Nice. and everybody's unmuted. Um, so it's it's around 9:05, you know, opening the meeting, right? And let's see. Um, I'll start off by reviewing the agenda. And so the
first thing is to review the agenda. Uh, the second have uh, third is public comments. We'll look for minutes from the July meeting, see if there's any changes in there. talk about committee membership. We'll give an update on the dam activities. Uh a little discussion
about Randall road maintenance uh lake oil storm water erosion task force if there's any updates there. There is a little bit about fire management. This plan discussion uh we talk about beaver dams and anything we
didn't anticipate. Does that make sense everybody? Nice. Um so first of all over comments Mr. There's no guests on meeting today. It's all membership. All members. She's talking about me.
Well, you're a comment. Thank you. I guess public comment could come from a member. All right. So, uh, so no public comment. Uh, let's talk
about three July minutes there. to look at or I'm sure you've already reviewed them. Is there any corrections that need to be made? I found several. Okay. Um in the future you can just email them to me.
Okay. These might require discussion though to some extent. Go ahead. Yes. Is it okay if I share my screen? Sure. Uh so let's see. So we're going to go here. [Music]
Oh, I have to send a request. I just sent you a request. Okay, I'm going to say allow. It just might take me a moment. So, we have figure out how to do it. Okay. Um, so we sharing
Oh, and then I thought I did. Or do I have to hit the share button or is it I just I see uh you're in the background there. Will you slide this over? There it is. All right. So maybe if you could minimize this one.
Okay. We pull back. I hate the we hit X. It might work. Okay. I think we might get lose the meeting. It should. So I'm a little uncomfortable with that one, but yeah. You just want to drag it all the way down.
Yeah, I think that's a that's a better way. There we go. Okay. Um I Yeah. Okay. So I can scroll. Um, so some of them are just typos and some are more substantive. Um, like John spelling of his name at the
top there. Do you see where I'm referring to for the correct? Yeah. Did I give you that here, Mark? I got this. Um, so it's on yellow on the screen, but it's just gray on the photo copy here.
Okay. The things I did. Okay. Yeah. Um and uh Art Keane was actually not at the meeting and um it's also not noted that Terry Smith was not at the meeting and members absent also have to be recorded for minutes for meetings.
Okay. Um yeah that's um if you look here um members present or absent recorded in meeting minutes. What is this uh source? This is the um open meeting education guide
that the attorney general puts out. Um so um as well if you um actually look in this If you look up role, if a meeting is
held um remotely, uh the all um all votes taken during meeting in which a member participates remotely must be a roll call vote. So there were three votes in our session for the minutes to
nominate Mark as the chair and then to adjourn. But there's no recording of the roll call vote in the minutes like who voted yes no and who motioned and seconded and whatnot. But that's required in meeting minutes. Okay, we'll do that now for sure. So that's under number one there.
All right. Um and then under number two, the first ask is about the vote to make Mark the chair. Again, there's no roll call there. Um, let me skip the rest of number two to
get to the or I'll just go in order. Um, so then also in number two, I just wanted to suggest you put Lake Wola Association instead of Lake Blake association um for the first asterisk there, but that's not critical. Um, then where I
have a double asterisk, our original charter defined the membership to include a minimum of three members and a maximum of five members from the lake association. Um, if you go down to the double asterisk there, uh, I do have that, um, 1991 charter quoted there. Um,
that's also here if anybody wants a photo copy of it. Um, and it reads, uh, the last sentence of that says, it's expected that the lake association will choose a minimum of three and a maximum of five members for the committee and may also choose any additional property owners who might
have technical expertise. Um then I'll come back to that in or actually no. So if you go down from there though in the highlighted part near the bottom of the page where it says 2017 um at a select board meeting in May of 2017 that was changed
um and it was called the proposed LWAC scope that was presented to the select board at that meeting. And um if you see at the very bottom of the page, I get to where the amended membership structure of the LWAC and the proposed LWAX code reads and that's at the top of the back
of the page and it's different. Um the membership of the committee would ideally include one member from and then it lists six things. Select board, COCOM, board of health, planning board, emergency management director, and damkeeper and no more than five members of the
lake association. So that appears to make it a number of 11 members which the 1991 charge left open because it said additional property owners could be added. Um and at that same meeting at the select board if you read further there was a second motion and vote that
passed that does um define or set the number of members of AWAC at 11 um where the dam management committee was merged into the Lake Wyola advisory committee to make a committee of 11 members and then it names the people who would be added. Um, so I thought it would be
wiser to reference the most current charge of the committee. Um, because the original charter has been changed as of 2017. Um, so I thought that probably has to get into the minutes somehow. Um, and that's the charge or the
membership structure where I said if you look at the top of the page on the back again, it says and no more than five members of the Lake Wiiola Association. That's what I interpreted as on LWAC. Um, and there was some difference in interpretation here and I don't know if
we got clarity on that, but just to make sure that everybody knew that's the um, Lac membership structure that I was referring to, the 2017 one when I spoke at the last meeting. Okay. Um, going forward now back to number two on
the first side. Um, it says, "However, with Tom representing the planning board and also being a member of the lake association, I am not a member of the lake association." Um, so I'm that must have been a misering or something. And I saw you at the association meeting. Therefore, I kind of assumed that you
were a member of the association. Um, you were at the association meeting. Sure. Sure. But that's a public meeting as far as I understand. But no, I'm not a member. But I also said during the meeting that I'm not a member. the LWAC meeting that I'm not a member of lake association.
Um the four asterisks about several members noted that Tom is acting as a rep of the planning board and not as a member of the lake association. So we didn't see an issue. I'm uncomfortable with the Wii there. I'm not certain who the Wii is. That's what I put as my four asterisks. Who are the Wii here? Because
I was um I did see an issue. So, I don't know if the Wii means except for Tom or I don't remember us saying who had an issue or didn't have an issue with that. Um, and then the last sentence of that part says, "Mark, we'll contact the select board to ask their opinion and if
needed to remove the five person limit. I understand you did that, but I just noted that um in the email that you wrote to the select board, you again stated that I am an LWA member, but I'm not. So, please just know that. I can change that." Yeah. Yeah. Sure.
Um so that was the scope of what I saw in number two. Um in number three for the wildfire prevention if you go back to the open meeting law guide who talks about the member a member of a public should be able to read the minutes and understand
what happened. So I thought it would be wiser to name Alex fully with his title rather than just Alex because a person from the public might not know who Alex is that we're following up with. Um, and number four, I used a flyer, which is an
extra document, and that's supposed to be listed in the minutes as having occurred. And that flyer is supposed to be kept according to a certain record retention schedule, but the minutes are supposed to note any other documents used in the meeting besides everything. So, um, and then,
um, oh, sorry. Yeah. Uh 567 and sorry for the people on the screen. Let me get back to sharing. Um
so this is what I just talked about for number two. Um, this stuff down here details the changes in the charter from 1991 to 2017. Um,
this is the part about Alex's name, the flyer that I used. And then, um, in number five, it was actually, um, looking at the video, Howard who talked about the GZA inspection engineer. So, got that one. And uh I would
recommend because Haley and Brennan are known to us, they might not be known to the public. So again, I thought it might be better to put Haley Bolton, town administrator in Brenton, that you administrative assistant when talking about them. Um for number seven, we did actually also talk about the bathrooms at Randall Road, and we said we would
ask who is cleaning them, but we only mentioned in the minutes the um brush trimming and whatnot. But we I left that out because it was being cleaned. Yeah. We also said we would ask who's cleaning and I don't and we talked about it. I mean we we did discuss that. So we
disc I didn't think it was gerine to the to the minutes because it was we we were discussing is it being clean we and all a sudden we realized that someone is cleaning it so it's not relevant to my mind wasn't relevant anymore right but that happens so we should
report that if you well you know just you understand I do when I do the mints I don't do literal translations or this isn't uh I kind of summarize what the essence but the meaning of this right
and it's not my intentional you looked at this part on the screen notably the minutes must include a summary of the discussions on each subject which we did which is but we didn't include the bathroom part of the discussion I'll put it in there
I mean the question was left open we don't know yet who cleans them and then I think it's all discussion isn't that just conser conservation problem on our um dessert. This is just a record of what we talked about. It's not a record of whether it
became moot or became more important like so it doesn't show that we ever even talked about it but we did. Okay. Um and then uh there's no inclusion of the public comment that Nathan Murphy made and he made a public comment at the
beginning of the meeting. Um okay I can say Murphy made it a public comment. Pardon me. Yeah, I can say that he made a public he made a comment, right? But we would also have to include the substance or the uh what he said.
Oh, right. Okay, Tom. Sure. And um then just the last one is there wasn't a roll call vote of the adjournment. So um yeah, some of them are uh I don't know how to classify all of them, but that's what I noticed when I
read the minutes. Okay. In the future, it'd be nice to send that to me ahead of time. Uh it's and that way I can update the minutes instead of doing it during a meeting. It's just so we can move the meetings along. Okay. Yeah. I wasn't sure. I send these out. I try to send him out,
you know, a little bit in advance so that people see something, they can send me a note and say, you know, hey, in all honesty, I was looking at this around 11:30 last night and Well, it would really be helpful to, you know, do a do a little just so we just
make the meetings more efficient. Right. Right. Right. Um, but we're already having a little bit of disagreement here, so it probably would have led to a discussion anyway. Um, and hopefully there's no harm in doing it this way. No. So, can you want to send me your your highlighted copy? Yeah. So, I was going to say having
shared this now, I felt more comfortable sharing it as a group before I sent it off because I'm always scared that um in sending it might go to more people than it should and I really don't want to deliberate out of opening session about anything. Yeah. So, so now do I have to include your
comments, your highlighted version in the minutes of the meeting? I would mention that this exists and uh keep a copy of it. Yeah, I can send you a copy of this. So that's not what my question is. Oh, my question was, do I have to add your comments
as an attachment to the minutes? No, what I meant to say is um the the minutes if you use a another document at the meeting, the rule is that you have to mention it in the minutes and a list of documents that were used or exhibits that were used and that doesn't need to be attached to the minutes, but it has to be retained
according to the public record schedule in a known place. So you may attach it to the minutes, but you don't have to. Okay? But what needs to be in the minutes is that another document was used or another exhibit was used. Okay? And then name what that was so that a
person could request it if it isn't actually attached to the preventing you from attaching it. Okay. So, um depending on how we go forward in incorporating or whether we go forward with incorporating any of these, I don't
know if um the minutes for July 19 are yet complete because I don't know if my markup is um really a a tight document. I would move that that these these um
suggested changes be incorporated into the um into the draft minutes and they be um not approved at this time and bring them back for next meeting and bring them up for approval.
I would second that. I think that's a good idea. We need a roll call vote. We do. Okay. This is interesting. This is all kinds of fun. All right. So, let's see. Uh get my notes here. My highlights. All right. So, there's a proposal to not
approve the minutes, but incorporate incorporate Tom's suggestions and recommendations. Uh, and uh, so we'll have a roll call vote on that. And so, uh, Katherine, yes. Tom, I Howard,
yes. Uh, Art, I abstain since I wasn't there. Okay. U Eric, yes. And Marcus, yes. Okay. So, uh, so the motion passed and, uh, I'll edit the
minutes and we'll review them again next week. All right. Anything else? Anyone else know anything? Okay, good. Thank you. Thank Sure. All right. So, now next item is
membership. Uh, and, uh, this, uh, [Music] Phil T was questioning the the makeup of the committee and you know Ken a person serve as both a board member and association
member you know I guess I'm I'm not sure if we have an issue to be honest right now. Um my question was actually how many members of the Lake Wyola Association may be on the committee regardless of whether a person is a representative of another board or committee but just a question of
um well that's my question. So what so do we have more than five members on the association and committee? It depended according to last meeting whether or not David Green was
uh became a member because at the last meeting he said he intended to become a member but was not. So that would mean there were five at the moment but let's just take what's I don't know whether he became a member or not but also I'm mandatory on here so
why doesn't my el belong with the associate association even matter? I have to be on M. Yeah. Um I don't think I'd give the five. So Howard was So we Howard's on the
committee is on on both. John is on both. Howard's not on the LWA committee. I mean sorry John, you're not on speaking to John. Oh, sorry. We're not. Pardon me. Yeah. So John, just so you understand, John
was here as a guest. Yes. Yes. Yes. I thought you meant him for a second. I forgot you mention Gory. Okay. He'll come and art. He'll come and um art is so that's three. Um
um well right now I you know I'm not sure if I remember but let's say it's on four and u so I think we only have four B. I'm just assuming Tom was on the committee was on the association and that was a mistake
on my part. Um, okay. So, yeah, I count John Gory, Howard Kinder, Mark Rivers, Art Dean. Y, we don't know technically about David Green, right? That would be five if he were, right? Okay. Yeah. Is anyone else a member? I
don't think Bob Douglas is. Bob is definitely a member. I'm not. Catherine, are you an LWA member? You know, I'm looking at at this language. Mhm. That says the membership would ideally
include one member from each of these various boards and no more than five members. It doesn't say including no more than five members overall. It says all of these plus no more than five members. It doesn't say plus though. That's the thing. I think it needs to be worded
more clearly if that's really what the intent is that beyond those six there are five slots and of those five slots no more than five maybe LWA I think something like that would be a lot clearer because I just read semicolon and no more than five members like the
semicolon punctuation to me means all of these refer back to the membership of the committee would ideally include and then when you get up to each semicolon that's one of the things it would include so I read the last item on the list as and no more than five members of the LWA
to refer just to the original include. Well, I don't I don't agree, but I know we don't but I think it just perhaps we can get clearer then the select board could pass it and there was talk about that at the last meeting too that they might um do
something just like that. But when I found this I was like right this is what I was referring to. It's the semicolon and um the lack of extra words like plus five more of whom no more than five are members of the LWA or something like
that. Isn't it also uh it it also says ideally it doesn't say you have to do it that way. It says ideally you'd do it that way. Am I correct about that? I think so. Right. But why would we not do what would be ideal?
Well, that's that's not that's not what that's not what it says. I don't know. I didn't I didn't write it. I I also wondered I think um the word ideally should probably just not be there. It doesn't seem like it would be a word that normally belongs in membership structures. Like it should just say would include and then a clear
definition of what it would include. So it's there. That's my point. It is there. Right. Well, I mean, we can ask somebody then to also interpret that adverb along with the semicolon and the last clause or phrase the way it is, but um yeah,
the people I asked about the word ideally said that um it doesn't really mean much. Um and it also prompts well why wouldn't you do what isn't ideal? Usually because we can't achieve it. For example, we can never keep a comp person
for years. We didn't have a planning board person. Yeah. I just I find I think ideally Sure. Sure. Um but clearly we don't all agree. Um so I think it would behoove the committee to
probably reward it in a way that we could all agree on. Not necessarily. we could go with what what what we have written here and and and do a majority vote and say is everyone happy with this approach with this word
and we don't have to we're not looking necessarily for unonymity here we're looking for a majority is is it up to us though I mean yeah I don't know if we can interpret our own chargeful um I would think so yeah
can I just say something We are caught in the weeds here. We're having this discussion that's now going on for 20 minutes about semicolons and the word ideally and so forth. That's crazy. Um,
it's the nature of the beast. It is now been up until this. All right. So, how about this? Um, well, I'm looking for suggestions on how we can pass this off to the uh the selectable and um and let let them
review the the charter, the current version of the charter and say, "Yay, is everybody comfortable with that approach?" And um so if every if it's okay with everybody and I don't think well I don't know if we have to vote on it. Um, I'll I will send this to Haley and say, can
the select board just confirm if this is their this is what they want if that's okay with everybody. We need a vote on that. I don't think so. I think it's just you can just say that you're going to do that to the chair.
Yeah. Okay. So, that's what I'll do. Um, so I'll send that off uh uh to Haley and say get on the agenda, you know, assuming they were there and they they support the idea.
Okay, good. Excellent. All right. Uh I'll take care of that be and send it out and do that in the next couple week or two. All right. So, uh update on dam activities. Yeah, if everybody's okay, moving on.
Okay, good. All right. Um, so we got the report, the inspection report, uh, for the 2025 inspection report. Um, the good news is things are are are no worse than they were in the past. So things are not deteriorating at a dramatic rate. U, so
we still have the same problems and and things didn't fix themselves. So, we still have the same problems that we had before, which is the, you know, the the uh the cement grout around the the PVC liner is gone and it has to be fixed. So, basically, it's a leak in the dam.
Um there's the the spillway has the u concrete cracks um which is just aging and needs to be fixed. Um there's some um missing stones for the minor voids, missing stones in downstream masonary.
Um the seage wear is not functioned. It's never functioned and and we may want to just recommend that they just well we'll see what GCA recommends. Uh but we you know it's not really necessary. It's never really done
anything in it. And um and then there's just usual the usual debris uh or like stones and stuff like that that's down that's by the spillway. So it's just a just a usual it's the same stuff we've had for a number of years. Um
and what's standing between us and getting these things fixed is just money. Just money. We have uh is the um the lower there's two there's two uh se things need to be done. Um, one is we
need to have the CGA do design specification so we can send it out to bid and say, you know, this is what needs to be done. This is how it has to be done and we'll get bids to do it. Um, and that we're uh that we're waiting on
money from the uh from the state. Uh we have money from CPA funds which is roughly 25%. Uh and we're waiting on the state uh small dam not that brutal organization is but u we have the application in uh we're just waiting to
hear back from the state whether they're we're going to fund the design work. Once we get the design work done, we'll send it out for bids. Uh and um uh and hopefully next year uh next hopefully next fall we'll have uh the money again
from the state and from CPA to actually do the repairs. So it's define the repairs first in the scope of the work and then have somebody actually do the do the work and the um the this the range the cost range that is in
the report. Yeah. and find out that is for doing the actual work. That's the repair work. Yeah, the actual work. Yes. I think it was $55,000 to do the design or scope of the work and we're waiting in the money flow and uh and then originally this the you know
ballpark estimates like $150,000. Now it's up to you 260 and 300,000. And that's it's we'll find out when we go a bit. The only other thing is anything been
done about the access to bid. No, nothing's been done about that because they may they'll probably have some heavy equipment or something that they do there. Well, that was on Haley's to-do list when she first came on board is that we
is figured that all out going on for 10 years. Yep. So, that's got to be resolved. I think we have time to resolve that. I hope we'll find that. We'll find out. That
could be a showstopper. But well, but I'll I'll remind to take a look at that. He's here right now. What? The guy is here right now. Yeah. He won't be during the time.
Yeah, but we have I think we have contact information, Mr. Uh, so that's got to be that's that's got to be worked out. Um That's where we are with the the repairs.
Um, with the trash rack cleaning issue, Walter has u uh uh he's got his liability release all squared away and so he's ready to go ahead and do it. Um, and uh he just has to schedule some time
with uh with you Howard. Um, and came down. He was down there. did some point. Oh, he did. Okay. So, uh my understanding that he hadn't done the
diving yet. He hadn't gone underwater and and done the actual work yet. But I can we can check with him. He's not here today. He's he's in Michigan right now. Uh but we can we can check with him to see if it's done. Uh we also
uh uh have to schedule some uh time where we can work on the uh uh repair the water level gauge and um it's only off by 6 in.
And so you know when Walter gets back I have a boat we go up there and and and hammer it down. That's right. I say I want you guys there. I can go up there, but I want you guys there. Yeah, I'll have to check him today and
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh so when when Walter gets back, we can figure this out. Um uh so then the last thing about the dam is that and we at this this fall um
there's we need to start working on the two the 2027 draw down permits and um and so there was a proposal from GZA to meet with a hill and just kind of come up with a
plan for that. We don't have the okay for this year. We are okay for we're we're okay for this year and next year. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's really 2027. So 25 is okay. 26 is okay because of the state rulings and uh it's just a matter
of just just get jump on it and get the funding in place. Do the permits. Oh, they have a payment. No, no, no. This is to get the uh the notice of intent and then you know all all the
proper pering. It's got a little more complicated as I did the last time. Uh any questions about the dam? Okay. Um well let's move on. Uh the random road did uh maintenance
activities. Uh uh I uh I sent the note off was going to follow up with compound on this because he's the compound representative Bob Douglas
and uh uh he was looking for some pictures which I haven't sent him yet but I'll send some pictures out but u you know there's definitely a notice of intent going to be required and uh we'll see if Kong Kong is interested in doing that
I am I'm not doing the notice of intent. I'm notice of intent and I live for those over the years and um and so that should be the property owner which is compound who does the notice of intent to trim the trees back. I also have a question for Bob. What Bob's looking
into is is there a legal requirement you keep the boat ramp open because it's a great con you know at some point and open year around or no play. If if if com doesn't and this is my
interpretation. If concom doesn't want to do anything and you recommend that we do we trim the bushes back the brush back eventually that brush is going to come and then enclose on the bin. It's just it's gonna it's going to go closer, you know, so
it's going to spread and um and you know is at some point you won't be able to back trail them and because it's a great concept requirement, right? There's there's public access to rail. So I have
I've asked Bob to look into that. I haven't asked him. He's he says he's looking into it. And so uh yeah, so that's kind of where that stand is. So it's really we're trying to push it back to compound
to make these calls. This is their control. Okay. Any anything else about the program? All right. Sounds good. Uh the next item on the agenda is if there's any update on the uh lake stormwater erosion task
force. U John Webby do you is any going on since the last uh the last things on on Tuesday and Sunday, right? I think only that those two events occurred. Yeah. The webinar and the activities day.
Yeah. Unfortunately I couldn't make it through at this point. I couldn't do it. Um, and so I it's my understanding we're just waiting on funding now. Yeah. And that's an October notification date. So Okay.
Yeah. So we're waiting to see what happens there, right? I don't really know what happens if we don't get funding from state funding from various projects, but we'll cross that out. Well, they they applied to the rural development fund for the October notification. And
if they said no, I think the choices would be the municipal vulnerability preparedness program perhaps or something called 604B, I believe. Yeah. Um like there are other ones we can try.
Okay. How were the events um attended last week, Tom? I I was I I'm out of town so I can't I was just wondering what happened. Yeah. Um so uh the activity day I'll
call it on Sunday had numbers wise I'm guessing maybe 20 people maybe 15 total including those of us who were helping do it. Um
it was fun. um and took some photos and some videos and they're going to be put up on the website. Um we didn't do the sitewalk to look at anywhere on Shore Drive because people were basically just
hanging around the activities tables um with plants and water movement tables. The webinar had I think eight participants which was for me um surprising because I think at least 19
people had signed up um but it went very well and the webinar was recorded uh so that'll also be put up on the site or made available somehow and um I think it'll be a good video the webinar for people who the webinar was kind of like if you had never heard about this task
force before or the Lake Wyola wershed shed um geared towards that sort of person who really needed an A toz introduction to what's happened and uh the webinar ended with kind of what I just talked about at the world uh you
know the pending world development fund grant and uh kind of the history of the task force over the last 14 or so months. So hopefully it's an interesting watch if anybody chooses to watch the video.
Okay, good. Thanks. Any more questions about the storm water erosion task force? Good. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Um the next item on the agenda is the just the wildfire management's
activities. Um and um so basically where we are now is that the uh Alex from DCR uh is uh is you can sign up to have your properties checked out. Um and that's on
September 6 representatives from DCR fire workforce fire management will be come around to your property and make recommendations. Um I've signed up. I'm not sure who else is, you know, who else has signed up, but you know, I did send it to Lenny.
Um, and so it is got distributed around the town. Um, and so it's a well, it's really kind of the end of the end of the road with that. Once once they uh they come out, they'll give you recommendations and you can choose to do what you want to do.
So I'm your half but we're almost finished that project. Any questions, comments on that. So yeah, just for clarification, is this focused on the lake area or is it open to anybody throughout town?
It's open anybody throughout town. That was always the intent. Um unfort Well, it's open. It's always been open when everybody was home and we disturbed it and throughout the town
next door shoots Mary or no that the the town distributionist. Yeah. Yep. And u and I would recommend have have somebody take somebody take over your property. It's uh there's no cost
and it's good. It's good advice they're going to give us. How many slots do they have? They didn't There was no I think I I think he said 15 slots.
Okay. But didn't they also say he he said if they fill them up they'll come out and do another date. Thank any more comments or questions on that? Okay. Very good.
Um, next on the agenda is update on the the Beaver Dam management efforts uh at the Lake View Port at the Lake View Road Cobbert. Um, it's I I've heard I haven't actually seen it myself, but I heard
that the the beaver dam was removed and the the beavers are building it back. They not building it. They built it back and all the debris that they took out is on the embankment which needs to be taken away.
I don't know who does it anymore. The highway department used to but they don't want anything to do with this anymore or appears that way. Do we know if they took it out? No. Well, I presume it was Bieber
Solutions. Oh, I think it was but I don't know what their solution is because this is another day in there. You know, this is something that um again I think it's
I think it's really coming down to the select board to say this is part of someone's job description. Correct. And it used to be voluntary. The high department used to do it and they well I used to pull once they took the highway department took the dam out and
I used to down well I went down more than two but couple times a week and if there was any starting to build up is I just take a long hook and pull that pieces out, throw it on their back and when they got to be enough the highway department come
and take that away and eventually you discourage the beaver from even building it. He goes finds another straw a week from us. Yeah. If it wasn't like that big, it
wouldn't be an issue. Yeah. Really? Well, that's hard on those where all still would be backing everything up. The cul is not designed to be a dam. No, it's designed to be hard to drive over, right?
So we're re I guess we're looking for recommendations on how you know we're advisory group but what are we advising the town to do or what are we advising someone to do? Get rid of the dam and take care of it. I think they've been told to keep the area clean
since they passed off to the south board. I mean I mean someone had in a position of authority which is not us. qualified. Well, already said that I should go talk to the select board, I guess.
Yeah, that was before the meeting started. So, um, are you willing to get on the agenda for the select board? Yeah. They talk about so they there was a select board meeting in like
April or May where they voted to I believe engage or hire Beaver Solutions. That's right. Okay. Yeah. That went and they did they hired Beaver Solutions. Uhhuh. We believe Beaver Solutions came in and removed the dam. Okay. I didn't know if they ever got
around to hiring them or what happens. It's someone removed the dam and it's generally believed as beavers and but the problem is is that it's it has to be done is ongoing maintenance is
because it just comes back. All right. So, I was going to go and get and try down the agenda for a second meeting. We talked to Haley and Bren Brennan and uh I think that's good plan. Okay. All right. Um
the last item on the agenda is uh things we didn't anticipate. Is there any other new items? I have one. I'd like to nominate Tom as the secretary of this committee, boarding secretary. He'll take a minute. Um Um, I guess we go open for discussion. I'm
I'm kind of against the idea of it. Um, I don't have any problem doing the minutes myself and um, but I would and I you know I do get I wish I wanted feedback and it was just uh, I think now you know Tom's
getting involved in the committee more. um if you I send them out like on a Monday or Tuesday uh if we review it and I can I you know it's not deliberations it's just a matter of you know looking for my mistakes and um then I'll
incorporate those and and we'll have time for the meeting um I mean I appreciate Tom's help and but I I could use Tom's help to edit and everybody's help I mean it's just you know so we have it we have it
But since you have a motion, I think we should have a vote of it. Well, somebody would have to second it. Or if nobody seconds it, motion will just die right here, which is perfectly fine. So if you ask for a second and nobody responds, then you have a move.
Um, we have a second. I'll second it. All right. So we'll have a vote. We'll see where the vote goes. All right. All right. So let's see here. My notes. inclusive. Um, so, uh, start off with, uh, so the
proposal is to have Tom do the m to be the secret chair of the committee and write the minutes. Uh, uh, Katherine. Yes. Y, I got to write this down. I'm supposed to I guess we have to do this. So
we put that down sector. So Catherine is Yes. No. No. Um Tom. Yes.
Mark. No. Uh Art. Uh Art. No. Let's see here. Eric, no. And did I miss anybody? No. No. No. I'm so glad Eric said no. Otherwise tag.
No. Well, that's still a no, right? Yeah. Thanks for the nomination. All right. So, u So, we have a two to four vote and it's a motion doesn't pass. Um,
any other items that we anticipate? I've got something. I don't know. I don't know if people are aware, but weed watchers found invasive miloil at one location in their annual
uh weed watchers check. Uh, and to my recollection, this is the first time that they found any invasives. Uh, apparently there's a DCR team coming out uh in September uh to take a look at the situation, but
uh I don't know any more than that. Do you know where it is? I do not know where it is. Um I you know if you could c contact um Kathy and Tim Timson who coordinate Weed Watchers and
I assume you know when the DCR um figures out when they're coming out we'll we'll know more about it. And are they coming out because it was found or is DCR already coming out? No, they're coming out because of the finding of miloil in the lake.
Interesting. And mil foil is a is a bad one. Milofoil is what's clogged up most of Lever pond water. There are mil foils that aren't as basic. You're okay. I'm sorry. I don't know any more than
that, but Kathy and Tim could bring you up to speed. Is anybody willing to contact Kathy and Tim and uh report back on next meeting? I'll do that because everybody needs Okay. All right. So, Kathy will contact Kathy and Tim and we'll get an update
for our next meeting and let's see if there's anything we can do we as a group can do to help out or make it or advise. Okay. Thank you very much. Any else from anybody? Move for
second. Um, all in favor of journey. Captain, yes. Yes. Yes. Already? Yes. Uh, Eric, yes.
Yes. And Mark is a yes. I think I missed. Okay. Uh so we're we're adjourn the meeting at 9:55. Thank you very much everybody for attention.
Thank you. Thank you. I want to end the meeting here. I can figure out how I did it. effect plugs until we're edit.