Good evening everyone. Um, tonight is a special night. Um, I'm opening the meeting for the select board as we have just had an election and it's time for the select board to do their annual um,
reorganizing. So, at this point um, I would like to take nominations for the select board chair. Do you want to do it again? Do you mind if we have a little discussion before we
are worthy of discussion? As as people watching might know, um we are bound by open meeting laws. One of those is that we can't have discussions like this outside of public meeting. Um so we weren't able to, you know, coordinate through. Um I'm happy being
the chair. I like being the chair. I also am more than happy to share the share the love. Is it something you would be interested in doing, Dian? I'm fine the way it is. I will say that my first year being the
chair was not a lot different than my year being the the clerk. Um it didn't didn't have much difference. This last year was a lot harder. We had a very transitional year. We had a interim town administrator and a new town administrator. We lost not
only our town administrator but our assistant to the to the select board and that town administrator. Um, and it was a very challenging year. So, um, just full disclosure, this job, the the chairship does bring more to it than you may think it does otherwise. Um, so
Crystal, I'm more than happy to support you if you you'd like to take I am more than happy to support Nathaniel if you would like to do it again. I think it's unanimous. I I I am more than happy to to continue to be the Oh, that's wonderful. I
nominate Nathaniel Wearing for chair. I second. Um, all those in favor? I I All those opposed. Um, the eyes have it. All right, Nathaniel, you are now the chair for
another year. Wonderful. Thank you so much for taking it on. Of course. I really do. I do like being the chair. I just It's also a lot of work. So, you know, 61 half dozen there. All right. Um I will hereby
retake the the driving of this meeting. And so the end of the my piece of paper is to select um take nominations for a vice chair and a clerk. So I would you want vice chair or you want clerk? I'm fine.
I'm h happy to serve in any capacity. Exactly. So I will nominate Crystal Drake from Lelay for the vice chair. Second. Right. We have motion made and seconded. All in favor? I. I. I will nominate Dan Murphy for the
clerk. Second. All right. We have motion made and seconded to have Dan Murphy be our clerk. All those in favor? I. I. Two. Nothing. All righty. We have a select board again. Well, for serving. Wonderful. And thank you as well. All right. Um, let's quickly approve the
minutes from our last meeting. Our last meeting was on 4225. Do I hear a motion? I motion we approve the minutes from 422. Second. All right. We have a motion made and seconded. All those in favor? I I three nothing. All righty. So for new
business, um our first order of new business is discussion of a special municipal employee for school committee member. So thank you very much for providing this. Um we have here a disclosure form which is a general law section
268A or 268A section 20D um disclosure and um would you like to give us a little bit of background on why this is necessary? Um I am currently in the second term uh on the school central school committee. Um
and the frontier um union 38 won a grant uh from the mass fresh corps um in which we as a committee the farm school committee um developed
um basically these positions to continue the work of the farm school committee to develop this program within all the union 38 districts that will be paid through this fresh core grant. um within the frontier um
food um sorry uh food distribution budget if that makes sense. And um so I was uh I applied and was hired for uh the garden coordinator position which is a 12-hour a week part-time position um
that's for this two-year period ending next year basically. Um the grant was awarded very recently and so there's an expedited spending spending down of this grant which many of you guys are familiar with this scenario and so it kind of happened
very quickly and um I jumped into applying and was given the position because of the work that had been leading up to that. Also I'm very interested in it and and continuing to maintain my position on the school committee if you guys feel that it can
be approved. And the our lawyers are are fine with everything. Um I didn't call our lawyers. I talked to the the lawyer at the state. Okay. Um what is required is Megan needs to go to all four of the select boards um in the region. Okay. So
it's it's um it's going to take her a little leg work. Um but I hope they all find it worthy of support. Okay. Great. And you don't feel like we need to discuss this with our time council. Um, as far it's a very straightforward
disclosure. I'm happy to review it with ahead of time. I'm just wondering if you know we don't get there's a month period of time, but since I was tech hired on the 28th from that date, we have a month to
kind of finalize that. Yeah. No, I just I we haven't had one of these before, so I don't know if it's something that, you know, our town council. Unfortunately, in Shootsberry had a lot of them. Okay. Um for different reasons. This was this was a very clear reason and um some of
them can can get very messy. Yep. But this one is pretty straightforward. Dan, any questions or No. All right. Um, I'm assuming you want a motion to accept the disclosure. Okay. At this time, I would entertain a motion to
accept the disclosure as presented. Motion to accept the disclosure as presented. Second. All right. We have a motion made and seconded. All those in favor? I I I. Three nothing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good luck with the other three counts. One down.
Do I need to submit this? You had all the copies. Um I we could probably give you some copies back if we can keep um two. Well, the select select board needs to sign them. Well, no, you can just upload them into the SharePoint and then
we'll Okay. into the sign one. Yeah. And then she can give you three to take to the other towns. But if you Nathaniel, if you would sign at the bottom. Sure. If you want to pass me one. Can I borrow a pen in? Thank you.
And then I'll I'll scan that one and put in the SharePoint. And then that way we don't need hard copies. It's easier to find them on the SharePoint. Yeah. Thank you. Great. Wonderful. Yes, that was simple enough. Typically you you want to sign
them for the select boards ahead. All righty. Next up is uh review town election results and select board discuss redistributing committee le liaison duties. Um so as unless I'm
mistaken the town election results were very simple. Everyone was unopposed and everyone secured their positions. Um we there wasn't anything controversial. There wasn't any ballot questions that had monetary, you know, fallout or anything like that. Um so I don't know there's
much to discuss. Is there anything that you guys wanted to talk about? I'm good with Yeah, it's it's hard to have much discussion on unosed results. Well, it's a good thing that there were people willing to
serve in every position. Exactly. Um I do want to say officially congratulations to everyone who was elected. Um you know, thank you very much for for submitting yourself to serve. Um especially our our members who are new to committees. Um there we had a number of folks who are diving in for
the first time to to some committee or another. So welcome and thanks to all the people that vacated positions too for the time they spent doing them. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Um the other half of that is the redistributing of the
committee leaison duties. Now we've had the same list for the last couple years. Um is there any anyone want to change what's on that list? Does anyone have varying interests or
I'm I'm fine with the ones I have. If some if there's something somebody that I have that somebody is just going I really want to be on that committee, I will. To be honest, I I have the ones I want already and I'm not looking to
poach yours. So, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine with you. Yep. I'm fine with the ones I have, too. Someday we'll mix it up. Yeah, but it takes a couple years to get to actually know what that group is doing and understand all their goals and
stuff. So, I don't see any need to Yeah, I I appreciate the consistency being able to to say, "Oh, I did this last year. I know what I'm talking about." Not just being brand new every single time. So, no, I I I'm on the same page there. Um, so on that note, I guess I would entertain a motion to reappoint
everyone to the slate of committees that we are currently on. So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion made and seconded. Not hearing any further discussion. All those in favor? I I I three nothing.
Wonderful. And our last new item of business is a discussion on where on the town website to put the town resolutions that were passed at our recent town meeting. Um, and last time we had discussed briefly having that be um on the sort of the top bar of the website in its own little um, you know, drop-
down menu there. Um, something that was like resolutions or you know, town resolutions, that kind of thing. That sounds fine to me. I Was there anything further that we wanted to discuss on that or just you wanted us to confirm that that is where we were
going? Yeah. Um, you did say you wanted to think about it. Okay. Some more in case. Yeah, you hadn't had much time to look at the website originally. Yeah. And I mean when I looked at it, I didn't it just
seems somewhere along that top bar and if we call it I guess one question I have is just a language. Are these really the first two citizen petitions of this type? And if not, if there have been past
petitions of this type, where do those because there isn't currently a section of the website, at least not that I'm aware of, that says past citizen petitions. And I would assume that in the many hundred year history of the town, we would have had at least a couple of non-binding citizen petitions.
So I don't know if maybe just in the past there was never a aspect of those that included putting them on the website pre- website have been a website or just that the people like you know the people who came into us this time asked for it to be on the website. So, we put that
wording in the language. It's possible, just hasn't in the past. So, if we had historical resolutions that passed, they're still active, right? Unless they've been repealed ostensibly, they were we would still be active. If there were ones that had language that not
because again, they're not they're not binding, but quote unquote required us to read them, we would be reading them or or we would be not doing what was intended. Um, so I guess that's sort of my my only question is just is there already a place that those are being displayed? If so, do we want to either
modernize that or put these there? Um, or again, maybe it's just that this is the first two where the website applies. Um, I don't know. I don't know that I have a good answer as to where to find that out. I Well, I'll start with Wendy.
Wendy's a good place to start. Um, Wendy's a good place to start. And I hate to reach out to Jeff too often, but that that might be a case where if you can't get a satisfactory answer, we send him a polite email asking him if he knows the answer to that. Um, but yeah, that's my that's my only real um I just
like searched resolutions and I'm just kind of looking through that quick. There's quite a few pages of it. So that wouldn't be one, right? Yeah, that's not town driven. That would
be that would be a resolution that we as a select board or they as a select board. The only thing I'd say is just be be careful to use the language that was voted. Yeah. How however you describe it. That's all. Yep. Um so I guess I
guess Yeah. I mean, I just like I said, I'm just looking quick through these pages and that's the first I've heard I think the first time I've seen it. I mean, you seen a resolution of town meeting. Yeah.
Je's had up to five at a time. Really? Yeah. Fantastic. There could be a whole bunch. There could be a whole bunch, you know, that we just don't know about. I just I guess what I'm saying that one way or the other, I'd like us to be consistent. So, if we already have a system in place, great. Let's keep using that system. If we don't have a system
in place, great. Let's come up with one and then if we can pull forward any past stuff that should be there or if not, great. We have two and in the future we have a a path for them and we can continue to there. Um, okay.
So, I would entertain a motion to tentatively add a drop- down bar on the town website on the right assuming or you know in contingent on the discovery of what has
been done in the past. Does that sound right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, do we want to actually select a place? Do we want to say put it between regional services and co 19 or just that was just after right the room between there and the final
passing. Um so yeah and we can also leave a lot of the the minutiae up to that to whoever does the website design for us. Um you know they'll they'll know how to make it in you know fit the theme of the website properly and whatnot.
All right. So, do I hear a motion to make that so pending investigation? So, I don't know if we even want to do So, if they actually live someplace already on the website, I still think
maybe we should get them up here so they're Yeah. not being searched for. Mhm. So, I think no matter what, it should go up here. Even if they find them someplace else on the website. I agree. So yeah, let's do that then. Let's let's make a motion to create a
place for them on the main web page and if we can find past ones, great. We'll pull them forward. Yeah. If not, it's a fresh start and we start with these two and then we have a place for them for the foreseeable future. Yeah. So moved. Second. We have a motion made and seconded. All those in favor? I I three
nothing. Wonderful. All right, that is all of our new business tonight. Uh under old business, do we have any select board updates? I don't Well, I will say I'm I I know I promised last week to do the SH path. I'm waiting for one drawing. I've got
them all downsized, but I want to have a complete set. So, you will be seeing that. Hopefully, it was going to be today tomorrow. So, that'll be coming. Excellent. Looking forward to that. Anything, Crystal? I am all set. Wonderful. I don't have anything uh major myself. So, wonderful. Becky, any
town minister updates from you? Um I have been talking to Wendy about um the pain and the oldest person as you recall um Mary has Warner has passed away. Um
she was our long you know long-standing oldest person well for a few years. Um, and we are looking at a list of folks here's, but the person at the top currently is
Geette Divine. The policy states that the person needs to live in town for a minimum of one year and she um has been here for a number of years. So, she
would be the next one um to be given the cane. 231. So, I was thinking of um reaching out to her and with Wendy's support and and asking inquiring if she would be interested in getting the cane
and um then at the 19th meeting bring that information back and arrange a time where the select board um could could go out and I think you share the cane with her and then take it back. Yeah. we present it and take some pictures and
you know it's it's the one that I've been to not to not to speak from a lot of experience but the one I've been to um a lot of thing I mean was there it was an opportunity to celebrate so typically if they have a birthday party or
something coming up we may let them keep it for a couple days but because so many of these you know have been found at flea markets, things like that because if they keep it, we don't
know. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes with the death things get lost and Yes. So, you know, if they have, you know, we use it, you know, for the for the presentation. I believe there's a pin and, you know, a couple other things that we present them
with. Okay. And, um, we do take the cane back to go back into its home there. so that we have it to present to the next person. And from my and from my perspective, um, we can take a lot of, you know, direction from her and her
family as to how big of a deal she wants it to be. You know, she may not want to have Joe Commer, Natalie Bla, and half of Sunderland show up at her doorstep. Or she may be somebody who's like, "An opportunity for a party. Great, I'll invite the entire town." So, um, it would be good to get her her family's
take on on that. Okay. Um, I would hate to have the distaste of having a big thing get in the way of her being able to accept the honor if if she feels that's an issue, you know. So, um, yeah, when we did it for um, Mrs.
Rodak, there were maybe 10 people there. It was it was quite small. And then, you know, when Mary Warner had hers, it was, you know, it was a family birthday party. So, you know, I guess what I'm saying is we are open to whatever works
for them, sensitivity to the Yes. Um to the person being awarded. Exactly. Um but yes, please do work with Wendy on that. Um it'd be great to to get that taken care of. Great. That's my my big thing for
tonight. Good night. It's a nice one. All right. Um that's it for old business. Uh we have no correspondence. I don't see anybody online in our waiting room or in person here. So, no public comment. Uh, no executive session tonight. At this time, I would entertain
a motion. Did you Did we want to talk about the bi-weekly? Yes. Um, good point. Uh, our next meeting will be on 519, which is two weeks from today. So, we will not be meeting this coming Wednesday. Um, and we are sorry, sorry,
Monday. Um and we are um going into our summer schedule as of now. Um so from now until sometime in September Octoberish when budget season starts to roll up uh we will be doing every other week uh with the understanding that um if something
timesensitive comes up that we need to be able to you know meet we will post as required um and meet on those off weeks. Excellent. Thanks. Yes. Thank you for reminding me Dan. Good call. All right. Uh at this time I'd entertain a motion to join. I motion we adjourn. Second. All right, we have a motion made and
seconded to adjurnn. All those in favor? I I I 3 nothing. 6:49 p.m. Nice and fast.