sounds great Andrew and everyone we've all I've seen the work too and I I love that I got comments from the public that You' heard Caroline anything from the audience all right so we have for this one we have the eligibility which we I don't know if we even need to do those anymore because it's the same but um we do have eligibility for this project motion for that and move we approve the eligibility request for the west lawn cemetery gravestone Monument preservation if you want to call it phase five five yes um to be funded through the historic preservation reserve and we mention the amount in an eligibility request you do it's $99,950 one second all right are you okay yeah okay we have a motion by Jeff a second by Bartlett Andrew I Bartlett I Jeff I Hi Sam hi Carolyn is a yes Sol yes Linda Hi and mitz hi unanimous okay and funding the funding request now I saw move for the uh the to approve the application for funding for the aforementioned project to come from the historic preservation Reserve in the amount of $99,950 second moved by Jeff and seconded by Bartlett Andrew hi Bartlett hi Jeff Hi Sam Carolyn is a yes sa yes Linda hi and M thank you everybody we adjourn the cemetery commission I got to take notes because I'm the secretary yes motion to adjourn the cemetery meeting okay adjourned okay all right spending all kinds of money tonight good good um so Bartlet you had mentioned I put the affordable housing trust just in case right I do not have a number okay the go we we were awarded $90,000 last year and I'm trying to find out how much we've spent um and then we can recoup that so we stay at 90,000 we've also as a as a for Housing Trust has voted to increase the um number of slots for people it has been 15 and we've been fairly consistently around 13 but we other the Human Services thinks that the uh number of eligible people is going to increase so we voted to increase our number of slots from 15 to 20 so we may actually try to fund 20 Slots inste of 15 slots at the rate that we got last year but we haven't voided on that and rental assistance rental [Music] assistance and we have increased in the rental assistance it started off at 200 $50 and now it's $500 a month they directly to [Music] go so we have we actually have landlord supplying to be in that program how does that work the landord he well he just wants to tell ehhs that he's so if somebody rent their then get easier okay theys can do whatever they do land lord is in place interesting because before without that we have to you know during sometime you know before or after the lease is signed they have to EHS has to bring a landlord on board okay he only going to get part of the rent from the tenant from part of the rent [Music] from yes from the town which is I it's a pretty good deal it's town is more secure than most gos Yesa rating um I fell behind a little bit on the minutes are we um what is the agenda item that we're discussing now um affordable housing trust potential project our projects I had that we had applications but we don't have any so but was just kind of filling Us in as to why affordable housing trest um what was it um nothing specific projects projects yeah okay great I heard what you said I got notes on that thank you there will be a a proposal coming from us for the defund the Littleton affordable Littleton rental assistance program now and you made it on to Caryn's Bingo car but we can't put a check people are keeping SC score you could put a line at the top right here two spots yes yes um all right uh the next agenda item Andrew had asked to be put on talking about um frog ponds and what your potential project is there yeah so I actually um just wanted to update the committee tonight uh that we I will be ever so slowly moving forward with eligibility and funding requests for uh the walkway Improvement uh project over at the Frog Pond as well as the invasive plant uh control project over there um I've got a couple of companies working on getting me quotes to get some dollar figures um and then the next step will be for me to bring those applications back to the concom we're going to review them and I'm hoping to get them on for our uh February meeting agenda but if not um I did find out today that the warrant will be closing uh March 24th so whether um they're on the February agenda or the March um there should be plenty of time for those to uh to go forward y sounds good um it's still typing gu that okay so just some some budget items I I had mentioned um talking with the fincom members and I got an email from Steve vudi we had we had Mark racher had come in to talk about the track refurbishing the track and possibilities of them coming to us for some money I I guess the the school com the school department um is offering to pay um 120,000 for the track they have um some money in one of their line items and then they also have the $440,000 donation that Mark had mentioned that's sitting there on a line item so that's $160,000 which Mark was hoping might be the cost of of the project so what stepen nudy has said is that they will um deposit that money into CPA so we can have that as Blended funds and then they will come in for a project on the track so for us it will be a net hopefully close to Net Zero anyways um so the school committee is going to put the bill so the majority the majority and then the 40 and then if the track track um group um puts anything together they'll also put wash that through the um CPA so that was good to know um and then he is also going to give us $281,800 from the town as a deposit into CPA for matching funds he doesn't have here if that's earmarked for anything so I'm not sure but um you know these are just beginning discussions so so this is in addition to the state grants so in addition to the town in addition well State and then it comes back to us but this is in excess of that yes the Blended fund is there any um good proquo about projects involed with that that's what Steve didn't mention we know we have that so um this the whole the amount that we get will be 441 846 which is about 1% so they're they're you know doubling what we have but I don't know what they want to do with that 281 whether we can do with it as we please or whether it will be earmarked for some Capital you know Capital it but either we'll find out okay but they kind of upheld what they said they were going to do so that was that was nice nice to hear you must be from smiling yes SM hopefully we can use it and so in February um we should probably vote our allocations in um as Andrew said we we our March meeting is before the warrant closes but by dat so I'd rather do it in February if we can so start putting your um ammunition together um you know we had talked about maybe moving more into Recreation because we had so many large Recreation projects but if the the track is off the table and now I mean historic we were saying we don't never spend any historic funds and now we're spending more we're finding more things we we may very well put big chunks of money into derky and or n Hill depending on how these projects go forward or a historic Bridge a bridge yeah there's one there too there's lots of historic stuff to do right yeah his Brig TR is it the one on Porter that's it oh yeah por that's been on the Porter Road it's not it's not on the roadway but it's next to the yeah one in the um Conservation Area off ofwell St yeah oh the causeway in back of the police department yeah do that need any work good I worked on it but and then there's the long store which is allegedly stored somewhere but know could we could we install that on neod Farm awes cool that is a very interesting idea it's a store some money at the moment a whole unit of dirty yeah you need it's an affordable housing un yeah you need any nice old wood we've got some yeah that's always on I think that's before my time but I hear from Sherry gold about the long store all the time yeah was that 2012 right I don't even remember what 2012 hear about it from Sher she got considered in irritation oh definitely yeah well it was pretty be it was yeah but they save some cool stuff I I remember that project and I was really skeptical so I love let's find a place let's find rect that would be great I mean we we got to do something with it eventually I'm most afraid they're going to tell us to get that that the the final resting place the container on right do anyone combine that on with B Robinson Road I know we maybe we can combine it with the new um shaking school you know something old something new something borrowed something blue the kids who were playing hookie yeah I mean the Trent officers um all right so that was all I had on the agenda I don't know if there's anyone anything any [Music] L um like I said I'll be getting the balances hopefully this week and I'll send those out just so people have an idea of what's going on our next meeting would be oh oh Mr RS you have a yeah thank you 25 Jun um I just want to say thank you to all of you um some specifics I think I keep on being amazed as I go from one meeting to another but yours is similar to experience I'm amazed at the breath of knowledge that members on our committees throughout town like yours um bring to the table specifically I just want to comment on how I think your questions and the eligibility with regard to Lakes a month or two ago with regard to tonight your aspect of asking about assessments but also you're asking tonight about how are you preserving your documentation and so forth it's wonderful you make I think you this iterations between the groups does a great deal for residents to preserve the responsibilities that you have but also the work of the the people that come before you so I thank you for that I also want to acknowledge Andrew because um I think his work on Frog Pond he'll take action next meeting it's really commen so I know it's well in the local community so thank you thank you appreci [Music] appreciated see find the count there so February 19th would be the third Wednesday schol vacation week that no anybody questionable I don't know right okay well we'll go ahead with February 19th all right anything last things it's still interesting that some people consider the CPC CPC presenting these projects yeah that we generate yeah no we're not really spending the money we're enabling people to spend the money you know agreed yeah and I'm going to send these off to Ryan what we've done just to start it's every it's just going to be like a Cascade everything now from now to the H town meeting so we'll start getting those done all right so February 19th is the next meeting um any last requests before we get into second we have a motion toour from sa a second from Linda Andrew hi Bartlett Sam Caroline is yes yes Linda and all right thank you thank you to our audience and