601 the health meeting to uh yeah excuse me one minute please the February 11th Bo Health meeting we'll bring that into session right now our roll call uh Christian Roman Ramirez and vice chairman and Charles S Jan
boquer reappointment of officers okay I have had um ample opportunity to do this position right now I have to say I want step down from this position so who would like to make a motion for somebody else to take over his chair I'll make a
motion for Kristen to take over his chair okay you accept that motion Kristen I accept the motion okay all in favor say I I I okay you are now chair Christen
congratulations thank you correct okay you need to have a motion for the vice chair position oh and a motion for the vice your permission position PA you up for that I will accept it are you making a motion I make a motion for for Paul
if okay and I second the motion favor say I I okay and then the clerk position needs to a motion to the clerk which the only person that's left is Jim so is there a
motion on the table for someone to nominate Jim I I nominate Jim as clerk for for the Board of Health I second that okay all in favor hi hi
that's excellent thank you all right the eyes have any additions or the lesions at this time we have no septic permit so next on the agenda 1.4 um and Rick is not here because of that so the next item on your agenda is the ISA Board of
Health presentation and you do have them online great well welcome to Thea Board of Health presentation Jim gy and the state and regarding the state of the agency
welcome we can't hear you you're muted Jim I'll never get used to being online these present so thank you very much for having us Christian congratulations on becoming chairman um thank you so with me tonight is our communication
education specialist Jenna monary and Kelly Kos who are our shared system Association coordinator so we'll be doing the presentation together great um would it be possible to get permission to share my
screen yes it would be I don't think that let me I don't have any issues with that but that's more the tech people yeah they're hopefully they're listening oh there we go all
right okay sweet from the beginning so thank you very much for uh having us here tonight guys we appreciate it um I am Jenna Montgomery communication specialist um so we just have a presentation for you tonight just to
catch you up a little bit on what's been going on with the agency um so here are our discussion points for the evening Jim's going to give us a little update on the state of the agency we're going to cover our Public Health Excellence grant funding that we get as a health
district um as well as tell you a little bit more about the foundational Public Health Services that are really kind of the frame work um that we're all working towards with the public health Excellence grant funding in Massachusetts we're going to go over our pH work plan and sustainability
initiatives at a very high level just to give you guys an idea of what we're working on there and then lastly we'll talk about our ctci grant and um give you a little bit more information on how that's been helping us out so this is
J Jim thank you very much Jenna so what I wanted to do the agency operates under a set of bylaws and those bylaws require that we hold quarterly meetings our governing bodying meetings uh and all of the members of all of our member boards are invited to attend each Town gets a
vote um so at um our budget meeting and that's where we'll start as the budget assumptions kind of a tight year as all of your towns are facing um and some additional things that are making it more challenging for us uh the town of Littleton has decided to to leave the
agency and and create their own health department so we're going to lose that um assessment and the fees from the town of Littleton we're hoping to make up a bunch of that by not filling a position that was um wasn't filled at this point and by increasing the assessments and
the fees by 10% again the goal is to try to maintain the the staff we have and maintain the services that we provide to the communities get a little cost comparison for um you know what they the amounts that we charge how it kind of relates to
costs in town um the assessments so two major portions to our budget uh the assessments of those amounts that your communities pay per capita to be a part of the nooba associated Boards of health and the second major source of funding for the agency of the fees that we
collect for certain services so right now the the membership communities uh you're paying essentially about a $6 per person um for the public health services if we add in that public the the fees that we collect the cost for us to deliver services to our member
communities is about $12 a person just to give you some comparison the Statewide average for health departments is about $756 um and one other piece of information on General touch on a little bit later on is uh we're part of the
Department of Public Health uh public Health's excellent grant program where the state has provided additional monies uh to essentially to promote regionalization ation and support Boards of health so we are currently um receive a three-year Grant so it's good for
another about another two years um and if we add that funding in uh we get up to about $ 15 a half dollars per person so it's a significant amount of funding that we're getting from the Department of Public Health to help provide staff for the district uh one of the things
we're doing and and this is one of the requirements uh that we had put on ourselves U as part of the work plan for the public health excellent Grant is to update our agency bylaws the last time the bylaws were updated for the agency was
1996 with the exception of accepting two new communities once in uh 2008 2009 and one in 2016 so since otherwise it's it's been the same set of um bylaws some of the important things
that have changed districtwide we used to have a Visiting Nurses Association as part of the agency we had to close that uh service um last year and and some of the revisions to the bylaws are trying to address um the loss of that
agency uh we hope to get out drafts to all the board members so they can actually take a look at the revised drafts we have gone through probably three meetings of iterations of different uh changes to the rigs I mean the bylaws and so we think we have what
may be a final set that we want the board to consider hopefully our March meeting our March quarterly meeting and you should all be receiving a notice about that March meeting um probably right at the beginning of March so I'm I'm happy to take any questions from any of the board
members any questions from no okay so the second slide that um some of you may or may not know I know we've tried to make sure that both in our public meetings and in the minutes that get sent out uh to the board
members nishoba is part of the State Retirement System uh we petition we the agency petitioned back in 1967 um and at that point in time the state the agreement was that uh the agency would pay the employers portion
as people were joining the pension fund and when PE and and that we the agency would be paying uh when people started withdrawing pensions from the fund we'd be paying the employer employer portion as well the problem was that the folks that might have been our our staff back
then and the state at the St the staff at the state pension fund uh wasn't really aware they both weren't aware of the situation so we weren't receiving bills from the state um and nobody at the staff at the time really understood
or knew about the requirement to send in um the employer contribution so we ended up in 2014 getting a letter from pension fund essentially stating we haven't builded you for this um we're now going
to start billing you for this we're forgiving you for all the years we didn't bill it but going forward you need to be paying the employer portion it is a significant amount of money and it's done in such a way that makes it very difficult for us to to budget it
essentially all of the people who retired from noobo who have a little piece of uh we have a little piece of the responsibility for their retirement each year about 16 months after they've gotten that money when the states kind of figured out what they've spent they
send us a bill so again it's always in a little more than a year and a rear um I think the last one was about $600,000 so we've got a pretty significant debt with the state pension fund uh this past year there were
two legislative bills that were set up hopefully to resolve this issue uh they did not pass so after that happened our auditor um raised questions about our financial stability because on the books we have this very large debt to the
pension fund so we've been working since 2014 um to try to come up with a legislative solution to this that's essentially what we were told by the pension fund they have to collect they have to build the money that's their responsibility they can't make
adjustments in how it's being um you how the money is sent into the state uh and so we have worked to get we we've we've as an agency filed our own bill early on we've sat on uh a committee that the
state formed to try to come to a resolution uh with these pension issues uh we have supported and and and kind of advocated with our state reps and Senators when there was legislation pending and that's what would happened this past fall all of last year our
Chief Financial Officer tamry kunan was working with the different state reps and state senators who cover our district along with the state treasurer's office to try to keep tabs of what was happening we met with our Senators and Reps to encourage them to
support this bill so we could get it passed but unfortunately it did not get passed so there's a deadline for each legislative session and we're in a new session right now it just started so early January new bills uh for the next
session which is the next two year session had to be filed Terry worked hard with the state treasurer's office and with representative Scarsdale and Senator Eldridge uh to get bills filed so there are now three new bills all
pretty similar uh to try to address this pension issue and and the two big pieces for us that make it important instead of paying U the the employer part in a rear um the bills would instead having us pay I guess as Social Security does have you
pay a portion of salaries going forward which is much more budgetable we it's it's predictable we know how much money we we need to be putting aside and the second part would deal with how to address the irage that's that's owed so it's an issue we're working on our next
step is to get in touch with the town administrators and town managers and all your towns to have this discussion with them to see if we can get them on board to Advocate their the the Reps of are covering all our towns to get on board with this legislation I know that's a lot it
covers a whole bunch of years um is there any questions on the pension issue we're dealing with okay and and if you have questions if you think of questions later on certainly you have my email you're more than happy to shoot an email give a call I'm more than happy to talk to any one
of you individually if you'd like as well than okay all right so my role as communication specialist I obviously have to pop in and talk about Communications a little bit um so that's what this slide is all about so just
wanted to check in and see how Communications are going obviously you have a designated health agent Rick metf um who maintains consistent communication with the board as well as staff and residents to address local issues effectively um um as Jim I think
mentioned we aim to enhance engagement with board members on critical topics like these budget things this pension issue and our Public Health Excellence Grant as well um we know there are diverse communication preferences across
the health district uh we celebrate that that's great and we're committed to providing timely updates and creating accessible CH channels for feedback and collaboration um I think along those lines I don't want to put you guys on the spot but a question to just let hang
there you can feel free to answer it now or email me later if something comes to mind but if there is anything at all at any point in time that you feel that we could do to improve our Communications or a different Channel through which we could get that information out um I'm
all ears all the time not just this time of year um and the other thing I wanted to mention is we're going to try to make this a regular practice um trying to come like once a year and give you guys all of our boards in the the district kind of an update on what we've been up
to and what's been going on um just to keep those channels of communication open um the other very specific sort of thing would be if there's anything that we can do to make it easier for you to attend executive committee and quarterly meetings please let us know we know that
there's multiple competing priorities they're late at night you guys are volunteers you work hard and it can be tough um that said though if there's anything that you can think of that would make it easier for you to get there let us know and we'll take it into consideration Al righty next
slide and here it goes hi everyone my name is Kelly um I am one of the newest member or newest employees of on Thea I've been here for about eight months I am the shared service coordinator so I really take a look at the public health
Excellence Grant and make sure that we're doing all that we can under that Grant to comply with the state's um initiatives basically what the purpose of that Grant is is to enhance local capacity for local public health services um it's allowed us to hire
additional Staffing so myself Jenna two Health agents of part-time food inspector they those were all hired not utilizing um any funds that come from you um those are all funds that come from the state the local um office
office of local local and Regional Health um which is a subdivision of dph which is the Department of Public Health um we were also able to increase and do some improvement for our inspectional processes um making sure that we have the best software for our inspectors to
do the job and do the job well we are also some of our goals for this year are to um do some training programs for our inspector so there's a program called massfit they have a massfit food and a massfit housing really trying to
standardize the training across all um inspectors in the region and across the state um also trying to standardize our operating procedures internally um so that it's consistent across all of our municipalities and
staff so Mass Department of Public Health loves to say it and so I like to say we're all on a journey together towards adopting What's called the foundational Public Health Services that really makes up the framework for the consistency that we're working towards
with this public health Excellence funding foundational Public Health Services have been around for a while they've been fully adopted by a number of other states in the US um and in 2019 Massachusetts identified with their
blueprint for public health Excellence that this was sort of the framework that we were all going to work towards adopting um to kind of standardize Public Health across Massachusetts so the foundational Public Health Services consist of five uh foundational areas
which are those bubbles across the top also known as public health programs and eight cross cutting foundational capabilities which are those little boxes at the bottom um so we're just kind of setting out on this journey we have been going to a lot of webinars I
think Jim and Kelly can both tell you it's kind of been like getting fire hosed a little bit they're giving us a lot of information at once but um we're learning about the process and we are embarking on a shared services review which is currently in process um this is
an exercise that the Department of Public Health is having all shared services Arrangements in the state work through um and it's kind of giving us a nice Benchmark of where we are at um in terms of both um cost of delivering
services and um also like how much time we dedicate to each particular facet of the work if you will uh so that's what we're working on right now we're getting a lot of technical assistance as well so
that's the foundational public health services so in addition to going through the the foundational Public Health Services in that whole review we do have work plan items for fiscal year 25 again as Jim had kind of said earlier this grant is funded through fiscal year of
27 um so we have a little bit more time on this but this is our work plan for this year so we're really looking at those bylaws like Jim had said earlier looking at the sustainability of our programming and making sure that we um have job satisfaction making sure our employees want to stay with us um
implementing staff onboarding mentoring for attention strategy is just making sure everybody is trained appropriately and feels comfortable in the job with the resources that we're able to give them um and then formalizing some inspectional Services the improvements like I had said that we um are looking
at that inspectional software and then looking also at our Disease Control initiatives and how we can standardize the way that we follow up on communal diseases and then lastly this is a SE a separate pot of money this money also comes from the Department of Public Health but it's the contact racing and
case investigation Grant um this got released around the same time as the public health Excellence Grant got released but this this was intentionally sent out for us to do some contact tracing in case investigation but shortly after this was released they no
longer required that for covid-19 um so the that opened up the opportunity for us to do a little bit more um it has to have an epidemiological background to it so we are looking at enhancing our internal databases to track Public Health Services and really doing a
community health profile um in access to care um it's that is only funded through June of 2026 so through fiscal year 26 um and then all that funding will be gone all right and that concludes our
presentation do you guys have any questions for us any questions from our board members no no lot to absorb but yes
job uh we want to thank the N associate Board of Health for their presentation excellent presentation I might say and we look forward to keep on working with you guys okay great thank you very much for having us and and again if you have any questions Jenna has all our contact
information information up there certainly let us know and we're more than happy to again if it's a offsite you know off a phone call off offline or a meeting happy to chat with you sure thank you very much you're welcome thank you have a great night thanks thank you everyone so nice to meet you take care
than bye bye think that was our first presentation it it was our first it's my second second of them okay so going to our through our
agenda 1.6 um Char and Son's Contra son's contract proposal okay um we have into our consideration a three-year contract for
collection only from July 25 to June 27 um says here as part of the annual um MSW and recycling curb side collection fee 44789 180
which is this number okay uh second year and then the second year would be 4 89,4
180,000 for the second year and that number is just to let you know from the first proposal that we had with them the first year stayed the same the 478
980 but the second year was 493 3 493 350 so he's gone down approximately $5,000 okay on on year two okay and then
on year three he goes to 5550 and on the previous proposal year three was 5082 200 so he's gone down 8,200 on year three it's
50055 Z on on fiscal year 27 and he had divided the municipal part which um which is um which is separate from the residential um trash
contract um have we received any other offers regarding we want to on it we have not I'm I'm a little confused why the municipal buildings are still included
in this because I thought that when I spoke to Glenn that he was going to take out the municipal buildings when Veronica spoke at the board of Selectmen meeting last week she had concerns that Littleton was um less expensive than
towns and and after speaking to Glenn he said because the reason why lunenberg is is less is because lunenberg municipal buildings are not included in their contract was approximately $50,000 a year so their their municipal buildings when you look at this municipal
buildings total monthly charge 860 um so so just just do the math on that it it really shouldn't be in this so I don't know if that takes this number down from 500 F 550 and I'm just
looking at year three because that's where we last were um but it I really feel that that should be taken out it's very important that the residents know that they're not that the trash contract is not included in the municipal buildings and I think we made it clear
to sh Su that that in previous meetings that the municipal buildings trash was not going to be included in this contract which is something separate that um that the select board has to be with that on their own and that's what is put on our
table is um the the the residential trash contract so I I did receive this quite late today so I didn't have time to go back to Shaw and ask them to take out the municipal building but I believe that that's going to change the number
so I'm not confident that this number with the four collection only is um the right number and then if you look at the all-in-one number um the municipal buildings are also still included in that so we we really have to get the
municipal buildings off of um these proposals in there yes so I'm iing Ken I have two different hats on one is I'm the mass DP I'm the regional recycling coordinator that the town received a technical assistance grant for trash to help in the process I'm also the
recycling committee chair so a resident here in town the uh Shaw nobody wants to bid because Shaw undercuts everybody he it gives you the best rate and a lot of communities if they can get it all included is cheaper if you have a
separate contract which I do have some communities that just do municipal buildings only that's normally a very higher it's a bigger number than if it's on with lunenberg why why did it why did it happen recently in lunenberg so lunenberg has a new contract I have not
I have seen it a little bit but I did not see the differences between Municipal and their curbside program but just note that he has given us a cheaper rate for everything like if we tried it would be a lot higher and I'm I'm actually really surprised when I thought
saw the numbers for three years that was a lot less because we went pay you throw he is actually because we've been flat rated he gave us the discount definitely gave us a discount and because he got lunenberg he seems to be okay that we don't need to have carts which it' be
$100 an per household to add in so he's being before the last time we talked to him he wanted everybody to be in carts okay so that's the automated system so that was not noted in this contract no so and lunenberg does not have that either so but his other
contract is lemonster lemonster does have automated okay so I was really thinking he was going to push us cuz he kind of said that a year ago he was trying right we couldn't get because that's just too much of an expense just to to pick it up it's
really his it helps him it doesn't help us just the added cost because everybody has cards or whatever yeah the um I I do recommend kind of keeping it in our time is short they're upstairs talking about budgets right now to go out to a
separate bid for municipal will take longer just we already attempted that though and already got back to us right I just to get you and he's going to give you a number and he's going to inflate it then to say okay that this is one pot of money and one the other pot of money
you can always just split up a contract of saying where the money is coming from that's an internal it's all line item right so it's internal right yeah this is so you have a contract and you can say this eark is for this and this ear Mark is for here that's a town treasur
thing not so we can do it in internal makes sense yeah I'm just just recommending that if you do it will be higher for him because he has to do more paperwork no that will be our responsibility to Bill it back to municipalities police the fire they'll
have to cover it under their budgets I think we should talk to the account and make sure that she's okay with this before we make any decisions all right I don't think that the board has the authority um to make those types of decisions uh the um residents were more
than um they were very vocal that they wanted the municipal dumpsters out of the trash contract the Board of Health was more than vocal letting Glenn know that they want this out of the contract so I'm not sure why they're in it and and if you go for an override or you go
for a trash fee the residents are going to be very upset to see that in the contract so I would suggest that that okay has a separate contract that it's taken out for clarity the residents to make sure that they're not paying for the municipal dumpsters everybody as a resident I'm
still going to pay for it if you take it out of my taxes or if you're going to take it out of my pocket or you're going to take it out of the bags I'm still paying for it but it's makes sense to make it clear that uh that the municipal number even now all goes together budget
wise and number-wise to make it clear that um that it has to be um separate and any other questions or any comments about this contract no oh one talking about separation just know that you're not an Enterprise fund so one thing that
happens is all money that goes into the town account and goes into the town it's not like some towns have Enterprise where everything is line item to say it I mean you do have line items but it's not in this pgy Bank comes out the money
comes in the money comes out like your water department the water department is very it's an Enterprise fund so this trat program is still not an Enterprise fund so even if you have different line items it's still going into the general fund general fund to have that this
discussion even if it's a a small item like if it's an um revolving account like the transfer station that's still general fund it's not an Enterprise fund where do the bank the money from that's not it's all general fund it just goes into general
fund okay excuse me can I can I ask a question or make a comment this is Cindy King oh hello Cindy ahead yeah I wanted to uh shout out on the um on that conversation about the municipal buildings I was the one that brought
that up a couple that meeting that we that joint meeting that we had um I think what I'm looking for and I think what the town's people are looking for is not to necessarily have a separately contracted piece but just getting a guesstimate even if it doesn't have to be to the exact penny but to separate um
the so that get a number of some kind from Shaw to say this is how much trash you're generating that's not coming from those 3150 residents or whatever that number is that because the times people are concerned on those purple bags if that's the way we're going to go my
understanding is that might be the end of it uh but if we're going to stick as far as paying either trash fee or purple bags that only the one two and three family residents are paying for all the municipal buildings despite other
taxpayers in town that aren't going to be paying for the municipal buildings if the town I.E the board of Selectmen in the budget process for the town is saying okay it's $800,000 for the entire trash contract and we're going to try to
get purple bags to pay for that entire trash contract when wait a minute this isn't residential trash and it's not fair that only the one two and three family residents have to to pay for the entire trash bill for every inch of Townsen and that's that's not fair so we
I think it's if my opinion anyway is that those purple bags or even if they were to change it to a trash fee but is that should be to pay for the one two and three family residents only so the municipal trash should be under the
regular tax collection process the budgeting process for the town but those the purple bags should adequate to cover just the residential trash so I mean you're not going to get you're not you're not going to sell enough purple bags at 350 to pay for the
entire Town's trash bill but I I think it is adequate to pay for the the 3150 residents if that's I'm guessing on that number but you know you know what I'm saying that it's just to separate the numbers so that when the board of Selectmen and the finance committee and
whoever is doing the budgeting can say okay this is the 3150 50 the is a purple bag people and that's what this costs that we're collecting the money and it's the residential trash costs this much to pick up so that you can you can figure it out but if you're trying to use
purple bag money to pay for Town Hall the fire department the highway department your numbers are never going to add up and it's just not fair that the businesses and the multi the M the major multif family dwellings their taxes should fund the regular the rest
of the the town hall trash just as much as us so you know so that's what what we were talking about a few U meetings ago thank you thank you very much Cindy for your comments um to my board members um can
we have a motion to recommend to the board of Selectmen [Music] um the three-year contract uh um all in or collection only
collection only correct the collection only numbers to the board of Selectmen um as a board of health recommending making emphasis that the municipal trash should be separated
from from the from the contract um because I think that these numbers excluding the municipal um the Municipal numbers um I think I don't think we're going to get
any other numbers like this and it works out to only 9,600 a year his total bill for that those collections is 800 a month so it's 96 we were thinking 50,000 but it's really well it's 50,000 in
lunenberg in lunenberg is in lunenberg okay schools make a lot of TR okay okay three buildings schools yeah for but here the the the municipal is it what he has um it's going to go up
the first month is8 yeah goes on a little bit Yeah Yeah 8 * 12 is 96 so can we can we present a uh do we can someone present a motion to recommend the budget for the collection
only as board I you present present a motion to recommend the um collection only and I'll second it and how we vote we vote um are ready
to vote um who say I I I so um and try and get the separate contract and the selectman will be discussing this with us on Thursday at the budget meeting so just clarification are you getting a separate
contract or you're just going to emphasize or just recommending to have what the numbers is so that when the accounting says this is the curbside program this is the municipal trash program yes so it's just numbers it's
not a separate contract not another there's not another piece of paper another thing so I just want to clarify that no it's not in all honesty I think we're going to get less trash over time more
recycling uh I think the tonnages are going to go down I don't think they're going to go up we've already seen it for the last 3 months considerable so I think it's not a a bad gamble for the town to go with collection only estimating um car do we have to sign
this as nothing is signed right now you're going to recommend to the Selectmen and uh what I would like to do is talk to Glenn about separating the
two and talking to Nelson the Town Administrator about bringing that contract to legal for review because you obviously want to have legal review it before you sign it yeah he's picking up for free all the all the baseball fields
he always he always has always very nice yeah so so I think um but we have to we have to talk about this on Thursday meeting too then or I think that the selectman will ask you what your
thoughts are what the Board of Health is recommending to the Selectmen they'll know already because they're going to have the email tomorrow if not tonight okay what the board of heal has has um what what you are supporting which
proposal okay okay um next on our agenda invoices invoices we have three we have Ado which is the needles um the kiosk out here we have
Uno which um apparently is going up all over the place because it's now at 426 it was 325 last month thank you thank you AR thank you and we have Shaw's bille which is their 68,500 their uh tonnage was 13
which we were averaging on January is about 220 so that's how much it's gone down wow it was 135 in December it was 1 129 in November um December and January always
very higher I wouldn't be surprised if you saw it go down to 100 in February and March okay which will literally be half what it was yeah again the Unitil bill which is just one and the needle kiosk now in the
future I don't think we're going to be doing these separately we have a new warrant that the accountant has asked and she said why don't why doesn't the board just sign this for us so going forward we won't have each individual one for you to sign I'll just have the
bills attached then you can look at this and then you'll just sign this one thing okay it'll be a lot easier we only one we don't have to sign okay each one you'll just sign the one warrant article that has each invoice the numbers what
what account it's coming out of and the amount W 750 the El B well no no it's only 426 because they're behind because we got a little late that's see the current bill is 426
no that's uh that's high it last month it was 325 before that it was two mine was 12200 1600 month before I'm so blessed that I am in a place that's utilities are included I I can't imagine how we
can budget right now and this one for um advo WS this is for this is for the needle kiosk that's at the um front of the Town Hall when the people come in they pay $5 to dispose of their need
and when the bin is full I call them and they come by to pick it up what did we do in October that caused the power to Triple the consumption I think the heat was on okay so the heat came on are there C there okay but are they're
turning off to heat or oh they they there's a little thing in fact I get nervous sometimes when it goes really down that we've turned it down too low and I will actually ask the facility director because he drives by way home would you check the thermostat and make sure it's not at 55 because the pipes
have Frozen in previous years because we keep it down so low when we leave I was going to say I'll get them a barrel they can burn some of the trash and stay warm save something so you don't need this one right now so this one you handed me you
haven't signed it I'll sign it and then hand it back to you right and then the other the last thing that's on your agenda is the minutes which you've been looking at which I think were very helpful for this meeting and um you also have the
old proposals that are attached so we can make sure that when they go to the clerk for the minutes that they have the proposals from Shaws in here okay are we going to be able to hold on to these oh absolutely okay good thank you
okay uh let me see that m minute you gave us for January all you have to do is just initial it okay all right and that was our last meeting which I think is where do you want to initi just up the top right
right here so you need this full packet too um if you want to hold on to it you can I only need one copy okay I like to have everybody initial their copies but I honestly throw out two of them and keep one them and then I I copy that it
goes to the clerk with her records then we have records in our office Co oh thanks that's the shorter version Oh what was this for no this is for um to um so um so Carla was invited to to
the select board um meeting on Thursday is it Thursday um to to review the Board of Health budget okay and I I um I told Carla I was going to participate on that meeting with her as well okay as part of
the Board of Health and she gave me the numbers about that and since we we are recommending um uh a a trash contract uh recommendation on that probably they're going to ask us about that and I think that somebody from the Board needs to be
present to to in representation of the board to talk about why we thought about um about the numbers of this actual contract so okay um okay and we have the Well Repair
proposal Landfield contined on April 25 we yes well I wasn't sure what was going on and we don't need to do anything until this summer so I thought it was also better to wait until April to see how much money we had in the operating
accounts in May and June we've been told they they don't want any spending don't come to us if you have $5,000 left over two weeks before the budget closes and buying things so we want to we'll look at April we'll see how much money is there we're not going to be able to fund
the whole thing but we we have the general revolving account we have the capital account I would like to use as much of the operating budget that we have so I thought April was a good good way to go to repair the pump at one of the wells the Ws yes it's collapsed and
they can't get inside to collect the water sample that shows us the gases and the PO voc's that are in the water okay D accepted it this year but they did make a note saying at any time they could come back and say we're not accepting the sample because you need to
fix your well how de is this well is it any idea it wouldn't be that se but just to get the run off on no no no it's deep don't you remember when we I think so I couldn't see the bottom of it probably 60 okay
that's don't you remember they they had to um there was training that um they offered because the people who had to go into the well it was such an enclosed place that they needed actual training to be able to be in an enclosed place do you remember that I do now yeah yeah I
was pretty freaked out about that CU I was thinking I wouldn't go in there and then when they opened it up it was just so overwhelming to to just see that if someone fell in there there would be no way for them to get out so oh wow yeah good point so all right takes a special person to be able
to crawl into those little tiny spaces I don't know how they do thank goodness for training yes and we have the performance review continue on in our next meeting on the 25th correct and next meeting 22525 um stri from regulation public
hearing and and continued on 31125 um before we close the meeting do we have anything else yes I want to um I'm going to be resigning as of uh the next election I'm going to be all done you're
not gonna okay I'm not going to make my my two more years I'm going to make they till done and I'm going to resign I have issues going on with my my health Etc and I'm not thinking properly and I can't make good decisions at this time so I I don't want to be making important decisions for
anybody I have a mental health issue so that way they get other people to very humbling J to make that decision huh it's very humbling for you to make that decision yeah I I can't make good
decisions for myself right now so I can't make a decision anybody else so I will be done that the election time when is that April April okay that way there somebody else can run all right take the
spot because I'm I've been here long enough I've done my thing for the town of town okay and it's time for me to go well you can come and sit and yell at us I will say that if there's any question on some septic drawings and you need an
opinion okay I will gladly give you that okay because I know neither one of you have that experience so I'm I'm willing to I knowy smile and we want to thank
um Mr Jim mqu James mcqueer for all the work that he's done for the town of Townsen and I'm not leaving yet will be in elections 24 years huh 24 years he given
the to a lot thank you but we want to thank you for all your service here at the tle towns and and uh and that we appreciate your service we appreciate your it's been a pleasure assisting people here been a pleasure so
um anything else that we have before we leave uh I need a motion to adjer the meeting motion toour I second all in favor say I hi meeting aour thank you very much you can