Good evening. Uh today is May 2nd, 2025, 5:38 p.m. Uh board of health um meeting with the members um of the community and the finance committee.
Um start starting on the agenda, we're going to do the roll call. Christian Roman Ramirez, chairman. Thank you for your support. And um we're going to start by discussing a a possible health crisis with our
curbside trash and recycling. Um so the board of health wants to hear the input from the community. Um and we have here Shaw present today who is going to um present
also. Um we have two possible options that the board of health wants to get from the community regarding uh the triage contract. Um the one that we have is pay as you throw and we have another
option that we have taken from uh from from another town that um that is in consideration to the board of health. Um I wish if um if Shaw can talk about the second option that we were talking about
the um with um Oh, Carla. It's timeable. Yep. Yes, I'm here. Can you share a little bit more about um the two options briefly so that the community can um be
fully aware of it? Sure, Mr. Chairman. So, the board previously had voted for a thicker option in including the purple bags in a flat fee for a year, but that was not
supported by the selectman. So the board of health had spoken to the town of Dunstable where Shaw has a private contract set up with them where they pay a flat fee and they have 164 gallon
limit for recycling, 164 gallon limit for trash and overflow bags would be available. So all the bags that has previously been purchased could be used for the overflow bags. But I think that
Glenn really should talk about what his thoughts are because it's very preliminary right now. Grab a chair. Come on up. Well, well, no. Because I don't want to go up there. But all I want to say is the town of Towns needs to figure out what they want to do before I step in. This I'm just uh
an employee of the town per se and I'll just do what you guys ask. So, when the town knows what path they want to go down, uh, I'm willing to help them with that. But, um, other than that, I don't really know if I have anything to say here tonight because the the game keeps
changing, you know, day to day, hour to hour. You should live here. Yeah. Right. So once once the board knows or the selectmen know what they want to do then I'm I I come to the table and we can discuss what what needs to be done. May
Mr. Chairman uh the select board when they made the decision the other day was after the uh failed ballot for override. We definitely had trash in the override budget. Without that, we did not see where we were going to take the money.
It's not that we don't want the trash pick up. Oh yeah. I do. But but we couldn't put it in the budget. The budget absorbs the school for March 10th and there's a lot of cuts
that have to be made in order not to have the override. But what I was told from Carla was there was a possibility of what they're doing in Gunstable that um it could self-fund itself. Yes. And we wouldn't have to have it in the budget. And I thought that that's what I was coming. Yes. actually from my
conversations with Carla regarding the this this new option from that we that we are acquiring from Donsipo is that um first of all um the board of health would manage um this private
um trash collection and it will be placed on a specialized type of account. What is the name of the account Carla? I forgot the name. fund, huh? An enterprise fund. Enterprise fund. And then what we do is
that we would set up a specific fee, a a a amount of fee that we are still working with Shaw about it. And what it is that the people will have a sticker and from my understanding is that um
that um with that price um the people would would would have would have toars and the sticker so that Shaw knows which people are contracted for um for for for the trash contract. And this is
something that would be done um annually. Um, we're still in conversations about that, but no fund will be will be will be added from from the town. All all is going to go through
this fund, and I think the payments for shops would have been done like monthly uh for a three-year contract. Am I right, Carla? Am I expressing myself correctly? We're still in negotiations with that, but that is what the accountant suggested.
I think it that being said, Dunstable's contract, they provide the totes. So now for us, it sounds like you will not be providing totes, which is fine. So every resident has to get their own. Do they all get the same tote? These are all
things to think about. Do they all get the same tote? What if they say they don't want to get a tote cuz they already have a 96gallon barrel? Now they're only going to fill it 64 gallons worth. who decides who's going to police
it? Dunstable takes care of all that. We don't we don't. So that's where I think he's like we don't have all the worked out yet. I can give the in between here. I know what I mean. So on a D level, I actually created the Dunable program. So
their program, their transfer station closed and there was an emergency situation and we went curbside. They got grant money because they went to a 35gallon cart and they we made an arrangement that they worked with the state contract for carts and that's a
small group. They're just up they started 300 households. We're at 3,000 households. So really we cannot compare Dunstable to us at this level. Um they did not have that. They have a sign up meaning yes the town has the contract
with Shaw but anybody can sign up. So they just went from 300 to 460. The rest of the town we still have many different trucks. Everything's out there. People are paying different rates for different programs. Um the one thing that is in
there is though it's the residents pay $300. They were when they started $300 plus the bag for overflow. um they don't have a drop off, they don't have a hazardous waste program like us, they don't have those other
things. There is a very small town. So that just understand. But the option that we did have for plan B, which we talked about before, is if the program did not pass is that at all situations we need to sign with Shaw. The contract
with Shaw is great for anyway out the town with Shaw. Now the question is how do we pay that bill for Shaw right now? It is the most efficient. It's the most least administration. There's no other bills.
There's no thing. It's the easiest. If we can't have that done because it didn't pass one override, but who knows Tuesday there is a there is a third option that an override can happen in two weeks, a month later. People are saying no. But you know what?
$90 on your own thing could be very easy. So that is a low option. As of right now, people are shaking their heads know that they don't want to do another override because that failed. If we do a portion of what we said before is a flat fee where people pay a
portion, not the full right now subscription when you just go on your own. There is no contract. So that means everybody's on their own. That is the worst contract right now. $600. Other towns pay $800. The town's not happy because you don't know what's
going on in town. The resident's not happy because they don't know and they have no control. They're like, "I don't like that hauler. I don't like this situation." And there's no waste reduction and so you'll lose a lot of grant money that way as well. We can keep a flat fee to pay for the
collection and which we talked about before using an enterprise fund uni pay uh like we have in other departments use uni pay and say pay for this and you pay for the bag. So it's a bag and a thing and it can just be that two. It could
also be a three. There is municipal buildings that need trash pickup. So there still needs to be a small portion of taxes paying for the collection, you know, for library to pick up, trash to be picked up. So that's already in the
budget. So that's good. And so always have to have that. There is also a town meeting is Tuesday and things can change cuz we've known in the past few town meetings, we walk in and something else changes. So what I've been hearing is
everybody loves Shaw. Jaws is the best hoe we've ever had. The contract that we have is good. So, everybody's in support of the contract. It's just had to pay for it, right? So, either we pay in the tax base $90 and do another override for 90 bucks and everybody can have ASIS, no
change, no bill, no nothing, or we have to pay a flat fee, which will still be over, you know, like a hundred bucks, 150 bucks, something plus the bags. So, and then we have to do the administration. So, those are the
options. This to just go straight. We have a contract with Jaws to do a straight. He gave us that full what did you call that? All-inclusive one. That was better than this. So, we could always just sign that and just say the
residents pay that flat fee, but then you still is one resident is going to pay the same as somebody that has 10 people in their house. I have, you know, with my dogs is 10 people. The dogs make more mess than
every other person. And um I think that's not fair. So, what we have is the most fair. Excuse me. Cindy. Yes. I just am not sure if you can see. I've had my hand up. I'm on Zoom so I don't know if you can see those or not. Go ahead.
Thank you. Um, so just thank you for doing this first of all and welcoming public input. I know you've been saying for quite a while that you want to know what the residents want and I really really appreciate that. I know I speak for many
who do. Um, with all due respect, I don't really care if the select board was on board with the plan. The voters are the ones who get to decide what plan to go with. Um, and I've spoken with Irene, I've
spoken with Carla, I've spoken with the finance committee, and it seems like there's a path forward uh that everybody is in agreement about. It's just how to get there. And uh I would like to just throw this option that we've all
discussed and provided some input on out to you to for consideration and it is that hybrid bag and partial fee option. But I'll get much more specific. If we keep some bags
this year, we can still access our grant funds. Our town hasn't received any grant funds yet. We have an allocation that we have not submitted one invoice against for reimbursement. So we will not be having to quote unquote repay
anything. We can we can put specific expenses against the grant for reimbursement for fiscal year 25 and fiscal year 26. Nelson had told me this morning they were only intending to put fiscal 26 expenses toward that, but I
don't understand why they wouldn't take money that they can get back as quickly as possible into our budget. So in June, we can submit for our fiscal 25 expenses that qualify, which would be bags, administration, um ma the mailing
mailers, the educational materials, uh the any cost to run the program. And we can do the same thing for 26 and we're working really hard on locating all of those figures so that we can be really accurate in our projections. Um, we still have about 35,000 bags remaining
and I think it would be counterproductive uh to to just not use those after paying for all of that. Um, so this would be a little bit of a stepping stones toward what you're talking about where we could do a lower
flat fee, remove it from the tax levy, a lower flat fee, uh, use maybe some alternate funding source, which I would maybe defer to fin uh, subsidize that fee a little bit for the residents because there are
committees in our town who heard the voices of the voters and the struggles that they're having financially and the frustrations. Um, I'm afraid to rush into a flat fee program. We rushed into this program and it really put us in
this position. And I think if we can take a year to collect the data of how many residents are going to be interested in a program like this, plan for the administration of the program and really get it set up. That would be the smartest way to do it in terms of
setting it up for success. Um, we have two revolving accounts in our bylaws for the board of health and only one is active right now. That's your recycling account. That's under uh section 1041 of our bylaws under section
375 of our bylaws. It also provides for a solid waste fund and that is the revolving account we could have immediate access to to begin this program in July. Whereas an enterprise fund, we need to vote into existence at a town meeting, which we can't do
because it's not on our warrant. So, we are going to have to wait to do that, but we do have access to remove it from the levy in the meantime. Um it'll like I said oh oh the other thing we do is if we maintain this pay as you throw grant
funded you know or grant eligible um program we also get an additional $11,000 in funds which I just learned this morning for which we could use toward recycling. So that is another financial boost to the town during a
really difficult year. Um I think it's it's really beneficial. I think it's very it's something that voters will appreciate the thoughtfulness of. I think a lot of we've been thinking five minutes from now for a little while and I think seeing we're thinking you know 5
years from now in to provide some stability and into the town budget is is something that'll be greatly appreciated. So I I've been looking at all of this for a while. I actually looked at the trash stuff a lot last year. I was just clearly talking to the
wrong people about it. Um, but I just wanted to throw that out there as an option for consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just if I may. Yes. Uh, in reference to the 62,000 that was the grant that was if you were in the pay as
you throw program for 2 years. If you are not in it for a total of 3 years, then that 62,000 goes back. You're not using it the way they had intended it to be used. The other point, okay, but I
can't remember. You guys sign that if they have to. So, and then as far as the contract goes, I don't ever remember seeing, not that I would know what all you guys see, is a one-year contract. Oh, no. It was an all-inccluded contract. We said we wanted it broken
out because that's the most effective. No, I'm referring to a remark that was just made about we use another year. Well, our contract is up June 30th, the three-year contract. And so, we've not been offered a one-year contract unless somebody has that. Wasn't there a
one-year extension? Yeah, we just did it. Okay. All right, Cindy. Yeah. Um, I'm just going to repeat what I was going to say anyway that yes, the enterp any idea of using an enterprise fund requires a town meeting vote. In order to accept an
enterprise fund, we have to have a a town meeting vote for that which would require calling another a special town meeting at some point in order to do that. If that were accepted, sorry, if we just did a clarification for a revolving account, that is true. But to my knowledge, all enterprise funds have
to be done at annual town meeting. Okay? So, we'd have to wait till next year. Have to wait till next year. Another year. Okay. But I know it's with the water and stuff. We've had it has to be a Tom eating boat. I know that. Um and combining what's been said with Dunstable and fees and splitting
everything up and what Sean said, what Glenn said about Dunstable is he said that Dunstable they they bought the toers and they're about $96 each, right? About 60. Yeah. 60. I
don't know. There's a lot of Okay, let's say the 60 anywhere from 50 to 90 bucks. Okay, so somewhere between 50 and 90 bucks per barrel which the town purchased and that's the thing that we turned down which would cost
another 50 time 3,000. Yeah. That the town would have to pay in order to save the residents to give them a confusing trash collection. Well, you got to do bags and you got to do the you got to do the total. We're going to do a split. We're going to do a little bit of everything and the town's
people are still confused about the purple bags. It's it's so confusing right now. I actually went off I contracted for Shaw last week. I live alone. I do one purple bag a month. Oh my goodness. I just contracted with it.
Not It's not about the money. I mean I I mean I I don't I'm not rich. I'm not affluent. But whatever I can I'll swing it. I'd rather do personally give and it's 45 bucks a month for a 64gallon totter that he's providing with
unlimited recycling. So I'm going back to the old days before we had all the purple bags. That's the standard and I'm just paying 45 bucks a month. Yeah, I know a lot of people can't afford that. And so I'm not like throwing that out there like that. But what the reason I
did it and I think all these convoluted stickers and purple bags and fees and all this other stuff is just too much and it keeps changing every week, which is what he said. He's trying to be a contractor and it changes every time. So
I don't want to I don't want to deal with you. I don't want to deal with her. I don't want to deal with that. I just want to deal with him. He's picking up my trash. I just have to deal with him. If we have issues, I call him. I don't have to try to figure out what the town's doing this week. If my trash doesn't get picked up, I call him. I'm
paying him. He's going to deal with it. And I mean that very friendly. But it's so I don't have there's no more complication. And the residents, you you're throwing purple bags at them. Now you want to talk about a fee. Then you and then the administration, everybody keeps just brushing over the
administration costs. That means somebody in this town hall has to collect the fees, enforce the fees, figure out who's on the program. It has to be a voluntary program. Everybody can opt out. And then how long is it going to take the residents to figure out we even have that program? So they're going
to be getting these bills and not they're not even going to know that they're supposed to have the Wait a minute. Where's this coming from? What happened to the purple bags? Cuz it took four months for the people to figure out that they had to put purple bags cuz the word never got to half the town. And so if there's a fee, you got to opt
out. But they have the absolute right not to have to do the fee. They can do whatever they want with their trash. They can call show us whenever they want or if if we get another holler that gets licensed by the town. They don't have to do the the fee. So you you have no idea
how much money you're actually going to get. And then oh, what if they don't pay? Oh, we'll just stop collecting their trash. Well, there's where your public health emergency comes in. And second, you get a second problem. the treasury. We're still going to collect their trash for a while and then we're
going to have it a lean, a trash lean. And that just means the town's going to have more expenses because then they got to go down to the registry of deeds and pay what is it 150 200 bucks to file a lean against the the person. Ask the water department how many people have
are on a tax a water lean right now. They in re last I checked it was $200,000 that people have water leans on their properties when and I asked the water department how do how does this work? Oh when they sell their house they'll pay it. So you don't pay your
trash fee nothing's going to happen. The tits not going to take your house. They're just going to put a lean on and then when you dispose of your property just like everybody who doesn't pay their discover card and air district court puts a lean on their house when they sell their house they clear their bills. People are doing that and that's
exactly what's going to happen with the trash fee. We're not going to be getting the amount of money that we think we're going to get if we institute the fee program. And then it includes how many hours of staff time has to chase this every week. And the number of people
getting trash or getting the town this contract, whatever it's going to be, is going to change every week. Maybe not every single week, but it's going to be a mess for somebody in this town hall. And it's not going to be Carla. She
doesn't have time. How many hours does Carla work now? I don't think she is she 40. No, 32. 32? Yeah. We're going to have to give her at least another 20. No, that that's not No, I'm 37.5 hours. I'm sorry. But I mean, you She's busy.
I'm I'm I'm certain whenever I come here to talk to her, she's very busy. So, regarding uh and you need to hire somebody and I understand we went through this last year when Chaz was trying to put it through and that the cost they wanted would put
$25,000 on the town meeting warrant and it got voted down to to pay for the administration of the trash fee program. That's why it didn't pass because we the town refused to pay out of the tax taxes
the 25,000 which is thankfully because the trash is crazy and especially if you're going to double it with purple bags. So I don't know but that's not going to work. We have been pardon me. Go ahead, Mr.
Clair. We have been talking about this trash contract trash fees and everything else so long we're burning ourselves out on this problem and somehow we got to come up with a resolve to get these discussions over with. So we have something in the contract etched in
stone so we can stop discussing this because it's becoming a waste of time for many people including myself the executive. So, we have to resolve this issue in some fashion and we got to make it happen because it's just being thrown around like a super ball in a concrete
room. All it does is bounce off everywhere it goes and it it it goes nowhere. So, it's getting to be old hat. It's got to be resolved and I think in the next period of months we're going to figure out how to do that to get this behind us. Um, let me allow anybody from from
the Zoom wants wants to give their feedback, please. So, Mr. Chairman, I would love to give some feedback. This is Kim Craven. Unfortunately, I can't connect on video. I apologize. So, I think we are all super frustrated
with the trajectory of the trash over the past year from having voted on it in the budget last April. All of us going away thinking that trash was okay and then having it yanked away at town meeting in a way that wasn't um
informed by the voters participatory at all and a little bit um for lack of a better word sort of backdoor wrong on what happened and unfortunately that has caused us to be in a position where we don't have a lot of information. Jaws
has been an amazing partner for us and I think extremely patient with waiting it out. I've watched what FINCOM is trying to do to structure a budgetary process that allows the town to collect as much
information as possible. Folks maybe that might need a smaller tote, a larger tote to figure out what this could look like in the long term. And I do believe there is a way on Tuesday to move forward with a plan that would have, you
know, a really hybrid approach utilizing the purple bags, utilizing the grant funding. As Don pointed out, um it's shortsighted to not collect the funds that we can right now. Um it's actually unimaginable to me that there would be a revenue source that our town
administrator would not avail himself of for the taxpayers. there's some money moving forward that we could utilize from that particular grant long-term. There's some other grants that could be available for purchasing the totes long
term, not next year, you know, not for FY26, but in the future. And that we just need to be really methodical so that we can serve the needs of our community, make sure that we have a unified approach, that our town stays
clean, that our services are maintained for our citizens at a reasonable cost. And to jump quickly to a full payment program, I think is going to get more people to go away from a townwide
service than try to invite people back to say, "We understand this has been trying for a small fee. We can do this this year. We're going to collect some information, be exactly where we need to be in
FY27, and try to do everything that we can with the education portion of our grant to let people know what the community can avail itself of by staying with a townwide system. The more that we
just jump to a full fee, I think it's just going to drive people away. And my suggestion would be that we go to town meeting and try an approach. And I would like to
explore the opportunity because our budget is on the warrant that I would like to talk to the moderator to see how much leeway do we have for an amendment on the budget motion that would include
a revolving account. I have not found anything as of yet that would prohibit that. Doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but I have not found anything as of yet that does prohibit it. So I would like to go to town meeting with clear
thoughts, not much arguing and utilize the funds that we have, look towards the fincom for guidance because they are taking the um emotions out of it and looking at things at a service-based level and how they
can serve their community and then proceeding from there. Um, I just think that just just quickly shifting to another program, we're going to create more problems. So, I appreciate having a moment of of time
to give my thoughts at your meeting. Thank you. Anybody else from the Zoom that wants to bring their input? May I Mr. go ahead follow up on that and because I think that Cindy raised some real concerns that um residents will
raise and so um if I if I could I would um suggest that all the trash recepticles do not need to be the same for the first year as long as we have a way to mark the trash as paid with the
sticker. I mean, it could be their kitchen trash barrel for a year if it was needed, but there there has to be a way to work with that. This would still maintain unlimited recycling. Um, I heard you say that was important. I agree. Um, and for the flat fee, we're
we're discussing something that's more an annual fee in maybe say the 125 to 150 range that would be paid when you get your sticker. there would be a stipent built in to the program so that
Carla or whoever ends up managing it is compensated for their time and efforts. And we're going to keep this as simple as possible. I think in some ways we're kind of blowing it up, but there will be no enforcement because you either have your trash pickup or you don't. Um or
chasing. There is going to be a spreadsheet list to maintain of the sticker sales. that is for sure going to happen in dealing with the customers and making sure that that that's okay and the ongoing um discussions to make sure you know that our trash service if
there's an issue is running smoothly. This is a town provided service. We have said from the beginning we were going to fight for our employees and for our town services and we do see this as a feasible way to make this work. Um so I just wanted to touch on the fee
structure. We were thinking it wouldn't be a monthly fee. We wouldn't be dealing with leans or enforcement or anything like that. Thank you. I'm glad you have any comments about what the people have brought about um
about the trash. Any comments? I have no comment right now. Okay. Anybody else from the Zoom that wants to voice your opinion? Um I I did have one other thought. This is Kim Craven. Again, I just wanted to add that recreation very effectively
administers all of their bills over uni pay and they have programs year round, weekly bills that go out and it does not seem to be so overwhelming that it can't be managed. Um Carla can speak to her schedule um herself, but I don't think
it is um ownorous a task as we might envision. You understand that? Can you repeat yourself again for for for Mr. Laqu a little slower please? I can help what what she said. She's
saying that the recreation department has Uni Pay right now and it's we pay monthly, yearly, different fee structures right now all year long and then there's really not that much administration because it's all online with Uni Pay and this town already has a
contract with Uni Pay. So, it wouldn't be adding something new. So, we could use that account. Um, is the accounting department here, the person that was invited or no? Nope. Um, no comment.
Um, anybody from the fin wish to comment regarding the discussion? Well, I think that the probably the sticker program is probably the best way to go. So, you know, not the just the yearly one and but what I
would like to see that eventually that we get back to that there isn't a a charge and I think it's going to take two to three years to get into that point. But we've got to really put our best foot forward. Yeah. That that's a cycle in time that I'd like to see
happen also. Yeah. Just so just so you know, if you take it off the tax base like when we I mean we voted no, but it is almost impossible to get it back in. Even 50 bucks is just a hard thing per household to get back in.
And I've tried different house. So I've wor I work with 75 communities and I deal with this every day and it is communities want to have the contract that we have and they want the price and they want the whole thing. And I have two, three, four communities right now
in an RFP trying to get the document that we have. Um, and it's just it's an uphill battle um because of getting it back onto the taxes just a little bit just to help, you know, lighten the load so we know how many households are in. Yeah. Because you do every time you have
a little cost. I mean, if that this is I think where we're going is just a little bit on the taxes to cover the municipal buildings, a little bit for the taxes, and then the paid take that to town meeting. I know it won't get passed, but if we have the
three, you know, of of um it's it's almost like a transfer station in a way. When you go to any transfer station, you pay a little bit is on the taxes of the guy's salary. the electricity is on the tax base and then
everybody pays $100 to $200 to use a transfer station plus they pay the pay as you throw bag. So that is a fee structure that is working. Um it's not strange. We can just have a few different days to get these stickers to and then I think we don't have to always
have it on the trash container. if you have your recycling bin that goes out every week, it could probably be on that one versus if you just want the bag to be put out there. Um, that that could probably suffice. I think I think we should move this at this time until we
have the full board again where we can do further discussion on it. So, here's the situation that we have right now. There is on the current budget. There's nothing related to trash and that leaves the border of
health's responsibility to figure out how we are going to get this resolved. And what I'm hearing from everybody is that everybody is is saying that we should keep the the
structure that it is but with the only um but with the only difference is adding this fee and the question will be how much will be this fee. Does it sound accurate to the people? Correct. The only thing is I'd
like more households to participate in the program because the more households that are in the cheaper the fee will be. Go ahead, Don. Thank you. Um, so yes, I agree with exactly what you're saying. I do believe the fee will land in the range of $125 to
$150 based on the conversations that we've been having and running the numbers. Um, that being said, I also would like to point out that the finance committee has prepared an alternative budget to what is being presented by our
select board and they do include municipal trash portion of the contract in the tax levy. So, I just wanted to clarify that. And as far as going back to taxes someday, I mean, anything is possible. We are very optimistic about the future of our finances, hoping that
the school grant, this additional school funding comes through. That could require the schools to need less of our tax levy and allow us to do more with that money. Um, so but but the municipal trash is budgeted for in the finance
committees draft that they were discussing the other evening. I just wanted to share that. Okay. Um, anybody else on the floor or doom that wish to have any com any more comments? Just thank you for listening to your
community members. Um, Carla, uh, do you want to add something else? Um, no. No. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm um I I'm very happy to see that the community has come out and that you've listened to everyone. You certainly have
a great task in front of you. So, um you you have two options and you should likely agree on one today. So, at least the town meeting has the support of the board of health going one
option or the other. So, I think that we as a board and I can request a motion to um to recommend on on the town meeting
on maintaining the current trash contract with the addition that um with the addition of um of of having the funds going to the to the Border um account that should be fully funded
by the people with the combination of the trash contract and and and a structured fee. Um can I get a motion for that? I'll make a motion to go over exactly what you just said. Oh, do we want to make sure that small taxes could be added if
the finance committee does have that and and you have the municipal trash from the town would be covered too. So there should be a little tag, you know. So my understanding and and and the the chairwoman of the of the select
board have mentioned that on the contract there's already se stipulated for the for the municipal trash. Did I understand correctly? In the budget in the budget to have for the buildings to be picked up, right? But it needs to be in that account that a revolving account has to have everything to be able to pay
Shaw. So, it has to allow some tax money to be levied money to come into that account. Well, the buildings are separate pickup. Yeah, but it's under the same bill. It's a monthly bill. I think I think the municipal contract is broken out for
$9,960 for fiscal 26. Um, so we can work with Mr. Shaw to see how if he wants it all paid in one lump check or two separate checks. I don't think that's that's the um big issue. I
do think that we do want to have an opportunity to be allowed to subsidize with other funding that we are able to find. So, I would ask that we say that um we use the board of health solid waste fund provided for in our bylaws to
manage the existing trash contract using bag revenues, a flat fee, and any other income sources to fund that with a a spending limit up to the contract amount. Oh, she agrees with that. Carla, uh Mr.
So, the query is asking if you're in agreement with that as um as as administrator of the board. I I don't really feel comfortable making that decision. I'm not a voting member for for the board of health and I really
think it's something that you as voting members should make the call. I will certainly do whatever the directives are from the town. So, um so again, I reformulated the the motion. And can I
get a motion to recommend on the town hall meeting on on the town town hall meeting on on the 6th uh maintaining the current uh trash method contract with
the with the floating bags and um and funding it on uh with the people's um with a set fee. um and and adding that that the the the municipal trash that is
already budgeted to be added on that account. Can I get a motion for that to recommend on on on on the town hall meeting on on the 6? I'll make that motion. All in favor say I. I. I.
Okay. Um, any final comments before we adjured the the meeting? Yes, Mr. Chair, I just want to say thank you again for allowing community involvement in this decision. It's something that a lot of community members feel very strongly about and haven't really had an
opportunity outside of, you know, kind of complaining about it on Facebook to get thoughts out there about it. So, thank you. Thank you very much for for your consideration in that. Can I get a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting? I make a motion to adjourn tonight's
meeting. All in favor say I. I. Meeting adjourned at 6:21 p.m.