WEBVTT METADATA Video-Count: 1 Video-1: youtube.com/watch?v=B9ysteddOFY NOTE MEETING SECTIONS: Part 1 (Video ID: B9ysteddOFY): - 00:00:00: Meeting Called to Order; Pledge of Allegiance - 00:00:50: Public Comment: Finance Committee & Town Meeting Procedures - 00:01:07: Public Comment: Finance Committee, Accessibility, Reconsideration Notes - 00:05:10: Clarification of Reconsideration Process at Town Meetings - 00:06:59: Public Comment: Plans for Annual Meeting Continuation - 00:07:48: Review of Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles - 00:08:19: Article 1 & 2 Discussion: Budget & Supplemental Funding - 00:09:30: Free Cash, Elected Official Salaries, Vaporizer Funding - 00:11:38: Citizen's Petition, ADA Committee, Capital Committee Bylaw - 00:14:09: Town Caucus Elimination and Land Protection Bylaw - 00:15:16: Unpaid Accounts, Grant Transfer Details - 00:18:03: Water Main Project, Health Revolving Account Discussion - 00:20:41: CPC Budget and CPA Funding Requests Details - 00:22:29: Greenway Design and Mass Trails Grant Discussion - 00:23:38: Refining Finance Committee Bylaw; Capital Improvements - 00:27:32: Approving Warrant Articles and Explanations - 00:30:25: Revolving Funds and Motion to Approve the Warrant - 00:31:26: Annual & Special Town Meetings Date Scheduling - 00:32:56: Special Town Meeting Date and Continuation of Meeting - 00:37:00: Town Meeting Procedures and Reconsideration Bylaw - 00:39:24: Select Board Meeting Schedule and Adjournment Part: 1 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:33.600 This government meeting is brought to you by Eastworks and our local cable subscribers. So, let us call to order the meeting of the Southampton Select Board for Wednesday, April 22nd at 4:30 p.m. And we'll start with the Pledge of 2 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:50.480 Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. 3 00:00:50.480 --> 00:01:07.439 >> All right. Okay. So, we have two agenda items tonight. I wasn't planning on any public comment, but if you have something, Robert, from anybody. Yeah. >> Thank you. Robert Floyd, Vickiness Town moderator, College Highway. I've 4 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:23.840 appointed Miss Becky Climpmpton to a three-year term on the finance committee. Becky will be available to be sworn in on Wednesday, May 20th. There's one position available for a three-year term starting May 20th, and applicants can contact me at town 5 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:40.560 moderator, town of Southampton.org. To increase accessibility at our annual town meeting, the town clerk, Lucy Dalton, and I are considering a loose mic that a volunteer can bring to those in need in the audience. This moderator 6 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:55.759 back when actually took a mic and went to every person who wanted to speak. I think it only lasted one meeting, I believe. >> Yeah, >> nobody likes surprises. So if there are any known amendments that may be made at the town meeting, it might be a good 7 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:12.560 idea to moderator see them in advance. I hate to have the moderator to be in a position to deny something because of confusion. So any amendments would be best worked out beforehand. And the reason I'm here is a 8 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:29.360 reconsideration. I've distilled my notes, >> okay, >> as best I can. I've been working on this all afternoon. Reconsideration is a parliamentary procedure to allow for the correction of a flawed motion that has passed or for consideration of new 9 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:45.040 information and is not intended as a method of changing the intent of the town meeting. Also, anyone moving to reconsider must state the reason for reconsideration. An article once voted upon does not become the final decision of the town 10 00:02:45.040 --> 00:03:02.360 until the town meeting is dissolved. town meeting time and common practice inferred that a motion to reconsider must be made by a voter who is among those who prevailed on the original vote on the article. 11 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:19.519 >> Once the moderator accepts a motion to reconsider, a simple majority allows the meeting to reconsider the original motion. Reconsideration is not automatic. A motion to reconsider is allowed if there is new information that was not 12 00:03:19.519 --> 00:03:35.040 available at the time of the original debate. If there is something truly new, then the new something condition must also be substantive in nature. A motion to reconsider will be ruled out of order if in the judgment of the moderator is 13 00:03:35.040 --> 00:03:51.360 simply an attempt at another bite of the apple. Historic rec consideration has been abused as an attempt to have another vote after a portion of the voting body has left the meeting. I've witnessed this many times. 14 00:03:51.360 --> 00:04:06.480 in the discretion of the moderator. If a significant error or emission occurred in the language or the process of the original action under the article or a significant change in circumstances has occurred such that there is a 15 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:23.040 substantial likelihood that the outcome could change upon reconsideration or that reconsideration is in a town's best interest would favor reconsideration. Reconsideration is an upward down vote on the final product of a town meeting 16 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:38.160 handling of a motion, not an opportunity to recreate it. However, a trusted legal opinion stated the reconsidered motion could be replaced in its entirety by any 17 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:53.440 new motion and order under the original article of attorney Harrington. In other words, we would start where the music stopped. Also, one final thing, a vote not to 18 00:04:53.440 --> 00:05:10.880 reconsider will not bind a town and bar it from reconsideration at a later time. So, until today, until I found that needle in haststack, we couldn't amend the article in the reconsideration. >> Mhm. >> But under this legal opinion, we can. 19 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:26.639 Mhm. But that still, if I'm understanding you, that still happens. The reconsideration still happens after the vote has been taken. >> Yes. >> Whereas an amendment on the floor can be done prior to the vote being concluded. Is that right? >> Correct. >> Right. >> And that is what we've traditionally 20 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:41.440 been used to, I think, in my time anyway. >> I haven't been present when we've done reconsiderations, but amendments on the floor have >> historic one where somebody has to be reconsidered and the moderator 21 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:57.120 after was sitting behind that person and denied that was true and there was a big halaloo and the um was corrected >> right not necessarily in this town. >> Yes. >> Oh okay. >> In fact I got a letter from the select 22 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:13.759 board praising me for my action. >> So prior to you being moderator. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay. Um and just one question. And I'm not sure if it's a matter of order, but so if there were a motion to reconsider, 23 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:28.800 what I think I'm hearing you say that happens right then and there. It doesn't wait until the end of the meeting. >> Historically, in many towns, it does wait until the final all the articles are done, but we don't have a bylaw to that effect. >> Yeah. 24 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:44.639 >> So, it could be it could happen that >> I mean, honestly, that wouldn't seem very fair. I mean, a lot of people don't stay for the entire meeting. They'll >> Exactly. Exactly. And that was the abuse. People in this town would leave and then just before the meeting was adjourned, somebody would ask that a 25 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:59.520 motion be reconsidered and uh the vote was switched and changed. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Madam Chair. >> Okay. Yes, sir. Um different topic but while we have the moderator here um what 26 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:16.960 are your plans for a continuation of annual meeting should things run long. >> Continuation you mean for another >> session? Yes. >> Another day. >> Well, I've discussed that with our town administrator Scott to pick a date in 27 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:33.759 case it needed to be uh adjourned to that date. >> Okay. Do you have a ad ajournment time in mind or you go by the crowd and what's >> we've historically gone by the crowd after 3 hours I I ask to see what what the crowd wants. 28 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:48.319 >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Always in my experience with a good prospect of finishing up and I can't predict what >> it goes real quickly. >> That's amazing. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. Good. Thank you. All right. >> Thank you. 29 00:07:48.319 --> 00:08:03.840 >> Thanks for that. Okay. So, uh, as I said, we have two items on the agenda tonight. Uh, first one is to go through the articles. Uh, we have, if you could make those just a little bit bigger, Scott, sorry. 30 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:19.120 Thank you very much. All right. You want to go through these with us here? So, this is the first article base budget. Okay. >> The first article, these these have been um these were approved by and um edited by town council uh late last night, early this morning. So, these are kind 31 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:34.560 of hot off the press. >> Uh, the first one is uh this just get your mic over. Sorry. >> Uh, the first one's the the base the article one base budget and the motion uh that comes from town council as well. So, all the numbers have been updated. 32 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:50.320 It does not include Hampshire regional uh the assessment and it does have the uh the free the stabilization fund. Okay. Next up is the article two with 33 00:08:50.320 --> 00:09:13.920 the motion the supplemental funding with the two overrides. I transpose the um one N and the 25 and then the motion uh unchanged is the Hampshire regional budget the 6.2 or closer to 6.3 million 34 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:30.560 >> and that's the same amount in all three budgets, right? Do people have questions as we go or no? >> Um, not on the >> Yeah. Okay. We can come back to something as well. >> We have the transfer station budget as well as the water department budget. 35 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:46.160 I'll be posting the individual budgets online probably tomorrow um along with the capital stuff. And then we have uh so free cash has been submitted waiting for DLS to uh get back to us. Uh it doesn't look like we 36 00:09:46.160 --> 00:10:02.800 are going to have any free cash uh for this year. Um so I I I did take out the the free cash articles and if there is if we can rectify some things and it does become available but I don't think there it is um we could probably take that up at the 37 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:28.160 special town meeting uh in June. elected official salaries remains unchanged. The um transfer from free cash to Hampshire regional. So I did let Veto know about the free cash last week. I'm going to have to discuss this with him a little bit more uh next couple days uh 38 00:10:28.160 --> 00:10:48.079 for alternative funding sources. So it's actually supposed to be 200,000, not five 150,000. That's from um three four years ago for the Hampshire Regional. Uh I am waiting for bond counsel just to double check this. So this is the um the vaporizer that I mentioned. So this 39 00:10:48.079 --> 00:11:03.360 might change a little bit in the next 24 hours. Do you want another word in the title to track what's in the motion? >> Such a highway department heating. Mhm. 40 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:18.640 >> I mean, we're not going to heat the highways. >> Very good. >> Deep park garage. >> Highway garage. Perfect. >> That'd be an expensive proposition to to heat the highways, you know. But I think all we'd save on plowing salt. 41 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:38.240 >> So, so this would be an additional amount because we've already borrowed for this and this is an additional amounts needed because of this new >> uh vaporizer be about a little over $25,000. >> Yeah. Next up is the citizens petition. Again, this is untouched. It has to be 42 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:54.320 um presented as is as it was on the ballot or on the um uh >> petition. Yeah. >> Uh next up is to adopt the uh disability commission, better known as the ADA 43 00:11:54.320 --> 00:12:15.440 committee. This is the first of two of repealing the capital committee bylaw, eliminating it, and then adding the duties to the um the finance committee. >> Yeah. And the new duties from the capital are all in bold at the bottom. 44 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:33.120 It's got maybe as you can s >> maybe if you can adjust a little bit on the spacing, you might not have that orphan line at the So we can fit that on page. >> Yeah. When I do like the 23. Yeah. I'm going to >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> Um, paragraph G. >> Yeah. 45 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:49.040 >> Uh-huh. >> That's That's from the current capital bylaw. Just so E, FG, and H. >> Okay. And you're just getting ahead of me. It's not that paragraph that I had a question about. 46 00:12:49.040 --> 00:13:06.240 Um, the author of this section in bold is very sparing with commas. and I've finally got through the meaning, but I think it's discretionary and I would suggest additional commas for clarity. 47 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:22.320 >> Okay. Any place in particular? This is the Well, this >> I'm sorry. I'm not caught up with you, but >> that's fine. I mean, this this was in the actual bylaw. All we did was from the bylaw committee. We just cut and pasted it out of there. So, we didn't change what's already posted online in terms of that language. But 48 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:39.040 >> it was complex sentence that said shall something shall something else shall something else again. >> Oh and G probably. Yeah. Uh no appropriation shall be voted for a capital expenditure rest requested by a department. Oops. 49 00:13:39.040 --> 00:13:54.399 >> Is considered >> uh is considered that or the committee shall have first. >> Yeah, it's it we're not finding it. just uh note that that was my >> trip up. >> Well, we'll see if we can clarify that a 50 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:09.040 little bit, but yeah, that's that's basically the language that exists right now. >> It did not amount to an error. So, >> no, I just want to be clear. >> Yeah. No, that's fine. Yeah. >> Next up is the article to eliminate town caucus. 51 00:14:09.040 --> 00:14:25.040 >> Right. And so this then just back on the motion that means that what this will be is that anybody going forward if this passes any candidate has got to get a place on the ballot by submitting valid nomination papers with signatures of 52 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:42.000 registered voters and that's there would not be it would eliminate the town caucus altogether. So >> yeah. Okay. >> Next up would be the amendment to the lands uh protection bylaw. Yeah. 53 00:14:42.000 --> 00:15:00.800 Again, there's one big addition at the end here. >> Uh, next would be the appointed treasur collector. >> You want to just go back on that? And just in terms of the election on that that this has to go to town election as well. So, because of we're with outside 54 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:16.560 of the 60-day period, um if this passes, we would try to request uh legislative approval to place this question on the November ballot. And if not, if the legislature doesn't agree to that, then it would go on to the end of town election next year. 55 00:15:16.560 --> 00:15:35.440 >> Okay. Uh next up are unpaid accounts from the previous fiscal year. Mhm. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> My only question here is I mean a vast majority of these are from the planning commission. Was this just a 56 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:51.199 >> a one time somebody left a bunch of invoices in a drawer? I mean it's it's not normal. >> Yeah. There were two for the when we did the update of the hazard mitigation plan. Yeah. >> And I think they came in maybe in January or sometime of last would have been last year, right? A year ago. Yeah. 57 00:15:51.199 --> 00:16:07.199 and they don't know uh they did not get paid early on the first two u the last so the two of them are tied to the hazard mitigation plan update the 852 and the 2700 and then the last one is related more to 58 00:16:07.199 --> 00:16:25.199 uh the work that Pioneer Valley was doing with Dodson and Flinker and it's got one more typo sorry just take the apostrophe out of parson it's just yeah there you go thank you that. Yeah. Okay. >> Then we have the uh the transfer. This 59 00:16:25.199 --> 00:16:41.199 is the second stage of uh the $60,000 to cover the grant expenses that the town covered back in 2022. It was already approved by town meeting and now we just have to transfer it officially into the grant. I'm not sure that we've ever seen that 60 00:16:41.199 --> 00:16:58.720 clear an explanation of how this came about. The change in work orders caused the overage, but what drove the change in work orders? Thank you. That that unfortunately I don't know. >> No, no, no. 61 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:15.839 >> It's spelled out here that it was uh as a recommendation under had hazard mitigation plan or from >> it was a >> hazard mitigation project. There was a project goes back to 2022. So I think I 62 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:31.919 I'm not sure if it was an overage per se. I think the bill I thought it was that the bill got paid by the town and it should have been >> reimbured. >> It should have come been a reimbursement from a grant. >> Yeah, it did exceed and then the town paid for that and then the town never 63 00:17:31.919 --> 00:17:47.120 got reimbursed or >> never got to the water department. Right. >> But the fact that it was imposed upon the water department and it only is just now coming around. >> Yeah. Something never mind. >> Yep. Something recently discovered. I 64 00:17:47.120 --> 00:18:03.360 mean with Megan and Scott, right? >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah. I know it had to do with the hazard mitigation and preparedness. The details I >> That might have been the grant it was under. Well, no, >> it was it was ARPA money, I believe. >> Yes. 65 00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:20.320 This is 22. No, this is before ARPA. >> No, this is this is the this is the water mane down at the bridge by Sheldon's. >> Exactly. >> Where we took the pipe out of the river and lifted it up to the bottom of the bridge. >> Oh, and that was outside of the scope of the bridge work. That's how we ended up. 66 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:36.320 >> I'd have to go back and look at some emails on that. But this is prior to ARPA, actually. Yeah. >> The but you're correct. the water mane lines that were improved and installed from Fulmer Road. Yeah. Fulmer Road to to Clark Street. 67 00:18:36.320 --> 00:18:53.600 >> I thought the explanation when cuz we got ding we got dinged on this in free cash two >> two years ago. >> Yeah. >> Um was that it had something to do my my memory is there was something we had to front the money in order to get reimbur for the water department to get reimbured. So we we fronted it but when 68 00:18:53.600 --> 00:19:11.120 the reimbursement came in it it never came back to the town. >> Right. It didn't come back to the town. It went to the water department, I think. Yeah. >> And so this is just >> this is finally getting >> it back into the >> getting it back into our treasuries into our coffers. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Then we have the health department 69 00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:29.520 revolving account. So this would zero out the revolving account in in in that. So zeroing this out, this money is just going to come in as a as a receipt and then will fall out through free cash next year. 70 00:19:29.520 --> 00:19:45.360 >> No, this is the the money from the revolving >> right >> um account that was established two two years ago. So it was ended last year, but it requires um town meeting approval to remove any monies from it at this point because it hasn't been renewed, >> right? To zero the account, but where's 71 00:19:45.360 --> 00:20:01.360 that 17? So in theory, it comes off the revolving account. It gets credited to the general fund. But is it part of We haven't appropriated this money, right? So it would fall out as a receipt at the end of this fiscal year as a free ca part of the free cash calculations. 72 00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:16.880 >> No, it would be transferred back into the health department for this fiscal year >> for this current fiscal year. >> And we don't have um we don't have to Is that going to be in the motion? >> Mhm. >> To specify that, >> right? So, it's going to be the account 73 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:41.280 uh the 17,000 amount to be transferred into the special consultant account >> under the board of health. >> Yep. >> Gotcha. Uh next up is the uh annual CP CPC budget and then we have um the next eight are 74 00:20:41.280 --> 00:21:08.000 for uh CPA fundings. Uh, first one for the 20,000 for the Cemetery Commission, $11,000 for the Clark Chapman House, uh, $400,000 to establish the affordable housing trust, a little under $7,000 for the Nancy 75 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:24.080 Whitmore improvements. That'll be going to the Conservation Commission. That'll be that's a little bit different. um the previous organization probably it would be easier for the town to handle the funds and work with the organization than to transfer the funds to the organization. >> Yeah, there's a volunteer trailblazers 76 00:21:24.080 --> 00:21:38.960 organization that would probably do the work, but it's it's better I don't know that they have the capacity to manage the money on it. So, >> um than our local matchup account for the uh the greenway design. >> So, I have a question 77 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:56.080 >> on this one. Um, this particular one shows well compared to the previous ones negative 60,000 because it's in parenthesis. No, >> but it's in parenthesis because 60,000 spelled out, but >> it's just because it's spelled out. It's not intending to be negative. Yeah, 78 00:21:56.080 --> 00:22:11.840 >> I'm with you. But for consistency, we either we didn't spell out the other ones, >> right? That's true. >> Just for consistency. So maybe maybe take out the spelling out of the 60,000. Got >> get rid of the parenthesis. Then it's >> consistent. Yeah, that could Good point. >> Yeah, 79 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:29.520 >> we'll take the 60,000. >> I know. >> Yeah, good point. Yeah, >> that was my only question. Yeah, >> that makes them consistent. >> I think Stephen had a different one. >> Yeah, >> I have a more substantive one. Um, >> third line begins 2026 Mass Trails 80 00:22:29.520 --> 00:22:44.240 Grant. >> Right. >> I'd like to see in the amount of >> we've specified our match. Um, but it's always helpful if we could >> Mhm. 81 00:22:44.240 --> 00:23:02.960 >> show how much we've leveraged with it. >> Hang on. Let me see if I can find that real quick. But go ahead and I'll look in my records here because this was a grant we would have put in a couple months ago here. So, grant request rather. 82 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:18.320 >> Should be like 180. It's not reliable. It wasn't um >> each year is different. >> Yeah. No. And this is the hopefully we're at the final stage. This will be the 75% design. 83 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:35.559 It's not there. Hang on. I'll find it. Scott, just go ahead. You know, >> I found my confusion paragraph. It wasn't G. It was Hed in that same section >> under finance. All right. Go back. 84 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:55.280 In fact, it's right there as paragraph H winds up. Read the last. Well, it's all one sentence. >> It's all one big sentence. Okay. >> Committee shall prepare an annual report recommending a capital improvement budget for the next fiscal year and 85 00:23:55.280 --> 00:24:12.240 capital improvement budget, including recommended capital improvements for the following five years. shall submit, this is where I get screwed up, shall submit its capital budget to annual town meeting for adoption. 86 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:41.080 There's just a word transition and submit its capital budget to the annual town meeting for adoption and I think yeah and in place of shall Oh yeah. No, the and shell. Okay. Parallel. 87 00:24:42.559 --> 00:25:02.880 I don't know why that was such a problem. >> Somebody proof it for me. It may have gotten worse. >> Yeah, there's lots of shells in there. I mean, I'm sure we can simpl. As long as we're putting it, as long as we're rewriting it, we could, you know, we may as well edit it down a little bit. That's not a bad 88 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:37.039 >> This is where I really want to have it'll never grow back. >> Sorry, the formatting was off. I've seen it done all different ways. >> Yeah, >> good enough. >> That could probably still be tiny bit 89 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:54.960 challenge there. But yeah, >> we got capital capital improvement about three times in there too. >> Improvements program recommending >> well capital budget. The two concepts are an annual budget and a five-year 90 00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:09.919 plan. >> But you could say on the second sentence and a capital improvement plan uh inclusive of recommendations for the following five fiscal years. So you don't have to say recommended capital improvements. Again, just say 91 00:26:09.919 --> 00:26:27.279 >> inclusive of recommendations or something. Then you can take out that that capital improvements right in that third line. So you can just do in including recommendations or whatever. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, a capital improvement program 92 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:47.840 including recommendations for the following five years. So, just then take out that. I think that simplifies it a little bit. Stephen, >> your line right up. >> Yeah, that might just about do it. Pretty close. >> Four. 93 00:26:47.840 --> 00:27:04.080 You put four back in there. Recommendations for recommendations. >> Yeah, recommendations for the following. >> Yeah, just after recommendations for the following. Yep. Before the >> N uh >> right there. Right there. Perfect. 94 00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:32.400 >> Have critics live. >> It'll it'll fit there eventually. It might be just you could just change the font to a half of a >> half half a line or something there. All right. 95 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:54.880 There you go. We won't have all these little orphan things turning. Would you like a motion to approve the warrant as >> Well, we'll get there in a second. Okay. I think we got a couple more. Yeah, just one more thing. >> I'll Yeah, you can you can fill that. 96 00:27:54.880 --> 00:28:13.880 So, back on Stephen's question on the um >> Greenway Committee. Um so the 60,000 wherever that was greenway uh >> 23 >> uh CPC on the greenway committee. Yeah. 97 00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:44.000 Right about there. Okay. So the grant request is $240,000. and the 60,000 is our match. But I will also say that there is $16,254 for inind 98 00:28:44.000 --> 00:29:01.279 match for volunteer time and administrative support. So technically, >> well, we're not attempting to recite all the grant conditions. >> So okay, so the 240 is what we're asking for mass trails. So I think that's sufficient enough. Okay. 99 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:16.799 Perfect. Then next one. >> So this one is one >> a new acquisition I gather. And they're going to be going for a grant, a land grant. A 100 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:32.880 >> the 498. 498. >> Yeah. The way Yeah. This is interesting. So for the amount of money that's being requested here, >> not much. 498 has to be from a grant. 498,000. It's got to be from a grant, right? >> It's mass out from outside 101 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:51.559 >> from outside sources of some sort. Yeah. Right. >> So that um that amount is really like 50,000. >> Yes. >> About 50,000. Close to it. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. 102 00:29:52.559 --> 00:30:08.960 Is that the text that has to be read or the motion is a extract of that? >> That's the >> That is the motion. >> The motion. >> Okay. >> Uh >> well, that's the article. >> That's the article itself. The motion will be a little bit simpler. >> I'm hoping 103 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:25.279 >> it does recite a lot of law, I think, in the motion. >> Yeah. No, but that that is the full article. >> Draw straws for that one. >> The mot two, three, four. Yeah. Okay. All right. And then article 25. So we have this is the last one on revolving 104 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:39.600 funds. >> Yep. >> So we have 25 articles. >> Okay. All right. Anybody have any >> you want to set that date now? >> No, no, no. This is less than last time. 105 00:30:39.600 --> 00:30:54.640 No problem. This is >> No, I don't think that that's So um anybody have any other questions on these articles? If not, I will take a motion to approve them. What we would would like to do, honestly, um, while Scott will clean up the formatting. 106 00:30:54.640 --> 00:31:11.120 Yeah. But we do have the signature page here tonight. So, if we're agreement, while we're all here, I'd like us to sign that so Lucy can do her thing. >> Move approval of the warm as edited at this meeting. >> Okay. Have a second. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? 107 00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:26.799 >> I. All right. So, do you have a clean signature page there? >> We got five just in case. All right, perfect. >> We'll sign those around here and that will get that part done and we'll attach them to the couple of reformatted things here, but the content is basically 108 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:42.559 there. Okay. >> Yep. >> Perfect. All right. So, Scott, couple of other things. Did you want to go through the um you had made um some modifications on this? I don't know if you want to talk about it while that's 109 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:58.640 there. Yeah, I'm going to I'll include this into the uh um the the explanation. So, just the same sheet as last time. I just added the differences between each level. Remember, we had we had asked about 110 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:18.880 trying to show the the additional amounts so that people wouldn't be assuming that we were >> I think it looks good. >> Adding more things. Yeah. Yeah. Meet everybody's needs. All right. 111 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:39.679 And then Okay, that's that. Close enough. Okay, good. One more. I forgot. Yeah, we got to post them in six places, right? There we go. Okay, that's okay. So 112 00:32:39.679 --> 00:32:56.720 that's uh that's basically all together. And then our other thing was on scheduling the town meeting um sorry special town meeting Scott. >> So the um Norris school is available on uh June 20th. Okay. >> Which is is a Saturday. Let me just make 113 00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:12.640 sure it's >> Yeah. Is a Saturday. So um if you want to keep in the tradition of the new tradition of um Saturday town meetings that that would be available. >> Yeah. I mean, >> so my question is, 114 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:30.240 >> I do think we need a date. We need that. >> Are we able to use that date as the placeholder for the continuation of the town meeting or is that too far? >> I think that's too far. >> That' be too far. I would probably for the continuation town meeting, I probably suggest next the Saturday after 115 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:46.320 or sometime during the week, but probably as close to um the original annual town meeting as possible. Yeah. I mean, and and keep in mind, I think, you know, we said that the annual town meeting would be on Saturdays, but the special could be a different day. 116 00:33:46.320 --> 00:34:00.960 But I think hearing what you said last last meeting, John, the school's in session until the 19th. So, this makes sense to, you know, not interfere with whatever their last week is of activity. So, having even the special on a Saturday makes makes sense. I'm I'm fine 117 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:16.399 with that. I think pushing that out is a little too far beyond that. um >> special on the 20th. >> Special on the 20th. And that's going to require, correct me, this is going to require a two-eek posting. Okay. >> And don't forget 48 hours in advance for 118 00:34:16.399 --> 00:34:32.399 the select board to vote on it. So, um if you don't do it today, just we have to have enough time for the S board to actually >> So, we can vote on that at a May meeting or something. >> There's really like 17 or 18 days in front of a special town meeting. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And we'll we'll have plenty of time to vote on that in our one of our 119 00:34:32.399 --> 00:34:47.760 May meetings. >> The vote would be the articles. what's going to be discussed >> to to actually vote to have the special town meeting, right? Or >> uh you can do it. I'll make a motion that we schedule Saturday, June 20th at 10:00 a.m. >> Okay. 120 00:34:47.760 --> 00:35:04.960 >> For a special town meeting >> should >> the need arise. >> Second. >> All right. Got a second. >> Yep. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I I >> I All right. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. But then a little bit before two weeks, so three weeks out before 121 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:21.520 that time. So early June, we'd need some articles. Pretty close. >> But but we should know on May 20th. >> Yeah. Maybe. >> Um >> Yep. So that's that's fine. Yeah. Okay. So, as far as back on the moderator's 122 00:35:21.520 --> 00:35:37.920 earlier comments where he's already discussed with the town administrator a date for or to pick a date, should the town should the regular town meeting need to be continued to a later date? What do what are we thinking as far because I have a follow-up question on 123 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:54.560 that. If we get that far >> while the moderator is still here, just to clarify a comment he made earlier. >> Well, I think you know to go the I'm thinking the hang on a second. So the following weekend, so we've got our town meeting on sorry town meeting on May 2nd. If we had to continue it, 124 00:35:54.560 --> 00:36:12.680 oftentimes it would be continued to the next day. Is that not true? But Sunday may be problematic. So um pushing it to the following weekend, another Saturday. That's going to be the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend, which may be problematic, too. Um we could do it. 125 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:29.040 Yeah, I would mean coming back to an evening session or pushing it out to the 16th. >> And does does the once the once the town meeting is in session is that the continuation date 126 00:36:29.040 --> 00:36:44.720 would be outside our purview, right? Wouldn't it be the moderators? Because you're in charge from this the gavl of the meeting >> until the meeting's closed, right? >> It's Yes. It's good to know that what's available is available. 127 00:36:44.720 --> 00:37:00.000 >> That's right. >> And then you you if we do continue it, you would you would announce the date and time. >> Yes. >> There. >> Okay. And would you recommend that we keep it on a Saturday to continue it as a Saturday? >> Yes. >> Not Sunday afternoon. >> No. >> Really? >> Really? >> Okay. 128 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:15.839 >> We get a lot of push back on that for all kinds of reasons. >> Every town has its >> rhythm. Exactly. >> Yeah. Well, I honestly think then our probably likely choice is going to be that May 9th, that following Saturday, which is Yeah. that weekend, because the 129 00:37:15.839 --> 00:37:32.560 16th is that whole Spring into Southampton weekend where there's lots of stuff going on >> and people are out doing stuff around town, they're not going to come to a town meeting. >> So, if if we go hypothetically, we've got 25 articles. If we make it to number 130 00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:47.760 20 and we have to continue to a different date, that meeting is still open until you gall closed on that second meeting. Correct. >> So under your definition earlier of reconsider reconsideration, everything is still on the table that took part in 131 00:37:47.760 --> 00:38:04.000 day one because we haven't gled >> most towns won't interrupt but answer your question. Most towns demand reconsideration being that same session and not a following session. Okay. >> We don't have any bylaw to that. 132 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:20.400 >> We don't have any bylaw to that effect. But most times that is a practice. >> So in theory >> in theory >> if we get to the second day >> and someone asked to reconsider something that happened on the first day, it'll be denied. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Because again, you could you could have 133 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:35.920 a similar situation like Robert was explaining where people waited to do the reconsideration at the end of the meeting. So you could conceivably have people that were here for May 2nd. >> Yeah. No, I'm not I'm not arguing with I just want to clearly understand the moderator's position today. That makes sense. Yeah. >> So that 134 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:52.560 >> because we might have people there on the 9th that weren't there on the second. >> I mean, I know there's going to be a lot of discussion about this. So I just want to be able to >> reference the tape. You can go hear what the moderator said. If you want to reconsider it, you need to do it that day that it happens, >> right? >> Not wait till the aftermath, right? >> Some towns you must do it before the 135 00:38:52.560 --> 00:39:08.720 third article or following the article you want to reconsider. So there's a lot of variance out there. >> Okay. >> We have >> sounds like we need a bylaw. >> Please. >> Not this year though. >> An argument against that is the moderator needs to have the freedom to be able to decide. 136 00:39:08.720 --> 00:39:24.400 >> Okay. >> Reconideration. And if it wasn't an an bylaw, it' be a long one. >> Yeah. Yeah. Just hearing what you read is long enough. >> That was distill from a lot. >> I bet. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thanks. Do we have any other 137 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:40.640 business? If not, we have uh Yeah. So, >> well, I just clarification annual town meeting >> uh you have for us is um >> a second. >> Yeah. But what I'm noticing is we're the select board is not meeting an hour beforehand because that's not on here. >> No, we just 138 00:39:40.640 --> 00:39:56.720 >> do we need to do we need to >> uh only to determine the order in which we're going to do the articles, but I mean we kind of sit the way we sit. I don't know. Um we can I I think Judy just forgot to put this on there. I didn't pay attention to it. Do you need me there at 10:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. So I 139 00:39:56.720 --> 00:40:13.440 can put it in my calendar? >> Good point. Um well I Lucy is definitely asking people to get there at 9:30. So for those people, but us um >> I mean it may not hurt just to schedule it. >> It wouldn't hurt to have it scheduled. I think Yeah, I think let's let's schedule it for 9:30. You think half an hour? 140 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:29.599 >> Try and get out on the 28th. >> Yeah, I think Yeah, but I think having us there at 9:30 is fine. We can we can make that happen. That's a good point. It's a whole another setup for East Hampton >> Media and >> we save money by 141 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:44.880 >> They're going to be there. They're going to be there early anyway. >> Oh, yeah. They're going to be there regardless. >> They're going to be there early anyway. Yeah. So, so 9:30 we'll have a a mini SB meeting just to go over >> save >> the process. That isn't where we're going to save a whole lot though. >> Uh so, thanks Sean. That's a good 142 00:40:44.880 --> 00:41:00.160 reminder. Um so, we will get together on April 28th. um May 2nd at uh Norris School at 9:30 for select board and then the actual meeting at 10:00. We'll have another select board meeting, regular meeting on 143 00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:16.160 May 12th. There'll be the town election on May 19th and then we will have a final May select board meeting on May 26th. Okay, that's the list of everything. >> And special town meeting June 20th >> and special m Yes, special town meeting 144 00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:32.240 June 20th at 10:00 a.m. Okay. All right, I think that's everything, guys. Anything else? >> Move to second. >> All right, second. Move tojourn. All right, all those in favor? I >> I. >> All right, thank you. We are adjourned at about 510. 145 00:41:32.240 --> 00:41:41.079 Thanks very much, everyone. >> This government meeting is brought to you by Eastworks and our local cable subscribers.