thank you thank you okay I'm gonna um uh go through the the minutes um just in total we have I don't know how many are here something like 10 11 um sets of minutes
um and just to kind of move things along um so we have minutes from January 7th this is all in 2025 uh January 9th January 14th January 28th uh February 11th February 18th February 25th March
6th um March 11th and March 25th so do I hear a motion to approve all of those minutes so moved second okay are there any I I know I I just I may there were
some typos that I gave to Brennan and I think he he corrected them all this morning so whatever you looked at today I will add as amended that as amended yes okay um all right all those in favor signify by saying I make peace i stalker
I barrel I okay um the next item on the agenda is um talking about the appointment of the dog officer and I know that um I think you know a little bit more about this or or Gabe um I know that we had
received notification from um from the state licensing folks um about the requirements to um be the dog officer so Nancy has been our dog officer for a number of years
but um there are educational requirements um that the Department of Agricultural State Department of Agriculture Resources requires um uh to be undertaken and my understanding and
please correct me if I'm wrong is there a couple of outstanding um courses Nancy that um we can't reassign you as our dog officer until
um until those are completed so it's like a for compet competency training and then education credits I guess um yes is there anything yeah and the state
had asked us to to have you u or to ask us that um that we needed I know you have the email there i haven't looked at the email okay since we got it first um I remember back in in September um we had gotten a notification and I had emailed it to Becky to have um Nancy
complete that training it was one of them was close to home it was only in Lello or Palmer um I may not be remembering that correctly but to do that um and then to get back to us when it was completed so I believe that's one
of those is listed there right um and so Nancy that's why we had invited you in here because we have to have um the qualifications up to date before we can um reappoint us again i took this class in 2016 everybody else all the other
animal control officers in the area two days of dreadfulness at day and um a lot of people want to help out anyways it's just the things they were asking us to do are things that anybody I mean they were teaching
people how hard to put a leash on a dog very basic things and then after the class we didn't hear anything else Carol none of none of the regulars you know heard anything from anybody and then all of a sudden
last September um I was sent in because I had a house with 57 cats in it down the and I had to find a way to get them today and stuff so I was sending in applications for vouchers to the state
and the guy there Kyle called me back and said "You got to fill out a new form there's a new way to do it now." And I knew that there was education classes but during co I had taken a several of them and they changed
their website and erased them all i just I don't there's not enough hours in the day every other animal control officer not just you know this is not their only this is not my only job this is the only like so
what they're doing now essentially just squeezing out the middle one i mean there's like three animal patrol officers that aren't certified in the area and they would like all the time and it's I don't for me it's not possible to do one of those
thing in the day I do I do here for 20 24 years where I can and I tried to talk to the girl uh Sher who runs the thing and She got really sleepy and started bitching at me and
I was kind of offended i mean I I'm not making money off her or anybody else she was like saying kind of putting it like that you know i didn't I took a day off two days out of my full-time job to go sit there and do that class that I learned
absolutely zero nothing and then I found out that she was giving exemptions to people if she decided she wanted to so like exam per got an exemption she's full time and she didn't take one class since we both
that thing and I'm that's okay that I'm not mad about that but it should be fair for everyone and when I talked to um one of the representatives for the state represent for the state um I wrote I have to write a letter and I started writing it and then I started
crying so I had to stop writing it but um I don't have any that's and the forms that they give you to fill out are ridiculous i understand that there's bigger places than Shoots or PE but I
mean now they have youth on these forms i mean I never euthanized anybody you know they didn't ask anybody that knew anything they they can say to Carol he help let help us you know show put on this form that would be useful i
don't know who they had do it but it was clearly not anybody that knew what they were doing so that's what I got when I told her that I had taken the classes during co I took like nine classes she said well I'm not going to I want more and then Carol said "Oh she gave me an
acceptance." And I'm like "Well why am I doing this part time when a fulltime person doesn't have to do it at all and I'm 68 i'm not complaining i mean I know but I think school should be the same for everybody or nobody." And I mean that's what you guys got to do then
that's what you got to do that's okay with me i mean you know yeah gabe I know you had a conversation with Cherry Gustoson yes i called her i called her up to talk to the DMC about the exemption
and she said there are no exceptions so unfortunately we have to abide by state law i mean Carol has not taken and the other person name is not there's another person the problem here is there's no record of you taking any
classes they changed the lesson team though is what we have that was a three year that was the two day classes they didn't and then during co I was taking classes at home and then they changed their website and it's all different website everything was erased
carol said oh no I'm not going to do that and I said you know we can sit here and move together no so here's here's what I see and the board can correct me if I'm wrong okay they when they reappoint you they're saying that you're in compliance as far as the select board
knows so are you willing to take the classes to get served i don't know how I'm going to I work full time it's only like really part time i can't I know that I there's not enough hours in the week i work you know Dr cats just died and I've been trying to
keep the hospital going decide what they're going to do with his stuff so I'm doing all that and I still do have them so it's okay i'm not upset about it i mean you got to do what you got to do but I don't I talked to Leslie about the
possibility of taking the stray dogs up there and she said that they charge a fee a year and that all they do is house them they don't release them or do anything else and that's not going to help the other stuff in town but you know I'm sure you can find somebody in
that would do all the same stuff I did what does she do it's a nonfunded mandate and basically they just said they're not going to do it nonfunded yeah he looked at the police chief and
he said you know that's crazy you're only you get $1,500 a year what did they expect $1,500 a year you know Carol gets $70,000 a year but I'm expected to do the same thing um so we're so we would just move ahead
then finding an alternative to the job if you're okay um all right um and then you are also the inspector of animals and there's not a a As far as I understand it do that so you don't want
to do that if you're not doing that i can't I can't do one without the other they're both there you'd be better off to get somebody to do both of them yeah okay be easier for it have to learn how to do all the barn
work and all the paperwork and Yeah stuff like that i don't um Yeah yeah i understand your frustration unfortunately we're sort of you know stuck
here i I felt bad because I don't know how you're going to manage all that because now you're have to spend I was trying to like I don't know i never put in bills for anything but you're going to have to spend money now it doesn't make any animals any better
well we appreciate all the all the years that you um it doesn't even seem like it's been that long enough oh my god yeah well thank you Nancy and thank you for coming this evening really
appreciate it okay um so the next item on the agenda is the appointment of Mary Joe Johnson to the Council on Aging and I know Susan is here susan Milliger is here from And then is Mary Joe here
see but Jessica is also here from a Oh and Jessica yep um so yes I'm sorry that we both Oh okay yeah thank you yeah thank you Candace um I make a motion we accept Nancy Long's uh
resignation from dog officer and animal inspector while thanking her for her time her years of service second second okay any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I
person thanks for the reminder Dave um okay so I I know we got information about Mary Joe i don't Do you want to say anything Susan or um well we've been thinking about getting Mary Joe on for some time but we didn't actually make
the final step okay until we realized we needed four person okay um so any discussion are you I we're know so um any discussion about
her appointment um I I don't have any um yeah I'm I'm I'm fine with the appointment okay all right so do I hear a motion to appoint um Mary Joe Johnson to the council agent so moved second any
discussion okay all those in favor signify by saying I me i Dr i Frell I and a thank you to Mary Joe for volunteering yes that's great yes thank you very much thank you Susan okay
um now the energy and climate action committee was coming to talk about town electric vehicle charging and do we have a presentation Nate yeah before we start
can I just uh call us to order if you don't mind is that okay Rita yeah oh yes i'm sorry go ahead yeah yeah i'm just going to call us to order at uh 523 because we got a quorum um and just for the select board we have two presentations first
we're going to do um EV charges which I think will be Isaac and Eric's been part of that and then once that's done do a quick thing that Nate will lead in terms of um our community choice aggregation and Isaac I don't know if Nick is here so I don't see Nick now so why don't you
kick it off and then if Eric wants to jump in well did you uh did you maybe we could switch and I could give Nick a call and see if he could jump on sure okay all right cool i'll give him a call now nate tag you're it
all right moving right along um Hello everyone uh so yes uh you know in late uh January uh ECAC joined select board to go over our the aggregation plan for the town and gain your approval to open
and close a public comment period uh on the plan which is fairly technical document and that comment period ran from um February 3rd to March 7th and we
had posted the plan to ECAC's website uh we also made hard copies available um uh in various places to my knowledge there were no comments on the plan um so it was a pretty quiet period uh for
feedback from the town on the aggregation plan and um as was mentioned um we're joining you this evening uh to see uh if the select board will approve the plan uh at which point Colonial
Power would file it with the DPU for state approval on our behalf uh and that would start uh a 120day clock where DPU uh would either
affirmatively approve the plan or approve by default once we reach that 120day uh uh period um as far as next steps after that Colonial would then work with
the town to schedule a public hearing where Colonial would take the lead in presenting CCA to the community um and that would really be uh just a nice forum for sort of discussing next steps
and um sort of introducing to the town uh with a little more detail uh what uh community choice aggregation will will mean for the town um and I I might pause there but I I'll just uh put a footnote
in there in terms of supply bidding uh you know making decisions about uh what sources of electricity we would offer the town um that would that conversation would take place uh after that uh what
I've recounted uh so far uh where Colonial would meet with us to um develop uh program options that we would we would specifically offer the town um in our aggregation program once it
launches so I'll I'll pause there and see if uh if you have any questions or if other members of the committee uh want to supplement my my summary of where we stand at this moment yeah i think the only thing I would add is the plan that you already approved is the
plan exactly the same that we're asking you to approve today yes right we're just re reapproving the same same plan um Eric or Melissa do either one of you have any questions i don't no I don't need that we didn't look at it before
yeah um so just because there might be people here who haven't heard about community choice aggregation can you give us like the elevator speech about what it is um and what what people what it's going to offer um Shootsbury
residents absolutely so you know when people get their electricity bill it's divided into two main parts uh one part of your electricity bill covers the wires um that bring electricity to your house
um and the other part covers uh what electricity generation sources are bringing are generating those electrons that travel over those those wires and for a lot of folks uh your
electricity company decides where those electrons are coming from whether that's um a coal fired fired power plant maybe not so much anymore but um uh maybe a natural gas fired power plant or solar
uh or or hydroelectric um and what community choice aggregation allows is it allows the town to to um take over that sourcing decision- making so that
we can offer to the town uh more choices for where their electricity is coming from um so we can offer greener options and there's also a chance for us to bid
for the cheapest electricity that's available on the market uh when we go out to bid um so really the the object of this program um and many many communities across the state are already
doing this um is to increase the number of choices that community members can uh avail themselves of uh in their in where their electricity is is coming from uh and then the final thing to the elevator
is like approaching the ground floor here um uh this is anyone can opt out of this program altogether so we really are maximizing the choice set for community members uh by by providing these these
other options um and you know it makes it easier to to make a greener choice um and it also increases our ability to bid for uh the the least cost electricity that that we can get on the market
great um thank you so uh I we're ready to vote um so do I do I hear a motion to approve the community choice aggregation plan that's going to be submitted to the DPU by
Colonial on Shoots behalf so moved second um any further discussion all right all those in favor signify by saying I make ponial eye stucker eye barrel eye so now we'll bump back up to
the I think are you ready now on the uh So apparently uh Nick Valor he's the um the owner and u representative from East Coast Renewable Energy is in the waiting room so if you can let him in I Oh he's here he's on great um so yeah u we were
we read we had some outreach from East Coast Renewable offering you know the you know free installation of a you know of electric vehicle town chargers in our town um based on grants available through the the utility that we use the
national grid utility grant that they have um and uh the east uh east ECR East Coast renewables would donate the the the remainder of like labor costs so it would be at no cost to the town um you know working with Nick gathered a lot of
information and he will present briefly on that in a very succinct and great way um but you know in in doing some due diligence we reached out to all the different townships that he's working with and they had nothing but good things to say about East Coast Renewables so and with all the
information and how upfront and forthright that Nick has been in the process you know um I'm happy to have this information presented to the select board so Nick you go ahead fire away pretty much um everybody but uh let me
join here uh before I get going I do want to apologize i thought the call was at 5:30 uh that's why I was gone on at 5:30 so I'm sorry about being a little bit late um the incentive that we currently have to offer is part of a mass evip
incentive for level two charging stations and what it is is we can install two level two charging stations at any location the town owns at no cost if there's any additional cost dependent upon the cost we will
cover it okay from what the towns we've been working with and and forprofit businesses um there's been not one deal that we have said we cannot um complete the level two charges are not
the supercharges that we originally spoke about because that incentive did get filled filled very quickly but I can tell you that National Grid is moving forward to get that incentive um submitted again and offered but it's definitely not going to be anywhere
close to where it was the level two charges are probably where you want them um primarily because people are going to take you know one to two hours to charge a what's considered a normal size battery you will be able to charge
people to charge those at those batteries uh those charging stations we do not which is a little uh different than most of the other companies out there we do not charge a monthly or an annual fee for the charging stations we wrap
everything into the actual cost of the charge to the consumer so a lot of the municipalities out there have been receiving monthly and or yearly costs for the charging stations that really um took away from the value
ad of having the charging stations so what we do is we build it all in and my analogy I give it to you is how my sales team works and I'm just going to use Isaac as an example isaac makes no sales
this month well I don't pay him a paycheck if nobody charges at your charging stations you guys don't pay really anything there'll be a little bit of a charge from the utility company because as you know there's always going
to be electricity moving towards that charging station so I eliminate everything um I I do want to note that if the if your town has any electric vehicles for their fleet National Grid is offering level
three fleet charging stations and those are for free also I would recommend considering putting those at the uh police station fire station maybe the town hall but also the DPW uh the reason why I say definitely the
DPW is that um according to the Mass Highway let me see here Massachusetts Highway Association and the president of that is actually the DPW person in my town Milford Scott Christopher he did identify that there was going to be a
big push for all highway department vehicles or at least a uh percentage of them to go 100% electric so having uh level threes there would be a good thing again free based upon the current incentive last thing I want to mention
is that if the town does not want to own and operate these charging stations East Coast Renewable will be happy to own and operate it now where I differentiate um
immensely is that if I own and operate it I will give the town a profit share now the profit share that I do is tremendously different than other people number one my profit share is
going to range somewhere between 25 and 50% whereas everybody else is right around 10% but more importantly I don't know one company that will open the books up for you guys to confirm what the profit share
is so if you have 10 different locations with charging stations I will put a bank account together for all 10 and at the end of the year we'll call it January 15th I'll release the bank statements to you guys to confirm what the profit share is
uh with all that being stated I know I went crazy with all this but I I know you know everybody's busy so Michael I'd love to be able to take questions and you're the first one to speak up so please yeah actually I was going to frame it for the select board just to sort of get some context so you know
we've been talking about EV chargers probably for a better part of a year and Isaac got tagged as the lead and then we got the offer from ECR isaac followed up um and Isaac and Eric have subsequently talked about it because Isa uh Eric has been a expressed interest in the EV
chargers part of the reason we wanted to bring it to the select board is this there's got to be a contract going forward which um would be the select board signing off on the contract as opposed to um ECAC and so there's at some point there needs to be a sort of a
shift over in terms of this the other thing I think that you know Nick had mentioned we've had discussions at ECAC about you know where would we put them in town since we have multiple municipal locations and then coming up at town meeting like you guys will see if you
review the warrant later is one of the three warrant articles that feeds into the climate leader program that we're trying to be eligible for is a net zero vehicle preference um whereby the town basically commits to going electric if
it has a choice based on a whole bunch of caveats in terms of function and so if we go down that road it seems like that we're going to want to encourage EV charging you know uh we've discussed at EAC there's probably not a lot of people who are coming from 202 going to UMass
who are going to spend an hour in Shootsbury charging um but you know there's going to be a need in town whether for municipal vehicles or for people who live here so that's sort of the frame but you know if select board has questions given that stuff Nick is our expert and Isaac and I think Eric is
up just enough too pressure is on eric but I actually had some questions and um one is one is that um you mentioned Nick that the uh the town share be between 25
and 50% share profit sharing how's that how does that how are those numbers arrived at it seems like sort of a pretty big range there well when you say how's the profit share or how's the percentage derived how's the percentage well either way
so well let's talk about percentage to start okay I incentivize everybody if I own these things the more marketing you do the higher the percentage I'm going to give you okay now that probably
sounds crazy but putting you know sign you know having the DPW put signs throughout the town when you first enter the town EV charging stations have a sign right by where the EV charging stations on the street EV charging stations here you put something in your
website put it on Google wherever it is because the more people that go there the more revenue we're all going to make okay now as far as how is the pro I mean the uh revenue generated basically whatever we charge
so I'm going to charge probably 40 cents a kilowatt hour to start whatever the electric rate is and if I heard correctly I I think it was Nate i I believe you guys are going into a uh third party supply rate for everybody so
hopefully that rate is a great rate and we'll use that plus whatever the delivery cost is hopefully the all-in rate for the commercial property or the commercial charger is going to be right around 20 cents so the delta is what we keep okay um whatever other expenses
possibly per turnup will come out of that um the math normally works out that if you have six to eight people charging per day what's considered an average charge which means that the battery is
at 50% and you're going to bring it to 80% the numbers primarily work out that if you have eight people charging per day for that the town or the owner will get appro approximately $10,000 in revenue
for that set of charging stations so if you're putting in again just using 10 different locations and you have that kind of activity it's 100 grand now one of the questions I think Michael brought up is where are you going to put
them when we if you guys elect to move forward with us we have to do a site visit now we do the site visit before we submit for the incentive why do we do that takes a little longer to get the the documents submitted but the
methodology that we have is we want to have a put together a perfect product so when it does come out it's there so if you said to us okay Nick we have these five locations we want to put charging stations when we go out we'll
talk to you and we'll get an idea what else you have uh I think sports fields are key to have charging stations i have kids i have two electric vehicles so everywhere I go I'm charging whether I need it or not because I'm going to be
at the sports field for about two hours so why not charge does that answer your question well I think my question was still like what we're going to with the select board in theory will be asked to sign a contract so what are we signing a
contract for 25 to 50% sort of a vague way to write a contract that's all well that's going to be basically Well number one I'll have your legal counsel draft up the operating agreement okay so as long as I feel the operating agreement is
realistic and fair I'll sign it as far as the difference between the 25 and 50% again it's all going to be based upon the marketing you guys do and again your legal counsel can draft it and you know again as much marketing we can do
signage internet when you do something for the town you can advertise we got car charging stations you know it's all about marketing you know and I think that Yep could I just ask a question
um so there would be profit sharing if the town didn't own the charging stations is that correct it's if you ownership but the alternative is is that we own them and correct i tr truth be told I think you're better off owning
them because the level threes they do have expenses because they run three-phase power they get hot the level twos there's really nothing you need to do with that i'm going to be full transparent you're better off owning
these things you're 100% yourself i'm happy to own these the goal is is that I donate these things to the town things work well and then you guys think of me when other energy opportunities come available whether you want to put
solar up or whatever it may be okay um I I do have a question so um Nick if if if we own them what is the maintenance cost as things need to be
replaced or such parts and and things um what might that cost look like it's a great question and unfortunately you're not going to like my answer mhm my my my answer unfortunately is going to be there's really no maintenance for the
level twos but it's like when you drive a car if you beat on the car if you drive you know crazy and I don't drive crazy I'm not going to have any maintenance or very little and you're going to have a lot of maintenance so a lot of it has to do with how the town
takes care of the charging stations now what I've seen only what I've seen is that most EV drivers do take care of the charging stations they're not beating on it and beating on it is ripping the
cords out or smashing things and likewise so if you if you own them you would assume the maintenance for that it would come out as expenses or something before the profit share distributed yep yep so what whatever whatever maintenance is that I you know
we have to pay for I write the check we get it done and at the end of the year my bookkeeper will put together a quick books for you you can see everything if you have a question regarding whatever it is you know I'll provide all that stuff you know I will part of you know
I'm going to be honest with you I will have an LLC set up so we will have a $500 fee from the state or really $500 $120 from the state i will have a bookkeeping fee and maybe
twice a year I will drive out there to inspect if I do own and operate the charging stations I will I he will require I would expect that the DPW does clean the charging station so if there's broken sticks or whatever it is you know
you want to get the blowers over there and you know make sure the snow's removed and get the twigs out of there and so forth and so on you want to treat this like yours you know what I mean the more people charge the more you're going to make that's the reason why most people are giving a 10%
fee or 10% profit share and they're not showing you the the the the income and expenses i'm willing to give you more than that right 25% or even up to 50% if you market it and you take care of it
and this way the more people that go and charge the more money you make thank you that was I didn't not like that answer that was a perfectly good answer okay i think where where I didn't think you were going to like my answer is that I can't tell you what the cost
is going to be because it's all going to be based upon if people vandalize it no and that was perfectly honest too that's an honest answer yeah i don't know yeah I think where we're at if I could suggest is sort of like next steps like I don't know if the select board has a
sense like Eric Eric if you want to sort of take the lead on the transition from ECAC to select board if you wanted ECAC to continue to participate what Nick needs like just getting clear among the three parties what the next step is if we want to you know or does the select
want to ponder it and then get back and figure it like what the the reasonable next step is so why why don't I why don't I explain what next steps are great so ne the next steps would be is that Isaac and I or
whoever we get together and we identify different locations that you guys would consider putting charging stations where you can you can name 20 different locations and then we'll we'll put together a contract we'll call it
and then we'll send the contract over and it's a nonbinding contract it just identifies yes this is what we want okay then what we'll do is we'll schedule a site visit and quite frankly we're doing site visits all this week and all next
week so we get that site visit done and then at the site visit the most important thing is understanding what kind of power is there and if we can actually make the power from your electrical room and bring it to the
charging stations i've only experienced maybe a half a dozen in the last three months that we couldn't put charging stations at certain areas so the minor majority of them will will work now once
we do all that it's probably probably about a two two week time frame during that time frame the board and the committees and the town can decide where you guys want the charging or charges and where you don't and then wherever you don't want them we'll update the
agreement and we'll send it out it's about a threemonth time frame before the utility in your case National Grid issues what they call the preapproval now part of that preapproval process is not only with National Grid
it's with EVIP also once we get that preapproval back we'll send it to you and this is I'm I'm talking as if you're owning it okay uh once we get that pre-approval back we'll send it to you you guys will give us the okay to
install and we'll be installing within a week in the event that I own and operate the charging stations there's going to be one extra step we're going to need your legal counsel to draft up the um operating agreement
and go from there we do have to submit that to the utility now expenses you will have an electrical bill obviously the electrical bill will be offset by the chargers i would recommend notifying your insurance company that you do have
these charging stations on site god forbid that there is vandalism the insurance should cover it we don't need a operating agreement we do give you a three-year warranty on the equipment the reason why we give you a three-year
warranty on the equipment is the charging stations only have to be on site for 3 years so every 3 years you can do what they call a rip and replace so just to summarize what I just said the next step is honestly just
identifying the locations where you want the charging stations we build an agreement you sign the agreement we do a site visit okay since our librarian is here Maryanne Antonellis I was just uh and we
have a new Nick i don't know i assume you've heard we have a new library under construction were you anticipating having charging stations at the library so far the different grant opportunities
that we've put in for charging stations required that the spaces be that that spaces that have the charging station stations are limited to people who are charging being able to park their home and since we have
limited parking we don't want to um limit the spaces in that way but we did but we do have infrastructure for charging stations in two different locations in the parking lot
um so that if we do find a charging station opportunity where we don't have to prevent people from who are who are charging for parking there then we'd be happy to have like this case this one you have those strict right situations
so so we have the conduit the other the other thing I have is so tonight we're signing well you're probably signing a service agreement from national grid i don't know if it would impact the size
of the transformer um that's needed um so we'd have to find that out and Rita if I can jump in one of the things we talked about on ECAC is just the different locations so you know we
talked about the school as a possibility uh the fire department is a possibility town Hall um it seems like it'd be prudent to do that but I know Kristen has like some thoughts about electrical vehic electric vehicles so we
that's more conversation we did talk about the old library site the current old library site that's depending on the usage there um and I think that was it we didn't think about we decided I don't know if we decided
about DPW isaac do you remember yeah i never uh never got any feedback from Dave on that so um and also you know I don't know i guess Nick also a good point between the two different like the two different grants available right there's a level two and the level
three charger the level three is the fleet charger meaning that you know these are for municipal vehicles only the way that that would work would be the town pays for the you know the electrical like the the electricity used and it's you know kind of moderated by
the town um with a you know with some sort of fob a code something like that whereas you know level two we could accomplish the same with like as a level three but it would just be with like a pec card for each department because it
would be a pay onsite you know there you don't have to have a specific app for it nick can install any any type of charging station at his at the locations but he he works with loop chargers just his personal preference based on all the
things available and you know the reliability the the quality as well as um the accessibility right so um you know the charging ports will work with all EV chargers that are currently on the market etc but yeah there was no
there was no response from the DPW but I'm sure you can get some feedback from them to see if that's a viable spot and where where it would be i would imagine that would be if we took advantage of the fleet charging option but there is additional cost for the fleet charging we would be you know I think from my
information from Nick it's you know it's a $1,200 annual charge per charging station um for the level threes it's $600 per charging port because there's two ports on each charger um and we the town would be liable for that so if we
went that way until the until the town like had electric vehicles for the different municipal entities it would be kind of this rolling $1,200 cost per charging station until you know it was actually utilized by by the municipality
so um yeah that's all I have to say isaac great great great explanation uh just for the town so the town knows is that I would not be owning and operating the level three chargers because you can't charge any money so I can't make any revenue case on that okay i also
want to make uh a mention I thought I said this I may not have in order to get the level three incentive for your fleet you need to have at least one electric vehicle or an electric vehicle on order
okay um we're a little pressed for time and this has been a lot of information um it sounds like the next step is to schedule the site visit if I heard you correctly somewhat the next step is to
identify the locations of the charging stations right which you would do so this way I can build a nonbinding agreement you guys execute and then we do a site visit
so we're essentially agreeing to the locations or where we'd like to see them basically is what that non-binding will do for you okay correct yes yes can I just ask a question if um do you Nick have any requirements that
um electric vehicles only can use certain parking space what the Maryann's part about the library so yeah so that that answer with the level three when the level three incentive for public use was available there was no requirement
that it had to be only electric vehicle parking with the level two incentive it's twofold not only is it only for electric vehicles but it also has to be ADA compliant so handicap access handicap
qual uh you know qualified okay that's good good to hear okay okay so is there anything we need to do this evening oh Gail I see a question um yes
i'm wondering if the town were to own the stations do we pay for the cost of installation or for ownership is still free it's all free yeah well excuse me Gil thank you for asking that question the answer to the question is as long as
the incentive is still there and it doesn't fill up then the answer is yes yeah okay okay i want to be very clear with that because the level three incentive filled up within 9 months okay and people are like well I
didn't get that incentive and it's just it filled people took too long so just want to be very clear as long as the incentive is there and as long as the utility approves the incentive as long as EVIP improves everything then yes
thank you and just uh just like just to play the thought experiment you know we you know we go through the motions submit the submit everything and then it gets to you know kind of crunch time it approves some and some they don't or like you know I don't know if there would ever be
an occasion where you know if we had three bids out right or three applications or um you know they approve one and then they run out of money for another one you know where we the town is not contractually obligated or is to move forward on the one that one or ones
that the grant would not cover or no so the town can move forward any point in time so when the utility and even if issue the preapproval if the town has cold feet we just cancel everything okay um my my rebuttal to
that is going to be let me own and operate it there's no reason for the town not to move forward with this um I look at this as a home run you know five years ago when EV first started coming
out I can understand maybe not putting it out but there are more electric vehicles on the road right now it is unbelievable quite frankly most people won't even realize that the cars out there are electric because they just look like normal cars so you'd be very
surprised with how many electric cars are out there also just to just for the in for the entire audience that you know in the research I've been doing that you know the state of Massachusetts if if you're if you're not aware is going to you know moving to uh eliminating fossil fuel
vehicles by uh 2050 and so they will ban the sale of new gas uh vehicles by 2035 to reach that goal now that's not to say that you know resale of old cars that use gas is not going to happen that people can't go across the border to New
Hampshire or Vermont or another state that is selling new gas vehicles but based on you know legislations within the state it looks like things are going this way and it would be be really a good opportunity for the town to have the infrastructure in place for when you
know like thinking not just for the like the next 5 years but the next 50 years you know any other comments from the select board what do you need from us tonight i'm looking to the uh I I think maybe if
Isaac and Eric or if if you want us to sort of send you a recommendation of the locations and then the board could look at them it sounds like we can then get something to send to Nick that both committees agree on okay yeah it sounds like the way to go
okay okay cool um and before you move on we just have to adjourn ourselves rita when you're ready okay go ahead okay anyone want to move to adjourn eac i'll move to adjourn second second
cool assuming no discussion all in favor uh Gail i I Nate I Isaac I I'm an I we are ajourned thank you select board thank you Nick thank you guys really appreciate it very good very informative
excellent okay so you'll take the lead i get Yeah yeah okay there's a lot of stuff here to kind of You're the only one of us that has an electric car i know i have my own you get it there's my own
charity um okay all right good moving right along um the next item on the agenda is we have to speaking of National Grid we have to sign the National Grid Service
Agreement and Maryanne is that um yours yeah y Yeah so that's for the library and it's about putting the pole and putting in a transformer um and um and then working good at
design teaming the contractor to so that there's so the contractor is going to put in the conduit from the pole to the transformer and then I don't know if it's national grid or the electrician who puts in the wiring but it's anyway
that's going to be underground ground so this is just an agreement and this needs to be signed and sent back to them and then the invoice needs to be paid um before they'll schedule the so likely it's national grid to the building electrician from connects the
building right right so the $44,619 comes out of the library grant right the eligible cost okay so it is yes okay do I hear a motion to approve the
electric service proposal from National Grid so moved second any further discussion all right all those in favor signify by saying I may I i barl I and I'm going to give it right to you
Maryanne i have today is the 8th it is um we just need a copy for records thank you i'll leave a copy in the administrator's box yes
great all right excuse me um the next item on the agenda is um the execution of the community compact cabinets information technology grant
and um this uh was um a very pleasant surprise um and I give a tremendous amount of credit to um Gail Huntress who this was not a an MLP P our
municipal light plant um uh they weren't doing it but rather Gail because of her network of um IT people uh decided that it would be a great idea
that um to apply for um an IT upgrade and so she put in the application and u we were awarded $15,000 $15,795 and it um is specifically for um
a municipal meeting space IT upgrade and um so I'll just run through very quickly the $15,000 um what what she spelled out included um equipment for a rally bar
um audio conferencing system Logitech Tap um a um 75 in UHD Samsung yeah wall mount cableing and
connectors and professional installation services so um and then also includes um paying for um a licensing software licensing subscription for two years and
then after that so that Zoom rooms are Microsoft Teams rooms so um we uh I think the the plan was that it would be for this room so it's um for
this exact situation this exact situation um you know there was some discussion is there any other municipal meeting room but the library is not really a municipal meeting room per
se you know it's where we're we're going to have our our meetings and then other other town boards there aren't there aren't a lot of the towards meeting in person but um we meet in we do a hybrid and we want to continue to be able to do
hybrid meetings so and we also haven't really had a good functional overly functional space so other committees feel comfortable doing it so this this may be this would be and I think you indicated you have you have included in
your budget um money for for equipment um so we need to execute the agreement but I just want to um mention that while we were um this morning at the reception for for Haley um you know a few people
approached me just about this room and it's been obviously I mean when Gabe started we said doing something with this room beyond um just improving the technology is really important so um I think
we you know what what I'd like to see us do in addition to to this is um is ask town meeting for some funds to do some upgrades in this room because I don't know if you were here this morning
it's like when there are a lot of people in here it's like crazy you can't hear anything the room is not particularly attractive um so that's something that I think Gabe and and Haley um were gonna we're going
to talk about and I think you know we could work out the timing such that we're doing this installation and with the with some improvements in this room yeah the building committ yeah well I I did just have um a brief
conversation because I know they were approached and the building committee has they really don't have um they need to do electrical upgrades so they don't have the funds they're going to be using their money for doing the electrical upgrades what they did um indicate or at
least um Steve Dmas who I talked to this morning um and I I assume I saw Frank was here um uh that the building committee you know could probably advise us um but we're not going to tap into
their into their funds um so does that sound reasonable i like the idea and we learned from our visiting session that the owl works better in the gymnasium of the elementary school than it does in this room it shouldn't be the
case but it did right yeah yeah it's um it helps us to know that we need to do something brendan also mentioned to me that when he's trying to listen to the meeting that we can't be heard out here in the audience in the audience so it's very hard for him to do minutes so
having the having a microphone that we can pass around to people or even stations or stations right and he suggests that we look into that okay as part of as part of this okay that's a that's a great idea um lip uh lipstick
microphones lipstick yeah so they're the size of a lipstick and they set in front of you oh okay and so if we use that we could put the owl a little further away for the audience or something like that okay well I think I think Gail included a piece of equipment at the bar yes it's
more sensitive yeah right yeah so this is um pretty detailed you know Gail forwarded us everything so it um what we need to do is we need to um execute the the grant documents i did not print those out i don't know haley you have
Okay great um so uh and those need to go back in by April 18th so it' be great if we could um take a vote this evening sure um so do I hear a motion to accept um the
grant from the community compact cabinet's information technology grant program from the state executive office of administration so move with enthusiasm second okay any further
discussion all right all those in favor signify by saying I please I start I barrel I um do you want us to sign that now or Oh they're right up there okay i think it only needs one is it only one signature uh there's a couple different
pages and then there's one sheet that asks if you want to designate someone to sign the contract if you want to put my name down okay you know what why don't I just do this it might take me a little while to figure out what to sign but you can you want Why don't we leave it here
and then let's see if we have um Yeah I just don't want to hold up the the meeting um great okay so let's see the next item on the agenda is discuss snow removal for the town hall in the new
library and Maryann is here i almost thought we were going to have to do snow removal this morning i was like "Oh my goodness this is April everybody come on wish construction would have appreciated some help with snow." Yeah I bet yeah it
was a little slippery out there this morning so I know this is has come up um and Maryanne and Gabe have been talking um so what's your you have some suggestions for us well I think that
Eric and you have been talking and you have a solution so that start with the solution yes I did have a solution he did talk to the highway superintendent and he agreed to what he hopes to do is one of his contractors that he hires for
snow and ice removal will do the ice shoveling of the library this building and the old library have to keep that open yeah um and that shoveling expense should be covered by snow and ice okay um because you're only going to be
shoveling snow and ice um and in the summer we did put into the budget $4,600 for um mowing that and some mowing around here
so we added a landscaper salary for I think it's four to five months in the summer so that he can hire somebody to do the mowing um the fin has put it in the budget so it is earmarked in there so that's how we resolved it the um
purview it will be the employee will be under the highway superintendent so if you happen to have sidewalks that aren't in trouble you call Iowa superintendent um and he will get somebody out there if he has trouble finding someone then of course he needs to contact the board and
tell them that he's having issues so he's hoping to do it through one of his snow ice contractors oh okay great and that was the pro I mean you know up until now it's been sort of hit or miss the police have been doing it the town
administrator has been doing it we were gonna save it for you but said we know you said you'd love to shovel snow um but no it doesn't it it really isn't isn't a good um idea just to have it i think the town has a snow no the
town has a snowblower too that police got somehow yes yes police have offered to give up their snow not permanently but to let it be stored at the highway department so that they could use it so there wouldn't be a cost of buying a
blower at the moment right that's that's great so do you need anything from us no now is and it and it's part of the highway department's budget and um and let's
hope for mild and April's and May's we might need to add well I guess that come out of snow too um there'll be some sort of maintenance cost as well yeah well the fuel will probably just be the fuel from this and for the same
tanks that they use for right it's the same for a car from probably but yeah we'll as that goes on work it out that's great thank you thanks every unless it requires ethanol free
gas and in that case you have to buy it separately and I'm sure they'll know Yes all right well thank you for um following through on that yeah I think that is okay the next item on the agenda is um
to discuss the removal of the Beaver Dam at the Fisk Hulver and um is Dave Ber here i know see Pat Hilton um Beth Wilson I point here there's Beth oh Howie's
here yeah I was just going through um our D people so um it seems like a perennial issue we got beavers uh they have lots of beavers in Ammeris too don't bring any more up here
um okay so who wants to take the the lead on um on what the plan is for the beaver dam with the fist pulvers to Okay let's start let's we'll
start with uh Howie i just checked it again today and he's building again they had caught it before April 1st the cobble it was gone and it was just where he put the dirt and stuff which is going to be the hardest part to pick
up and it's it's right below the entrance to the cold so it's not in an easy place for you to get at um also there is a
log that's caught in the middle of the cover frost race it's about that big around and 10 foot long it gets caught spread crossways in fact the water is going over that once we do get it
clean then it should be I I'll check it but I can't do what I used to do anymore and I did get D my book that I used to get it and you don't have to go in the water if if you check it actually after
we get it clean you're going to have to check it daily for a while until it gets totally discouraged so the beaver gets removed is that the Don't worry about it they just knock knock it all that's what they did last year they That's for the beaver it would
be good if they got rid of the beaver but you got to find somebody to do it and it's going to cost you I would say a minimum of $1,500 a month for because they charge a lot for they have to go to a special course to do it out of season
and the season just ran out in April right um uh Beth do you have anything or cat if you want to add anything your bet do you have something you want to add here from
the conservation commission is this before you for approval no um Cat sent around the email about the situation but um nobody you know if Highway wants to breach they can ask for
an emergency certification from the conservation commission if they want to breach and the trapping season actually goes to April 15th there's one more week um I not that I mean if anybody was
thinking of that at all but is there a season for daming no it it can be any time um and it's typically handled through an emergency certification from the conservation commission
and you would need that in this case for that an emergency of an application for an emergency certification i can't hear you very well okay do you do you need the application for emergency
certification now in order for the the to breach the dam yeah we do i don't think um if we did issue one for that location it was it was a while ago like I haven't issued anything in the past even year I think to breach that at
that location so yeah okay um is is Dave here i don't see Dave here yeah okay no it's another Dave yeah this Dave
Green um and um what what's entailed in that application you know how complicated is the application for the It's not very hard there's no actual form for an emergency it's really um sending um photos and uh identifying why
it's an emergency um in the end I fill out the form and so I I need um I need sort of an authority to declare that it's a threat to human health and safety which typically would be like the health department so on the
emergency search it would say that the health department has declared it to be a threat to human health safety and that the DPW is going to be the ones doing the work um okay that would basically be the applicate that would be what I would fill in and have the conservation
commission look at and uh approve they would want to do a site visit um and just to check it out before they approve the emergency okay all right so this is something you said would come from um Dave and then just
reference the um the the board of health and damkeeper or everybody's in agreement that this is absolutely okay all right
um okay so we just I guess need to circle back with Dave to make sure he gets that to you and when do you meet when does the conservation commission meet again uh we're meeting this Thursday okay so sooner that gets
in faster and then it's the highway department that does the um does the work or you Oh you're going to need a site visit you said "Yeah we're gonna probably need a second visit if if if either um Cat or if it's in an email
from Cat with Dave sort of CCed on it where she's saying that she's determining this to be a threat to human health and safety therefore we need an emergency." And the um then what Dave all basically needs to
provide is how he's going to do the work if that can all be in sort of one email describing how it's going to be done and that it's been declared a threat or a health and safety risk then I can fill in the emergency and um that can be
issued just by me actually it gets ratified by the commission um Okay but I'm assuming I would want a site visit and so would probably some other members of the comm so if we could get a site visit um this week that would work
okay so are you are you good with that Chad doing the um putting it together and the talking to Dave about how he would approach it i can do that okay that's great okay that sounds like we have a plan that one thing I would just to
remember for next year is going to happen again if you would do this be it's a damn do it before the 1 of April and it's much easier because the lake is down right on one side and it's up on the other
once it's same level all the way through mhm and that log like I say that's underwater because of it so it's going to be a little tricky to get out well shouldn't be that bad my estimated put a chain around one end
run it out to the stack hole and just give it to give it a pull and it's either gonna go in the lake or come back and Dave has been out there like Yeah Dave's been there he's he's looked at this um I haven't seen him since last
fall i I know he he had said he had he had been out there and then the person that inspected the clover Yeah took pictures and some very nice pictures looking at the dance through the Okay okay all right good so we have um we
have a a plan and you'll follow through with Dave and Yeah the timing works yeah works well if we can get get everything for Thursday okay no sounds good great great thanks thanks Beth thanks Beth thank you Tom
Howie and I think we're good yeah you don't need anything from us we don't need to vote right you're just Yeah you get the approval and we're we're on board too great thank you
um okay the next item on the agenda is to review and sign the adoption of a new procurement card policy and procedure yes it's like whoa i read through it so um G can you just
give us a little bit of background on on on this the town had the town had a credit card for a long time and so we had some difficulty paying the bills and so the banks have cut us off and so that caused a huge problem because we were
having to use our personal credit cards and pay you know sales tax and all of that was an issue so When we came here Ryan I worked with Ryan and he beat the bushes to find a company who would give
us a credit card and he did that the name is kind of funny but he found us a credit card some lone sharks out of credit pay the bill at the end of every month you don't get shot or
so you ought I he and I both agreed that a credit card policy was necessary whenever you have some of this you distribute the policy to everyone they know the rules the policy will be given to Gail to post um all the department
heads will get a copy it basically says how you go to Brennan and Brennan will do the ordering and if Brennan has to give you the card because you have to take it Pete's tires for example um you check it out like a library card you bring your invoice back
and Brennan is keeping track of the invoices ryan is keeping track of the bill so we've worked a system out that you know we've got the invoice Gail pays the bill the check goes to Ryan Ryan gets the bill and pays it so there's no $39 finance charge and there's no bad
credit right so we did have a little bit of bad credit so because it wasn't getting paid because it wasn't getting paid so this policy is kind of a standard you so that everybody is aware of the system and it has put us back on
the map so we have settled our website is now all hooked up appropriately to that credit card so there should never be a distress call that would be shut down in 12 hours or whatever it was yeah um so we've changed all of that over so
that's kind of it and is it so it's $2,000 it's not per like department it's $2,000 we've already run into a problem buying a couple of things that put us over the $2,000 limit postage $700 worth
of postage we had to split that in half um once our credit is established for a little while get it increased we can ask them to increase it i think we need to show them that we're going to consistently pay and then maybe in a
year or maybe six month point um Ryan can ask for an increase okay i thought procurement card was so interesting procurement card what is that legally it is and it it says that it's
not necessarily a free and open to just use to go buy paper clips you know it's he wants it to be used properly when we actually have to have a card and unfortunately towns can't operate without them anymore everybody wants you
to pay automatically word office all your website people um they do require that sort of thing yeah and we have to be careful the sales tax part of that policy is important
because the treasurer gets stuck writing a check on his personal account to pay for the sales tax yeah no and he can't do I mean it's not fair right not when we have a sales tax exemption so people have to be aware when they get that
policy that if they do not get the sales tax wave they're going to have to pay for it yep yeah no I think that's a good Yeah that's a good way of making sure people pay attention and they know it before right yes no that's great thank
you for um I only have one edit and we put the seal on it on it yeah I have this thing with the seal on it i have it electronically if you guys don't but I we can have it i think I just took it
from what Brian wrote and I didn't No no no and upgrade no this is um the seal of approval this is Yep thank you very much to Ryan and Gabe for figuring out how to get a card here and to help us with that
thank Yeah uh Gabe could you please put this as an attached document to the agenda since this is a written policy it's going to be approved by the select board yes it will it will become a select board policy
it's on the docket on the agenda yeah so you're just talking about documents used when the minutes are done documents used at the um at the select board meeting right but on the agenda uh at my town
gov there's a place where you can actually attach the PDF of the document so I could refer to that brennan can investigate that yeah attaching that document brennan okay okay um I just Yeah make a make a
note as a PDF always do not post anything with a word document right thank you thank you so do I hear a motion to approve the town of Shootsberry's procurement card policy
and procedures so moved again with enthusiasm um any further discussion all right all those in favor signify by saying I may peace darker barl thank you again that's great to get that taken
care of i know it's been a uh an issue for a lot of people so it's good to get that cleared up um okay the next item on the agenda is a followup to the Lake Wyola boating and safety um
public forum which we had last week Thursday last Thursday um I know I still met Matt um Bar here um who's the chair of the of the committee um but first I thought and um
at first I thought maybe the select board if if we have thoughts about Y um so this Haley just for your information we have um a nine person committee that um was appointed last fall um because
issues have been raised around um safety boating safety swimming safety um down at Lake Wyola and um the committee has been meeting and then the select board uh sponsored a public forum and it was a pretty good turnout i don't I'm not sure
who so there was a total between those in the room i had someone count their heads from our angle it was a little hard to tell but from in the room which was about 79 to those online it was about 130 139
people and it was our first tech involved hybrid large meeting yeah yeah we hadn't done that before we did it at the elementary school and it worked it did really well you know it was a it was it was um great and thank you
to pulling and Eric was on the sound was on and I was just there as I was surprised with that good um no i I mean not only did the logistics work well but I felt like um
you know everybody was on their best behavior um you know it was a very u civil discussion people were prepared we got written comments as well as um Yeah I saw a couple of them yeah yeah so um
anyway uh I I just wanted to talk about kind of next steps you know I think there are you know differing differing of of opinions so we have a bylaw that hasn't been updated since 2014 the charge to
the committee was to look at the bylaw um also to look at um enforcement issues um uh with with the bylaw there was a third thing that I'm just education yeah so education and and enforcement and um
the committee's been meeting pretty regularly um now now that we've had this this public forum it's an opportunity for us to hear um from folks i mean we when when we got the committee
organized there were you know we had some discussions but since since the committee's been underway um so just any thoughts from the select board questions I know the chief I think is here too um
Kristen is here and Matt yeah I recognize okay um so a couple things that I that I noticed um as people were speaking We I think we saw I think we had a great cross-section of the users of the lake y from the non-motorized
things swimmers kayakers to the motorized all the way up um and I think we I think everybody spoke very thoughtfully and um there was a lot of ideas and I think we could feel some of
their concerns or their anxiousness around even the committee forming which I think you know we we um was important for us to know um I think so those are the kind of things I picked up from that
um it seems to be a nature to the lake that that there is uh sometimes that are slower than others the the suggestions of segmented times for different activities um then and then that that
there's only three months of use with the lake so there's there's so many things that play that I don't know that even we thought about in a lot of ways so those are some of my takeaways no I agree it seemed like a good very
good meeting to me and it did um it did raise the question to me of like whether or not there'd be a way to that everybody could be happy with where they you know we ideally at time people could swim non like you said non-motorized not how to do that but if it's possible to
do that seem like that would be the way to do it one way to do it um so so some of Some of the things I thought about after that that evening was you know it felt to me um hearing from you know both
sides and and everybody's pretty passionate um about kind of their you know what they want to see happen with the lake but you know I think it would be useful for this board to meet with the
committee um and you know I personally would um would like to see reopen the discussion about the the the committee reopen the discussion about the bylaw um just you know hearing
from whether or not you know nobody again everybody was very or there are a lot of people very worried about like the banning of motorboats i don't think that's anybody's intention but you know are there accommodations that could be made um and should they be made through
the bylaw and you know I think there's some proposals out there we we got some you know some things in in writing and heard some um uh you know in the testimony that evening so um I wanted to
offer that up as kind of I mean it sounds like that was a little bit of the way you were thinking too is there um you know can we can we address some of those concerns um without uh you know as a lot of people said this
has been a way of life for generations and you know everybody wants to enjoy the the lake and we we I think we need to you know see how can how can we live happily to together and and you know address the the safety issues um at the
same time matt do you wanna Yeah no sure i'll I'll chime in here as well but um thank you guys for putting that meeting together i thought it was really great a lot of really great content a lot of great discussion i think it was great to have everybody in one spot so that uh everybody could
share their their diversity of opinions and and thoughts that way um I think you know I picked up you know several items I want to bring back to the committee and we have a meeting tomorrow and I did put on the agenda um the recap and kind of discuss kind of like what you guys
did you know what did we learn from the uh the public hearing public discussion then I did put on the agenda as well you know talking about the bylaws I've given it a lot of thought um in in generalities of you know little tweaks and thoughts that might accommodate a
lot of people's you know kind concerns and more about safety um I do think the education component is is a big deal i have some proposed signage that I'm going to share with the committee tomorrow that I've developed with the help of my graphic designer at work so
got some free proono work done for us that way um but I thought overall it was good i think there is it is worth like you said to discuss a few ideas there's a few like even one bylaw that doesn't it's not congruent with like DCR and there's probably some cleanup that we
need to do and I think you heard from multiple committee members on why they chose the vote the way they did when they were at the the meeting which I think you know gave some context versus a uh thinking it was just a rash decision there was thought process that was involved um so I'd like to going to
go back to the committee with some ideas tomorrow and then ultimately see what that discussion leads to and is that do we make some adjustments do we take another vote but I think you know so many good ideas came in during the
conversations that it's worthy to uh at least you know surface that that conversation with the committee again great um so do you want to then get back to the select board um and we can you
know Yeah absolutely happy to give you your meeting we meet like every two weeks so we have a meeting next week and then two weeks after that is our next scheduled one but uh happy to stop in in between if you like and give you from
that conversation you want to put me on the agenda I'm happy to give a uh you know what do we what do we come up with on the last the next call that we're going to have tomorrow okay um All right yes so why don't you get back to us after tomorrow and then
we can um yeah you know discuss i know we were kind of getting hitting some time time sensitivity too if there were to be augmentations or changes we want to be able to get those too i didn't know if you had a drop time frame for that based on town meetings yeah so the
warrant So the town meeting is on May 31st and um I don't know on your second day of the getting the warrant is like the last week in in April there's still some time yeah we have a little bit of a
little bit of room um sooner the better the sooner the better yeah um we have a lot of Warren articles um this year you know I would say um it wouldn't necessarily need to be rushed i mean it's something that could be done at a
special town meeting um so you know it's better to have it done uh thoughtfully and thoroughly than try to rush something to town meeting that isn't isn't completely fair enough yeah
so um uh Ria I see your hand up yes thank you very much um I don't want to repeat everything everybody said but I thought it was an awesome meeting and I want to just kind of reiterate that I actually don't see it's like one side or the other i think we're all on the same
side of safety and that is key for not only people who use the lake but the town itself and another uh factor that came up to my attention um is that the children at the camp that is uh on on
the road there um they're being transported 40 minutes to Tully because of safety concerns on the lake so that wasn't really brought to address but that is uh something to really note and I'm sure that Matt will will uh allow
that to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow night and for any anybody online right now I'm on the meetings or on the committee so I want to be transparent about that but I I'm really hoping that we can kind of go with the proposal that I mentioned which is
actually to uh continue with the bylaws as they are so we collect data this summer because we're really making judgments without any actual data other than that there was an accident so I would love to see something like the police department doing some work with
some of the Boers and actually clocking the speed to make sure that we're having adequate speed limits and maybe actually even increasing the speed limit to make it really normalized for a solemn skier for instance because we have like worldclass skiers there and to look at
some timelines so um yeah thank you for even being open to continue to working with the committee to continue looking at the bylaws that this is a long-term process and not something we can make overnight thank you
thank you okay Matt so we'll hear back from you um I don't want to shut down comments but we're trying to get Haley out of here we have No no worries no I'll plan to regroup again i have a kind of a presentation for the team for the
committee tomorrow um we'll socialize some ideas and we'll see where they go and I think you know there are some options we can discuss great thanks very much thanks for all your work you're welcome um okay the next item on the
agenda is the um storm water erosion task force and Jennifer Wallace is here um so um Jennifer I know we wanted to talk about the um the award from Franklin Regional Council of Governments
for the I think it's like district local technical assistance they're going to be giving you but I I would also ask um you know at the same time you guys are working on an application for the rural development fund it's actually the
town's application but um if you could just kind of give us the the update on the what Perkov is going to be doing and then also what we need to be we the select board um and Haley need to be aware of
in terms of the um rural development fund uh grant applications okay great um let's start with Furcog first so yes um we were suspected and the work
of the storm water erosion task force was selected for their um direct local technical assistance uh we had a meeting and they have proposed a scope of work
that includes assistance in grant applications as well as um identifying additional funding sources and grant opportunities uh most welcome all of this is to implement
uh the recommendations that were made in their watershedbased plan um let me just go back to say that our charge was to provide the select board with recommendations of how to move forward on that plan
so we have endorsed and and we we have discussed with you the um the recommendation to seek a an engineering firm to do a hydraulic and a hydraulic hydraologic
and hydraulic study along with a geomorphic study of the Fiskbrook area so um Furcog was is re reviewing the draft of the rural development fund application as part of this direct technical assistance they're doing that
right now um I haven't you know I guess I I have some questions about now we have Haley you know is this really I'm happy to to keep it going but and I have this already working
relationship with Furcog so there are some logistics about how that should be done but let me finish on the update first and Furcog also has some grant money themselves to provide another form of technical
assistance and they're proposing uh a scope of work that involves public education and community engagement around storm water issues and they have a whole scope of work that they've drafted which includes
x number of public workshops those could happen you know at town hall at the library at the lake association uh they would walk through not only their plan but what private property and towns and um organizations
like the Lake Whale Association can do to minimize sediment delivery to the lake and it would be all about public education and community engagement which is helpful because that is a component of the rural development
fund application where they'd like to hear what kind of community engagement has been done and will be done around this project so yeah that's sort of perfect it's a great great kind of confluence of uh Yeah yeah so and we had
we had kind of framed it in our discussions as kind of capacity building you know because we're building the capacity of of the town of people around the lake of people who are you know part of the association and and the DCR and
others about you know what what's happening and what could be done on an individual and an institutional level to to mitigate that so I thought it was a great idea and I I don't know if the process is uh for them to convert that
from a draft to uh a scope of work that they would send to the select board um and I don't know if there are contracts involved i don't know what the process for that is yeah I I don't know what it what it is either but you know what
whatever they need from us you know if it's a if it's public education and community engagement on storm water issues I think that would be great right okay good so I can just let them know that and they knew I was going to bring this up with you tonight so I can let
them know that yeah you're all for it and then they'll know what to do and they'll right they'll tell us they'll convert this draft into into what they would need to send to the town and as far as the application I'm going to speak on Haley's behalf the more you
guys get done that's right the better she's a really full plate so you know I would say if Furkog is willing to you know help put that the rural development fund application together and it looks like you know I saw the GZA proposal and
the hydro hutologic and hydro whatever h&h um study so that I mean it seems like you have Yeah so these this is good so here these are some of my questions and I don't know I I talked to Eric at the reception today of what you know
these are kind of like working sess you know like I have very granular level questions which could be done in this setting of of your board meeting or then I don't know if the select board ever has like working meetings with
committees i can tell you my questions now if if you'd like and we could talk about them but it's probably about 20 minutes worth of discussion an email yeah if you could just um send them to us and then if they can be handled without the board having to do
it like Haley might be able to handle it um and if it needs to be brought back to the board we'll we'll figure it out um just tell me the deadline was like May right so it's June June 4th is the deadline oh okay june 4th now my the
application's pretty well drafted i mean I would say I have all but um maybe two or three items to update especially based on this community engagement thing that uh Furcog would do and they're reviewing it so um and now I'm leaving
on um almost a month-long vacation starting on April 30th so that's we get it good to get it kind of in really excellent shape and I will be back on the 26th of May so there
is that period of time but Tom Seafford who's on our task force has uh volunteered to be kind of the lead person for the task force in terms of finalizing the application if Haley or anybody else has
questions but I think that that should be a pretty good um pretty good thing and let me up my notes here and just see Oh I should say this as far as updates so GZA has also added Mark Rivers and
and Elwack were really strong advocates of folding in the geomorphic study of the Fiskbrook area especially with the increase in the number of beaver dams yes geomorphic uh engineering is slightly different it's looking at water
but also land forms and so on and GZA can add that in at a very small cost so they've recast their proposal to include both of those studies which has put that all in my email to you oh okay yeah so
if you do that and then give us the list of questions that you have for select board so I I had forgotten I guess I was thinking about when you were leaving as um Yeah no we have a little we have more time and then the last thing is that this is I think really positive too is
that I do update Elwack and uh the Lakew Wild association periodically and I talk to them about the rural development grant because they they have said in their guidelines that applications are more competitive if
there's a 10% match so uh 10% is about $8,000 and the Lake Whale Association is is voting next week to say that they would pick up 5% of that 10% match
that's great is any do you recall if any of it can be an inind contribution where it's not I don't think on this particular one inind is looking like it's um it's not itemized as part of the match but there there are other things
I'll talk about in my email letters of support I know um Joe Cmerford's office was support you know so there are some some things to pick up to strengthen the application but I'll put that all in the email okay great all right Well thank you thanks so much for all your um work
on this um thank you for being behind it yeah well we're Yeah making some uh someway on some grant stuff around so yeah that's really good keep my fingers crossed about that um Okay well um if there's no other questions for me then
I'll just write an email with everything in it great thanks so much Jennifer bye um thank you all right we're getting down to the wire here um we uh have a proposal to um for an article
for town meeting to remove the farm bylaw and um I know Gail uh Fleh Shaker um had taken a look at this and gave us some language and um you know the far
the farm and forest commission was established in 2009 we It's been not doing much i think we like to get stuff off the books if um uh if it's if it's no longer
Yeah functioning so um I would be in favor uh and we can draft an article it does have to go to town meeting we'll be approving the warrant at some point um not too distant future um so are you
could do I hear a motion to um delete the Shootsbury Farm and Forest Commission bylaw of 2009 so moved second okay um any further discussion
all right all those in favor signify by saying I july dr i Daryl Hives one commission off check that over here adding commission right um but thank you
Gail for following through gail has been paying very close attention to all our boards and and committees and so that was uh that was good um okay so I just have a couple of housekeeping things
quickly um uh oh I'm sorry we had the letter i skipped over it okay so we have to we have a letter for um to send to our represent our senator and a representative to Senator Cford and representative
Saunders regarding our support of the um an act relative to the Quabin watershed and regional equity which um very quickly is um the best part of it is it's asking to create the MWR to create
a um 35 million dollar annual um trust fund um to to serve the watershed communities um so it creates a pay payment in le of taxes and we are in support it's um I don't
I'm not sure it's going anywhere but um it would be great if we can yes so I make a motion that we sign the letter to Saunders in Cumberford okay wershide yeah and it's going to the
joint committee on committee yeah second okay um all those in favor signify by saying I please sign I starker I tarl i okay and I can send it yeah you want us to sign it now okay
sure i got to sign that stuff too um uh so just a couple of housekeeping things um uh we have a couple meetings to schedule around the police chief contract one is just a um a select board
review of um a new draft of the contract that I was hoping we can do this week and then schedule a um session with the police chief for next week is Kristen still here no no
all right so we just need to find her availability um so I was going to propose that we meet at 12 o'clock on Friday which is a time that worked for you Melissa okay does that work for you
this coming Friday okay um I'll just talk to you about getting it up um and then uh we also um just need to schedule a time with Kristen and maybe we can
tell if when our avail if we're not available anytime find out when she's available i mean I think I'm pretty flexible next week but um okay so uh town administrator reports i'm good next
week oh um so I it's only my second day so this is a very brief report um there is a represent representative from the Colin center who wants to present um his findings on the phase 2 and fire district study i'm happy to schedule
that if anyone wants to go just tell me what times work or don't work for you um so he wants to do this sometime in early May so um does he want to do it at a select board meeting from now his email is a little vague it
says he would just like to present it to the four town administrators so Sheberry Wendle Leopard and New Salem but I thought I would extend it to you all as well um happy to have you okay I can do that yeah happy to have you go with the other
Yeah um and then I have things for you to sign okay do you want I I can do I have something really quick okay oh you do i didn't ask you to tell you okay so
um David Burgess is going to be retiring on June 30th if you're not aware of that the assessors have met and reviewed what they are going to try to do so they have a plan but one of the plan ideas was to
talk to regional resource and David's been told that regional resources at max capacity and they don't think they could take us on that does solve that does create a problem because the sectors are there and um I did call um Lori Tarat
left a message he's in Ammeris yeah I mean she she's in Pelum oh okay um to see if she's willing to help us while we solve this problem um the other lady that we had thought of
in Montigue Sheldon is already stolen we didn't even have a shot to try to ask oh darn it goes really fast because a lot you know there's nobody new going into the business of assessing so that's the only thing I want to add so you're
aware so so we're just we're hustling to find somebody after David just needing to review the job description okay and so we do need to keep a post we need to keep an eye on this and make sure it long because it's
May and leaves that means he leaves in June right you got it for Yeah yeah okay and then I just have a quick thing um it's about Kristen Kristen's um post at
testation um she and I worked on it last year um this one it does have the TA come in so um if you two are okay I'll work with Haley to get that done in the post okay
okay great great yeah um uh okay so I'm gonna re approve me signing all this stuff but I just want to make sure I'm signing in the right place um okay so do I hear a motion to um adjourn
still move second all right all those in favor signify by saying I thank you so much i barrel I okay thanks very much i think one meeting down and your last one