Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. It's good to see a lot of a lot of faces
out there tonight. It's not usual on a summer. Not usually what we see. So, I'm glad I'm glad you folks are here. Um I need a motion to open the meeting, please. Move to open. Second.
Any discussion? All in favor? I. Okay. We'll start off with u citizen concerns public comment to receive oral communications from members of the public. Members of the public may address the select board for up to three
minutes longer with the permission of the chairperson. The select board shall not engage in discussion on topics raised during public comment but may choose to add the topic to a future agenda. This agenda segment will be limited to 15 minutes
unless extended at the discretion of the chairperson. Does anyone tonight wish to make public comment once? Okay. Thanks. All right. Tonight we're having a joint meeting with the fish commissioners to review a new
commercial clam permit. So, the fish commissioners will have to open their meeting. Okay. Make your motion. Make my motion. Open the meeting and second it. Vote. All in favor? All in favor? All in favor.
Okay. It's all yours. The floor is all yours. You're here to talk about granting Josh McKinnon of Free Brock Avenue is here. No. granting him a commercial clam license, clam permit.
Does Does he live in town? I don't know. Do you guys know if he put the application in, it should say on his claim permit? He could be a mess digger or town recreational digger.
He's a recreational digger. So, this didn't come up through you from the town. Didn't come through you guys? She she sent me an email, but I'm not sure if that was the particular person that was on my phone and he must live in town. So,
and nonrecreational one. Tracy, can you call that? Do we have It must be a recreational one. It's recreational that he wants to become commercial. Do you have Do you have the documents, Leslie? No, I read through everything.
Yeah, me too. But I don't see anything. The documents not there? No. Okay. It's not there. Casey's going to call get you. We'll see what's going Okay. Okay. All right. Maybe we'll get Can we table this until we get more information? Sure. Sorry about that. I thought
No, no. She emailed me, but I'm not sure if that was the gentleman's name that you were talking about. That was like last week or so. And I approved that as long as he looked. As long as he's a resident. As long as he was a resident. We approve that. Tracy, you'll find out and then we'll
get back. I didn't actually get the paperwork. Okay. Okay. She was just asking me if it was okay. So, I was under the So, he just going to mistake his permit for this year and that and then go for commercial or
is he trying to do it all in one year? See, that's what I don't know cuz I haven't seen anything. He is a resident. He is a resident it's and he's going to go for his commercial commercial clamp permit. like I right now he he can yes that can
be approved. Yeah, as long as he's a he lives at three brock a on Palm. Yeah. So he's a resident and it's okay to congratulate and he can do that this year. Yes, he can. Okay. So why don't we make the motion that it's subject to all those
conditions you just stated resident lives on island etc etes taxes. It's just like we have to do make that kind of as long as it as long as it meets the criteria. Just make that motion. Do you want to make that motion, Jeff? Go ahead.
Then we'll have discussion. I'll uh I'll make the motion that Josh McKinnon of Three Bark A if a legal resident and meet all the criteria be uh be to uh receive a new commercial claim. I'll second that.
Any discussion? Yes. The discussion is that during his recreational licensing, he has been tardy on every occasion on paying it. So, I'm not sure if he will be tardy on
paying his commercial license. I do believe there's a a fee for the commercial license and then correct since he is applying for a commercial permit he's actually late so
he has to pay an extra fee on that which I do believe is another $100. Right. But we don't we don't receive any permits ourselves until it's we pay right as commercial diggers. We have to Yeah. So, he can't dig until he
Yeah. I mean, he wouldn't get his license. I couldn't get my my my commercial uh sewer for it. Yes. The town So, the the town my license, not commercial until I paid for it, right? So,
so I guess what's your point, Leslie? Just um that he was late. Yeah. Yeah. But he if he was late, there's no possible way he can receive a permit until it's paid in full. Any other discussion points?
Okay. All in favor of him getting of this this motion. All those in favor? I I abstain. Are you guys No, you guys don't. They don't vote, right? No, we vote. Okay. Close your meeting.
Close your close your meeting. Close it. Close the meeting. Second. Hi. Thanks for coming. All right. Thank you guys for coming. We all learned something. Okay. Grants. Thank you guys. Thank you.
Thanks very much. Grants, gifts, and donations. Um, acceptance of the jail diversion program, JDP, clinician grant partial fiscal year 2026 award of $29,000.
There's a letter here from Chief Fischer. Would you like to talk about that, Chief Fisher? Please. Hello, everyone. So, this is a continuation grant. We've had this grant. This grant pays for our clinician
Robin um who is an Lehey employee who works for the nine commu uh the five community departments that oversee that are involved in the grant that I oversee. Um there was um strong concern about the FY26
funding for this program um that we advocated vigorously for last year and DMH got the funding that they needed. But the budget for the state came through later than we needed our award in order to keep her a continuous
employee from the end of June into July. So, what the Department of Mental Health has done while they wait for their official budget is the programs that have active employed um clinicians through the grant, they continued us for one quarter into fiscal year 26 and have
awarded us our first quarter money. And then sometimes sometime during this first quarter, I will learn whether or not we get to continue the program through um the end of June and hopefully what the future of this grant may or may
not be. But um right now we just have one quarter worth of funding in order to keep the service, the valuable service that Robin offers us. Great. I think the town is lucky to have that service as well as the police department. So it's good for everybody.
Yes. And you know it with my concern being because I was one of the people who advocated legislatively for the continuation and for the funding in DMH on this um it we've talked about how we kind of need to explore what happens when and if this funding completely or
partially dries up you know what are our options because um I don't know what we would do if we would go back to um response to the community without a clinician to assist with us. we would definitely be going back in time. That's an excellent concern.
Yeah. So, we we are exploring what possibilities could possibly be, what other funding sources may be or remedies are out there, but it is something this was definitely a shot across the bow um with no warning for this potential funding loss um on such short notice
coming into a brand new fiscal year that it's it's given us cause, but we're grateful that we have it continued for the next quarter and hopefully at least throughout FY26. Thank you very much. Yeah, no problem. Um, can we have a motion to accept the
grant? Motion to accept. Second. Any any questions? Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Okay. Next is acceptance of an MIA public safety grant award of $5,000. [Music] Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor?
I. All right. New business. Presentation by Bob Connors regarding a proposed Pink House commemorative sign at no cost to the town to be installed in the roadway layout of the old Pink House site. I
think I have a package that Bob passed out. I have someone left this which is a doublesided sign by the way. So, what would you like to say? Okay. Chairman Deos, select board
members. My name is Bob Connors. I live at 39 Annapolis Way. Thank you for taking the time tonight uh to hear the presentation. The commemorative sign memorializing the pink house to be located directly in front of the lot uh
with street within the street layout of the town. The DPW has reviewed the proposed location. If you're driving by there, there's a couple of the orange stakes. It's right near There's a picture of it there, but it it's right near the parking sign.
Yeah, exactly. After demolition of the pink house, its supporters have been working on a way to memorialize it, which led to the creation of the draft sign before you. In your packet, you will find a draft copy of the proposed sign, a site plan
showing the approximate location, a photo of the markers placed within the layout. The cost of the sign, including installation, will be covered by donated funds from supporters of the pink house. It's not possible to discuss the Pink
House without recognizing uh Bruce Stout, who's previous owner and actually lives in my street in Annapolis Way, and the whole gang from the Pink House. Uh the board of directors, the picture on the back is the the board of directors of the Pink House. Uh from
left to right, Jeff Ackley, Rochelle Josephs, Sandy Tilton, Kelly Paige, and uh Allison Odell. I'm here to answer any question the select board may have on this request. Thank you for considering this proposal.
Actually, this probably should have come in as a donation where it's going on town property. Yeah, which I really didn't give that much thought, but so any questions that you have? If someone wanted to donate, Bob, what's
the mechanism? How would they do that? Again, Bill, I think you know what? it it probably should come in as a donation that you would accept. So, I'll make a motion that we accept and we'll have discussion. I make a motion we accept the donation of a sign that says uh the pink house 1925 to 19
uh 2025 honoring 100 years of memories torn down March 11th, 2025 but never forgotten. Second that. Any discussion? We can have discussion. No discussion. What's the um what what do you know what these what's the proposed material for the two?
Well, we're looking at between granite and and steel. Oh. Um granite now the because they've got to be about 10 ft long be in the ground and high enough so that any snow does not, you know, interrupt the sign. They're
about $2,000. Oh wow. And then there you almost need a crane to put the things in. So it it's going to be again that was kind of representative just to give you some sense of it. The overall sign's going to be approximately about 65 in wide uh and
about 35 in high. Uh local sign maker bridge bridge road signs who does a lot of the town work. They did the police station sign. They know the quality. They know how to do the install for longevity in their in their property.
Yeah. What's the timing? Like what are you thinking? Well, you know what? I think this was the first step to to see if this was there's a lot of fingerprints on this. So, the the final wording could change just a little bit. Uh the final picture
might change a little bit. Uh I'm kind of spearheading this to get this, you know, I'm a project manager, so to get it to this point. Um but there was a a discussion whether the war the word torn down should be demolished. So it this it's kind of that fine-tuning
that is happening. But but that's the flavor and and the location of it. Um Jim Surret did go out and look at the site and he thought it was set back far enough. But again, if that moves a couple of feet one way or the other, it's a general sense of it all. And uh
but Mr. Chair, madam. Sure. What is the setback? They want it about 5 ft back from the setback from the street. After the bylaws, Bob, you're going to find that they it's 10 ft. Well, not in the road layout on a property line.
the the way that the sign goes up and has to sit off the road, it's it's about 10 ft. Um, will this be put up as another question, will it be put up as um has the building inspector gone out to
Well, no, I think the first step is to see if if it's allowed, then there's a permit process that has to be followed. Okay. So, again, this was really just the first step, Leslie, to see whether or not there was a an interest by the town to memorialize this
at noon. So it could go up as u a memorial. Yeah, it's a commemor it's a commemorative sign. Commemorative sign of the pink house or historical. Yeah. Right. Okay. because I'm I'm pretty sure that
the uh one of the permitting factors that you're going to have to go through is going to be the uh the building inspector. Yeah. No, certainly a building we would go through the building inspector. Uh this most likely would be run through conservation too with its proximity. Uh
and those are probably the only two steps that we can think of. I think the building inspector will give us what guidance we need on that. I'm I'm thinking that our charge tonight is to is to uh decide whether to go forward with this to go into the permitting
process and then we'll find out the answers to your questions that you posed. Yeah, your you your your point is well taken that that that's the next step in the process. But whether you want to do it or not is the first step consistent with the motion we made to proceed forward with this.
Okay. Any any further discussion points? Good. All in favor? I I I abstain. Thank you. Thank you, Boston. Thank you very much. Okay. Calibrate Events Production LLC
public property use request for the 11th annual Harborside half marathon and 5K on Scotland Road from Highfield Road to Indian Hill Street scheduled for Sunday, November 9th between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Motion to accept. Second. Is anyone here representing this event? No. I think there was a good size package here. Yeah. Yeah. It was very quite detailed. Yeah.
Does anyone have any questions or discussions about discussion points about this? I ran this once and these times are ridiculous. Nobody can run this fast. First runner. Come on. So that's my
Do you plan Do you plan to run that right a mile in two or a half a mile in 230? Come on. That's That's even when I was young and skinny, that's out of my league. Any any discussion points? All those in favor?
I I I Okay. Business license applications. New business license for Common Ventler Kaylee Anne Lee doing business as Love Green LLC at two
Northern Boulevard. Is anyone representing? Okay, come up to the podium and tell us all about yourself and introduce yourself and tell us about what you're trying to do, please. Hello, my name is Leah Towler. I'm Kayla Denny. I'm Caitlyn Moran. Um, we are all
um co-managers of Love Green. Um, Kaylee Lelay is not here at the moment. Um, but we are an established small business in North Andover at the moment. We have been there since 2020. Um we've seen a lot of growth. We have smoothie bowls, acai bowls, smoothies. Um we've grown a
lot within our community. Um and we are looking to expand that over on Plum Island um at to Northern Boulevard. And there we would be selling um acai bowls, smoothies, and smoothie bowls. And the lease right now that we have is
just July 23rd to September 23rd. We're looking at hours 9:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. 7 days a week. You know how you're going to spend your summers? On the island. Really
inside. Okay. We have a motion. Motion to accept if it meets what criteria it needs to meet, I guess. Well, I'll second that. Where is two Northern Boulevard? Do you mind me
asking? Yeah. So, you know, when you're coming into Plum Island, you have um you're going straight through the first intersection, you know, right where that bend is. It's that like white building right on the corner. So, if you were just to
drive straight from the bridge to the beach, it's that first building. So, you're up next to the parking lot. I think it was um an ice cream shop. Yes. Glad you totally essentially makes a lot of sense. Good. Yeah. And what are you going to sell? Smoothies and what else?
Smoothies and acai bowls. Very good. Well, you're on TV, so announce it so that people opening up on Plum Island. Good job. Next week. I wish you the best. The best of luck. Thank you. Thank you. Any any further discussion points?
Hearing none. All those in favor? I Thank you very Thanks very much. Good luck. Thank you. Good luck. Okay. A new business license for Common V Silver Linings LLC doing business as Mad Maths at 51 Northern Boulevard.
Hello. Hello. Another Plum Island institution. I'm Heidi Hancock. Jackie Daki. We're hoping to take over Mad Martha's and keep it what it is and serve the community and breakfast and lunch. And I think the business license also says
Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We will consider dinners, but I think we're going to stick to breakfast, lunch, cuz we got to get up early. We got things to do. It makes a long day. Yeah. We don't plan on making um very many changes to the menu or the operation as it's going swimmingly
already. So, we just want to keep doing what Kyrie and Kendall have been doing. And before them, Brad. Well, thank you. It's funny. I looked and then I Yeah. Now Yeah. Just a coincidence. Perfect.
Well, I move to um accept accept the new business license for Silver Linings LLC. Awesome. Thank you. Any discussion? None from me. Hearing none. All in favor? I. Congratulations. We look forward to
serving all of you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good luck. Okay. More fiscal year 2026 appointments. We have an appointment for the veterans grave officer reappointment, Dennis Palato. Dennis Palazzo was appointed as a veteran's
grave officer for a year. This would be for a 5-year term, which is what the attorney general officer chapter 115 allows. Um, I move to accept Dennis Palazo at the 5-year term for the veterans grave officer reappoint.
Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I Board of the TR Board of the Boston Trail Committee appointment Cynthia Rashki one-year term. Motion to appoint Cynthia to a one-year
term to the Boston Trail Committee. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I reserve. Oh, this the last one. Reserve police officer. Uh Kim Kimberly has temporary temporarily removed herself
from the process of part-time officer. So we'll just bypass this. There's no action required on that. Okay. Um next is annual entertainment license for the Riptide Cafe and Bar 23 Plum
Island Boulevard. Live music Thursday through Sunday. Motion to second. Okay. I'm here. That's me. Yes. Come on. Come up to the podium. Thank you. Please appreciate your time.
Um, so we're we're looking to um get an entertainment license to do um Thursday through Sunday music. It's not always live music. Like Thursdays we were doing music bingo. Fridays are kind of a mix between like small acts or karaoke. Um
Saturday was also more of a small act thing. Um like, you know, one or two piece person, like a single or a duo bands. And then, um, Sundays were more of the big day. That was the 4 to 7:00 p.m. Um, and
that's usually like our bigger bands and whatnot. And Thursdays, sorry, I'll give you the times. Thursdays were um 7:00 to 9:00. Um, Fridays and Saturdays were looking for uh 8 to 10:30. What about Sundays?
Sunday was the 4 to 7. 7. Yeah, that's hours. Yeah. Has anything changed? Same stuff. Yeah, same hours. Yep. Sunday 4 to 7:00. Thursday 7 to 4. No, that's 7 to 9. Yeah, that one's just music
bingo. Yeah. Okay. Friday 8 to 10:30 and Saturday 8 to 10:30. Is this going to be inside or out? I'm sorry. Do we have a motion? Uh, no. Motion to go. Okay, we do. We discuss.
Sorry. Um, do we have is this is this a change from what you've been doing? Uh, no. No, exactly the same. Yeah, the times are exactly the same. Yep. Nothing's changed. It's going to be indoor music. It's all indoors. Yep. Yep. And I've already addressed some complaints that we've had and I've
already told the staff like one of the big things was uh sometimes they would open the skylights which kind of uh face in a certain direction and yeah. So, um we've already addressed that. They're going to stay closed during music hours and should be good to go.
I mean, we're obviously we're sensitive to that because we've had concerns in other places from residents about of course. Yeah. Music. So, I'm glad you're sensitive about it. Yep. Yep. We're We'll be talking to the bands like if we think things are getting too loud, we'll we'll make sure that everything gets turned down and
whatnot. Perfect. All right. As long as it's no change, I'm comfortable with this. Any more discussion? Um I have a a question. Um just does anybody remember we granted
the um sunset for time limit? Um sunset was different because they were open. They were outside. They were open. Remember you went down and listened. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I asked him if nothing has changed from what's already there. That's all I wanted to do.
Okay. Anything else? All those in favor I I congratulations. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Appreciate your time. Thank you. How you doing? Thank you for coming in here.
Town administrator report. Absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um just wanted to provide a brief update on the Larkin Dam project. Um after many years, I think it was originally underway before I started
working here. you've been on that team since the beginning, Selectman Walker. But the project has received all local, state, and federal permits um except for the mass DOP permit for the I95 bridge work, but we expect that to be in any
time now. We received five bids for the construction on July 8th, and the low bid was Luciano's excavation of Taton for a total of $1,242,750. We've secured um about 1.5 million in grant funding for the construction. So
the bid price is within the budgeted amounts. We partnered with um the state who provided about 520,000. US Fish and Wildlife provided 45,000. Noah over $860,000
and some additional Yeah. some additional um private foundation funding over $287,000. So, uh notice to proceed for the dam removal work is anticipated by around July 24th. Pre-construction meeting is
expected to be held on site with the permitting agencies around the end of July and um construction once started is expected to take approximately 3 to four months. Um the Bfield Water District completed their peer review of the
project and concluded that there would be no impacts to the water supply wells which um is key and the project team that we're working with will keep them apprised of the schedule and any other key milestones as we proceed. And speaking of Lark and Road, you may
recall that back in June Mouse DOT did approve the um heavy commercial vehicle exclusion. So, a copy of the permit is now up on the town's website. And today we received and posted the mass DOT approved signage. Hopefully, you were
made aware of that, Chief. Yes. Great. Um, we also received good news from Senator Tar Rep. Casner. They were able to secure $40,000 for Newbury, which will be used for improvements, continued improvements to the Morgan AB fire station.
We're going to use uh I think you already approved our annual Maya grant to offer hot start screening for 15 members of both um the police and fire departments first come first serve. It's a screening that provides testing that's used to predict the risk of you know
heart attacks, diabetes, kidney, liver function, those types of things. So we want to keep those guys and gals safe and healthy um as we move forward. So, we're glad to be able to offer that to them. Plum Island Center parking
attendant program. So, that's new this year. Thank you to Chief Fischer and um Cindy Courier and um Susan Noise. All kind of worked together to put this program in place. Uh seniors can earn
property tax credit by volunteering on weekends at Plum Island Center. Um that we're looking for volunteers. We've we've got two signed up currently, right? We have two and um they've reported a
really good experience. I too was nervous. I know why you're giggling. Um but they the experience so far has been wonderful. Hence the letter to the editor that one of the volunteers. Yeah, I read I read the letter and they they they both sounded like people were
okay with the whole process. They weren't. No one got upset by what was going on. So maybe we all ought to get out and do it for a weekend to help. Anyone's interested. We have vests at the police station. Do you know about this? Yeah. What's the sign up? Like is it like you go to the police station, there's a signup sheet there or what's
the So we have uh volunteer reflective vests so that people know that they're volunteers for us. And our dispatchers are actually overseeing the schedule. So we created a schedule throughout the summer. They're two-hour blocks. You can
sign up for as few or as many blocks as anyone wants. Um, and we ask that you check in with the police department when you go down. Um, you take the vest. We have a chair with a sun cover over it. People can borrow if they want or bring their own. And that they come back and
check out of the police department um when they're done just so that we can not only track their hours, but track their safety. They have instructions on what to do if anyone gets nasty about the parking, but we're really looking at this for prevention on parking there
because the parking at Plum Island Center is this high public complaint, but it's a low public safety response and with us being short staffed right now, it's causing kind of this conflict between the public's needs and the police department needs. So, this was
like a perfect solution so long as we get volunteers who can fill up the time, but we'll take anything we can get from anyone. And we've even talked about there are some people who are too young for the tax program. Um, we'll take volunteers who are looking for school
hours, anything to be able to do this. And our officers check in on them when they're down there so that they're not kind of alone down there, especially during the busy days. But if I'm not mistaken, I think for participation in the tax abatement program, the gateway for that is Cindy Courier at the Council
on Aging. There's paperwork that has to be filled out. I think a Corey check gets done. And once that's all set, then the police station is managing the process. They can start with either Cindy or I. And Cindy and I are working together to make sure to see kind of which lane
people fall in, you know, for the volunteers. that yes, we're desperate for people to do this. What are the hours? Like how early to how late? So, right now we're we're starting at 9:00 in the morning and going until 6:00 at night. That seems to be when we look at the parking complaints that come in
from Home Island Center. That's the the real window. Um it's um you know, Friday primarily though, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday holidays is really what we're what we're looking for um for volunteers. And again, we're grateful
for whatever we can we can get. Chief, crazy question, but where we're actually kind of working for the town, but are we covered by any liability or any I mean, is there anything for should we in, you know, endanger someone
and they sue us? Well, there right now the people who are there. So, I I see two parts to your question. One would be liability. I'll defer to you on that. um in endangering. So, this is really just a excuse me
driver, just so you know. This is permit parking and there is no confrontation. We're having the volunteers walk away if there is. I'm just saying if someone says, "Well, you told me to back up and they crunch someone's fender or something, you know." Yeah. So, yeah, they'd be covered. Anyone that's
working on behalf would be covered under our my liability policy. Yeah. So, perfect. Great idea. Terrific. I know. How many have started so far? Have you had anybody? Two. Two.
Two. One. Who's done it? The gentleman who wrote the article has done it. And then we have one that's just in the pipe now. Okay. So hopefully for more. Thank you. Yeah. No, no problem. And I don't know if you heard, but they don't have to be seniors. They can be
any volunteers. They can be students for community service hours. So, got a 21-year-old in my house that could probably use some time. There you go. The only thing we have them do is I have them fill out emergency contact form in case there is type of any medical.
Dispatch has all of that information and we give them an ID because we put them on our CAD system board so that we know they're down there so that the officer knows to check on them. Um, but other than that, it's it's really easy to get them up and running. So, I would love it. Awesome. Do we get to use the cart?
The cart? No. No driving? No driving of anything, no canamm. Okay. So, um we also received notification from the executive office of housing and livable communities that
effective June 20th, 2025, our housing production plan was accepted. Year-end closing right now is our top priority in terms of finance department. Once complete, we'll segue right into our year-end reporting and then our
annual audit. So, this tends to be a particularly busy city season for finance. We have um upgraded our PEG cameras, the mobile ones, also known as the handy cams. People take them and
they wanted to video uh community events and things like that. So, the microphones, the recording video fidelity, and the storage have all been improved. Um, but the cameras will function much like the old ones, so there shouldn't be too much of a
learning curve for anyone. Our uh annual flu clinic has been set for October 21st, 2 to 4:00 p.m. Vaccinations will now be provided on site here by Connley's Drugstore. Newbury will save both um the cost of
both holding the flu clinic as well as purchasing the vaccines by contracting with Conley's. And they'll also be able to offer additional vaccines. I think they're going to be providing um flu, pneumonia, shingles,
COVID. Is there anything else? Yeah, at least those. Um so that that'll be new. the board of health um chose to change the way they provide the services. And finally, Newbury has received the
government finance offices distinguished budget presentation award again this year. So, well done Tracy. Congratulations. Yeah, we we you know kind of I know everyone gets tired of hearing it, but my culture of continuous improvement where we're always updating
it. We're always trying to make it um to enhance the document, make it more readable, more interesting visually for people. Um you know, the more they know, the better it is for us. So excited about that. Congratulations. Thank you,
Bill. Can I just say something? Sure. Um there was no minor task for Tracy through the whole dam removal process. It was a long process. There were a lot of loose ends. There was ups and downs, Tracy. I mean, it's been
what? Almost all the time that you've been here. You've been all Is it both dams going out? Is the upper dam too? That little dam? Um, water registry dam or whatever it is, I believe. So, yeah. And, um, you know, it's a
hindrance to fish. Makes it it seems to be what environmentally is more sound for our rers. Now, it's by no means a total solution because there's other dams up river,
but it's still quite a river. So, it's step in the right direction. A lot of people, I mean, gosh, Doug Packer, Sure. was involved in it from the beginning. Ben Gahagen, um, there's been a a whole team. So, but Tracy held it all together, you
know, the threat to it all. So, it was good. Thanks, Trace. You're welcome. And and I think really have to note that this package of grants Oh. And the money that came to finance that project uh taking that burden away from the taxpayer is huge.
And you got to remember the mill removal. You remember that before that? They took down the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tremendous partnerships. Yep. It's awesome. Some of the oldest mills in the country. All right. I have one quick question. Sure.
Just about the flu vaccines, will there be the high potency or the regular? Uh, both will be available. Okay. How many doses will they? So, um, the Council on Aging will accept registrations, but walk-ins are welcome
as well. Um, there will be by doing it this way, we won't have any limitation on the number of doses. When we did it oursel ourselves, we had to kind of try to figure out how many cuz you didn't want to purchase a lot that weren't going to be used. Sometimes we'd run out
because you didn't know how many people would show up. But in terms of the walk-in, so this should be a much better experience um should be cost beneficial for the town as well and you can get additional vaccinations and you could use Connley's because
they're a compounding drugstore. I don't know that you'd have that to speak to the board of health about that. Um that was their decision. Um, so I'm not sure for for COVID reasons because I think in
order to I know they can it can be transported but it has to be transported a certain way but because they are comp compounding um pharmacy that they have the ability
to have that on site. It's probably something that the the board of health would have to u check and be be wary of and concerned about and absolutely good point. So, do you have to have do you have to
be um um over a certain age to come through the council on aging or anybody any resident? It's open to any resident of the town. It is they're just taking the registrations if people want to register in advance. It's no cost
for your insurance card, right? As long as you have insurance. And then does it get build back to the state or something like that? Insurance. They have a partnership through their insurance. Okay. Meeting updates. Who has meeting
updates? I got one. Um, the Triton School Building Committee met on the 9th. Um, I'm going to say this every single time. It's a long process. Um, it's a big committee. It's going to be a really long process. Um, the one thing, and
there wasn't a whole lot to say cuz it was only the second meeting of the committee, and there's a lot of sort of early steps that they're just sort of checking off. I can't remember which phase it's in now. It's I think moving from one to two soon, but it's not it's still a lot of the early work. The one
thing I noted though that um is really great is the there's a maintenance and capital planning information package that they that Triton had to submit to the state to the mass building school building authority mass school building authority and
because of the good practices and the record of good finance finances at Triton they it moves the percentage of how much this mass state building school building authority will reimburse or will pay for I mean it increases the percentage of money that will that will
be allotted to to the which decreases the amount of money that we're going to have to pay. That's great. Comes down to. So it's it's one of those things like consistently doing the maintenance and consistently keeping the books in good shape meant that when it came time for getting more money from the state, we're going to get more money from the state,
which is pretty great. That is good. Um, and then the other thing was that the design enrollment is the key number for the whole thing. And I think it came out to 8.95. That's what I have in my notes, but I know there was a there was an email that came around that had the final number in it. Um, but
that's actually pretty comparable with Pentucket and some of the other the other schools that they were the enrollment of both schools, middle, that's the enrollment for middle and high school. That's the design enrollment for middle and high school. Yeah. Patrick, who's in charge of that
meeting? So on it's I would say it's sort of co-chared by Brian Forgett and then um Matt Landers. Okay. like whose school committee train or Newberry school committee but and then it's um the committee itself is
20 or so people and includes reps from all the select boards all the school committee all somebody from each school committee um town school committee um parent reps from the high school and the middle school teacher reps from the high
school and the middle school um principal and then the principles and then um citizens like just community community rep from each city, each town as well. So, if I remember correctly, the community rep is is experienced in this type of
buildings, isn't he? It's Yes, he is. Yep. But it did seem like there's a real mix of people that are really deeply experienced in in every aspect of this and then some people, myself included, that are coming with almost no experience in this. So, yeah. Um, a lot of communication stuff
is going to start kicking up. That'll probably be one of the hardest things to keep hammering at cuz it is a long process but all of a sudden this time in two years we're going to have a a picture you know and then probably 6 months after that an actual
number. So preparing for when we can see something and when we can talk about a number is yeah and we don't want to hear what happened with the other school was why where did that come from and I didn't hear anything talk about that. You can't have that happen. No. Um, if I can jump in while it's fresh in your mind, everything that
Patrick just said has to happen with Northern Northern Essex and Whittier. Okay. And we need the 11 municipalities that send their students to Whittier all have to send representatives for the same kind of a building committee that
Patrick just described. Okay? and and it's it would be a if you think about it it would be a a really large group much larger than frightened because 11 versus three the different categories. So, so, um, I'm going to open it to the public
kind of if anyone is interested in in, uh, being the new representative for the Whittier Northern Essex, uh, building committee, send the resume to the select board because we need to make a decision and we need to appoint somebody before
September 1st, I think, was the deadline. Yes. Okay. You know, when you have meetings and and committees that are going to take that long to have a summation, continuity is going to be hard.
Yeah. Um, Mr. Chairman, I have an update, too. I attended the mun Mass Municipal Association's uh policy committee. I'm on their policy committee, HR legacy committee, and they
had a um somebody come speak to us this time this month from um a high impact stress relief program. It's called the High Five initiative. Have you heard of it, Patty, at all? I've heard of it, but I don't know a lot about it. Yeah, it's a for first responders um
police and fire. They're trying to um help. They're trying to make a segue through the Mass Municipal Association thing to get into all the 351 cities and towns. And it's a real short like when you have a very let's say fire, let's
say the fire department goes and hits a a bad accident on the street and they get to pretty much shovel up people. It's just not very good. It's very high stress. And then they can they give them these little tools. It's quick tools. It's it's your own. It's like I want to
call it mindfulness, breathing, those type of things. And it's supposed to make your blood pressure come down and it's supposed to be like a really um quick, easy way. And it's supposed to work. So, that might be coming. It's called, like I said, it's the High Five
initiative. I just looked it up again. It's through the Massachusetts Wellness Initiative. It's a high- five high impact stress relief program for first responders. Um they're pushing fact that you guys don't have to tell tell you this that when you in those high stress
positions jobs um it impacts your overall well-being. Um they're looking at it like if you the towns implement these types of programs for their first responders, you can mitigate some type of HR risk for people going out onto on
leave because of multiple stress producing incidences. So, and it's cardiac too. the grant we just received tests for a particular type of cardiac disorder that is common for first responders because of those adrenal spikes that happen with um you know low
takedown after the adrenaline or inappropriate takedown after the adrenaline. So it it is a real um you know mentally and physically those types of situations are tough. We use um nemlech sims. So when we have a critical incident, we have um a team of first
responders who will come out and do debriefing that night with us within 24 or 48 hours depending on the severity or the type of the call. So we have something but it's not um it's not an app or it's not anything. Yeah. know this was they would the way it was described at the meeting was it's
instantaneously you you you know you do you do your job you go back to the to the firehouse you go back to the station you take a deep breath you walk into another room and you do whatever the you know mindfulness mindful activities
and it's less than five minutes you gather yourself together and then you can go back and do your do your job so that was update. Good Leslie.
Um I don't have an update. I I do have a question though. When the the incident where they had to call in Aimsprey for drone use, what happened to our drone? We don't have a police drone. We have a shelfish drone.
We have a shelf. We don't use that for like So police aren't trained. We don't have the pilot's license needed for to use our drone. Yeah. No, that was that was the question. I I didn't know how. Perfect. That got spread out, but yeah, I read about it.
Yep. Jeeoff, I'm good. Good. Okay. Um, what have I been doing? Wednesday night, I went to uh Eastern Essex District Veterans Meeting, um, which was a followup to to
um setting the pay the pay for for the veteran service officer, Ste Steven Bone. Um, and also Tracy and I have been going to the Whittier Tech and Northern Essex uh task force type meetings. That's where I
just got the information for you that I talked about uh the eligibility period um with with MSBA and the need for a representative. Um, and Patrick and I have been doing negotiations with Protection Fire Company number one. And I just want you
to talk about that a little bit. Um you know this this town owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to protection fire company number one. They were incorporated in the in the uh
secretary of state's office in 1929. So in three years they will be celebrating their 100th anniversary of of being in existence. Okay. And and when you consider the fact that their their mission
and what they do and what they've done for this town is is is incredible. The mission statement protection fire company number one is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well-being of the residents and byfield and it surrounding communities. This nonprofit
organization takes on the crucial responsibility of providing fire protection and emergency services. By doing so, they aim to safeguard lives and properties in times of crisis. I mean, these are the people
in the beginning part of their formation, drove the vehicles, put out the fires, came to my cell to pump out water when it had 6 in of water. Okay? And drove the ambulances, extracted my cousin from
a wreck on Route 95. um and they deserve a lot of credit and a lot of thanks. I would not like to hear or see or see screenshots of any disparaging comments anyone makes about protection fire
company number one. Um the other thing I'd like the fire company well exact I'm sorry be I I'm isolating number one because of the negotiation period in in the PIL fire station. You're exactly right. you deserve total credit in in two as well. 100%. Thank
you for saying that, Jeeoff. Um, I'd also like to talk about a lot of people in this town don't realize, they think we own the Biffield Fire Station. We do not own the Bfield Fire Station.
Some people in this town think we lease the Biffield Fire Station. That's partially true. The Biffield Fire Station has about 10,000 square feet of space. We lease half of it, 5,000. We
lease only the Bay Area where the fire engines and the equipment is stored. Okay, that is what our lease covers. The other parts of the fire station can be used by request.
For example, when we had the heat wave, Chief Evans was approached to say, "Can we list the fire station, Bfield Fire Station, as a refuge for people to go to when it's really hot?" And Chief Evans
said, "I have to ask the membership of Protection Fire Company number one." Okay. So, there were certain parts of that fire station that we can only use by by permission. There's a list of them. I won't go through the whole thing, but it's the
bunk area, the bathroom, the kitchen, the auditorium. It's there. If Chief Evans wants to use it or the town wants to use it, we have to ask the membership. Um, we're going to go into executive session later on in
this meeting and we'll talk more about the details of where we are in the in the negotiation, but but uh that group of I don't I don't have any idea. here. I don't think we have any idea what the membership is. How how many people we asked, but we didn't get a response. How
many members there are today, but but uh we've been negotiating with with uh Doug Jan and uh Brendan Ivoni. Ivoni. Thank you. Um and we'll continue to do that. Okay. And so that's that's
that's all I have to say about that. Well, I I I just think it's horrible if there if people are on social media disparaging that fire the the fire company protection one. Um I know when I first moved to town, I have they knocked on my door for the
fireman's ball. I've attended that ball. I gave them money every single year. They were always there. They were always They've always answered the call. They were a call fire firef fires fire protection company. They got up in the middle of the night. They went out on
the street. And to have social media disparaging them to me is a sin. It's a it's just a sin. I mean they they disgusting. They own that fire station. They they under their toutelage they they built that fire station. Some of them actually
did physical work on that fire station. And uh you know they they have a lot of pride in that and they deserve to have a lot of pride of that and I respect that and we need to we need to be certain that I don't think anyone on this board has any intention of saying let's move
out of that fire station. Am I correct? Yeah. Absolutely right. Okay. And I don't think the town administrator has that idea either. So if anyone has a con preconceived notion that Newbury leadership wants to get out of that fire
station, I'm sorry. You're wrong. You're not wrong. Okay. All right. Enough of that. Uh correspondence. Oh, sorry. Sorry, Jeff. I just got to throw in that being the only guy from the other side of town
that we do have two active fire stations in our town. They all work together. Yeah. My son was actually chief of the town. We have a good fire department. And I don't know what's going on. I guess I'm
not up to speed on things, but you know, you speak ill of one's it's ill of the It's just you don't support your fire department and you don't support your police department and you don't take care of your h you
know, that's the beginning of losing your town. Right. Everyone worries about the schools. They are important. So are the other parts of the town. Highway department. We happen to be very lucky. So we can go on and on and on due
to some leadership on this end and a good select board. So you know we'll support the fire department, make sure the fire department gets what it needs and make sure we go into the future. I think right. And that fire that fire, you know, both of those fire stations in our
town are important for the region because of mutual aid. It's I mean it's we're just not on an island unto ourselves. It's just we have Tracy is it 26 square miles. Petty 25 our town. What size is it? 25
25 square miles. Couldn't get there from here. Right. I mean you guys are driving five minutes. I'm driving 22. Right. Depending. Bob Connor has probably drove close to 30. Excellent points, Jeff. Excellent
points. All right, let's move on. Correspondence. There there's an extensive Essex County Sheriff's Department 2024 annual report. Is that correct? 2024. Yeah, the annual report. Okay. I mean, it's on Joyy's desk. It's
it's it's a really thick package. It doesn't didn't make sense to try to copy it and pass it out. If you're interested and you want to look at it, Joy has it. Check it out in her office. Um, I guess I skipped over that.
That's just cover it. Review and approve meeting minutes. I need a motion to approve. Second. Um, this I have some edits. It is uh under the
second. Second. A second. Okay, we have a second. Okay, under discussion. So, under present, it says chair releases. This is June 24th, 2025. It should be vice chair Greco and chair de Mayo.
So, I'd like to amend that the record for that. Okay. So, I guess the motion would be to approve the minutes as amended. Anybody else find the meeting minutes as amended? And I didn't notice that. So, okay. Can we have a second?
Sec. Second to approve the amended. Okay. Any more discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Okay. Warrants. Warrants. Sign warrants. Any discussion?
Hearing none. All those in favor? I I All right. Now, um I have a cheat sheet, I guess, about we're going to close this open meeting.
Are we going to reopen? Um and yes, we're going to we're going to reopen it, I think. Yes, we we'll have to reopen it after executive session. So, I need a motion to close this meeting. Motion to close this meeting and reopen. Second. Yeah. But are we going to come back into
open session or no? So we don't close we don't close this. We just move into executive session. Okay. If we're going to come back I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Motion to move. Is there I I do. Jeff Jeff just made it
gone for two weeks starting Monday. 750. Thank you. Bye Patty. Okay. Motion to move into executive session. I'll read the motion. I I move to go into executive session pursuant to GLC 30A section 21A6 to consider the
purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property, the public discussion of which will have a you want to close the door detrimental impact on the negotiation position of the board as declared by the chair and pursuant to GLC 30A and 217A7
to review for release andor to approve the following executive session minutes in accordance with chapter 3A 22FG and to reconvene an open session to vote to approve and to release said minutes if the produation
shall not defeat the lawful purposes of the executive session. Second. We need a roll call vote. We do. Alicia Greco second. Yeah. Yeah. Jeff Walker.
Jeff Walker. Yes. Leslie Matthews. Leslie Matthews. Yes. Jo. Yes. Felicia Greco. Yes. Patrick. Yes. No. I'm still very hungry. I ate before I came. I could have
learned to eat before you go to bed all night. Have a nice big Okay. Okay. So, help me over. Yeah. Are we in the open session now? Yes. Okay.
So, we need a motion to approve and release the June 24th, 2025 executive session minutes. Approve and release the whatever minutes. Say it, Alicia. Motion to approve and release. No.
Motion to release the June 20th 4th executive session meeting. Something right there. Minutes. Second. Thank you. Any discussion about that? And roll call vote. Jeff,
is it a roll call? Yeah. No, no, it's not. Yeah. Yes. All in favor? Yes. I Okay, I'll make the motion to adjourn. I'll second it. In favor? All right.
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