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[0:00] Ladies and gentlemen, in the belief that it's now 7 o'clock, I'm going to call the special town meeting to order. Now, I'll do so by initially reading call, town of Bolton call for special town meeting. The legal voters of the town of Bolton are hereby one and notified to meet in the special town meeting at the town hall, 222 Bolton to the road on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 7 o'clock, 10 for the following purposes. One, to consider an act upon the five.
[0:29] year capital improvement plan as presented by the Board of Selectman in the annual budget document.
[0:35] David Bolton, Connecticut, the 11th day of May, 2022, signed by three of the five members of the Board of Selectman,
[0:43] Pamela Sawyer, Robert Mora, and Michael Aramita.
[0:47] Now, I will also read into the record the Return of Notice, signed by James Rupert and administrative officer for the town.
[0:54] He states, I hereby certify that I made 12 comma 2222 comma I left the duplicate of the foregoing and attached warning and notice of a special town meeting of the town of Bolton with Elizabeth C waters is town clerk.
[1:08] I further certify that I've caused a copy of said warning and notice be published in the heart for current the newspaper having a circulation and said town of Bolton.
[1:16] I further certify that I made 12 comma 2022. I set upon the sign post within the limits of said town and all other places designated by the town are written copy of said warning and notice sign by the board of select.
[1:31] I further certify that all of the above acts were done by me at least five days before the holdings of said meeting on the 17.
[1:38] in March, this is April 19, 2022.
[1:40] Data bold and anything on the
[1:42] The 12th day of May, 2022,
[1:45] signed by James and Rupert administrative
[1:47] officer, certified by the system
[1:49] foul and
[1:55] noted that was posted on the exterior
[1:59] sign post does not contain any
[2:01] signatures of the board of
[2:05] Okay, I believe the sort of taking by Mr. Rupert said he certainly put a copy. I don't think it says executed or signed either in statute or any place else.
[2:15] It does say signed in Connecticut statutes. No, actually it doesn't, but so I think you're raising the point of order as to the reality.
[2:24] All right. All right. I had a town of her turn here with us tonight. He could speak to this if if all we so choose.
[2:32] But I'll tell you miss bureau. I think you're you're.
[2:35] I think it's within my realm, just as the moderator to proceed. I'm going to take the note of return of notice and the certification of notice has just read in to be accurate.
[2:45] And we're going to proceed.
[2:46] And I think that the.
[2:47] Having said that is there emotion?
[2:50] I think one of the.
[2:52] The solar.
[2:54] That we approve the fire capital improvement plan as presented by the board. Select.
[3:00] An annual budget.
[3:02] Is there a second.
[3:04] Mr. Moore.
[3:06] Is there discussion?
[3:11] Um, alright.
[3:12] The so is.
[3:13] Thank you.
[3:18] We felt that one of the issues that was significant
[3:22] are the last meeting that caused a negative vote.
[3:27] And it was heavily voted down.
[3:30] Was the question of where the placement was
[3:32] for the temporary basis.
[3:37] So we put together just a short handout
[3:42] of three pages to talk about the new decision
[3:47] that was made by the board of select committee by a vote at the last meeting to place it,
[3:54] if it passes, to place it over at the Knox Road Municipal Center lawn on the north end.
[4:03] So let's see a picture of it. We have it on the street, I believe, for those people who are.
[4:12] They can see it online, currently, but we'll throw it over here.
[4:20] So that first page talks about the space needs.
[4:25] 3.7.4.
[4:27] The registrar, once it's one registrar office, but that is for the place for the two registrars and all the improvements that they need.
[4:41] And then we have dimensions for the facility,
[4:48] again, self-explanatory and
[4:54] the last
[4:54] particular and that is looking
[5:01] from the schoolhouse road so you would be facing towards the
[5:09] firehouse if you're trying to get that direction.
[5:15] Thank you.
[5:15] Is there further discussion?
[5:19] Senator, about 37 Brandy Street.
[5:22] Could we move back to the photo or the schematic of the building?
[5:29] I don't see any internal storage area in this building.
[5:35] Could you explain what's going to happen to the storage areas, please?
[5:42] Um, obviously the moderator won't handle that question.
[5:44] but if one of the select persons would care to speak to that or perhaps Mr. Rupin.
[5:48] I can certainly address it. We've identified spaces for most of the things that we need to store.
[5:56] There is an office in the area that is not going to be marked by, it's going to be used by the wide.
[6:05] And we've identified that as a walkable space where we can potentially put the registrar's items
[6:12] it's dry, it's clean, it's lockable, and I've spoken with Mr. Butchable that's our director
[6:20] of buildings and rounds. We also will have to identify it some space for our finance records.
[6:28] And certainly, you know, we're identifying to meet our private offices,
[6:35] there are six there, especially that you can use one of those spaces for some light storage.
[6:40] We also have states over at Barclay where we can move our clean supplies to and Mr. much lower felt that we had things covered as long as we are willing to clean out as we move things around.
[6:56] So I think we identified solutions for all of our storage.
[7:02] Thank you, Mr. Rupert. Mr. Further discussion on the pending motion.
[7:10] And I have a question about what was just mentioned about the why and that's going to be the king then just stand up in a month and as whether or not that can be fully utilized for some of these weeks and since this is looking at a temporary basis.
[7:28] I think I said some articles were thinking about timeline of maybe three years that would
[7:34] be addition of the wide space and full utilization of that hold us over until we can get up
[7:42] so I would you can respond to that or that was more.
[7:53] I'm glad you brought that up because that's
[7:56] That's a good point, which is, and one of the reasons why we are proposing what we're
[8:02] proposing, and that you mentioned that this might handle things for three years.
[8:09] Well, one thing we do know is that the town fiscal position is that we don't have any
[8:26] new building, the earliest conceivable, this six years out. So we need a
[8:31] planted carries us at least six years. And if you've been around, you know,
[8:37] things don't pass first time, second, third time. We may be six, seven, eight,
[8:41] nineteen, next. What we, what is proposed here is a planned on handling short and long
[8:47] turns. That's why it's this type of proposal and not one that we can maybe
[8:52] lead by for a year or two. But even that is questionable. When we get us, when the board of
[8:58] selectmen look at a schematic of that one classroom, if you were to put those offices there,
[9:07] you cannot utilize a whole area. The reason for that is simple, where the doors are in that building
[9:14] and to provide the proper flow through there,
[9:18] the box shortens, the box gets smaller,
[9:23] so you lose this probably 20% of that space.
[9:27] So effectively, it's not really not usual
[9:31] and we, again, have not solved the issue of meeting space.
[9:38] Meeting space when municipal center
[9:41] is not being simply as long, there's no way you can simply say, we'll have, we'll use
[9:50] this area of that area for meeting space.
[9:54] We're already now overloading the park, the back-to-back, and even, and the other thing
[10:07] that we would like to use that additional space floor
[10:12] as part of our recreation program.
[10:17] We'll, right now, part of our recreation facility,
[10:21] programs utilize space in the municipal center.
[10:26] Also, the other, if you notice, it's hooked on to
[10:31] the senior center, the seniors have the increase
[10:35] in their use and their anticipation or hoping that when you have overflow that space would be available for their use.
[10:46] You have offices out there, so that's not there. So what we are looking to do is come up with a solution that deals with office space, deals with meaning space, deals with recreational needs and also future meetings with this one building.
[11:05] and that's why we chose this option.
[11:12] You should first discuss it.
[11:14] Yes, have a look.
[11:16] Is there a space or does the system allow
[11:20] used for the schools on non-school time?
[11:26] No, I could you have a committee meet,
[11:33] I'd say, the high school Tuesday night.
[11:40] I
[11:43] guess we can't answer that right at this time, ma'am.
[11:48] Further discussion, Mr. Tully.
[11:50] I can answer that question.
[11:52] John Tully, here we are.
[11:54] I know the old scholarship fund doesn't meet at this high school.
[12:01] And the alumni used to be in the school in the, I know that the whole senior center has
[12:13] been used for budget meetings, for selection, board meetings, the charter commission has met
[12:24] in the seamless and there's two medium rooms in the series under it. Is there any
[12:31] restrictions or notice on any of the short and leading minutes that said the
[12:38] singers and medium rooms can't be used
[12:47] for the discussion.
[12:49] I'm sure that.
[12:53] I like that I hope the lady with the school of being I work there during this.
[12:57] When they're person, man to use a disability, it is possible.
[13:08] This year has been tough because of COVID restrictions.
[13:11] A lot of times they want a lot of other than student teachers and their sports events.
[13:17] So, what next, next school is going to first, I don't know.
[13:21] Some of the time, it's also difficult because most of the
[13:24] historians are a day shift, you know, night, the building, and all of that.
[13:29] So either both schools could be used, if things get back to what we call normal, and then
[13:37] I'll just go ahead and say that for a bit.
[13:41] Thank you.
[13:41] And what's the moderator to say, events that I mentioned were pretty good.
[13:47] Thank you, sir.
[13:49] Further discussion?
[13:52] Seeing none, hearing none, anyone online?
[13:56] I don't see any hands raised electronically, but sound off of someone online does wish to speak.
[14:03] Again, I see nothing.
[14:05] My last call from the audience, before we put this to a vote.
[14:08] Anyone else cares to speak on them? Motion before us.
[14:12] All right, so we've got the motion. It's been seconded and we've had discussion. So what we're going to do is vote on the motion at this time and just so we're all clear.
[14:22] A motion to approve the five year capital improvement plan is presented by the board of selected in the annual budget document will be indicated by a voice vote of I.
[14:33] after which we will then ask for those who are opposed to it indicate by saying
[14:37] nay. So again if you I'm going to ask for a vote now all those in favor of
[14:42] approving the five-year capital improvement plan as presented by the Board of
[14:46] Education and annual budget document please indicate by saying aye at this time.
[14:51] And you want to pose to that same motion, please indicate by saying nay, is there any?
[15:00] We just viewed the audience that the A's I's seem to have it by overwhelming majority, in which case, I would accept the voice vote as a, as a, as a, as a having granted or having approved the motion before us. And that concludes this is tonight. Thank you all. And I'll bring the.
[15:20] Yeah, I'm dead.