[15:00] So Roy was there. And very excited that Mr. Pellerin did come because I really was happy that we could provide him with the plaque, thanking him for all of his volunteerism. And I think that was greatly received by everybody that was there. The plaques look great. The stone works looks great. And also I want to thank the Department of Public Works,

[15:29] Jay came as well to support you know the project and he did a lot of work with

[15:37] that too. You know as it ended up being a very hot day we didn't think it was

[15:43] going to be that warm you know this is our first time doing this I think we

[15:47] can tweak a few things we had talked about and you were with me doing the

[15:53] tour Steve over to the Hazelton barn.

[15:58] That was awesome. That tour in that

[16:01] barn was very informative and it was very hot in there. So we did not have

[16:10] water so making some information for the next time and I think we should

[16:15] continue to do this to give people the opportunity to go into these

[16:21] buildings and see what what we're doing and how they can help us move forward with what we're

[16:26] trying to do and restoring all of these buildings. But we needed water and we needed seats. We did

[16:37] have an older generation that you know and we weren't prepared with that. So thank I want to say

[16:44] thank you to Jake for coming with water runs. So I would say you know in the

[16:50] future you know people that struggle with you know such a long walk over I

[16:56] mean it's an eight minute walk but it's uphill and it was a hot day so you

[17:00] know possibly showing them where the parking areas is which there is a little

[17:03] parking area on the side of the road so if they needed to do that they could have

[17:08] part two. But I thought people were very interested and informed with what we're doing.

[17:16] I want to thank Paul Tracy for coming in and talking about the lions. That was interesting.

[17:24] People got to see the lions. They were interested in that. So anybody else have any other feedback

[17:31] and what they felt for the day and how it went?

[17:35] I think it went very smoothly.

[17:38] Yeah, I think it was really good.

[17:39] I mean, it's a great turnout.

[17:41] You know, it was probably at least 60 people, I would think.

[17:44] Yeah, it was just a nice day.

[17:47] It was a good event.

[17:49] It was fairly well organized, you know,

[17:51] for us kind of just pulling it together.

[17:53] Right, they were.

[17:54] First drivers were like, what do you do?

[17:56] Well, I think it was very well organized.

[17:58] Yeah, it was, it was very well organized.

[18:01] Try my best.

[18:02] But there's always those little tweaks that we can make for future times, but I really think that we should continue to do these, you know, at least once a year, if not twice a year, if we can pull it off so that people can see the things that we are updating and the progress and that we definitely need funding for every project that we do.

[18:28] And it doesn't have to be funding through money if you have a company that is

[18:32] interested and knows that they can do this work and you want to donate and

[18:36] volunteer that way like Roger Pellerin did. You know we're open to those

[18:42] donations as well. Okay all right so next update on the Lions Pride

[18:50] restoration project. Lee is in the, I should say Paul, Paul Tracy is in the process right

[18:58] now of cleaning the stones. I know that I haven't seen what he's been doing the last week

[19:06] or so, but I did send him out an email asking him if he could let me know as the project

[19:16] moves forward? What are the steps that he's doing? Anybody else have any

[19:22] information on the lines? The last time you mentioned that the idea of

[19:28] putting the lions in the cage wasn't feasible because there was no way how

[19:33] they can put them in. And I check it out and I think from the top if we get a big

[19:40] crane they could be put in from the top of what from the top of the

[19:46] the former cage lying cage the lion cage so the the one thing that we would

[19:53] have to do on that is they have to be enclosed like from weathering so we'd

[19:57] have to build a roof but they would have to build a roof anyway so that's another

[20:03] idea I mean we can write that down I think it it will be good kind of statement

[20:09] a good show if the lions would be in the lion's cage.

[20:13] Okay.

[20:14] That's a good idea.

[20:15] Do you want to look into that and maybe see about like cost-wise if we were to put

[20:21] them in there and the DPW if in fact they could get a crane to lift them in there?

[20:26] Okay.

[20:26] I can look at it.

[20:27] Can I head that project?

[20:28] Yeah.

[20:28] Okay.

[20:29] Thank you.

[20:32] I know I mean if they if they do possibly get done by the end of this year we'll be looking

[20:38] to place them by next spring, you know, in a permanent location.

[20:44] So if we can, you know, start looking at ideas and building, and, you know, if you have

[20:49] a company and the other idea that we had was building a gazebo, with kind of plexiglass

[20:55] around it, so it's covered, kids can't get in and sit on them, things like that.

[21:02] And the weathering, you know, maybe you have a company and you'll be willing to do that.

[21:07] Please let us know but that was another idea that we had too. Do we have any idea how much they wait?

[21:13] They're like two thousand pounds.

[21:17] Yeah, so I think if we look into all different ideas we can come up with something that will work

[21:24] I think the the main thing is is moving them as the least as possible because they're even when they do get you know fixed or a little bit

[21:34] They're still going to be very fragile

[21:39] Thank you, Jan. Okay. Um, so all right, gee

[21:45] The Board of Selectment update on alligator alley bridge replacement

[21:50] approval of donation

[21:52] Thank you, Jan on that. I was looking at you to put the pile for the foundation

[21:58] It was about a month ago and since then nothing happens. I don't know

[22:04] if they're waiting for the custom built beams or whatever stories but I

[22:10] go contact Jay and I will ask him if they have any time schedule when they

[22:16] want to do it. All right, great, thank you. And I know this, we originally asked for

[22:21] eight-foot wide bridge and the purpose is six-foot so I think it should be okay.

[22:34] And also they did a lot of feeling there, because there was a very, you know,

[22:40] a very gentle feeling with the clash stone big.

[22:44] And also they proposed that they're going to be some paving done after the bridge is done

[22:49] to make it nice.

[22:50] Yeah.

[22:51] It's going to be great.

[22:52] I'm very excited.

[22:53] I think I showed some of the pictures last time of what they're proposing to do.

[22:59] And I think the bridge looks great.

[23:02] I think the last I heard from Jay is that they were just waiting on the construction to get done, but he felt that it would probably get done by the end of the summer.

[23:15] Yeah.

[23:17] I noticed there was on the other side there was big tree for a couple weeks ago and

[23:26] they removed the tree. You can tell you don't need it. They're very quick with that.

[23:31] They did a good job on it. Yeah. I feel like lately we've been losing a lot of trees, but

[23:38] they're old. So that's why we need replacement trees. Anybody wants to donate a tree. We also

[23:43] have that coming up and actually I'll just say this now we do have one person

[23:48] that is doing a memorial treat and if people are interested in doing a

[23:55] memorial treat this year you'll want to get on that right now because they

[23:59] usually will be planting them in October. So if you're interested and you wanted

[24:05] to do that but you weren't sure when your opportunity won't be again until next

[24:12] October, if you don't get it in this October, so if you want to give us a call, reach out

[24:18] on the Benson's Park website, and we'll get back to you.

[24:25] All right, thank you, Jan.

[24:27] You were home.

[24:28] All right, so H, Review of Ordinance is listed on the Park Usage form, rough draft.

[24:36] I'm going to put that over to Evan, which I have the rough draft right here.

[24:42] So yeah, so I know this we've been kind of chipping away at this over the last couple

[24:47] months.

[24:47] At our July meeting, I had talked about some minor suggested edits.

[24:54] I sent that version of the signage with those edits to where I saw her incident just to

[25:00] get his guidance on kind of how to move for this forward through the BOS.

[25:04] Yes, he connected me with Deputy Chief McLeanie from Hudson PD, which was really helpful

[25:10] just because given that kind of a lot of the enforcement for these things is a partnership

[25:16] with Hudson PD.

[25:18] We wanted to make sure that they were aware of some of these changes we were looking at

[25:22] albeit minor changes, so Steve looked at those.

[25:27] He was comfortable with our proposed changes, didn't see any concerns.

[25:31] The only suggestion that he had that we didn't talk about our last meeting was, he felt

[25:38] that the operating hours were a little bit unnecessarily cumbersome, kind of changing

[25:45] the operating hours four times a year.

[25:48] He felt like that was potentially a source of confusion for patrons and for the police.

[25:54] So he said, if we could kind of get that simplified, my suggestion, which was on the draft that

[26:00] that I sent you earlier this week was just going to Dawn to Dusk, which is pretty standard

[26:07] for park cemeteries, outdoor public venues.

[26:11] And that seems to be what those hour changes seem to be getting at, was kind of following

[26:15] the sunset, so just saying Dawn to Dusk.

[26:19] Yeah, and I agree because when I look at that, I'm like, it just takes too much time to read.

[26:26] So I agree with that. I think that is a great idea to change that too.

[26:32] Yeah and really it's like the sun doesn't set two hours earlier on October 1st.

[26:37] So this is really just giving people more time to enjoy the park.

[26:41] So I did send that draft to folks earlier in the week.

[26:44] If people are comfortable with that our next step would be to send it to VOS to make sure that they're comfortable.

[26:54] Again, there weren't significant changes, so we'll see what Roy says in terms of whether

[27:00] he feels like the changes are such that we would need to kind of go to a meeting or whether

[27:06] they'll just give us the okay, and then once either way, once that's okay, we'd be good

[27:11] to go to move forward with updating sign edge, and Roy said to just kind of work with DPW and

[27:16] their vendors to get those replaced.

[27:18] Yeah, and we'll have to put that on for the DPW, for their park usage form and then put it on the website, our website too.

[27:32] Yeah, I have something to say.

[27:35] Now the forum for usage of park is issued or approved by the DPW.

[27:43] Yes, it's always been, yeah.

[27:44] Yeah, and I think we should be including the procedure so we know that there is group there today or tomorrow so we can kind of monitor it if somebody is violating it.

[27:57] Now we don't know. There is 15 people there and you don't know if they have permit or not. So it would be nice if you could, if we could be include in the loop for the approval of the usage.

[28:09] Okay, so the monitoring piece is what we talked about in other conversations is how I do not want to have to go talk to people because we don't know how they're going to react to that.

[28:28] being that we're not authorities.

[28:33] So if anything maybe they could have it

[28:36] sent to the police department.

[28:39] Like we can't monitor, we can't go around asking people

[28:42] do you have a permit or not permit or you don't have a permit

[28:44] and you have to leave.

[28:46] We as a committee can't do that.

[28:48] But this way we wouldn't have to because we will have the

[28:52] list of the people approved.

[28:54] So, if there are, if there are 15 people and they don't have permit, we, there are not

[29:00] on our list, we know, so we can call probably police and ask them to leave.

[29:06] Okay.

[29:06] So, so we wouldn't have to be monitoring, we just, we, somebody would, that is monitoring.

[29:12] Yeah, it is monitoring.

[29:13] Where just, we're not the enforcement body, the, the husband, police, or men would be the

[29:18] enforcing body.

[29:20] Yeah.

[29:20] I think if anything they could you know we could look into maybe having it

[29:24] sent to the police department these are the people that are designated you know

[29:28] that have permission to be in the park so if you're coming into the park and

[29:33] you know such as what I saw when I came in in an evening and saw that you know

[29:40] we had trash overflowing and music loud I did go speak to the people and they

[29:46] were very receptive to that and they were oh I'm sorry and you know pick up and we'll

[29:50] take care of it but in all honesty like we shouldn't be doing

[30:00] Not because you don't know how people react.

[30:07] So I do agree that we need to come up with some type of a plan, but, you know, I'm not going to walk around. I get what you're saying. If you're here in the park and you see, okay, well, I see that there's this group, but you, you know, you can't really go over and say, hi, are you this group? Oh, you're not. You're going to go like, you know, we don't want to. It's not our place. It's not our place.

[30:34] but I agree with you. I mean, we need we need to have more police presence in the park. I think we've talked about hi, Harry.

[30:44] So asking the Department of Public Works, you know, I mean, they could send us an email. We could ask for them to send us.

[30:52] I mean, it doesn't hurt to send it to us, but I mean, we all know that there's only

[30:58] supposed to be two groups on enemy given, and there's always more, but we can't enforce

[31:04] that.

[31:05] You know, I don't really, we haven't figured out.

[31:07] It's between the DPW and the Hudson Police Department.

[31:10] Yeah.

[31:12] So something to think about if somebody comes up with another type of idea that I built

[31:17] definitely think it would be more so, you know, the police department getting that information

[31:23] from the BW coordinating.

[31:26] All right, so thank you, Evan, and let us know if, you know, keep us posted on how it

[31:37] comes along.

[31:38] The other thing that I wanted to ask you, and we'll ask as a board, we're looking to kind

[31:46] to cross this off on one of my other things that I have.

[31:48] We're looking to update the kiosk.

[31:50] I've been working with Lori over at the BOS and we're going to make changes to the map

[32:03] because it's not current.

[32:04] It doesn't have the bathrooms listed.

[32:05] It doesn't have, you know, I think the fire memorial that's not listed.

[32:12] So we were going to make some changes and put in a new colored map because it's kind of faded.

[32:22] The other thing is there's like a whole other section for this and basically the rules

[32:30] and regulations is this white thing that looks like this.

[32:35] I was thinking maybe to get people's attention to actually look at it.

[32:40] And I've seen other signs that have picture logos that kind of go with it to make it more colorful, so you know, again, we might have visitors that don't read English.

[32:54] So you could have, I mean, I'm not saying put in another language, but we could have, you know, symbols, symbols that people can recognize.

[33:02] And then at least the ones that are most important and the rest can be text underneath it.

[33:07] Exactly.

[33:08] So where is this going to go?

[33:10] So when you walk into the park, there's the main kiosk.

[33:13] There's a big map of the park, and that needs to be updated.

[33:18] So I've been working with Laurie on that.

[33:20] She already has it done, and she's got a printer there too that she printed out in big.

[33:26] We just laminated it and put it in there.

[33:28] So this is probably the Tiger Cage?

[33:31] No.

[33:32] It's the parking lot.

[33:33] It's the main entrance.

[33:34] Oh wow.

[33:35] Okay.

[33:35] And that's where I put my postings like if we have events or things like that.

[33:41] And then on the other side, there's like this looks like a white, big posting, but

[33:47] nobody's going to like sit there and look at it.

[33:49] It's not very eye catching or enticing.

[33:53] So I had talked to Lori about possibly, you know, maybe putting some icons, you know, to

[34:00] kind of like show people that maybe don't speak English so that they understand what the

[34:04] do's and don'ts and I see these on other signs at other parks it's just more eye-catching and

[34:10] even kids could look at it who can't read and go okay well that means don't do that

[34:17] so anyways does anybody want to you know anybody think that's a good idea and think that we

[34:24] should move forward to replacing that one as well and making it more friendly.

[34:33] I can't change

[34:34] move forward with that. I make the motion to approve the information on the

[34:39] Q's. Okay. I'll second. Okay. All in favor? All right. Okay. All right. Do you

[34:46] want to work with Laurie on that this part or do you want me to after you get it done?

[34:52] Yeah. Once um when I reach out to her I can say that kind of my first of all get

[34:58] these get it approved just to make sure that the regulations are all set and then I can

[35:01] also kind of let him know that our hope would also be to make it a little bit more visually

[35:09] appealing and we can work with Laurie on that.

[35:11] On the main board.

[35:13] Because that's where these are.

[35:14] Yeah.

[35:15] Are now.

[35:15] Yes.

[35:16] Yeah.

[35:16] So when we replace it, we replace it with something that has a little bit more pop to it.

[35:21] That was just my thoughts.

[35:23] And the other thing is I've noticed that the kiosk is getting a little weathered and needs

[35:28] to be painted and a little bit stained. I don't know if there might be a

[35:38] boy scout or a girl scout that might be interested in taking that on as a

[35:43] project but anybody here is of anybody.

[35:51] I know we talked about it the other day

[35:54] was mad that it needs to be updated. So that's where I'm coming with like, okay, we need to

[36:00] update this. So I'm hoping we have the right paint and stuff because I know that's the issue

[36:06] with the. I found that I've Dick and I found the color. I have it. So yeah, I do have the exact

[36:15] paint color now. That's good. So if anybody, you know, any group, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts want to do

[36:23] this as a project, or if anybody knows of anybody that would be interested in doing this,

[36:29] staying and updating it, you know, inside, like we can, I have the code to get inside

[36:35] of there.

[36:37] You know, it needs to be like there's cobwebs and stuff, like clean that up.

[36:42] So anyways, just, you know, I'm looking to kind of make it look a little more sharp and

[36:47] more updated.

[36:47] It could be done in the volunteer days because the staining is no really big science

[36:53] just need an oil or a brush and sunny day.

[36:58] Yep.

[36:59] You could do that too.

[37:00] I'll take a look at it.

[37:01] Maybe I'll consider doing it.

[37:04] All right.

[37:05] All right.

[37:05] So just throw it out.

[37:06] I'm just coming up with some plans but it was definitely somebody was saying that our maps

[37:12] were not correct.

[37:13] And this and that.

[37:13] So I'm like, yeah, we need to kind of update, get with the time.

[37:17] Interesting history of that kiosk. It's been moved three times because the parking lot changed three times. Oh, really? Yeah fun fact. Yes

[37:28] So anyways, all right, we'll move forward with that. Thank you Evan that done hopefully this year. I mean get get all of that done

[37:39] All right, so the next I safety in the parking lot speed level dog park coming cars DPW

[37:46] I meant to take some pictures. I have the before pictures, but I wanted to throw in pictures

[37:52] of the after, but I didn't get a chance to do that before tonight's meeting. But anybody

[37:57] coming to the park, it looks awesome. Like you can definitely see when you drive down.

[38:02] There's the dog park. You know, as for the speed immediately after, I did see that we have

[38:10] speed signs. I don't, are they still there?

[38:12] No, there's no speed. No, I don't think so. No, there's like when you drive in it blinks your speed on the side of the road.

[38:19] Yeah, but they're not blinking.

[38:21] When you drive by, it wasn't telling you your speed.

[38:25] It worked for a short period of time, but I live right there. I go buy it every day.

[38:29] Yeah, I'd saw it right away and I was like, oh good, they did that.

[38:33] And it made me kind of look at my speed as well.

[38:40] but I don't know why the other day I'm like are they on anymore? I get a look. I

[38:46] didn't notice it. So I hope they continue with that because I think more than one

[38:51] week we need to continue with having those on so that people realize their

[38:56] speed as they're you know driving by the entrances to the park. They had one

[39:01] going one way and the other way so both ways. I noticed that the police department

[39:07] and they hesitate to put their speed limit sign.

[39:10] Is there any reason why they don't want to put the speed sign

[39:14] there on the entrance?

[39:18] Now, they could put 10 miles speed limit or something.

[39:22] Now, we talked about that.

[39:24] It could be an option.

[39:25] There's a bunch of signs there already,

[39:27] so they just don't want to have too many signs.

[39:30] But it's something that they can change.

[39:32] Yeah, they talked about that.

[39:33] I know you weren't here at the last meeting, but we have a long

[39:36] It's a long discussion, it's possible, but it sounded like as for the DPW and, you know, it's just too many signs and people wouldn't really do that.

[39:49] But I thought those little speed sign things, like I saw them immediately and I was like, ugh, looking at my speed.

[39:57] So I'm hoping they're still up.

[39:58] But putting the speed sign, I think it is not simple thing on the public road, you need

[40:03] to have approval for Department of Transportation to change the speed sign.

[40:08] But this is on private land, so that's probably wouldn't need to be approved by the Department

[40:14] of Transportation.

[40:16] Well, we could look into it again, we had a long conversation about it.

[40:21] Is that the town that put those up or who put those up?

[40:25] I think the police puts those up.

[40:28] you know what I'm talking about right? You have better the hard way. I want to look when I

[40:36] drive out there. All right so we'll move on to. So we want to follow up with somebody to find out

[40:50] why they're not working.

[40:53] Or are they even still there? I have to go back and look I went away for a

[40:58] week. So I haven't, like, I came back and I'm like, I

[41:02] the other day, I'm like, are they still there? I don't, I

[41:04] haven't seen them. But yeah, if you want to there and they're

[41:06] not working, I'll try to follow up and find out why they're not

[41:08] working. All right. Thank you, Steve. And why they took them

[41:13] down? Because I think it was a good idea.

[41:16] Okay. So J, Erickson

[41:19] Foundation Solutions, volunteer day inquiry. I have sent

[41:24] another email asking if and when they're going to be able to come over to look at the building,

[41:38] but I know Jay wanted to be there as well with him, so I'm going to be going back to work next

[41:44] week for, so I'm not going to be available during the day. So Steve, I might ask you,

[41:51] You know, when if they need to get into the basement or if he needs to, you know, if I

[41:58] can't be there to have him come in and walk Ericsson Foundation, you know, in the basement

[42:04] of the kitchen.

[42:06] Thank

[42:11] you.

[42:11] Or if anybody else is going to be around, bring him in.

[42:15] But I'll let you know.

[42:16] I mean, she hasn't gotten back.

[42:17] She's like, oh, I'll get back to you.

[42:19] So hopefully that will be soon.

[42:22] And K, damage to the lower parking lot outside of the dog park, the swale for the water

[42:29] damage extended.

[42:30] That is completed.

[42:33] They, like within one week, cut down the trees to show the dog park, extended the swale

[42:41] for the erosion and they fixed the little parking area too down there.

[42:45] That was all ripped up.

[42:47] So, thank you very much for the DPW for getting all these things done. Check it off our list.

[42:57] So, that's done. I update on the Benson's Park Volunteer Cleanup. August 15th. I had Ellen.

[43:05] I was unable to be there. I know Nathan wasn't there. So, Jake, how'd it go?

[43:11] That was great. You know, a really good turnout. It was like 20 over 20 volunteers.

[43:17] Yeah, everybody was, you know, working together and bopping around and getting things done.

[43:22] And yeah, I think the park looks really good.

[43:24] Yeah, and you did, I did get an inquiry from that.

[43:27] A woman that had volunteered, she, I actually just met with her, possibly doing an adoptive spot.

[43:35] So right before I came here, I walked around with her.

[43:38] and I think I found another doctor spot.

[43:42] Awesome.

[43:42] So, that was good to be at least, you got that out of that too.

[43:46] Great.

[43:46] Everybody said it was great as far as I saw.

[43:49] Yeah, the weather was beautiful, yeah, it was really, it was good.

[43:51] And I want to say thank you, I did see the pictures from Amy Campbell for her Girl Scout

[43:58] troop.

[43:58] I want to thank her troop for providing the meals and sandwiches, I believe, and water.

[44:06] So, thank you very much.

[44:14] X1 update on the art in the park. So show you some pictures here. So we had a

[44:27] free art in the park that was on it. It had been a previous day but it had to be

[44:33] moved because of rain to August 5th. We had Amanda. I'm going to probably say her name

[44:37] incorrectly. Bluice, blu, bluice. From color bloom to celebrate the Benson's

[44:44] Wild Animal Farm Centennial. She came in and did a free art class for kids.

[44:51] She had her little sign. It's a couple pictures she sent me.

[45:02] Here's some of the things they made. Some of the kids doing their art. Should clay, little leka do clay, or they could do watercolors. It looked like the kids had a great time. It was quite a few kids that came that day. She said it was, it was definitely a very popular event. So I want to say thank you to her. Got another time. So

[45:42] we already talked about the kiosk and the map.

[45:45] do's and don'ts for N. So we can cross that out. And oh, the Benson's Park Entrance

[45:55] Sign Replacements, DPW. I have not had a chance to contact Jay to see, but he did mention

[46:07] that they were looking into places that would be able to replace the Entrance Signs because

[46:13] head is there basically held together with some wood in the back and the paint's coming

[46:19] off and so he said that he was looking into getting a company to get those fixed hopefully

[46:27] or replaced. So I haven't had a chance to touch base with him but I'll do that to find

[46:35] out. Those are made by a volunteer and they're a remake of the sign that you saw in the barn

[46:43] at the Hazelton barn so they were free to the committee at the time so and they're

[46:50] they've been close to 20 years old now.

[46:55] I heard they came from a lot of

[46:58] early green ones the ones in the front when you first come in yeah yeah so we're

[47:04] four of them I think are there three there's two that we have two okay yeah

[47:12] Yeah, maybe there were, we thought there were four of there were only three and we used two that sort of was yeah

[47:18] So yeah, so the Department of Public Works. He said that because I have been asking

[47:22] You know about getting those replaced that they need to be replaced

[47:27] Because they are falling apart

[47:29] So he came in our last meeting and let us know that he was in the process of finding a company to replace them

[47:35] So thank you Jay and I will touch base with him

[47:40] So, key. Trash disposal signs and signs for the park usage posted on the A-frame and

[47:50] amphitheater.

[47:53] Like I said, we talked about at the last meeting how people are overflowing

[48:00] the trash cans. And we only have two trash pickup days. And so we came up with the solution

[48:07] in the Department of Public Works was in favor of that as well, is to get some type of a sticker

[48:14] sign to put on the trash barrels that says, you know, basically what we would like them to do.

[48:20] Do not put your trash on the side if you have a party with 50 pizza boxes. You can't leave that

[48:26] on the ground because the animals will come, shred them and they'll be all over the park.

[48:31] So, we talked about what we would be doing, you know, to help the process, you know, if

[48:39] we do have a dumpster, you know, in the parking lot, that if they had extra trash and they

[48:44] needed to put it in there, they could do that.

[48:46] But do not overfill the trash barrels, or if they look like they're going to be too full,

[48:52] take your trash out, either take it home and dispose of it at your house, or put it in the

[48:58] And then we also talked again, Evan, about putting some type of information at the A-frame

[49:10] about park usage, that they, you know, and how they can, if they want to, you know, use

[49:15] the A-frame for a party or get together, how to go about doing that, and we are going to

[49:20] post it.

[49:21] I don't know if anybody is interested in looking into this and finding like where we can

[49:27] have these stickers made and what they can look like and if anybody wants to take

[49:31] over that I mean we'd have to count how many trash cans there are for the

[49:39] stickers and that would be including the dog park because they're also having

[49:45] some issues I

[49:50] don't have any information I didn't I haven't looked around or

[49:53] checked in on that but I don't know if anybody else is interested in taking that

[49:56] project on. If not, we'll just kind of, if anybody has time, look around. When you're

[50:04] scrolling on your phone at night, and maybe it's listening to us, so then something might

[50:09] pop up tonight when we're scrolling. That's how I always find things. I'm like, oh, look

[50:14] at that. I was just talking about that today.

[50:18] Or if anybody knows of a place that we can

[50:20] get stickers or signs made, I mean, I'm thinking it would be more of like a sticker to put

[50:26] on the trash barrels. Yeah, and the trash barrels should be a sticker. Yeah, I mean printing

[50:31] stickers is easy. It's more about, you know, what is the right language and artwork and whatever

[50:37] it to be on those forms and making sure it goes through the proper channels to be approved

[50:42] by a DVW and or the BOS.

[50:47] But he's good at the executing part is easy. Well, you know what,

[50:51] maybe I could, another thing I can ask Laurie likes to do that. So maybe I'll ask Laurie

[50:55] because she's really good at it. She'll just go, just come up with a, and then.

[51:00] Yeah, so you can create like the language.

[51:03] Yeah.

[51:04] Alright, I will ask her.

[51:10] When did they pick up the trash?

[51:12] I'm sorry?

[51:13] When do they pick up the trash?

[51:15] I think it's like Tuesday, because it was the Sunday night and then I was there and he's like,

[51:20] and that's when I had to call.

[51:22] So just so that you know if you happen to see,

[51:25] I have the DPW. I have them on my speed dial. So I'm like, we got a problem here. This whole

[51:35] park is going to be shredded with trash at the morning. So he actually did get somebody

[51:42] to come down Sunday night to empty them because it wasn't just two of them were flowing.

[51:48] There was a lot of them that were overflowing. That's why that's when we kind of came up

[51:52] with, we can't, you know, we have to come up with a sign or a sticker to put on them

[51:56] to let people know. You can't do that.

[51:59] Do they still have a dumpster in the parking lot? Or is that gone?

[52:02] The dumpsters there. I mean, that's what I was saying.

[52:04] People don't use it. No, I mean, but I don't know if they know that they can,

[52:07] because there is a legal dumping, you know, people, you can't put like,

[52:12] yeah, you can't take trash from home and

[52:14] you can't take like a mattress in there, because you don't want to go.

[52:19] But I think people are probably more worried about that.

[52:22] So, you know, if not, I mean, you have to take your trash home and put it in your own trash.

[52:28] Where is the dumpster? I didn't see it.

[52:30] It's right near the dog park.

[52:33] Okay.

[52:33] It's right in front of the dog park.

[52:35] So, when you leave here, you could probably see it from the, when you come in.

[52:41] Okay.

[52:42] So, I'll look into that.

[52:44] I mean, I think the easiest thing is come up with, like you said, like come up with this little slogan thing

[52:48] and then get the Department of Public Works to approve it.

[52:51] Some, I'm sure there's a place that you can get stickers.

[52:55] That's super easy.

[52:57] Stick it around.

[52:58] VistaPrin or science.com, super cheap.

[53:01] Let's chip it to you in three days.

[53:03] Two days.

[53:06] Science.com.

[53:08] Yep, or VistaPrin.

[53:13] It's just whatever the PDF is.

[53:15] You just upload it in print.

[53:17] Cool.

[53:17] Done.

[53:17] Very cool.

[53:19] So hopefully we can get that done sooner than later.

[53:24] but I'll contact Lori and see if she has time.

[53:27] If not, I'll anybody is good at that kind of thing.

[53:31] I'm not good at it.

[53:34] OK, new business.

[53:37] Evan, you know about this, and we did add this

[53:39] to our park rules and regulations.

[53:46] Smoke bombs in the park.

[53:50] Apparently it's the new thing now to use smoke bombs for your pictures when

[53:59] you're having your senior pictures.

[54:03] I happen to be the person that got to

[54:05] go over and tell her that you can't have smoke bombs in this park and it's

[54:13] like a bomb and you pull it and it goes boom and any color smoke that you

[54:19] want red, orange, yellow, whatever will come out. And it's like a big giant cloud of color

[54:28] which I actually have a picture of it. Oh my god.

[54:35] Yeah, you can't have those here. It's a part

[54:38] it's Evan checked in and it because I was like how we need to obviously spell this out because

[54:43] is these photographers, is this a new thing

[54:46] that they're doing now and you can't do that

[54:49] in the park?

[54:50] No.

[54:52] Anyways, she wasn't too happy with me

[54:54] and I did end up having to call the police

[54:56] because she was getting unruly when I asked her

[54:59] to do that, the photographer.

[55:01] I don't know.

[55:02] Did you tell us the day of the...

[55:04] Yes, that was the day of the big event

[55:06] that we had.

[55:07] We had the bands here and it was like,

[55:10] we had a lot of people on the property

[55:12] and at first people thought it was a part of the concert,

[55:17] because this big cloud of red smoke was coming through

[55:20] and I'm like, nope, this is part of the concert.

[55:25] So I did go speak to the woman I'm asking her,

[55:28] like, what are you doing?

[55:29] You can't do that, and she got very angry with me.

[55:33] I just want to make sure that people, photographers

[55:38] that come to our park and use our park to take pictures

[55:43] can not do that.

[55:47] Now, do we need permits to take the pictures in the park?

[55:50] No.

[55:52] But you cannot use any type of firework or smoke bombs in the park.

[56:00] And I don't know if it's a new thing now and people are going to do that, I worry about

[56:04] the gender reveals.

[56:05] You know, we have people that come in and do the gender reveal in pop-up balloon and confetti

[56:09] goes everywhere.

[56:10] And then they don't pick up the confetti and then it's the we have animals in the park. So

[56:15] It's just kind of like I was talking to Evan. I'm like do we do we have to really spell this out?

[56:21] Those smoke bombs, but I think we do

[56:25] Was that only one incident or more than one?

[56:29] Who knows but I mean if she's doing it. I'm wondering if this is a new thing like, you know how they always have like the new thing for this year

[56:36] You know, the gender reveals that wasn't anything that we did.

[56:44] Our reveal was surprised.

[56:46] You guessed it.

[56:47] You guessed it.

[56:47] It was gonna be nobody knew.

[56:51] But anyways, so Evan did add that to the paperwork.

[56:59] You know, spelling.

[57:00] Sorry.

[57:01] Alright,

[57:08] so the next one.

[57:14] Approval process for event posting.

[57:16] for friends of Ensign's Park and Hudson Dog Park.

[57:22] So it was brought to my attention that, you know,

[57:25] the Family Fund Day,

[57:28] they have little stakes

[57:31] that go on the ground that somebody's been taking their postings

[57:36] and saying that they, I don't know who's doing it,

[57:39] but somebody's taking them and getting rid of them.

[57:42] So I would like to make an approval process

[57:47] us for event posting for, you know, when people, if we have friends in

[57:51] Benz's park that wants to have an event at the park, same thing with the dog park.

[57:56] If they come and talk to us about the event, and we would like to post these

[58:01] signs, just the same as when we post a sign, we get it approved from the BOS.

[58:07] And then we can post the signs for the event.

[58:12] I wanted to come up with a process so that we can have it in writing so

[58:16] So that there is, you know, people, you know, maybe there are other people that, from

[58:24] the past in the park, like yourself, that think that they can't do that.

[58:28] But I don't see a problem with it, and I don't know if we want to entertain a motion for

[58:34] making a process that they would come and ask us if they can post a sign for their event

[58:39] that they're happening, and then they would have to get approval from the BOS, and then they

[58:44] can put their sign like for the Family Fund day. Like I'm thinking her sign was mixed

[58:49] in for the Family Fund day with all of those other people who are advertising for Senate

[58:57] and so on and so forth. And it's kind of mixed in there. And I'm like, well, we should

[59:01] have that. So we get a good attendance under the Benson's Park sign. Like, so people see

[59:07] it. You know, you can't post signs in the park advertising for your business or that

[59:14] that you're going to have an event, you have to get approval because we don't do that

[59:20] in the park.

[59:20] Okay.

[59:21] You also cannot post political signs on town property.

[59:25] Exactly.

[59:25] Right.

[59:26] So that's what we have out here.

[59:28] Well, I believe that side of the property where it is, is that our property or is that our

[59:36] Our property is in front of this building, right?

[59:39] Yeah.

[59:40] And that's the land.

[59:42] No, they're not putting it in front of the park only one person did one person though those people I end up pulling their sign out

[59:48] But then they're also on Monday 11. There's a few that that's our property are the town's property also the town

[1:00:00] And it's a violation of the code of ethics. Yes. Yeah, I looked it up. Yes, it is. And they should be removed. And there is one on there that's a person that should know better.

[1:00:13] So maybe we remove them. Or if somebody feels that they can go. I don't know if we can remove them with a bizarre place to remove them. I guess we should notify the town. Because we've got this event coming up.

[1:00:29] the hundredth anniversary. Well, that's what I mean. And her sign should not be mixed in with those.

[1:00:35] Right. I think her sign. And this is what I talked about it with Natalie on the phone yesterday.

[1:00:40] And I said, your signs mixed in. Why is it not over? She's like, because if you have approval to have it,

[1:00:46] then it should be fine. So anyways, do we want to entertain, you know, that we make a

[1:00:57] some type of a process so that going down in the future that people you know if

[1:01:04] they're having an event either be the dog park or friends events and that they

[1:01:08] need to have the approval. I mean I I don't know why people are moving her

[1:01:12] sign. I really don't but apparently they are. It's not going to stop people from

[1:01:16] yeah I was going to say the same thing like I think it just it makes more work for

[1:01:20] us and it's not going to stop anything. I still think we need to have like some

[1:01:24] If you have an approval process and within the committee to control the park, otherwise you're going to have friends doing one thing or the dog park doing another.

[1:01:32] Exactly, that's why I'm.

[1:01:33] It should all be under this authority.

[1:01:36] Exactly.

[1:01:36] I still think the VOS should be involved.

[1:01:39] Well, yeah, they have every little.

[1:01:40] Yeah.

[1:01:41] I mean, that's why I'm saying like an approval process.

[1:01:45] So do we want to say like we could approve it?

[1:01:48] the our committee. So it would come to us first. So the Benson's Park.

[1:01:58] And then I should notify the

[1:02:00] Board of Selectmen that they may have a rule it. Notify. Well, they have to in order to have this

[1:02:08] event, they have to get permission by the Board of Selectors. But and they're going to notify we're

[1:02:14] going to is it okay for us to put up a sign. I mean, I have to do it even to put up the volunteer. I have

[1:02:20] have that sign approved as well. Right. I just don't want to like I don't want us to be

[1:02:26] responsible for going to the BOS for somebody else's like if it's the friends then the friend should

[1:02:31] go to the BOS for that. Right. Right. It seems like they're going to come to us and then we go to them.

[1:02:36] Yeah. I think we just want to cover that. Yeah. Have us notify them but then they are very

[1:02:42] responsible for getting the permission from the board to select. Right. So they're going to notify us

[1:02:47] So they're having an event and they're going to put signs up.

[1:02:49] Right.

[1:02:50] Well, they don't put signs up till they get permission.

[1:02:52] Right.

[1:02:53] OK.

[1:02:54] If it comes to us first, then to the next board of

[1:02:57] selection meeting, which is the time window, weeks.

[1:03:01] That's why we have to do everything very like it.

[1:03:04] You can't just do it like.

[1:03:06] I mean, her sign is there.

[1:03:08] She obviously has permission to have it from the board of

[1:03:10] selection.

[1:03:10] But I'm just I'm coming up with a process so that people

[1:03:13] will understand moving forward, anybody on this board, you don't have the right to go move

[1:03:19] her sign if she has it in front of there because it's been happening.

[1:03:25] So you should be notified, goes to the board, and then we should be notified.

[1:03:30] Okay.

[1:03:30] So we're saying, yeah.

[1:03:32] So you're saying go to the BOS first and then we should be, I think they should notify

[1:03:37] us.

[1:03:37] We want to have, we want to have this and I'd be like, oh, that's a great idea.

[1:03:41] I think it comes to us first, then the BOS.

[1:03:43] Right, we don't have to present it to the BLS, I can have them do it themselves.

[1:03:49] Yeah, but I do think they should come and let us know, hey, we're going to be doing this and

[1:03:55] blah blah blah. Because then we can advertise it and we can, you know, see if we can help with the event.

[1:04:04] Does everybody agree on that? Do you think that any other things that we should add?

[1:04:14] people want to put up the sign code of the board and prove and then we're notified or not we're notified or not so it's not approved and then they can't put their sign up and they're not having there in any event

[1:04:36] that we have at the park at like even when the the um so I'm going to move forward like add a

[1:04:44] little bit to this um you know we've had other people that have come into the park and saying

[1:04:49] that they're having a free yoga free this or free that and then they advertise their business

[1:04:54] they can't do that that's soliciting they can do it under us if if we want to support this as

[1:05:01] a Benson's Park event that's free as like a donation type of thing. Then you can work

[1:05:11] it that way. And that's how I did that with the part in the park. We had been trying

[1:05:17] to look for somebody to do a free art in the park this year and everybody that we found

[1:05:21] wanted money so she's like no I'll do it you know and I and it went really well

[1:05:28] so I did get the postings made and approved by the Board of Selectmen before we

[1:05:35] put anything out so everything has to be approved all right so anybody want to

[1:05:45] Make a, my brain's getting a little tired right now.

[1:05:50] Make a motion.

[1:05:53] Thank you.

[1:05:55] Somebody helped me.

[1:05:56] Make a motion about that approving the approval process for event posting for the Friends

[1:06:03] of Venceance Park and Hudson Dog Park is to first present it to the Venceance Park Advisory

[1:06:12] committee and then notify the Board of Selectmen for their approval for the event and for

[1:06:21] signage.

[1:06:23] I'll make that motion.

[1:06:25] I'll show you.

[1:06:26] Okay.

[1:06:26] All in favor?

[1:06:27] All right.

[1:06:28] All right.

[1:06:29] All right.

[1:06:29] Great.

[1:06:30] So I will write a letter to the Board of Selectmen and ask them, you know, that we're going

[1:06:36] to, if we can do this, if making that a part of the process.

[1:06:44] All right.

[1:06:45] H approval of the shoe pamphlet made by Claudia and Lee Tracy. Everybody had a

[1:06:51] chance to look at the pamphlet. Yes. So Claudia and Paul Tracy who have been

[1:07:01] working for a few years now they redid the shoe. They do events there. Kids can go

[1:07:10] inside the shoe and they made a really nice pamphlet which they wanted to let people know about

[1:07:19] the history of the shoe. Even though the shoe is not on the historical buildings list for the state,

[1:07:29] it has been on our property for a very long time and it's what a lot of people come here to enjoy

[1:07:36] with their kids. It's like the place to go. And for adults, they love to come and see the

[1:07:43] shoe and they remember back when they were a kid and they came here or some people worked here.

[1:07:48] But the pamphlet talks about the history of the shoe and who designed it and anybody else

[1:08:08] So the pamphlet is well-made, there is a QR code so you can look into the designer,

[1:08:14] made, you know, basically design the shoe and the history of it.

[1:08:20] The one thing that I told her that I think would be a good idea on the back of the pamphlet

[1:08:25] is that we should have a QR code put on there. So if people would like to donate because

[1:08:31] it's going to take, it's not a one time, hey, we, you know, remodeled the shoe. It's

[1:08:35] all done. It's going to take more remodeling and redoing like windows get broken or things

[1:08:43] get broken or needs to be repainted again or, you know, the steps need to be stained and

[1:08:49] and so on and so forth, it costs money.

[1:08:53] So if they want to donate, there is a way to donate,

[1:08:57] and for all of our buildings here, Jake, you want to talk

[1:09:01] about how people can do that?

[1:09:02] What's that?

[1:09:03] About donations, the process?

[1:09:06] Oh, I mean, I don't know the process that well,

[1:09:09] but you just have to make sure that when you write the check

[1:09:12] that you designate exactly how it, where it's going to.

[1:09:16] Yes.

[1:09:17] So if you want to donate to the train station,

[1:09:18] and you have to make sure that you say that in the memo

[1:09:21] as it helps us get it approved through the DPW.

[1:09:24] And the checks would go to the town for Benson's Park

[1:09:30] for the town.

[1:09:32] So if anybody's interested in doing that,

[1:09:34] but that was my comment on their flyer

[1:09:36] that they should add that.

[1:09:39] The other question is, do you think

[1:09:40] that it shouldn't be handed out to families

[1:09:44] that are coming and interested?

[1:09:45] Anybody have any comments?

[1:09:47] answer your thoughts.

[1:09:50] You're saying they just want to hand this out when people visit.

[1:09:53] Yeah, so like for the family fun day.

[1:09:55] Yeah, I'm sure.

[1:09:56] I think it's a great idea.

[1:09:58] One small correction that was the, it was restored by the Cub Scouts, not the Boy Scouts in 2010, but I did that.

[1:10:06] The Cub Scouts?

[1:10:07] Yeah, it was Cub Scouts not Boy Scouts.

[1:10:10] All right, well we'll have to...

[1:10:12] Just pick that up.

[1:10:17] Is that the QR code, don't it?

[1:10:21] No.

[1:10:22] There is a monon here.

[1:10:24] There is a QR code that goes on there to – if you want more information about the

[1:10:29] gentleman, but there isn't a QR code on it, if they want to make a donation.

[1:10:36] That was my thing that I think they should have that on there.

[1:10:40] Should we ask him to do it? Should we ask him to update the flyer?

[1:10:47] I did talk to him on the phone about that. He didn't, I sent him the words that we had

[1:10:52] at our previous historical unveiling and he said there was, that was too many words to

[1:10:57] update that. But then I went on to talk about a QR code. And I think their thoughts were,

[1:11:06] Why don't we come up with another pamphlet like too many pamphlets and like if you're handing this out

[1:11:12] This would be better. Yeah put it on there to put on there

[1:11:15] If

[1:11:19] everybody is okay with that

[1:11:25] Then what I'll do is I will send a copy to you the VOS and get approval

[1:11:32] Does anybody want to make a motion? I make a motion to approve the issue pamphlet

[1:11:38] second

[1:11:41] all in favor? I will

[1:11:49] send that. Does anybody remember a floating moby deck? I don't but I'm sure

[1:11:59] if we looked on the map. I've never heard of that before.

[1:12:04] I'm sure that she did a lot of research.

[1:12:07] I mean it's an old picture so yeah it's a great pamphlet and it tells the story and I don't think we

[1:12:14] really had. And it shows when it was brown, which was a very short period of time.

[1:12:19] That is legit. I know it's pretty good. I think they're looking to maybe get

[1:12:25] that on the historical. She was wondering why it wasn't on the historical

[1:12:29] properties. I said, I don't know, I don't know how they. That was determined back in

[1:12:33] the early 2000s. By who? By the preservation department and

[1:12:39] conquered. I forget the formal name of it. I wonder why. I don't know. At one

[1:12:46] time they came and did a dig right about where the train just before the

[1:12:50] train station was moved they had to make sure that there were no artifacts

[1:12:54] located on under the ground and they did this dig and they came up with this box

[1:13:00] of the lack of a better term garbage.

[1:13:04] They had collected out of there.

[1:13:09] Nobody knew what to do with it, ended up with me. I give back to our select man rep.

[1:13:15] You took it to the board, a select man who were appalled at this box.

[1:13:21] Was it like, who was in it?

[1:13:23] You know, there's little clips that you have. They used to use on pages to highlight things

[1:13:29] things you should look at. That was one of the paper clips. There were pieces of string,

[1:13:36] pieces of plastic. Why? These were things that they found in the archaeological dig, which

[1:13:44] is what they called it.

[1:13:47] Interesting. There was a little bit of a scandal. Not from our

[1:13:51] point of view, but from Conqueror's point of view. It's kind of interesting.

[1:13:58] Somebody else

[1:14:00] I hear him, nobody knew what to do with it so I ended up with it because I was chairman at the time.

[1:14:04] It took a long time and I opened this thing and I couldn't believe what was in it.

[1:14:08] Did you feel like that's it? Was it a cool box?

[1:14:11] No, it was a box about the size of half the size that it was about like that.

[1:14:19] The little black box.

[1:14:20] Yeah, basically yes.

[1:14:23] But it was wrapped in brown paper and he dressed to the town of Hudson.

[1:14:27] that's so funny. Well I think it's a great idea and I think it'll bring people an idea of

[1:14:34] like how did this thing even come up with like who came up with this it's been around for a long time.

[1:14:41] All right so moving forward. All right calendar we're gonna start off with this centennial celebration

[1:14:49] day of Friends of Benson's Park September 12th from 11 to 3 and we have

[1:15:00] Beyond, that would like to say a few words about that. So it is going to be September 12th from 11 to 3. And there will be petting zoo, live music, face painting, volumes, sponsor table, food tracks, magic, old woman in the show opening, fire and police department would have, I guess, kios there. Very nice. Well, it sounds like a great event. I hope everybody can come to that.

[1:15:30] especially, you know, still it's celebrating a hundred-year birthday of

[1:15:35] Vincent's Wild Animal Farm. Nobody knows the exact day. We haven't found that yet,

[1:15:42] but that's the mystery. A lot of research has been going on for

[1:15:49] I had to figure that out, but it's mentioned the Memorial Tree planting and not

[1:16:06] I don't know if they'll be able to plant the tree then it I guess you know it's just some idea.

[1:16:16] Well I think actually I think that is a really good idea I mean you'll have to talk to friends of Ensens Park.

[1:16:22] Yeah, I will see if they would want to do that. That's a very good idea.

[1:16:29] All right. Thank you on the next

[1:16:31] Benson's Park advisory meeting will be Thursday, September 17th.

[1:16:37] Oops, I think I put 20.

[1:16:40] Um,

[1:16:43] boy, my 17th, 20th, 16th.

[1:16:46] We're so busy.

[1:16:49] At 7 p.m., see I said this to you guys and nobody, nobody looks at it.

[1:16:55] You would have said so.

[1:16:56] And then we have the volunteer cleanup, which will be Saturday, September 19th, from

[1:17:04] 9-2, lunch provided.

[1:17:07] Again, we only have two more cleanups coming up, September and October, and then we will

[1:17:14] be finished for the winter.

[1:17:16] We do do a November kitchen cleanup to make sure that we count and kind of get an idea of

[1:17:26] what things need fixing and not fixing.

[1:17:30] And then we also do a clean out of the office area

[1:17:34] to make sure that we have account on paper goods

[1:17:37] and things like that.

[1:17:38] So, we usually do that in November.

[1:17:40] But our last volunteer pickup for this year

[1:17:44] will be in October.

[1:17:48] And any other business remarks?

[1:17:51] Anybody wants to make before adjourned?

[1:17:53] I want to mention I just know maybe some of you noticed it too on two or six

[1:18:00] central street there is 23 acre lot which used to be in 1990s Hazard was

[1:18:09] disposal and there is the developer who want to put a little mold there which

[1:18:16] and it is just beside our park so there was concern if we should be concerned

[1:18:22] about the hazardous waste disposal there which could affect our quality of the park.

[1:18:30] So I don't know if we should put some input to the select many about it, that's the

[1:18:35] our concern about it.

[1:18:39] What was the wearer says again?

[1:18:42] 207 Central Street.

[1:18:44] There was 23 acres when I did theil opt into the small wall or maybe even more.

[1:18:51] I don't want to put in a small ball.

[1:18:52] Do you know who ran the business before?

[1:18:55] So it was dumping the hazardous oil?

[1:18:57] 1990s was also this waste, yeah.

[1:19:00] But I don't have the 90s, but we don't know who did it.

[1:19:03] It was John Mansfield way back, but yeah.

[1:19:08] I do know that this has been talked about a lot.

[1:19:14] I actually went down and spoke about because I do live

[1:19:19] in the area and I was against the building.

[1:19:24] So there's been a lot of discussion already brought up

[1:19:28] about that.

[1:19:31] I don't really see what we could do as a group.

[1:19:37] Well, no, they're looking for approval.

[1:19:39] The board of select men kind of postponed the decision

[1:19:45] on it yet, so they didn't approve it so far.

[1:19:48] So maybe our input would kind of be maybe sway with one way or other way.

[1:20:00] If you want to go down and say something on, you know, your behalf, I mean, I did it on my behalf but I think as a committee I'm not really sure we

[1:20:14] should get involved with that.

[1:20:19] Sorry.

[1:20:20] How would that impact the park?

[1:20:24] Well, there may be, I suppose, those who are left-pained or whatever it was, but it can

[1:20:31] seep to our side and I think the wildlife may be.

[1:20:35] Okay.

[1:20:37] But the state should have, if it's a fine as a hazardous waste site, the state should

[1:20:42] have information on that.

[1:20:44] They said, you know, they comply with all their, what state requirements.

[1:20:51] Interesting.

[1:20:51] So, did you think about any other remarks by committee members that you may want to say before we leave?

[1:21:00] I was working in the park today and I noticed the stone wall on the most side of the swan pond.

[1:21:10] There are two or three pieces of stone missing that are felt there is kind of big trouble on the other side.

[1:21:18] I think fell down, so before the winter time,

[1:21:21] I don't know if it would be the DPW responsibility

[1:21:25] to fix it or our responsibility.

[1:21:29] I kind of, we had talked about that several times.

[1:21:35] Okay.

[1:21:35] And I have put in a request for that to be looked at.

[1:21:43] The DPW is well aware.

[1:21:45] I've sent photos, we've talked about that.

[1:21:47] It's just basically now waiting to see what Eric's son is going to choose to do because

[1:21:54] they are having their volunteer day.

[1:21:56] That was also on my list.

[1:21:58] You might not have been at that meeting when I shared that.

[1:22:02] But yeah, I've, yeah, we're aware.

[1:22:06] And you know, the stone pieces are pretty heavy and there is drop maybe like five feet on

[1:22:14] the other side.

[1:22:15] Yeah.

[1:22:15] Yeah, so I've taken lots of pictures and I've sent them. So yeah, we're aware I get

[1:22:19] about the jail in the last month. Yeah, thank you. Okay, all right. Anybody else have

[1:22:29] anything else they want to bring up before we adjourn?

[1:22:34] Well, thank you everybody for coming

[1:22:35] here tonight. I'm really excited about the Centennial Family Funday coming up. So I hope everybody

[1:22:42] can make it and until the next month. All right. Meeting adjourned at 825.

Benson Park Advisory Committee Meeting of 08-20-26

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