[0:26] Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

[0:38] Aye.

[0:40] Next we have the consent agenda, the approval of the 2026 MS-1 summary inventory evaluation

[0:47] and that's posted on the website and the cemetery lock purchase on Holon Hill, lock 1,

[0:52] 2, 6 at $1,600, organic, any question on the consent file?

[0:59] Emotional food?

[1:01] Civil?

[1:01] Moved by Carol?

[1:02] Seconded.

[1:03] Seconded by Jim?

[1:04] All in favor?

[1:05] Sorry.

[1:05] I'm Joe Lorsani, new business.

[1:08] We have spoken several, several many of our new chiefs.

[1:13] Mark, I'll be right here to get close to the,

[1:21] I don't know any of that, but I have to see a little people to see.

[1:23] If you're ready to write in, I'll be there to meet.

[1:26] I am Mark Heather.

[1:27] I am Mark Heather.

[1:28] I swear that I will pay fully and partially.

[1:31] Swear that I will pay fully and partially.

[1:33] Distraction performed.

[1:34] All the reasons coming on me.

[1:36] Distribution, form, all the duties in funding and funding, as the time of the long road

[1:41] team of police, according to the best of my abilities, as the time of over of chief police

[1:45] of the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution,

[1:50] agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution, and it was in the state of

[1:54] and the law is on stage and he answers all he got.

[2:20] Congratulations.

[2:40] Thank you.

[2:41] Thank you for coming to my room.

[2:43] Chief Steuels, you will move on to the back.

[2:46] Chief Steuels, can you just have the back?

[2:48] I would like to see you here.

[2:52] I'm glad you found it.

[2:54] Thank you.

[2:56] Yeah you're welcome to leave and say whatever you're all gonna continue all the time meeting now.

[3:03] Thank you all for coming.

[3:05] Thank you.

[3:06] Take care.

[3:07] Thank you.

[3:08] Thank you.

[3:09] Thank you very much again.

[3:13] Also, just like all of you would say.

[3:15] Thank you.

[3:17] Thank you.

[3:19] Thank you.

[3:20] You're welcome to leave and say whatever you're all gonna continue on with our meeting now.

[3:26] All right, the next is the five minutes of the day for the finals to final.

[3:33] We'll close up two doors and we'll go in two doors.

[3:44] All right.

[3:46] Good evening, everyone.

[3:47] Thank you for having me.

[3:49] I'm sure it's like normal.

[3:51] I would like to get some insight into what is going on in the finance department.

[3:57] We're beginning to buy the process, as I'll y'all know.

[4:02] Also the capital improvement program.

[4:04] And as of now, I believe I'm an ex-physical on the advisory budget committee for the school.

[4:12] With the audit completed for 2025, the managed payroll has been so helpful in allowing me

[4:18] to put many new processes in place that weren't currently there, or weren't there previously.

[4:26] We're seeking out an employee to assist me in the finance office.

[4:30] This is not in the position.

[4:33] And we'll probably be spending less time than the previous clerk due to this managed payroll system.

[4:40] It's going along so well again and said that.

[4:43] And I also have a very fortunate to have assistance from the team in the Edwin office.

[4:51] I've been made secretary on the board of New Hampshire Government Finance Officers Association.

[4:58] And I will be attending New England States Government Finance Officers Association conference

[5:03] in Rhode Island at the end of September, where at that time I'm anticipating being added

[5:09] to their board as well as an out-large member.

[5:14] Quarter four update will be forthcoming

[5:16] and an upcoming select board meeting.

[5:19] I said, I'm pretty sure it's, we need it.

[5:23] It's pretty, you know, it's going,

[5:24] I think it's going well.

[5:26] There's a lot of work, but we'll take it in a way.

[5:30] We'll go to the numbers here.

[5:32] It looks like all the five needs are in line with you.

[5:33] But yeah, so they're really good.

[5:34] They did a really great job.

[5:36] And our budget process was great, right?

[5:39] Thank you, guys.

[5:40] Yes, thank you.

[5:41] Thank you.

[5:43] Thank you.

[5:43] Okay.

[5:47] Next, we have the...

[5:49] Yeah, one.

[5:50] Trust Fund 102, cemetery common trust approval.

[6:00] See, trustees of the trust funds have been working to resolve and probably account for remaining

[6:05] funds of the TF 102, cemetery common trust, the fund consistent of older cemetery related

[6:11] funded funds for which there is limited historical documentation.

[6:15] The trustees reviewed the history of the fund and consulted with the

[6:19] New Hampshire State Travel Charitable Trust Fund's UNF regarding

[6:23] appropriate treatment of the funds based on the review. The trustees

[6:27] recommend that the funds remain in Trust Fund 102 and be

[6:31] administrative, administrative, consistent with their intended

[6:35] perpetual care purposes. The town council has reviewed the proposed

[6:40] first and indicated that he agrees with the proposed motion and agrees that side-press is unnecessary.

[6:48] This is a whole bunch of small little equates or money's put aside for perpetual care.

[6:56] $100, $200, $500, and dating back to the 1800s, I guess.

[7:01] And because of that, there were some discrepancies in the way the mic would be distributed,

[7:09] the way the mic was accounted for.

[7:11] And so, with the help of the trustees, and particularly Frederick and Magus dug deep and

[7:17] long into this, and I have an amended article for the 40 seconds approval here tonight.

[7:24] That said, I'll read the amended motion here, so the motion for a trust fund 102 sanitary

[7:32] common trust fund would be that the old world was like an agreement firm that the board

[7:37] selectman had received numerous funds accounted for by the trustees of the trust funds in specific

[7:42] individual accounts by named donor, totaling $10,197.37 in original donated principal funds

[7:51] with the earliest deposit in 1893.

[7:54] These funds are held in the cemetery

[7:55] of Common Trust Fund 102.

[7:58] Said Collective Funds to date,

[8:00] as far as some documentation has been found,

[8:03] represent funds set aside for perpetual care

[8:05] of specific burial lots in both privately owned

[8:07] and town owned burial grounds.

[8:10] Said funds have to be held by the trustee at Trust Funds

[8:13] in Fund TF102 in accordance with RSA 289,

[8:18] CO-3, CO-9, and RSA 31, CO-27.

[8:25] Income only from said funds shall be accounted for and segregated by each name's door account

[8:31] and pay over annually to the board of selectmen, acting as sanitary trustees or their designated upon

[8:38] evidence that annual income allocated by the trustees to each of the civic net donors account

[8:44] is equal to or less than the annual cost

[8:48] in order to provide perpetual care for each

[8:51] of the specific lots.

[8:52] Annual allocated income greater than the cost

[8:56] incurred to provide perpetual care for each specific lot

[8:58] shall be retained as an expended and no case shall,

[9:02] the original donated principal fund be distributed agents

[9:06] to expend of the molten borrower of water slumpen.

[9:09] In accordance with RSA31,

[9:11] on COVID-19 under Article 21, authorization of the May 14, 2022,

[9:16] town meeting, the border selection by this motion formally,

[9:19] except the Collective Fund's retroactive to the original 1893 deposit

[9:25] into this fund and under the provisions here and noted.

[9:29] This motion is dated September 8, 2026.

[9:34] I need a, and so there's no questions.

[9:35] I need a motion to accept the language for the amended article.

[9:41] So moved by Chris, seconded by Jim, any other comments, questions?

[9:47] All in favour?

[9:48] Yes.

[9:49] Chair votes aye.

[9:50] And special thanks to the trustee of the Trust Funds and the threat, in particular,

[9:54] for the United States.

[9:55] Thank you.

[9:56] A lot of hard work going into this.

[9:58] Thank you.

[9:58] You're welcome.

[9:59] Thank you.

[10:00] Thank you.

[10:01] That's a press.

[10:03] Thank you.

[10:06] Next, we have a land use tax change map 046-16, 016-132 ought to be on the road.

[10:19] By the saying this was a large fossil land that was sold and removed from the renews'

[10:31] tax change.

[10:33] So there's a 10% penalty.

[10:35] This 1.5 to 8 of portion is still at us with the original owner of the property.

[10:45] and his landlocked and was not part of the other property of the sold,

[11:01] the market value

[11:01] and analysis for the 1.52 portion,

[11:07] like two acres, it amounts to a tax

[11:17] of $1,370, 1.52

[11:22] acre portion, was disqualified from currently, use assessment mid for subject to the land

[11:27] strange.

[11:30] Any questions on this?

[11:34] No. Any kind of one question.

[11:37] So, if there's spin in this office, that would be a lot.

[11:42] My understanding is if you look at the tax cards,

[11:46] the lot would be residents on it. It's taxed higher than the other land.

[11:53] It's just land.

[11:55] This is a piece of that same lot.

[11:59] But what's a different owner, so it doesn't have to make it a different one.

[12:03] This is by the same owner, Nickerson.

[12:07] I guess what happens is a parcel of land and I was at the 27th of the age as I think.

[12:15] I read it.

[12:16] I'm not sure.

[12:17] I guess I did.

[12:18] And the assessor explained it to me.

[12:21] Well, they don't already work for it.

[12:24] They sold it.

[12:24] It was one big chunk.

[12:26] They sold off a piece of it, but just 1.52 acres is still part of the original owner's

[12:33] land now, and that was kept for potentially a septic system or a bilgurage on it or something

[12:39] like that.

[12:40] So, and it's the piece that was sold was in the current use piece, I was trying to do it.

[12:50] I don't understand what you're saying is reading this is as clear as it should be either, but it makes sense once, once you hear it.

[13:03] So you have for a long time to purchase, so you have 28ers that you own, and you're only selling 19 and we're going to keep the one acre for yourself, but the whole 28 is within current use.

[13:15] And so, you have to describe a value to that one piece of your key, but in this case it's 1.5 to 2 weeks.

[13:22] It's 1.5 to 8 years, and it's landlocked part of that piece of property and stolen by the current owner.

[13:30] So, it's a kind of new piece that's pulled out.

[13:36] Can I come to a key?

[13:41] You can add some light to it.

[13:47] I don't want to add anything to that discussion a little bit to the fact that when I saw the

[13:53] valuation of $13,700 for one and a half acres, I mean there's probably a thousand people

[14:00] who go try and buy that property.

[14:03] I don't know if any piece of property in this town of an acre and a half that's worth

[14:07] $13,000.

[14:08] So I personally, I don't necessarily agree, I understand how the assessor team about this using the excess land and how the whole thing works, but quite frankly, assigning a value for one and a half acre possible $13,000 just to me doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

[14:32] and I can't personally explain the way he explained it to me. Unfortunately, he's going to get an idea of class and he can't make it tonight.

[14:40] If you'd like, we can come in and explain it better in more detail and put this on the agenda for the next time around.

[14:47] I would say, and I think that you were saying a little bit more.

[14:51] Yeah, we've still got his land, he's still long to land.

[14:54] He had a much larger fossil.

[14:56] We're going to sold off a piece of it.

[15:00] The piece that he sold off was in current use, including this little piece. You have to have certain minimum to intervene in current years. So he didn't sell the whole thing. He stole it from this. So his current land might be two and a half or three acres or something like that. But I don't have the maps and stuff where I can point to stuff. So, you know, we're trying to carry it around. It's something he's just minimal for programs. If you want to be able to sit and have.

[15:29] We'll put it on the next meeting at Jemperon, we'll have a ton of access over there, yep, absolutely, I think that should happen.

[15:39] Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not on the stuff tonight.

[15:41] No, but it's not about police officers who are off to come and explain it.

[15:45] So, we'll have him here when these things come about for now on, moving forward.

[15:48] If I didn't know he wasn't going to be here, I'll leave on over and ask him.

[15:52] I thought. Yeah. I did. Yeah. I think you saw it. Yeah. I think it's going to happen earlier. And I moving forward. He will be here. And we have these kind of requests.

[16:00] Next, we have the approval revised advisory by the committee tragic composition.

[16:08] And the results of our combined meeting.

[16:13] While back here.

[16:22] Anybody have any questions? Was approved by the school board? And that was for our people who have questions

[16:35] different terms of this.

[16:40] The only question I had is

[16:41] x-efficient doesn't necessarily be that you don't get involved.

[16:44] They wouldn't be voting members. Right.

[16:46] They're not voting as it's yet.

[16:48] It's really to make sure that both the school and the town are

[16:51] together on the finances.

[16:54] That's the only thing that I have. That's the reason why.

[16:57] Yeah. So voting. So if there's no questions that I need

[17:00] a motion to approve the advisory budget committee

[17:03] charging conversation as presented effective September 15th,

[17:06] 2026. So, seconded by Chuck. Any other discussion?

[17:12] Oh, David.

[17:13] Thank you.

[17:15] Thank you for the tool committee for getting this back to us.

[17:25] I think we have a request for the town to buy back a lot.

[17:28] $2.90 in chance cemetery for borders, all of the original price paid.

[17:34] We do this from time to time where folks even who let a town

[17:38] I'm going to put the cell they lost back at the time.

[17:42] In this case, James and Nancy lost a requesting

[17:44] the board of selectman by back luck to 98

[17:46] and Shannon Cemetery that they purchased

[17:48] in November of 2021 for $400.

[17:53] Has the DPW Director reviewed the lot,

[17:57] and it's in on news current and everything.

[18:01] Yes, we make sure.

[18:02] Is there anybody there?

[18:03] No, nobody there.

[18:04] Nobody there.

[18:05] The other way around.

[18:08] It's a road to me.

[18:10] Clear title.

[18:12] Exactly.

[18:13] Yes we do.

[18:13] Every time.

[18:14] Any motion to approve the request from Jan.

[18:16] Nancy must have the town of Montbord to buy a backwash 298 and Sam

[18:21] cemetery for $400 and to instruct the administration office to

[18:25] prepare the necessary deed and submit to the registry of deeds for

[18:28] requesting moved by Jim.

[18:31] Second.

[18:31] I'm going to like you all.

[18:33] I'm going to discuss it.

[18:34] I'll be right back.

[18:37] Next we have a health trust Medicare advantage.

[18:41] Without a prescription, we're going to have to do this one.

[18:42] Oh, the Ambrose Resilvers.

[18:44] Yeah, the Ambrose.

[18:45] You got me.

[18:48] Good morning.

[18:55] So, 2027 is multirus 250.

[19:00] I've been approached by different organizations,

[19:04] Meredith Village Savings Bank to do special events,

[19:12] to organize, get the community involved.

[19:18] We always have our parade that goes without saying

[19:22] the 4th of July in Memorial Day.

[19:24] The right department has been so helpful through the years for all of that.

[19:32] At this time, I'd like to ask or request that we have a committee to set up what people want to do.

[19:47] I just really want everyone in town to know that it's going to be our 250.

[19:51] Whether it's a restaurant, whether it's a campground, whether it's, you know, a business.

[19:58] So that we can all, as a community, be part of celebrating.

[20:04] They may want to do the wrong thing, which is totally fine.

[20:09] One specific thing I would like to do, or have us do, is do a time capsule for 2027, and

[20:20] then go from there there's like I say praise you know old old home day there's

[20:29] things we could be doing so I just wanted to put it out to you and if one of

[20:36] you would like to partake before I oversee what's being said it's you know

[20:44] share time. You're in charge. If you do a committee, I would like to partake. I would

[20:51] like to be a charge. No. I'll be in charge of it. I'll be in charge of it. I'll have a big deal.

[20:59] Any other thoughts or ideas?

[21:03] We have to do something. We have to do something.

[21:06] Yeah. This is a good way to get more people involved.

[21:09] Correct. And like Meredith Village, they called me and she said,

[21:14] said that they've helped other communities have effects, whether it's organizational

[21:22] side that they have with or money side. I'm not coming to you guys with them for money

[21:27] tonight.

[21:30] But, you know, so, you know, I just didn't want to do anything.

[21:43] Did you have any idea what the committee would look like?

[21:45] How many members?

[21:47] So, as I said, so the women's club they want to and some of them.

[21:53] The Lions, they want to help or be part of it.

[21:59] The school, they want to be part of it.

[22:02] The library wants to be part of it.

[22:05] So, all of these have said something to me in the last, you know, two months or whatever.

[22:11] And so, I would just reach out and say, let's have a date.

[22:17] I would ask the library.

[22:19] We could use their meeting room and, you know, even maybe put it in the newspaper because

[22:28] the camps they may want, the castle, I've talked to some people there.

[22:35] So, the farmers, the land skaters, you know, may want to do something, so I guess it's...

[22:45] You already started the committee?

[22:47] Well, you know, I haven't, in my head I have.

[22:49] Right, right, right.

[22:50] In my head I have.

[22:51] Because, not enough about my mother.

[22:55] From the time I grew up in, when it was 1983, my mother was chairman of the Bicentennial Commission.

[23:01] So they did things and I was younger then and you know she shared all of that with me. She has now passed. So it's like we can do something here. We have wonderful volunteers in the community and we have a beautiful town.

[23:18] So, what I was getting at is that you've already had contact with a lot of these people in the world.

[23:22] Oh yeah, they've already sent for you if you'd like to volunteer to pull a committee together.

[23:27] Yeah.

[23:27] And I don't think the board has any.

[23:29] I'm sure any one would have another.

[23:30] Chris wants to represent the board on that or himself whatever they think that would be a great idea.

[23:35] Yeah, because I have ideas.

[23:37] You probably have ideas just in general.

[23:42] I mean, the restaurants they can make a drink for 250, you know, name it, too.

[23:46] If I'm just like ideas, you know, the bakeries.

[23:52] Yeah, it sounds good if you want to coordinate that establishing a formal committee through

[24:01] the board of selectmen would require potential money-wide issues and everything else would

[24:06] be better as an ad park committee.

[24:08] Sure.

[24:08] And then pull things together and whatever the town can do to support, I guess, would be

[24:13] comfortable. It's like who's ever in charge of the committee whether it's you or somebody else

[24:18] and request what it is you need from us at that point, I think. But yeah, no, it's a great idea.

[24:24] I'm sure a lot of people don't realize it's the 250th anniversary. Well, that's it. I, you know,

[24:29] will I energize that heavily? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I advertise it and just, you know, it's, it's

[24:35] 2027, and it'll be here before we know it.

[24:40] No, it's so.

[24:42] Well, thank you for bringing that to us.

[24:44] Is there anything else you need for us right now, or is that?

[24:48] No, that's it. I just, like I said,

[24:51] probably reach out to the library and say,

[24:53] what dates are available that we could do this.

[24:56] And we'll start, we'll put something on the town website,

[24:59] you know. If you don't mind.

[25:05] We'll see what happens, but we'll at least have a parade, I think you'll get a lot of

[25:13] I think you'll be asked, I think the community that people will come together and I'm excited.

[25:18] I mean, we're all, you know, this local country, one year later, we're official, you know,

[25:26] I think it would be a good community.

[25:29] You can reach out through Angela for the family cooperation,

[25:33] whatever they need to do with the bandage to be honoured,

[25:35] things to be done.

[25:36] Oh, they've always been wonderful for the fire to burn.

[25:40] The time is straight to coordinate that,

[25:42] rather than, of course, so we have one point of contact

[25:45] in town and then, yeah.

[25:48] Yeah, so.

[25:49] Any other questions for Cassie and I say?

[25:51] Good one.

[25:52] Thank you.

[25:52] Great.

[25:53] Thank you.

[25:54] Thank you.

[25:56] I want to do it fairly soon.

[25:58] Not to be bullied here.

[26:01] We got to look at that calendar.

[26:03] We got to look here.

[26:06] Thank you.

[26:08] Thank you very much.

[26:09] And I'm glad you're here.

[26:10] We'll meet up for a simple deal.

[26:14] Okay.

[26:15] Next, we have the health trust Medicare Advantage with prescription drug ban for 2021.

[26:29] Health Trust has set the health trust Medicare Advantage with prescription drug

[26:33] plan.

[26:34] Raid for 2027, renewal period, January 1st through December 31st, 2027, I'll retirees

[26:40] enrolled.

[26:41] Pay the cost directly to health trust, health trust, MAPD plan is only available to retirees

[26:50] and active health trust member groups funded by retirees and paid directly to health trust.

[27:01] Anything you want to say on this or any question?

[27:03] No, that basically this is just the insurance that we provide as a supplement to the Medicare for our retired employees.

[27:09] It's 100% funded by the employees. They're billed through health trust. A lot of them get the stipend out of their retirement.

[27:14] This is their rate, their rates run from January to December.

[27:18] So this is the annual for 2027 so that we can let them know ahead of time, get the information

[27:22] out.

[27:24] And for their opening moment period, so it's pretty standard, doesn't cost the town anything.

[27:29] It's just, as a retiree, you have this as a benefit.

[27:31] Over 65 to go with your medical insurance.

[27:35] medical insurance.

[27:37] There's no questions and an emotion to approve

[27:39] the health trust Medicare advantage

[27:41] with prescription drug plan,

[27:43] friends' middle package for February of 20th,

[27:46] 27th as presented and authorized

[27:48] the town administrator to sign.

[27:50] So move by chance, I think,

[27:51] talking about this.

[27:53] Any other discussion on the table?

[27:55] I have a question.

[27:57] Any bill to business?

[28:02] Town administrator's up to you.

[28:04] Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[28:06] Just a reminder that the board of selectman

[28:08] and the school board members are looking for volunteers to fill vacancies for the ABC,

[28:12] which serves both the town and the school budget.

[28:14] So tomorrow is the deadline, anybody watching?

[28:17] If you'd like to apply, please send your email, go to the website and fill out the form.

[28:21] I want to announce, too, that I did receive a letter from the superintendent, Whalen, at

[28:26] the school, as a formal notification that the Montenegro School District will be returning

[28:30] $700,000 back to the town.

[28:32] That book was taken at the July 21, 2026 school board meeting, acknowledging this return and just to clarify for the people watching that the school district is not raised in appropriate or directly transfer the funds back to the town.

[28:45] This return reflects a reduced rate amount that the town will need to appropriate for the school for this coming tax setting.

[28:53] So that's good news. That's a great amount of money to be returning to the town and I wanted to announce it. The board is aware.

[29:00] We have tasked our department managers and sent out the budget direction and their

[29:04] budgets are due to the town administrator on Friday after over a second.

[29:07] Talk about the calendar moving fast.

[29:09] There's a good sign of the fiscal year 27.

[29:13] Taddeblomborough has partnered with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services,

[29:17] the State Fire Marshall's Office, and the Recycled Materials Association and Tribex to host a

[29:22] mock fire drill at the transfer station on October 7th from 9 a.m. until around mid-afternoon.

[29:27] No need to be alarmed when you see many emergency vehicles on that day.

[29:30] It is a plan training exercise, but it will be closed to the public, just so you're aware,

[29:35] so the public watching is aware.

[29:38] Prime Minister, yes, please, yes.

[29:40] There's something on the board that says it's just going on, something on the...

[29:46] We will as it draws closer.

[29:47] We've posted it to the website, we've sent it to the newspaper, I know that Anthony Booth

[29:54] who runs the state marshals, the department, they're going to be doing their own

[29:57] PR there as well. So as it gets closer, we'll...

[30:00] We'll post it on the board, so people are aware. And it's a date they're usually closed anyway.

[30:07] Yes,

[30:10] exactly.

[30:15] It's true because people will plan if we see emergency vehicles at the

[30:18] transfer station and it is a day they're closed. So we are going to try to put that out there far

[30:23] and wide. You're welcome. Products, our risk management partner will also be visiting the

[30:28] on October 2nd to spotlight the town and our employees in action is part of

[30:32] their marketing and TR for formats, which is great. So they've chosen the town

[30:36] of multiple, I spoke with them back at the conference and they said, hey, would

[30:39] you be interested and I said, absolutely. So that's good for the town as well

[30:44] and for our employees. The next regular board of selectance meeting is to stay

[30:48] October 6th at 5 p.m. The only other update was we had our first CIPC meeting

[30:54] today, too, to open and roll that process out, too. So that's actively taking place

[30:58] as we speak. Today was the first meeting. So that's all I have at this time.

[31:04] Are you going to get any questions?

[31:05] Thank you.

[31:06] No, no, no.

[31:08] Actually, it has to sit as an input.

[31:13] There's no sit as an input. I need a portion to want to

[31:16] not public and not public session on that. I have to say 91-A, 43.

[31:19] room and room 2, A and C coming out only to adjourn.

[31:24] So move that risk.

[31:26] Take that again.

[31:28] Yes.

[31:30] Yes.

[31:31] Thank you.

[31:32] Thank you.

Board of Selectmen

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