well all the small talk is all over yeah they you know it's sort of that was nice to start and like check in and all that stuff but the world doesn't have to see it for posterity what did you do on the weekend of 2023 so um I'm assuming Bert will hop in
but you wanna Shall We Begin does that sound good well um y are you on for minutes or is Isaac I'm doing minutes yeah okay oh okay all right yeah I was I was I've have I have minutes started but that's great you go ahead
G it was on my calendar Oh I thought it was me so I i' no that's great excellent I'll do next I'll go do next meeting next month you lucky guy oh I know nice thing about having birth we get to spread the wealth a little bit more yeah
so I'll call us to order at 6:32 um and I'm guessing there's no public comment because there's no public sometimes we luck out and have a human being but so we will promptly
proceed to preparations for next week's public forum and hearing um so Gail thank you for sending out the town announce yeah you're welcome yeah that was great um and so I mean I
have I have a couple of thoughts but I think basically it's a big conversation um so you probably all saw I just started a very strip down PowerPoint kind of thing which I thought we could fill in
um sometime this week um but does that does that seem like a reasonable vehicle for doing it and approach for gathering information yeah did you see the the response from uh from Chris it looks like he he
supplied a a slide deck that he uses also that let me see I think I might have missed that which is weird couple hours ago yeah yeah it came in a couple hours ago okay Mak you were
away uh let's see inbox [Music] I still don't see it it's it's uh it was at time did he send it 1:24
p.m. yeah let me see if he sent it to another email I think he sent it he sent it to the group bcac shots.org and I think he sent it to shy. Michel your email
address specific too there um I don't see it at all that's really weird I'm can afford it to you right now thank you well that's helpful so we can dump
his thing in um which would be great um I'll tell you when I get it Nate see how long it takes to get up the hill it's going against gravity so you never know um and Nate I'm assuming like just because
you got this stuff in and you're so good at PowerPoints you could probably just once you get time to focus pop stuff into that part of it I got it cool yeah yeah I'm I'm absolutely happy to um to integrate that and you know provide
suggestions to other components um of the slide deck um I mean if I'm drafting a slide Deck with you know of a collaborative way my my habit is to
um maybe have more than one version like if I if I want to do substantive suggestions to a slide um you know I might I might just like duplicate a slide and and and go to town uh just because it's easier at the end to kind
of hone it um and then you don't have to maybe worry as much about uh if I changed a word here or there or if I move the the image like too far left or right so if it what I'm saying is it's a mess that's on
purpose okay inal chaos doly noted and it s so and it's the other thing you were saying I think was you might create duplicate slides is that what you're like poent
potentially yeah um to do a substantive suggestion yeah yeah okay that sounds cool um and justes the the flow look right to you guys in terms of I mean I figured I would start just sort
of say what is this climate leader Community program um talk about what's required on the front end and then go right into the specialized opin code since we have to do the hearing first I thought you know we start out
with that Nate you could kick it off and then we kick it off over to Chris and if we get to 6:45 and we have a little bit of time we can touch space on other stuff you know the the way the hearing works you have to start it at that time
so I think we should be able I don't think we're going to go long we might depending on you know there might be some questions we can use for filler um and then do the hearing it's going to be really interesting to see how many people show up I mean well last time I think we had
like maybe 10 people max four okay minimum is there a minimum attendance for this to actually fly or we just have to do it we just need a quorum of us oh okay but like I mean I meant more like no I know Community
yeah one can have a a hearing and no one comes is still a hearing so got it now if no one comes like do we still present to no one yeah it's gonna be oh recorded yeah of course it's gonna have to be we got
Chris there we're paying Chris's exorbitant salar so yeah so my my only note was on the second slide in the second paragraph like the second line is to kind of foreground the what what does this do for us right so it provides
tools and resources like access to um you know grant funding Etc you know and there's in in Chris's slide deck slide 10 breaks out like exactly because I think like we need to get buy in for
like attention it's like what like really the question is what is this what does this do for me and how do we like how do we foreground that and then once it once they do they might be more amenable to listen to oh maybe I was against the the special opt-in code but you know seeing as how it'll give us
access to this kind of funding for the town that maybe I'm a little more agreeable to it you know yeah and I think that's a good point I mean it also it's probably along those same lines helpful to realize that although technically we could approve one and not
all three we don't get into the program unless we do a package deal yeah so I think that's that's a helpful reminder for people because you know none of the stuff is self-evident um but I think that's great yeah I mostly on my end this weekend I
was like I just have to create the the container because I didn't have the brain space to do it but I thought if I didn't create that we wouldn't have a process um and uh yeah oh sorry yeah the one um question I have for the agenda is
that um Chris Mason had said that he intended to reach out to one of the uh code Specialists so you you'll recall that the last time we um had
a organized a presentation for the town um uh that Chris presented but he he had a a code specialist with him um so that's something that I'll I'll try to clarify early um and you know if need be
we can kind of adjust the um you know two and three um as as as appropriate yeah that makes sense yeah and I think if I mean the it's definitely value add to have someone who knows the details um so I think the only
thing to keep in mind like if you end up going back and forth with them is we just have to adjust the N by 645 so it could be that you say okay we're going to have we have this much that Nate's going to do and this much that do is going to do so
Michael you got one slide and then we'll pick up the rest later so however however we have to adjust um I mean the public meeting police are not going to come down on us but nonetheless that's the appropriate way to do it so do it well Gail do you have any
observations or suggestions at this at this point looks good and that that follows what we discussed at our last meeting the the general outline of events cool and I would say as we you know develop it if anyone has time any a just jump in I mean I think we can all
edit this thing to our satisfaction so you know if we can have share pride of ownership um and I think other than so we got the presentation we got definitely do coming
and maybe do plus one um got the agenda I'm thinking Gail do you think I'm wondering if we should send out a reminder like Thursday or Friday see just to sort of maybe get a bump in attendance to five
or six people okay uh changed from the initial one or shortened up or uh it could be almost the same I think I mean with a header yeah yeah I think whatever you
think is appropriate but my guess is there's always people pay uh well the hearing's on Monday so they should get it before the weekend before they get lost in yeah so th yeah
Thursday or Friday either way whichever yeah today's Tuesday so Thursday or Friday would make sense whatever works for you schedule wise either okay um is there anything else we're missing we don't need handouts because we're
doing the PowerPoint you don't have to feed anybody because it's virtual um there is there's definitely a benefit in simplification to doing it online gotta say yeah um and I think in terms of oh I
thinking about this in terms of minutes so I guess Isaac if you're on the only thing I would and this actually this works out well so it will technically be a a meeting but I think we don't have to have detailed
meetings during the presentation because we have the documentation of the presentations the thing that we sort of have to document really is the hearing so it could be you know like what will end up happening is at 6:45 I'll move to open the hearing um
and then we'll the meeting the hearing will open this is not this is not a committee meeting we don't need minutes for a hearing you do minutes for a public hearing yeah you have to document what people
said it's a it's the back end of the asking them what they think their responses okay yeah so I think it's mostly just you know the meeting the hearing opens at 6:45 whoever asks questions you sort of capture their questions I mean it' be recorded and all
but good thing it's going to be recorded yeah right yeah it's not I don't have to document anything about the presentation it's really just about the interaction with the public like their questions and and the responses to those questions yeah and you know within
reason like it doesn't have to be legalistic but enough so that yeah you know someone would say I said X and you didn't respond to X um so you know that kind of thing got it okay cool I can can do
yeah anything else it seems too easy but been here before yeah nothing to it but to do it yeah exactly so I'll move us on to EV charger recommendation and I think was it yesterday Isaac that you
sent out no I sent it this morning um I know forever ago um so I met with Eric uh of the select board and we had a discussion I kind of like went over like the sit situation and kind of we we
brainstorm questions for an FAQ um I use those questions as a guideline to the questions that I I you know the questions that I put in the FAQ um and then I um once the questions that I got
from like that brainstormed with Eric I called Nick Valore of East Coast Renewables to kind of get like really hone in on the exact information um so I I put it together and then I sent I sent it to him for review just to make
sure everything is accurate um and he offered to in in his response email to to come to like come to an ecac meeting or to come to select board meeting to you know present in person to respond to any
questions this please I'm sorry who is this please Nick Vore v l o r e the contact for ECR ECR yeah so yeah he was very kind to offer
that if you know if we want to take advantage of that I'll I can work out I can you know send him an email or you know whatever um yeah I think that's that's the long and short of it um so the one thing I
was thinking about was you I keep thinking about so I'll go back because I in term because Eric kept mentioning the new library as a potential site even though I know Maryann is not interested in it um so I I'm just going to remove
that from from the uh the FAQ because it seems like a moot point uh with the requirements um and then I was looking at you know the state is going to ban the sale of new um gasoline
powered cars by 2035 to meet the 2050 climate like agreement the net zero and I don't you know I know that Nick will probably push us to ask for additional things that we don't think we
need right now but I don't know I I'm very curious to see like with you know if this ban on a sale like I mean you know it's in California and Massachusetts currently but you know I mean so you can go to New Hampshire you
could buy a new car there I'm sure you know you go to Connecticut until they ban them but it seems like you know being forward thinking it might make sense to try to entertain or you know dream up other areas that we might want
to you know and present that to the the select board but right now I mean what we've got is behind the town hall at the elementary school and the old library site so um you know talking to Eric he was saying that that the old the old library
site might be a place where um they relocate the police department um so if if there were installed there before the police department was there then they would be pre-existing and it would make it a
little bit easier for them to eventually um transition to electric vehicle if that were you know if that were agreed upon um you know we can also include the fire station behind the fire station because you know the chief is amendable to it he's not like gung-ho
about it but he's not against it um and we're not currently going for the the fleet Grant option where we would own the we would own the site you know we would own it we would be responsible for the
$1,200 annual maintenance fees per charging station uh cuz it's six per port and there two ports on each charging station but we can't like so Eric asked if we could buy it out eventually and that there wasn't a real good answer for
that but what what would be an option would be to just have a municipal credit card that you know the fleet users would use for payment and those bills would go to the the town so the town would pay
for it but would also be accessible to the public when they weren't like when you know when the the municipal Vehicles weren't parked there um so I mean that's those are just some thoughts about you
know I don't know yeah I don't want to get too much into the substance again but you just made me think of something so like just say in 10 years you know the technology is in place and electric cars are here um if the town said we're tired of paying
these things we want to own it basic is the like we we're essentially leasing this the the thing from ECR right no we're not no ECR owns it and they will do a between 25 and 50% profit share
with us so basically what happens is they manage it they're responsible for all the repairs all the maintenance for these units and they forwardly Pro like they're forecasting that these will be money-making like you know these will be money-making
opportunities in the future right um I clarifi let me jump in because what I where I was going was like just say the town said we wanted our own yeah is there a mechanism for saying ECR take your toys and go away we're going to put our own in um I guess I can ask him if what if
we if there if if it comes to a point where we would like to remove them yeah what's the process is there a process for that um you know I don't I don't know if there's any contractual obligation to have them
remain in town in perpetuity um so I can I can ask that question okay it seems like an important question because you know the conversation that we're having now is about sort of like scarce real estate
for where these things you know are viable within the town and um yeah that end of life piece um it would be important to to nail that down in you know before just so that
we we can anticipate that about though we the town would say we've had enough take all your stuff out and go away yeah well it could be no cost well who knows what 10 years will be you know like it might be that we say
we want our own we want to upgrade the technology because now we're at level seven Chargers and they're really cheap and we're just going to own them and take advantage of situation so I mean we could own them now it's just the
liability is on the town for like you know maintenance and all that kind of stuff so who would maintain that who would be responsible for that um would it be somebody on the ecac would it be somebody on the select board um you know
to respond to that stuff yeah I don't I don't think I would advocate for it but it just seems like at some point the the factors could shift enough that it would get it would get raised um yeah we could build in though a stipulation that in X
years forward we evaluate use cost to the budget and have an opportunity to re-evaluate having them in town or or or our ownership depending on what we find on on History that's a good idea sure
but I guess to clarify there is no cost for the town once they're installed I'm sorry once they're installed correct yeah and there's no cost for the installation either you know it's the grant like the you know
the level two Grant that's offered through you know National Grid and the East Coast renewable is donating all the you know all the additional labor cost or whatever there is for the install um the only yeah so they're if
they own it they're they're like they're on the hook for any costs and basically there's an accounting at the end of the year and if there are any profits then they will split the profits with the town either you know somewhere between 25 and 50%
based on the location and all that stuff so that's their prerogative to set the rates but that's the range of profit sharing um so there's no real liability if us owning it would only mean that the only benefit for us owning it um would
be for us to recoup all of the profits from it and I don't really see this as a profit making Venture I see this as a an opportunity to provide infrastructure for you know future carbon neutrality and we don't know what the costs are of Maintenance either or
repair well we do I mean we well we don't know what repair costs are but we know that there's an annual maintenance fee of $1,200 per charging station which is 600 per Port that is run by um a third-party company that will come and do the annual maintenance and if there
are repairs the third the same third party company which you like would contract with would provide those repairs and just send you a bill that you would be liable for but if EC uh ER ECR owns it then they are the ones getting the bills and I I said to him
hey like at the end of the year if there are no profits and you know ECR takes a loss are we responsible to split that loss with you and he's like no we we eat it like that's basically kind of the cost of doing business they just keep
eating it for as long as we stay on that's 100% right yeah there's like like from like he's why would they do that well it's a it's a long game like this is a this is a gamble a lot of it is a lot of it is like I think it's it's kind
of that scheme where you know what what was it solar whatever the solar companies would come and install the solar panels on the roof they would own them they would get all the wrecks and they would get all the you know all the incentives and basically mitigate their
end of the cost so like really they're they're they only their only sunk cost is the labor and then the speculation for future profits you know they want to be like why they push for
as many as they can get is that is more opportunity for profit in the market it's not like we have to prove that we have X number of vehicles that would make it profitable you know the the profit sharing is based on the location in use and that's that would be set up
in the contract so it's between 25 and 50% go ahead does the contract include uh they're giving us an annual report on cost profit etc etc correct yeah so as you noted in the uh in your edits um we
will have access to the their financial records so we can audit their their claims on the profit no but different from audit are they GNA be required to give us a report at the end of the year
us and town I yes I would I would assume so but we'll can we build that into a contract that we get such a report well me because that would give us a year mark a marker by the year to assess use and and cost going forward we can
look them back and see what the history is yeah will we be giving an annual report at end of fiscal year or would toest access to
Financial records and figure out all right and then at some point can we decide to decide to buy it out yeah ening
stations that I I guess the one thought I have and then we should I want to shift gears a little bit sure sure um like so Leverett has an ml that's doing broadband and electricity and I recently talked to Otis and Otis has got the same
thing and so it could be you know in 10 years if we can figure out I don't I don't know what the mechanism is I'm actually going to talk to the OTAs person um next week but like it'd be interested in 10 years if we had our Broadband MLP also maybe doing solar
maybe has we have charging stations you know and sort of figure out because the only thing that makes Revenue really in town is broadband right now you know so it's one could think of it as there are Revenue generating opportunities um if
you know I don't expect this but you know all the people driving to UMass if they all have EVs and they get off 202 and they don't stop at the top of 202 and rout2 then there's not much in between um so maybe they have to check
in wasn't that a question about qualifications for the climate action leader like you like wasn't there a whole sticking point where you couldn't have an MLP or something like that but that was for that was for Community Choice aggregation oh Community Choice
aggregation so that would be a moot point right because that that was it right yeah and and I'm just sort of thinking like in 10 years everything who knows I mean they might say if you can do it as a municipality we encourage you to do it you know it's hard to know sure
um I think the thing I wanted to shift was just in terms of a process like I don't know did Eric I mean I've been thinking the next step is for us to go maybe with Nick to the select board sure and do a presentation so that we can actually because they have to sign the
contract like yeah there's a point in which us talking about it doesn't really help move things forward so I don't know if Eric had an opinion or if you have an opinion based on talking to Eric and Nick I think that we're ready to go to the select board with the information now I'll will clarify the following
questions that came up in meeting and these are this is the wording that I will use I just want to get like any edits on that and it's it's in the one sheet right now uh if we wish to have the charging stations in town if we do not wish to have the charging stations in town what
would be the process for removal um and I'll get details on that at some point can we decide to own the charging stations and um then will we be given an annual report at the end of fiscal year or would we need to request access to financial records and figure it out like
you know do our own accounting kind of situation that sounds great and that's in the one dock now that's yeah those are three in the at the very end of it I'll I'll crib from that for them minutes yeah yeah yeah and I will put um
yeah I'll I'll try to call them tomorrow I'll get the info I guess next steps would be to get you know on the calendar for the next select board meeting or like or like get some options for opportunities for the select board
meeting and and see what Nick's availability would be um and see what works and and just get it on the docket to have the conversation we could provide the one sheet in advance for the select board to go over and review and
see if there are any additional questions that that might come up in the intervening time yeah I'm thinking gu my so we're on March 11th now mhm um I don't actually Gil I don't remember
did they were they they just started something with the warrant tonight the select board it wasn't I don't think substantive but there is I saw something about signing something about the warrant um but they're they're just
collecting data it's not yeah it's not sealed so my sense is like in the next so April 26th is Town meetings so or not what you mean or not they're talking about changing the
day really yeah oh geez I can't do that now well H the question I already changed the hotel reservation so I could get back in time for yeah they can't they can't do that
that's that's crazy H um if they push it back that'll just squeeze things up um they should bite the bullet and then change it afterwards so let's assume they don't change anything that really sucks to hear
um I I was thinking well if it's April 26 we should maybe wait till beginning of May because then they'll have brain space um it's either that or do it really soon it seems like um might be better I think you know just
to get the ball rolling because a lot of this depends on on the you know it depends on the availability of the incentives as they currently exist like that's the language he keeps using so um
so I mean I as soon as the meeting happens there's still going to be some deliberation I doubt very much that you know at that meeting it'll be the select board meeting is like yep we got it we'll sign right now with you like it'll probably be like you know may before they convene and actually make a
decision instead of meeting in getting information and not like you know maybe getting a decision to sign a contract until June or July you know that makes sense so if we wanted it to be an a like a actual possibility let's
try to go sooner rather than later and I can email Nick you know right now with a date to see if it works and then I can get back to you ASAP I don't know you know they start meeting more frequently going into town meeting but it's always going to be on a
tu Tuesday you know at least that's an assumption so if you want to just float to him you know the next maybe four or five Tuesdays um so 18th 25th so so
the so and that's a guaranteed select board meeting night the the 18th 25th and the 1 well it's not guaranteed because I don't always don't always post it ahead but let's see um Gabe is much better so right now he's
got several posts ahe the 25th there's nothing on the 18th there's the 25th and then there's nothing in April um yeah well do we want to see if we could get on the calender for the 25th like I'll I'll see if he's available and then yeah
I'll email you right back and then see what uh do you would you have an idea of like what time it would be between 63 yeah okay cool yeah and um once she's available if you let me know
then I can yeah Eric and Gabe no um just we don't all have to be there but does that if we did it on the 25th does that work for you yeah the 25th look at my calendar sorry one second 25th March 25th not April yeah correct
yeah no that that works for me so I'll say I'll just put it on my calendar right now so between 600 and 7:30 is that right no 5 and 6:30 oh 5 and 6:30
the earlier the better okay cool well that's a conrete next step and if if that if he can't do the 25th we can explore whatever the next possible April yeah so probably I'm guessing it would
be uh fth is there so it' be the eth yeah it' be the eighth which is still that's not terrible in terms of town meeting conflict okay cool Isaac thank you for all
this we're we're trudging ahead coming together nicely yeah yeah so Nate I think you're up sure yeah this is uh CCA update um so the the public comment
period for the plan um I think it concluded the 30-day period uh was reached on Friday just this past Friday um and to my knowledge there has not been any uh
feedback on I know um on the plan so I uh you know the last time we met there was some question about what does it U sort of what's an indicative timeline um you know now that
we've reached this point um and so I went back to the re what is ultimately it's a revised timeline that um Colonial put together after the state um updated its
process uh for approving uh these these this program um and I circulated that I I could share the the PDF on the screen or or does everyone that would be good kind of have it okay
uh let me see if I can just uh I'm G to send a request to the the moderator could change that before I hang out yep I got it okay so I'll make this big can everyone see that pretty
well nice yeah great color coding yeah um and of course we have like been moving along this timeline and the dates are no longer um in effect but uh the
sequence is still uh still good so uh you see that doar consultation um um we did that uh we went to the select board
to gain their approval to even post the plan uh for public comment um and we able to achieve that posted it um and now the next step is uh select
board vote of plan acceptance so I our next move is is to go back to the select board um with this document and I can um just double check with
uh um with folks to make sure that you know no comments came in through other sort of avenues potentially um but uh the town admin would have been receiving comments is that the
potentially yeah potentially Nate could you check with Colonial like if if there were no comments and the select board approved a plan that's now unchanged yeah not having to go back to the select board for them to approve the
identical thing would be really nice to avoid yeah I you know I that does make sense but I I wonder um I would I would kind of want to confirm with select board that that was their
understanding at the time because I it's possible that we pres framed their that vote to them as can you approve our putting it up for public comment and I I just don't recall you might recall different from them
accepting it as that would be a different vote I think yeah um but if if that's what they had in mind or they're fine with it um uh that might cut the mustard I'm not sure we still should get
a select board voted acceptance of the plan though yeah I think you make a good point that I mean even if it's the same thing they yeah and I mean so if we're able to we could just you know have eak presence on
the 25th um try not to outstare our welcome with too many things but this should be a very short agenda item unless they think of new novel questions but we've already been agreed yeah agreed yeah um and at that point
uh you I I think um Colonial well dpu via Colonial might require like a formal um documentation like minutes like a authorized minutes potentially um but then uh it's it's in
Colonials hands to do the stuff that we have engaged them to uh to undertake on our behalf and I think things will will move that that 120 days will um that clock will start ticking um shortly
shortly thereafter um that'll get us towards the end of July it seems like yes and I'm I'm just uh going to the next page because um I think the thing that interests us most is this this piece about Supply
bidding um and Colonials meeting with the town to discuss program options and this is where we can um Can articulate what options we would like to
see Colonial go out to the market to to get notional bids for um but that really is the kind of the next next part of it it's what's probably a fairly straightforward select
board vote and then um passing the ball to Colonial to in to interface with dpu uh on on our on our plan acceptance can you remind me that the price setting in the market happens twice a year
right I think that is correct yeah that's at least the way National Grid does it yeah so I think you know once we get it back from dpu it seems like you're having a conversation with Colonial to say when's the best time to find out what the options are and what they cost because
it sounded like when if I remember correctly that they want to minim they want to minimize the time between when they find out information and the next changing of pricing happens yeah April and
October you're looking at minutes or something no from my own records oh wow I me to keep track of what the rates are and when they change I'm so impressed Gale it's spreadsheet stuff come
on by the utility yeah yeah oh yeah it's posted every month they they post the rate every month yeah cool so right so at what point do we ask people in town what they want to
see among options yeah um do we as as ecac tell Colonial we want these six options go price them and then take that to the town it feels like so if let's just say
that 120 days gets us to the end of July early August that once on gets dpu's response then I think it's a matter of talking to Colonial and figuring out how do we do this process whereby we maximize
engagement of residents and also strategically try to time it with the market rat so we get good you know accurate information because I'm I don't it's a great question Gail like we could ask people what they want and then go tell Colonial this is what we heard um
or we can get reality checks and Colonial might have different ideas beyond what folks in town are thinking about in which case we could float those and people can comment on them like I don't think I when we had the conversation
um with the dpu folks and they were talking about going to other states I don't necessarily think people in town would say oh I want to try to Spur clean clean energy markets in Montana um but you know if colu could package that and
it was interesting to people maybe they would be interested so I I think it's I think it's a conversation with us us and them like an actual conversation to figure out here her because you know like I think about um the ammer pelum Northampton folks I
remember reading in the paper when they rolled out their options and they were very vanilla I mean there were sort of like three versions it was you know a cheaper version uh a little Greener version and then something with a little bit extra but it was nothing there was
nothing out of the ordinary um it seems like we want to have that conversation to figure out okay what's what's the most creative broadest way to think about it and then get some feedback about what people think um I recall from
the the their presentation also like I'm not sure what the level of granularity is possible like there may be some like somewhere we can say you know we don't want you know solar that know we don't want solar energy that involves clear
cutting of forests or like you know non you know new new solar arrays that will take out forests um I mean it's great to ask but it may be like they just have the three
vanilla options or you know and six might be a little too much right like it's oh I think yeah I think six is too many but but we could we could we could ask residents give them six um I think ultimately the
the products that people are picking from it sounds like Colonial said you know three or four is probably the Right Mix but which ones they are hard to know sorry Gail what are you GNA say I I would just encourage though that
we have a broader set of options available than we actually end up with so we can ask the super vanilla and ask the super green Max knowing that folks are going to choose somewhere in the middle because of cost to anyone but
that the we make those available yeah that's what I was thinking nothing else a full range of choices yeah okay well I think so the next discreet step is for me to talk to
Gabe about scheduling the select board approving the plan now that public comment is over um and if we're lucky maybe we'll do everything on the 25th we can do both items which should be pretty good and then once that's approved we can go to dpu is that get go to Colonial
to go to dpu is that it yes okay yes we got to sit back for a little while like there earn there under of aent so okay you guys up for doing the minutes okay
so why don't we do um the one that was last month first February 11th yeah I move we approve the minutes from February 11th second I'd like to second I would
like to second that Nate seconded okay any discussion I received one um a letter T that I needed to add to to to the minutes which I
you which I can um address and um right away that's highly deficient minute taking I'll point out yeah keep working okay so hearing there's no more
discussion will vote so Gail how do you vote hi Isaac Nate hi and I am and I so those areally approved um so and then Gail discovered that minutes that I took in
June June 4th 2024 we didn't approve um so soone want to make a motion consider those okay I'll move to approve the minutes from the June 4th 2024 joint meeting with the select
Board second great thanks Isaac any discussion who is second in Isaac Isaac okay hearing were there any comments or amendments or suggested changes looks like
no no hearing none Y how do you vote hi Isaac heate hi I I unanimous okay okay so in terms of dates which is always our last
thing of business we got our Forum next week and public hearing on the 17th and then depending upon what we hear back from Nick and the select board we could maybe beat on the 25th
um if we do we can confirm that on email if we don't then I think we can figure out if we're going to the eth or not um and my gut is like those are those are the primary activities going to the
select board so if we don't want to Max ourselves out um we could we probably want to meet before town meeting just to sort of touch base on our own um but that doesn't have to be a long meeting it just be focused on town meeting prep
um a assuming that we meeting on April 26th does that does that logic hold for you guys they they've they've wiped the date off the website dbd oh
no don't do it in LA in absence of information we can only move forward with the last date that we had on the calendar so I mean the Tuesday before that would be April
15th which is tax day so yeah well let's find out I'm going to email them just I got an email anyway so I'll just sort of put a pitch in for you know hotel rooms and travel plans and all that kind of stuff so because it's it's the uh it's
this the second Saturday of school vacation week right and that's one of the reason they want it moved if people be out of town and blah blah blah and okay well we can't control that um keep one of someone should Gail if you
find out you can shoot us an email if I find out I'll shoot every anyone an email anyone here on the street so we're not setting a next meeting or we're I think the well we know next Monday we're going to do the public hearing and the Forum and then depending I mean we can
still if they don't have town meeting on the 25th on the 26th we can still meet on March 25th or the CCA vote and the EV charger discussion if in fact Nick can
do it so I think that would be the plan going forward irregardless of when town meeting is um it just makes planning for town meeting a little bit more difficult but um it is what it is so and want to move to a
journ okay thank you Isa any want to second that motion sure I'll second that motion okay any last words before we return okay Nate how do you vote
Hi D hi Isaac and I an I good meeting see you guys on Monday and I'll see you on line with our edits and stuff great thank you thanks bye good meeting Bon I'm going to play with the settings
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