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Part 1 (Video ID: 9c9luybRsow):
- 00:00:01: Meeting Call to Order, Pledge, and Roll Call
- 00:01:08: Public Comment Slot, Followed by One-Day Liquor License
- 00:02:02: Southwick Library Summer Page Hiring Request Discussion
- 00:02:59: Appointment of 2026 Election Officers Approved
- 00:03:49: Iron Man Race Public Safety Requirements Acknowledged
- 00:05:49: Reserve Fund Transfer Requests for Public Safety
- 00:07:59: WGI TIF Agreement Discussion: Dollar Amounts And Years
- 00:14:55: Assessor Discusses WGI Building Valuation Discrepancy
- 00:27:09: Framework for TIF Agreements Discussed: Transparency Needed
- 00:30:55: Approve Donations to Animal Control Gift Account Fund
- 00:31:31: Approve Intermediate Agreement with AWAM: Animal Services
- 00:33:29: Master Plan Item Cancellation: Alternative Energy Education
- 00:37:52: Master Plan Completed Items: Board of Health, COA
- 00:42:47: Approve Completion of Master Plan Completed Items
- 00:43:06: Meeting Adjournment After Payables Warrant Acknowledgment


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Welcome to the town of Southbook select boards meeting for May 4th, 2026. It is 6 pm. We're in the land use hearing room at town hall and remotely via Zoom and local channel 15. This meeting is being recorded except for executive session if there is one. If anyone else is

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recording, please acknowledge that. >> 40 Birwood Road audio and video. >> Thank you. >> Clton Clark, the Westfield News. >> Thank you. Okay, we'll start with roll call. Diane Gail, >> Doug Mglin, >> Russ Anderson,

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>> Nine Signon 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. Seeing as we have no one in the room

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besides the chief, I'm going to say we have no public comments in the room. Is there anybody online for public comment today? None. Thank you. Heading right into new business. We need to discuss and vote on a one-day liquor license application.

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This is for a Jack and Jill party to take place on 5926 at the South Ref Center from 4 to 900 p.m. There were no concerns or stipulations from police, fire, or the board of health.

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>> Make a motion to approve. >> Doug Mo, I'll second the motion. >> Roll call. Vote Daniel Dangale. I >> Doug Moan. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Okay. then discuss and vote on the Southwick Library summer page hiring request. This is a request to hire

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Maryanne Alos as a returning summer page. It's a temporary 8-week position, as it has been in the past, for 18 hours a week at $15 an hour. She would like to hire immediately following the annual town meeting if the library budget is

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approved. >> So moved. Second. >> Roll call vote. Dan Gale. I >> Doug Mgan. Yes. >> Ross Anderson. Yes. >> Just one one point. Why is that coming to us? >> Below department >> have done every year. I don't

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>> we have done it every year. >> True. >> That's a good question because it's a temporary based. Just asking. >> Good question. Then we need to discuss and appoint the 2026 election officers.

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The following individuals have been selected. Warden Paul Connelly. Assist Assistant wardens Sandra Organowski and Rosyn Terry. Poll workers Juliet Mason, Veronica Connelly, Elaine Boucher,

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Terrence Mish, Kirk Sanders, Sandra Heap, Harold Heap, Ronald Bennett, Bruce Mason, Kathy Liry, Mark Madroom, Mary Madrew, Karen Chute, Paul Ari, and Richard Lapick.

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>> Make a motion to appoint the following as election officers. >> Second. >> Roll call vote. Dang. Hi >> Doug Moin. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Then chief is here to tell us about we need to acknowledge and approve the public

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safety requirements for the 2026 Iron Man race. >> So on the on the police side of things, it's the exact same race as it was last year. It's going to come in on Salar Road, the depot to Granville Road to Hillside,

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Hastings, back to Granville Road, up into Granville. It's going to come back down into Southwork on um >> Sunnyside. >> What's that? >> Sunnyside. >> Eventually hit Sunnyside. Hillside

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>> Hillside College Highway 10. >> There you go. 10 miles the street >> chief their build detail rate to them right not correct out of our >> correct so it'll come out of our

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revolving account initially but >> they get build >> so I don't know if you have a total number of officers there but there's a total number of detailed officers cards and so on and so forth >> 18

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expensive day for them >> this is the fourth year Yes, >> it's true. You're riding along with them this year. >> You're riding along with them this year on a bike. >> You got me confused with the Westfield

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Mayor. >> Oh, well, sorry. >> You just waved them by, right? >> They're coming into town again about 7 a.m. We'll be out of here 11:15. So, quick in, quick out. Any other concerns? No.

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>> Do we need to vote on that or is it >> just acknowledge I think right we approve your public safety request is what it says. So all right then we do need to approve reserve fund transfer requests. We have

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a request for $7,500 for street lighting electricity, $9,000 for public safety fuel, and 27,840 for public safety electricity. Public safety building electricity.

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>> That's both police and fire, I assume. >> Public safety. I should >> I know it's a I think it should say buildings, but >> yeah, >> it's the public safety, but >> No, I understand that. I just I guess two questions. Number one is do we know why it's so high as opposed to just the

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rates? As long as there's some not something else going on and I assume it's both police and fire building >> as I did as well. >> I I know we saw what 12,000 go up for the library. >> The library.

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>> Yeah. This seems like a really big increase. >> I did not get a chance to watch the um finance committee meeting when they discussed it if there's any other information on whether it was another one of those third party contracts or whether it was just usage.

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>> Well, it's I mean they both buildings everything's on 24/7 for the last 20 years. So, our usage really shouldn't have changed much and their rates have not gone up that much. So, something doesn't make sense.

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>> Mark meters. >> Maybe we can ask Nicole to look into it. Let Eversource tell us why. >> So, we want to approve. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve it. I don't think we have a choice. >> I'll second the motion. >> Roll call public. I

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>> Doug Moin. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Moving on. Discuss WGI TIFF agreement tax and setting finance agreement. Um the

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dollar amounts and years of saving. This is a 10-year agreement. Um Doug, do you want to talk about this a little bit since you were part of the discussions? >> Sure. So, I was the designate from the

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board to work on this. Um things got a little bit went a little longer than it than it could have should have. So hence we kind of put it a little backwards where it got onto the warrant ahead of really discussing it here. Um but we were

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waiting both from the applicant um and the assessors to put some real dollar amounts behind what that tiff looks like. In previous tiffs, um I don't think we had always done

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all the expert analysis of what the net of the tiff would be based on valuations and tax rate heading into town meeting. Uh, I wasn't involved in the the immediate last TIFF that was done for obvious reasons, but I had been involved

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with other um potential TIFF agreements, including the one um I was not involved in, but this applicant of of WGI also received a TIFF um for their current headquarters located off of Hudson Drive. So

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two plus years ago, the owner of WGI approached us that they were considering an expansion in the town. Um, and if you recall, I had been designated to talk about that along with the uh previous CEO and the talks kind

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of fizzled out. I think their business had gone through some some changes and some other stuff. And then uh earlier this year um they reached back out again said they were interested to resume discussions. We met Nicole Parker and I

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met with um the owner and the COO of the company uh a couple of times to talk through what they were doing. They were evaluating Southwick, Westfield, and another community for

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either relocating their entire business andor expanding the operation that they currently operate. They're currently running out of the building on Hudson Drive. Plus, they have some um rental space at the end of Wall-E Way that

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they're occupying for um part and parcel of what they're doing for their business. So, they have two very distinct businesses that run out of the same operation um where they're they're uh repairing

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um aircraft parts, specifically engine parts, and they also have a significant MRO business that they run as well. And they're looking to grow both of those businesses. And after a couple of rounds of discussions and negotiations and then

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input from the assessor, they came back and um are ready to go in front of town meeting for a proposed tiff, which is directly in line. The the tiff that's being proposed is identical to in in

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format and structure. the dollar amounts move around a little bit, but on the percentages, obviously, it's based on the dollar amount of the project, but the percentages scale down over time. So, it steps in at a higher a higher reduction in in the in the taxes and then as over the 10 years. And they have

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a commitment of number of hires that they're going to make and so on in in the agreement. Um, and we're going to we'd like to send it to town meeting to have the folks vote to accept a tiff. It's a it's a great

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expansion of a good business. It's a it's a clean business. They do um it on a global basis for customers all over the world. And to have a business like that expand in the town is going to be a true net benefit for the town of South

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Lake from an economic development perspective, maintaining a large existing employer. Um, I would gather that they're within the certainly within the top 10 employers in the town. Um,

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and to maintain that business and have them further expand in the town in the industrial park is going to be a net benefit for the town of Southwick. >> Would they no longer be renting that additional space? >> To be determined. Their business has

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been doing rather well. I mean, I can't speak for them directly. >> That's not to combine to this anymore. >> It may very well, but it will also, we've seen this with other businesses that, you know, it's going to take time for them to

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finish design, permit, and construct said new facility. If they continue at the way that they're growing, they may not be able to move out of the rental facility and just um expand into the new facility. But the proposed facility

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um is adjacent to their existing building. So it would be much more um convenient for them for having all of their people. They're they're kind of adjacent now, but this would even be more so and they would be their own building on their own campus. And it would free up it also if if they

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did move into it having an existing structure that is kind of set up and um compartmentalized that those would be originally those the buildings that uh at the end of Wall-E way were originally kind of set up as business condos so that they could be subdivided into you

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know smaller units and rented out to general contractors or different types of businesses in that space. So and that market is still in in very very good demand. What's the checks and balance for um monitoring how many people they hire or

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don't hire or how that goes? >> Uh it's a reporting mechanism that they have to supply to the town. I believe it's in the tiff itself. Um but there's a checkpoint in it that they that they adhere to the the covenants of

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what that tiff is. and they expect 30 full-time jobs to be added. It says over five years. >> So, the product at this point the the building value is >> 6.5.

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>> Yeah. Like I said, a significant amount of time was spent with uh our new assessor going over some valuations and he provided you should have been provided a calculation sheet. Yeah, I'm confused

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why the value that was given was 18 million, but the calculation is six and a half. >> And so I am here I'm not Rachel Austin but Randall Austin and am attending the

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meeting. My student Rachel, student daughter Rachel does a lot of stuff on Zoom apparently and so it's set up for her >> and let you have her computer. Great. >> Yeah. And so, yeah, I um originally was just

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given a dollar figure and square footage and I asked for more information and got somewhat of a a building plan and using that information created a fictitious building on the

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parcel in uh my CAMA system, computer assisted mass appraisal system, and that was what I came up with for a value was 6.5 million. is actually just a little bit below and I round it up and so um

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you know the amount that they're uh pledging or or saying that the construction of the building is going to cost is 12 million and then they would said also another 6 million in personal property. So um it it sort of didn't make sense and I was trying to do some

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checking in different communities to see if it was something within my own database or if uh you know are we off by that much. I I used uh the the recently built Wall-E building to compare or to use uh the standards of construction and

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and uh quality and everything cuz I thought well a brand new building it's similar that it might be a good thing to use basically as a template for the information that I was entering in. Um, I did and I came up with that uh 6.5 uh

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uh number and um you know that left me curious as to why you know the information that they're giving me in my system comes up with only a $6.5 million value when they're stating that it's going to cost uh 12 billion or pardon me

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12 million to construct. So, I didn't have the chance, and I was speaking with this about Nicole, but I didn't get the chance to get back to them to ask them questions about it, but um that's sort of where things are at at this point. And so, yeah, I'm doing some other like,

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uh checking in other towns to find similar buildings to make sure that the information that I have is is or that's in our system isn't off. And um for what I've seen so far, I can't really say that. know it seems to be consistent and

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um we're just off by that amount. So I don't understand what the extra millions of dollars are going to be going toward or or you know a a better breakdown I guess of that and money that they are saying that they're going to be investing. Uh but that that is what I

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found and that's what came out of the database when I put that in according to um you know the standards of one of the more recent buildings that we had and I was even um you know saying that the walls were 24

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ft high in this building to to try and make sure that I wasn't underestimating the value. And so I I'm not sure what's going on with that, but um that that's what I found when I put it in to the database.

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>> I thought your method sound we talked about it. I thought your method was sound. Um and what we're illustrating in the explanations is based on your 6 and a half plus the 6 million of personal

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property. Correct. >> Correct. And the personal property would be something that would depreciate at a different value. Usually land and buildings will increase in value, but depreciation for personal property happens at a a much quicker rate. And so they're using the conventional

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depreciation schedule for machinery. I provided that estimate of the savings of personal property. Although that was another thing that I sort of didn't understand about the situation because I think it's pretty clear that they are a

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manufacturer but they are not set up with the state as a manufacturer and if they were they would be exempt from personal property. So Randy would as far as the final building cost is that based off the um

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the building permit whatever that number comes up to? Um, actually I didn't get the information through the building permit system. It was provided to me by people from WGI. >> No, I know. But in the final in the final wave of this would be based off of

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the actual building permit and the estimated cost to construct. >> Yeah. Yeah. And it would, you know, hopefully more formal plans would be submitted as part of that and that's what would be used. And so I did have, you know, another building that was

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recently built that was similar. And um, you know, the investment in in that was much closer to the value of the building. And this was off by, you know, uh, 42% or or whatever, you know, whatever that

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amount is, you know, the 12.5. Um they're they're saying that there's a lot more money to that they're investing to get this this uh six 60,000 square foot building um completed. So, I'm a bit conflicted about what the

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article says. If we're asking people to vote to approve a tiff that says $18 million, but the illustration is based on 6 and a half plus depreciated personal property.

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That's not the same illustration for what we're stating the value is. We'll have to get that clarified. >> And then once they vote on that, that can't change. Correct. That's what the voters approve. Was that illustration?

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>> Correct. >> So, we're not ready to have this in print yet. >> No. >> I'll have to follow again. I've been traveling the last two weeks, but I'll have to get with Parker and Mr. Austin to clarify all that and get

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that um figured out ahead of the the article. But from a structure standpoint, it's it's structured similarly. Yes, the dollar amount is very very important. We need to get that uh corrected because

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the and the dollar amounts that I saw are in line with current construction costs. So I mean 6 and a half million is going to be low for >> for that kind of square footage >> especially with the types of machinery they have >> on that's on the personal property side

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just the raw construction and outfitting for you know raw warehouse >> come to 80 bucks 70 bucks a square foot that was awful cheap. M >> well Randy compared it to the recent one square footwise and this one is 60,000

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versus what was it 80 80 something >> for you >> and just for the size difference it came out pretty close. So >> and you'd have to look and the per the personal property if they're bringing in machinery and equipment to go into that facility that is a bit different than

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>> than some others that were predominantly warehouse or what have you. looking at that part because that's unique to them. >> No, but even even the construction with electrical drops and electrical needs, you know, underground conduits and all that kind of stuff is different than a wall.

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>> Just need to figure it out, >> right? It could be part of the fit out for the the functionality of that space once it is created is what you're saying. >> Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I'm hoping

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>> and I can see some some merit in that. And so, like I said, I also am, you know, checking in other communities for a similar size building of of, you know, something that's been created recently to do some checking and make sure that our values aren't, you know,

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inappropriately low for um, you know, for this type of construction. And so I certainly have plenty to keep me busy in the assessor's office, but this is another thing that you know is a concern and it could affect values all over town for commercial properties.

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>> Randy, I know you economic development was talking about and you were talking about a temp a template for future tiffs. Um, and we have some that have gone on in the past. And is this typical of a 10-year program with 10% reduction each year?

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Um, I I can't really say. I don't have enough experience to say what is typical and what is not typical. And it depends. And that's why really I've I've been pushing to have a formal policy created and and put in place. And it's something that shows uh, you know, to a certain

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extent transparency uh, shows businesses that are interested just initially they'll be able to find the information on our website. This is what we do. These are the standards that we're looking for as far as employment and other things. and um you know and

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these are the type of benefits that we are you know in the position to offer. I mean it can't be you know 100% but you want something to give a very good idea of of what the the town will do and then also goes to show that that this is how

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we're treating everybody and there's no one that's getting preferential treatment. this is, you know, this is something that we're publishing that that this is how we do it and there's not, you know, it's not on a case-byase basis. Um, you know, Doug, I just wanted to

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chime in. you had mentioned about monitoring things and it used to be done through the state and everything was approved through the state and the EDIP, the economic development incentive program, but recently um in uh 2024 there were some changes to that and a

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lot of it is held more locally and so I think it would be up to us to monitor and have them reporting to us as opposed to a process that used to go through the state. they would report to the state and the state would make the information available for us to to monitor

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individually. >> Okay. So we have to wait really till >> so those values need to be reconciled. But just for the record if at 6.5 million plus 57 5.7 million

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over the 10 years it's a $728,460 estimated tax savings over that period. But those need to be reconciled. And I just wanted to say that the estimate that I provided, I used the three-year average of our tax

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rate to base that on as opposed to I feel like right now we're in a good position with our tax rate at 1442. But, you know, um that had to do with a lot of the the value that was added. And so I just thought to take an average would

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be uh something that would be um more uh you know something better to base our guideline off when we're looking for the next 10 years. >> Yep. I thought that was fair as well. >> And and when we review it even with the discount we should be telling the public

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what they are going to pay. >> Correct. >> Not just a discount. >> Correct. >> Because it's sizable too. >> Absolutely. >> You're right. >> Agree. Okay. So, more to do on that. Thank you, Randy. >> Thanks, Randy. >> I think it also sends a message, right?

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And I I watched some of the EDC meeting um on this topic as well. And it it's good to have a framework especially when around these things to ensure there's the transparency and that you know no one's getting an outside outsized deal.

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Um, but it it also is highly dependent on the situation and the company and what they what they bring to the town of Southwick. And also, frankly, sometimes it's a competitive it's a competitive environment. If it's if it's a an

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industry or a business that you want to have locate in the town, you may have to, you know, come off your standard to do certain things. You know, in this particular instance, we didn't have to. Um, I I I can't take all the credit. Nicole Parker and I I think did a very

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good job of speaking with with um the CFO, the general manager, and the president on some of the value of staying in town. um a gentleman whose name was mentioned earlier in a slightly different context made a very generous

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offer on behalf of a a city to the north of us um to get them to move their whole business back over into that town. Um, and I thought we made a pretty compelling argument as to why they would want to stay here, um, and continue to

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grow here without uprooting their entire business that they just, you know, they've been here probably close to 25 years now when they moved over and changed their name from Westfield Gauge to WGI. Um, and they're a significant employer. And

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they gave us some interesting numbers, too, just to close out on that. Um, only 1% of their sales are in Massachusetts. um 80 30% of it's international and 69% of it is is here in the US and has a it's

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split amongst that OEM side where they're making parts um and component parts for for jet engines and the rest is maintenance repair and overhaul where they bring in equipment and refurbish it and restore it um or do maintenance to

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it. Um so it it's certainly an interesting conversation. It's a very interesting business. It's very quiet in where they are and what they do. Um, you know, they're not hugely impactful on traffic. Um, it's very very highly skilled. Some of the stuff they do that, you know,

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obviously when you're dealing with jet engines, precision and quality is everything. Um, so having an employer like that in in the town is certainly an asset to for an employer employer base. Um, and those types of businesses also

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have tons of suppliers in the area that also, you know, hopefully more of them will be more inclined to move towards Southwick to to grow and expand their business as well. >> How many employees do they currently have? >> Uh, he told me and I didn't jot it down, >> but I it it's a significant number.

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We've been on a couple of tours of the place. There's a significant number of employees there and you can take a look at their parking lots in the park. >> Yeah, I know. you know, it's a good place to take your kids to learn how to drive on the weekends, but uh no, it's a very significant parking lot. It's very well, very well utilized during the

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week. Um, and like I said, they were busting at the seams. They've moved into the end of Wall-E way there, um, and had rented a building over there. Um, and we're really shuttling stuff back and forth. This is going to be a big plus for them to continue to grow their

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business. >> Okay. Then we can approve acknowledge and approve donations to be deposited into the Southbook Animal Control gift and medical account fund from J Banish from

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and uh J Banish $50. Ranels $30. Those are from Southwick from K. Costc of South Hadley $25. from S. Snape of West Suffield, $100 and from Western Mass model A restorers club of

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Beluretown, $25. >> Motion to accept. >> Second. >> Welcome vote. Dan G. I >> Doug Mglin. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Uh, no new business. Uh, new business.

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Doug, you haven't been here, so guess nothing for me. >> Under old business, uh, discuss and approve the intermediate agreement with AWAM regarding the animal control services. This was brought up a couple a week or so ago, uh, pending both town

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councils having reviewed it and approved it, and it has been. Again, there's no change in the value, $15,000 a year, and this is for retro fiscal year 26 through 28.

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I just, and the only reason I'm thinking of it is because we just dealt with this, but this is part of the public safety electric bill, too. And if rates go through the roof down the road, not that it would be a lot, there if there's no

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movement in that, we'd be absorbing that. Correct. for the next three years. >> I mean, this I think personally just seeing this what we're getting those increases, you know, I know it's

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not a lot. It's not a big building, but in concept, and not to hold it up, I'm just making a statement. I'll shut up. Although they only house them for days and then they have to do something with them.

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>> So, >> no, I know how you split when there's an AWAM dog in there to the power bill. I mean, that would be >> small just on the power. So, we need to looking for a motion to approve that.

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>> So, move. And I guess who has to sign that? There's somebody's signature on that. >> We'll make a motion for the chair to sign or second his motion with an amendment that the chair the chair can sign it. >> Roll call vote. Dian Gale. I >> Doug Mogan. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Discuss and approve cancellation of

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select board action item from the master plan climate change 1.5. This is a recommendation from the master plan for the climate change committee. that the select board had previously

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submitted and approved not to create. Um, but that climate change committee had a lean action item that has now become orphaned. Um, and I guess it falls on the select

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board to determine its destiny. This was to educate and offer insights on private al alternative energy options via workshops and guest speakers, dissemination of information on solarization program, smart program,

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mass save and other state and federal incentives and to encourage businesses to expand recycling efforts. Um after discussion on the master plan implementation committee um it was felt

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that the town I will read that has has no interest nor should it be promoting andor selecting private enterprises to residents businesses and other taxpayers. Likewise, the town should not endeavor to try to persuade private businesses to engage in particular trash or other

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environmental practices not already incorporated into general and zoning bylaws. Does that make sense to you all? >> Does that need to be a motion or just >> we would need to So the process is once

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there's a we are taking on that role that doesn't exist for the climate change. If we are that committee that doesn't exist, we have to get rid of this orphan item. We either have to pass it off to someone else to address or we

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can determine ourselves. This is not in the purview of the town to be promoting private enterprise. I >> I agree with what you said too. >> We would we would vote to cancel this item and then it goes back to the master

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plan implementation committee to review. They haven't reviewed this yet. Um >> they have to approve it and then it comes back for the planning board and select board. I would make a motion to move forward to remove it based on this information that you've read right.

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I'll second the motion, but I' I'd just like to call out that um I think there is an opportunity at times um for the town to provide limited

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not promoting a specific business per se um but where there's an opportunity to drive cost for residents without burdening the town with additional cost. or even better save residents and the town money. So if you

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look at the um municipal a program, right, the way I read this at first was like, well, this exactly what municipal a did. The only thing that I took exception to with municipal aggregation was that somehow the town ended up in it. Um as far as being the administer of

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it and there's money that gets aortioned out of people's electric bill that now comes to the town. If we had encouraged people to sign up to be able to get a better deal because we could gang the town's purchasing power, town residents purchasing power just to drive costs for everyone else, that would have been good enough for me. And then there are there

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are potential other types of programs whether it cuts some waste out of the municipal waste stream that heads to the transfer station that we're paying tonnage to move. that that may be opportunistic that the town should should take a look at those provided it doesn't burden the the town itself with

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additional cost. >> Agreed. >> Second, >> which is not what that recommendation was in the master plan, right? But I agree with you 100%. >> Roll call vote. Dian Gall >> Doug Mogan. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes.

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So this will come back once it goes through MIP for the final planning board and select board approval to delete it. And then

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uh also under new business we had a late submission of the other. So this is the next phase. Um these had come from the other boards and commissions

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of their completed items. Um these are from the board of health planning board and council on aging. So the master plan implementation committee reviewed the documentation provided that substantiated completion and they approved it. So it comes back to the

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planning and select board to sign off as complete. Um I think the first one you got was the board of health on climate change enhancing townwide vector control and education programs. Um and they have a

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wealth of programs the and communication around not just town not just the town hall but around town um and working with other

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minus the typos in that uh working with other agencies to do the same on that. Do you want to go through them all quickly and vote them all together? Sure. >> Jump in if you have questions. >> Well, you just left the lowhanging fruit

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that they were gonna tick the box on that one. >> Uh transportation. South the Council on Aging had transportation a ride sharing service. Um, as ride serving ride sharing

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services become available in Southwick, consider the opportunity to educate residents on ride sharing safety and app usage. Um, they did arrange for a second van, including Granville and expanding the van service.

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They uh communicated with AARP on avoiding scams um and are also working with the Hampton County Sheriff's Department. Don't know where that's going to go yet on presentations for ride sharing in

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general uh ride sharing safety and app usage. So again, theirs was deemed complete. The planning board had one under economic development to consider limiting new development until all zoning enhancements request for zoning

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updates and adherence to uniformly applied design aesthetic standards mentioned in the master plan actions have been considered and planned and have a planned pathway to completion. The planning board did consider that request, that recommendation, um, and

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determined that, um, putting any kind of limits on it while they're working on it was not a good practice and master plan implementation committee found that complete.

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Council on Aging also had creating a public forum with Council on Aging and other town boards and commissions to determine how other town entities can collaborate with the senior center and engage in events with older adults. and they go on to a number of things they

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were already doing and um working with the high school with their DLE program, working with the cultural council and I believe they were looking for a grant this year as well. Um working with conservation commissioner

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uh coordinator where seniors can contribute on projects etc. again completed satisfactorily. Board of Health also had maintaining vigilance into the ongoing nature of the pandemic and plan proactively for

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similar health events in the future. Um they are that is really a lot of their main focus and they substantiated it and also have quite a bit of information broadcast throughout the community. Uh that was one, two, three, four. Those

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are the five that are before us to agree they have substantiated their completion. Questions, comments, well, etc. If those appear to be complete, I guess we need to vote that they can be deemed

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completed and have me sign those. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. Vote. Dig. I. >> Doug Mglin. Yes. >> Russ Anderson. Yes. >> Okay. Then we have minutes listed on the agenda, but they actually are not

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available. So, we're going to skip that. Table that along with ones from last week. And acknowledge payables warrant number 2625B dated April 28, 2026 in the amount of $4,ion25,454.90. And yes, that included a school

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assessment. And then we do not have executive session tonight. So we are looking for a motion to adjurnn if there's nothing else. >> With much appreciation. So moved. >> Second.

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>> Roll vote. I >> Doug Mglin. Yes. >> Sanderson. Yes. >> You can get better. Mhm.