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Call the meeting of the Randolph-town council September 9, 2019 to order. We'll start with a roll call. Here. Council of Christos, all exopolis. Council of William, all exopolis. Council of Burgess. Council of Clourder. Council of Clifton. Here. Council of Egan. Council of Goldstein. Here. Council of Halflamon. Here. Please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I ask councilor Clifton to lead us this evening.

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The only announcement from the Council President, I don't want to belabor the point, but I think I'll speak for myself, and I think really the whole council, you know, we need to do a better job community.

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indicating amongst ourselves, you know, resolving some differences coming together for the good of the town.

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I know that's just a few words right now, and for words to have meaning it requires action.

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And I'm hoping my fellow colleagues will join me in that.

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And I'm sure the public will continue keeping us honest on that point.

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Motion's orders and resolutions, we have the August 12th, 2019 meeting minutes.

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Let's move

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to the second motion made in seconded discussion.

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Actually, I pulled back my second, I don't know that I was here for that meeting.

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Seconded.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Yes, Jim, Ryan and Chris, motion made in seconded for the discussion.

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All in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Abstention.

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Aye.

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All right.

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That was three abstentions.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Counselor Egan, Councilor Burgess, Councilor Krizell, exopolis.

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We have a presentation now from environmental partners.

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They're the owner's project manager for the water treatment plant.

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We have a representative here before us if you would kindly introduce yourself or reintroduce

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yourself.

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I'm a Senior Program Manager, part of me at Environmental Partners and the Joint Water

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Board Engineer and Director for the projects that we're doing at the Randolph-Holberg Water

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Treatment Plant right now.

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What I wanted to do is just really go through this memo that I've prepared and submitted

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to you and I have copies here for people.

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I think, oh, actually before that, one of the things that I was asked to do is update

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you on the Tritown project, is that right first?

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Yes, Helen.

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If you could just, yes.

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Mr. President, last Thursday, they was a Tritown Water Board meeting with the towns of

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We met at Holbrook Town Hall around 1 o'clock, and the agenda on that was to go over the minutes of July 16th meeting the legal update on draft legislation and draft intermunicipal agreement, environmental partners update on the report of the new regional water treatment project, and then we set a new meeting date in September.

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So an update on that project, we're the only project manager for the three communities

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under the Tritown Board of Water Commissioners.

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And right now, as the project stands, we went out for requests for qualifications, for

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a designer and we received qualifications from two design firms, AECOM and CDM Smith.

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They're both very qualified.

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They both have local, New England experience, as well as national and international experience.

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So they really represent the best of the best in the industry.

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We will be having interviews on September 26 for them.

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The process is such that we did a review of the qualifications to ensure that they meet

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the minimum requirements, and those reviews were done by the selection committee that

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was put together under the direction of the Tritown Board of Water Commissioners to representatives

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from each of the communities are on the selection committee.

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The next step being the interviews on September 26th,

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there'll be two, one at one o'clock

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and one at around two to 30 depending on

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how the process moves ahead.

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Take some time to set up and break down after interviews.

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So it won't be exactly at that particular time.

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But between one and one 30 will be doing those interviews

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and then subsequently to that, the board will vote on who they want to move forward with

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for the design and the design will start on the new regional water treatment plant.

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The schedule for that is such that we're trying to move ahead as quickly as possible.

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The goal is to start construction as soon as possible, maybe breaking ground late 2000, early 2000,

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2021, and it will be about a two or three year project.

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So it's going to take some time.

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Can you back up in the design phase for a second?

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Traditionally, we hear, you know, hey, a plane is at 50%, 25, 50, 25, those are all different

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thresholds before we get more funding or whatever.

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Do we have to, are we sticking to that type of a timeline in how the thresholds were supposed

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to meet and how is that going to work for us?

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Okay.

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So, basically, if I might probe that question a little more and make sure I understand you all's referring to funding through the SRF program?

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I'm talking generally, any type of funding, but what has happened to us in the past, I believe, when I thought we were out for a design, then all of a sudden now we have to go back because we had to re-advertise and everything else.

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So I wanted to know what those thresholds are.

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So we are keeping everyone honest

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and making sure we're meeting them.

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Exactly, okay.

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So the way the design will proceed is currently

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we have a conceptual design,

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which is considered about 25%.

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And that's what environmental partners put together.

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So the first step will be to review that

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with the design entity and have them come up

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with a 30, 40% design.

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Is that the revised version, the tone down version?

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The conceptual one that we have is the smaller version of the layout, yes.

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And we will be continuing to hone that design to try to save on construction costs as much as possible.

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So we'll be working with the designers to do even more.

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Now, once we start getting into the details of the design, we'll be able to do that.

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And that's one of the questions actually we have on the qualification-based selection

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process for these two potential designers is, do they have any ideas right now that they're

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thinking about that could save us some more money?

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So we'll be pushing on that.

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And at every step of these phases that I'm going to speak to, the percentages, the

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The UNO project manager will do a review and we'll also be doing an updated cost estimate

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at all the stages.

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So we'll be tracking very closely what's going on with the potential costs of the project.

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And what is your obligation to, I know your obligation would be to the Tritown.

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What is your obligation to us, Brain Tree, Holbrook?

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And it was Billy says, hi, come on down and talk to us.

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Do you have any obligation to talk to us?

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So my obligation under the contract is that throughout the project we will be involved

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with communication and public participation.

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My goal as the senior project manager on the job for the OPM would be to be giving you monthly updates

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on what the status of the project is.

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So you will be getting them at least at a minimum in writing and I would certainly be available to come

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to a monthly meeting to give you an update on what's going on with the project.

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So those updates are going to be forwarded to the nine of us as well as the representatives

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of the tri-town.

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That's correct.

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Excellent.

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Thank you.

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Yes, Councillor Goldstein.

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I have an outside question.

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I got from our attorney today the proposal of changing the ownership of the tri-town board

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and creating a new type of entity.

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Are you aware of that?

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I'm aware of that.

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Yes.

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Does that have any effect on what's going on or anything?

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So one of the things that has to occur in order for the project to move forward is that

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the 18, I think, 1882-ish legislation that was passed that created the ability for

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the three communities to enter into various agreements to manage the water supply has

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has to be amended to create a tritown entity that will operate the treatment facility,

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which would include the treatment plant, the pumps for brain trade, the pumps for Randolph

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Holbrooke and the transmission main that go to Randolph and Holbrooke.

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So that would be what the infrastructure would be that would be managed through that entity.

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And that entity needs to be updated.

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And...

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A whole book has the town meeting form of government.

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Correct.

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And I understand that's not going to be until...

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November.

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The spring.

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November.

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The only special either.

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All right.

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So with that effect, you know, since November...

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Since whole book is going to do anything for a couple of months, that wouldn't affect us.

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So all three communities have already appropriated funds.

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to move ahead with the project at the time, the engineering company that did the construction

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estimate was it was in 2010 and it was about 50 million and I know all three communities

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went to town meeting and improved those funds. So there's funds there to do the design,

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to move ahead with the design, to move ahead with the permitting and so the town meeting would

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be to appropriate the remainder of the funds that would be needed for the construction

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of the project.

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All right.

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So there's not an issue that we originally approved it for entity A and is now going

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to be entity B.

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No.

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No.

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Please continue.

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Okay.

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So following the decision of the board on the vote, we will then go into negotiation for

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for a scope of work and a fee for the designer and the plan is to try to get that done within

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a month or so.

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So they would be starting design early November.

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then we would have a 60% and 90% and 100% deliverables at each of those junctures we would have.

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90, 100?

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Yep, we would have a review by the owner project manager.

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It would be a technical team, we do a value engineering associated with that.

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and then we would move forward to the next step.

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During that period we'll be doing permitting as well.

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There's a number of permits that are required

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for this project.

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I will share with you that we did move forward

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with the next phase of the historical work

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that we had to do investigative work on the project site

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and we determined that there's no further work

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that is needed and there won't be any hold-ups

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from that perspective so that permit will be finalized shortly and we'll be moving ahead.

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Conservation Commission and other permits really have to wait until we get to the next

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stage of the design so we can meet in front of the various boards and committees to present

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what is being proposed.

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I think.

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Let me be oversimplified.

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All this money we're spending.

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We're not going to get more water.

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We'll just handle our water more efficiently.

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What you will get is currently all the communities are limited

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on what you can withdraw based on a withdrawal permit with the state.

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So that is a standing permit with a state and that would not change.

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So that means we don't get any more water?

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You would, the size of the facility is a 12 and a half MGD treatment plant.

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Is that a yes?

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So when you say more water, could you be more specific?

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How are we gonna be a-

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There's a lot of a water bend, dances no, because we're not dredging, we're not dredging, we're not going to be adding additional capacity. But it will get rid of the cloudy water. Hopefully, we'll get rid of the brown water and not throwing it off. Hopefully, we'll be able to have this standard pressure that we're, we're used to. What is like guarantee, right? Sorry.

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Yes, I'm sorry. So let me, let me finish. So in terms of additional water, no, in terms of

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So I just want to be specific right now,

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there's two different definitions of quality.

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So in meeting state requirements in terms of bacterial and contaminants and so forth,

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you're still meeting all the requirements of the state.

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So there's that part of the quality of water.

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I know that the community has had some major challenges with how the water looks and the

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challenges with low pressures.

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And that's what will certainly change.

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And frankly, the low pressures should change with the upgrades that we're doing now at

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the existing Randolph-Holbert treatment plan.

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The challenge we have as I had presented the first time I met with a council is that you're

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dealing with a very old treatment facility and we're just trying to keep it going until

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such time as you have a new one and it is a challenge.

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So Mr. Brighton, so you're telling me it's okay for me to tell my constituents even though

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So the water is well and you can drink it, you can do whatever with it.

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It is, the quality of the water is safe to drink.

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Even being well, would you tell them to put the water, the electrons.

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So my recommendation would be flush the water until it's clear.

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And then drink the drinking part of it.

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Or you could install a point filter.

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And I think so many, it's not that good quality, of a good quality.

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Because the water coming out of the treatment plant, actually the turbidity and the quality

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of the water coming out of the treatment plant is meeting the standard.

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It's the pipes in the distribution system that are having the challenge and the changes

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and pressures that move the water back and forth in the distribution system so it stirs

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up all this old sediment that hasn't been moved for years.

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So meaning, if I'm not mistaken, the water from the plant is good up until it travels to

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to the pipe, to my house, then it's not good anymore, right?

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Now it's compromised.

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Now it's compromised.

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I'm trying to understand.

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Not the quality of the water, the taste, odor, and the look of the water.

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Brein, you have something?

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Brein, I just want to have a little bit of.

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It used word clarity, considering the issue with having, in some cases, with the water.

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But when there are two instances when people tend to see, well, three, when you may in fact see brown-brown water sediment,

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it's A, it's the fire in the neighborhood, B, if there's a lot of main break, that's usually contained within that area,

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but it can go as far as out as three or four streets.

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Or, as we've seen since April, the instances when the pressure drops at the treatment plant,

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and then when it starts back up, if you will, it kicks up some sediment that's there,

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and then until individuals in a neighborhood, from sense of purposes, turn on the water

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in their home, it helps then clear it up.

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And it can depend if you're on a dead end street, because we have a lot of dead end water mains takes a little bit longer to clear up issues like that.

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We've had more of those as we know over the past since April because we had the initial issue with the pump.

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And I know this next letter that she's going to speak to will go to the issue that we had back in April.

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And then we had the issues of the backup pumps that were borrowed from the MWRA.

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But then when we had to disconnect from the system and give it back to them.

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Again, pressures drop, go back up, kicks up the system for a few hours for people in those neighborhoods.

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And then we've had three or four instances where we had to make additional changes down there.

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but again, kicked up the sediment in those neighborhoods.

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It is obviously our hope and in our anticipation that once we have the new pump installed,

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we will have two backup pumps at that point, but the most important part is we're going to have a consistent brand new pump

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that the issues that we were confronting, because we didn't hear about the issue of sediment until April.

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So, now that said, and it was mentioned already, is once we have the certified water

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attenings in play, and I know what we have, I'm hoping to, during this time frame, we've

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done kind of moderated versions of hydroflushings.

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But we're going to do a much larger version of that once we have retained earnings, and

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And I know what what we can do financially to accomplish that.

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And it's a very specific process, you don't just go around town opening up the fire hydrants, you don't open up all the fire hydrants.

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It's an engineered plan that was done a number of years ago, and it speaks to exactly the flow of the water from the plant.

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And when we have that in place, it will go a long way to helping when the pressure drops and then comes back up.

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There'll be less sediment to potentially kick into play.

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So, it's, I get the, you know, black up a better word, the bubbly water at my house.

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It's very rare in South Randolph that I see any brown water except for a fire and or

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a water main break.

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But there are definitely some areas in North Randolph and it's the rust street neighborhood

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up North Maine.

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Then you shoot down to the side streets, I'm a line, Pauline, et cetera.

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Yeah, we have a restaurant down there that's been quite a bit of money on filters.

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They have, and it's seen firsthand the system for residents who have their own filtration systems.

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Clearly, there's changing those a lot more frequently than they would hope to, to have the water come out completely clear even when we're having some of those sediment issues.

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So the short answer is it will, we believe, between the new pump and some management on

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our end, I think we're going to have this much better situation for the residents and

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the business.

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The air that gets in the system, and I'll let you speak to this much better than I, the

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The air that gets in the system is a little bit different that causes, you know, the bubbly water that literally, like in my house, within 25 seconds, my water is clear, if I pour it into glass.

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But I'll let her speak to the issues in revolving, involving the air getting into the system.

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And just one point of clarification, Brian, if you could, are Helen.

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Councillor Clujay asked, you know, is the water going through, coming through the

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treatment plant, you know, safe to drink and whatnot? And I think we've expounded and

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explained that as well. But where does this sediment come from for the people?

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It comes from, it's in every single minerals in the water?

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Yeah, I mean, it's in the water.

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It's the pipe.

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On the pipes?

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Yeah, pipe.

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So, basically, it's deposits in the pipe from minerals in the water.

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And what happens over time is it does tend to leach out of, it's a standard chemical

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process that happens in all water supply systems.

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To a certain extent, to a calculation, some of Randolph did go through some process

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of cleaning and lining their pipes and in those areas there's less. With that said

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even a pipe that has cementitious lining on it can have some sediment and it

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particularly if it's a dead end pipe and historically water is just flowing in

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one direction. So you're going to get sediment and as soon as it starts flowing in

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another direction that sediment gets picked up and then when you turn on your

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water, it comes through the service connection and out the pipe. So my

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recommendation right now is before you use your water to turn it on and let it

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run until you see it's clear and then drink it. And do it with cold water. Yes, and

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deal with cold water. Yeah. All right. I think you were going to talk about the

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cloudy water next. So the cloudy water is, it's air and

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treatment in the water system. So it's not anything to do with quality, it's not a contaminant.

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Air and treatment gets into the system with all these changes that are occurring at the treatment plant.

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So again, the changes in pressures, the pumps being shut off and on right now, if you may recall,

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When I came in June, we talked about the first phase of the work that consisted of adding a new rebuilt motor to one of your finished water pumps.

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I don't want to interrupt you, but so we're trying not to confuse to try to try town treatment plant with the joint treatment plant, which is another issue.

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Can we kind of try to keep them separate?

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I know the cloudy water is on the joint and that's why we're trying to you know

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because it's going to cost us $0.2 million and so somewhere in that range so if

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we can kind of try to keep that as one issue and then the joint thing is

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separate. Right so getting back to Tritown then. Thank you. You know I'll come

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because they're getting back to Triton.

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We will have 100% after that point we'll go out to bid.

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There'll be a bid process that we follow

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according to chapter 149 requirements by the state.

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And we'll get bids.

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100% gets us construction drawings.

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Correct.

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100% gets us construction drawings.

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and the 80% is what we submit to the state for the state revolving loan fund process,

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for them to approve the design and approve the funding for the project.

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And then they give approval to move ahead with the final design.

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And then we have to go through a process of getting approval from them to bid the project.

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It's pretty standard and we do this. I've worked on many, many projects that are state funded and it's a standard process that we go through.

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Something we just put question. Thank you. You say you're starting design early November of 2020?

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We're starting design in early November of 2019.

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19.

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Excellent.

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Okay.

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On the Tritown.

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Yep.

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We have heard in the past previous superintendent, sometimes we would talk about a stand pipe on our end to that extra pressure, I guess, the system.

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And then we were told, no, we don't need a stand pipe.

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When is that decision made?

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Okay.

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Okay, so this is right down, this is right down, because once we get the new pipe in its question,

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do we need the pressure on our end to keep on pushing it through?

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So, you do not, I

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want to say two or three years ago when it was before, I apologize,

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I don't know the exact date it was before I came to environmental partners.

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Environmental partners did a war distribution analysis of all three communities and

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And looked at the water storage.

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Any water storage for the community would be located within the distribution system and is separate from the Tritown treatment plant.

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So we're going to be pumping from the treatment plant into the Randolph-Holberg distribution system.

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So you'll have pressure that you need.

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Do you need to increase your storage capacity in the distribution system?

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We had put together, I believe, a capital program for the various communities to look at that issue.

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I would have to go back and look at what that included.

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I don't have it off the top of my head, so I really don't want to just tell you something that's not necessarily the case.

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I'd be more than happy to get that clarification for you, however.

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If you could but by virtue of building a new treatment plant, we don't need a new stand pipe because of that treatment plant.

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No, you'll get the pressure you need from the treatment plant.

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The way we're proposing the design is that the Randolph-Holberg will have dedicated pumps within the treatment plant specifically for the two communities.

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and including the ability to add appropriate treatment chemicals depending on the need

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of the various communities.

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So if you need a different type.

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Or whatever reason? Eventually, we're going to go all to the same type, though, right? We're going to, we're not, you'll go to the same type, but the dosing rates may be different depending on the time that it takes to get from the treatment plan to the distribution system. And that's being, we're connecting to what 24-inch line on, and no AF, is that how we're going to connect to the system? You will connect up to the existing 24-inch transmission main. That's correct.

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the proposal right now. And again, we have a designer that we're going to be

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bringing on board. And if they have a recommendation that's more cost-effective,

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we'll certainly entertain that and look at that. But right now, as it stands,

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we're looking at redundant pipes that are what we call sub-aqueous across the pond.

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So we don't have to travel a longer distance and also go through wetlands and

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and so forth, so we can just put that in.

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They sit in the bottom.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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So, depending on, again, I think as the project progresses,

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we'll be giving monthly updates to you.

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The, and there will be, the plan right now

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is that there will be, right now, Tritown website,

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I believe the Tritown things are put

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on the brentree is housed on the brentree website and we'll be updating, we'll have project

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updates on that website as the project continues.

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Can we get those linked to ours, to our website as well, Helen?

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Councillor Clujer.

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Thank you, Mr. President.

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Mrs. Allen, from start to finish, how long do you think the process is going to last?

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If we can fast track it, the hope would be that we bring it, we have start up by 20, 23.

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That will wait four years to get a bit of, well, yeah, so 2019 is almost over so, unfortunately, the construction itself is a two year project.

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So just the construction of this facility would take two years, and that's, you know, with everything.

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the star is aligned, and no hiccups with weather, with.

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That's what I was just going to say, no weather with, with all kinds of problems.

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With permitting and so forth, right?

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And on the permits to build the plant, obviously, the State EPA permit, a DEP permit.

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Is there, are there federal permits?

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So there is an Army Corps of Engineers permit for two reasons, one for the Sub-Aqueous, and then also because we'll be doing some work around the intake structure as well, which is right along the pawn's edge, and that requires a Corps of Engineers.

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and then that also requires a 401 more equality permit.

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There will be a MEPA requirement, we're hoping an E&F only, not an EIR.

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An EIR would take longer.

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We're putting the treatment facility on a new site.

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However, it's right next to an existing site that's already been altered.

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so we're hoping that the ENF process will be enough.

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Let's see, Conservation Commission only for, well, for both Randolph and Branchary Randolph,

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so we can hook up the Savagrius transmission mains to the transmission main on the Randolph

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time property.

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Let's see and a number of other smaller ones. I think the

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residents you know watching here and at home tonight are you know curious if

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there are any more things they should know about water quality going forward in the

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short term. Do you have anything else that you'd like to add? So water quality in

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the short term I would say we are getting we've started on the second phase of the

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work which is the bigger project. We are going to be replacing the entire

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electric system and you will have a new fish water pump 3 motor pump. That will

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be a more reliable pump and it will be connected up to a brand new electric

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system and at that point we're hopeful that that will resolve the air and

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treatment problems and the changes in pressures and that your pressures will be back up to

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where they need to be in that associated with a flushing program that the town is going

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to do within the distribution system is the goal to resolve those challenges.

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Have we fixed the leak in the roof over the electrical system before we fix the electrical

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system?

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So right now there's no leaks in the roof, so it's been fixed.

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Anything else from the council?

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How are you going to talk about the air in the system?

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So the air entrainment has been from pumps being turned on and off and vows being installed during the process of some of the upgrades.

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So, as air and treatment gets in, it has to work its way through the system and be expelled.

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Right, so that's when they open a pipe and the water leaks out and then it just fills

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with air until you flush it completely out of the system.

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Right, so if you do have that, again, your best option is to let the water run till it's

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clear and then that should resolve it.

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And then when, when are we looking at pump three being put back on the line?

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Yeah, so that's certainly the bigger challenge.

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One of the things that is the problem is these pumps don't come off the shelf.

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They have to be built and they're very large pumps.

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And the delivery date currently is December for the pump.

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All the electric should be done by October, and we should begin to be transferring some of the other equipment over to the electric system.

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So, are the residents going to see a disruption in service when this pump is?

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That was my question.

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That was going to be my question.

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And put back into it.

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So we have, currently we have pump four online

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and then we'll be bringing pump three online.

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And we also have a rental emergency backup pump.

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If we're able to bring pump three on with O between now

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and then having any challenges with pump with the pump

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and motor four, we shouldn't see any major problems.

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And that changeover would be done in the evening in night hours.

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And I will assure you that the contractor is working extra hours as well as need be to make sure that the project gets fast tracked as much as possible.

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So the goal is that there won't be, I cannot promise that.

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And what is the time frame on the replacement of that pump December and how long does that take to do two days day we

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Set up and so forth and start up a couple of days

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It'll be installed and then it's really the startup will be a couple of days just to make sure that it's operational

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Can we try to schedule that and Brian can look at this?

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Even though it may be over night hours

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you know the day of the week that we're looking at as far as businesses and

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everything else that can that can certainly be at the discretion of the

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community absolutely so when we get closer to that counselor why don't I

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can certainly work with yeah I mean he'll know and make sure that it's the the

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appropriate time and day to make sure that the least destruction possible yeah

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If it goes bad, we'd prefer it to go bad on a time that's not.

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We'll make sure that gets coordinated.

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People are trying to get it for work.

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My last question, thank you, Mr. President.

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If at any time, you know, some issues had to happen.

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Do you have a plan to notify the public even if it's overnight right away?

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What is the plan to let them know?

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Because we don't want any chaos, any panic in the community anymore.

445
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:52,660
So we work with all excuse me can you can you predict something is going to happen and send out with a notice and so wait until so what we can do.

446
00:39:53,340 --> 00:40:02,480
Councilwoman is as a major event is going to occur under the construction.

447
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:16,840
We could let Mr. Howard and the DPW Director know that we send out a notice to the community and say, okay, we're making this change in the treatment plan.

448
00:40:17,620 --> 00:40:20,280
In case there could be a potential for-

449
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:20,580
Wonderful.

450
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,800
Yes, that's what I wanted to thank you.

451
00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:33,180
That's what we're using right now, that's correct, yes.

452
00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:38,740
The last thing says a permanent bypass piping connection for emergency backup system will be in place.

453
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,720
That's already in place, actually.

454
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:44,400
Is that, is that what we're using the temporary pump?

455
00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:46,500
That's what we're using right now, that's correct, yes.

456
00:40:46,860 --> 00:40:51,920
And that will remain in place in the event that we have any other problems.

457
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,040
Now, let me ask you a question.

458
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,180
And is required by MAST-TEP as well?

459
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,900
Okay. Let me ask a question.

460
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,880
With the new treatment plant that will be built.

461
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:03,200
Yes.

462
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,700
Will there be like a cross-connection between

463
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,640
brain trees, pumps, and Randolph's pumps?

464
00:41:12,060 --> 00:41:16,540
For example, if something happens to the pumps that Randolph and Holbrooke are using,

465
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:21,900
will there be a connection that we could get water from the other set of pumps?

466
00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:22,860
How does that work?

467
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:30,780
So how it works is currently right now the distribution systems are at different elevations.

468
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,840
So the actual pumps that are being used have different heads.

469
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,560
There will be redundant pumps for both communities.

470
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:39,900
Oh, they will.

471
00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:40,420
Yes.

472
00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:41,080
Okay.

473
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:48,380
There has to be, it's required by mass DEP that all construction of water treatment facilities

474
00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:55,620
have a redundancy, and that redundancy has to be available, so it will be there.

475
00:41:58,620 --> 00:41:59,000
Thank you.

476
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,620
Thank you for being here with us tonight.

477
00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:01,560
Anything else?

478
00:42:02,380 --> 00:42:02,500
Brian?

479
00:42:02,980 --> 00:42:09,100
No, just real quickly, I think it was part of the conversation, but I do think it's an important

480
00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:17,660
part, is that the pump, which we were hoping would be in place and operational by mid to late

481
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:23,160
October, as you see here, is looking now to be mid to late December.

482
00:42:23,940 --> 00:42:29,860
So I just think it's important that the public understands that there is a time shift there.

483
00:42:30,980 --> 00:42:36,740
Knock on wood, if all the other work that's been done down there continues in the fashion.

484
00:42:37,420 --> 00:42:46,240
That it has that the backup pumps that are being used currently, we won't have those changes in pressure that kick up the settlement.

485
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:57,300
But I did want to note that there is a shift of give or take six weeks, based on the design and the manufacturer building the pump to that design.

486
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:10,440
So I think it's important to just put that out there that there is give or take about a six week delay from when we last met on this back and was it late May early.

487
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:11,180
Right, right.

488
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:23,800
So in the reason behind that is what happened is the contractor was signed up for the work and then put in a purchase order for the pump and then the manufacturing.

489
00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:32,340
That's when the manufacturing company indicates what their own guarantee for delivery.

490
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,980
And that's the quickest they could get it.

491
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:46,400
Brian, I've had several people ask me this question, maybe you're probably better able

492
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:47,300
to answer this.

493
00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:56,860
Residents think that there's a DPW water individual down at the water treatment plant that works

494
00:43:56,860 --> 00:44:00,920
for Randolph and one that works for Fulbrook.

495
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:10,880
Can you explain how that works, how that works, that it's a separate entity?

496
00:44:11,380 --> 00:44:15,980
I mean, I've had times that Keith and members of our Water Department assist.

497
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:16,900
Yeah, absolutely.

498
00:44:18,260 --> 00:44:27,180
Because they're a great resource, but it's a different union, it's a different operation, it is totally, totally separate.

499
00:44:27,780 --> 00:44:32,380
It's a self, how do you, how do you categorize it?

500
00:44:32,660 --> 00:44:35,360
Well, for all the sense of purposes, and I'll use the term assessment, but

501
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,400
you know, the joint, the joint water board comes up with what the budget is necessary.

502
00:44:40,980 --> 00:44:46,880
And then we get assessed that, and then through water and rates we pay our portion of that assessment.

503
00:44:47,580 --> 00:44:53,840
So it's a different company, really, that, or a different part of government that controls

504
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,520
that a lot of distribution.

505
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,500
And again, this gets back into some of the issues of the old.

506
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:25,320
There's a language from 1888, where you have a representative from Randolph, you have a representative from Holbrook, and it's a separate entity, but yet there is a lot of intermingling in the sense that the people that operate that, you know, our DPW superintendent is on that, as is the town administrator in Holbrook. So it's a separate entity, but it's very strongly connected.

507
00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:32,240
What is our ability to audit those books?

508
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:40,180
Free, Mr. President, I think we can just ask for information in conversations that

509
00:45:40,180 --> 00:45:46,860
we've had recently at the joint board meetings with Town Hallbrook's accountant is that

510
00:45:46,860 --> 00:45:51,680
on a quarterly basis, we would get a detail of the expenses.

511
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,400
So I do receive that.

512
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,820
But upon requests, we should be able to obtain it.

513
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:04,520
Are we sure, how sure are we, that what we're getting and what we're paying for is,

514
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:13,520
if they put on a bill about your ex-feet of pipe, who checks that?

515
00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:18,640
Who checks to make sure that's actually a joint water board expense as opposed to a ton of whole work expense?

516
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,220
That should be the joint water board.

517
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,320
I mean, Keith, he can better speak to you.

518
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:31,060
When they're going through the process of paying their vendors,

519
00:46:31,060 --> 00:46:37,660
their bills, a role, there's an opportunity for them to review that.

520
00:46:37,820 --> 00:46:42,320
And if there's a discrepancy, there should be a discussion based upon that.

521
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,300
So I'll ask the question again.

522
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:44,900
Sure.

523
00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:47,680
How is our, what is our ability to audit those books?

524
00:46:51,580 --> 00:46:52,820
Do we have a statutory bill?

525
00:46:52,820 --> 00:46:57,420
So we have a statutory ability for the Council to audit us, we have to audit annually.

526
00:46:57,900 --> 00:46:58,520
It's in the charter.

527
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,780
I don't, it's Holbrook, it's Holbrook's finances, finance books.

528
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,920
It's not a separate account, it's the Holbrook ledger, correct?

529
00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:10,180
I believe it's a sub ledger on their account.

530
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:17,160
So when they submit balance sheets to Department of Revenue, just like we do, that's part of their operation.

531
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,280
So it is looked at, I mean, I think we can request it.

532
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:27,340
more than quarterly if the council would like me to and I can review with the DPW director

533
00:47:27,740 --> 00:47:32,220
and anything we feel that is questionable and we go to a joint board meeting and I can

534
00:47:32,220 --> 00:47:35,300
ask the question and you know get further explanation.

535
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:41,320
I think the retained earnings does get certified from Department of Revenue so that is a public

536
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:41,660
number.

537
00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:48,480
I think at some point if we're not obtaining information voluntarily it would be a public

538
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,840
public records of requests, but I think with their town account now formed a relationship

539
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,200
that we should be able to get it without much trouble.

540
00:47:57,060 --> 00:48:06,720
I think more recently, our relationship is more productive of getting things done than

541
00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:07,760
it has been in the past.

542
00:48:08,580 --> 00:48:14,780
And I'm concerned that what has been in the past may have caused us some more concerns.

543
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:15,380
Let me hear that.

544
00:48:15,380 --> 00:48:16,840
That's why we just buy it again.

545
00:48:16,940 --> 00:48:21,460
I think we can continue these discussions at a future time, Jim.

546
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:26,020
I think most of this was so the residents could hear about the water quality and this going forward.

547
00:48:26,140 --> 00:48:30,560
Not necessarily the financials or personnel matters, but thank you for raising this point.

548
00:48:30,740 --> 00:48:37,720
I think it's important to make sure that what we are spending the taxpayers' money on is actually what the taxpayer

549
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:44,560
of Randolph actually owes, that we're not being charged something else, especially when it's costing us a lot of money.

550
00:48:45,180 --> 00:48:46,400
So I think it's relevant.

551
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,420
Thank you for being here, Helen, and have a wonderful rest of your evening.

552
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,300
Thank you very much, thank you very much.

553
00:48:57,240 --> 00:49:01,880
Next item up, Tia, I want to come forward.

554
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,620
We have the superintendent before us for a discussion on use of bid savings,

555
00:49:07,060 --> 00:49:10,980
bid saving funds for needed repairs at the Dunnevin and young elementary schools.

556
00:49:11,580 --> 00:49:16,040
And I'll just say off the bat that this would not be something we'll be voting on this evening.

557
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:18,720
Do we have what you've sent printed?

558
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:28,200
Well, I'm not sure which document was sent to the Councilor, so I'm not sure which document you're referring to.

559
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:33,820
I will say that, and we can double check what that is, certainly.

560
00:49:35,180 --> 00:49:36,700
Okay, so I wasn't in the email.

561
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:39,600
I sent an email, but I did not send the follow-up documentation.

562
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,720
I'll explain it in a minute, but I'll look at it.

563
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:46,820
And that's why tonight, there will be no votes asked for tonight.

564
00:49:47,780 --> 00:49:53,160
Basically, the council authorized funds to be used for

565
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:58,280
those two projects, between bid savings, construction savings, and

566
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:03,600
contingency savings that is give or take $2.3 million that's available.

567
00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:11,700
The superintendent would like to use a portion of that money on projects that are

568
00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:19,740
not specifically project related or incidental costs, so there are two different things that we're going to talk about at the next meeting.

569
00:50:20,260 --> 00:50:40,200
One of them is the issue of the air conditioning units that are present in the nurses, and this is both the lions, I mean sorry, the Dunnevin and the young is there are certain classrooms for students with IEPs,

570
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,220
related issues that there are air-conditioning requirements, there's air-conditioning

571
00:50:44,220 --> 00:50:48,200
requirements certainly in the nurses office, and then the administration offices are used

572
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:52,960
throughout the summer, so those have always been provided with air-conditioning.

573
00:50:53,780 --> 00:50:58,160
Those were not factored into the original project, so there were some costs involved in that.

574
00:50:58,580 --> 00:51:04,480
However, that could be handled through what are called bid savings, meaning that

575
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:09,880
in talking to our financial advisors that would be seen as a project related or

576
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,200
incidental cost, so that's one issue.

577
00:51:14,580 --> 00:51:20,840
There's a separate discussion where the bid savings that we spoke about,

578
00:51:21,180 --> 00:51:25,600
there is an opportunity to do some work at the Dunnevin School in particular,

579
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:33,620
and the majority of those costs, which is about $300,000, if you would have choose to do

580
00:51:33,620 --> 00:51:40,420
the replacement of the heating system that heats specifically the cafeteria and the gymnasium.

581
00:51:40,540 --> 00:51:46,180
It's about 60 years old, so the superintendent reached out to myself and the president

582
00:51:46,180 --> 00:51:49,540
and asked for compensation to be had on that.

583
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:54,320
But we feel talking with our financial advisors that we would have to advertise it and treat

584
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,860
it as we would one of our capital projects as a separate vote.

585
00:51:57,860 --> 00:52:08,440
But it would be no greater than it would be still a savings over the original project costs but it's not tied specifically to that project.

586
00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:18,680
But there was another component where for additional funds you could add an NAC component to it.

587
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:42,460
So, before our next meeting and we brought forward a Council order to do this work, what is the appetite for, and it is, it's literally, it almost doubles the cost from about 300,000 to 600,000 to add an AC component to both the cafeteria and the gymnasium.

588
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:48,380
Is that something that the council will entertain, the superintendent can speak better to that?

589
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:53,400
And there's a few other smaller items that would be included in that, the kitchen exhaust fan and ventilation.

590
00:52:54,820 --> 00:53:03,620
And also their walk-in freezer has significant issues, and quite frankly, I see that as stuff we need to do.

591
00:53:04,260 --> 00:53:09,420
So those total up to about $50,000.

592
00:53:09,420 --> 00:53:15,800
So, I do think that there are some immediate needs that we should entertain.

593
00:53:16,260 --> 00:53:24,560
I think the greater conversation for the council, for us to hear about, is where they would

594
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:30,460
stand on the issue of replacing the heat system in the gymnasium and the cafeteria.

595
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:37,360
I would say that as we've heard with the water treatment plant, if your infrastructure

596
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:42,700
sure continues to get older and there's only so much you can do to tweak that.

597
00:53:43,140 --> 00:53:50,120
I think there is definitely value to us doing that work at the Donovan School, but the

598
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:55,680
greater question is, do you want to take that next step and have a location that could

599
00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:02,960
be used during the summer for other purposes if we had an emergency in town and we needed

600
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,340
to have additional A-conditioned locations.

601
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:07,500
Yeah, but that's not the same thing, right?

602
00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:09,140
Hold on, we have some people.

603
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:18,180
What I'm saying is that the opportunity to do that would be now when you're asked to replace the heating in those two rooms.

604
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:25,060
And if there's not enough appetite for that, we'll collectively come back with,

605
00:54:25,340 --> 00:54:26,940
with an order that reflects that.

606
00:54:26,940 --> 00:54:27,720
Councillor O'Connor.

607
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:28,120
Councillor O'Connor.

608
00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:35,040
So with those additional items, would they be covered in the MSBA reimbursement?

609
00:54:35,380 --> 00:54:35,780
They would not.

610
00:54:36,020 --> 00:54:37,160
We don't think they would be.

611
00:54:37,460 --> 00:54:40,500
We don't think that we would get reimbursement.

612
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:48,080
So on the plan that we currently are doing, we're doing windows, we're doing windows doors,

613
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:48,940
boilers?

614
00:54:49,340 --> 00:54:50,220
Windows and doors.

615
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:51,200
Boils were done.

616
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,000
Boils were done before.

617
00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:54,660
So windows and doors.

618
00:54:55,580 --> 00:54:56,100
Okay.

619
00:54:56,100 --> 00:55:18,960
Okay, so do we know, so if you're saying that we have to put a separate application in, not a separate, it has to be treated completely different and can't be part of this, of this project, that we don't know that if we put this in, that we could get reimbursement from it.

620
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:27,860
I would be very surprised if they did in fact reimbursement, can we put it in and seek for reimbursement?

621
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:28,460
Absolutely.

622
00:55:29,580 --> 00:55:30,580
Would we receive it?

623
00:55:31,460 --> 00:55:32,160
Probably not.

624
00:55:32,940 --> 00:55:33,680
Councillor Eugen.

625
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:35,100
Thank you, Mr. President.

626
00:55:35,380 --> 00:55:37,840
I don't mean to diverge from the specific topic.

627
00:55:38,060 --> 00:55:44,100
But is there a kind of dis-sparked, dis-compensation kind of dis-sparked in my mind?

628
00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:51,460
And sort of like what Mazbo put together for business offices is there something internally

629
00:55:51,460 --> 00:55:59,560
or an association or something that is providing assessment of our current tangible physical

630
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:06,880
buildings, the status of them and the systems within them so we can sort of predict these

631
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,320
problems before they happen.

632
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,920
We know that the schools are X money years old so the systems are X money years old so do

633
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:32,020
Do we have a report in place, excuse my ignorance for not knowing, but do we have a report in place that was done internally, externally, an assessment that is being done, can be done so we can sort of predict these things before they happen and we have to spend more money fixing them rather than preventing them.

634
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:38,240
So, my response that would be that I don't know if there's an existing organization.

635
00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:43,260
However, the OPM and the contractors that are currently in both schools working on the

636
00:56:43,260 --> 00:56:51,360
HVAC systems have reported that the Dunnevin system, the heating system, which is 58 years

637
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:57,340
old, is not working efficiently, which we know it gets extremely cold in the winters in both

638
00:56:57,340 --> 00:56:59,560
of those rooms, the cafeteria and the gymnasium.

639
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:07,760
And so, with the new windows, there may be a little more efficiency, but bottom line is it's not shooting out the heat that it would need to.

640
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:14,300
And the cost to repair that alone was $295,000.

641
00:57:15,420 --> 00:57:19,740
And then there was a conversation about adding air condition into it.

642
00:57:19,740 --> 00:57:28,600
And I thought, why would you add air condition to a 60 year old piece of equipment and invest any money in some things so that the AC works, but then the heating doesn't work.

643
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:57,000
So, originally, when I sent the email, I had said to you that I was going to send you a follow-up document, and the reason I did not send it was they have not given me sufficient information that I would come forward to the town council with that information, so they've given me some bulk numbers, but they haven't really broken it down to say this is the cost of installation, this is the cost per unit, this is the cost, so I didn't think it made sense to bring that to the town council as I thought it would add more confusion than clear up anything.

644
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:12,500
but I have asked for that and that's why I wanted tonight just to be a discussion to put on the table what I'm looking at so that the town council knows where what direction I'm trying to go in and then when I have further information to bring it forward to the council.

645
00:58:12,500 --> 00:58:17,600
So basically, as Brian said, and Brian kind of did my presentation, so I'm not really

646
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,360
sure what I need to add to that, but basically some of the air conditioning issues that

647
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:29,260
were that I originally been talking about are covered as incidentals as a result of the

648
00:58:29,260 --> 00:58:30,360
initial project.

649
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:36,320
So for example, when they pulled out all the units in both of those schools to put in

650
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,680
the new windows, the new windows do not accommodate air conditioning.

651
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:51,800
In order to do it, you'd have to pull pains out of the window would actually void the contract on the brand new window, so that would not be a feasible option at all.

652
00:58:52,660 --> 00:59:06,520
So with that being said, I believe that issue has been resolved, but the bigger issue is they are not expecting the contractors are not expecting the heating system at the Donovan to last much longer.

653
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:35,060
And so my thought is because there's a bid savings at the Dunnevin that we use that money to look at repairing the heating system or replacing the heating system with a system that would provide both AC and heat at the cost of 600, roughly $600,000 and then we would actually have two huge spaces at the Dunnevin where kids could go in extreme heat.

654
00:59:35,060 --> 00:59:56,460
And I don't know if you remember last year in September when everyone was getting calls because the schools were too hot and we were delivering ice and popsicles and water because the Donovan is pretty overcrowded and there are lots of students there would be two large spaces that would kind of accommodate that as well where they could actually do programming in those two rooms.

655
00:59:56,460 --> 00:59:59,440
So, it serves two purposes, but I also know.

656
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:26,380
That what I'm asking for is a big ask. All right, we've got a log jam. Councilor Hufflermon, then Councillor Goldstein, Councillor Exopolis, Councillor Exopolis, then Councillor Eugen. No, I'll be quick. Actually, my request was only to allow the superintendent to have a piece before everyone jumped in because you did not give you an opportunity to speak before everyone else spoke. So that's all I wanted. All right, Councillor Goldstein.

657
01:00:26,380 --> 01:00:32,600
I mean, does the bid savings mean that we have borrowed all the money we just haven't spent it on?

658
01:00:32,940 --> 01:00:39,280
My understanding is that the town has a bond to borrow, I don't believe you borrowed it all.

659
01:00:39,420 --> 01:00:42,180
Right, we have the authorization, has they been the final borrowing now?

660
01:00:42,380 --> 01:00:44,480
So if we do nothing we borrow less.

661
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:45,760
Right.

662
01:00:46,380 --> 01:00:46,520
Correct.

663
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:55,000
Now, how long of time do we have before this window closes?

664
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:01,260
is because my concern is that since the state is looking at the Lions, and one of the things

665
01:01:01,260 --> 01:01:06,660
they may look at is build a new school. I'm not sure if they will or not, but that may

666
01:01:06,660 --> 01:01:13,940
be an option. And then we have spent all this money to do the improvements of the Dunnevin

667
01:01:13,940 --> 01:01:19,620
and we find out that we don't need it for the Dunnevin because we have this Taj Mahal that

668
01:01:19,620 --> 01:01:22,060
I think that we built for the lion's school.

669
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,480
So what is the time frame opportunity that we have to make a decision on this $2 million?

670
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:32,280
So first let me say that whether or not we do anything at the Dunnevin, it doesn't affect

671
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:32,860
the lions.

672
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:38,340
So the lions will be built for an enrollment of 315, so that will not accommodate.

673
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:39,780
The Dunnevin is open regardless.

674
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:46,740
We just invested, I believe, $10 million into the Dunnevin with new doors and windows.

675
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:52,440
So that school is going to be around for at least 25 years, that school is not going anywhere.

676
01:01:52,900 --> 01:01:56,820
We do know that the heating system will not last the next 25 years, so at some point

677
01:01:56,820 --> 01:01:58,740
we have to do something with it.

678
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:05,420
The Lions actually, the chair, school committee chair, I had a Gordon and I went to MSBA today.

679
01:02:06,580 --> 01:02:15,200
We are, they gladly accepted our new owner's project manager, which is Douglas for the Lions

680
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:20,700
elementary school project. I'm so we are now moving on to the next phase of a schematic design

681
01:02:20,700 --> 01:02:27,220
in creating our educational program. They did comment to our OPM today that they thought our timeline

682
01:02:27,220 --> 01:02:34,920
was quite aggressive and that we may need to go back to the drawing board to sort of extend our

683
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:40,680
timeline for a couple of reasons. There has been a limitation on architects available because

684
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:42,800
as there apparently are lots of school projects

685
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:44,040
going on throughout the state.

686
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:46,100
And they didn't think that we were gonna be able

687
01:02:46,100 --> 01:02:48,540
to secure an architect in the amount of time

688
01:02:48,540 --> 01:02:49,480
that it would take.

689
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,760
So that's something we're gonna go back

690
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:53,060
to the drawing board and look at.

691
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,880
So regardless of what happens with the Lions,

692
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,160
it doesn't fix the problem at the Dunnevin.

693
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,700
They're two completely separate pieces.

694
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,760
If we were combining the Dunnevin and the Lions

695
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,980
to make one sort of mega elementary school,

696
01:03:06,980 --> 01:03:10,160
I would agree that we would want to wait.

697
01:03:10,900 --> 01:03:13,880
In terms of your answer around what is the deadline?

698
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:15,640
I don't have the answer for that.

699
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,040
I think that possibly the town knows

700
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,160
because they're the ones who would borrow the funds.

701
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,140
So I'm not sure there is a deadline other than the fact

702
01:03:25,140 --> 01:03:27,020
that winter is approaching.

703
01:03:27,740 --> 01:03:29,020
Hey, rhetorical question.

704
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:29,520
Sure.

705
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,880
When we did the windows and doors,

706
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:35,020
we knew that we had a 60-year-old heating system.

707
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:41,500
Is there any reason why we chose not to do it at the same time and do a major project since we're getting

708
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:46,140
70% of 65% back from the state. I

709
01:03:46,140 --> 01:03:52,300
Can't answer that for you when I arrived in this position the statement of interest had already been done the windows had already been chosen

710
01:03:53,580 --> 01:03:56,440
I probably would have done things a little differently, but

711
01:03:57,260 --> 01:04:02,560
This is where we are. So what I would say is the schools look beautiful the windows are great

712
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:19,880
But they definitely did not take into account, although I believe just from my conversations with our director of facilities that the plan always was to ask for bid savings to replace air condition and after the fact because there was a huge assumption that the project was going to come in under budget.

713
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:28,360
Thank you Chris my thing was present to you you said it was how many millions of dollars the windows and doors it was about $8 million

714
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:32,240
Okay, and who wasn't that that that that

715
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:35,840
viewed the the windows and doors

716
01:04:39,580 --> 01:04:44,060
The plans to replace the windows and doors that was done before I got here

717
01:04:44,060 --> 01:04:49,840
But my assumption would have been it would have been the former superintendent the director of facilities the director of finance and

718
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:55,840
the chosen OPM, which was Atlantic, that that would have been done through that group

719
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:56,320
of people.

720
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:56,720
Okay.

721
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:01,300
Just because I was actually down at the dawn of the day, and even now at early September

722
01:05:01,300 --> 01:05:06,700
it is really warm in there, and I'm just surprised that, I mean, they knew that they had it, they

723
01:05:06,700 --> 01:05:12,060
had AC in there initially, and then just didn't factor it into the new project, I mean, that

724
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:20,730
just mind-boggling to me, that they wouldn't look at that, but yeah, you can answer my question

725
01:05:20,730 --> 01:05:26,870
with that. Just unfortunate that you revisit it now, but is what it is? Bill?

726
01:05:27,410 --> 01:05:32,310
I was going to say just to piggyback on what Chris said. I mean, there were air-conditioning

727
01:05:32,310 --> 01:05:38,050
units in those windows before. I'm surprised that it wasn't taken into consideration when

728
01:05:38,050 --> 01:05:45,030
we were replacing those whether it was the engineer, the architect, the OPMO. We never viewed

729
01:05:45,030 --> 01:05:48,090
those plans and said, hey, look folks, you know, we have air-conditioning units here.

730
01:05:50,230 --> 01:05:50,710
What

731
01:05:50,710 --> 01:06:07,470
Brian, we go back to the engineers in the architects and say, hey, look, now you're putting an undue liability on the residents of the town that we do this project, that we're not subject to the 70% reimbursement.

732
01:06:07,750 --> 01:06:14,550
Maybe had we done it at that particular time, that we could recoup some of the money from the state.

733
01:06:14,550 --> 01:06:20,270
You know, now it's like it's a big oops and everybody's just back it off saying that I understand

734
01:06:20,270 --> 01:06:23,310
I mean you want you want to put the air conditioning in there

735
01:06:25,110 --> 01:06:32,010
We don't want to say no, but you know now it's a huge pill that you got to swallow in order to do it

736
01:06:32,950 --> 01:06:35,890
What I would say to you is and Brian may be able to answer some of this

737
01:06:35,890 --> 01:06:41,610
But what I would say to you is my conversation with the OPM is that some of it may be able to get charged the MSBA

738
01:06:42,250 --> 01:06:47,270
But they would have to look at that and they haven't gone that far yet, which is why I have not submitted any of that.

739
01:06:47,270 --> 01:06:57,390
And I understand replacing the heating system, because you have to do air conditioning, replace it, new heating system, new air condition, that means it makes total sense.

740
01:06:57,510 --> 01:07:06,930
You're not going to put air conditioning in there without replacing those units, but they kind of like, I don't know, it's like we get handcuffed here with it.

741
01:07:06,930 --> 01:07:13,350
Just to add some, hopefully a little bit of clarity, when I talked about the non-reimbursement,

742
01:07:13,630 --> 01:07:23,590
that was if the AC was added to the heating system improvements, we're very hopeful that

743
01:07:23,590 --> 01:07:31,190
the individual units would, in fact, receive reimbursement because we were able

744
01:07:31,190 --> 01:07:33,530
to confirm today that the out-project related incidentals.

745
01:07:33,530 --> 01:07:37,770
So our hope is that those units, it's kind of like the tri in the joint.

746
01:07:38,470 --> 01:07:41,350
So when you hear the word AC, because we're talking about ECN, two different levels.

747
01:07:41,670 --> 01:07:50,190
Yeah, you talk about like putting in duckless units, you know, in the offices and the nurses and that stuff there.

748
01:07:50,370 --> 01:07:59,550
But those, we believe, we're going to have some success with the issue of replacement of the heating system

749
01:07:59,550 --> 01:08:06,410
And again, this heating system is specific only to the CAF and the gymnasium that if we would add the AC component there,

750
01:08:06,610 --> 01:08:10,410
I just wanted to be upfront that I don't believe that would be reimbursable.

751
01:08:10,650 --> 01:08:16,770
And that is not part of the incident that does this, would be, would you want to, I know we're using the term bid savings,

752
01:08:18,190 --> 01:08:25,630
but I think, for intensive purposes, we'd be almost pulling back the difference and then reappropriating it to that.

753
01:08:26,210 --> 01:08:27,430
And so it would be a different order.

754
01:08:27,430 --> 01:08:34,630
So the cost of that is like 600 approximately 600,000 that is at one unit or two there's two

755
01:08:34,630 --> 01:08:40,870
So it there's a it's a closet that I happen to stumble upon in the Dunnevon when I was walking through with the

756
01:08:40,870 --> 01:08:41,950
contractors

757
01:08:41,950 --> 01:08:46,530
That has these huge monstrous-looking ducks

758
01:08:47,110 --> 01:08:55,450
They're almost compressors that with these ducks and they they go up and out and so one throws heat into the gymnasium and the other one

759
01:08:55,450 --> 01:08:58,050
and pours heat into the cafeteria.

760
01:08:58,730 --> 01:08:59,710
So they're not rooftop units?

761
01:08:59,970 --> 01:09:01,790
Well, there are units up on the roof,

762
01:09:01,950 --> 01:09:04,790
but what they were hoping to do to eliminate costs

763
01:09:04,790 --> 01:09:06,750
is they could, there's a possible one,

764
01:09:06,830 --> 01:09:07,850
they're hoping that they can use

765
01:09:07,850 --> 01:09:09,250
some of the existing materials

766
01:09:09,250 --> 01:09:11,270
and just change out the ductwork,

767
01:09:11,370 --> 01:09:14,950
but there may be a way to actually put the compressors

768
01:09:14,950 --> 01:09:17,910
in the courtyard and box them in.

769
01:09:17,990 --> 01:09:21,490
So those are things that they're looking at right now.

770
01:09:24,690 --> 01:09:29,990
Councillor Eugen? Thank you. To kind of compound what other

771
01:09:29,990 --> 01:09:34,790
Councillors are saying and to go back to my original question just generally. I know you

772
01:09:34,790 --> 01:09:40,770
spoke about it about the specific projects you're putting in front of us. But is there

773
01:09:40,770 --> 01:09:46,270
a general or can there be facilities subcommittee have one? Does the school department have one?

774
01:09:46,270 --> 01:09:50,890
And just a general assessment of all the school buildings and the physical structures,

775
01:09:51,510 --> 01:09:57,010
the systems within them, they're expected longevity at this point,

776
01:09:57,190 --> 01:10:00,650
whether they haven't been replaced at this point, updates.

777
01:10:00,910 --> 01:10:06,670
Is there one comprehensive, or can there be, whether it's done internally or externally?

778
01:10:08,230 --> 01:10:14,170
Basically, study done on the buildings so we can sort of predict or

779
01:10:14,170 --> 01:10:22,870
plan for these what are now huge capital investments, especially going forward with talks

780
01:10:22,870 --> 01:10:28,310
about other investments just like we did with the doors and windows and boilers, you know,

781
01:10:28,730 --> 01:10:33,410
we want instead of becoming in front of us and us going around the merry go around for

782
01:10:33,410 --> 01:10:37,670
two hours and do we need this and should we build a new school and all this can we have

783
01:10:37,670 --> 01:10:42,960
that report done if it's not something isn't done similarly already so we know where we're

784
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,880
outstanding, you know, with the system. I think that would be good for everyone.

785
01:10:46,300 --> 01:10:51,060
I agree with you. So one there are a couple of answers to that. One is that we are looking at

786
01:10:51,060 --> 01:10:57,560
the master's facilities plan anyway, because it's up for review. As you may, I think all of you know

787
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:04,440
at this point our director facility is actually out on medical. So I am looking to bring in and acting

788
01:11:05,300 --> 01:11:12,520
facilities director, hopefully in the next two weeks. We have had what I can tell you is that pretty much

789
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:18,720
the roof or the roofs at our school buildings are in great need of repair.

790
01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:23,960
So based on where we're at right now, the boilers are pretty in pretty good shape.

791
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,060
Many of them have been replaced in the last few years.

792
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:35,160
We recently spent out of our building use fund, we spent $30,000 to patch the roof at the

793
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:38,700
middle school because we were getting major leaks that were affecting equipment.

794
01:11:38,700 --> 01:11:56,260
We've recently had to, right now, it's actually occurring, invest about $27,000, $28,000 to repair the poolside gym floor at the high school because of leaks that caused the floor to warp, and therefore we could not hold any competitions there.

795
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:02,560
The commissioner of the volleyball commissioner actually banned us using that, so we've moved everything down to the middle school.

796
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:08,040
So those have been two huge hits that have hit on the building use fund that we weren't.

797
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,600
And again, the result of that was a result of leakage coming from the roof.

798
01:12:12,100 --> 01:12:17,520
So we've definitely, I would say our biggest concern at this point in time are going to be the rules.

799
01:12:18,060 --> 01:12:22,220
And so we are going to have to have someone come out and actually do an extensive look at our roots.

800
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:27,380
We've been patching for years, even at the middle school, they were patching.

801
01:12:28,380 --> 01:12:47,140
and we're hoping right now of the last Toronto rain we did not see any weeks at the middle school but we are still seeing weeks at other schools and so I would say part of this review, the biggest thing that we're concerned about right now is the roofs but we will be following up with a much fuller facility plan.

802
01:12:47,580 --> 01:12:54,780
And I don't know to put pressure on you but do you know the timeline of that or expected or do you have any goals on that plan?

803
01:12:54,780 --> 01:12:58,960
What I would say to you is I would I would want to wait until I have a permanent facility director

804
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:04,100
And so some of that is just waiting sort of for things to play themselves out on a personnel matters

805
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,540
But once that happens it this will definitely take priority

806
01:13:08,540 --> 01:13:12,720
Okay, and you're going to be doing that internally or a combination of internally externally

807
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:19,600
I'm going to rely on the facilities director to tell me I believe it will be a combination of the facilities person and then you know

808
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:27,420
So we'll probably have to bring in a various expert depending on what the area focuses

809
01:13:27,420 --> 01:13:31,120
on someone to walk through internally, and then maybe someone to deal with the exterior.

810
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:32,380
All right.

811
01:13:32,580 --> 01:13:32,920
Thank you.

812
01:13:33,100 --> 01:13:33,540
Council Burgess.

813
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:39,420
I know you're new in this position, but there is a report that's four or five years old

814
01:13:39,420 --> 01:13:45,140
on all of the buildings to the school loans, and what they have as far as what they believe,

815
01:13:45,140 --> 01:13:50,480
of the grade or the category of each physical plant piece.

816
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:56,680
So that's not that old, so it's there, and so we would know about these things.

817
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:02,560
I've been here since 93, meeting since 86.

818
01:14:05,190 --> 01:14:07,890
Roofs, we should not be having all these roof problems.

819
01:14:08,210 --> 01:14:12,610
We have done the pool roof and the gym roof at the high school probably within the last five years.

820
01:14:13,290 --> 01:14:18,510
The middle school is only 20 years old, we have done Dunnevin,

821
01:14:22,330 --> 01:14:23,650
young, yeah, money young.

822
01:14:24,270 --> 01:14:27,650
So I don't see where we're having these roof issues.

823
01:14:28,930 --> 01:14:33,570
So I'm really concerned with that, and I'd like us to pull up the funding that we've done for

824
01:14:33,570 --> 01:14:37,170
roots in the last 10 years, Jeanine, because we funded roofs.

825
01:14:37,170 --> 01:14:47,810
So either the money went someplace else, or we need to go back to the contract and tell them you didn't live up to your warranty on the roof.

826
01:14:50,070 --> 01:14:52,070
So that's on the roof issue.

827
01:14:54,010 --> 01:14:55,910
Where's Wayne? Getting in with you?

828
01:14:56,230 --> 01:14:59,590
He's on medical leave and is expected to return on Monday.

829
01:15:00,270 --> 01:15:22,030
He would have overseen this, wouldn't he? Because he was there before you would have overseen what part? Part of the Dunnevin project. He has been overseen, but it was everything was in place when both of us arrived. Who sits? Is there a building committee for that? Yes. Who sits on that? There's quite a few people. I had a Gordon, Andrea Nixon, Ryan Howard.

830
01:15:25,130 --> 01:15:29,670
So this is a different committee. We're talking about further lions. I would have to go back and see who's sat on me.

831
01:15:29,670 --> 01:15:33,250
My concern when we did the alliance was that there was no real building people.

832
01:15:33,390 --> 01:15:34,550
There was no contracting people.

833
01:15:36,190 --> 01:15:41,630
People who would should see if we have air conditioning in a window, and

834
01:15:41,630 --> 01:15:44,490
I'm reviewing the plans, now I don't have air conditioning in the window.

835
01:15:46,290 --> 01:15:53,250
You said, and maybe I misheard it, but you said, the old units that that have been pulled

836
01:15:53,250 --> 01:15:56,650
out of the windows, but now that's been resolved.

837
01:15:57,970 --> 01:16:05,690
The windows, the units were pulled out of the windows, and obviously now we replaced the windows, but that has been resolved.

838
01:16:06,270 --> 01:16:12,430
Well that was because it was determined that those were incidental to the project.

839
01:16:12,670 --> 01:16:20,850
So the only result if we actually physically go back in and do the units in the wall?

840
01:16:20,850 --> 01:16:26,070
Yes, yes, but those though we're expecting those to be covered by the MSBA.

841
01:16:26,510 --> 01:16:28,890
Okay, so those would fall under the bid saving.

842
01:16:29,530 --> 01:16:33,810
So it's still another, it's still, we didn't resolve it.

843
01:16:33,950 --> 01:16:41,330
It's still a contract that we somehow screwed up and now we have to fix it with the war against it.

844
01:16:41,410 --> 01:16:46,670
Okay, but it's resolved in the sense that I'm not necessarily coming forward to the town council asking for

845
01:16:46,670 --> 01:16:50,190
something in addition is my point that I was making.

846
01:16:50,190 --> 01:16:52,150
And that is that wasn't in every room?

847
01:16:52,770 --> 01:16:58,590
No, that's not in every room and so the the two the 600,000 units will only do the gym in the calf

848
01:16:58,590 --> 01:16:59,990
That would do the gym in the calf

849
01:17:01,620 --> 01:17:03,620
What heats the rest of the building?

850
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:08,440
Univents in the classrooms, although it has been part of the project all along

851
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:16,140
Yeah, I'd like to know who sat on that look that building committee because on the Dunnevin. Yes, okay

852
01:17:16,140 --> 01:17:20,780
And Brian you you reference as a couple times that this is like the water treatment plan

853
01:17:21,460 --> 01:17:26,760
It's not. I mean, we let the Water Treatment Plan fall down around us. This was a new contract,

854
01:17:27,100 --> 01:17:33,040
and they should have picked that piece up, because it was new. So it's not the same thing.

855
01:17:33,780 --> 01:17:39,220
I was speaking to the issue of the heating system work, not the air conditioning work.

856
01:17:39,300 --> 01:17:46,780
So I think I talked about both together, and that probably minced the issues that Councillor

857
01:17:46,780 --> 01:17:52,180
I was brought up as far as the AC units versus adding AC to the heating system.

858
01:17:54,400 --> 01:18:03,960
I referenced it from a standpoint of replacing the heating system that takes care of the gym and the calf.

859
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:13,060
I view that as, okay, it's 60 years old, my guess is that, and this isn't just a Randolph thing.

860
01:18:13,060 --> 01:18:18,500
most communities continue to try and patch and move items.

861
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:22,220
Yeah, let's go back to when we were sold this project.

862
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:26,000
We were sold this project that our kids are freezing, our kids are wet because they're

863
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:26,900
cold and they're getting rainy.

864
01:18:27,740 --> 01:18:31,660
That once we got new windows, we would solve that problem and it would be environmentally

865
01:18:31,660 --> 01:18:35,540
be great, it would be warm, we'd be cold, we'd be able to do whatever we wanted in that.

866
01:18:35,980 --> 01:18:37,060
That's how we were sold the building.

867
01:18:37,260 --> 01:18:38,400
We weren't sold the project.

868
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:42,420
We weren't sold the project that, oh my God, let's look at the heating system because of

869
01:18:42,420 --> 01:18:47,060
60 years old. Well, the majority of the heating system of the building is the

870
01:18:47,060 --> 01:18:52,520
univents, but yeah, understood. I guess my point is is we do have an

871
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,020
opportunity to replace during the fire after the fire. We do have an

872
01:18:56,020 --> 01:19:01,060
opportunity to deal with an issue before it becomes a much larger issue.

873
01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:07,200
Right. And so can I go to Ken Chris? Thank you, Mr. President.

874
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:14,140
Before we ask my question, I want to thank you, Madame Superintendent, and

875
01:19:14,140 --> 01:19:21,040
congratulate you for the energy and the synergy I saw in terms of the open houses.

876
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:26,240
So I want to thank you for getting us off to what appears to be a great start.

877
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:36,860
I also want to commend the chairperson of the School Committee, Ms. Gordon, and the rest of the school committee members for the excitement that was created.

878
01:19:37,660 --> 01:19:44,180
I think an attended number of the events, including the one at the young school, was very

879
01:19:44,180 --> 01:19:50,160
well attended and the parents were all ready to go, so I want to commend you for that.

880
01:19:51,420 --> 01:20:01,160
In terms of the proposal, the $2.3 million bid savings, is that normally accurate or is

881
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:06,400
are a margin of error of 5 or 10 percent? Anyone knows what has been the history?

882
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:12,240
My understanding right now is that these numbers are very accurate. So when I met with

883
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:18,500
the OPM, he actually had a spreadsheet of actual costs. So the numbers that he gave me

884
01:20:18,500 --> 01:20:26,040
were actual costs that had been submitted. So to break out the bid savings, there's a

885
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:30,140
combination and this again is where we were hoping to get some more information. So for

886
01:20:30,140 --> 01:20:35,320
For example, at the Dunnevin, there's a total savings of $1,488,000.

887
01:20:35,620 --> 01:20:43,580
However, the bid savings is $618,000, and the remaining cost is the balance available from construction and contingency.

888
01:20:44,180 --> 01:20:47,800
What I don't know is how much is construction and how much is contingency.

889
01:20:48,460 --> 01:20:52,280
But I know that the overall savings right now is $1.4 million.

890
01:20:54,940 --> 01:21:08,940
So before I come in front of you again, my hope is to have everything broken out so I can give you a very clear picture of where the money is going and the specific number of the ask.

891
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:18,600
Just a little more to that, I mean, we were in a very unique situation when we did the

892
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,800
police, the fire, the community center and the library.

893
01:21:22,260 --> 01:21:26,660
We actually went out to bed and timed it perfectly that we would come to the council, get

894
01:21:26,660 --> 01:21:34,580
the votes, yay or nay, and the budget was what the budget was, where the way the MSBA system

895
01:21:34,580 --> 01:21:40,480
some works does have kind of an old town meeting field to it is you do an authorization.

896
01:21:41,480 --> 01:21:51,160
And then the project goes out to bid so the bid savings is based on the savings in the

897
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:57,920
construction and or the contingency is more based on savings within the project where

898
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:02,900
the difference is okay here's what the council authorized but this is what the bids came

899
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:07,440
And in the old town meeting days, same thing.

900
01:22:07,580 --> 01:22:12,720
We would put it out there, and there are times you might have to go back to town meeting and go up.

901
01:22:13,020 --> 01:22:15,620
There are times you have to go to town meeting and pull back the difference.

902
01:22:17,220 --> 01:22:24,860
So I just, this is a little more unique in that you have the bid savings, but

903
01:22:24,860 --> 01:22:34,000
Your contingency number was baked into the actual project cost of which fact is in to the savings.

904
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:42,800
So it's a little more convoluted than we had with our four projects in the fact that this is the cost.

905
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:47,720
So unless there was a significant issue, we were going to have to come back to the council.

906
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:58,440
So, not gone wood, we had savings in the police and fire projects, we were able to offset some of the issues we had with the community center in the library, so it became a non-factor.

907
01:22:59,060 --> 01:23:17,360
So, we had four projects, we were able to kind of mix and mingle, they're not in that situation to do that, but the good thing here is that we're looking at the fact that there was a bit savings and there is some contingency savings, that's on the table for this discussion.

908
01:23:20,480 --> 01:23:26,300
So, from what I understand from the superintendent's response to, I think, a question by Council

909
01:23:26,300 --> 01:23:32,640
Goldstein, that irrespective of the long-term goals that we may have, the critical thing is

910
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:42,660
that our kids need the heat in the winter and then need the AC so that they can be positive

911
01:23:42,660 --> 01:23:44,380
We live and become constructive and so on.

912
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:54,340
So we're speaking of $600,000, just a bit over half a million of the 2.3 approximate big savings that we speak enough.

913
01:23:54,780 --> 01:23:55,240
Is that accurate?

914
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:56,780
That is accurate.

915
01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:57,700
That's the Donovan.

916
01:23:58,060 --> 01:23:58,860
That's the Donovan.

917
01:23:58,880 --> 01:23:59,300
Yes, we don't.

918
01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:08,600
And again, so there's about another 100,000 that would impact the young, which we haven't really talked about because that's a small.

919
01:24:09,300 --> 01:24:11,440
And that is actually going to be covered by the MSBA.

920
01:24:11,440 --> 01:24:28,020
So in terms of what's outside the scope of the MSBA, it would be the Dunnevin project at 600, and right now it's at 618,000, but again, that is an estimate with no real numbers to back it up right now.

921
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:38,400
So what would be your ideal situation if the council goes along with your proposal?

922
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:46,360
Right now, I think the ideal situation, I was really, really concerned about the AC units

923
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:52,560
and the classrooms and the nurses rooms, and I, like I said, it's been resolved,

924
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:58,760
as a result in terms of them being installed, but we believe that the MSBA is going to cover

925
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:02,040
them and that they're the incidentals to the existing project.

926
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:19,820
So, the bigger, the bigger ask would be to come before the council and asking for an authorization to fix that unit or replace that unit at the Dunnevin to provide air conditioning and heating for the cafeteria and the gymnasium at the Dunnevin.

927
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:28,940
And ideally, in terms of time frame, if we agree to your request, what's the approximate time would be for that?

928
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:34,620
I don't have an approximate time, but I would say that would happen fairly quickly.

929
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:55,980
Depending on the process, we actually have people in place as they're working on this project now that we could do it and we're hoping that because people are already on site, they're already working on the units that it would happen along with the other projects and we wouldn't have to necessarily wait because we have the manpower available to do the work on site.

930
01:25:55,980 --> 01:25:57,160
Can I follow up on that?

931
01:25:57,300 --> 01:25:57,960
Yes, I follow up on that.

932
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:00,340
Would this be an appropriation, Madame Attorney?

933
01:26:02,340 --> 01:26:05,140
We would have to put together a three-year Mr. President.

934
01:26:05,700 --> 01:26:08,020
We would have to put together a request for borrowing.

935
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:12,800
So at the next meeting we would put together a new borrowing request, and

936
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,040
that would take two meetings for you to pass it.

937
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:18,260
So it would be not the next meeting with the meeting after you could vote on it.

938
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:22,860
And then as soon as you authorize it based on the authorization, they could proceed as quickly as they could.

939
01:26:23,580 --> 01:26:25,280
Thank you, thank you, Mr. Furson.

940
01:26:26,260 --> 01:26:27,940
Bill, unless-

941
01:26:27,940 --> 01:26:29,000
Yeah, just to can't see.

942
01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:34,880
Just to can't point, when he brought up how quick can he get done and you said you have people there working?

943
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:46,940
So this would be a borrowing or an expenditure by us and if they funded us or refunded us, it's a shot in the dock.

944
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:51,500
So we'd do this without knowing, because you've said a couple times, you said it and you said it.

945
01:26:51,500 --> 01:26:54,860
We believe that they'll reimburse on some of these things.

946
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:56,360
Where do we get that belief from?

947
01:26:56,780 --> 01:26:59,120
And is that funding mechanism the way we would do it?

948
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:01,680
So there are two different pieces.

949
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:03,380
The part that we believe will be funded

950
01:27:03,380 --> 01:27:05,940
are the many split units that are going to go

951
01:27:06,580 --> 01:27:10,420
into a place what was removed from the air conditioning.

952
01:27:10,900 --> 01:27:13,160
Remove from the windows when they took the windows out.

953
01:27:13,740 --> 01:27:15,820
So that's an incidental cost to the project

954
01:27:15,820 --> 01:27:17,000
and is project related.

955
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:18,380
So we believe they'll cover those.

956
01:27:18,500 --> 01:27:19,500
So why do we believe that?

957
01:27:19,500 --> 01:27:24,040
But because the OPM has said that it's covered as related to the project and then we would

958
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:24,580
cover those.

959
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:29,280
The part that we don't believe is going to be covered because it was never part of

960
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:35,100
the project is, and I don't even know if it was looked at when they originally toured

961
01:27:35,100 --> 01:27:40,480
the Dunnevin, is this heating unit that it's, you know, this monstrous unit that heats

962
01:27:40,480 --> 01:27:43,400
the two largest areas of the Dunnevin.

963
01:27:44,540 --> 01:27:48,240
Those we do not believe will be covered because they were never in the scope of the project.

964
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,520
And we just take the shot and just to piggyback on Jim here.

965
01:27:53,020 --> 01:27:55,480
Those two areas never had air conditioning, correct?

966
01:27:55,780 --> 01:27:57,140
They've never had air conditioning.

967
01:27:57,740 --> 01:28:01,160
I believe it's a heating unit at some point they had great heat.

968
01:28:01,220 --> 01:28:01,280
Right.

969
01:28:03,780 --> 01:28:04,640
Can I just follow?

970
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:06,120
Yeah, you were next in line.

971
01:28:07,180 --> 01:28:10,260
So we talked a great deal about the dawn of it.

972
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:14,360
So the young, what needs to be done there?

973
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:16,860
The only thing that the young would be,

974
01:28:16,860 --> 01:28:22,160
The incidental cost related to the project would be to replace the units that were removed.

975
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:24,060
So removed that we used to be in the window?

976
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:24,360
Yes.

977
01:28:24,820 --> 01:28:30,120
Okay, does that school have air conditioning in the cafeteria or gymnasium?

978
01:28:30,340 --> 01:28:39,800
No, they do not and the way they're not, their units are very different than the Dunnevin.

979
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:45,380
They also have other heating spaces where they can, I mean cooling spaces where they can move students.

980
01:28:45,380 --> 01:28:46,900
Where has the Dunnevin does not?

981
01:28:47,420 --> 01:28:54,360
Okay, and we know that the middle school has air conditioning in the library and the cafeteria.

982
01:28:55,580 --> 01:28:56,440
And what about the Kennedy?

983
01:28:56,980 --> 01:29:01,120
The Kennedy actually, this we're going to have to figure out.

984
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:07,440
The Kennedy's nurse doesn't even have air conditioning, which is not a good situation in extreme heat.

985
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:12,140
So we're going to have to figure out how to pay for that through our own,

986
01:29:14,580 --> 01:29:22,080
our own funds. It should have come up when their windows were put in. It was

987
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:27,900
the same issue. To my knowledge, it was never brought before the council. I'm not

988
01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:33,860
sure of that. But when I walked around the summer, I asked and I mean the

989
01:29:33,860 --> 01:29:38,980
nurses room was 98 degrees and there was no air conditioning. So that's

990
01:29:38,980 --> 01:29:41,000
something we would have to try to cover them.

991
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:44,140
So can we, Ryan, does it make sense?

992
01:29:44,520 --> 01:29:48,340
If we're going to be inclined to do this, does it make sense?

993
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:52,740
Maybe to take a look at that and see in that area.

994
01:29:53,300 --> 01:29:54,080
And maybe who knows?

995
01:29:54,260 --> 01:29:58,080
Maybe we can get a bit of price by bundling it all together.

996
01:29:58,440 --> 01:29:58,780
I don't know.

997
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,000
My understanding is because I was coming forward to you and Brian, you can correct me if I'm wrong. My

998
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,340
understanding is that I, because I'm coming before the council looking for bid savings, money, that

999
01:30:09,340 --> 01:30:14,860
money was designated only for Dunnevin and Young, so that I can only make the request. Now, the

1000
01:30:14,860 --> 01:30:20,960
town could definitely decide to do something differently, but I cannot ask for that money to be used

1001
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:28,520
for any school. I'm not asking you that. I didn't ask you. I asked Brian. All right, well, let's see what Brian has to say.

1002
01:30:32,030 --> 01:30:44,510
Because from what I'm understanding is that it would have to be a separate appropriation. Right. So it has nothing to do with what you currently doing on those two projects.

1003
01:30:47,170 --> 01:30:50,890
The shortings was could they be an additional appropriation or additional order? Yes.

1004
01:30:53,010 --> 01:31:00,250
Thank you Mr. President, Mrs. Dogel, for my understood during the last school committee

1005
01:31:00,250 --> 01:31:04,570
meeting the money is already there it's not like something we're going to look for or

1006
01:31:04,570 --> 01:31:10,270
we don't know how we're going to finance it right and you're being proactive in case

1007
01:31:10,270 --> 01:31:19,610
of like major extreme weather so you need somewhere to move the kids and I understand

1008
01:31:19,610 --> 01:31:22,950
and also town manager came up with a great point.

1009
01:31:23,490 --> 01:31:28,550
So that could be used as shelter for the town as well, right?

1010
01:31:28,890 --> 01:31:31,090
Yes, so you just need our approval

1011
01:31:31,690 --> 01:31:33,430
to use that money that's already there.

1012
01:31:33,770 --> 01:31:35,550
Yes, okay, we've got my vote.

1013
01:31:37,250 --> 01:31:38,030
Councilor Bridges.

1014
01:31:39,350 --> 01:31:42,830
Cox engineering, ask them.

1015
01:31:44,830 --> 01:31:46,510
They're a new company in town.

1016
01:31:47,250 --> 01:31:58,210
They build this stuff from scratch, which is probably going to be cheaper than your $600,000 boozee.

1017
01:32:00,330 --> 01:32:09,870
We need specs though on what it entails, and they might be able to, even if they can't do it at least.

1018
01:32:10,210 --> 01:32:14,570
And they promised that when we set down with them originally, that they'd look at buildings for us.

1019
01:32:14,570 --> 01:32:16,390
to actually look at, give us ideas.

1020
01:32:17,250 --> 01:32:20,170
So maybe we should have them take a look and see how do we,

1021
01:32:20,910 --> 01:32:24,170
how do we accomplish the goals, the long-term goals

1022
01:32:24,170 --> 01:32:28,130
of these buildings by getting a system in place

1023
01:32:28,130 --> 01:32:31,090
that can actually, you know,

1024
01:32:31,150 --> 01:32:34,290
if we're going to air condition something, air condition.

1025
01:32:36,250 --> 01:32:36,730
Councilmember.

1026
01:32:37,330 --> 01:32:38,410
Thank you, Mr. President.

1027
01:32:40,830 --> 01:32:42,390
Cots of engineering absolutely.

1028
01:32:42,390 --> 01:32:44,990
And they've been really good to us.

1029
01:32:45,890 --> 01:32:50,750
And I think they will definitely look after us.

1030
01:32:51,110 --> 01:32:52,090
So I agree with that.

1031
01:32:53,730 --> 01:32:57,310
Again, just thinking about this, and thank you.

1032
01:32:57,470 --> 01:33:00,350
But first of all, thank you for coming in front of us

1033
01:33:00,790 --> 01:33:04,610
and allowing us to digest this information

1034
01:33:05,650 --> 01:33:11,650
and kind of think about ways where we could be helpful for you.

1035
01:33:11,650 --> 01:33:13,910
and have a back-and-forth discussion.

1036
01:33:14,290 --> 01:33:16,610
So I totally appreciated the conversation

1037
01:33:16,610 --> 01:33:19,370
and yes, the kids in the AC, yes, the kids in the heat.

1038
01:33:20,990 --> 01:33:23,890
And I think we all at the table agree

1039
01:33:23,890 --> 01:33:26,210
that that is extremely important.

1040
01:33:27,070 --> 01:33:32,790
But again, I am hoping as we go forward the whole assessment,

1041
01:33:32,990 --> 01:33:35,110
I was mentioned that there was a plan

1042
01:33:35,110 --> 01:33:37,650
that's already together assessment that's already together

1043
01:33:37,650 --> 01:33:40,590
looking at that assessment and whatever we need

1044
01:33:40,590 --> 01:33:45,490
And in addition to that, I think it would be really useful for you and us.

1045
01:33:45,870 --> 01:33:51,230
I know there's been lots of talk that just the town we have, there's been some areas

1046
01:33:51,230 --> 01:33:55,090
that we just have not taken care of, you know, and it is what it is.

1047
01:33:55,730 --> 01:34:00,870
And there's some areas where we thought we were taking care of, but it wasn't happening

1048
01:34:00,870 --> 01:34:03,530
the way we thought it was supposed to be happening.

1049
01:34:03,930 --> 01:34:04,910
And that is what it is.

1050
01:34:05,050 --> 01:34:10,170
So at this point, and going forward, I think these assessments will be very useful.

1051
01:34:10,170 --> 01:34:12,490
Well, all of us. Thank you.

1052
01:34:12,610 --> 01:34:13,390
Councilor Goldstein.

1053
01:34:14,710 --> 01:34:15,910
Dropping the other shoe.

1054
01:34:17,450 --> 01:34:19,930
If we don't borrow the $2 million,

1055
01:34:21,850 --> 01:34:25,290
Jeanine, what is the annual debt service on $2 million?

1056
01:34:26,790 --> 01:34:27,390
Proximum.

1057
01:34:32,090 --> 01:34:36,890
If I were to guess it's probably $1,000, $1,500, $75,000 a year.

1058
01:34:37,430 --> 01:34:38,390
Probably fair.

1059
01:34:38,390 --> 01:34:46,950
All right. So what we're saying that, you know, there is savings. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but we should go and

1060
01:34:46,950 --> 01:34:58,790
wear the eyes open. And if we don't do it, there is a potential additional availability to the town. Maybe for schools, maybe for public safety, whatever, between $15975,000

1061
01:34:58,790 --> 01:35:02,630
is here because we take the excess money and don't worry.

1062
01:35:06,130 --> 01:35:06,550
All right.

1063
01:35:06,750 --> 01:35:08,190
Thank you for coming before us.

1064
01:35:08,290 --> 01:35:08,970
Do you have any steps?

1065
01:35:09,290 --> 01:35:10,050
Thing you want to add to you?

1066
01:35:10,390 --> 01:35:15,810
We will submit for the next council meeting some additional

1067
01:35:15,810 --> 01:35:21,850
information, both on the finance side and we'll

1068
01:35:21,850 --> 01:35:26,650
put together a council order for consideration and the proper

1069
01:35:26,650 --> 01:35:32,950
for appetisement, should the vote be there to approve it,

1070
01:35:33,290 --> 01:35:37,410
to do the acing the heating and the duct related work at the Donovan.

1071
01:35:37,930 --> 01:35:40,910
And what about specs, the scope of work?

1072
01:35:41,790 --> 01:35:46,870
Well, that's part of the conversation as to why we didn't want to have a more.

1073
01:35:47,870 --> 01:35:49,230
No, it wasn't going to be an automation.

1074
01:35:49,730 --> 01:35:52,010
You didn't mention that, I want to make sure that is something that's coming to us.

1075
01:35:52,130 --> 01:35:54,570
Not just for that Monday, but prior to that Monday.

1076
01:35:54,570 --> 01:36:00,970
Yes, we're anticipating and expecting that the OPM will provide all of us that information.

1077
01:36:02,450 --> 01:36:03,030
All right.

1078
01:36:03,250 --> 01:36:05,590
Again, thank you, Ms. Stovell, for coming here this evening.

1079
01:36:05,830 --> 01:36:08,530
Look forward to having more conversations in the future.

1080
01:36:08,850 --> 01:36:09,290
Thank you.

1081
01:36:12,680 --> 01:36:13,180
All right.

1082
01:36:13,260 --> 01:36:16,660
Next item on the agenda, and thank you for everyone's patience, is public comments.

1083
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:19,000
Everyone will have the chance to speak for three minutes.

1084
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:21,520
If anyone would like to come forward, please do so.

1085
01:36:22,220 --> 01:36:26,280
And if you can just add your name, give your name and address the record.

1086
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:31,340
63 follow street. I came with two items, but now I've got three since you talked about the water.

1087
01:36:32,440 --> 01:36:34,020
Can I ask Ryan a question first?

1088
01:36:34,940 --> 01:36:38,040
Oh, you can, when was the boiled water order, Brian?

1089
01:36:38,820 --> 01:36:42,580
The boiled water was back July, I think July 11th.

1090
01:36:42,580 --> 01:36:47,740
Okay, well then July 12th. I was watching the news on Channel 5 in the morning, which I do every morning.

1091
01:36:47,740 --> 01:36:52,240
And it was a very bigger, I thought it was an embarrassment to Randolph.

1092
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:57,480
Channel 5 set up their interview or whatever they want to call it, right in front

1093
01:36:57,480 --> 01:36:59,380
of the water tank on Fawn Street.

1094
01:36:59,920 --> 01:37:03,580
And that wasn't a good reflection on our water treatment plan.

1095
01:37:04,300 --> 01:37:08,500
It's rust, I know that doesn't affect the water, but people don't know that.

1096
01:37:08,620 --> 01:37:09,760
Is there any way you get anything painted?

1097
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:17,820
I brought that up the last meeting before to get that painted, because visually it's not bad.

1098
01:37:17,820 --> 01:37:18,980
It's bad.

1099
01:37:19,740 --> 01:37:24,600
The second item I had was, I came, Jason, you weren't here.

1100
01:37:25,100 --> 01:37:26,700
The Vice President was handling the meeting.

1101
01:37:27,300 --> 01:37:32,700
I asked about poll 24 on West Street, and I didn't know what the status was at that.

1102
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:38,140
But since I've asked, I've noticed three or four more around town that are in the same

1103
01:37:38,140 --> 01:37:42,840
condition. And I was wondering if there's any way you can have the code enforcement officer

1104
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:47,560
while she's driving around making note of these polls. You maybe even take a picture with a phone

1105
01:37:48,140 --> 01:37:53,740
and then give them the Brian so maybe they can clean up the situation.

1106
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:58,400
And I'd like to go one step further is that I know Jimmy said it at the last meeting

1107
01:37:59,740 --> 01:38:05,120
that they came to ask for something. Instead, I just so came there permits to put a new

1108
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:14,340
Polin or a guide wire? Before you issue the permit, make them clean up the situations. Instead of them keep promise and they're going to do it because they're not doing it.

1109
01:38:15,220 --> 01:38:23,600
I haven't seen any activity on West Street. I keep my eyes open. So I don't know if that's possible or not. If you want to put a phone on them.

1110
01:38:24,660 --> 01:38:29,480
All I can say is that at a regional, you know, I know what I'm saying.

1111
01:38:29,480 --> 01:38:30,120
The energy's meeting.

1112
01:38:30,980 --> 01:38:33,320
This is not a Randolph issue.

1113
01:38:33,420 --> 01:38:35,180
This is a statewide issue.

1114
01:38:35,460 --> 01:38:41,900
I think the MMA itself was looking at one point trying to come up with some kind of legislation where there would be fines involved.

1115
01:38:43,220 --> 01:38:50,580
There is no question that wherever they can avoid switching out the poll, they do this joint attachment,

1116
01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:57,580
which certainly doesn't look safe, but it doesn't look good either.

1117
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,080
So it's frustrating.

1118
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:06,340
What we're talking about is these poles that are doubled up and they cut off the bottom

1119
01:39:06,340 --> 01:39:07,340
and put them on a stoke.

1120
01:39:08,960 --> 01:39:09,980
That's what I'm talking about.

1121
01:39:10,620 --> 01:39:13,220
And the third thing I had, I don't know if they can be done or not,

1122
01:39:13,320 --> 01:39:15,020
there's a lot of people in town who are on a thick sin,

1123
01:39:15,140 --> 01:39:16,720
comes like, I am, I'm retired.

1124
01:39:17,480 --> 01:39:26,040
Is there any possible way, and I don't mean right away, but you get your tax bill in November, and then you get your water bill in November.

1125
01:39:26,300 --> 01:39:32,440
Is there any way of separating so you get your tax bill in November and your water bill in this, you know what I mean, keep going on that.

1126
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:34,060
So you don't get the same things.

1127
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:35,680
The water bill is six districts.

1128
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:36,600
It's what?

1129
01:39:36,860 --> 01:39:38,980
The water bill is six districts. It's still billed out.

1130
01:39:39,540 --> 01:39:41,000
So not everyone gets it in November.

1131
01:39:41,440 --> 01:39:42,900
It varies throughout the community.

1132
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:43,960
I mean, I do so.

1133
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:47,780
right and it goes quarterly now as well yeah no I know it would mean it would be eight months

1134
01:39:47,780 --> 01:39:51,780
have the year water bills are going out yeah or I didn't know if you could make maybe change the

1135
01:39:51,780 --> 01:39:56,180
due date you know I don't know if you could do that yeah but everyone's not doing the same time

1136
01:39:56,180 --> 01:40:01,480
okay yeah I'll write you for Christmas and by eight months I meant 12 months my maths a little rest

1137
01:40:01,480 --> 01:40:06,860
okay all right but that's all I had but my main concern again is those telephone please okay all right

1138
01:40:06,860 --> 01:40:07,920
Thank you very much.

1139
01:40:08,060 --> 01:40:08,460
Sorry.

1140
01:40:09,020 --> 01:40:09,680
Anyone else?

1141
01:40:09,860 --> 01:40:10,300
Ms. Mulligan?

1142
01:40:18,780 --> 01:40:19,740
Good evening, Councilor.

1143
01:40:21,360 --> 01:40:22,920
Dave Mulligan, three pundlings.

1144
01:40:24,560 --> 01:40:29,740
I could start, you know, ask questions, but I've been told that we can't have a discussion.

1145
01:40:30,340 --> 01:40:34,280
Yet I'm seeing discussions taking place right here, you know.

1146
01:40:34,500 --> 01:40:34,800
All right.

1147
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:36,480
If we can answer the questions quickly.

1148
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:36,880
Okay.

1149
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:37,960
So maybe it will help.

1150
01:40:39,280 --> 01:40:43,240
I mean, there's a lot of issues that are going on in this community.

1151
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:52,860
The council's job obligation to address people's concerns where they don't feel like

1152
01:40:52,860 --> 01:40:56,620
they're speaking at a blank wall and not being acknowledged.

1153
01:40:57,420 --> 01:41:03,280
There have been people come up here, take their own time to speak about rodent problems,

1154
01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:05,720
the RICC, all right.

1155
01:41:06,420 --> 01:41:10,760
These conversations are going on, comments have been happening for the last several months.

1156
01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:17,780
and limited of zero feedback regarding the council.

1157
01:41:18,600 --> 01:41:23,920
And so the community feels like why even by the coming up here and

1158
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:30,640
expressing ourselves if we're not going to see any type of action take place or any type of direction for that.

1159
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:34,560
I mean, I could sit here for three minutes and talk about water all day long.

1160
01:41:34,560 --> 01:41:45,480
All right, but there's so many different issues with this, with how this public speaks portion is handled and not handled, right?

1161
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:55,140
I mean, there's, you know, when you have residents talking about, you know, road infestation because of construction, and you don't have nothing else about it.

1162
01:41:55,160 --> 01:42:03,720
And you hear, you know, RIC's either rates go up, but there's no justification of what's really going on, you know.

1163
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:13,420
And, you know, and it's just it's disappointing that we don't have a more of a dialogue and more of an action,

1164
01:42:13,740 --> 01:42:21,660
you know, action-based response from the council to initiate an action anyways as opposed to, you know, we'll check into it.

1165
01:42:21,820 --> 01:42:23,160
We'll check into it means what?

1166
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:29,640
You know, when you don't hear anything about it after the fact, it's, you know, it seems like it's just got kicked to the side.

1167
01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:36,340
And in all of a sudden we're talking about spending millions of dollars on one thing or something else, but it's not

1168
01:42:36,860 --> 01:42:41,500
We're not dealing with, you know, with some of the residents even come up here to address

1169
01:42:41,500 --> 01:42:50,080
You know, I mean the community is everybody and when everybody comes up in this table, all right, you know, and voicing their concern

1170
01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:58,820
They should be it should be addressed in a reasonable amount of time. You know the next need meeting maybe, you know, but to

1171
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:14,320
You know, some of these topics that I'm bringing up right now were brought up well over two months ago, all right, and we're even addressed, you know, so, but I just want to make a comment regarding the schools as a contractor, you know, the groups.

1172
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:29,560
A lot of times the warranties that the state requires is a one year warranty unless there's something else that's written in the manufacturer may have a warranty on the product, but the time may be responsible for the labor to replace the product.

1173
01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:38,840
So, but that's just something that's, but for now, that's all because I don't want to use them one by three minutes.

1174
01:43:39,420 --> 01:43:40,060
Thank you.

1175
01:43:41,880 --> 01:43:42,380
Next.

1176
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:45,200
It's a hand before.

1177
01:43:45,860 --> 01:43:48,060
You're already walking towards Mr. Goyne.

1178
01:43:52,420 --> 01:43:53,340
Ms. Swayne will be next.

1179
01:43:55,100 --> 01:43:56,700
Jesse Gordon, 52 West Street.

1180
01:43:56,700 --> 01:44:02,560
I co-signed a correspondence to the town council, which I believe will be read later in the meeting.

1181
01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:06,380
With four other residents, I'd like to provide the context for that correspondence.

1182
01:44:07,340 --> 01:44:11,320
The voter turnout rate for municipal elections has been about 20% in recent years.

1183
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:14,680
We'd like to ask the town council's help to increase voter turnout.

1184
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:19,560
We're focusing on many people, the many people of Randolph, who work during election day,

1185
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:22,920
and had to make walking absentee voting easier for them.

1186
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:27,740
And not to interrupt you. I have a response to your letter from our acting town clerk.

1187
01:44:27,740 --> 01:44:31,340
So if you want to read your letter in its entirety, you're more than welcome to.

1188
01:44:31,500 --> 01:44:32,720
I'll need three minutes.

1189
01:44:33,420 --> 01:44:34,100
That's okay.

1190
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:43,680
So the letter says to the Randall Town Council, we're writing to request that the town clerk's office extend the hours available for absentee voting to more off 4.8 hours.

1191
01:44:44,180 --> 01:44:52,420
So many of Randall's voters work long hours out of town and we would be disenfranchised by making by being unable to get to the polls on Tuesday, November 5th.

1192
01:44:52,420 --> 01:44:59,880
because they have to miss work in order to vote. Our goal is to allow more voters to participate in the upcoming municipal election by providing easier

1193
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,440
We are absentee voting at the town clerk's office. We suggest the following schedule in addition to the regular town clerk hours of 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on weekdays, starting on Monday, October 21st from 4.30 until 7. Saturday, October 26th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, October 28th until 7 p.m. and Saturday, November 2nd for the morning as well. We believe this would greatly increase the number of people voting in the municipal election. We note that in November of 2017, only about 4,500 people voted while over 20,000 people were registered to vote.

1194
01:45:29,440 --> 01:45:35,760
a turnout of 122%. That means 78% of our voters did not vote. We think that many of those 78%

1195
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:39,720
would vote if the town council increased absentee voting hours assigned by myself,

1196
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:45,160
Finnec Cattabua Davis, Jehovah Lopez, George Magazine, and Alafia Sikina, Richard Jumpier.

1197
01:45:45,580 --> 01:45:50,660
Okay, and I'll read this letter from Cheryl Sass, the acting town clerk and registrar,

1198
01:45:50,780 --> 01:45:55,820
which I received this evening. Dear President Adams, I'm writing in response to the letter address

1199
01:45:55,820 --> 01:46:00,780
to the Randolph-town Council dated September 5th, 2019, from the aforementioned names.

1200
01:46:01,360 --> 01:46:05,160
The letter is somewhat misleading as two of the dates requested for extended absentee

1201
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:07,480
voting are Monday evenings until 7 p.m.

1202
01:46:08,020 --> 01:46:12,820
The town clerk's office already provides the convenience of Monday night hours and absentee

1203
01:46:12,820 --> 01:46:16,660
voting until 7 p.m. and is done so for almost 20 years.

1204
01:46:17,260 --> 01:46:21,580
I've had several discussions with Mr. Gordon both in writing and in person on this matter,

1205
01:46:21,580 --> 01:46:43,020
And I was somewhat surprised to see the letter to the town council as I have advised Mr. Gordon any qualified absentee voter can in person once ballots become available mid-October or request a ballot to be mailed to them during our regular business hours Mondays 8.30 to 7 and Tuesday through Friday 8.30 to 4.30

1206
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:51,080
Access to requesting an absentee ballot is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

1207
01:46:51,380 --> 01:46:58,340
A voter simply requests a ballot in writing or by filling out an application, which can be obtained online or in person at the clerk's office.

1208
01:46:58,940 --> 01:47:03,500
In addition, family members may request an absentee ballot to be sent on a voter's behalf.

1209
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:08,620
Once ballots are printed and received, they will be mailed to anyone who has requested that one be sent.

1210
01:47:08,620 --> 01:47:16,280
In an email dated August 6, 2019, I stated that I may be able to offer a few hours the

1211
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:21,080
Saturday prior to the election if staffing and workflow allow, but it's too early for

1212
01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:23,120
me to make that determination at this time.

1213
01:47:23,760 --> 01:47:29,080
Once the absentee voting period begins, I will determine if being open on Saturday, November

1214
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:31,880
2, from noon to 2pm is necessary.

1215
01:47:32,340 --> 01:47:36,880
Is also extremely important to note that early voting and absentee voting are two very different

1216
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:37,260
things.

1217
01:47:37,260 --> 01:47:40,740
There is no early voting period for a local election.

1218
01:47:40,940 --> 01:47:47,220
Only certain state elections absentee voting is only for those who fit one of the three

1219
01:47:47,220 --> 01:47:48,880
following criteria one.

1220
01:47:49,440 --> 01:47:53,220
Voter will be out of town on election day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., too.

1221
01:47:53,980 --> 01:47:57,500
Voter has a disability that prevents them from voting in person or three.

1222
01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:01,140
Voter is prevented by religious beliefs from voting at a polling place.

1223
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:07,220
When signing the absentee ballot envelope, the voter is affirming under the penalties of

1224
01:48:07,220 --> 01:48:10,500
perjury that they are qualified to vote by absentee ballot.

1225
01:48:11,060 --> 01:48:16,200
Happy to answer any and all questions the council has, and I'm happy to assist any candidates

1226
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:21,700
or residents who may need more absentee voting, information on absentee voting.

1227
01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:23,840
Shall these sass acting town clerk?

1228
01:48:24,540 --> 01:48:30,000
So hopefully that answers some of the questions and somewhat of a response to you, and as noted

1229
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:34,920
here, she'll certainly be able to reach out to any councillors or any other candidates

1230
01:48:34,920 --> 01:48:36,100
who may have further questions.

1231
01:48:36,100 --> 01:48:38,620
And I'm sure we can get your copy of this letter as well.

1232
01:48:39,100 --> 01:48:39,220
Sure.

1233
01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:40,960
May I do my context?

1234
01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:42,020
Go ahead.

1235
01:48:42,020 --> 01:48:42,760
But it actually addresses.

1236
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:43,460
Now, go ahead.

1237
01:48:43,700 --> 01:48:45,000
You know, I didn't mean to talk about this.

1238
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:50,880
So the first part, yes, of course, I know that the evening hours on Monday are always available.

1239
01:48:51,100 --> 01:48:51,980
That's not an issue.

1240
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:53,540
The real issue is the Saturday hours.

1241
01:48:54,080 --> 01:48:58,920
I mean, I picked those dates in question, which are after when my discussion with Ms. Sass indicated

1242
01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:00,900
that it would be a sure thing that the ballots are ready.

1243
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:05,440
That's why I started the dates on October 21st, after the mid-October date when they come

1244
01:49:05,440 --> 01:49:09,460
What I want to do with the Monday evening hours is advertise them, in other words make

1245
01:49:09,460 --> 01:49:14,420
it publicly known to everybody in town that they may go in and do their absentee voting.

1246
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,380
With regards to mail-in voting, yes, that's a separate issue.

1247
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,740
I'm only talking about walk-in voting because that's the one that's really the most relevant

1248
01:49:20,740 --> 01:49:21,220
for people.

1249
01:49:21,340 --> 01:49:22,440
They can do everything in one step.

1250
01:49:22,560 --> 01:49:24,080
If you do it by mail, you have to do two steps.

1251
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:28,780
You have to mail in the application, get a response, and then mail in the absentee issue.

1252
01:49:28,920 --> 01:49:31,480
That's not what the ask is of the town council.

1253
01:49:31,480 --> 01:49:37,000
So the ask is to set up certain hours that are known in advance so that we can publicize

1254
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:37,580
those hours.

1255
01:49:37,980 --> 01:49:44,160
And with regards to the issue of the criteria for absentee voting in her criteria, I'm

1256
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:45,640
only talking about criteria number one.

1257
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:51,020
So the typical example is that let's say you're a voter who takes the 728 train to work and

1258
01:49:51,020 --> 01:49:56,120
takes the train home to arrive at the station at 717 PM, that puts you out of the possibility

1259
01:49:56,720 --> 01:50:00,540
of during your normal work day being able to vote at the polls.

1260
01:50:00,540 --> 01:50:05,520
That's the situation in criteria number one, when you're unavailable on the election day that we want to address.

1261
01:50:06,080 --> 01:50:13,540
So that criteria means that you are allowed to absentee vote and that you can therefore go in as an absentee voter prior,

1262
01:50:13,980 --> 01:50:16,640
but we have to know the dates in order to be able to publicize those dates.

1263
01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:22,580
And I'm and the other signers and we hope others too are very happy to do the publicity through the newspaper and

1264
01:50:22,580 --> 01:50:26,400
flyers and so on, but we need the dates decided in advance.

1265
01:50:26,400 --> 01:50:31,260
this has been clear in my discussion and in her letter that it won't be decided until

1266
01:50:31,700 --> 01:50:34,560
basically the last minute, which means we can't do any advanced publicity.

1267
01:50:34,860 --> 01:50:38,360
So what we're really asking is that the dates are decided between the town council and the

1268
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:42,340
town clerk's office well in advance so that we can publicize it and that people can take

1269
01:50:42,340 --> 01:50:43,080
advantage of it.

1270
01:50:43,660 --> 01:50:46,780
Yes, I'm also aware of the distinction between early voting and absentee voting.

1271
01:50:46,900 --> 01:50:48,520
I think most voters aren't.

1272
01:50:48,860 --> 01:50:50,140
This is absentee voting.

1273
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:52,060
Early voting is the goal in fact.

1274
01:50:52,260 --> 01:50:55,480
That's what I'm trying to make one piece more like.

1275
01:50:55,480 --> 01:51:25,460
doing it that we know when you can go in and doing it in one stop is an important aspect of early voting that absentee voting doesn't do and if we have the dates in advance and can publicize it we can make walk-in absentee voting similar to early voting which is a state program not a municipal voting program I think it's everything in my all right thank you sir and then just one quick point it's I do believe it's the town clerk's decision as to when you know absentee voting or any sort of voting hours would happen

1276
01:51:25,460 --> 01:51:27,060
And Mr. Howard, am I correct on that?

1277
01:51:27,500 --> 01:51:30,920
It does not fall under the House Council being the elected body in the election.

1278
01:51:31,060 --> 01:51:34,540
I don't think it would be appropriate for you to make, make, make election related decisions.

1279
01:51:34,540 --> 01:51:36,880
So if that's your question, I would say, I would say yes.

1280
01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:38,360
That's true.

1281
01:51:39,880 --> 01:51:49,300
I do anticipate that there will be a, I was available and announced in advance to the last

1282
01:51:49,300 --> 01:51:51,520
Saturday before the election.

1283
01:51:53,160 --> 01:52:16,060
I will say that in town elections, the vast majority, maybe not vast majority because I don't have statistics here, but I can tell you from my general experience, and it's 50, 50 at best, the amount of people that vote by mail versus those that walk into vote in a town election.

1284
01:52:17,140 --> 01:52:26,900
So I don't know that I think, unfortunately, and I guess maybe, and I couldn't help it,

1285
01:52:26,900 --> 01:52:31,620
I'm not the town clerk anymore, but when you hear the word disenfranchised, that has such a loaded meeting.

1286
01:52:33,420 --> 01:52:39,340
And so it's frustrating to hear that word because that's what goes on in another parts of the country.

1287
01:52:39,340 --> 01:52:44,380
That is not what happens in Massachusetts, that's not what happens in the town of Randolph.

1288
01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:53,120
And so that's just when I hit that word, I got to admit it kind of gets the hair on the back of my neck a little up there.

1289
01:52:53,360 --> 01:53:06,080
Because I want to make it abundantly clear that in my time as the town clerk, we always made sure that we added additional hours for both absentee voting in person.

1290
01:53:07,260 --> 01:53:12,860
But quite frankly, a lot of times people come in, and they like being able to get the

1291
01:53:12,860 --> 01:53:16,340
ballot mail to them because they want to take more time to figure out who the candidates

1292
01:53:16,340 --> 01:53:18,120
are, who they want to vote for, whatever the case may be.

1293
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:23,180
We don't get into why voters, what their preferences are.

1294
01:53:23,560 --> 01:53:29,700
Our job is to try and give them those opportunities, and everybody's got a different view on that.

1295
01:53:31,540 --> 01:53:36,440
But I do anticipate that there will be a date and time announced for

1296
01:53:36,440 --> 01:53:40,640
that last Saturday before the election.

1297
01:53:41,340 --> 01:53:44,280
As I always state, and I don't know if the letter mentioned it or not,

1298
01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:51,220
the town does keep a, there are those who apply regularly those that have certain illnesses,

1299
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:58,540
or the like, those who know that they're out regularly, they fill out their absentee ballot request.

1300
01:53:58,540 --> 01:54:04,820
just literally a January of every year, so they know any ballot that comes up, special election or not they're going to get that ballot meal to them.

1301
01:54:07,180 --> 01:54:21,620
So clearly, the town clerk would make this decision, I do anticipate from my conversations with the town clerk that that Saturday, whether it's 10 to 12, 12 to 2, whatever it might be, that there will be some hours announced shortly for that.

1302
01:54:21,620 --> 01:54:29,300
And the evening hours, the Monday night hours has always allowed absentee voting during

1303
01:54:29,300 --> 01:54:31,980
those, during my tenure.

1304
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:33,860
So that would continue.

1305
01:54:37,340 --> 01:54:47,220
And I know actually this last state election, we actually received some compliments that

1306
01:54:47,220 --> 01:54:56,860
came in through other state agencies and or state groups that monitor elections in the town of Randolph because we're a majority minority community.

1307
01:54:57,160 --> 01:54:59,900
So they're very sensitive to the issues of disenfranchisement.

1308
01:55:00,620 --> 01:55:08,120
And when it came to the voting process in Randolph from an inactive voter on the day of the election from the beginning of the precinct to the close out of the precinct,

1309
01:55:09,160 --> 01:55:14,640
Senator Warren's legal staff actually reached out to Deb and I think Debbie and

1310
01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:20,180
sent an email to the council to say, we wish towns ran their elections like the town of Randolph.

1311
01:55:20,420 --> 01:55:25,940
So, I just want to make it clear that we do a good job here.

1312
01:55:26,320 --> 01:55:31,180
The residents, the poll workers, the election workers, everybody down the line does a good job.

1313
01:55:31,780 --> 01:55:32,720
All right, thank you.

1314
01:55:32,980 --> 01:55:33,300
Hey, I respond.

1315
01:55:35,060 --> 01:55:35,460
Briefly.

1316
01:55:35,940 --> 01:55:36,040
Sure.

1317
01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:40,880
Certainly, knowing that the term disenfranchisement is sensitive, I won't use that term again.

1318
01:55:40,880 --> 01:55:44,780
But as you might recall, when you were the town clerk in 2017, I had the same discussion

1319
01:55:44,780 --> 01:55:48,160
with you on Facebook using the same terminology as far as I know.

1320
01:55:48,740 --> 01:55:54,500
And the issue about that I'm referring to as disenfranchisement is addressing why is

1321
01:55:54,500 --> 01:55:58,360
it that 70% of our registered voters don't vote in municipal elections.

1322
01:55:58,900 --> 01:56:01,340
Of course, it's not legal disenfranchisement.

1323
01:56:01,460 --> 01:56:02,180
I acknowledge that.

1324
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:04,980
And I think the town of Randolph does a great job for the people who vote.

1325
01:56:05,340 --> 01:56:07,220
I'm trying to get it that there's more people who can vote.

1326
01:56:07,220 --> 01:56:09,060
and the real issue is the publicity.

1327
01:56:09,780 --> 01:56:12,000
The sooner we know the dates, the more we can publicize it.

1328
01:56:12,100 --> 01:56:15,600
I mean, what I would really like to see is a big orange light sign

1329
01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:18,500
in Crawford Square saying you can go right now to Town Hall

1330
01:56:18,500 --> 01:56:22,060
and vote early right this minute on the Monday evenings.

1331
01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,020
Given that we're not going to do that, I want to publicize

1332
01:56:24,020 --> 01:56:26,680
that people can do that, and there are four more will.

1333
01:56:27,380 --> 01:56:30,700
I mean, my hope in particular, we do flashing boards

1334
01:56:30,700 --> 01:56:33,400
and banners, et cetera, over the years as the council knows.

1335
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:35,800
The fact that these meetings for the first time,

1336
01:56:35,800 --> 01:56:39,440
And we started live streaming them less than a year ago.

1337
01:56:40,120 --> 01:56:46,880
I'm hopeful that more people who generally don't follow town of fears has started to follow town of fears.

1338
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:48,820
So I think that's the number one issue in town elections.

1339
01:56:49,340 --> 01:56:52,720
You vote if you feel a connection to the candidates and a connection to the issues.

1340
01:56:53,200 --> 01:56:59,100
And I think the fact that we don't have the local newspapers anymore, and it's not the same.

1341
01:56:59,300 --> 01:57:05,080
I mean, we used to have two local papers, sometimes three stories a day, I don't mean the coverage of the meetings.

1342
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:12,260
I'm talking every day you get the legend in the enterprise and there be two to three Randolph stories local in the paper every day

1343
01:57:13,200 --> 01:57:17,740
Those days along gone. So that's why we made that jump to Facebook live

1344
01:57:17,740 --> 01:57:25,200
So when people jump on to Facebook for other purposes this meeting pops up and they can choose to click off it or not, but

1345
01:57:25,960 --> 01:57:27,280
Hopefully that has an impact

1346
01:57:28,380 --> 01:57:30,460
Hopefully that has a positive impact in turn

1347
01:57:31,740 --> 01:57:35,540
Just quickly, I mean, thank you for coming in front of us.

1348
01:57:35,740 --> 01:57:41,560
I think this always improvement is a large percentage of residents who are not voting.

1349
01:57:42,580 --> 01:57:44,820
And I think, we do it, we do do it.

1350
01:57:44,900 --> 01:57:46,240
We do an awesome job here.

1351
01:57:46,500 --> 01:57:50,600
And I think Brian, you have put lots of energy to make sure that we have the volunteers,

1352
01:57:50,600 --> 01:57:58,360
that we have a policy, that we have the structure that will help residents.

1353
01:58:01,340 --> 01:58:07,880
understand that they're voting rights and make sure that people are in place.

1354
01:58:08,480 --> 01:58:13,120
However, I also think that there's room to grow and

1355
01:58:13,120 --> 01:58:18,300
there's still a large population out there of individuals who are not voting.

1356
01:58:18,860 --> 01:58:27,520
So how can we get, and that's a continue action of how to get more voters interested.

1357
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:30,520
that hopefully these meetings being streamed,

1358
01:58:30,540 --> 01:58:33,140
but not everyone has the internet

1359
01:58:34,320 --> 01:58:37,000
and sometimes people who do have internet

1360
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:39,520
and they are not quite, you know,

1361
01:58:39,660 --> 01:58:41,100
and English not their first link,

1362
01:58:41,140 --> 01:58:44,100
which is a number of different reasons

1363
01:58:44,100 --> 01:58:48,200
why folks may not be able to vote.

1364
01:58:48,940 --> 01:58:50,820
So there's always room to crawl.

1365
01:58:52,140 --> 01:58:53,160
Thank you, Mr. Gordon.

1366
01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:53,980
So have a good evening.

1367
01:58:54,940 --> 01:58:55,240
Miss Wayne?

1368
01:59:02,500 --> 01:59:06,180
So for those that don't know me, my name is Sharon Swain, now we've been in town since

1369
01:59:06,180 --> 01:59:06,860
1997.

1370
01:59:06,940 --> 01:59:14,320
I've probably volunteered in various capacities for the last 20 years, anyway, from husband

1371
01:59:14,320 --> 01:59:21,000
and I, my kids, from Cubscouts, and most people know me in the vein of the music department,

1372
01:59:21,220 --> 01:59:23,360
which is what brings me here tonight.

1373
01:59:24,240 --> 01:59:28,180
So Saturday, we are having a marching band competition.

1374
01:59:28,180 --> 01:59:44,140
There are eight towns coming here plus our own blue devils, and we are in dire need of volunteers, and I have our little sign-up genius here, I'm hoping that CTV can catch it with the link to where you can sign up.

1375
01:59:44,620 --> 01:59:53,840
And if you can't get to that, you're more than welcome to get a hold of us on Randolph Boosters at Yahoo.com. Mr. Burgess is our announcer.

1376
01:59:54,300 --> 01:59:58,660
Mr. Howard is going to be doing some speaking, so now he's going to be doing some speaking.

1377
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,480
Yeah, looking mainly, it takes about 40, 50 volunteers to pull this off.

1378
02:00:05,800 --> 02:00:13,380
Sure. I think when I went on that to a registry, even though I had already talked to you guys, it limits you to, you have to pick something.

1379
02:00:13,620 --> 02:00:18,280
And if you don't know anything about band competition, the chemical competitions, you don't know what those are.

1380
02:00:18,760 --> 02:00:24,640
So if people want to volunteer in just, you know, you'll find a home for them, let them know.

1381
02:00:24,640 --> 02:00:29,920
Absolutely. And it's, you know, you don't have, you don't know how to have to read music.

1382
02:00:30,700 --> 02:00:32,300
It's things like...

1383
02:00:32,300 --> 02:00:33,800
So we don't have volunteer performers.

1384
02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:34,120
Correct.

1385
02:00:34,940 --> 02:00:41,080
And if you, you know, it is an election year, so I would highly recommend that you all come down and volunteer as well as people can get you.

1386
02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:45,540
So Jim is volunteering for us, and Andrew is volunteering for us.

1387
02:00:47,020 --> 02:00:48,720
It's such simple things.

1388
02:00:48,720 --> 02:00:53,420
It's, so these buses arrive, and they all have to get off the buses, the kids, and most

1389
02:00:53,420 --> 02:00:57,820
of them have at least two buses per band, and we stamp their hands so that when the

1390
02:00:57,820 --> 02:01:00,660
kids change out of uniform, they can want to go watch the rest of the bands.

1391
02:01:00,760 --> 02:01:03,380
They know their performers, and they don't have to pay the entrance fee.

1392
02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:09,120
It's, we have to have some place to park these things, and most of the time it's going

1393
02:01:09,120 --> 02:01:13,900
to be in the admin parking lot, so can you, you know, get a bus to line up this way and

1394
02:01:13,900 --> 02:01:16,720
not this way, it's those kinds of things.

1395
02:01:16,720 --> 02:01:21,820
so it's very simple. We like to have the high school kids be the band

1396
02:01:21,820 --> 02:01:26,420
greeters for the most part because they know the insides of the high school

1397
02:01:26,420 --> 02:01:29,120
building and they know we had a point people in the direction of bathrooms and

1398
02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:35,820
and things like that. They are also. So the events five to eight thirty but you

1399
02:01:35,820 --> 02:01:38,660
don't need some one five to eight thirty. You could have someone for an hour

1400
02:01:38,660 --> 02:01:42,320
talking buses at five o'clock or four thirty. Yeah because the bands don't

1401
02:01:42,320 --> 02:01:45,520
all because they perform at different times the different intervals they don't

1402
02:01:45,520 --> 02:01:49,280
all come in at the same time. So if you have a band performing at 730, they might show

1403
02:01:49,280 --> 02:01:53,860
up at 630 because then normally they are an hour before hand. So the first band shows

1404
02:01:53,860 --> 02:02:01,580
up at 5. We're probably going to tell those early people to be there at 330. And we like

1405
02:02:01,580 --> 02:02:09,320
to do things like have a couple of concession stations. So we'll do, you know, candy and

1406
02:02:09,320 --> 02:02:10,300
so they're at one.

1407
02:02:10,540 --> 02:02:11,540
So people don't have to wait.

1408
02:02:11,860 --> 02:02:14,880
It's just a lot of directing of people.

1409
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:17,900
Unlike a sporting event, band competitions,

1410
02:02:18,200 --> 02:02:20,980
people don't walk around while people are performing.

1411
02:02:21,300 --> 02:02:24,360
So it's holding people up at the STI case.

1412
02:02:26,260 --> 02:02:28,300
And that band stops performing

1413
02:02:28,300 --> 02:02:29,680
so that they can get back to the seat.

1414
02:02:29,800 --> 02:02:32,700
So there's a lot of movement with the pits,

1415
02:02:33,760 --> 02:02:35,920
the front-end ensembles, with all the marimba's

1416
02:02:35,920 --> 02:02:36,940
and all that sort of thing.

1417
02:02:36,940 --> 02:02:39,920
and they usually come in from the side of the field.

1418
02:02:40,180 --> 02:02:41,080
It's guarantee people sharing.

1419
02:02:41,500 --> 02:02:41,620
I know.

1420
02:02:42,720 --> 02:02:43,880
So it is.

1421
02:02:44,280 --> 02:02:46,800
It's just a lot of holding up of people

1422
02:02:49,830 --> 02:02:51,310
selling the concessions.

1423
02:02:52,090 --> 02:02:56,010
And what we also like to do is this is Randolph's time

1424
02:02:56,010 --> 02:02:58,790
to shine as far as our hospitality.

1425
02:02:59,410 --> 02:03:00,790
We show it off in our food.

1426
02:03:01,910 --> 02:03:04,170
So we'll take donations of anything.

1427
02:03:04,170 --> 02:03:12,610
the same disclosure is graciously donating patties, I believe, so it's, you know, we're

1428
02:03:12,610 --> 02:03:17,050
trying to get the transportation department involved. We're trying to get the food services

1429
02:03:17,050 --> 02:03:22,450
NYCA from high school is one of our courts. So the hot stuff is done. The rest of it is

1430
02:03:22,450 --> 02:03:27,410
just having a lot of bodies to facilitate this and keep it moving.

1431
02:03:28,130 --> 02:03:32,290
So is there an email that someone you can give to somebody if they want to give an hour

1432
02:03:32,290 --> 02:03:33,950
of their time, but two hours of their time.

1433
02:03:34,350 --> 02:03:37,970
So you can email us at Randolph Boostes at Yahoo.com.

1434
02:03:39,070 --> 02:03:43,850
The sign up genius had, you know, just go with Randolph Boostes.

1435
02:03:43,950 --> 02:03:44,650
I did the little one.

1436
02:03:45,230 --> 02:03:48,930
And I also, I also gave it to our CTV.

1437
02:03:49,750 --> 02:03:54,930
If you have a church group of kids that wants to come, if you have, you know, we were trying

1438
02:03:54,930 --> 02:04:00,270
to get the teams involved, but we are really hurting and we need, we need a whole bunch

1439
02:04:00,270 --> 02:04:00,770
of volunteers.

1440
02:04:00,770 --> 02:04:03,790
is. Councilor Flemont. Will students receive

1441
02:04:03,790 --> 02:04:06,270
community hours? Absolutely. Community service hours are

1442
02:04:06,270 --> 02:04:08,890
revealed. I would probably get I would say a minimum of five if

1443
02:04:08,890 --> 02:04:12,810
they work the whole event. Okay. We had the football team, but

1444
02:04:12,810 --> 02:04:16,690
they had to reschedule the game. So we won't have them in the

1445
02:04:16,690 --> 02:04:21,610
Chalios. But it's a great it's a great event. If you don't know

1446
02:04:21,610 --> 02:04:23,950
the activity, it's a great way to learn about the activity we

1447
02:04:23,950 --> 02:04:26,290
encourage, you know, the elementary band parents, the middle

1448
02:04:26,290 --> 02:04:28,050
school band parents, your kids are going to be doing this

1449
02:04:28,050 --> 02:04:36,250
eventually and you know it would be you don't know what you don't know so and if

1450
02:04:36,250 --> 02:04:39,350
you can't volunteer just please come out and support our kids because they

1451
02:04:39,350 --> 02:04:43,390
do what time are our kids going out there do you know what time are our kids

1452
02:04:43,390 --> 02:04:50,210
performing I don't have the schedule so look on the NESBA site they'll be

1453
02:04:50,210 --> 02:04:52,990
later because they're one of the larger divisions they start with the smaller

1454
02:04:52,990 --> 02:04:57,630
divisions dot with this coming with the two tractor trailers and and you know

1455
02:04:57,630 --> 02:05:03,390
probably four buses there I'd be our largest one. So we hope you come out. Do you have a flyer or a line?

1456
02:05:04,450 --> 02:05:09,830
Yeah, I could download that and send it out. Yep, absolutely. I'm sure we might be able to put on

1457
02:05:09,830 --> 02:05:14,810
the town website as well. Yeah, thank you. Yep, I'm sorry. We might be able to get on the town website as well.

1458
02:05:15,230 --> 02:05:18,330
That would be fantastic. So appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Sharon.

1459
02:05:18,590 --> 02:05:20,830
Thank you, Sharon. Thank you, Sharon. This travel evening.

1460
02:05:25,030 --> 02:05:28,430
You know my aunts in that I couldn't pronounce her name as a kid so she was always on

1461
02:05:28,430 --> 02:05:28,870
net.

1462
02:05:31,290 --> 02:05:35,330
I'm did not try to get a direct contact with Randolph Chamber and that's why I'm here

1463
02:05:35,330 --> 02:05:37,310
tonight to talk about the Chamber just a little bit.

1464
02:05:38,470 --> 02:05:43,270
I've had this job now for four months and I know that you all or I know that we send you

1465
02:05:43,270 --> 02:05:49,510
all information about the Chamber and I'm here looking for your support as well.

1466
02:05:49,510 --> 02:05:54,890
So Sharon looking for your support and support doesn't mean that you have to come to every

1467
02:05:54,890 --> 02:05:57,430
event or you have to come to any event.

1468
02:05:57,950 --> 02:06:02,330
Support means talk about what we do for the chamber, talk about what we do in businesses,

1469
02:06:02,850 --> 02:06:03,590
and send somebody.

1470
02:06:03,730 --> 02:06:07,030
Maybe somebody you know would be interested in something and you may want to send them.

1471
02:06:07,930 --> 02:06:13,850
For example, we are having a leadership program this Thursday, a very well-known business

1472
02:06:13,850 --> 02:06:16,750
this coach is coming and she's going to speak on progressive leadership.

1473
02:06:17,490 --> 02:06:21,110
And that will include diversity, that will include inclusion.

1474
02:06:21,730 --> 02:06:25,390
And that will include the third which is my very favorite and that is kindness.

1475
02:06:26,370 --> 02:06:27,870
And so she's going to speak all about that.

1476
02:06:28,650 --> 02:06:35,270
So I went over to the chiefs and I said to the chiefs especially to chief pace, you've promoted

1477
02:06:35,270 --> 02:06:36,570
some of your police officers.

1478
02:06:37,190 --> 02:06:41,890
Do you have some other people that are like emerging leaders that might benefit from this program?

1479
02:06:42,390 --> 02:06:44,050
And he said, how many can I send?

1480
02:06:44,630 --> 02:06:46,670
I offer that to the fire chief as well.

1481
02:06:47,230 --> 02:06:49,110
I offer that to Brian when we had a discussion.

1482
02:06:49,910 --> 02:06:51,750
So it's from 8 to 10 on Thursday,

1483
02:06:51,750 --> 02:06:53,590
and if any of you would like to come to it,

1484
02:06:53,630 --> 02:06:54,350
would love to have it.

1485
02:06:55,010 --> 02:06:57,950
Next week after that, on September 17,

1486
02:06:58,610 --> 02:07:00,910
our own new town name, Manager Brian Howard,

1487
02:07:01,070 --> 02:07:02,430
will be speaking on the state of the town.

1488
02:07:02,810 --> 02:07:05,090
That is something that the Chamber does every single year.

1489
02:07:06,010 --> 02:07:08,010
Also, I was reached out to by,

1490
02:07:08,190 --> 02:07:09,190
is that incorrect English?

1491
02:07:09,190 --> 02:07:16,370
First, Commander John Hambelberg reached out to me to ask me if we would put on a program called Crazed, you know, that program is.

1492
02:07:16,770 --> 02:07:20,170
It's a citizens response to a shooting event.

1493
02:07:20,650 --> 02:07:24,590
Unfortunately, it's not, if it ever happens, it could be when it would happen.

1494
02:07:25,130 --> 02:07:31,450
So he is going to come and speak on that on the 19th, which is a week from Thursday, I believe, five of my dates, right?

1495
02:07:31,950 --> 02:07:37,670
So I would ask you perhaps that you would talk among the community, I know that we support businesses, but

1496
02:07:37,670 --> 02:07:41,450
But this is something that the community probably would enjoy coming to as well, just to

1497
02:07:41,450 --> 02:07:42,070
learn about it.

1498
02:07:43,310 --> 02:07:50,050
And then one other thing I would like to speak about is an event on the manufacturing.

1499
02:07:50,730 --> 02:07:55,990
And I don't know if you knew this, the third largest town in the South Shore of manufacturers.

1500
02:07:56,990 --> 02:08:02,270
So I have reached out to a flood in the area, Doug Mean is coming.

1501
02:08:02,790 --> 02:08:06,470
He does a spot on Channel 5 called the manufacturing and Massachusetts.

1502
02:08:07,350 --> 02:08:12,110
He's going to come and talk a little bit about what's going on in manufacturing a Massachusetts.

1503
02:08:12,390 --> 02:08:17,430
But most importantly, we will have a panel of manufacturers from Randolph that he will talk about and discuss.

1504
02:08:18,830 --> 02:08:23,950
He's very well spoken. He's an anchor in the morning. Somebody said they watch Channel 5 in the morning. He's on Channel 5 in the morning.

1505
02:08:24,670 --> 02:08:30,590
I would ask you to spread the word about this. We are having it at Lombardos. It's a big step for the new executive director to do.

1506
02:08:30,750 --> 02:08:33,650
So I would look for your support in this.

1507
02:08:36,870 --> 02:08:46,110
There's a fee. Yes. Lunch in at Lombardos. Yes. So we are not in the business of not raising money because we have to raise money. So yes, there's a fee for that.

1508
02:08:46,330 --> 02:08:46,710
Date and time.

1509
02:08:48,310 --> 02:08:51,070
The date and time. Is that what you said? Yes. October 3.

1510
02:08:52,230 --> 02:08:52,950
That's a busy date.

1511
02:08:53,570 --> 02:08:57,790
That's not a good date. I know it's not a good date because there's something else happening in town from 10 to 12.

1512
02:08:57,790 --> 02:09:02,430
Well, ours is from 12 to 2, so I would ask that if you know anybody that's interested

1513
02:09:02,430 --> 02:09:02,870
in me at a time.

1514
02:09:02,870 --> 02:09:03,550
How much is it?

1515
02:09:03,970 --> 02:09:04,510
Excuse me?

1516
02:09:04,590 --> 02:09:05,370
How much is it?

1517
02:09:05,590 --> 02:09:06,210
It's $35.

1518
02:09:07,050 --> 02:09:10,730
And it's $45 for nonmembers, but of course, but you people would be $35.

1519
02:09:10,890 --> 02:09:12,650
Can I get an obligation do they go and remember?

1520
02:09:13,250 --> 02:09:13,610
Absolutely.

1521
02:09:13,970 --> 02:09:14,090
I will.

1522
02:09:14,270 --> 02:09:15,510
You want to have one with me.

1523
02:09:15,890 --> 02:09:17,370
I don't want to take up a lot more of your time.

1524
02:09:17,570 --> 02:09:21,410
If there's some things that I spoke about that you want to know about, please contact me.

1525
02:09:21,530 --> 02:09:21,670
Yes.

1526
02:09:22,190 --> 02:09:22,430
Good to go.

1527
02:09:22,750 --> 02:09:23,430
Hold on, Councillor.

1528
02:09:23,650 --> 02:09:24,110
Oh, I'm sorry.

1529
02:09:24,310 --> 02:09:24,550
Thanks.

1530
02:09:24,550 --> 02:09:25,730
I have a quick question.

1531
02:09:25,870 --> 02:09:26,030
Sure.

1532
02:09:26,630 --> 02:09:29,490
I've been in touch with the small business administration.

1533
02:09:29,730 --> 02:09:29,870
Yes.

1534
02:09:30,430 --> 02:09:34,470
And they're very much interested in having a workshop

1535
02:09:34,470 --> 02:09:35,910
for small and micro businesses.

1536
02:09:36,310 --> 02:09:36,630
That's correct.

1537
02:09:37,310 --> 02:09:41,330
Would you be interested in partnering and helping

1538
02:09:41,330 --> 02:09:43,370
to organize such event?

1539
02:09:43,710 --> 02:09:44,070
Absolutely.

1540
02:09:44,730 --> 02:09:46,630
And they'll be a representative from the SBA

1541
02:09:46,630 --> 02:09:50,750
who specifies, who specifically points in self

1542
02:09:50,750 --> 02:09:52,690
toward manufacturing at this event as well.

1543
02:09:52,710 --> 02:09:53,550
But this is not a manufacturer.

1544
02:09:53,730 --> 02:09:54,210
This is a...

1545
02:09:54,210 --> 02:09:55,110
I understand that.

1546
02:09:55,530 --> 02:09:57,990
This is the Small Business Association, right?

1547
02:09:58,570 --> 02:09:58,810
That's correct.

1548
02:09:58,810 --> 02:10:03,390
And things like capital, marketing, and so on.

1549
02:10:03,770 --> 02:10:04,050
That's right.

1550
02:10:04,370 --> 02:10:07,370
So it's just been four months, and I have a whole lot of things

1551
02:10:07,370 --> 02:10:08,550
that I don't want to put too much in you,

1552
02:10:08,630 --> 02:10:11,530
but you said that if you have any initiative,

1553
02:10:11,610 --> 02:10:12,630
you could come to use them.

1554
02:10:12,870 --> 02:10:14,470
Yes, please, that would be great.

1555
02:10:14,870 --> 02:10:16,870
And one more thing I will talk to you about is

1556
02:10:16,870 --> 02:10:18,710
we're putting a program in the high school

1557
02:10:18,710 --> 02:10:19,770
called Leaders on the Rise.

1558
02:10:20,530 --> 02:10:22,970
And it's for boys, young men, and young women.

1559
02:10:22,970 --> 02:10:24,870
15 young men and young women.

1560
02:10:25,990 --> 02:10:30,450
It'll be once a month for six months, so that's six sessions.

1561
02:10:31,130 --> 02:10:32,410
We will do it at lunchtime.

1562
02:10:32,590 --> 02:10:34,790
Dr. Cunard has been wonderful about supporting it.

1563
02:10:35,510 --> 02:10:39,330
One of the council's, one of the guidance council's came and asked about a program like that

1564
02:10:39,330 --> 02:10:41,470
and I said I've done those before, yes, let's do it.

1565
02:10:42,130 --> 02:10:46,610
And we actually have a credit union in town that's stepped up to the plate and has given us

1566
02:10:46,610 --> 02:10:47,870
$3,000 to run the program.

1567
02:10:48,150 --> 02:10:49,310
So that's wonderful.

1568
02:10:49,650 --> 02:10:52,470
Yes, the REH credit union which is the municipal credit union.

1569
02:10:52,470 --> 02:10:54,450
and so please support them.

1570
02:10:55,270 --> 02:10:56,550
And that is all I have to say.

1571
02:10:56,690 --> 02:10:57,410
Yeah, yeah.

1572
02:10:58,050 --> 02:11:05,390
There's a program for women that we instituted in the chamber.

1573
02:11:05,670 --> 02:11:05,930
Yes.

1574
02:11:06,210 --> 02:11:07,230
Women's business round table.

1575
02:11:07,330 --> 02:11:07,510
Yes.

1576
02:11:07,810 --> 02:11:07,910
Yes.

1577
02:11:08,110 --> 02:11:10,170
In fact, they're the ones that are sponsoring the leaders

1578
02:11:10,170 --> 02:11:10,990
on the rise program.

1579
02:11:11,190 --> 02:11:12,750
And they're also sponsoring health fair.

1580
02:11:13,530 --> 02:11:15,250
And all women are invited to come.

1581
02:11:16,190 --> 02:11:16,890
Can I keep your flyers?

1582
02:11:17,770 --> 02:11:18,630
Can I keep your flyers?

1583
02:11:19,650 --> 02:11:19,710
Can I keep your flyers?

1584
02:11:19,710 --> 02:11:19,870
I'm sorry.

1585
02:11:20,210 --> 02:11:21,290
Can I keep your flyers?

1586
02:11:21,290 --> 02:11:25,130
Yes, please. That would be awesome. I would appreciate that. Thank you.

1587
02:11:25,410 --> 02:11:29,270
And if there are any business owners watching right now, you know, the chamber has really

1588
02:11:29,270 --> 02:11:32,590
been revitalized under Jeanette's leadership. So thank you.

1589
02:11:32,750 --> 02:11:33,670
Give it the base, Kedule.

1590
02:11:34,070 --> 02:11:35,870
Give it the base, Kedule.

1591
02:11:36,950 --> 02:11:37,910
The base.

1592
02:11:38,350 --> 02:11:39,110
The base schedule.

1593
02:11:39,670 --> 02:11:41,750
I will be moderating the political debates this year.

1594
02:11:42,250 --> 02:11:44,050
And I do not have the schedule yet.

1595
02:11:44,050 --> 02:11:53,290
And I also will be filming that wonderful set on Saturday night.

1596
02:11:58,610 --> 02:11:59,570
Thank you.

1597
02:11:59,970 --> 02:12:01,090
Thank you, Janet.

1598
02:12:01,510 --> 02:12:03,070
Mr. Magazine, you've been waiting for a while.

1599
02:12:05,530 --> 02:12:06,250
Hello, everyone.

1600
02:12:06,590 --> 02:12:08,570
George Magazine, 17 Hillsdale Road.

1601
02:12:09,450 --> 02:12:10,590
How are you, Mr. Howell?

1602
02:12:10,790 --> 02:12:11,270
Good.

1603
02:12:11,430 --> 02:12:11,890
You're all ready.

1604
02:12:11,890 --> 02:12:21,250
I see we got a football game, no sorry, direction, a band coming, right?

1605
02:12:22,030 --> 02:12:28,210
We set with triple week, and we got to spray here done yet, for all these kids coming out

1606
02:12:28,210 --> 02:12:29,370
before that happens.

1607
02:12:30,110 --> 02:12:31,250
Do we know about that in this document?

1608
02:12:32,150 --> 02:12:36,650
I know that our spraying day is Wednesdays with no full county.

1609
02:12:37,210 --> 02:12:40,330
We can certainly request additional sprays to that.

1610
02:12:40,330 --> 02:12:42,410
get that spray before we have anything.

1611
02:12:42,750 --> 02:12:44,390
Well, these kids, yeah, they've been on a concert

1612
02:12:44,390 --> 02:12:46,350
at least three times in the past couple.

1613
02:12:46,390 --> 02:12:48,490
They've been, I will say that the Norfolk County

1614
02:12:49,570 --> 02:12:52,590
Skeetal Control Group has been a very responsive.

1615
02:12:52,630 --> 02:12:53,750
They're always responsive anyway,

1616
02:12:53,890 --> 02:12:55,310
but they've been very excellent.

1617
02:12:55,410 --> 02:12:57,230
Now, I got a surprise for you all today.

1618
02:12:57,790 --> 02:12:59,750
Now, the last time I was here,

1619
02:13:00,510 --> 02:13:02,790
I know three councilmen's was not present.

1620
02:13:03,210 --> 02:13:05,250
I was wondering, was y'all having something

1621
02:13:05,250 --> 02:13:08,050
that we didn't know about, was that,

1622
02:13:08,050 --> 02:13:12,870
Because I know the rest of council wasn't there, but anyway, I ain't gonna bother y'all the bulk dad

1623
02:13:12,870 --> 02:13:15,330
But was you at the point? No, but that day

1624
02:13:15,930 --> 02:13:20,050
Was you real busy that day the last one? How about you, sir?

1625
02:13:21,570 --> 02:13:30,570
I'm on okay, but let's leave it alone because I know you are in junior. I mean just new freshmen and I don't want you to have no bad

1626
02:13:32,710 --> 02:13:36,570
Blood coming up up up up there. You know, I want everybody to be fair

1627
02:13:36,570 --> 02:13:43,350
So you I thought y'all would be here for that resolution so we could maybe one of you all could have bought it back up out of the four

1628
02:13:43,350 --> 02:13:48,070
But that didn't happen because three was out so we couldn't bring that back up

1629
02:13:48,610 --> 02:13:53,690
So I was kind of wondering what what really happened that day, but anyway, that's another problem

1630
02:13:54,150 --> 02:13:57,890
I hope that doesn't happen again because this is a violent Charlie work

1631
02:13:59,090 --> 02:14:02,410
Now I was here so I'm gonna bring this back up because y'all wasn't here

1632
02:14:02,410 --> 02:14:08,650
So, with that being said, when I was here, I had a petition that I was trying to see

1633
02:14:08,650 --> 02:14:17,190
if we can get our charter law change for this one says, town, council, at large, and

1634
02:14:17,190 --> 02:14:19,030
council, turn limits.

1635
02:14:19,690 --> 02:14:24,450
I want to ask the public to start looking at it, if we can start talking about turn limits

1636
02:14:24,850 --> 02:14:30,930
for council because I said the last time my kids are so little and they said they see you

1637
02:14:30,930 --> 02:14:31,490
all up here.

1638
02:14:31,490 --> 02:14:36,770
And I'm kind of like hey listen, I hope that doesn't keep going on and that's in a lot

1639
02:14:36,770 --> 02:14:43,690
of departments planning and I've never seen and Boston or nowhere where you had a family

1640
02:14:43,690 --> 02:14:48,990
working in everywhere, scatting, you know, four people on council, two brothers, two sisters,

1641
02:14:49,010 --> 02:14:54,490
two cousins, I mean Jesus, and you got family on all kinds of plans and people can't get

1642
02:14:54,490 --> 02:14:54,910
jobs.

1643
02:14:55,870 --> 02:14:59,070
You can get some room for where other people can start doing things in the town.

1644
02:14:59,550 --> 02:14:59,970
That's the only way...

1645
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:06,420
We're going to get ahead. Randolph is 20 years behind, maybe 30. You see, we got a water problem,

1646
02:15:06,700 --> 02:15:11,920
we got a school problem, right, and you're playing with people's lives, and we got to stop it.

1647
02:15:12,740 --> 02:15:20,740
Let's turn this into a city. Let Mr. Howard be our mayor, right? No, we need to change this

1648
02:15:20,740 --> 02:15:25,620
stuff. And let's get some Charlie Baker to get some assistance in this town, because we

1649
02:15:25,620 --> 02:15:29,840
We can't keep being broke, the town is broke, we keep patching up a lot of things.

1650
02:15:30,040 --> 02:15:33,220
The one, we got four things that's broken, right?

1651
02:15:34,520 --> 02:15:38,660
This doesn't work, that doesn't work, the pump doesn't work, the legs doesn't work,

1652
02:15:38,760 --> 02:15:39,680
it's like a bottom, right?

1653
02:15:40,140 --> 02:15:43,900
Now after that, put all that money in, who's going to take all the scrap?

1654
02:15:44,120 --> 02:15:45,360
Where's that money coming back to?

1655
02:15:46,280 --> 02:15:50,820
You know when you take this stuff apart, who's going to be responsible or any money we get

1656
02:15:50,820 --> 02:15:51,400
back for that?

1657
02:15:58,060 --> 02:16:01,340
I'm not officially on the joint water board but I'm certainly happy to ask the question.

1658
02:16:01,640 --> 02:16:06,100
So do we know about any money, kit back of the stuff that we've put in all the money

1659
02:16:06,100 --> 02:16:08,780
up until now that we invested in it?

1660
02:16:09,600 --> 02:16:09,880
You know who?

1661
02:16:10,440 --> 02:16:13,720
Or do we rent it out to someone else that might need it?

1662
02:16:13,880 --> 02:16:14,380
Which thing?

1663
02:16:14,760 --> 02:16:15,380
The water trigger?

1664
02:16:15,520 --> 02:16:16,140
Yeah, yeah.

1665
02:16:16,380 --> 02:16:19,900
No, you know when you take away all the pots and everything, you know what I mean?

1666
02:16:19,900 --> 02:16:26,900
So we got a lot of things if we know somebody in the town ain't doing the right thing

1667
02:16:26,900 --> 02:16:30,320
So we need to start doing like Spike Lisa. Let's do the right thing

1668
02:16:30,900 --> 02:16:33,960
Have a good day. Oh, and if you see us outside

1669
02:16:34,680 --> 02:16:36,920
Doing the signs I'm gonna have these all

1670
02:16:40,200 --> 02:16:45,320
If they want to sign the petitions you'll see me out there with my jersey on, okay?

1671
02:16:45,320 --> 02:16:51,180
So I'm hoping that the residents pay attention and let's stop doing some term limits

1672
02:16:51,180 --> 02:16:59,320
I love I like you Jimmy you've been here since I was a little kid. Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do. I like you, sir

1673
02:16:59,320 --> 02:17:04,140
You're very wonderful. I like you and your son and when I first came here

1674
02:17:05,820 --> 02:17:08,620
It didn't have that but it looks beautiful now

1675
02:17:09,840 --> 02:17:13,420
I want to be like you, three minutes is over, everybody have a good day.

1676
02:17:13,600 --> 02:17:13,900
Thank you.

1677
02:17:14,140 --> 02:17:18,240
George Magazine, voters, let's do the right thing, term limits.

1678
02:17:18,620 --> 02:17:20,440
And let's start talking about a city.

1679
02:17:20,680 --> 02:17:24,620
We've got to start sharing information, or we're not going to make it this time,

1680
02:17:24,760 --> 02:17:25,860
ain't going to go ahead.

1681
02:17:26,540 --> 02:17:28,780
Quincey just got a new train station.

1682
02:17:29,180 --> 02:17:30,500
We are following way behind.

1683
02:17:31,540 --> 02:17:32,580
We need to change.

1684
02:17:33,520 --> 02:17:34,320
Thank you, George.

1685
02:17:35,440 --> 02:17:35,920
Thank you.

1686
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:38,920
Anyone want to follow that up, Shelley?

1687
02:17:39,760 --> 02:17:45,920
And I will say just quickly, Mr. Magazine, we do have a charter review subcommittee, and we'll have a charter commission.

1688
02:17:46,160 --> 02:17:50,080
And I'm sure that'll be a subject that will be discussed in the term limits.

1689
02:17:50,320 --> 02:17:51,700
Thank you, sir, thank you for listening.

1690
02:17:53,300 --> 02:17:58,940
Happy Monday, Council of Minimums, Rochelle Gentian from 22 Gloria Road, Randolph, Massachusetts.

1691
02:17:59,800 --> 02:18:04,440
I just wanted to make a quick announcement about the RPS supply drive that was held yesterday.

1692
02:18:05,020 --> 02:18:11,900
At the RICC, we raised a lot of donations and I just want to thank the organizations that

1693
02:18:11,900 --> 02:18:19,200
were part of the event, such as Motivation Church, Stage's fan studio, as well as Autism

1694
02:18:19,200 --> 02:18:23,540
and Sprinter and we also want to thank the Randolph Intergenerational Community Center

1695
02:18:23,540 --> 02:18:30,060
for allowing us to use their space and we are very excited for these donations to be placed

1696
02:18:30,060 --> 02:18:36,220
in Randolph Public School classrooms. So thank you. Thank you. And the cheese was delicious.

1697
02:18:36,760 --> 02:18:41,220
Oh wait, cheese was great. Anyone else wishing to speak?

1698
02:18:41,220 --> 02:18:42,240
shouldn't sweet.

1699
02:18:46,840 --> 02:18:50,880
Newly in Newton, Wall Street. There's a couple of comments on the water.

1700
02:18:51,920 --> 02:18:55,860
Let's see, everyone's water heater system has a phone number on it. They haven't

1701
02:18:55,860 --> 02:19:00,180
troubled that. You can contact whoever installed it. This is for the residents mostly.

1702
02:19:01,880 --> 02:19:08,800
Someone had mentioned the cooking or the water quality. To get the best water

1703
02:19:08,800 --> 02:19:15,740
quality for making coffee, cooking, rice, boil on anything, you should use cold water.

1704
02:19:16,540 --> 02:19:21,620
The coldest water possible, like you said, you might have to wait 20 seconds to get through

1705
02:19:21,620 --> 02:19:22,300
the air and whatever.

1706
02:19:22,800 --> 02:19:25,060
We should always be using cold water for cooking.

1707
02:19:28,780 --> 02:19:32,460
Some sort of notification when the work is happening, I think that's a great idea.

1708
02:19:33,440 --> 02:19:41,200
very necessary to avoid any kind of confusion or complaints used in social media maybe

1709
02:19:41,200 --> 02:19:46,940
or we also have the water restriction signs something like that somewhere to post something

1710
02:19:46,940 --> 02:19:50,860
very visible to people to know when the work's going on they might lose water pressure it

1711
02:19:50,860 --> 02:19:51,300
might be dirty.

1712
02:19:52,760 --> 02:19:58,680
And also I was curious, not a question that has to be answered now but about testing the water

1713
02:19:58,680 --> 02:19:59,260
as we go.

1714
02:19:59,260 --> 02:20:27,640
I don't know if that's something that's going to be done, or just as long as everyone knows that you can get a water test and get for free, I think in most like hardware stores, if anyone's really concerned, and also if there is a problem, maybe somebody to get people water filters if they're continuing to have problems or the work is taking along with them planned and that's pretty much it. Thank you.

1715
02:20:28,260 --> 02:20:30,340
Were we in a youth group like this?

1716
02:20:32,780 --> 02:20:34,480
That's a lot of notes in one hand.

1717
02:20:37,080 --> 02:20:39,760
Any other public comments?

1718
02:20:40,840 --> 02:20:41,560
Second time?

1719
02:20:42,940 --> 02:20:44,100
Third and final?

1720
02:20:44,680 --> 02:20:46,020
There's Gary at your own equal time.

1721
02:20:47,540 --> 02:20:49,940
All right. That portion is closed. Thank you so much.

1722
02:20:53,580 --> 02:20:56,800
Next up, we've got town managers report. Mr. Howard.

1723
02:20:56,800 --> 02:20:57,700
All right,

1724
02:20:59,820 --> 02:21:04,740
I will keep it somewhat brief.

1725
02:21:04,740 --> 02:21:11,400
I did Sharon already spoke to it, but I did have the information for the Randolph Martian being competition.

1726
02:21:11,840 --> 02:21:17,360
We'll also make sure that we put it on the Facebook page.

1727
02:21:17,360 --> 02:21:24,780
People can click and write on it and see if they're in a situation to the voluntary or any hours to support that event.

1728
02:21:25,160 --> 02:21:26,640
Make it a little bit easier if we can.

1729
02:21:26,640 --> 02:21:33,700
And I very much appreciate the Randolph-Band Program in the time of Randolph.

1730
02:21:35,000 --> 02:21:40,400
Just a reminder, community workshop sponsored by the Randolph-Free Development Authority.

1731
02:21:40,620 --> 02:21:43,280
They've been doing a heck of a lot of advertising on this.

1732
02:21:43,360 --> 02:21:50,300
But this is this Saturday from 9 to 11.45 AM at the Randolph Community Center.

1733
02:21:51,500 --> 02:21:54,680
Specifically, this is to learn about the revitalization plan and

1734
02:21:54,680 --> 02:21:57,880
process and craft a vision for the future of the Croft Square business district.

1735
02:21:58,160 --> 02:22:02,420
If this is something you're interested in at all, this is well worth tending.

1736
02:22:03,460 --> 02:22:07,660
So hopefully, a number of residents will be able to come this Saturday.

1737
02:22:07,840 --> 02:22:11,260
So in the morning, you can go to this afternoon, you can help with the marching band.

1738
02:22:11,960 --> 02:22:13,980
Be a good day in the Randall.

1739
02:22:15,300 --> 02:22:23,860
Also, I just want to note that there is a horseshoe invitational tournament on September 21st,

1740
02:22:23,860 --> 02:22:29,180
2019, this is going to be held at the INVET's post-51 POWMIA.

1741
02:22:29,680 --> 02:22:31,280
It's the first annual Maureen Dunn.

1742
02:22:32,520 --> 02:22:39,280
Everybody in Randolph certainly knows Maureen's connections to the POWMIA movement,

1743
02:22:39,540 --> 02:22:43,980
the chair, and the dedication that took place here at Town Hall.

1744
02:22:44,240 --> 02:22:47,240
And we have a remembrance downstairs in the lobby.

1745
02:22:47,680 --> 02:22:52,320
So they're doing something here to try and raise some additional money and do some real positive things.

1746
02:22:52,320 --> 02:22:56,940
And so it starts at 2 p.m., Saturday, September 21st,

1747
02:22:57,220 --> 02:23:03,160
for more information, contact the AMVETs.

1748
02:23:03,300 --> 02:23:06,140
So they're hoping to have 40 teams for that

1749
02:23:06,140 --> 02:23:08,120
and hopefully they have great success.

1750
02:23:09,300 --> 02:23:13,560
I do want to have, if you could pass those down,

1751
02:23:13,740 --> 02:23:14,240
Councillor Ewing.

1752
02:23:15,920 --> 02:23:21,260
This is a community newsletter that we put together

1753
02:23:21,260 --> 02:23:24,560
at one of our department head meetings who we're talking about.

1754
02:23:25,100 --> 02:23:28,860
There's no way to highlight everything that goes on.

1755
02:23:29,020 --> 02:23:30,340
I mean, we have the community calendars.

1756
02:23:30,500 --> 02:23:34,100
We have Facebook, social media, emails, et cetera.

1757
02:23:34,560 --> 02:23:38,280
However, we are hoping to highlight some different things.

1758
02:23:39,420 --> 02:23:42,580
In particular, I said to the department heads,

1759
02:23:42,960 --> 02:23:45,480
what are the general major questions when people contact you?

1760
02:23:45,740 --> 02:23:47,080
What are some events that come on annually?

1761
02:23:47,660 --> 02:23:50,280
So we're gonna hopefully do four of these a year

1762
02:23:50,280 --> 02:23:56,620
and maybe even more if we have the staffing to be able to pull it off.

1763
02:23:57,060 --> 02:24:01,260
But it's just a series of things that are important to the residents.

1764
02:24:01,560 --> 02:24:04,460
These will be throughout the town on the website.

1765
02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:07,040
They'll be at the library, the community center.

1766
02:24:07,780 --> 02:24:11,080
We do have a newsletter that we include within the annual census.

1767
02:24:11,560 --> 02:24:14,520
So this will be a component of that also.

1768
02:24:14,520 --> 02:24:20,540
I do want to tip my cap in particular to Elizabeth LaRosey, the library director.

1769
02:24:22,770 --> 02:24:26,710
She kind of took the vision and took it to the next step.

1770
02:24:27,830 --> 02:24:34,630
I'm very pleased with the work that was done on this, so this will be available on the town's news tomorrow.

1771
02:24:35,170 --> 02:24:40,730
And we'll probably have the ability to email it out also, but you will find it in some other areas around town.

1772
02:24:40,730 --> 02:24:48,550
Very helpful information here that I think residents would enjoy having to be on the lookout.

1773
02:24:48,890 --> 02:24:55,890
Mr. President, for that, I don't mean to interrupt the time management, but I see our super still sitting here and

1774
02:24:55,890 --> 02:25:02,630
would it be appropriate, and maybe we could interrupt time management before it to take the super, her issue out of order.

1775
02:25:04,230 --> 02:25:06,070
Are you almost all set?

1776
02:25:07,230 --> 02:25:09,170
Basically, I am all set.

1777
02:25:09,290 --> 02:25:15,830
I will say we did have, and she's here in the audience, Finesque-Cataboyce-Davis

1778
02:25:15,830 --> 02:25:19,090
wants to volunteer to serve on the Conservation Commission.

1779
02:25:19,450 --> 02:25:23,870
They are desperately in need of people to serve on the committee.

1780
02:25:24,890 --> 02:25:28,610
There have been the starting to get into that flow as we've seen up, down, up, down over

1781
02:25:28,610 --> 02:25:31,110
the years, quorum issues.

1782
02:25:31,810 --> 02:25:35,890
She's excited about the opportunity, so I do want to put her name forward.

1783
02:25:35,890 --> 02:25:39,930
She is here, I don't want to put her on the spot, but she was willing to serve.

1784
02:25:40,290 --> 02:25:47,610
So I do want to put her name forward this evening to serve on the Conservation Commission.

1785
02:25:47,930 --> 02:25:52,090
She does not have formal training on the Conservation Commission, but

1786
02:25:52,090 --> 02:25:56,470
her hat and soul and she's going to work with our current

1787
02:25:57,970 --> 02:26:06,050
Com-com administrator Joe Dunn, so I'm excited about giving her an opportunity to serve this community.

1788
02:26:06,610 --> 02:26:07,810
So move the recommendation.

1789
02:26:08,250 --> 02:26:08,470
Second.

1790
02:26:10,010 --> 02:26:12,050
Did you send out an email about this before?

1791
02:26:12,310 --> 02:26:12,830
I did not.

1792
02:26:13,530 --> 02:26:20,950
Basically, we were talking throughout the weekend about opportunities to serve, so the short answer

1793
02:26:20,950 --> 02:26:21,390
is no.

1794
02:26:21,390 --> 02:26:25,530
But I do know that they are having great, great issues in getting quirms.

1795
02:26:26,610 --> 02:26:30,490
And unfortunately, and we're going to be doing another big thing with mailings and

1796
02:26:30,490 --> 02:26:38,310
start to try and get our boards, committees, and commissions reinvigorated as far as we have some openings that need to be filled.

1797
02:26:39,270 --> 02:26:40,710
All right, Fred, this is a discussion.

1798
02:26:40,870 --> 02:26:41,670
Just some discussion.

1799
02:26:42,450 --> 02:26:48,050
You don't need formal training, you'll pick it up, it's not, it's not that bad, so it'll be good.

1800
02:26:48,910 --> 02:26:50,570
I think it's, thank you for all of your concern.

1801
02:26:50,570 --> 02:26:55,070
I know her all right any other discussion here and none all in favor please say aye

1802
02:26:56,090 --> 02:26:59,410
Opposed abstention that's unanimous congratulate you

1803
02:26:59,410 --> 02:27:02,610
I'm assuming

1804
02:27:04,980 --> 02:27:09,920
you were speaking to the unpaid bills will not I believe that was the request

1805
02:27:10,800 --> 02:27:11,920
any objections

1806
02:27:11,920 --> 02:27:18,940
All right next item will have the fiscal year in 19 unpaid bills general fund

1807
02:27:19,720 --> 02:27:25,740
Council order 2019-049, introduced by town manager Brian Howard.

1808
02:27:28,190 --> 02:27:36,070
Yes, this is a annual article that comes traditionally in the September time frame.

1809
02:27:36,070 --> 02:27:43,890
I will say there are two additional bills that I was hoping to have on this list.

1810
02:27:44,210 --> 02:27:46,990
Those will be presented at the next Council meeting.

1811
02:27:47,730 --> 02:27:53,930
We always try to, during the end of the year, transfer us to limit this as much as we can.

1812
02:27:54,870 --> 02:28:01,070
So tonight, we are coming forward with the following list, our finance director is here.

1813
02:28:01,670 --> 02:28:04,050
Also this evening to speak to the staff.

1814
02:28:05,190 --> 02:28:09,610
And just before you get started, can you tell us what the ones that will be coming before us are?

1815
02:28:09,710 --> 02:28:11,270
So we can have a fuller picture,

1816
02:28:13,290 --> 02:28:16,930
at least approximate numbers on the order.

1817
02:28:16,930 --> 02:28:26,610
come that are still that are not on this. There is approximately 15,000 in I think it's

1818
02:28:26,610 --> 02:28:40,570
the work that's gone account and second one was police department and I believe when

1819
02:28:40,570 --> 02:28:47,490
When they're done compiling it should be under $5,000 for front-papels.

1820
02:28:48,070 --> 02:28:54,730
All right, Ms. Smith, are you leading us off or are the numbers or what the numbers are?

1821
02:28:55,770 --> 02:28:57,610
The numbers are as presented.

1822
02:28:59,050 --> 02:28:59,850
Councillor Goldstein.

1823
02:29:02,970 --> 02:29:08,430
I'm just curious at the presentation like I'm looking at Randall public schools at 148,000.

1824
02:29:08,430 --> 02:29:14,710
Now, that's just the total, and then the detail is on the right-hand side for the $148,000.

1825
02:29:15,090 --> 02:29:15,610
Correct.

1826
02:29:16,250 --> 02:29:23,830
Now, am I correct in saying that if these bills weren't there, we would have another $250,000 in free cash?

1827
02:29:29,910 --> 02:29:36,710
So the way that this order is presented, the funding source is the 2020 budget.

1828
02:29:37,630 --> 02:29:43,290
So it's essentially moving an appropriation from one pocket to the other to pay the bills.

1829
02:29:44,170 --> 02:29:46,310
There is no appropriation for these bills.

1830
02:29:47,450 --> 02:29:50,090
Okay, so this is coming out of the 2020 budget.

1831
02:29:51,310 --> 02:29:55,530
So each related department, each department that has bills,

1832
02:29:55,910 --> 02:29:58,530
their 2020 budget will be reduced by the announcement.

1833
02:29:58,650 --> 02:29:59,430
Will be reduced by that.

1834
02:30:03,340 --> 02:30:12,140
Councilor Egan. With these, when we did the effort, 20 budget with these, excuse me, anticipated?

1835
02:30:13,100 --> 02:30:32,540
Through you, Mr. President. No. So the way that these invoices or these obligations come about to be presented in this manner. As we approach June, I send out communications to all departments. I work with those school finance director and ask that they work with the vendors.

1836
02:30:32,540 --> 02:30:46,200
They get an idea of what invoices may be outstanding that they haven't yet received yet, so if the placed orders are not received the invoice physically in hand yet, they're asked to keep track of that to monitor their budget.

1837
02:30:46,720 --> 02:30:51,360
If there's available budget funds, they're allowed to encumber those budget funds.

1838
02:30:51,880 --> 02:31:01,040
So if I have a bill that I know I'm going to get in the mail in July, and my budget has availability.

1839
02:31:01,040 --> 02:31:06,580
I can encumber it, and then I can pay that bill in July, and it wouldn't be on this list.

1840
02:31:07,180 --> 02:31:12,900
So these are either bills that departments did not know that they were going to get,

1841
02:31:13,380 --> 02:31:16,540
and passed the deadline of when I do my review and close the books.

1842
02:31:16,940 --> 02:31:22,580
Or their invoices that the departments didn't have available budget at the end of the year.

1843
02:31:23,180 --> 02:31:29,360
So they could not be paid or encumbered, and they need an appropriation now to fulfill our obligation.

1844
02:31:29,360 --> 02:31:35,940
Can you use the one on the top line of use as an example of that?

1845
02:31:36,400 --> 02:31:42,600
Because we knew that that expense was going to occur, and we should have had money in our account.

1846
02:31:43,260 --> 02:31:49,020
Through you, Mr. President, so this first line, the $8,500 for the contract was

1847
02:31:49,020 --> 02:31:55,800
encumbered, what wasn't included, where the reimbursement expenses that the Collins Center has presented.

1848
02:31:55,800 --> 02:32:02,160
So not the candidates reimbursement for travel, but the call and send of themselves for the advertising of

1849
02:32:03,000 --> 02:32:11,040
Good job posting and those sorts of things. So you know, I think working with Deb we captured the 8500

1850
02:32:12,140 --> 02:32:17,520
Reimbursable expenses with the contract slipped by me as well. So we didn't

1851
02:32:17,520 --> 02:32:23,500
Overspend our budget per se then no the council. Okay. Yes, so this would be an obligation that we weren't aware of

1852
02:32:26,140 --> 02:32:30,440
So the 2364 was above and beyond the 8500.

1853
02:32:30,680 --> 02:32:30,920
Correct.

1854
02:32:31,820 --> 02:32:32,460
And so,

1855
02:32:35,600 --> 02:32:40,220
okay, do you have a detailed list of what that included?

1856
02:32:40,920 --> 02:32:41,200
I do.

1857
02:32:43,120 --> 02:32:45,420
And we can see that at some point?

1858
02:32:45,980 --> 02:32:48,060
Yes, I can forward that to the council tomorrow.

1859
02:32:48,360 --> 02:32:48,580
Okay.

1860
02:32:49,440 --> 02:32:52,920
And do you have that for all the invoices?

1861
02:32:54,100 --> 02:32:54,360
I do.

1862
02:32:54,660 --> 02:32:54,880
Okay.

1863
02:32:54,880 --> 02:32:56,440
Councillor

1864
02:32:58,970 --> 02:33:04,850
Goldstein. Move to approve. Council order 219-049.

1865
02:33:05,290 --> 02:33:05,550
Second.

1866
02:33:09,200 --> 02:33:12,980
Motion made and seconded. I hope we can have some discussion, Councillor

1867
02:33:12,980 --> 02:33:18,380
Exophilis. So how do we go about making some of these departments

1868
02:33:18,380 --> 02:33:28,060
I mean, $32,000 in highway expats, $148,000 in schools.

1869
02:33:28,460 --> 02:33:30,960
How does that happen?

1870
02:33:34,320 --> 02:33:38,080
Because you don't want to take a hit for this year.

1871
02:33:39,000 --> 02:33:42,020
Use this year's money to pay last year's bills.

1872
02:33:43,080 --> 02:33:47,280
Right, so I guess the options are, one, they reduce their budget or two.

1873
02:33:47,280 --> 02:33:54,800
There are alternative sources whether it's and those are discussions that can be had do you want to touch on any of that?

1874
02:33:55,360 --> 02:34:05,700
I mean the short answer is as the year goes on as the council knows they're there have there are what is it'll come forward to transfers.

1875
02:34:07,420 --> 02:34:16,660
That would be one one option in some of these when free cash gets certified that's another opportunity

1876
02:34:16,660 --> 02:34:24,380
And as was previously mentioned, some departments may need to tighten the belt a little bit to offset some of this.

1877
02:34:24,660 --> 02:34:31,420
So it's really a combination of a series of things we do have unpaid bills every year.

1878
02:34:32,820 --> 02:34:40,120
This, a few of these numbers, I think the legal numbers, the council's more than aware as to what those are.

1879
02:34:41,920 --> 02:34:45,660
some of the other stuff, certainly from Janine's standpoint and my standpoint.

1880
02:34:46,400 --> 02:34:52,920
As much as possible, we expect that these bills would be encumbered, and they would go in through that process.

1881
02:34:54,300 --> 02:34:55,440
So why weren't they?

1882
02:34:56,840 --> 02:35:00,240
There's, there's, those are personal matters.

1883
02:35:01,900 --> 02:35:09,360
I guess I could say, as far as I'm concerned, there are a number of instances where people should have done that.

1884
02:35:09,360 --> 02:35:14,020
and how I respond to that, or I suppose how we respond to that with the department.

1885
02:35:14,760 --> 02:35:19,900
It is kind of a personnel issue as far as our expectations and things of that nature.

1886
02:35:20,220 --> 02:35:26,160
But yes, a number of these items in my opinion fall into that category.

1887
02:35:26,580 --> 02:35:29,000
Are there any categories we did not have the money?

1888
02:35:31,630 --> 02:35:34,850
Well, in the case of legal, we know what that is.

1889
02:35:35,570 --> 02:35:46,690
Deep UW, the hard part, if you remember is we did a transfer in and then we took actually some out at the end of the year to balance some other issues because some of these other bills hadn't been presented yet.

1890
02:35:47,110 --> 02:35:51,470
So quite frankly, we probably would have just paid those out of that in conference.

1891
02:35:52,550 --> 02:35:59,050
The superintendent can speak better to, in particular, they're in the public school numbers that are listed here.

1892
02:36:00,250 --> 02:36:10,290
But for the most part, like the community's program number, the 1450, that's actually almost two years old, that bill, as an example.

1893
02:36:11,810 --> 02:36:13,290
Mr. Vell, you are here.

1894
02:36:13,610 --> 02:36:26,730
It appears as though there are three things we're paying for with the 148,000 image technology specialist, IT, image tech, and the lion share to direct energy for $137,000.

1895
02:36:27,370 --> 02:36:34,530
I think I along with many are curious how you know we get an invoice or whatever whatever of that price at the end of the year.

1896
02:36:34,770 --> 02:36:39,670
Okay, so I haven't seen the sheet that you're looking at but I'm here to speak about the direct energy.

1897
02:36:40,450 --> 02:36:42,090
I haven't looked at the other two.

1898
02:36:43,510 --> 02:36:45,610
So I'm going to own a piece of this.

1899
02:36:46,610 --> 02:36:48,690
We received the thank you.

1900
02:36:49,650 --> 02:36:55,470
We received bills from direct energy after July 15th I believe.

1901
02:36:56,650 --> 02:37:00,630
They went to, there had been no bills going to the finance department.

1902
02:37:01,590 --> 02:37:14,450
We asked them to, we actually got a phone call and said that said if we don't receive payment within three days we're cutting up this contract with random public schools.

1903
02:37:14,610 --> 02:37:15,430
What's direct energy?

1904
02:37:16,090 --> 02:37:16,530
I'm sorry.

1905
02:37:16,770 --> 02:37:17,670
What is direct energy?

1906
02:37:17,670 --> 02:37:20,890
Direct energy is the company that's dealing with the solar

1907
02:37:22,070 --> 02:37:26,870
pieces of in that providing our utility, our electricity at the district.

1908
02:37:27,670 --> 02:37:36,910
And so to get a phone call that you owe $137,000 and out three days to pay it was concerning.

1909
02:37:37,610 --> 02:37:43,330
At that point, this is probably right around the time that our Director of Finance went out on

1910
02:37:43,330 --> 02:37:48,450
medical, you know, maybe a little bit afterwards, but we started having a conversation around

1911
02:37:48,450 --> 02:37:52,410
the national grid credits that were owed to the schools.

1912
02:37:52,810 --> 02:37:57,290
What I would like to say is since that time, we have secured the credits, the 100, and

1913
02:37:57,290 --> 02:38:02,090
I don't know the exact amount of the check, but the check to cover these costs has already

1914
02:38:02,090 --> 02:38:03,850
been deposited in the town of council.

1915
02:38:03,930 --> 02:38:10,550
The revenue is there, however, it was deposited in FY20 for an FY19 bill.

1916
02:38:10,550 --> 02:38:17,430
So, basically, you know, I'm not going to make excuses on why it didn't happen, I was not

1917
02:38:17,430 --> 02:38:24,390
aware of this, I was expecting the finance office to know these things, but we have tried

1918
02:38:24,390 --> 02:38:30,810
to make the town hall and the school hall by securing the credits, which have actually

1919
02:38:30,810 --> 02:38:32,870
been deposited, so the town now holds those funds.

1920
02:38:33,630 --> 02:38:38,530
So I'm trying to find, I actually had a great meeting with the town manager and town accountant

1921
02:38:38,530 --> 02:38:45,950
today to figure out what can we do so that the school does not take a $148,000 hit when

1922
02:38:45,950 --> 02:38:52,610
the town is already holding the funds, because that for us would be a huge deal.

1923
02:38:52,790 --> 02:38:56,930
And as you know, we're already facing some other potential cuts and are waiting to hear

1924
02:38:56,930 --> 02:39:02,310
from the from desi as to whether or not there's going to be additional funding coming our

1925
02:39:02,310 --> 02:39:05,410
way hopefully in some time in October, which is what they quoted us.

1926
02:39:05,410 --> 02:39:11,090
So my understanding is that it sort of lies with the Council to make that decision, but

1927
02:39:11,090 --> 02:39:15,430
I'm basically asking at this point that you consider the fact that you are holding

1928
02:39:15,430 --> 02:39:21,450
the revenue that covers the cost of that apparently it cannot be used until the end of FY20,

1929
02:39:22,030 --> 02:39:23,090
but it is there.

1930
02:39:23,550 --> 02:39:29,230
So that's it and once you want to add something to me, I don't know if I've covered everything

1931
02:39:29,630 --> 02:39:33,930
in terms of the process on how the town, what the town does with the money as it sits.

1932
02:39:33,930 --> 02:39:37,310
I should know this, but are we on the same electrical company?

1933
02:39:39,410 --> 02:39:44,870
There are different solar credits, both as different care stars as one of the companies

1934
02:39:44,870 --> 02:39:46,190
that we deal with on our run.

1935
02:39:46,890 --> 02:39:52,650
Back to the other point quickly is, it's not as simple as the council taking a vote to transfer

1936
02:39:52,650 --> 02:39:55,570
the check in because it's two different fiscal years.

1937
02:39:56,190 --> 02:39:56,910
So she said that.

1938
02:39:56,910 --> 02:40:04,110
right, but she then said to the council that's a vote for you to take. I want to make

1939
02:40:04,110 --> 02:40:07,970
it clear that it's not, and to the public, it's not that the council can just take a vote

1940
02:40:08,470 --> 02:40:16,030
to transfer that money over. As I mentioned earlier, we're going to be looking at different

1941
02:40:16,030 --> 02:40:22,910
things throughout the year to try and deal with some of these issues that are presented here

1942
02:40:22,910 --> 02:40:26,030
here today and how they're going to impact, you know, the budget.

1943
02:40:28,690 --> 02:40:34,310
Free cash will hopefully be certified, come the next four to six weeks so that that does

1944
02:40:34,310 --> 02:40:36,130
become an opportunity and an option.

1945
02:40:37,870 --> 02:40:44,050
But I just wanted to make it clear that it's not as, it's not a simple vote of the council

1946
02:40:44,050 --> 02:40:48,530
to free up the money that was deposited in this fiscal year to pay a previous year.

1947
02:40:48,590 --> 02:40:48,870
That's all.

1948
02:40:49,790 --> 02:40:50,810
The way it's accounted for.

1949
02:40:51,330 --> 02:40:55,650
And I think we understand that we can't, we can only, you would give us an

1950
02:40:55,650 --> 02:41:01,030
appropriation on it for us to be able to spend anything but what I think and I've

1951
02:41:01,030 --> 02:41:06,430
been a critic when I think it need to be however here's if she's stating it

1952
02:41:06,430 --> 02:41:12,410
correctly we've received a check for what she owes it, what you'll give bill for

1953
02:41:12,410 --> 02:41:19,220
or else whatever. So with that we should at least be able to give a good faith

1954
02:41:19,220 --> 02:41:29,380
If commitment somewhere that it's her money to spend providing, we're not cutting you another $800,000 or whatever it is with the desi stuff.

1955
02:41:30,960 --> 02:41:39,740
If we can make that commitment, then I'm not going to say we're going to approve deficit spending, but there should be some way we can say,

1956
02:41:41,880 --> 02:41:44,900
hey, that 148 is theirs.

1957
02:41:44,900 --> 02:41:51,300
and she shouldn't have to go in today and try to make cuts in A, B, and C programming to cover that deficit.

1958
02:41:52,060 --> 02:41:55,760
And I think the meeting that we had today, we discussed some options to do that.

1959
02:41:56,220 --> 02:42:02,400
So is there a commitment from myself and the Finance Director in that area?

1960
02:42:02,880 --> 02:42:03,040
Yes.

1961
02:42:04,140 --> 02:42:04,900
Councillor Exellvis?

1962
02:42:05,520 --> 02:42:07,560
How much of a check did we receive?

1963
02:42:08,720 --> 02:42:14,040
Through you, Mr. President, the credits that were monetized were $140,000 from National Grid.

1964
02:42:15,100 --> 02:42:18,080
100 and $140,000.

1965
02:42:18,480 --> 02:42:19,920
So that's what I've covered.

1966
02:42:20,120 --> 02:42:24,240
All right, there's a motion on the floor to approve the order for the discussion.

1967
02:42:24,840 --> 02:42:33,760
With the caveat that this council supportive of that 148 is the school money.

1968
02:42:34,100 --> 02:42:35,060
That's not my motion.

1969
02:42:35,980 --> 02:42:36,720
That's an amendment then.

1970
02:42:37,920 --> 02:42:38,880
I don't think we can do that.

1971
02:42:39,840 --> 02:42:51,600
Well, I just think it should be at least in the discussion, you know, I think that, I think that the sentiment is there that it goes back.

1972
02:42:52,760 --> 02:42:53,800
Okay, ultimately.

1973
02:42:54,340 --> 02:43:01,140
Any further discussion on the motion to approve Councilor 2019-049 all in favor, please say aye.

1974
02:43:01,520 --> 02:43:01,720
Aye.

1975
02:43:02,240 --> 02:43:02,780
Opposed?

1976
02:43:03,360 --> 02:43:03,880
Abstention?

1977
02:43:04,600 --> 02:43:05,780
That is unanimous.

1978
02:43:06,140 --> 02:43:06,820
Thank you, Mr. Vell.

1979
02:43:07,440 --> 02:43:08,200
Thank you.

1980
02:43:08,200 --> 02:43:10,900
Thank you, Ms. Gordon, and Ms. Frazier.

1981
02:43:13,970 --> 02:43:28,930
We have Councilor Twin at 2019-047 request for the town council to initiate amendments to the Randall Zoning Ordnance, Chapter 200 of the General Code of the town of Randall Relative to Carwashing Services, pursuing to MGL Chapter 48, Section 5.

1982
02:43:29,510 --> 02:43:35,930
A point of information to answer, yeah, I was coming to our finish with this report.

1983
02:43:37,610 --> 02:43:39,550
Yes, the appointment was last.

1984
02:43:40,250 --> 02:43:40,830
Thank you.

1985
02:43:41,330 --> 02:43:41,510
Yeah.

1986
02:43:41,650 --> 02:43:43,530
This is introduced by the planning board.

1987
02:43:44,870 --> 02:43:46,730
Do we want to send it off to?

1988
02:43:49,560 --> 02:43:51,560
Move to refer to the planning board, Nordinates.

1989
02:43:53,100 --> 02:43:54,180
What does that do back to the plan board?

1990
02:43:54,900 --> 02:43:55,600
They need a public hearing.

1991
02:43:56,960 --> 02:43:59,440
Motion made by Councillor Bredgers, seconded by Councillor Goldstein.

1992
02:43:59,600 --> 02:44:00,780
All in favor, please say aye.

1993
02:44:01,000 --> 02:44:01,420
Aye.

1994
02:44:02,000 --> 02:44:02,360
Opposed?

1995
02:44:02,960 --> 02:44:03,400
Abstention?

1996
02:44:03,780 --> 02:44:04,660
That's unanimous.

1997
02:44:05,160 --> 02:44:06,420
We'll be getting on that.

1998
02:44:08,220 --> 02:44:13,960
Councilor Choi, 19-048, betterment agreement for 48 Fitzgerald Street.

1999
02:44:15,140 --> 02:44:17,660
It's introduced by your town manager, Brian Howard.

2000
02:44:22,030 --> 02:44:30,510
Good evening, Christine Griffin, our legal counsel, has been working closely with our

2001
02:44:30,510 --> 02:44:37,710
DPW superintendent on this matter, so I will hand it off to her to describe a little bit

2002
02:44:37,710 --> 02:44:43,730
more what we're doing here at the betterment agreement, the authorization that we're speaking

2003
02:44:43,730 --> 02:44:45,650
this evening from the town council.

2004
02:44:47,150 --> 02:44:51,150
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, this is an order that was generated at the request

2005
02:44:51,150 --> 02:44:57,030
of the DPW Fitzgerald Street as a public way in Randolph that, for some reason, was never

2006
02:44:57,550 --> 02:44:59,210
entirely completely constructed.

2007
02:44:59,210 --> 02:44:59,270
Thank you.

2008
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:29,980
So there is a space in the middle of Fitzgerald way that has only recently been turned into a paved area. This didn't become a pressing issue until recently when someone purchased the property that is directly abutting that part of the street. And so the only way that they get into their property is if we paved the public way in front of it, and then they could put a driveway into their property. As part of doing that work, utilities also need to be installed to the house. And most of the utilities were apparently easy to install, given what was

2009
02:45:29,980 --> 02:45:33,640
It's already under the street, but the water pipe did not reach the house.

2010
02:45:34,100 --> 02:45:42,120
So the DPW did have to put in, or will have to finish putting in some significant chunk of water pipe.

2011
02:45:42,660 --> 02:45:53,200
There is a statute that allows a town to, when they make a capital improvement that benefits only a single resident or a small group of residents.

2012
02:45:53,200 --> 02:46:00,340
The town is allowed to charge those residents the amount that the improvement

2013
02:46:00,340 --> 02:46:02,220
increased the value of their property.

2014
02:46:02,680 --> 02:46:06,720
In this case, adding water service to a property increases the value of the property

2015
02:46:06,720 --> 02:46:08,640
exponentially, because otherwise you couldn't have a house on it.

2016
02:46:09,320 --> 02:46:10,620
We certainly aren't going to charge that amount.

2017
02:46:11,100 --> 02:46:16,920
And so what the property owner suggested and what the DPW director thought was a good idea was

2018
02:46:16,920 --> 02:46:21,540
to simply charge the property owner for the price of the materials and the work to put in that pipe.

2019
02:46:21,540 --> 02:46:23,080
And so that's what this reflects.

2020
02:46:23,260 --> 02:46:28,260
This reflects an agreement between the town and the property owner that the property owner will reimburse the

2021
02:46:29,320 --> 02:46:35,140
Town for the cost of the materials and the work to extend the water pipe to that residence so that the house can have water

2022
02:46:35,140 --> 02:46:36,940
Service in an amount not to exceed

2023
02:46:38,120 --> 02:46:40,140
5,780 dollars or 42 cents

2024
02:46:40,140 --> 02:46:46,000
All right, so just to be clear, it's the resident that's paying this the town is nothingness correct the property owner

2025
02:46:46,000 --> 02:46:50,560
I believe it's a developer so ultimately the house will probably get sold with the property owner. There's the developer will pay it

2026
02:46:54,420 --> 02:46:56,240
I believe the water pipe is in.

2027
02:46:57,880 --> 02:47:02,340
I don't know the status of the work I know that this has been going on all summer and

2028
02:47:02,340 --> 02:47:04,200
when we started working on this, it was not in.

2029
02:47:04,560 --> 02:47:07,120
It may have gone in while this was in development.

2030
02:47:07,840 --> 02:47:09,740
Yeah, I think it is in.

2031
02:47:10,020 --> 02:47:17,840
So what the two issues say, one, it says, if he doesn't pay, we won't give him an occupancy

2032
02:47:17,840 --> 02:47:18,120
permit.

2033
02:47:19,280 --> 02:47:26,080
We give occupancy permits for less, with people they shouldn't have them, or for more, that people

2034
02:47:26,080 --> 02:47:26,820
shouldn't have them.

2035
02:47:28,340 --> 02:47:29,500
So, what's going to happen?

2036
02:47:29,860 --> 02:47:31,760
Does the building commissioner agree with that?

2037
02:47:32,300 --> 02:47:32,960
No occupancy permit?

2038
02:47:35,150 --> 02:47:37,730
Well, it doesn't matter if we have this agreement.

2039
02:47:38,390 --> 02:47:45,730
Well, it does matter because there are audits and conditions and planning would decision to say no occupancy permit but he gets them anyway.

2040
02:47:46,650 --> 02:47:49,390
So that's one issue, but what if

2041
02:47:51,760 --> 02:47:53,480
Fitzgerald treats a public way?

2042
02:47:54,340 --> 02:47:57,100
It's been a public way since hector was a pup.

2043
02:47:58,160 --> 02:48:04,280
It was never fully developed in the middle of it because of the fact that it's a big hole.

2044
02:48:04,360 --> 02:48:04,720
It was a gull.

2045
02:48:05,500 --> 02:48:13,700
Now, when Sparing continued Fitzgerald down the other end, there were no better mints,

2046
02:48:14,060 --> 02:48:15,580
but I believe he paid for that whole thing.

2047
02:48:16,300 --> 02:48:21,700
under the town have to pay for that and develop the street because once the streets are already accepted whether it's

2048
02:48:22,980 --> 02:48:24,940
paid a paved or not paved

2049
02:48:25,600 --> 02:48:26,360
We own that

2050
02:48:28,140 --> 02:48:31,480
And and if we own it let's those are our responsibilities

2051
02:48:31,880 --> 02:48:37,320
Now I know traditionally there's a betterment clause where if you're providing when we provide a sewerage in the 70s

2052
02:48:37,320 --> 02:48:41,160
When we buy your house you would experience time to connect to it and you had to pay for that

2053
02:48:42,560 --> 02:48:45,260
So I don't know why Mr. Galvin's responsible for that

2054
02:48:46,830 --> 02:48:55,530
So, I think in this case here, it's like when you do a development, the contractor usually puts in all the utilities and pays for them.

2055
02:48:55,970 --> 02:49:03,270
I think this is just the same thing, but in reverse, that the town did the work instead of the contractor,

2056
02:49:03,730 --> 02:49:06,590
then the contractor pays the town for the work.

2057
02:49:06,750 --> 02:49:13,250
Maybe Mr. Gowon didn't have the equipment, but it's a public street, it's not a private street.

2058
02:49:13,250 --> 02:49:18,990
No, I understand, but it's correct, but these

2059
02:49:21,040 --> 02:49:24,560
things would have been done regardless,

2060
02:49:26,140 --> 02:49:32,520
because the developer needs to put the infrastructure in order to put the house.

2061
02:49:32,840 --> 02:49:37,240
So I'm just saying whether the contractor did it or the town did it, it's getting done,

2062
02:49:37,280 --> 02:49:38,220
and this is what the cost is.

2063
02:49:38,220 --> 02:49:40,420
Yeah, I agree with you in the concept of that.

2064
02:49:41,020 --> 02:49:42,420
It does have to get done.

2065
02:49:42,420 --> 02:49:42,820
Right.

2066
02:49:43,280 --> 02:49:51,700
However, the legal piece really does, if Mr. Galham doesn't pay the $5,000, he's not

2067
02:49:51,700 --> 02:49:56,660
being forced to pay, now a developer would be forced to pay the entire cost of getting

2068
02:49:56,660 --> 02:50:00,340
the water line from more street all the way into the grid.

2069
02:50:01,620 --> 02:50:05,520
He's not being asked to do that, so it's not really a true cost of the project.

2070
02:50:05,820 --> 02:50:08,800
Well, he's paying for 126 feet of pipe.

2071
02:50:09,700 --> 02:50:12,040
So we're kind of trying to make a hybrid.

2072
02:50:12,040 --> 02:50:17,700
So he pays for something, but it really is, I don't know, I'm not going to ask you about legal grounds.

2073
02:50:18,380 --> 02:50:22,280
But I don't know if Mr. Galvin's really responsible.

2074
02:50:23,380 --> 02:50:31,520
Well, so through you, Mr. President, the statute allows us to charge the benefited member town for

2075
02:50:31,520 --> 02:50:33,720
the specific work that we did that benefited them.

2076
02:50:33,720 --> 02:50:40,040
So in this case, there's an existing water pipe, is my understanding, there's an existing water pipe that's serving the other residences.

2077
02:50:40,040 --> 02:50:51,280
And this was an extension specifically for this property and those circumstances you are allowed upon a boat of the council to charge for that, but we don't have to. The town could simply pay for it if you don't want him to pay for it.

2078
02:50:51,340 --> 02:50:59,840
Yeah, but if it's Gerald Street only had a thin like a two-inch lie like what an only could connect from your water main to the house going up the entire thing.

2079
02:50:59,860 --> 02:51:04,600
So what they've done is they replaced it with a regular water main up the whole side of the syrup.

2080
02:51:04,600 --> 02:51:07,880
So it was worked the town had a view anyway.

2081
02:51:09,240 --> 02:51:13,840
As long as the amount is less than the increase in property value that his property

2082
02:51:13,840 --> 02:51:17,720
received, as a result of the improvements, then the town is permitted to assess

2083
02:51:17,720 --> 02:51:18,400
him that amount.

2084
02:51:18,560 --> 02:51:20,780
And in this case, House Without Water is worth.

2085
02:51:22,160 --> 02:51:27,240
So I do think that it's a legally permissible agreement, but it is entirely a policy

2086
02:51:27,240 --> 02:51:31,860
call on the council's part whether this is something you want to just have the DPW pay

2087
02:51:31,860 --> 02:51:35,740
as part of their regular operations or whether you actually want to make this assessment.

2088
02:51:36,860 --> 02:51:40,400
And obviously the DPW has had conversation with Mr. Galvin.

2089
02:51:40,720 --> 02:51:44,840
In fact, by understanding that Mr. Galvin approached the DPW and said that he would be very

2090
02:51:44,840 --> 02:51:48,800
grateful to have water service and if there's anything he could pay for to assist in getting

2091
02:51:48,800 --> 02:51:50,680
water service, he would like to do that.

2092
02:51:51,000 --> 02:51:53,060
Sounds like a heavy commotion.

2093
02:51:53,340 --> 02:51:53,780
Go ahead.

2094
02:51:53,960 --> 02:51:54,720
Mr. President, yeah?

2095
02:51:54,720 --> 02:52:03,720
I'd like to make a motion that the Council approved, Council Order 2019-048 betterment

2096
02:52:03,720 --> 02:52:12,400
agreement for 48 Fitzgerald Street, according to the contract provided in the Council

2097
02:52:12,400 --> 02:52:16,760
Order for the charge of $5,780.42.

2098
02:52:18,780 --> 02:52:21,000
I think it's up to, right?

2099
02:52:21,440 --> 02:52:22,500
Right, up to, right.

2100
02:52:23,000 --> 02:52:23,540
Not to exceed.

2101
02:52:23,800 --> 02:52:26,340
Motion made and seconded for the discussion.

2102
02:52:26,660 --> 02:52:27,740
All in favor, please say aye.

2103
02:52:27,980 --> 02:52:28,340
Aye.

2104
02:52:28,780 --> 02:52:29,300
Opposed?

2105
02:52:29,500 --> 02:52:29,640
Aye.

2106
02:52:30,240 --> 02:52:30,760
Abstention?

2107
02:52:31,240 --> 02:52:33,500
A to one vote, Councillor Burgess on the negative.

2108
02:52:35,380 --> 02:52:35,900
Correspondence?

2109
02:52:40,130 --> 02:52:42,550
I received an email from James Passman.

2110
02:52:44,290 --> 02:52:48,730
On behalf of the neighbors of Chateau Park and Roy Cross Drive, please accept

2111
02:52:48,730 --> 02:52:51,750
that thanks to both the DPW and conservation commission

2112
02:52:51,750 --> 02:52:53,750
for clearing the brush and storm drain

2113
02:52:53,750 --> 02:52:56,210
from the conservation property on Boycroft Drive.

2114
02:52:56,890 --> 02:52:59,810
The property abuts the Kacheto River Watershed area

2115
02:52:59,810 --> 02:53:02,490
and requires annual maintenance to ensure residents

2116
02:53:02,490 --> 02:53:04,230
can read the no-dumping signs.

2117
02:53:04,670 --> 02:53:06,610
And the storm drains remain clear of debris

2118
02:53:06,610 --> 02:53:08,510
and drain into the watershed wetlands.

2119
02:53:08,910 --> 02:53:11,430
We appreciate the work the DPW in Kong Kong

2120
02:53:11,430 --> 02:53:12,690
has done for a neighborhood.

2121
02:53:13,290 --> 02:53:16,670
Sincerely, Jim Passman on behalf of our neighborhood.

2122
02:53:18,950 --> 02:53:21,770
I was also asked to read this by Council of Burgess.

2123
02:53:21,970 --> 02:53:28,950
It was an email that was sent to the council dated August 24, 2019.

2124
02:53:29,750 --> 02:53:31,470
It's from Sakeena Richards.

2125
02:53:33,550 --> 02:53:37,030
My name is Ella Fias, Sakeena Richards, Jean Fia.

2126
02:53:37,210 --> 02:53:43,610
I'm a Randolph resident, active member of the community, mother of two boys, a minority

2127
02:53:44,410 --> 02:53:47,970
resident born in Jamaica with multi-racial ancestry.

2128
02:53:47,970 --> 02:53:52,690
consider myself Jamaican. My husband is Haitian and Dominican, born and raised in Haiti. We have both

2129
02:53:52,690 --> 02:53:58,030
United States citizens having first-generation born American children. Recently, I've decided to

2130
02:53:58,030 --> 02:54:02,370
take my community involvement to the next level by choosing to be a candidate towards town counselor

2131
02:54:02,370 --> 02:54:08,690
at Lodge in Randolph. This decision motivated by much pride and passion, having been a 17-year resident

2132
02:54:08,690 --> 02:54:13,710
of Randolph. This motivation was recently shot down due to what I believe to be dangerous and malicious

2133
02:54:17,630 --> 02:54:23,670
I believe that this attack entices violence against myself, which places my family in eye at risk.

2134
02:54:24,330 --> 02:54:39,550
On Monday, August 19, 2019, Facebook user in Mattapan Tech Business owner, Jack Dottie Jean posted a vile statement twice regarding a Darnel L Williams to patch it from the urban league of Eastern Massachusetts and his excitement.

2135
02:54:39,550 --> 02:54:44,110
Moving forward, I will refer to Jack Stady Jean as Mr. Jean.

2136
02:54:44,650 --> 02:54:50,130
As a creator and admin of the Facebook group, Randolph United Activist, I commented under

2137
02:54:50,130 --> 02:54:55,810
Mr. Jean's post, not for nothing, but you post in very controversial things, LOL, then

2138
02:54:55,810 --> 02:54:58,670
later we can't sing almost the opposite about the person.

2139
02:54:59,330 --> 02:55:01,030
It confuses me on where you stand.

2140
02:55:01,810 --> 02:55:06,970
Mr. Jean responded in a lengthy post, which indicated, patients will tell a brother or sister

2141
02:55:06,970 --> 02:55:09,730
to what they did is wrong, but we still have each other's back.

2142
02:55:10,350 --> 02:55:13,250
Never get involved in our fight, we are bounding by blood.

2143
02:55:13,970 --> 02:55:18,730
The dialogue turned into an argument, and we both exchange words as I was bothered by

2144
02:55:18,730 --> 02:55:23,450
the strong language used to express patients being bound by blood and always sticking together.

2145
02:55:24,210 --> 02:55:27,710
I responded in indicating that we are one Randolph.

2146
02:55:28,030 --> 02:55:33,050
Mr. Jean appeared again under the same name, Madame Pantek, posting a picture over himself

2147
02:55:33,050 --> 02:55:35,030
with counsel of clergy smiling.

2148
02:55:35,030 --> 02:55:41,130
At this point, I realized this exchange with Mr. Jim, whom I've never met, was charged

2149
02:55:41,130 --> 02:55:44,950
by Councillor clergy. Mr. Jean appeared again on the Facebook page,

2150
02:55:45,130 --> 02:55:49,530
Randolph United activist, indicating that he and his associates will be shutting down

2151
02:55:49,530 --> 02:55:55,350
my campaign page. Additionally, he posted a poster of me, which contained a privately-owned

2152
02:55:55,350 --> 02:56:03,070
photo of myself. The poster read, my name is Shaqina or Shaqiki Rat. I will boycott all

2153
02:56:03,070 --> 02:56:07,190
All Haitian businesses send police to any event associated with my opponent.

2154
02:56:07,710 --> 02:56:10,450
I don't want digital literacy in my town.

2155
02:56:10,690 --> 02:56:15,010
I will share voice recording and edited private conversation with town officials.

2156
02:56:15,650 --> 02:56:17,750
Vote for me if you want Randolph to move backward.

2157
02:56:18,490 --> 02:56:21,010
I hate my opponent, I hate her, I hate her, please help me.

2158
02:56:21,690 --> 02:56:27,530
This poster was charged again, she had again in a Boston based Facebook group to which council

2159
02:56:27,530 --> 02:56:30,370
Missile Acclerger is affiliated with and Mr. Jean Admin.

2160
02:56:30,710 --> 02:56:38,690
Under the user name, Mattapian Community Partnerships, this poster was shared with the following message written in French Haitian Creole.

2161
02:56:39,310 --> 02:56:40,630
Issues will never stop.

2162
02:56:40,970 --> 02:56:43,770
This woman called the police to stop the Haitian festival.

2163
02:56:44,190 --> 02:56:46,230
She told the police the Haitians are drunks.

2164
02:56:46,470 --> 02:56:50,090
She started calling the police to cause problems for Haitian businesses.

2165
02:56:50,510 --> 02:56:54,790
It is noted that council Acclerger appeared on this page, clicked and viewed this post.

2166
02:56:54,790 --> 02:56:59,670
Facebook indicated user name Natasha Closure as a viewer of this post.

2167
02:57:00,270 --> 02:57:04,810
A third attack was launched again by Council Closure and her associates at Matapantek Company

2168
02:57:04,810 --> 02:57:10,210
on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 on the Matapant Forum Facebook through.

2169
02:57:10,870 --> 02:57:17,030
This message written under the user name, Grand Moon Padri, red in both Haitian, Creole

2170
02:57:17,030 --> 02:57:17,650
and English.

2171
02:57:18,030 --> 02:57:22,430
I was kind of disappointed when Sakina Richards, Jean-Pierre, called police to disrupt

2172
02:57:22,430 --> 02:57:28,030
a family gathering at Solo Live because the family is associated with council of clergy.

2173
02:57:28,930 --> 02:57:31,990
Sakina Richards, Jean Pierre, is truly an annoying rat.

2174
02:57:32,410 --> 02:57:36,630
She has attempted to boycott Haitian businesses in many occasions.

2175
02:57:37,330 --> 02:57:42,690
Attacking Solo Live is considered attacking the entire Haitian community and is like attacking

2176
02:57:42,690 --> 02:57:45,230
Manipedeck is attacking the minority community.

2177
02:57:45,930 --> 02:57:47,930
Brother Jack, keep doing your great work.

2178
02:57:48,110 --> 02:57:49,970
You have the support of council in Natasha.

2179
02:57:50,750 --> 02:58:01,950
Closure can clip and has your black back. What you need that violin blank for. God is in your side, bro. The people of Randolph appreciate you and your wife.

2180
02:58:02,870 --> 02:58:07,590
Facebook noted this post was clicked on and viewed by Facebook user Natasha Closure.

2181
02:58:08,290 --> 02:58:18,390
This post has caused my self and my family great stress and fear all of my life to be specific, culturally calling someone a rat with reference to their communication with the police.

2182
02:58:18,390 --> 02:58:24,010
is essentially evoking several sentiments, one of mistrust and one of violence against

2183
02:58:24,010 --> 02:58:28,930
the individual. Council of Courgette has not publicly denounced or denied these lies.

2184
02:58:29,590 --> 02:58:34,650
She has participated in viewing these posts and one can only infer if their name is being

2185
02:58:34,650 --> 02:58:40,050
used to evoke a race-bake attack on another citizen they would step into correct false information.

2186
02:58:40,730 --> 02:58:46,070
This was not done. Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that not only was this stranger

2187
02:58:46,070 --> 02:58:50,070
Mr. Jeane fed this information by council of clergy, but he acted on her behalf.

2188
02:58:50,590 --> 02:58:54,650
A review of my community contributions will show I have aided in the advancement of

2189
02:58:54,650 --> 02:58:56,390
patients and all people in this community.

2190
02:58:56,910 --> 02:58:59,390
A review of my police interactions here will prove.

2191
02:58:59,710 --> 02:59:03,070
I have never called the police on Haitian families or Haitian owned businesses.

2192
02:59:03,590 --> 02:59:06,750
A review of my community involvement will prove I have never organized

2193
02:59:06,750 --> 02:59:08,910
both boycotts against Haitian businesses.

2194
02:59:09,770 --> 02:59:13,650
I believe the town council has a duty of care to put systems in place that

2195
02:59:13,650 --> 02:59:15,790
and she was all members of our community assay.

2196
02:59:16,070 --> 02:59:19,030
I believe the town council body should uphold this duty

2197
02:59:19,030 --> 02:59:21,210
regardless of their dislike for community members.

2198
02:59:21,650 --> 02:59:24,150
I believe the town council body should remain truthful

2199
02:59:24,150 --> 02:59:26,030
according to ethical codes

2200
02:59:26,030 --> 02:59:27,790
they abound by the state of Massachusetts.

2201
02:59:28,510 --> 02:59:29,890
I have found that council of clergy

2202
02:59:29,890 --> 02:59:31,570
is the mastermind behind this attack

2203
02:59:31,570 --> 02:59:33,390
with entices violence against me.

2204
02:59:33,950 --> 02:59:35,010
Compromises my duties

2205
02:59:35,010 --> 02:59:37,190
per my employment as a public school clinician

2206
02:59:37,710 --> 02:59:40,670
and a family therapist for the state who visits JL's,

2207
02:59:40,670 --> 02:59:43,170
prisons, institutions, hospitals, homeschools,

2208
02:59:43,170 --> 02:59:45,830
and other high crime areas in this state.

2209
02:59:46,350 --> 02:59:48,910
I believe council of court of silence is an omission

2210
02:59:48,910 --> 02:59:52,130
of participation in support considering she has been privy

2211
02:59:52,130 --> 02:59:54,290
to the content on several platforms.

2212
02:59:54,930 --> 02:59:56,830
I believe this acts that the president said

2213
02:59:56,830 --> 02:59:59,970
it was okay for town council members to perpetuate racial

2214
03:00:10,540 --> 03:00:29,480
I have received several phone calls this week, telling me to be careful. I am greatly concerned regarding the risk that Council of Persia has placed me in. I am calling on the town council to review my concerns, holding Council of Persia or Council as they see fit. For my protection, I have been in communication with the Randolph Police in Quincy District Court.

2215
03:00:29,480 --> 03:00:37,160
I want to be clear that I am taking this racially charged attack seriously and I call on the Tom Council to investigate this matter as well

2216
03:00:37,760 --> 03:00:44,800
Taking a stand against further devices and racially charged motives and attacks that continues to play out commuting at the hands of council for a

2217
03:00:44,800 --> 03:00:51,620
Derrick. I am hoping for a private meeting with all council members to come to a resolution where I and my family feel safe in my community

2218
03:00:51,620 --> 03:00:59,460
Where my child can remain safe as a public school student in this community where I can freely visit any Haitian business in this community without face

2219
03:00:59,480 --> 03:01:04,380
I currently have a target on my back. I find myself checking my vehicle tires everywhere I go.

2220
03:01:04,720 --> 03:01:07,020
Just worry about whether someone has come after me.

2221
03:01:07,660 --> 03:01:11,660
This no longer a matter of political differences, but matter of my safety,

2222
03:01:11,980 --> 03:01:18,960
being able to function in my community, participate in all I have invested in without fear or intimidation from council in Natasha Flurger.

2223
03:01:19,320 --> 03:01:25,720
I look forward to hearing back from the town council majority voice president Adams and or town attorney on the town council

2224
03:01:25,720 --> 03:01:29,500
to review on my concern as a resident and citizen,

2225
03:01:29,920 --> 03:01:30,640
paying regards.

2226
03:01:36,000 --> 03:01:36,820
Any other questions?

2227
03:01:37,160 --> 03:01:37,560
Sorry, yep.

2228
03:01:37,600 --> 03:01:38,200
Any other questions?

2229
03:01:38,480 --> 03:01:39,840
Mr. President, Councilor Clinton.

2230
03:01:41,140 --> 03:01:44,100
I did not receive that coffee sponge.

2231
03:01:44,280 --> 03:01:45,420
Was that sent to all the Councillors?

2232
03:01:46,120 --> 03:01:47,480
I didn't get it originally.

2233
03:01:47,860 --> 03:01:49,840
Someone told me about it and forwarded to me.

2234
03:01:50,280 --> 03:01:51,220
So I don't know.

2235
03:01:52,500 --> 03:01:55,700
I imagine it must have been tried to be sent to everyone.

2236
03:01:56,460 --> 03:01:58,300
I did get a copy of the email.

2237
03:01:58,740 --> 03:02:05,660
right and I think you might have been the one that forwarded to me days later so

2238
03:02:06,900 --> 03:02:10,500
there is a header on here that looks like it was sent to you but it may have a

2239
03:02:10,500 --> 03:02:16,430
typo in it so he was not sent to me it was like it was do you want to see it

2240
03:02:21,370 --> 03:02:23,670
sure everybody else received a copy I

2241
03:02:30,070 --> 03:02:35,930
don't know what can I see it for a second my

2242
03:02:35,930 --> 03:02:39,710
My town email was not working.

2243
03:02:41,970 --> 03:02:45,610
This one's, oh yeah, it's all the town email addresses.

2244
03:02:46,650 --> 03:02:47,870
Do the data is on there?

2245
03:02:48,650 --> 03:02:49,750
You didn't get one there?

2246
03:02:49,990 --> 03:02:50,630
No, I didn't do it.

2247
03:02:50,790 --> 03:02:55,690
The 24th, I believe, of August, 12, 13 a.m.

2248
03:02:58,470 --> 03:02:59,230
12, 38.

2249
03:03:01,130 --> 03:03:02,910
Do you have to have said no more correspondence?

2250
03:03:10,720 --> 03:03:17,660
I think we talked a lot about tribe word already. Bill, I was at the meeting with you. Do you want to speak any more to it?

2251
03:03:17,860 --> 03:03:27,360
No. I think Helen did a great job in the presentation. She spoke at length at what we did on Thursday.

2252
03:03:27,360 --> 03:03:34,860
Yesterday, we do have another meeting on the 26th, where we'll be interviewing the

2253
03:03:37,480 --> 03:03:42,140
design selection, going through the design selection process.

2254
03:03:43,020 --> 03:03:45,760
So I'll be back to reports of one.

2255
03:03:47,220 --> 03:03:48,200
Other committee reports.

2256
03:03:49,320 --> 03:03:55,220
With the library, Liz sent me an email before this meeting started for some of the upcoming events.

2257
03:03:56,260 --> 03:04:10,280
Voter registration, you can come to the library to register to vote on National Voter Registration Day on September 24th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., a huge thanks to the clerk's office for their collaboration on it.

2258
03:04:10,280 --> 03:04:19,320
They have a library ice cream party, clever name there, in celebration of library card sign-up month.

2259
03:04:19,660 --> 03:04:24,680
We're having a raffle in ice cream party on September 20th at 11 a.m.

2260
03:04:25,700 --> 03:04:35,340
Stop by the library before then to enter into a raffle by signing up for a new library card or leaving a comment about how you use the library card you already have.

2261
03:04:35,340 --> 03:04:43,560
There's going to be an author coming before us on September 28th at 1 p.m., for a discussion with Dr.

2262
03:04:43,980 --> 03:04:49,740
Luneen Pierre-Jérôme, translator of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Intahation Creole.

2263
03:04:50,340 --> 03:04:55,500
And thank you to the Library Initiative for Teens and Twins for an $8,000 grant that

2264
03:04:55,500 --> 03:05:00,200
money's being used to fund a filmmaking club, additional furniture in the heavily used

2265
03:05:00,200 --> 03:05:05,740
team room and a collaborative mural with local artists Jamal Eversley, teens can submit

2266
03:05:05,740 --> 03:05:11,260
their art envisioning themselves as superheroes for the mural to teen library and miss Melissa.

2267
03:05:12,180 --> 03:05:16,540
And just to be clear, it's not stated in here, but we think of superheroes like Superman,

2268
03:05:17,000 --> 03:05:21,520
but firefighters, police officers, nurses, I'm sure those would count just as well.

2269
03:05:22,640 --> 03:05:23,920
Anything from schools?

2270
03:05:23,920 --> 03:05:32,460
yes sir. The last school committee meeting last Thursday we had voted on new

2271
03:05:32,460 --> 03:05:41,300
chairs for no subcommittees and they won the meeting before that to Thursday

2272
03:05:41,300 --> 03:05:54,710
so come. I was August 26 if I'm not mistaken was the opening of teachers at the

2273
03:05:54,710 --> 03:06:02,390
public schools and I'm kind of emotional so I'm sorry the day started with the

2274
03:06:02,390 --> 03:06:13,150
the band the RHS band playing wonderful music and we have all faculty and

2275
03:06:13,150 --> 03:06:19,770
staff were giving help me cancel a half-lamon we were giving like a color and

2276
03:06:19,770 --> 03:06:24,890
in the number, provided in activities for the movie building activities.

2277
03:06:24,890 --> 03:06:25,110
Yes.

2278
03:06:25,730 --> 03:06:26,030
Wonderful.

2279
03:06:26,410 --> 03:06:26,630
Yes.

2280
03:06:26,950 --> 03:06:31,350
And of course, we want the ex-job team.

2281
03:06:32,810 --> 03:06:38,910
We were team Blue 3 and yep, the best, of course, we were two counselors.

2282
03:06:38,910 --> 03:06:39,690
We had to win.

2283
03:06:41,110 --> 03:06:48,270
And so each group had a series of activities that had to involve team building like she

2284
03:06:48,270 --> 03:06:57,170
said and the collaboration and activities were various and it addressed everyone whether

2285
03:06:57,170 --> 03:07:02,050
you were very athletic or physically challenged so everybody was included.

2286
03:07:02,630 --> 03:07:09,950
And the purpose of that morning was to welcome the teachers, welcome them back and then

2287
03:07:09,950 --> 03:07:12,070
and we viewed the vision and the values

2288
03:07:12,390 --> 03:07:16,210
and included values learning styles and choice.

2289
03:07:17,770 --> 03:07:18,950
It was very fun.

2290
03:07:19,530 --> 03:07:20,550
I had a lot of fun.

2291
03:07:20,650 --> 03:07:22,650
Concealer Halflamon had mad fun.

2292
03:07:23,350 --> 03:07:25,190
The teachers, everybody were there.

2293
03:07:25,770 --> 03:07:27,310
And it was very,

2294
03:07:28,870 --> 03:07:31,670
seeing how the superintendent set the tone

2295
03:07:32,310 --> 03:07:33,930
of the studying of a great day.

2296
03:07:34,170 --> 03:07:35,310
I commend her for that.

2297
03:07:35,590 --> 03:07:38,950
And she hope everybody has a great school year.

2298
03:07:40,270 --> 03:07:43,950
Okay, that's all for school, so the rest I'll do it.

2299
03:07:44,230 --> 03:07:45,710
Question, Councillor Goldstein.

2300
03:07:45,990 --> 03:07:47,890
Do you have the enrollment number, yet?

2301
03:07:49,050 --> 03:07:50,010
She was right there.

2302
03:07:50,410 --> 03:07:51,470
He asked her.

2303
03:07:52,090 --> 03:07:53,290
She asked for something else.

2304
03:07:54,410 --> 03:07:58,290
Okay, so enrollment numbers, because what they said,

2305
03:07:58,710 --> 03:08:01,990
it's like kids keep coming every day, so they don't have to.

2306
03:08:01,990 --> 03:08:06,510
Yeah, but at some point, the number, I just want to know the

2307
03:08:06,510 --> 03:08:11,710
You know, whether we're up or we're down or even no, it's going up going up

2308
03:08:11,710 --> 03:08:14,590
But I can't take it right now, okay

2309
03:08:15,670 --> 03:08:18,810
And the other uh any other committee reports

2310
03:08:19,430 --> 03:08:26,250
All right onto council comments. I'll start back with you counselor cliche. Um comics. Okay

2311
03:08:27,610 --> 03:08:29,910
Cooking with Natasha is back. Yay

2312
03:08:30,570 --> 03:08:34,030
Every Wednesday, 4.30 to 6.30, it's going to be at the

2313
03:08:34,030 --> 03:08:38,570
swing of water's church for 3.47.

2314
03:08:38,810 --> 03:08:40,730
3.47, not main street.

2315
03:08:41,570 --> 03:08:43,730
And it is completely free of charge.

2316
03:08:43,730 --> 03:08:46,730
You don't need any kind of fees whatsoever.

2317
03:08:47,550 --> 03:08:51,850
And we're hoping to get everybody, boys, girls, men,

2318
03:08:52,150 --> 03:08:56,010
women, seniors, everybody's invited.

2319
03:08:56,010 --> 03:09:04,090
And, contrary, from the community center where we could only have 15 people and then

2320
03:09:04,090 --> 03:09:08,610
at the church kitchen, we can have as many as we can get.

2321
03:09:09,930 --> 03:09:16,090
And the food and for-use distribution, this Thursday is going to be special because on

2322
03:09:16,090 --> 03:09:22,250
top of the food and for-use, we're going to give you back to school items provided from

2323
03:09:24,330 --> 03:09:27,890
and for the people who don't know who the citizens are,

2324
03:09:28,450 --> 03:09:30,330
they are the volunteers behind.

2325
03:09:30,610 --> 03:09:34,290
It's like an army of volunteers behind the food and food distribution.

2326
03:09:34,870 --> 03:09:40,370
I'm not going to take credit for myself because we have a lot of people working together.

2327
03:09:41,590 --> 03:09:44,530
Consular Ghostin, this report is for you as well.

2328
03:09:44,690 --> 03:09:45,650
Thank you for your attention.

2329
03:09:47,010 --> 03:09:48,990
Because your voice is coming out from the mic.

2330
03:09:49,650 --> 03:09:50,490
Consular Ghostin?

2331
03:09:50,490 --> 03:09:57,610
Yes, I have you. Thank you kind of disturbing because I can hear what you guys are saying

2332
03:09:58,190 --> 03:09:59,210
Thank you

2333
03:09:59,210 --> 03:10:03,490
English is not my first language is the sixth one, so please. Thank you

2334
03:10:04,510 --> 03:10:10,970
Yeah, on top of giving you back to school items is gonna be a little party from four from two to four

2335
03:10:10,970 --> 03:10:18,350
Where zoom by instructor volunteers are trying to come do some zoom by dance with us

2336
03:10:20,930 --> 03:10:30,090
Last but not least, we have the ABCDs of self-sufficiency that's a program that I put together

2337
03:10:30,090 --> 03:10:37,290
and I did send a letter to Superintendent Dia Stover because I wanted to do it at the young school.

2338
03:10:38,450 --> 03:10:45,510
She takes this a great idea, so it consists of helping people who have been out of work,

2339
03:10:45,510 --> 03:10:53,370
Like, single mothers, fathers, grandmas, if they want to go back to work and young kids too,

2340
03:10:54,490 --> 03:10:58,950
I know the youth council is doing a great job and we want to include that.

2341
03:10:59,410 --> 03:11:01,190
Like, exceed that to the whole town.

2342
03:11:01,970 --> 03:11:06,010
Young folks who want to learn how to conduct an interview,

2343
03:11:06,730 --> 03:11:13,610
how to write a resume, proper etiquette when you're going to a job interview

2344
03:11:13,610 --> 03:11:18,470
or if you want to create your own business, we're going to sit down, which you first

2345
03:11:18,470 --> 03:11:25,110
of all find out what is your passion because to create your own business, if you're not

2346
03:11:25,110 --> 03:11:30,210
passionate about it, you're not going to succeed and then walk you through getting your

2347
03:11:30,210 --> 03:11:35,290
EI number, fighting for the proper licensing with town and everything.

2348
03:11:35,810 --> 03:11:41,710
So I'm hoping to get the youth council's support, everybody wants to support it and the

2349
03:11:41,710 --> 03:11:43,630
and it is very excited about it.

2350
03:11:44,190 --> 03:11:48,150
And we have two weeks, we want to back up it, back it up.

2351
03:11:48,850 --> 03:11:53,070
And since we don't have the means yet,

2352
03:11:53,450 --> 03:11:55,950
how to accept because I wanted it

2353
03:11:55,950 --> 03:11:57,510
to be like a completely free thing.

2354
03:11:57,810 --> 03:12:00,050
I didn't know people wanted to donate towards it.

2355
03:12:00,470 --> 03:12:02,770
We don't know yet how to accept the money.

2356
03:12:02,890 --> 03:12:07,310
I'm talking about with your humanitarian focus foundation,

2357
03:12:07,510 --> 03:12:10,850
which is an nonprofit to kind of umbrella.

2358
03:12:10,850 --> 03:12:15,810
the program, they're out at the United Nations and they're very excited about it.

2359
03:12:15,830 --> 03:12:19,010
Once we figure it out, we're going to announce it at the young school.

2360
03:12:19,790 --> 03:12:21,270
And this concludes my report.

2361
03:12:21,510 --> 03:12:21,790
Thank you.

2362
03:12:22,110 --> 03:12:22,630
Councilor Clinton.

2363
03:12:23,050 --> 03:12:23,890
Thank you, Mr. President.

2364
03:12:24,730 --> 03:12:32,510
Mr. President, as you were, the Bahamas was devastated by a horrific hurricane.

2365
03:12:33,910 --> 03:12:39,130
And the country is in dire need of assistance.

2366
03:12:39,130 --> 03:12:51,970
And as you were further, that Randolph is always in the front in terms of its humanitarian services.

2367
03:12:53,070 --> 03:13:04,350
And so we've identified three locations where urgently needed supplies could be brought to.

2368
03:13:04,350 --> 03:13:15,890
And so I want to thank Tom Manager Brian Howard for coordinating with me these locations,

2369
03:13:16,490 --> 03:13:23,430
which include the Turner Free Library, Spring of Water, Christian Assembly, and Tony

2370
03:13:23,430 --> 03:13:25,830
the Taylor's and dry cleaners.

2371
03:13:25,830 --> 03:13:37,330
I spoke with the ambassador of the Bahamas and she is aware of what we are doing in

2372
03:13:37,330 --> 03:13:37,810
Randolph.

2373
03:13:38,330 --> 03:13:46,310
And she wanted to extend her gratitude and her country's gratitude, as you were the

2374
03:13:46,310 --> 03:13:57,170
the U.S. Coast Guard has also been instrumental in terms of rescuing many

2375
03:13:57,170 --> 03:14:05,970
Bahamians who are still in need of being rescued. It's still unknown how many

2376
03:14:05,970 --> 03:14:16,300
fatalities they have been. The Minister of Health indicated that he's

2377
03:14:16,300 --> 03:14:21,600
reluctant to give the number because it will be shocking and traumatizing for many of

2378
03:14:21,600 --> 03:14:23,900
the Bahamian and Caribbean citizens.

2379
03:14:25,240 --> 03:14:35,180
So I'm hoping that citizens of Randolph, as usual, could come together and please give

2380
03:14:35,600 --> 03:14:37,360
whatever that they can give.

2381
03:14:38,020 --> 03:14:41,760
The country is in desperate, desperate shape.

2382
03:14:42,460 --> 03:14:43,180
Thank you, Mr. President.

2383
03:14:48,560 --> 03:14:52,980
They say something about not wanting certain names like clothes don't send a lot of

2384
03:14:53,620 --> 03:14:59,920
No, the two the two the two initiatives being launched one and I have that on my Facebook page a few

2385
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:23,080
If you want to make a contribution, financial contribution, there's some instructions that you follow. And if you want to donate clothing and so on and so on, supplies, there's another initiative. So there are a number of locations that have been identified throughout the country where citizens can take the various supplies.

2386
03:15:24,040 --> 03:15:30,340
So President, quickly this, because I just received a text again, there's a resident

2387
03:15:30,340 --> 03:15:38,500
that's been complaining about Gloria Ward, so I just want to ask the message so she

2388
03:15:38,500 --> 03:15:43,800
would like her street to be looked at because it's been 60 years I think since they never

2389
03:15:43,800 --> 03:15:46,200
did anything, so that's the text I just received again.

2390
03:15:46,560 --> 03:15:47,320
Thank you Mr. President.

2391
03:15:47,320 --> 03:15:52,340
Councillor Bridges. Thank you. I am supporting a T-shirt.

2392
03:15:53,200 --> 03:16:01,600
Sir, it's easy to say. With Leo Cooney. This weekend was a great event of all walks

2393
03:16:01,600 --> 03:16:06,600
of Randolph. Leo is suffering from ALS, Lou Gerricks. He's just a couple years old and

2394
03:16:06,600 --> 03:16:14,540
I am. So I think if you like this T-shirt, go to Leo Cooney's site and you may be able to

2395
03:16:14,540 --> 03:16:22,060
But it was a good event to a lot of random people, new, old, home like nine years, so it was really nice.

2396
03:16:25,380 --> 03:16:31,000
When will we appoint, or have on our agenda, the appointment of Cheryl Sassas, the town clerk, make your permit?

2397
03:16:31,520 --> 03:16:34,360
When is that going to happen? We have to ratify that appointment, correct?

2398
03:16:35,440 --> 03:16:40,920
Any ratification would come, because it's a departmental position it would come, it would come with the town council correct.

2399
03:16:41,700 --> 03:16:43,980
Do we know when this is going to happen? After the election?

2400
03:16:43,980 --> 03:16:48,000
You know, oh wow, I've got to go through the process.

2401
03:16:49,620 --> 03:16:51,960
So I haven't started the process yet.

2402
03:16:52,600 --> 03:16:54,000
OK, just my opinion.

2403
03:16:55,860 --> 03:16:58,460
Similarly, you were doing the job, but you deserve the job.

2404
03:16:58,860 --> 03:16:59,640
She's doing the job.

2405
03:16:59,880 --> 03:17:00,760
I think she deserves a job.

2406
03:17:01,760 --> 03:17:05,400
So Erin, I would like to see it on the agenda at some point.

2407
03:17:07,820 --> 03:17:12,800
We had a request on the Purple Hots signs.

2408
03:17:13,820 --> 03:17:16,380
We just had a request for 300 dollars to fund them.

2409
03:17:17,560 --> 03:17:29,720
I'm going to double check with, I thought that Renee covered through the Veterans Council in with some funds that have in coca-cats.

2410
03:17:29,800 --> 03:17:34,720
So I got a double check on that, but my understanding is I mean, it's short money.

2411
03:17:34,720 --> 03:17:39,780
It's certainly something that during the presentations play what they will support.

2412
03:17:39,960 --> 03:17:41,520
Yeah, you'll reach out to Jerry Guilta.

2413
03:17:42,440 --> 03:17:46,300
Yeah, I said there wasn't any communication with Mr. Guil.

2414
03:17:47,440 --> 03:17:48,760
But I'll look further into it.

2415
03:17:50,100 --> 03:17:54,960
A few weeks ago, I asked you to get me some information, and I don't know how you want to handle it, but.

2416
03:17:57,020 --> 03:18:00,940
A few weeks back, I requested if I want to lick a violation of 61 Pleasant Street.

2417
03:18:01,860 --> 03:18:10,160
It's a commercial building primarily used as an adult daycare setting, and I believe it's licensed somehow by Department of Health, Public Health.

2418
03:18:10,820 --> 03:18:22,860
On our about July 2nd, 2019, a one-day liquor license, now we don't want to give liquor licenses to go to the licensing board, was requested by Council of Natasha Closure, doing business as our company.

2419
03:18:23,940 --> 03:18:29,200
The license was given by licensing board without a public hearing, which is required by law.

2420
03:18:29,200 --> 03:18:33,400
And without the paperwork being completed, at least there isn't any in the office.

2421
03:18:34,260 --> 03:18:43,380
On July 6th at 61 Pleasant Street, a party was held allegedly using this one day liquor license,

2422
03:18:43,860 --> 03:18:46,860
even though the actual physical license had never been issued.

2423
03:18:47,800 --> 03:18:53,580
Around 11 o'clock or so, the Randolph police responded to 61 Pleasant Street after seeing strobe lights,

2424
03:18:55,730 --> 03:18:58,330
which is a sign of fire protection going off.

2425
03:18:58,330 --> 03:19:04,830
Upon arrival there, there were individuals who were at the party and are running the party

2426
03:19:04,830 --> 03:19:10,910
who were actually in the act of dismantling the fires of the Persian system in the Alam.

2427
03:19:11,650 --> 03:19:15,070
They have been fined, I believe, by the fight of Alam, you can confirm that, please.

2428
03:19:16,150 --> 03:19:18,610
They actually went to deactivate the fire system.

2429
03:19:20,940 --> 03:19:24,360
There are more than a few concerns, but let's start with a couple.

2430
03:19:25,380 --> 03:19:29,620
The licensing board must hold a public hearing, which they didn't.

2431
03:19:29,620 --> 03:19:36,200
And that, that the voters voted in the charter, the role of the licensing board.

2432
03:19:37,320 --> 03:19:39,800
And not only is it the charter, but it's chapter 138.

2433
03:19:40,720 --> 03:19:48,520
The law says a one-day liquor license can only be given for non-profits, which she is not.

2434
03:19:50,650 --> 03:19:58,750
61 Pleasant Street is an adult day kiss center, and it's not a venue for

2435
03:19:59,390 --> 03:20:04,550
entertainment to look or anything else. So I'm concerned how we choose to, where we're

2436
03:20:04,550 --> 03:20:10,830
going to have one of the events. We have a fire report stating the attempt to dismantle

2437
03:20:10,830 --> 03:20:16,910
the fire box, which I believe all other counselors received. We have a police report that states

2438
03:20:16,910 --> 03:20:22,390
upon the returns of station by the officer, the dispatcher advised the officer that he

2439
03:20:22,390 --> 03:20:28,050
received a phone call from said counselor who wanted the police to leave and allow the

2440
03:20:28,050 --> 03:20:29,910
party to continue, which is in the police report,

2441
03:20:32,250 --> 03:20:35,210
the public has an expectation that our

2442
03:20:35,210 --> 03:20:42,330
liquor policies and laws are going to be upheld. So I'd like to know, one, if this council

2443
03:20:42,330 --> 03:20:48,570
is going to take any action relative to licensing board, I don't know if there is any we can't

2444
03:20:48,570 --> 03:20:55,490
take, and what action is going to be taken to ensure that the liquor policies are going

2445
03:20:55,490 --> 03:20:56,910
to be upheld.

2446
03:20:57,630 --> 03:21:05,210
You may not have the answers tonight, but that documentation is here, and so I would

2447
03:21:05,210 --> 03:21:06,370
like to respond to some point.

2448
03:21:09,510 --> 03:21:11,450
I'm assuming you don't want to deal with that right now.

2449
03:21:12,810 --> 03:21:15,050
I would have to do some additional work.

2450
03:21:15,350 --> 03:21:15,430
Okay.

2451
03:21:17,530 --> 03:21:18,630
Just a couple other things.

2452
03:21:19,330 --> 03:21:23,190
Our I-O-I-S-B-A and ownership and pride, they are sponsoring a close partnership

2453
03:21:23,190 --> 03:21:27,610
I think the haunted Hayride and Trick or Trunk this October, the 25th and 26th.

2454
03:21:28,310 --> 03:21:35,530
The 26th is for the Trick or Trunk, which is in coordination, again this year, with the Randolph Community Center for the Children's Halloween party.

2455
03:21:37,540 --> 03:21:41,760
We have the event, well, I'll have to deal with that on the wreck.

2456
03:21:43,040 --> 03:21:51,040
Invets, the POWA breakfast is at 10 a.m. on September 22nd, and that's all I've got.

2457
03:21:52,060 --> 03:21:53,960
Councillor Allen Exopolis.

2458
03:21:54,540 --> 03:21:55,960
Thank you, Mr. President.

2459
03:21:56,980 --> 03:22:02,700
Brian, I received an email from a resident who lives at one Army Street.

2460
03:22:03,900 --> 03:22:06,000
They have a tree in their backyard.

2461
03:22:07,000 --> 03:22:15,760
I don't know if it's their backyard, but somewhere along the property it has two guide wires from

2462
03:22:15,760 --> 03:22:24,000
poll number six on Wilson Street and they wish to have that tree cut down but

2463
03:22:24,000 --> 03:22:29,700
you have two guidewires in it so can we get it. Can I touch on this because he called me?

2464
03:22:30,160 --> 03:22:35,500
Okay, I mean it's a national grid issue that needs to be addressed by

2465
03:22:35,500 --> 03:22:42,100
national grid because they have to secure that poll on Wilson Street. We have

2466
03:22:42,100 --> 03:22:46,100
Keith looking at it because they went out and actually viewed the property to see

2467
03:22:46,100 --> 03:22:49,980
where it was if it was actually in his or Oz or whatever, and it's a healthy tree.

2468
03:22:50,700 --> 03:22:55,960
So I asked Keith to kind of have that conversation with them, but right now they're not in the market to cut it down.

2469
03:22:56,400 --> 03:23:01,780
Okay, but if they cut it down, they own a cut it down, then they still have to put a telephone call on this property.

2470
03:23:01,980 --> 03:23:03,060
Yeah, they have to do something.

2471
03:23:03,180 --> 03:23:08,540
I don't know if they have to put a, it's, poll number six is like right at the corner of the street.

2472
03:23:08,780 --> 03:23:11,360
So you don't have to probably put a link to me.

2473
03:23:11,360 --> 03:23:17,500
He says, put a poll across the street as a guidewire poll to hold the poll across the street.

2474
03:23:18,000 --> 03:23:24,540
I think Keith is trying to convince that it's in their interest to address this issue.

2475
03:23:26,160 --> 03:23:27,320
So I'll look into it.

2476
03:23:27,540 --> 03:23:27,740
Okay.

2477
03:23:27,960 --> 03:23:28,680
It's one army.

2478
03:23:28,680 --> 03:23:29,540
It's one army street.

2479
03:23:29,920 --> 03:23:31,060
I haven't talked to Keith.

2480
03:23:31,260 --> 03:23:37,180
I said, I got the email on the sixth, I went down and took a look at it over the weekend.

2481
03:23:37,180 --> 03:23:41,720
and saw what the homeowners was talking about.

2482
03:23:42,800 --> 03:23:46,280
The other thing that I wanted to let everybody know

2483
03:23:46,280 --> 03:23:50,600
in town is my church in Brockton's

2484
03:23:50,600 --> 03:23:52,100
Ponce is an annual food festival.

2485
03:23:52,920 --> 03:23:55,220
It's the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church.

2486
03:23:55,820 --> 03:23:57,160
It's at 257 Oak Street.

2487
03:23:57,780 --> 03:24:02,400
And they have a food festival on September 19th

2488
03:24:02,400 --> 03:24:05,080
through the 22nd, that's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

2489
03:24:05,080 --> 03:24:15,840
with the hours being Thursday 11 to 9, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday noon to 6.

2490
03:24:16,060 --> 03:24:22,200
So if you want some good homemade Greek cooking, come on down. I'll be there somewhere cooking.

2491
03:24:23,320 --> 03:24:26,840
What were the dates again? You can have that sent electronically to us please.

2492
03:24:27,260 --> 03:24:28,840
Absolutely. I'll send a flyer.

2493
03:24:30,240 --> 03:24:35,320
Thursday, the 19th through Sunday, September 22nd.

2494
03:24:39,240 --> 03:24:40,220
I'll send this live.

2495
03:24:40,980 --> 03:24:41,260
Thank you.

2496
03:24:41,300 --> 03:24:41,740
That's all I have.

2497
03:24:42,180 --> 03:24:42,760
Councillor Affleman.

2498
03:24:43,400 --> 03:24:44,140
Thank you, Mr. President.

2499
03:24:48,140 --> 03:24:55,780
So last week, was it last week, the Haitian Chamber had a wonderful networking event, and

2500
03:24:55,780 --> 03:25:00,020
I just wanted to thank the Chamber for having this event.

2501
03:25:00,020 --> 03:25:04,160
and I think it was a great opportunity to meet businesses

2502
03:25:04,160 --> 03:25:07,760
in the Asian community, and just to talk to individuals.

2503
03:25:08,460 --> 03:25:10,320
So I appreciate that event.

2504
03:25:15,610 --> 03:25:19,610
I'm writing any word on North Street.

2505
03:25:20,490 --> 03:25:24,030
There's lots of work that's being done around the community.

2506
03:25:25,130 --> 03:25:27,610
I was under the impression that it was gonna be done Friday.

2507
03:25:27,790 --> 03:25:28,810
That's why I-

2508
03:25:28,810 --> 03:25:32,670
you would text me right right I'm gonna follow up again Keith was out the

2509
03:25:32,670 --> 03:25:38,670
majority of the day okay today I saw him here at the meeting right I haven't

2510
03:25:38,670 --> 03:25:43,090
had an opportunity to speak to him as to why didn't occur when we thought it

2511
03:25:43,090 --> 03:25:47,710
was but I would think that it's gonna happen shortly because all of South

2512
03:25:47,710 --> 03:25:53,690
Main Street was taken care of on Friday so really yeah okay so North Street though

2513
03:25:53,690 --> 03:25:57,730
have a couple of places where that has not been

2514
03:25:57,730 --> 03:25:59,650
But I anticipated that it was going to be done then.

2515
03:25:59,950 --> 03:26:00,770
So I'm going to find out.

2516
03:26:01,010 --> 03:26:01,910
All of North Street.

2517
03:26:02,310 --> 03:26:02,970
That's my understanding.

2518
03:26:03,110 --> 03:26:03,370
OK.

2519
03:26:03,730 --> 03:26:03,870
All right.

2520
03:26:03,970 --> 03:26:04,250
Thank you.

2521
03:26:04,430 --> 03:26:04,830
All right.

2522
03:26:05,490 --> 03:26:07,470
Because the resident actually called me today.

2523
03:26:07,750 --> 03:26:08,770
So I appreciate that.

2524
03:26:08,930 --> 03:26:12,550
The other thing, Brian, there's a flu season initiative

2525
03:26:13,210 --> 03:26:17,310
that's, and I know Jane is no longer with us.

2526
03:26:17,470 --> 03:26:19,370
And I think this is something that she started.

2527
03:26:19,370 --> 03:26:21,870
So I'm wondering if that will still be going through.

2528
03:26:22,210 --> 03:26:23,450
Oh, those still be flu questions.

2529
03:26:23,650 --> 03:26:23,850
OK.

2530
03:26:24,250 --> 03:26:24,450
Oh, yeah.

2531
03:26:24,890 --> 03:26:25,190
OK.

2532
03:26:25,650 --> 03:26:26,070
Excellent.

2533
03:26:26,250 --> 03:26:26,610
Thank you.

2534
03:26:32,990 --> 03:26:47,950
Lastly, we have on Thursday, this Thursday, I want to get the flyer up so I can see there's a community meeting on the water issue hosted by myself and Councillor Clifton 630 to 8 o'clock.

2535
03:26:47,950 --> 03:27:17,450
I think it would be a nice addition to what happened today, and those who were unable to tune in or unable to come to the meeting, this is another opportunity for to hear about the water issues, but I think it would be a nice collaboration of what was said today, and what will be said on Thursday, and this meeting will be at RICC 128 Pleasant Street, and I think I said 630 to 830.

2536
03:27:17,450 --> 03:27:24,050
please come by if you have not had an opportunity to learn about some of the

2537
03:27:24,050 --> 03:27:31,610
water issues and how we are hoping to keep the community informed. Thank you.

2538
03:27:32,070 --> 03:27:36,510
The President, I've got a quick question about sidewalks from Mr. Howard. I

2539
03:27:36,510 --> 03:27:44,250
noticed the corner of North Street and Oak is also being done. With that

2540
03:27:44,250 --> 03:27:49,570
What impact the plan is that public safety has been working on?

2541
03:27:50,370 --> 03:27:57,130
The work that you're seeing or the work that's been getting done, Mastio T, has initiatives

2542
03:27:57,410 --> 03:28:11,290
where they've been going out into the communities and ensuring that the ramps but the grades at

2543
03:28:11,290 --> 03:28:15,510
the end of the street to the sidewalks are appropriate and in some cases they

2544
03:28:15,510 --> 03:28:18,830
weren't and that's where you're seeing the repairs and enhancements that are

2545
03:28:18,830 --> 03:28:25,530
going on. Yeah, we'll have to rip it up again when we do. I can't say for sure

2546
03:28:27,110 --> 03:28:31,870
tonight how that would impact what the council had previously voted. I have to

2547
03:28:31,870 --> 03:28:36,870
take a look. Yeah, I mean the whole curb line changes so yeah. We use the

2548
03:28:36,870 --> 03:28:44,890
material. So isn't it be done in coordination with us? I know that they reached out to the

2549
03:28:44,890 --> 03:28:53,850
DPW superintendent and I reached out to him after Councillor Mahern reached out to me. But

2550
03:28:53,850 --> 03:28:58,870
previous to that, I didn't have information on that.

2551
03:28:58,990 --> 03:29:00,190
All right. Thank you.

2552
03:29:00,190 --> 03:29:02,770
Can I just on the roads?

2553
03:29:03,330 --> 03:29:04,690
Can we take a look at Kylie Drive?

2554
03:29:05,850 --> 03:29:07,870
It's in a pretty bad shape.

2555
03:29:09,110 --> 03:29:11,890
See if I don't know where it is on the list.

2556
03:29:12,310 --> 03:29:16,430
But if we can be looked at and see if something can be done

2557
03:29:16,890 --> 03:29:20,070
temporary while we get it on the list,

2558
03:29:20,630 --> 03:29:21,490
if it's not every day.

2559
03:29:22,990 --> 03:29:24,230
Do you have one more thing?

2560
03:29:24,890 --> 03:29:25,910
Thank you, Mr. President.

2561
03:29:25,910 --> 03:29:32,350
And I also want to congratulate eight Randolph Youth Council members who are now off the

2562
03:29:32,350 --> 03:29:32,830
college.

2563
03:29:33,630 --> 03:29:40,770
This is the first meeting that I've had the opportunity to celebrate that they have

2564
03:29:40,770 --> 03:29:45,810
graduated from school and they're in a number of different colleges, but it is so proud

2565
03:29:45,810 --> 03:29:52,450
that the majority of these members, youth council members, were part of youth council for

2566
03:29:52,450 --> 03:29:59,970
since the beginning and now our alumni of the Randolph Youth Council and we're...

2567
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:23,620
We are extremely proud of them. And I'm also, I'm, I'm happy that, um, Jimmy, that you're doing the Halloween piece, because I know that's something that we did last couple of years, but due to all, uh, youth count, or the majority of the youth council members graduating, you know, we are now looking for new youth council members.

2568
03:30:26,220 --> 03:30:29,700
Really, they're wonderful. Um, so,

2569
03:30:29,700 --> 03:30:39,100
Well, they will be a flyer out on Facebook very soon, or you can definitely contact me

2570
03:30:39,700 --> 03:30:43,460
if you have a child that's interested in being part of the Youth Council.

2571
03:30:43,960 --> 03:30:44,700
Thank you.

2572
03:30:44,960 --> 03:30:45,840
Thank you, Mr. President.

2573
03:30:46,400 --> 03:30:47,100
Councilman's office.

2574
03:30:47,560 --> 03:30:48,220
Thank you, Mr. President.

2575
03:30:48,820 --> 03:30:55,860
We'll surprise no one touched based on it tonight, but the other day, Congresswoman Presley

2576
03:30:55,860 --> 03:31:01,820
made an appearance here in town and I was a little disappointed in the lack of leadership

2577
03:31:01,820 --> 03:31:07,360
by our council president, vice president, in the lack of communication and grandstanding

2578
03:31:07,360 --> 03:31:08,860
that took place during that.

2579
03:31:10,360 --> 03:31:15,680
It unfortunately, negatively affected residents, especially residents in my district and

2580
03:31:15,680 --> 03:31:24,100
in Arthur's district whose voices and needs and issues weren't voiced to the Congresswoman

2581
03:31:25,360 --> 03:31:30,300
It was also a little embarrassing that Tom Andrew Howard wasn't invited that our state

2582
03:31:30,300 --> 03:31:35,600
delegation wasn't there and that the residents as a whole weren't invited.

2583
03:31:36,080 --> 03:31:42,860
So I was greatly disappointed with that and how it wasn't effectively communicated to

2584
03:31:42,860 --> 03:31:43,700
the rest of the council.

2585
03:31:45,920 --> 03:31:51,620
Another thing, Randolph police is hosting their second annual charity golf tournament.

2586
03:31:51,620 --> 03:32:01,280
It will be this Sunday at the Eastern Country Club, the Petrolman Association, the Union rather local 18 puts on a great golf tournament.

2587
03:32:01,640 --> 03:32:12,620
They use the funds for their charity events throughout the year, and I greatly suggest that the residents try and help out, whether it's donations, local businesses doing the same.

2588
03:32:12,620 --> 03:32:18,880
If you're interested, I hope Troman Kevin Gilbert is spearheading it with

2589
03:32:18,880 --> 03:32:27,060
the Troman Matt Rodman and it's a great event for a great cause. And then Brian

2590
03:32:27,060 --> 03:32:32,800
I got an email I'll help forward it to you from a resident on Howard Ave about

2591
03:32:32,800 --> 03:32:36,880
tree condition. You can take a look at that. I'll forward you the photos that she

2592
03:32:36,880 --> 03:32:42,500
had sent me. Thank you. Just a point of personal privilege on I the

2593
03:32:42,500 --> 03:32:47,000
the point, Councillor Zapolis made, you know, I responded to a personal invitation, spoke

2594
03:32:47,000 --> 03:32:53,040
with the Congresswoman. Immediately following that meeting, I sent the contact information

2595
03:32:53,040 --> 03:32:58,040
for any Councillor who wanted to reach out and discuss their issues. I'm – I'd be

2596
03:32:58,040 --> 03:33:02,260
disappointed as well that I didn't receive an invitation, but I don't think you could point

2597
03:33:02,260 --> 03:33:07,760
to myself for any sort of grandstanding. So that's what I take issue with.

2598
03:33:07,760 --> 03:33:10,280
On social media photos on it, though.

2599
03:33:10,840 --> 03:33:13,420
I posted nothing, Councillor Goldstein.

2600
03:33:13,960 --> 03:33:14,080
No.

2601
03:33:14,660 --> 03:33:15,600
Councillor Goldstein.

2602
03:33:15,840 --> 03:33:21,960
For those older people in the audience, you'll probably remember, some of you will remember

2603
03:33:21,960 --> 03:33:25,820
the movie Cool Hand Luke, all right?

2604
03:33:26,140 --> 03:33:32,500
And the warden at Cool Hand Luke, in Cool Hand Luke, said to Paul Newman, you have a failure

2605
03:33:32,500 --> 03:33:33,420
to communicate.

2606
03:33:34,540 --> 03:33:37,200
Let me address the failure to communicate.

2607
03:33:38,260 --> 03:33:45,920
Recently there was an open letter to the public from certain councillors Ray, the disappointment

2608
03:33:45,920 --> 03:33:54,540
with not having a scheduled council meeting, and our disagreements should be discussed

2609
03:33:54,540 --> 03:34:01,300
by all of the council, rather than social media and other publications.

2610
03:34:05,320 --> 03:34:09,240
Thank you, Mr. President, I have a few things for Mr. Howard.

2611
03:34:09,920 --> 03:34:16,940
Do we have an update on the Rick leadership posting at this point as they're going to

2612
03:34:16,940 --> 03:34:19,080
be a re-or, is that public?

2613
03:34:20,180 --> 03:34:25,920
The Rick leadership, now that Jovan is gone, is there an update on that currently?

2614
03:34:26,740 --> 03:34:30,380
I suppose community programs in general.

2615
03:34:30,580 --> 03:34:31,300
RICC?

2616
03:34:31,400 --> 03:34:31,520
Yes.

2617
03:34:35,100 --> 03:34:45,600
As I had communicated by e-mails to the council a couple of weeks ago, we, I have lack of

2618
03:34:45,600 --> 03:34:54,920
a bit of a charge, the Library Director, Liz Larosi, and our Finance Director, Janine

2619
03:34:54,920 --> 03:34:59,260
Smith to conduct a review of the operation,

2620
03:34:59,440 --> 03:35:00,860
both from a financial standpoint,

2621
03:35:01,420 --> 03:35:04,100
but also from everything from programming to staffing,

2622
03:35:04,460 --> 03:35:09,280
to, there will actually be a community survey

2623
03:35:09,580 --> 03:35:13,820
that will be going out in the next few days.

2624
03:35:14,300 --> 03:35:16,880
So we can continue to get some additional input

2625
03:35:17,300 --> 03:35:18,140
from the public.

2626
03:35:19,360 --> 03:35:24,780
We're trying to make sure that as we take that

2627
03:35:24,780 --> 03:35:34,000
That next step, what that next step should be, I think it's clear that there are tremendous

2628
03:35:34,000 --> 03:35:35,400
positives with the community center.

2629
03:35:36,680 --> 03:35:42,080
I think we still have issues that we can, the one thing we've heard a number of times,

2630
03:35:42,420 --> 03:35:48,680
for example, when the dancing school came here was, okay, I have a child who is 70 years

2631
03:35:48,680 --> 03:35:49,020
of age.

2632
03:35:49,100 --> 03:35:54,060
However, separate of the dancing class, there isn't other things for me to want or need

2633
03:35:54,060 --> 03:36:00,580
a membership. Okay, well what can we do to do to do what we do better? So Liz has been

2634
03:36:00,580 --> 03:36:06,100
doing, she's been giving me an update weekly anyway but she's doing a further final review.

2635
03:36:07,740 --> 03:36:16,320
I am impressed with the body of work that she's been doing. I will say that the community center's

2636
03:36:16,320 --> 03:36:23,680
staff is very proud of what they do and the sense I get is they want to work with us as we move

2637
03:36:23,680 --> 03:36:48,600
forward with the community center, but we definitely have to look at what we do and how we do it and I felt that if I just went out and hired another director and didn't look at okay, the last year and a half to two years, where are we going, how are we getting there, I wouldn't be doing due diligence.

2638
03:36:48,600 --> 03:36:56,960
I certainly did not want to just fill the position until I determine what I think is in the best interested community to do so, so that is ongoing.

2639
03:36:57,400 --> 03:37:03,100
In the meantime, Liz also serves, if you will, as the interim director, as do I.

2640
03:37:03,460 --> 03:37:09,700
So if there's any questions from the staff, they reach out more likely to reach Liz and if there's any issues, they reach out to me.

2641
03:37:10,520 --> 03:37:13,840
Not going to avoid everything's been moving quite well.

2642
03:37:13,840 --> 03:37:14,840
Thank you.

2643
03:37:16,020 --> 03:37:22,500
Is there an update I don't know if this may be redundant from the meeting that I missed

2644
03:37:22,500 --> 03:37:33,480
last time on the talks with Senator Chimalti, Jeanine, and Thea with the budget gap that

2645
03:37:33,480 --> 03:37:34,340
we got from that?

2646
03:37:34,580 --> 03:37:34,820
Sure.

2647
03:37:34,820 --> 03:37:39,180
Yeah, basically we had a second meeting with the

2648
03:37:41,180 --> 03:37:46,100
the folks in Dessie that Senator Timmelty put together

2649
03:37:46,100 --> 03:37:50,180
with our state reps that were present.

2650
03:37:50,640 --> 03:37:53,540
They are and this kind of ties into office earlier question.

2651
03:37:54,060 --> 03:37:56,720
They're not even going to discuss options with the

2652
03:37:56,720 --> 03:37:59,600
communities until after October 1st because they want to know

2653
03:37:59,600 --> 03:38:02,680
exactly what the attendance numbers are statewide

2654
03:38:03,240 --> 03:38:06,760
in all of the school districts and when I say all the school districts that

2655
03:38:06,760 --> 03:38:11,200
includes the charter school districts because there were some changes in the

2656
03:38:11,200 --> 03:38:14,940
formula which we've talked about here that I've highlighted with the council.

2657
03:38:15,580 --> 03:38:23,780
So we don't know we've made our case but they and we made our case and they

2658
03:38:23,780 --> 03:38:27,700
did tell us we were the first community to actually come in and make its case

2659
03:38:28,220 --> 03:38:31,220
which was nice to hear, but they haven't determined yet

2660
03:38:32,400 --> 03:38:34,940
what that standard is going to be to get those additional funds.

2661
03:38:35,280 --> 03:38:37,700
And they're not going to make that determination's laugh for October 1st.

2662
03:38:37,920 --> 03:38:42,420
We're hoping by being as aggressive as we were and making the case

2663
03:38:42,420 --> 03:38:46,340
that as they come up with this formula, they're going to use for that $15 million

2664
03:38:46,960 --> 03:38:52,060
that they'll consider communities like Randolph and the needs that we have.

2665
03:38:54,680 --> 03:39:01,580
The first training path for me is I think what's happening is is that there are some newer

2666
03:39:01,580 --> 03:39:05,440
communities dealing with charter schools for the first time because there's some additional

2667
03:39:05,440 --> 03:39:06,500
charter schools that opened.

2668
03:39:07,140 --> 03:39:13,700
So I think there's kind of a rush to help them deal with it first, but we haven't quite

2669
03:39:14,180 --> 03:39:18,320
helped finish helping out the communities that have been dealing with it for 10 plus years.

2670
03:39:18,320 --> 03:39:26,180
And there is no community that I could find that has had the spike that we've had over that 10-year period.

2671
03:39:26,320 --> 03:39:28,980
Most communities had that spike leveled off.

2672
03:39:29,300 --> 03:39:36,100
But once they doubled the size of the charter school in Rockland Hall,

2673
03:39:36,660 --> 03:39:40,960
if you also show a charter, and then they opened up the charter school in Brockton,

2674
03:39:42,140 --> 03:39:46,760
it was, it had a very, very detrimental effect to us.

2675
03:39:46,760 --> 03:39:49,320
So we had, try to school open 10 years ago,

2676
03:39:50,360 --> 03:39:52,020
then we had it double in size,

2677
03:39:52,440 --> 03:39:54,560
and then we had a brand new one open up

2678
03:39:54,560 --> 03:39:55,900
within that same category.

2679
03:39:56,500 --> 03:39:59,940
Our big concern, and I wanna thank Superintendant

2680
03:39:59,940 --> 03:40:01,100
during the discussion,

2681
03:40:01,240 --> 03:40:04,920
she really highlighted, we're at a point now where we're capped.

2682
03:40:05,140 --> 03:40:08,880
Finally, so the damage isn't gonna get me worse.

2683
03:40:09,660 --> 03:40:12,360
That's great, that's a good thing.

2684
03:40:13,020 --> 03:40:15,080
But we wanna make sure that if they don't fix

2685
03:40:15,080 --> 03:40:18,820
the funding formula, you're going to run the risk of some of these communities that

2686
03:40:18,820 --> 03:40:23,240
finally have been able to do what they need to do to start to follow behind again, and

2687
03:40:23,240 --> 03:40:27,720
then the cap is gone, and then all of a sudden we're dealing with a very repetitive cycle

2688
03:40:28,220 --> 03:40:29,960
and that would not be a good thing.

2689
03:40:30,200 --> 03:40:33,620
So, about more to come, about more to come.

2690
03:40:35,000 --> 03:40:42,620
The last thing I have for you is I was talking to a resident at the farmers market a few

2691
03:40:42,620 --> 03:40:49,840
Wednesdays ago, and they brought up the issue of students crossing along Memorial Parkway

2692
03:40:49,840 --> 03:40:58,400
through the medium, right across the landscaping, and it's not just students, but at the time

2693
03:40:58,400 --> 03:41:00,980
there's just a lot of students and a lot of traffic.

2694
03:41:02,860 --> 03:41:12,200
And I wonder if we could do something that wouldn't compromise the visual integrity of landscaping

2695
03:41:12,200 --> 03:41:17,080
there if there was an invisible sort of like netting that we could or some sort of solution

2696
03:41:17,080 --> 03:41:22,360
we can come up with where there his problem was I should back up was that he couldn't

2697
03:41:22,360 --> 03:41:29,420
see the students coming out of the median one way or another and almost hit a student because

2698
03:41:29,420 --> 03:41:36,340
they were jumping out obviously not in a crosswalk and if there was a way to prevent folks

2699
03:41:36,340 --> 03:41:42,180
from crossing if that was you're saying they were crossing across the median right either

2700
03:41:44,840 --> 03:41:52,020
I mean, knock on wood, that doesn't happen often because I drive that all the time, but

2701
03:41:52,020 --> 03:41:54,420
it does happen, but it doesn't happen often.

2702
03:41:55,200 --> 03:42:01,280
I'm not sure part of the reason it was designed the way that it was was to make it so that

2703
03:42:01,280 --> 03:42:05,040
folks wouldn't want to travel through the bushes and over the trees.

2704
03:42:05,520 --> 03:42:06,060
We trim them.

2705
03:42:06,380 --> 03:42:08,420
When they trim them, they just, they trim them back too much.

2706
03:42:08,700 --> 03:42:09,800
They try to keep them like meat.

2707
03:42:10,000 --> 03:42:10,540
They shouldn't be meat.

2708
03:42:10,540 --> 03:42:12,100
There should be more kind of, just let them go.

2709
03:42:12,700 --> 03:42:17,600
You know, the hard part is that they are always trying to deal with when people pulling out of

2710
03:42:17,600 --> 03:42:21,120
Shaw's and they're taking a left or a right, then, you know, they want us to train

2711
03:42:21,120 --> 03:42:21,620
you further.

2712
03:42:22,000 --> 03:42:23,340
So we go to a lot of competing and-

2713
03:42:23,940 --> 03:42:27,640
Yeah, most of that Brian, though, when you get down, I mean, if you're keeping an eye,

2714
03:42:27,700 --> 03:42:32,180
just on that Shaw's piece, right where you, the traffic, the big traffic like when you exit

2715
03:42:32,180 --> 03:42:36,240
Shaw's, but the rest of it, especially by the admin building, you know, people do that

2716
03:42:36,240 --> 03:42:36,620
all the time.

2717
03:42:36,620 --> 03:42:38,020
And you can see the going path.

2718
03:42:39,560 --> 03:42:40,400
You're saying doubt.

2719
03:42:40,960 --> 03:42:41,820
I'd have to go look.

2720
03:42:41,940 --> 03:42:44,840
I mean, I, I, I can say is it's rare that I see somebody

2721
03:42:44,840 --> 03:42:46,580
crossing the hill part of it.

2722
03:42:46,960 --> 03:42:51,540
But, um, I mean, when I was a teenager at Randolph High,

2723
03:42:51,540 --> 03:42:52,220
those didn't exist.

2724
03:42:52,660 --> 03:42:54,520
But I can tell you that if they did,

2725
03:42:54,800 --> 03:42:56,840
depending on how much of a rush I'm, I probably

2726
03:42:56,840 --> 03:42:59,200
would have been not effectively getting over it.

2727
03:42:59,240 --> 03:43:00,100
So I was a big kid then too.

2728
03:43:00,260 --> 03:43:01,980
But, um, what we'll see we can do.

2729
03:43:02,440 --> 03:43:04,720
Um, it's, it's a tough, it's a tough thing to manage.

2730
03:43:04,720 --> 03:43:12,100
here. Oh thank you. One other thing I wanted two other things I wanted to

2731
03:43:12,100 --> 03:43:19,420
mention were the farmer's market has a few more Wednesdays before it closes

2732
03:43:19,420 --> 03:43:25,520
for the season so get down there Wednesday power farm, power farm three to

2733
03:43:25,520 --> 03:43:33,760
seven. I am doing a book program the majority of the Wednesdays down there so if

2734
03:43:33,760 --> 03:43:38,860
If you do have any used children's books, I'd love to take them off your hands and I

2735
03:43:38,860 --> 03:43:40,520
give them back free to the community.

2736
03:43:41,040 --> 03:43:47,580
I am looking for other events after the farmer's market to set a booth up, working with the

2737
03:43:47,580 --> 03:43:52,600
library as well to help expand that program to help promote literacy and reading.

2738
03:43:53,340 --> 03:43:55,040
It's very near and due to my heart.

2739
03:43:55,740 --> 03:44:02,620
And then the last thing I want to mention is just to take a moment out of everyone's day

2740
03:44:02,620 --> 03:44:10,220
on Wednesday just to remember the victims of 9-11, you know, it's going on a while now

2741
03:44:10,220 --> 03:44:18,640
that that took place and happened and it should never be forgotten as many days in our

2742
03:44:18,640 --> 03:44:23,740
history that are dark, have not been and I don't think we should forget that as well.

2743
03:44:23,740 --> 03:44:29,500
So I just wanted to mention that I don't know if the, I'm sure the Elks are doing something

2744
03:44:29,500 --> 03:44:34,400
I haven't heard that they are but they may be in something on social media. I believe

2745
03:44:34,400 --> 03:44:38,520
it's a 10-30. 10-30? On that day, right? On that day. It's

2746
03:44:38,520 --> 03:44:44,420
always the day of. Yeah, because I know I've been to the Elks before when

2747
03:44:44,420 --> 03:44:47,860
they do something but I hadn't heard about this year so if you can get down to the

2748
03:44:47,860 --> 03:44:51,720
Elks they do raise the flag. I believe I don't know what they'll be doing

2749
03:44:51,720 --> 03:44:55,760
exactly this year but in the US past they've raised the flag down prayers so on and

2750
03:44:55,760 --> 03:44:59,960
and so forth, 10-30, I suppose at the Elk's, thank you for that.

2751
03:45:00,110 --> 03:45:14,530
So if you can get down there, if not, you know, taking your own time to remember and thank those first responders who earn our life and take that risk every day. Other than that, yeah, I'm good.

2752
03:45:30,110 --> 03:45:35,190
reason, whether it was more successful or more people knew about it, but there's a great

2753
03:45:35,190 --> 03:45:42,510
turnout inside from the community, great turnout for the summer, I hope we can attract

2754
03:45:42,510 --> 03:45:48,830
more vendors in the next few years, but the attendance has been fairly good the weeks

2755
03:45:48,830 --> 03:45:49,450
I've been there.

2756
03:45:49,750 --> 03:45:53,490
And also being inside you can do it all year long, right now.

2757
03:45:53,670 --> 03:45:57,670
Yeah, I mean, that's something to look at, not in charge of that, but yeah.

2758
03:46:00,510 --> 03:46:04,370
I just want to give a huge shout out to the Randolph-High Blue Devils.

2759
03:46:04,530 --> 03:46:09,790
They won their first football game of the season 50 to 6, bigger blow than the Patriots

2760
03:46:09,790 --> 03:46:12,370
last night, so very exciting there.

2761
03:46:12,950 --> 03:46:15,290
So go and support them as best you can.

2762
03:46:15,810 --> 03:46:21,250
Also we already talked about a number of events coming up, whether it's the band coming

2763
03:46:21,250 --> 03:46:25,310
before us or coming for competition this Saturday.

2764
03:46:25,310 --> 03:46:39,330
I strongly urge everyone to check out some of the programs, the Chamber of Commerce is putting on it really has been revitalized with Jeanette's leadership, and she's doing an excellent job over there.

2765
03:46:40,050 --> 03:46:43,630
And I want to counsel against points I want to touch on somewhat somber.

2766
03:46:43,930 --> 03:46:51,610
Of course, it is the anniversary of September 11th coming up, and we often throw around the phrase, never forget ever since the day it happened.

2767
03:46:51,610 --> 03:46:57,010
And this year, I hope we never forget how everyone came together during that trying

2768
03:46:57,010 --> 03:46:57,430
time.

2769
03:46:57,770 --> 03:47:04,790
And I hope this council can remember that as well with some of our struggles to come together

2770
03:47:04,790 --> 03:47:05,450
and unify.

2771
03:47:06,330 --> 03:47:08,770
So with that, I'll listen to the adjournment.

2772
03:47:09,490 --> 03:47:09,890
All in favor?

2773
03:47:10,370 --> 03:47:10,730
All right.

2774
03:47:11,110 --> 03:47:11,710
Meeting adjourned.