i hereby call to order scheduled meeting of the Sunland Select Board the time is 6:49 p.m our first order of business would be to approve the minutes of our last meeting uh on 33125 or one of our last meetings do I
have a motion a motion we approve the minutes from 3:31 second we have a motion made and seconded all those in favor i I wearing three nothing thank you all righty our first order of
new business is the finance committee report on my reputations and vote on warranty so Val um there was one warrant um that did not have a number that the finance committee needed to vote on tonight for
their recommendations to be final i have recorded all of the votes except for um the article regard regarding the CPC um article amount the new now the new
article number nine but then we also haven't done article three and four yet because we didn't have the total number for the budget yet right no you did those we had the total month yeah that was completed so only nine only nine and we don't have to change anything else changed
one thing was deleted okay we don't have to worry about finding I mean and well the bylaw the revol you might want to review the revolving bylaw changed but it's on procedure it's no financial impact okay so what's the number for article 9
that the CBA recommended is it this much this one i'm sorry so article 9 which we can't vote on until we know the number oh the number is 472,173 90 cents and 90 cents so they went for
the the yellow they went for everything so that's on top of the 213,000 I hope that they have okay um do any questions from the finance committee about the CBA i did
sit on the library meeting today and the CPA meeting today any questions on that 472173 that the CPA recommended to the town this is for the this is for the masonry at the GPS library that will get it into the next hundred years that's
basically what the Well it's not just masonry and No it's masonry and pointing and and everything repair of right and they they considered two different versions basically half now and half in five years and then decided I think I don't know considering that how much
everything was they must have gone with the every everything now before everything goes up in price lauren do you want to say anything she was at the library and the CPA received one bid um you know obviously this has gone through the reverse public
bidding process and um everyone seems um you know it it's a lot of money but that's what it costs and it is um preservation of a major historic structure any questions from the finance committee
so the total project costs are the 600 right it's about 600 right but so much of the money has already been raised and given this is an additional $472,173 added to what's already in the
budget to bring the graves memorial library back to security for the next 100 years um I'll um do we have a motion joe you still want to look at it no I'm good we got a
motion again I just I didn't write down the whole number a lot of No that's the additional That's the addition that's the new second second all in
favor i I opposed zero finance committee 30 3 oh we supposed to make a statement right there she did oh I did she made a statement she signed on and I'm on the library
finance committee want to at this point do we have anything else that we need to deal with all right all right i I'm going to entertain a motion to adjurnn motion to adjurnn i don't think we have a motion second yes all in favor all right bye-bye
people all right enjoy thank you thank you all very much thank you all right our next order of business is Okay um so this is um the third year of the
police chief's current contract um so for the last couple of months Dan Murphy was um the select board member working on the negotiation with the chief and we have met with him a few times and in
between um we've felt it was important to come back to the select board as a whole uh for one round of negotiations um we came up um with some ideas and took from the
select board and took those back to the chief and he at this point has agreed to the changes that the final changes so this um the contract here you go do you
guys the contract represents um a significant increase in the chief's salary he will be moving to $17,080 for starting on July 1st um there was another um lot of discussion
about um the residency requirement so we have now added a very simple residency requirement to the chief's contract stating that we will um he
will find a doicile within 20 miles of the Sunderland Police Station so the if there is an issue if the chief finds something outside of that parameter um he will come and have discussions with
the select board um and with a town administrator and we'll do our best to resolve the issue and those are um I think the just about all of the changes
last night was put back in under M previous contract i I saved it it's perfect okay in section seven I guess I apologize i've been having a
tough day being sick and then the computer has not been very helpful um we need to add one more sentence to M on from the existing contract and that just and I exact same language as the prior
contract yes and I typed it um because I originally didn't find the last contract so I had to make a lot of changes i had added this in and um thought I had saved it apparently not in this version i So
it's article 7 section M yes and so I'll run down and get that so we can add that in for the chief i think the the gist of it is that he will receive 30 sick days and if he
dies 30 30 sick days will go to his beneficiaries we don't want that not me just hold that i'm sorry could we just verbally
Okay dad you're going to sing for us he's not feeling good not when I'm feeling well definitely do not want to hear my croaky voice try to belt something out today all right you sound pretty good i say there's no day that anybody wants to hear me try to belt
something out same for me that's an idea for a fundraising event have people in town donate towards the select board singing karaoke you know yeah maybe to the select board not singing karaoke way more $10 to hear a select sing a
song $20 to not hear i'll sing at church cuz they're not supposed to judge you there but they do it's the only place I sing that's it i have so many good memories of my grandmother singing just as a kid she
was classic you getting your exercise today i have this in there okay so I will read it into here and then transcribe it for signing accumulated sick leave up to 30 days
shall be paid in a lump sum to the spouse or beneficiary of the chief where his services are terminated by death during the term of his I put it in the wrong you put an end
it's an end okay we're going to move this up here you know we have the language right oh that's the same as what I'm reading it's in there that's fine we can just go and sign the existing one
yep yeah so just circle it and arrow it up to N initial it and Yep okay um are you going to take a vote yeah so I guess I'm entertaining a motion to approve the chief's contract
and sign i make a motion that we approve the chief's three-year contract second motion made and seconded all those in favor i I wearing three nothing becky thank you very much Chief thank you appreciate
your service and we're glad to have you here for another three years thank you very much i look forward to it great good all right our next order of new business is uh a
new hire of a board of work we have been uh very fortunate to have um a very experienced Thank you thank you so much Eric um we have a very experienced
candidate officially her name is Katherine Fort Pierce she goes by Beanie um she has I [Music] think over 20 years of experience in
municipal work she started as a board of health clerk which is very appropriate for this position um she rose to be a health agent in Montikue she then turned
her sights on um town clerk became an assistant town clerk and was uh promoted to town clerk fairly recently and now she is uh retiring and we will be the beneficiaries of her
retirement as she felt a fivehour work week was just perfect um it's great there will be times when she's on vacation and then she'll make up her time the following week if needed
she has a lot um lot of ideas how to um make the department efficient and how to set up the files in a more efficient way so we're very much looking forward to her starting the health department
health board of health they're very happy to have her oh very very much so okay good so we need a motion to appoint or what is it hire a motion to appoint motion to appoint Pierce to the position of port
did you make a motion second so moved oh so moved yeah so we still need second motion moved and seconded all those in favor i I I wearing three nothing all
right good all righty our other limit today is for a highway seasonal laborer okay um the person's name is Christine Walker
Miller um and she is um ready to do the work and it's a you know summer temporary work so we're hiring her on a temporary basis what's the projected start date um I
believe it was May 1st may 1st i'll double check um discussion on this item no all right at this time I entertain a motion to approve the hiring of um the
seasonal public as described as All right i motion we approve of hiring Kristen Miller as highway department seasonal help second have a motion made and seconded all
those in favor i I I Daniel Wearing 350 thank you all right up next is uh the VR contract accounting software is that correct yes it is um it we last year you
all signed a contract the official um major contract for this that we are are now adding to we have so the agreement was established in 2024 so we are bound to that the
agreement from then if you wanted to review that and today we were just signing a very simple amendment to the contract um saying that we are taking on the tax
systems and VDAR will um continue to support the accounting software and in the new agreement the um time period because of the original contract is July 1 through
202 started in July 1 2023 through June 30 26 so at that point uh when we renew it'll all be bundled together instead of just being an amendment the wonderful thing about um picking up these
additional pieces of Vadar is the town is able to do it within the budget we um point software was very expensive maintenance fees of 12,000 a year um so we I think this is going to be a benefit
to the town to have all the systems on one software it'll make things much more efficient had a timeout and a motion to approve the changes to the VR contract i motion we approve the changes amendment to the
VDAR contract second motion made and seconded all those in favor i I wearing three nothing three nothing thank you very much all righty so next up is uh the review and the vote for the capital stimulation planning committees
2026 for your 26 uh recommendations um capital being met this past week and uh went over uh all the requests as well as the various options the town has for um funding and also as we discussed in the
past for um shoring up the balance of the capital stipulation account um due to the uh fact that we didn't approp we didn't collect those uh appropriate funds this past year um
so long story short um we have found a way to be able to close the gap without having to uh call a special town meeting and uh transfer money out of the general stabilization funds um is a combination of a number of different uh pieces uh
primarily uh the recapture of a bunch of money that had been sitting in capital stabilization accounts for projects that were already completed but had not been put up back out to the town so we were able to find I think it was about $90,000 um which just you know one of these
opportunity for her hard work on doing so um you know every penny we found there was a penny less that we had to ask uh the town to transfer over um in addition to that um we uh were able to we had a discussion about uh the two um
items that are out there are pending for the this building or that building actually there right now um and that would be the the items for the front steps and items for the floors um inside neither of those products have been at all in the last uh two or so years um
and are in no position to uh start breaking ground between now and July um due to that and also due to the sort of period stimulus and fee um dollar amounts and lack of of uh you know plans and and quotes and whatnot
from that project um we felt it made sense to um transfer that money back into the fibula account to get us back over the zero line um and then have those projects um have actual engineering done um so that we can have a realistic dollar amount which we can
then approve uh for next year's budget to get that those projects moving forward um am I missing anything Becky with regular I think just to make it clear that the total amount is $186,627.31 so where's the money coming from to get
the engineering work done to if we're returning all that yeah so we had also as part of that we had also added a $10,000 engineering to this year's um capital projects that will come out of the the
450,000 that we're appropriating for this year um and that will give us the money we need to be able to actually do those engineering um or or you know get on our our package in that respect oh that seems Well yeah so the so the
there was 48 in here that we transferred out and you're saying we're putting 10 10 back in and that's for the school street engineering no it's for the front step all for all all for the front step okay okay because we had approved both of those projects without any
consideration for engineering and while the floors are probably just going to be a straight bid from some flooring company um there was concern that not having money for the engineering part of the front steps was going to end up being a problem in that um so that's why the the committee recommended that we do
the 10,000 for and that's just for the truck scraps i again we don't think we need that for the the floors that's not an engineering i'm not an engineer so you know I could be wrong on that but that was what the committee had had uh come through okay what do you think Dan
hey it makes sense 10,000 yeah i don't know it's for the steps it should be fairly small yeah okay i mean we had we had been looking at that project the whole project being $50,000 um and again we get and part of our our our discussion was we don't know
whether that's even realistic now with current prices and whatnot um so part of this would give us a chance to come up with an actual realistic dollar amount um and on that note that was something that that the committee had discussed as sort of a um a direction the committee would like to see the town go in is
having more realistic and more um you know datadriven um dollar amounts on projects so that we don't just say "Hey it's not like a $50,000 project." And then you know sign up a chunk of money to it but actually having you know the the departments who come to us ask for
money have done the enough leg work to have a realistic dollar amount and and and to be clear a lot of departments already do that that's that not that's not that's not me trying to to negotiate any different departments um if we do get very real estate but just that's
sort of a unwritten policy that we'd like to solidify a little more is when you request money from the capital pending committee you have a good idea of of how much that money is going to be and not just sort of a big dollar amount okay sounds good to me okay um and on
the other side um the money going out I believe is 350,000 it went up to 360 because of the tent because of the 10 yeah um so the the projects that were requested from uh the town this year um as I said we go up to
350 and change um and then we're we amended that for the $10,000 for the engineering for the steps um at 360 um with the 420 going in will leave us at after everything is settled um with a little bit of nest egg for you know for
next year for uh especially going towards the school roof replacement which is what we have in our in our long-term you know sites okay yeah so um between that and the
39,000 we hope to be receiving shortly the rebates um that might mean they'll have cap stabilization back up to 100,000 yum that's dope yeah and and part part of our thinking throughout all this is that
we are trying um as discussed in previous meetings we're trying to keep what reserves the town has as liquid as possible um and not necessarily the actual liquidity because that doesn't exist in town politics but in terms of if if we transfer a bunch of money from general stabilization into capital
stabilization that really be there this year if next year we have a hard budget season we can't transfer that money back out as capital stabilization money and it's just it's stuck that way um whereas if we leave as much as possible in general stabilization which this this plan is effectively not putting any
money out of general stabilization um that money is you know more more fluid more able to be used for budget stabilization next year or um some large non- capital project or or something like that so that was the the direction
that the capital stipulation committee was trying to go in okay okay any other uh questions from either of you on this plan or the recommendation from the committee no no I'm good all right um so at this
time I would entertain a motion to accept the capital stabilization recommendations and that if you want us to vote on the article the war article for that is that um probably should do all those together or we could do it at the same time
though so at the time I'll entertain a motion to accept the capital stabilization planning committee recommendation i motion we accept the capital stabilization committee's recommendations second all right we have
a motion made and seconded all those in favor i I I annual hearing three to nothing all righty up next is uh the capital stipulation override 2 and 12% increase authorization um this is a vote to
increase the uh amount of the capital stabilization override by the prescribed uh 2 and a half% of prop 3 and a half uh which brings it from 409,000 in change to 420,000 in that number in front of me but uh it's a 2 and 12% increase any discussion
from the board on that nope all right at this time I would entertain a motion to increase the capital stabilization override amount by 2 and a half% make a motion that we increase the capital stabilization amount by 2 and a half% second all right we have a motion made
and seconded all those in favor i I wearing three nothing all right uh review final budget uh updated for year 25 expenses this one is this one on SharePoint
yes it should be I think okay just not It's in the Do you know which folder it's in is it in the I think it's in the town meeting folder tonight's Oh it's not in tonight's town meeting i hope I just cuz
so little i know i hope I got it in there try budget materials i can that's all right i don't see it in there but that's all right i That's all right we can I can he was looking at something okay so um
our final budget shows that we will um be um we have a balanced budget we're using an extensive amount of reserves um we
have $138,44 coming from the stabilization fund to balance the budget we have another 300,000 coming from free cash to balance
the budget and that's 250 for the operating and then another 50 for Yes um part of our school responsibilities are $60,000 piece um due to um sick buyback
at the elementary school we have a $60,000 warrant article that's outside of the outside of the budget so that's actually part of balancing budget too um we have cut back in some air
in some area a lot of areas i think in total working with all departments I had $150,000 worth of cuts to original requests and um every department from top to bottom really stepped up to make
this work um and it's and it's I think most everybody is okay with where we're at we built back a little bit where we've where we cut too deep um for the highway department and some
other departments the school helped out by um not uh they lost a a position through attrition and they're not filling it this year so what we're looking at you'll see a
number of increases but you'll also see a number of decreases scattered throughout um which to me is impressive that your department heads and your employees were ready and ready to look at where to
chop without um without too much urging there have been very little changes since the last time the select board reviewed and I do know that um we do have you'll see that there's
one adjustment um that was not made there'll be $420 coming back to free cash from the PE from the police chief's line um the other factor that made this
budget balanced is we increased our local receipt projection under revenue by 7.5% which also added $55,000 to um our to the revenue that we
didn't have prior to that do we have any questions Chris no say that for another time i'll throw it in the top meeting okay thank you i would just like to say that where we
started this budget season was over half a million dollars of deficit in the in the operating budget and $400,000 of a hole in the capital budget because of the because of the issues we discussed um so just wanted to just
highlight that we went from $900ish,000 worth of gap to close um and we're closing it with only $500,000 worth of free cash and um and digital stabilization um those two accounts together had about 1.2 million between
the two of them starting out um just over 600,000 and just under 600,000 dollar amounts so while we are taking a sizable chunk out of them um getting down to the capital to the general stabilization only having 140 coming up this year where we were originally
looking at more like 300 um is a is a big deal in the previous and does leave us in a much better position uh for the future than we were were we were going to be at um at this point so just again a huge thank you to Becky for a lot of hard work huge thank you to all of our county uh department heads and employees
for buckling down and figuring out how to save some money um huge thank you for the to the insurance advisory committee for their hard work and getting that budget down and again Becky for her work on that as well um it was really this year's budget season was a combined
effort of everybody in this room and many other people to um find a way to be able to these large dollar amounts um so as bleak as it does still look with that much money coming out um you know again we're looking at 360 out of reach and
140 out of uh the stabilization instead of you know looking at close to a million dollars worth of worth of uh transfers so um great great effort everyone was part um proud of how we've all done and just wanted to on that note do we have any more
discussion on the either the revenue or the expenses side i'm good i'm okay i'm good all right so at this time I would entertain a motion to accept these final budget numbers and move forward with them as our budget for
26 i motion we approve the budget presented to us tonight second we have a motion made and seconded all those in favor i
I hear Mary is three nothing thank you very much all right our final uh new item is a review review and vote final draft of the county warrant so do we need to go talk about every article is that what we're doing
today yes all right this is the fun part um Nathaniel I don't think you have the final version so what's that mean i will be right back
okay i got to email him the final so he can do this okay what a day to get check poor thing how are things going with you Chris nice to see you if you're tiny in the background
uh it's been a struggle with cars lately my car died on me remember the last time I was here about a month ago car died on me i was driving a loaner car for my dad because he's a mechanic that died on me too
my brother is thrilled that he has to come from Springfield for a second time to come pick me up oh no they come in threes so hope he makes it oh yeah how are the uh other towns you cover doing this year budget wise
i know we we had a pretty big increase their elementary school budget they had about a 10% increase because they had the fund a one-on-one IIIA um other than that I haven't heard much out of Deerfield so maybe that's a good thing
uh Conway's plugging along i got to feel like I've been all over the place um but I think you guys had the most difficulty but it seems like you got through it always got to find a way through i think it's just a tough year for
everybody and it's only going to get more difficult i think it ARPA ARPA was the first year without the ARPA so I think that was part of why waiting on how many schools increase was so large well just there was so much little stuff
we were able to do with and some of it wasn't little some of it was big you know when we looked at I mean you look at like Deerfield they threw like 600,000 at the 1888 building that's a lot of money that we
can just throw around it doesn't help that uh the the insurance increase that we saw um was unfortunately not an atypical increase a lot of a lot of towns were seeing you know not insignificant double digit increases um so that's that's been real
hard for any number of towns to do i think Rico got whacked by that as well i know Pioneer as a school district is seeing like a 18.5% increase in their insurance costs yeah so ours started out at 19% insurance increase yeah Pioneer
is part of the uh Hampshire Valley Insurance Trust aren't you guys part of that no we're part of a different one um Yep yeah I know that Hampshire one all those communities and school districts
are kind of getting whacked with that you know you we have discussed in the past um the membership of which one we're in and other ones and and as far as we've been told um you know grass is not much greener on on that side either you know
it's pretty much uh you know these kind of increases are happening to everybody's plans um and so we're not going to necessarily find you know find a different option that's cheaper and that says nothing about the current national political climate and you know
any kind of impact that tariffs or I don't know I won't go into it but any number of things might have on uh you know our our budget items and the cost of goods and all that interesting time to be in
this for sure did you receive an email yet i should at least send it to my town or something town of Sunderland thank you so much Crystal
dad you got yours hanging around your neck now i hadn't even put them on today it's been not in my inbox yet but it's uh I'm sure it'll show up in anybody slow um we can
go ahead and get started with article one excuse me crystal again you guys want to start reading the article off all right article one to see if the town will vote to hear the reports of the select board the Sunderland School
Committee and all other town officers boards committees and commissions or take any vote or notes in relation there too so motion to for the select board to recommend i make a motion the select
board recommends article one second motion made seconded all those in favor i I my opinion wearing article one okay article two to see if the town will vote under the provisions of mass we
don't vote article two because that's our pay in it or we don't recommend that one because our pay is in it so go to three yep all right article three to see if the town will vote to raise an appropriate transfer from available funds or otherwise provide a sum or sums
of money for the town and general municipal purposes connected there with for fiscal year 2026 or take any votes or votes in relation there too so that's the budget article which will
be fully fleshed out in the motion yes okay so I motion we recommend article three second motion made and seconded to recommend article three all those in favor I I wearing three nothing for article
three article four to see if the town will vote and raise appropriate transfer from available funds or otherwise provide a sum or sums of money for the fiscal year 2026 capital budget specifically for the capital equipment
building facilities and other capital projects as shown on a document entitled FY26 capital budget by funding source on file with the town clerk and posted on the town website at
www.town of sunderland us and as may be necessary in connection therewith and to authorize one or more taxexempt lease purchase finance agreements pursuant
to general law chapter 44 section 31C for capital equipment identified in the fisc year 26 capital budget for terms not to exceed the useful life of The equipment is determined by the select
board or take any vote or votes in relation thereto motion to recommend article 4 second all right we have a motion made and seconded to recommend article four all I
I hear three nothing article four article five i moved that the town vote to transfer the sum of $60,000 from stabilization funds to fund the accumulated sick and vacation leave buyback for Sunderland Elementary School employees pursuant to the town bylaws
and/or collective bargaining agreements i motion we recommend article five second question on this before we vote and that is the wording of this sounds like it's coming out of stabilization funds is that supposed to be coming out of free cash or is that just how that's written but it's coming out of your cash
um it's not on the chart i think we went back and forth on this one um I think I when I did this it was because at that point there's only 140 coming out and there's 360,000 coming out of free cash
so it's should it be state uh free cash i mean I I I am not particularly strong opinion on either one i just want to make sure that we're doing what we're wanting to do right um yeah uh I mean personally we we moved a lot less money
out of out of general stabilization than we were planning on because of the capital stabilization side of things um and 360,000 out of free cash is a lot of free cash um I I wouldn't hate having it be 300 of free cash and you know just shy of 200 out of general stabilization
i just wanted to make sure that we were all on the same page there and that's what we were planning on doing i wanted to make sure that we could have this discussion crystal and Dan do you have a problem with it being for general stabilization i think it's okay yeah i mean it's got
to come from somewhere yep that my feeling also um and again next year we need to we can transfer money from the general stimulation into from free cash into general stimulation if we have a year where we have a surplus in in free cash um but this will also mean that next year's free cash numbers will not
be quite as as small so um I I I agree with that all right um now that we've had some discussion we have a motion uh made and seconded all those in favor I I wearing three nothing on that one
article six to see if the town will vote to raise an appropriate appropriate transfer from available funds or otherwise provide a sum or sums of money to pay prior year bills
specifically Karge Energy invoice number inv2878 a true up invoice for 45 2024 and 65 2024 build 11152024 for a sum of
$5,3007 and take any other action in relation there too motion to recommend article 6 second motion made and seconded all those in favor i
I wearing three nothing thank you and I just wanted to comment just so you're clear typically they used a bill date of this year but they were billing us for services that we received in the last fiscal year so I I
I didn't want to take any chances it happens every once in a while okay so we do article 7 right and these are these are all good right all right uh article 7 to see if the town will vote to appropriate or reserve from the community preservation fund annual
revenues in the amount the amounts recommended by the community preservation committee for committee administrative expenses committee preservation projects and other expenses in the fiscal year 2026 or take any other action there too appropriations
from fiscal year 26 estimated revenues for committee administrative expenses is $6,000 uh community preservation debt service is zero so from reserves uh fiscal year 26 estimated revenues for historic
resource resources reserve is 23,364 fiscal year 26 estimated revenues for community housing reserve is $23,364 and fiscal year 26 estimated revenues for open space reserve is also
$23,364 the fiscal year 26 estimated revenues for CPA annual budgeted reserve is 163,548 estimated revenues are based on fiscal year 26 CPA search charge estimate of 198,000 18% state match up
15% 15.9% base do estimate 35,640 10% of that total for each reserve fund on that i motion we recommend article seven second motion made and seconded to
recommend article 7 all those in favor I I I wearing nothing got it um now you want to skip eight and nine and go to the middle of the page to eight they got duplicated when I had to move them okay
okay all right article 8 to see if the town will vote to appropriate and transfer the amount of $100,000 from CPA annual budgeted reserve to the town's conservation trust
for the acquisition of a parcel or parcels of land in the town of Sunderland and to authorize the conservation commission to acquire said interests in land upon each terms and conditions and for such consideration
as it deems appropriate and to authorize the select board to grant a permanent restriction on said parcels pursuant to in meeting the requirements of section 12 of chapter 44B of the general laws or
take any action thereto i make a motion that we recommend article 8 second motion made and seconded to recommend article 8 all those in favor i I January
got it thank you okay article 9 to see if the town will vote to appropriate the amount of $472,173.90 from the CPA fiscal year 25 fund balance as requested by the Sunderland Public Library monies will be used for the restoration of the masonry
foundation and site of the Graves Memorial Library for the purpose of exterior preservation and related work said funds to be expended under the direction of the Sunderland Public Library or take any other action there too
i motion we recommend article 9 second motion made and seconded to recommend article 9 all those in favor i I hear nothing article 10 to see if the town will vote
and adopt and enact the amendments to the Franklin County Regional Council of Government the Furcog chapter on file with the Furcog and posted on the Furcog website at www.frcog.org
said amendments having been proposed by twothirds majority of the weighted vote of the full membership of the Furkcog Council and a majority of the vote of the Furcog executive committee with set amendments taking full effect
immediately upon adoption by 2/3 of the member towns unless a latter effective date is otherwise specified or take any action relative thereto make a motion that we recommend article 10 second
all right motion made to article 10 i I Okay and this is where I note um article 11 was for um taxing Airbnbs in town well upon closer review I did find um
Sunderland adopted it we're collecting about $10,000 a year okay so that was removed from the article okay okay and this number will have to get changed to 11 oh that's me okay so I get
this so article 12 to see if the town will vote to one revoke acceptance of general law chapter general uh was it chapter 44 yeah section section 53D thereby dissolving the
recreation department selfsupporting service revolving fund established under said section 53D effective June 30th 2025 um I want to explain what's going on here um the original recreation
revolving account was set up um was it in ' 82 it was a long long time ago under 53 3D since that time um and the restraint on this is when at the end of the year you can only keep a
balance of $10,000 in the account and all the money is turned over to free cash um so we've the best advice from council is to close that account and open up two
new accounts under 53e and a half where you can set higher limits you don't lose the money into the general fund and um you don't have that accounting process at the end of the year clearing
out um all but $10,000 so to do that um we're we're following these steps okay uh okay so number two is establish a new recreation department programming revolving fund for the recreation department in accordance with general
law chapter 44 section 53e and a half effective July 1 2025 number three establish a new recreation department field use revolving fund for the recreation department in accordance with general law chapter 44 section 53e
and a half effective July 1 2025 uh four amend uh section 356 authorize revolving funds of the general bylaws by adding entries to the table for the recreation department programming and recreation department
field use revolving funds five pursuant to general law chapter 44 section 53E set the limit on the total amount that may be spent from the recreation department program Ming and recreation department field in revolving funds for
fiscal year 26 and an amount not to exceed what's that say that is a lot is that the right number he he explained that number saying we will be editing to a more reasonable number on in the
motion which I I the number we had been using was 40,000 so I want to read this one you want me to say 100 you want to we shouldn't have made that down right well it should be a 100,000 not 100
million right oh my god I didn't see that oh maybe it's just an extra no he has a period he's a period so it's $100,000 not to exceed $100,000 each and number six on July 1 2025 transfer amount not to exceed 100,000 from certified free
cash to the budget of the recreation department to be expended under the direction of the recreation coordinator and which transfer shall be a one-time transfer or take any vote or votes in relation there too this last step is
because the monies that we're working with in the revolving fund when we close them out they have to go to free cash we can't transfer them into the new revolving fund so so we put those that
money in free cash and then transfer out the same amount into um the revolving fund otherwise Jim could be caught without any revenue okay so we're trying to cover all the bases
i motion we re recommend article 12 article 12 to be reumbered article 11 yes second motion made to recommend article
12 all I I find it anywhere in the field yes yeah article 13 to be renumbered article 12 to see if the town will vote pursuant to the provisions of general laws chapter 44 section 53 and a half
53 a half as most recently amended and established fiscal year 2026 fiscal year spending limits for the revolving funds listed in section 356 of general bylaws and to authorize such expenditure limits
to remain remain in place from fiscal year to fiscal year unless revised by town meeting prior to July 1st for the ensuring fiscal year as follows wire inspector 20,000 plumbing inspector
4500 board of Health 18 is that 16 or 18 16,500 sunderland Public Library community room 5,000 fire inspection 7,000 highway shared equipment 23,000 or
take any vote or votes in relation thereto a motion we recommend article 13 soon to be article 12 second motion made and second to recommend article 13 to be article 12 all those in favor i
I wearing all right article 14 to see if the town will vote to adopt the following non-binding resolution in the form of a land acknowledgement to be posted on the town's website and to be recited at annual town meeting and other important
events it may be recited optionally by town by the town boards or committees and used in such educational settings as the Sunderland Elementary School and Sunderland Public Library as a starting point for the exploration of the
indigenous history of our town and our region i got to read it do we have to read the Hall to the These are nonbinding so uh you don't vote them either and we don't roll no okay okay so we don't have
to do anything with the next one we don't even have to article 15 to see if the town will vote to adopt the following non-binding resolution that supports the nonprololiferation of nuclear
weapons and then we go on to the consent articles the consent articles um back to 50 we won't go to the block do we do Yes we do these as a block all the all these so yeah how do we do we and and do we
read them we just say consent articles no the consent articles okay so uh make a motion to recommend the consent articles 16 through 21 second 15 through 20 15 through 20
second okay yeah second all right we have a motion made and seconded to accept the to recommend the consent to articles uh article 16 through 21 15 all those in favor i I if anyone read
the warrant that was a lot of reading brought you guys jugs of water you did good yeah well that's big enough i can see that all right so that should be the end of our new business for today um so thank
you everybody uh our next up on our old business and first up is select board updates crystal do you have anything for today no I've got South County EMS coming up this week so I don't have anything yet no I don't have anything all right um
the only thing I had was the capital planning committee last week on that so I don't need to go into any detail um all right uh moving on to county updates you have anything for us to say um I do want to wrap up signatures um for the
warrant okay wendy asked that I get four pages signed okay by each of you and hopefully Nathaniel will feel better to be able to come in before Friday will come in at the very somewhere where
nobody is and I can sign them place on but no I I'll make my way in um I'll put them I'll leave them in the orange folder i was going to say we could talk about it Nate but I could leave them someplace
outside for you we're we're close enough to the town hall okay do that um trying to avoid getting anyone hit that you and your family are combat there as [Music]
well while they're finishing up you have any other um Okay we did that i'm afraid I do not have any responses today um any public comments i guess you're the only one in the audience currently you have anything for us tonight oh Eric's back
there too oh I apologize the whole screen just needs to be on my my monitor currently uh I think I'm good right now thank you though thank you any viewer
all right not hearing any public comment i will uh was on we have no discussion um at this time I would entertain a motion to adjourn i motion we adjourn second all right we have a motion made a second to adjourn all those in favor i I
I January time is 7:52 p.m our next meeting will be uh next Monday um on April 22nd sorry that's Tuesday april 22nd uh at 6:30 p.m is that correct Becky that's what I have yes that's what
we are posting for Tuesday because of the uh Patriots Day holiday on Monday beautiful all righty thank you everybody i appreciate all the hard work in the budget and we will see you next Monday thank you thank you Daniel