e e just FYI you guys appear muted at the Town Hall we haven't started yet Dave thank you what's your last name by the way green g r e and like the
color g r e y oh oh thank you I appreciate that all right all right so um do we have a need to wait for Gabriel
no um so let's start with start the shb select board meeting for March 11th uh 2025 um and first let's look at the
agenda we have maranne first with some more documentation um and a vote for National Grid for the poll um and use of credits we have an appointment for the um emergency I'm sorry
energy committee um we have an appointment for the zoning board of appeals um we have a letter for uh the Quin I'm sorry this gentle together a
letter for uh that Erica is is bringing forth um for the Clin Watershed and to present support for that project the discussion of rule development opportunity and grants um the review of
annual town meeting dates review request from Gail for the proposed a warrant article for the forest farm and Forest commission by law uh review and confirm dates for Lake boa public forum on
voting safety review the Pineapple Express request to deliver retail cannabis products a possible vote to overspend snow and ice the Town Administrator report and
then an executive session we will go into uh for contract and negot for contract for police chief contract and town admin contract um and not to return to open session uh does anyone have do
that work for the other two select board members and Gabe okay um so let let's start there um so we'll open it to public comment if you're in the room please raise your hand if you're on the screen you may uh raise use the raised
hand feature and Melissa would you just mention who's in the room because I know people yeah in the room um which I know you can see very little at the top there is Mary and Anella stoie moer and Our Town Administrator ITA um Gabe vuler is
anyone on screen or in the room have a public PL they'd like to share okay um let's move on to the first one which is uh Mary an you're bringing forth forms to vote for
National Grid right you have the actual forms right so so there are so so for National gits we've already done the easement and we've already done the poll so those solar panels and the batteries
are going to be interconnected with National Grid and there are a number of incentives that we can apply for um and we are applying for um and um and the
different incentives are about um sharing the power from the solar panels and the batteries with National Grid when we have excess uh and so so we have to agree to have
that interconnectivity with them and to share with them when we have excess and to make efforts to reduce use during peak times and to share extra power especially during peons so that's what these fors are about and they're about
the um the battery storage and net metering um and so this really seemed like since the since this will be an agreement with the town and National Grid that the town should be signing these um so and one of
them is a landowner consent agreement um that's exhibit one um and and the town is a landowner I'm not the land owner um and then the other is scheduled the and it's information required for the n new
yearing service um and um so on that um there's a place for the select board to sign it um so the host customer signature so we're the host um and
then um and then so let's see the host custom means a customer with a net metering facility that generates electricity so we make electricity and then it goes into the first it goes into the building then it goes into the B and then it goes into the so there that's
one thing and then there's Exhibit C um which is the generating facility expedited so we're and this is an expedited application because we are uh because we're a little late with this um
because we didn't know we were going to have the batteries um and so um so they left off we'll have to handw write in the city they had one place where they left that off but there's a page
um where there's page for the town um um page two is a place for a signature for uh for the interconnecting customer and that's us and
then there's um this national grid form um then there was some places at the end there's a place for the interconnected customer to find that um and it's all about us interconnecting
with National Grid and sharing the XX power when we have it and then we'll get credits sta okay so and how will the credits be used that's on our electric bill right like we get a we get credit
our our Excess power that we' generated and then they it's like on a solar power like I sometimes have a negative um like on my electric bill because I solar we'll say negative $125 so they just took it off my next right so it's only
one it look like only one signature in all those so yeah all right um so does anyone have any question um beyond what we just asked so is this it with National Grid then
once do we have any other um I don't think so because we've done the easement we've done the poll hearing and then this so that's about the installation so that's all said and then this is all about inter connection and the
incentives and so I you know so this is what they've sent me so far okay and then and I don't know if they'll send me because there's four different incentives we're applying for there the federal one is a there's a federal solar
credit so you know I may come back with that um you know but it still exists well it does today so um and so we're gonna we're just going to fill out all the applications and and they're filling them out the solar designers are filling
them all out on our here yeah okay um so this is what they've done so far and this is to get it interconnected with National Grid so that National Grid can then design everything they they take a long time to get everything okay is the
solar the last thing and the battering solu that be one of the last things that happens at the library with that the same yeah so I know the roof has to be done before the solar can go
on and then a p and then a cement pad has to be built which was part of the plan because they were required by code a cement pad for battery storage was required by code even though we didn't have plans for battery storage so but
that'll go in when they're doing some of that other site work so you okay so I'll make a motion that we execute The Four Agreements for the interconnection of the um solar the
battery the solar with national career okay second all right all those in favor Carl I do make oal I do a question on doesn't I think I've signed the C way but um do we have a choice on who makes
the batteries so the way it works this is a public project at the state and um and the battery storage folks so we're doing lithium iron batteries not lithium ion
batteries okay and the lithium ion are the ones that burn and can't ever be put out so we're doing lium iron batteries the solar designers have have sort of they've chosen a basis of design and then the
contractor will prepare a quot and and they get to pick either Bas they get to pick equivalent a product that's either the basis of design or a product that's equivalent so no you know we just have a
product that's that meets the specifications that the designer specified in a pro public project you don't get to we even with the flooring anything for this building we didn't get to we could
specify a basis of design and then be like this or and we would give three we gave three floring products we gave three window products and then they could choose one of those or they could choose a product that is equivalent and so the batteries
were same and the solars one more hold on there's a lot of these for this one um if if we want we can go on to the energy committee's appointment of ber
Schultz if schw Schwarz I'm sorry um can we skip oh he is here are you ready right yeah we are thank you Gabe yeah so I'll just I'll just Tee It Up so
AC has um is a committee of five slots um I think it was last year we reduced from seven to five we've got a really committed Core group of four um and a few months ago ber Schwarz who Schwarz whose peer expressed interest he's come
to the last two meetings participated in conversations and we unanimously voted the four of us to recommend him to you guys to appoint to eak and so I think if you wanted to B ready to answer any questions or tell you why he's
interested in being on eak um so I'll hand it off to him if or if that makes sense sure can you tell us why you're interested in joining the uh eek what what passion do you have
there you have to unmute yourself BR you're muted you're muted better yeah I'm good Sor about that uh yeah it's it's been um the environment's been a personal interest of mine for many years and you know I'm committed
to um reducing my you know negative impact on the environment through my personal actions and um I when I learned about the eak through um the newsletter um the town newsletter I thought well
you know I I was curious and I'm you know I have an electric vehicle myself and try to keep you know um my emissions as low as possible you know through my home energy use and all that so I thought I'd like to do that on a wider scale you know get involved and see what
the town is doing you know with the same goals in mind so I think you know what's good for me is good for the town you know and vice versa so um yeah and it's been it's been interesting to to join I'm I'm a little
behind the eightball you know because they've been having meetings for some time now so I'm trying to catch up and and learn to understand a little bit you know what's what's happened so far uh in the group but um I'm interested and committed to the cause of um trying to
improve our energy sources for the town sources of electricity you know delivery anybody else have a question no you so you you've attended some of the meetings now I've attended two of the meetings
yeah great okay and we name was put forth by the committee yeah I think I'm gonna make a motion to um appoint Bert schwar as the newest member of the energy and
climate action committee thank you all right uh all those in favor barl I ey make PE of NE L great welcome perfect thank you thank you so much thank you very much bird I'll catch catch you later okay okay drive
safely um so the next one is to appoint Michael pill to the shur zoning board of appeals so Michael pill has been brought forth to fill that position um we don't see
him on there now Jeff is here from the zpa hi Jeff um would you like to give us some information on this particular appointment sure and uh yes can you hear me yes are you Jeff you're still on the
cbaa correct I am yes nice um yeah right now I am an associate so I have to be activated by the chair um John Thompson just resigned recently
um which left us with one regular member um John air stuck as a regular member and then myself as an associate um so we don't even have enough to to act on special permits which requires all three of us um so
yeah um Mato has been combing the combing the town for new members um Michael has stepped up there are two others as well um that might be interested um but anyway I'm here um and
I've spoken to John air stuck and we both support Michael for for the position um you know he he has a history in the town he's done he wrote our subdivision regulations for free in the 80s um and you know he's represented kls
and things like that um but nonetheless John and I feel he would be a good member the kinds of things that he's been involved in are mostly large uh land projects um that wouldn't be under the jurisdiction of the zba zba
deals with small individual homeowners doing additions rebuilding things like that that's not what Michael does in his his legal practice he's um and he's a zoning expert um I mean I my profession is zoning as well but I don't want to be
the only one on the zbaa who understands zoning especially since I don't don't live in town anymore so um John and I both support that that nomination um but if you make the if you make the
nomination that that gives us um John stuck and Michael pill as regular members and me as an associate um and and we have a problem with the chair um because Michael um has indicated um that
he can't be the chair he's too busy uh John stuck is similarly situated he can't be the chair um we have two other possible members out there but they would be brand new to the board
so the the the total ask here is to put Michael on as a regular member but also convert me from an associate to a regular member which you can do um so that I can serve for a while longer as
the chair which is what I was when I left shutesbury but this will just keep the board going for a while until somebody on there gets comfortable enough to be the chair so it's a sort of a two-part it's a two-part ask um appoint Michael and
then swap me uh into a regular slot for a while and I'm not sure you can do the second thing at this meeting with with no Advanced no yeah I think would want to do that but we would certainly take that under advisement um and and I my
recollection is that it's um typically included in the statute right if if it's somebody from out of town because I know some boards you can't you can appoint people who don't reside in the community um but it's usually the
enabling statute so I assume it's not an issue yeah I I I looked it up and checked it out and if it's an appointed board which this one is and there's no specific Prohibition in your Charter or bylaws then you can do it uh here in
Conway you can't do it because we have a general bylaw provision that says you can't which we trying to change but there's no such provision in shuberry okay good all right so I think we can do that at our next meeting Jeff
um so thank you for offering to to step up just put that on agenda um so I'd like to make a motion to appoint Michael pill to the shutesbury zoning board of appeals second okay uh any further
questions or um comments um all those in favor barell I st I thanks St thank you okay thank you very much right so let's move on now to the
the um thein the letter for the Quin Watershed and presentation for our support and do you folks have that letter iil okay yeah sent it to I did send it um so um we
were we were asked um to weigh in on this legislation that's been um right I think Joe cord's looking for all the support she can get and this is really the followup to the letter that
we did to the NW about the Quin study and saying that that didn't really um address all the things that hoped were going to be addressed and then um you know I knew at the time that she was going to follow file some legislation so
this is I mean it's it's great we looks like there's some things we don't have the answer to yeah um Les is on vacation this week so she's she's the one they ask those questions um how many acres they own what percentage land and what
per what the town just I don't know the answer those question I didn't feel comfortable enough and I have to admit that um two I tried to figure that out with the gis but then decided that probably no I [Music] just that's IDE um anyway but I I will
say that I took um most of these bullet points on that letter taken really almost directly from uh Joe comerford's um little handout on this project is it this is her baby basically she's really into this thing yeah um so
that so it's pretty it's pretty straightforward in that sense um I mean the idea is pretty obvious like you know that here we are this is our water they're drinking B and we don't really get paid adequately for it and so forth and you know here we have a p problem maybe in fact we'll have to
have public water before we know it least some of the time well who knows I'm not saying I'm not advocating but right possible it's an unnown anyway so that's the deal yeah I no I think it's a great letter kind of sweet like that I do like the idea of
adding the acres and the percentage so I think that be helpful um I you know I'm wondering I I'll look back because I always kept some of the information that our former administrative assessor had done I don't you know he did remember he
did a bunch of maps Kevin and and I know I save I downloaded them so but I have to look at home to see if if he because some of it was just like state land so it was all I think it might have bed in
lumped together because we have other we have stay bars and we have multiple places it's probably not broken out but I'll take a quick look when is Leslie back he comes back but don't know she's coming to work on Thursday she has a time change just
right right yeah okay yeah I'll I'll deal with getting her pH okay and then um get it off yeah so then we can all sign I'll just bring it back to sub meeting and um actually when I was talking about
Elena who's um Joe's assistant she she's trying to decide who we should send it to I think so I think soon but not write this very all right that would be my answer that question so do you want us to wait to vote on it till you come back
or I mean I'm I'm fine with it and filling in yeah I'm fine with voting on yeah why don't we yeah you can vote I guess you can sign the back page no we yeah yeah all right I'll bring in all right okay that's good yeah rather waiting until then if you get the the
data okay so I guess the motion would be to to approve this um has approv this with the inclusion of acres and percentage of so do I hear motion I so move that
that we send this letter to um to the legislature um about the our support for Senate Bill 828 and House Bill 2773 I'll second that's pretty obvious I guess all all those in favor Carl I
stalker ey may peace of great thank you for for do um now we will move on to um to discuss rural uh development opportunity grants for towns under 7,000
people so I think I sent to all of you um the guidelines for um the the Rural Development Fund and this is um there's a kind of One-Stop application for all
of the state's kind of development programs and then within that they set aside a um a certain amount of money for communities that are 7,000 people are under or have um fewer than 500
residents per square mile so shoots very qualifies we got we were approached actually by um l from Senator cord's office saying that I'm sorry um saying that we' never applied before and she
was sort of wondering if we wanted some assistance um and you know would we be interested in applying um this time so I went I went through the guidelines and there were a couple of a lot of it
really doesn't apply to us it's really for mixed like mixed used buildings like even small communities that have kind of downtowns um there were two things that immediately came to mind and then one I think I realized probably wasn't going
to work um you know one was you can you can apply for um doing what I call pre-development work you know site engineering um architectur that sort of thing for vacant or about to be vacant
municipal buildings and you can even do you know some design and some possibly some construction so at first thought oh our library you know our library building is going to be vacant you know we're going to have to whatever use it has it has a
public use it's going to need work um but then as I read it again I realized it said in it ineligible if it was solely for municipal use so we were only going to when you use that building for some like they gave an example of um
co-working space and you combine that with um a municipal use um you could possibly use these funds I don't think given the nature of that building that you know maybe an old school building
you could say oh yeah we we devote part of it to something and then the rest of it actually municipal use um but the other uh the other thing is um Road and Bridge and Culvert design work and
Engineering work and it's it's what we weren't able to do with MVP um they wanted all of that when we were going for MVP with the first application we need for MVP Municipal
vulnerability program was to look at storm water issues and um and this this you know we if if we had a project you know we knew what we wanted to apply um you know we
could do that so there's the the good thing about this because we're you know sort of just finding out about it is that it's a two-step process there's a um expression of Interest which is due if if we want to submit an expression of
interest it's due by the end of this month I can't with the exact date um and but then the applications are accepted from May beginning of May till June so there's a monthlong period which you submit an actual application um the
advantage to doing an expression of interest is that um they'll give you feedback it's kind of like with the MVP there was a two-step process where you can say we're thinking about doing this and they'll tell you well no don't do this don't you know maybe do something else um and I
didn't really know if we had I know the storm water group has been doing a lot of work and Jennifer's happens to be here tonight um I I didn't know if we had any or Dave our Highway superintendent had any ideas about
something that we could submit that um he might actually um I happen to stop down there um yesterday morning and he had just gotten a report back from two
CS that yeah rep um so you said it might apply to some of that so oh okay so that's something there yeah um one of them is the the late one the FBR and the other one was
on um pictur and what about the um he mention anything about the monu road down we Brown Dam came down remember that cover yeah these two were specifically for the this what I saw those two were report on that I don't know that they've assessed all the cks
yet but okay these were the those two specifically he had just gotten back I think that yesterday morning it just came yeah I took a look um so um this may yeah either of those or more did you
see J Wall yeah I hold on let me lower my hand okay lower hello everybody uh you know we've been working on exactly this and uh trying to
make contact with Dave but we got snowed out on a couple of our meetings but he did say he had some ideas of things especially as it pertained to what happens on locks Pound Road and then the drainage that heads
down the hill into the lake so knowing this and I had just recently sent him a list of questions that our task force had for him on Main so I think I mean you've been in touch with him too but I can write again to him or talk to him
and say Hey you know is any of the things that you've said you had ideas about could that possibly fit in here does that make sense yeah yeah yeah would you feel open to sending me
the criteria or the kinds of things that they want to see in this letter of interest and the kind of projects they might like to look at y yeah there's not a lot of detail can you pull it up Eric do you yeah I think I sent it didn't I send it to you I thought I did maybe uh
I haven't gotten it yet so no I don't think so6 is the letter the 26 okay so the 26 is where the expression of Interest right so it's kind of a rolling it's a
rolling um open till the 26th so when's our next meeting okay everything get packed in there pretty well at the end of March but um anyway I'd love to take a look at it I'm gonna our committee is meeting next week
we could talk about it to also touch base with Dave um one other question I I wonder about and I don't know whether you you happen to see that is this restricted to municipal government would a nonprofit group be able to access some
of this especially if we were working together that's my don't worry okay okay I don't recall I mean I maybe can can you share it I'm not hooked up to share it give me
one second yeah we can send it to you um there G it right to her right now forg okay um there wasn't you know they they sort of said eligible activities and then kind of listed them they didn't give a lot of examples I think think if
we um and and if even if we don't um submit the expression of Interest we can still apply for the money we're not precluded from you know applying so that's that's a good thing but it's always good if you can send them something so if we have some ideas
something more than hey we're interest yeah I could also I mean if if it's not out of line I could contact someone through that office and say is this you know let them clarify you know whether a nonprofit could also work if working
with the town if that could be a combo but if that's overstepping I won't do that yeah I believe it's probably in the eligible applicants um so it's in Guin I just don't recall I mean I I was thinking about it from as a municipality
this this little be my scallops are ready so it sounds like it's something here in the'll be right over nice yeah um so Dave green has a question yeah Dave go ahead I see your hand
up I just want to get just to clarify are you guys looking for someone to actually write and submit the letter of interest by one of these yeah we we would do it we just wanted to get I I just can you send the
same information that you're sending to Jen to elx since we've also put the time into this issue we'd like to take a look at it so we're on the same page yeah and if if we could um get
something back you know by next week from elwak and from um the storm water committee then then we can sort of I I I don't think this has to be um in depth but you know a good like a good
description of you once you've looked at the guidelines of of what might be the priorities we meet on Saturday so we we I might be able to get I don't know if that's too late to get it onto the discussion for it might be too late I got to talk to Mark what what's my
deadline to get it posted for the meeting tomorrow Saturday Saturday yeah yeah that would yeah 48 Hours okay yeah so if you could just send that to myself and Mark Rivers as well as uh Judy that would be
terrific okay thank you thank you um I'm trying to for my thing has decided not to we will get it to well Melissa had it yeah I said I would do it I just did
not working in the in the moment that I'm trying at the moment it's not um so do you think I mean if we were going to get something for um try to pull something together to vote on on the 25th so it got subed on
the 26 or by the 26 [Music] um um would we want have Dave who would who would work with with Dave on this too um or or would we have him
come to that meeting I mean I think we need to do stuff in advance well I think his so his thoughts ahead of time even yeah right like if we have to propose a letter we want it drafted yes as we're right to look at that night yeah so it would be before okay um is my you know
and since he sounds yeah I can I can afford this to him and and then pop down okay okay um I'm sending this up to Jennifer
now get too okay um so that's off uh and I'll will check in with Dave on that is anybody else we wanted to send it to um I'm just trying to think on the roads so it's a so we're focusing we'll focus
on the roads and storm water and CTS and bridges um um yeah I think that c covers it I would think so okay sounds good yeah if you if you Jennifer or Dave think of anybody
else um certainly let us know um but yeah we just have to hustle now y okay um so I guess we will move on to
um vote and sign on the warrant for annual T election form which I know excuse me sent to us I was actually hoping um if we could hold this for the moment uh
because if we decide to decouple the election and town meeting and move annual town meeting date then I would want do I would prefer to the only reason we hold the local election at the elementary school is so that it's in the same location as town meeting so I would
if if you guys decide to move the annual town meeting date I will uh will do the election at Town Hall so we don't have to transport our materials and um I'll just uh make that edit to the warrant and get it for you guys for next
week great thanks Grace okay thank you Grace so we will move on to the next item then and that is to uh a request from Gil to um potentially I'm
sorry the farm and Forest commission by sorry I appear to not be able to speak at you have the floor okay the um farm and Forest commission was established by bylaw uh it has not been active for
years and as I understand it because it was established by bylaw the only way it can be decommissioned is by either I don't know what the wording is deleting or um negating or resending the original founding bylaw and that would have to be
done at town meeting on the warrant does this does this in any way affect the shoots be being determined as a farming Community if we disband this part of the part of the problem is that the committee the commission has not
done it they have not had meetings they have not done uh the actions that were in the original outline of their purview of their scope so it's hard to say that there was an effect in the first place one of the
things that has been continued is the Saturday Farmers Market but that is not under the Aegis of the commission it's been by uh as you say local farming members of the community well I I believe shury has
been established as a farming Community I just didn't know if does this if we take the bylaw and the commission away does that negate what that rule was that's and I don't know that we can answer that right now Grace I do see your
hand yeah I just wanted I I can answer that so um the our our uh agriculture being a byright use in shy that's in our zoning bylaws it's got nothing to do with the farm and Forestry commission so the answer is no this wouldn't have any
impact on that I appreciate that thank you Grace thank you for clarity so we just have to draft language that dissolved that um or deleted that bylaw whatever whoever we're doing it I submitted wording um in
a letter to the select board and to the Town Administrator it's straight and simple um I copied the language from other bylaws and it's basically to undo it but I do not know the proper term if it's resend delete
um decommission whatever okay Town Council may have the answer for that and if so then how do I present that to the select board to get onto the warrant is there a
time when bylaws are presented to be on the warrant or yeah I think I think we know by voting this tonight that that would then fall to us to you've given us the language we just get on and would it
have to be sponsored by the web committee or would it be sponsored by you the select board he sponsored by us yeah yeah okay thank you yeah okay speaking that it looks like we sort of went back and we missed
the uh reviewing with another time meeting should be on a different date I'm sorry that was May beg the question yeah I jump um so let's finish up this one we'll go back and that was my fault I apologize uh
so we don't need to vote on that to to add that no that's right we do it at the time we do it at all at once right yeah so so that's more of a just a note to make sure that that's on there uh thank you gaale and we'll go back to possible
um issue would tell meeting date so let's go back to that one and uh this is the go ahead U gra no no it's great it sort of started with an email that we got from suie about concerns
about the 26 being the end of school vacation week and then um um Gabe asked me to give AJ a call because you know before we sort of opened up this can of
worms um we decided it wasn't didn't make any sense um so I had a conversation with AJ about whether there were any compelling reasons um from his from the to yeah and um so he he agreed
that that yeah for school a lot of school families go away in April so that could um put a damper on their participation and he said the other two you know if they had more time it would
help both with the the overall Town budget which um and Susie can speak to this April you're on finance committee too which we have a we have a gap and that the finance committee is really um
working very hard to figure that out and um the later we meet the greater the likelihood although it's not an absolute given that we'll know what's happening on the regional basis with the um Regional budget so he
said you know for those reasons yes being later um uh would be better and you know my understanding is is that we have a we have a bylaw that set the date but we can change it
right so I guess the question I mean given we have two Finance commit members here and you know the school issue do you want to weigh in that okay chair yes I think AJ laid out the points um
it's also the state money um at this point we've only see the governor's bill um J proposal and um house means will probably come out at the beginning of April but that's still really far from them coming to an agreement so
um in this particular year because of the overlap of the vacation we we want it move but we want it move I believe we want it be better off if it was move anyways and on and so I was hoping we'd have a warrant article that moves this
anyways but just for this year it feels important to deal with the conflict it's not usual the school vacation is this yeah no I know so I think we''ve never run into this before actually never had the AIL last weekend in April dat
happened so um we had steps one to move this year for the reasons that we cited and one to move it um then I change the bylaws they move it later yeah I we ended up up so early and
I don't know if um I I we haven't had discussion at the thing come to talk about when that would be and so we need to know how that warrant article pushing that bylaw change would also happen what our time frame is for
that know so we have a lot going on um but we would be willing to weigh in I mean I think you all know pieces but I guess I think um they will always be conflict with am men in val there's a lot of am
the latest we had meeting was June 27 not that was a little late years out a lot of events you know graduations and all that was done I guess part of it has been University folks might be gone but if we do it
maybe at the beginning of June I can see that as a as a possible thing but that part we finish right right so we just need to make decision about whether or not we want to move it and I think what
would make the most sense is if we could kind of survey everybody who's the key players here I mean we have a lot of committees we you know I know people have been moving ahead um you know on bylaws and getting
hearings done and all that there's been you know a lot of preparation um not that it gets lost but everybody gets a little a little bit of breathing room but we yeah the the conflict is you know the who are the
major players the one thing that Grace pointed out to me today um is that we would still have the election we wouldn't change the election would still be on the year for this year it would still be on the 26th and we would be electing a new
moderator and so but doesn't that change as I yeah Paul Paul are you do you serve till July 1 June 30th no no June June 30th yeah no
no no no you're elected you only serve until the next election so once someone is elected to the position the term ends that's news to me Grace but when the select word this is just when the select word is
reelected or there's an election we don't start July 1 no you guys start when your term yeah that's not how if you go to the website it explains it on the town website let me find
it so when when we have an election let's just say you aren't right well you wouldn't start the select board member would start at the next meeting and not July 1 is that right the select board member starts a certain number of days
after the election in my two terms it was July one I think Eric and Rita you both started on July one yeah right right I'm having an issue for some reason the the I'm not getting PDFs working on the
town website on my phone for some reason um I mean I can pull it up yeah hang so it's on the elected officials list there now is happening on
my gra is it our what would it be a bot Town bylaw where where would that be I mean I believe it's in mgl and and something just about generally about elected officials or can
Google that question gole question okay yeah um yeah because even like if you take it to a national level the president doesn't start until January even though they're elected in November I realize that's not your
I think the same thing when you're a senator you don't start to the next Senate yeah so the mgl is saying uh seven days after the election is when the term starts that's state law for any elected
official definitely for moderator and town clerk that may be that those may maybe Grace what's online as the elected officials list is not a
PDF okay I'll go back there I'm just not you normally I can open a a list on this page but it's there's there's not a link to what's listed what what the text says is the effect list elected officials
list right so all I'm seeing on that page is the text bullet points yeah oh I have I have sorry to a document what and not a link to a document right and they're usually
there're supposed to be a link to a document there right but somehow it's gone away um but anyway yeah I'm looking at the mgl uh I can I I can go into this deeper and send out
a a notification if that works for people I'm not getting so what this says is a moderator shall be elected by ballot at the annual town meeting when his term office
expires the term of one or three years and Shall Serve as moderator of all Town meetings except as otherwise provided by law until a successor is elected and qualified yeah so that is elected and qualified is you you
serve until your successor is elected and qualified they're elected on Election Day and then they're qualified when they take the O of office which they're required to do within seven days of their election it allow to pick
up mod an acting moderator off Bo well we've got we have a candidate for moderator we probably will have a newly elected a moderator it's just I don't think it's an issue I just think it's something to be aware of it's only an issue for her if she has
not had I don't know adequate training Paul do you want to do you have some input some input well it as I said it's news to me I was I was always told that my term started you know on July 1
but you know it's good news for me I guess in terms of finishing up um I I would certainly help in whatever way I mean if you do change the date and uh and a new moderator has to take over I would certainly help in whatever way I
could um you know to get her up to speed or to assist that day as an assistant moderator or whatever so you know I I don't think that should be a stumbling block necessarily okay I we appreciate that offer yeah it's good when
Ava now that's assuming that I can make it you know if you change a date because I we haven't had that discussion yet we'll be the first question you ask we ask yeah um feel like we have a question that we need to answer also now in
general right for for elected officials right um yeah now that's who knew um okay do we want to so we we're talking about changing the dates um you wanted to be able to so I guess we'll wait until we get here from fincom on
what they thinking of date I think that's where we kind of left thought do I think we have to decide we want to change the date we we need to get something out to a whole group of people including this school about
availability but I think we should come up with a couple of tentative dates and then looking at the calendar looking at the calendar um and I think there was a valid point
that may is full of things in the valley since the weather is spring like 7th of June here 7th of June we put up two dates as a possibility yeah yeah that
was the like May 31st or June 7 where is that long weekend uh the 26th is the the 25th so the 31st is the last 31 and
67 yeah that that gives you guys finance committee few more weeks the weekend after the 14th is Flag Day Father's Day and juneth and
then Paul is May 31st or June 7th um workable for you hey [Music] the 31st probably could work uh I was hoping to be on the road by early June
so um yeah actually anything in early June would not or to Mid middle June would not really be ideal for me I'd have to do some radical plan changing okay um mat oh no that's he did
Mato did have his hand up we have one candidate for Town moderator and that happens to be mat oh great no not he [Laughter] didn't and a cat
too Mato did you have a comment I actually had just a question about so I'm just looking just to clarify the the date of the election can't be changed but the date of town meeting can is that correct yes yes point the date of
election could legally be changed but it would have to be like now and it's a huge amount of notification work because because of all the the nominations all of that stuff that's all
been done the calendar that's calendar yeah okay thank you sounds like 531 is one of the things yeah 31 yeah okay um but the seven is not different
yeah so we want to do we want to do we want to propose the 31st to to um I guess we could say the fallback is the seven and 12 would be available yeah yeah okay fall back and we want the people we want to
uh tell us the fin con inut in school who else did we want input from um can we just do it to all Town departments oh well yeah we can that way we just cover everybody that okay um is there any more on that topic
that we wanted to discuss we need to make it we're not going to make it official that we're changing until we hear back right so the next meeting at the very least we may have to I think Grace said Grace you
there yes I am here okay so um so if we were looking at um May 31st or June 7th I know you said there was like a 45 day period of
notice and so forth um we'd still we'd be covered if we didn't make a decision about this till our 25th 20 meeting on the 25th I
think so let me just count the days real quick that's yeah I mean 45 is the middle of April yeah just yeah yeah as if we if we do it yeah
uh by the 25th we should be good okay great thank thank you all right so we don't need to vote on this do we we want to get input from the the town committees before we vote we'd have to vote on the Okay g okay for
advertising and and S okay okay in the meantime do you want me to go ahead and remove the town meeting date from the website yeah TBD TBD yeah okay I thank thanks
PR okay um see did the did the form um so review and confirmed dates for Lake wola public forum and voting safety I was in contact with Paul um Rita while you were away U we had changed it so
that um the chair of that committee could be participatory in that so it is the 27th of March right um at the school Paul is available he has he did reply um I have to fill out the form for the
school um and I did have um um Matt from the the voting um has asked if there will be online particip a or at least online viewing I
know we haven't done that at the school in the past I told them I'd bring it to you guys to see if we wanted it just in person or if we were going to provide some sort of zoom in or
watch I can test a couple of options to see if it's feasible before we make that decision um the owl is not something you could use but while we were at the regional school meeting yeah I saw them
use the same camera I have at home it's not going to highlight a person speaking but you can see the room and I was trying to did did people participate then from the audience no
well not from the zoom piece at least at the regional meeting um Elaine when when we were doing the um live building looking at the designs Elaine was conveying questions from those online so
to the public they she was reading them oh okay um I believe the chat feature was used she was here just a moment ago I believe the chat feature was used um we can test that I can test it out we can see if that will work I think we can
also have a disclaimer if we are unable to do that or something happen happens the meeting in person will continue um thoughts of having everybody online speak as well as in the room maybe those
online could give us an email um to voice to add their voice being that in case technology goes down those are kind of my rough thoughts um willing to try it but don't want to guarantee it's going to work so I think
it's we want to make sure the public knows that we're trying this if it doesn't work we will still continue in person okay so I mean that makes that makes sense and could people um put it into the chat feature and you know I
worry about Fe yeah in the chat feature because that's also recorded right it's also recorded as part of the zoom and somebody TR you know just hands off those questions right maybe our Administrative Assistant could pull those out right if if weren't using them
in the in that room that night right um so I do see two questions online but I wanted us to have the discussion first David and and Jennifer hang on one moment um so I don't know how you guys felt about AC I mean I think we explore it certainly yeah because there are
people who own property down there who might not be able to you know and that was the point is that they own property they may not be able to attend by Zoom um it is a week night um you know people children you know that such so yeah I'm
going to call in Dave and and Jennifer in case they have uh Dave I just have a quick question I'm on the committee and I I just I seem to remember when this came up that we're going to have this meeting that it was that the select board was going to
look at what the committee recommended the feedback they got from this meeting in their own feelings about the situation they were going to kind of jumble it together and decide how this was going to be be presented to town
meeting and I recollecting that correctly so this was a listening session this particular thing we're talking about right now is into that that's the final stage of that the final process this is the listening session that um the chief Burgess and and many
of the committee members had um thought that it would be a good idea for the select board to hear from and wider yeah I guess my question is do the committee members should they be there and participate should they be there anduse themselves because they're a
separate part of the process do I even have to be there at all well I think it's up to each Committee Member it's really a listening session in general it's not going to be a meeting where anything's going to be decided or voted on or anything um I
that's that's what I think we're heading into is just listening to to people's comments you know and um kind of digesting that for the process that you've outlined to follow we have like some sort of basic presentation from the committee like
where they do we want a b basic one or do we just as kind what I'm asking what are you expecting anything of the committee that night or are we just are we supposed to kind of just sit there listen and be part of the process because they're already part of the process I asked that question the of
Matt and he hasn't been able to get back to me and I'm just trying to get clarification of where uh you folks feel on the select board I think he was waiting for us to decide what we were going to do um when you talk to yeah
so we could ask they're gonna have opinion right by that point mean won't that there hasn't been there's there's kind of a majority and a minority has the committee no we haven't finished our process yet and I
and I guess there's another member here the process hasn't been finished yet we don't we we plan to continue I'm assuming after this so that's why I'm saying I mean are we part of this meeting are we not part of this meeting uh I'm not I'm not too
sure I carried away I just want to know what you guys think yeah I I think it would be good to get a synopsis from the committee about where they are so even if you haven't completed it's good to hear that there
has been this this has been the discussion and that you know there isn't there is not consensus and therefore this is an this is an opportunity to hear from the
community okay I just want to get a sense of you know kind of where you're at and what my preparation needs to be for the meeting basically yeah okay thank you thank you very much thank you D Jennifer I see you
again you're muted Jennifer will uh there be some kind of email blast or town um email mail Ann that announces I had heard something about rooc call and I just don't know if
that's uh the only way no no no it probably Town announced that I think the the robo call is our code r that we've done when there's a a trash emergency picked up or an emergency emergency
right I'm not sure we'll put it out through code red okay good yeah okay that's what I wanted to know but then Dave raised a question that I wasn't sure as 100% clear just for my own benefit which is can committee members
speak as as a resident of Shotsy you know not from yeah and in any any committee worker whatever meeting like that you can it we usually have a process where you announce them speaking as the resident not in my official
capacity or your your statement may be different from that right so yeah okay okay thank you you're welcome I see Paul Paul hi uh yeah if there is any synopsis or or summary of what the committee has come up with to date I would really like
to be able to uh read that beforehand as well and it would probably be helpful for me to have some sense for uh what the select board is expecting of me that evening as well uh so either at your next meeting or talking to one of you in
private beforehand uh would be helpful for me I think I can reach out to yeah I can reach out to you Paul and we can talk we can talk about that all right thank thank you uh Tom hi thanks um can you give us any
advice on whether our committee might need to post that we might also be at the um public forum even if we're only speaking personally or what not like should we post it as a committee meeting just in case I a safety yeah out of safety you
could I don't Envision the committee acting in their official capacity in anyway it's a listening session right for all of us yeah I didn't know if even voicing opinions could count as some sort of deliberation across the table able to the other members somehow that was my concern but I didn't know if you
had clear advice on whether we should post it or not as all we can always post it yeah you can always post when and doubt when and doubt post okay thanks appreciate it posted because you know it's our it's it's our session so
we'll be posted yeah okay thank you anything else there I think that I'll test out for technology so um and in our announcement we'll make the disclaimer that we're trying this and if it doesn't work we apologize but yeah yeah in person we'll continue um okay
let's see now we have uh the review the Pineapple Express request to deliver cannabis products to do we have you get something it is a p Express of the company and they are
asking asking to deliver retail Canabis in the town sh fa so I think right now we probably should table it um we don't even have food delivered no so hungry um so anyway I'll come back with
the next meeting and make sure everybody has the letter from them okay I my question here is for you to think about is what is very can this policy what are you doing here um if you don't have one
that's fine I don't there was discussions for while agreements or anything out there there was nobody that was to sell I there was some discussion at some point about somebody doing a grow manufactur that our resources didn't allow that I'll send that back
okay so the the next thing I had was the snow and ice yes and the snow non ice is overe expended right now $1,459 40 that's pretty good considering the weather we've been having yeah really so we cost your fingers are going
into the spring yeah and we'll have snow and ice more snow and ice um we just ran another warrant today so if any snow and ice bills came through today they're not part of the 16,000 the 16,000 from the last form
because I don't have a new expense report the expense reports are on the website if anybody wants to look at them um they go on once a month for the month March that's not there right now
so we always ask the select board to vote on over spending snow and ice so that the accountant has the authority to continue to overspend snow and ice they are the One account in your town that you can legally overspend
and there and it's covered at Town B waren there's an article that covers it so and you just need us to to vote to overend you don't put a dollar amount to it because you don't know of any other bills that might come through or snor
that God for okay make a motion to um authorize the um over expend um and the snow and Ice Line in the
highway department budget okay second okay um any further questions all right all those in favor Carl I st make I perfect thank you Gabe
for um and now we have our TA report I don't have much to report we have need for a poll hearing on April 8 so we'll be getting prepared for that um we are beating the bushes and you're
going to be getting a lot of reminders for those of you out there that have not done your town report that your town report is due and um and Brandon is tasked with feeding the bushes so you're getting
notices in your postal box H and emails if you don't do your report we're going to have to print the report without you and so we are putting it together and um we had a lot of response
in the last week or so when brenon sent out his first um notice he just sent out another notice today so please respond and and do your report and I'm speaking generally to all of you out there so that's it can you remind anyone
who might be listening what the dates are it was for the last presid school year last day it was due March 10 no no the dates it covers cover year 24 so it's July
1 23 to June 30th 24 who can [Laughter] remember no I've done that just and and the select work has down
there we have not done ours we are we are I I I was I think nominated oh volunteer if there's anything you'd like to make sure that's in there um send gave you know just like in the next
day or so a um you know anything that jumps out that you definitely I don't want to miss anything you guys have and then our draft process would be longer so okay yeah great thank you doing that yeah um okay thank you appreciate that
okay so moving on to the next uh phase we will be going into executive set um so to conduct strategy this is session number two reason number two to conduct strategy sessions in preparation
for negotiation with non-union Personnel or to conduct collect itive bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union Personnel uh police chief contract and town administrative contract um we will not be returning to
open session um I hear a motion to go into the executive session we'll ask everybody to move all right all those in favor barl I ey make peace in the AL ey so everybody online and in the room here that aren't included we'll have to ask
ask you to leave uh but thank you for participating tonight we appreciate it