This government meeting is brought to you by Eastworks and our local cable subscribers. I think it is time. So, let us call to order the meeting of the Southampton Select Board for May 26th at 6 p.m. And if we could start by standing and saying the Pledge of Allegiance, please.
>> 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. >> Thank you.
All right. Is anyone here for citizens speak tonight? >> Yes, Robert. >> Robert Floyd College speaking as town moderator. Just want to make two announcements. I've appointed my fourth appointment for finance committee Michael Beller. So he served I believe
in the meeting today. So they have a full house. And the second announcement is the town miter special town meeting article information session is going to be June 11th Thursday 7 o'clock right here. >> June 11th. >> Yes. >> Okay,
>> that's it. Thank you. >> Okay, Lucy. >> Lucy Dalin, town clerk, 10 Strong Road, Southampton, Mass. I had a lot to say. I'll keep it quick though. Um, first congratulations to all the winners. Um,
thank you to all the voters for coming out and making the time to come and vote whether in person or mail in voting. And on May 19th, um, there was 2,267
votes were cast. There were 2,174 put into the machine and 93 handc counted. I think that's right. Yeah. Um, I'll be sending out cards to the winners. I'd like to remind people of a
few things. Um, and I'm not going to get into it because this is not the place. But I do not respond to Facebook as myself because I am not friends with myself on Facebook as Lucy Dalton.
I am just the town clerk. I do not have a I do not log on as myself to look at the town clerk page. Please, if you have any questions, come and call me. Come into the office. Please don't blast it
all over Facebook. If you don't have anything nice to say, just come into my office. Um there are people's, you know, >> just leave that. You're moving the microphone. Sorry, I'm nervous. I don't know why I'm nervous. I hate talking in
front of people. >> Um, but there, you know, people are commenting on issues, which I don't know why because some people that are commenting, I have your voting status and you did not come and vote. Um, I
wanted to comment on spoiled ballots. Spoiled ballots are marked on the back when a voter messes up their first ballot. You get three chances. That's the law. The spoiled balllets do not leave the building. They do not get shredded at home.
We that's we just don't do that. When a voter spoils their when a B person brings their ballot back to us and said, "I messed up. Can I get a new one?" We take the ballot, we write spoiled on it, and we keep it. It never leaves the building. And we do not count spoiled
ballots because that would be double voting. Um, I just want to remind people about when you're filling out the ballots to please fill in the ovals, do not use check marks, do not use X's, do not use the little tiny dots because that's the
machine is very sensitive, very, very sensitive. And um, you know, if you put a X or small enough into the box, it can be corrected and filled in the oval and then you can put it back in. Um,
please don't put names of characters like anyone but him, anyone but her, no one, not her, me, please, Tom Brady, Mickey Mouse, because those end up in the write up right in pile that we have
to count. Um, for those who said they applied for mail and voting, you have to reapply every single year for local elections. If you need forms, we have them in the office. We can get them to you. Um, but for local elections, you have to apply
every year. The state is going to be, remember this, sending out cards mid July to every registered voter for the elections that are being held in September and November. If you fill one out, please read the card and sign it
before returning it to us. September 1st is the state primary. We'll be open from 7 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. November 3rd is the state election. We also will be open 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
I'm going to probably put an article coming up to change the hours of voting. Um, I guess this wasn't convenient, 12 to 8, but it's always been that way since I've been here. Um, so I'm going
to try to have change them to maybe 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. um for local elections. Um, I just want to talk about really quick, um, recounts because there's
recount rumors floating around there. Recounts cost money, a lot of money. But there and there is a process to it. If there is a need for a recount, feel free to text me, email me, whatever, come into my office. Um, question one A won
by 169 votes. Not close. Question 1B failed by 80 votes. Not close. In order for a recount, there needs to be a petition signed and the board of registers have to be involved.
A police officer has to be paid. Workers need to be hire hired as counters and get paid. So, um I think that's about it. Um, if anybody wants the breakdown, I can tell you
there was a lot of people who did not vote on every single thing. I've had people come my office and say, "Oh, I just want to vote on that one person cuz I know him. I don't want to vote on the question. I don't know this person. Um,
which question should I vote on?" So, a lot of people were confused. There was not there was a lot that didn't vote on the questions. So, um but if anybody has any questions, just come and see me. The state elections, I just wanted to tell
people that we're going to have um the voter registration deadline for September 1st is August 22nd. So, you have to become a registered voter by then to vote in the September primary. The vote by mail application deadline is
going to be August 25th. Those will be on the cards that the state sends out. And we will be having early voting in person August 22nd through the 28th. November 3rd, we're going to have early
voting from October 17th through the 30th. Um early voter I mean voter registration deadline is October 24th. Um then the vote by mail application deadline will be October 27th. that election is November 3rd. So, um, and
for the June 20th meeting, the special town meeting, you must be registered by June 10th in order to vote at that meeting. We're going to try and do another way of getting people through the doors. Um, it worked.
A lot a lot was, you know, going on. We weren't expecting that many people, but um we're going to try a different way. So, and that's it. That's all I have to say. Congratulations everybody. And I'll be sending blue cards to the winners
with them to keep in their wallets. And if anyone has any questions, just you can ask. So, I did swear in a lot of people today, too. So, get ready. >> That's good. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Lucy. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right. All right. Uh just a couple
things from my end too. Um just a big thank you to Lucy and all the election workers for all the time and effort that was put in. I know you were here till very late at night counting all those ballots. So much appreciate all the all the effort. I think the uh the voting went quite well and certainly the turnout was monumental compared to what
we have ever seen I think in town. Uh, and also thank you very much for the organization with the American Legion for our Memorial Day tribute uh yesterday, which unfortunately the parade ended up getting cancelled. If we'd postpone maybe another couple hours, we might have gotten the parade in because the sun came out. But >> I think we need to change.
>> We'll see. Anyway, we had a a very very nice, very small uh simple ceremony at uh Norris School with the American Legion and the Scouts, and that was very, very nice. So, thanks for everybody that was organizing that as well. And congratulations to our new
select board members, Charlie Kaniki, Doug Hamill. Congratulations and welcome to the select board. Um, looking forward to having you here with us. Uh, and uh, thank you also to Stephen Johnson for his three-year term. Uh, he will be around, I'm sure, on other committees, but not on select board. And we'll have
different um I think with Scott we'll probably get you some administrative information in terms of how you'll get your packets and if you want anything printed out to talk to Judy and all those kinds of things, but generally everything comes to us by email these days. We used to print these gigantic pieces of paper uh packages that were
ridiculously too many trees being involved. So we we finally have gotten into the email and uh technology age. So good. All right. So with that, I think we'll just keep on going with the agenda. So, Scott, town administrator report, please.
>> Thank you. Yeah, you may have heard there was an election last week. Um, I just again want to thank all the the town clerk, all the hard work that you put in, all the volunteers, all the pole workers, the police officers, the council on aging. Uh, there's a lot more that goes on with an election to get it going than than people actually realize.
So, >> and uh again, thanks to all those that came out to vote. I'm not sure what the stat statistics are 100 years ago, but I think in modern day history, I think around 45% participation rate was one of the highest that we've had in Southampton. So, I think that was good. Um, the new version of the finance
committee capital committee vote um met today actually uh with the annual town meeting with the changes. The capital committee is now part of the finance committee and then we also have the uh with the override the $300,000 that was passed. Um, so I did want to meet with them just to get the ball rolling on a few items, especially for the upcoming
special town meeting. Um, the two biggest things were getting on the warrant a um, borrowing authorization for an amount for the ambulance and for the dump truck. So, I'll talk a little bit more about that next week, but um, that was the goal and they have a lot of
work to do. So, uh, the DLS is coming out uh, for a meeting. Uh, Matt Andre, our representative, is coming out for a field visit on June 4th. introduce himself and go over some of the items and uh municipal finance and and just have a discussion. Um for the new select
board members, uh whenever you're available, I just want to schedule a time with Nova Technology to get you up up to speed on your email and your access and talk about all the administrative stuff that uh that Chris had mentioned. So um we have to we all have to have for public records access, we all have to have town meeting uh town
emails. So um that's about it. >> Okay. >> All right. Any questions? None. All right. How about any select board reports, John? Anything on your end? >> I haven't had any committee meetings. >> No committee meetings. Okay. Ellen, anything? >> I have not. >> Oh dear. Okay.
>> Well, I think it only might be me then, uh, which I'll do my best to make it short. Um, we've got two things going on basically with the bylaw review advisory committee. Um, having um adopted the idea the the the MGL on the um commission on disability, our next step
is to actually write the uh a bylaw that governs how many people are part of that commission and who composes that that commission. And so that we're working on that and we should it's not a complicated one. So we'll have that I'm pretty sure for the warrant for the special town meeting. Other than that,
the grant committee has been busy. We've got two two things kind of going on right now. We've been focused really with the onetop program. This is a Massachusetts um state program that is um one that has combined many many probably eight or 10 different grant
portfolios and programs where you can put in a grant and it goes from one um division of the state to another. Uh so if you don't fit a particular category, they will automatically move it on so you don't have to keep reapplying things. So this has been uh something
that uh the grand committee has been working on with Steven uh and it's basically been focused on the property at at 125 College Highway looking at the preconstruction all the the design work on the land itself. So this is really much more looking at where septic and storm water
might go where a roadway might go. It's all that kind of pre-engineering uh permitting pre-development kind of work. So, it's really just nuts and bolts of how does the land get laid out. How would you survey it out so that we can have a combination of things as
we've been talking about that will include not only public safety, COA, affordable housing, but also some commercial space, mixeduse space. So, basically, it's we're trying to create a master plan, and that would be the request for funding. Um, this would be something that would take probably a
year and a half to two years if we could awarded the grant. would take that long to get the actual permitting and any kind of layout of where things would go before any real construction could start. So, that one is due next week on June 3rd, and we're trying hard to meet that deadline. Um, PVPC is helping us
with that a little bit as well. Uh, and then the other good news is that we've been waiting and didn't think it was going to happen, but the federal grant for the assistance to firefighters grant, uh, the FEMA grant, um, we had applied two years in a row now. one uh
year and a half ago now. Uh they were supposed to release it again in January and they never did. It's just been released uh and it's the um the one where we will put in the application for the pumper tanker uh which last year when we applied it was $750,000
and the chief is getting a new quote for that right now and also the uh SCBA units uh replacement and we had put in a grant for that for 169,000 last year. So although prices will have increased, but we will be working on those um with uh
Chief Fulli and uh the grant committee will have a a look at that too. But a lot of the grant on that one, a lot of the applications, a lot of statistics, number of fire calls, number of ambulance runs, uh how many seats you have in your ambulance, how many patients you transport, all that kind of
stuff. So a lot of it is numbers, but there is some narrative that has to go with that. And that one is a short turnaround. It just got announced and it's due already on June 22nd. So that's going to be a quicky turnaround, but um we'll see if we can get going on that. So hopefully uh we will have some grant
money coming in. I think there are a couple of others. Uh COA is working on one in their own right, I believe. And I know Randall has worked on one for Culvert um Culvert work on Gilbert Road. So um there's various grant work that's being done in town, not only by the committee, but by some of the uh
department heads as well. Okay. All right. So, with that, uh, let's jump down to we've got a list of appointments here. Uh, quite a few. So, if anybody would like to start off, we can take them. Um, as, uh, there's, let's see, most of them are all the same same
expiration time. So, Ellen, you want to take the first few or whatever you want to do? >> I can do them. >> All right. Um, I move that we accept the appointment by Charlie Kicki to the Agricultural Commission, the three-year term to expire June 30th, 2029.
Marjorie Nato, Cultural Council, three-year term to expire June 30th, 2029. Judy Taylor, Cultural Council, three-year term to expire June 30th, 2029. Robert Kosup, Historical Commission, three ter three-year term to expire June
30th, 2029. Dor Dods, Historical Commission, three-year term to expire June 30th, 2029. Derry Surl, Historical Commission, three-year term to expire June 30th, 2029. Shannana Reed, Zoning Board of Appeals, the three-year term to expire
June 30th of 2029. And Charlie Kaniki, zoning board of appeals alternate, three-year term to expire June 30th, 2020 29. And Steven Thor Johnson, the housing authority until the next election. >> Okay. >> Second for the purposes of discussion. >> Yes. Go ahead.
>> So my question is on Shannon Reed. Um due to a lack of quorum the select I was appointed by the select board to fill until we have a quorum. If she is appointed then my term is done. Correct. >> She has >> cuz she would she would make the or she
won the existing >> she she was on there at one point. I don't know when she These are all reappoints as far as I know because I think um >> the last meeting that we had last month well maybe it was last month maybe it was a month and a half ago there were three members and then there was a question about an alternate which is
going to be resolved tonight >> right >> um but my understanding I was only filling in because they didn't have a quorum >> okay >> so there's a meeting on June 10th okay >> is my question whether I still need to attend or not >> we'll check that before then then um I had understood that um
uh there's There's one, two, three. I thought there were three people already on there. Uh, one maybe has not chosen to be re-uped, but we'll check that. >> Okay. >> Okay. Thanks, Sean. >> All right. So, with that, uh, if no other questions, we have a motion and a
second. All in favor? >> I >> I All right. Any opposed? All right. Hearing none. Uh, everyone has got their appointments. Um, these are basically all reappoints. Steven will be an exception until the next election because housing authority is an
elected position, but we can appoint until the next election only. Uh, and so Judy will be getting out letters for appointment and people would have to uh come in and swear in and do that usual stuff before you can be at a meeting and vote. Okay. All right. So, with that,
let's jump into new business. And I'd like to suggest if everybody doesn't mind moving one thing up on the agenda just because Lucy's here and she has to notoriize it. And that's the purchase and sale for 354 College Highway. Um,
we have it in our packets here. Scott, do you want to say something about it? I thought maybe the housing authority would come, but they're not here tonight, I don't believe. Or I'm sorry, Andy, you're here. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I was I'm sorry. I forgot you're on the housing. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I forgot you're on the housing authority. Um,
>> that is the um >> It's the Yeah. >> Yeah. No, I was thinking Habitat. >> He's the habitat one. Yes. Yeah. >> Yeah. And Bowman. Um that's the Habitat for Humanity
home that they will be building. Um I think it's three bedrooms. I don't I I'm not prepared. >> No, that's fine. That's fine. No, I was I was wondering if if the chair was going to come tonight, but she said she had another commitment. So, let me just That's fine. I'll I'll just sort of read
the highlights of this. Um, so this is a property uh 354 College Highway. Uh, Scott, I'm sorry. Go ahead. You know more about it than I do. Go for it. >> So, this is the um the first project of the housing. Um, it's an affordable housing project that we sent out a RFP
after land was purchased. Um, Habitat for Humanity was um chosen after RFP process. Uh with that we are essentially conveying the land to habitat to for habitat is it four or two uh habitat for
humanity and they have the requirement to build the house within I believe it's 2 years. >> Um one of the things just to note in the uh the purchase and sale and the eventual deed is there's restrictions on future. So it binds the land for for being uh used for affordable housing. So
um but this is a great opportunity. Um it's really our we're we're dipping our toe in the water of of this. Um last time meeting we obviously got the the housing trust set up. Um so there's a lot lot of opportunity coming up, but this is kind of the first step. So and I just want to give a shout out to the
committee for doing everything and um you know really spearheading this. So >> yeah, just a couple other notes. I think this has got to be a single family dwelling. I believe three bedroomedroom if I read that right. Um and um it will have a um affordable housing restriction
on it that will be conveyed um in perpetuity from what I understand here. Um and it will be open for um residents who qualify under a lowinccome
uh program, preference program for the town of Southampton. But in no case will it be more than I believe it's um up to where did I see that? Sorry. Up to 80% of the median area median income. So it
can't be for a household earning no more than 80% of the area median income for the town of Southampton. And last I looked that was probably around 90,000 but I could be wrong on that. So So it's somewhere in that that's the maximum that anybody could earn to be eligible for this. And that's all in the hands of
Habitat for Humanity to make those awards according to the um all the procedures of the uh executive office of housing and livable communities uh which is their new name. So as Scott said, it
has um from recording of the deed, I believe they have six months to get started on construction and it has to be built within 24 months. So that's the plan as far as I know. So, anybody have any questions about that? So, >> there's no no form on vote. Those have
all been done. We're just executing the documents, >> right? This is just the purchase and sale and this has come to us from KP Law. This has all gone through them and this is the final version that we got from KP Law this week or last week, I guess. Yeah. So, as far as I know, there's no other constraints on this that I'm aware of.
>> And Katie will fill in the blanks because of the uh the closing, >> right? The closing dates and all that. They'll be filled in by the by the legal team. But other than that, we just have to sign as we're conveying the the deed. We're the sellers and Habitat for Humanity. Pioneer Valley Habitat for
Humanity is the buyer. Okay. So, with that, I would take a motion to allow us to sign this document and um keep on moving it forward. >> So, moved. >> Okay. I hear a motion from Charlie. Yeah, I have a second.
>> Second. >> All right. Second by Doug. Okay. Any discussion? No. Any questions? So again, this is a property down at 354 College Highway, a little bit beyond the golf course on the right hand side. It's property. It's about an acre, 1.3 acres,
I believe, something like that. >> Once that is built, is is it awarded by lottery? >> Uh it maybe I'm not sure how I think that Yeah, Habitat for Humanity I think has to get applicants and I think they often do use a lottery system >> um for those that are income eligible as
far as I know. Yeah. Okay. All right. So I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I I All right. Very good. Okay. So, I think why don't we uh if you have that document, Scott, >> should be what we got right here. >> And then Lucy could do her notoriization
thing and we'll let you I think there's maybe two places to sign there. >> There's one. There's one on the um the deed itself, then one on the land development agreement. Uh
>> um >> um >> it just says notary and when your commission expires. I'm not quite sure. Lucy, >> here's the entire document. That helps you. Oh, thank you.
It's the only one. >> I'm just going to print this. Yeah, I think the the exhibit is just missing the page. >> Yeah. >> 24 and 25. Second page on it. Yeah, I think there's one more just sign as well. Yeah,
missing a page. Sorry, that quick. Give that a minute. >> H >> not the notary page. >> Yep. >> One more page to sign. It didn't print out, I guess.
I believe I have it. The notary signature. >> Well, we have the u the seller and the buyer one, but the land development one is the one that um has to have the notary on it. I think >> this is one more page to sign. It's got one to print it off. Yeah,
>> it looks like there's three places for >> I don't know. Huh? Is that not it? >> Well, that does look like it. Well, let's see. Where'd you find that? >> I printed it. >> Well, let's see what he comes back. >> Yep. Scott, I think this is it. Charlie
had copy here. >> Yeah. >> You okay using that one? >> Yeah. Go ahead. Let's do this. >> No, I'm not okay reading. >> Yeah. There you go. We'll get there. Okay. It's funny. >> All right.
>> Oh, that's for the habitat. >> That's for habitat, I think. There. Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. We can double check tomorrow to make sure we filled in all the blanks, but I think the uh the lawyer will fill in some of the dates on there, Lucy. I think. Okay, with that, uh, let's move on to
other business. Uh, thank you, Lizzy. Um, that I think we go back to, um, Scott's office when you're done tomorrow. That's fine. Uh, so election discussions. Scott, would you like to lead that? Anything to
say? >> Uh, well, obviously with the turnover of the psych board, but the uh the override for the $ 1.9 million did pass. Um, so that we're going to move forward uh with with that budget and I'll publish the final budget on the on the website in
the next couple of days. Um, but I think it's it's going to be a tight year as well. So, it doesn't solve all of our problems. We still have to be fiscally responsible and our revenues are still going to be stagnant for the next year. So, we have to keep that in mind. Um, so we're going to look at ways to be more cost-effective and figure out ways that
we can reduce cost, but um we're going to be working with the schools and and seeing how we can kind of keep things under budget next year and and move forward. Um, couple bright spots, the health insurance, uh, looks like we're going to be uh in the black for that and have a little bit of room
for the for the breathing room for um, the budget in that. Uh, the capital committee, which I'll talk more about next week, but they met today. Um, so with the override, there's that $300,000 and they're already going to be proposing uh borrowing for an ambulance and a dump truck um for special town
meeting assuming it's approved by the site board. Um so I think that's uh a lot of positive things going forward. Okay, >> great. Any comments, questions? Anybody? All right. So, next up will be as usual
once we have an election, uh it's time to sort of look at election of select board officers. Uh at this point in time, we have four spots and kind of a backup. So, we have chair, vice chair, warrant clerk, which is the person who
signs all the payroll documents along with the treasurer and the accountant, signs all the vendor payments. Um, and so that's a weekly weekly event. Uh, usually get called to come down to the town hall to get that signed with either the treasurer or the accountants's
office. Uh, then there's the clerk, especially for uh when we have executive um committee taking minutes. And then because sometimes the warrant clerk might be on vacation or out of town or whatever, we have a backup to the warrant clerk so that payroll doesn't
get delayed. So there's basically five five slots. So, each of us get to pick one sort of. But anyway, I would like to just open it up and um I'm going to just take the chair's privilege here if I may. Um I have been chair for I think I just looked tonight.
I've been chair I think for four years. Um and I think that's more than enough. Uh I would like to pass that on. I think it's fair for other people to uh take that on. So, I'm I'm not going to be uh putting myself or nor would I accept being nominated as chair for the select
board going forward. So, with that, I will open it up for discussion on shall we start with the the simpler ones maybe and move on up or how would you like to proceed? Any choices? We can start with the clerk
and and move on up or or we can start at the top with the uh with the select board. How would how would anybody like to proceed? >> Well, I do if so if you if your if your desire is to step aside as chair, then as vice chair, I'd like to put myself
forward for chair. >> Okay. All right. Sounds like >> Well, I guess if that doesn't work, I'll take the clerk. >> Okay. >> I was thinking of the clerk myself. >> That's fine. No, that that's good. I That's fine. So, I uh I hear a
nomination and I would second that nomination uh for John to be the the new chair of the select board. Any comments? I'll take that as a second myself. Uh anybody any comments? If not, all those in favor >> as well. >> I >> I >> I All right. Congratulations. All right.
Vice Chair, any nominations? >> We could swap places if you'd like. I I would only back up if you're out of town. It's not going to be a full-time job. I know that much.
>> I'd be glad to be vice chair, but um that's about it. >> I'll nominate Chris for vice chair. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I I All right. Thank you. How about warrant clerk? One has to take care of all the money stuff. >> I'd be happy to do that.
>> All right. >> I can get a nominate book. >> Yep. All right. Can I have a second on that for Doug? >> I'll second it. >> All right. All those in favor for Doug Hamill as the warrant clerk. >> I >> I All right. Very good. Thanks, Doug. >> And Ellen, you've been serving as the
clerk. Would you like to continue? >> All right. All those in favor? >> I >> I All right. Ellen will continue as the clerk. And then, uh, backup warrant clerk. Charlie, would you like to be the backup warrant clerk or >> every once in a while? My pay is in that
warrant. Okay, >> that's true. >> Good point. Okay, maybe that's not a good idea. Yeah, we got to talk about that at some other point, too, probably. Um, okay. As a person who's around town hall and and not working in real life, I guess I could be I am currently the
backup warrant clerk. Um, if nobody objects to me doing that, that would only be on the rare occasion when Doug's not available. If you're out of town or something, it's it would be I think I've signed two or three times when Steven hasn't been available. If anybody's okay with that. >> So move.
>> All right. All right. All those in favor? >> I I All right. >> I would um >> suggest that really the warrant clerk is the one that's changed from Steven to Doug. That other than that, the other positions take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1st.
>> Okay. >> So that you're you're in the middle of the special town meeting. You're able to >> run that through as chair. >> Okay. >> Does that work? >> Sure. If that's the desire, I'd be >> That's a good point. >> Yeah. >> But I Since Steven's vacant, we need somebody to sign the warrants. We need Doug to start immediately
>> because I had to sign the warrants today for for him. So, yeah. Okay, let's do that. We'll we'll make the official swap on July 1st then for that. Okay. Thank you for that. >> All right. Any comments, questions? Everybody okay with that? >> All right. Okay. Let's talk about the special town meeting. Uh we have that
set for June 20th at Nor School at Remind me of the timing. >> 10:00. >> 10:00. All right, 10:00 and we have uh the current uh warrant uh is open for articles and that will close on June
2nd. So anybody that has articles to get in, we need to get them on the list and get them to Scott so we can be talking about these. So why don't you tell us what we have already right now? >> Um so the first one would be sorry let me just just update it from an hour ago.
Uh this is like where we need to we have the um the invoice from central offices of the $200,000 that we owe out of the roughly $500,000 from a few years ago. >> That was Hampshire regional one >> that we signed the contract with. Right. >> Um so we paid 150 last year, it would be
200 this year and I have to double check the remainder of it. So uh with the free cash it's essentially going to be taken out of operational stabilization and then when free cashache comes in uh next year we can replenish the uh the operational stabilization. Um the next one would be our concom
wetlands bylaw amendment. So that was pulled that was article 13 at the annual town meeting that was pulled for uh town council. They've reviewed it and made some suggestions and uh there it's currently being reviewed by the concom right now and we expect that to be ready for special town meeting. That's the one
about the uh the winter essentially the winter and the in >> and the moving >> wetlands delineation during winter months. Yes. >> Okay. >> Uh the bylaw committee with the ADA uh committee the um the guidelines set forth with that. >> Mhm.
>> Um then just happening today um the borrowing authorization. So couple things. This is with the $300,000 that's going to be available on July 1st. Um the capital committee/fincom have a have a long long journey ahead of them on
this on and we had a really great meeting an hour ago. Um a lot of different ways that they can fund these things. But essentially what this is going to do is just allow the borrowing authorization from town meeting. It doesn't bind the capital committee or the psych just allows them to move forward with it. And there'll be a
provision in the uh the warrant that says it'll obviously subject to the capital committee approval. Um the reason that we're doing this now is an ambulance will take anywhere from one and a half to three years um to actually get ready. And the other thing is the dump truck is going to be another one
and a half to two years, hopefully sooner. Uh but this will allow the capital committee to at least check off these boxes for the borrowing and then plan ahead over the next two or three years on what what might be available. So the capital committee is in charge of that $300,000 as well as the
stabilization operational the oper the capital stabilization fund. Uh but town meeting has to approve any borrowing. Um so it's kind of a joint venture between them. So u town meeting doesn't have to prove the funding just the borrowing of it. >> Uh and then the next two were there's
two articles articles for the CPA. um one with the grant match design for Mass Trails and the other one was the uh fee acquisition, the second part of the triple uh triple brook property. >> Okay. And I think there'll be a third one uh we're looking at one um with the
um um >> Old Town Hall. >> Old Town Hall restoration of the uh front steps. Yeah. >> Under historic. Yeah. >> So, I think that's all I'm aware of at the moment. Anybody else know of any offhand that are coming up? any other um
>> there is one the building commissioner came to me about word smithing some of the bylaws relative to the controls because there's a section there that regulates the placing of septic systems that shouldn't be sitting in the bylaw
because it should be in the state sanitary code >> which bylaw is that >> I don't know I got to go look it up but >> check that out get back to to Scott before the end of the week >> it's just going to be a language change it's nothing major Okay. All right. Uh yeah. Okay. Um not aware of any other um
anything on the bylaws or anything else related to grants or matching at at this point in time. Um any uh end of year transfer stuff. >> Uh that I'm going to talk about maybe uh doing a special meeting for next week uh with FinCom and Psych Board.
>> Okay. >> Um Bradley's getting everything squared away. biggest there there's a few accounts that we're going to have to transfer money in. The biggest one would be the snow removal account which we'll be able to cover. So we're going to have a list of all the transfers. Um so if we could do that along with the warrant approval. >> So that can be done with fin and select
board. It does go to town meeting. >> Yes. Yep. That's correct. >> All right. Okay. >> And fin's available Monday and Tuesday of next week. >> Okay. All right. We'll get to that >> as long as we vote by July 15th. It doesn't need to go to town meeting. >> Yeah. Right.
Okay. So, maybe there'll be a couple more uh articles coming in, but it shouldn't be too many more. >> We can certainly postpone it a little bit. I'd like to get at least done the earlier the better, but um we can certainly postpone the transfers till later on if if you're comfortable. Just focus on special town meeting. >> Mhm.
Okay. All right. Any questions, comments, anything? All right. Okay. So, we'll be working toward that. And Robert has already given us his date for June 11th, I believe it was, for the reviewing the articles. So, we will close the warrant again on um on June
2nd will be the closing date of the warrant. So, any articles need to get in very soon. Okay. All right. Let's see what's up next. Um ah PVTA bus route.
Let me take this one. This is a fun one. >> Um let me uh get my notes on this one. So, you may have noticed probably a week, 10 days ago now, all of a sudden overnight there were these PVTA signs appearing all over College Highway and it's like,
what's happening here? And it was all like, you know, coming soon, call this number kind of thing. So, Scott and I reached out to the head of PBTA because we'd kind of heard a rumor, but there had been nothing given to us really. Um, there had been no no discussion
whatsoever on this. So since then we've had a few email exchanges and what we have is the G47 route that will go from the Academy of Music in Northampton down to Southwick Town Hall is a new route and it will stop in Southampton which is
amazing to have public transit in Southampton. Uh it's going to also have a stop in Westfield at the Olver um transit center I believe and this has been made possible from PVTA's point of view. They apparently got a grant from
Mass DOT for two years. So, this is a two-year project to try it out and see how it how it goes. Um, and it's going to be in a partnership also with uh FRA, our Franken Franklin uh regional transit authority bus uh that we have for the
senior center. So at some point in time when we have another driver which isn't right away but in a few weeks hopefully that would also have a leg where the fritter bus could transport citizens that are not along the college highway route from home to get to the route to hop the hop the main corridor bus if you
will. So this is all kind of evolving. It's a new experiment I think I would say but it's kind of exciting. Um they have chosen the routes uh from what they've said based on sort of a reasonable distribution of population density andor locations where they think people would want to get off and do some
sort of business whether it's government businesses business like here at town hall or um commercial business like up at uh the Pyanos area or whatever. In the past I think the main stop had been only at Big Y and that had been the Nawanic um express bus out of East
Hampton for a number of years. PVTA from my understanding is taking that stop over. So it will be a stop at Big Y which will be kind of the first stop in town and then they've chosen three other stops. So there's a stop obviously on the way south and a stop on the way
back. So the first one uh after that after um Big Y I believe is going to be along College Highway and Lind Drive. So College Highway by Pisano is the bank area and then Lind Drive across the street. Um then down College Highway and
Pomeroy Meadow Road uh intersection. Uh and then um College Highway and Maple Street. So just just beyond Town Hall, so right around here and where the church entrance is um on the way out and then East Street on the way back. So
almost almost across the street. Um, and those were again chosen because of the businesses in the area and the thought that writership would want to get out and do some some something around there. Their other one that they had proposed was the next one. There were four of them. The next one was down at Brickyard
Road kind of kitty corner across from Sheldon's and then Moosebrook Road on the way back. So Moosebrook Road I had already heard from a couple people as soon as this was out and people were talking about it. A couple people had already contacted me saying Moose Brook Road seems like this is really a a
problematic one. It's very dangerous coming down that hill. I think coming down John from your house area that curve is it's it's not quite a blind curve, but people come flying I think down that hill from Westfield and don't necessarily stop very well. Uh and especially at Moosebrook, you've not
only got the Sheldon's entry, you've got Moosebrook Road, but then you've got the back side of Sheldon's where people exit. So you got all this congestion of people getting out onto College Highway and it just seemed like this maybe is not a smart idea. So just put out a concern to them saying would you take a
look at that you may not be aware of this kind of traffic pattern there. Uh and they said that they would be willing to take a look at that and then uh we also asked whether they would not think about adding another stop further south because that was as as south as it was
going to go was around the Sheldon's area. So, since then, we've heard uh today that the ones that I've mentioned to you are seemingly going to be okay, but they are adding um they're going to move the Moosebrook ones, so it won't be right where they were planning. They
said that they were moving it northerly to the area of the bridge. So, >> that's where the sidewalk ends. >> Yeah, I guess it's right at the sidewalk area there. So, I'm not sure how great a place that is, but it's better than what they were thinking. I guess there's that. And then they will be adding a
stop at uh College Highway and Valley Road in both directions. And they're going to be putting a stop at College Highway and Clark Street as well. So uh and that could be even given there's parking there. That might even serve as kind of a um uh what do I want to say?
Um hello ride share kind of thing. Yeah, park and ride kind of thing in a way. Possibly could be. Anyway, but anyway, they're they're experimenting with it. they they're, you know, seemingly willing to try out different things and see how it goes. Um, they're going to be
making the changes. Uh, they've met with their team and they're going to be revising the schedule because right now Southampton isn't even on the printed schedule that they had shown us. So, they're going to be putting in times of when it would arrive in town at various stops. Um, and they're planning on seeing, you know, putting out signs and
getting us flyers and publicity to get the word out even more. But they're saying that they're hoping to have this in effect as of next week. Um, so stay tuned. Uh, we know as much as we know at this point in time. Charlie. Yeah. >> Yeah. First, we worked on this over 10 years ago.
>> Mhm. >> And we ended up getting stonewalled because of the tip grants because the larger cities were getting all the bus >> money. So Southampton never got it. But we were trying that 10 years ago. I'm delighted to see this happen. >> No, it's amazing. Yeah. The other question is how many times are they
going to go through town in a day? >> Don't know. I haven't seen the schedule. >> I don't I don't want to see you pick somebody up, you know, at the Eastman Savings Bank and they go to Westfield only to return next Tuesday. >> Exactly. No, I know. Well, we'll find out. They didn't make that very clear in terms of how the how the frequency is of
the routes. But, I mean, the fact that they're willing to do that many stops in town, I think, is pretty pretty amazing in its own right. But >> Oh, I'm I'm delighted. >> Yeah. No, I think it's great. I I got a message from a former select board member who doesn't live in town anymore who said the same thing was like we tried this way back when and it never
worked. So um you know it's an experiment of sorts but it seems to be you know something they're willing to do and as I said they got the grant from DOT so >> so the um >> go for it. >> So I agree I think it's great. I think, you know, a little advanced
communication maybe before they put the signs up would have been nice. But, >> um, that being said, if we don't know the question or if we don't know this answer, then we should probably look at it. But, communities that have PVTA get a regional assessment. I'm assuming that for the first two years of the grant,
it's zero impact to us. >> Might be good just to verify that because I'm guessing that's the right answer. But then, >> could be. Yeah. a year from now, we could probably start looking around to ask if this is going to go based on the numbers. What do they think our assessment is going to be? Because it'll be a direct offset to our charity sheet funds,
>> right? Yeah. And it wasn't even clear to me, you know, whether they're I guess they would keep they must be keeping track of writership and so forth. I mean, they got to justify this at some point in time if it's going to continue. So, they hadn't really fleshed out a whole lot of information to us yet, but I assume that's part of their goal um is
to just see how this works. But it's great to be able to stop in town and I really was not expecting this many stops, let alone being flexible to add another one or two. >> So >> yeah, just push the button, you'll hit the brakes and out you go. >> Go for it. So anyway, so stay tuned, but you'll probably see signs around town
early next week and I assume they'll be putting in little posts that say PBTA and not just a little cardboard sign board. Um, so we'll see how it goes. Might be fun to get on the bus and go for a ride. Who knows? All right. Um, other than that, next up,
uh, COA surplus equipment. We have a note in here from, uh, our COA director, Kate De Santo. Uh, just would like us to declare two items, a treadmill and a recumbent bike, uh, as state as surplus uh, equipment so
that we can put it on the, uh, auction list with the state surplus uh, on the state surplus website. Judy's been very good at doing that. Um, we've gotten a few few dollars here and there, mostly for the old police cruisers, but a few a
few um, uh, relic um, laptops and desktops were also sold and for minimal amount of money, but at least it gets them out of our hair, but we have to actually declare them as excess equipment, surplus equipment. So, um, this is a rehab uh, treadmill and a step
one recumbent bike. I'll make a motion that the two items identified in detail on the Thursday, May 21st, 2026 email did 11:55Am be declared surplus and available for public distribution. >> Mhm. >> I'll second that.
>> All right. All those in favor? >> I >> I >> I All right. Very good. Thank you. >> Along those lines, >> yes. >> It's now been 60 days. Can we get a request in from the fire chief and get those license plates removed from that vehicle that the last thing was he was
just going to have the tow plow piece removed and I'm assuming that's happened now that we're in the summer months. >> That's the the pickup truck you talking >> the old pickup truck that still has license plates that we're still covering on insurance. >> Okay. Definitely. >> And get that sold for a dollar.
>> Maybe a couple dollars. Yeah. >> Sure. Okay. Good point. Yep. Absolutely. All right. Um, we have, so just a couple things. I'm I just recognize we've had this is further down the list than I thought. Um, but
we've had people being uh very patient with us. We have a a PCF here in appointment. If we can just move the agenda for a minute and take up um AndreaLair uh for the library as a change of position from interim director to director. And would Convi or Andrea
like to come up and say anything? Do do you want the motion first? >> We can we can have a motion while they're walking up. Sure. >> Make a motion to approve PCF Andrewlair Library change of position interim director to director at an hourly rate of $34.91. >> Okay. I have a second please.
>> Second Charlie. >> Whoever whoever I'm hearing on both ears. Okay. Good. All right. And open for discussion. So convict please come. >> Yeah. Convict 14. Jonathan Judge Circle trustee. Uh we are very very pleased to have Andrea as our director. She has
stepped up seamlessly taken over the position. She's very very well qualified and I believe I stated in the letter that of all the things that she's been able to accomplish and um I believe that she will accomplish much more with us. >> Any other questions?
>> Great. No, I mean just looking at the letter here, I'm Andrea's got a a masters in library science and also in creative writing. had over 15 years of library experience and we know that she's already brought in some $30,000 of grant funding for Southampton. So that's pretty amazing for the library. So thank
you for all those efforts. That's that's above and beyond. So we really appreciate any any heads of department going out and looking for grants, too. So that >> she's well qualified. >> Yes, indeed. >> All right. Very good. All right. So we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I I
>> I. All right. So be it. So congratulations, Andrea. We look forward to working with you and congratulations on being named the new library director. >> Thank you. >> All right. Very good. >> All right, let's hop back. We have a couple of uh three actually vacation
carryover requests. Make a motion to take up as a package. Three vacation carryover requests. One for Angela Bolick, 35, not to exceed 35 hours, treasur collector's office. Emerch Panko, 40 hours, water
department, and Anna Nomacio, 30 hours, treasur collector's office. >> All equal to or less than one week's time. >> All right. Could I have a second, please? >> A second. >> Doug second. All right. Any discussion?
If not, all those in favor? >> I I >> I All right. Hearing no opposition. Those are approved. >> All right. Um any other necessary business that cannot wait before our until our regular select board meeting on June 9th?
Anything that's of urgence moment. All right. Uh we have a couple of we we should have had a couple of minutes for approval from uh April 14 and April 22, but they did not make it into our package. So I'm going to suggest that we just forget those and we'll pick them up at our next meeting.
Um they didn't make the copy machine, I think. And other than that, we have a couple of permits and licenses. Uh let's see, for Conent Park, I believe >> I'll make a motion take up as a packet each one day beer and wine permits. One
for Dominic Lewinsky, Saturday, June 13, 2026 from 1 PM to 900 PM Con Park for the purposes of Jack and Jill party. And then one for the Hoy Post Office/ Cindy Slattler Satler. Sunday, June 14th, 2026
from noon to 5:00 p.m. uh for the Hoyok Post Office picnic. >> Okay. And it looks like they've gone through everything. Any would have a second on that, please? >> Second. >> Second by Ellen. Okay. Looks like they have all their permits in uh their paperwork into the park commission. It's
been signed off on park commission. They've paid their fees. Okay. So, with that in mind, all those in favor? >> I >> I All right. Motion's approved and we will sign those certificates tonight before you all leave, please. Um then let's just jump
down to warrants. Uh John, would you mind reading those in L of Steven? Now, >> for for the record, uh the following warrants have been approved and issued. P26-44 350,2524 PD26-4458,679.74 W26-452,67,822.64
64 P26-46 353,2728 and89 PD26-4658,63368. >> Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right. Anything under old business in terms of uh just where we are with the FY24 audit?
>> Can we step back one? >> I'm sorry. Yes. Go ahead. >> Uh warrant W26-45. I abstain from any action. >> Okay. All right. These basically we just basically read out what what's been approved because >> I understand but I don't want a
misinterpretation of action. >> Correct. Yeah. No. And at one point we probably we we should you've raised it. Why don't we mention so Charlie is on on the books also under the board of health as a contractual employee at this point in time for some of our um disadvantaged
shall we say distressed properties whatever we'd want to call them. Um, and I and I would suggest we haven't talked about this, Charlie, but I I would feel better good if you wouldn't mind if you if you have already reached out to the ethics commission. I don't >> already been done. >> Okay. >> All the paperwork's been filed
>> and you've got to file with Lucy or N. >> All right. Perfect. So, as long as we've got something on file with Lucy. Um, and I think you probably have to recuse yourself from anything financially related that we would decide upon that >> relates to that board of health. Yeah. >> Right. Okay. All right. Thank you for reaching out to the ethics commission
and um that will head off any future thoughts. Okay, good. All right. Um Scott, you had mentioned uh just to add 24 audit uh just in progress on that or >> Yep. So, uh CBiz, uh they just had a few questions for Megan on the reconciliation which he was able to get
to them last on the 19th. Um we did ask um oh so and they responded that they're they're moving forward with it. Um there's some audit sections that are working on that may need to be reached out for some more support uh from the town. Um this was on Wednesday, May
20th. So they're going to pass that along to Nadia who's our contact and get back to her on an expected timeline for completion. So most of the information that they have received. So, uh, we're just waiting for CBiz to get back to us. So, it's almost been a week, so we're going to have to >> push forward to see if they get
>> pushing them and see if we can't get at least something finished on that one. >> Is there is there any chance we might be able to encourage them to start working on 25 now if they're in the final stages of 24? >> Um, let's >> Yeah, I think we were talking
>> might want to talk about options. >> We were looking at, you know, whether we want to continue with them or not at one point in time. I don't know. Is there any way we can get somebody moving forward on the 25? >> I know that's a challenge. >> Or at least put it on the agenda to discuss
>> No, I can we can throw it on the agenda for sure. Yeah, >> I think there's there's some options out there and we haven't gone out to the bid in like three or four years. So, it might be an opportunity for start the 25 to >> look at the landscape. There's not a lot out there, but there's some there are some good ones if they're accepting new clients.
>> Yeah, it all depends if they accept new clients. That's always a challenge on a lot of things. All right. Um, anything on the uh any of our various chip projects from any progress on East Street to the Greenway or anything like that or safe routes to school? >> Uh, greenway, there will be some big
news. Um, I can't divulge it yet, but uh, yeah, there there will definitely be some big news coming out with the greenway. >> Okay. All right. Great. >> Hopefully, we'll hear hear something relatively soon. Yeah. Charlie, >> curiosity question on the primary metal road. >> Don't don't forget your mic here. You got to push that mic a little bit closer
to you. Sorry. >> Those people say I talk too loud. >> Well, these mics don't pick up as much as you think they do. >> Anyways, uh Primary Metal Road, the Safe Roots of School. I was involved in the Safe Roots of School for College Highway and all the rest of that. One of the
issues was the intersection of Primary Meadow Road >> and we were trying to get a traffic signal there. >> We got as far as a blinking light, >> right? Is it time to try to look at putting a traffic signal there? >> Well, I I wouldn't be surprised. I know Randall's been involved in a lot of
these meetings um with them and Mass DOT has been out there several times with their their people. So, I imagine that's something that they're looking at because they're they're moving along pretty pretty quickly now. I think it's been a couple years, but they're they're really working on that. So again, for those that are listening, this will be
to extend that shared use path from the corner of College Highway and Palmer Meta Road, excuse me, on down to the school down to Gun Road extension essentially. >> Um and so that um will avoid this little narrow three-foot tarmac path with
telephone poles in it. The whole purpose is to get kids to ride or bike >> or walk to uh to school. So, um, hopefully that will be something coming along, but I we can check in with Randall on that, but I know he's been involved in a lot of meetings with DOT, but, uh, >> I know >> I think it's probably progressed over
time. >> I hope because they got a solar unit with a dead battery every time it's cloudy. >> Yeah, that too. So, okay, very good. Um, Scott, you had mentioned about maybe a meeting in between before the 9th and we need to close the warrant at some point. So, we need to do that actually. So, I
was thinking um if we can postpone doing the uh the end of year transfers until later June. Um Bradley's going to have a list. I'm going to try to distribute that anyways this week so we can start looking through it. Um but it would save give us the ability to kind of focus on special town meetings. It's going to go
pretty quick. So, um if we could probably meet Monday or Tuesday of next week, I should have the the warrant ready. Um the only the only question mark is you know making sure that bond council gets back to us but they usually get back to us within 48 hours with the standard standard language. So
>> So when do you want to move the meeting too? >> Um either Monday or Tuesday capital uh I'm within >> fincom or fin is uh available Mondays Monday and Tuesday >> June 1st or June 2nd. >> Yeah. and evening or same time. 6 o'clock 6:00 still.
>> What's anybody's availability? >> I >> either >> I can do Monday. I can't do June 2nd. >> Monday. Okay, Charlie. How's that work? >> Sounds good. >> All right, >> that' be fine. >> All right, let's try June 1st, Monday at 6:00.
Okay. So, we'll actually be Well, we can still close the warrant somehow. We can make a motion to close the warrant the following day. Mhm. >> I guess nothing should come in after 6:00 anyway. So, >> it would be done. Okay. I think all should be in by then. Okay. Um that's
fine. So, we'll do that on June 1st. Special meeting with FinCom Capital. And then uh we'll have a regular select board meeting on June 9th and the 23rd. And then special town meeting on June 20th. And then there will be one more uh meeting. I believe it would be the 23rd
will be our last select board meeting of the month. Regular select board meeting. Okay. All right. I think that's all we have for agenda items. Anything? >> Move to adjurnn. >> All right. Second that. >> Second, Ellen. All right. All those in favor? >> I >> I All right. We are journed at 7 p.m.
And please uh don't leave until you sign a few documents here, especially the park permits and a couple of other things.