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If we could stand for a moment of silence to remember all those that have died, and that are

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today making great sacrifices for this great country.

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Thank you.

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The First Order of Business

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is approval of prior minutes. We're going to defer April 14th minutes because of

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purposes. I could use a motion for proving June 9, 2026 Board of

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Saltman Minutes.

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Is there a second? Second.

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Thank you. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion passes.

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Community input.

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Thank you tonight. There's a three-minute limit per person on

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community input, I'd like to start with Tim Davis.

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Tim Davis, 13 to 5-bridge street.

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I know it's not on the agenda, but I want to speak to those board members who might be on the fence.

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About requesting extension for the new school project through the MSBA.

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I don't know when that vote is going to happen.

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I do know we have a deadline of 831.

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The no school side of this debate, of course, is absolutely correct that the original plan was not approved by Dr.

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of voters. This is, I mean, that the project is dead and the MSPA has given us a

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great period of two requests. This is 120 day extension and reworked the plan in such a

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way that a tax impact is more acceptable to our residents. The other way we're going to move

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past this issue is with a tax increase. So the real question is, is this drag you want to eat

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100% of the repair cost and 100% of any redistricting cost? Or do we want to pay 50% of a new

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cost. The dollar amount was pretty even between repair and replace, but I don't know what

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redistricting is going to end up costing. We have this opportunity to redesign lower the tax

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impact for new school, decreasing the total cost for residents, but we can't even entertain

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the idea to tell the extension letter is signed. There's talk about increasing economic development

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and drag it to offset tax burden. I think that's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't seem like

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There's a lot of incentive for businesses to move into Drake it.

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And we're not really incentivizing families to move here as well.

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I don't think any more pizza or roast pea places is going to shore up the budget.

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And bigger businesses aren't going to skip right over Drake, go to Boston or go up to New Hampshire

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where they have either a tax incentive or a larger talent pool.

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The only way we're going to remain competitive is if we start to invest in ourselves.

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We have to own our decisions.

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If we say goodbye to the MSPA grant, we're going to pay for repairs and redistricting.

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If we decide to close the school and redistrict families with no other plan, people will

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move.

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Businesses aren't going to move in and save the day of the town continues to spiral.

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We have this opportunity and the board really needs to do something to positively affect

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this town.

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I would encourage everyone and I think we've all seen me up here enough to vote yes,

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on this extension request when the time comes. Don't abstain, don't quibble, vote.

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You guys got to show us what this town, what you stand for in this town,

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drink a voter's deserved to go. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next, Sabrina Heissie, please.

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Good evening. My name is Sabrina Heissie, 1465 Lakeview Ave.

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I listen to Don Plummers interview with Warren Shaw this weekend about why the Campbell School

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Project failed. Don's explanation was incomplete. He blamed the failure to pass the project

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on the stream relationship with the school committee. That is not the answer. The school committee

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did not run this project. They are not in control of capital planning. The Board of Selectman

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did, and this Board failed. So Warren, here's the answer that you were looking for. Josh Taylor.

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Over the last year, Josh has turned too many issues in this town into political battles based on

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opportunities instead of opportunities to solve problems. He damaged relationships, created

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divisions and made it harder for Drake to move forward.

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Look at the relationship with the school committee, instead of building trust, disagreements

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became political theater.

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Two elected boards could not even sit down without a taxpayer-funded mediator.

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That is not leadership.

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Then came the $25,000 school audit.

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It was presented as accountability, but it became another source of conflict.

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This audit is still ongoing, but residents deserve transparency about what problem this audit

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is intended to solve.

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That way this process, the way that this process has been handled already, has damaged more

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relationships.

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Then came to the Campbell School Project.

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Josh Sheller was the only select man to oppose it, and he didn't just vote no, he celebrated

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its failure.

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He posted that he was, quote, honored to stand alone, while congratulations, used stand alone

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while art children sit in outdated classrooms, used stand alone while 82 million dollars

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in state funding might walk away.

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Used stand alone while taxpayers might lose one of the biggest opportunities trick it has

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had in decades.

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that is not something to brag about, that is a failure of leadership and it goes beyond

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Campbell. Josh served at the chair of the Board of Select when for a year and the

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calendar. I would just ask you to, please continue, but do not, one of the things we ask

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in the committee input is no slandering.

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Absolutely. Don, and as my timeout is on this, I'd like to point out that it is not a personal

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attack. A personal attack would be if I said Josh is an angry elf and runs meetings and underground

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rat sewers. Okay, like that's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about public records. All you

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can search yourself. So I will continue. Josh served as chair of the board of select one for a year,

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and the town still lack the planning needed to move projects forward. He never convened a single

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capital planning committee meeting, never appointed a single person to that board.

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On head to clean that one up. Thank you, Don. On economic development under Josh's leadership, there has been none. The board itself admitted that this was a quote,

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object failure in economic development. Yet the answer seems to be asking residents for more money through an operational override next year. That is backwards.

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We also have vacancies on boards on town boards across town because people are tired of politics replacing progress. We've had entire committees such as finance, quit.

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And Warren, you are at the MBTA zoning meeting, you heard Josh say that he hoped it would not pass it all.

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Now, Drake is facing legal action in more lost money over non-compliance, and residents are left dealing with the consequences.

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The Campbell School Project did not fail because of the school committee.

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It failed because the people responsible for moving it forward.

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The people in this room did not have the leadership collaboration and urgency required.

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You asked why the Campbell School Project now you have the answer?

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It was not the school committee's relationship with the Board of Selectman.

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It was this town's leadership and Josh Taylor.

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Next agenda item is time-managers report.

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I don't have the time-manager, but Allison is there anything to report?

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Yes, I just wanted to take a minute in the absence of that report and let you guys know

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that we're seeing a pretty dramatic uptick in requests for records.

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So I just wanted to kind of give a quick overview.

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Happy to answer any questions.

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Generally, when a records request comes in,

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it comes in to the town clerk or it's directed there by staff.

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It then is kind of logged in and goes out to department heads.

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The first thing that we do is look to estimate the number of hours

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that's going to take us to amass all of the records.

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So typically we're looking at emails,

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we're looking at digital files for current staff,

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we're looking at digital files for past staff, we're looking then at paper, active files,

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the ones that are still up in offices, and then ultimately sometimes down in the basement.

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And we take all of that information based on what we found and we estimate how many hours.

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We are allowed to build generally $25 an hour after the first couple of hours.

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We try not to go in that direction unless it's becoming a huge burden on staff.

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So, once that we have a number of hours that goes back to the town clerk, who responds formally to the requester, letting them know that they can either, you know, bring in a check or refine their search, you know, provide generally the most effective way initially to kind of pair things down as with specific dates.

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IE looking for the last six months, the last year as opposed to all of the building records

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on an address and then we're kind of going back to the beginning of time and then people

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in topics, it can be helpful if someone's looking for a specific document or documents on a specific

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topic. It's helpful for staff to kind of have some understanding of that just so that we know

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what we're looking for. So I just wanted to kind of provide that overview

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You know, the town clerk is spending a lot of time on these.

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It impacts all the department heads, ultimately as we're all kind of looking for things.

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And particularly now, you know, well, there's vacation time in the summer,

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but there's also just kind of inadequate staffing.

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So we're seeing more and more, you know,

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that staff and departments are forced to prioritize,

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and that's getting increasingly difficult.

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So just a heads up.

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I would like to thank that freedom of information act in the Massachusetts version of that

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anyways is a just invaluable asset for society that we can ask public officials to produce

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is usually the beneficiary of that, but citizens are allowed to, but if we don't use it

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judiciously, it gets diminished. So I guess that's what. And so specificity would be

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the key word and we will do our best, but we can't stop running the town. And once it takes

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more than two hours of work. I guess we're allowed to pull that trigger on charging.

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Based upon the rate we're paying the town manager, that's $25 is not really

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defraining the costs of the activity. So there's that.

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But I'll continue speaking with you in the

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back about the best way to approach and kind of make sure we can do our best for all the citizens.

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Thank you.

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So I have a quick question on that.

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Who is our records access officer?

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Does it mean in our town hall?

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I would have to confirm this.

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I believe that it's the town clerk.

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Thank you.

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And is it just one point of clarification for my own knowledge?

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is the time-allotment per request or per individual per request?

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In terms of kind of that two hours or yep.

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So it's all of those hours from staff get lumped together.

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And typically there's time to find the records.

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There's also time to go through them and make sure that there isn't anything that needs to be redacted

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to make sure that the results are responsive to what was being sought.

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We try and do that, you know, as economically as possible.

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That said, some of the requests and some of the key words

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and things started, you know, when they get more complicated

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or more to our litigation or something like that,

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then it very quickly rises up.

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And sometimes it's the town manager who needs to go through.

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That's the only person kind of kind of privy to all of the topics covered to weed out what's

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going on.

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And we need to generate an estimate based on each individual request.

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Got it.

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Would it be appropriate for the board to discuss whether additional resources or process improvements

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are needed to support compliance?

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Do you have any input?

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I don't know what is our access to temporary resources.

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do we have? We have, you know, the only labor budget we have is from people who have

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left the town and maybe we're not spending their salaries currently. Everything else

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is budgeted for. So with recent departures, there may be opportunity on a short-term basis

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for additional funding until those positions are filled. That's another way of saying that

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I mean, I think there are temporarily, there are dollars available. I think part of the difficulty is kind of the knowledge and background needed to know where to look.

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So it's not, you know, each, each department has their own set of files.

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So it's, I'm not sure, I don't think a temporary person would be able to come in and know where to look through conservation files or how to access all of the different pieces.

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Sure, so I guess the other question would be, is there temporary resources available to cover those resources that do have that subject matter expertise looking at it from a different perspective.

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So ultimately, we're required by the law to provide the information to provide an estimate of exceeds the time, which is sounds like we're doing.

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Though we do know it's still a resource drain for our current resources with summer schedules and other responsibilities.

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So, I guess the question I would pose is, what approval would be needed to allocate funds

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as needed to obtain interim resources if any approval is needed to help cover that?

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I would suggest we don't know what that is that we would need to approve until the initial

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work is done.

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So, we have to log and then create the estimate.

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I think generally, if I'm understanding, I don't know how viable that would be.

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I had a conversation earlier today with the town clerk as an example, and he's concerned

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looking forward that once we get closer to the election, he needs to focus in the town

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clerk's office to do their current, you know, their regular dog licensing, marriage certificates,

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birth certificates, and elections, legally mandated, and records requests, legally mandated.

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and that's where it starts to get difficult when we're so lean

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that we start to kind of impair our ability to respond to all of the legally required pieces.

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And that's when I, you know, I don't know what we do with that point.

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Yeah, I think our only solution is resources.

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So figuring out what our opportunity is for

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to delay any of those legal requirements that allow us by law

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or ultimately finding additional hands.

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There's also a, we can also argue whether something is a reasonable request.

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So if you say, I want every, I want every email that the time manager has, you know,

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we've received or sent in the last three years.

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And that's going to include with council and perspective employees.

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And so every one of those would have to be reviewed and edited or redacted.

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And it just may not be practical in this.

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So we would have to then go to the state and basically go to the petitioner and ask for if there's a scope that can be reduced,

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which is within the rules.

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And if it can't be, then we can go to Matt to Boston and that's for further relief.

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And further relief can be, you know, charging the, the perated,

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hourly rate of whoever has to work on something by the way.

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So there is a process and there is a problem.

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The time manager would follow that process.

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You can't just ignore it.

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Got it.

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I would only add that I think within that process if it requires like attorneys to look at it, I think that could actually help the 25 bills know as well, right.

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There are any report requests that the assistant time manager can take to the town manager on RBS.

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I'm still waiting for my report on legal cost for the last fiscal year, which I asked for

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and I'll last meeting.

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No, the meeting before last.

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Dallas, and I am still waiting for a debt retirement schedule that is meaningful descriptions

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of what project drove the debt, what their meaning balance is, and what the payment schedule

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is for the duration of the debt.

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Thank you.

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A community calendar,

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summer compost states, the compost site located at Dough and Center

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will be open on Saturdays for the months of joy, August, Dan, September.

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It will accept leaves, brush and grass clippings only with proof of residency.

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The hours of operational will be from ADM to 4 p.m.

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If you have any questions, call the DPW.

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Current Board Committee vacancies.

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The Board of Selectman appointed boards and committees.

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The Affordable Housing Partnership Committee has still won opening.

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The Agricultural Commission, 3 openings,

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Draked Cultural Council five openings for Tom Andrew pointed boards and committees the Board

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of Accessors has two openings capital planning committee seven openings although names

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are coming in for that thank you and the Conservation Commission has one opening for Tom

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moderator pointed boards and committees the finance committee we are still seeking anyone

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who would like to join the Finance Committee from pre-Synx 4-5 and 6.

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And the Drake at Cable Advisory Committee is another, if you're looking for a committee

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that doesn't meet very often, but does really important work in terms of negotiating

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the X contract with the Comcast.

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This is the perfect committee for you, we're looking for four additional members.

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The first agenda item tonight's short agenda list is Wendy Shaw, owner of ML Shaw's restaurant,

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requesting a one day outdoor beer and wine license on Saturday, August 22nd, 2026

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from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 14 room Hill Road.

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Wendy, welcome.

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Thank you.

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Wendy Shaw, 103, Horsheur Road.

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And drink it.

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Some of you know, ML Shaw is celebrating our 40th anniversary the summer.

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We are requesting permission to extend our existing beer in wine license outdoors for the

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anniversary celebration.

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So we can serve beer in the most during the event.

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The event will take.

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It will be a family-friendly community celebration. We'll have our own staff over seeing local health sales. The event is August 22nd. We're requesting our door service from 10 to 4.

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Any questions for the applicant?

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None from me, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to approve.

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Second,

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there's no further deliberation on favor, please say aye. Aye. I have a great time. Thank you very much.

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The next agenda item, William Cassotus, owner of Lazy River Products LLC,

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requesting a one day outdoor bear in wine license on Saturday, September 12,

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2026 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 149 Broadway Road.

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Hello.

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Good to see everybody again.

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Shannon, Tony, in the Palace.

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I know there's some faces I haven't had yet.

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Good to see you both.

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Meet you.

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We're up here.

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First off, I'm William Casotis.

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The CEO of Lisa River Products.

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I'm over at 149 Broadway Road and Drake it.

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This is our, I believe,

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fifth maybe six the year of putting these events on. Over the years we have

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tailored down the number of events when we first started off. We're doing

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many of these maybe eight in a year and now we've got them down to two. Because of

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cost and just a fact we're building for larger events bigger turnouts but

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just a few are of them. So we've already held our first event at the beginning of

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the summer and the event that we're seeking permission for today on September

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12 is our final fall event for the year. We have a couple of live outdoor music acts coming.

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If you don't know, we feed the community for free. Anybody that shows up from town and comes in,

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gets a coupon. If they're 21 years of age or older, a coupon allows them access to food trucks.

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We also do beer and wine on site as well and get the appropriate permitting for that.

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So we are just again. For one more time this year, seeking the boards approval.

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This is a big turn now. We have a lot of community members that turn out for this event not just customers of

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lesie river products from from around the state. A lot of local people turn out for this and it's a great opportunity for us to connect with the local community.

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Yeah, Baron wine is that sold. It is sold. It's represented by bearwolf brewery out of Amesbury, Massachusetts and they've provided the appropriate

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insurances and licenses to be, to be at the event and allow us to take.

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And this is where I turn to Shannon and say this is everything in order.

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Affirmative.

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Great.

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Anyone have any questions for the applicant?

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No.

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Motion to approve.

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Second.

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If there's no further deliberation, everyone of favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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The motion passes very good.

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I appreciate it. Thank you very much guys.

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Great seeing everybody.

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The next agenda item Peter Bartwood.

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Chief of Police.

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Peter is not here tonight,

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but he asked if we will approve

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his stop sign that Harold Avenue

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and Nancy Avenue North.

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I see no reason to question the Chief of Police on this.

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I'll make a motion to approve.

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Second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously.

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And we have a request for

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Gottfried, paying not, paying you to be appointed to the Open Space Committee.

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This application has been approved by the Open Space

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committee, so this is just a formality to welcome God Freight to the Open Space Committee.

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We're looking for a motion.

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Motion to approve.

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Second.

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All in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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Are there any subcommittee reports?

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Maybe from the Solsbury subcommittee, you may be the old watch, it's the old watch, it's the old

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Orchids subcommittee.

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No, we have an education subcommittee or joint subcommittee meeting tomorrow.

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Great.

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In that case, I'll just remind everyone that the next Board of Salatman's meeting is August 11th,

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and the meeting is adjourned.