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The date is March 20, 2024, time is 6.30 p.m., the West Bridgewater Board of Selectment meeting. Before we stand for the pledge, please be aware that this meeting is being recorded for you, on the internet and our local cable station.

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I

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic in which

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it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Two public hearings to kick off tonight's meeting.

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The first is an application for an alteration of premise for the West Bridgewater Country

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Club, aka Johnston Gulf Management, located at two of five East Santa Street.

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We will read the hearing pursuant to Chapter 138 and Chapter 140, the Massachusetts General Laws.

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A public hearing will be conducted on Wednesday, March 20th, at 6.30 p.m. in the Elden,

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F. Murr, Board of Selectment Meeting Room, Town Hall, 65 North Main Street, Westbridge,

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Water, Massachusetts on the application for an alteration of license premise for all alcohol

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Hall License for Westbridge Water Country Club, Johnson Golf Management and Corporated

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located at 250 East Center Street, Westbridge Water Mass, interested parties are invited to

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be present and heard.

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This time I could look for a motion to open the public hearing.

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I make a motion to open the public hearing.

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And I will second that.

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Mr. Chairman, they have decided to rescind their request.

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It came in after everything had been out and posted.

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That's why we're having a hearing.

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so if you have any questions I'll be more than happy to answer them and if not

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all I would ask you to do is to take a vote to take no action on the request

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in front of you and then vote to close the hearing about

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make a motion to

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make a motion to take a vote to take no action I will second vote in favor we need

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a motion to close the hearing make a motion to close the vote hearing thank you

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when I second that now we can open the second one so our next public hearing is a

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The vote to remove the current yield signs to be replaced by stop signs, a total of three stop signs at the intersection of Scotland Street and

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self-amma street are being recommended.

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The notice is posted, was notices here by given pursuant to a match journal law.

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Chapter 89, section 9, designation of highways and throughways, traffic control signs and devices,

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the Westbridge order board of selectman, hold the public hearing at 6.40 p.m.

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on March 20th, 2024, in the Elden F. Marrera Board of Selectman Meeting Room,

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Town Hall, 65 North Main Street, Westbridge, Wardermass, where they're

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a vote to remove the current yield signs and replace by stop signs, a total of

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three stop signs at the intersection of Scotland Street and South Elm Street will

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be installed and I've really put the time 630 so we can't do this shit.

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So that's okay we read the hearing notice. We can conduct other business or whatever

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you prefer in that 640 will take a vote to open it and if there is anybody else that comes in

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and one week and we read the posting if we need to. Okay well first up from our budget perspective

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was the police department we can probably chief if you want to if you want to get that in.

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You want to jump here?

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What's that?

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Oh.

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How about take a seat?

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I'm going to charge you.

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My apologies.

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Okay.

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Sure.

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First up, vote to approve the Common Victory License for Frontline Bakering Cafe.

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Located at 450 East Center Street.

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How are we doing?

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Good.

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Do you want to come up real quick and just introduce yourselves and

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Tell us a little bit about what's going down.

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Hi, my name's Heather.

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This is John.

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I was working in Weymouth.

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And then when

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COVID happened, I became really depressed at

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that time.

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I started creating my own recipes.

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And then it turned into something great.

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It turned into my business.

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And I would bring them to hospitals, fire stations.

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And everyone was like, you're a great firefighter.

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But like you're in the wrong field if you can bake like this.

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So I turned into a business.

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I quit forever, moved back home, settled by my family as here, and then I found 4, 5,

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0, we sent a street. So we bought the former two gals grilled, we've redone

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everything in there. Yeah, pretty close. Yeah, we go from alternate, so being

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read that out, read that already from the retail side, into the kitchen, into the bakery side,

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a pit with all the new electric and the bakery, and the countertop to the front,

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new retail counter to shoot me.

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FRP board in the kitchen area, flooring in the kitchen, painted throughout some new appliances,

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is somewhat theoretical, but it's all new, it's clean.

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It's been a work in progress, but as the final stage is now, so there will be, it'll be

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mainly counter-style service, grab-and-go-style, with just full degree as well.

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I do do custom orders for weddings, bridal showers, all different types of events.

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But then we're going to add the cafe side to it too.

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so that we break the sandwiches, paninis, salads,

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a couple of other things on the menu as well.

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So I was definitely going to go to the place to come by

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and check out one of the things.

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Super.

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And what did you just, you said, rough time to open?

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We have final instructions in the alumni day.

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So.

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Even for like a partial opening on Friday and then, you know,

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full-long, like, everybody come in on Saturday.

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Awesome.

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And I have a lot of like, like, back-end stuff

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that I would like to do as well with like mental health and

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mental health and

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first responders as well so I plan on doing a lot of stuff for like especially

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geared towards first responders and veterans like on the back and I want to be able to do

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a monthly meetings and stuff like that's kind of decreased like to a side

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That's super exciting stuff. I'm glad you're here on a couple levels.

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Yeah definitely. So we're excited. I'm sorry, I might get stepped on you.

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No, you're good. I have I have read the menu and now I'm hungry.

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And the meeting's got a couple hours to go here. So thank you for that.

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We've already hired seven people so

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Well, I'm five part time, so it's a really good snack that I put together.

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So I want to say I have a set of, I think, four of those are West Bridgewater, by the way.

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So when the rest are, you know, within, most of them within a mile, so.

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Yeah.

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They're like, well, so it's like, it's not even.

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Yeah?

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It's super.

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Any questions, Mike?

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No.

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I'm actually super excited.

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I'm like, especially not after hearing your story, I'm actually really even more excited

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for what you're doing.

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Thank you.

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I mean, I've already chat with you.

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I'm excited.

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You will see me visiting at this point.

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At this point, I make a motion to approve the comment.

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Help me with this word somebody.

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You know what I mean?

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I'll comment for short.

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We'll also just make it subject to final inspections.

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Vote to approve the comment.

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Vic license for frontline bakery and cafe located at 450 East Street.

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East Center Street.

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subject to final inspection.

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I'll second vote in favor.

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I vote in favor as well.

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Congratulations.

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Congratulations.

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Best of luck.

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Thank you.

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We'll see you soon.

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All right.

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The time is now 639.

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So we will move on to the antique license.

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Next on the agenda is a vote to approve an antique license

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for West Bridgewater Antiques.

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Located at 320 West Center Street, 2nd floor.

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That would be, uh, hello, hello.

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Support.

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It's been

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six, seven years ago.

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It's, uh, 20,000 square foot antiques placed there.

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Um, we found this place, and we did like to open it here too.

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So it's roughly 10,000 square feet.

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Um, we had our inspections yesterday.

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We have everything on site that we were told to get.

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We have an electrician scheduled for tomorrow.

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And then we'll have our second inspection.

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I imagine the fire is up to snuff.

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There's something to go past me and we're achievers there.

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He wanted a couple of something out.

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He was just checking with the state with it.

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But it seems that it's already been approved from the previous tenant.

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So, awesome.

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A little retake, but kind of take now.

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They wanted a bunch of extra fire signs in different areas, so we have all of that.

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And what are you looking to open as soon as this is approved by the final inspection?

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I would, please.

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This point will make a motion to approve antique license for West Bridgewater Antiques located at 320 West Center Streak.

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Second floor, and I'm sorry, did you have anything else?

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No, no, no, you're barring any final inspections.

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And second that vote in favor.

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Thank you, congratulations, best of luck.

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Okay, at this point we have already read the notice for

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the public hearing and I take a motion might to open the public hearing to discuss

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replacing yield signs with stop signs in cell thumb street.

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I make a motion to open the public hearing.

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So this was something that the board discussed a handful of months ago.

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We have done our homework in our research and I went out, visited the site with the

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police chief and also the DPW director as well.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to propose, we're going to put stop signs for

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those three dots are currently there are no stop signs in any direction.

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So right now if you are bigger and faster you get to go first and obviously it's dangerous and if you check with the police we have too many

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incidences there so at this point there is one yield sign there so what I'm asking the board to do if it's if it's okay with the board is

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that to place those three stop signs we've already ordered them because I know based on our last conversation you seem to be in favor of doing

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something so they're ready and ordered and in stock so when if you want to take

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the vote tonight you want to do it a later date whatever your choice is we can

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get them installed pretty fast and I assume we put some electronic sign or

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something prior to it. That's correct so we're gonna have a couple of

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warning signs in each direction notify traffic in advance so we can do one of

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two things is that we can put those reader boards up say two or three weeks

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So that's how we can educate the public and then put the stop signs up or we could put the stop signs up

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It still have the reader board. So it's whatever the board prefers

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Yeah, so I just need clarification. Do you want the reader boards for a couple of weeks and then put the stop signs up or put the bolt in the same time

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same time, put the stop signs up and then, or we could refer back to the police.

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I agree with you guys. I'm agreeing with you. I think you go, throw them up, notify them,

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we'll enhance patrols, when they start to make, just like we do with the taxi, we'll make it educational

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for us, but the notification plus the sign plus the stopping and then after two, two weeks or so,

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they can all go and then we'll go back to just force them. I think that's probably get everything

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He said it better than I could.

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Thank you.

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I'll second the chief.

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All right.

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We need a motion.

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Yep.

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So what I would ask you to do, then, is to approve

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Faye's stop signs as presented.

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Or the stop sign layout as presented.

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Make a motion to approve the stop sign layout

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at the intersection of Scotland Street and South Elm Street

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as presented.

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I'll second that motion on the face.

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All right.

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This time, I need a motion to close the public hearing.

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and make a motion to close the public here.

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Second that in one favor.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Chief, would you like to join us now?

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I promise.

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No, wait.

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Sorry.

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That was my skip to spot in the agenda of my apologies.

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So traditionally, what we do here

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is we look at the items where

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There's change. Yes, sir. I'm the line item. So if you just want to kind of go down and make your way through. So there's going to be, there's going to be some changes up, some changes down. I've received a place in chief. That's going to be a down. The only significant actually, really, the only change I made at all are all contractual. That was voted upon by the bargaining unit. Other than that, I had to make any changes to any of the lines that I can see.

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and really the only one of note would be the salary line that was it was increased

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for the primary salary line due to the contract and

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the overtime and vacation

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holiday that's all those because because they're overtime lines I raise them at

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six because it was what I have yeah and

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at this time we're not in need of any new

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vehicles or anything what we put it for the war article so that not nothing not

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anything in the budget, but those were still waiting on our cruise from last

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time meeting and then I am putting forth a cruiser in this time meeting for a new

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vehicle. We have that later on the capital budget. Okay, we'll hit that but there

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is a cruiser in there. I

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haven't heard a cruiser somewhere, maybe I saw it. Yeah, no

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you're entirely correct. So this is just the operating budget and then for all

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capital budget expenses, we'll see that later in the budget and the capital

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budget report.

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I've got nothing else. I don't know. I know neither. Thank you.

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All right, and then the K-9, again due to the contract we have with J-MK, everything is

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zero.

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So I kept them in the same, just to hear the contract.

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No, but I'm familiar with this, the previous chief has spoken.

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He liked this.

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He did.

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I thought it was a very good deal.

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Sorry.

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Do you have any questions?

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I do not know.

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Okay.

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No.

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All right.

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I think that was it.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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So normally the chair of the committee comes, she's not here yet, so if she does for whatever

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reason if she doesn't come out, he'll handle it, but if you want to move on to the school.

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Yeah, sure.

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Hello, Voila.

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Southeast and regional.

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I'm not not that no.

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We have numbers.

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Perfect.

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Thank you.

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Hello.

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So please to be here to present our budget, I'm Holly McLean and Superintendent and Mrs. Mark Morris, our assistant superintendent of finance.

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So our budget presentation this year, a budget recommendation is 6.2% higher than last year.

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But I want to make it very clear that we continue to operate at next school spending.

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Meaning we're at the minimum required to be spent on our schools through the foundation budget,

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transportation and other expenditures that are carried outside of the foundation budget.

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As you know, the foundation budget is primarily driven by enrollment and our October 1st numbers

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were up 40 students this year.

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In addition, one of our largest contributing factors to the increased budget this year is

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our transportation costs.

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We are very lucky that our last contract was bid right around the time that fuel escalation

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and cost went through the roof.

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So we were in before that,

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so now we're sort of seeing that escalation.

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So our regional transportation is up about 25% this year.

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As you know, we are supposed to receive 100% reimbursement

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for regional transportation.

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The legislature has not provided that level

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of transportation in a long time.

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So we use the actual reimbursement we received

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in the previous fiscal year

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to sort of guesstimate where we're going to be this year, so you'll see that that's

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a very significant increase there. Also in the budget we have capital acquisitions

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and improvements, our MSBA, payments we have for at least 15 years offset that with

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E&D, so that we are always charging our 9 communities at total of $192,000 and then you'll

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We also see 493,000 in bond payments primarily related to our performing arts center.

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So that brings a total local assessments to 15,232,041.

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And if you look at the next page, you can see sort of the enrollment by members of the

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year town.

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You go down to the very bottom.

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You'll see that your enrollment this year was up by 10 students so that your total enrollment

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is about 4.5% of our student population.

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I'm just curious, applications,

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like how many were there, how many students get?

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Not West Bridgewater, just overall.

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So last year or this year?

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So last year, there were about just under 1200 applications,

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and we accepted 415 students.

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Similar this year, I assume.

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We're at about 1,300 applications.

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This year, I have 31 from West Bridgewater.

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And West Bridgewater students

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tended to do very well in the application process.

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So even though it's a smaller number of applicants, a fairly high percentage due to get in.

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So obviously we have our local assessments of just over $15 million, and you can see

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there at the bottom of the top chart how Westbridge Waters assessment is broken down between

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the minimum contribution for foundation aid, the bond payment, transportation and capital

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costs for a total of $1,001,000,000,000,000,000,000, and that is an increase of $158,000 over your

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last year's assessment, again, driven by the increase in, primarily increasing.

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The next page is provided just because our students, every student that comes to South Eastern

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excuse me, cost about $23,000 to educate and the amount that each community pays towards

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that student is really based on the foundation age formula.

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So you can see that West Bridgewater is kind of right in the middle.

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You pay a little more per student than some communities, but less than others.

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And then the last few pages are just for your information, just demonstrating again that

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We're operating it, net school spending, and there's some more detail in there about your budget and my foundation in calculation.

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So happy to answer any questions that you might have.

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I don't, like I said, I've been lucky enough to be over there a couple of times in the last year.

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I know students who have graduated and I know students who are in there, and I think, just in general,

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a student in West Bridgewater has, you know, two great choices to make when it comes

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to high school and we're fortunate that you are there and that it is as close as it is.

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I don't really have another question. I see young professionals, if you will, coming out

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of that school going into the trade more than anything and they're all out and they're all

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I'm happy to see that enrollment keeps climbing.

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It is. I mean, I think we're at a place

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unless we find a way to add on.

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Where our enrollment is going to start to stabilize a little bit.

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There's always so much bigger we can get in the space that we have.

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But yeah, we have good demand for our enrollment.

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I'm going to echo what Joseph said.

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I see the excitement that students get when they get accepted into the program.

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in their and how proud they are being in that school and they walk around you

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know heads held high. I'm going to only graduate from the routing

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right there so thank you for everything you guys are doing over there.

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Okay, we appreciate your support in my school.

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Thank you.

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Keep it up.

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I root for you for everything but sports.

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Sorry.

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Well that's okay.

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You have to draw the line.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Have a good night.

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All

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right.

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Assuming nobody on the hallways lacks school.

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Do

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you want to see who's in the hall?

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I did text the scoots. No, I think I text the superintendent to see where it has taken more work on the command.

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The school here.

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Good evening, go wherever you want.

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Well, just as long as you get picked up on the microphone, I think it's fine.

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Yes we are.

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Whenever you're ready. I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep up with what's on what's on that screen on this screen. Thank you very much for having us

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Happy presents a school committee budget to you tonight. We did fly the slides and then we'll go through them

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But you know the question is just stop me anytime and after the end of the question

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And detail super

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We're a mission driven school district

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We live by our mission

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So we're always looking to make sure everything we do is related back to the mission of the West Brewer of the school.

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When we create a budget, really we look at priorities, we look at our goals, we look at our social-emotional needs, our students, and the academic needs for our students.

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You know, it was really a circle that works around everything we do within the district when we're building the budget.

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We want to make sure it works for everyone and all the pieces that we've put together.

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We've been fortunate, we're moving in our budget more towards strategic.

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First few years, when I superintendent, I felt we were more essential, we were getting back to what we needed to.

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So now we're trying to look ahead and you proactive in terms of getting our needs met.

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Big thank you to the committee and the town and all of our board to this board over the years supporting our budget.

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We've made some great strides and unfortunately we're showing that within the school system.

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There's a couple of raps, our high needs continue to go up.

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They do not increase as much of this cashier as they cut in the past.

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Let's see over the past five years, we've got a pretty

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dramatic increase in our high-need students.

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We talk about high needs, that's our special education.

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Our EL students and our low-income students have continued

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to come up.

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Our population also has increased, although not as dramatically.

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I think in the future, when the building projects

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really come into town, they're started.

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We had a plus 25 in our West Bridgewater student population, but only a smaller growth overall.

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To decrease in our school choice, along with some additional West Bridgewater students.

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One of our biggest factors in our budget is our special education.

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These really meet the needs of our media students.

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And if they are placed outside of the West Bridgewater public schools, they're properly placed.

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and there's a place that they need to be.

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But over one percent of our student population

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is placed in a district that represents about 14%

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of our overall project budget.

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We've talked about before the transportation

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is a huge cost.

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Not only to West Bridgewater, but to one of the communities,

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it is not unusual to have a transportation run

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for the year of the 35,000 to up to almost 100,000,

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depending on where they're going,

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to find the needs of the students, and also, you'll see the prices are cost under different

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programs, public school programs, collaborative programs, and I know I'm a couple of private

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school programs.

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The good news is, last year I came to you saying that the OSD rate was at 14%, it's back

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down to a little 5% increase, so we didn't see that dramatic increase in the registered

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of placements for the private placements last this year.

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This just shows you a graphic of all our school's population.

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It is trending down due to the use of our West Reef Water

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population. Unfortunately for our applicants, we have the most

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applicants ever this year. We had over 220 applicants and the reality is we're

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probably not going to be able to open up any elementary grades.

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are six, going to seven, it's 98 students, so there we may be able to add to you in high school.

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We're not planning to open kindergarten this year because we're only one to four sections this year. The census data is a little bit down, so we feel we're content. We can stick with board this year. But obviously it's a decrease in our school contribution, really, except less due to the spread choice. This talks about our school contributions on the right-hand side, what half of our school contributions come from our school choice program.

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The other half is made up of circuit breaker, which is when we get back from the state.

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Once we meet a certain threshold, our revolving accounts, which are surround care, our athletic

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revolving, things like that, and then special education grants and programs, we get some additional

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money.

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That's my idea.

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We're able to put into the budget so the town does not have to assume the whole amount of

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making school contributions that go with what the town does for our overall budget meeting.

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Just a little bit of inflation on Chapter 70.

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Chapter 70 is the main funding source that comes to the

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Italian West Bridgewater.

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This year we were increased a little bit over 400,000.

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We continue to go up our overall amount.

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We get through Chapter 70, about 6.9 million dollars.

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We had a very dramatic increase here before about 1.2 million.

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So we're still above the state minimum.

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State minimum is $30 per student, which we've

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for a state minimum, we'll be talking about increase of 34,000.

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So still, about 10 times that amount of chapter 7.

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This slide just showed you over the past 40 years,

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how our school contributions to the school budget

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are made up of the town contributions in the yellow,

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the school contributions in blue and chapter 7.

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We just digital historical data on where

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those figures are over the past 40 years.

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Always there are some unexpected expenses, budget blusters,

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move-ins can be huge depending on which grade level

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and the other needs of our students.

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Once a student moves into West Bridgewater,

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or when they turn through,

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we become responsible for their education.

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And it has happened in the past,

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we got students moving with a placement

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that is the best place for them,

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and we've got to abide by that place,

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and we still would meet with them,

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If I can add real quick, do we have a revolving account set up at one point for, to handle

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that stabilization?

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Yeah.

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Is that still in place?

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It is.

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It's not much.

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I think it's around 30,000.

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I think there's 30,000.

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I think we had 60,000.

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It took out my, or at least we earmarked money for potentially a van.

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Okay.

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Yeah, so the original investment in tow is just under $50,000 and last year we did earmark

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about $30,000 to go towards the dam.

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It hasn't been spent yet, so the full amount is still there, but it's been earmarked.

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Yeah, I continue to look for opportunities to have from collaborators or other school districts

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that may be looking to sell off some of the dam.

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School of Choice, we had to be pleasing with our members, so we're trying to go over the

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years potentially deficit amount to $200,000 depending on the number of students that we budget for

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and are able to fit into our schools. Our multilingual lawyers, our EL students,

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depending on when they come in and what their level is. We need to serve the Senate properly.

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It would certain time amounts to our student depending on their level.

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and obviously we've got three old-el and then

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push for the building, we're moving through

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with the building project, but again, we're years away.

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It's over 250,000 square feet of space that we need

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to maintain in HBAC systems and so forth.

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So those are some things that we are always cautious

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of those who use home with our project.

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Just want to quickly share some positive effects

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of the position we've added over years.

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Again, very thankful to add these positions

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and where we've gotten, I think,

475
00:34:14,550 --> 00:34:15,390
we're doing really well.

476
00:34:15,910 --> 00:34:18,250
At the middle school, we had an investment college

477
00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:19,390
out on the part of high school,

478
00:34:19,430 --> 00:34:21,430
some colleges, more kids are being sent.

479
00:34:21,930 --> 00:34:25,270
Fewer students are being sent out for services,

480
00:34:25,470 --> 00:34:29,390
mental health needs, a few, they've been waiting less

481
00:34:29,390 --> 00:34:32,270
to see people, they're getting more classrooms,

482
00:34:32,290 --> 00:34:34,650
they're running groups, they've been very successful.

483
00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:38,030
Our ESL staff, four years ago, we were one and a half

484
00:34:38,030 --> 00:34:42,010
from the 3.7 staff with a 32% increase

485
00:34:42,010 --> 00:34:44,950
in our number of EL students, I'm opening new learners.

486
00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:49,070
Again, the time that they need to be educated is set.

487
00:34:49,570 --> 00:34:51,090
We're properly staffed there.

488
00:34:51,310 --> 00:34:55,130
We're adding staff, but it's really working

489
00:34:55,130 --> 00:34:57,690
and meeting new students who've had

490
00:34:57,690 --> 00:34:59,110
to have initial classroom teachers.

491
00:34:59,450 --> 00:35:01,970
This year, one college school, I was

492
00:35:01,970 --> 00:35:05,510
rather some of the rural, she gets it from four

493
00:35:05,510 --> 00:35:08,970
to our no longer bubbles, but our standard of five classrooms

494
00:35:09,950 --> 00:35:15,950
maintaining relatively small class size, that we've added steps up to, sorry, what is

495
00:35:15,950 --> 00:35:23,090
that class size that you're? We are at most grades around 22 to 23 maybe, you know,

496
00:35:23,190 --> 00:35:26,910
probably 21 to 20 degrees on average. Yes, so at the kindergarten level you're

497
00:35:26,910 --> 00:35:32,410
talking 22 students? A little bit less this year, we have five sections, we have 104 kids,

498
00:35:32,410 --> 00:35:36,970
so we're right around 20. So that's still a pretty big number. For kindergarten it's

499
00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:42,670
a decent number. We did add 12 students into a school choice this year. That's why we're

500
00:35:42,670 --> 00:35:50,770
open with four. We've got number at or below that number. Our sub separate programs,

501
00:35:51,410 --> 00:35:57,930
we have three programs and we have seen a decrease in our students in the collaborative programs

502
00:35:57,930 --> 00:36:03,330
because we've been able to keep them in house. So we've added staff which costs us money. We save

503
00:36:03,330 --> 00:36:08,890
money out of district placements. Interrelated services, we've added some old

504
00:36:08,890 --> 00:36:16,670
teeth issue, we've added speech, which is an increase from years past. Our students

505
00:36:16,670 --> 00:36:20,490
are being serviced at a higher rate than they have in the past, which is very positive.

506
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:29,980
So as sort of the federal funding has run out, so we've run dry, when we knew we'd be getting

507
00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:37,040
the funding is new that this would happen. So it's total of $184,000 of funding that we have

508
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:43,820
added through ESSA. That is the two top positions that we'll see in high school. So I'm separating

509
00:36:43,820 --> 00:36:51,840
the Howard and we're 0.5 originally and they went full time using ESSA funds. We had a 1.0 ESL teacher

510
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,960
and a 0.5 speech in line with the dollars. So again, positions that were absolutely needed.

511
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,800
You never like to spend grant money for staff because you know that they're you know eventually

512
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,060
that you want to keep your staff hopefully is in need for it and that money goes away

513
00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:17,760
but we needed it and we're very thankful for the grants and then some areas of need and include in this budget

514
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:25,200
on the how-to-school classroom teacher next year we will have five sections of grades four and grade six

515
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,820
grade five, we'll still have a quarter of sections.

516
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,100
It's a potential ad for next year, fingers crossed,

517
00:37:32,340 --> 00:37:35,740
we don't get a lot of kids coming into that grade next year.

518
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,080
The elementary school adjustment counselor

519
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,900
was paid for on her grant this year,

520
00:37:40,060 --> 00:37:43,100
a behavioral health friend, but it's definitely needed

521
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:44,500
in the elementary schools.

522
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,580
We're here at the point of one to speak in language

523
00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:50,020
to go through two and a half to three days a week,

524
00:37:50,660 --> 00:37:52,680
a point for our occupational therapist.

525
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,600
to do two days a week, a key position for us,

526
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:58,320
because we have only one hope team in the whole district.

527
00:37:58,740 --> 00:38:01,740
This point for allow us to bring in someone two days a week

528
00:38:01,740 --> 00:38:03,500
to commute testing and see students.

529
00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:06,640
So very beneficial, because we've decreased

530
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,700
the case from the current hope team.

531
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,720
And we currently have a point, we have 2.5 preschool teachers.

532
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,940
Now we're looking at a point five preschool teacher

533
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,880
to go on a sub-separate preschool program,

534
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:25,100
which is needed by numbers and dictated by the state.

535
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:26,100
And we have to do that.

536
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,200
So that'd equal about 207,000.

537
00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:32,240
And we do some of the statements to the future.

538
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,140
Again, additional classroom teachers.

539
00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:37,660
Right now, there's no special education coordinator.

540
00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:39,440
We have our director of student services,

541
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,760
and we have our classroom teachers.

542
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,040
And there's no one in between.

543
00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:46,940
Most districts have one or more coordinators

544
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:49,240
that work in between or with the staff.

545
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:52,520
I can also see students, a future meeting for us.

546
00:38:53,020 --> 00:38:54,520
And maybe some additional increase

547
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,600
to our related services, increase our speech and language

548
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:02,720
up from 0.6 to maybe 0.8 next year, things like that.

549
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,720
So the needs aren't as great as they have been.

550
00:39:05,940 --> 00:39:08,980
We've been able to add some for the staff over the years.

551
00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:13,640
This just showed you where our increases come from when

552
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:23,720
makes up our overall increase of 6.93% breaks it down by staffing about it. Teaching service

553
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:30,520
is a special education and the PESR cliff and adults on the school choice increase in

554
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:31,820
a number of students be added.

555
00:39:34,610 --> 00:39:37,630
And this just showed you the overall student budget, just

556
00:39:37,630 --> 00:39:45,010
over $20,000. It shows the school contributions and then again shows the increase. We increase

557
00:39:45,010 --> 00:39:53,670
is against 6.93% last year, we're at 7.78% if you take out the S or in the school choice,

558
00:39:54,590 --> 00:39:59,230
it's 209,000, then the 5.66% increase.

559
00:40:00,190 --> 00:40:05,330
We'll be trending in the right direction, we're trending from 7.78 to 6.93,

560
00:40:06,210 --> 00:40:11,910
removing, although it's still all there, but you move the S or down to 5.66%.

561
00:40:13,650 --> 00:40:19,190
I mean, if that just shows you the overall budget lines, but you have almost certain

562
00:40:19,190 --> 00:40:20,710
little free questions.

563
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,020
I have, we talked briefly about it to the committee.

564
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:41,190
We talked yesterday, but my concern is the 7.78 last year, the 6.93 this year, the 7.78

565
00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:46,050
last year contributed was not the sole purpose, it was not the sole reason, you know, but contributed

566
00:40:46,050 --> 00:40:56,430
We did to an average tax increase in the rounding numbers as we do this, but you know, to $500 per, you know, $500,000, the assess value, I think, was $450, $500,000.

567
00:40:57,470 --> 00:41:08,550
This year, with the increase, I can't give you math, but I can't anticipate it to be less, if not possibly more, without the level of state funding that was present last year.

568
00:41:08,550 --> 00:41:12,150
So we're looking at another increase, just call it $500.

569
00:41:12,690 --> 00:41:17,350
And again, this is just estimated numbers, but we're doing that, we're doing that.

570
00:41:17,610 --> 00:41:20,230
I don't think the town can sustain that.

571
00:41:21,070 --> 00:41:28,490
So if we truly are going to slow down, I think we need to.

572
00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:36,070
And I think A for the expense that it is to the taxpayer and B to come back,

573
00:41:36,070 --> 00:41:56,230
In fact, to continue to increase like this in theory and in four years you've increased $2,000 to the median size house in town and then to come back and look for money for a school that could be another 1,000 to 1,500 all of a sudden, it's a very significant tax increase to be at $3,000, $3,500.

574
00:41:56,230 --> 00:41:59,850
dollars, you know, whenever the school four or five years

575
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,230
from now, if not longer.

576
00:42:01,470 --> 00:42:07,970
But so my biggest concern is like we can't keep moving.

577
00:42:08,290 --> 00:42:10,930
We can't keep staying staying in the sevens and eights.

578
00:42:10,950 --> 00:42:14,070
And I support the need to reduce cold choice.

579
00:42:14,670 --> 00:42:16,810
And I understand that's going to cause, you know, it looks

580
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:20,550
like it's 100 and I had numbers on the screen, but $155,000.

581
00:42:21,230 --> 00:42:24,310
One year could be 165 the next year to reduce.

582
00:42:24,850 --> 00:42:34,670
And I get that and that's something we've lived with and we've benefited from greatly and now you're going to wean off it and we've got to make adjustments for that.

583
00:42:35,330 --> 00:42:43,290
But I'm just particularly concerned that supporting this year over year over year for me isn't a possibility.

584
00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:56,230
I understand, you know, that the 5% in here, you know, in terms of, you know, sort of a net for lack of a better is in the right direction and I'm happy with that and the S or funds is of one time adjustment and it goes.

585
00:42:57,990 --> 00:43:09,910
But, you know, I can't sit here and say I'm going to endlessly support, you know, 7%, 8%, the town needs other things too and I'm not trying to go.

586
00:43:09,910 --> 00:43:15,250
But like there's a my mind there's a max that we can increase somebody's taxes on an interval basis and

587
00:43:15,750 --> 00:43:19,990
and still provide fire and DPW and and every other service that needs

588
00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:24,430
So at the same time though Jeff this this group that's here does not

589
00:43:24,970 --> 00:43:29,570
Control the size in the increase of what's happening in town in the population of the students

590
00:43:29,570 --> 00:43:33,890
Nor do they control the salary or the number of teachers they need

591
00:43:34,550 --> 00:43:36,330
And as I look at this a lot of it

592
00:43:36,330 --> 00:43:39,070
some of it is to do with salary increases

593
00:43:40,550 --> 00:43:42,270
on some of these budget lines.

594
00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:44,870
So I do understand, I see where you're coming from

595
00:43:44,870 --> 00:43:46,770
and I also see where the school does need

596
00:43:48,030 --> 00:43:50,090
where their increases are also coming from.

597
00:43:52,650 --> 00:43:55,090
And I appreciate the perspective

598
00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:57,970
and I think we are hopefully trending in that direction.

599
00:43:58,210 --> 00:44:00,450
I think we have unfortunate to add positions

600
00:44:00,450 --> 00:44:02,470
over the years and we're thankful for it

601
00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:03,190
and they've been needed.

602
00:44:04,270 --> 00:44:06,390
I think we'll get to a point where we're adding these positions

603
00:44:06,390 --> 00:44:07,570
and then they're in there

604
00:44:07,570 --> 00:44:12,670
And then it's more of the maintenance days of maintaining it and something pops up over here

605
00:44:12,670 --> 00:44:17,170
We're going to address that and I understand like to Mike's point some of it's adding because there's more students

606
00:44:17,170 --> 00:44:20,250
That should need more tax revenue, you know new houses that kind of stuff

607
00:44:20,250 --> 00:44:27,830
So some of that will fall in place. It's just I'm going back to the the calculation of how much the taxpayer gets hit

608
00:44:27,830 --> 00:44:30,750
As a whole not just because of the school to be clear

609
00:44:30,750 --> 00:44:33,550
But as a whole what they get hit on an annual basis

610
00:44:34,830 --> 00:44:36,610
You know it's five hundred bucks last year

611
00:44:37,570 --> 00:44:41,630
We don't really know where it's going to go this coming year, but safe to assume it's

612
00:44:41,630 --> 00:44:45,930
probably somewhere around there to repeat that, repeat that, repeat that, will be difficult.

613
00:44:46,830 --> 00:44:53,230
I think there is some pretty good concerns, but one metric that you can check on that will

614
00:44:53,230 --> 00:44:57,690
give you an idea of the way the state view is our district is that our chapter 70 funding

615
00:44:57,690 --> 00:44:59,970
has increased more than most other districts.

616
00:45:00,980 --> 00:45:26,440
They recognize that our needs are changing in a different way than other towns are. So it's not an increase each year that we expect to continue, but it is something that's changed recently. And the chapter 70 funding really shows that a huge increase last year, we're about one and a half times the average increase this year in chapter 70 funding. So it shows that really you have some needs that other towns may not necessarily be dealing with.

617
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:32,460
So it's not any place that we want to continue, but for right now it seems like you do need a little bit more.

618
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:40,780
Requirements from the state are like added.

619
00:45:43,090 --> 00:45:44,550
I mean, it's special.

620
00:45:45,050 --> 00:45:45,970
Yeah, for sure.

621
00:45:46,130 --> 00:45:49,350
And I think a lot of it is trying to keep students in with some separate programs.

622
00:45:49,690 --> 00:45:53,050
It is beneficial to our students to keep them in district.

623
00:45:53,770 --> 00:45:57,090
Our multilingual doors, those are part of them for time.

624
00:45:57,090 --> 00:46:03,550
I mean, again, to point you to the dog road of the class size, trying to maintain good, reasonable class sizes.

625
00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:09,590
Yeah, and I still personally think they're pretty large considering, I personally think they're pretty large

626
00:46:09,590 --> 00:46:12,090
and makes things a little bit more difficult.

627
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,050
Question, answer your question, too.

628
00:46:14,190 --> 00:46:16,650
If you really look at the positions that have been added over the years,

629
00:46:17,230 --> 00:46:22,930
the bulk of a cycle of classroom teachers who do the numbers appropriate are in special ed.

630
00:46:22,930 --> 00:46:30,930
So, to the point of the three in front of me, those are requirements, they're federal requirements, which means that you do need it.

631
00:46:30,970 --> 00:46:33,210
And so we need the staff to be able to do it.

632
00:46:33,630 --> 00:46:35,990
And I want to make it very clear, we're all on the same side.

633
00:46:37,650 --> 00:46:39,050
We're all on the same side.

634
00:46:39,310 --> 00:46:47,130
We want to see the best for both the students, the educators, and the residents as well of the town.

635
00:46:47,210 --> 00:46:48,390
So we're everybody on the same side.

636
00:46:48,390 --> 00:46:58,970
So we know we're at the part of the town, we want to work with the town to give our kids and our families the best education possible, but also be a nature responsible.

637
00:47:02,370 --> 00:47:14,010
I have a more of a procedural question, but just a question on where the school contribution numbers I see them dropped into the budget.

638
00:47:14,010 --> 00:47:20,170
But are they like what's I guess or what's the logic or it makes it hard not to

639
00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:26,210
that which just makes it hard to for me to understand what the true increases on that right so well the true increase

640
00:47:27,030 --> 00:47:34,630
is a budget budget from the town what we ask you for what we totally expect to spend this year

641
00:47:36,470 --> 00:47:40,770
include contributions so we're looking at a 20.2 million dollar budget

642
00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:43,370
to run the school department appropriately.

643
00:47:44,010 --> 00:47:45,990
You know, all of that will be looking to you

644
00:47:45,990 --> 00:47:48,750
to find 17.6 million.

645
00:47:49,410 --> 00:47:51,230
So that's how it plays in.

646
00:47:52,610 --> 00:47:56,530
Yeah, I was just, no, I'm, well, sorry.

647
00:47:56,910 --> 00:47:57,390
No, I know.

648
00:47:57,730 --> 00:47:58,890
I just like go back and forth.

649
00:47:59,570 --> 00:48:02,510
Like the first budget that popped up was the 3910, right?

650
00:48:03,110 --> 00:48:05,470
And like the very first line item collaborative tuition,

651
00:48:06,150 --> 00:48:09,310
the town contribution shows down 132,000,

652
00:48:09,310 --> 00:48:13,990
But the school contribution is is it a hundred right now the town is up

653
00:48:13,990 --> 00:48:21,210
hundred and thirty thousand if you look like three nine one oh yeah town

654
00:48:21,210 --> 00:48:27,110
contribution last year was about one point five million and we're looking at

655
00:48:27,110 --> 00:48:32,670
one point six million three hundred oh I'm sorry the very first line just the

656
00:48:32,670 --> 00:48:37,310
collaborative tuition oh you're on you're in the I'm in the I'm sorry I'm in the

657
00:48:37,310 --> 00:48:44,050
detail. Yeah, so the collaborative tuition actually decreased $132,000. A lot of

658
00:48:44,050 --> 00:48:49,670
that is due to the fact that we were able to add the self-separate classroom and keep the

659
00:48:49,670 --> 00:48:56,490
kids in so we did not need to pay as much tuition out for collaborative learning.

660
00:48:58,850 --> 00:49:07,330
The additional pieces that last year we, the school contribution was 370,000 on that

661
00:49:07,330 --> 00:49:07,690
line.

662
00:49:08,230 --> 00:49:15,790
Fishery added another 100,000 really in the non-public tuition because they had increased.

663
00:49:17,110 --> 00:49:22,750
So there is difficult, if you're not looking at last year's as well, to understand the

664
00:49:22,750 --> 00:49:28,370
contribution fluctuates where we can apply it the amount of money we get

665
00:49:28,370 --> 00:49:33,370
through grants we're building the amount of school choice it does tend to go

666
00:49:33,370 --> 00:49:37,850
on different lines although I have tried to be pretty consistent in the lines

667
00:49:37,850 --> 00:49:42,310
I apply it to. Okay I'll look at last year so that was kind of like it's hard to

668
00:49:42,310 --> 00:49:46,190
see. I don't

669
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,940
know I mean looking at the increases there was nothing

670
00:49:56,940 --> 00:50:00,340
and just put some sort of the lines.

671
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,980
All that I was able to get down to,

672
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:07,360
really the special education service.

673
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,840
The McKinney Ventile was state never funded that.

674
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,120
They may fund very little bit of any,

675
00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:16,680
and that's always a complete guess

676
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,680
on the King Ventile because you just don't know

677
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,820
how many homes children are going to do in your district,

678
00:50:23,180 --> 00:50:23,620
each year.

679
00:50:23,620 --> 00:50:24,860
I went through

680
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,400
my notes, but I think, you know, my bigger concern was the one that was

681
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,720
expressed just in terms of, you know, being able to do that, being able to get a new

682
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:41,300
school in the process and not driving everybody out of their homes.

683
00:50:41,500 --> 00:50:45,980
It's a hard, hard balance to strive for, and this is still a high number.

684
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:46,540
I get it.

685
00:50:47,340 --> 00:50:51,780
I'm not saying I'm not supporting it, but it's a high number, and that comes back next

686
00:50:51,780 --> 00:50:52,000
year.

687
00:50:53,460 --> 00:50:57,080
I'm not making any statements, but it's going to be harder to support.

688
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,880
I don't want to make it self-threatening by any means.

689
00:50:59,180 --> 00:51:07,580
No, no, no, no. We understand. We understand and we'll consider to fight for the needs of our kids, but also work to be as responsible as school as possible.

690
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:17,320
Your budget includes a $250 for school choice, which is 10 last year over year.

691
00:51:17,740 --> 00:51:22,460
So it's a school committee voting voted on that and supported that, or is that just part of the budget at this point?

692
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:25,580
It's part of our budget, so that's some test.

693
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,040
Do you have an obligation for siblings or are they just top of the list?

694
00:51:38,380 --> 00:51:41,540
But not an obligation to add them unless we open the space.

695
00:51:42,740 --> 00:51:54,920
And next year I'll be honest when we do put out school choice, when you open the open up the district, but then you still have two different grade levels, I think if we're in a position where we're not going to be able to add elementary, then we'll probably make that very clear.

696
00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:02,040
We weren't in 100% sure we opened it this year, but I think for full disclosure and transparency with other families from our district,

697
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,540
they want to get their hopes out, their apply, and go into the process of being in that.

698
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:11,080
Yeah, that could be to transportation routes for family, to get to kids to school.

699
00:52:11,580 --> 00:52:15,180
And we have, last year, we did that a couple, at the elementary level, I think,

700
00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:42,410
I'm looking at the pictures came up next as I was scrolling and I don't want to pick one from the other.

701
00:52:42,930 --> 00:52:43,710
Thank you all.

702
00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:46,130
No, thank you very much. Thank you

703
00:53:02,450 --> 00:53:02,930
Please

704
00:53:04,750 --> 00:53:09,870
Should we just read Charles? Sure. I texted. I've not received a message back. So, okay

705
00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:14,470
I got a scroll back up

706
00:53:17,030 --> 00:53:18,410
We're jumping back up to

707
00:53:18,410 --> 00:53:27,990
Community Preservation age 24 age 24 I like the page numbers here. Thank you very much. She does a good job with great job

708
00:53:29,910 --> 00:53:38,010
So CPC is an additional tranche of tax dollars that comes in above and beyond the traditional tax bill.

709
00:53:38,290 --> 00:53:45,550
That was approved a town meeting about 12 to 13 years ago and so they received somewhere around

710
00:53:45,550 --> 00:53:53,650
$250 to $300,000 a year based on the taxes and also the revenue that is provided from the registry of deeds.

711
00:53:54,750 --> 00:53:59,470
So with that said, they are only looking to fund two expenditures this year.

712
00:53:59,950 --> 00:54:04,070
One is $5,000 for, I assume it's probably, Mike, it's probably your committee that

713
00:54:04,070 --> 00:54:06,850
probably requested this through the Veterans Committee.

714
00:54:07,370 --> 00:54:12,190
But this is to allow $5,000 to put the veteran plaques on the gravestones of all the veterans.

715
00:54:13,290 --> 00:54:16,930
And not every single gravestone is actually marked, so that's why they have to do some research

716
00:54:16,930 --> 00:54:17,370
as well.

717
00:54:17,370 --> 00:54:24,410
The addition to that is that we are under a state requirement that we have to re-engineer

718
00:54:24,410 --> 00:54:27,130
our fish ladder at one Memorial Park in the town river.

719
00:54:27,710 --> 00:54:32,710
The positive to this in Tracy alluded to this at her last meeting, which she said that

720
00:54:32,710 --> 00:54:42,910
she secured $3.50 to $4,000 of grants, is that she secured about $280,000 of grants for

721
00:54:42,910 --> 00:54:43,870
the state towards this.

722
00:54:43,870 --> 00:54:50,430
So we had to come up with it. See there are 10 or 15% match. So we're going to come up with $84,000 through CPC and

723
00:54:51,070 --> 00:54:52,430
The state will pay the difference

724
00:54:52,970 --> 00:54:58,750
So those are the only two that they're looking to fund. You will see that as of right now is that there is still

725
00:54:59,590 --> 00:55:06,330
$996 left in the open space we call this bucket because the money can't be spent for any purpose when it comes in

726
00:55:06,330 --> 00:55:12,630
It can only be spent in three different categories and then there is a general area that the difference will roll over into

727
00:55:12,630 --> 00:55:19,450
So you could see the three, but $1,000 left over in open space, $34,000 left in historic,

728
00:55:19,990 --> 00:55:22,070
and $128,000 left in housing.

729
00:55:23,410 --> 00:55:24,810
So that's her report.

730
00:55:25,130 --> 00:55:27,310
If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.

731
00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:30,750
I'm good at this point.

732
00:55:47,690 --> 00:55:52,850
So if you're okay, then I'm going to go through all the budgets, but with your permission,

733
00:55:53,010 --> 00:55:58,070
I would like to skip the bullet of selectments budget from moment into the others fairly quick.

734
00:55:58,070 --> 00:56:04,230
So the moderator budget, budget 1140, it will be level funded, meaning it'll be the same budget we

735
00:56:04,230 --> 00:56:07,930
request to year over year, and that's just under $800 as a small budget.

736
00:56:08,610 --> 00:56:12,790
The Finance Committee will level fund that at $3,100.

737
00:56:13,730 --> 00:56:18,490
The Finance Committee will reserve, we will level fund that one at $67,000.

738
00:56:19,770 --> 00:56:24,430
Insurance is, we're looking at about a 5% increase in that.

739
00:56:25,190 --> 00:56:33,390
Sealer and weights, right now, you'll see that it's a level funded, however, I am going to add 3% to 51-11.

740
00:56:33,750 --> 00:56:39,630
You'll normally vote on that in either April or May, but we've been giving a 3% raise to all of our officials.

741
00:56:40,390 --> 00:56:45,590
And so, Dave and Maul, who is our appointed person, he should be receiving the same raise,

742
00:56:45,770 --> 00:56:46,990
commencing it with everybody else.

743
00:56:47,650 --> 00:56:51,770
Historical commission is being level funded at $1775.

744
00:56:51,770 --> 00:56:58,390
five dollars and then benefits is one of our largest benefits, one of our largest budgets

745
00:56:58,390 --> 00:56:59,070
in town.

746
00:56:59,390 --> 00:57:04,510
You'll see it's about a 6% increase that is really driven by the contributory retirement

747
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,730
that is funded through plummet, that is through the county.

748
00:57:09,510 --> 00:57:10,990
We have no discretion over that.

749
00:57:11,390 --> 00:57:16,910
The same with health insurance, you'll see we're only going up 4.5% pretty small increase

750
00:57:16,910 --> 00:57:17,510
for health.

751
00:57:17,510 --> 00:57:23,210
I think we do a pretty good job trying to control that line.

752
00:57:24,150 --> 00:57:27,810
And then obviously with pay well going up, you have a Medicare increase as well.

753
00:57:27,990 --> 00:57:29,970
Other than that, we're not looking to make any other adjustments.

754
00:57:30,610 --> 00:57:34,390
The work has been very, very low over the last handful of years.

755
00:57:35,070 --> 00:57:38,170
So with that said, we'll be, we'll be looking to level fund it.

756
00:57:38,270 --> 00:57:43,930
So the overall budget is up 6% for really driven by a retirement line that we have no control over.

757
00:57:45,590 --> 00:57:49,650
Any questions about those? I'll answer them and if not, I'll talk you about the Board of

758
00:57:49,650 --> 00:57:50,350
Select and Budget.

759
00:57:53,250 --> 00:57:54,450
Good to hear mine going to that.

760
00:57:55,770 --> 00:57:56,710
So on

761
00:57:59,530 --> 00:58:06,230
the Board of Select and Budget, there aren't a lot of increases in here.

762
00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:09,910
There's two

763
00:58:09,910 --> 00:58:16,630
items that I need to discuss. One is in 51-11 appointed official, which is my salary. It's

764
00:58:16,630 --> 00:58:22,190
embarrassing to say this, and I want to make sure that it's caught on camera, but there

765
00:58:22,190 --> 00:58:23,950
was an error in last year's meeting.

766
00:58:24,270 --> 00:58:27,010
We caught it a couple of weeks ago when we put in the budget together.

767
00:58:27,650 --> 00:58:33,550
My salary this year was 170, it says 165, I have no idea where that number came from, it

768
00:58:33,550 --> 00:58:35,190
was already approved before town meeting.

769
00:58:36,610 --> 00:58:39,810
And so I'm receiving a 3% increase like everybody else.

770
00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:44,610
So it looks like it's a larger increase, it's just a 100% error.

771
00:58:44,610 --> 00:58:48,430
It's clearly on my part, I apologize that it was made.

772
00:58:49,130 --> 00:58:53,170
I have no idea where that number came from, just mistakes happen.

773
00:58:53,810 --> 00:58:59,890
So quite frankly, the entire budget should have only been up 2.49% instead of 3.71.

774
00:59:00,270 --> 00:59:04,470
But I'm capturing in here exactly what was approved last year.

775
00:59:04,950 --> 00:59:08,570
So that way it's not a true reflection on reality, but

776
00:59:08,570 --> 00:59:11,230
it's a true reflection of what was approved year over year.

777
00:59:11,790 --> 00:59:15,110
I've already discussed this with the Chair of the Finance Committee.

778
00:59:15,210 --> 00:59:17,990
I spoke to her earlier in the week when it was disclosed.

779
00:59:18,430 --> 00:59:20,890
So I'll disclose it at the Finance Committee meeting tomorrow as well.

780
00:59:21,790 --> 00:59:23,990
I'll leave it to them as to what they want to do.

781
00:59:24,590 --> 00:59:29,050
The town meeting approved FY24 line is not voted on.

782
00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:30,630
It's only the FY25 line.

783
00:59:31,050 --> 00:59:33,750
So if they want to show a real year-on-year comparison,

784
00:59:34,290 --> 00:59:35,070
God bless you.

785
00:59:35,450 --> 00:59:37,370
If they want to show a real year-on-year comparison,

786
00:59:37,550 --> 00:59:38,450
we'll change that number.

787
00:59:38,490 --> 00:59:40,610
If they want to keep it the way they want to keep it,

788
00:59:40,610 --> 00:59:45,830
It's entirely up to them since it's the finance committee's handbook that goes to town meeting, but again

789
00:59:45,830 --> 00:59:48,690
I want to disclose the error and again apologize for it.

790
00:59:49,190 --> 00:59:59,970
The second item that I like to make a recommendation is that in 5730 dues and meetings, to me this is pretty exciting because this is to allow both my

791
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,480
I, myself, our staff in the selectman to be able to go to do a good to go to meetings and for all of our professional development. And the reason I'm excited is because in years past, although we always had really good board members, they didn't always take advantage of going to some of those meetings in both of you to get advantage of that in January. And I think both of you got some benefits out of it. And obviously we'll have a third person coming on. And so we have, you can see, we've already spent $3,100 into through December.

792
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,580
and that did not include because the confidence was in January that has not

793
01:00:33,580 --> 01:00:39,180
come at the cost yet of that. So my personal opinion and my recommendation is

794
01:00:39,180 --> 01:00:43,220
that I would like to increase that line by at least $1,500 because I want to

795
01:00:43,220 --> 01:00:47,420
make sure all three of you or two of you plus the third have an opportunity to

796
01:00:47,420 --> 01:00:51,680
continue to go to those meetings in the future. We've not spent this entire line

797
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:56,480
the past because board numbers haven't always taken advantage of it but I think it's

798
01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:01,540
It's a good idea that we are, and so I'd like to increase that line, but I didn't want

799
01:01:01,540 --> 01:01:06,400
to do it without talking to you first since it's really your budget before I bring it

800
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:06,840
to finance.

801
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:15,340
No, on Facebook, of course, when Marcia announced she was running, there was a comment

802
01:01:15,340 --> 01:01:21,540
in your piece from somebody saying, good, the board needs some, I'm going to probably quote

803
01:01:21,540 --> 01:01:25,200
it wrong, but paraphrase it anyhow, needs some fresh people.

804
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:31,380
Well, I was trying not to, fresh blood, and I thought about it, and honestly, we've

805
01:01:31,380 --> 01:01:32,900
turned three seats in one year.

806
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:37,180
I guess I'm, you know, it can't get much fresher than that.

807
01:01:37,340 --> 01:01:43,480
But with that, attending the conference in January, well, first let me back up and say, with

808
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:48,940
David's leadership, I think this board's continued to run and continued to run well with his

809
01:01:48,940 --> 01:01:52,380
depth of knowledge and being able to provide that and share that with us.

810
01:01:52,380 --> 01:01:58,520
But in addition, Mike and I were able to attend a conference in January, a state conference

811
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,780
and many different topics and we kind of went and divide and conquer and I don't think

812
01:02:02,780 --> 01:02:05,940
we're in the same room at the same time.

813
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:12,560
But very informational, very informative as we are all young at this.

814
01:02:15,100 --> 01:02:16,920
Last time I probably get to call myself young.

815
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:22,020
But as we're all young at this, I mean I think there's value in that and I think that value

816
01:02:22,020 --> 01:02:27,280
We will seek back into the town and more than the dollar amount that we would pay.

817
01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:31,340
I agree.

818
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,180
The ability to network with other towns and people doing the same thing.

819
01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:38,640
And meeting them face-to-face was pretty awesome.

820
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:44,480
So I'd have to agree that I think that the $1500 is a small amount of money to pay in order

821
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:45,900
to get the experience that we received.

822
01:02:47,380 --> 01:02:48,000
So yes.

823
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:53,640
So with your permission and what I will do is I will amend this budget to add the $1500.

824
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:57,500
dollars, I will be presenting it to the Finance Committee tomorrow night and I'll bring

825
01:02:57,500 --> 01:02:58,600
along those thoughts.

826
01:02:59,200 --> 01:02:59,460
Thank you.

827
01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:00,460
Thank you.

828
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:02,900
And then Capital Budget Report.

829
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:11,340
So normally, we present the Capital Budget Report to you in April and at that time, you

830
01:03:11,340 --> 01:03:13,400
would then vote to place these on the warrant.

831
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:18,740
But because this is the first time that you're seeing a Capital Budget Report as a select

832
01:03:18,740 --> 01:03:20,940
minute, I thought it was wise that we should vote on it yesterday.

833
01:03:20,940 --> 01:03:27,480
Jeff is on that committee, I'm on that committee, and so I thought it would be wise that I would bring it to this meeting.

834
01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:37,900
There is no vote required, all you I'm doing is I'm providing you information so that way in two weeks you're not seeing it for the first time when you have to actually take a vote.

835
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:47,400
And so real quickly and I will answer any questions that you may have and again, Jeff was on that committee so he is well versed on these items as well.

836
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:51,320
is that the town clerk will be looking for a digital sign which quite frankly

837
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:55,360
really came more out of this board because we need to do a better job of

838
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:59,460
communicating. And so the thought process is to put a digital sign directly in

839
01:03:59,460 --> 01:04:03,020
front of the town hall like many other municipal buildings have not just in

840
01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:06,940
this town but throughout the state so that way it is an election or there's an

841
01:04:06,940 --> 01:04:10,460
important meeting or something else that we want to be able to communicate we can

842
01:04:10,460 --> 01:04:16,180
do it right here at the town hall. The DPW is looking for a handful of items, all

843
01:04:16,180 --> 01:04:20,940
of them that are needed. Again, I will answer any questions about those that you may have.

844
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:26,000
The fire department will be looking for two items. The police department, this is to

845
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:30,820
answer your question from earlier Mike. So in the operational budgets, year over year,

846
01:04:30,860 --> 01:04:36,620
we just fund operations. And then any one time expenses that are capital projects are through

847
01:04:36,620 --> 01:04:40,700
this process. So that's why you didn't see a cruiser in this budget. You'll see it here.

848
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:45,560
No, I knew I had saw it somewhere. Yeah. And that's why I was like, where's this cruiser?

849
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:51,500
The Council on Aging, all of their flooring in the main space in the hallways, they're

850
01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:55,720
looking to replace the existing tile, which is old, some of it is cracked, and as you

851
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,760
know, when tile gets wet, it's slippery.

852
01:04:58,180 --> 01:05:02,100
So they'll be looking to replace this with vinyl flooring, which they had done in the conference

853
01:05:02,100 --> 01:05:06,420
room they have outbacks at a long match, and again, they did a nice job on that.

854
01:05:07,580 --> 01:05:09,480
The wide department's looking for four items.

855
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:17,480
One of the obvious of the big item is that they have to replace it or add or create an iron and

856
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,500
mega-neese water treatment plant.

857
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:24,420
They are hoping to be able to secure some if not most of that funding through the state

858
01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:25,280
revolving fund.

859
01:05:25,700 --> 01:05:30,400
However, you do have to get financing and advance to be able to at least start the project and then attempt

860
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,720
to try to get any grants in return.

861
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,360
And the school will be looking for two items as well.

862
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:40,580
So from the total on the town side you're looking at a little over a million dollars and on the water side

863
01:05:40,580 --> 01:05:48,100
You're looking at obviously 10,700 most almost all of that is from that water treatment plant on the town side

864
01:05:48,100 --> 01:05:50,560
We'll be looking to take that money out of free cash

865
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:54,920
Meaning that there would be no borrowing in this when I came here 11 years ago

866
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,080
We used to borrow for everything literally you bought a police car

867
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:02,980
You borrowed on that you were paying interest on it, which is really just a waste of money. So

868
01:06:02,980 --> 01:06:05,760
So we've been able to structure our budgets.

869
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,120
So now we're able to pay cash.

870
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,240
So there is no impact on the tax rate.

871
01:06:10,500 --> 01:06:16,440
This does not increase taxes one penny and we'll be able to pay cash and not incur a debt.

872
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:21,400
The water department for three out of their four items would be looking to pay cash as well.

873
01:06:21,860 --> 01:06:26,840
So we'll have no impact on the water rates, we have any interest on those, we see the large

874
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,800
one, they don't have $10 million extra to be able to do that with.

875
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:33,980
I mean, I'll take any questions that you have and Jeff, if I missed anything, I apologize.

876
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:39,500
So with the exception of the water, that big ticket, with the exception of the water,

877
01:06:40,420 --> 01:06:44,160
everything else is going to, we're not going to have a required to take out a loan or anything

878
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:45,180
already having funds for that.

879
01:06:45,700 --> 01:06:46,280
That is correct.

880
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:53,000
That will be your decision to make as a recommendation to town meeting when you place it on the warrant.

881
01:06:53,380 --> 01:06:57,520
Right now, the capital budget committee approved it under those terms.

882
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:03,740
I'm going to go over in my report where we are in the capital or where we are in the budget

883
01:07:03,740 --> 01:07:09,180
process, but skipping ahead a little bit, I will present to you a balanced budget.

884
01:07:09,300 --> 01:07:12,580
Now all budgets have come in, I'll present to you a balanced budget.

885
01:07:12,580 --> 01:07:17,660
In my mantra, since I have been here, is to pay cash for as much as we possibly can.

886
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:21,540
So I foresee that I'll be making that recommendation to you at your next meeting.

887
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:25,480
But I also want to make sure that you are clear, Mike, it is not my decision.

888
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:31,580
It's your decision because you will vote on it at your next meeting and then obviously

889
01:07:31,580 --> 01:07:36,820
has to go to town meeting and they have to agree but most people would prefer to pay cash

890
01:07:36,820 --> 01:07:39,020
than to borrow and incur additional costs.

891
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,840
Do we currently just look into the DPW ticket?

892
01:07:42,140 --> 01:07:43,420
Do we currently have a street sweeper?

893
01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:44,300
We do.

894
01:07:44,820 --> 01:07:47,080
It is 21 years old.

895
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:52,860
It's rusted pretty, you know, it's used, it's life is over.

896
01:07:53,500 --> 01:08:01,100
And so we do have one, we use it, but obviously it's in tough shape at this point, 22 years old.

897
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:10,340
Is there any benefit on voting on this now, as opposed to next week or next meeting, excuse me?

898
01:08:10,540 --> 01:08:11,380
There's no benefit.

899
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:13,180
Yeah, it was no benefit.

900
01:08:18,140 --> 01:08:18,380
Thank you.

901
01:08:20,340 --> 01:08:21,960
Mike, it's time to talk pictures.

902
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,320
I couldn't submit one.

903
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,980
Oh, yeah, I couldn't submit a picture in there.

904
01:08:27,100 --> 01:08:28,040
Nobody asked me for pictures.

905
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:29,140
Just kidding.

906
01:08:30,100 --> 01:08:36,020
Look, so by law and by state law and by our town by law,

907
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:40,120
which may or is state law, the board of select minutes

908
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:43,060
required to turn in a report to town meeting

909
01:08:43,060 --> 01:08:45,400
every single year, which is that little handbook.

910
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,500
Many, many years ago, everybody read that.

911
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,100
That would literally be the Bible in a municipality.

912
01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:56,660
value. Nobody beats it anymore. But it's still a legal requirement. We have to do it.

913
01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:02,760
And so this town is a culture of always placing a picture on the front. And the board of

914
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:07,160
selectmen, because they're required by a lot of playout, you vote on the picture. So we've

915
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:13,380
always provide a handful of options. However, because of your book and your vote, if you

916
01:09:13,380 --> 01:09:16,200
had something else that you want to do, you're more than welcome to do so.

917
01:09:21,620 --> 01:09:29,260
They all have snow at home. I know. I don't know how cold pictures. They're beautiful pictures. I just want to think of one.

918
01:09:29,420 --> 01:09:32,760
Oh, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, you're a preference.

919
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,740
I'm just going to show you a picture.

920
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:53,160
But I can't propose to you says, do you, are you aware we have time?

921
01:09:53,820 --> 01:09:57,360
Yes. If anyone has any emotions, like certainly.

922
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:02,560
So if you like one of these, it would help us because quite frankly, over the next 30 days, we're in turbo mode

923
01:10:03,060 --> 01:10:08,260
Everything has to get printed done. Voter on it. It's the next 30 days is the toughest 30 days

924
01:10:08,260 --> 01:10:12,460
In municipal government for all of us if you like one of these

925
01:10:12,460 --> 01:10:19,140
Please vote on it and then we will be afforded to the printer if you believe that there's something else

926
01:10:19,140 --> 01:10:24,180
If you would like or you have any other thoughts or maybe you don't like these it's your book

927
01:10:24,180 --> 01:10:27,620
We can table this, and we can present it at your next meeting.

928
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:39,780
I can, but I don't know if you want to make a decision right now based on that or this.

929
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:44,940
I could certainly go, I think the first picture is, would work for me.

930
01:10:46,020 --> 01:10:50,900
But if you're strong about that, those also speak to the town.

931
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:53,380
Maybe a little more.

932
01:10:55,820 --> 01:10:58,060
Yeah, that one of the first ones.

933
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:05,160
Do we need to put post this put in a packet for next week to vote on it?

934
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:05,740
Yes, we will.

935
01:11:05,820 --> 01:11:06,880
It needs to be on the packet.

936
01:11:07,180 --> 01:11:07,260
Yes.

937
01:11:07,540 --> 01:11:07,720
Okay.

938
01:11:08,020 --> 01:11:08,400
Yeah, I guess.

939
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:10,680
Is that really measure up on the printer?

940
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:11,200
No.

941
01:11:11,460 --> 01:11:12,120
No, we'll be okay.

942
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,140
Would, um, yeah.

943
01:11:14,340 --> 01:11:16,000
That will miss it up if we wait till next year.

944
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:16,800
We'll be okay.

945
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:17,620
We'll figure it out.

946
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:18,160
Okay.

947
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,460
Nothing against these pictures, but that's farming.

948
01:11:21,460 --> 01:11:29,720
It's tractor, color, town, not that more or more a park isn't as well, but it's your

949
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:33,640
So what we can do then is this is that we'll take no action on this this evening.

950
01:11:34,140 --> 01:11:36,620
Mike, I would ask you to forward that picture to Christine.

951
01:11:36,620 --> 01:11:39,420
We'll put it in the packet next week for the next meeting.

952
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:40,800
And then we'll vote on that.

953
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:42,960
It's super. Sorry.

954
01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:46,020
All right.

955
01:11:50,440 --> 01:11:51,600
So the next item.

956
01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:53,900
You not done this before.

957
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:56,300
So the next item.

958
01:11:56,440 --> 01:12:01,300
Again, we have a culture encounter that we dedicate that annual town book or report.

959
01:12:02,180 --> 01:12:10,040
And to somebody or somebody that has passed away during the pre-seeding year that either

960
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:13,880
served for the town or had some type of capacity serving the town.

961
01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:21,460
So what the town clerk does is that she takes her 2023 deaths and she takes all the people

962
01:12:21,460 --> 01:12:25,820
who have either served on committees or when noteworthy in town because again what they've done for

963
01:12:25,820 --> 01:12:28,660
the town and they provide these names.

964
01:12:28,660 --> 01:12:34,980
and then usually you can pick one or two or all multiple whatever you choose

965
01:12:34,980 --> 01:12:39,940
to do and you'll see on the inside of that book there is a dedication to last

966
01:12:39,940 --> 01:12:41,360
years so

967
01:12:44,620 --> 01:12:48,600
again because we will not be voting on the picture this evening we'll do

968
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:54,480
that next meeting if you want to make a decision you can but at the

969
01:12:54,480 --> 01:12:57,960
same time if you want to just take some thought we can place this on the next

970
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:03,420
meetings agenda as well and then you'll take a vote as to who you want to be

971
01:13:03,420 --> 01:13:11,140
or to dedicate the book to. Yes I know nobody on this list unfortunately so my

972
01:13:11,140 --> 01:13:15,980
recommendation to would be I know there are people that watch this if anybody can

973
01:13:15,980 --> 01:13:20,780
tell me anything about any of the people that are listed here I'd be happy to

974
01:13:20,780 --> 01:13:25,700
hear either through an email or just communication with the Slackman's office

975
01:13:26,740 --> 01:13:30,220
Otherwise, I'm picking blind, which I prefer not to do.

976
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:35,460
I think differently, I think we should, I don't think it's a huge list.

977
01:13:35,460 --> 01:13:38,160
And I think that I'd like to see all these people's neighbors in the book.

978
01:13:40,570 --> 01:13:42,530
Just that respect for you.

979
01:13:44,830 --> 01:13:45,230
We can do that.

980
01:13:45,990 --> 01:13:46,990
We can do that right now.

981
01:13:48,030 --> 01:13:48,470
Sure.

982
01:13:49,150 --> 01:13:49,750
You need a motion?

983
01:13:50,350 --> 01:13:50,530
Please.

984
01:13:51,230 --> 01:13:55,350
I make a motion for the 2023.

985
01:13:56,350 --> 01:13:57,030
Excuse me.

986
01:13:57,030 --> 01:13:57,630
the

987
01:13:59,650 --> 01:14:08,170
annual town report, I make a motion for the annual town report to include the names

988
01:14:08,170 --> 01:14:11,270
of all the notable deaths for 2023 that are presented.

989
01:14:12,830 --> 01:14:14,290
My second vote of favor.

990
01:14:15,670 --> 01:14:16,750
I had a tongue twister, I'm sorry.

991
01:14:17,310 --> 01:14:17,950
It's okay.

992
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:44,040
Dean, you second there, you're good.

993
01:14:44,480 --> 01:14:51,080
The vote towards Sergei D. B. W. Contracts from March 1st, 2024 through February 28th, 2025.

994
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:59,940
So again, this is part of our, we're part of 27 towns, we do municipal bidding in bulk so we can

995
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:17,080
We drive down the price and the vice chair of that organization. We meet once a month and then we bid everything out during the course of the year. So I would be looking to the board to be able to, I'm looking for a vote to award the service contracts to the DPW vendors that bid as presented.

996
01:15:19,500 --> 01:15:31,140
I have no questions. Okay, I make a motion to award the search DPW service contracts from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025 as presented.

997
01:15:31,140 --> 01:15:33,320
Let's second that and vote in favor.

998
01:15:37,930 --> 01:15:39,530
All right, moving along, vote on New England,

999
01:15:39,690 --> 01:15:41,390
novelty's transient vendor application.

1000
01:15:42,370 --> 01:15:45,850
March 3rd, 2024 to March 31st, 2024.

1001
01:15:46,650 --> 01:15:50,410
Another for April 5th, 2024 through April 8th, 2024.

1002
01:15:51,170 --> 01:15:56,690
And one additional for May 11th, 2024 through May 12th, 2024.

1003
01:15:57,390 --> 01:15:59,750
So a handful of years ago, the Board of Selecting

1004
01:15:59,750 --> 01:16:06,170
created a transient vendor application and process and that before that people

1005
01:16:06,170 --> 01:16:10,110
would literally just show up and sell flowers or sell some other type of

1006
01:16:10,110 --> 01:16:13,570
little spinners and there was no regulation and quite frankly part of the

1007
01:16:13,570 --> 01:16:18,470
challenge was that if somebody is selling flowers on a street corner saying

1008
01:16:18,470 --> 01:16:22,650
in Mother's Day that's great is we all sometimes take advantage of it but there's

1009
01:16:22,650 --> 01:16:27,350
a flour shop right down the street that is paying taxes and is trying to sell

1010
01:16:27,350 --> 01:16:33,410
flowers as well. So the selectman I thought showed a lot of leadership where they tried to create an

1011
01:16:33,410 --> 01:16:39,190
opportunity so that way a transient vendor can come in no more than six times per year. They do pay

1012
01:16:39,190 --> 01:16:44,490
a fee to the office. They're able to set up. They get pre-approved through the police department so

1013
01:16:44,490 --> 01:16:50,110
we know it's in a safe spot and they get approved by this board as well. In New England novelty comes in

1014
01:16:50,110 --> 01:16:54,610
every single year. They're well versed with the rules. They always follow the process. They pay their

1015
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:56,910
and so this is their annual request.

1016
01:16:57,570 --> 01:16:58,590
Now, where do they send them?

1017
01:16:59,310 --> 01:17:01,750
They normally, I believe, is this set up over in front

1018
01:17:01,750 --> 01:17:03,550
of the center of town district?

1019
01:17:03,770 --> 01:17:05,090
The V in the center of town, correct.

1020
01:17:05,330 --> 01:17:07,050
So do you directly across from CVS

1021
01:17:07,050 --> 01:17:10,070
in that parking lot area where the ATM machine is?

1022
01:17:13,620 --> 01:17:15,280
I have no issues.

1023
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:15,940
No

1024
01:17:18,780 --> 01:17:19,020
issues.

1025
01:17:19,220 --> 01:17:23,740
They make a motion to, you need a motion here, right?

1026
01:17:24,100 --> 01:17:25,940
Yes, so the motion would be just to approve

1027
01:17:25,940 --> 01:17:28,700
the New England Novelties Transient Venter application

1028
01:17:28,700 --> 01:17:29,480
has presented.

1029
01:17:29,480 --> 01:17:36,320
I make a motion to approve the New England Novelty's transient vendor application as presented in a second roll of the favor

1030
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:41,920
Moving along looking to approve the meeting minutes of February 7th and February 21st

1031
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:47,100
I make a motion to approve the meeting minutes of February 7th in 2024

1032
01:17:47,700 --> 01:17:55,080
And my second vote in favor and then next is accept the meeting minutes for March 7th for review

1033
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:59,160
Make a motion except the meeting minutes from March 7, 2020 for review.

1034
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:01,780
A nice second vote for you.

1035
01:18:03,100 --> 01:18:06,800
Next to be communication reports from boards, commissions, and town officials.

1036
01:18:08,020 --> 01:18:15,060
And in this we've got several by-law study committee proposed zoning amendments.

1037
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:20,040
So, first I want to say thank you to Tracy.

1038
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:25,140
One of the best hires we've had because not only is she an excellent person in her role,

1039
01:18:26,220 --> 01:18:30,780
we now we created this by lust at a committee a handful of years ago because we were looking

1040
01:18:30,780 --> 01:18:34,760
for advice to the board so that way they can vet requests that come in.

1041
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:39,740
Some are legitimate, some aren't always legitimate, but it also gives residents an opportunity

1042
01:18:39,740 --> 01:18:41,480
to have somewhere to go.

1043
01:18:42,220 --> 01:18:47,560
A handful of years ago, a resident was complaining saying, I want someone to go to be able

1044
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:52,460
to propose a by-law or talk to them and so that was part of why we created this in response.

1045
01:18:53,300 --> 01:18:58,380
And now Tracy has been able to professionalize this process and will continue to professionalize

1046
01:18:58,380 --> 01:18:59,120
it moving forward.

1047
01:18:59,620 --> 01:19:01,640
So there are two different types of by-laws.

1048
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:05,820
There are general by-laws that require a 50% approval at town meeting.

1049
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:11,100
They basically refer to governance of how your town is managed and what rules and regulations

1050
01:19:11,100 --> 01:19:16,840
the town is run by and managed by that is not already set through statute or through statutory

1051
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,480
inventory boards such as the board of select me.

1052
01:19:19,420 --> 01:19:22,960
You then have zoning amendment bylaws where you can

1053
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,940
put a business, where you can put your home,

1054
01:19:26,460 --> 01:19:28,700
what size some of those areas will be,

1055
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,520
and those are usually regulated through permit approvals,

1056
01:19:32,940 --> 01:19:34,140
through either the building inspector,

1057
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,480
the planning board, or the zoning board of appeals.

1058
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:42,580
And right now, those will require two-thirds approval

1059
01:19:42,580 --> 01:19:43,420
at town meeting.

1060
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:44,460
It's a high threshold.

1061
01:19:44,460 --> 01:19:50,200
Because it's meant, originally, to allow towns to have more self-determination is to

1062
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:51,520
how they want their town to look.

1063
01:19:53,220 --> 01:19:59,180
I say right now because, based on the current housing crisis that the governor and administration

1064
01:19:59,180 --> 01:20:07,820
is consistently discussing, there is legislation pending that will change future zoning to

1065
01:20:07,820 --> 01:20:12,840
only be a majority vote, thereby allowing zoning to be changed easier.

1066
01:20:13,340 --> 01:20:18,720
That is not past yet, I'm giving you a heads up that most likely we'll see that in future

1067
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:19,260
town meetings.

1068
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:24,280
So with it's okay, I think the easiest and best thing for me to do is to take this one

1069
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:27,180
by one and then I will ask for a couple of votes at the end.

1070
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:27,880
Is that okay?

1071
01:20:28,180 --> 01:20:28,300
Yes.

1072
01:20:28,540 --> 01:20:28,720
All right.

1073
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:30,700
So first, we'll look at the General Biola.

1074
01:20:30,860 --> 01:20:33,860
Article one is mobile food, vendors, and trucks.

1075
01:20:34,580 --> 01:20:39,920
Currently, we have had, or in the past handful of years, we have had people petition the town,

1076
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:44,520
wanting to be able to sell food out of a truck that is not

1077
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:48,700
allowed use. Our bylaws are written that if something is

1078
01:20:48,700 --> 01:20:53,040
silent, it is not allowed by right. I mean that you are not

1079
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,540
permanent for it. So if somebody wanted to come in today and I'll

1080
01:20:55,540 --> 01:20:58,240
make up a silly thing, there's somebody came in today and they

1081
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:04,000
said, I want to put a flying car manufacturing plant. It is

1082
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,340
nowhere mentioned in our bylaws. The afford is not in a

1083
01:21:07,340 --> 01:21:15,140
allowed use. This is not mentioned in our current by-law. So, passage of this will allow

1084
01:21:15,140 --> 01:21:22,260
mobile food trucks to be allowed use in the town moving forward. The second one is in

1085
01:21:22,260 --> 01:21:28,620
reference to ten storage at a mobile home park. Right now, our current shed that are allowed

1086
01:21:28,620 --> 01:21:36,520
as an accessory unit is five feet by eight feet in the looking to expand the size to allow

1087
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:44,020
for more storage. Next page. Now we'll move into zoning bylaws. So the first one is

1088
01:21:44,020 --> 01:21:49,260
a contractor storage yard. One of the frustrations of many of our residents and the source of

1089
01:21:49,260 --> 01:21:54,580
a lot of the complaints is that our contractor storage yards are currently allowed in

1090
01:21:54,580 --> 01:22:00,120
all zoning. So anybody who lives in a residential area can wake up the next day and have a commercial

1091
01:22:01,060 --> 01:22:05,720
contractor's yard right next to them. And so that's been the source of most of the complaint.

1092
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:11,160
So what this will do is that this will limit it will not be allowed in residential areas.

1093
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:20,400
Number four is in reference to signs in the town center and digital messaging boards in general.

1094
01:22:21,140 --> 01:22:26,280
I'm going to, I want to talk about this a little bit more in detail so I'm going to skip it, but it's okay.

1095
01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:32,980
Mixed use, we do not allow right now in our business area and

1096
01:22:32,980 --> 01:22:34,800
and also in our town center district

1097
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:36,920
for somebody to have a business on the bottom

1098
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:38,800
and an apartment on top.

1099
01:22:39,300 --> 01:22:42,500
Very common in more like city center areas.

1100
01:22:42,900 --> 01:22:45,060
We don't have a traditional walking center.

1101
01:22:46,580 --> 01:22:49,280
However, it will allow people to be able

1102
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:50,800
to make better use of their buildings

1103
01:22:51,260 --> 01:22:53,380
and to be able to have a commercial entity

1104
01:22:53,380 --> 01:22:56,200
on the bottom and a residential one on top.

1105
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:00,680
I totally, my opinion doesn't matter in any of this.

1106
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:06,540
This is the only one here by frankly that I am a little bit concerned about and the reason

1107
01:23:06,540 --> 01:23:08,840
being this is because we will feel the complaints.

1108
01:23:09,260 --> 01:23:15,640
I worked in another town that was much larger that did allow this and somebody moves in

1109
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:22,980
and the bottom is a barbershop that has opened 7 to 5, cuts hair, not a big deal, three years

1110
01:23:22,980 --> 01:23:28,940
later the barbershop moves out and a bar moves in and now it's 11 o'clock tonight you can't

1111
01:23:28,940 --> 01:23:29,160
sleep.

1112
01:23:29,780 --> 01:23:32,040
That's an allowed use under mixed use.

1113
01:23:32,620 --> 01:23:37,520
And now that person that is calling us or calling the police saying to quiet down what's

1114
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:38,440
hard to quiet down a bar.

1115
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:44,980
So again, I understand the premise behind it, not necessarily against it, but please

1116
01:23:44,980 --> 01:23:48,740
understand that that is going to create some future headaches and problems.

1117
01:23:49,660 --> 01:23:54,620
Accessory dwelling unit to ADUs for short, this again is being pushed really hard by the

1118
01:23:54,620 --> 01:23:57,980
administration, the governor's administration is the one I'm referring to.

1119
01:23:57,980 --> 01:24:03,820
And the reason being is because we are seeing our senior citizens live longer.

1120
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:09,660
And there's not enough nursing home and I could personally attest to not all fantastic.

1121
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:19,460
So this will allow single family homes by right to be able to add an accessory drawing unit

1122
01:24:19,460 --> 01:24:23,000
for an in-law apartment onto their current building.

1123
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:28,860
There is limitations no more than 900 square feet, it's not to be rented out, it's not to

1124
01:24:28,860 --> 01:24:34,020
be able to make future apartment rental income, but it is to provide flexibility so

1125
01:24:34,580 --> 01:24:38,280
that way if you want to have family members be able to move in, there is additional

1126
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:41,780
space there. That is not allowed right right now, and that's what they're looking to

1127
01:24:41,780 --> 01:24:42,040
amend.

1128
01:24:43,380 --> 01:24:45,340
This is not allowed right for what?

1129
01:24:46,180 --> 01:24:50,280
To add a single family, to add an accessory dwelling such an in-law apartment.

1130
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:58,280
Without going through like zoning is correct or a big headache, right? That is correct and then on the water resource protection district

1131
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:05,320
We have something funky in our bylaws that have for the most part not been an issue until recently

1132
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:08,320
So if you need to get a special permit

1133
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:12,260
You almost always go to the zoning board of appeals

1134
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:21,120
Our if you have a need a permit in the water resource district you go to the planning board

1135
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:26,980
the intent of the original language was, you need a special permit, you go the zoning board.

1136
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:31,540
If it's in the water, if it's in the water resource district, you go to the planning board,

1137
01:25:32,420 --> 01:25:37,220
ZBA planning board. It's come to our attention because we tried to permit

1138
01:25:37,220 --> 01:25:44,640
in a business and legal looked at it and it doesn't necessarily say what we want to say.

1139
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:51,420
So right now, if somebody wants to do by special permit a business in the water resource

1140
01:25:51,420 --> 01:25:57,880
district area, they have to get an approval of the ZBA in the planning board. It's definitely not

1141
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:03,840
efficient. It also means that one board could have veto power over the other, which is willing

1142
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:09,260
not fear to the applicant who might spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in engineering

1143
01:26:09,260 --> 01:26:15,800
costs. Please, the ZBA in the planning board might want something entirely different and they will

1144
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:20,720
know it until they get to that level. So what we're looking to do is we're looking to try to clarify

1145
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:25,800
this that will be consolidated all just to the plain board if it's in the water resource

1146
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:35,060
district. A couple of other items. These were not recommended from the Biola Study Committee.

1147
01:26:36,420 --> 01:26:42,360
Jeff in the Board of Selectment had proposed that we would change our current zoning or our

1148
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:48,400
current conforming lot for single-family home which is a 30,000 square feet to change

1149
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:55,120
it to amend it to allow for one acre. They did not approve that. They did not

1150
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:59,720
recommend it, I should say. They did not recommend it. And one of the concerns was

1151
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:05,120
that the multi-dwelling, which is 60,000 would be too close to the single

1152
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:10,240
family dwelling. So I think that one of the ways that we could fix that and address

1153
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:15,880
that is that right now the same percentage is a 30,000 square feet for single

1154
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:21,400
family and 60,000 square feet for multi-dwelling, you could have meant to one acre in two

1155
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:30,140
acres. Clearly, the town has a culture that believes that we should use that same difference

1156
01:27:30,140 --> 01:27:34,520
between one to the other. So I think if we make that to one acre in two acres, then it

1157
01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:39,040
would fit in the culture of this town, assuming that you're in favor of that. There was also

1158
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:45,800
a request that was going to mandate a curbside trash and recycling. Again, I placed it

1159
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:49,400
In the air, if you have questions, we can look at it, but there was not a recommendation

1160
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:50,040
from them.

1161
01:27:50,900 --> 01:27:56,240
And the last was a proposal that going forward that special permits were not going to

1162
01:27:56,240 --> 01:28:04,580
be needed, and people would be able to do most of their items as by right versus going through

1163
01:28:04,580 --> 01:28:05,420
a permitting process.

1164
01:28:07,060 --> 01:28:11,640
I can tell you that I think that our founding fathers would be pretty frustrated that we

1165
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:12,420
have special permits.

1166
01:28:12,460 --> 01:28:14,800
And if you have land, you should just be able to do what you want to do.

1167
01:28:14,800 --> 01:28:19,120
But we recognize now that there are impacts on our neighbors.

1168
01:28:19,460 --> 01:28:24,200
There are impacts around us and that we should make sure that even some of the basics

1169
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:26,200
of what that, for example, do you have enough parking?

1170
01:28:27,480 --> 01:28:28,880
Do you have an entrance and an egress?

1171
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:34,260
You know, some silly things that we all take for granted now that 30, 40, 50 years ago,

1172
01:28:34,420 --> 01:28:36,940
or really 50 years ago and more, never existed.

1173
01:28:37,900 --> 01:28:43,060
So this continual special permits really would be in the flavor of today's environment.

1174
01:28:43,060 --> 01:28:44,820
So they did not recommend those.

1175
01:28:45,500 --> 01:28:52,440
So I will answer any questions that you have on these and then the board on anything that

1176
01:28:52,440 --> 01:28:53,880
you want to see move forward.

1177
01:28:54,380 --> 01:29:00,580
You would then take a vote to forward zoning by law requests to the planning board because

1178
01:29:00,580 --> 01:29:03,340
by mass general law they must then have a public hearing.

1179
01:29:04,140 --> 01:29:09,400
They must vote on it and then they will opine on it as the planning board or the regulatory

1180
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,760
board for zoning at town meeting.

1181
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:16,800
You ultimately will see these back on your agenda in the future because you have to take

1182
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:18,700
a vote to place them on the warrant.

1183
01:29:19,660 --> 01:29:25,600
If the planning board does or does not recommend, if the by-laws to the committee does or does

1184
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:31,360
not recommend, those are all basically advisory to the board, but it is your decision and your

1185
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:37,300
exclusive decision to be able to place it on the warrant for the time to be able to vote

1186
01:29:37,300 --> 01:29:39,120
on, minus a couple of exceptions.

1187
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:43,920
questions. And if okay, I can answer any of those questions because I know I threw a lot

1188
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:48,360
at you. I can answer any of those questions and then move on to the town senate district

1189
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:52,120
sign, or I can just move on to that now, whatever the board prefers.

1190
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:59,660
You're looking for a vote on this today? I will be eventually yes. And again, your vote

1191
01:29:59,660 --> 01:29:59,980
will not-

1192
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,980
I'd like to be placed on the warrant, and your vote is not to say, I like it, or I dislike it. When it comes to zoning, it will only be a vote to go the planning board so that way they can review it. Now, in reality, if the two of you hate something that's up there, like all those ones that have been, say, hey, I don't want to do anything with the water resource protection. I don't like it. I don't want to make any changes. You could choose not to vote to send to the planning board.

1193
01:30:29,980 --> 01:30:35,600
board. In a list of plain board or citizens petition overrides you, that one dies.

1194
01:30:38,390 --> 01:30:38,910
So

1195
01:30:41,020 --> 01:30:48,060
going through what you spoke, I am still committed to pushing the acre through, I can

1196
01:30:48,060 --> 01:30:53,620
speak for myself and what my thanks agreed. I am just doing some math. We increased, we

1197
01:30:53,620 --> 01:30:59,900
increased, we went from what, three quarters of an acre to an acre, right? So taking that same

1198
01:30:59,900 --> 01:31:07,660
math, taking the 60,000 square feet for the multi-unit dwelling up to 75,000 square feet

1199
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:09,960
is the same percentage.

1200
01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:12,340
Feel free to check my math, but I believe it to be accurate.

1201
01:31:14,500 --> 01:31:16,980
And so I would like to pass that forward.

1202
01:31:23,570 --> 01:31:24,830
The mixed use,

1203
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:32,980
bad analogy here, but the people that move in the Fenway Park and complain

1204
01:31:32,980 --> 01:31:33,580
about the noise.

1205
01:31:33,580 --> 01:31:36,080
Yes. Well, Fenway Park's been there longer than anybody's been alive.

1206
01:31:36,460 --> 01:31:36,640
Correct.

1207
01:31:36,900 --> 01:31:40,060
So I don't have sympathy for people there that complain about the noise.

1208
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:47,020
The makes use, the concern I have is if somebody's living somewhere now and we put commercial

1209
01:31:47,020 --> 01:31:53,720
below them, and they've been there for a long time, then I'm not in favor of that, right?

1210
01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:58,100
They didn't choose to move into, they were already in that spot before we'll just say the

1211
01:31:58,100 --> 01:31:58,600
noise came.

1212
01:31:58,900 --> 01:32:01,260
And when I say noise, it can be trucks backing up for dumpsters.

1213
01:32:02,300 --> 01:32:10,760
There's a lot of different things like that, but I think this is for commercial buildings

1214
01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:16,420
that are currently in existence that have the space above them, could be either way,

1215
01:32:16,820 --> 01:32:17,520
could be either way.

1216
01:32:17,660 --> 01:32:24,440
So they don't have it or they, no, if this, as I understand it, if this article were to

1217
01:32:24,440 --> 01:32:29,440
pass, if you had a business unit right now, they would have the flexibility to go through

1218
01:32:29,440 --> 01:32:34,900
permitting process and add a residential unit above and then be able to use

1219
01:32:34,900 --> 01:32:39,420
as a residential unit in the future. Right now we do not know. So it's already a

1220
01:32:39,420 --> 01:32:42,300
business so the people moving in there know that there's businesses underneath

1221
01:32:42,300 --> 01:32:49,220
them. That would be correct yes. But for example I won't name any names but we

1222
01:32:49,220 --> 01:32:54,500
have a resident who used to live next to a gym that closed and that gym turned

1223
01:32:54,500 --> 01:32:58,300
into a much different type of business afterwards that had different

1224
01:32:58,300 --> 01:33:02,460
an impact from what the gym had in obviously has created some complications there.

1225
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:04,720
So that's a real-world example.

1226
01:33:05,480 --> 01:33:10,720
But you are correct is that if you move into an apartment, regardless of whether it's

1227
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:17,180
a barbershop or a bar, you do know that sooner or later things change, that entity may become

1228
01:33:17,180 --> 01:33:19,040
something of a different commercial entity.

1229
01:33:23,480 --> 01:33:24,960
And those are rental units of both?

1230
01:33:27,980 --> 01:33:34,460
It just says residential, but I would assume that would be rental, but again, the

1231
01:33:34,460 --> 01:33:36,900
We can look at this from a very positive standpoint.

1232
01:33:37,440 --> 01:33:39,440
I could be the barber and choose to live upstairs.

1233
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:42,620
I could be the bar owner and now choose to live upstairs.

1234
01:33:42,820 --> 01:33:44,960
You know, I'm just thinking if it's like for us,

1235
01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:46,300
like I'm just thinking all right,

1236
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:48,120
because it could be a rental unit

1237
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:50,680
or they can sell it as a condo, right?

1238
01:33:51,240 --> 01:33:52,720
Does it give them the option to both of us?

1239
01:33:52,900 --> 01:33:54,680
I don't know it in that, in depth,

1240
01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:56,160
but I don't see any reason why not,

1241
01:33:56,180 --> 01:33:58,260
because again, I think it's just defining

1242
01:33:58,260 --> 01:33:59,400
that you can have a residential

1243
01:33:59,400 --> 01:34:01,840
and commercial in the same footprint.

1244
01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:06,880
And at the end of the day, I think I'm okay with it.

1245
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:12,660
And I think, you know, articles like this are best presented to the town and the town

1246
01:34:12,660 --> 01:34:14,100
votes, and it goes from there.

1247
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:21,380
If I would think it would be our obligation, if something was outrageous to stop it, it's

1248
01:34:21,380 --> 01:34:26,360
not waste time at town meeting, but I don't see anything particularly outrageous.

1249
01:34:27,860 --> 01:34:31,800
Other than, like I said, we need to talk about the decision of message board, because in

1250
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:36,260
one breath we said we want to put a sign out front in the next breath we said we didn't want

1251
01:34:36,260 --> 01:34:44,720
any signs in this area so with everything else with those changes to the single family

1252
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:49,740
dwelling that's fine and they don't I don't feel the need to move forward the curve side or

1253
01:34:49,740 --> 01:34:52,140
the the letter requesting special permit.

1254
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:55,820
All right so why don't we do this could you do me

1255
01:34:55,820 --> 01:35:02,280
can you just move to the actual language for the town center district?

1256
01:35:03,760 --> 01:35:04,560
So

1257
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:18,300
you'll see in principle use, I don't know what page it would be.

1258
01:35:18,440 --> 01:35:18,840
119.

1259
01:35:20,500 --> 01:35:28,100
So you'll see in digital, on the principle use digital message boards, GRF stands for

1260
01:35:28,100 --> 01:35:34,520
residential and farming, that's a combined residential zoning in West Bridgewater.

1261
01:35:35,480 --> 01:35:40,500
And then you'll see, at the far end is TSC, which is town-centered district, which the town hall falls into.

1262
01:35:41,620 --> 01:35:48,100
So right now, an SA means special permit normally through the zoning board of appeals.

1263
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:54,400
So you can see in this proposal right here, it would be proposed that it would be not allowed.

1264
01:35:54,960 --> 01:36:00,460
And if this amendment were to be passed a town meeting in either the residential area

1265
01:36:00,460 --> 01:36:01,880
or the town center district.

1266
01:36:02,420 --> 01:36:07,680
I think most people would agree that they probably don't want a digital board and a residential

1267
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:08,020
area.

1268
01:36:08,180 --> 01:36:11,700
So that one seems a little straightforward and simple.

1269
01:36:12,340 --> 01:36:18,860
The complication is that during capital budget we talked about it's important to make sure

1270
01:36:18,860 --> 01:36:23,000
that we have messaging in front of the town hall and to install a digital board.

1271
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:29,040
and I think there's probably a lot of support for that.

1272
01:36:29,860 --> 01:36:32,440
But if we were to do that in this word of pass,

1273
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:34,500
then we can't put the digital vote up from

1274
01:36:34,500 --> 01:36:36,040
because it's not allowed use.

1275
01:36:36,700 --> 01:36:37,120
Be sure.

1276
01:36:38,020 --> 01:36:40,620
It's not allowed use in the town center district.

1277
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:43,600
So we have a choice.

1278
01:36:44,300 --> 01:36:47,500
We either have to say, hey, let's allow this

1279
01:36:47,500 --> 01:36:49,140
to go through as presented.

1280
01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:51,680
And then we're not gonna do a digital vote

1281
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:52,920
in front of the town hall, right?

1282
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:53,760
Because it wouldn't be allowed.

1283
01:36:54,340 --> 01:36:56,420
Well, we'd have to make some tweaks to this

1284
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:01,200
so that we can still try to put forth the spirit

1285
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:03,720
of what the intent is of this by-law,

1286
01:37:03,980 --> 01:37:06,680
but allow the town hall to be able to have a sign

1287
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:08,480
to be able to adequately communicate.

1288
01:37:09,180 --> 01:37:11,220
We can do that fairly simple.

1289
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:15,060
What we can do is, is that under town center,

1290
01:37:15,380 --> 01:37:18,760
we can retain it as SA, meaning you just get a permit for it.

1291
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:25,060
and then if we were to do that if you want to go one more page and then blow

1292
01:37:25,060 --> 01:37:30,080
that up a little bit in 654 where it says prohibit and count center we would

1293
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:35,840
just delete that and everything else then is presented we mean the same so it

1294
01:37:35,840 --> 01:37:40,920
would still be there would still be some type of regulation and oversight on

1295
01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:46,320
digital boards in the center of town so if CVS wants to expand its sign or

1296
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:51,040
somebody else, a crystal kitchen was to put in a sign, there's still a process, it would

1297
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,720
be an allowed use, they would just go through the permitting process like anybody else would

1298
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:56,440
and the same thing with the town hall.

1299
01:37:57,600 --> 01:38:03,880
And at the same time, really get at the intent, which was to make sure that we did not allow

1300
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:06,420
digital board signs in residential areas.

1301
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,180
I'm a little confused, so forgive me.

1302
01:38:10,440 --> 01:38:10,720
It's okay.

1303
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:12,640
It's not easy item.

1304
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:19,980
So I'm a little confused and I'll rewind to the articles because I was under the impression

1305
01:38:19,980 --> 01:38:24,900
that article four was talking about town center district signs and digital message boards,

1306
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:29,580
the intent of this article is to assign regulations in the town so we're basically just assigning

1307
01:38:29,580 --> 01:38:36,960
regulations in the town to where we could put these digital boards, right, or adding a permitting.

1308
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:42,260
Yes. Right. And then in 119,

1309
01:38:45,460 --> 01:38:50,820
what's the difference in the two? There's 119, the previous

1310
01:38:50,820 --> 01:38:56,560
page. Is that what you're referring to? Yeah. And is this, is this what the current

1311
01:38:56,560 --> 01:39:01,960
bylaw? Yeah. So everything that you see in black is the current bylaw. Yep. So we do nothing.

1312
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:08,800
This is exactly what you have. Okay. Which wouldn't allow it. No, it would allow the right

1313
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:12,540
Right now it does allow the digital sign in the town center.

1314
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:18,720
So when that first couple that it talks about just realigning the regulatory aspect of

1315
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:23,420
it, it is just talking about how will we regulate digital message boards going forward.

1316
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:30,660
And I think the real spirit behind this is that we want one, we want to make sure that there

1317
01:39:30,660 --> 01:39:33,240
are no digital board signs in a residential area.

1318
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:41,800
And then two is that initially they were looking to try to prevent digital signs going forward in the town center district.

1319
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:45,500
The town center district, for the most part, is pretty commercial.

1320
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:54,200
And although nobody wants to see it become Las Vegas, is that I do think that they should have some type of ability to be able to communicate

1321
01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:59,540
under the regulatory framework of what this says, like everybody else in town has to.

1322
01:39:59,540 --> 01:40:06,000
Notice that the business in industrial area, the sign is still out and there are no changes to that.

1323
01:40:07,500 --> 01:40:13,240
So, we would not want to harm a business in the town center district and

1324
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:20,300
allow a business 35 feet down the road to have a different regulation in reference to the digital board sign.

1325
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:28,680
So that's what, by keeping it under a special permit, I think that we are being fair across the board.

1326
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:36,100
And I'm just bringing it to your attention that if the board sees value in putting a digital

1327
01:40:36,100 --> 01:40:41,340
sign out front, which I think we do, if we don't make a change to this initial proposal,

1328
01:40:41,620 --> 01:40:43,360
you will not have that ability to do so.

1329
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:45,260
You agree?

1330
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:47,700
Now I understand what you were trying to say.

1331
01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:48,660
Sorry.

1332
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:51,160
The zoning is not easy.

1333
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:57,400
Zoning is a very, it's tedious and, quite frankly, I'll do respect to all planners.

1334
01:40:57,900 --> 01:40:58,300
It's boring.

1335
01:41:01,360 --> 01:41:15,870
I would like to, you know, adjust this to allow a sign, you know, to adjust it as necessary so that we can move forward and present the town with the opportunity for a sign up front.

1336
01:41:16,550 --> 01:41:27,590
So if the board is in favor of that, then what I would be looking for is a vote specifically to this by-law initially to amend this by-law request as follows,

1337
01:41:27,590 --> 01:41:40,510
which is to allow in the town centre district to still be allowed through special permit and there will be no other changes except we have to clean up the language in order to make that possible.

1338
01:41:40,710 --> 01:41:45,490
Like I said in the second page page 120, I will delete reference to town centre district.

1339
01:41:47,330 --> 01:41:48,470
So that makes that motion.

1340
01:41:49,150 --> 01:41:55,870
Yeah, I'll make a motion to do what Mr. Yagby said and I'll second that and both yes.

1341
01:41:57,110 --> 01:41:57,630
Okay.

1342
01:41:57,890 --> 01:41:58,250
Thank you.

1343
01:41:59,030 --> 01:42:04,770
So then what we will do then is we'll go back to the cover page and

1344
01:42:06,980 --> 01:42:07,980
go one more please.

1345
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:12,720
Yep.

1346
01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:19,680
So on zoning bylaws these here in order for them to be able to go to town meeting and follow

1347
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:25,540
the tedious nature of the law. The planning board has to receive a request from the Board of

1348
01:42:25,540 --> 01:42:30,780
Selectment to review them, hold the public hearing, throw them back to you so you can place them

1349
01:42:30,780 --> 01:42:40,320
on the warrant. So with that said, it sounded like you had no objections to Article 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.

1350
01:42:40,960 --> 01:42:48,320
And then also adding the single family dwelling, I would ask for a motion to forward all of those to

1351
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:49,740
the planning board for their review.

1352
01:42:53,340 --> 01:42:59,720
I make a motion to forward, for review,

1353
01:42:59,960 --> 01:43:02,380
the zoning bylaws for Article three, four, five, six,

1354
01:43:02,380 --> 01:43:06,160
and seven, as well as the change to the dwelling.

1355
01:43:08,770 --> 01:43:10,050
Second that, vote in favor.

1356
01:43:10,790 --> 01:43:14,050
And to be clear, the change and the single family dwelling,

1357
01:43:14,210 --> 01:43:16,710
it will be one acre for a single family home

1358
01:43:17,010 --> 01:43:20,570
in 75,000 for a multi-growing home.

1359
01:43:20,830 --> 01:43:21,630
That is correct, okay.

1360
01:43:21,890 --> 01:43:23,110
And that's what we will do.

1361
01:43:23,110 --> 01:43:27,530
And if I can comment real quick because I did have the opportunity and I want to thank them

1362
01:43:28,410 --> 01:43:31,490
We didn't agree but I did spend some time with the planning board

1363
01:43:32,210 --> 01:43:37,410
And they gave me time, you know towards the end of one of their meetings to really sit and discuss this and we went back and forth and

1364
01:43:38,230 --> 01:43:42,370
I'm sitting here not in agreement. I believe this this is important and should move forward

1365
01:43:43,150 --> 01:43:47,570
But I don't want that to make it sound like in value their opinion or their time that they gave me on this so

1366
01:43:47,570 --> 01:43:56,510
While we disagree, and I'm guessing that we'll probably disagree again as we forward this I still want to say thanks to them for their time.

1367
01:43:56,970 --> 01:43:58,230
It was appreciated.

1368
01:43:58,750 --> 01:43:59,850
And then we'll go to page one.

1369
01:44:00,090 --> 01:44:03,990
Now these are general bylaws and the planning board does not have to review these.

1370
01:44:04,730 --> 01:44:14,330
So if you have no issues with either one of these, they will be placed on a future meeting of which you will vote on to place on the warrant.

1371
01:44:14,330 --> 01:44:20,490
If you have any objections to them, I won't place them and if you want to take no action on it tonight, you don't have to

1372
01:44:20,490 --> 01:44:26,670
I'll just place it on the next meeting when you vote on your warrant articles and you could spend the next couple of weeks just reviewing it

1373
01:44:26,670 --> 01:44:28,610
It's all your choice

1374
01:44:28,610 --> 01:44:31,730
I'm ready to make a decision on this it's same here. Yes

1375
01:44:32,570 --> 01:44:40,950
We were ready to make a decision. I make a motion for the general by law amendment recommendations for Article 1 and Article 2 to be placed in town meeting

1376
01:44:40,950 --> 01:44:46,990
Okay, so what I will do is is that knowing that at your next meeting we will be giving you

1377
01:44:47,410 --> 01:44:51,510
At this point we're at 40 warrant articles, which is a lot for our town

1378
01:44:51,510 --> 01:44:54,610
So we will be placing all of those warrants in front of you

1379
01:44:54,610 --> 01:44:59,910
You will then go one by one or we might group them depending on what the board wants to do and you will vote

1380
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:07,400
to place those on the warrant, but knowing that you're in favor of these two, those two will now be on that document that is presented to you at your next meeting.

1381
01:45:09,820 --> 01:45:10,960
Thank you for your assistance.

1382
01:45:11,400 --> 01:45:11,580
Welcome.

1383
01:45:26,470 --> 01:45:29,950
Next is the town administrator or I'm skipping public comment.

1384
01:45:30,950 --> 01:45:31,850
Or see how are you?

1385
01:45:32,530 --> 01:45:34,450
All right and actually we jump back maybe to Cheryl.

1386
01:45:34,770 --> 01:45:36,550
I was going to say that so she's here.

1387
01:45:36,750 --> 01:45:36,850
Yeah.

1388
01:45:37,330 --> 01:45:39,290
You know, we'll find out what I said wrong.

1389
01:45:42,570 --> 01:45:43,770
Cheryl, David went through it.

1390
01:45:43,830 --> 01:45:45,850
I don't think we knew for sure if you were going to attend.

1391
01:45:46,010 --> 01:45:46,970
But thank you for being here.

1392
01:45:47,150 --> 01:45:50,870
I have a very long birthday and I want to go home.

1393
01:45:50,870 --> 01:45:56,530
So, thank you for the reminder, and I'll be quick.

1394
01:45:57,450 --> 01:45:58,730
Please, take your time.

1395
01:46:00,470 --> 01:46:07,750
You should have my memo in your paperwork, and as I stated, we have two projects this

1396
01:46:07,750 --> 01:46:07,970
year.

1397
01:46:08,090 --> 01:46:09,170
Last year, we didn't have any projects.

1398
01:46:10,010 --> 01:46:16,190
This year, we have the Veterans Affairs is going for $5,000 to continue their work with

1399
01:46:16,190 --> 01:46:25,410
plaques and identifying about trends in town and the more work for the permitting and engineering

1400
01:46:25,410 --> 01:46:26,230
of the fish ladder.

1401
01:46:26,950 --> 01:46:31,710
So I saw some of the plans that looks pretty cool when they have the plan going on over

1402
01:46:31,710 --> 01:46:31,890
there.

1403
01:46:32,630 --> 01:46:41,790
So I know that Chris Ayantelli is getting some extra money so he's asking for 84,200 from

1404
01:46:41,790 --> 01:46:42,510
the CPA.

1405
01:46:44,690 --> 01:46:52,450
If you look to the next paragraph, I'd have some general balances going into

1406
01:46:52,450 --> 01:47:01,830
this year. So about $309, $884 to play with for this year.

1407
01:47:04,030 --> 01:47:05,370
I don't know if you guys have

1408
01:47:05,370 --> 01:47:11,810
any questions? I feel like I should ask a bunch because you've spent a lot of effort

1409
01:47:11,810 --> 01:47:17,370
getting here right now, but I also feel like I should let you go. No, I'm very familiar

1410
01:47:17,370 --> 01:47:20,450
with, at this point, I'm very familiar with the CPC, where I was going to say to you when

1411
01:47:20,450 --> 01:47:24,710
you were done, I'll say to you now, you've been at this for a very long time because I've

1412
01:47:24,710 --> 01:47:30,910
interacted with you for a long, long time through various committees and way back even I think

1413
01:47:30,910 --> 01:47:37,010
going back to Tom Planning and Nancy Maloney and the whole nine yards and you've been there so

1414
01:47:37,010 --> 01:47:42,390
first and foremost, thanks for your continued efforts on behalf of the town when it comes to CPC.

1415
01:47:44,610 --> 01:47:51,710
I do understand it from those and like some of the planning and priority meetings that you've had.

1416
01:47:52,210 --> 01:47:55,150
Yeah, yeah, it's nice to see a couple of projects this year.

1417
01:47:55,150 --> 01:47:55,210
there.

1418
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:05,680
Thank you on the Veterans Committee. Oh, good. Yeah, so the work that's being done,

1419
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:13,020
we're trying to identify some of the headstones for people that more properly marked as veterans.

1420
01:48:14,220 --> 01:48:21,340
So thank you. Good, good. This goes, you know, this is the residents. The CDC is really,

1421
01:48:21,540 --> 01:48:26,080
you know, we just make sure when the applications come in that they are eligible and they can

1422
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:31,580
you presented to town residents, so but that's definitely something that I think

1423
01:48:31,580 --> 01:48:38,520
everybody was a baby girl. I think it was two years ago. I think there's a

1424
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:44,780
little bit of money left over from that, so there's an extra money this year.

1425
01:48:45,580 --> 01:48:48,620
Do we know when the fish ladder would be done? I know that's not your project.

1426
01:48:48,700 --> 01:48:52,680
Yeah, I do know that because they're still working on permitting and

1427
01:48:52,680 --> 01:49:03,740
engineering, but hopefully I have seen some plans. So it's still progressing, and still have a big chunk of money this year.

1428
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:05,880
Fantastic.

1429
01:49:06,280 --> 01:49:06,380
Yeah.

1430
01:49:07,340 --> 01:49:09,940
Super. Thank you for running over after a lot of time.

1431
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:11,020
Well, thank you. Yes.

1432
01:49:11,180 --> 01:49:13,820
Thank you for, I don't know how many years can I ask?

1433
01:49:14,440 --> 01:49:16,060
I think since 2010.

1434
01:49:16,540 --> 01:49:16,820
Okay.

1435
01:49:17,220 --> 01:49:18,540
So that's a lot of time.

1436
01:49:18,900 --> 01:49:20,380
Well, 2008, actually, sorry.

1437
01:49:21,480 --> 01:49:22,280
But thank you.

1438
01:49:22,460 --> 01:49:23,800
I have a great group, so.

1439
01:49:24,580 --> 01:49:25,860
No, we appreciate it.

1440
01:49:26,100 --> 01:49:28,320
Well, thank you for letting me squeeze in.

1441
01:49:28,660 --> 01:49:28,920
Thank you.

1442
01:49:29,460 --> 01:49:29,840
All right.

1443
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:30,400
Thanks.

1444
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:34,160
I said public comment period.

1445
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:35,700
Was there any public comment?

1446
01:49:36,860 --> 01:49:37,400
Just a comment.

1447
01:49:37,480 --> 01:49:37,760
All right.

1448
01:49:38,020 --> 01:49:39,380
Well, we're moving on to a topic

1449
01:49:39,380 --> 01:49:40,740
that might be near and dear to your heart.

1450
01:49:41,260 --> 01:49:43,160
The town administrator, the first item

1451
01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:44,420
in the town administrator's report.

1452
01:49:45,060 --> 01:49:47,120
So this is just an FYI.

1453
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:49,920
So this is just to let you know and let anybody else

1454
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:54,560
know that's watching is that we'll have a debate on Monday evening on March 25th.

1455
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:56,600
Most of the races are uncontested.

1456
01:49:56,800 --> 01:50:00,840
The uncontested candidates, we have put the rules out where they'll speak for a couple

1457
01:50:00,840 --> 01:50:03,560
of minutes and tell people who they are and why they're running.

1458
01:50:04,420 --> 01:50:07,140
And there's one contested race, which is the housing authority.

1459
01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:09,640
They have two candidates for one position.

1460
01:50:10,340 --> 01:50:15,100
The debate will start somewhere around 6.45, the doors will open at 6.

1461
01:50:15,100 --> 01:50:20,660
the moderator should be there, he does have a minor conflict he's trying to

1462
01:50:20,660 --> 01:50:24,500
change, but the moderator should be there as he has done in the past and to be

1463
01:50:24,500 --> 01:50:29,160
able to moderate it and the town clerk and I will both be there as well. I will

1464
01:50:29,160 --> 01:50:34,860
say this, we do this because there is no other town that I'm aware of that the

1465
01:50:34,860 --> 01:50:38,860
town administrator's Board of Selectman's Office runs this. It's usually run from

1466
01:50:38,860 --> 01:50:44,320
either a political party, you know, Democratic Republican, or it's run by the

1467
01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:48,900
newspaper, but when I got here in 2013, we didn't have any debates and I thought that

1468
01:50:48,900 --> 01:50:54,180
we need to provide some opportunity for people to be able to see who is running and give

1469
01:50:54,180 --> 01:50:58,360
people, especially who have not been involved before, a forum to be able to talk about themselves

1470
01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:02,520
and why they thought it was important for them to run. So, that's what this is. It will

1471
01:51:02,520 --> 01:51:07,500
be at the middle school, high school, as it traditionally is, and sort of gets just an

1472
01:51:09,060 --> 01:51:16,780
the next item is the tree warden. So our tree warden has been held by our either forestry

1473
01:51:16,780 --> 01:51:22,500
superintendent which merged into our DPW director for 30 something years. As we know Chris

1474
01:51:22,500 --> 01:51:31,940
is retired and so his position as tree warden is up. We through the years where that position

1475
01:51:31,940 --> 01:51:37,360
is elected, but really it's really the responsibility of the DPW director and this statutes and all

1476
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:45,500
those. So with that said, it is best for us to be able to appoint the tree warden versus

1477
01:51:45,500 --> 01:51:50,260
have an elected tree warden. Because the last thing we want to have is that I don't want to see

1478
01:51:50,260 --> 01:51:56,480
somebody that's elected as a tree warden with no budget. Then say I want the DPW to take down

1479
01:51:56,480 --> 01:51:59,720
on these 18 trees and a DPW directed disagrees

1480
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:02,320
who takes direction from me and from this board

1481
01:52:02,320 --> 01:52:03,700
and then we have conflict.

1482
01:52:04,560 --> 01:52:05,780
So we don't want to see that.

1483
01:52:06,260 --> 01:52:08,980
And we've been very fortunate for the past 30 years

1484
01:52:09,320 --> 01:52:12,000
that we've had one person that's been able to do both.

1485
01:52:12,780 --> 01:52:15,040
Your, the tree warning is actually

1486
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:16,880
in a pointed position by law,

1487
01:52:17,620 --> 01:52:20,480
unless you have a local by law that says otherwise.

1488
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,480
And for whatever reason, probably 200 years ago,

1489
01:52:23,480 --> 01:52:26,360
So we chose to have that as an elected position.

1490
01:52:27,040 --> 01:52:32,500
What's interesting is that in 2009, the Board of Select and Recognized that it should

1491
01:52:32,500 --> 01:52:35,460
be appointed and they brought it to town meeting in a past.

1492
01:52:38,890 --> 01:52:43,790
So for whatever reason at that time, it was also brought to referendum and it failed.

1493
01:52:45,390 --> 01:52:47,450
Failed by 50 votes out of 1,000.

1494
01:52:48,550 --> 01:52:52,170
There is no legal requirement that it has to go to referendum.

1495
01:52:52,170 --> 01:52:57,510
There was no need for it to go to referendum and why the town but the referendum at that

1496
01:52:57,510 --> 01:52:59,410
point I cannot answer that question.

1497
01:53:00,210 --> 01:53:05,850
So I have a conversation with town council as to whether or not we can accept the original

1498
01:53:05,850 --> 01:53:12,030
2009 vote at town meeting and just enforce it or if we are better off going back to town

1499
01:53:12,030 --> 01:53:13,790
meeting to be able to get that vote.

1500
01:53:14,670 --> 01:53:16,610
So we'll see how that plays out.

1501
01:53:17,030 --> 01:53:21,390
But I want to bring it to your attention because again, it's an expected article at your

1502
01:53:21,390 --> 01:53:26,710
next meeting as to whether or not you would want to place it or not. And I want to have a discussion

1503
01:53:26,710 --> 01:53:32,810
in case you have any questions thoughts or concerns. I am fine with it, I'm voting to a point

1504
01:53:32,810 --> 01:53:33,630
to make

1505
01:53:38,690 --> 01:53:43,570
a decision on this. So you will make a decision at your next meeting as to whether or not you

1506
01:53:43,570 --> 01:53:44,490
want to place it on the warrant.

1507
01:53:46,500 --> 01:53:46,700
Okay,

1508
01:53:49,180 --> 01:53:53,360
next. So a handful of years ago we were looking for a way that we

1509
01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:59,020
would be able to save residents money. And so we aggregated, went through the process through the

1510
01:53:59,020 --> 01:54:03,340
Department of Public Utilities, DPU for short and we allow our residents the

1511
01:54:03,340 --> 01:54:07,560
opportunity to be able to aggregate their electricity and therefore drive the

1512
01:54:07,560 --> 01:54:12,720
cost down. Right now with National Grid it's been a big home run. You can see

1513
01:54:12,720 --> 01:54:17,400
that over the last handful of years residents in this town have been able to

1514
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:22,380
save literally $2 million by advocating their electricity. Now they don't have

1515
01:54:22,380 --> 01:54:25,820
to they can opt out they don't have to participate if they don't want to but a

1516
01:54:25,820 --> 01:54:26,980
high majority of ours do.

1517
01:54:27,480 --> 01:54:30,460
The nice thing is, is that they can opt in and out every six months.

1518
01:54:31,040 --> 01:54:32,820
There's a 1-800 number that they can call.

1519
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:33,660
It's on our website.

1520
01:54:33,860 --> 01:54:34,560
They can call our office.

1521
01:54:34,660 --> 01:54:35,460
We can give it to them.

1522
01:54:35,860 --> 01:54:37,420
And I hear it full of people sometimes do.

1523
01:54:38,020 --> 01:54:40,380
But usually we're able to drive the cost down.

1524
01:54:41,100 --> 01:54:43,880
That contract ends at the end of November.

1525
01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:48,420
So I have to start the process of deciding whether or not we

1526
01:54:48,420 --> 01:54:51,880
re-enroll, go out to bid, and present it to the board

1527
01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:52,980
as to what you would like to do.

1528
01:54:53,080 --> 01:54:54,800
And obviously, it's just not my decision alone.

1529
01:54:54,800 --> 01:54:59,100
It was a lot of work in our part and a couple of years ago I almost made a

1530
01:54:59,100 --> 01:55:04,020
recommendation not to do it because what it's been a lot it's a lot of work and

1531
01:55:04,020 --> 01:55:07,720
two there are some people that when they receive the fly in the mail and they

1532
01:55:07,720 --> 01:55:11,560
say I can't believe you did this to my electricity and I have to opt out they're

1533
01:55:11,560 --> 01:55:17,860
just mad and you know there's a tough phone calls to have to always handle so but at

1534
01:55:17,860 --> 01:55:22,760
that time we thought about it and I don't know how we turn a blind eye to an

1535
01:55:22,760 --> 01:55:28,720
opportunity for the town to save a couple of million dollars. So I'm glad that we re-enrolled.

1536
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:34,580
I would be making a recommendation potentially to re-enroll in November and when I say potentially

1537
01:55:34,580 --> 01:55:39,240
it's only because I want to put out the bid in no for sure whether or not we're going to save money.

1538
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:43,520
So right now you can see if you blow it up just a little bit please up top.

1539
01:55:44,180 --> 01:55:57,460
You will see that the direct energy price is, it says .0, but it's really 11 cents, 11.36 cents, is what we have for an aggregated rate.

1540
01:55:58,200 --> 01:56:04,960
In national grid, this past year was at 33 cents. So people, they stay with national grid, literally paid three times as much.

1541
01:56:04,960 --> 01:56:11,940
They go out to bid every single year in May in November, and they only go out to bid for one day.

1542
01:56:12,240 --> 01:56:19,200
It is by statute. Everybody knows it, and the God's honest truth is, if I sent to you, you have to buy a card today.

1543
01:56:19,980 --> 01:56:26,000
You cannot buy it any other day, and I know you're coming in. I'm increasing your cost, right? It's kind of silly.

1544
01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:30,000
Because national grid by statute cannot mark up that rate.

1545
01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:35,620
If they literally just go out to bid, it's $0.33, they sell it to you at $0.33, they don't

1546
01:56:35,620 --> 01:56:35,840
care.

1547
01:56:36,820 --> 01:56:40,160
So this gives us a really good opportunity to save people money.

1548
01:56:40,820 --> 01:56:45,200
The reason I'm putting on the agenda tonight is that when we go out to bid, we literally

1549
01:56:45,200 --> 01:56:50,560
price this on the commodities market the way you would buying a stock or buying any other

1550
01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:51,020
commodity.

1551
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:54,480
And when we put it out there, we have to make a decision.

1552
01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:59,460
So if the price comes in at, and I'm going to get this up, if the price comes in at $0.19

1553
01:56:59,460 --> 01:57:06,280
sense, the answer would be no. But if the price comes in again anywhere near $11.12, the answer

1554
01:57:06,280 --> 01:57:11,560
would be yes. And I don't have time to call a meeting, make a decision that price is long gone,

1555
01:57:11,800 --> 01:57:18,260
you'd have to read better. So whenever the contract comes up, I ask the board for authorization to

1556
01:57:18,260 --> 01:57:23,740
allow me to place it out the bid. If it's an acceptable price, I execute it, and then I bring it back

1557
01:57:23,740 --> 01:57:29,400
to the board to actually sign the contract. If you don't want to aggregate it all, and just tell me

1558
01:57:29,400 --> 01:57:35,320
know, I won't put it back out to bid. But based on these savings, I think it's probably worth it for us to do it.

1559
01:57:35,940 --> 01:57:37,320
Agreed. Yes.

1560
01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:43,680
So with that said, I would ask you just to take a vote to appoint me the ability to be able to execute pricing.

1561
01:57:44,580 --> 01:57:50,540
I make a motion to appoint David Gagney, the ability to execute pricing.

1562
01:57:51,380 --> 01:57:52,500
I'll second vote in favor.

1563
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:54,580
Thank you.

1564
01:57:55,280 --> 01:57:59,980
Next is really just an FYP because this is your first budget season and you don't know

1565
01:57:59,980 --> 01:58:03,100
it but you are now done listening to all of your budgets.

1566
01:58:03,960 --> 01:58:08,720
Every single budget in the entire town has been presented to you either from the department

1567
01:58:08,720 --> 01:58:10,080
head or from myself.

1568
01:58:10,880 --> 01:58:14,540
So you have heard and seen every single budget that's going to go to town meeting.

1569
01:58:15,620 --> 01:58:22,280
I will spend the next week condensing all of that information, putting it together and

1570
01:58:22,280 --> 01:58:27,460
making sure that I'm balanced. What I mean by that is how much revenue do we have coming in based on

1571
01:58:27,460 --> 01:58:33,800
receipts and proposition two and a half and compare that is to what we're all of our departments are

1572
01:58:33,800 --> 01:58:39,580
looking for. I also meet with most of them so I have a really good idea as to whether or not

1573
01:58:39,580 --> 01:58:43,940
there's fudge in the budgets or if it's a real the genuine budget. And I can tell you the

1574
01:58:43,940 --> 01:58:48,540
God's honest truth is is that these departments have kept coming with pretty lean budgets this year.

1575
01:58:48,540 --> 01:58:49,820
There's not a lot there.

1576
01:58:50,420 --> 01:58:52,700
I'll also make some additional tweaks to it.

1577
01:58:53,060 --> 01:58:56,120
For example, I told you last time we signed a new

1578
01:58:56,120 --> 01:58:58,920
cleaning contract, so I have to increase those lines.

1579
01:59:00,260 --> 01:59:05,820
DPW came in and I forget what a solid waste removal

1580
01:59:05,820 --> 01:59:08,300
that goes up 2.5% every single year.

1581
01:59:08,780 --> 01:59:11,380
Mike was new, he didn't have access to the contract.

1582
01:59:11,660 --> 01:59:13,660
So I'll make those adjustments that I usually do.

1583
01:59:14,260 --> 01:59:16,080
And then you'll remember when the water department made

1584
01:59:16,080 --> 01:59:18,280
their presentation, there are certain lines

1585
01:59:18,280 --> 01:59:24,320
that we provide for them. Insurance workers come all those types. So I got to back those in.

1586
01:59:24,780 --> 01:59:30,800
So I'll back all of that information in and then I will present to you a balanced budget at your

1587
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:37,260
next meeting and make a recommendation to you on that budget. You will then vote whether or not

1588
01:59:37,260 --> 01:59:41,340
you like that budget. You want to amend it up or you want to amend it down.

1589
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:49,940
This is just like at the state level, the governor presents a balanced budget to the House

1590
01:59:49,940 --> 01:59:51,020
Ways and Means Committee.

1591
01:59:51,600 --> 01:59:56,320
In the House Ways and Means Committee votes on it and then brings it to the full legislative

1592
01:59:56,320 --> 01:59:56,820
body.

1593
01:59:56,820 --> 01:59:59,940
At the count level, you represent the government.

1594
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:28,440
Governor, or the executive branch, so you will vote on that budget. Our House Ways and Means Committee is our Finance Committee. So, the following night, the Finance Committee will then vote on that budget. It is their recommendation that then goes to Town Meeting. And the Town Meeting is our legislative body, and they vote on it at that point. They have the right to be able to amend it, keep it the same and amend it up or amend it down.

1595
02:00:28,440 --> 02:00:34,840
Your budget and the Finance Committee's budget both are in the Finance Committee handbook

1596
02:00:34,840 --> 02:00:36,500
for transparency sake.

1597
02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:42,240
So the entire town knows what the department had requested, what the Board of Selectment

1598
02:00:42,240 --> 02:00:47,060
approved, and what the Finance Committee is recommending to the town, which is the budget

1599
02:00:47,060 --> 02:00:49,340
the moderator reads to town meeting.

1600
02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:52,120
And the town meeting makes the ultimate decision.

1601
02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:55,800
So with your next meeting, you will be voting on your budgets.

1602
02:00:55,800 --> 02:01:02,240
And in addition to that, you will also be voting on which warrant articles to place

1603
02:01:02,720 --> 02:01:05,180
at the warrant for term meeting.

1604
02:01:05,720 --> 02:01:08,140
Most of them are usually pretty simple and easy.

1605
02:01:08,620 --> 02:01:09,380
One of them is the budget.

1606
02:01:10,240 --> 02:01:16,120
But the other ones are like, I know with your very sensitive to the exemptions for seniors

1607
02:01:16,120 --> 02:01:16,940
and for veterans.

1608
02:01:17,320 --> 02:01:19,680
So that's always one of the articles that we placed on there as well.

1609
02:01:19,760 --> 02:01:20,800
That's an annual article.

1610
02:01:21,400 --> 02:01:24,480
So all of those you'll vote to place on the warrant.

1611
02:01:24,480 --> 02:01:26,840
Get capital budget items that you saw tonight.

1612
02:01:27,340 --> 02:01:30,420
You will vote whether to place those on the warrant or not.

1613
02:01:30,960 --> 02:01:34,360
And then at the same time, you'll be voting on whether or not you want to place the

1614
02:01:34,360 --> 02:01:38,080
general bylaw and the zoning bylaws that you saw this evening.

1615
02:01:38,400 --> 02:01:40,200
You'll be voting to place those on the warrant.

1616
02:01:40,960 --> 02:01:43,080
You are not making a recommendation although you can.

1617
02:01:43,580 --> 02:01:46,400
You are not making a recommendation whether you're in favor or not.

1618
02:01:47,080 --> 02:01:51,360
You're making a decision whether or not you want to allow the town to vote on those articles.

1619
02:01:52,440 --> 02:01:58,240
That will be your next meeting on April 3rd, your following meeting on April 17th.

1620
02:01:58,640 --> 02:02:02,900
You will then vote on whether or not you in favor of all of those articles.

1621
02:02:03,700 --> 02:02:08,480
In your recommendation, in the finance committee's recommendation, is in that same handbook

1622
02:02:08,480 --> 02:02:09,420
that goes to town meeting.

1623
02:02:10,280 --> 02:02:12,220
So that meeting on April 17th will happen.

1624
02:02:12,820 --> 02:02:15,740
In next night, April 18th, the finance committee will do it.

1625
02:02:16,060 --> 02:02:17,980
I will compress all of that data.

1626
02:02:17,980 --> 02:02:22,020
and within a couple of days, Linda and I will be sending that to the printer.

1627
02:02:22,340 --> 02:02:26,820
It gets printed and it must be posted a period of time because right around the corner is May 6th.

1628
02:02:27,720 --> 02:02:32,400
So it happens pretty fast, but I want to let you know that you've already done and looked

1629
02:02:32,400 --> 02:02:35,300
at all of your budgets and that will be the road map going forward.

1630
02:02:36,780 --> 02:02:41,760
Again, I know I went through a lot and it's your first time, so I apologize for that, but do

1631
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:43,300
you have any questions about that process?

1632
02:02:46,170 --> 02:02:46,490
I'm good.

1633
02:02:46,730 --> 02:02:47,830
Kind of gone through it with finance.

1634
02:02:48,390 --> 02:02:48,630
Correct.

1635
02:02:48,630 --> 02:02:50,250
you had the correct. Okay, good.

1636
02:02:52,050 --> 02:02:58,890
All right, OCPC, which is our regional planning organization, Eldon Marrera is our rep and

1637
02:02:58,890 --> 02:03:07,030
then as of last meeting, Mike is now our alternate rep. A subsidiary of OCPC is a metropolitan

1638
02:03:07,030 --> 02:03:14,410
planning organization or MPO for short. This MPO is the steering committee at the local

1639
02:03:14,410 --> 02:03:22,750
level as to applying for funds for what they call the TIP tip money through mass DOT.

1640
02:03:23,430 --> 02:03:27,710
A handful of state officials sit on it, along with other local communities.

1641
02:03:28,330 --> 02:03:32,650
And they make recommendations that ultimately DOT or the legislature has to approve.

1642
02:03:33,350 --> 02:03:39,110
So for example, it was through the MPO process that the center of town received those funds.

1643
02:03:40,470 --> 02:03:47,450
The MPO meets, these are the dates, it actually meets once a month, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

1644
02:03:48,270 --> 02:03:52,970
And it is my understanding that almost all of them now are done through Zoom.

1645
02:03:54,750 --> 02:03:59,690
Mary Anderson was our MPO, and it serves for a two-year term.

1646
02:04:02,300 --> 02:04:04,380
Again, this gets a little complicated so bear with me.

1647
02:04:04,860 --> 02:04:09,380
Out of the 20 plus communities, it is broken up into two tranches.

1648
02:04:09,380 --> 02:04:13,780
large communities, so with 10,000 and communities under 10,000,

1649
02:04:13,940 --> 02:04:18,200
whereas bridge water fits in the seminary communities that are under 10,000,

1650
02:04:18,380 --> 02:04:21,640
and under 10,000 gets one MPL rep.

1651
02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:29,600
So each community recommends a person in an OCPC votes on that one person,

1652
02:04:29,960 --> 02:04:31,440
and marry one that vote last time.

1653
02:04:32,560 --> 02:04:37,500
Marries term was two years and was good until November of this year.

1654
02:04:37,500 --> 02:04:42,240
The only caveat is that that MPO member must be a selector.

1655
02:04:44,120 --> 02:04:48,720
So where Mary is no longer a selector, she can no longer fit in that capacity.

1656
02:04:50,020 --> 02:04:55,220
It was my understanding from talking OCPC, not what I thought, they would have just reelected

1657
02:04:55,220 --> 02:04:55,820
somebody else.

1658
02:04:56,380 --> 02:04:56,960
But they never did.

1659
02:04:57,780 --> 02:04:59,240
They just left the position vacant.

1660
02:04:59,940 --> 02:05:05,480
And they have taken the position that since West Ridgewater was elected, that it wasn't

1661
02:05:05,480 --> 02:05:09,020
and married that was elected, it was West Bridgewater that was elected.

1662
02:05:09,680 --> 02:05:14,540
And as a result, in my communications with them over the past two weeks, they're saying

1663
02:05:14,540 --> 02:05:20,060
that if West Bridgewater would like to be able to designate a person for that is to get

1664
02:05:20,060 --> 02:05:24,880
a vote from this board, OCPC would then vote, and that would be the means that you'll go

1665
02:05:24,880 --> 02:05:26,920
and forward for that person to sit on.

1666
02:05:27,840 --> 02:05:31,680
And then after November, we would re-duplicate this entire process.

1667
02:05:34,650 --> 02:05:40,990
So your options before you is that you can vote for somebody as a recommendation to fill

1668
02:05:40,990 --> 02:05:46,910
Mary's seat and it sounds like, again, there's a caveat that OCPC has to rubber stamp up

1669
02:05:46,910 --> 02:05:52,650
and it sounds like they will, or you can take no action and OCPC could just find somebody

1670
02:05:52,650 --> 02:05:57,550
else or allow the position to remain vacant until that term expires in the fall.

1671
02:05:57,550 --> 02:05:57,590
Well,

1672
02:06:02,370 --> 02:06:12,790
my immediate thought on this is that, you know, we'll have another Selecman in a month and we traditionally record the board and reassign some stuff then.

1673
02:06:14,370 --> 02:06:19,130
Like unless you feel strongly my suggestion would be we push this to that re-orc.

1674
02:06:20,090 --> 02:06:24,370
We have three people and we can better understand the balance of the board and who wants to do what.

1675
02:06:27,030 --> 02:06:29,250
I was just looking at my watch because I was just looking at the date.

1676
02:06:31,730 --> 02:06:33,710
Is this email was from last week?

1677
02:06:34,330 --> 02:06:35,370
19th was yesterday.

1678
02:06:35,670 --> 02:06:37,130
And there will be somebody in the seat

1679
02:06:37,130 --> 02:06:40,130
and there probably will be a meeting before April 6th, right?

1680
02:06:40,730 --> 02:06:44,850
Yes, you do not have a meeting before the next meeting.

1681
02:06:45,250 --> 02:06:48,010
So your April 3rd meeting, you'll be two.

1682
02:06:48,950 --> 02:06:51,550
The election is April 13th.

1683
02:06:51,570 --> 02:06:52,330
Yeah, we'll miss it again.

1684
02:06:52,750 --> 02:06:55,810
And then April 17th is your next selection.

1685
02:06:55,810 --> 02:07:01,230
I think we need to, unfortunately, I think we need to just fill it now give them

1686
02:07:01,230 --> 02:07:06,190
opportunity because it's been vacant. I don't mind doing it. I could make room

1687
02:07:06,190 --> 02:07:08,950
my schedule to do this at 10 a.m., okay?

1688
02:07:11,660 --> 02:07:15,260
Then I will make a motion to appoint you to

1689
02:07:15,260 --> 02:07:16,140
the MPO.

1690
02:07:20,510 --> 02:07:26,170
Thank you. We will contact OCPC and inform them. Yeah, I just think if the

1691
02:07:26,170 --> 02:07:27,190
the timeline would have been different.

1692
02:07:27,750 --> 02:07:28,230
Yeah, sure.

1693
02:07:29,350 --> 02:07:31,250
This year was pretty neat.

1694
02:07:31,790 --> 02:07:33,070
I don't remember what I put in the picture.

1695
02:07:33,070 --> 02:07:35,090
Did I put a picture of the screen?

1696
02:07:39,320 --> 02:07:40,040
I did not, okay.

1697
02:07:40,640 --> 02:07:43,220
So, Bridgewater State University,

1698
02:07:43,780 --> 02:07:45,320
we see the grant from the state

1699
02:07:45,320 --> 02:07:46,700
and spend almost $4 million

1700
02:07:47,100 --> 02:07:49,900
pretty literally when they say a state-of-the-art,

1701
02:07:49,900 --> 02:07:50,700
they really mean it.

1702
02:07:50,940 --> 02:07:54,040
A state-of-the-art cybersecurity room

1703
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:57,380
where you can have instruction and learning and teaching.

1704
02:07:57,380 --> 02:08:06,960
They have created from the ground up a cybersecurity bachelor's program and the next semester they will start with a cybersecurity master's program.

1705
02:08:07,800 --> 02:08:12,880
And the very neat thing about this room is that it literally looks like you're on TV.

1706
02:08:13,100 --> 02:08:23,280
Like when you watch TV and you see like DOD or military or whatever and they're sitting in front of a big computer screen and they have monitors and they're combating, that's exactly what it looks like.

1707
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:31,220
it's excellent. They've done a fantastic job with this. All of us at the 27 communities

1708
02:08:31,220 --> 02:08:36,600
in Plummouth County have partnered with Bridgewater State University where each municipality

1709
02:08:36,980 --> 02:08:45,540
can send one person, one employee, and they could participate in a certificate program.

1710
02:08:45,540 --> 02:08:50,940
So we could fast forward to keep it going one more one more and

1711
02:08:52,080 --> 02:08:58,860
So there are three different programs a networking security and then a high-end cyber security program

1712
02:08:58,860 --> 02:09:04,100
These are the dates that they meet they're going to be every Friday's the first two and the Thursday's at the end

1713
02:09:04,100 --> 02:09:09,860
They'll meet 8 30 to 6 30 to 2 30 each one of those days. It's in person. It's not remote

1714
02:09:10,980 --> 02:09:15,120
What we are doing is that we are subsidizing this to Plymouth County as part of their

1715
02:09:15,120 --> 02:09:20,160
upper funds and as part of what Bridgewater State University is also doing is to allow us

1716
02:09:20,160 --> 02:09:24,500
for the both the network schedule and for the security schedule that we would, it would

1717
02:09:24,500 --> 02:09:30,800
only cost us $500 for a person, we only have one spot, the $500 to send a person and then

1718
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:33,540
$750 to send that final person.

1719
02:09:34,620 --> 02:09:36,860
We don't have a full-time IT department.

1720
02:09:38,140 --> 02:09:41,780
that's one of our areas that we need to work on in the future.

1721
02:09:42,380 --> 02:09:46,460
So many of the municipalities that either have a full-time IT person or most of them

1722
02:09:46,460 --> 02:09:50,360
that have a full-time and then an assistant, they're sending that assistant.

1723
02:09:50,960 --> 02:09:54,700
We don't have that. We rely on a third-party outside consultant firm

1724
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:59,060
that does do a really good job, but they are the ones that really handle

1725
02:09:59,060 --> 02:10:02,560
our cybersecurity and are responsible for that.

1726
02:10:02,560 --> 02:10:06,620
So I placed this on the agenda for two things because one, I think it's pretty neat.

1727
02:10:07,180 --> 02:10:12,960
The second is that if there is anybody that is listening to this and has any interests

1728
02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:18,280
that's an employee of the town, they can reach out to me and if it works, we'll fit that

1729
02:10:18,280 --> 02:10:18,840
person in.

1730
02:10:19,400 --> 02:10:24,140
And when I say if it works, I didn't want to send this out as an email because for example,

1731
02:10:24,300 --> 02:10:28,540
if a teacher wants to participate, Mark might say, well, I can't lose a teacher every

1732
02:10:28,540 --> 02:10:28,800
Friday.

1733
02:10:29,040 --> 02:10:30,400
And that's legit, right?

1734
02:10:30,400 --> 02:10:35,260
And if a DPW employee wants to do it, I can't lose a DPW person every single week.

1735
02:10:35,400 --> 02:10:41,420
So maybe there's a, you know, administrative person or a clerical person that is looking

1736
02:10:41,420 --> 02:10:46,560
at this in the future would like to be able to secure a certificate program to better themselves

1737
02:10:46,560 --> 02:10:47,840
in for self-development.

1738
02:10:47,940 --> 02:10:53,600
So I put this on the agenda, valuating information is out there, the first meeting, the first

1739
02:10:53,600 --> 02:10:57,240
classes this week, like they gave us no time, we just met with them last week on this.

1740
02:10:57,240 --> 02:11:03,720
I toured the facility last Thursday, so it's a pretty fast turnaround, but I put this

1741
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:07,020
out there because I thought it would be a missed opportunity if I didn't at least inform

1742
02:11:07,020 --> 02:11:09,800
the public and inform our employees of this opportunity.

1743
02:11:10,060 --> 02:11:11,520
Is this something that the school has seen?

1744
02:11:11,960 --> 02:11:16,600
Like, my first thought of the electron called, not speaking for them, but...

1745
02:11:16,600 --> 02:11:23,700
So if nobody else jumps on it, then I would offer it to Mark, for John, but John is a teacher

1746
02:11:23,700 --> 02:11:24,500
at this point.

1747
02:11:24,500 --> 02:11:30,100
So I'm literally taking them out of the classroom which is going to have an impact on students at one time

1748
02:11:31,040 --> 02:11:38,000
You know, maybe that have been different. But that is what that's my fear. I don't want to make an impact to somebody's operations. Yep, understood

1749
02:11:39,880 --> 02:11:48,140
So again, there's nothing to vote on it's really just an FYI alliance or any questions that you may have in the last item is is said I attended a

1750
02:11:48,140 --> 02:11:55,080
a municipal manchist budget session last week on Friday.

1751
02:11:55,740 --> 02:11:59,840
And this really just goes over the timeline for how the budgets

1752
02:11:59,840 --> 02:12:01,520
have voted on at the state level, which, again,

1753
02:12:01,980 --> 02:12:04,460
mirrors what we do, which is what I just, you'll see

1754
02:12:04,460 --> 02:12:05,740
the governor makes a proposal.

1755
02:12:06,180 --> 02:12:08,880
She's the executive branch, the way you're the executive branch

1756
02:12:08,880 --> 02:12:12,020
that goes in to the Senate, into the House.

1757
02:12:12,640 --> 02:12:16,400
And what's very interesting is that the legislation puts out

1758
02:12:16,400 --> 02:12:22,800
end of session timeline on July 31st. Two items of note on that, one, they never make

1759
02:12:22,800 --> 02:12:29,080
their deadline. And two, by mass constitution, it's supposed to be July 1st. So it's interesting

1760
02:12:29,080 --> 02:12:35,480
that they violate the law and they still don't even comply with their extended time frame.

1761
02:12:35,980 --> 02:12:40,400
In any event, I only place this out there because I want to let you know where they are in

1762
02:12:40,400 --> 02:12:45,220
the timeline, which is similar to ours. In the next screen, is that there potentially

1763
02:12:45,220 --> 02:12:47,800
are some issues going forward at the state level.

1764
02:12:48,560 --> 02:12:52,920
The state has already recognized that there is about a billion dollar shortfall in revenue

1765
02:12:52,920 --> 02:12:55,100
in this current fiscal year.

1766
02:12:55,660 --> 02:12:58,080
So those have to somehow be plugged in.

1767
02:12:58,380 --> 02:13:02,520
If we had less revenue coming in in this fiscal year, we'd have to make some changes too.

1768
02:13:03,120 --> 02:13:06,480
So they're currently making those changes that has been in the newspaper.

1769
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:08,660
I can't speak to every single one of them.

1770
02:13:08,860 --> 02:13:13,180
Some of them are a little bit nuanced in some of them are real cuts.

1771
02:13:14,460 --> 02:13:18,800
Obviously that has an impact on next year's budget because if you say I'm going to go

1772
02:13:18,800 --> 02:13:23,200
up 3% based on last year's budget and you're already down, you're really going up more

1773
02:13:23,200 --> 02:13:29,920
than 3%. So right now there is a consensus estimate that they're hoping to try to keep the

1774
02:13:29,920 --> 02:13:36,040
budget at a 2% increase year over year versus the revised downward budget. But if that's

1775
02:13:36,040 --> 02:13:40,620
the case, that means they could have to make further cuts. Now they make cuts throughout

1776
02:13:40,620 --> 02:13:45,440
about their, through the departments, which is what the Healey Administration has mostly

1777
02:13:45,440 --> 02:13:49,260
done at this point, then it has no impact on us.

1778
02:13:49,700 --> 02:13:56,060
But I can tell you in the early 2010-2011 period, DeVal Patrick, our Constitution doesn't

1779
02:13:56,060 --> 02:14:00,800
really see Constitution, does not really provide for a strong governor, except in a couple

1780
02:14:00,800 --> 02:14:01,300
of areas.

1781
02:14:01,800 --> 02:14:05,500
And one of them is, is that they can make unilateral cuts to aid.

1782
02:14:06,360 --> 02:14:10,020
And I can tell you that at that time, that's what DeVal Patrick had done.

1783
02:14:10,020 --> 02:14:15,980
So hopefully next year we are not facing that, but that created a lot of pain if the municipal

1784
02:14:15,980 --> 02:14:20,020
level and your balance your budget based on we talked about chapter 70 funds earlier

1785
02:14:20,020 --> 02:14:23,420
or other local AP seats and also in the middle of the year you'll lose that income.

1786
02:14:24,060 --> 02:14:26,020
So I'm just giving you a heads up to it.

1787
02:14:26,600 --> 02:14:31,980
Now last line is it does not include the anticipated surtax revenue, that is the millionaires

1788
02:14:31,980 --> 02:14:32,260
tax.

1789
02:14:33,420 --> 02:14:37,680
And the reason they haven't included it yet is because it always sounds good on paper, but

1790
02:14:37,680 --> 02:14:43,860
We have already seen wealthy people have one huge benefit of most other people they can

1791
02:14:43,860 --> 02:14:48,260
move, especially if they own businesses, they move.

1792
02:14:50,420 --> 02:14:55,780
I know this is anecdotal but if you listen to sports radio there are sports players that

1793
02:14:55,780 --> 02:14:59,900
are making decisions now saying I'm going to go to non-tax income

1794
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:05,100
State's versus Massachusetts, oh, you got a pain anymore, you know, it'll come. So we'll

1795
02:15:05,100 --> 02:15:09,820
see if to whether or not that $1.3 billion really comes to fruition. That would surely help

1796
02:15:09,820 --> 02:15:14,680
to plug some of the gap, but we won't know that until the next 12 months. So again, just

1797
02:15:14,680 --> 02:15:20,760
giving you an FYI that there is some slowing in the economy and it is impacting revenue.

1798
02:15:24,880 --> 02:15:25,960
The extent to the report.

1799
02:15:28,900 --> 02:15:31,680
Hearing nothing else, I'll entertain a motion

1800
02:15:36,680 --> 02:15:38,900
Thank you, and thank you Tim for the long night,

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02:15:43,530 --> 02:15:45,410
I think that's our second long night.