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This government meeting is brought to you by Eastworks and our local cable subscribers. >> All right, guys. Uh, let's call to order the meeting of the Southampton Select Board for June. No. Hello. Yeah, June 1st. It is June 1st. I thought it was

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May still. Sorry. For June 1st at about 6:14 or thereabouts. And if we can start by uh well, actually, we got to call in the um finance committee if you'd like to. Finance capital committee, whatever you're calling yourselves.

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>> Call me. >> Okay. Very good. All right. Let's stand and say pledge of allegiance. Please. Our flag is kind of out the window to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

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stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Managed to get a flag for here that's bigger than a 2in one for the future here. Um so uh welcome welcome and we

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have our joint meeting with finance capital committee tonight and welcome to all of our new members. So last meet last meeting we welcome both Charlie and Doug on the select board side and now we have Margaret and Mike on the fin side. So great glad to have full boards. Uh

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not sure where John is tonight. I thought he was coming but I haven't got a text back so I think we'll go ahead without it. Our basic agenda tonight is really to go over the U special time meeting warrant and just take a look at the articles. There's not that many. There's nine of them I believe and we go

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through those and then one or two other items of business. That's about it. >> So with that, Scott, you want to walk us through this, please? >> Uh just a reminder, Saturday, June 20th at 10:00 is the special time meeting. >> Y >> um so the first article is to do with the uh payment for the Hampshire Regional School Assessment.

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>> You can make that a little bit bigger just so people see. So about 3 four years ago, uh Hampshire Regional um did not bill to the towns within the regional school district their uh ongoing central office costs. So the elementary schools that each town has,

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we contract out with central office, they send us a bill and we pay it. So for a number of years, they didn't send up the bill and the towns didn't pay it. So this is part of a repayment plan that we came up with last year over the three next three years. Uh so last year there was the pay first payment that came from

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free cash. Uh this year is the second year payment which is $200,000. There's a total of about $450,000 that was outstanding. Um this is coming from operational uh because Bradley you'll have a little bit more in-depth presentation at our next meeting when we do the transfers and the finance

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updates. Um but essentially uh free cash is delayed this year. um there stuff that we don't have free cash just so we can't access it uh because there is a a debt in our books because of the borrowing from zero college highway as well as a few deficit grant accounts from the schools. Um so that goes into

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the negative free cash. It just means that we can't utilize it for this year but it carries over into next year since then the grants have been paid and the funding sources identified in the schools and the borrowing has occurred for the uh the zero college. So, and realistically, there wouldn't have been

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that much free cash regardless. So, um so this is the the second of three payments for that. Once it's taken out of operation stabilization, then that'll be replenished um from next year's free uh free cash back into operational stabilization. That'll leave us about a

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little over $600,000 right now. With that, >> how much will we pay the first year? >> Um 200 >> 200 200 and then >> then the balance. Yeah, it'll be about another 55 or so. >> Y >> something like that. So, we paid 200,000 last year.

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>> So, we worked out basically a three-year plan with Hampshire Regional to pay this out. >> And we were not the only town. They did it was all all towns. Nobody got bills. This is when the the regional, I think, was in a bit of flux in terms of their finances and were going through all their their situation up there um trying

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to do their forensic uh analysis as to what was happening with their finances. So, this has worked out. So this will be the second of three payments. So one more trunch to go next year. Okay. Anybody have any questions on this? >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> I think the negative precash amount,

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right, that was certified by the state was that it was about a million dollars, right? >> Um I forget how they do the calculation. Bradley has the spreadsheet calculated. It was like 550. >> Okay. Do is the impact of the borrowing going to reverse? Exactly. I'm trying to

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wrap my head around the fact that we would have that much of an incremental increase to free cash um for the next certification. >> So, so the borrowing that we did not get, you know, actually taken out in time, right? The the negative that drove

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us into a negative free cash, >> right? >> What was the American impact of that? >> So, we we won't have $1.2 million. >> Exactly. That's what I'm trying. >> No, no. So that it was just a negative balance. >> It was a negative balance because of that. >> And so essentially that just levels it out the borrowing. >> So we're allowed to carry over the

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negative balance, but obviously it affects our free cash. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. Yeah. But the borrowing actually was 1.2 million, right? Because we had donation as well from the family in town. So the total purchase price was 2.2. >> Yeah. So Okay. >> It's just like with the school grants,

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we have some negative school grant accounts like the re award grants. So they've gotten us the reimbursement for those. >> So that'll that'll race the negatives essentially. >> Did Bradley give you the balance right now at operation operational stabilization? >> Mhm.

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>> Um yeah, just sent it to me. Actually might to register this one. >> Just a note for those that haven't been through this before, all we have is on the paper tonight is the articles. Obviously, we've got to get the articles

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done so they can be posted. They have the warrant has to be posted by Friday, I believe. Uh and then uh we'll work on the actual motions and the summary for each of these articles. And that's what gets posted on Weather Science this morning. I have more.

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Give me a moment. I'll find those for you. >> I get the exact ones. >> Here we go. >> Sorry, I'm asking the hard questions. >> Too many folders. 865. >> Okay.

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>> 799. >> And we're going to we're going to take that all from operation establishment. So the one thing that I thought of is when we kind of replenish that from free cash, we have a standard allocation and if we wanted it to go all back to

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operational stabilization, um I don't know if we have that under the bylaws or if we can just make a motion to that effect um when that comes up at at town meeting >> the percentages >> because otherwise it goes to OPED. It go it doesn't just straight go to operational stabilization.

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>> It's not a requirement. It's a suggestion. So the psych board can allocate it and I would probably with the new capital line item >> putting less into the capital and more into that operational stabilization >> but we are also quite underfunded with open. >> Yes.

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>> So I mean there's a recommended percentage that we put back in all of those stabilization accounts. So >> okay. All right. Shall we move on to number two? No questions there. >> Read your recommendation. um if you want to do them as you go or I

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think in the past you've done them separately but since we have a joint meeting I don't see why we couldn't do them while you're here. >> Okay. I think we only have articles it's like one six and seven that we weigh in on anyway. >> Okay. >> So we can do that. >> So I'll I'll make a motion that we

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recommend article one. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I nan >> and Jimmy is gonna just >> be absent. >> Jimmy. >> Yeah, she's not here. >> Yeah.

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>> Okay, good. Thanks. All right. Um number two. >> So then next uh next one, article two is um the second shot at article 13 from annual town meeting. This is the wetlands uh delineation bylaw. Essentially, there was town council had

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some issues with the language uh that was put forward. So, this essentially would just say when there's when you're doing the delineation and you can't access it without snow or ice or typical New England weather, um it kind of gives them a little bit of a little bit of a

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leeway to wait until it melts so they can do a final delineation. >> So, the real change is just the part in bold at the very end. >> Mhm. >> So, this just an amendment to the existing file. Okay. >> Is this based on the current model

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bylaws for the wetlands protection from the state? >> This is on our current one that's already online. This is the approved bylaw that we already have. >> Correct. The existing one, but the the modification is that >> from D's recommendations. >> Yeah. >> But this is from town council. That was based on D's policy.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Town council looked at it before it didn't like the language the way it was written. So we pulled it at the at the annual town meeting. So this is their suggested wording which what can we say? It's their suggested

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wording. So what is that? Oh yeah, you can make that a little bit bigger too. Scott. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> There you go. Okay. All right. Good.

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All right. Number three. I guess I'll try and take this one. Um so, um the bylaw review advisory committee has met and kind of gone through this and drafted this bylaw for consideration. Um so, if you recall at

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the annual town meeting, we voted to adopt the um um what the statute of the MGL uh chapter 40 um uh section 8J. Uh and so then because we've adopted the idea of having a

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disability commission, we then have to create a bylaw to actually enact it in terms of how we would work with that bylaw or with that statute. So this is what we've um come up with. U this is the commission of Francine Tishman, Taylor Seabolt, myself and Lucy as ex

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official. Uh we've decided to call it the accessibility commission rather than disability commission. uh because we do believe that this has not only uh benefits for persons with disability but obviously anything that we do to improve accessibility it benefits all of us. So

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we chose to have a little bit more positive spin on the name of a bylaw. Um basically um the purpose of it was to help um just scroll back up Scott. Sorry. Yeah. purpose um just to help support the implementation of of the ADA

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act and follow the um the MGL um in terms of just having equal access to uh town facility services and programs both for residents and employees. Um and then talking about members, this is a choice of um per the statute you can have five,

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seven or nine members. We decided to go with seven is our recommendation. Uh nine is uh far too many I think from what we have experienced trying to gather people to volunteer for committees. Um and five is not necessarily maybe enough in this

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particular case. So we thought we'd just split the difference and go with seven for a change. Uh and the way this is laid out um this has been very prescribed in the in the statute. So majority have to be persons with disabilities and one shall be a member of the immediate family of a person with

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disability because again persons with disabilities is one thing but then a family member that's caring for somebody with disability also has a different perspective that is wanted on this and then one member must be an elected or an appointed municipal official. So with that um seven members that's what that

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would look like in terms of the the character if you will of the of the commission be three-year terms staggered um starting out the way to do this with three members want to scroll down just a little bit um three members for a term of three years two members for a term

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term of two years and then when they come up they'll be appointed for a three-year term and then two members for a term of one year and when they come up they'll be appointed for a three-year term. So that gets our whole staggering process in place. And then the various duties are outlined

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here. Um I don't need to read them all. You can see them. Um but that's basically trying to u take a look too at the um self-evaluation uh plan that was done. the ADA self-evaluation plan that was done last October um that looked at

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all the different town buildings as well as some at Conan Park and Liberty Field I believe in terms of recommendations for uh more accessibility. Uh some things are very simple in terms of just moving the height of something um but others are a little bit more complicated. So this is trying to not

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only look at that but then have a broader perspective in terms of um making recommendations about any kinds of services that would help persons with disability um and uh just help both with the town administrator and department heads to identify issues and problems

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that we might have within our buildings and how to correct those. So this will be um obviously an open meeting law committee. It'll be a standing committee commission um and um a simple majority will constitute the quorum is our recommendation. So that would be four

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out of these seven would constitute a quorum. Okay. So that's our recommendation. Any comments, questions? We tried to pull it together. There aren't that many towns that we found that have these. Actually, we were trying to we didn't find a lot. So we took a lot of things from the statute

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itself to kind of cobble together the duties. But this seemed to be broad enough that um it kind of lays the backdrop for how this commission would act. Okay. Any questions, comments? >> So, you'll have one appointed um you know, municipal official. Correct.

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>> So, someone that maybe is or is not, you know, um living with a disability, >> correct? >> So, do you anticipate, Chris, that you know, there'll be enough participation to get three other >> um community members? >> Yeah. Uh we've definitely got um

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three people at least that have already talked to me uh saying that they'd be interested. Um and then not yet on a family member that I've heard anyway directly. Um but there'll be so four plus five. So there's probably one open seat I would say that would be not

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necessarily a person with disabilities. >> Um so but the majority will be defining more so to meeting the quorum. So that's great that we'll do exactly I think so. Yep, >> that's the intent anyway. I mean, I think Yeah, we really need to abide by that.

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>> Yeah, as much as we can. So, but I there's interest out there. I've already been contacted by a couple people. So, >> good. Okay. All right. Number four. >> Probably defer to our subject matter expert on septic.

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This is this is like a duplication of efforts. The board of health reviews this, the conservation reviews this, the zoning enforcement officer came to me and said, "Why am I reviewing it? I don't issue the permits. I don't do anything here

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when the board of health and com issue all the permits and everything else." So, I agreed. What am I the best thing to do is strike that so the zoning enforcement officer isn't doing it because it'll be triplicating what's there.

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>> Mhm. So two and three are are dealt with in concom statutes or whatever. I mean what struck me was you know far away from the riverbank as possible or as feasible. I mean I would think we would want that. So that's something that Kong already takes care of. >> Takes care of that already. >> Okay.

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>> And the septic and everything else is already incorporated with wetlands backgrounds and everything else. In fact, board of health can issue orders to allow someone to put photoeptic system closer than than conservation can deal with the construction, but can't

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prohibit the installation. >> Okay. >> So, throwing the zoning enforcement officer in the middle of this mix, it's just going to confuse everything. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Anybody have any comments, questions about that? >> It's obviously been on the books for a

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while, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Nobody and he came to me asking me because obviously I do a lot of background work with these departments and I was like you're right this doesn't make any sense because it's already being dealt with.

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>> Okay. >> All right. Okay. No questions. Let's move on. Okay. >> So, we've had quite a transition in the capital planning process. over the last couple months. Uh the first one being the uh composition of the capital committee is now under the fincom and

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now appointed by the town moderator. So Robert's been really aggressive in getting everything filled. So we have a a full fin committee for the first time in a long time which is great. Uh the other big news was the approval and the override of $300,000. Uh which again

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goes under the capital committee. It's not um the town administrator or select board falls under that. and then with approval of anything for borrowing goes into town meeting. Um over the last couple months I did a conceptual idea of what it could look a capital plan could look like which was based on the request

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for $300,000 but now that responsibility is going to go uh to the capital committee. Um however one of the two of the glaring things that we needed was a new ambulance and a new uh dump truck for highway. Uh the reason that we're

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looking for this request is uh it takes anywhere from a year and a half to two to two and a half years to actually get an ambulance and a dump truck ordered and by the time it's actually here. So while cap the capital committee is getting their footing on how they want to proceed with these, this just allows

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authorization uh for them to actually go out and borrow through the treasur uh for that amount of money. um this probably won't impact the the line item for, you know, 2 to 3 years. Uh in which time that we're going to look at probably some other capital expenditures that need to be addressed. Uh but both

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this one and the dump truck just gives authorization. So once it's authorized by town meeting, it would go back to the capital committee and they would kind of determine where in their plan this would kind of fall into. So um the funding would come from that $300,000 line item

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that was approved. We need to vote on that. >> Yes. Yes. >> You guys want to say a little bit about your deliberations on? I mean, is is this 600,000 based on it's not based on any performers or anything yet, is it? Or is it or is it >> We have the

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This is one of the quotes. Okay. >> Yeah. Right here. >> So, there is a $75,000 um contingency that was built into it for additional that needed to be put into it. So, that's a that's about 600,000 is up to

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>> Scott. Our stabilization account for the ambulance itself, >> is there any funding there that's going to be drawn from? >> That's zero. that was put um that was used last year to balance the budget because we weren't

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actually adding to it. >> 100,000. >> So when the treasur would go out to borrow, how does this how does this work? If we're we're saying 600,000, I mean just explain a little bit more how how this works. We've got 300,000 in our line of capital. So then when you need

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to borrow this much, how does that all work out? Uh well, the capital committee actually put forward some pretty interesting ideas on how they want to kind of fund it. Uh Jamie had a suggestion of maybe taking a million dollars and spreading that out over multiple years and using that and just paying down the debt on a million dollar bond for that. And this would include

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like ambulance and the dump truck and a few other bigger pieces of equipment. >> Um if not, it could be, you know, the the debt service for this would be taken out of that once year two and three comes around. So whether it's five or seven years uh depending how long the

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committee wants to borrow for it with the treasur. >> So just to clarify for individuals that'll go back and read the minutes and and look at the recording um what what's the estimated debt service that Megan um suggested?

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>> Um it was about 130 $140,000 per year >> about half of the 300,000. Um, and there are, you know, state statutes that, you know, limit the borrowing to the life, like there specified life of the asset, right? Um,

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so it's not as though we're going to take an ambulance that we will run down in potentially seven years and bond it out for 15 years. Correct. >> Well, there's there's regular maintenance and there's Southampton maintenance. >> Yes. >> And life expect

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a little longer than that. Hopefully the insurance will last. >> We squeeze every year out of our equipment. >> Yeah. But when we go to bond, hopefully we'll make the life of the bond less than the life of the asset, >> right? >> That was a fiveyear assumption that service. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Okay. Any other comments, questions? And you guys had your meeting about it. Yeah. >> The dump truck. Um, was that based on a current quote or >> Yeah. Yeah. Can we do our motion for the for >> for the first

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>> number? Yes. Want to do the motion for number >> number five first? Okay. >> I'll make a motion that we support the uh borrowing for the dump truck for the ambulance. >> Second.

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All in favor? I number six. So this was the uh this just came into Randall late from Friday after the meeting. So >> okay >> that might change a little bit but >> so just a thought just just to have

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consistency of language for nothing else. So we have a plow truck there. We've got a dump truck and we've got a snow removal truck in our language. So can we maybe just make something maybe in the title it's a is it a plow truck rather than a dump truck? Maybe

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just for consistency. >> It's really a dump truck. I don't know why they call it film. >> Yeah, I don't know. But just >> just so that we know what we're talking about. >> Snow removal. >> Huh? >> Right. Right. It's a dump truck. >> So the dump truck that plows. >> Yeah.

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>> Oh, okay. So, well, maybe that's not maybe that's wrong then. Maybe maybe it's not a plow truck. >> I feel like that that >> dump truck would plow. >> Well, they did in the quote. They put it >> What did they say? and plow >> plow truck. >> Yeah, it says plow truck. >> I would put dump and plow dump and plow

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truck is an article >> and it'll allow latitude for somebody to purchase something. >> Unless you're buying a specified truck and I can't see that. >> Yeah. Just just so that we've got some some latitude there.

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>> Do you want to change it down below then slash? >> I know. I would call dump/ snow truck. >> Yeah. Consistent in the title. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, this one too is close to the 400,000 mark based on the quote that

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he has recently got. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. We were trying to give it, you know, some wiggle room >> and how well so I guess we can go out to borrowing on these quotes, but I mean

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right now are these quotes assuming that when we place the order that that is the price the price won't continue to go up. That would be the price that we would actually get or >> I mean there might be some changes like some orders or some things that they add on to it, >> right? >> Or if they might, you know, if it's

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delayed a little bit or it comes early that might affect the price. I said, "Okay, but it's not going to be all of them, you know, all of a sudden another 10% 15% increase in the price necessarily >> given this." >> I know. I know. But I mean, >> right, >> based on the current current uh invoice

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or proforma. Okay. >> I think there's enough um flexibility in those. >> Okay. >> Is the anticipation, Scott, that we don't have to put a deposit on these purchases and it's just going to be the borrowing at the tail end. Mhm.

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>> If we did a deposit, would it lock down the price to a greater extent? >> Um, that I don't know. I'm not sure. Uh, like for the example, the ambulance built into the $75,000 contingency fee. So,

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>> okay. >> Jamie was here. >> Yeah, I know Jamie's our procurement person, right? All right. Um okay. Uh anything else on six? >> Um I I move that income recommend article six.

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>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I Okay. Uh number seven. So this is Mark here. Would you like to speak with us? >> Yeah. We received in 2024 a unusual

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funding from mass trails that they instead of just funding it for one year they gave us two and a half years through state parker funding we realized they actually gave us more than we asked for to fully take advantage of what the state offered us. We need another

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$14,000 of CPC matching funds. We're supposed to miss the 800 meeting. So, this is um to take advantage of money that's already been committed by the state. If we don't do this, we can't do so $52,000

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from the state that's available. >> And this was a two-year grant on this >> two and a half years. Yeah. >> December ends in December this year. >> Okay. finals position >> any comments questions on that

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>> all of the other grants for one year this was just >> yeah and I think it's because they didn't use just mass trails money they used their own state ARPA money as well so they dipped into a second fund to help fund a lot of their grants that year which kind of caused a little bit

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of confusion and then they didn't quite remember what they had already promised good anybody have any questions on All right, next one. Article eight.

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>> So, we had a a triple brook property at the annual town meeting and that was relying on money from grants. Is that correct? >> The assumption is about 10% would be CPA funding, 66% would be a land grant and the remainder hopefully would be money

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from the mass auto catalyst fund. So, that was voted on and approved. Um this was discussed with the conservation commission the family that there's two parcels in that parcel two which is on is on the uh east side of middle road

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and a parcel lot three which was on the west side. The west side parcel was not thought to be quite as high a value conservation wise. We said if we can get money for both of them, we'd do that. But if we can't, that we would be willing to use potentially use full CPA

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funding for the um 80 75 acres on the uh east side of Middle Road. This is saying that uh if it's approved would be $424,800 of CPA funding for purchase of the conservation restriction on those 75

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acres. If we happen to get partial funding from the other sources, it would be offset and refunded to CP. >> And you're in the process of applying for the land grant now, >> correct? >> Which we would know by when? >> July.

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Last year it was September. >> Mhm. >> I don't know. >> Okay. >> So, we basically have two articles related um at annual town meeting and this one. So, two options in terms of whether we get funding or not or full funding or not. If you don't get full funding, we have another option.

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Purchase conservation. >> Okay. Any comments, questions? All right. And next one. CBC funding for the old town hall. So, I'll take up this one a little bit. Uh

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we've been working with again with a grant from the Brun Historical Preservation uh group to do the repointing of the brick on the old town hall. That work has been gone going for over a month now. Uh where they have uh a contractor from South Hadley. Uh

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Galvin and Sons were winning bidder and they've been working to take there's a lot of loose brick for number one. So there's a lot of mortar that was missing on the bottom about the bottom fourt of the old town hall. Um, it's a historical building, so everything has to be done to spec. Uh, that meant getting the

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right color, the right mixture of mortar that would match as close as possible to historic time. Uh, that took three or four tries to get it right, but it seems to be good at this point in time. Um, and so they have finished um, basically

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removing all the excess mortar that was there that is not uh, appropriate and then falling had been falling out. they have been um putting in the new mortar and they've been working on the far side of the police station uh over the last week or so and so they're still working on that. The main thing that they did,

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if you probably have already noticed, is took away the old ramp that was out front, which was never part of the original building. So, what we're trying to do is to restore it back to its 1904 look uh more or less. Um and it is basically um a building that's on the Mass Historic Register, which is one of

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the reasons that we want to do that. So, this is a historical building in town. It's the only one really along the East Street corridor that is on the uh on the register. Um and so by taking out the ramp which was not ADA compliant in the first place. Um what that exposed was a

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missing second stone. So the the front stone front stone steps are all pink granite. Um and the missing stone obviously pink granite about a 12t length is missing. Um, and a couple of us have gone digging in Randall's

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graveyard down at the town townard and have found a couple pieces um that are part of the original, but it's not enough to to make it all work. Um, so who knows where that went to, but it it was done probably in the 80s based on reading town meeting reports and talking

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with people that were around at the time that witnessed when that was done um by putting in the new u the new ramp, etc. So basically we're having to source new new granite for that middle stone and then because ADA has come into play since then uh we're working with Ron

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just to be sure that um we're thinking we have to be ADA compliant now without the ramp there we have to have railings and so again the railings have to be somewhat historically looking uh approved by in this case the National Park Service because they are the ultimate originators of the grant money

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on this. Um, and so that is being looked at right now. And if Ron says we don't need the railings, then we won't install them. But we're thinking because that actually acts as a second egress to the old town hall, they probably have to be there even though those front doors are not being used right now. So that's the

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that's the plan anyway. So this will finish off that front front area. Uh there will not be another ramp going in. Uh so it'll be the staircase and the um the railings instead. and they're hoping to finish hopefully by August. That's

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the plan. So, okay. And so, this would come out of historic preservation from CBA. Yeah. >> Chris, did we get this quote at the same time that we got the quote for the step removal? >> It was part of phase phase two. So, it

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was it was looked at as phase one was was awarded and then phase two was described, but the actual quote didn't come in until last week. >> So, we received three quotes for us. Do you know? >> We have not. No, we've taken advantage of the person who's still there working

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on the site. Um, and because they've been already approved and vetted through the through the park service grant program, >> um, they went through the bidding process and they were the winning bidder. and to have somebody else come in that has not gone through that >> evaluating process for

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>> Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No, absolutely. No, again, so this the the Paul Brun is a subgrant basically of the National Park Service also managed by PDPC. So, they're all kind of tied in and this was presented to the U CPC last week. So, when we got the actual quote because we've been going back and around, they

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were talking about taking out the sidewalk and it's like, "No, we don't want to do anything. No, we're not doing any of that stuff. We just want to get the front door area uh back to back to normal again. So, yep. Okay, that's it, I think. So, no more articles

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that we're aware of. Anybody know of any other articles that we're missing here? I don't think so. Um off hand. If not, then I think you guys have voted on everything you need to vote on, so you're done. Okay, on that. So, I think

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uh we'll need to take a motion to close the special town meeting warrant. I'll take a motion from select board to do that. >> Okay. Have a second, please. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I All right. >> You wanted to print it out for

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signatures? >> I think we probably Yeah, we need to sign it, I think, because we got to Well, we'll post this on by Friday. Is that right? >> Tomorrow. >> Oh, okay. We can Yeah. >> Yeah. If we can print it out, we'll

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we'll sign up tonight. >> That'll be good. Okay. >> All right. So, with that, that's that super quick. >> All right. >> Priorities. I want >> Go ahead. >> So, I heard Mike and Margaret.

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>> What time is it? >> 6:49. >> 649. All right. Two colors. >> Yeah. >> Fancy. >> I think I'm just myself one.

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>> Okay. So, Bingham, thank you for coming and catch up with you for having us. Not sure when our next joint meeting is, but it may be sooner than we think. I have no idea exactly, but we're meeting again on the 9th, but I don't know that if you are with us.

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>> We'll we'll let you know. >> Okay. >> Thank you for that. >> All right. Bye, guys. Thank you. >> All right. So, with that, we have one other item on here, which is the floor property documents. And we'll just wait for Scott to come back for a second. We just have to sign that. And while Mark

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is here, Mark, come on the table and you can explain it to us as well. So, as people aware, um last year we town voted to um purchase um property off of Thma

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Road approximately 27 acres next to Wolf Hill. Have the advantage of getting a land grant that has to be finalized by June 30th. Uh the work the town lawyer is now trying to get all the pieces together. So, one of the pieces that they developed and requested the select

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board sign is an acceptance of the deed. The conservation commission is also has done that tonight. Um, and uh, so that's the first thing. It's it's legal language from the town lawyer. >> Um, it has to happen before June 30th so

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they have all the pieces to submit. There's a second thing that will come back to um, all of you. There's a conservation restriction that's been uh reviewed by the prior select board and the the conservation commission and um so it's town own land the

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conservation commission conservation restriction will be held by Kestreland they reviewed it and went to the state they reviewed it had their lawyers did tweaking they sent it back to us for sort of final approval it's gone to concomments

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back to me there's really not all that's been looked previously. And so that the one thing that the state changed is they want the new pa um page um and book and page on the conservation restriction. So

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we need to finalize the deed >> so that put it on the conservation restriction. >> Um so that the that can be done after June 30th, but the T won't get paid by the state until that's finished. Okay. So as soon as we it's submitted the

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conservation restriction will come back for signature. >> So as long as we record the deed we'll have a new book and page and that gets put on that document. >> So that's the one thing that they change which just changes the timing. >> Mhm. Okay. >> It doesn't affect the grant as such.

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>> Specifically we're told we will get the money as long as the other piece are finished with it can be done after >> because it was already awarded. It's just now finalized the actual receipt of >> the Okay. >> And Kestrel holds the conservation

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restriction because they put a an outlay into the actual >> the it the way it was structured is uh you have to it it has to have a conservation restriction on it. >> It will be owned by the town will be managing it.

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>> It could have been a number of other groups but Castro was willing to do that. >> Okay. and they've already done a baseline document on it which is a requirement of that which describes what is there. >> Great. >> They do a good job of managing that. >> Okay. >> Do we have any conservation properties

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that we own the restriction of? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. Not sure what that is. That the >> and I have copies. >> Yeah. You know, if that's got a a sticky on it, we'll just pass that around. >> I have a second. Coffee is probably not a bad idea to

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>> Okay. Yes. Okay. >> All right. So, I'll take a motion to uh go ahead and accept approval of the deed and go ahead and sign that. It's been moved. >> All right. Have a second. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor?

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>> I Okay. This was the property that had like the river and the other really great habitat. It's all Yeah, I remember that. Nice person. Why don't you go ahead and put in today's

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date on that on the first day of June? >> Uh, that would be good. John's not here. >> I think Lucy probably needs to notoriize this, too, maybe. Good. All right. We'll just wait for the signing of the waring card.

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Great. So, we'll just wait for Scott to come back to sign the other one. But, um, any other business that can't wait until our next meeting, which is next Tuesday, the 9th. Feels like we're meeting a lot. >> Wait a week. >> I know we're meeting a lot. Wait a week. Um

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hopefully nothing too major coming up. So our next um select board meetings will be the 9th and the 23rd and in between time on the 20th will be the special town meeting at Norris School at 10:00. Okay. So we'll hold tight and not adjourn yet until we finish signing.

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>> Will the select board be meeting before the special town meeting? >> Uh possibly the day of. You mean? >> Yes. Um often times we'll meet for you know a half an hour or so. If there's any business to meet on we will yeah usually we would meet like say at 9:30

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or something at the u in the library of of the school. >> Depends if we have any agenda items but usually we meet just to go through the order and who's going to read which articles. So, >> oh, he has printed out the >> He's just he's just printing out the u

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>> the warrant so we can sign while we're here and then he'll have that ready for >> the constable. >> Perfect. Do you want to hold on to this or should I hold um >> I'll give it to uh Judy tomorrow.

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And this is the um conservation. >> Oh, great. >> And there's two copies. Do you want both copies? >> Uh I'll just take one. Find your name right around. >> Thank you. sign it and then I'll

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>> Okay. >> Great. Okay. So, with that, I think we're ready to adjourn. We announced the uh next meetings. Um and no other business that can't wait. So, with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to

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second. All right. All those in favor? >> I we are journed at 657. Thank you. This government meeting is brought to you by Eastworks and our local cable subscribers.