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[0:15] allegiance to the flag of the United
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[0:25] nationisible and justice for all.
[0:30] I will make a
motion to go into executive session, but
[0:36] I got to get out of this first.
Okay. Technical difficulties. I second
[0:42] the motion. Roll call vote.
Marin Dwanell. I Laura Heb. Unanimous.
[0:52] Okay, we'll see you on the other side.
Okay. So, I'd like to resume our regular
[0:58] meeting. Um 3A, acceptance of donation
from ESS. Okay. So, uh within the
[1:06] board's packet, there's a memo from our
ESS director, uh requesting the select
[1:13] board accept the unsolicited uh gift of
10 $30 Market Basket gift cards totaling
[1:20] $300 from an anonymous donor.
Do I hear a
[1:26] motion? I move that we um approve the or
accept the donations from the ESS and on
[1:35] the $10
$1030 tickets to market basket.
[1:43] I second. All in favor? Roll call vote.
Moren Dwinnel I. Laura have I.
[1:50] Unanimous. Now I know what you meant
when you said I couldn't get into my
[1:55] email.
Ah to pull up the motions.
[2:00] Yeah. Well, I can make the motions from
now on. That would Yeah, that's the
[2:04] easiest. I'll do that. Okay. Next up is
execution of amendment to contract
[2:11] administration for 140 water sewer.
Dennis, how are you tonight?
[2:18] Hey, how's it going?
Lovely.
[2:22] Good evening. Good to see you.
[2:28] Um, thank you for taking time out of
your busy schedule to see me tonight.
[2:33] So, before the board, you have Tyen
Bond's proposal for their construction
[2:37] administration
um contract. This is for the um the
[2:43] route 140 water and wastewater ex
extension project including the um the
[2:49] culvert crossing with mascot and the
construction of the pump station. So
[2:55] this is this is one of the larger
projects we've done in town. I mean this
[2:59] is next to the tip project of Hartford
Avenue North High Street and Hington
[3:03] Road which took over three and a half
years and was $11 million. This is the
[3:08] largest project that I've done in the
eight years that I've been here. So,
[3:11] this this is a considerable contract and
there's a lot of assumptions put into
[3:16] this contract that allows for some
consideration
[3:19] um should we actually need the services
and hopefully we don't need all of them.
[3:23] So, this contract represents up to a
certain amount of money, hoping that we
[3:27] don't hit ledge, hoping that the project
doesn't get extended and hoping that our
[3:31] communications with Massock goes
smoothly and we don't need any extra
[3:35] services or unforeseen services that are
not listed in this contract. So, for the
[3:40] boards this evening, I ask that you
grant the town manager authorization to
[3:44] enter into the contract. As you know,
the um the construction part has already
[3:49] been awarded to GEG. They they are
mobilizing as we speak, putting up
[3:54] erosion control and beginning to
mobilize. And so this allows Ty and Bond
[3:58] to put all of their uh experts out
there. Keep in mind, we saved almost a
[4:04] million and a half dollars on this
project by not doing um control density
[4:09] fill, flowable fill. And in doing such,
we have to have a certified inspector
[4:14] who's an engineer on site when they do
the back fill and compaction to certify
[4:19] all the compactions. So there's a lot
more oversight in this contract that we
[4:24] would normally not have to do if we had
done control density, but it's at a
[4:28] substantial cost
savings. Other than that, I'll answer
[4:32] any questions the board may have.
Moren, do you have any questions? No, it
[4:37] seems pretty pretty straightforward.
I would agree. Um, so hearing no further
[4:44] discussion, I'd move that the vote board
vote to authorize a town manager to sign
[4:48] amendment number two of the construction
administration contract for the
[4:52] governor's landing utility project. I'll
second.
[4:58] All in favor, roll call vote. Marinwel
I. Laura have I. Unanimous.
[5:05] Thank you. Oh, thank you, Dennis. It's a
lot of work and we appreciate everything
[5:10] you've done with us. Thank you. Had a
lot of help.
[5:16] And next is the town manager report.
Um really just uh briefly because I'm
[5:23] just getting back from a week's uh
vacation. Uh everything is town meeting
[5:27] prep. Um going over motions. Uh making
sure all the logistics are taken care
[5:32] of. Uh four of us looking over shoot uh
Sue's shoulders as we're learning the
[5:38] software for electronic voting. Um, so
it's this is all crunch time for
[5:44] Thursday. Okay, I know we can do it. We
got a great
[5:48] team. Anybody who stops into town hall
will see us running around, but we
[5:53] actually know what we're
doing. Okay, so um, next would be public
[5:58] input or a board member update. Um, I
would like to recognize Glenn Fowler.
[6:05] Glenn is stepping off of the um he's not
running again for cemetery commission.
[6:11] Glenn started his volunteer work with
the town of Upton in 1996 or that's as
[6:16] far back as we could find in the town
reports. He started as a cable TV
[6:21] advisory committee member. He went on to
be the access provider for the cable TV.
[6:26] He was assessor of taxes from 2001 to
2015 and most recently was on cemetery
[6:34] commission from two 2014 to 2025. That's
29 years of service to this town. And I
[6:42] saw him today and I told him um
congratulations enjoy your retirement
[6:47] and he won best. He's not going anywhere
just yet. So there may be more in him,
[6:52] but um you know to have somebody give us
almost 30 years is a true honor and it
[6:58] speaks to his devotion to the time. So
I'd like to just publicly thank Glenn
[7:02] for all of his years of service.
I would also want to say the same. He's
[7:08] put a lot of years in and he's devoted a
lot of time to the town
[7:15] and I hope enjoy retirement.
Yeah, I hope he enjoys it. And as I say,
[7:21] um I don't think any of us do this for
the fame or the fortune because you
[7:24] really don't receive either. But it's
truly because you care about the town
[7:28] and I appreciate it.
Great. On to number six,
[7:33] licensing.
Rushford. We have a one-day beer
[7:37] license. We have our sort of annual
slate of one day beer license uh from
[7:42] Rushford. Uh there's a total of um I
think it was seven uh dates that they're
[7:50] looking at ranging from starting June
25th and ending um August 6th all to be
[7:57] down at one of speech for their summer
concert
[8:03] series. Uh the police chief and the fire
chief have already signed off on these
[8:08] licenses. Okay. Moren, do you have any
questions? Not at all. Well, this is
[8:13] done every year. Exactly. Okay. Okay. I
move that the select board vote to
[8:17] approve the application submitted by
Rushford and Sons, owner operator by
[8:22] Brian Goodman for a special 1-day wine
and malt only pouring license for an
[8:27] events or a series of events to be held
on June 25th, July 2nd, July 9th, July
[8:33] 16th, July 23rd, July 30th, and August
6th, 2025 under Mass General Law Chapter
[8:41] 138 subsection 14 to be held at Kana
Beach in up to Massachusetts.
[8:47] I second. All in favor? Roll call vote.
Marin Dwinell. I Laura Heb. Unanimous.
[8:58] Okay. So, now we are on to the dog bylaw
amendment article discussion and Mr.
[9:04] Moran is with
[9:08] us. Nice meeting soon at the last
minute. Yeah.
[9:14] Yeah. Um,
how how do you guys how do you read
[9:18] that? I see problems how I read it
first. Okay. I I I we went over this
[9:22] before. We brought in Maria. You Now
you're here. I spoke to Dennis in the
[9:28] meantime. I don't think we can. What I'd
like to do is pass over this article
[9:35] entirely and take it up in November. Um,
I don't think you can logistically say
[9:41] or in all fairness say no dogs on the
soccer field at Kuanas, but yet you've
[9:46] got them on the soccer fields at West
River. In talking to Dennis, we're one
[9:51] of the few, if not the only town that
allows anything except service dogs on
[9:56] our fields. So, I very much and Dennis
has said police have been down the
[10:02] beach. You've been down the beach. DPW
has been down the beach. Dogs are an
[10:08] issue on the fields
and I've owned many a dog and um you
[10:15] know attitudes are changing towards them
but they're still an ant and they're an
[10:20] unpredictable ant. I've told people
before I used to show my
[10:24] dogs if anything they probably would
have drooled on you but kids would come
[10:29] rushing and somebody would say do your
dogs bite and I would say all dogs bite.
[10:33] Um, so Mike, if you're amendable, Moren,
I don't know how you feel, but I really
[10:37] would like to sharpen this up and clean
it up and we're not going to get it
[10:41] sharpened clean before Thursday. So, I'd
like to have some
[10:45] should have met a week ago about this
because the way the learning be if they
[10:49] vote the way this reads right now, they
don't pass it. Dogs won't be able to run
[10:53] everywhere everywhere. Exactly. And
that's the danger. And and this was put
[10:57] in we this was actually written the way
it's written out when Blake was here her
[11:04] husband they put corners beach thinking
like I told you corners beach corners
[11:10] beach when you when they finally get put
up as president what do you say beach
[11:15] goes from the park lot to water beach
shouldn't say complex told jokes
[11:19] whatever recreation that's why back here
trying to change it the right
[11:23] way the right
The only question I got now is they want
[11:29] to do on May 30th a frisbee
night. Now can't have it. Be on a leash.
[11:36] We have leash walks and they can't go to
Frisbee, right? The dogs got to be off
[11:41] leash, right? And then we we just
changed the Bible.
[11:46] Piped it on the email. I don't know who
he is. The guy that was in the email
[11:49] said, "We have an event going on May
30th." Recreation member. Yeah. You
[11:54] can't have it because we have a leash
law. No special perm. I don't have a
[11:59] problem with that. That to me would open
a ton of liability for the town. We have
[12:02] a leash law. We allow somebody to come
in with loose dogs and god forbid
[12:06] something happens. Well, that's that's
why we're going now get one more kids
[12:10] down damage. Um we check bicing. The
average household has two dogs. You
[12:16] know, people dogs like kids. I
understand them. I got three. They want
[12:19] to bring them everywhere. But so we got
to stop wor as a town we protecting at
[12:25] the beach because every time I go there
for a call you know the gatekeeper or a
[12:30] lifeguard or one of the staff there and
I ask him who's here just us nobody
[12:37] there's
no every time we go there's no marine
[12:41] when the other guy was doing it at least
on I got there he was there and we
[12:47] controlled the situation You know, it's
not that's what happens. I get bundled
[12:52] against the phone and all, you know, and
what we do for that. I don't know. I
[12:57] just I have to do more during the
summer. Check on this for more. That's
[13:01] all. I mean, I think when we sit, you
know, when you sit on a select board,
[13:05] you have to do what's best for the town,
not for a certain class or, you know,
[13:11] dog owners, non-dom owners. But I see
issues with this. Um, I like to pull it
[13:17] and clarify. Yeah. I think the way it's
written is just add on whatever subjects
[13:22] of C whatever this adding on to it
subscriptions.
[13:32] Yeah. Okay. Right. So I just want to
make sure we're on the page when they
[13:37] want to do some um soccer field. They
can't do it first but they have dogs be
[13:41] on. No. No. And no they can't. I would I
would I would agree with that. I'm sure
[13:47] the chief of police would. I don't know.
I mean, I think one of the main things
[13:50] is um the calendar
always is a constant surprise for us.
[13:57] You know, we're Thursday is May 1st.
Yes. Um in two months, two and a half
[14:03] months, we're opening up the warrant for
the fall. That still means we're talking
[14:07] about meeting again June, July to
discuss language for an article. Yes, we
[14:12] could refine in August, but it closes
right after Labor Day. So by pushing
[14:17] this off still means it's going to be on
our agenda pretty soon. Exactly.
[14:22] Probably one of the first meetings back.
Just want to make sure that we're on the
[14:25] same page. The event is not going to
happen. Like I said, keep on doing what
[14:28] I've been doing down there, you know,
and addressing the situations, you know,
[14:33] but you bet you we're going to have to
change it. It's have to change because,
[14:37] you know, pox's ping up. We got dog
feces. People aren't picking it up. It
[14:42] happens. You know, people Yeah. I I
would think that it you know that the
[14:48] thing is somewhere there has to be a
check and a balance between what people
[14:51] are scheduling and our town bylaws which
don't allow it. Yeah. Yeah. The money
[14:57] you spent on soccer field last year was
crazy. Moren like to say something I
[15:01] believe. Now, it's my understanding that
uh recck department is in charge of the
[15:08] programs, the parks and fields and
facilities, athletic facilities are the
[15:14] job of the DPW director. Is he still
online? How does he feel about having
[15:20] dogs all over the field? Yes, Dennis is.
Dennis, what's your feeling about having
[15:26] dogs on the fields?
I was hoping you was going to skip me on
[15:31] this one, but I would blame Lorine.
She's not even here. She saw you lurking
[15:35] in the background. I I So, uh, yeah, 30
plus years I've been a public works
[15:41] professional in and every community I've
served. Um, this has been a topic and it
[15:47] has been a tough topic. Fortunately, I
have been in communities that
[15:53] uh did exactly what I think we're
gearing up to do is to take a much
[15:57] harder look at the issue and instead of
just saying no dogs allowed on the
[16:02] fields or at the beach or in the
cemeteries and that's the end of it, we
[16:06] are going to take a look at well what
can we offer? Uh, I know that in the
[16:11] last two communities I served, and I'm
not suggesting that this is the answer
[16:16] for Upton, but it's certainly something
that should go on on the table for
[16:19] talking about is we developed areas
within town for dog parks. And Plymouth
[16:25] was rather extravagant. Webster was not.
It was very simple. It was just a
[16:29] walking track. The point being that
there was designated areas where people
[16:32] could bring their dogs. And then there
was rules that were enforceable that
[16:36] were, you know, the pooper scooper law
where you had to clean up after your dog
[16:39] and your dog had to be on a leash when
you were walking them. So that there
[16:43] wasn't a problem. I agree, Madam Chair,
with you that it there's a lot more
[16:48] discussion that needs to be that be had
here to get it something that's going to
[16:53] make sense that we bring forward to the
town meeting.
[16:57] um that will be looked upon favorably
and show that we put due diligence into
[17:02] this and and rolled up our sleeves and
tried to come up with other ideas and
[17:06] other solutions to help the public that
that have dogs out there and don't
[17:10] necessarily have yards to take them for
walks and we know how important it is.
[17:15] Um but to uh I digress to go back to the
question
[17:21] um about how I feel about dogs in parks.
So all of all of my staff has complained
[17:27] to me throughout the years of the
nuisance that it causes for the dogs to
[17:32] be on the fields because unfortunately
not every dog owner is is good about
[17:37] picking up after their dog and a lot of
dog owners leave stuff behind and and
[17:41] don't really think twice about it and my
staff has to deal with that on a regular
[17:45] basis as much as the geese if not more.
And so that has been brought to my
[17:50] attention by my staff repeatedly over
the years. So definitely I am not in
[17:55] favor of having dogs on the fields. Um
certainly not within cemeteries and
[18:01] certainly not on the Kuanas Beach area.
It's just not something that I don't I
[18:05] don't think it's sanitary. I don't think
it's it's healthy. I think it's
[18:08] dangerous. I think there's liability
involved. I think that we should be
[18:12] looking into something more appropriate
for that.
[18:16] I would agree with Dennis on that
because we we all love dogs.
[18:21] It isn't that we don't love dogs, but it
it's not the place for them with all the
[18:26] children and families and it's a huge
liability. Plus, they tear up the fields
[18:31] running around and we have a leash lock.
I don't know how they you know, you
[18:36] can't let you can't go to the beach and
let them loose. One one thing through
[18:41] the chair, one thing that I have
witnessed on the evolution of it in the
[18:45] different communities I've been a part
of is one of the things that communities
[18:49] have tried that doesn't work is the
sometimes allowed in certain instances
[18:54] in certain places. No, that's it really
is unmanageable and I don't know how the
[19:00] dog officer would be able to even begin
to enforce that or or keep that under
[19:05] wrapped. It just wouldn't work. It's
generally it's it's either all or
[19:08] nothing. I agree with Dennis.
I agree to um I think if I'm not
[19:15] mistaken, we just spent a lot of money
to repair that soccer field and um your
[19:21] thought, Dennis, on allowing a dog
Frisbee activity other than the fact
[19:26] that it's against the leash law. Do you
think that would harm the field? Well, I
[19:31] think it it's not just a harm on the
field. I think it's sing it sends the
[19:35] wrong message too because
um it's when you open up that that door
[19:40] then it's hard to close it again and
then you know right afterwards you're
[19:44] going to have people bringing dogs up
there and say well I saw them up there
[19:47] last weekend you had an event you had
dogs up there I'm just I'm coming in
[19:50] with my dog I'll be done in five minutes
and I'm leaving and then out comes the
[19:54] book of a thousand and1 excuses of why
their dog is different in their situ
[20:00] their situation is is an exception and
it makes like I said it goes back to
[20:04] being really unmanageable. There's just
no way to really manage it. So I I
[20:09] strongly believe it's all or none. You
either either allow it or you don't
[20:12] allow it. But if you don't allow it, you
don't allow it sometimes in certain
[20:16] situations, in certain circumstances. I
don't think that works. I think that's a
[20:20] recipe for disaster.
It is
[20:23] because you have people that are good
about keeping their their dogs off of
[20:29] all the parks and fields and all of that
and then all of a sudden they see
[20:34] someone coming in a Frisbee thing and
you can't make it for one and not the
[20:38] other.
I'd have to agree with that. So, all
[20:43] right. So, um I think we're Joe. Do we
need a motion to put a hold on the
[20:49] article? Oh, and I think it would be uh
the board you and Moren could just vote
[20:55] to um uh that your recommendation to
town meeting will be to pass over the
[21:00] Okay.
So moved. Do I hear a second? Moren
[21:05] second. All in favor? Roll call vote.
Moren Cornell I. Laura I will pass over
[21:12] this article the town
meeting. Okay. Thank you for coming in
[21:18] Michael. Yeah.
Real quick thing. Yeah, we have the
[21:22] state. We have one of the biggest towns
of state park forest. There's plenty
[21:24] places. Don't let the people fool you. I
go up there state for problems too. But
[21:31] we have we're one of the largest towns
of state more than a third of updated.
[21:35] Yeah, we have huge you really think
we'll see more of
[21:40] that.
Big right. So
[21:45] yeah, we'll get together before then.
They said I read the wording and they
[21:48] want it didn't it didn't because we vote
this vote in all the leash wall is gone.
[21:54] Yeah, that would be we need we'll start
back. Okay. So, all right. All right.
[22:00] Thank you. Have a good night. Little
beard sign. You have a little beard on.
[22:07] I should. Yeah. All right. See you.
Scared how much gray I can shows up if I
[22:13] do though. Uh
oh. Not going there. All right. So the
[22:19] annual meeting motions and presentation
discussion. So
[22:24] um I guess one of the main questions
will be especially for for or Moren. I'm
[22:30] going to assume both of you and that
that Moren will be uh recovered and and
[22:36] and full of energy for town meeting. I
hope so. It'll be pretty lonely up
[22:41] there. Never thought um I hope so. I
don't like being sick.
[22:47] And the in the board's packet is not
only the the motions which um the board
[22:52] was copied on an email I sent to Dave
Ler because he raised a question with
[22:56] the motion. So these next 24 36
hours final refinements of the cards.
[23:04] Okay. Um so I have the motions. We're
we're producing the cards. We haven't
[23:08] printed them yet. Um, but I also, uh,
Sue worked on a motion assignments. Uh,
[23:15] Brett is not going to be at town
meeting. So, question ends up being, you
[23:20] know, in this in this list, I'm just
showing the hard copy for for Laura. Um,
[23:25] you know, out of the the
47 articles,
[23:29] um, you know, about 30 of them are the
select board. So, we can do it a couple
[23:34] ways. We can say, you know, do you want
to just one hand on the first half,
[23:38] someone else take the second half? Well,
Morin, I don't mind playing it by ear
[23:42] till Thursday night because the meeting
you were at the wedding. I couldn't
[23:47] speak and Brett goes, "What motions do
you want to make?" And I said, "The ones
[23:52] with the fewest words because more than
a sentence." And I choked to death. So,
[23:56] let's just play it by ear. Thursday
night. I just a recommendation um that I
[24:04] think um when I first got on the board,
Fincom always did the omnibus
[24:10] article, all the stabilization articles
and
[24:14] OP. I mean, let's share the wealth.
So, this um I sent the packet link back
[24:25] to like your Gmail. If you look through,
you'll see we're spreading the wealth.
[24:30] So I already have it going to the FY26
budget stabilization, capital
[24:35] stabilization, OPED. Um, so I already
have that divided and then CPC board of
[24:42] assessors. So I'm trying to spread
spread the wealth. Um, so that's already
[24:47] I saw that. I saw that, Joe, and I thank
you for it. Um, I just hope I wanted to
[24:52] know if um Laura was on board with that,
too.
[24:57] Absolutely. Especially if I'm the only
one there.
[25:01] You might be.
Yeah. I hope I hope not. I hope you're
[25:05] feeling better. But yeah, I think you
know Joe's spreading it out. I agree we
[25:10] should do it that way. I'll carry
whatever I need to carry. If you can,
[25:15] you know, if you're a warm body for
support and that's all you manage to do,
[25:19] that's fine. As long as you're, you
know, you don't contaminate anyone else,
[25:24] we'll be fine. Mask on. if I'm still
sick. I don't know. Just came on me all
[25:29] of a sudden. I was going good this
morning and then man, I hit the wall.
[25:33] Wow. I don't know what it is.
So, um we'll have these cards separated
[25:40] out. So, um we are posted for 6:30.
Okay.
[25:47] um uh if we may not need to, but if we
wanted to open it and then if the PI if
[25:55] um whoever shows up um wants wants to
take on a specific article, we can have
[26:01] that discussion. Okay. Um or if there's
information in uh in the meantime
[26:07] something changes because I know there's
some attention being paid to the Holy
[26:11] Angels. Yes. they at least will give us
we're posted so if we need to react to
[26:16] something I'll I'll be preparing to and
work with with Laura on a a slide within
[26:23] the articles just uh especially for that
article 27 holy angels just just to sort
[26:29] of state what what the board's objective
is with that article yes I think we need
[26:34] to clarify article 27 Moren I don't know
if you've noticed but it's been all over
[26:40] Facebook they're presenting it as this
is an article to put the arts in there
[26:46] and it's really an article to determine
the structural integrity period end of
[26:52] discussion. Um I thought we've made
ourselves clear in multiple meetings but
[26:58] I guess people have run with it and I've
read things and I've been like wow
[27:03] that's amazing because I don't know that
but it is what it is. So Joe can clarify
[27:09] and I think we'll be fine. I just don't
want people voting against the money
[27:15] because they don't want the art settle.
We do not know what is going in there.
[27:19] We just need to know if the building's
structurally sound. There's a lot of
[27:23] things that have to be done to it and we
need to have somebody look at it. We
[27:28] need a we need a number because numbers
change
[27:32] and a long time
in that article. I wish I I wish I could
[27:38] buy a house that was priced six years
ago. Yeah, I think that's a perfect
[27:42] example.
Yep.
[27:45] So,
okay. All right. Okay. Well, that was
[27:51] easy. Okay.
Um I honestly my emails have been wacky.
[27:57] I did not see the minutes, so I
apologize. So, I think Moren, I'd like
[28:01] to pass on the minutes because I didn't
see them come in. I I don't know what's
[28:06] Well, that my pants have been on fire
with the spring market has hit hot and
[28:10] fast at work.
So, um, honestly, I said to Joe earlier,
[28:16] if anyone's pants aren't on fire, I'm
not paying attention to them. It It just
[28:22] is what it is. Not in a bad way. No, no,
I don't mind passing over. We can do it
[28:27] at the next Or we could do even Thursday
night if you wanted to. Okay. And um I I
[28:33] think our next meeting is supposed to be
May 6th, but that's that's the day of
[28:38] the election. So I'd like to move it to
the following week. Just kick everything
[28:43] one week. I think that's what we usually
do. I don't think we usually meet
[28:47] election night. Towns don't. So even
though it would be scheduled the sixth,
[28:52] it would be the following week, which
would be what? 13th.
[28:58] Got to change our meeting to the 13th
and the what? 27th. On the
[29:03] 27th, I think that's a good idea.
You mean we're not going to meet every
[29:09] week?
I think we've been here every week all
[29:12] just I think we have one week off since
January last week. Seriously? Yeah.
[29:19] Yeah. I think I didn't know what to do
with myself that one Tuesday because I
[29:22] was missing all of you.
[29:26] All right. So, I think we do it the 13th
and the 27th. That's fine. Yep. Brett
[29:31] may be back. Yep. In full swing by then.
So, do I hear a motion? Did I move on to
[29:44] We appreciate it. We We'll recruit
Denise.
[29:48] Um do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Anyone
else? Sure. For um that motion for
[29:55] adjourn because he he is on the call. I
would like to uh thank Dennis for
[30:02] stepping in and being the acting town
manager for the last week. Um yeah, the
[30:08] fact that I didn't get any emails or
calls uh on anything. I I know Dennis
[30:14] had uh had everything locked down and I
was going to say, Dennis, you were so
[30:19] spectacular. I didn't even realize you
were doing the job.
[30:24] You wasn't telling anybody. I didn't
know that.
[30:31] So, well, well, Joe is doing a southern
tour. You know, you did an awesome job,
[30:37] Dennis, as always. Absolutely
spectacular. So, now Joe, we have to
[30:42] wonder, why was it so quiet while you
were gone? Are you really the center of
[30:46] the tornado at all times? Maybe. Maybe.
So,
[30:51] all right. Well, I want to thank
everyone. Um, do I hear a motion to
[30:55] adjourn? I move that we adjourn our
meeting.
[31:00] I second the motion. Roll call vote.
Marin Dwell. I Laura have I. Thanks
[31:06] everyone. That's record time. 52
minutes.
[31:10] Thank you for putting up with me. Thank
you. Kip banner.