I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Okay. 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. 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. Anyone for public comment, Mr. Manion, Steve Manion on 14th Street.
Um, I noticed on the agenda that there's a proposal to be funded by an anonymous donor donor to resurface the area on the east side of the bridge onto Plum Island. I oppose it for a couple reasons and I
hope you'll oppose it too when it comes up for a vote. Number one, it's just said to be an anonymous donor. And to me, the I it's one thing when it's a small dollar thing or the consulation where someone might want to give five or $10 or whatever anonymously. That's
pretty straightforward. But this one is a more significant project both in terms of um expanse and dollar-wise. And I think that really should be clear in terms of who is funding this. Make sure there are no conflicts of interest. I could make up hypothetical scenarios,
but I don't want to get into that game of uh saying. Anyway, so the anonymous donor part concerns me. It's also not clear who owns the property. It may be the state. It may be the town. And if the town doesn't control that property,
I I think it's improper for the town to be resurfacing or having to take on maintaining that area since it's not unless it is town- owned property, then you can decide to perhaps approve it or not. Though I think the idea of using recycled hut top or recycled concrete
isn't necessarily the best kind of material to put next to the saltwater marsh where there'll be inevit inevitably there'll be runoff from there going into the marsh and uh not sure whether concrete or hot top is worse to use that
phrase but I think that deserves careful consideration uh from you as well as the conservation commission. Finally, if it if you do decide to go ahead or approve the project, I presume that's going to be because the town has
control of that property. And if you do, speaking as a resident on Plum Island, I hope you make it resident parking only. If you've been around during the hot season that we've had for the past couple days, you'll see that the island is, shall we say, full up with people.
And it'd be good in my opinion if the residents of Newbury had access to an area like that as opposed to making open to one and all. The town already provides parking on Sunset Drive for non-residents. There are many private
lots as well, but I don't think the town should be encouraging non-resident parking on what is after all, unless we forget it, ultimately a residential area. you know, this is my home and having a home area and having more and more cars coming down onto the island
and parking and people and the impact on a barrier island, I think it's appropriate to try and at least limit it to the residents and citizens of Newbury. So, I hope you vote no, but I'm sure there'll be more discussion. Steve, thanks. I I'm I can't comment
now, but when we get to that point, I think I can answer and clarify some of the some of your questions and concerns. Right. And I appreciate, Mr. Chair. And of course, I may be leaving in short order. I know you've been rather hefty agenda. Thank you.
Anyone else? Cent concerns. Hearing none. Gifts, grants, and donations. Approval on behalf of the Council on Aging to accept a donation of $10 from Jack Ryicki. Motion to accept. Second.
Any discussion? All those in favor? I I approval on behalf of the Council on Aging to accept a donation of $20 from Sue May. Hey, Sue Haye, excuse me. Motion to accept. Second. Any
discussion? All those in favor? I. Acceptance of state 911 support and incentive grant fiscal year 26 awarded $46,98. Motion to accept state 911 support and
incentive grant. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Acceptance of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grant Award of $11,175. Motion to accept the quality of life
grant award of $11,175. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Okay. New business. Um, when Dana was here last time, citizen concerns at our last meeting, he asked to be put on the
agenda uh for his proposal of uh coming up with a veterans committee. So, Dana, it's all yours. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I want to I want to thank all all of you for just allowing this to just to the discussion just to happen. I think I
think that everybody would really appreciate that. Um I think you all know Frank. Frank is here in in support of this. Uh there's been other people that have reached out to me. Uh Bernie Fields for one. Uh Bob uh Breaker is the Rowley
chair of the of the Rowley entity that that I'm trying to propose and build here. uh and he has he has reached out to me to help with some of the decision- makingaking process. Um what I've handed you all is the um uh I prepared a
mission statement for what I feel this committee should do. Uh, and one thing I want to emphasize is that uh, what I don't want to do is I don't want to take anything away from anybody that's doing things already for our veterans. What
what this what this committee what I want to propose is to assist those people in doing what they're already doing, not to take over, not to take charge. And there's a lot of things that in designing the committee and building
it would is going to benefit all of those other people that are that are helping out supporting our veterans, whether it be the COA, whether it be uh you know, food donations, so on and so
forth. So, that being said, uh I'm not going to I'm not going to read the whole mission statement. It's like three pages long. It's it's probably too inclusive. I I I kind of I kind of threw it together and I think that once the committee gets formed and we and we have
a board, we are certainly going to revisit this and and talk. Well, not I say we because I might not even be on the board, but but I'm just going to say the board is going to revisit this mission statement and I'm sure it's going to get probably condensed a little
bit and refined and so on and so forth. um things that there's I I know I've never formed a committee before and I know I know that some but I know some of you have some of you haven't so I don't really know
exactly what I'm doing but I I do expect that you guys can be a lot of help in making this happen. Um the um Rowley has set up a town account for
donations and Rowley is also a 501c3 so that those donations can be accepted, you know, tax exempt. Um, I think that that's probably an important piece of this because again, uh, you know, we
want to be able to fund the veterans, you know, the resources, whether it be monument upgrades or rebuilding or new monuments or um trying to, you know, help the COA create lunchons and pay for
those lunchons. I I think that I think that's going to be an important piece of this. Um my next point I want to talk about is the uh the organizational chart of the board itself or the committee itself. The number of members that we
should have and alternates possibly to that to that board. Um I just I have a couple of things that um some of the other towns have done. This I think is Wenham and the membership there is you know up to nine members preferably
veterans. I actually would like to invite anyone to to serve on this board because I think that that's important so that the people who are not veterans understand what veterans are all about. So I I would I would encourage
nonveterans to be to to submit emails or or snail mail to the board for appointments to to this committee. Um and then what they did in Winnham for example is one select man or select
person you know would be they they call it an exficiado which I don't even know what that means but I I think I I think I know what it means and and that that would certainly be an an engagement that I would like to see also so that we have you know
communication back and forth between between ourselves Um, so a couple of other things. Uh, the we talked about the, you know, the number of members, the the alternates, the calendar. Um, I've always been with
the with the Eastern Essex vets, it's like I've always tried to push that we need like one centralized calendar where a veteran can look at that calendar and they know everything that's going on poss, you know, not only with the six
towns that Eastern Exit Vets represents, but also with Newport and like the Elks. The Newport Elks does a tremendous amount for our veterans. We're we're new invited there quite often for different events. Uh so one of my main focuses I
think for the committee would be having a calendar that's all inclusive where you can just look at it and you know everything that's going on all around uh Essex. Um and that I'm now I'm getting into some of the details about how to
put this together. I I know that um Alicia in the past has, you know, on the town website, we're going to have to promote it. We're going to have to have people apply to be here on this committee. I don't think
getting volunteers is going to be really difficult. I can I can reach out to a lot of different people. Uh I've already, like I said, I've already reached out to Bernie Fields and a few others and and and Bernie was was all for it. you know, he thinks that this is a great idea. So, um,
requirements for serving, I talked about that already. I I I I would I would accept anybody to this committee. Uh, the email or sale mail requirements and showing up for the appointments. I think we've talked about this in the past. I think that anybody wants to serve on this committee, first off, they have to
submit in writing, whether it be an email or a sale mail, a request to be on this committee. And then when the appointments are going to come up, I think that they ought to be here in person because it's a brand new committee and we want to we want to get that facetime uh with them. Uh meeting
times and locations. Uh most of the um meetings are quarterly. So we probably have one per quarter, but that would be something that once the board is established and we get together and we uh get the organizational chart going, we can talk about that.
Uh and then at the very end maybe someday there'd be a possible permanent location for this committee to reside. So um that's what I'm proposing and that's about all I have. Frank, is there anything you want you want to add? Yes,
please. Um the Frank Bino Maple Terrace uh here in Newberry. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't introduce myself. Dana Packer, 227 Middle Road. So sorry about that. Um, I think the the most important part of this is veterans like to be with veterans. They
don't a lot of veterans don't don't always enjoy mingling with non- veterans or at different events. Veterans like to be of veterans. um a lot of veterans that we have in our community, we have a great VSO, uh veteran service officer,
but um they don't get the um I think they'd rather come to a committee and hang out, ask questions, joke, have some fun, and walk away feeling like they just left the barracks. And I think that's really
important. Um, as far as fundraising, you know, maybe there's some state money that we could chase after. You can always talk to Senator Tower about that. Um, or the or our town and chase after that. But I think it's um to be
local businesses, local residents that can donate to this and we can go ahead and we can have different events, not just meeting maybe every quarter, but have an event in between there. um have a place to hang out to come visit. Um I
think that's important. Um I see what's happens in in Newport. I see what happens in in Raleigh. Um but as far as the calendar goes, I think it'd be great if they could come on the our our town calendar and see different events in
different communities. They're feeling a little lonely today, look it up, maybe be able to go to Raleigh or Newbury or wherever it might be, West Newberry. um to be with their their their brothers and sisters. I think it's important.
Thank you. Thank you, Frank. Any questions, Jeff? Any questions? Um statement Dana, it should come from you. It should be driven by you and it should be put together by you or Frank and you
together. and that you know because you know it almost sounds like it's shifting this way and it should come from the grassroots so and it'll be a lot of work but you know even whatever it takes it's well I
I'm sorry but I can assure you I will be submitting an email to be appointed to the committee so that will put the ball in your court um you Ted or I heard and I don't know if I heard it correctly that Rowley has
something like like this. Yes. As a matter of fact, I'm the the BFW the old VFW building uh near uh what's the restaurant that the Bradford Tavern they own that building now. The the Rally Veterans Committee, that building was
donated to them. So, the Rally Veterans Committee is are they a are they a branch of of the town of Raleigh or are they their own independent 501c3? I don't know. They're 501c3. So, my my
guess is they're their own entity. Yeah. Okay. Because that matters, right? That's what I was going to pick up on too because I wasn't sure if if it was a town committee, could a town committee also be a nonprofit at the same time, which is what I think you said, Dana,
but I I'm sure it's to be looked at. It's to be looked at. I understand that. Right. I I think this is an excellent idea. I really do. And I think that um I think it just needs to be like ferreted out a little bit more the
details. Um perhaps it could doesn't have to wait to be formed as a as a committee. It could be it could come under like the uh uh the council on aging for now and kind of like and I don't know if we can do this but in my head I'm just spitballing here. Um think
about a group of veterans just come to together. I'm saying the council on aging but it could be the library. could be anywhere and just start, you know, with ideas because like parades for instance, we don't have anything that
that does that. And we don't we don't have anything on Veterans Day. We don't have anything on Memorial Day, you know, and that has to be like from the ground up. And I think that's what this is going to start. That's at least what my understanding is. I just I I I've got different thoughts that are going
through my head as we're as we're talking about this. And like what Frank alluded to is, you know, when you go to like the a lunchon that's put on by like the COA, it's the veterans lunchon. That's really not I have found I've been to many of them and that's really not
the environment where veterans want to stand up and talk about, you know, what their wants and needs are. And like what Frank was talking about, it's like what I want to do is I want to try to give them an avenue to some some place where
they can reach out to with their concerns and what they want to do, you know, and and how that you know, what's more important to them, Memorial Day or Veterans Day or all of the above or, you know, let let them let them guide us to let us know what they need and what they
want. unique to the town of Newbury. You mean specific to the town of Newbury, I should say? Yes. Yes. Exactly. Specific to the town of Newbury. Thank you, Patrick. Yeah. Just thinking when when you talked about having that calendar that captures everybody in the Essex. I
mean it makes complete sense like there's that that coordination that sort of that's coming eventually but in the near term what do you think would be most beneficial in terms of promoting this idea other than you mentioned like having it on the on the town's website announcing that the committee exists but
to get the momentum behind it ahead of time what would be what would be helpful from from the town from the board from anybody I I would say um with the blessing of the town of course but I would say that um advertise
putting a putting this committee together to form this group and having the town back us. Maybe meet me at the police station in in in a you know some place that is um easy to get to
um um and and welcoming something like that and then we can start bringing bringing vets in and non-vets. I think a committee of nine of which six vets and three non-vets um and and and uh start building from the
ground up like that I it's probably going to be six months or a year before we get that off the ground but with the town blessing and maybe we don't have to maybe we're asking for something that the town can't do but I think with the
blessing of the town is important um um but I think that I I hope that answered your question. Yeah. And I'm I'm just thinking too about how you communicate with the with the community at large. I mean, I don't know what the Well, we we have a public relations
people that work for us. Correct. I mean, that would be certainly an avenue where whether we are doing articles, you know, a short blurb in the in the newspaper or, you know, we I know that with the Eastern Essex vets, it's
veterans are complicated people. you know, some of them they only want to read a letter that's that's printed on a piece of paper where some of them are are into uh Facebook and all that other stuff. So, it's a wide range of how
veterans like to communicate with each other and that's complicated. It it really is. Our VSO may have a mailing list. Oh, yeah. registered vets in the community. We could also start with that. Yeah. La last question. that the
um do you in your experience are there a lot of veterans that are Newberry veterans that are using services or going to events or attending things in Newberry Port in Raleigh is okay. So part of it would part of the outreach would be to go to those events and explain you I'm sure they'd welcome you to say hey we're starting this up in
Newberry. Okay. And I uh Bill, I just want to add too, most of the things that we that I envision us doing, we certainly are not going to jump the chain of command. So as as far as like you being
on the Estics Veterans Committee, you would be definitely a focal point between what we're trying to do and you know what you what we do there also, you know. So Okay. Um, I should have I didn't realize that Leslie had joined.
Okay. Les, select board member Leslie Matthews had requested to participate remotely because of physical attendance would be unreasonably difficult tonight under 940 CMR 29.10 parenthesis 5 due to a recent medical procedure.
From this time forward, all select board votes taken during tonight's meeting will be by roll call vote. Leslie, do you have any questions for Dana and for Frank? Um, can you hear me first of all? Yes, we can. Okay. Um, the only the only
thing I have to say is two things that come to to mind as far as like um uh you know a temporary location would be either the BCAC or the PA hall down in down on Plum Island so that you would have a a private informal place for the
veterans to meet. That's a good point. Very good. Great. I think it's a great idea. This is my turn. Being a veteran, I think it's a great idea. Okay. I especially like the calendar because I think and I think you know this in this town certain events
happen and that not communicated to everybody and the same people attend and no one else is invited kind of. Okay. So, I think if that disappears, we'll be in great shape. How many vets were in Newbury today? Oh, I have no idea. Last counted were 309. That's that's that's
that's a lot of stuff. Steve Steve has a list. He's on vacation this week. I had asked him if he could come here tonight, Dana, just to hear what you had to present. And I was going to suggest to you that you and Steve get together because when when I read your your u
mission statement, as you said, there are many things that Steve does as VSO and you're not taking them away from him. You're trying to augment him and help him so on and so forth. I I I totally get that. Okay. Um I got a couple pieces of information for you. I see you already got something on the
town of Wenham. They have a veterans committee already and um I have a sheet that has their objectives, membership, finance, administration, activities, and meetings. You have it. And also I have one from the town of of
uh Grafton. Similar similar setup. Okay. And I know that part of your the things you'd like to do is take care of u plaques at the cemetery, so on and so forth. I ran off a copy of chapter 115 section 9, which is the establishes the
veterans graves officer. So if you take these, they might help you out a little bit. Thank you. But not probably all that much. But I think I think you and Frank have a daunting task. I think it's very worthwhile. And I think that uh I think that uh we're not going to vote on
it tonight, but I think we should definitely take it under advisement. Okay. And um really seriously have you come back as you refine it more of the structure of the team. And operating procedures kind of um we can get more concrete about it and and come back. Uh
you tell me when you're ready. Okay. Okay. Thank you. One last question. How does a nonprofit interface with the town? They they would be if they wanted to go the 501c3 route, they would have to um
apply for that. That would be separate and distinct from the town. You know, it wouldn't be a town committee. It would be a separate nonprofit. So, they would be a separate committee just as the council on aging is the council on aging. It's a town committee. But the friends are 501c3 nonprofit.
Dana is talking about a committee which isn't would have to have then friends of the committee if they wanted to have some support from a nonprofit that would be separate depending on which way you decide to go after you evaluate all the the paperwork
that you're you're looking at sound like a straight path I think fundraising might be the issue that would distinguish one position from the other you had something else um I'm just thinking And it came to me just now. I don't know
how, but the garden club, like the Newbury Garden Club, they're not they're not part of the town, but they have and I don't think they're a 501c3. I think I don't I think you just join them and they meet. I don't know where they
meet. Um I know they've donated things to the town, you know, here, there, and everywhere. But I think I I've as Dana alluded to, I've been on both sides of the committee. I've been trying to form a committee and if it's
got to almost got to form before you can create it because otherwise you don't have one person does not a committee make and two people you'll jobs will get daunting very very quickly. So I almost like say we should kind of start it and
see how it goes. And I mean, you've got the leg work done here. I think augmenting working with like the the veterans agent here in town and just my advice is to start small um and then grow it up and then we'll see how it
goes. And then once you get a big group, you know, we can see which way it will go better. It may you may decide that you want to do a 501c. Yeah. I just I just I have another I got a uh an email here and um is Deborah Egan still the town administrator at
Raleigh? Uh this Bob Breaker sent her an email and I'm pretty sure I I I got to do my homework a little better, but I'm pretty sure they have a 501 established already and he requested an account
within the town's budget for donations to go into. And I don't know how that all works together, but you have some homework. Two separate I know. Two separate entities, baby. Yeah, you can establish a gift fund if someone made a
donation and wanted it to be used for veterans purposes. We can establish a gift fund. That's exactly what he requested right here is a a gift account. Yep. So, there's other there's different ways. Where do you get all the money?
I think um we can start by growing it up. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Great ideas. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time tonight in this hot hot hot evening. You got a long You got a long meeting ahead of you. Stay
cool. Thank you. All right. Next was a public property use request by Vanessa Aisman on behalf of Jean Gigger Crisis Center to hang a banner on the baseball field backdrop from Monday, September 23rd to Monday,
October 6th for the 34th annual walk against domestic violence and new report on October 5th. You're here. It's pretty straightforward. Please introduce yourself and we Hi, I'm Vanessa Ersman. I work at the Genie Guyer Crisis Center. Um, I'm both a
resident of Newberry Port and employed there and my mother-in-law is a resident of Newbury. So, nice to meet you all. And, um, so it's just a request to hang a banner for a couple of weeks promoting the Walk Against Domestic Violence, which is in its 34th year and it's a
great time. We had around 400 folks come out last year to walk with us. It's a fundraiser, but it's free to the community. We got kids activities, food vendors, and um you get to hear some great remarks from a lot of people in the community and some survivors as well. Have you put a banner up before?
Yes. Yeah. Good. Last year was I just completed a full year with the organization. So last year we did we've been doing it for a while, I think. But yeah, that was my job. Thank you very much for coming out in this hot night. So talk to us. Where are they? Where are they located now? What's headquarters?
So, our development and admin office is on Harris Street next to the library in Newbury Port. And then we have an office for survivor services for adults and children and our youth development work in Amesberry and two offices in Lawrence for our intimate partner abuse education
program as well as our children services. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, let's have a motion. Motion to accept. I'll second that. Any discussion, Jeff? Any discussion? Anyone? Any discussion?
Nope. All right, roll call vote. Jeff Walker, yes. Bill De Mayo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Dr. Gman, yes. Wesley Matthews, yes. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. See you. Stay cool. Stay cool. Okay. Next is a Biffield Community
Arts Center 2025 calendar year entertainment license. No. Anyone here from BCAC? No. This is the entertainment license that Dana Packa noted we did not have from the Bfield Community Arts Center and that's
what initiated the request for it. Um so it is for 2025 calendar year. Um even though it's almost July but it's here now. Um I need a motion. Motion to accept.
Second. Second. Any discussion? A roll call vote. Jeff Walker. Jeff Walker. Yes. Bill Deo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Yes. Matthews, yes. Okay.
Notification from John Haret of John Deharnett and Sun Incorporated that an anonymous donor would like to hire his company to repair the roadway to the east of the Plum Island Bridge. The work would include filling and grading the potholes for the board's choice of
recycled concrete or recycled hottop. So Steve, let me let me make a motion. Motion motion to accept. Fair. Okay. Discussion. Someone else can start the discussion.
I'll I'll fill in later. Anything? Um. H. Okay. Put me online. The concept of having a utilizable space like there is on the other side of the bridge does not offend me depending on how it's
done. And how it always does a good job. Um, I think probably people will use it to pack and walk and it could be a safety hazard, but like it it doesn't bother me if it
goes through concom if it's legal through town council and town administrator. I think it's space that is not used uh a lot of different places. And I'm a mar guy. I see people giving up space
and uh and returning it to uh marsh and I think it's an important thing to do but sometimes I think some places that um it's almost giving things up too too too quickly. I mean the parking lot
there if people are using it to watch birds do all the things you can do besides just a pocky place might not be a bad thing. Alisha, um, is there is there an issue with the conservation commission with this? Have they gone through? They they
met on the 17th and they basically tabled it because they didn't know whose property it was. Is it the towns? Is it the states? So, they said they need to find out who who actually owns the property before they can do anything. Subsequent to that, I think it's town property. It's been it's been town.
It's where the old bridge was, correct, which we owned. So correct, it should be town property. So that's what those things are. That's where the old bridge went when they put the new on. Um I still think we should
table table this. I'm going to move to table this until the conservation commission gets its approval. Yep. That's makes sense. I think the I I I hear you. I think the we were discussing it. That's what Bill wanted the the Well, yeah. the the intention was that the um the conservation agent
and DPW director would witness the actual work being done um and they would also decide which was the right material to use between the two. Um,
so I was thinking rather than table that we could we could uh approve it going forward knowing that conservation would weigh in after the fact. D will be a factor.
Will be a huge factor. It'll have to go through process. Yeah. So with this this road right if I if I if I understand where it is correctly when you head out onto the island and you're heading do
east because you're going east on your right hand side there's a little off type of a thing that just like on the other side kind of crummy for lack of a better word. It's crumbly and potholes. Yeah. Yes. Is it already
paved? Is it already disturbed? It's not. I would call it disturbed, but it's not paved. No. Okay. So, the con would have to determine what materials are appropriate and it would have to go through the permitting process. Um, as
Slackman Walker said, D would likely have some involvement. So, we'll go through that process first. Um and then we would make a commitment the town to have um department managers, conservation agent, DBW director on site
um while the work was being performed if you chose to accept it. Okay. Um I also want to comment about the anonymous donation. I think a lot of people are anonymous when they make donations because we are on TV. Um, but there's
really no truly anonymous donations to the town of Newbury. We we know who, you know, the the check is written by someone. So, um, I I'm not concerned by anonymous donation because I I think we'll figure
out who actually is doing it. Um, but I guess so if you want to if you want to rather than table it, you want to approve it. That was the old bridge and that's when they were constructing the new bridge and then they knocked the old
bridge down and this two spaces on. This is the roadway that leads down to the flag pole the monument right on the other side of the bridge. Yeah, I have a question
89 Main Street. Um, okay. So, uh, I guess my question is, uh, I understand that this is going to be funded through an anonymous donor. That's all fine. It's great that somebody's doing this probably. We don't know whether the property is town property. So, it is
property. It is town property. Okay. And then the third question I would have is if there's work being done on town property, don't we normally send that out once it's approved for bid? Is there any reason why a specific contractor has
to do the work? We're not paying for it. That's the reason. Yeah. It's a voluntary. It's a voluntary thing. It's not public bid. And the contractor is a resident. The contractor that's doing this is a resident of Palm Island himself. Okay. I was just looking for
clication. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question. Leslie, um the other side, uh the so the west side, um who owns that property and is it paved or does it have a recycled substance on it?
It's definitely not paved. It's paved. Yeah, it is paved. Yeah, it is paved. I thought it was I thought it was It's not gravel. Well, to me it all looks like So, I can tell you. So the um the bridge the parking lot that's on um the west
side of the bridge is paved and is used regularly um for a parking lot whether it's fishermanmen, bird watchers, anyone um deciding to walk down I can tell you. So then the um the east side of the bridge, so the Plum Island side of the bridge is potholes and sand and
everything now, but that doesn't stop people from using it as a parking lot and and walking down. Um so one is paved and paved relatively nicely. The other one is not. I hope that helps. Is it not? It's not resident parking, right? Is it? There's
no determination for for parking, parking on either side, but it is currently used in its existing condition there and walk to the beach from there. Yeah. So, both sides are currently used um for a variety of of reasons as a
parking lot and you know, sometimes slip a canoe in. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So, like I said, there's a host of reasons why people are parking there, but one side is, I would say, functional, and I would park my personal car there. The other side, I would say, is not functional, and I would not park my car there, but
people do. Thank you. All right. So, so you have a a motion and a second to accept it. And then you talked about tableling and then I don't think I got a second. I'll second the motion to table because I feel like we don't If I could ask one more
question, please. Um, if the town knows who the um the anonymous donor is, does is it part of the public records that anybody could go in and um and put a request in to find out who it was?
We do not know who I don't know who the As of right now, we haven't received the donation. So, we don't know who who Okay. But but if you when and if you do receive the donation, would it be under the the purview of a uh request for
public record? I would think so. I mean, everything we do with the town is subject to public records request. All right. So, Patrick, you said, yeah, my only hesitancy for is that we don't need to make the decision now. and the conservation commission definitely had a
lot of questions amongst themselves about where about primarily about the the ownership which I guess that's been a set but also about the surface and so I mean I'm I'm all for waiting until they've actually made a decision because we don't have to make the decision now and it gives us more time to think about
the other decision which is who gets to park there which I think is was a legitimate concern. Yeah. Okay. So we should be any more discussion about your motion to table it. I have I will say one thing if it starts to take
on a life of its own the other one seems to operate pretty was a fair I don't know of any problems Patty is it an issue all the time to you but if it starts this side starts to
only certain people can park there and if it gets to be that kind of stuff I'm against it um work if there is discussion about how the space is used. I would like to be a part of that conversation because my my primary request would be no overnight parking.
That the one thing that we see a lot is um you know overnight that that's that's where we're primarily checking those lots is on our overnight shifts and that's where we run into issues is when we're telling people to leave the space that doesn't have a sign that says no
overnight use. So that that would in a further discussion if it comes up that would be my one request and whether that's however that decision gets made I would like to see now knowing that it's town owned property on both sides that whether we pave it or we don't that's
what my light bulb went off on saying it's town property can we make it so there's no overnight parking and just to help answer Leslie's concern looks like she logged out Leslie you still there the letter that was submitted from John
Harnett said, "We have a customer who wishes to remain anonymous who would like to hire us." So, the donation would be going from the anonymous person to the contractor who's volunteering his work. The check would not be coming to the
town. Okay. Would that be correct, Tracy? Okay. Makes it sound different. Yeah. Um but the conservation comm commission would still um make the would they make
the final decision on what the if it would be hot gravel or so would it be impervious or would it be impervious? They'll make that they'll make that decision and and um if we vote to table
it it'll force that decision. Okay. Okay. All right. Um, I guess we're voting for the tabled motion. Jeff, yep. Vote to table. Bill Mayo, yes. Alicia Graco, yes. Match Klin, yes.
Leslie Matthews, yes. Okay. Thank you, Steve. You can go now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Oh, you can you can stay. in the hot box. You can stay. All right.
Now, we're into fiscal year 2026 board and committee appointments. Um, my hope is that to streamline this process because I don't really want to look forward to a roll call vote for any one of these nominations. I'd like to have a motion that would allow me to read the
appointments. If anyone has a hold on any one of the appointments, we'll mark it and discuss it after the fact and then vote on them as a packet and then vote on the ones that were checked. Could I have a motion?
Um, I I move that we take the fiscal year 2026 board and committee appointments um as a a consent agreement, I guess,
and agenda and um hold any ones that we're interested in and that we want to hear or have discussion on and then vote on them in one roll call vote at the end. Second, it doesn't does it have to
be a roll call vote? Yeah, Lisa is We're remote. We're remote. I think we have a couple of members too here that are Yeah, we do. Interested. So, so I think we come to them pretty quick. Okay. Second on the list. So, we have a motion and a
second. I need a v a roll call vote to accept that motion. Jeff Walker, yes. Bill Deo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Everything else, Leslie Matthews. Yes. Okay. Could we have a quick discussion on that just for clarification?
So, as you read through all of this is are this as I'm trying to look at the paper. It's a little difficult right now, but um so everything is broken down into um the specific categories. So, that's how it'll go.
I'll read them by category in the names and Okay. Yep. All right. Agricultural Commission is a reappoint John Nutily New Tile three-year term. The second border to Boston Trail
Committee Kristen Grubs, David Bro, John Rean, Jim Dueling, and Sean Mroy. You're both here. I'm Sean. You're Sean. Okay. So, we have Shawn Dueling.
[Music] Capital Planning Committee reappoint. Nicholas Orum, two-year term. Conservation Committee Commission reappoint. Robert Connor's three-year term. Anthony Ki, three-year term.
We got a resume for Harry Trout III, which would be a new appointment to the conser to the conservation commission three-year term, replacing Diane O'Brien, whose term expired in 2025.
And I'd like to thank Diane O'Brien. Sorry though. Council on aging reappoints. Janine Cunningham, three-year term. Josephine Antico, three-year term. Chuck Bear, threeear three-year term. Cultural council reappoint. Robin Lawson, three-year
term. Cultural council new member appointment request, Barbara Call, three-year term. Finance Committee reappoint. Richard Keys, three-year term. Finance Committee new member appointment
requests. Steve Kenny, three-year term. Amy Crouch, three-year term. Historical Commission reappointment. Jan Forest, three-year term. Eva Jackman, three-year term. Human Resources Board reappoint.
John Ferrara, three-year term. Anthony Antico, three-year term. Diane Doyle, employee representative, three-year term. Patricia Fischer, employee representative, three-year term. Local historic district committee reappoint. Joy Misho, one-year term.
Elizabeth Palega, two-year term. Lawn Hawkm Hackmeister one-year term. Robin Ethridge two-year term. Marramac Valley Planning Commission. Kristen Grubs one-year term to serve as the town's commissioner at the
recommendation of the planning board. Peter Pos one-year term to serve as the town's al alternate commissioner at the recommendation of the planning board. Open space reappoint. William Hoffman, three-year term. Christina Hoffman,
three-year term. Sean Mroy, two-year term. David Powell, one-year term. Michael Carbone, one-year term. Jim Dueling, two-year term. Planning board, associate member appointment. Mary Stone, associate member, one-year term. At the
recommendation of the planning board, recreation committee reappoints. John Rean, one-year term. Michael Crouch Crouch, one-year term. Mark Zant, one-year term. Marian Estasio, one-year term. David Bro, one-year term. Daniel
Jones, Triton Regional High School representative, one-year term. Cindy Courier, Council on Aging Representative, one-year term. Zoning Board of Appeals reappoint, Eric Van, three-year term.
And I think I will stop there before the police department appointments. Motion to approve as read. Second. You want something different? That's fine. Second. Any questions? Any discussion?
Hearing none. Roll call vote. Jeff Walker. Jeff Walker. Yes. Bill De Mayo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Dr. Cuffin, yes. Yes. All in favor? We all said yes. Oh, we said yes.
All in favor of us saying yes. I should have gone home with Steve Mansion. I apologize. Okay. Police department appointments. These are one-year terms 7125 to 63026. Robert Adams, reserve police officer.
Robert White, reserve police officer. Sally Palen, police administrative assistant. Ted Dylan, reserve police officer. Jay Rothia, special police officer. Could I have a motion? Motion to appoint.
Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Jeff Porky. Yes. Bill Deo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Dr. Carlin, yes. Wilson Matthews, yes. Three-year term, July 1st, 2025 to 6:30, 2028.
Alexander McMullen, full-time police officer. David Evans, deputy EMD. Emanuel Terrarero, full-time police officer. Jason Duna Kuna, full-time police sergeant. John Baker, full-time
police officer. Max Mclesy, full-time police sergeant. Nathan Hunter, full-time police officer. Steven Jenkins, full-time detective sergeant. Steven Smith, full-time police sergeant. I have a motion. Motion to appoint.
Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Bill, yes. Billo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Patrick Greley, yes. Matthews, yes. Okay. Review and approve one day liquor licenses.
Sarah Blackstone on behalf of Ipsswitch El Brewery Essexbased Ball Organization event at Spencer Pierce Little Farm, five Littles Lane, Newbury on July 13th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
What I'd like to do with this is to insert the get a vote just to insert the the the dates and time and times. Could I have a motion? I move I move that we take them as one. Just read the dates and times.
Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Jeff Walker. Jeff Walker. Yes. Bill Deo. Yes. Greco, yes. Genanon, yes. Leslie Matthews, yes. Okay. Okay. So, the first one is July
13th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. July 20th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. July 27th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. August 3rd, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
August 10th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. August 26th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. We have a motion to accept motion to accept. Second. Any discussion?
Roll call vote. Jeff, yes. Bill Deo, yes. Alicia Greco, yes. Pastor Greon, yes. Joseph, yes. Town administrative report. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um so we conducted recently a review of all the meeting minutes posted on our website
and what we found um was it indicated some of our boards and committees were behind in their postings. So they have all been notified and we hope to see that most of them will become current in the very near future. um they some of
them have already complied, but we typically around this time each year, we we try to give a look and and make sure that everyone stays current with the open meeting law. So, more to come on that. The library collective bargaining agreement has been fully executed. You
discussed it at your last meeting and the um teams just have signed off. So, that is in place effective July 1. uh some project updates. We'll be kind of turning our efforts to completing the Newbury Elementary School roof project
and beginning to um address the renovations and repairs identified in the Habib and Associates interior conditions report. Um we'll also focus on both the Newbury Elementary and the library HVAC
projects. We did have a meeting last week with the superintendent and the principal of Newbury Elementary School to with um the DPW facilities director, James Serret, to try to identify those areas that were of most concern for them
and to start addressing those first. And the other project is the Morgan A Fire Station project. I understand this and concern expressed by some residents that we're going to be putting significant amounts of money into that building where it's probably outlived
most of its useful life at this point in time but absent of you know a a capital project to build a new one I you know it's in such poor condition that we really need to address it. Um, we tried to wait for a
little while in the hopes that we could move something along, but at this point in time, I think we've really got to there there are serious issues that have to be addressed. So, we'll be working on those. Um, the website project is
underway. Pre-launch meeting is was going to be scheduled for Tuesday, July 1st. The project scope is complete. Um, and we're hoping um to launch the new website sometime before the end of July.
Fingers crossed. That's that's the plan. Satie Woodward is joining our Newberry Tomb as the new assistant town planner. She will start also on July 1st and she comes to us with experience um working as a climate policy specialist with the
Ipsswitch River Watershed Association. She was an assistant project manager with Holland Moscow Corp. in Newbury Port um working primarily seeking planning board approvals for some of their projects and she worked right here in the Newbury planning department as um
our planning and open space intern. So she'll be starting with us soon. Just the beginning. I didn't hear that the name and what was going on. Uh Satie Woodward. She's going to she's agreed to take the assistant planning good planner
position. Yep. Um Mass DOT has notified us of the approval of the heavy commercial vehicle exclusion adopted by the select board quite some time ago. Um it's been a very long process, but the permit is now in place and the DPW will be ordering and installing the signage
on the locked road um for that exclusion. Um yep. Mass DOT has also notified us of overnight bridge work. You may be you may have seen some of it. Uh paving on route 1 which is ongoing
and should be completed by uh the 27th of June. They work primarily from 700 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. So don't drive over that bridge. Yep. Yep. Uh we still have despite all the appointments that you made this evening, we still have openings on the
agricultural commission. um welcoming people to the board of to Boston Trail Committee, Conservation Commission, Council on Aging, Cultural Council, Historical Commission. Uh there's positions on the human resources board. I believe the planning board's
still seeking an associate member unless they've No, that did that you Okay, so scratch that one. Um so anyone interested is certainly encouraged to contact the select board's office for details. Is there one list of all of the openings? They're all on the
website under our opportunities section. Okay. Yep. So, they should all be up there. Opportunities. Yep. Yep. And I'll make sure that other one gets taken down. The um I don't know if you've seen the MMA announcements. They're outlining their municipal budget pressures and and
their local aid hearings are ongoing. Conference committee begins their deliberations. Now, Alicia, you're probably more familiar with this than any of us. Policy committee in age something collective bargaining committee. I was on the fiscal policy
committee, but not anymore. Not anymore. So, basically, I mean, it's it's nothing that we don't know. Property taxes are capped at below inflation levels with uh Proposition 2 and a half and local receipts naturally are unlimited. So,
um, mandated increases in costs, contractual obligations, health insurance. We all saw that this year in our budgeting, uh, process, um, changes to the chapter 70 aid formula, school transportation costs, they're all
outpacing our municipal revenues. We know this. Um, but they are hearing us and I think they're taking these things up in at least in the conference committee. So hopefully they'll they'll continue to deliberate and we'll see some relief. I think we have a good chance this year. I think if we don't do
it this year, it'll never get done. But I think it's there was enough small communities like ours that are feeling the pinch. And it's pinching hard. Yep. For sure. I have a bridge to sell you, too. I know.
Telling me that for years, Jeff. Well, we can hope. Um and that's it. That's all I have for this week. Could we backtrack just for a quick minute? Yes. Um just wondering the
um the renovations and updates that need to be done to uh Morgan A Fire Department. Do we have a detailed list of what those would be? Yes, we do. We have a a complete report by an engineering firm. Yes. Detailing
them. Last year, right? Might have even been the year before. Yeah. Yep. I'm happy to send that off to you if you'd like to. The plumbing because it's the worst. The plumbing is the priority. Yes. Yes. Trust me. And it is bad. Yep.
Thank you. Yes, of course. Okay. Lastly, we can build a new fire station with to agenda. Yeah. Meeting updates.
Meeting updates. Jeff. None. Alisha. None. Patrick. None. Leslie. Um, I can't actually I can update. It's really not really a meeting, but I think the board should be aware that the, as you know, the town contracts with Mass
Ottabbon to protect the clovers on and the turns, lease turns on our on our public beaches and um I took a walk down there with Selectman Walker and the town administrator on Saturday morning and it is quite large what they have fenced
off. Explain a little more. The fencing covers quite a bit of the available beach, right? So, if the tide's low, there might be some room for you to walk on our public beaches. If the tide's high, not so much.
So, be mindful of it when you're going down to the beach. Check your tide. How much longer? Till they fledge. The problem is uh whatever that is. The problem is Patrick
like they've already refledged once. The birds nest below high water. So if you get a high running tide or nor easter, I mean sometimes they re nest three or four times. That'll be all the way through the end of August or
August. Anyway, these are not the smartest birds in the bird world. Their cousin is a semi-permanmented plver. Looks just like them. lives in Namash, flourishes, not listed, smart, lives high.
Anything else? No. Trac Tracy and I went to u uh Whittier and uh Northern Essics Community College last week, Monday, last week for the uh ceremonial signing of the uh 11 municipalities that uh send
students to Whittier. So, uh, that actually launched the Whittiier Tech into the state building authority process. Wow. So, you you you probably saw something in the, uh, new report daily news about that and you'll see more more to follow. Um, review and
approve meeting minutes. Have a motion. Motion to motion to approve meeting minutes. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Jeff Walker. Jeff Walker. Yes. Deo. Yes. Milia Greco. Yes. Pat Graffin. Yes.
Wesley Mantis. Yes. I need a motion to sign warrants. Motion to sign warrants. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote. Jeff Walker. Jeff Walker. Yes. Bill Deo. Yes. Alicia
Greco. Yes. Patrick Cuffman. Yes. Lester Matthews. Yes. Joey and I have already had a discussion on this. And um she frozen. I think so. Um Miss While she's frozen, um before we
go into executive session, I would like to introduce Mr. Kenny. Um he's That's okay. Oh, man. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry you sat there. Not at all. I should have recognized you from when we I've enjoyed the meeting. Steve Kenny, finance committee nominee. Okay. Thank you for
stepping up. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. And thank you for staying. My apologies. Leslie, can can you hear us? Good luck. Yes. Okay. We didn't hear what you said because you froze. So, can you start over? Oh, sure. Um Joy and I had a discussion and um
before the end of Thursday, I will be able to do all my signing. Oh, great. Thank you. Oh, the appointments. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Okay. Um, now I have to read a statement that says, "A member participating
remotely into executive session may participate in executive session, but shall state at the start of any such session that no other person is present andor able to hear the discussion at the remote location unless presence of that person
is approved by a simple majority vote of the public body." So Leslie, I need you to state that. Okay. Yep. Just closing the door. The only only two set of ears here are
my dogs. They're very tight. So yes, the Matthews. Okay. So it's 8:07 and I think I can make the motion. And I move to enter executive session pursuant
to Massachusetts General Law Chapter 30A and 21A2 to conduct contract negotiations with non-UN personnel, specifically the Chief of Police and Massachusetts General Law 30A 21A7 to review for release and or
approve the following executive session minutes in accordance with chapter 30A 22FG and to reconvene an open session to vote to approve and/or release said minutes if the publication shall not defeat the lawful purposes of the executive session.
So, we have to make sure we're not filming. Yep. release the May 22nd, 2025 executive session meeting minutes. I'll second that. Any discussion?
Hearing none. Roll callo. Jeff, yes. Phil Deo, yes. Felicia Greco, yes. Grefflin, yes. Now I'm waiting for a motion to adjourn. Um so we do a roll call vote after we left the executive session. No.
No, we just did. Yeah, you did. Yeah, we did. We did. But why do we do a roll call vote? Oh, we just released the because Leslie is remote. That's why. Yeah. Okay. I move to to adjourn. I make a
motion to adjurnn. Mr. Chair, second roll call vote. Jeff, yes. Alicia, yes. Bill, yes. Patrick, yes. Yes. Leslie. Leslie Matthews, yes. Excellent. All right, we have things to sign now.
Thank you.