##VIDEO ID:JQ5eM4fAxVc## we we have called the meeting to order we have voted on the minutes from the previous meeting and we have all approved them great uh we have reviewed and discussed the pay vendor and payroll warrants uh public comment doesn't look like we have anybody for public comment appointments discussion and possible vote on the request of the police chief who is present to use opioid settlement funds for the purchase of two automatic external defibrillators one for the police department and the town offices yes okay and we got and we've got a letter that does sum it up and we have a letter from you uh making that request yes Michael I think you were going to speak to that um with some Public Health understanding if are we moving right to that right now moving right to that all right very good so um over the last um year year and a half or so I've attended a lot of opioid um uh sessions with some with the furog some with the state and um as um I just want to be um cognizant of of what was hammered home in those meetings for me was um that any purchases made um through the opioid settlement needed to be um very specific to the um the community that it's addressing and I'm um I'm just having completed the Train the trainer um for opioid overdose I I I have to just I'm a little worried about the um appropriateness of um AED um and so defibrillators are a very useful tool for a lot of things but um they are not part of an opioid overdose um and so I I just want to be um careful with um you know the towns liability around that or whether or not you know it's an appropriate expenditure um for those funds could you give us a crash course in what is needed in an overdose situation yeah so what I have oh what is needed in an overdose so primarily the Nar Naran Ever Needed sorry so primarily Naran and assisted breathing um um um um it's not a cardiac event U um um so um I I don't know that we can say that a defibrillator would be um part of treatment for anyone in an overdose situation um so that's that's the hard part um I have a list here of the different Municipal uses of abatement funds from the Massachusetts opioid abatement um agreement and under Section threea um it comes really this is where it support the work of Emergency Medical Systems including peer support Specialists post overdose response teams to connect individuals to trauma and forign treatment recovery support harm reduction Services Primary Health Care or other appropriate Services following an opioid overdose or other opioid related Adverse Events so but um but just having you know just um again you know having completed the the Train the trainer there's just not a there's there there isn't a it's not a cardiac event so I just wanted to be aware of that I you know Jim's absolutely right the town needs it the town needs it but maybe this is not the this may not be the funding source that we can draw from in order to to get them because we're under strict legal restrictions about what we're allowed to use that money for um Jim do you have anything to add um I don't I don't dispute it I mean I leave it to the medical experts it we we've responded to a number of of um overdoses and we always bring in the defib we bring in Naran we bring in you know whatever whatever we have we have applied the defib in those situations um I wouldn't I wouldn't disagree that somebody that's just overd those that if we get them in time we can give them to Naran and and proceed further from there um more time that goes along it could end up being a cardiac issue um but again I I'm not a medical expert I just I go by the training that that we get CPR first responder dpip training and that's that's one of the tools that that are utilized from all the training that I attended and I haven't attended this train the trainer class but when the South County EMS responds they have a defibrillator on their ambulance right they do and this defi for the police department where would that be um that would go in our Cruiser we have four Cruisers well some number of Cruisers we have three we have three Cruisers now and one detail car and the detail car so we only have two defibrillators so we we already have two de we have two one in each car one in each car yeah okay so we already have a defibrillator in the police car we have two one one and one in the one car one in the two car and then we just added a third Cruiser this past year we don't have one in in that car and how often does that third car get used all the time it's used every day it's used every day so we have three cars out every day yep so I have I have the car that I primarily use and then we have the other Cruiser would be the other officer that's working during the day and then we have an officer that works in the evening that uses that the new car so we have one that I use one that the daytime officer uses one that the evening officer uses and a lot of times there overlaps I was going to say daytime and evening overlap by a couple of hours well it depends days it depends on the day some days it's four hours over that depending on because we have a a um a clinician portion of the conversation uh because I think the the real question is whether the def defib relator is actually ever used in a nand overdose uh not not how many cars you have or whether we want to put defers in them because we may want to very much and we may want one for the town office building as well we're just trying to determine if we can use the uh AR I mean the particular funds that's it's not oura the obid settlement funds for it so you said that you have used a defibrillator in an overdose situation can you describe that to us at least at least two situations that two cause that we've had and it's the same thing we get there there's no pulse there's no breathing you start CPR you go through that process part of the CPR process is getting the defib attached as soon as possible you learn information that the person's going through an overdose you apply Naran you know part of CPR is the breathing part the breathing component where you're giving breaths as well um but we've never not used it because it's a it's an overdose so we're not going to use the defib now we like I said it's been I can only speak specifically to the two incidents that that I'm aware of that that I've actually done it I know it's happened more often than that but whether that's the the appropriate thing I've never been told otherwise and we in our training that that we go through it's it's part of that training if the person doesn't have a pulse and they're not breathing that's we start CPR and then you get the def Michael I see you have your hand raised could you I just would like to um share and and talk to Jim about the um I I'd be happy to work um uh and and do further research but um my understanding is that it's contraindicated that what we're seeing uh in an overdose is yes what happens when the breathing becomes so shallow the pulse is difficult to hear U but it still exists and again it's not a cardiac issue at all all it's strictly a a breathing issue um so chest compressions or defibrator are actually contra indicated um from my understanding so I am no expert U but I would like to continue this conversation and research it further but um my understanding like I say is is that it's contraindicated that again um while you're not um you know you're not uh palpating you're not feeling a pulse um but again that's that's related to the shallow the breathing um going going down so it's that's the primary issue so hearing you the question I would have is whether any other communities have requested funds for this purpose and been approved or rejected for purchasing these with these using these fs and I'd also want to hear from the uh South County EM folks what their understanding of best practices is um is is this something that we have to um I don't think decide on tonight or by the end of the year or anything and we decide to yeah get more information information way to proceed to me would you would you like to invite somebody from South County Ms or do you want me to reach out to them and see let's invite some they may have questions for them okay that would be I know I know at an advanced level Advanced and I don't I'm not sure at what what point you know the ambulance obviously they're more advanced than we are but from a law enforcement perspective again no pulse no breathing right we're starting I think we need to address both the medical side and the administrative side is this something that has been done and decided and either way it's not a bad idea for us to have you know some of the for the police and some even at the town office building you never know what could happen Michael you were leaving no I don't I didn't mean to but yes I agree with everything that's been said and I think it makes sense um the one idea that I had was the possibility of also inviting someone from the opid Franklin County's opioid task force um they are a very informed group as well um with with more history about what's happening throughout the county uh with opioid funds all right yeah so so if we're going to do those invitations who's going to reach out I'd like to have I'd be fine with reaching out to the opio task force okay and uh this okay thank you and I'll see if um the state has any information if any other communities have any guidance on this yeah you're right the guidance is frustratingly lacking it's it's very frustrated there is just um it's really a challenge across many communities of of how to spend these funds and stick with the yeah yeah I I just want to know has anyone else done this of course yes I yeah that would be important information or even do we know like we we got in trouble like how do we know whether we're getting in trouble or not like you have to you have to report your use of funds whenever you do expend well but we fall under a non-reporting non-reporting time so $35,000 a year coming in for opioid requires State um uh accounting for how you spent the funds not just your town but if you also choose to join your shared services group so if your entire shared services is 35,000 I don't believe we are even if we do um uh you know sign on with either um the Foothills or South County uh neither of them would put us in that $35,000 range I don't believe but I don't have those numbers um but you that that's when you have to report to the state but um I have not heard of anybody getting um uh rejected for what they've purchased but even if we aren't required report we don't want to be susceptible to an audit that then would identify a misuse of funds so yeah so at some point just would we would be able to get the feedback in time oh no you can't get pre-approval yeah because it's not like we have to submit a request to be approved you're you're you're the use of the funds and then you're taking responsibility for set use so okay yeah and then if it were to somehow come up in an audit we'd have to like figure out some other way to get those funds because something we paid for we'd have to pay it back into those which is something we might do given that we agree it's a good idea to have any yeah yeah yeah I'll also reach out to the the fire chief JP Kennedy okay because I have had conversations with him and he was in support of this as well so I can pick his pick his brain a little bit more and let him know what what Mike said maybe there's a different perspective maybe that's a like I said an advanced care level versus responding on the street or somebody something happened right here and now yeah right I know they they have def lers at the schools that was valuable tool it's a very valuable tool no doubt yeah I'm not 100% sure the requirements that town buildings are required to have them but that's that's another another topic but in my opinion it should regard absolutely there's enough old people in and out of this building that we and most of our buildings yeah I talked to Le two people that are aware of incidents that have happened in this building where they could have used the deep well not necessarily could have used it but we're wondering oh my God we don't have one this could have been a situation where we could have potentially needed one and we don't have one so we should definitely so this sounds like it should be an item that's on the agenda no matter what what where we get the where we Source the money from that we would like to like yeah request could we put a capital request in and maybe you can retract it later if we decide it's I mean what happened last year you had a number of capital press that you then converted to arpa instead of using Capital funds theoretically could be converted to opioid funds yeah yeah and we have looked at other funding sources I think JP the fire chief has applied twice for for Grant and we have haven't gotten a grant for for defibrillator so that's yet yet keep keep trying and trying and trying and trying yeah all right um I'm gonna move us along for the next agenda item just to just to clarify we're going to continue this to the January 14th so that they when they reach out they can let them know it's so do invite folks to the January 1th meeting so I'll be inviting uh the opioid task force the January 14th meeting yeah yeah and fire chief himself County EMS and thank you both for attending and for your information course uh 620 discussion and possible vote on the request of the weightly snowmobile club to use the former demile property on State Road as a parking area for access to the snowmobile trail Network as usual on an annual basis uh Bob yes that is correct thank you for uh taking the time to take a look at this and and think about it and I appreciate Mr Kane uh sneaking that in on the agenda so much much appreciated by me and the snowmobile Community um I don't have any questions my understanding is there have been no incidents where this has been a problem a problem of any kind um so I would move that the board permit the weightly snowmobile club to park vehicles at the former demo property located at 268 State Road in order to access the snowmobile trail Network the club has provided the insurance we have a copy of that and uh users must remove any and all trash uh the use of the parking lot will end April 15th 2025 for this season I will second but have one comment and that is further on our agenda is an item about pre- removal where pesin will be storing their vehicles at the mail lot will it's only for that one week of tree remov we hope it doesn't snow pey that week should be this week got a lot of rain so right yeah so long they don't get in the way of the snow mov all right the second all those in favor all hi okay you have a place to park oh thank you so much uh Happy holidays and safe holidays to all of you much appreciated thanks for coming thank you very much thank you Mr Kane thank you I will leave let you be how's that my God it's so exciting stay well how about the next time uh back to work back to work for me so I appreciate you taking the time thank you so much you have a great take care byebye Pete is this item still on the agenda the 625 we're going to defer to the generary we will defer that to the next meeting okay uh new business local licenses review discuss and vote on local license and application renal for cend year 2025 a list of them here as well as the little information in the found administrator so you have a mix of alcohol license entertainment one lodging common Vic for food and three dealer licenses all of them are renewals except for one which is a new application from Castaways at um wait the Investments they are seeking an automatic Amusement device license for three arcade games essentially um uh and otherwise everything else here is a renewal um I did provide some information in the report that of the license applications we do have um one applicant that is in a rear right now on a few different items with personal property tax um police detail um costs as well as uh property real real estate property tax as well um and to the best of our knowledge that's they have not been paid and I confirm yes with the town Treasurer this afternoon that we still have not received and you reached out to them recently left uh the prop or the business owner was advised a couple weeks ago to make sure to take up take this up and clear it up beforehand um the board does have the ability to um withhold renewal or granting of a license for something like um non-payment of taxes or other like a detail cost should you decide to do that however you do want to give proper notice to that um that business owner that that is going to be something that you would want to do and so um and have a hearing Council yeah did provide us some steps and so if you if the board if the board wants to do this um you can um determine that you would defer the full renewal of that particular business license or licenses at this tonight that you're going to then schedule a hearing with at least 40-day notice 14 day 14-day notice but that you will also Grant tonight an extension a limited conditional renewal for a short period of time from today or from the end of December to that the day after that public hearing so that at least that business can still operate during that that time period until we can hold the public hearing at which time you then formalize and state yes you're willing to Grant the license but you're going to let's say you're going to have to have a payment plan with the town Treasurer to catch up on these outstanding or we going to deny the renewals and the new application for this reason or what whatever it may be that you decide um but you still what you're doing tonight is you're at least allowing them to continue until that public hearing and they recommend that you do that because of because you want to give them you want to give the business uh sufficient notice essentially you don't want to tell the business we're not renewing you have two weeks um that you want to give them the the notice by the notice to then appear at the public hearing at which time you'll make a decision and the hearing is simply to make a decision or they the business makes their argument that you know this is why your inter Etc yep and then you Mery you as the board will say what how you could then work with them in order to continue those licenses um or that based on the lack of payment or other things then you that that will not renew the license or not grant them license yeah okay okay any discussion I feel like that's a fair yeah a fair way to go I I I don't want to just grant the license with over $6,000 in a rear almost 7,000 um between the the three different things um I I I don't so I don't feel comfortable with just renewing but um if we can settle on a hearing date I would be happy to form a motion for a uh limited condition renewal until the day after the hearing and we have to figure out these are three motions that make and we can make them as one sorry right but uh we need a date though I think would be the January 14th could do 14th or the 28th but the 14th would give us we could post as long as we post by Monday we didn't we definitely have okay then i' say sooner something that needs to be like put out in right or if so then I would okay mention that it's not it's a license renal not it's just a notice period so although it's a hearing it's a notice period to the business owner it's less about the public yeah yeah it's a public meeting but yeah just want to make sure okay awesome thank you yep and I agree I I think that it's fair to uh hold off until we have some idea of whether they're planning to and V to pay and make our decision have they somehow already sent a check for the cost of the license I do have the money but that's I wait until we all right you don't cash the check so I still have all of the checks so they able to pay that but but I I believe we do have the police chief here to confirm that there have been some payments made on the police details uh so kind of the the history of the the payments of the details so we have going back to December um there so since the end of December there hasn't been a payment 2023 FY 24 so for last year so those those outstanding fees were for the those six months um they have started paying occasionally when an officer does a detail they'll occasionally give a check but not always so there's nothing consistent about that so since FY 25 started there's additional funds that are outstanding as well additional on top ofal no so it's a total that total was as of last week yeah and we did I want to say two two more details since then so it's probably a little bit more little bit more closer 6000 all right okay so what is the the motion I just want to emphasize that you're giving a limited conditional renewal limited of the existing and not granting the new requests I would hold off on granting the new requests just because it's if you're GNA withdraw it then we don't okay stop if I do it wrong all right I move that we give the uh Castaways a limited condition renewal start with the start with what the defer that you're going to that we defer the full Li renewal of the applicable Castaways license tonight we schedule a hearing with a date that allows for 14-day notice which would be January 14th our meeting here so so the date would be January 15th for the the day after the hearing oh that right they the end of their renewal ends on January 15 but the hearing is on the yeah so she's on the point right now of that when the hearing would be which is January 4th then we vote a limited conditional renewal for a short period of time uh which is from now through January through our hear 15th through our hearing on January 14th when we make a decision decision so January 15th um pending and subject to the determination of the select board at the hearing on January 14th regarding denial or non-renewal of the license for non-payment of local taxes fees and charges that was a group pord thank you second their current license is valid through December 31st corre so if they were to pay between now and December 31st all their outstanding fees then that would like this well no we would have a hearing still have renewal but we wouldn't have we would have nothing to object to corre and they so they could take care of this whole thing by just paying their bills right yeah yeah yep all right and then so just to make sure I understand we're deferring um the automatic Amusement device three new licenses and we areer individuals theer we're not what's the action on the automated Amusement not acting on the request for the automated you're going to take that up and that's not a part of our motion you can state that now because you're acting on that all cast away so you can add that David was just focused on the ritten rules okay yeah any applications for Ral the renewals so that would be the the entertainment and the all Al theol yes licenses okay good just to be clear do you have um like do you have that in a email version that you can send me like so I have the correct motions y okay do I have a second a second yeah did and all those in favor I do okay that covered the new licenses CU we will have we have not approved we have not approved the new license we haven't considered then they will be considered at the January 14th yeah I think we should consider those of January 14th yeah yeah so if you and you're referring to the new license that c has for the automated right for the automated y so you can make a motion to defer action on that okay I move that we defer action on the new three new licenses for automated Amusement devices second all those in favor but now you want to act on all the other okay everybody good standing I the board approved the local licenses for calendar year 2025 uh as documented in our list with the exception of those for uh weightly Investments DBA Castaways which we dealt with in our previous two motions second all those in favor I I I at the end we can sign all those because I okay perfect year 2026 budget take it away Pete yes okay so this is the proposed budget for select board Administration um account to 5400 um so I in the report I gave you I outlined but I'm going to I'll go through what I did here um for the request for 2026 up for discussion it's just put in here for personnel all three line items have a 3% we can adjust that whatever the board would like but I want to get more into the general expenses um so I went through and looked at what we actually expended in 2024 on each one of these and I saw that there was some inconsistency or uh issues with the dues in meetings and then we also have a line of mileage in meetings and so what I tried to do was make this a little bit clearer and so for dues and meetings I was looking at specifically um all costs related to any membership costs as well as conference classes and then mileage and meetings would be mileage reimbursements any fee food expenses for internal meetings internal meetings as opposed to external where I felt like the dues and meetings made sense for external stuff because it's membership of external memberships and therefore any member any meetings for those that external or conferences so when I looked at that I saw that in and then I started parsing out what we spent um in FY 24 I found that we spent almost 1,700 onus and meetings where in fy2 we appropriated a th000 so my recommendation is to for 26 bump this to 2500 giving us 2500 for any conferences classes and dues but when I looked at the mileage and meetings light item we only spent with those reimbursements and fees 46780 in fy4 and yet we appropriated $33,000 so my suggestion is to drop that in 26 to 750 and in the end it's actually reducing between those two line items or there's a reduction of $750 um why are they separate categories I don't know if we if we combine them we won't have something that's 150% I want to see I know that some of these wordings are based on mass uh on Municipal Finance they're consistent so I'm going to ask um Dara if we can amend the mileage in meetings to be mileage in fees or something else so that we don't have meetings appear into two separate line items because that's where it's Justus and thankfully when we pay our bills we're only paying it out of General expenses we don't pay it out of each of the sub line items it's just a better way for us to budget right um and that's why I wanted to look at it specifically how did we spend it in 24 and how can we properly budget based on that so that's where my we didn't do anything wrong it's just more of like let's clarify what we're doing um but I can ask there if we can change the language of that mileage line item um moving on though advertising and recording in 24 there was a significant jump in our advertising likely from RFP like uh advertising as well as open positions um any searches that you did like for the TA role um you appropriated 750 for advertising in the current budget my recommendation is let's just pop that a little bit pop out a th it's just suggestion postage is an outdated line item we now do all of our postage costs out of our building operations but we still did expend in 2022 so we have to leave that on this table for now um but it's still leaving it at a zero newspaper subscription we appropriated in 2025 current budget $250 however the cost was actually $312 last year so my suggestion is let's bump because we know the newspapers do increase costs uh bump that to 325 um it's not an issue for our current budget because we can thankfully move things around but um we just need to allocate a little bit more for that Memorial dayaan my recommendation is to keep that consistent with last year Curr budget which is $300 Town meetings um this line item is really for using funds in order to get our town me or the annual warrant printed out of house my recommendation is to zero this out and handle it in in house there is no reason why we can't do it we're not doing Special bindings um Jess and I can easily handle the printing ourselves and the stapling we can get out of our operating expense uh binder if we wanted to but let's just zero that out okay and that's not like we have especially when we had it Outdoors we had someone come do the audio we had the electrician come put the electricity out that's not an expense that was under town meeting here well interestingly I didn't see those ex if if we did which we did do they were never paid out of our select board oh I believe it likely ended up getting paid out of our building operations [Music] perod yeah that's the only other cost I know which I would say that one we could still continue um paying out of the operating because it's it is an operational type of thing oh okay but that will bring us to our next line item before we go to the next line item I'm going to back you up to Memorial Day band again remember when I said who's the band frer U oh is it Frontier frontier's B it's a donation we make to the band oh it's a I think the B the band will come and play it our okay because I know some when I was on the Arts Council the Arts C there were sometimes submissions for a band to play at Town function no I believe this is for the frontier marching P to come in the parade itself in the parade itself and sometimes if Mr scy driving the bus oh right thank you yes let's go to the next line okay so the next line um and ual Town reports this is for the printing cost to do the special bounds the nice quality annual Town reports not something that we could do inhouse interestingly you got you appropriated 750 to that in the current budget when we looked at the expenses from 24 it actually cost us $3,200 to print $150 annual reports and that was actually paid out of the Town operation the building operations budget not a select board it really should come from the select board budget because that's where we're allocating the funds but we are under allocating um thankfully our building operations generally has a lot of flexibility not flexibility but it has a lot of money where we can well we shouldn't like we we intended to pay for the annual reports because it is an Administration printing so my suggestion is to appropriate 3,000 we won't print as many books last year we printed too many last year so bring it down hopefully we find another vendor where we can bring down our costs we we looking at the the issue of how many we need I think depends on the nature of town meeting there something controversial town meeting yeah you're going to need more than 150 for standard Town meetings that we've had recently 60 to 75 would be handle so think the weather might have played a factor this year as so yeah what what kind of lead time do we need for the printing to have sort of a feel for what the town meeting agenda is going to be week months yeah yeah yeah we going into town meeting we usually have an idea you know is there's something they a lightning rod issue or not and most prin will need like a month outside to get something may be able to make a decision later about exactly how many copies to I mean this year you printing 150 too much we weren't going to get 100 you know 100 people and how many left over did we have about 30 so terrible that's not terrible no not terrible there was I think we sent 10 to um I believe we 10 I forgot where we s then and then 10 to 15 stay up front so our residents can come pick them up or but yes just meeting yeah yeah so we could if you want to up that number certainly fine I think right now we're talking about how much should we appropriate and we make it available as so I think a lot of people yeah are are happy with that yeah but yeah if you feel like we should stay with 150 at this point um you know we could always just allocate with the 3,000 and should we determine you know in March that we're going to need 200 we could do a reserve fund request if we needed to because it was unanticipated increase on but we could also you know have a lower number but s print on demand in house oh in house that we could without binding yes someone just wants to get a smaller number that are nicely found and if we need print copies more yeah just as a point of Interest I don't know historically but I know in the past um I've had conversations with Lynn going back a few years but the sharff department had always done them in the past they have their own print shop there oh they pay for the paper and then they do all the printing they do our envelopes so I didn't even think of that that's there's no charge for the printing it's just for the just a good lead time around town meeting time there's a lot of towns that use them okay I'll send you yeah thanks for that I completely forgot but even if that we if someone if we're out or running low we can run off the information for someone without finding up yeah we have all right so based on just the the numbers I threw in here um the total budget would be 140 ,300 just under that which is a 3.84% per increase um so certainly happy to discuss if you want to adjust any of these or if you want to have that as part of if you want to hold off until we do the fincom select board meetings as we go through all the budgets and then we start pring them out if you want me to show no increase on personnel and we wait and have the Personnel discussion as part the finance committee discussions I don't know what your procedure is yeah I think past uh practice has been U that we don't put it in okay and then but they know that they're looking at a budget with the personnel number is artificially low okay and that they they know that that'll get ad was made R okay so I I think that's what I recall as P yeah that's been so I should I should drop that to Zero Drop it get that's the way everybody else the number gets put in pretty much at the end of process okay yeah we can do that any other numbers that you would like to fiddle with no I think we really reasonable so I mean I think it's as good a starting point as any and you have a I'm sorry no no no when and when you you take that 3% out then the change in the overall budget is really minimal really minimal yeah because the majority of your budget is Personnel so and and a lot of changes just aside from s reports is just shifting money around from one line C to another yeah you do you will see though when you look at just general expenses in 25 the allocation was $6,550 the proposed budget is 7875 so that is a 20% increase on General expenses but it is a very small part of your right and a huge amount of that is in the town report yes which is a flexible number which if we go to the Sheriff's Department may drop considerably anyway yeah all right do we need to vote on this be uh at present or just says review discuss and vote on that I it's really your recommendation yeah yeah we don't vote on any other departments yeah that was the question that I had does the select Board review any of the other like non-department ones but more like the outside services or is that suppos more so with the fincom we've done it together this is we their meetings at the same time yeah we we've never pre-screened anything okay other than okay I am putting together all the other extraneous ones but I just wasn't sure what your Ro okay okay no in the past we haven't even seen this well I think we have sometimes well I I don't recall ever going through it you know by line item as a board been pretty much a Town Administrator submission yeah well I proved that the board submit the fiscal year 26 select board admin ation budget as reviewed and and amended to the finance all those in favor I excellent I just think it's wrong that he didn't have to sit in the hot seat in front of everybody like we all do and have the finance committee they glare us the downside is we have to fit through all the meetings all right next item on the agenda review discuss and vote on postings of two job positions the agricultural commission administrative assistant and the community preservation committee Administrative Assistant thank you yes um so the ad commission and CPC both have requested Administrative Assistant staff support to handle their minutes agendas and general tasks the I commission has a line item that was added to their budget under the current operating uh budget um for this explicit purpose and the CPC is also permitted to utilize a portion of its funds for administrative purposes as well so um we do have two job descriptions that were recently approved by the um Personnel committee and they are based on the admin assistant positions for the planning board and zba just with minor modifications based on requirements of each of those two boards um so and rate of pay would match that of the land use admin assistant so 21 uh 16 per hour essentially the responsibility and the the skills are the same the amount of time you put in is going to be dependent on the type of board so the rate of pay will be reflected in how much time it goes into it that's why the rate of pay times the number of times the number of hours is that how much you yes yeah the rate yeah the rate doesn't change just the number of hours so um yeah um so my ask is if I can go ahead and post for these two positions I would Market them as a Lely and individual to hold both positions similar to what we did for land use whereas one person can any for own for because the reality is the eye commission will be a very minimal requirement there will be more time for cbcs primarily during their review of project submittals yeah yeah well I would move the board approve the posting of the Agricultural commission administrative assistant and Community preservation commit commission Administrative Assistant positions at a rate of 2116 per hour second all those in favor I I hi excellent ARA clrf funding review discuss and vote on Project updates and items to close yes so we have a number of projects that have been completed and we have one that has remaining funds so can we purpose yes the library computer replacement project is completed there is a remaining amount of $1,849 4 that the uh Library director has approved to be repurposed and given back the library electrical system and safety upgrades that project has been been completed and they used all of the appropriated funds the MV solar array match we've now paid all the invoices to cover the town portion or at least what we allocated in arpa so we've now utilized the 100% on that um I believe it was just Clos oh no there is one more the South County EMS Ambulance uh We've now paid our portion of that ambulance cost so those four projects can be closed out and the board can also un obligate and re my recommendation is to uh take the unused portion of the library computer replacement and reallocate that to the highway mower project so that it helps to reduce um the highway Department's other fund costs seems good I move that the board close out project the projects to test and that the remaining $1,849 from the library Compu replacement project repurposed towards the highway department mower project I'll second that all those in favor I I I select for liaison update got um South count Senior Center we had another meeting with our um with the group doing the U assessment and we we have another meeting scheduled soon they've got uh they're getting closer and closer to having numbers to attach things um this last meeting they gave us much better um drawings and what they what they came up with is much closer to what we think we need in more um the only the other committee I just started on the electric uh battery storage meeting and right here my meeting minutes we have lots of homework um but we're uh we're we're at the point of we really need to understand what are the the risks and the safety issues um better before we can figure out what is a proper response for the town so we start that got started though it got started like two hours ago awesome I have no updates from the water department as I was not able to attend to their most recent meeting and I'm in the process of making a meeting with Cindy at the library but I have nothing else to report and Comm negotiations continue between the school districts and teachers at w element teachers and instructional system W from the elementary school and we'll continue for three more sessions scheduled over the next several months so they will keep going um Town Administrator updates um for the fire department on Tuesday December 3r there was a structure fire at 50 masteron road that home does remain habitable there were no injuries thankfully um it's under investigation but it doesn't appear suspicious damage exceeds 10,000 um two weightly engines were on the scene with 10 firefighters and the fire department was actually able to handle this situation without any Mutual Aid needed uh the host Community agreements we've now received word from uh the CCC last week that both the H uh the DMC as well as green jeans hcas have now been approved and moved along so all of the ones that we did the renewals on have now been approved um and so thankfully the CCC was okay with our version of the modeling that's started so we can continue moving forward with that um under Personnel the new Community Development administrator Erica roer roer started this past Monday she's now at the front room of the town offices with the town clerk so feel free to stop by to say hi um and we also have posted the opening for the animal inspector position um that is posting is available on the website for anybody interested in serving as the animal inspector it is a stien physici provides service to do our barn inspections as well as assist with any RAV concerns um primarily with cats um but other wild or domestic animals as well um and then um this update can be strien it was that we did have a vacancy on the Personnel committee but that just got filled that has been filled that has now been filled again so we uh oh who's our new person was the she's back in again back okay excellent um and then um Fred mentioned this but uh there is going to be tream removal that's going to happen Asin tree will be removing trees along some local roads over the next week weather dependent um and this has to do with uh uh providing clearance for the utility lines that includes South Long PL Road Egypt Road lower Conway Road Westbrook Road Merson Road and the south end of chest Plane Road they're going to have two different Crews each with a chipper that will work on the project um they will use the Deo laot on State Road to store just the vehicles no materials or anything um that's just to store the vehicles until the next day they're going out um is this by the way this is not something we're paying for the utility utility isn't P we're just we're just cooperating by letting yes yeah and we already held the tree hearing um the keep back y items not anticipated there is one item not anticipated um we've received over the weekend the request to renew and sign off on the Tri-State fire Mutual Aid agreement um fire chief has reviewed in encourages the board to this is a standard um but to sign up on that Mutual Aid agreement so that we can submit it and continue on as we have both providing Mutual aid but also receiving Mutual Aid approve the Tri-State fire Mutual Aid agreement second all those in favor I excellent um folks in the audience are you here for items not anticipated on the agenda but that item was pushed off to another reading and I I was here so I thought I'd stay in oh okay all okay that's the um the Assessor's question yes okay yeah we taking that up at the next meeting and Mr I'm sorry I forgot here for support of me good job he has your back he's got my back all right okay thanks you too um next meetings are January 14th at 6m and Tuesday January 28th at 6m 2025 yeah yes move to adjourn yeah second all those in favor I I hi