Speaker 1: There Speaker 2: We go. Oh, there you mark. Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Speaker 2: Paul, are you here remotely? Speaker 3: I'm here remotely. Speaker 2: All right. So we have a quorum for zero Zero, and if others join then that will be great. Okay. All right. So citizens concerns, I already announced that that meeting is being recorded. Are there any citizens concerns, things that people would like to bring up that are not on the agenda? Hearing none will move. Gonna move things around on our meeting because to be respectful of Mr. Greer, so I'm gonna take item four first.
Special counsel invoice. Mr. Greer shared that with everybody today. It was sent to the committee late this afternoon. The total hours that were being invoiced for through March 20, April 28th matched and the fees matched the invoice. Does anybody want me to put the invoice up on the screen and share? Speaker 1: No, I looked at it. Speaker 2: The total amount is $3,363. Speaker 1: How much is left for the total of what we would have? Speaker 2: So after this invoice is paid, we would have $53,702 and 37 cents.
Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 3: And we should be pretty close to, close to done. There's like not, there may be something that strays in, but you know, we're at al we're, we're almost at 99.9% completion. So, or we are at 99% completion. So Chris, I'll move that approval Speaker 2: By Paul. Second. Second. All right, we'll take a roll call. Vote for that. Paul, how do you vote? Speaker 3: Yes, Speaker 2: Harriet, how do you vote? Speaker 1: Yes, Speaker 2: Paul, how do you vote?
Speaker 1: Yes Speaker 2: And I vote yes. So the invoice is approved. 4 0 0. Speaker 3: Do we have minutes? Speaker 2: We do have minutes. I don't know if everybody can vote on the minutes though. We had a problem with the February 18th minutes, which I edited and set back out. I, I was having a hard time understanding all Bob Lockwood's minutes, so I think I did it in track changes. So you can see the changes that I made. But I sent those out on the 25th if anybody had a chance to see them. Speaker 3: Should we wait to, for Bob to do those? Speaker 1: I think so. Speaker 2: That's fine.
And then I also just sent the 24th out today because I did them right after the meeting and then I never sent them out. So we do have two sets of minutes that will be outstanding that we can deal with. Speaker 1: Can we do the update on the special act and then we can be finished? Speaker 2: We can do that. So I sent around to you all the information about an upcoming hearing on March May 13th at 1:00 PM It's gonna be in hearing room B. The joint committee on municipalities and regional government has about 37 47 bills that they're gonna be looking at
that are all municipal bills similar to our petition. And may the 25th on the docket, the meeting starts at 1:00 PM and could go as late as 5:00 PM The public is invited to participate. It's gonna be live streamed. If the question really was, can anybody go to the hearing, I'm out of town next week so I can't go. But the other way that people can participate is through their remote meeting and if people wanna participate in the remote meeting, they actually have to go to a website
and fill out a form so that they, so I can share that with people. But go on. Speaker 3: If you could, if you could email that around, I'm, I'm gonna try and attend in person. Not necessarily to say anything, but I just think it's a sign of respect for the process that, you know, they're holding the hearing and you know, they show up. I don't think they will have questions, but if they do, Speaker 2: They actually, if you're gonna submit any type of testimony in person, you have to fill out a form the day before. Right. So they wanna know if someone's there
and you're only allowed to speak for three minutes anyway according to the rule. Right. So, but I have talked to Representative Linsky and his position was this is all ceremonial. Oh, Paul Conley's coming in. Speaker 3: Oh, I thought Paul Conley was on then Who is, who is fireflies.ai note take or Paul, Speaker 2: We dunno who that is. It's a, is a member of the public. Speaker 3: That's actually not, is that a person or is that a artificial intelligence? Is that a, is that a, you know, is that a, like a bot? Speaker 2: I don't know. Speaker 3: I mean I, I mean that's curious.
I'm just, alright, so anyway, Speaker 2: Me this, can you put a note in the chat? Have you ever had a meeting where, where this fireflies has been in a meeting anyway. Okay buddy. So Paul that would be great if you can go, I'll send around all the information if people wanna dial in by Zoom or if they want to participate. You know, the other possibility was did we wanna submit written testimony? Okay. And again, Paul David Linsky said it's not necessary.
Okay. And then late this afternoon, I sent around the letter that he sent to the committee and I did add that to the meeting materials so people will be able to access that after the minutes or submitted because I did send an updated agenda today but it didn't get posted. Or if it did I didn't get a notice. So I will be telling people at some date when what? Speaker 3: Oh nevermind. Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I will be telling people in my oral report about the meeting, you know, and that the links to the municipalities.
I'll be telling people in the oral report at town meeting that the committee hearing is happening. There are links in our written report that can be accessed online to the bill and to the committee so people could find out through that process anything they wanted about the, the committee hearing. In addition, Josh posted it on Facebook today, the links. So you know, I don't know whether they posted it in Natick Tom meeting or in general, but there is a series of comments from me about that
as well on Facebook. So at this point it's starting to be getting out there. I also let the town administration know after David let us know. So I, I notified the chair of the select board and the town administrator that the hearing was next week as well. So the town knows. We know town meeting will know. Okay. When we give our report, does anybody have any questions? Speaker 1: Are we due to get together, have a meal and thank everybody? Speaker 2: We will. We are due to do that. We will also need to do, we'll have to call a meeting after Tom meeting to do minutes and any final invoice
and then pending what happens at Tom meeting with our final two motions because one is gonna be referred back, we'll need to work with the board of Health on the board of health. Har you missed the meeting so I heard it. Yeah. Okay. So the board of Speaker 3: Both of those, both of those motions were fixed. One with a director of health and the other one taking the fin comm's comments. We got 'em to the fin com but the fin canceled their last meeting. So the only thing we need to do essentially is put that stuff on for the fall
Speaker 2: And we barely would have to meet about it 'cause we have the motions and we can just vote to do the warrants and we don't have a lot left to do. Paul Conley, sorry for the confusion. We talked about doing meeting minutes, but we decided to to push it out till after the next meeting. Speaker 4: What are we doing it tonight's meeting? Speaker 2: Well we are, we Speaker 3: We're done Speaker 2: Before. You we're actually done before you joined. We approved the invoice, we tabled the minutes and I had just briefly given an update on the special act committee hearing that will take place next week on Tuesday.
So I'll be sending out people information in case they wanna join that meeting virtually. But hopefully that meeting the ho after that committee hearing, the committee will vote, then that will send it back to both legislatures for them to take votes and then hope, you know, we'll just have to keep following along. David Linsky will keep us informed, but hopefully it will land on the governor's desk soon. Speaker 1: Do they expect to pass all 45 in the four hours that they're meeting? Speaker 2: I think so. I think, you know, similar to our, similar to our bill, you know, they're all home rule petitions that have been put forth, you know,
embedded by local officials and local town council. So unless there's something in there that the legislature doesn't like, I'm pretty sure they just rubber stamp them. David said he is already talked to the committee chair about it. So, you know, I think we're in a good place. I think so. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 2: Does anybody else have any other questions about the special act? Speaker 3: When motion to Oh, go ahead. Speaker 4: When can we get back to the normal way of sending it to the attorney General for review
so we don't end up with this mistake of going on and on and on forever? Speaker 3: It doesn't go to the Attorney General, I don't believe it doesn't go to the Attorney General. Speaker 4: I know it doesn't, but that's, that's, that's the usual method that has, we we've done all the time and believe me, I think the legislature is busy and if we haven't figured that out, that's where we should Speaker 1: Can I make a move to adjourn? Speaker 3: Second. Speaker 2: So move
by Harriet second by Paul. We'll take a roll call. Vote to adjourn. Harriet? Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 2: Paul? Yes. Yes. Paul Conley. Speaker 4: I guess I'm adjourning. Yes. Speaker 2: Paul? Yes. And I'm a yes. All right. But the fastest meeting that we've ever had that meeting is adjourned at. Christine. You run a wonderful meeting seven times.