Go to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Motion approve these minutes. A motion
to approve the minutes. Wave the reading of the minutes and approve them as written. I think I'll second that. Any discussion? See none. All in favor? I I Okay.
Uh budget items. We have had discussion. Where are they? Here they are. Of articles to close out article. In other words, we have money and articles. they want us to
do something with. One of them is the fence. We haven't finished the fence, so that's still upcoming. The other one is the land acquisition. Uh I think we we need to use that for the paving that we did down
there. Uh I'll discuss that with Nicole, but that's all we have. I don't know if anybody has any ideas about No, we should use it for stuff like that. Yeah, we only have two articles that are outstanding. Bill, this is not on the subject, but anything on acquiring that
pot of of uh East Beach Road, trading that guy the property, and it it literally takes an act of Congress. You have to go to the state legislator. This is a discussion on there's one gentleman who has a trailer that's kind of remote and he actually
got a pretty nice trailer this year. I It's there. It's there. Yeah. Yeah. you get and uh it's all lit up at night. Looks nice. But uh he's more than willing to swap land. But in order to do that, we have
to uh either get the governor get this legislator to pass the special legislation in both houses, Senate, which I can confident it probably would pass, and the governor to sign it as an act of legislation. Or we have to if we're going to put land for acquisition,
we have to send it out to bid. So there's no guarantee that he can't have the bids. Somebody could out bid him and we just lose a piece of land and never even get a swap. Wow. And that's always been the sticking point. We have a chance of making more of a mess than I think it would be very easy to say,
"Hey, we'll give you 50. You take your 50 feet, we'll move your 50 ft over." He was more than willing and happy to do it, but we can't do Everybody was happy, but it's not something you can do. Who's our uh who who took over from Paul? Paul Steve. Oh well, can we we I mean he's
like he's a man. Yeah, that's the only way we could do it because it's worth more than $30,000. So if it's $30,000, you have to go through procurement. We got to laws tell them to It would be really nice to
do it. Do it. Yeah, do it. I mean, the other option is eminent domain, and I don't want to do that because I don't think it's right to take somebody's land for somebody and we can't give them. We It'd be nice cuz he he had it all picked out. We had it all set. We had the plans all drawn. We had everything going and
it kind That's why it's been driving me nuts that we haven't been able to accomplish. And he would prefer it because he doesn't like his trailer being like away from the other trailers cuz for security reasons kind of sits out alone and at 3:00 in the morning on a Saturday night, you don't know what the heck's going to happen. Where's the
trailer again? It's uh like halfway between the last trailer and horse neck road. Well, when you when you rode toward the to the other side of the phone pole. So, the plan was to give him about halfway Yeah. along that stretch. There's a trailer on the shore side.
That's it. It's the only one in there. Yeah. So the plan was to give him something over with the trails, you know, and and he almost preferred that and then keep instead of having the second jig jog in the road, just make go straight the horse neck and then have everything from basically the back of
that parking area to the beach as the beach area. It doesn't work with the separated parking. Yeah, we we figured it out. We plotted it out map and there's if you move the road then you could put a fence with gates and have
double loaded parking so you have have security so people aren't parking there all night long inside a fence right and then part of the plan would be to fix up landscape the other side of the road which is still town property
right where the where that trailer home is now Right. Because that's all, you know, that could be quite nice fixed up. It'd be a contiguous parking area beach. In other words, you're not splitting up the the way it is now. And and you and taking
out that second jig jog, so there's only going to be one. I was in a trailer down there for the last two days. I love East Beach. I've been going there for a while. I think it's adorable. The last two days were really nice, you know. But in this town, a lot of people feel it's a Westport trailer park trash. And you
know, some of these people down there have a lot of money, but these these lots that they have have been in the family for generations. Oh, I know. Yeah. Well, you know, and I've noticed how a lot of them now look like little houses, right? Yeah. They've changed.
Gone are the days of the trailer trailers. Teen trailers. Yeah. Tiny houses with wheels, right? Yeah. Yeah. We have an item coming up on about East Beach to to bring up. So, yeah. Uh, okay. So, budget items. Uh,
I'm going to ask Dana to chime in a little bit here. Do we have Have we ordered all the stuff? Yes. Um, so Nicole helped out and she ordered saw the emails. Yeah. She stuff is starting to come in that she ordered through Amazon. Um, she said she was having to
look at another vendor though to check with them on some of the items. I don't know where she's at with that, but she's working on it. Okay. I saw the emails and I saw the things going back and forth, but I just didn't there were so many going back and forth. I didn't know where we ended up. But we're good. Um will we have them will we have them by
opening I guess is the question we all have here. Well, Nicole hasn't indicated there's a problem yet. Um so I can follow up with her next week to see if she ever contacted that other vendor was able to order those. Okay. All right. I had to talk to her about the items that we need to pay and
we'll see how much money is left uh for this year for this fiscal year. Uh, okay. We went to the budget items, town clerk report. We don't have a town clerk report and I forgot to ask Carla or
Chris how many beach passes we sold. So, I'm not sure what that number is. I know we're up to 1600 last time and I'm sure now the weather has gotten much better that it's probably jumped exponentially. It's nice if they get them all sold early cuz then we know how much money we're going to have next year, right?
So, uh, I don't know how many they've sold, but I'm sure with the weather getting nicer, it'll probably increase for another month or so. Uh, opening day issues. Uh, the beach parking lot is not 100%
completed. Chris has had problems getting there. He's been doing other things and the weather hasn't been very cooperative with him. So, we still have to get signs. I I'll include this as part of the opening thing. I talked to Chris yesterday, day before yesterday.
He showed me Austin, every every signs are there, the blanks are made. You just got to get things together. That was He said he was going to check in with you about like the poles and chain and unguarded water. Well, I told him I told him we need another post on the other side of the dog no dog sign so we can if we need to put a chain across there, we
can. But his the chain in his sign is going to be the responsible of the lifeguards. That's not his thing. I just need to post there. So, he's aware of that. Uh, and I don't know if he's going to reuse the posts that are there or a lot of them he ripped out when he did
the parking lot. I don't know. But he has a chain. He's making the sign unguarded water. Yeah. Well, yeah, he's making the sign and everything like that, but he's he's just going to give it to or put it with the lifeguard or put it in the trailer. Which reminds me, I got to call about the trailer. I keep forgetting to call VR about the trailer.
He's a Westport resident. I hope he gives us a break. Uh so any other items? Uh the two lifeguard chairs are still down on the the beach. The new lifeguard chair. Yes, that is
ready. Um it's ready to be picked up at Diamond. I emailed the highway department, our maintenance man, um yourself and Jim Hartnett to see who can help from the town go get it and bring it to the beach. I'm assuming the highway department, but I haven't heard from them yet. Yeah, I have to. He's
been pretty busy lately. He's been doing a lot of things. So, he's been falling behind because weather hasn't been very cooperative for him either, right? Uh, so hopefully I don't know how I don't know how big this where it will fit in a regular pickup truck or if it I don't
know. I can ask, but I assumed it's going to be large. Yeah. I'm just wondering how the best way to get it there. Maybe we should find out. the highway department might because as as you're aware we don't we
couldn't find a truck. Correct. I asked Jim I mean you asked Jim and we all and he certain and then one may become available but I don't I don't think we can count on it. Uh I just don't know you know at this point what could be done
but maybe it's thinking about something we think about earlier next year. I don't know if there's Where is it at diamond? Is that diamond? Yeah. So, the new lifeguard stand is a diamond and they said they can't deliver it. We would have to pick it up, which is fine if we know how to pick it. If there's a
good way to pick it up, you know what it weighs. I don't I can ask all those questions because I can I can carry, you know, 3/4 of the ton. I've got a full length. I think the problem is it's this one's pretty wide. Yeah, if it's it's got be and I don't I if the the se I
think the sea six feet wide so the base has got to be wider. Oh, okay. Well then uh in couple of weeks I'll have a boat trailer. What you need is uh either a really big truck or something with a flatbed or
something to get it on there cuz it'd be nice cuz he's got to put the memorial in. He still got to put the memorial in at the end. I was out on the beach this morning and the roadway looks good. The fence like they haven't come back yet to finish the fence. So, I don't think
that's going to happen this year. So, but we are uh fortunate or not fortunate for the birds, but fortunate for us that there are no bird roped off facilities in the first thousand feet going down towards the voters. So, we may be able to do a lot
more with what we have basically because there are no at this time birds that they've fenced off and I wouldn't expect in if it doesn't in the next couple of weeks they won't probably be there. I know it's fenced off way down it's fenced off going the other way but from
the opening for 1,000 ft there's no piping clover uh fencing which which will be good. Um it makes everybody's life a lot easier. Uh any other opening day stuff? Just we have a list that we'll just go over with
you. Well, we have a lifeguard report that's coming next. So, we'll do if it's if it's opening day related signs and stuff like that, that's fine. But the trailer, we're just wondering when that would be going down. It's usually can get there within a week of all train. I haven't called because I was waiting for
them to pave cuz I don't know if you've been down there, but they've paved the area where the trailer is going now. So, we waiting for that to happen. And so that's done obviously and so we can drop the Can you let us know when the trailer goes down there so that way I can get the equipment into the trailer. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll call him if if I can I keep forgetting to call him. I can call him tomorrow. Uh and they'll get they'll get it down there pretty quick. Okay. Uh uh I would think that if I call tomorrow, it'll be there sometime next week. Okay.
Uh, I didn't want to get there too early, but I also don't want to wait till the last minute because Okay, I'll let you know when I know they're going to deliver it. Please do. Yes. Um, I'm just going to ask some other things, too. Um, so my question is, so
since we can't bank on the truck, what for at least for lifeguard cover for like to take breaks, what's the plan? Well, that's a good question. So, there's there's a couple of ideas that have been moused around. One is having the highway department putting a couple of posts down there and getting a sale
that you can take down every day and put up every day just clip on and have cover because I'm I would really like something where we can like get out of the element. Right. Well, that's what I mean. So, I'm thinking that if you did something and they make both triangular
sails and square sails. I think if we just put some wooden post buried in the sand, you know, and then you can just have clips you can clip on. So you have a roof or shelter. So we would have a roof, but like it would be all open, right? Yeah. All right. Well, because
I'm just like say like say if it's like down corner or something like that. I mean, and it's going sideways. Well, we could get You know what I'm saying? They make the popups with the sides. Yeah. The only problem with the pop-ups is in the wind, they're not really good. Even if you bury them in the sand, they
they're like giant sails. They're not very sturdy. You always need something solid. That's why the the truck was like a go. Uh I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the best solution is to tell you the truth. I mean, this is all I ask for. Just something the post we the post we can
remove at the end of the year because we'd have to. But we could put a canvas over it. Maybe we could just get a side canvas too or something or I don't know. Yeah. Something solid where we can get out of the element, you know. That's that's pretty much it. If we can't bake on the truck.
Well, yeah. I don't I don't you know we've been hunting and we thought the school might have one uh available but they didn't play nice in the sandbox. Uh so I think we can get a popup with sides. I
know you can get that. We could get that. I'd prefer not to do that because I'm just like I said those things are just giant sails. So just well you just have to get you going to get a wind and it'll be it'll be horsep and you'll be chasing it down eight cinder blocks. Yeah, it's not really practical. You know, something you bury in the sand.
You got some 12 foot post and buried in the sand four feet. That thing would stay with and maybe we just do that with a roof and uh you can buy the sides separate. So, I wonder if you can just buy the sides. So,
shelter. I mean, it'd be nice and Jim and I Jim has suggested on many occasions to have a facility in the parking lot that the life coach can change in and do things and even just a a freshwater shower to but we don't know how to get water.
Yeah. And electricity and making that all work uh at the same time. So, that's a different problem for a different day. Something to think about for the future though. Uh, if anybody has any ideas, I don't have more than happy to. Um, so will you talk to Chris about the poles
idea and the sale? Yeah. And who gets the sale? I'm going to look because I know you can buy them on Amazon. People get them all the time for the yards and stuff like that. So, the question is how big do we need it and what do we do about the sides and do we is there a package deal where we maybe there's something better
than a popup? I just don't the idea of the popup between the sand, the salt, and the sand getting in there and then the wind blowing it down Baker's Beach is um So, do you want to follow up with Chris from the high department about that then and then just tell Nicole what she needs to order and she could order
it and I'd be happy to then give it to Michael? Yeah, I'm just think Well, I want to make sure he Mike has what, you know, something he likes. So, if you see something, Mike, that you think is a good idea, by all means, uh step up. I mean, I'm not an expert on temporary
shelters by any I mean, you know, because even a pop-up tent would, you know. Yeah. Well, you can at least you can rope those down. Yeah. No, I'll I'll look into it. I mean, yeah, I'll definitely look into it. I That's really
all I can say because I'm not expert either. So, it's a tough It's a tough situation because you really can't do much. You can't put a building there. You can't put a shelter there. It' be nice. Uh I mean before they go looking around which like the price range they would have to have come up with a price
range we can probably make it work especially if it's after July 1st we can make it work. We're a little tight going into July 1st but we have some money after cuz there there's like one at BJ's Yeah. But those are those popups and and the thing the sand gets very heavy and it's brown. I don't know if you've seen
that. Oh no. Yeah. The pergolus. Yeah. You don't want anything permanent. You got to have something that you know post that can be removed. And I mean, if you bury a 12oot post 5t in the sand, it's not going anywhere. I guess that's why I thought maybe if you start with Chris and see what he could do that's like
more permanent in terms of post, then we can maybe figure out like what we attach to it. I don't know. It's going to be an issue. I don't know. Yeah, we have to look into it, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure we're not the only person in the world that's had this
problem. I'm sure there's a Well, Sperry in Marian is the He's the tent guy. There's a I got a uh Newport tent is 50 ft from my office in Middletown. They might if they have some old one they'll
sell you might be a way to do it because like I said, just something to get out of the elevator break. At least like if we had a truck or whatever, it was enclosed with the windows up and I mean it was 20° cooler, you know, than being outside. Well, it's
not like that when you get that thunderstorm and it comes down 5 in in 20 seconds. Insulated too when you're in a car when there's a thunderstorm, whatever, you know. Mhm. You're insulated from the wet sand. We'll have to look into something. I'm trying to think. It must there must
be something because it's like I said, we're not the only person in the world that's had this problem. Someone somewhere has come up with something. I know. I have one of those very cheap ones. I have it screwed to the deck and that thing just keeps Oh, no. I watch I watch them all fly away. There was one
blowing down East Beach the other day. I don't know whose it was, but it was it was rolling down East Beach. So, I don't know who at it. Okay, let's go to uh lifeguard report or lifeguard issues or lifeguard. So, well, do you mind if I start? Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. Go right ahead. Um, so I just want to update everybody. Um, so all the lifeguards have been given appointment letters. Um, so that's done. Um, then, um, all the payroll sheets have been filled out with the amounts
given to me by Denise. Um the amounts given to me were um part of the fiscal year, the new fiscal year. Um and she said to mark that on the sheets. Um so I
did. So it's the newer amounts, right? Okay. Um I have I have the numbers that were sent to me. Yeah. So, the amounts in blue, um, she told me to put on the sheets and she said, and I I just had a question because the fiscal year starts
in July. She said those amounts will start when they start this season. Okay. Doesn't it doesn't start July 1st or something like that? No, she said I guess that's how they did it last year and it was confusing or something. Yeah, it just it just makes it because you spent two weeks in one fiscal year and
then Right. the other. So the those amounts will start at the start of the season. Um and then um the guards were all asked to go and be sworn in this week cuz um the select board did appoint all the
guards at their meeting on Monday. Um we're I just this afternoon got the um second uh paperwork I was um still expecting from one of the newer guards. I now have both paperwork from both of
the new guards that will be turned in tomorrow to um the treasurer andor accounting. Um so in terms of paperwork, we're good. Um is certified, everybody's good, everybody's trained, everybody's so I'm having to go back into Denise's
files to just double check the certifications. But basically, I'm sending out an email to all the guards tomorrow and asking them just to bring copies of their certifications again to me because I feel like it's just been inconsistent. Like, I've gotten some through email, some were already in
their folder, you know? So, just give me brand new copies and we'll put them all in the folder and we'll be good. Okay. Um, and then actually leads to a good point though, which I'm just going to interrupt for a minute. Um, so some of the guards have been getting reertified,
but the prices have gone on for the reertification. So, and this leads into another question. So, I know we were getting B end of the year bonuses if we stood to a certain time, and some of the guards were asking if we were still getting that end of the year bonus. Yes. Okay. Um, and then my What is that
amount, just so I know? $400, I believe. Okay. Because that that answers my next point because I was going to say the prices have gone up to like 385. So, the 400 would cover that. Do you know that for sure or do you need a double? That's what we gave last year but it just it gets last year was 300. Wait, last year
was 200. 300. 300. Last year was 300. Four, but I'll check on that. Okay, thanks. Yeah, just let us know so that we can give the guards the right information on Saturday at the training. Okay, my notes. I have a question about uh first aid certificates that's
required for them. Yes, the lifeguard certification, AED training, first aid training, all that good stuff. And then that's going to be part of the review that Glenn Nunes is going to do in the training this Saturday as well as going over all the basic rules and everything. And I actually am going to give you all
a packet of what the guards will be getting. Um I'll show you that in a minute. With the lifeguard certification, you get uh your waterfront certification, you get your AED, you get your CPR, you get your ox first uh oxygen. Um and that's pretty much it. And it gets renewed every two years. Right. Sounds great. Yeah.
They're well trained. Um, oh, going back to, um, all that we're doing in terms to get them set. So, um, at the training on Saturday, too, um, we're going to be getting all their sizes for, um, getting like, you
know, sweatpants, shirts, like rash guard, uh, shorts. Yep. So, Denise has not ordered that yet. Um, I believe she ordered the hats and she ordered the two swim trunks for the two new guards. Um, but the other gear we're, you know, get
that. Yep. Um, and then also I've been in touch with the town clerk to make sure that I know what to do in order to get them parking passes. So, the town clerk just said, "Give me a list of their names along with their license plate number and then she will get
stickers for the cars and I assume then I'll just mail them out to them." So, that's another thing they're bringing at the meeting on Saturday is um a note with their name and their license plate number and so we can get the stickers.
What if we This is just an idea. What if we had You're going to have six guards a day, right? Yes. I mean, is that how many how many what if we kept like six beach passes in the trailer that when they get to the beach, you just hand them when you loading up the equipment,
you just give them because they make these pink passes. What the town clerk and shout out to the town clerk for the good both Carl and Chris what they've been doing. Yeah. Uh that's what we gave to the Autobon because my fear is somebody takes a different car or somebody's car breaks down or something like that then it you know that would
work. I guess that would work. But because what we did last year is we handed in all of like all the plates that of cars that people would be driving to the beach and I mean that worked out just fine too cuz I think if you had them in like in locked in the trailer and then you know if somebody
fills in for somebody else or somebody had to take somebody else's car you know his car broke down so I took mom's car mom's car that doesn't have the plate on the pass. We just have passes say lifeguard make it pink and yellow or something and they just put it in the windshield and then Well, I mean I think either way as long as you have a pass I
can talk to um Chris about it cuz I think it would just it would just be easier in the in the long run. You know somebody calls in sick or something happens. It's just easier to you know give them the pass when they show up. That way there's we know they have a passenger windshield if their car broke down. they took dad's car or
sister's car or I guess the one fear is though is if they forget to put it back in the trailer they drive off with it but well we can always make you know but they'll at some point but I mean you know we can make eight passes that way you know if okay I'll I'll talk to Chris
so that'll be my followup okay um then um and then I'll give you this example of the packet that I've been working on to give the guards. Um, we're
also doing a nice PowerPoint as we on Saturday. Yep. Where are you meeting on Saturday? We're meeting at the meeting room at the annex. Okay. Just cuz I have the building key for that building. Um, so every guard will get a packet like
this. Inside will be the contact list and then the um lifeguard manual that both Michael and I have kind of revised or or just updated. Um, we are still working on the emergency action plan and we're going to include that in here as
well. Um, as well as any other things we might think of between now and Saturday. But, um, the binder that I'm working on for the headguard is going to have the emergency accident incident forms. Um, it's going to have a um, we're going to
have to get you a spiral notebook, too. Yeah. So, he can log any of those things that might be happening. Um, and then this is just so you see the template we've been using for the PowerPoint. Um, and we're still making changes between
now and Saturday too on some of that, but for the most part it's done. Very good. Mhm. Yeah. We want to make sure to provide a professional, you know, um, uh, thorough training for them so that they're ready to go day one, that they
don't have a ton of questions, that they feel confident in knowing where to go, what to do, how to do it. Um, so just trying to and they know the policies. Yep. Yes. It's all in that lifeguard manual, all the policies, beach rules,
safety rules. Um, and then the emergency action plan, which I'm working on, that not only protects, you know, our lifeguards, but protects the beach at a as a whole because we never had one implemented before. So, the emergency action plan would directly outline what
to do and if certain situations arise. Chris Bole has helped us with giving us um some of his paperwork and trainings and stuff and we've kind of used that as a tool to like create ours. Um, so we're looking forward to
Saturday. Yeah. One of the one of the things that the DNRT and the land trust have been instituting I think you're going to have to watch out for is the electric bike thing. Every We have a obviously no motorized vehicle, but people think the electric that excludes electric bikes because one of the problems is just basically quiet
dirt bikes. Probably even more cuz you can't hear them coming like 25 miles an hour. I mean Yeah. Yeah. I mean they can move. I know they're all down the beach all the time. Yeah, that's going to be a problem with a crowded beach in the summer of somebody zipping through there 25 miles an hour, you know. Uh I know the land trust has a problem on the
trails cuz people think oh because you're allowed to ride mountain bikes in the trail. Oh, this is kind of not really it's like a uh environmental dirt bike basically. I don't know what you call it, but but people go too fast and go flying down these trails and right
someone's going to get hurt. Yes. Oh, that's well and that's why it's important to do I think at the end of the season evaluation of some of those newer things that come up that we can then add to the manual for the next season. That's that's one of I mean that
that I I see they're on beach now all the time. I see them all the time. I see them on the road all the time and they're also not paying attention any more than anybody else. But it's something that they can't like other things can't be on the beach. So
I guess uh Okay. Uh do you have anything outside? Just mention this. That's fine. Before we get into that, I'm sorry. I just want to circle back to um like uh who's picking up then the the we don't
know yet who's picking up the stand, but um we're assuming the highway department would be the logical choice. Possibly. Yes. Do you want to follow up with them or do you want me to email them again? I've already emailed and I haven't heard anything just yet. I I just don't know. I think we need to know what they need
to go to pick it up so we don't go up to the pickup truck and you need a flatbed trailer or something. Okay. So, I just don't know what kind of vehicle they have to All right. Let me talk to my contact there, Steve, and I'll ask the size, the weight, what he suggests we use to pick it up, and then I'll email
that again out to They have their own problems with trucks. Uh, and I, you know, I hate to send a dump truck up there to pick up the, you know, what could pick it up, though, is the, uh, transfer station has a rolloff
truck. They could probably Okay. Yeah. I just don't know how, you know, I don't think it's going to fit in the back of a pickup truck. That's why Okay. I just want to make sure I knew what the next step was. I'll, but I'll contact Steve, get more info. Weight. Weight and size is important. Yep. Okay. because you can't send one guy up there to try to
put it in the back of the truck if it weighs 400 lb. My guess is it's probably pretty hefty. Okay. Yep. Um that's all I had. All right. So, basically, I mean, Dana did a great job. Covered pretty much everything. Um the only thing I'm going to say or ask is I've mentioned it numerous times before. I guess there's
nothing that can be done this year, but like I I've stated in the last meeting, I stated I think in January. I'll state it again. Um, you know, I requested last year, so we're going on like a year and a half now, uh, if the head lifeguard could be bumped to $30 an hour and the
assistant for $25 an hour. Um, the head lifeguard, myself, I'm basically done two positions in one for the last couple years, the beach managerial job and the head lifeguard job. Um, which was posted from when I got hired at 25 an hour for
both positions. So, I just feel like it'd be um that the $30 an hour would be saving money a and b would just would be fair. I would expect that the board of selectman the next couple weeks ask the beach committee to appear in front of
them for certain things. That being one of them we don't control any of that. We the beach committee don't control any of that. The selectman make that decision to do anything like that. Can you salary the salary is arranged for the personnel board. So we'd have to go to the personnel board if they if the
slightness so choose that would to be the case. I understand you have no control but will you will you mention it? Yes. Okay. And um I think you're saying that would be looking forward to the fiscal year 27 next year. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Next year. Well well about two
weeks or whatever next year. We're hoping we'll see that's going to put a wrinkle on our budget. uh uh depending on I I I don't want to say anything until we know how much money we actually have next. Yeah. I just want it to be like put on public record actually
be mentioned because one of the things that talk going back to budget items uh I went to town meeting. I don't know if anybody else went to town meeting. It was sparsely attended this year but uh I was kind of surprised that we maxed out our revenue with our budget because we hadn't done that. Uh the town
administrator added $20,000 for administrative cost to our town. So, we next year we won't have the ability to go and say, "Oh, we got $10,000 in the bank. We can grab that." Uh, I'm just hoping that we don't need $20,000 in administrative costs.
That's I think we're trying to supplement. My opinion is we're trying to supplement uh other departments who do work for us. But I I would like to know what what that is. Well, it would be like the police department, right, with the tickets down at the beach. I would think it would cover something
like this. Yes. Well, that was that was the hope. But then when I looked again, the budget that was voted on at town meeting was $190,000. We had approved a budget of $155, I believe, 55 and change. I can't remember what the exact number was.
I was caught a little bit off guard, but I didn't want to stand up town meeting, start a giant discussion. I just want to know what if it's just let's take all the money and put it in so you can grab it for certain things like this or if it's something that it kind of surprised me. took me caught me off guard. So
approved, but it caught me off guard. 190,000 was approved. Yeah. And I'm worried that we're not going to cover that with with because we didn't make that much this year. Mhm. I think we're at like 170 or something for this year. So I don't I just want to make sure we
cover that. My concern is I'm not sure what that was for cuz I was thinking that if we had to bump up, we would have a little fluff to grab it from. Anyway, uh what we'll mention I'm I'm fully expecting the selectman usually call me
in beginning of the season to make sure you know everything's going to come out without a hitch. So, and then they usually call me in at the end of the year to say did it go everything go without a hitch. If there's a disaster in between, I'm sure I'll get a call in
for that, too. So, um, did you all have any questions about anything else regarding the guards or the start of the beach? No, I think we're all good. Uh, I'm assuming everybody's attending
Saturday. Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone is. Yes. Uh, yeah, there's no like makeup or anything, right? Are you going to the beach at all? Yeah, I think we are. We're going to go. So, the process is we're going to start in the meeting room. We're going to have the PowerPoint up. We're gonna get their license
plates, the copies of their, you know, certificates, just do all that before the meeting. Then we're gonna have um introductions, basically have Glenn Nunes go over. He's going to go first, you know, present what he has to do on first aid and so forth and different review material. And then I'll be
presenting the rest of the way. And then we'll probably going to be stopping at the fire station to show them how to clock in and what and kind of just show them the route of what our daily activities entail. Um, and then we'll go to the beach and do some uh drills and training. So, I wonder when hopefully
the weather, you know, cooperates with us. I've been watching the weather. What I saw, it's just supposed to be cloudy, so that's a good thing. All right. I'm planning to just be there for support for Michael and the guards and see if they have any questions administrative wise. But I also want to observe his
training process with them so that I'm aware. Um, and then, you know, I'll be going each as well. mentioned any of this to the fire or police that for possible brief brief cameo appearance or anything like that? Yeah, Glenn Nunes is
is coming. Okay. Yes, I'd like to compliment you on your the work you've done for this. I had the experience of uh managing 11 lifeguards for nine summers and this is very good. Thank you. Oh, no. It's again, Dana has
been a tremendous help starting last year when it was like we're spiraling into the toilet. Uh, and it came out we came out of that. So, uh, yeah, I think we're heading in the right direction. Our only hindrance is money. It's been a while. That's everybody's hindrance. Yeah. Thank you,
Michael. I just want to say Michael's helped too. Um, we've been utilizing Google Sheets and Google Slides so that we can both make adjustments. Um, which has been very helpful. Okay, nice job. I think Yep. Uh, is there any other questions you have for us? I don't I
don't know if we do. I I think we're going to meet early next month before the opening. Okay. Just in case we have to do a vote. Like what day would that be and what time? Uh, that would probably be like the 14th and then uh it's a Saturday. So, it's like the 12th I guess. Whatever the Thursday is before
that. I'm thinking it's a good idea. It's We usually do that anyway cuz just in case something absolutely you know and what would it be like 4:00 4:30 or 7 or I made 4:30 cuz I thought it was easiest for everybody. I don't know it's easy
for you Joel. I like the 430. I like it's tough for me because I have to get through traffic. But if what are you okay with 4:30? It's all right. 4:30 is good for you. 4:30 is good for I know you like 4:30. I'm the only one that's working past that. So, so but I mean I'd rather have as long as we have a quorum
and everything, but this just in case and if something comes up in between we have to hold an emergency meeting, please okay, let us know because I don't want to wait till 2 days before to find out there's an emergency cuz then it's kind of too late to do anything about it. Uh so, so you mentioned the parking lot might not be ready for opening day.
It's ready. I mean, it's ready to go. One of the there are a couple of problems. One is he he's redone all the gates. He's redone all the parking area. He's made it bigger. We picked up 15 extra spots this year. It's uh he put down crushed asphalt so we have a very good surface. We don't have any ruts and
potholes and things like that. Uh we need to get the signs up. Uh the gates, he did a good job on the gates. Uh putting new post in. They're basically telephone poles and everything. The problem is we don't have anything to keep them open. We used to have the grass perms. Now they're all gone. So
now the problem is I've been like literally, you know, we're trying to figure out the best way to do this. I want to put a post and cast something we can hitch it to because they close. Every time the wind blows, it closes. Is there another post you can put up and have like a little chain to put the post? Well, that's what that's we have chains on the gates already, but what we
need to do is just hook it onto a post like that. So, hopefully that that's a big concern because I know I've been getting complaints last couple of weekends cuz I was literally propping them up with sticks, right, holding them open and then the wind blows and they close and everybody's complaining about they're not being technically open.
We're going to fix that problem. And we've got to make a dedicated entrance because it's too wide open now in the corner there. And my fear is if you have young children and they come whipping around the corner and people backing up and doing all kinds of things. I'd rather have something that says come and enter here and go out
here. Uh but other than that, I mean, Chris did a great job and he's been trying to get back there. But again, guys, and then what date does the porter potties get put out? that they'll be coming in the Saturday before. Yeah.
Saturday. Okay. Yeah. And and they'll be we'll be spraying before that, too. Okay. Yeah. And then I think um the highway department in the past has helped cleared the pathway with sand. It's pretty good right now. They cleared it already once because they have to do it before April 1st because of the bird
situation. So, we always have them go down before April 1st. And I went down this morning to take a look and it was still pretty good. Okay. Great. It hasn't blown in yet. It doesn't mean Nick Kim won't do it tomorrow or But I actually have one more question. Uh just because I'd like to be there when they
do this when the lifeguard stands get brought down to the beach because we have like certain areas where they're best suited. Um I don't know. Can we plan a day for that or Well, I'm assuming that when we pick up the new stand, we're going to do that that day.
Okay. Well, I would like just inform me. Let me know so that way I can show them where to put it. But I'm assuming that's the best time if they're going to drop it off down there. They might have something there to get them. Yeah. Put them on the beach. Like I said, just let me Like I said, I'd really like to know so I can tell them what places to put them because that way we can have the
best zone coverages available. Remember remember this private property that Absolutely. Yeah, I remember. But I mean going down towards the point this private properties. Yeah. No, we don't I mean we're not going to put them a mile down. It would just be probably I think if it's like around 300 ft. Yeah. So we
picked up an extra 100. So yeah, and we got more than that. Uh, no, that's that. Yeah, I I I I can call Chris tomorrow or you can I I mean maybe you should because you guys should contact the diamond to talk. Um, I'll contact Steve and then I can email you
guys with the info. Okay. Of the weight and size and what he suggests, what kind of vehicle or how to pick it up. Yeah, I guess they're going to be tough to move them on the sand. Well, they have a front end loader to do that. Okay. But, uh, so Chris can
coordinate that at the same time he can finish what he's got to do at the beat. You know, we try to coordinate everything because I told him, you know, we need to really get it ready by June. I don't know if you're going to get it ready next week. Like last week it rained every day. He couldn't do a darn thing. So, it's hard to but Kristen, everybody's been very cooperative.
They've been very good and I can't complain about I'm not going to complain. uh you know it's an extra job for them. Uh okay, we'll coordinate that and hopefully it all go well. Perfect. Thank you. That's all. Yep. Yep. So, we'll be
meeting the 12th. Okay. 4:30. 12:30. I will be in Utah. You'll be in Utah. Oh, good for you. Ah, sweet. Well, we'll plan on that if it changes just last week. Well, if you have to meet if you find out tomorrow nothing's coming in and everything's a disaster.
We need to meet before that. So we can make plans to I think we'll be okay. I can't imagine things pop up. Stranger things have happened. I I have some supplies piling up in my office. So well, we were cruising along last April and then all a sudden boom, all the lifeguards were disappearing and that
was Yeah. So I I just want to make sure that on that Saturday. Yeah. No hitch. Oh, and Michael has um already planned out the first four weeks of the beach season for scheduling. Yes, I am. So he's going to do that like monthto month. Yeah. Um, so just like I've been
Yeah. And we're we're gonna uh go over that a bit at the training on Saturday, too. Correct. Yeah. And you know, obviously the big weekend is July 4th, right? You have a kids day like where they have say sack races or fine little
white rocks. Well, what were we talking? Sure. Are you talking about like like almost like a junior lifeguard camp? No, I'm talking about for kids about five six years old. Uh a couple activities. No, no, that's something to think about for next year. Too much pressure on but
just a fun day. Like there were there was talk about uh sand sculpture tournaments or competitions or something like that is unbelievable. The physical stuff is a little more complicated for insurance purposes.
Yeah. The other thing I found my grandchild, my son wants to give his kids swimming lessons. There aren't a lot of places to do that. No, we could have someone I mean I know there used to be swimming lessons at Baby Beach way back. I know lessons on the river. They
used I mean that would be a good thing to bring back. I can't see why not. They had the town had instruction. My kids went years ago. Yeah. It's finding an instructor. They found what? Yeah. Finding an instructor and paying them. Yeah. We got to find an instructor that paying the instructor to do that. Oh yeah. I'm surprised you didn't have any
problem. You're beginning with a full boat of lifeguards. I always had trouble. who's done it before. Last life guide. Okay. If you're dealing with little kids, what we could do if you really want an official certification, we could have some one of the guard like remember the junior. It's something we can work on.
Yeah. As long as it doesn't cost, you know, they don't they don't do it at the harbor at all. Yeah. Most families I know do either private lessons or the Y. Oh, the Y or they're It's hard to get Yeah. They're booked. Some I got my daughter in Okay.
once. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Good. That's it. We're good. That's it. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. Uh lifeguard
report. Okay. We have a small problem on East Beach. Maybe you can help us out with that. The first trailer, I don't know who it is. They just bought it. They just built a nice little shed. It's more like a house, but then a shed. Uh they
filled onto the town property, which was clearly marked by about 20 ft. Sat down the end with a with a they lost there's a big R there's a big RV sitting there right now on the town property. Uh it was suggested because everybody
knows about it. They suggested the beach committee write a uh a nice letter to the owner saying please remove the material and you know this this distinguishes all claim to this property. It was a concrete marker that clearly marked his corner and he's
15 ft past it and he's got an RV parked on the town and I know because those lots are all skinny and you always I well I I think I go straight to the town attorney. Well, no, because because the because the issue is and here's here's the problem. If we don't say anything,
we just send a letter saying we should send a letter saying this just let you know you're on the town property. We know this and this distinguishing all your rights, claims you may have that you think you may have on that property and then let the town attorney go from there. But but it's it's basically it should be
removed because a was done without a permit from conservation and b he doesn't have a trailer permit yet. Yeah. Well, and I think that's beyond I think this that's already that's already beyond us really. You got you got to permit to put a shed there, but the shed that's been built there is more
significant than a shed. It's got a deck on top and all these other things. So, no one is real happy about this. Is it movable? No, it's anchored to the ground. It's supposed to be raised. I think I think we own this. It's supposed to be raised. It's not raised. It's anchored. It's got
utility. It's got windows. It's beautiful. It's, you know, siding, electricity. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's going to live in it. There's no doubt in my mind that they're not going to spend time in the trailer. They're going to be spending time in this place. But having said that, our
concern is the parking area is that he filled in to be used as his private property. That's the problem. So, I can have town attorney do it, but I Jim was saying just write a letter. If you don't move it, have the highway department go down and take it off. No, it's just going to be a waste
of time. We're just going to get blown off by going into that situation. That should be a serious letter. That's what I think. Yeah. I mean, I I just think that it's going to turn into and Kevin will get involved and then the next thing you know, we'll have a fiasco. The town will be spending $50,000 to have somebody ask to move 15 ft of gravel and
fill that he put on the town property. You do you have to have him to remove it or do you just say, "Hey, this is you can't claim this property, but you shouldn't be using it." Can he move it back onto what would be his property? He can if he wants. I don't care what he does with it. But I mean there's enough room for him to do that. Yeah. I mean I
watched it happen. I was watching the trucks dump dump dump dump dump. And he's doing it on Saturdays and Sundays and I'm watching and I'm watching I saw I know them where the marker is. It was clearly there. It was maintained by the previous owner uh because they didn't want to go over the town property. And
then it just got buried and it just kept migrating because when you have a 40 foot wide lot and now you want to make it 60 feet wide, it makes it a lot easier for your park because he built a giant shed that takes up half his property. So it's amazing what they get on those 50 foot lots though, you know. I mean, well, you should see Well, if
you go down there, you'll notice you It's like, gee, I don't remember it being that wide. You see where pole was right on the corner and you I'll take a spin down all the way. I just go to basically so it was re recommended we send a letter just at least notifying him give him the
opportunity to do that and if he doesn't do it the highway department will which will cause a problem but yeah I'd like I like because of some things you just said I can see them becoming issues with more involvement from other people that it
might be suggested Oh no I I I agree I don't disagree with you at all but it the time is to do it early because he hasn't They haven't even voted for his trailer permit yet. And he's got an RV the size, you know, a big RV down there sitting on the town property right now as they're the ones to issue the the
permit. Why are they not the ones that's going to handle it? Why should it be Well, they don't even know about it. So, the idea was to send a letter and CC all the boards and say, "Hey, we have a problem with Mr. So and so or Miss so and so." Uh, they've kind of, you know,
pushed the envelope on there a lot a little bit. How about a verbal warning by the police before we begin action? It's a civil action. They're not going to take they're not they're not going to be involved. It's not a criminal action, right? Okay. I think it's just a letter
saying, "Hey, I'm making you aware. This is no notice." Yeah. Because the fear is, you know, 15 ft this year, another 10 next year, and then next thing you know, he's over on horse neck road. You know, threetory house. Yeah. Oh, significantly more than what should be
there. I'm not going to say anything about that. I don't care. But, you know, he's taking up basically town property and access. It's a building inspector issue. Well, he Well, Ralph doesn't know. Nobody Nobody knew about it until I said, "Hey, you've been watching this
guy cuz he didn't file." Usually everybody has to file conservation and they get their permits and so Chris takes the drive by and he makes sure that that's a process unto itself people. Yeah. And now this was just like why do the easy you'd ask forgiveness and ask permission you know idea but
it's on town property and I don't want to become an issue five years down the road. Well nobody said anything right I agree with you you know it's either you hit it early and often and then you know they all have to abide by those rules and you get one stepping off then everybody's stepping off. Well you know
the thing is what happens if what happens if somebody gets injured on this property? What happens if you know somebody fall you know what happens when you know what happens if there's a spill all of a sudden the uh his RV leaks gasoline all over the place and on the
town you know at the land trust property when it was leaking from the town duct onto the land trust property who's responsible guess who yeah yeah so it's like and I do work the land trust all the time we always catch people encroaching on land trust property all
the time they have to do something Yeah, that that you have to do something early because if you let it go and you just everybody's you know about it but you don't nothing happens town's on the hook. So I don't know the gentleman. He's brand new. I knew the previous own.
It's right next to Dick Bonovan tourist lot. The one the last first house first. It's a house now on the left side coming from Horseneck. Can't miss it. If you go by there you'll Yeah. You can't miss. You can see how much wire I usually go straight down uh 88. Yeah, most people
do. There's Bill Bill's house that he's selling. If if you look to the left when you end John Reed Road, you'll see a house. And I only go as far as the trailer before. Yeah, this if you take a drive by there, you'll see Oh, I will. I will. I'll be definitely going to do
that. But anyway, nobody's too happy about it. And I just want to not have to deal with it from a beach committee standpoint considering we're kind of responsible for activities on the town. I still don't think it's fair for those people not to be able to bring in larger
size, you know, boulders or huge rocks. I don't think you can permit you can permit anything if you can get a permit to do it. The problem is you can't get a permit to do it. To nature. Yeah. And there's a lot of reasons, but we won't that's not our
problem. So, uh I think that ends what I have for agenda here except the unanticipated issues which I don't know if we had any unanticipated issue. I haven't seen Oh, shoot. I meant to ask Dana if she's monitoring to web the uh email. I don't
know if Perry's still monitoring the email or Dana's doing it. The email account. We have an email account that people can email the beach committee. Oh, yeah. Good. And the problem is for years we didn't have the we didn't have the person who had the password to get into it and everything.
She's no longer with us, Lucy. Uh and we couldn't get to it. So now Perry got into it and he was monitoring it, but he was turning it over to Dana so Dana could answer people as they Right. And I forgot to ask her if has been because we
haven't gotten the uh a letter of nastiness in a in a while. Oh. We used to regularly get complaints about dogs and birds and people and parking and trash and you know too much sand on the beach. There's
not enough sand on the beach. You know, you know that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's We did get a nasty GR from someone about the fence. We put a brand new fence up and there's a section that they didn't do that they should have done with the coming back to do and they complained because it was dangerous and everything like that. we never heard from this
person before. And now all of a sudden they're chiming in about well you got a great fence but you have a section here that's all when the whole fence was like that. So it's like you can't keep you can't win all the time. It's like if you're not complaining you're not you're not living in Westport. So
uh I have nothing. Any members have anything? Have you I haven't been down to the nubble. Looks good. They they've been work they worked it out. I haven't been down in a couple weeks. the two handicap signs at the end as usual. No
trash yet. Well, well, fishing season started, so give it time. Yeah, not a lot going on. Yeah, it's good. Is there something we should do? Do you think Fourth of July is a problem down there and hot weekends are a problem because they're camping on the Noble. Yeah.
Well, it's I mean that's federal property. Yeah, I know. Everything else is land trust property. So, but yeah, N is federal property. Yeah, it's belongs to the Department of Homeland Security because of the beacon. Yeah, we'll get Oh,
get the ice people down there. Yeah. Yeah. Got to get them back. Well, no comment. Guess guess. Yeah, that'll 20 fisherman out there on the problem is the access is over town property and land trust property. So, they they somehow they manage to get in without parking. I don't know how they do it.
It's magic. I am I am Yeah. Well, I see them drop get dropped off. Yeah. Yeah. I just don't know where they're parked the van that drops them all off. But they must, you know, the wife drives it home. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea because I I don't know if they I'm wondering because you see I see
vehicles at the town landing in Ansville. If they drop most of them there and then some of them go to the town landing to go crabbing there or something. I I accesses over the town land. So the question is how do we we had some concerns from people last year some
emails about and I don't know what we can do about it because East Beach is the same way when you have a beach and you have a lot of people it's a road public road what do you do east beach road is especially at Fourth of July weekend is a disaster because it's just
people being people. Yeah I I want to I want to get get moving so Okay. All right. Good enough. All right. Okay. But we uh I go entertain a motion. I'll take motion to adjurnn. And I'll second that motion. All in favor?