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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: QytAO5yxCjU):
- 00:00:01: Meeting Opening and Hall Regulations Public Hearing
- 00:01:15: Explanation of Proposed Hall Regulations and Changes
- 00:05:19: Fines, Enforcement, and Education of Hall Regulations
- 00:06:58: Hall Regulations Discussion: Construction and Demolition Debris
- 00:11:44: Adding Addendum on Construction and Demolition Materials
- 00:16:23: Motion to Adjourn the Public Hearing for Hall Regulations
- 00:16:56: Reopening the Regular Business Meeting and Hauler Fees
- 00:18:36: Comparing Hauler Fees With Other Towns for Discussion
- 00:19:26: Effective Date for Hall Regulations Discussion
- 00:21:25: Setting Effective Date of Regulations to September 1st
- 00:23:35: Discussion of Enforcement at 61 Edworth Road
- 00:26:05: Sending a Letter Regarding Property Cleanup at Edworth
- 00:28:12: Motion to Send Notice Letter for Property Cleanup
- 00:30:08: Legal Action and Process Discussion for Non-Compliance
- 00:30:57: Hayes Road New Construction Continued to Next Meeting
- 00:31:21: 324 Main Street New Construction Septic Permit Discussion
- 00:33:51: New Construction Septic Permit Concerns and Approvals
- 00:38:11: Upcoming Staff Absences and Discussion Regarding Minutes
- 00:39:56: Motion to Approve Minutes From April 28th
- 00:40:11: Invoices and Warrant Approval Process and Details
- 00:44:34: Enterprise Fund Update Discussion, Stickers, and Mailing
- 00:47:52: Reviewing Enterprise Account and Next Meeting Date
- 00:48:28: Meeting Adjournment Motion and Final Details


Part: 1

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Okay, today is Monday, May 11th, 2026, 6:00 p.m. Board of Health meeting. Can you hear us, T-Cap? Yes, now it's okay. Okay. Uh roll call. Dr. Christian Olivier, is

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I? Charles Paul Serene, vice chair, I. Antonio Clark here. Okay. Um oh, Phone time is 6:01. According to our agenda, uh today, uh we

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we are going to open a 1.2 uh public hearing for the Hall regulations. Uh can I get a motion to open uh the public hearing at 6:01 p.m.? I call a motion to open the public hearing at

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6:01. I'll second that motion. Okay. Auditor say I. I. Okay, well, meet uh at 6:02 p.m. uh public hearing for the Hall regulations. Rick, I have copies here. I got it. Okay. Uh Rick, if you can tell us a

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little bit more about for the for the benefit of of the people who are hearing us and watching us. Sure. So um the board has started talking about potentially adopting new Hall regulations um probably about what three months ago, about two and a half, three

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months ago. And the idea was to um try to write set of write a write a set of regulations that uh more appropriately address how towns and is dealing with trash at this point. So, instead of the curbside program uh that you previously had, you now have the um the

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pay-as-you-throw program and also people that are using private haulers. And so, I I think that this set of regulations does a better job of of addressing how you deal with waste and it's dealing with multiple haulers in in town that might be picking up either residential

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or or commercial solid waste and recycling. And so the regs basically go through and and require mandatory recycling which was there before but that's kind of the big piece that nasty EP wanted to push for the RDP

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grant cycle. So so it does require that you recycle both as a residential generator and as a commercial generator. We share is an exemption built in for commercial generators

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who want to have their trash picked up by somebody but then get rid of their recycling with with a separate company and there is a waiver process within the regs for them to apply to the board to do that. The commercial

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start July 1st just like they do now when when um the applications come in the board will have 45 60 days to review them. There's also going to be a new component to the application process and that'll be a an annual report where

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they'll provide you tonnage numbers for both municipal solid waste and recycling. Um And then we come and then I think the the only thing from the draft that we had looked at at the the last meeting

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to this one that Paul had mentioned was for appendix A which is the last page. It has just been noted as um I think banned materials. Or banned substances. And so the what what we talked about was

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revising that to say waste banned materials. That's how it's referenced and that's really what the list is is you know if you went on to the DEP website they're going to call it waste ban materials. So, I see that now we are adding the

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commercials that initially was said that they were not on the obligated to recycling. Now, with with this solid regulation, we are basically enforcing everybody across the board here in towns and that you have to recycle. Yep. And

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and the regs really they the board can take enforcement action, but the onus as far as compliance is really on the generator and the hauler. And so, the hauler can reject loads if they see waste ban materials or recyclables in them,

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um which I don't which I believe was a fire before, but it was really more for curbside as opposed to making every um every hauler comply with that requirement. So, we would enforce the hauler for not doing their their part on the

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recycling, correct? Exactly, yeah. Yeah. So, so if there was an issue with with the loads, really it would be sent to um the the hauler. Uh and and the regs are clear, yeah, they don't they're not required to open up trash bags and pick through trash, but if something is

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visible when they go to pick it up, then they're supposed to reject it and provide a tag that letting them know why they rejected it. The only thing I don't see is the fines. Is that Oh, that's on on on on on penalties. Yes.

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Uh section 11 enforcement. All right. So, the first offense will be a warning. The second offense will be a $100 fine. A third offense will be $200 fine, and subsequent offenses will be 300.

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This is only for residential. Residential and commercial. Oh, and commercial. Yeah, okay. So, that that's the one thing you see tons of cardboard sticking out of these dumpsters. Yeah, so I would say you know, they are supposed to be recycling stuff. Yeah, I think it'll be education to the haulers

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at first. I think Ireland sent down a draft to them. But, if you do choose to adopt them, then it'll be making sure that they completely understand it and that you know, it is part of their job as a licensed hauler to make sure that everything's in there. Uh

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So, not necessarily two dumpsters. They could It just says a container large enough to meet the needs of of the facility that they're serving. So, it you know, could be two dumpsters, it could be a dumpster and a toter, it could be a dumpster and a smaller container, whatever they need to

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adequately get rid of their recycling. Okay. Um, do we have any other questions regarding You got to assume the local contractor is going to have to do the same exact thing too right? So, there's exemptions for

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construction and demolition, I believe. Okay. Paul Axel. Yes, so I guess I'm just looking in the um in the definition section for the next might not explicitly say it, but that would be like construction and demolition debris you'd be dealing with. And they're wasting

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They're I mean if they've got to provide a hauler They do. on there how they're going to get rid of it. They do. So I guess you know a lot If I If I do a kitchen, I throw all the kitchen cabinets away or I throw all the cardboard away. I'm throwing it in the same same effect. Uh cardboard

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would would technically be recyclable. That's what I'm saying. Sorry. You recycle. And so you know, if you wanted to specifically write something in, you could discuss that and you could add something in. You know, how I would would read it and I think the intent of the regulations is that it's specific to

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uh solid waste and recyclables. So it really doesn't address the um the construction and demolition debris, but it doesn't address what you're talking about, which would be like the back end for it. For $150, we can have unlimited recycling.

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Yeah. Hey, hey, that's our deal. But at the end of the day, cardboard is it fills the whole dumpster. You know what I mean? Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. So.

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Does Sean take out everything by himself with a rope around it and a block Uh you'd have to ask him. So I mean this talks about containers. Yeah. And when you look in another set of regulations that the Board of Health enforces, which is the um

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uh 105 CMR 410, the minimum standards of fitness for human habitation, it says the Department of Public Health code, it says that solid waste and recyclables need to be in covered containers. Okay. So I go to your house, I peel your vinyl siding off, which is recyclable. And all the cardboard that comes in, I

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don't need a dumpster cuz I'm just going to put it on the side of your Yeah, and probably and then it's and those guys at the truck probably have them get rid of it if they get rid of it curbside. Yeah. But, I guess yeah, you'll have to >> And that's and that's going to be okay? You'll have to talk to your customers

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about that. I mean, then we'll send them down to Marlowe to get a sticker and we'll take care of that recycling. So. You see what I'm saying? I do. I mean, yeah. It's it's you're in the field, so >> [clears throat] >> I mean, in the construction field, so

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most of us I mean, really that's why you're here. So, you get to remind them of that with every construction dumpster that is out there. A lot of people have them in areas that driving by, you know, I mean, you can see. Yeah. But, it will be like either a solid

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solid waste and recyclables or if for instance, separating what Todd is bringing Yeah. So, it would be construction and demolition are not addressed by this set of regulations because they are construction and demolition debris, which has to be

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disposed of at a facility and in a way that that takes that construction and demolition debris. And it depends on what it is. So, if it's like asphalt, brick, concrete, obviously that's got to go to a plant that processes that type of stuff. If it's, yeah, wood and

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yeah, whatever other parts of yeah, construction materials, drywall, things like that, they're going to go into a dumpster and disposed of at a at a facility that accepts that that construction and demolition debris. And then the the rest, which would be recyclable

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materials, it would still, you know, that's going to fall under that recycling category cuz I think the the the previous regulations, I don't think they kind of worked around it. They explicitly stated construction and

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demolition or or or to However it was, it was like solid waste and and construction and demolition debris related to construction um uh projects are exempt from the ordinance >> Ordinance regulations. >> Yes, exactly. So, Todd, let me ask you

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this. What Can we add I think we can add an addendum on your definition on construction and demolition materials in the set of regulations? I think I think something come up.

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So, what will be the construction materials that that could be exempt from this regulation? It could be a number of things, but I think it should be anything recyclable. Um You just throw it all out. You know what I mean?

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Well, like you said, vinyl siding, the cardboard debris from the cabinets, but that's it's recyclable, but on a construction project where you're ripping out uh remodel Yeah. that thing. I do a railing job, and every piece of railing come in a

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cardboard box. Every piece. I have so much cardboard at the end of the job just by doing the the the the deck railing. And then the plastic box that I've been using for that, I'm thinking maybe I don't know. Got to go. Yeah. >> And what about if the commercials would

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ask for a exemption? Would that be possible? >> So, those are more commercial generators like a a business. I would say like a That would still be considered a residential generator. But you happen to have a

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a construction job happening at a residential generator's property. But they can ask for an exemption for that if they're doing that type of work. Right? >> Okay. Well, as long as the I don't as as long as all this is being picked up the the all this is being picked up like

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my vinyl siding, my cardboard, so on and so forth, and it goes to the solid waste facility. And we're okay, right? Yeah. they got to You got to go into the dumpster and separate all the cardboard and the vinyl siding. I don't think they would do the dumpster, no.

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Some I saw it just built a facility that does that. They dump that dumpster on the floor and they'll separate >> [snorts] >> uh product. They'll probably Yeah. It's almost as old as I am, so

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but Okay. I have to go up there and see how he's doing it. That's That's where I do all my stuff. That is. So, it works. Yeah. So, then they would have to every time they Stop. And you would have to write it in. So, the only real exemption built into the

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regs right now is for commercial generators that want to use a res- a service recycling facility or a different hauler to do their recycling than they they use for solid waste. And then the only other parts are you can appeal a suspension,

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denial, or revocation, or a um a violation letter. Um but there is not necessarily like a variance process to to vary from the regulation. So, either I think either you would have to put it somewhere in the purpose that the purpose of the regs is not to enforce

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um waste that's that's generated as a result of a construction uh uh Right. That sounds Yeah. Right. I think Where can we add that? I I think it would be in purpose would make the most sense because then you're saying you know, the purpose of these regulations

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is not to enforce these things. Okay. So, let me see. Can we add it on the bullet? Yeah. That would be our one bullet. Um Well, I think it should be the first the first bullet. So, Okay. The absolute

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first bullet. Um but we we can add that and then continue this to the next meeting because where everything's going to be pushed out and I don't want anybody to sign anything tonight. Are you adding that? All right. I think [clears throat] we can add that then to um And you could

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close the hearing to sign at the next meeting. And you could close it tonight, too, if I wanted to. Yeah, it just depends on how much more discussion with the public you want to have. And so really it's this is an opportunity for the public to provide input, but it

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doesn't mean that you can't make changes after the public hearing is is done that open you discussed. So, if I you saying we want a an exemption built in the purpose section that's going to address construction and demolition debris,

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you could come with a draft next meeting and sign that and close the hearing tonight, too. Um any comments from the public if that's uh through Zoom? Nope. Okay. Uh so that being said,

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um can I have a motion to adjourn tonight's public hearing on the rules and regulations for removal, transport, and disposal of solid waste or recyclables in the town of Townsend? I call a motion to close the

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uh the on the rules and regulations for the removal and transport uh the uh solid waste and recyclables in the town of Townsend. I I'll second that motion. Okay. All in favor say aye. Aye. Meeting

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uh adjourned at 6:17 p.m. Uh can I get a motion to We need a motion to open uh the regular business meeting. Nope. Uh okay. So, as we continue

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uh we will continue on on 1.3, uh 61 Edward Road enforcement discussion. And I guess if we can just go back to all the rights for one sec. So, just to talk about a an effective fee. Oh, and fee.

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And we want to talk about an annual fee, too, as well. >> I'm talking about raising it. So, >> So, what is what is it now? It's You said it was 275. 275. Yeah. Ashby >> Ashby 750. >> Ashby is 750. Ashburnham is 350. And I

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think Ashby is the highest in our district by quite a bit. Okay. Now, you also have to remember that we're just going to go out and have to inspect all these vehicles, correct? I don't Let me double-check, but I'm pretty sure when I read through it, it does not say that. I I want to make sure that if there's if

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there's time and and in order to effectively >> So, it basically just says we're we're authorized to inspect it at any time, but it doesn't say that we have to. As I said, this is an annual fee for all others for >> It is an annual fee per hauler, and we have eight haulers in town.

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So, We're talking about going up to 500 you suggested from 375. Yes. So, we're going up 125 bucks It doesn't seem unreasonable. No, and was that I don't Jen's on here, too. She's from Livestock Rubbish Removal. Okay.

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>> So, yeah, she might be able to give you some input as far as what other towns collect but Okay. Was that money going Uh well, hopefully it's going to be going to our new enterprise account, but we have to make sure that that's okay. Where is recycling? We're looking into

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that. Otherwise, we're going to general taxation. But, we are looking into that. Okay. Okay. Let's move forward. Uh I asked Jen to >> Oh, she Jen, can you uh

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We have to open the meeting then. Um I think we close it. >> Yeah, I mean if you're talking about fees, it wasn't really on the agenda. So, I would say probably add it to the next one. And when we review the final draft, then we can have that discussion.

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The more important thing for tonight is an effective date. Um Oh, the effective date? Okay. I thought we were saying July 1st. No, uh we don't have time to do it before July. That's just I don't know. I think so. I think it's a big ask of the haulers to I

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think January 1st would be fine. I mean, it might confuse them to um where it's it might confuse them into well, we're now doing calendar year renewals. So, maybe September would be a better Yeah, so if if you voted on them and got

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them out next The next meeting we will have it probably would have it probably have it in the beginning of June and be able to start implementing it. So, I mean, I would say it's probably beginning of September, beginning of October if you're earlier. Okay.

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Okay. How long has it been at 275? 3 years? We we we updated it in 2023 or 2024. And that was a $50. It was 200 before. Okay.

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So, it's 275. That would be 2 125 dollar increase. I understand. So, it's okay. That's a little bit of a little bit of a jump. But, what do you want to do? 500?

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He had suggested five. I was questioning it, but when I heard Ash say 750, I was like, "Oh, that's not bad." But, if that's relatively high compared to all the surrounding towns, then Well, can can the motion be amended from closing the hearing to continue the

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hearing? To talk about selling the regulations well, the fees the fees So, instead of the fees could be addressed at any point Okay. during the meeting because you just you have to put it on an agenda and then you can talk about it and vote to change them.

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So, that doesn't really require a public hearing. Um That's [clears throat] true. the but the effect of the I'm just saying it's important cuz if you want to sign a copy next meeting I know. I think that I think having September 1st will be more reasonable. I think that's a good idea.

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What do you think of uh Paul? September 1st along September 1st What are we going to be doing on that date? We can pick one. Well, it gives it gives the contractors the summer not to have to worry about things.

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>> Yeah. The big sales jumping up like 50% so for the [clears throat] one time You're not doing the fees tonight. We're not talking about the date. So, is there a motion for the date for 91? I have a motion to

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to add for effective date September 1st, 2026. I call a motion to add September 1st of 2026. Second motion. Okay. All in favor say I. I. And then what I'd like to do is I'd like

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to find out the other towns around like Shirley and the other towns because we're just talking about Ashburnham and Ashby right? >> Yeah, and I I think that >> nice to get the other towns. It it would be nice to get them because I think both of them are on the higher end right now. I I I think that yes, I'd like to do

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that too. So, if we could continue that to the meeting where your next meeting down at item 1.9 you have our next meeting is actually scheduled for the 25th which is Memorial Day. So, please let the board meet on a Tuesday like we did the last

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holiday that we had which will be on the 26th. I mean, the day after >> Anybody going to be away for a week? I am not. Yeah, I didn't plan anything either. I won't be here, but I can't give you no. Okay. Do it Tuesday because Monday also works.

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>> Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. So, we can continue the fee >> The meeting will be continued on 5/26. We're not adjourned tonight yet, but uh Well, you're you're closing the hearing for the regulations, but we're going to discuss the fee schedule at the 26th for

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a new agenda item. So, we have that on. All right. Okay. Uh let's go on 1.3 61 Edworth Road enforcement discussion. Uh

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I'd like to give us a little bit about the story about about um what's behind this and what what We had this 61 Edworth Road has come up um years ago. The Conservation Commission was working on cleaning up the area. It was a long haul. They did clean it

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up. It's back to where it was before. So, the Conservation Commission is working right now on the issue deciding for what manner they want to how they want to approach it. I haven't had any information back yet.

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It's been about a week. I thought we [clears throat] got an email today with data. What's he putting around in? Right, but I haven't had anything yet to say exactly what they're doing. So, I think they had said they were going to be taking enforcement. Just don't know what that enforcement looks

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like. And so, when years ago we had actually kind of initiated um enforcement action. I think it was before any of you were on the board. And so uh conservation also took action because it was within the wetlands buffer.

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Um, we were preparing to file in court in conjunction with each other to to get the property cleaned up. If I remember right, a group of volunteers came together and ended up cleaning the property for them. Um, and then so it the

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What is the situation? Is it Is it It's a lot of trash. I think it's a an elderly person um that may or may not have mobility issues and um it's just not been able to keep up with the things in his yard and I don't know

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if it's additional accumulation, if it's things blown around the yard, um that that were in another spot, but it's yeah, if you look at it from 119, you go over the bridge and and the the river comes underneath and it's the property you can see right right there on the corner of

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Atwood and 119. Okay. So, what are your thoughts um like board members about this situation because I I understand that it's been a week that um that um that we got that communication, right?

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Um, is there a way Rick that we can either send a letter or So, if that's Yeah, typically we'll we'll send a letter to basically say, you know, we're we've been made aware of the property, we've inspected it, there's a violation to this section of the code, and allow them

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the opportunity to comply without taking any real enforcement action. Um, and then at the end of that, you know, the board would have to decide or you could decide tonight that, you know, if if within that timeline that they're provided, they don't do anything, then

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we move on to a certain kind of letter, which would be an order >> [clears throat] >> to correct, and then after that, then you'd have to discuss the potentially filing in court to to move forward keep on moving forward with this. >> The group of volunteers that came forward last time, how did that happen?

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I think it was arranged by the Conservation Commission, if not all members of the Conservation Commission. Okay. All right. So, where are we at now? Certified letter yet? Uh no, we have not. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. None of that's happened. So, I guess if if we follow kind of what would

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be typical, it would be a letter, Keep going. then an order, and then court would be kind of the progression. We didn't have to decide on the letter how much time you're giving before you certify. I think that was typically it can be anywheres from 7 days to 30. >> Yeah, 30 days would be max, um but it

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could be anything shorter than that that you felt appropriate. So, what do I I propose that we send a letter, and that we give them a maximum of 14 days. 14 business days.

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And the 14 days gives them what? Time to clean up or just time to Time I mean, the expectation would be to comply, unless you tell me otherwise. Right. Uh within the I guess they comply to get the waste removed. Yes. And if the 14 days doesn't come, we will meet again

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and talk about how we going we are how we are wanting to have this enforced. So, you said this happened years ago. How did you This happened when it first got into the table? Do you remember when roughly? Uh Three years, three years? Four or five.

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>> Five or more than that. Yeah, it was probably sometime around 2019, 2020. It was before COVID. Right. Uh yeah, right around that Before COVID. Okay. So, I don't I don't think it's the same debris running around. I think it's new debris. I think they're easier to goes up, the lawnmower comes out, goes in the river, they get a new one. It's

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the same thing. So, yeah, I'm okay with the 14 days. Can we Can I get a motion to send a um a notice letter with a notice of 14 days uh to clean up as first action of this board? I got

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I'll clarify it'd be 14 days from the date of the letter. Yeah, it's 14 days from the late day of the letter. Can I get a motion for for initiate this first warning? I call a motion to send a letter to 61 Road personal letter to 14

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days to comply. You know. I'll second that motion. Okay, let's go voting. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? We'll keep this on the agenda. I don't know if we'll have an answer by the next meeting. You might have to wait until

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the 8th of June. Okay. So so I'm sorry. So it's a letter then a certified letter? Letter then certified letter. Okay. Okay. It's a letter. Uh yeah, the letter would just go out regular first class and then the certified would be the next up. Would we

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pay for it? One of us pay for it? We pay for it? Michelle will pay for it. Yeah, there's a legal way to do it so you that has to be a constable or a or certified mail. Right. Yeah, it's a Try that. This whole day out. >> $10 at this point to send certified out

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but you know, that's what it is. Worst case scenario, letter certified in court. >> And then decide on court. If we decide And ultimately you have to file in court, you need town council so it would start with trying to obtain permission from the select board for that. All right.

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What's the What's the court going to They typically what they'll do is issue a preliminary injunction which is basically a judge's order enforcing the same thing that we already asked for. All right. And in in Tell me if I'm wrong. In that

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instance, in the in the if we go to court, they would have we can request them to pay the the legal fees, correct? >> You can request it. It doesn't mean you're going to get them back but you can ask for them. Pick it

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out. See if you can get it in the trash can. Okay. Okay. But, we need to have a certain documentation. >> to have all the steps. Yep. Okay. Uh well, point Well, let's go to 1.4 on our agenda. Hayes Road, map 34, lot 81.

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And that's going to be >> New construction. uh continued. So, this will be continued for our next meeting, hopefully. Hopefully the next meeting. I'm I'm waiting for some revisions. Okay. So, we'll move forward on 1.5, 324 Main

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Street, new construction, septic permit. It's the uh uh gas meter jump tank. Oh boy. It's a conversational thing. Yeah. So, people are asking what's going on. Okay. I think they're getting ready to walk and

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start it up. Okay. Um so, Main Street right here, the existing building um is shown right in this box, and the existing um roof overhang over the pumps is shown right here. Uh so, what they're looking to do is um

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put concrete pads both here and here, and have um two bays worth of uh of gas pumps. And then, it would be a a multi-use building. So, they're proposing um 2,000 sq ft of office space, uh 31C fast

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food restaurant, and 1,500 sq ft of of retail. Um and in order to accommodate that as far as that sewage disposal, they are proposing a grease trap to handle the kitchen waste from that fast food, um whatever it ends up being,

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uh 2,000 gallon uh 3,000 gallon uh two compartment septic tank. And then, um this isn't required, but there's a lot of data and my experience has been these

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it's likely to be a cop some sort of coffee shop. These coffee shops generate really strong waste water that kind of normal septic systems have a tough time dealing with. So Dunkin Donuts systems seem to get replaced every 10 years or so. Yeah. So what

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they're trying to do is is clean out the effluent a little bit and hopefully help with the longevity of the system. So this is a pre-stage treatment unit. So it's it's settling in the first compartment. This is an aerator and then there's a bio connector which is

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basically like a big filter. And then a recirculating pump. So I think it'll recirculate about 20 to 25% back into the tank for re-treatment before it goes back out. But but again the hope is that it will

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reduce the the strength of the waste water and hopefully the system last a little bit longer. And then all of that will all gravity feed over to these three 76 ft long trenches. But it is new construction so they're not asking for any variances. It's in

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full compliance with the code. All right. My question is that two or three uh of the fighter has three purifying ways of of how they're going to purify the the

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waste. So it's like one, two, three. Uh so it would be this would be a grease trap. It would just be catch kitchen waste and the tees are set up so that you can have a lot of grease come into the tank. It all floats the top and the liquid goes

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out and into this the septic tank here. And that really is just settling like a typical septic tank. The street pre-stage treatment will take place in this tank right here. Okay. [clears throat] And it's it's nitrogen removal, that's

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what it was. Yeah, you know, remove uh suspended total suspended solids and it's going to remove um BOD or lower BOD um and it's going to take care of some nitrogen issues as well. And this is proposed we know what this is going to be? Right [clears throat]

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now it's going to be at least a gas station and what else it's going to be I'm I'm not too sure. Yeah, so that'll be you know, it'll be a you know, fast food which means they can't give you a reusable silverware plates, it's all going to be you know, paper plates and plastic utensils. Is

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this similar to what they did down at the deli? Yeah, that's what it is. Uh Dunkin' Donuts not Donuts but Starbucks is there. Uh no, so that was just a grease trap they put in there. For the for the water. They Starbucks didn't do this. So this

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is kind of like their their choice and to do it. It's nothing that would be required by code um but because they they seem to have like a consultant they're working with that's familiar with these types of facilities and so it's an effort to try to get the system to work better with that waste. Yeah.

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Uh years ago this had a leak and there there's been a system in place down there cleaning the ground water cuz gasoline had leaked into the ground. >> Yeah. Whatever happened with that? That it's they're still doing it. They're still doing it? So they're going to

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continue with this or That uh that's the plan is yeah to to tear everything down there and rebuild it and Okay. Yeah, so They work so cycling up falls under the Mass Contingency Plan which is 310 CMR 40. The local Board of Health really

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doesn't have any oversight in the Mass Contingency Plan and so they're required to hire an LSP or a licensed site professional and then MassDEP has oversight but really their oversight is if they choose to audit. They work that the LSP does. So ultimately, if the LSP

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is coming in, they're determining what the best course of action is to try to clean up the property, and then they continue on with that testing and and remediation until they they get to a point where they can say that that that contamination has reached background levels or it no longer poses,

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you know, a hazard. >> where it's gotten to? I haven't seen anything in quite a while for it. So yeah, I don't think we've been CC'd on anything to do with it. But there aren't any like um uh

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conditions on future use of the property. There are a lot of times when you have groundwater contamination, their solution is to bring in water. Groundwater is already available out there. They don't have any private wells. So and then vapor intrusion is something

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that they look at as well um to see if it um you know, if the vapor rises going to have carbon will help that. Oh, okay. All right. Any other questions or concerns?

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Um yeah, then I have a motion to approve three a motion for 324 Main Street new construction septic system permit. I file a motion to approve 324 Main Street new construction septic permit.

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I'll I'll second that vote. Okay. Uh any further discussion? Then uh let's vote on it. All in favor say I. I. I. Very well. And it is approved.

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>> [clears throat] >> And Mr. Shire will be out on Thursday, just to let you know. Taking what? Taking Thursday and Friday off, and Reggie's is to be out this Thursday as well. A lot of vacation time to take before June 30th. We're at that time again. Your who?

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Oldest is graduate. How would that possible? Are you kidding me? Oh my gosh. A civil engineer, good for him. So let's go let's continue with the business taking

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over. Okay, I will see you next Tuesday. No, I'll see you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Okay, so I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you. Uh what 26 minutes is now our minutes from our last meeting on April 8th?

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28. April 20 28th, excuse me. Yes. famous It looks like some famous person is there. So there's a That's the shorter version. >> That's the shorter version. >> [clears throat]

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>> Can I get a Can I get a motion to approve um the minutes for for um April 28th, 2026? I call a motion to approve the minutes for April 28th. Second the motion to approve the

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minutes. All in favor say I. I. Invoices is you have GW for emptying plastic and wood, which is part of our grant. In the amount of $387.50. $712.50

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comes out of the general revolving and that is for the bulky removal, which is not part of the grant. Christian has the travel for the wonderful seminar that you all went to for the amount of $43.50. Minute Man Press, our stickers and this

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follows our next agenda item. 1.8 Enterprise Fund. Now that the town meeting has approved the stickers, will be $150. We have them out. The price for 2,500 7x9 stickers is $4,915.

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That is in here. Once you approve that, it'll be 7 to 10 days. We are working to get the postage meter all set up. I've got to order some um smaller envelopes and we should be sending out the uh stickers the first

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week of June. The website is already up and ready to go. So, if people cuz we've already got people who started signing up the next day after the town meeting. So, when you go on the website, it says are you signing up for FY 26? Are you signing up for FY 27? It's also on the

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website. So, it's on the voicemail as well. So, I think that we're pretty covered with people knowing what's going on. It says 26 27. Yes. So, and then they'll see the different prices. So, [clears throat] Um how much does each sticker cost? Out of

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curiosity. Wait. Wait. Wait. Let us do the invoices first and then we can go to the stickers. Okay. Okay. Um Tough Stuff Recycling, our mattresses also paid for a grant, $990. East Coast Recycling, our electronics,

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which is paid from the general revolving $679. That's a flat fee, that's a standing price. Kelly and Ryan comes out of the pay as you throw enterprise fund for $532.70. And those are those little purple stickers that went in the mail in the

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spring. Yes. Which is also comes out of the grant through the pay as you throw. Okay. And our bill for Shaw's for April was $58,387.55. Unitel

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$167.28. So, that is your warrant. And to answer your question about It does not have it. Now, I don't have my phone, so if someone can divide 2,500 by 4,915, we'll know how much the

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stickers are. 2,500 we said, right? Uh-huh. 2,500 stickers. >> Divided by $4,915. Uh Is this the correct number? Wait. You got to divide it the other way.

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Is it the other way? Okay, yes, it's the other way. 4,915 >> [laughter] >> divided by this number? 4,915 divided by 2,500. $1.68. All right. $1.66

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So, you got it wrong. >> $1.68. $1.68. Okay. Questions about the warrant? Do we have a motion to approve tonight's um Town of Board of Health on fiscal year

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warrant 2026 of $66,811.03. Call a motion to approve tonight's um receipts for the $66, uh $811.03. I'll second that. All those

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Okay. Um all in favor say I. I. Wow. And now We just went through the enterprise fund update. Where where we at right now, Carla?

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As far as financially? I cannot tell you that right now because we just got the pay as you throw um uh invoices for the sticker for the purple bags, which was 29,000 and change. So,

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the treasurer has just She She hasn't even got the receipt because I can't get it to them on a Monday with payroll. So, she won't get it till tomorrow. So, the accountant won't get it for probably another So, by our next meeting, which

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is the fourth week, I will have an update. So, there will be an update at the next meeting, but if I gave you an update right now, she doesn't have She doesn't have April data in there, and I I know I know it's getting down to the wire,

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but um I I do have the We have $42,000 to use in the grant, and we are at $41,000 and change. We were able to grab all the bag receipts for Waste Zero to manage the account. We were able to grab the

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thousand bags that we ordered ourselves, which was $8,000. We're able to take the money for the stickers and were able to take out the mailings as well. So, that's 43,000 that is in there, which we have in the budget we're

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counting on using. So, and and we're using every bit of it. We have till June 30th to do it. They'd really like it by May 15th, but if we have a thousand more, we're going to hold out to get June's May's numbers in there. And if it's [clears throat] a couple of

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thousand and and I think it will be because the lowest that we have for way zero monthly is about $990 and it can go up to 4,200 depending upon what the sales are. Okay. All right. Any Any other questions?

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What's the mailing sticker? Purple. What do you want to see? 7 by 9. Purple. I wish to keep the same number, but or the last number. It's hard because they're in a roll. No, they they come out like that. There's just no way to do it. And I am

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working on a new database with um taking the street the street listing from the town clerk's office. But then I still have to input the data and then I'm also working on getting my printer to print out the labels that I

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can use from the Excel spreadsheet because it's going to be really hard to hand write 2,500 stickers. It It's just not happening. So, um it it's going to It's just taking some time to figure out what the best way but they have the labels. You put

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them right in the printer and and once we hook up the Excel spreadsheet, I just want to make sure that I have the right one because there has been a few a few places that have been added. Some new streets and stuff. We have time. We have time. But I've already have four people that have signed up for next year. So. Okay. Awesome.

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So, in the next meeting we're going to talk about where we at where where we at or the health of the enterprise account what meeting Yes, should be on the agenda. Um. Okay. So our next meeting is going to be on

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the 26th, right? We agree with that Tuesday. Who will send out the reminder? I will send out the reminder. Thank you. Tuesday, May 26th at 6:00 o'clock. Um.

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Any other questions, any other concerns before we adjourn tonight's meeting? Okay. Can I get a motion? Can I have a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting? That's today's Board of Health meeting. I call the meeting. Motion to adjourn

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tonight's Board of Health meeting. >> I'll second that motion. All in favor say I. I. Meeting adjourned at 6:49 p.m.