Well, let's call to order the um meeting. We'll do a quick roll call. Uh uh Jim Jordan, Steve Bernstein, present. Steve Bishop also present. Happy to be here. Let's ask
everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. All right. Well, it's good to see everybody. Thank you very much, Colin. And uh let's get right into approved uh meeting minutes. Two of them, in
fact. Um, so I would like to make a motion to approve the meeting minutes of the March 24th meeting of the board of water and sewer commissioners. I second. All in favor? I I I now make a motion to approve the April 8th meeting minutes of
the board of water and sew commissioners. I second. All in favor? I I Good job, Brooke. Thank you, B. All right, we'll uh go right down the line. Um, a plan view for 225 South
Wister Street project. We have that here. Should have a small. Okay. I'm sorry. Yep. Yep. Okay. Do we have anyone here or Yes. I uh my name's my name is Peter Lavoy. I work with DNL Design Group. I am
present. Uh my client uh Ryan Dvali is also present from Heritage Realy. I do have plans if I can share if that would help. Great. Yep. Can everyone see that?
Dizzy, but we can see it. You got it. Yep. Okay. So, uh, so like I said, my name is Peter Lavoy. I work with DNL Design Group. Um, this project is located at 225 South Worester Street, which runs along the right side of the
page here. Um, the railroad tracks run right across the top of the page, which is to the north. And then Dean Street, this is where the Dean Street and uh, South Worester Street intersection is. So, this is right after that intersection.
Um so we have roughly uh 23 acre parcel. Um I can give you an overview of what the existing looks like. So this is the overall parcel
here. It's made up of four four parcels which total the the 23.9 acres in size. Here is uh Dean Street and South Worester intersection down to the lower right corner of the page and the train tracks run along the
top of the page here. Um so what we want to do is we want to construct a culde-sac which is roughly 1260 lineal feet comes in between um 235 and 223 South Worester Street. So
223 is in this location. 235 is at the lower portion of the the page. The road comes in. There is a small crossing over the wetlands and we come up to the culdeac in this location here. Uh which like I said before was uh
1,260 lineal feet. Um the proposed road um will service 15 duplexes. So that'll be 30 units. [Music] Um so we are proposing these units will
be on septic. We have a shared we have two systems back here behind one and two and then there's a large shared system behind behind uh unit 12 and 13. Uh so what we're proposing is we're proposing
to tie in to the water line uh between uh 223 and 235 uh in this location here 8 in ductal line coming up. Uh the first hydrant is
roughly at station uh 375. I wanted to have a hydrant on this side of the crossing to service these two units. The next hydrant comes up and it's at um 8:25. And then the last hydrant is in
the culdeac which is right roughly at 12 station 1 1200. Um I did send this plan to the fire chief. Uh and he did approve he made me change the hydrant in the culdeac to this location. So these
hydrants have been looked at by the fire chief and they have been approved by him. the location. Um, so that 8 inch line will come up and then it'll go through this 16 foot wide piece of uh it's a parcel
that's part of this project. Uh, and it will tie back into the water line on South Worester Street. So, we are getting that loop um that waterline loop. Um, I did see Frank's Frank did
email me um this afternoon and he said uh a couple things that this 90 would not be allowed. So that would I'll adjust that. Um and he said that um each hydrant would have to have three valves
uh on them. So I will also add that. Um so I guess that's an inline valve. He made a comment about that inline gate valves for the development. Um, I'm also proposing each unit to have its own water service. So, you'll have
30 water services off this 8 in Dr. Lion uh line. Um, each unit in the each each one of these units are three bedrooms. So, you so you'll have 330 330 gallons per
day per unit. And I think that's about it. And if you have any questions, what's the uh how are you tying in on Worcester Street? Um I was proposing uh tap and sleeve, but Frank had mentioned
in his letter that you guys are uh you you're expecting and he didn't he wasn't exact if there's a an upgrade on the water line. in South Worester Street. So, he said that um we could, you know, kind of hopefully
if timing is right, we could fit in and as they come by the the site that they would put the the stubs there. I don't know if you have a copy of his. He emailed me.
You're doing a three cholesterol too or just going to the valve off the new main. So just like a tap just like a tap and sweating valve. It just be a solid team. Yeah, we're gonna be out there working on it. Anyway, we don't need the extra valves in those in that area. That'll be all up
to up the code with the new main. Okay, good. So, okay. So, Frank, what do we need to do to what where are we in the approval of this? The fact that we don't have final drawing. We could get the final drawings with the updates that
were mentioned. um you know, taking care of that that 90° turn and adding the three-way clusters. We can get you a full hard copy set and uh have them signed if you wanted to basically approve this pending those those drawings. Um everything we've worked with John John has worked with with
Peter uh quite a bit on this and uh you know it seems like it's moving along the way needs to plans pending changes we have. Yeah, that'd be fine with me. Okay. Yeah, me too. Yep. Okay. Please, is there a a reference
number for the set of plans at all or basically by D-6.1? Is that right, Steve? Is that good enough to do that? Or I would do it by address just in case. I would do it by address also. I'll make a motion to approve the water plans for 225 South Worester Street
pending the changes referencing the 90° bend and the three-way uh gate valves installed at the hydro locations. I second. All in favor? I I So he knows whe the
right to update the plan. Yes, I will. I'll update the plan. And Frank said he wanted two sets, so I can get him I can get him two sets. Okay, we'll then sign them and approve them. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, guys. Good presentation. Good
night. Thank you. You, too. This is pretty pretty cut, right? This is Yeah, John worked on this quite a bit while I was out. Pretty pretty basic uh design. Works out well, but they only had that easement there for the L. Yeah, that's
nice. Yeah. Okay. Um moving right along to uh 10 West Main Street project plan. We have anyone here for that? I question. Okay. And uh Richio is here
from field on on the Zoom. Hi Richard. How are we doing this evening? Very well. Very well. Thank you for coming in. Good. Um I'm going to share this the the the site plan so we can talk about that first and then um we'll
talk more about the the flows and the fees that we had started touching on at the last meeting. Can we um see the plan uh on your screen? Yep. Yes. Okay. Uh just showing the this is the 10 West Main Street, the um
proposed uh multi-use building that we discussed at your last meeting. We've um I did revise the water um the water service based on the discussions we had at the meeting pro bringing a a 18 in uh water
across into the site and then we would have a domestic service and a fire service off of that and then extended further down the um to to bring a hydrant uh closer to the back of the building. I I believe that we had discussed that as well.
Um, our original design was for um I'm trying to think of the number of bedrooms we had originally, but we've cut we've cut that down. Yeah, we've cut that down to um 14 um one-bedroom units and three
two-bedroom units. Um we're going to be reducing this the the elevation of the building to be a twotory building instead of three stories. trying to fit a little bit more into the historic uh district commission's idea of um what
what the uh what the building should look like in that area. Um no change to the sewer connection from what we previously discussed. Um we tie it into the existing stub that came in during the sewer project. Um, and we've made
provisions for a grease trap uh for kitchen waste for any potential kitchen use in in the retail space that's in the first floor of the building. Um, planwise, I I think we we covered pretty much most of this in the last meeting and just wanted to provide
the update based on your recommendations at the meeting we had previously and um, welcome any additional questions on the plans. I'd like to just say why the reason why it's changed. Um our initial um we've got we went through planning board, we got all the approvals through all the
departments. Uh historic had a problem with the um the height of the building. Um even though I could I could could have done another floor, I opted not to because I wanted to have it look good next to the church. They still didn't
like it. Um so what we did was we had to bring it down and um in order to make it financially feasible the project losing all that floor with the pillar. So what we did was we converted them to single one bedrooms um just to try to get a
number of units in make it make it make sense. So there's just the 14 one bed. Yes. So that's well right now it's either going to be it could be 17 units. Right now we're going to change everything. Right. Uh Rich, on the PL on your summary here, I think you have
what? You have a couple of two bedrooms. Um well, this is this is all great information. So the I the last second I I asked my architect, you you better lose the two bedrooms in the back because they're still, you know, they did not only did they not like the
height of the building, they didn't like the width of the building. So I said, look, you know, I don't want to delay the project anymore. It's been sitting there for so long, you know. So, as lose the last two units and just make the third, you don't even know this fridge. Okay. Make make this a third. The only
the remaining two bedroom make it just a one bedroom. I think we're going to probably have to put 15 single one bedroom all one bedroom. Yes. And then the retail space in front. So, it wasn't ideal for the project we we initially wanted, but you can't dig down at all.
do the half and the ground units on the floor. Um, yeah, I don't we didn't look into that because what we don't know yet is I know that they hit a lot of ledge around. They definitely did and you know, it's already been kind of taken
way too long to get the project going. We just want to get moving on it, you know, and we just have to get We haven't had the final meeting with the historic yet on the changes, but um, we did everything they basically wanted. So, I think we're going to end up with
I'm going to say 50 and one bedroom units. So, that will I I would have to re I'll have to reissue this letter with the projected sewer flows one more time um so we could calculate the uh the total fees, but I know Chris
still wants to explore um the fee aspect of this as well. Yes. All right. So, what do you propose? Well, what what I was hoping the board would would uh work with me here on is that um I had to go back to the project.
It's 299 South Washington Street. Um we there's a two the five acre parcel that I own and then there's another parcel across the street that's owned, but the water line didn't make it to it. It stopped the commerce. Uh so thanks to Frank and Jared, we were able to extend
that water line. Um utilizing an old line that was in uh for the desalinization line that was there years ago, we were able to use a good part of that and add the fire hydrants and fix the 90s that were already in the road. We did did all that work and I'm hoping
that the cost even though that I don't own that land anymore, I'm hoping that the cost of that project can be applied to this one. I'm hoping that that's what we can do. So we we we had you know in excess of $80,000 into that into that uh street
work adding the water lines and the hydrants. So um Rich is actually working with the people that did buy the land building that building and um I'm hoping that I can work with the fees to apply to apply it to the uh the bank site especially if
they're losing the not if they're losing the other four. So Frank, John, what's your take on this? Typically, anytime a discount or anything has been done, it's been on the on that project, not extended to other
projects that happen in the future. So that's historically what's been done. Obviously, this is a different board and this is the first time that something like this has been presented and asked. There's also, and I know we had spoken about this last time, um, kind of a way
to maybe not as far as wave fees, but meet them on a middle ground on the sewer connection fee where we had spoken about, you know, uh, and we had spoken with our engineers about this after the meeting, too. Um, to see what their view
on it was. you know, if it was just a apartment building, uh, it'd be pretty much cut and dry that each apartment is its own edu, which, um, obviously makes the project much more expensive. So, because it's a mixeduse building and it's the
board's decision, but doing some quick math here, Rich, I don't know if you've had time to do any math either, but to me, it looks like you're use you're reducing the project down to six edus, which comes out to $96,000. pursuer
capacity. Yeah. Um instead of you know um you know rata adjustment that would be the pro rata the pro rata is we had discussed with our engineers their way of calculating it. If you went with if
it was just an apartment building how it would usually be that's 15 edus which is $240,000 right? So that's a big difference between the two costs and um which you know like you know we had spoken you know we definitely don't want to jam any
projects up or anything like that but um it's something that the board's going to have to decide on because we're kind of waiting into new territory here of the expansion of the town that has never really been an issue before. So, um, as far as mixed use
buildings, I would be more okay with that than waiting connection fees. Rich, do you know what I'm Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. Um, do you still see my screen? Um, this is based on the the the 20 I think it was
20 bedrooms that we had in my letter. Um, so, but yeah, I mean, if you went down to the, like you said, um, if we had the 20 15 bedrooms, we'll say it's going to come down to like 60 to use, which would be the six times the
16 in this area right here, right? Yeah. So, that Yeah. So, that's what I'm talking about. But as far as um you know, if uh the board were so inclined, they could be saying that each
each apartment is an edu as defined by it's a single family residence. So, you know, it's within their right to ask for a much higher sewer tie-in cost. It seems like from my brief discussions
with them, they're more leaning towards your calculations and the calculations we had discussed with our engineers. But um that's kind of I think where the give and take's most likely going to come. How does the adjustment happen where it goes from 15 EVUs down to 60? How does
that uh it's based on actual the number of overall? Yeah, you're talk you're taking a total bedroom count instead of an edu count per apartment. being that there only one bedroom. Right. Right.
Now, was there already a betterment paid on that property? There was. There was. So, that would be subtracted from that would be because that's already been paid. Yep. Where the to So, it's really Yeah. So, yes. So, it's really actually I think would be
80,000 I think it would be. I don't know in full when I bought the property. It should have been paid in full when the when the I'm I'm pretty sure that when the title or the deed transfers, it needs to be paid off. Oh, I don't think it would because every February I think
I get the pack on. Okay. Well, we'll have to look into that. Might have slipped through the cracks, but I think it's it's technically considered a lean against the property. Okay. So, um, so as far as if it's if you're doing six edus minus the one that you've
theoretically already paid for, that's five edus, which is 5* 16 is 80,000. You're saying, John, as opposed to looking at it individually, you say in the calculation the way if Yeah. If you were putting up
an apartment building with no commercial um development at all, it's pretty cut and dry that each apartment would be its own $16,000 betterment fee. Or in this case, not a better, it's a what's it called?
Yeah, privilege fee. So, um you know, we're actually dealing with this with another project that could be going on in on West Main Street. So, is that the same thing? retail and then it's not retail, it's just residential. So that's but you you'll be hearing from
them in the future. But uh but because this is a mix of commercial and residential, you know, it's uh a little bit of a force of a different color. Is this going to set a precedent so that
anybody that throws any retail any bin flow will automatically get? Most likely. I mean, it's, you know, it's everything's the board's jurisdiction. So, I mean, they it's it's most likely precedent setting as far as mixed use buildings.
We call it a pilot program just so since we're haven't camera down, I mean, here we have no information about the makeup of the building and we don't have that solidified yet. Uh, is it too
premature to actually I think you could vote. You could at least probably vote on whether you're going to go with the pro rata calculation or the strict .edu calculation. Um, not that it really uh I suppose the
plans could be approved as is because as far as Yeah. water sizing and all that, everything's kind of same. Oh yeah, me. Yeah, I think you could do the plans and then maybe do separate votes, do two motions. Yeah, I I think that would, you
know, set the ball rolling and obviously it'd be beneficial for you to know, you know, that you have the board support, especially going back to the historic commission as well. That that definitely couldn't hurt. So, I like John's suggestion about the
six rat adjustment. That's my opinion. And then there'll be that that would be the 80 and then they'd have the 50 foot. So yes, the water would not be waved as part of this. Yeah, there are no reference address again, right?
building. Uh, were there any changes that we had to make? That was pretty much No, we were going to get a couple copies of these once they were once they were updated with the changes to the water line. So, I'm sure Rich can get those over to us at some point. We can get those signed last. Um, I'll go ahead and make
a motion then to approve the water sewer plans for 10 West Main Street. I second. All in favor? I So now we need to make another motion for the um what we call the betterments, right?
So I will make a motion to use the pror adjustment when calculating betterments for 10 West Main Street. Is that it? It sounds fine. All right. Good. Okay. Should we Sorry. Should we call it we lock down the number? Say that
again, Rich. I think it was Ryan from It was me. I was should we call it a privilege fee rather than the betterment privilege? Yes. Okay. Okay. That' be fine. Thank you, Ryan. So, I amend my motion to refer to it as a privilege fee. I amend my second.
All in favor? I. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you. Thanks, John. Thanks, Chris. Okay, moving right
along. Uh, next we have um 60 South W Street, Philadelphia Street. Do we have Robert on or Kathleen? Does not appear to be anybody's email attachment. Yes.
So these people do not live there. Yeah. This is it. Um they they live in Florida. Um then it's and according to them the house has been vacant. Um, they've had some people, some relatives, I'm assuming that's is that
is that right? Some relatives that went in there and they said things were moved around making it uh could be, you know, unauthorized use by trespassers as it's written. Um, but we're also talking an
incredible amount of water uh even if someone was living there. One of the things I notice is that one of the his requests is to schedule inspection of water meter. So that I'm taking that as he's going to get that tested the water meter tested. Right. I do not know if he's contacted us. Brook,
do you know if not in regards to having the meter tested because I know they don't like he's got four bullet points in a dispute and one to test them either. So maybe reach out to him and ask him. We can do that
about that one and to check the property. He mentioned that he was all set where his brother and sister-in-law went to the property and notice things. So he didn't request but we haven't done any kind of audit type of inspection. Um though, right? We haven't because the house has been
vacant so you cannot go inside. I mean, we really need to do that, but due diligence would be to have the meter tested before making any question. Yeah. I mean, it looks like he took a high reading on the meter. So, is that right?
Um, he was able to get a read. He looked I don't think he gained access to uh he pulled us an electronic read as far as Right. So, um, are these all actual reads as well?
Yeah, it appears the water went through the water to the meter, but it also where it all went, who knows? He has an active investigation with the North Police Department, it seems like, about squatters living there. So,
uh in any regards whether or not squatters live there, who's on the hook for the water building? That's what I Well, they are they're responsible for the property owner. Yeah. So, the way it would play out is if whoever the squatters were, if they
got caught and arrested, you would have to go after them for it because is sewer a part of this uh this? So, this is just water. Yeah, that's an incredible amount of water.
We figure out how many gallons that How many units is it? Uh 43 43 400 plus units. 413. So Chris did notice a whole bunch of stuff on the side of the house. I don't know if maybe somebody was using a home or it's 309,000 gallons and that's over
the period of saying there. Well, I got a read in December March 19 months. read in December period normal, Steve. Yeah, it's seven lower over the course of three months. That's the one of the
lower read the lowest rate that they got. Yeah. Well, that's probably when they were they were gone. If you assume that amount was spread out over three months, what does that come out to per day? Oh, let's see. Like, is it possible to have that much water going? Oh, sure.
Definitely. It's 3,500 gallons a day. 34 33. Wow. So if you had a hose full on, you didn't have a board. Yeah. I mean, you would have to have something pretty open. Yeah.
Yeah. It doesn't really make any sense. And if they gained access and it didn't appear there was any major damage as we've seen in the past. How much damage water does, you know, it it indicates, you know, it was either a toilet going into the septic system where there was no damage being created, a shower, same
thing. Um or an external device like a hose um being left toilet like that for 3 months. That was what to Yeah, that's that is a lot. Well, the suspect is the fact that there's a hose. Whether or not the hose is connected to somebody that
was falling water out and that and that wasn't turned off to our knowledge. If someone was so brazen to swat in this place for a few months that they would probably be brazen enough to do something like that. Yeah. Actually, it's uh uh what did I say it was? It was 309,000 gallons. Call it 90 days. That's
3500. And then is what 1440 minutes in a day? Yeah. So you're only talking about less than three gallons a minute. Yeah, you're at the max capacity of an older toilet, which you know, it is possible, but most what is like a typical
residential garden hose? Okay. Depending on the side of the service, you you can get 7 and a half gallons and there. Um, if it's an older house and has half inch plumbing, you're going to be cut down substantially. But you can you can move some pretty good water, especially with the pressures that we run at in
town. The higher the pressure, you can get a little bit more volume out of it. So the question is is whether or not we do something today or wait for the police to reinvestigate report. But in any regards the meter it's almost like whether there was a squatter that stole
it or whether it was a leak. It's almost irrelevant because it went right. I mean well we we got to get the meter tested. That's that's that that was one thing that I would I would I would recommend it. Do we do we do we uh encumber that or is that that's something they encumber
because that you know the other ones disputing this? The board could make the decision to to take that fee on just to prove the fact that the meter is working. I mean I have I have no problem doing that. I believe it's $75. No, that's not bad. Right. But we we can do
that. We can say we want to test your meter and they they can't say no. So we offer to do a lease detection um where it's vacant. see if someone else can meet out there and the guy has no one to meet us. So I don't know if we'd have someone to meet us tested. I can definitely reach out to him. So I
suggest that we vote to do that. Send them a letter requesting that we make arrangements to test the reader will pay for the product but we need access and we need to do that. We give him a time frame to do it and if he doesn't do it
then he then he he doesn't get that privilege and we build him for the amount of money. What do we I mean I I I think I mean I it's a meter and and we encumber the fee for that. Um what does
this do going forward? What's in our rules and regulations? Um, I thought it was always on uh the ha behalf of the homeowner customer. They request the meter to be tested. They they they they pay for the test and if it comes back
not within the guidelines, then make an adjustment to the bill and pay for and pay to me test. Yeah. This is just kind of a flipped scenario want to pay be. That's why I I I don't want to go into, you know, you know, salty
waters yet as it were. So, should we should we do it as a motion to wave their fee for testing the meter or a motion to declare that we want to test the meter? Well, I mean, they're disputing the bill. They should they should make that
request to us and they need to pay for the test as anyone else would have to do it as per our regulations. And then if and then if it comes back on their behalf, then we make the adjustments as as Frank. We've already asked for it to do a leak detection and they haven't
data raised to do such a thing. So the question is we can make the same request to have accessibility in order to do this again on a nickel. But if they don't want to do that or don't allow us to do that then our next recourse is send
them send them a bill. Bill do. Yeah. Brook when did uh did you say Chris got a reading? Yes. Recently Chronicle. Yes. It once was on April 14th the um shut the water off. Uhhuh. And he got the read that was the same as March
3rd. Which one? 39. So no use. Yeah, there's no use between them. And they're all actual reads. So like um Defin definitely a unique situation.
Yeah. And it's a lot of water, but uh it's also it's not like it's impossible for it to happen and go through some device inside the house, whether it be, you know, a faucet or or a toilet or something. So, if somebody did gain access as it appears, you know, stuff was moved
around, you know, there's a good possibility that they may have used. So, this home, the house is vacant. the homeowner whenever did not shut off the water in the house or request such a shut off. Correct. Is that correct? Okay. Which is
is actually very common. A lot of people go away for extended period of time and do not want the water shut off. Whether it be, you know, they have they have a heating system that requires it. They have, you know, somebody coming to check on the place. They may have pets or something. So, it it's not all that
common that we get a request for water shut off at the street before people go away for extended periods of time. When situations like this happen, we always recommend it if they're going to be somebody who goes away on a regular basis or, you know, is uh has nobody to watch over the place. But, uh, again,
very seldom happens. Could be the sum of a lot of leaks, too. I think I think the most likely scenario is someone used a toilet, the toilet was running, and whoever entered the house next used the toilet and the toilet.
Right. Right. Right. That's what I would say. most likely basically right you know and I know it's hard to hear that a toilet can use that much water but toilet going straight and half months so what do you need for motion if anything
yeah do we do anything we just take action I just we have to we I don't think we really need to vote on anything I would say we just have to reach out yeah offer a test meter test meter we also need to do like Frank said do our due diligence we need to go in there and
We need to go around to make sure no because you you know if there's water stating that uh and the water dissipated in a uh I don't know if this house has has a basement or if it has crawl space or whatever. I mean we don't know. That's the kind of stuff that we really
kind of need to look into in this letter. Do you want to put a time frame for required response? 30 days. We could give them a 30 days. Okay. Yeah. So we could be like um so our next meeting we can have the the
same discussion and nip it on the bud. Okay. Do we want to mention um the pausing of interest after in the meantime you know that
whole that bill is going to be acrewing interest that whole time. I don't And I know that was that was brought up too and um maybe address that at a later time pending and we can adjust we can adjust at that time. We can adjust. Yeah.
Y um we don't really need to to make a vote on anything. No, there's probably no action for that. Continue continue. just reach out to him and give him 30 days to I think convert into book more money. Thank you.
Okay, we need to make a motion on the 30 days just to make it a hard date because we usually don't do that minutes at least for be nice to talk to these people too. will be at this we can explain where
we're coming from and what the potentials could be. So, okay. All right. Now, we're 60. All right. There's the fun part. Superintendence
updates. I got a book for you guys. Starting off, we have the agreement that we need to have signed between us and um the contractor that's going to be installing the tank irration system.
Okay. So, we have two full copies here. And that's one that we physically sign. That's not the one. We don't we don't we didn't authorize you to sign that. Okay. Okay. All right. I just want to make sure these board signatures. We got four copies. There are two
copies. No, you only need two now. We do electronic. Sounds like you're feeling better, Tara. Yes. Sounds good. Better than this morning. anything you want to add to uh to this? I know they they've all seen
this. Thank you. No, this is the this is a contract we've been waiting for. So, we have um you know, once everybody signs in the towns end, you'll have official start date there and you can enter it in the the agreement and then uh your notice to proceed, Frank. Once you have that official
date, anytime within, you know, 10 days or so of that date, uh, you can put in for the effective date for the notice to proceed and issue that letter. So, okay. Goal is to get it done this winter and have it online by spring.
So, is this for the aation and the cleaning and everything else that comes with it? This is just the airator. It's the airator, mixer, and cleaning of the tank. And hopefully, knock on wood, not too many repairs other than what we've kind of called out. Okay, good.
Well, that's a DN tank. It is, but that's the reason we had one bit there. Really? Okay, that was simple enough that was easy moving along, I tell you. work. I'm gonna uh touch base on some
water treatment facility updates. Um the backwash pump that uh had failed um was able to be rebuilt. It was uh reinstalled with uh brand new column piping. You may remember that uh there was some pictures that went around that the column piping at the threads had some deterioration on it. So, we
definitely didn't want to take any chances by putting that back in. Um everything back installed brand new works you know as it did 5 years ago. Um at uh also at the last meeting I believe we had mentioned that we had one of the
green sand filters that was offline. We had noticed some media coming through in the under drains. Um based on the timing of the year, we actually worked with the engineers um who hired a filter specialist to come in, do an investigation, basically pump out all
the media, go inside, physically inspect. Um thankfully, knock on wood, uh there was actually nothing found wrong inside that would have created um basically the suck hole that was what was happening. Once we open the hatch,
you could see there was a big void. Um the only determination that was made is that the gravel layer at the base of the filter was insufficient. Now where we didn't find any of this gravel in the under grains, you know, the assumption is made that it was insufficient from
the the install. Um so it was recommended that obviously, you know, we we purchase more gravel. We bring that up to the manufacturer's spec um and replace the green sand and then top off with the uh with the carbon layer. problem with green sand is not readily
available right now. So while all this was going on, we have discussions with the engineers and um with the filter specialists, we started noticing a second filter that was acting similar. So we end up taking that offline, started putting it back on sporadically.
Um it wasn't getting any better. So for quite a while, we had two filters that were offline, similar issues. Um, we spoken with Tara um and the uh the filter specialist and actually when they were coming back out to rebed the first
filter, we had them do the work on the second one. While we were there, um they split the the gravel, brought those up to where they needed to be. The green sand that was removed from each was returned equally and we come up with
I think it was an inch or two short on the green sand, but we were able to top it off with the the charcoal. And uh speaking from with the engineers and with the filter specialist, there's going to be no noticeable difference between that small difference in sand to
the to the carpet. So, it worked out well. Um they were actually here last Friday. Those they were back online yesterday. So, we're still doing some flushing, getting some the real fine materials that are still coming through. Um, which is it's common. It's going to take a few back washes for that to to uh
the base material to settle out and everything get where it needs to be, but uh removal already seems like it's back to where it was prior to having the issues. Um, so those those filters be going online if not today, tomorrow. Um, and now we can go back to having the six
full operational filters. Um, obviously there's a substantial cost that comes with bringing in filter specialists. Um, so we had actually John actually worked on this while I was out. Um, we had come up with uh getting an article into the special town meeting
coming up this May um the 19th I believe it is. Um asking for $175,000 to be taken out of retained earnings to basically go for these unexpected and what we thought were looming issues. they came up a lot quicker than you know
anyone would have uh expected. Um so we have that in the special. Um we have funding in place that we can pay for this by overr running one of our line items or the assumption is that this money will be made readily available at the town meeting after the vote and it'll pay for the the repairs and stuff
that were done. Um, so based on what we've seen and the unfortunately the history of failures and replacement parts that we've had in the past 5 years here, we're going to be working with uh with Tara and Ben to come up with um an expedited maintenance schedule for this
facility. It seems like it's it's acting like it's a much older facility as far as with some of the wear and tear that we've seen. Um so you know even with uh speaking with the the column pipe manufacturer and stuff it's stuff that he wouldn't anticipate seeing at something that's such a young age. So he
has also recommended you know doing a little bit more investigation you know getting in to see if that was just a one-off issue seeing if some of the other column pipes showing similar deterioration and that'll kind of set us up what the path is in the future for uh you know any type of maintenance there.
Um, so while this money would be is isn't going to go very far, it'll be readily available if approved at the special. Um, and then next year's budget, you know, if we are looking that we're going to be looking do more maintenance on this facility than we
anticipated within, you know, we're two to three years early. Um, obviously our our budget's going to change drastically for the amount of money we're going to have to add to it and see if we can pick it off hopefully over time. You know, obviously if there's deterioration, we
have to act and replace three things right away. Unfortunately, it sets us up for the same time frame in the future. You know, the goal would be, you know, if we have this pump and it was a one-off issue, you know, every year we go in, replace a pump, column, pipe, and shaft, you know, and have that, you
know, be on a on a revolving schedule, right? You know, there still a lot of unanswered questions. And until we know some of these answers, we can't determine what the maintenance schedule is going to look like. We also have the other issues that we've been talking about in the past with the ACL with changes
um with where our water comes from, what we're going to do with the water treatment processes and all that. So, it's all going to factor into, you know, the decisions that are made in the future. Over to board meetings. Uh a few weeks ago we met with the finance committee and the select board um to
discuss the articles that we have in at the the regulator meeting and the special um one of those articles was the modified version of the Elm Street project which everybody's pretty well familiar with. Um Steve Peterson unfortunately isn't with us tonight. We
have uh we have Ryan if he's still awake. There he is. Hey Ryan. Hey Ryan. Hi Ryan. Um hey guys. a brief presentation was uh was presented. Brian was not available unfortunately. Um so so Steve was able
to go through it again. Everybody seen this. Everybody kind of knew that this was the next step. You know, this is the last step. We don't have any more time. Yep. Um if we don't get it get it approved at this meeting, the project can't go through. Y um finance committee supported um each of our article
requests and supported the modified version of the Elm Street project. Uh the select board supported all but one that we presented and they did not support the modified version of Elm Street. So we're back to a split like we were you know a while back. It's a flip.
It's a flip from last time. Y it's it's better this way possibly. We will we will soon find out. I'm not sure what else we can do. I think we all we've done more than
if if they don't want it. Yeah. We'll go on to the next thing. 100%. Right. And then everybody in Elm Street loses unfortunately. And the town and the town was a big bigger town. Yeah. Um you know, so oddly enough, the timing of
this fell where we met with the old select board. So now there's been some new changes and new members switched around. Uh so we really don't know the current feelings of the new select board whether that makes any difference or
not. Um whether they'll be vocal at town meeting for or against it. Did did they give any do they give any reason raisings or anything like that or is that just they don't really get into that? They they really aren't very descriptive on the asking. I just um
there was some concern that we still don't have a full commitment from the prospective buyer, but again that goes back to the chicken and the egg that we've been dealing with for a year and a half now. Um there was a question as to
why the developer wasn't at the meeting. Didn't feel it was anything that had to do with her. It was just nothing at all. a presentation of of our modified article that they all knew was coming. Um, so yeah, it's unfortunate that uh it
is the way it is. Well, there's nothing more we can do. No, 100%. We we've done above and beyond what we would have ever had to expect for it. Yep. So now we'll let the town meeting, you know, um because of the finance committee approved that they're going to move it.
Correct. Yeah, that that's the assumption. So, uh, what happens that night for town meeting on presentation? As far as I know, and Ryan can confirm this, I believe we are going to do that very short, maybe four or five slideshow presentation, right? Um, that was shown
to the finance committee and to the select board. Um, Ryan's doing we'll find out. It's I was gonna say it's going to be me or Steve unless Mike says otherwise. But I think uh I think since Steve did the
select board and the finance committee meetings, he'll probably be giving an updated version of the presentation that he gave there. Like you said, Frank, the the shortened version of it essentially just to he might dive into the background a little more just to reiterate, you know, how we got to where we got to, but hammer on the points that
he made to the select board and finance committees over the past couple weeks. Perfect. So, yeah, again, I mean, it's a it's the last shot um for this. Um I know there's been meetings that I I've actually missed um with um the grant people. They
are 100% behind this new version. There is some modifications that had to be done to the request and I believe to some of the the permitting paperwork. I think Ryan could speak to that if we really needed to get into it. Uh but basically, they want us to spend that money. Right. It's It's horrible for the
town to ever have to give a grant back. It It really kind of gives you a black eye for future requests. Absolutely. All this stuff is, you know, it's it's not news. It's not jumped yet either. That's a big grab. It is. Yeah. Pretty significant. Um there's only so much you
can do. Yep. True. Um so I'm going to touch base a little bit about the acco. Um during the attendance that we had at the select board meeting like units had asked um if I could briefly mention the acco, I reminded the board that we had provided them with a copy of the actual
acco and I also provided a letter explaining a brief explanation for each of the the key points that were in there because the acco was definitely one-sided. Um you know it wasn't to downplay any of the situations that went on. It was just to show the you know our response to each of them over the over
the course of the time. um basically explained that um you know in the future we're going to see some significant projects being put forward. They they are not suggestions, they are requirements and that they're going to come with some you know pretty hefty
price tags and that you know we would all benefit from having the board support, you know, as we all know how, you know, much that plays into town meeting approval. Um so they uh there were no questions asked about it. Um, I've explained to them that they can
obviously always reach out to us. They have multiple points of contact for myself and John. And uh, as far as I know, I haven't been contacted by any of them with any questions. And I think John is the same. So Bob Kimble reached out to me. Okay. And asked to have a
joint meeting between us and Okay. I don't know that other than the fact we had a email conversation about Okay. No, it's I don't know if they're uh meeting this week that someone questions. Bob and I have
developed a working relationship on another issue in town. So yes, I think that's I think maybe the new select want to know more about what the mystery board, the water sewer commission is actually all about. Who
who did they elect as chairman? Actually, Alec Alec Rich. Oh, Alec. Right. He was vice chair then. Okay. Right. So, uh I'm going to continue with the acco. One part of the acco was requiring us to respond back within 30 days from the execution of the document.
Um we answered everything that they had on their list to us. Um everything was submitted back to them on time and uh their their response to what we've sent them is still under review as far as I'm aware of. Um, two of the major items that were on that list were things that
we had already been working on to improve was the uh lead and copper sampling plan. This is the homeowners bottles that uh uh we've been unfortunately deficient on capturing all of them. And then the other was the updating the routine form sampling plan.
So working with members of DDP, they had indicated that there was one small area in this this corner of town that seemed to be deficient. Um and they requested that we put in additional sampling sites. So what we did is we actually um put in three sample taps over on Parker
Street at the rec center. So that way we have you know a primary site and we have an upper river down river. So those are added to the call home sampling plan have already we've already taken samples. How many samples you take now a month? 30. I don't think that's quite I don't think
we that many. I think we lost. I'm thinking for some reason I'm thinking 24, but I have to pull some numbers off the top of my head. Um, we also took part in uh the cyber security analysis. Before
you leave the acco have we seen us commissioners seen all the documentation on that? You have something? Yeah, we emailed you a copy of it. I remember seeing our respon I don't know a 30-day response thing. We see that I honestly
don't know the one we just sent in recently. Probably not. Thank you. Um so uh cyber security cyber security analysis. So this is a multi-step
process. Um John and I met with the first uh private company who's performing this. Um it's an EPA requirement and it's followed up and enforced through BP. So we went through we answered quite a few of the questions. Um basically they're looking
for how we access some of our data. Um they want multi-point authentication, you know, multiple security codes to be changed on a regular basis. all things to to avoid any type of intrusion. Um, we worked on
this. We had a vulnerability assessment. I'm trying to think of how long ago that was. It was a while ago. Um, that was that was very lengthy and very in-depth. And this is uh this is separate from that. I I thought it the first uh that was the same, but now these are two
separate. You're working with your skater company? Yep. We actually we had our skater tech um join in on that meeting. Um the town's ID IT department wasn't available at the time. Um so we're working with them independently to set up a meeting because there's a lot of things that we can't answer from the
town side of it. But as far as what type of you know systems they run, what type of checks is the skater at the treatment plan? It is. And that is I mean we're we're in the dark about that. I guess we don't need to be but we I don't think we
know anything really about it. And maybe that's fine. I I don't know how we could explain a little bit more in detail probably not on camera just because of the whole purpose of security reasons. Um but basically it's a it's a computer. It's actually two separate computers.
One for water, one for sewer. And it monitors all of the radio frequencies that we have in each of our stations, water, water and sewer, the tanks, everything. Um, it reports back, gives us levels of, you know, what the pumps
are at, what the what the wet wells are at, what the tanks are at. We can control and operate, you know, each of our devices from them. And, um, the set points that you have in there so that if for some reason something gets out of the parameter, it'll send you an alarm. It'll lock out a pump. You know, this
it's a pretty involved system. Um, when you use it on a regular basis, you don't realize how involved and how important it is. So that's all technology that needs software. So is that software up to date? Is is that part of your evaluation with cyber security to
actually review all that and make sure that we have I would imagine it's all updated. I would think it probably it is. And we have redundancies worked in um with separate backup systems. So if one computer was to go down, whether it be lightning strike or anything anything
odd like that the second system, we could run the entire town on it. So having two computers is is beneficial for the speed and accuracy of of gaining access to each individual department, but you also have the opportunity to run off of one. I have a number of questions
or they can't be asked. Okay, definitely let me let me know what they are, Rob. They're off. There's stuff that I need to ask, but it's not nothing we can talk about here. Sure. So yeah, the town's IT department um we're coordinating coordinating a meeting with them and the analysis
company to uh discuss some of the stuff on their side. You know, thankfully the town computers and the skater system are completely separate from one another. Um so the opportunity to have intrusive connections, you know, as we have quite a few times, we've seen some spam emails
and stuff come through. We just don't see that on the skater where it works on an independent network. Um on was 424 correct for the sanitary survey? This seems like it was a long time ago. Unbelievable.
I wrote 42425. We participated in the mass D sanitary survey. We did it. Uh Scott Sers. Oh, sounds good. Yeah. Um we feel that we did actually pretty well. Um he was aware of the acco um from previous meetings that we had
had. um with other um survey takers I guess is lack of better term for what they are. Um could take up to two weeks before we see any any of that review come back. Um we do need to complete the cyber security analysis because it's
part of the review. You have to complete it or or certain completion. They said complete it. Wow. Really? So we have another meeting set up with another person through I believe that might be through Boston Dutra I believe is the So could you give
me a snippet of what a sanitary survey is? Yeah. So, we have um to provide any documents that D requests when when they show up, whether it be uh training documents, copies of certain sample
results, you know, for a certain day or anything like that. So, basically, they're really investigating our record keeping and stuff here. Um after that is done, um which that was a very simplified process. We we were here for an hour and a half going over things. Um
then we take the inspector to the field. We go to each of our um tanks, wellhouses, um any and basically anywhere they want to see, you know, they they want to see a yard hydrant that we have set up for, you know, our call flushing program to
make sure that it has a vacuum breaker on it. We take them there to show because that is, you know, something they can write up. Um, so they basically go in, they check each each connection, you know, uh, make sure that if you're in a well that there's no open ports or
anything on the top, you know, even your connections that are supposed to go have to have some type of weathertight seal on it. So in the event that there was a spill or a flood or even just splashing butt off your boots, it doesn't go in. So it's it's a very indepth involved inspection of your facilities. Um, knock
on wood, many years in a row, we've always had good results. They will always find something. That's their job, but most of the things are are very every unless you have a change in your devices. Okay. So, we were off off by a
little bit when the water treatment facility went online. Um, we were off by a little bit when we put the full log pipe in over at well 3. So, anytime an inspector is out, they have the ability to ask to go and inspect other places. And it's happened to him, you know,
thankfully. Knock on wood. Are we getting graded on that? We will. Okay. Yeah. Um, so yeah, you're never going to get an A+. They'll give you recommendations. Um, and for the mo for the most part, it's just they're just there trying to help you out, make sure
we're doing everything right. I mean, they go through everything. Floor drains, everything. The paperwork is a big thing, part of it. You're back. I guess it's a good thing. Oh, it's a very thing. Yeah. I mean, they've got some good staffing too that uh that are very helpful. Um yeah, they they work with
you on on quite a quite they may find things that are outside of the normal maintenance signage for instance. Make sure you're protect your well protection signs. Yep. So that's all that's all part of what they look for. Yeah. stuff that you might overlook on a regular basis because you're in and out of these
facilities all the time. So, water doing this, correct? Okay. Yep. Usually a day. It it takes it takes a full day. Um thankfully, we've never had to go into two days what we hear other facilities have. Um, and it's good to have a relationship
with the with the people that who that are doing this because you can bounce a few questions off them that you wouldn't typically be able to, you know, in any other type of circumstance, whether it be through email or something like that. So, um, to have a be able to have a conversation is nice.
Who does who takes the D guy, right? Typically, it's a group of us. So this time it was uh John, myself and then we went with the uh the primary well operator and a secondary to each of the each of the facilities. That way you know anybody taking notes or anybody here is something you know you want
multiple people there. Um you know to make sure that nothing's missed. You know one of the other items that they check is uh basically lockout on your wells. So they'll have you go in as I mentioned with SCADA you have the opportunity to control different devices. So when we're physically in
each of our wellhouses, we have a control panel there as well. And basically, we'll change one of the set points to something above an alarm level to show to them that, you know, when you get outside of a certain parameter, you know, it'll trigger the bells to lock
out and shut down. Show that. It'll also show the time it takes for the skater system to pick up on that and actually generate a phone call to the on call phone and how we acknowledge it, what the access process is. So, um, I've simplified it, you know, immensely as as
Steve Steve would know. Um, you know, yeah, it's it's indepth. Yeah. So, once we get the uh the town's IT department back in touch with the company that's doing the cyber security analysis, we complete our second step.
Um, I believe that moves towards the uh the completion of the actual survey and we'll get the recommendations. As you had mentioned, there was there was nothing imminent or else we would have known about it that day. You know, if there was something that was, you know, blatantly obvious that they didn't like, they would have told you to fix exactly
fix it then and then um even if it was a temporary fix. So, works. That was my next question. Thank you. Yep. No, no, that's I said we we do pretty good on these, you know, um primary and secondary aqua is keep good tabs on the system and uh the condition
of them. So, uh, jump way over to flow testing. Um, May historically has always been one of our busy busiest months for flow testing. You know, this May is is not disappointing. We've had uh, you know, more than half of the days that we've had some type of a flow test going
on, varying in size from fire pumps to hydro flow tests to regular um, smaller drain tests on the suppression systems. Um thankfully, knock on wood, every single one of them has not created any type of disturbance regardless of the size of the Are you guys still flushing?
We have not started flushing because of the built is being offline. Oh yeah. Um so that was the next distribution flushing the paper to the side. I got ESPN, but we are scheduled to do Red Mill. End
of the month. Yeah. Yeah. multiple days. That actually that goes uh how did Jen put it? Uh with military precision as as compared to some other venues that we aim to please that we go
to a meeting with Rustic on Friday just to review the protocol. Good deal. Yeah, we've had uh we've had to return to a few other venues um where they were unable to gain access at the scheduled time. It's it's unfortunate.
No, never had an issue there. Knock on wood. So, uh the the flushing program has actually been on hold because we were very concerned about having two filters down out of six. Um, we were using, as we have in the past, the uh the flow tests to basically
disturb an area and then flush to the end of the line as far as we possibly could. And uh, you know, I love that idea. It it just works out. You you can't generate those type of flows even when you're doing a flushing program. You you're unilateral, you know, you're you're limited, you know. So, if you
have a hydrant flow test and you got to find out what peak flow is, you're not going to see that, you know, on any other time. anymore if you have a fire pump test. Again, you can't achieve that with regular operations. So, um by doing that and uh not having any distribution
issues, no disturbances, not not even a call. It's it's been amazing. Um it falls in line with we had two of our tanks cleaned and there was an inch or two of debris in the bottom of these tanks where typically in the past we'd seen feet or more. Wow. Um so, you know,
we're that plant's working. That plant is working. We're pretty happy with the the operations from the plant. Um we're going to continue working with the flow test to work towards the areas of the system and uh we will be starting more than likely by the end of this month to
do some light flushing. Uh focusing on the dead ends, the high water usage, high water age areas, the low use areas. Um you know, so we will be out and about. We're going to try and do it during the day. You know, we've had such good luck that most of our tests, the flow tests are done during the day. the
smaller ones. Um, so we think we can achieve that and it'll avoid the extra run hours at the water treatment facility, which would also lead to extra man hours. So, we're going to going to give it a shot. You know, we're not going high volume. We think we probably get a pretty good handle on it. Um, some
of the areas that we may have problems with traffic, we may, you know, have a few people come in at night, just hammer those out, get them done. So, [Music] There's a proposed project that we're working on now. It's not ready to come before the board, but just to give you
guys a heads up. Um, this is a commercial property on South Worester Street, very close to the old Cisco building. Uh, Cisco is like in the 378 380 range. This is just downstream from that. So, it's a very small buildout on
this property. There's going to be three small commercial buildings. I believe two are warehouses. John can correct me if I'm wrong. And one is going to be possibly an office or you know basically their their little headquarters. So near the farm own farm was there uh between
the farm and Cisco in that okay wood uh wooded area that has a chain link fence up there. Okay. Um originally they had proposed this same location with a different set of plans and I think that fell through. something changed that was going to actually have a watermade loop
and and hydrates in there. This is a much smaller design. I believe it's a different company even though I haven't confirmed that. So based on the layout and the small size of the structures, they won't be required to have fire suppression. They're actually looking to add a hydrant because this is an older
section of South Worester Street. So, they want the peace of mind to have a hydrant in that general location, you know, so if unfortunately anything ever goes wrong, it's very close to their property. Um, they've proposed two options. So, originally they were going to show a water mane down, I believe,
the right side of the property ending in a hydrant with three service connections off of that. Very similar to stuff that we've done in other areas where a loop hasn't been required or wasn't feasible. Um, after explaining that, they had a few options. They came back with a
second set of ideas, and I'm not really on board with it, but it could work. They were looking to do three 1-in water services directly off South Worester Spaghetti Lines, but the buildings are set back pretty far. So, they're really pushing the boundaries of a spaghetti
line. Yeah, I like that. Um, either Yep. So, we're still working with them to try and finalize some details here. Um obviously we would prefer the shortest water service as possible if they are adamant that are all three buildings way back. Two two are set
back. It's almost in a pyramid. The one there's one in the middle and then two set back to the sides um exceeding 100 ft which is you know kind of pushing the limits of what you really want on a water service. You know, we've recommended to others in the past who had no option, you know, or their house
was set that far back, um, to put in a full port flushing device after the water meter so that they have an option of flushing their line where we don't have the option of flowing a hydrant and clearing the line if any sediment, debris or anything happens. You know, stuff that you can't control. It's not
going to be within the first two years you have an issue. it's going to be 3 or 4 years down the line with all this very low flow that you're going to it's inevitable you're going to have sediment in that line that could be problematic. So, um, that was mentioned to them that that's a possibility if they do
determine that they have no other placement on the something they just take it upon themselves to do whenever they feel like it or they still call the time. No, it'd be on themsel. It'd be after the water meter. Um, typically, you know, we would recommend possibly plumbing it to an outside, you know,
drain or dump. You know, have a ball valve inside with a pitch so they can have, but it's not enough flow that you would want to know about it when they do it every time. No, no. It it'd be very similar if somebody had a yard hydrant hooked up and was using using a large quantity of water once in a while, but it gives them the opportunity to flush at will, maintain water quality, and if
there was a disturbance, you know, they could handle it on their own. So, there's definitely options there, even though it's not necessarily something I would recommend. We've come up with a solution to, you know, Well, isn't the requirement normally if you set back 100
ft to have put a 100 meter pit in and go that way? No, pits are actually an option. Um, the only time we've had, uh, water meters in pits installed was actually when there was no basement available. Um, you know, it definitely could be used the same way, but uh, I
don't like them. Well, normally when it's that you don't you want spaghetti, right? Right. The city of Boston is not allowed at all. Yeah. Yeah. We we had language in the rules and regulations many years back. I remember
reading it and laughing about it. It said spaghetti line in there and the looping requirement is actually what I think um took out that language. It was there was some messy language in there. So by requiring loop it eliminated you
know the language for you know spaghetti line to be anywhere in the regulations. So hopefully we hear from them in the in a short period of time and we can bring that for you sort of for a vote. Um basically what they would be
asking for if it does come forward with the single line and the hydrant will be a wave on the loop requirement which we'd still have the benefit of having the hydrant at the end and being able to flush added fire protection and one one opening in the road instead of three or four. Right. So, it works for
multiple reasons. That is all I have. All right. What do you got, John? Uh, well, as all of you most likely know by now, um, the end of this month, I will be leaving the water department to pursue
another opportunity. Um, just wanted to say thank you to the board. Um, since I've been here, you guys have been nothing but supportive of everything Frank and I have had tried to do and um, you know,
I've really enjoyed my time here. I'm sad to be leaving. Um, but, uh, I just wanted to say thank you to you guys and the residents and Frank um, for taking a chance on me and uh, hope to keep in touch with you all. You're welcome. And
thank you as well. Yeah, we really appreciate everything you've done. You've uh you've come a long way and you're a big part of that and uh we appreciate everything you've done for us stepping in for Frank uh when he was out and uh never skipped a beat. So, you
know, you're nothing but class and we're going to miss you. Thank you very much. Definitely good luck. I understand. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So on John's replacement, although he cannot be replaced. Exactly. I imagine
that's something that's done through the water department or is it done through the town hall? The process involves the water department but ultimately goes through the town manager. Um, so we are working with that
process right now as John is still here and still could change his mind. We we have not posted the position just yet. Okay, for sure. Should we hold our breath? Probably not. All right. Uh, we're going to step right
into Samson. Um, who wants to go first? I'm sure you have a lot to talk about now, right, Ryan? Oh, yeah. I got I I got half a book, I guess. No, I had nothing compared. Frank Frank did a great job uh
summarizing all my talking points, so you did awesome. Um T, I don't know if you want to go or you want me to go. It's up to you. Uh you're on the roll. Go for it. All right. Perfect. Um well, John, we're gonna miss you without a
doubt. It's sad to hear the the official statement today. So, um, yeah, like, uh, like Frank had said, the big item I was going to talk about was just the update on the Elm Street sewer, um, extension and water mains improvements project. Uh, Tom meeting is
next Monday. We have the article for 6 million for water and sewer only, just the modified option. Um, at this point, like I said, it's going to be Steve Ry, most likely Steve given the presentation, unless Mike units thinks otherwise. But, um, yeah, split decision
unfortunately with the boards, which is, you know, very, very interesting that it happened. Um, haven't really heard anything from any of the local residents on what the temperature is with them and how they received the, uh, the modified project. Um, but we'll see see what happens. So, um the big thing with with
that is if it does get approved and it passes, um it'll be a crunch to get the revised plans put together, get it out to bid, and then hopefully award um a notice to proceed to a low bidding contractor by the end of July essentially, and then we'll hit the the
ground running with the construction and go from there. So, um, other than that, the only other two things I had was just we're buttoning up all the peer reviews. Uh, that Mansfield A peer review with, uh, Pyister Level Design Group is still ongoing. We're just finalizing some things with them.
And then, uh, the Zero Reservoir Street um, project is just still ongoing, buttoning up some stuff with that. Uh, other than that, the high school Yell School sewer connection that's uh, slated to start construction. We're going to start construction uh when
school's out. Um working with the contractor to kind of modify some things. Uh they had wanted to put in some new pumps, but the prices came in high. I'm pretty sure I meant it's been mentioned a couple times, but we're currently working with the contractor to get them, you know, something that's viable and something that uh they can
actually construct over the summer and get the, you know, essentially get them connected in the sewers rather than pumping out uh through a few pump stations. Um, so yeah, those are the only updates I had. If you guys have any questions on the Elm Street project or anything else,
I'm happy to answer them. But at this point, it's up to the residents. Yep. I got a quick question on that. Actually, the $3.5 million grant that we would lose if not done by a certain time. Is that based on finishing a project by a date or spending the money by that date? Spending the money. Okay. So, if it's
not done, but we've spent the money, we're good. All right. The first chunk of money we're going to spend. Yeah. Okay. I understand. Exactly. Our meeting were guaranteed to get that. So, we're going to go forward with the expenditure. Okay.
Yeah. And they, like Frank had said, the the funding um agents that we met with from from the uh from the Massworks uh department, they they they don't want to see it go. They want to, you know, they're like, "All right, you know, let us know how it goes and, you know, we'll see if we can come up with something."
They're like, "It's a slim chance if we can if it gets shut down." But they don't want to see that three and a half million go either because it's a big chunk of money. So thank you. Thanks Ryan. Appreciate it. No problem. Miss Tara. Yeah.
Better. It was just a little incident overnight. So um I did uh there was pretty good update on the water side of things as well by Frank. So, the only thing I just want to confirm is that we were given a set of the plans for 225 southwester and we
already have it marked up on our our plans for what uh CC construction will add in two 12x8 gate valves. Uh T's with gate valves up one. We actually are putting a T right in between within 50 ft of two gate valves. So, um we don't
have any really issues with uh with this development at all. It's it's something that we've known was we knew was coming. We just need to know exactly what they want to do for the connection and we haven't started out there. So, good news is that we'll be able to leave some stubs and be ready for them. Um, I did actually Frank, I know I called you
right before the meeting, but I did get an email from CC and they are still on target to start mid June to get back out there for South Worester. Uh, we were trying to wait for school to end, which I believe the last day of school is June 17th. They're planning to be out there tenatively on June 23rd, which is a
Monday. So that'll be start of construction with some mobilization, maybe some delivery of materials a couple days in advance. So I'll I'll move it ahead to as planned. And I guess I just want to open up if there's any water questions. I know Frank covered a bunch on the water today. Sounds good.
I might think of something later. I was gonna say Steve. You got my cell. No worries. Well, some of you do. All right, that's about it on my end. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Terra.
Thanks, Tara. Appreciate it. Sure. All right. We have any um new business, old business. We need to do any more business. Monkey business. Well, we haven't draft. So, that was my idea. We
talk about the uh just a note saying this all came out when we had a dispute several months ago and the way it was going was the particular resident was more or less indicating to us that he didn't like our resolution and he was
more or less threatening to sue us even though we had rebaited him on the sewer aspect. So that's what why that was drafted whether or not we somehow lived without it to date. So we probably can live without the future. I'm just saying I I
was just reacting to what just an incident that you were being nice guys and that wasn't going to be good enough. But as I mentioned I did talk to that particular person and and got him to see perspective and he dropped it. So maybe
we just keep background until it applies to something and then Yeah, I like it. I think it's a good document. I think it's a good case like I said earlier but we don't need it. We don't need it. Yeah. With a tiny amount of money it's not a big deal. And I don't think it needs to be some sort of stock
letter. It's something if the board feels they need to send it out on a particular the case by case. Yeah. Making a deal with somebody they should have some obligation that this is a deal is good for 30 days. I just wanted to bring it
up to the green board. So I like it. I like it. Good job, Steve. Um, I got I got June, where are we? June Well, that's June June 10th. Yeah, June 10th. Yeah,
we have to hold that because I have my annual meeting with my trustees at Red Mill that week and the last time I tried to do both of them at the same time. It didn't work out too well for me. Okay. Okay. I'm pretty flex I'm pretty flexible. I I just can't do it I can't do it the week before. But I mean no
June 10th is fine. Okay. Okay. Oh, right. If you run into an issue though. Okay. All right. You good? Yep. Uh I motion to adjourn meetings. Second. Uh all in favor? I I I thank
you. Great meeting. Outstanding.