okay all right let's try again this meeting will come to order it's now probably 7 706 yes try again at 706 and meeting's being recorded anybody else recording the meeting must notify
me the chair and I'll take attendance Norm chever here Mike KS yeah Malcolm de Bay here Mike debay here dick rand's here Scotty Graves you on yet yeah no
no no for now uh Eric Mueller here Paul Murphy here Paul yokom here and we have two G two guests here Diane Gail and chief Harbor Master Rhett banish and I think that accounts for everybody right we don't have any other
guests on there Doug M and Doug oh Doug where'd you go oh he's out standing over there don't worry he's doing a very important it thing at the [Laughter] moment all right we got everybody okay first thing is the
minutes from the last meeting February 13th do we have any comments changes Corrections NOP no I'll make okay Malcolm second second Paul Murphy
all in favor I oppose abstain unanimous all right hold on a minute I gotta Norm yeah Norm chever hi Mike kums hi Malcolm debay hi Mike debay hi Dick
Gran's I Scotty's not here Eric Mueller hi Paul Murphy hi Paul Yokum hi affirm okay moving on onom update and let's keep it to the ones that are impact
U yeah Lake management yep from the last concom meeting 166 burshire Avenue the noi to Dem the house and replace it with a new house was approved with conditions the variance for the docks at 196
Brookshire AB that's one where the Beavers took over yeah that was approved I signed that today um Sabrina left it for me report from the Suffield Conservation Commission meeting last Tuesday night I
reviewed with them the new lpp agreement with with Southwick and they all agreed that I'll be allowed to speak on any issue related to the lake good won't have to end in my L of questions
in the future not sure what's going to happen when there something on on comes um agenda here I will notify sde they want to send anybody and that is oh and we're having a meeting tomorrow with
Chrissy HS oh talk about the lpp agreement a zoom or well I don't think it's a zoom but it is she physically coming no no it's a team call oh Microsoft teams yeah yeah I'll be on that
call bring up both issues disability and non ring of residential docks right well the other thing too that we still have hanging because I got to bring it up again tonight is the docks that are
at the Marina at 81 uh Point Grove that are that he moved over to the east about 10 feet last year and if you go look at them now you can actually see how bad it is uh the fingers on the inside are off right now
but if you look it it's now you can just visualize especially with the ice there it's kind of easier to see but you can visualize that uh what we saw last year was not being able to get into North Pond and look through unless you you got
your uh bo pretty much be in scraping the the one of the ones that's sticking out on those uh on the one two three docks that are nearest the uh Colbert the northern we were in one of those we
we were in slip six last year yeah that's just bad I mean it's asking for somebody to get hit that's you know sticking out or somebody getting hit trying to get through I mean you know there was a they had asked for our input
about removal of those two Beaver lodges to facilitate moving the docks the other way yeah and we were all on board yeah that's great it'll give us better clearance and what have you they removed the beaver lodges and then move the docks which have to do to in other words
they moved they rotated the docks so that they're now further uding the channel right instead of rotating the docks so that they moved away from the channel and you can actually see it if you go on Google Earth which I have included that in here
um but and we'll get to that one shortly uh but you can see how far it moved because I put pins where it was you know you can pin the the drawing and then you can see where it is yeah those docks are sustaining a lot of damage this year
from the ice yeah are they yeah they're they're all buckled in oh oh I had had noticed I didn't I have to look at that and next time down there okay um M master plan subcommittee Norm yeah
I have three three items um we have the erosion discussion that we had last time on the prior prioritization of the 12 items I did go back and we look at
versus two scenarios one allowing one member to only prioritize some of them and um ver is not prioritizing the and he
does skew the data two of the items change their priority okay my issue with it is that if we agreed to do that that that one individuals vote would carry more weight
than any other IND individual like the state that's not fair so what I did in the um in the erosion one that I don't I don't know if you used the Excel that I sent you for the not the master plan one for the erosion one what I did was any place
where somebody put a zero I should back up to calculate the score I calculated the average and anybody who put in a zero that didn't count into the average in other words so their their vote their vote didn't skew anything because it
didn't count you know what I'm saying you just didn't include it in in the average any any place where there was a zero I did the average over the other items and the zero was not part of the divisor yeah on the latest uh does that make
sense or latest survey you didn't share that it's down on the bottom I sent it to dick I thought he was the one to turn it around up to 36 70 whatever it was yeah where did that
it's if everybody if everybody votes 76 everybody votes for one of 12 or one of 13 then if you add them up then it should add up to whatever that number is yeah yeah yeah one one of my emails is here I'd like to take a minute and
address that um that's a different that's a different subject oh y yeah master master is a different calculation I'll wait till it comes Pro so so what I was saying nor I'm sorry I I had sent it to dick and I I
figured he would send it around if you want that's a way to mathematically avoid what you're talking about and yet still be able to have that person's votes in other areas found because you're right other otherwise it otherwise it skewes the
exuse the voting power I agree so I think I think we'll have to do you know what I I'll I'll send it to you when I get home yeah and then we'll then we'll yeah what we're going to do is we're going to lose another month you know we're four months already guys this
yeah we're gonna lose another month but it's got to be done right though well do you have any answer to straighten it out no but U but can do we need to lose the month if I send you the calculation and you're okay with it can you just use that
calculation and move on if you're okay with it why don't we do that if you're okay with it I'll I'll send it to you so actually actually you know what if you send that to me I'll put the calculation in and send it back to
you and then if you're okay with it then then use that and if you're not then do what you need to do and to everybody yeah it is a valid if I may it is a valid way to do it when are yeah when
the entire population's votes you only average it if only five of you answer that show up you average it over the five right you just need to make sure that that you divide by five instead of seven or eight or n you know whatever
the or 37 or whatever 76 yeah yep okay all right then the second item is the LMC support actions have the same issue with one individual who doesn't want to rate them
all and we discussed this at the master plan implementation committee meeting and they agreed with the idea that you rate them all and you don't rate them at all this is different than the first one
because this is the same way that everybody the all 50 committees are doing it this way the same way okay all those want to rate the the eight items fine you won't be counted you'll miss
the opportunity I still have to stand by my my opinion then I'm not I'm not going to give you more more of my votes okay but okay we shouldn't be regulating voting period that that's covered by the state we're in state
waters they regulate Bo I talked to a man out in Boston and he told me here brief yeah it's a great Pond and and we are subject anything that we do
different has to go through hell to get uh a change in place and and it's a it's not just going to mass environmental police it's a whole host of everybody's got to look at it so Norm you and I talked about this not this top just the
overall topic and Norm tell me if I my understanding after we discussed it was was the intent of the list is not let's go execute every item on the list the intent of the list is let's investigate each of these items to see whether it makes sense whether we want to
prioritize it would have you that's on the erosion one that's correct yeah okay yes so and master plan same story right yeah not necessarily what that's going to do is it's going to send information back to the lead group yeah on how the support groups view their priorities
Okay so so so so let's just say for example that one of the items that's on that list turns out to not be legal to do okay we have addressed that what was the outcome there well we have put
together a plan that will be evaluated by the Chief Operating Officer of the administration officer of the of the Town whether it's legal or not legal okay so if you tell me the one that you want to refer to her we'll get a
time okay okay all right so so it sounds like it sounds like anybody who's got a concern like that about one of the items on the list get it to me refer it to dick dick will get it referred to the administrator and then you know if if something on there you know like Paul
you're saying hey you know we the town has does not have the the legal authority to regulate voting then presumably they can ping the state and the state will come back can say yeah you can't do that that's our job right or not your jurisdiction this is on both
lists Well yeah if there if you have comments where you think it's not illegal get that to me okay right yes Norm I believe that is a step after the rankings though
correct correct so they've got to be ranked and counted first LLY yeah and they decide whether support party they're legal to do has a things has a legal challenge regardless of its ranking it could be ranked number one or
number and and not legal to yeah we don't care where it is for ranking correct so there's two separate things two issues right right one is just a ranking the other is is it legal or not correct might be a great idea but we can't do it right right and there are
some of those yes one more question this when I asked this we got to get moving okay uh uh number three was the climate control issue I'm just not from my problem is I'm not familiar with the committee I
I've never heard of them before I read it on the paper right now um can you give me some clarification as to who they are it's it's proposed new committee proposed new committee proposed new that's correct so
they don't exist they don't exist today and and these are all really proposals in that master plan and if everybody ranks the same thing at number 82 it's a
no-o I do have another question in the past we we've had the the master plan but there was no implementation segment of that plan they present the old plan they presented the
master plan where did the authority come for implementation select board select board and the planning board it belongs to the planning board right the planning board adopted it brought it to the select board as well we also voted to create
the implementation meeting format no sure no we're not proposing legislation for the town or or bylaws or anything yet these are departmental actions Doug has some Doug might know
something join us he's not wrong and no one's here's wrong but whatever comes out of Master Plan implementation or even in front of the select board if there is a proposed bylaw or other legislation you're right it's got to go to town meeting by the
way it's a bylaw 100% and and and it has to go to the prerequisites before it goes to town meeting not only that but also is the budget goes in front a town meeting the budget is a legislative act
and it contains policy right so when the town meeting votes to vote up or vote down on the budget they're adopting the legislative policy embedded therein so by by way of example last year everyone was supportive of hiring three
additional firefighter Medics that's great we can all say that we're all in favor of it you have to load the money in the budget to pay for it then you go to town meeting and they voted to pass the budget therefore they accepted and adopted said policy yeah as part of the
process so you're right by Fiat no one can adopt something that's going to require expenditure or a law without going to town meeting that's just have the best form of government there is in that regard that was my form of uh
interpretation and implementation right so I I said well wait a minute how are we doing this I mean but the ranking is kind of just to set up the mck I think I don't mean to speak for you Norm is and I think Diane called it too is
rank these things from 1 to 14,000 well number 13997 is not going to get of time spent on it right it's number one through 14 or so we're going to get the most attention right and then it's you know whether you can afford it and how you do it that it becomes part of a bigger policy right
understand the ranking here is your ranking 1 through eight and we don't know how those one through eight in other those wind up in yeah they could be no those eight could be the top eight of all or they could be the bottom eight
correct num 443 44 45 that's why we have the exercise and if you know like if you you know if someone feels strongly about there's nothing wrong with having two number eights it's like a tie yeah right y i can do that all he's the statistician but out
of way you good I got my hand slapped and and just a quick update for you before I got a jet is it looked like there was a couple of folks that came in through the Netherlands there was only like three people it wasn't that was not a big one this time yeah the last time was like a
dozen this was two or three yeah right this was just two or three and yeah so I wish I'm I'm going to ask the uh the powers that be maybe we should start scoping zoom and not let people join from outside of the country we can
do that we just never have turned it on oh we can do that we should do that that would help well we've had people call while they're traveling on business or whatever and join from overseas and you would prevent that wow so yeah but you know there's no perfect fix no of course
not anyway yeah okay nice to you thank you thanks thanks for your explanation too all right quite done here okay so we got we've got the uh on the screen we have the rating Les Paul so Paul do you want to reate yours
and rate all all eight of them or not well yeah okay all right uh you want me to send it to you send it to me okay send it to Dick yeah yes okay now he
told me I can use two eights here you can't use two eights I don't care what Doug said I'm I got my hand slapped if I couldn't do it you couldn't do it because I have your same sentiment on a number of things I had to do it the way it works because it'll screw up the map yes and there again like I I keep bringing up
all right so let's keep moving so you can do that we're not regulating voting no that's number eight for you yeah yeah okay and then work backwards right good okay anything else on
there I'm done okay so Paul you're going to rank them one to eight okay uh CRC update I don't think we have no Michelle's not on Michelle's not on and we didn't we
didn't kick her off no she she didn't come in all right just a quick update on oh he left already I was gonna ask him uh do you know if uh Doug got to I don't know if he talked to uh yeah I'll ask him then
we'll just leave it for now okay I'll find out and we'll update at the next one okay um proposed new bylaw and Diane is gonna do a quick summary
are you all out of order on your agenda no oh not that I know of that's not the one that's posted online okay all right no that's fine I'm ready before you do Master Plan chapter 91 141
I I skipped proposed conservation bylaws the next one down new business okay um so we had a little um Street brawl incident last July and there was a northpond task force put together um
which included the chief the fire chief a former police chief DPW myself um conservation coordinator and couple other people um so we came up with a number of recommendations including reconfiguring the North Pond area
parking lots we will be shrunk to four spots three plus one handicap um and emergency vehicle access we had proposed I'm going to talk about things that may or may not that
will affect you we have proposed putting in rope floats on that Shoreline that is very popular about 20 feet out in the water to keep boats from um actually going onto the shoreline okay
um there's currently a stay on that action um there are some additional safety concerns that might be created from that which are being reconsidered so that had the select board put a stay
on that vote we also are going to be increasing signage in the parking lot um within the conservation area with rules with way finding signs please stay on the path although people can Meander off
but ident better identifying the uh Pathways and putting perimeter sign there's nothing that tells you you're even on there once you're in there so on the perimeters um looking for some additional signage and we're still unable to put fortify in it right it was
not in the recommendations of the task force W really yeah yeah oh so well we're hoping for you know reducing the attractiveness
um the no parking signs in the streets limiting how many people can come in in vehicles um and invade those areas the tree was cut down the the rope swings trees were cut down
um so we're hoping that these measures will better control the population in there and um the boter swear up and down that if
they have to go potty they get in their boat and go home and then come back we will we will see how it goes and if the you know we put a stay on the Rope float if those conditions don't
change and the pedestrian traffic is reduced it leaves no one else but the boers right creating those issues and then maybe those rope floats go back in yeah so and the um so we're limiting to four spots and then I guess we're gonna
have sign because because I could just picture everybody just parks on the road right that there's no parking signs that they can now enforce okay good where there weren't any before it was just please move on and now they can be enforced okay and and that's really the seg way so the select board then must have passed the
the uh there was a there was a public he and then you put in that allows you to put in this and signs were ordered and they'll go in soon good soon along with pothole repair okay start oh yeah
it's and um and then there was a proposed by law that um there would there's a very very similar situation in Glastonberry Connecticut at their cotton
Hollow um Conservation Area it's very s in fact they had a street brawl and oh um a couple of their police officers were rammed with cars escaping so it got a little more escalated than ours um and they went officer yeah they
they went through many of the same measures that we proposed I modeled this comprehensive bylaw on theirs they have very similar to us they have a lot of open space areas conservation areas Parks so they did a
comprehensive and this is for Parks beaches Recreation conservation and preservation area bylaws not the lake it does not pass regulation or penalties for any anything on the lake this is
on that on any park Beach Etc got now or any future ones we may acquire and build so there's there's a lot in here I don't know if you read it I'm not going to go through it um and the version you have is the last one we
went through with the select board comment and did did glassenbury find the approach to be successful they haven't opened yet either okay okay so it happened almost at the same time is there a time limit I know
in other towns they have a a dusk the that is one of the proposals that we're going to um there will be signage specifically at North Pond open dawn to dusk period yeah and then they can clear out the parking lot or you know people that are still
walking they can clear them out to still rely on on um neighbors reporting if there people in there now C I did um ask you whether or not the the town
buildings that are at the boat ramps for instance would be subject to the same in other words that police could enforce based on this bylaw because they are a town-owned building it would be in a beach or
Recreation area I suppose well we can name that specifically and there's there's probably going to be a similar one we just say including boat launch sites yeah yeah public yeah yeah public boat
launch and and and the other thing is is the town leases the parking area the the uh public parking area between the boat ramp and whatever you know what used to be sorry but she was writing something
down and I realized the um the uh fishing tournaments they often in the early and late season stage Up Before Dawn unless there's Clauses in here that say unless it is a sponsored
permitted that's almost in every that's in almost every section all right want to make sure that's good yes and and the and the same thing should be covered when you do it cover the South ramp because there's going to be a building there it'll say all it'll say all public boat launches sites and
parking areas that's a good insertion perfect because it gives you so just for a point of clarity who owns the property the state owns owns the property the town leases it okay so similar similar to the schools yeah yeah
yeah you got it okay similar thing and the building itself is actually owned by the town the building is owned by the town okay yes yes visitor St was built yeah with a grant and and the town actually ensures
it so say the lease runs out which is not going to but say the lease runs out the building's still there is it on the town to demolish the building or anything like that that one is is a that's a permanent in other words like we did for
the boat for the uh boat house boat house y that's that's permanent okay so and the the lease on the public parking area is a 10-year lease renewable and that's we just
renewed it okay it does change things a little bit from our enforcement end of things but yeah as long as we know who give you an idea who's what player we're fine yeah and and uh all right so that took care of that I did if you're done with that I did want to back up one but um oh
no before before you are done with it I think we should have a vote I think you want to ask for a vote of support for a bylaw to do this and I think we have to leave it at a bylaw similar to you know what you've got right now just showing
support for doing this um which gives the police teeth uh you know something to enforce yep I mean I don't know how much time you had to look at this but um you just basically looking for your endorsement of it um there will be a public hearing
for it where residents can come talk about what they like what they don't like I'm going to start pulling that together next week um getting the task force back on if they want to contribute to that meeting um would you like this to say
vote to support or endorse what's the best words for you for what you're doing at this point uh both you can say support and endorse and support the efforts of the B I suppose if you if you do and if you
have any other comments any other you know as you read through it in your spare time make those suggestions and we go on question this goes on talks about hunting fishing and everything else in there which is fine question being
because we had Beaver problems the last time we got got what do we do with them is there a CLA in here gives us the ability to either go through the chief or go through the help officer or go through somebody except exception of Express written permission to authorize persons only who
may okay yeah it's fine so it's not a Prohibition on Hunting it is just it's actually just no it's not can't do it where it's not allowed yeah yeah and and it doesn't
even say um it's use of firearms and weapons it just says you can't use them on the beach yeah you know where you would expect you would so you can't shoot anybody that's in the water can't anyway
right right okay so need a a motion from some we make a motion don't you think we should just do it I'll make a motion okay second I'll come all in favor oppos abstain unanimous all right so I
got to run down the Norm chever hi Mike kums hi Malcolm debay hi Mike debay hi Dick Gran's I Eric Muller hi Paul Murphy hi Paul Yokum hi all right affirmed thank you good all
right I'll take care of that I'll send you a so send email that should cover you right yes sir okay uh I do want to back up one to sheet 817 which was the
uh since we briefly talked about it if you look at at the uh I don't know if you can bring that up but if you look at the these pins these pins were uh what happened in 2023
this is where this is in 20 I wrote it up here 2022 so this is 2022 this is where they are in 2023 that there moved to there and I drew this line so you can see the problem is here's the here's the uh
Culvert coming through right here and these things are sticking out so that you can't see what's coming through when they're out here you have to hug them got basically they took up the space where you used it was tight before but
it's it's impossible now right and there the whole point location is the anchor on land in the correct location I'll go back I it it appears that they have may have shifted to the east slightly but what they really
shifted was this point right here this knee wound up out here and so that this that is the the Eastern edge of the boats that were sticking out and see here there aren't boats but you can see a boat sticks out
typically you know couple three feet and then there's a motor sticking out so you got to allow about five feet from the end of the dock and therein lies the problem is when you when you're sitting out here
with these sitting here the the uh engine is in line with this line so it really it's it's a problem did anybody ask Frank about this did did you say it's over too far or
I don't know did you ever did you ever have I've never had any conversation screwed up putting it in from the Harbor Master because uh I went over this with with Chrissy I sent her this and she say well you can't measure yeah I saw the whole email yeah and and
you absolutely can because I what I did is I checked from things that don't move chimneys uh those did not change chimney to chimney you know s utility pole to all these measurements were taken off of things that don't move yeah so the idea
you know if you look over here this is where the beaver LOD oh yeah they took over so you know and so you know they asked to be able to remove those which we and Conservation Commission everybody yeah go ahead do what you need to do to do that they got what they needed they
took those out and when we discussed it with them the idea was that they could move the whole thing then this way which would require a modification to their um the idea was move that a little bit we'll have a little bit more room they did that and then they wanted to rent these spaces so they actually moved
it the other way yeah so it's not a huge move I mean we would even tighter not have a problem if he wanted to shift it over and one of the things we suggested was look you
could do this to it you know take that knee out take that out a little straighten and and keep the point out here even if he wanted to come back back and modify his his uh chapter 91 license and come down this way a little more you're in there's there's no it doesn't
matter if he wants to keep the same number of spaces just say I'm gonna drag it this way right I mean we'll work with him on it but this that just is not that's very very dangerous what he did now and that happened in 2023 and it's
still there for 2025 because these Docs still sitting there they they left them in all winter all they did was remove these spurs on this side so anyway if you can if you can
speak with Frank about it and see if you can get contact information for him I will get that for you I know it is tight down there because I took our nice new boat down there last year and didn't fit too
well all right I will 81 it's uh 81 it's nice for sure yeah it's a lot bigger than the last one once you get in it and try and operate it yeah big difference okay to Red I will another
wher it's another Whaler yeah I will take care of that okay moving along um that gets us to back my cheat sheet here the voting uh
voting regulations and I gave you copies of them starting on page 30 30 and you can read that at at your leisure uh it basically is the same requirements that everybody else
has the other all the other states that have uh requirement to to take a a class and a test and they are they are uh you
can if any state that did it in accordance with whatever that that law is um not I don't mean the Mass General law it's a a particular just looking for uh that this law meets and that the
course meets the course has to meet this it's a coast guard St it's a coast guard thing and so if it meets that and I believe all the ones that are in the in the states do you know that's what they did they all you know made sure that they had those same requirements so at
any rate so there's reciprocity so yeah Mo most of our voters here are going to come in with like a Connecticut license that they don't have M license yeah and that's fine and you have to have it with you that got to be on your person that's why it's nice or well or in the boat or in the boat yeah not not on your person
but in the boat but what's nice is you can go and not have to pay anything if you go to that I lost my card you can get right there you can print it offers you the option to print your own uh or you can order laminated what's what's
the phase in period it's described in there it's a it's a sequence yeah okay and it depends on born before 89 you've got till
2028 born after 8 you got the 20206 yeah okay something like that and it's in it's right in here in the you might be able thew and we give you more time did make a lot of sense so anyway um anybody
have any questions on that one because otherwise we can move on glad to see it yeah we are very happy to see it just a quick summary I did give you what Eric and I presented at the budget hearing before everything stopped um
and you can read that at your leisure I just would like to highlight a couple things that we had to had to do it was different from what you folks read uh in the budget that we were going to
present and what's happened is with the federal with all the stuff going on in Washington a lot of funding for instance that even the hydrilla funding that may or may not stay right now now it's it's
on off on off on off uh we just got a check um yesterday for in an EFT for reimbursement from additional money that we spent on hydrilla and there's a
couple more coming because they're doing them in in blocks so the money's still coming but I asked the question of of carara is do they know yet whether it's GNA be there for the next fiscal year or
the following fiscal year right now nobody know and I and I'll say the same thing so at any rate long story short we put in add request for additional funding to cover what Solitude does we're not going to cover stantech stantech tells you there's a plant they
can tell you that there's a plant over there you know 200 feet away by uh sensors that are are looking for microscopic particles that come off break off those plants
um Solitude will do a a simpler thing they're going to go later they're not going to go early like where they identify where the erasion water mil foil and the curly Leaf Pond weight is located they'll go a little bit
later and get the initial growth of the hydraulic they'll treat both at the same time then they'll go back and they'll reassess later in the season they'll reassess whether they got all the hydrilla and if need be they'll go back
and treat the hydrilla that's a lot less money um then they still have to do two treatments no matter what but by doing what they're doing uh they have it's a simpler less costly
than than what happens if St if Stanton is stantech is there stantech is the is very postive so the the advantage the advantage to stantech is that they can detect at a much lower
level yeah so what we've asked for is funding to cover what would be kind of a normal level of hydrilla the by not having the Stant um if we're not able to do stanch what it does is it increases
the risk that we could have sort of a hydr Runway and then there'd be a lot more wanted to spend to to get it damped down but yeah you know we we didn't think we didn't think it wise to ask for funding for worst case scenario yeah
this is a scenario that we think is very very normal this level is about $155,000 a year yeah so it kind of doubled the amount that we normally would ask for um 15K the
30k uh but it's it's a cheap prevention we'll get as much as we can and hopefully solitude's very good at at with their cameras and whatnot and that is what you presented that Saturday yes
okay Y and so that and part two of that which we're not g to fund We're not gonna we're not seeking funding is to the work that nrcs is doing which would be to I I just actually I had it was on my the was a a very lengthy message on
my phone and so they are still in amst till June they've been told that they have to vacate because the leases are being terminated by our friends in Washington and so they have to terminate
least buildings terminate the lease and so theirs is up in at the end of June so they will they're gonna have to go find a place to hang out right now they don't know he is still there their their group is still there they did have to let go a
couple of uh young Engineers that were coming up through the ranks but they are gone already but his they already also got the the uh quote from the contractor it is within the amount that they have
in the budget but their budget's Frozen good news and the bad news so this is the old it's you know 40 $50 million of work that eventually has to be done they actually have that money but they don't have that money
they don't know what's gonna happen Okay this yeah yeah so it settles out and it may settle out that the funding is there to do the next step or it may settle out that it isn't yeah and the last thing that we had to have control over that
the last thing we had to do was the uh HVAC unit which is a heat pump at The Visitor Center pooped out not there's no point in spending money on it it's uh there's a whole issue with the freon
that's in it and it's got a leak it also has some other problems with the heat pump the heat pump is toast so we got quotes the first one we've got three now and we're just waiting for one to make sure that they did quote it with
prevailing wages you know two are with prevailing wages the third one we're not sure so that's the one thing that they have to do is adjusted if they didn't so we and looks like we should be pretty good less than what I gave for a
worst case that really truly is the worst case so I should know hopefully tomorrow when I come in that we'll have that because uh Dan conted them again to make sure you know tell us that that is travailing
wage um so that takes care of that so what what I had to do is it's running we've had a horrendous electric field because we're running a a small electric heater into the intake of the thing just to keep it from pipes
freezing um now ramp attendant pay rate so if you go to our typical slide 47 chart 47 so word no change word is no change that's you know we have to stay with
what we got we have to vote on that right yeah and it's a recommendation it's not we can't approve it we're just recommending it but we're recommending staying the same as last year um it's it's a150 over the pre minimum prevailing wage the Aver minimum wage
minimum wage and uh so we'll keep it at a150 over the minimum wage and do we need a motion need a motion I'll make a motion let me just get to my cheat sheet here a second hold on a second okay so motion was
alcol second was Paul Murphy yeah and all in favor oppos abstain unanimous I got a rund down
and sheat Sheet Norm Cher hi Mike kums hi Malcolm de Bay hi Mike de Bay hi Dick Ran's I Eric Muller Paul Murphy I Paul Yokum hi okay affirmed okay um just to let you know
that Paul was a approved by the select board as a replacement good for the opening and he now joins us he's already done gotten sworn in sworn at and everything got sworn at
and the there's some other just general information the last two sheets on there are or last four sheets are general information on the uh was it articles in the paper oops got the wrong one that's quick question yeah um so you
know my plan is to start uh water measurements in April like usual I ordered this stuff okay so I need to calibrate yeah um one of the items in here is is a little exchange we had concerning uh Landing planes on the lake
yeah um there was a request was any followup I ignored the request so as far as I know no plan ever landed is that is that the same guy did one a couple years ago noed three times and he never came back
yeah I'm not sure whether he still has what that's still a a valid um report it still shows on navigation does it yeah okay still there because you have to renew the
license I don't think it's um a legal like function but it's still on the navigational chart okay I'll you know so over the years there have been planes that landed and I guess a long time ago there people who own
planes on thees landed take off no problem a couple of years ago we had an issue where somebody uh wasn't very smart of him to do this it was a Saturday busy day and but early but past
10: a.m. and uh he did not fly over first to see that where he flew over but then like came back 15 or 20 minutes later and landed I was actually out weight boarding at the time and not I
didn't I'm not saying he came close and threatened me but it was like I my my wife was driving she couldn't believe it the guy landed when you're not expecting it well I mean there were boats all over the place there were people out on kayaks there were jet skis there were all these boats out he landed and took
off and I mean he wasn't that far from me when he took off and so that generated a whole discussion yeah yeah definitely definitely a little tight for my liking down there yeah yeah yeah it is and and the problem but but you know when when when the person had
done it before at times when there was nobody around I don't think it was much of an issue that year I did it like three or four times during that week I mean I'm there all day long words you know you know problem was people coming out to watch right you know that when at times when he came by he or she came by
and flew you know and then came right around where they could still see the lake they saw it was clear and then landed I think it was fine you know that time you know number one was Saturday was just a really ill advised time to do it but then number two did his sort of lookover flight but then didn't then
didn't land for 15 minutes and in 15 minutes his lookover flight was at 9:58 and 10:00 a.m. is when boating is and so he Landed It Like 1010 I was like yeah well 1010 is different from 958 on
a Saturday absolutely because they're watching their watches like this right I did give you copies of the information on the battery storage just in FYI and you may want to share that
because I don't know if we've got anybody looking with longing eyes at putting uh battery storage for electricity uh in Southwick because where they were putting it in in
Westfield is over there aquafer and pretty much most of Southwick where you would have it would be over the aquafer because you got to stay where the backbone is for power um and that's basically College
Highway East a high ranking master plan item for me yeah and and the other one was just to give you information on what the progress is on the uh cable the uh W whip City fiber coming to town so it's
an article there's two articles in there for you to read at your leisure um so because I don't know if everybody gets the Westfield paper or not I do so so I think that's all the stuff on the agenda um wanted to thank the chief for
coming app I didn't say much okay you fil it on mine that's good yeah well and you were able to answer a couple questions thank thanks I mean if you guys have a topic or something you want me to stop in or zoom in or all right what happened tonight but yeah yeah oh
I'm easy to identify glad glad that you physically come then you get to physically absolutely to do come up um so I think I think what we should do is if a if a Topic's on the agenda I'll take care the old desar docks for
example you then uh I mean I'm looking at your future topics here and there's some there's some good ones on there yeah yeah yeah okay and and you know if there's something that you see on there by the way that works two ways if you see something on
there you say really should get that to a a new business category you know and and discuss it give me a house okay give me a holler that works I mean obviously the next thing on my agenda is we gotta start rolling forward with some of this uh
boting safety stuff yeah roll it out oh and that that that class is the uh is it posted now I can't we can't until because they do not they deliberately did not put the the uh link up I checked
tonight and they're up to uh the end of April so we're we're very close to where the because they do them in Vlogs so as soon as they post it then we'll get that to the paper get it to everybody get it on the website and it's it's a link you
have to do it online so it's a link where you go in and sign up it's free and it's the 5ifth six 6 s89 so it's a May 6 S8 and nine the ninth is a is just in case that's a Friday they feel that
they can do everything in three nights but in case something drags we I got the auditorium for the fourth night the auditorium um the the the year that we first started having uh Sheriff's folks and some other folks
involved in Lake Patrols I I came in and for the officers that were interested I gave a a little talk on on specifically water sports related uh safety it's you know it's not regulation it's just water sports related safety I'd be happy to do
that any of your fol I believe I was I believe I was there oh yeah you're been there yeah so I'd be happy to do that if anybody was interested and I do the the normal what's you know what are the unique bylaws in Southwick for congamond and get people to understand that we do
have additional requirements that uh go above and beyond what's what the environmental police have so and we'll do the same thing and they uh it's gonna be packed this year though because it's people got to get it
now yeah they have time now yeah they do you're right next year will be pack but they they said that if if it's really busy they will entertain doing a second one uh later in the season okay rather than because we talked about that you
don't want to do it in the middle of the season because you never get anybody's attention the other thing that might be worth uh letting people know most insurance companies will give you a discount if you've Tak that yes I I had to have it because my license was
originally Connecticut so I had to have it anyway but my insurance company asked and every year when I renew even though it's hasn't changed they ask yeah so you know so at least there's a benefit to tell people I think it was like 10% off on the whatever it
is and tell people hey take the course and call up your insurance company yeah so it's like driers Ed basically yeah exactly percentage of yeah so any rate does anybody have anything else man after you go through your people uh just
one other update I wanted to mention to you whether you were aware of the Suffield drain issue or not on Griffin Road was um there is a maintenance agreement
um good on that and um we I did talk to Chris Pratt chair of Conservation Commission to actually have Suffield come in present their engineering for that thing and do an application and treat it as any other application if
it's in violation there's violations so that will they'll get that on that and do you know did the did the other I'm glad you mention that the other agreement so that it was to
get Suffield DPW was waiting I think for that that drain thing to be ironed out so that they will go down and clear the beaver dams out which 90% of them are in subfield I don't know anything about that part of this is strictly that well
were holding that kind of hostage um until that drain issue got resolved and they haven't taken any out they're they're both still there no and they it's they said they until that got resolved where they could leave it where it is but it sounds like that got resolved they're going to be able to
leave it where physically that in the same location as yeah that's it at Griffin Road and yeah yeah and and because they have to maintain it and they didn't want to go through a big hering to to you know move it or anything I don't know how they move it I
really don't it's not realistic to ever move it so at any rate if that got resolved and I then I will give uh the DPW director a call can you well I I would wait for them to come in front of conservation
and okay all right iron that out first if it were me yeah that that works for me so they have to they have to go to go to comcom yeah go to comom okay so Chris will be uh getting that and somebody else had
something I'm good we're good make a motion motion to ajour Second was Eric all in favor opposed abstained unanimous I don't have to pull anybody