Justice for all. >> Go. >> In accordance with the requirements of the open meeting law, please be advised that this meeting is being recorded and broadcast live over the Lunberg public access channel on Facebook live and will
be uploaded to the Lunberg Access YouTube channel after the meeting. The agenda lists all the topics which may be discussed at the meeting and are those reasonably anticipated by the chair. Votes may be taken as a result of these discussions. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not
listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by the open meeting law. Starting off with announcements, just a reminder that next Tuesday there will be an FY27 budget and override meet and greet. It's going to be an openhouse style event with coffee
and light refreshments and people will have the opportunity to ask questions and have conversations with department heads and town officials. So, if you have any questions that you would like to get answered ahead of town meeting or if you would like to have a conversation with someone um then you should attend.
It'll be next Tuesday, April 28th at 7 p.m. at the Lunberg Adult Activity Center. And just a reminder, of course, that annual town meeting is right around the corner. It's Saturday, May 2nd, 9:00 a.m. at the Lunberg Middle School
Auditorium. And the annual town election is May 16th at the TC Pacios building. And also take a moment tonight or tomorrow to check your voter registration status. Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote and you can
do that online on the Secretary of State's website. Okay. Public comment. Is there any public comment from the public? >> Mrs. Lockwood. >> Good evening. Anna Lockwood 91. Sorry, allergy season on the Lockwood 91 Main
Street. Um, first I want to thank Chief Dibido, Officer McNamera, Chief Sullivan, and Firefidus for their many years of service to the town. I can't pronounce his Greek last name. I'm sorry. Last Blackboard
meeting, several of them passionately responded to my prior comments and posts. Their remarks were focused on criticizing me for speaking public about the many facets of the balanced budget and the decision to not present the current level services override option.
Their comments, again, in my opinion, everything I say is in my opinion, their comments were clearly intended to discredit me and to de damage my reputation while sending a clear message to residents, challenging the town manager's budget will be met with strong
push back. The fire department budget became a lightning rod when the override supporters claimed that there would be a reduction in services such as is in this postcard.
Um unable to staff two ambulances. Lightning rod when supporters of the override claim there will be a reduction in services due to the ability of to staff a second ambulance. That's not accurate. a firefighter as firefighter
>> Lacodatus >> Lacodatus noted in his remarks last week, we do not currently staff two ambulances. Further, the balanced budget supports a second ambulance for approximately 10 hours per day, which is an increase in
services. Presenting this as a cut is misleading and creates unnecessary concern among residents. My position which has been consistent and stated in the finance committee is that given the ser that services cuts we should consider perhaps pacing these
expansions. We are hiring for the Sunday shift. We could prioritizing staff the second ambulance during the busiest days and hours or perhaps delaying that other ambulance for a year. Further, last year's during budget uh last year's
budget uh discussions, I pointed out that the cost difference between the PDM coverage and hiring career firefighters for the Sunday shift was approximately $150,000. And perhaps we could add the Sunday shift without an override as we are
doing this year in the balance budget. The same issue applies with police services. It claims again as this postcard says that we have a loss of a sergeant in a school resource office. The budget reduces the that the bud
sorry the claims such as this postcard that the budget reduces the police force are misleading. There are no reduction in personnel. According to the police chief presentation, he has two funded and unfilled position. One school resource office is being offered a
detective role mischaracter mischaracterizing this as a cut distort the facts. You can watch the fincom meeting from no uh February 19 at approximately 1 hour and 19 minutes in into the meeting. You can hear the chief
explain why he's making the choices. But we are funding the same the same um headcount. The response to my comments, including being labeled a liar over a misunderstanding of rank, caused, by the
way, by the information being shared by the override supporters that says loss of a sergeant. Sorry, I assume they were talking about officer McNamera, but let's go back. the response to my including being labeled a
liar over a misunderstanding of a rank. He didn't dispute the fact that we are not losing any personnel. He just called me a liar for not knowing his for being confused over his ranking because of the information shared by the override.
People supporting the override. But most importantly, these types of comments shifts the attention away from the real issue, the substance of the B balance of budget and the override options and also discourage open discussion. The stakes may be high for
the town manager, but they're equally high for the residents. Affordability and good education for our children matters. It is also important to understand the process. Department presentations are requests. The town manager's balance budget determines what
is actually funded. The balance budget was presented in the finan only on March 26 and made available to the public two weeks later. Only then meaningful conversations could take place. This is not an 11-hour discussion. It is the
normal course of the budget season. Everything I have said outside public meetings. I have already talked about it during fincom and tribard meetings. The only difference is now I'm speaking directly to residents and people are not happy about it. And here's why I'm
choosing to speak directly with voters in the means available to me. At the May 24 meeting, voters approved the school override for FY25. The funds were later allocated in June. The school committee allocated
differently than they had present the needs back in January. I sought clarification from the former superintendent but did not get a response at the time. I chose to not push the issue during the FY26 budget process when the school department
requested an approximately extra $2 million for their level services. I raised concerns that their numbers did not align. I requested financial data and sent detailed questions from the so to the former superintendent and school committee members. My requests were
dismissed and the finance committee received only a memo repeating prior information without the request of final of the fin without the request of financial reports. Again, I chose not to further push the issue and avoid the vision and that was a mistake. Failing
to insist on transparence contributed to a situation where significant portion of the overrides went unspent to due to the lack of clear tracking and competence of by the school department which was led by the former uh school superintendent
and their incompetence hurt our students. There was $600,000 left on the table that couldn't be used for the students education. That experience changed my approach. I'm committed to ensure that relevant financial information is available to residents.
Transparency is not a conspiracy. Residents can review finance committee meetings and reach their own conclusion and also contact me directly for the detailed information of what I'm saying. But let's focus on what's important right now. The town manager's balanced
budget reflects her priorities. It includes adding a new assistant town hall manager for position for approximately $80,000 more since we're eliminating one position. Setting aside a reser in a reserve account $180,000 when the
financial policy for the town is 50,000 using 244,000 in new revenue for capital expenses including $120,000 in vehicles rather than use the existing reserve account. These choices are being made while reducing funds for the library
which includes a staff materials and program programs. DPW we are reducing payment management and the consu is losing two dietary aids and we're also eliminating some small services. the
band concert for $6,000, the town beach which cost net cost is about $15,000. And these costs are practically insignificant in a $50 million budget. There are meaningful impacts on residents, particularly to family and
families and seniors. The same question applies to the school budget. Why add over a million dollar reserve accounts when the schools need less than $800,000 to maintain current services? The town maner has stated if the override fails
the school will be devastated which make funding these reserve accounts decision difficult to understand. My position on the override is very simple and straightforward clearly demonstrate the needs and the needs for new positions
and respect the voters by providing real options. I cannot support a proposed that does not allow a vote on maintaining current service levels or offer other meaningful options for voters. Again, the outcome of the
current balanced budget is to fund the override or face chaos. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Anna. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. All right. Any other public comments? Mr. Rabbit, I saw you were trying to come up. Do you have a public comment? Good afternoon. My name is John Rabbit,
314 Thousand Harbor Road. Um, I'd just like to see if I can push the issue of the 41A deferral a little bit further. Uh if you read the 41A deferral brochure from the state, it limited your income
to $20,000 unless you filed and qualified for the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker gain opens everything up. It's another one of those no brainers. Essentially, excuse me if I get these numbers right. If you earn about
$110,000, you can qualify. If your house is worth 1.1 million, you can still qualify. It's uh it's not really clear in the 41A. And it basically if you look at your taxes
and you plus your water bill and you look at your income, if those are 10% greater, then guess what? You'll qualify again. Oh, and by the way, did I mention you're going to get a tax break on your income tax up to 2,800 bucks? That's part one. The other part, we have a
means tested program. Essentially, take a look at it, folks. And again, your household uh if it's a married couple with an income of $112,000, you can you should go back and take a look at it. Your assets are under uh
$275, which doesn't include the h your house and stuff. You could definitely qualify for your means tested. the other one. Well, that's the two. We can go to the senior workp program and uh that would that is certainly an
eligible possibility. So, what I'm saying is that yes, we're looking at the town's looking at an override. There's a lot of help there if it goes through and it's not when you're probably not going to be jeopardizing your home or anything like that. But
when you look at what is not going to happen if we don't pass this or at least part of it, you're looking at some pretty significant devastation. My sweet spot, my heart is in the schools. And uh I'm going to save that data for the next meeting to show you. But again, thank
you very much. But and my friends, the seniors, come on down, talk to us, go see the assessors, find out more about this. There's probably money in there for you. and everyone we've talked to, they've discovered something. So, I just want to share again, lots of help. Thank
you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other public comment? >> Okay. Not seeing any in the room. Any public comment on Zoom? Not seeing any there either. Okay, moving on. So, we do have a public hearing today. Uh, we have a public
hearing for an application for Oh, any public comment from the board? Sorry about that. >> Nope. >> Nope. >> Okay. We have a public hearing for an application for a CL class 2 license for Car XP Auto Group at 36 Summer Street. Oh jeez.
>> Uhoh. Um, I'll ask the clerk to read the notice if it didn't just get drenched. Um, and have the applicant come on up. >> Okay. Pursuant to chapter 140, section 58 of Mass General Law, the Lunberg Select Board will hold a public hearing
on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 at 7:05 p.m. in the Bada meeting room at Town Hall 17 Main Street, Lunberg, Massachusetts, on the application submitted by Car XP Auto Group, Inc. doing business as CarXP Auto Group, Inc. for a class 2 license for the sale of
motor vehicles as provided for under Mass General Law Chapter 140 section 58. This license is to be exercised at the premises located at 36 Summer Street. >> Yes. Good evening. >> Hi. Good evening, >> members of the board. I'm Rosanne Santos. >> Thank you for being here.
>> My husband was supposed to be here, but he's stuck at work, so it's just >> Oh, that's okay. No worries. Um, do you mind just introducing yourself and telling us a little bit about the business? >> Yes. So, we have a business current in Lamester. We opened uh about three and a half years ago. We only sell vehicles.
For now, we have a license with the city of Lameiser for 18 vehicles. And our decision was to move uh to Londonburgg to expand the place that we are renting um in Londonburg. It's much bigger than what we have right now and also will
give us the possibility to also do mechanic repair right now. Like I said, we only do uh used vehicle sales. So, um I am the owner along with my husband and uh pretty much just the two of us right
now. Eventually, we are getting to the city of the of Lunenburgg. We are going to have a mechanic working for us full-time, but for the sales portion will be myself and my husband. >> Okay, great. Gotcha. Okay, any questions from the board?
>> We have everything we need in line. I I just want to ask a clarifying question if I can. Um, so I thought you were doing you I think you said you were doing all the repairs yourself, but I thought I just heard you say that you don't have somebody yet as a mechanic.
>> No, we do like the plan is to move to right now in Lanster. We only sell vehicles. We are not open for repair. >> But with this license, we need to know either whether you're going to be repairing the vehicle or someone. Yes, I will have someone. Do we have that
information of the repair shop? >> But you're going to have somebody working for you. >> Yes. >> At your location. Okay. So, you're not sending them out to a third party repair shop. >> The new location, you want to start doing that is what I understood from. >> I'm sorry. >> Your new location part of the be able to
start doing that. Okay. >> Yes. Mhm. >> So, basically, he would be either contractor or employee of our business. >> Okay. >> Mhm. Okay. So that does make it a little So it needs to either be we either need to have who
you're sending the vehicles out for repair too if it's not you >> like for the the the sales part. Yes. >> So the vehicle So under the law you need to have a mechanic >> that services or is available to service the cars that you sell. Mhm. >> So that mechanic can either be a third
party that is not connected to your business and then would have documentation that that is the repair shop or you can do your own repairs. >> Yes, that's the current situation right now. We do repair like the let's talk about the business in Lamster. We don't have a repair shop but we have to repair
our vehicles. So we send it to the third party. But in this location because we're going to have the availability and the space to do both. So we're going to have a mechanic working full-time for us. >> Yeah. Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> That's okay. Any other questions? No.
Okay. Is there a motion then? >> I'll make a motion to approve the application for class 2 license for Car XP Auto Group at 36 Summer Street. Second. >> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Those opposed, no. >> Motion passes unanimously.
>> Thank you. >> So, congratulations. I hope everything goes well with the upgrade of your business. Yes. >> Um and uh just be in touch with the office and we can get that new license to you. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> Have a good night. >> I think tech actually close the public
hearing. >> Oh, that's right. Um should we revote? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. Forgot about the public hearing. Is there a motion to close the public hearing? >> So moved. >> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Second and then I. >> I.
>> Okay. I heard two people so I thought that was a second too. Um, okay. And now, is there a motion to approve the application for the class 2 license for CarXP Auto Group at 36 Summer Street? >> So, moved. Second. >> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, no. The
motion passes unanimously. Okay. Up next, we have an application for a one-day liquor license for a home fruit wine to be a vendor at the Lunberg Fair on May 30th, 2026. Um, I don't know if we have an applicant for that. >> We do. She is on Zoom. Lorie Perkins.
>> Hi, Lori. Are you there? >> Hello. >> Hello. >> Hi. Okay, so we can hear you. Um, you guys did this last year, right? >> Yes, we did. So, this is the second year we'll be doing it. >> Gotcha. All right. Any questions from the board? >> No, everything went pretty smooth except
for the rain last year. >> Hopefully, we won't have it this year. >> Yeah, I hope so, too. Um, any questions from board members? >> Everything's in order. Okay. >> Nope. I think that's great. I'm happy to have them coming back again another
year. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve the application for a one-day liquor license for home fruit wine to be a vendor at the Lunberg Fair on May 30th, 2026? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I.
>> I. Those opposed? No. The motion passes unanimously. All right, Lori. Thank you for joining us. Have a good night. >> Hi. Thank you. and I'll be in touch with um >> to get the Melissa to get the copy of the license. >> Okay, perfect.
>> All right, thank you. Have a good night. >> Okay, thanks. You too. Yes, I do. >> Bye. >> Okay. All right. Moving on to appointments. We have a slate of appointments for lifeguard. Uh so ratify the town manager's appointment of Andrea Matson, Casey Corey, Olivia Corinella,
and Owen Snyder as lifeguard. and also Jared Bowser as the beach director. >> Mr. Chairman, these are all uh returning staff. Um I believe are all returning staff. Um and we have uh a few folks
that are not coming back. So we do have spots for about three to four additional lifeguards if anybody knows some folks that have lifeguard certifications and are interested, but we're almost there for full staffing. >> Okay, cool. Any questions?
Nope. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve or ratify the town manager's appointment of Andrea Matson, Casey Corey, Olivia Corinella, Owen Snider as lifeguards, and Jared Bowser as beach director. >> So moved. Second.
>> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, no. The motion passes unanimously. And finally, we want to acknowledge the resignation of John Dexre as the senior videographer effective May 2nd, 2026.
>> Yes. >> Yeah. I've enjoyed working with John tremendously and it's sad to see him go and I wish him well. >> I think he was feeling that his time with the community was reaching its termination and he's ready to go do some other things with his life. >> Understood. Okay.
>> Wishing him all the best. >> Yes. Town manager report. So I have a brief oral report this evening. Um 9:25 NASA update right down the road. Um at the library there is a forum on the RFP
that is occurring to get some public input. We are meeting again tomorrow um as a group to go over that input and then hopefully we will have an RFP before the board for your consideration at that first meeting in Monday. Um the
uh town meeting draft motions you should have all received a copy of this weekend. So there are drafts of all the motions. Those have been sent to town council, to the town clerk, and to the town moderator. Um I don't believe we're going to be formally discussing those at
a meeting in terms of order. So they have been assigned in order of folks and just and then when there's um articles >> them at town meeting. >> Yes. For reading them at town meeting. So then there's >> there's articles that you know if
another board is the primary sponsor such as open space I just kind of skipped over whoever would that would be. So, if folks have any questions, comments, or concerns with either their assignments or really feel uncomfortable reading a particular motion, just reach out and let me know. Um, but otherwise,
I expect to hear back from Tony Costa on those next week. Um, as announced previously, the Flat Hill Road IFB and the Adult Activity Center and Teen Center flooring IFBBS are on are open and available. They're out. Um
we have had a lot of feedback and responses which is good. A lot of plan holders. Hopefully we'll get a lot of um actual bids that come in. But May 14th the bids are due back for Flatill and May 6th on the adult activity center program. I mean adult activity center
and uh teen center flooring. I was reading the word program. Um but I do want to touch upon programs. The senior tax workoff program that was mentioned by Mr. rabbit because I did find out today that we do still have five open positions. Um we're going to revertise
that as well. We have funding available for only so many uh folks through the assessor's overlay, which is how that is funded. Um but we do have empty slots if there are folks interested um in completing a senior tax workoff. Um
there's anything from filing and paperwork to painting or picking up trash, whatever folks are interested in. Um it's not a one-sizefits-all. Uh recruitments, uh police executive
assistant, uh we've gone through a round of interviews for that position. uh outreach coordinator. Uh we are uh conducting our diligence on a candidate and are close to making an offer. Um as I stated previously, we're looking for a
few more lifeguards. We are still looking for one additional cemetery laborer for the summer. Um and that is the conclusion of my manager's report. >> Thank you. Any questions for the town manager? >> Nope. >> Okay.
>> Nope. Thanks, Jen. >> Moving on to new business. So, first review of employee survey questions. Um, so we do have a draft here which is largely based off of the um addendum I guess we created when we did this
policy. Um, I don't know if uh members have had a chance to review it, but basically we just want to have a discussion here. Um, see if there are any modifications that anyone wants to make. Um, and then approve this so that we can um use the questions listed as
part of the climate survey. Um, have we had a chance to review it? >> It's the the document titled employee climate survey 2026 is the >> the draft >> is the updated draft. The core
>> climate survey attachment is the one that we did with the policy. >> Right. The one that you did with the policy says core questions document. >> That's the original. >> I only see one word document in here. >> So, right. So the employee climate survey is the PDF. It should be the top one.
>> Yeah, that's the one I'm looking at. >> That's So that's the updated one. Yeah. Okay. >> Is that the one we should work off of then? >> Yes. >> Yeah. So the what we did is we took the original survey questions that uh were drafted. Some of those were compound in that they asked about um two items in
one question. We broke those compounded question compounded questions into two. Some of them we duplicated across um additional personnel so that the same question was asked about multiple folks. Um
and then we added a bunch of additional questions that we thought would be informative to our understanding of the employee experience. Mhm. >> I have not had a chance to review this enough that I would feel comfortable moving forward tonight personally unless
you I mean I can sit here and take a couple minutes and go through it, but >> I think that I've looked at the other ones the old I haven't reviewed this >> I was going to say new version >> I know that you worked a lot on this >> in its first iteration so and worked a lot on those questions. I don't see a rush
>> that if folks want more time with this we just we do want to get it out sometime in May. Um, but provided that's out in May, we're going to give folks two weeks to respond. >> What is sly agree, agree, neutral? >> Got it. >> Right. So, all of this is going to be
going into a different platform. >> Uh, we were looking we're looking at probably using Microsoft forms. Uh, we just want a way to ensure that >> folks can remain anonymous but can also not submit um repeated surveys. So, that
how do we keep it anonymous without them? um >> submitting multiples. >> I think you can set that up. I think you can. >> And then each question will have an its appropriate scale underneath it, whatever it is. So it'll either be a strongly agree agree that won't say that. It'll >> No. Or it will say 1 through 10 or yes
or no or blank or whatever the case may be. Uh we did decide that we wanted to leave some um open-ended spaces for folks to provide additional feedback. Um, but have at the beginning a disclaimer that if they provide that
additional feedback, it may kind of re remove some of the anonymity of their responses if their open-ended responses indicate where they work or what they do and >> okay, >> but no questions would be required. Um, folks could answer as much or as little.
>> All right, so it sounds like we need some more time to review this and then we can come back and have a discussion at a future meeting. Okay. Vote on sick bank policy implementation date. So there's a sick leave bank committee now. There is >> um they're ready to start meeting and I
think the intention is to or the proposal here is to start July 1st with an open enrollment in June. Um I don't have any issues with that. What does the board think about um that timeline? Are >> we think you're going to be ready for then?
>> Yeah, we have. So, the the board um had approved all of the policy except the implementation date. Um we have our form set up. We're ready for our first meeting. Um we are ready to start accepting people and all that. So, >> yeah, I think going with July 1st makes
sense. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Okay. Is there a motion to um implement the sick leave bank policy on July 1st, 2026? So moved. >> And sorry, I was going to add something about open enrollment and with open
enrollment during the month of June. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any additional discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, no. Motion passes unanimously. >> And I don't know if you want to do it under this agenda item or if you want it specifically called out separately on a
future agenda, but uh the representative for the sick leave bank for the SAP employees >> um would need to be formally appointed. >> That's right. Um, I don't mind. >> Well, >> so we the way that we solicited applications, and it's fine if we put
this over for another meeting, but just for background, um, we solicited, uh, from each of the bargaining units, and then for the SAP, we put it out to all members of the SAP to see if anybody >> was interested in participating. Um, and Andrew was the only volunteer, so
there is not a lot of competition for this. >> Gotcha. All right. Um, I think we should probably hold off because of the way it's posted. Um, you know, we have vote on sick bank policy implementation date, which is very specific. >> Um, so if it was a little broader, I would, but >> um, we have time to do that, so that's
okay. >> All right, great. Old business vote to sell or hold 250 and 356 Hollis Road. Have we all conducted our drivebys yet? >> Yes. >> What do we think? >> I just had a question. Is is there any value in having it run through the same
or similar process as the chapter lands in terms of trying to get input from those groups? >> Um, so we normally don't with the tax title because it's just a different process. Yeah. >> Is there I mean are you looking for
someone in particular? >> No, I just I mean I I I think >> I don't see any uh value in it but you know especially >> so we do have a timeline here. I don't think we would be able to meet it because what it was like May 25th or something like that.
>> Let me let me see how compressed we are on that. >> I think we're pretty compressed because we would have to vote before May 25th >> if that's the date. >> Yeah. I just want to check the uh
judgment date here. >> That's correct. >> Yes. So I I mean certainly if we wanted to put this over for another agenda in early May and we can advise the group
that they're on a shorter cycle then I think with um right of first refusal we usually give the other boards and committees 30 days to respond right >> so that they could stand up a meeting and get it onto their agenda and the like. We can tell them that there's a little compressed timeline and I'm sure if
anybody is interested in it, they would want to schedule a meeting. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm not opposed to it. Are there any specific boards or committees whose input you >> No, I just it >> I don't >> Yeah, I had the same question just because I'm still learning about the
whole this whole land process, >> right? >> So, I think if we have the time it doesn't hurt, >> right? As long as as long as we don't hold anything up and missing the deadlines, >> right? Um, so I would say just looking at the calendar and Jen, what do you think? But probably by the second week in May, we would definitely have to have
that vote and that would leave like a week and a half. >> Um, so that's probably >> it would just become very complicated if in that short timeline anybody if the board actually voted to retain it. >> Um, not to say it's impossible, >> right? >> Um, but
>> that's fine if we want to hold it open to May 12th for additional feedback. >> Yeah. >> For that same cast of Yeah, >> committees that are >> I think it's planning and agriculture and open space >> conservation >> conservation.
>> I think I probably wouldn't send it to a land trust because that's they'd have to step up and buy it. That would be that would be a different kind of thing. That would be the one group that I wouldn't send it to is the land trust. >> Um assessors and planning. >> Yeah, that's it. I think it's those five, right? So
>> So you can send it to them now. You don't have to wait for us. Okay. All right, I'm okay. We can do that. >> All right, minutes. We don't have any to approve tonight. No warrants, I don't think. >> Any action items?
>> Yes. Um, at one of our upcoming meetings. I don't know if we want to wait until after town meeting. At this point, it probably makes sense, but we should start talking about the special event policy again. I've been working on it. I need to touch base with chiefs and whatnot. >> I said I would bring it back up once I've got it back on my radar. So, >> I know, and I trust that you will. So, I mean, I'm thinking maybe we just
wait till after town meeting. >> I think so, too. Um >> um but maybe after that we can put it on the calendar. >> Perfect. Okay. >> Any other action items? Committee reports. >> Nothing to report. >> Nothing. Nothing.
>> I don't have anything either. All right. Upcoming meetings. I just want to remind everyone again about the budget open house that we are doing next Tuesday. Uh, so if you have any questions about the budget or the override, come on down. Uh, and I think that's pretty much it. >> Can I ask you a question about that? Are
we posting that as a meeting so we can be discussing or how is that? >> Well, I think we should. >> Uh, if there's going to be a quorum of us here, we might as well just post it because we might be I don't know how we're planning. >> I don't want to run into an issue where we can't speak >> if we're all like at a table or something and there's a lot of us.
>> So, it's going to be like I don't know how to describe this other than job fair or science fair style. Yep. >> Um without like there's not a formal speaking portion. Um I would imagine that you're going to be having
individualized or maybe there's two of you having conversations with particular folks, but I don't think it's going to be very difficult to schedule this as a posted meeting. It's not as if you're attending a >> what if it's a if we call it like a workshop or a sharet or something that
doesn't have to be so formal, but it's posted so that we're not I don't want to have an open meeting violation if we're all in the same room. >> Well, as long as the the folks as long as there's not a quorum of board members discussing matters under the
jurisdiction of the select board, then you're okay. So if it's if you're you have to be deliberating as well. So saying that this pen is a pen. I don't I mean you know you'd have to be into
deliberations about subject. Um >> we have time to think about it if we if we had >> I just think it would be really complicated as a posted meeting with the setup of the event itself. Um but whatever we do, we need to be
communicating to finance committee and school committee and any other group as well just for >> maybe we can ask Adam what we should do in that situation or is that kind of unnecessary? >> No, I can ask Adam. >> I feel like I just don't want to run into a situation where we've had these issues before like master planning had that problem where we had a you know a
public meeting and we had a quorum and we were advised by our interim not to attend or not to speak. So I just >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Make sure it's done the right way. >> Yep. We can make sure we do it the right way. Okay. Public comment. Any public comment from the public?
Not seeing any uh any on Zoom. >> Any public comment from the town manager? >> No. >> Any public comment from the board? >> Yes. >> I would just like to thank both public commenters for their continued contributions to the fellow citizens. I I find them both to be very helpful.
>> All right. Thank you very much. Okay. I move to enter into executive session and not re-enter open session after exiting executive session pursuant to MGL chapter 30 section 21 A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the
bargaining position of the public body and the chair so declares and this is for professional firefighters local 5369 and a uh AFC ask me is that >> ask me okay council 93 municipal employees union
>> second >> any addition Additional discussion. This will be a roll call vote. Mr. McCloud. >> Hi. >> Miss Em. >> I. >> Miss Moore. >> Hi. >> And I for myself. We are now in executive session.