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Part 1 (Video ID: 75RAHNzpyvU):
- 00:00:08: Initial Discussion: Meeting Turnout, Revised Files, Article 97
- 00:03:26: Meeting Called to Order: Agenda and Member Attendance
- 00:05:40: Approval of Minutes and Transition to Final Report
- 00:07:21: Reviewing Included Addenda and Conceptual Plan Details
- 00:08:53: Welcome Mary Jo, Report Edits, Article 97 Land
- 00:10:38: Addressing Typos, Adding Detail To Recommendations
- 00:13:06: Recommendation Edits and Reorganization of Town Hall
- 00:16:24: Town Hall Reorganization: Cost Savings and Feasibility
- 00:18:50: Well and Septic Systems, Expense Reduction Strategies
- 00:21:28: Redundancy in the Report and Considering Cost
- 00:23:55: Cost Disparity and Feasibility of Building Location
- 00:27:12: Leveraging Prior Studies, Strategic Financial Investment
- 00:29:13: Recommendation: Further Technical Investigation and Expense
- 00:31:02: Justification for Infrastructure and Strategic Spending
- 00:34:16: Incorporating Feedback, Addressing Procedural and Monetary Concerns
- 00:37:12: Engaging Sanitary Engineer and Initial Cost Estimates
- 00:39:02: Enhancing Potential with Bathroom Feasibility Recommendations
- 00:41:34: Bathroom & Water Recommendation and Feasibility Study
- 00:44:12: Highway Dept Assistance & Consultant Scope of Work
- 00:45:07: Finalize Bathroom Recommendations, Secure Consulting Services
- 00:46:29: Action Items, Next Steps, and Meeting with Select Board
- 00:48:18: Volunteer for the Select Board Presentation and Approval
- 00:50:02: Motion to Approve: Final Report to the Select Board
- 00:52:08: Adjournment: Appreciation and Final Comments


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It consists where Henry said Yes, you was a good turnout yesterday for the um the live for the post office. >> Is that right? Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Good. >> Yeah. Um did everybody get um the

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revis a file? >> Yeah. >> With page numbers. I see. actually the page numbers and the edits. >> Yeah. >> Wait, the article 97.

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>> Yeah, it's pretty daunting. >> Yeah, that's that's why you know I just you know I just said be unlikely that use I mean it's like tradeoff real estate where does it come from?

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And it needs a twothirds legislature. >> Yeah. Although very often you can get things through like on a home rule petition, you know, >> but but it can take time. So it's it's

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not it's not a shoe it anytime you're having to go to the legislature, which there exists. >> Yeah. >> But it does happen all the time. Well, not all the time, but you know, quite frequently. Yeah. Towns get what they want. Yeah. >> Yeah. But you know, it has to go through

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a a process though. >> That was my brother calling me. >> Right now. Is that Susie can't make it at all or she might not just in person at all. >> Nobody's looking to get in. Come in

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join. I don't see yet. to Jewish. >> That's fingers crossed. >> All right, Henry. >> Henry in person. >> Excellent. Good. Made a quum.

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>> We have a quum. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Great. I don't know about Mary Joe, but we'll go ahead and get started. I don't think um Brennan was able to reach her. So, I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting

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of the MNPER library reuse committee to order. Today is Friday, May 22nd, 2026. Um this is a hybrid meeting and it is being recorded at the town hall. We have

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um four members of the um committee, myself, Rita Ferrell, Henry Gettys, Steven Delmas, Paul Lions, and absent um are Susan Moer, and um Mary Joe

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Johnson. Maybe Mary Joe might be joining us. We'll see. So, we have a um relatively brief but meaty agenda today. Um I say medi because we're going to go through again our final report to the um

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to the select board. Uh last at the last meeting we um did some pretty thorough editing and um it's all been incorporated into the report. And what we want to do today is just make

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sure that all of those edits got incorporated during the minutes, which we're going to do first. And then um uh the last item on the agenda is just to schedule the next meeting. And my thoughts are that the next meeting will

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be our last meeting and that we would do that with the select board. So that instead of meeting separately, we would be at a select board meeting, give the report and then close out our our work.

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Um, the only exception to that would be, you know, if for some reason the select board wanted us to to stay active for some future public meetings, but I I don't think it really

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makes sense. This is our final report, right? you know, somebody could um you know, from the committee could come and and meet with with the public, but um I think you want to, you know, hand this off to the to the select board. So, why

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don't we start with the meetings of our um the minutes from our last meeting, which was May 14th, 2026. I will entertain a motion to approve those minutes. >> So moved. Second.

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>> Okay. Are there any edits to those minutes from the 14th? >> No. None by me. >> I'm all set. Henry, do you have anything that you want to change? >> I wasn't there, but to make a quarrel.

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>> Yeah, you can. You can do it if you trust that the minute taker um >> sure >> took good minutes. Okay. Um then all those in favor signify by saying I >> I lion's eye.

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>> Feral eye. >> Okay, great. Um, okay. So, why don't we move on now to the um to the final report and um we could kind of follow

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from the minutes um about the the changes um that were made. you know, right off the pages are numbered as um as requested. Um

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and um so I don't know if folks want to kind of go through >> I mean I started to highlight it and then I realized oh I was like jumping all over the place. Um in the in the

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minutes um we have dendum E is now included. So all the agenda are now attached to the report and um including the email from um from Donna McN

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outlining said um article 97 sub you know use of the town the town common um flowchart the fishnaires that so they're all there. Um

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on page two, uh there was a comment about the conceptual plan and um lack of clear state guidelines. So the new language is but state guidelines as to what is

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required for a police station um not yet developed. Is that is that adequate or do we want Does that make it clear? Um, do you see where I'm speaking? Yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Oh, mirror too. Great. >> Hi. >> We're just going over the um the the final report and the um the edits that we discussed the last um at the last meeting. So just at the very beginning

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pages pages are numbered. If >> we can go back to uh work undertaken by the committee. Yeah, >> that's where added um a little bit. And then the note You can see towards the end of that my

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thought would be to it says note the M and Spear building is on town common property which is considered EFA article 97 land. >> Uh >> page two >> page >> work undertaken by the committee that first >> Oh yes. Okay. Yep. Page two.

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>> I was thinking that the note should be uh like a >> there's it should read independently. So like there'd be a return and a return. So it's >> okay. So so like

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yeah >> everyone what I'm saying? >> Yes. And then so so a return after that sentence. >> So if you look see where I have my >> Yeah. >> So this will get returned. >> Yeah.

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>> And then another return. So there's a space sort of like you know you're separating >> I just I can't see that far. >> So >> so the note essentially forms we'll say a new paragraph. >> Okay. But all the way to the to addendum

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F or >> that whole >> that whole section >> that whole Yeah. >> Okay. Yes. Okay. Great. >> Following from that. Yep. >> Number one, municipal needs assessment. A minor typo. Respondents

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plural. >> Um, what what line is that, Henry? >> Oh, the respondents. Yep. >> Yep. >> Thank you. Great. is it um compilation of comments can be found as it's addendum

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addendum C1 C2 or addenda yeah well leave it as addenda guess it's plural Right. What's agenda? >> Right. Yeah. >> I guess going back to uh the note where it says C addendum F. The other

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addendums are capital A. So capital A. >> Yep. Paul. Um, your suggested plan suggested add a re recommendation that's a little more meaty. >> Yeah,

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>> I redid that much of that section. >> So, yeah. >> Okay. And we did the compilation of the comments questionnaire results into the report. >> Correct. >> Okay.

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>> And I Yeah, I had suggested maybe we should uh anonymize >> Yes. anonymity. Yeah. >> In reading through them, I didn't think that there was a need to do that. So, okay. That's fine with the way the way it is. Okay. Perfect.

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>> All right. So I go, you just going back to the more meaty recommendations. I mean, I don't know if people have had a chance to read through that, but that is, you know, all new, >> you know, new wording since you you the last version. So I just want to make

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sure people are okay with that. >> Yes. Yeah. No, it's great. >> I read it on It turned out really well. >> You what? >> I think I think it turned out really well. >> I agree. Yeah. And and like I said last

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time, I thought you did a great start with this, you know, and >> made it easy to uh to build on it. >> Um and and the agenda really do help illustrate work that the committee did.

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Um that it wasn't just yeah some slap dash report. >> My my only thought on the recommendations and next steps is that last paragraph where we talked about the reorganization of town hall to

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accommodate it foration. >> Yep. and saying that that option could save the town some money if it was considered unfeasible to install a well in septic. And I was actually wondering if we could say a little bit more about that that it would potentially allow be

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because I think looking into that would allow a little bit more space for the police department and better use of the town hall itself and it would not necessarily I I'm not quite sure how it would save money necessarily. um if if we didn't

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have to install a well and septic system, there's statements there. So, if you're using the existing well and septic system, you don't have that >> kind you don't have that cost. Um um yeah,

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>> definitely on on the the uh creating more options and creating better space within the the town hall for other departments. Yeah, I I think it might be worth

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>> saying that because it >> to me it it might be worth at some point might be worth doing it whether no matter what happens across the street. And I think the other thing is that um

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if the way that it reads to me is if we decided not to do anything across the street at all, we could save money by doing something here, which I I don't think is what was in the intent. >> That again. >> Okay. So,

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>> so what it sounds like this is saying to me is >> if if it was unfeasible to install a well across the street, >> right? >> Another option would be that we could we could provide for the needs of of

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town um services and the police by doing this. Mhm. >> This is an option that might save town money if we're like if you're comparing the two, right? >> This might be cheaper. It might save, >> right? But it's still going to cost

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money. >> Yeah. But it's still going to cost money. And I think when you're I think I think that we if you say if you say um if when you say it's configur considered unfeasible, you've almost ruled out that possibility already.

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and and then but but then when you say it's going to save money, you're kind of saying, oh, we're comparing these two options, right? So, I think it saves money. What what we're saying is it saves money in comparison these might save money in comparison

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>> in comparison to building, >> but having ruled that out, saying it's unfeasible, I don't think that saying it saves money makes sense. >> Do you know what I mean? >> I do. I'm not sure how I would word that though. What if we just said like

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unfeasible at the present time or or something like that? Because you know the I guess in my mind what I was thinking is that a well and a septic are two big expenses right now. Reconfiguring this is something that you know could kind of happen more gradually

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over time and and so forth. So so there is that that kind of comparison. >> Yeah. The unfeasible part really in my mind was coming up with a big chunk of money right now, you know, which is what it would cost to put a well and a septic

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in and that >> that was maybe unfeasible at least at the present time. So for me clarify that if it's unfeasible at the present time >> to install then this might be another

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option we could consider that would some of the problems that were brought to us. >> Yeah. Would that address your concern to just add that that wording? >> Yeah. So >> because it was missing to me it was missing the comparison and if you just read them separately it I think it's important to Yeah.

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>> And oh let's finish with this one first. So, can can we get that l could I add that first or do you want to >> No, no, it's just Yeah, I was going to say it's related because we also are saying that and it was sort of implied in the second

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paragraph, right? that um right that that that well but not explicitly so that that you know we just leave it as it is that's cheapest >> right you don't do any do nothing is

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right >> it's not in the recommendations per se is it >> um well the first uh yeah the second paragraph in this whole section I think um without any you know, without such an investment, spear

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could still be used as a basic meeting or or record storage space. That's what that was meant to address. Yeah. And you know, I I tried to keep all of this as short as possible >> stability, you know. So, but if we want to expand it to make it clearer, that's absolutely

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>> explicit. This would be that because we do talk about options as being costly or not. I just two words which will be the the least expensive of all options. >> Uhhuh. >> Right. >> Something to that effect.

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>> Um >> it's it's in the addendum E. >> It is >> as as option one. Here becomes meeting space. No bathroom, >> no water source, no septic. >> Yes. Um so it is there >> right

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>> but you know these are recommendations I think they should be upfront. >> So Henry at the very last sentence in that paragraph still some improvements would be needed um if we just added you

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know but this would clearly be the least expensive option you know at the end. Is that where you >> That's what I was. >> Yeah. >> Do you think >> Do you want to >> Should we just add that? Okay. >> Sure. >> So, just comma at the end of uses. Uh

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some some improvements would uh be needed to make the building suitable for such uses, but >> but >> uh this would still be the least expensive of all options. >> Yeah. The other um thing I had in mind in

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writing this is that you know we we address a lot of this you know these options in other parts of the report already you know like like the whole conceptual plan on number one you know gets into the whole idea of the uh

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making this a police station. So, I didn't want to, you know, be too redundant. Yeah. in in this this section. >> Can we go back to the last paragraph when Mary Joe had? Um, so you say that

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option could save the town some money if it was considered and feasible at the present time to install a well and septic system on the town common. And um

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we're saying at the present time due to cost and complexity because of the article 97 what would make it infeasible to do it now

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it's cost and complexity right >> yeah should we say that >> yeah I mean I think it would be you know somebody might say well why is it unfeasible Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And and where I'm still kind of kind of getting tripped up is the fact that the

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cost and complexity of doing something here would rival the cost of complexity of doing something across the street. Um do you know what I mean? I don't I don't think they're equal. Um the complexity

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part um you don't you have article 97 across the street, right? that is the you you know you're dealing with what's considered a park. You have to go to the legislature to get approval. You have to go through this whole legal process. So

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less complex. This is much less complex around the septic in the water because you just connect to what your existing system is. On top of that, you don't have you have the cost of making the connection, but

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you have the cost of installing all new systems over there. So, you have a new well and you have an accepting system that you don't have that cost here. What I remember what I remembered and I think might be important to convey is

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that the cost of doing something here surprised me and it was very near the cost of doing something across the street. >> Yeah. But it was very rough like very rough >> right the whole thing is rough but on the other hand if if the town was not

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able if the town was saying we can't spend money over there because it's too much. >> Yeah. If that's too much, this might very well be too much. >> It might be too. And I think you're not going to know that until you make some

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investment in some design and engineering. So you have to spend money in order to make that determination. I think that's that will be the next step. So you know >> Yeah. And that's another interesting point to raise that we didn't really

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raise here. Just to say a lot of the reason why can't make a recommendation right now >> and what would need to be done in order to make re recommendation is to set aside some money so that we can figure

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out some of the complexity. Mhm. Mhm. Um and and my my feeling was that um that a decision about use be made first

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before you spent the money. >> Yeah. >> So that you decide what is the best place to do a reconfiguration. Is it here or over there? And and then you invest the money

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to investigate because unless you know everybody wants to spend you know a big chunk of money and look at at both at the same time. But you're probably you know if you were doing a um you know conceptual plans

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um you know you could easily spend for both both sites. you could easily spend $35,000 I would guess. Um getting an architect to kind of do some drawings here and then getting the um getting the design

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subject design and soils investigation and perk tests and or you know whatever the titank design all that are over there. um might not be that much if it was really basic, but you know getting

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but pulling that together is an investment and I don't know whether or not there's any kind of grant money. I suspect that there isn't um for that uh that that would be um that would be something that would

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have to come from from the town. But what you know it's like where do you start and and and maybe maybe people you know need to know

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what it's going to cost over there and make that investment before they say this doesn't make any sense that you invest the money to say what is it going to cost to put a B subject system there and then say you know we spent $10,000 and we learned

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XY Y and Z and therefore we're not going to do that, >> right? >> Um and that might be a good investment and just, you know, say, okay, we explored that. I mean, Leverick did that with the Field Library. So, they spent

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like $19,000. I don't even think they're I don't I don't know what they ended up doing at town meeting, but um to do kind of an investigation. They want to sell it

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>> is that yes they're not on town common they don't they don't have the problem we have um so and and you know in my mind if I were making this decision but I won't be um >> I'd say yeah you know do some more

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investigation make an investment because otherwise that building is going to be sitting there >> spend some money and make a decision By the way, this >> how to get incorporated in the recommendations.

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>> Does your term go through the end of June or are you done? >> Goes through the end of June. >> Okay. >> The moderator term, you know, ended at town meeting. >> I know we went through this whole thing. And apparently there was a town meeting vote in 1974 that said the terms run

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>> for the fiscal year. And and for a while there it was like ending it, you know, with a town election, >> right? >> And so I got very excited, but >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Come to find out. >> Oh, well.

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>> Yeah. So, um yeah, that um we could um I I guess we could put in the recommendation. Um, we we we don't have anything in here

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about um expending some town funds to do some uh further technical investigation of the of the Amen Spear building because

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that's probably where I would go. I mean, if it were me making the decision, um, I would say spend the money to figure out what to so the, um,

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uh, what was the guy's name, Paul? Um, Stephen, that you talked to the, um, sanitary engineer >> that Alan is that Alan Weiss? No, it was Alan Ways, but maybe it was Susie. There was another guy. >> Talk to Susie. Yeah, I can't remember his name right off the

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>> Just a lot for 30,000 do an engineering >> second guy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, >> was that the person? Oh, Chris Stoddard. >> Yes, Chris Stoddard. >> Yeah, that's in here. >> Yeah. Um, you argue though,

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>> go for it, Henry. that this as stated it it you know it does it does say that it would be it may it may be less expensive to have been now but uh

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>> over there. >> Yeah. Uh, no, no, it doing it here, but maybe well, >> yeah, >> right. >> This is what you're saying >> right in the in our chart, too. We actually have, you know, >> it'sort of

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it doesn't mean it's going to be cheap. It's just going to be slightly less expensive. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Oh, yeah. But the only the only reason that I would that I would promote doing this septic and and the water over

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there because it's not necessarily for a police station. It's for other uses too. It's just to make the building bring it up to some standard that it could be used for other things so that it could be used for, you know, let's say there

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was an art exhibit or the recreation committee wanted to do something in there or we wanted to have regular, you know, a meeting space. So, the Council on Aging wanted to have a different dedicated

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space um that you know if we had a bathroom in there, the building is just going to be more useful to the town. So, um without a bathroom, running water,

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um it just sits there as like another storage building. M really another old town hall which which you know which needs maintenance which you know we need to ensure and we need to be moving in

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and out of and you know we can fix we could use CPA money but you know go back in and do some more work on the building but I don't think we should be investing a lot of money in the septic system and the porch and whatever unless we're

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saying yeah we're going to use this building on some sort of regular basis and putting a bathroom in there is going to make it much more attractive, useful option. Um, so

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I guess that's why, you know, I would say sp let's let's spend some money to figure out can we do this >> strategic and targeted spending. >> Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it's it's and and it might you know we might learn

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that um that between article 97 I I don't think the septic system that this would be >> I'd be surprised if it would be problematic. >> I I I don't think because it would be a

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municipal use that they would go crazy about and um because we already have a library there, you know, had a library there. Um, I think our legislators could get it done. Um, but whether or not we

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could get a tight tank and a well there, I think that's a bigger question, >> right? >> Um, and so let's spend the money and then let's put it to rest. Do you know this thing? And then do we want to, you

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know, if it's just going to be $100,000 to to do something over there, let's find that out now and then figure out, are we just going to mothball that building? >> Um, instead of uh just angsting about it and

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people going, "Well, what are you doing? Let's put the post from us in there." Somebody said, >> "Oh, yeah. >> Oh, God." Yeah. if you only knew >> right >> how complicated this is. Um

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>> so do we getting back to uh Mary Joe's initial comment do we want to add something maybe you know parenthetically at the end of the very last uh uh paragraph here the end of it something like um you know if it's unfeasible at

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the present time blah blah blah due to either something like procedural complexity and larger initial cost or due to potential site issues. and greater monetary outlay or you know

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something like that to to get at the two main issues there. >> Procedurally it's more complex >> and it would require a big chunk of money right right away. >> Yes. >> Versus this option which could be you know phased >> you know.

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>> So yes >> that's what I'm thinking to kind of address that. >> Can you can you write that sentence? Well, and also so >> you like the more complex verbiage or you know due to procedural complexity and larger monetary outlay for example

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due to due to procedural >> complexity and Elijah at least initial monetary outlay or or cost if

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>> and maybe and higher cost. >> All right. >> Cost. >> Yeah. And and I think the word initial is important because you know I I agree that this re renovation of town hall

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could end up costing just as much in the end. And you know, we basically use a $100,000 figure for both both, you know, there and here in our matrix. So we we're admitting that it could be about the same. Yeah. So I think, you know, again, in my mind, it's needing to come

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up with, you know, well, and septic money right off the bat, which is a big investment versus something that we could do here. Well, let's build the wall this year. Next year we'll renovate the kitchen, you know, and then we'll do the floor when we can get the money, you know. Then it could be phased.

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>> So where's the initial bill? >> The larger initial cost >> the larger uh okay and larger >> or greater greater initial cost might be better.

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Um, how about one paragraph then? Finally. Um, or I don't know, finally is the right way to start it. I would like to incorporate in here or I don't know maybe we could

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um I guess I would like to recommend the select board exploring um some some engineering some you know engaging a secretary engineer

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um just to do some initial um you know, pull together some initial cost estimates for doing septic and um a well over there. >> Sounds like an actual recommendation

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versus wishy-washy. You could do this, you could do that. >> And you could even add that that they they think about what uses, you know, that this should be guided by. >> Yes. But it's hard to do that if you don't

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know costs are, you know what I mean? Yes. >> You want to be guided by use, but you can't consider use unless you have >> That's correct. >> Clear understanding of what correct feasibility is. >> And because the

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two of the um Yeah. I I think putting a bathroom in there just makes the options for that building so much greater um police station or no police station, >> right?

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>> Um that it just makes sense to do it to spend whatever and like get let's get an estimate. I don't know. the committee agree. >> Well, I I could be a so it could be a solo and and the select board could just

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make a decision to do that. >> Well, if there's I mean it's been we've been saying this if there's no bathroom the limit of use >> Yes. >> becomes very small. >> Yes. >> If there's a bathroom then it's open to

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many things. >> Right. >> Right. Right. I mean, police station could go there. Police station could still go here. >> Yes, that's right. >> That's right. >> And then like you just said, I mean, numerous other functions could occur over there with a

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>> people wanted to have an art show, right? >> They have an art show there. People wanted to have a contrad. >> Um, >> okay. So, like a >> But I want to make sure here. Yeah,

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>> it seems like there is, right? >> I think minimally we need to find out the feasibility of of doing a bathroom because that would lay so much to rest >> one way or the other. >> It would. Yes. >> And without that information, we're just

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going to be sitting here with question marks for years spinning our wheels. >> Yeah. >> So, our recommendation can be, you know, basically and and we can say in summary at the end of this, if you want to use those words, >> Yeah. you know, the committee feels that

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um you know, a functioning bathroom at that site would greatly enhance the the um potential options for its its future use. Um but um it's important to know

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whether it's feasible and how expensive it would be to do that and therefore the committee would recommend that the select board take necessary actions to get you know to determine the feasibility and the cost essentially. Is

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that does that capture what what does I can't write that fast? >> Yeah. Well, I I could write it if you want me to. >> Yeah. >> So, in summary, the committee feels that the installation of a bathroom and

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say water that that assumes is I think that'd be my Well, >> it would be a feasibility study to see if >> Yeah. >> what it would cost. >> Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. So, what they would do, Henry, they'd come in and

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probably do soil borings. They'd, you know, see if they had rock. They'd like look into um like, you know, sort of how far they could go down. They'd site where would a well go.

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Um and yeah, just what what would the layout be for um for a Titank? And Well, >> I guess we don't have any way of estimating what that was.

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>> Well, I think Susie had talked about Chris Stoddard and it was a few thousand >> 3,000 >> 3,000. Yeah, >> I think >> but there might be a little bit more that we have to add on to that. It's not >> um yeah,

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I think um the select board would need to develop a scope of work for him to make sure that you're getting exactly the information from him that you need. And then he would say,

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"Here's here's here's what it's going to cost you and here's the because let's say we have to get um I think Susie mentioned like that the highway department come in use the

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backhoe to to dig a hole there." And if if we wouldn't need to hire somebody from the outside, then we would to pay $50 an hour or something for tobacco. So

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some costs we could sort in house. It's a tight, you know, it's kind of a tight site over there. Yeah. >> Have that side. It's also state state uh approval, right? >> Well, I think we can mess around with I

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don't we're not building anything. We're just like we're and it's all going to go back to where it was. If you if you make a hole and then you cover it back up, >> you're okay. It's more if you make a hole and you're putting something in there and then you're digging a well,

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um, you're just, you know, you're you're changing, you're putting in utilities and that's where you get into the article 97, not if you're like exploring what's underneath there. We'll double check with Donna to make

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sure that that's okay. You got it. >> Well, I've got something. >> Okay. >> In summary, the committee feels that the addition of a functioning bathroom at the former Spear building greatly enhances

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the potential options for its future use or uses. However, some professional consulting services uh would be needed to assess the feasibility and cost of adding a bathroom. The committee

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recommends that the select board proceed with securing those services. >> Excellent. >> That's good. Right. >> That's excellent. >> Okay. >> That's a good hard recommendation. >> Yeah. It's a great way to end our

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report. >> Great way to end. Yes, I think it is. Yeah, >> it's just the otherwise we just be like, "Oh, that's interesting. Maybe later >> now." And they're going to say, "Now what do we do? >> Put it on the shelf." >> Well, I mean, I'm just thinking about

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the study that we used, right? We did so much work. >> Yes. >> To try to figure out how out of >> reconfigure against space here. Yeah. >> And and here here we are how many years later using it just as a reference to figure out what to do. >> Right. Right. Right.

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Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's that's great and it's a you know a concrete next step but then you can go back to all this other work that we did on the chart and say okay

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now we have some now we have some some place to start some figures. >> Okay. How about if I rewrite the recommendation section and send it to >> send it to Why don't you send it to me?

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>> Um, and then I'll I'll do all the editing. Brennan is gone on like all next week. So there I don't know when our next when our meeting with the select board will be, but just so stay tuned with that. Um, it's probably going

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to be June June 6th. There's still can't remember. There's a meeting on it's meeting next Tuesday and then it's two weeks from then. So, does anybody out there see the calendar? Um, so Tuesday is the 26th.

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So, it looks like it's the 9th. June 9th. Yeah, June 9th. So, if you can make it, that would be great. >> What time is is that? >> Um, we start at 5:00 and we can try to

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get on the agenda first thing. If that works better for people, we can make it a little bit later if that's better. Um, you tell me. And >> June 6th, >> June 9th. >> 9th. >> Yeah. That works for me.

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>> Okay, great. Is there a preference for being like early on the agenda or >> early is better? >> Yeah, early better. Okay, so it might be 5:30 like if there's something but um the June >> that's better for me. >> 5:30. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Then it's not.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. So meeting with slid board um and um do one of you I'm happy to to do it that evening or one of you want to um

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give the final report. Paul, if you want to do it or >> I would do it, but I I kind of did the last one with Cindy. So, if other people wanted to, I'd be happy. >> So, um when you say give the report,

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>> we'll take draft off here. It will be this. We'll be handing off this report with all the edits that we we need to vote though. >> Yes. So when you say I wouldn't be reading the whole

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>> No, no, no, no. Would be just doing a summary. >> The recommendations. >> Yeah. Really? The recommendations. >> Okay. Recommendations. Yes. >> Yeah. >> I would do it. It's just I I was not in on the ground floor with this. Yeah. A

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lot of stuff that I'm learning just now that happened before. So, >> okay. You want to do it, Stephen? Okay. Great. Um but let's make a um since we made those changes to um do I hear a

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motion to approve the changes that we discussed um today and to accept this um as the final report to the Shootsberry Select Board? >> So moved.

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>> Second. >> Okay. Did we um did we address Suz's the uh H Anna in our minutes that change that? Uh >> I haven't had a chance to go back and check that one.

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>> That's >> yeah suggested adding to four engage the public. Uh yeah. Yep. Okay. And we're okay voting on this without actually seeing the the final final

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version. >> I mean, we could do it that that night if you want or you could just trust that it will be that the changes that we

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talked about. Do you want to see the final version? And >> if it's as stated, I'm fine with it. >> I'm fine. I'm writing a lot of it. So that's >> You're good.

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>> Okay. I mean, we can always do that evening. We'll be in session, right? >> So if there's something that we find, we could >> we we could edit it tweak it that tweak it that night. Um, so

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that's that's always an option. Don't don't be shy. Yeah. Um, okay. So, a motion has been made and seconded to um approve this final draft of the report to the select board.

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Any other comments, discussion? All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Johnson I. >> Dennis I >> Delmas I lion's eye. >> Daryl I great. Well, thank you all.

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As I said last meeting really all of your time. Um I think it's really good was really excellent work really good report. So I think now that we actually are making it

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>> way to go team can all feel validated. >> We were able to avoid it till the very last moment. >> Um okay so do I hear a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. >> So move second.

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>> Okay. All is in favor? Johnson I get it. Elvis eye, lion's eye, >> barrel eye. >> Thanks everybody.