[0:09] Good

[0:13] evening, everyone. Welcome to the Dennis Board of Selectman August 26 meeting.

[0:35] If

[0:38] you could please

[0:38] acquired by open meeting law in Mass General, we are informing you that this meeting will be

[0:42] video and audio recorded as well as broadcast anyone has sent into a video or audio tape.

[0:47] This meeting is required to inform the chair.

[0:50] Good evening everyone, just to let folks know and the audience in who is watching at home.

[0:56] We had a scheduling conflict since we already have a Dennis Fortes Electman meeting schedule

[1:00] for this week, so we decided to have our meeting on Monday right after the districts school

[1:07] committee meeting. On our first order of business, we have discussed and consider

[1:12] school agreement article voted by school committee on August 26, based on the school

[1:18] agreement signed by the DUI Regional School Committee, town of Dennis, and town of Yarmeth.

[1:24] This chairman, that's based on the settlement agreement, not the school agreement.

[1:30] Absolutely right. Thank you.

[1:32] Thank you. The proposed, the more article reads, to see if the town will vote, consistent

[1:38] with the quote, agreement between the towns of Dennis and Yarmeth establishing a regional

[1:44] school district, parenthesis district, as most recently amended in the spring, in spring

[1:50] 2013 end quote, to accept further amendments to Section 4B and 4D of SETA agreement, which

[1:57] have been initiated and approved by a vote of the regional school committee on August 26, 2019,

[2:02] which would allocate the percentage split of district operating and capital costs as follows.

[2:10] Section 4D shall be replaced in its entirety as follows.

[2:14] With respect to the percentage split of the district's operating cost by and between Dennis and Yarmeth,

[2:19] I, the split of operating costs for the commonwealth, designated minimum required contribution shall be in accordance with the statutory formula under Master General Law, Chapter 70,

[2:30] and to the split for all operational costs.

[2:34] Above the minimum required contribution,

[2:36] shall be based upon the percentage share

[2:38] of the five year rolling average of foundation enrollment

[2:41] beginning with the fiscal year 2016 for each town.

[2:45] For the purposes of this agreement,

[2:47] the term foundation enrollment shall be substantial conformance

[2:51] with this definition utilized by the Commonwealth Department

[2:54] of Elementary and Secondary Education,

[2:57] otherwise known as Desi.

[2:58] Section 4 shall be amended by adding the following subsection for as follows.

[3:04] With respect to the percentage split of the district's capital costs and expenditures,

[3:09] one-year-armist shall bear 65% in Dennis, shall bear 35% of the capital costs split for

[3:16] the building project to replace the mannequies and wicks and schools to be allocated on station

[3:21] avenue.

[3:22] And to the capital cost split for all other capital expenses and projects shall be in

[3:27] accordance with the current regional agreement as may be otherwise amended, or to take any other action relative there too.

[3:36] Mr. Chair, I move to place and support this article as printed.

[3:41] Second, most has been made in second for the discussion. Hearing none of those in favor?

[3:45] Chair?

[3:46] Aye.

[3:48] Chris, aye.

[3:49] And just to let folks know, we will also have this warrant article on our website, too, for you to take a look at.

[3:57] Next, consider a request for Cape Cod Regional Economic Development Council letter of support for regional economic development organization, otherwise known as a redoucrant.

[4:08] Mr. Chair, reading this over the first sentence, I think we need to reword it, it sounds odd.

[4:15] It currently reads, the Dennis Board of Selectman is in full support of funding of the regional economic development organization,

[4:23] in parentheses redo grant to the Cape Cod Economic Development Council in partnership with the

[4:30] Plymouth and Cape Cod Chambers of Commerce.

[4:33] And I think it might sound better if it reads where we get rid of the funding of, and maybe

[4:41] it reads something along the lines of the Dennis Select Board is in full support of the regional

[4:53] funding being awarded to the Cape Cod Economic Development Council, or keep everything

[5:00] the way it is, except for at the end of redo, put in through a grant to.

[5:07] I like the first way to set it.

[5:09] So the first way I had said it was the Dennis Selectboard is in full support of the redo grant

[5:16] funding being awarded to the CCEDC.

[5:21] You want to move that with your edits?

[5:24] So moved.

[5:27] Motion's been made in seconder for the discussion.

[5:29] Hearing none of those in favor say aye.

[5:31] Aye.

[5:31] Opposed to abstain to passes.

[5:33] Thank you.

[5:34] Next, consider a request for signs on town property for DUI

[5:38] Banned Parents, Fundraiser, and Mighty Media and 5K.

[5:42] Is anyone present who would like to speak on this issue?

[5:45] Hearing none, I'll bring it back.

[5:47] Oh, absolutely.

[5:48] Please come up to the mic and tell us who you are.

[5:51] Just make sure the green light is on before you start so they can be, so you can be heard over the system.

[5:59] So you may need to push the button.

[6:03] Thank you.

[6:04] Thank you.

[6:05] My name is Margaret Martin.

[6:06] And I am a band parent.

[6:08] And I am just here to represent the band parents.

[6:11] I understand that you received a letter.

[6:13] And we were unaware of the necessary actions that need to be taken care of prior to posting the signs.

[6:27] So I imagine you know that some of the signs were posted and they had been removed.

[6:32] And so we're seeking permission to install signs around the town to publicize our mattress sale to fundraise for the DUI ban parents association.

[6:42] Well, I'm sure we'd love to put them back up.

[6:45] If you wouldn't mind just telling us the details of the events that the folks at Home

[6:50] can know about it, I'd like to speak if they wish.

[6:52] Thank you.

[6:53] The band will be selling mattresses through a fundraising company, and this will be the third

[7:00] year that we've done so it will be Sunday, September 1st.

[7:05] I honestly don't have this specific time in my memory or on my paper, but there are postings

[7:11] downtown and the dy band has a website of its own, it's dyband.org, and I'm sure it's there too.

[7:21] So it's Sunday afternoon in the school, in the gyms, and the mattresses will be displayed.

[7:27] They're also pillows.

[7:30] And they are significantly discounted, their name brands, and there is financing available, and you don't have to be present to purchase them if you look at the website.

[7:42] You can purchase them from anywhere in the country, and the ban will benefit from those purchases.

[7:48] Great. Thank you so much. Any questions from the board?

[7:50] No, Mr. Chair, I would like to make a motion. I move to approve the placement of the following sign locations.

[7:58] the banner to be placed at the transfer station along the fence entrance area and

[8:06] then lawn sign locations. Island on 134 across from Barbara's bikes. Island

[8:12] we're at Holcomb Rock and 134 meet. Corner of Route 134 and 6A. The corner of 134

[8:21] there is no memorial park there. Island across from Dennis Public Market and one

[8:26] in front of the Ezra Baker Elementary School.

[8:31] So the corner of 134 and 6A, which corner is that?

[8:36] Because I don't know where the town owns property on the corner of 134 and 6A.

[8:42] Do they mean the little island?

[8:45] I believe so.

[8:46] That would not be allowed because that is a memorial.

[8:49] They're holding a whole batch of a road you're thinking.

[8:51] Nope.

[8:51] There's a memorial.

[8:53] At the end of 134 and 6A,

[8:58] I walk by it every day.

[9:00] We've had Memorial Day celebrations there, there is a memorial island there and if that's the intended place, I would have an objection to it.

[9:09] I wouldn't think that would be the intended place.

[9:12] I know that along some of the public roads, there's a strip of land between the sidewalk and the road.

[9:20] But that's in the road layout.

[9:21] That's not, for my understanding, that's not town property.

[9:26] So especially on six A, that corner of six A,

[9:29] that's all owned by the state.

[9:30] I don't believe there's any town property owned

[9:33] on that intersection.

[9:35] So we might want to ask on the smuggler

[9:38] if they might want to do that, because they have a lot of high school

[9:43] kids working there and that sort of thing.

[9:45] So that might be a good, and that's private, of course.

[9:49] but if it's intended to be that island,

[9:51] I would be objecting to that.

[9:54] Bob, do you want to amend your motion?

[9:56] I do.

[9:57] And I'm just looking at here.

[9:59] I don't see any other way around.

[10:00] It's worse than that.

[10:00] How about if we amend the motion

[10:02] to just eliminate that one location?

[10:04] Thank you.

[10:05] That's it.

[10:06] Yeah, OK.

[10:08] Mr. Chair, I'd like to amend the motion

[10:10] by removing item number three, the corner of 134 and 6A.

[10:14] Second.

[10:15] Most anticipated, seconded for the discussion.

[10:17] Hearing none of those in favor say aye.

[10:18] I oppose abstain to passes.

[10:21] Thank you very much.

[10:22] Good luck.

[10:22] Thank you.

[10:24] And for the mighty me in 5k, which I believe is happening on September 8th at 10 a.m.

[10:32] at West Dennis Beach.

[10:41] I'm just, can we just talk about the list first before we make the motion that way we

[10:45] couldn't clean it up?

[10:47] The great Western road and the rail trail.

[10:55] I'm trying to think if that where is town property on Great Western?

[10:59] on the rail trail is that it's that

[11:06] I don't believe we own property

[11:07] with the new where the new lights have gone up at just just in just north of

[11:13] Great Western Road before you get to S&J X go on the right hand side I believe

[11:17] isn't that time probably with the rail trail is I do not believe so but you might

[11:22] okay why don't we eliminate that one then yeah I think that might be S&J

[11:28] we can

[11:29] inform them to dig in that they can quiet with S&J

[11:31] It could be that it's the road, if they're doing it in the road layout, that would be our road layout.

[11:38] I just couldn't think of it.

[11:41] Route 134 in the rail to rail.

[11:51] Route 134 in Cittucket.

[11:53] You talk about the Dana Senior Center.

[11:55] I think that's it.

[12:06] I don't see any reason any of the other ones would be in this year.

[12:20] Route 134 in on the second page in Bob Crowell Road.

[12:25] Is that right in the intersection there?

[12:27] Is that what they mean in that island?

[12:37] I would keep it out of the island, it's one, it's dangerous and one, it's a confusing

[12:48] intersection with high traffic area, and I would say maybe put it on the corner in the road

[12:53] layout.

[12:59] I would move the list as presented.

[13:05] Second most is going to be in second for the discussion here in another of those in favor say aye

[13:11] Opposive staying the passes

[13:14] that completes our agenda

[13:18] Of some may be in a second. All those in favor say aye. Thank you. I'll have a great night

Town of Dennis Board of Selectmen Meeting

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