[0:03] Okay, going to get going. Welcome
everybody. Um, in accordance with
[0:08] chapter two of the acts of 2025, the
Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 6:30 public
[0:15] meeting of the Renthm Select Board shall
be conducted remotely. The public is
[0:19] invited uh to join. Uh there was a Zoom
instructions on the town's website. As a
[0:25] preliminary matter, uh this is select
board chair Chris Gallow. Please permit
[0:29] me to confirm that all members and
persons anticipated on the call on the
[0:33] agenda are present and can hear me. Uh
members, when I call out your name,
[0:38] please respond to the affirmative. I
will ask though, we we do have a lot of
[0:41] people on Zoom. I'm going to ask
everybody to keep themselves muted
[0:45] unless you're in direct conversation uh
with the specific agenda item that's
[0:49] going on. So, if you're not muted,
please mute. Uh Amanda, Maya, if you
[0:54] could mute everybody, I'd greatly
appreciate it. Um, and members, when I
[0:58] call your name, please do respond in the
affirmative. Uh, selectwoman Rouse isn't
[1:02] with us this evening. So, Selectman
Anderson,
[1:04] » Anderson is here and present.
>> Welcome back, Mr. Anderson. It's good to
[1:08] see you, my friend.
>> Good to be back. Thank you.
[1:11] » All right, Selectman Harrington.
>> Harington here.
[1:15] » Okay. So, just so you guys know, in the
in the uh Bach conference room, there's
[1:20] a tiny bit of a delay. I'm hearing a
tiny bit of a delay. So, I may ask you
[1:24] to repeat, and I'm not being a wise guy.
All right. Uh, so just so you guys know
[1:28] that. So Anderson Harrington Selectman
Lamoth, are you with us?
[1:33] » Lamoth here.
>> Great. Chris Gallow, I'm also here. So,
[1:37] uh, welcome everybody to the meeting.
Uh, we're going to get going. We have a
[1:41] very busy agenda. Um, we're going to
start with tab number one with the
[1:45] announcements. I'll ask Celeste I'll ask
Selectman Harrington to read them into
[1:50] the record, please.
Stage three water ban is in effect
[1:55] starting July 24th, 2026.
Residents may engage in non-essential
[2:01] outdoor watering once per week on their
regular trash collection day. Outdoor
[2:07] watering cannot occur between the hours
of 7:00 a.m. and 700 p.m. Further
[2:13] information on restrictions and what is
considered essential and non-essential
[2:17] water use can be found on the town
website.
[2:21] Municipal offices will be closed on
Monday, September 7th due to the Labor
[2:26] Day holiday. There will be a one-day
delay in trash services.
[2:33] A September 11th remembrance ceremony
will be held on Friday, September 11th,
[2:39] starting at 8:30 a.m. at the 911
memorial in front of town hall.
[2:46] Rantham Day will be held on Saturday,
September 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 300
[2:52] p.m. on the town common. Those who wish
to participate in the RenaM road race
[2:57] and/or pickle ball tournament are
welcome to register online via the RenaM
[3:02] recreation website.
Jane Deigo playground is currently
[3:07] closed due to construction at the Rice
Complex.
[3:11] The 2026 2027 cultural council grant
cycle will open on September 1st and
[3:18] close on October 15th. Those interested
may apply online and can find more
[3:23] information on the town website.
The Elderly and Disabled Tax Aid
[3:29] Committee will begin accepting
applications for real estate tax
[3:32] assistance on September 1st at the town
assessor's office and senior centers.
[3:39] Finally,
Relay for America reclaim the route. Two
[3:44] American flags will be carried on foot
from Boston starting on September 9th,
[3:49] 2026 and ending at the World Trade
Center on September 11th, 2026. The
[3:54] route goes through Rentum on September
9th between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. using
[4:04] more information available on their
website www.relayfora.org11.
[4:11] org/911.
[4:14] Thank you, Mr. Chair.
>> Okay, great job. Thank you. Let's go to
[4:17] tab number two. Tab number two is
approval of the minutes. In our packets,
[4:22] we have the documentation from the
August 18th, 2026 open session meeting
[4:26] minutes. Um, at this time, Chetain a
motion to approve the August 18, 2026
[4:32] open session meeting minutes.
>> So move.
[4:35] » Motion made by selectman, second by
selectman Harrington. Any further
[4:39] discussion being being none, we'll do a
roll call vote. Selectman Anderson.
[4:44] » Anderson will abstain. I was absent at
that meeting.
[4:47] » Thank you. Selectman Harrington.
>> Harington. Yes.
[4:51] » Select the moth.
>> Lamoth. Yes.
[4:53] » Gallow. Yes. Motion carries. One, two,
three, and one abstension. Is that
[4:58] correct? Yeah. One, two, three, one
abstension. Okay, good. Not used to
[5:01] saying that. Um, so uh what we have
tonight, we have a we have a um Hold on.
[5:08] One sec. Thank you. We have a public
hearing at 6:35. But before we do that,
[5:14] um I [clears throat] asked I personally
asked to have Tony Mazuko, who's the
[5:18] Norwood Norwood general manager, to come
on and give us a quick update on the
[5:22] Norwood Hospital. So I I apologize, but
I'm going to take a few things out of
[5:26] order this evening. I appreciate
everyone working with us. Tony, can you
[5:29] hear me? Okay,
>> I can. Mr. Chairman, can you hear me?
[5:32] » I can. Tony, so uh we've known each
other for a little while. um you know
[5:36] our predecess you know Mike's
predecessor here very well uh a man we
[5:40] all know and love uh Mr. Sweet. Um I
know that you're you know you're
[5:44] spearheading the group. There's a great
group of people that you've assembled uh
[5:48] to really uh figure out what what's
going on with the Norwood Hospital and
[5:52] what the plans are to get the Norwood
Hospital back up and operational. Uh
[5:56] we've had multiple residents Tony reach
out to us showing a a high level of
[6:01] interest in an update from you. So, we
appreciate you uh you know coming on for
[6:06] us and we'd ask you just to provide the
board uh a high level update if you can
[6:10] as to what's h what's happening with the
hospital and um you know what what our
[6:16] residents can do if they want to get
involved.
[6:18] » Sure. Absolutely. Thank you, Mr.
Chairman. Thank you for your support and
[6:20] your board support. Uh your public
safety team and of course Mike and Kevin
[6:24] before him have been been very
supportive in this project. So, it's
[6:27] been about two years since we um started
in earnest and we've made um finally
[6:32] some significant progress. A couple of
weeks ago, the legislature passed H553,
[6:36] which is a bill for the state to engage
in an eminent domain taking of Norwood
[6:40] Hospital. The governor did sign that
bill. She was here in town uh just last
[6:43] week in Norwood uh doing the ceremonial
signing of that bill. So, that in of
[6:48] itself is a momentous step. What that
bill outlines is that um should medical
[6:53] properties trust, the owner of the
property, not be able to sell the
[6:55] property by November, the state is going
to step in, do a taking via eminent
[7:00] domain and then turn it over to a
responsible operator through a uh a bid
[7:04] process. We had begun looking at that
process at the local level whether we
[7:07] could do it and we certainly could. As
you know, cities and towns can engage in
[7:10] eminent domain. We ultimately concluded
that the state should do this given the
[7:14] regional impact of the nature and
fortunately the legislature agreed with
[7:17] us and the governor has signed uh the
bill into law. So I'd say that's the
[7:21] best news we've had in two years, but
we're probably still at the halfway
[7:24] point. Several things need to happen.
There's one of two paths this can go
[7:28] down. One is between now and November
1st, which is I believe the date in the
[7:31] bill, Medical Properties Trust sells the
property to a hospital operator. Uh we
[7:35] don't believe they'll sell it to anyone
else. The property has very little value
[7:38] to anyone outside of a hospital
operator. hospital operators can pay a
[7:41] significant amount of money for it. So,
if that happens, great. They have to go
[7:44] through their determination of need
process and their uh finish their
[7:47] construction prog uh process. That's the
best case scenario. If not, the state's
[7:52] going to value the property, engage in a
taking of the property, take it, and
[7:55] through an RFP process, turn it over to
a responsible operator. That will
[7:59] probably take a little bit longer, but
either way, we're looking forward to
[8:03] getting to the finish line. There's
still a lot of construction that needs
[8:06] to happen once a deal is done. We're
still looking at an 18 to 24 month of
[8:10] construction to get the ER open, but we
feel like that construction can now
[8:14] start in under a year. It'll be six,
it's been six years since the hospitals
[8:18] closed. It has croaked public safety
services throughout the region. The
[8:22] towns that were not directly impacted
that may have had other hospitals with
[8:25] an equal transit distance. Those
hospitals are seeing boarding in their
[8:28] ERS and um longer response times and
longer turnaround times. So, Rentham
[8:32] really every town in Northol County and
in the area has been affected by this.
[8:35] But we're on the offensive. November is
an important date. We're going to
[8:39] continue our work until we hear whether
or not a sale has taken place or the
[8:42] state has started the eminent domain
process. We have a website, finish the
[8:46] job, uh, finish norwoodhos.org. That's a
great, we'll make sure you guys can get
[8:50] it out there. A great way to stay
uptodate on what's going on. It's been a
[8:53] very tough campaign. There have been a
lot of uh behind the-scenes discussions
[8:56] and work that's gone on which has made
it tough to keep people up to date on
[8:59] where we are. But we are also sort of
building this plane as we're flying it
[9:02] because it's unprecedented for um the
flood the the combined with the pandemic
[9:07] combined with the bankruptcy combined
with some other um practical challenges
[9:11] as well as cities and towns team uh you
really joining together to try to get
[9:14] this done. So we've made great progress.
Kudos to the governor and the leadership
[9:18] in the legislature for their hard work
on this and uh getting us there. But
[9:22] we're uh getting closer to the finish
line.
[9:26] » That sounds fantastic. I appreciate that
high level update. What I'm going to do,
[9:29] Tony, very quickly, I'm going to just
open it up to my fellow board members to
[9:32] see if anyone has any highle questions
for you.
[9:35] » Absolutely. More than happy to take
questions.
[9:37] » Thank you. And if we could put that
website, if someone could put that
[9:40] website in the chat for everybody and
maybe Tony, you could email us uh that
[9:44] website to check out. I know there's a
lot of residents that want to stay
[9:47] updated and, you know, see how they can
make their voices heard with the
[9:50] legislature and the, you know, the the
constituency as well. So, thank you for
[9:55] doing that. We're going to open it up
with Select Man Anderson. Do you have
[9:57] any questions or comments?
>> So, I do have some comments, Mr. Chair.
[10:01] So, Tony, first of all, I want to thank
you and your team for spearheading this
[10:04] important mission. Um, I've heard from a
lot of people who have either gone to
[10:10] Sturdy Hospital or Milford Hospital and
they said the ER room is a
[10:16] just a mess. They're waiting 8 to 10
hours before they even get in seen. So,
[10:21] I think opening up Norwood Hospital will
be a great resource for uh the Run
[10:27] residents. And uh I just want to thank
you again for spearheading this and uh
[10:31] if there's anything else we can do to
help, please let us know.
[10:35] » Absolutely. We'll do. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Selectman Anderson. Selectman
[10:39] Harrington.
>> Hi, Chair Gallow. So, yeah, I concur
[10:42] with Selectman Anderson. I
wholeheartedly agree, you know, would be
[10:46] it would being a benefit for the town of
Rethm. Uh, obviously, it was, you know,
[10:52] uh, very important to us when it was
open. Uh, one question, what state of
[10:57] repair, disrepair is the building in
since there's been little or no activity
[11:02] in it and shuttered for six years? Sure.
So, the that's a great question. The
[11:07] building was the original building was
completely torn down and new
[11:11] construction was started. So, what's on
the site now is the shell of the core
[11:14] hospital building. That's the four-story
building that'll hold operating rooms,
[11:18] um the emergency room in about 80% of
the garage. There's also a outpatient
[11:24] service building planned for the site
that construction hasn't started on yet.
[11:27] The core hospital building is
approaching, call it two, two and a half
[11:30] years old since the bankruptcy. Medical
Properties Trust has spent money to make
[11:34] sure that they're sealing up that
building and the HVAC system is actually
[11:38] working. So, I mean, they are paying to
I hate to give them credit, but I'll
[11:41] give them some credit. They're paying to
make sure that the building is kept uh
[11:44] the the shell of the building is kept
with air flow in there. But, it's a
[11:47] blank canvas waiting for a operator to
come in and say, "We want this room here
[11:50] and we want that room there." Uh, but
our building department still stays in
[11:53] touch with Suffet Construction and their
supers on the site. So, the building's
[11:57] in good shape, ready for somebody to
come in and finish the job.
[12:00] » Thank you. appreciate the update.
>> Absolutely.
[12:03] » Thank you. And um Select Lamoth,
>> Tony, great job. Thank you. Uh we read
[12:08] all the material that you sent out last
month. I have no questions, Mr. Chair.
[12:13] Thank you.
>> Great. So Tony, please continue to keep
[12:15] the board updated uh through Mike King
in the office. But again, we just want
[12:19] to say thank you for the taking the
leadership role on this, pushing it
[12:23] forward. you know, it's very important
to our community, all the ancillary
[12:27] communities, you know, the economies,
the, you know, we don't, we forget to
[12:30] think about all the jobs, right? All the
jobs, you know, when when you have a
[12:35] hospital that employs that many people,
you supply, you know, there's housing
[12:38] needs, there's restaurant needs, there's
all these ancillary support uh that that
[12:43] th helps the surrounding community and
the economy thrive. We've now haven't
[12:47] had that for these years. So, it'll be a
nice shot of adrenaline to get that back
[12:51] to not only city of uh Norwood, but all
of us in the surrounding community. So,
[12:56] we appreciate that. Please do keep us
updated.
[12:59] » Absolutely. We'll do. Thank you very
much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Emmers.
[13:02] » Have a wonderful evening, everybody. Uh
Tony, everyone else, stay on. You can't
[13:05] get off that. [laughter]
I wish.
[13:08] » All right, we're going to move to the
public hearing. Let's go. Uh everybody,
[13:12] let's go to tab number three, which is a
public hearing. Uh this is a request for
[13:17] children to play sign uh installation on
Blake Road and Fischer Road. So in our
[13:22] packet uh we have the public hearing
notice. We have an email from Jordan
[13:26] Wayand and I apologize Jordan if I
messed that up uh for requesting
[13:31] children to play signs on Blake Road and
Fischer. We have another ant email from
[13:35] Brian Antonyoli from the DPW. We have
Chris Cassidy with us I believe um who
[13:40] can answer any questions from the DPW's
perspective. Uh, and we also have an
[13:44] email from Police Chief McGrath. Um,
with us in attendance, I see Jordan. I
[13:49] see Chris Cassidy uh for the Department
of Works, the assistant director, and I
[13:54] also see that we have Chief McGrath with
us. So, before I get going, I have to,
[13:59] uh, ask for a motion to open the public
hearing.
[14:02] » So moved.
>> Second. Okay. Motion made by Select Man,
[14:07] second by Sele Select Mimoth. Any
further discussions? Being none, we'll
[14:11] do a roll call vote. Select man.
Anderson.
[14:13] » Anderson. Yes.
>> Harrington.
[14:15] » Harrington. Yes.
>> Lamoth.
[14:17] » Lamoth. Yes.
>> Gallow. Yes. Motion carries. 40. All
[14:21] right. Now I need a motion to wave the
reading of the public hearing notice.
[14:25] » So moved.
>> Second.
[14:26] » Okay. Motion made by Selectman Anderson.
Second by Selectman Lamoth. Any further
[14:30] discussion? Being none. We'll do a roll
call vote. Selectman Anderson.
[14:34] » Anderson's yes.
>> Blackman Harrington.
[14:37] » Harington. Yes.
>> Lamoth. [clears throat]
[14:40] » Lamoth. Yes.
>> Gallow. Yes. Motion carries. 40. Public
[14:45] hearing is now open.
>> Okay. So, um, [clears throat]
[14:49] Mike, who do we want to Mr. King, our
town manager, who do we want to kind of
[14:53] give us the backstory on this for the
board? Mike, do you want to do that or
[14:56] do you want to hand it off to, uh,
Cassidy or somebody else?
[15:01] » Typically, we would ask the petitioner
to start the process.
[15:05] » So, let's do that. Um, so we have with
us Jordan
[15:11] Jordan, are you with us? Can you hear
me? Okay.
[15:13] » Yes, I hear you. I'm Jordan Wagan. Yes,
>> Jordan. Welcome to the meeting. Um, we
[15:18] want to turn the floor over to you. We
have a packet full of emails and
[15:22] documentation. Um, but we do want to, as
Mike said, um, give you an opportunity
[15:28] to address the board, tell us all why
we're here and why you're looking for
[15:32] the the sign installation. So, the floor
is yours, Jordan.
[15:35] » All right. Thank you, sir. All right.
Um, first of all, um, I'd like to thank
[15:38] the board for welcoming me here tonight
and giving me the opportunity to bring
[15:42] this concern forward. Um, yeah, again,
my name is Jordan Wagan. I live at 75
[15:47] Blake Road. I'm here tonight because I'd
like to ask the town to consider putting
[15:50] up children at play signs in our
neighborhood. I lived here for almost
[15:55] three years and during that time I've
noticed a lot of traffic coming through
[15:59] the neighborhood particularly from
Amazon, UPS, FedEx drivers and really
[16:04] any other delivery drivers. Um there
have been plenty of times, you know,
[16:09] when I've seen drivers coming through,
you know, at pretty high rates of speed.
[16:13] Um, I also believe that Fischer Road and
Blake Road are frequently used as a
[16:17] cutthrough to get to May Street and
Share Street, which brings additional
[16:21] traffic through uh what is considered,
you know, a residential neighborhood.
[16:26] You know, there are a lot of children
who live in this neighborhood, you know,
[16:28] regularly uh play outside, including my
own. You know, with the amount of
[16:32] traffic coming through and the speeds
I've seen some of the vehicles
[16:35] traveling, I'm deeply concerned at um at
the safety of these kids um who live
[16:39] here. Um, I think children at play signs
would be a simple way to remind drivers
[16:44] that they're, you know, traveling
through a residential neighborhood, you
[16:47] know, where children are frequently
outside and that they need to slow down
[16:51] and be more cautious. Um, I propose in
the town to consider, you know,
[16:55] installing two to four signs. Ideally,
I'd like to see one at each end of Fiser
[17:00] Road as well as two along Blake Road,
one near the intersection with Fiser
[17:05] Road, and another near the beginning of
Blake Road by Main Street. Um, that's
[17:10] really all I have uh regarding that. I
really appreciate the town considering
[17:14] this request and helping make our
neighborhood safer. And I would be
[17:19] willing to take any, you know,
recommendations, any, you know,
[17:22] suggestions from anybody from the board,
um, as well as the DPW and also the
[17:27] police chief moving forward. So again,
thank you for your time,
[17:31] » Jordan. Thanks for that intro. Uh what
we what we're going to do now is I'm
[17:35] actually going to turn it over to uh
Chris Cassidy who's our dep uh
[17:39] Department of Public Works assistant
director. I'd like him to weigh on uh
[17:43] number of signs um locations and then
I'm going to ask Chief McGrath as well.
[17:48] Then what I'm going to do, Jordan, is
I'm going to open up to our board
[17:50] members to ask you any questions that
they might have. And then being a public
[17:54] hearing I have to ask members of the
public if anyone has any comments or
[17:58] questions and then the board will then
uh take a vote. Uh so that's how the
[18:02] process will work. Um I do want to let
uh anyone listening know that we have
[18:06] recently revised a lot of these
processes. The board wanted to kind of
[18:11] streamline these processes, make sure
that we follow the same process. We know
[18:15] that, you know, uh a lot of these
requests, they're very uh they're very
[18:20] important. Sometimes they bring with
them a lot of passion, right? Uh we all
[18:24] have children or not all of us, but many
of us have children. I do as well. We
[18:27] all want our kids to be outside and be
safe. And we got to balance that with
[18:31] what I call sign pollution all over town
because if you ask residents on every
[18:36] street in Rethm, I'm sure um you know
there's a lot of streets like yours that
[18:41] we could justify and warrant having
these signs. So I just want to give you
[18:44] that as just a a point of discussion.
I'm not saying we're going to support it
[18:49] or not support it. Uh but we do take
very seriously we we do not want to have
[18:53] you know sign I call it um you know just
sign
[18:58] on every street uh all the time. So with
that being said um I would like to hear
[19:02] from Chris Cassidy regarding uh the
Department of Public Works position on
[19:08] these signs. Chris,
>> thank you Mr. Chairman. Um, I had the
[19:12] opportunity to go out and look at the
area, specifically trying to scout for
[19:17] locations we could install the signs
where they would be um, aesthetically
[19:21] pleasing while at the same time serving
the purpose that's being requested. Uh,
[19:26] I do believe we can do this. Uh, I
believe we there are four locations that
[19:30] we could install these signs uh where
they would be functional and not present
[19:37] a an issue for a resident looking out a
window having to look at it or anything
[19:41] of that nature.
[19:44] » Fantastic. And
>> we have we also have the signs. So,
[19:50] » Chris, I think you I think you might be
breaking up a tiny bit. Try shutting off
[19:54] your video. Uh, it could be just a a
little glitch in the connection.
[19:58] » Um,
>> my apologies.
[20:00] » No, no, no. Don't worry about it. It
happens all the time. So, can you just
[20:03] repeat what you said? You said you
identified four possible locations. You
[20:07] think you can get this done in a way
that's aesthetically pleasing to the
[20:10] neighbors, but also get the desired
outcome uh for Jordan and the fellow,
[20:15] you know, neighbors who hopefully we're
going to hear from soon as well um and
[20:20] accomplish both tasks. Is that is that
correct?
[20:22] » I do. I do, Mr. Jim. Yes. Okay. And and
regarding the locations of the signs,
[20:27] can you give us an estimation on where
you think they would go? Do you agree
[20:32] with Jordan's assessment and placement,
or would you want to put them in a
[20:36] different spots?
>> No, I think um I think you know, if you
[20:39] think about this neighborhood, you're
going to want to you're going to want to
[20:42] catch the traffic as it's entering the
neighborhood. So, you're going to want
[20:45] to get it in a location where it's going
to catch the attention of drivers where
[20:49] they're entering. So from Shear Street,
from May Street, you're going to be
[20:52] looking, you know, I'm I'm ballparking
it and, you know, I don't have the exact
[20:56] measurements, but approximately 50 ft
in. So it's going to be visible um at at
[21:03] um Fiser and Blake itself, it would be
it would be a normal that's the that's
[21:07] the only that's the only intersection I
I have in question because you're you're
[21:11] entering two separate streets from two
different directions potentially there.
[21:14] So, you may end up with two signs in
that location that are closer together
[21:19] than than the other two, but um I still
think we could make that work.
[21:24] » Okay.
>> Visually and effectively.
[21:26] » Okay. Sounds good. Um anything else
before I turn it over and ask Chief
[21:30] McGrath to comment?
>> Uh no.
[21:33] » All right. Well, thanks Chris.
Appreciate you being here. Hang on tight
[21:36] while I ask Chief McGrath. Do you have
anything to um I see you on here. Do you
[21:40] have anything to add to this
conversation, Chief?
[21:43] » Yes. support if uh the neighbors are in
favor of it and the DPW is in favor of
[21:48] it, there's absolutely no harm. So
hopefully it'll address the problem.
[21:53] » And great. And you agree there is a
problem here, Chief. One worth
[21:57] addressing.
>> I I can't say that I I've done a traffic
[22:02] study or anyone's done a traffic study
or paid much attention to it. um you
[22:06] know the the consensus around the
station for officers who've gone through
[22:10] there because since this thing started
we did add it to our our uh our log of
[22:16] checks you know traffic checks
>> and uh there there is you know their
[22:21] observation is so there's a few things
to consider. One is it it's hard to
[22:25] judge when you're at the end of a
driveway how fast a vehicle is really
[22:29] going. And our traffic enforcement
efforts have proven over and over again
[22:34] in these neighborhoods. They're they're
never going as fast as you think they
[22:38] are. Uh because it's a big truck. They
make a lot of noise. There's a lot of
[22:42] studies that support that. Perception is
different than reality. But, you know,
[22:46] again, I don't think it's a big ask. So,
if it's going to keep a whole
[22:50] neighborhood happy, uh, why get into the
weeds over it? Just, uh, this if the
[22:55] signs are wanted and they're all agreed
on and the town agrees on it, then I
[22:59] support it.
>> Okay, great. Thank you. Um, now, Mike
[23:05] King, do you have anything to add from
the town's perspective before I open it
[23:08] up to see if any of the fellow neighbors
or residents would like to support or
[23:13] not support this?
>> Uh, it would just be a clarification,
[23:17] Mr. chairman because my understanding is
that two signs are requested um one on
[23:22] each road and that's what I believe the
motion may reflect. So we just want to
[23:27] be cognizant of that.
>> Well, let's then let's make sure that
[23:31] that is what the motion reflects. So if
we were uh let me read the let's go back
[23:36] and make sure that that is what the
motion reflects.
[23:41] My motion says one ch children at play
sign on Blake and one children at play
[23:48] sign on Fiser as determined by the
director of public works and sign shall
[23:52] be in accordance with mass dot
standards.
[23:56] Is that what you read and you think the
applicant was asking for?
[24:00] » That is correct. Uh we have a June 16th
email from Jordan requesting two
[24:05] children at play signs, one on each
street.
[24:09] » Okay. So, uh, Jordan, yeah, I I'll get
back to you one sec, Chris Cassidy,
[24:15] if you're still with us.
>> I am.
[24:18] » Can Can we accomplish this with only two
signs?
[24:22] » I I do. And and uh Mike King, thank you
for clarifying that is correct. It was
[24:27] actually a request for two signs. And I
I 100% do think that we can still
[24:32] accomplish this goal given the
locations.
[24:35] » Okay, Jordan, you did raise your hand,
so I'll go back to you very quickly.
[24:39] » Yeah. Um, so I think there was a little
miscommunication uh possibly on my end.
[24:43] Um, but what I am asking would be two to
four signs. It wasn't like I want four
[24:50] or like I think we need four. Um, at
this point I'm willing to, you know,
[24:56] you know, stay on two, but um, I think
four would be better. But if you have to
[25:00] go off the original motion, then I'm all
for it. So,
[25:03] » you know, Jordan, sometimes what I see
in these situation is if we can get the
[25:08] two approved, we see how the two work
and then if we need to revisit the
[25:13] situation, we can always put it back on
the agenda. We can always do another
[25:17] public hearing like this and we can kind
of go from there. But I would say to
[25:21] your point, I think this is what you're
saying, but I'm not I don't want to put
[25:23] words in your mouth. Two is better than
zero. Right.
[25:27] » Correct. I um I was seeking um uh the
higher road and then you know if you
[25:32] guys can you know break it down to two
then I'll take what I can get. So
[25:35] » okay. Uh with that being said, thank you
for that. Jordan, I'm going to open it
[25:39] up to the public. Are there any
neighbors on or a Butters on that would
[25:42] like to make a comment? I see um uh
Daniel Cornier. Did I uh did I say that
[25:48] correctly? Daniel
>> Daniel and Katherine Conoyer.
[25:51] » Canoyer. So I did not. I apologize.
Welcome to our meeting. uh please feel
[25:56] free to uh address the board and the
public and everyone who's listening.
[26:01] » Thank you everybody for having us on. Um
again, we we are we have four of our own
[26:05] young children here and they're always
in the driveway right along the street
[26:09] riding bikes in the neighborhood. Um
it's a pretty safe neighborhood for them
[26:12] to wander out and and kind of play with
the neighborhood kids. So I agree. The
[26:16] uh the trucks, the bigger, larger trucks
that kind of fly through there um
[26:21] definitely seem to present a problem. So
having any kind of signage would be
[26:24] great. We would we're both on board with
that.
[26:28] » Fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing
that with us. Uh is there anyone else
[26:31] that would like to make a comment? I see
there's uh Sue Shirley on.
[26:35] » Yep, I'm on. Um
>> we are right across the street from Dan
[26:40] and Katherine and we wholeheartedly
agree that um the number of trucks
[26:45] especially coming through the
neighborhood has been high and they do
[26:49] seem to be going too fast and there are
a lot of kids out on on bikes
[26:54] especially.
Um
[26:56] » so we're we're
>> for it. Go ahead.
[26:59] » I'm sorry. What else did you say?
>> We're for it.
[27:02] » Okay. Yeah, I appreciate that. Anybody
else on that'd like to make a comment
[27:07] before I turn it over to the board?
Okay, seeing none, I'm going to turn it
[27:12] over to Selectman Anderson. Selectman
Anderson, any questions or comments for
[27:16] anybody rep, uh, you know, with regard
to this issue.
[27:19] » Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, so I
mean, I would support, you know, the
[27:24] signs, um, especially at least two of
them. Uh, but my question to you, Mr.
[27:29] Chair, is now we have a sign policy in
place. So, I'm assuming it this has
[27:33] already met the sign policy and that's
why it's here.
[27:36] » Yes, great question. And as I was
alluding to before, but I didn't
[27:39] eloquently say that in part of us going
through all of our policies, we revamped
[27:44] our signed policy request and exactly
what you're seeing before us followed
[27:48] the proper protocol. We, [clears throat]
you know, whenever we get a sign request
[27:52] like this, Mike King and his office
takes the requests. They do the
[27:56] necessary due diligence. They reach out
to the DPW. They reach out to public
[28:00] safety. They do a public hearing notice
so that the abuters know um that we're
[28:05] you know trying to do something like
this get it on the agenda. Um and then
[28:09] by the time it gets to us selectman
Anderson um all of those other boxes
[28:12] have been checked.
>> Okay. Yeah. So no further questions. I
[28:16] would support the two signs.
>> Um thank you Selectman Harrington.
[28:21] » Thank you Mr. Chair.
>> Yeah. So yeah obviously you know public
[28:24] safety is paramount. Uh I live in an
adjacent neighborhood and you know I I
[28:28] agree there's lots of trucks rolling
through the the neighborhood. They
[28:31] clearly do drive fast. Uh, and like
Chief McGrad said, perception is is
[28:36] different from reality. U, but I would
support this. And finally, uh, M,
[28:41] through you, Mr. Chair, could we make a
a a an amendment to the motion to go for
[28:46] the four rather than having to bring it
back at another time?
[28:50] » I would not actually I I would not
support that. I think we should start
[28:55] with the two. The two is what the
recommendation is from the DPW and then
[28:59] we go from there. It's harder to it's
harder to take signs away than to add
[29:04] signs. So I would say we start with the
two and then we go with if we need to
[29:08] revisit it, we revisit it. But obviously
I'm only I'm only one vote.
[29:13] » Thank you, Mr. Chair.
>> Uh Mike, do you have anything else to
[29:18] add?
>> Nothing to add, Mr. Chairman. Roy.
[29:23] » All right. Select select them off. Well,
I would like to have seen a traffic
[29:27] report. I think that's something we
should desire going forward as part of
[29:31] this process, but um no, no doubt the
reality is happening. There's people
[29:37] speeding there. I'm I support it. No,
Mr. Chair, no questions.
[29:42] » Okay. Appreciate that. [clears throat]
And we can revisit the uh an official
[29:46] traffic study. I I I want to dive into
that a little bit, Roy. uh it doesn't
[29:49] sound like a bad idea, but I just want
to see what that entails um before we
[29:53] do, you know, maybe add this to the
process moving forward. So, good
[29:57] suggestion. So, uh at this time, um I'd
like to take a motion to close the
[30:02] public hearing.
>> So, moved.
[30:04] » Second.
>> Is there a second?
[30:06] » Second.
>> Oh, thank you. Right. So, motion made by
[30:09] Select Manison, second by Select Lamoff.
Any further discussion? Being none,
[30:13] we'll do a roll call vote. Select
Manison.
[30:16] » Anderson's yes. Selectman Harrington.
>> Harrington. Yes.
[30:20] » Selectman.
>> Lamoth.
[30:21] » Lamoth. Yes.
>> Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 40. Uh and
[30:25] at this time, chair would uh entertain a
motion to approve
[30:31] the request for one children at play
sign on Blake Road and one children at
[30:36] play sign on Fischer Road as determined
by the director of public works. And the
[30:41] sign shall be in accordance with mass
DOT standards.
[30:44] » So moved.
>> Second.
[30:46] Motion made by Select Manison. Second by
I think it was Selectman Harrington. Any
[30:50] further discussion? Being none, we'll do
a roll call vote. Select Manison.
[30:55] » Anderson G. Yes.
>> Selectman Harrington.
[30:58] » Harington. Yes.
>> Select Lamoth.
[31:00] » Lamoth. Yes.
>> Chris Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 40.
[31:04] Congratulations. Uh DPW. Um Chris
Cassidy. When Just to set expectations,
[31:11] when do you think these people might see
these signs?
[31:17] Um, I am going to I Mr. Chairman, I'm
shooting for it for next week. So, I'm
[31:22] going to try to get them in as quickly
as I possibly can having following this
[31:26] meeting.
>> Great, Chris. Yeah, that'd be great.
[31:29] Shoot us an have someone shoot Mike's
office an email when they're up uh just
[31:33] so the board knows that that the issue
has been resolved. Uh, we appreciate
[31:37] everyone who brought this to our
attention. Uh, and um, thank you for
[31:41] being great residents of Rentham. Please
feel free to hang out and listen to the
[31:45] rest of our exciting meeting and uh we
wish you all we wish you all the best.
[31:50] Have a great night.
>> Thank you, board. Thank you.
[31:53] » You're very welcome. Okay, let's move
on. Let's go to tab number four. Looks
[31:58] like tab number four is going to be a
special event permit vendor market at
[32:03] Big Apple Farm from September 19, 2026.
No, not from on September 19th, 2026 and
[32:11] October 10th, 2026. So, in our packet,
uh we have some documentation pertaining
[32:17] to the special event permit application
for both of the events. With us, we
[32:22] should have uh Cynthia Guan.
Cynthia, you with us?
[32:26] » Yes, I'm here.
>> Hi, Cynthia. Welcome to the meeting. So,
[32:30] I just want to let the board know before
we turn it over to you, Cynthia, just
[32:33] for a quick summary of what we're doing.
Um, okay.
[32:36] » We have in our packets board, as you
know, we have a complete process a
[32:40] checklist. It's already gone through all
the stages that it needs to, including,
[32:44] I'm assuming, public safety, you know,
board of health, um, all the, uh,
[32:49] necessary people have signed off on
this. Um, so that it comes before us.
[32:55] Uh, and I also see, um, who's that on
there from the big apple?
[33:00] » It's me. It's Becky.
>> Hey, Becky. I thought that was you. How
[33:03] you doing?
>> Good. How are you
[33:05] » guys? I have a personal gripe with Becky
because at the last No, I'm joking. At
[33:10] the last event that they had, Select
Manison and I uh got into a pie eating
[33:16] contest uh over at Big Apple. By the
way, it wasn't much of a competition. I
[33:21] knocked his doors off on this thing.
First of all, second of
[33:25] » Not even close. [laughter]
Second of all, second of all, uh I I I
[33:30] was totally joking, but how do I say
this in the the nicest way possible?
[33:34] This has no influence on the quality of
the pie, cuz their pies are incredible,
[33:39] but because Chris Gallow tends to be a
competitor and doesn't want to lose. I
[33:44] ate the pie so fast that I barely got
home before the pie came back up. So, I
[33:49] have a a major issue with Becky. Uh and
and again, I just We had a great time.
[33:54] It was a great event. Um, it was awesome
to get the vendors there and I'm looking
[33:58] forward for the next one. Um, maybe I'll
tone it back a little, Becky, for the
[34:02] next one, though.
>> I mean, you came with goggles on, so I
[34:06] mean, we have to we have to state that
for everybody.
[34:09] » All right. So, that's embarrassing, but
I did. So, Becky, great to have you.
[34:12] Cynthia, great to have you. Do you mind
just giving us a quick uh understanding
[34:16] of what we're doing on these two events
to the board, please?
[34:20] » Sure. So, they're going to be pretty
much um the same that we did last year.
[34:25] Uh the one in September, uh we're
planning on having it up in the uh pick
[34:31] your own um area. Um we understand that
that gets a lot of foot traffic. Um
[34:37] there'll be plenty of room for parking.
Uh no problem with um you know,
[34:43] pedestrians crossing.
So, right now we have about 25 vendors.
[34:49] Um, we only have one food vendor. Um, no
food trucks, no entertainment. So, it's
[34:55] pretty pretty basic event. The October
one, we're going to bring it back down
[35:00] to the Blueberry Patch. Um, we've got a
few more vendors. Again, only one food
[35:05] vendor, no food trucks, no
entertainment. Um, you know, just pretty
[35:10] basic um outdoor shopping and and fun.
>> Sounds fantastic to me. I'm going to
[35:18] open it up to the board members to see
if anyone has any uh additional
[35:22] questions or comments and we'll start
with Select Mananderson.
[35:25] » Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, so I
actually attended the one they had last
[35:28] year. Uh I thought it was wellrun. I
didn't see any issues, so I've got no
[35:34] problems with this request.
>> That's fantastic. Uh Selectman Anderson,
[35:37] Selectman Harrington.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, yeah, wish you
[35:40] best of luck on both the events. Uh it's
already been through all the departments
[35:44] public safety and uh wish you the best.
>> Great. Thank you. Select Eric Select
[35:50] Lamoth, anything to add?
>> No, we're going through the process.
[35:53] It's a continuous process. Looks great.
Thank you. [clears throat]
[35:57] » All right. Great. Uh so at this time
chair entertain a motion to approve the
[36:02] special event application for fa fair
factors vendor market to take place at
[36:08] big apple farm on September 19th 2026
and October 10th 2026 pending good
[36:15] standing with the board of health
building inspector and public safety.
[36:18] » So moved second there motion made by
selectman Anderson I think it was a
[36:23] second by selectman. Any further
discussion?
[36:27] Being none, we'll do a roll call vote.
Uh, selectman Anderson.
[36:30] » Anderson, yes.
>> Selectman Harrington,
[36:34] » yes.
>> Selectman Lamoth, yes.
[36:37] » Gallow, yes. Motion carries 40.
Congratulations. Have fun. And Becky,
[36:42] good luck. Uh, later on this week with
the delegation coming through the the uh
[36:45] the farm. Uh, please keep us posted on
how our board can continue to work with
[36:50] you guys and support you.
>> Okay. Thank you.
[36:53] » All right. Have a good night. You too.
>> Okay, let's go on to tab number five.
[36:58] Tab number five is a license amendment
application for La Familia located at
[37:04] 263 Shears Street. Uh this is a pledge
for a pledge of collateral. So in our
[37:09] packet we have some documentation. We
have the license amendment application
[37:13] for La Familia and uh with us we have
someone that I thought this was him,
[37:17] gentleman by the name of Peter Celino
who I I happen to know. Um, Peter,
[37:23] welcome to our meeting.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, happy to be
[37:26] here. I did not know you were the chair
of this board and I'm very happy to be
[37:29] before you
>> and I you and you didn't now you know
[37:32] and you still came. So, that's
impressive.
[37:34] » I I'm happy to be here.
>> We're happy to have you. So, Peter, do
[37:38] you mind uh just giving our board we we
we got the full package in our packet.
[37:43] The board's had a chance to review
everything as as we do with all these,
[37:47] Peter. There's a checklist of events
that have to happen before it gets put
[37:50] on the agenda and we have a meeting like
this. Um, but if you could, do you mind
[37:55] just giving the board a quick summary of
what we're trying to accomplish?
[37:58] » Certainly, I can. So, for the record, my
name is Peter Solino. I'm a lawyer in
[38:01] Fall River. I'm here tonight for Bay
Coast Bank. I conducted a commercial
[38:05] real estate transaction in which Bay
Coast provided a line of credit to Laaf
[38:09] Familia and part of that loan approval
was a pledge of this liquor license. Uh
[38:14] I do see Deb and Ever Amaya are on who
are the operators. That was at the
[38:19] request of the board. So simply what's
before you is to approve a pledge of the
[38:23] liquor license associated with La
Familia Restaurant to Bay Coast Bank as
[38:28] collateral for a promisory note uh in
the amount of 475.
[38:32] » Okay. Uh and and Mike King, just for
anyone watching that might not be
[38:36] familiar with this process, is this a
pretty standard process?
[38:41] » It is, Mr. Chairman. Um, it needs to go
through approval of both the select
[38:45] board and ultimately the ABCC will have
the final say.
[38:49] » Okay, fantastic. And attorney Celino,
you mentioned that the applicants are
[38:53] on. Uh, would they like to address the
board?
[38:56] » Um, I Deb, can you hear us and would you
like to address the board?
[39:00] » Um, we're here. My husband and I are
here listening. We can address whatever
[39:04] it is you were asking.
>> No, we just wanted to say hello and see
[39:07] how you're doing over there. I'm uh I
was just in there actually. I got take
[39:11] out from there. uh last weekend and the
food was incredible. So, how are you?
[39:15] How are things going in Rethm so far,
Deb?
[39:18] » Super. We've been uh received great by
the community. Um a lot of great
[39:23] feedback. We really love the love the
town. We're doing great over there. It's
[39:27] been a real blessing for us.
>> It's great. Yeah, like I said, food was
[39:31] great. Uh and I've been there before.
Service is great. So, it's great to have
[39:34] you in the community. We love our
restauranteers and rent them. Um, so
[39:38] with that being said, I'm going to open
it up to the board members to see if
[39:41] anyone has any questions or comments for
attorney Celino. Um, and we'll start
[39:46] with Selectman Anderson.
>> Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I also
[39:50] have have visited La Familia, not only
in Rethm, but also in Cumberland. And,
[39:55] um, they do a great job. I have no no
issues and no qualms about this request.
[40:03] » Fantastic. And just so you know,
Selectman Anderson is the select board's
[40:08] um official foodie. So if you get a
badge of approval from Selectman
[40:12] Anderson, uh Deb, it's a pretty big
deal. So uh I think I think things must
[40:17] be going great at La Familia and thank
you for that comment, Selectman
[40:21] Anderson. Um Selectman Harrington, any
questions or comments?
[40:25] » Thank you, Mr. Chair. So yeah, I too am
a frequent flyer over at La Familia. I
[40:29] think Eric does a wonderful job. Awesome
server. Um
[40:33] can't can't talk well enough about the
bowl and ace and uh keep up the good
[40:38] work. Great spot.
>> Fantastic. Thank you, Select Man. Select
[40:42] Lamoth.
>> No questions, Mr. Chair.
[40:46] » Thank you. All right. So, at this time,
uh chair would entertain a motion to
[40:50] approve the pledge of collateral license
amendment application for Laaf Familia
[40:55] located at 263 Shar Street, Rentham,
Mass.
[40:58] » So moved.
>> Second. Motion made by Selectman
[41:01] Anderson, second by Sele Selectman
Lamoth. Any further discussion? Being
[41:05] none, we'll do a roll call vote.
Selectman Anderson.
[41:08] » Anderson G. Yes.
>> Selectman Harrington.
[41:10] » Harington. Yes.
>> Selectman Lamoth.
[41:13] » Lamoth. Yes.
>> Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 40. Peter,
[41:17] great to see you. Thanks for being on.
>> Thank you all.
[41:19] » And thank you very much. Have a great
night, everybody.
[41:23] » Much.
>> Okay, let's go to tab number six.
[41:27] Tab number six. This is a license
amendment application. This is Cracker
[41:32] Barrel Old Country Store located at 1048
Cell Street, Unit 40 in Rentham at the
[41:38] outlets. This is a change of officers,
directors, and LLC managers. In our
[41:43] packet, we have the license amendment
application for Cracker Barrel. And with
[41:47] us, we have Matteline Gaines and Stacy
Reynolds. Matteline and Stacy, are you
[41:53] with us?
>> Um, I'm here. Stacy Reynolds. Hi, Stacy.
[41:59] Uh, how are you this evening?
>> Good. How are you? Thank you for having
[42:03] me.
>> Doing fantastic. Welcome. Do you mind
[42:06] just telling the board what your
affiliation with Cracker Barrel is and
[42:09] what we're trying to accomplish this
evening?
[42:12] » Um, I'm actually the general manager of
the Rentham location.
[42:15] » Great.
>> Um, and we are just coming here to um
[42:18] talk about the officer changes that have
happened with Cracker Barrel.
[42:22] » Okay. Do you want to give us a highle
summary of that?
[42:26] » Um, yep. So Richard Wilson um who was
one of our current officers has retired.
[42:32] Um and Jennifer Langford has taken his
place. Um our current CEO is now David
[42:37] Dino. Julie Bino um is no longer our
current um CEO. So we've had a little
[42:43] bit of change um with our offices within
the company.
[42:46] » Okay, great. Uh seems pretty
straightforward. We see these quite
[42:50] often. Um, I'm going to open it up to
the board members to see if anyone has
[42:54] any addition additional questions or
comments and we'll start with Selectman
[42:58] Anderson.
>> Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. This is
[43:00] basically just clerical. Um, I've got no
issues with this.
[43:03] » You're you're correct. Yeah. Okay. Uh,
Selectman Harrington.
[43:08] » No issues.
>> Okay, great. Selectman Lamoth,
[43:12] » no questions.
>> Great. Uh, I don't have any additional
[43:15] questions either. So, uh, chair would
entertain a motion to approve the change
[43:18] of officers, directors, LLC managers,
um, license amendment application for
[43:24] Cracker Barrel Old Country Store located
at 1048 Cell Street, Unit 40, and Rent
[43:29] the Mass 02093.
>> So moved.
[43:33] » Second.
>> Motion made by Select Man, second by
[43:36] Select Lamoth. Any further discussion?
Being none, we'll do a roll call vote.
[43:40] Selectman Anderson
>> Anderson. Yes.
[43:43] » Selectman Harrington. [clears throat]
>> I think you I think you said yes. Right.
[43:47] Bill.
>> Yes.
[43:49] » Okay. Thank you. Select them on the
moth.
[43:51] » Moth. Yes.
>> Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 40.
[43:54] Congratulations Stacy. Have a wonderful
evening. Keep up the good work over
[43:58] there.
>> Thank you. You also take care.
[44:01] » Okay. Let's go. Thank you. Let's go to
tab number eight. Tab number eight. Uh
[44:06] we have um one of our wellrespected
guests joining us for tab number eight.
[44:11] We have Dr. Allan Cameron who's going to
give to us uh a back to school update as
[44:17] he does every year. Dr. Cameron is the
superintendent of Ranom Public Schools.
[44:22] Dr. Cameron, welcome to the meeting.
>> Thank you. Great to see you, Mr. Chair.
[44:27] Uh members of the board, Mr. King, thank
you for giving me the opportunity to be
[44:32] here tonight and give you just a very
brief update on what we've done to start
[44:38] the school year and some upcoming events
we have. So, we officially started off
[44:43] last week uh with two days of
professional developments, classroom
[44:48] preparation, and collaboration on
Tuesday the 25th and Wednesday the 26th.
[44:52] During those two days, staff members
came in. We completed statemandated
[44:57] training on a range of topics, ethics,
special education, civil rights,
[45:01] discipline, crisis intervention, and
emergency medical response. We were
[45:06] fortunate to have uh some security and
safety training with Rethm Police
[45:11] Department, Sergeant Morris, and
everyone's favorite, Officer Cruiser.
[45:16] And uh we hosted our meet and greet
which is a runthm unique tradition where
[45:22] we invite students [snorts] and their
families in to see the classroom before
[45:26] the start of the school day. Uh that
Thursday and Friday we welcomed in uh
[45:30] students. We have 1,02 students this
year. That's a 2.3% increase over last
[45:36] year. Continuing our uh continued in
increase in enrollment. We're happy to
[45:41] see the students coming in. We're glad
to have them. This year, we're going to
[45:45] continue to work on our three strategic
objectives relating to uh learning,
[45:50] nurturing respectful environment, uh
connections, excuse me, and ensuring the
[45:54] environment is safe, innovative, and
inclusive. I want to focus on that last
[45:58] one briefly. I want to thank uh the
voters and the leaders of Rentham
[46:02] because thanks to you, we're able to
continue working on the new elementary
[46:06] school building project. Uh the school
building committee will continue to
[46:10] update the community as the project
proceeds with an anticipated uh opening
[46:15] date of September of 2029. Also, I'm
very thankful to uh police chief
[46:20] McGrath, KP Superintendent Rich Drole
for collaborating with us to help us to
[46:25] secure a full-time SRO for the district.
We were sharing uh part-time officer
[46:32] Schwabby. He was between KP and our
district. Now we each have our own.
[46:36] We're sad to see Officer Schwabby head
to KP, but we welcome uh Officer
[46:41] Mallister and we're glad to have him on
campus full-time. And I want to thank uh
[46:45] select board, finance committee, school
committee, school building committee,
[46:49] and town meeting participants for
supporting us and helping us to get all
[46:53] that work done. And then I just want to
briefly mention a few things we have
[46:57] coming up. Couple of uh important
events. On Thursday, September 10th at 6
[47:02] p.m., we have the annual uh softball
game between Rethm Public Schools and
[47:08] Rentham Police Department. That takes
place at Sweatfield at 6:00. And uh I
[47:15] can't we got beaten so badly last year,
I don't even feel comfortable talking
[47:19] any trash. Although I usually that's my
one skill I bring to softball is trash
[47:23] talking. But, uh, we're hoping for a
better showing this year and we hope
[47:28] people will come out. All the proceeds
will benefit the Retham Education
[47:32] Association Scholarship Fund. Uh, then
on Friday, September 11th, that is Oh,
[47:37] yes. I'm sorry, Mr. Gallup.
>> No, no, just say the say the date and
[47:40] time again. I just want to make sure
everyone heard that and we can get that
[47:43] out to try to drum up some additional uh
support for that event.
[47:46] » Yes, sir. Uh, September 10th, Thursday,
6 p.m. Sweatfield.
[47:52] » All right. Great. Sorry. Please
continue.
[47:54] » No, thank you. That I'm The more we can
get the word out, the better. Although
[47:56] it is a little bit of a humbling
experience to play against the police.
[47:59] They're quite good, but uh [laughter]
I don't know. We'll see what we can do
[48:03] this year. Um on Friday, September 11th,
this is the uh 25th anniversary of the
[48:07] 911 terrorist attacks. Um the National
September 11th Memorial and Museum
[48:13] provides excellent resources for talking
to children about this day and I've
[48:17] shared that with the parents and
teachers. um in our schools because of
[48:21] the age of our students. We're going to
focus on patriotism and honoring the
[48:25] helpers and heroes in our community. And
I will be in attendance at the town
[48:30] commemoration at 8:30 um at the 911
memorial. Uh thank you for uh hosting
[48:34] that. And then we've got uh two big
nights for families coming up the
[48:39] following week. We have our curriculum
nights. So uh that's a night where we
[48:44] invite the students families to come in.
They get to meet the teachers uh see the
[48:48] classroom and learn about what the
students are going to be learning during
[48:51] the year. And that's going to be uh for
Rodri on Thursday, September 17th and
[48:57] Delaney will be Thursday, September uh
24th. And the teachers and the
[49:02] principles will put out specific times
uh because we have staggered times for
[49:05] those events. Um but overall, we've had
an outstanding start to the school year.
[49:09] Very positive energy. I think that that
uh vote for the building last spring
[49:13] really energized the school community.
People are feeling excited about this
[49:17] year. Students and families seem very
happy and ready to learn and my
[49:20] colleagues and I are eager to help them
learn, make friends, stay safe and have
[49:24] fun. And I'm honored to be the
superintendent of Brent Public Schools
[49:28] and I appreciate the opportunity to
speak with all of you and I thank you
[49:31] for your service to the community and
I'm happy to answer any questions that
[49:35] you have.
>> Great. I'm going to open it up to the
[49:37] board members. Uh make any questions or
comments that they have in just a
[49:40] second. Uh I feel the same way. We're
lucky to have you, Dr. Cameron. You
[49:44] always do a great job. Um appreciate
your enthusiasm. appreciate, you know,
[49:49] uh, you know, just the the level of
professionalism and you bring an
[49:52] interesting a very professional and and
um, you know, uh, being a being a a
[49:57] former Army Ranger yourself, um, you
bring a a very unique perspective when
[50:02] it comes to patriotism and, uh, when we
talk about very difficult events like
[50:07] 911. I think you and I have discussed
this in the past. I was in Manhattan on
[50:11] 911. It's a very uh important day for
me, somber day uh for the terror, you
[50:16] know, when the terrorists attacked those
the buildings and then not only that,
[50:19] the other locations uh where heroes
stepped up and made sure that more
[50:23] people didn't die. Um so we really
appreciate you um you know educating our
[50:28] students in a in a way that um you know
is a in a in a balanced way uh where it
[50:34] gets the message of what happens because
we have to talk about difficult things
[50:38] but we do it in such a way that um you
know isn't going to scare anybody at the
[50:42] same time. Um I appreciate you saying
that you come into the town event on 911
[50:47] at 8:30. Um, you know, uh, we open it up
to anyone, anyone, any parent, any
[50:52] student, you know, any resident of
Rentham that wants to come pay their
[50:55] respects for the thousands of lives lost
25 years ago on 911. Uh, we welcome you
[51:00] to come. It's a somber uh, it's a somber
um, event. Um, but it's an important
[51:05] event. Um, so appreciate you uh, saying
that. Appreciate your support there.
[51:10] Appreciate all you do for our community.
And I'm going to be quiet and open it up
[51:13] to the other select board members for
additional questions and comments.
[51:16] Starting with Slackman Anderson.
>> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Dr.
[51:20] Cameron, it's so good to see you
tonight.
[51:22] » Thank you, too.
>> Yeah. I just want to just want to thank
[51:25] you, um, your administrative team, your
staff, and your teachers for everything
[51:30] you do for our our children in this
community. Um,
[51:36] you've done a tremendous job in the
amount of years you've been here. Um, I
[51:40] expect you'll continue to do the same
great job you've always done. And um I
[51:46] wouldn't sell yourself short. I'm pretty
sure this year I'm going to make you
[51:51] look like a star in that softball game.
[laughter]
[51:54] » I hope so, Chief. I need all the help I
can get. I don't know. We'll see.
[51:58] » You are the X factor.
>> We'll see. I don't know. [laughter]
[52:01] » I heard I heard the police were looking
for a new picture, though. That's what I
[52:05] heard. [laughter]
[52:08] » Selectman Innocent. Anything else before
I pass it along?
[52:11] » That's it, Mr. Chair.
>> Okay. Selectman Harrington, floor is
[52:14] yours.
>> Uh, so thank you, Mr. Chair. So, thank
[52:17] you, Dr. Cammy. You do wonderful job,
you and your staff. Uh, you know, I'm
[52:22] I'm proud to be part of the select board
that's continued to support the school
[52:26] system, the school building. Uh, my four
children graduated from the school
[52:30] systems. They're all successful today.
And I'm proud to say my grandson is
[52:34] there now. And I look forward to having
him have the same great education that
[52:39] my children grew up with. And thank you
for all you do.
[52:42] » Thank you.
Thank you, sir. Uh, and select Lamoth.
[52:47] Uh,
>> Cameron, you make us all proud. I'm so
[52:50] happy to have you and, uh, thank you for
all the good work you've done and are
[52:53] doing.
>> Thank you.
[52:55] » All right. Great. All right. Dr.
Cameron, keep in touch with us. This
[52:58] board, I always say, you reach out any
time you have a question, concern,
[53:03] issue. Mike King is fantastic about uh,
responsiveness and getting you in front
[53:08] of us as needed. So, the the door is
always open. We wish you and the staff a
[53:12] wonderful year. I know it's going to be
a great year, but we wish you a
[53:15] wonderful year and we look forward to
getting an update from you again
[53:18] sometime in the near future.
>> Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Thanks
[53:21] for your kind words and I'll see you all
on next Friday.
[53:24] » Sounds great.
>> Take care.
[53:26] » Okay, guys and girls, let's move on. Um,
talking about uh a 911 event. Uh, very
[53:32] blessed to have uh Chief Marino with us.
Chief Marino does a really great job
[53:36] every year of um leading the charge with
the somber event as we just alluded to.
[53:41] Um and I would like Chief Marino to uh
see Chief, do you have an update for us
[53:47] or is there uh want to talk about this
the the order of ceremony how the day is
[53:51] going to go that morning?
>> Uh yep. So thank [clears throat] you for
[53:56] having me. Thanks for uh you know
getting the message out on this. Good to
[54:00] see uh the schools and and Dr. Cameron,
you know, try to educate uh, you know, a
[54:06] lot of the people that don't really
understand what that day meant to a lot
[54:09] of people. Uh, you know, it's
interesting. I can't believe it's been
[54:12] 25 years. And, um, you know, every year
seems to to have a little bit more of an
[54:17] impact, especially when, you know, I'm
hiring kids that weren't even born yet
[54:21] when when this actually happened and and
trying to educate them on on the uh, you
[54:26] know, the rividity of the situation. So,
uh, it's it's the same uh routine that
[54:31] we have. We'll we'll you know start at
8:30 muster in the morning. Uh you
[54:36] should have the uh itinerary uh from
years past as well as last year. Uh we
[54:41] give the opportunity we welcome the
board to come and place the wreaths.
[54:43] Hopefully that will be the uh the same
uh as this year and uh we just go
[54:48] through the uh announcements as as the
day unfolds uh you know until the last
[54:54] event of of the final bells uh just
after 10 a.m.
[55:00] » Fantastic. And yes, the uh we have the
uh uh we have the agenda in our packet.
[55:06] Um and uh you know uh uh in past years
um past couple years I've addressed uh
[55:12] the the the people attending. Um anyone
else from the board, please feel free to
[55:16] address. It doesn't have to be me. Um
but I do think it's important from uh a
[55:22] town official uh to address the crowd.
Um and you know the men and women
[55:26] wearing the uniform. Um, I just think
that's an important piece of the uh of
[55:30] the event. Uh, so Chief Marino, once
again, we appreciate you uh putting this
[55:35] together, making sure this happens each
and every year. Um, and um, I know I'll
[55:40] be there and I hope to see uh, you know,
a huge turnout from the public. Um,
[55:44] because like you said, it's uh, it's
crazy that it's been 25 years. It seems
[55:49] like just yesterday. Um, but 25 years
ago and talking to my kids about this
[55:54] day and and what it meant for the
country. um you know it's just uh it's
[55:58] just uh it's mind-blowing that um you
know it happened and here we are 25
[56:03] years later. So we will never forget the
event of those days and we will you know
[56:07] continue to celebrate all the wonderful
men and women who lost their lives u on
[56:12] that uh horrible day. So with that being
said we appreciate that we're going to
[56:16] move on and we hope to see a lot of
people turn up for that event. Um we're
[56:20] going to go to tab number 10 at this
time. So tab number 10 for the board.
[56:26] This is an elderly we have an elderly
and disabled tax a committee update. So
[56:32] as the board knows we've been reaching
out to all of our uh boards and
[56:37] committees in town or most of our most
active boards and committees in town. Uh
[56:41] we want to give them an opportunity to
come on address the select board address
[56:44] the residents. We want to let them know
that we're here to support them. Kind of
[56:48] get a highle update of what's going on
within the organization and how our
[56:53] board uh could partner with you on
things that you might need moving
[56:56] forward, challenges, opportunities,
things of that nature. Uh so with us we
[57:00] have Amelia Small, the chair. Yes,
>> here I am.
[57:04] » Hi, welcome. Welcome and thank you so
much for being with us.
[57:08] we'd want to give you the floor. And
like I said, this is a very informal
[57:12] opportunity uh just for you to give us
an update as to what you're working on,
[57:16] things you're seeing in the community,
challenges, areas that our board can
[57:20] support and partner with your board on
different things. And we just want you
[57:23] to know that you've got, you know, uh
you've got a town that supports what
[57:27] you're doing and you've got a board that
supports what you're doing. So, welcome.
[57:30] » Oh, thank you very much for having me.
Um first of all, I'll just give you a
[57:34] little um update on what we do. Um the
fund was established, the elderly and
[57:40] disabled taxation aid fund was
established to provide tax assistance
[57:44] for the elderly and disabled Rantham
residents who are homeowners with
[57:48] limited income and assets. Um it's
funded mostly by donations. Um and we
[57:55] have renamed ourselves the rent
neighbors fund. We thought that was a
[57:59] little friendlier. And um so what we
did, how this all happened was the the
[58:06] committee was here in 2017 but disbanded
and then they regrouped again in fall of
[58:13] 2025 and since then we have managed to
get our application updated. We have
[58:20] guidelines. Um we the application is now
available at the assessor's office and
[58:26] at the council on aging and also online
at the um rentham.gov which is great. Um
[58:32] it went active today. Um we have sent
out buck slips with the tax bills for
[58:39] real estate in July and we have now
received about $1,500 in donations from
[58:46] the citizens of Ranthm. Hopefully, we
will be able to fund raise some more
[58:51] from some of the businesses. We're just
that's where we're at now. But we um all
[58:56] things considered, we have gotten a lot
done in a very short amount of time.
[59:03] » Sorry about that. I was on mute. Sounds
like you have. So, thank you for that
[59:06] update. We appreciate that. Um what else
can you tell us is going on?
[59:10] » Um also, we are accepting donations all
year long. It does we don't have any
[59:15] limit on that. Um, people can donate on
the website. There's an actual tab when
[59:21] under um where you pay your bills.
There's a tab that says Ranthm Neighbors
[59:25] Fund. You can donate there anytime. Um,
people can also donate by check if they
[59:30] want to made out to the town of Rantham.
As long as you put um Rentham Neighbors
[59:34] Fund in the memo line, then we know that
that's what it's for. And you can also
[59:38] donate in person at the collector's
office. Um I don't know any questions
[59:44] you have for me that I can clarify
anything.
[59:47] » Uh I would just say I I think this is a
really important uh initiative. Uh I
[59:52] would say there's a lot of you know when
I'm out talking to people and we try to
[59:56] this board try one of the strategic
goals of this board Amelia is that we
[1:00:00] try to we've tried to increase uh our
transparency with the public. Uh we want
[1:00:04] the public to know that we're out there.
We're available. You know you see me
[1:00:08] pumping gas you getting a haircut. you
know, maybe having dinner somewhere.
[1:00:11] Feel free to come over and say hello.
And we we want to talk to the residents
[1:00:15] and hear from the residents, you know,
concerns, issues, opportunities, things
[1:00:20] that are going good. Doesn't have to be
things that are going bad, things that
[1:00:22] are going good in town. And one of the
things that I continue to hear,
[1:00:26] especially from our older residents, is
um they love rent them. Um but costs
[1:00:31] keep going up, taxes keep going up,
right? Um utility bills keep going up,
[1:00:36] and it's a challenge. Um, and we I think
we need to um I think we need to
[1:00:42] continue to aggressively pursue ways to
help our, you know, uh uh and and not
[1:00:47] necessarily our elder uh you know, our
elder our elderly people, but anyone in
[1:00:52] Rethm who's having difficult times,
right? Uh paying the bills. Uh this is a
[1:00:56] this is a wonderful opportunity though
um to help the el elderly and disabled
[1:01:01] people through this initiative. So, uh,
I would just encourage everyone on this
[1:01:05] board, anyone listening, um, you know,
uh, find more about it, tell people
[1:01:10] about it. Um, and gez, you know, it'd be
nice if if all of us could make a small
[1:01:13] donation to help the cause at the same
time. Um, so that's my two cents. Uh,
[1:01:18] Amelia, with that being said, I'll open
it up to the other board members uh, to
[1:01:22] see if anyone has anything uh, to add or
ask. Um, and I would ask you that if you
[1:01:27] could um um I want to make sure Mike,
can you uh can you get the the website
[1:01:34] uh and send it out to the board members
where we could spread this around and
[1:01:38] see if we could, you know, encourage
people to make a donation? I would
[1:01:41] really appreciate that.
>> Absolutely. We've done some social media
[1:01:45] postings and website postings as well,
so I can share that with the board
[1:01:48] » and then maybe we can post it on
>> Sorry. Go ahead.
[1:01:51] » That's okay. No, go ahead. Keep going. I
was just going to say then maybe we
[1:01:54] could post it on our social media or
within our networks or what have you,
[1:01:57] Amelia, but go ahead.
>> Um, today um, actually there was a
[1:02:01] beautiful posting on Facebook um,
highlighting this particular thing and
[1:02:05] it was it was really well done and so I
would like to thank the town for that.
[1:02:10] Um, it was a good advertisement for the
fund.
[1:02:13] » That's great. Well, that was very
timely. I'm glad they could we could do
[1:02:15] that and let's continue to do so. So,
with that being said, I'm going to turn
[1:02:18] it over to Select Man Anderson.
>> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Amelia,
[1:02:22] it's good to see you tonight. And u I
just have one quick question.
[1:02:26] » What are the income limits
>> to qualify?
[1:02:29] » Oh, okay. Um All right. Um I do have
that listed here. Um the um it's $44,000
[1:02:36] for one person.
>> So 44,000 um income for one person and
[1:02:41] then it goes from there. So um it's all
listed on the website also.
[1:02:47] » Okay. Terrific. Thank you. No further
questions.
[1:02:50] » All right. Great. Uh, Selectman
Harrington, any questions or comments?
[1:02:53] » Mr. Chair. So, hey, Amy, it's nice to
see you.
[1:02:57] » Billy,
>> I hope you and Steve are doing well. Uh,
[1:03:01] thank you for your
>> Thank you
[1:03:03] » and, uh, you're doing a great job uh,
and get it getting it out to the public
[1:03:07] and, you know, we'll clearly be sharing
it on social media and do what we can to
[1:03:11] help.
>> Excellent. Thank you very much.
[1:03:15] Uh, select the moth.
>> Uh, I have a number of questions, but if
[1:03:20] you tell me it's on the website, I'll go
there right after I get that link. Um,
[1:03:25] but there I assume there's a mission
statement.
[1:03:28] » Yes, there's a mission statement and the
uh guidelines and the application are on
[1:03:32] the website.
>> Okay. And do you do we have an idea
[1:03:36] right now what the queue looks like?
>> The what?
[1:03:40] » The queue. How many people, you know,
have you gotten any applications yet?
[1:03:44] No,
>> no, they just went live today. So,
[1:03:47] September 1st to October 15th. The
deadline is October 15th. Then we will
[1:03:52] go through the applications and we will
um give out the money according to need.
[1:03:58] But um also all of the the amounts are
based on what we get in donations. So
[1:04:05] the more money we get in donations, the
more money we'll be able to give out.
[1:04:09] » Sure. Sounds great. Thank you. I look
forward to looking at that website and
[1:04:13] taking part in a donation.
>> Thank you very much.
[1:04:16] » Yep.
>> Uh Amanda, just so everyone knows,
[1:04:18] Amanda Vazipolo posted a couple of links
in the chat for us. Um and I want to say
[1:04:23] Becky from uh Big Apple Farm still on
Amelia and she wanted to tell you that
[1:04:29] if you could notify the community um
that the Big Apple offers a 10% discount
[1:04:35] for seniors on Tuesdays, 60 plus to
qualify. So I I think that means you got
[1:04:39] to be 60 years old to qualify. So that's
another another nice opportunity because
[1:04:44] I got to tell you the pie's really good
at the big apple. [laughter]
[1:04:47] » So uh we just wanted to share that with
you. And there are some links in the
[1:04:51] chat. So yeah, like I said, uh very
informal. Amelio, we just want to give
[1:04:55] you an opportunity to come and and and
just show us in the public what a great
[1:04:58] job you and your team are doing. Clearly
you're doing that. So um that's that's
[1:05:02] it.
>> We just want to wish you the best and
[1:05:05] continue to keep in touch with us.
>> Thank you very much. And I would love to
[1:05:08] send out a big thank you to all the
members of my committee. They've been
[1:05:12] wonderful and very easy to work with.
And thank you very much for having me.
[1:05:16] » So, thank you. And thank you to the
members of your committee. Like you
[1:05:19] said, have a wonderful evening.
>> You too. Thank you.
[1:05:22] » Okay, everybody. Let's go to tab number
11. [clears throat] This is a cultural
[1:05:26] council interview. So, interview and
appointment of Kathleen and I I want to
[1:05:31] say it's is it Belicki?
um she can correct me if that's wrong to
[1:05:37] the cultural council. We have
documentation from uh Kathleen in our
[1:05:41] packet uh including the uh there's a
there's an application. There's a
[1:05:46] recommendation letter um from Eileen uh
irrig uh from the the chair of the the
[1:05:51] cultural council. Um Kathleen, are you
with us? Can you hear me? Okay,
[1:05:56] » I am here. I'm with you.
>> Did I pronounce your last name correctly
[1:06:00] or no?
>> Abelichi. That's correct. Yes.
[1:06:03] » No, I said bicki. I should have said
bichi.
[1:06:06] » Well, you must speak the real Italian
because in that's what you would say for
[1:06:12] I'm Irish. I just married into this
family.
[1:06:15] » That's [laughter] true. That's it's
great. It's great to have you. But the
[1:06:19] hand motion, you looked like a real
Italian to me [laughter] with the hand
[1:06:22] motion because that's what my mom and
grandma would do when I got in trouble.
[1:06:26] So, uh, welcome to our meeting. Welcome
to the select board. Um, you know, we
[1:06:31] have your we have your application in
our packet. Um, you're clearly very
[1:06:36] qualified. We have a recommendation
letter that I'm going to ask our clerk,
[1:06:40] Selectman Harrington, to read into the
record. And then what I'm going to do,
[1:06:43] Kathleen, is just open it up quickly to
the board to ask any questions that they
[1:06:47] might have of you. We'll do a quick vote
and you'll be on your way. So, Selectman
[1:06:51] Harrington, do you mind on page 48 of
the packet reading the recommendation
[1:06:55] letter into the record, please?
Uh letter dated August 23rd, 2026. Dear
[1:07:02] Ranthm Select Board, it is with great
pleasure that I recommend Kathle
[1:07:06] Kathleen Belichi for appointment to the
Reanom Cultural Council. I've been
[1:07:12] working with Kathleen on the Rem
Cultural Council for a number of years
[1:07:16] and have been impressed with her level
of commitment and engagement. She
[1:07:20] regularly attends monthly meetings, is
an active participant and volunteers for
[1:07:25] activities in which the cultural council
is engaged. Is without reservation that
[1:07:31] I make this recommendation. Feel free to
reach out if you have any questions or
[1:07:35] would like additional information.
Sincerely, I Eileen Eric, chair, Rentham
[1:07:39] Cultural Council. Thank
>> you. Thank you, Selectman Harrington,
[1:07:43] for that. Again, Kathleen, looking at
your application, 15 years in Reanthm,
[1:07:48] occupation of consultant, uh, masters in
education, um, you know, been serving on
[1:07:54] the council since 2024. Um, you know,
look like a fantastic candidate to me.
[1:07:59] I'm going to open it up to the other
board members for any questions or
[1:08:02] comments. Starting with Selectman
Anderson. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair.
[1:08:05] So, Kathleen, just a real quick
question. What What do you see as the
[1:08:08] biggest issues facing the cultural
council right now?
[1:08:15] Well, I would I think you'd have to
compartmentalize them. One of them is
[1:08:20] being in the old Fisk. I think uh just
in terms of the physical space, uh they
[1:08:26] are trying to get a new roof on that
building to save the building and I know
[1:08:32] that they're they've been thwarted in
their efforts to date. So, I would say
[1:08:37] that is one thing. uh and and then
beyond that uh I I rather than what are
[1:08:46] the biggest issues I would say the
biggest uh improvement since I've been
[1:08:52] there are the number of local and rent
them uh people and events organizations
[1:08:59] who have benefited from who have
submitted applications and benefited
[1:09:05] from uh support by the cultural council
financial support to uh carry out their
[1:09:13] uh
programs.
[1:09:18] » Okay. So, so let me let me just give you
a quick follow-up question. Um how are
[1:09:23] you being thwarted on on getting a new
roof on the the
[1:09:26] » You know, I'm only I'm like a pleb. I'm
not I don't know, but I know that there
[1:09:31] was a they had requested finance. I
don't know it was from the town or
[1:09:36] whatever but it it was not granted and I
and I I know that the uh historic
[1:09:43] commission has been also uh part of that
but I I'm I know enough to be dangerous
[1:09:50] in these areas mostly what I do I attend
meetings whatever needs to be done I'm
[1:09:55] happy to pitch in and be helpful uh but
the longer term members
[1:10:01] I don't even know what the relationship
in terms of ownership with the cultural
[1:10:07] council and old Fisk is, but I I just
know that is probably a big concern that
[1:10:16] there's a a problem with the roof of
leaking, etc.
[1:10:23] » Okay, Kathleen. Well, good luck tonight.
>> No further questions, Mr. Chair.
[1:10:27] » Right. And I would I would suggest if I
could to the the board, we can we can
[1:10:32] get Mike King to send us an email
followup on the roof issue. I know this
[1:10:37] is it's it's a it's a deeper issue than
>> I I mean I know it is. Yes.
[1:10:44] » Deeper every year.
>> So my but my recommendation, Kathleen,
[1:10:48] isn't to focus on those things tonight.
It's to focus on why you would be a good
[1:10:53] member on the committee. Okay.
>> Well, I just couldn't help but once
[1:10:59] » I had the floor and you said, "What are
your biggest problems?" And I thought,
[1:11:04] "Well, this is I'm just I was just
grandstanding and taking my opportunity
[1:11:09] seeing I had so many people who might be
able to do something there." So,
[1:11:14] » no, that's fine. But that's fair. But on
this board, what we do is we we really
[1:11:18] want to make sure we understand all the
facts before we make comments.
[1:11:22] » Of course. uh you know just because we
don't want to throw any blame around
[1:11:25] when you know
>> No, I just wanted to raise the flag.
[1:11:29] » Sure. Flag. Well, how about this? Let's
agree that the flag is raised and we can
[1:11:34] have a follow-up conversation. I'll make
sure Mike King addresses the board on
[1:11:38] this matter because I know we've talked
about it, but for now, let's move on and
[1:11:41] just focus on your application if that's
okay.
[1:11:44] » Very good. Very good.
>> So, uh Selectman Anderson, thank you for
[1:11:47] that. Selectman Harrington, any
questions or comments?
[1:11:51] So, Kathleen, this is kind of like a
reappoint. Uh,
[1:11:55] » yes,
>> if I'm not mistaken. So, appreciate your
[1:11:58] work. I appreciate the taking the time
to volunteer and, uh, please keep up the
[1:12:03] good work. Thank you for your service.
>> Thank you. Thank you.
[1:12:07] » Uh, Select the Moth, go right ahead.
>> Well, I want to thank you for your
[1:12:11] service and the and the fact that you'd
like to volunteer and do it again is is
[1:12:15] great.
>> Thank you, Roy.
[1:12:17] » Yeah. and then go on record to say that
it was Jim that opened Pandora's box.
[1:12:22] » I know. Well, yeah.
>> No further no further questions. Mr.
[1:12:26] » One of my consultant
>> one of my areas of focus is uh executive
[1:12:32] presentation skills and in a meeting
like this you want to ask focused open
[1:12:39] questions.
So, by asking what are the biggest
[1:12:43] issues, it's like you I you just opened
up uh Patriots, you know, the the
[1:12:50] Patriots stadium in terms of what we
could bring in.
[1:12:54] » I guess we can all agree. I guess we
could all agree that this is Select
[1:12:57] Mananderson's fault and that uh
[laughter]
[1:13:02] » Just kidding, Jimmy. Mr.
>> Mr.
[1:13:04] » Once again, I'll fall in the sword.
[laughter]
[1:13:09] Um, thank you John Roy and and Jimmy, we
appreciate you being so lighthearted.
[1:13:14] Believe me, everyone's great. This is
fantastic. Kathleen, you're you're
[1:13:17] fantastic.
>> You know, also just for all of you, I I
[1:13:21] don't how many of you have been by the
Fisk or stopped by, there is an amazing
[1:13:27] exhibit there of all of artists who
either lived in Rentham at one time or
[1:13:34] currently live there now. And the
there's uh textile, there's pictures,
[1:13:40] there's paintings, the stories of about
Rentham, which and then the previous
[1:13:47] exhibit was uh
uh oil well paintings and then stories
[1:13:55] of old houses in rent them and how far
they go back. It was just fascinating.
[1:14:01] Anyway, I know I grew up in Connecticut
in a a small town which had a lot of uh
[1:14:08] also local history and uh Rantham is
just uh it's an amazing place. There's
[1:14:14] there's so many just different little
things to uh learn and focus on and the
[1:14:20] cultural council. It just really brings
that to the attention of the town. But
[1:14:26] getting the word out and actually
stopping by. It's like, you know, if you
[1:14:31] live in New York, you've never been to
the Statue of Liberty. Living in
[1:14:34] Rentham, we, you know, we go about our
business, but there's so many things uh
[1:14:40] to enjoy if you stop and
>> take
[1:14:45] invite you to come.
>> I appreciate your passion. Very well
[1:14:49] said. And um let's move on to take a
vote. So, uh, se select moth went. At
[1:14:57] this time, I want to go to,
um, the motion, which is I would
[1:15:04] entertain a motion to appoint Kathleen
Bich Bichi to the cultural council for a
[1:15:11] term effective immediately and expiring
on June 30th, 2029.
[1:15:16] » Motion made by selectman Harrington,
second by selectman Anderson. Any
[1:15:20] further discussion? Being none, we'll do
a roll call vote. Select man Anderson.
[1:15:24] » Anderson. Yes.
>> Select
[1:15:26] » Manh Harrington.
>> Yes.
[1:15:28] » Select Lamoth.
>> Lamoth. Yes.
[1:15:31] » Chris Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 4.
Congratulations, Kathleen. Keep up the
[1:15:35] passion and we will see you soon.
>> Excellent.
[1:15:38] » Mr. Chair, could I could I address
Kathleen with one comment?
[1:15:42] » Go right ahead.
>> Kathleen, in the St. Mary's Church in
[1:15:46] the last year, there's been a donation.
Uh the stations of the cross had oil
[1:15:50] paintings and it was done by someone I
think in North Attboro or Adelboroough
[1:15:56] donated them. Absolutely gorgeous. If
you have not seen that the cultural
[1:16:01] committee should go in and take a look
at it amazing.
[1:16:05] » Thank you. I was I go to the abbey to
mass so I will go and see that. Thank
[1:16:11] you. Thank you.
>> Great. Kathleen, make sure to go get
[1:16:14] sworn in uh before you attend your uh
the next meeting. Okay.
[1:16:19] » Yes, we'll definitely do that.
>> All right. Great. Have a wonderful
[1:16:22] evening and we'll see you soon.
>> Thank you. Thank you so much. It was a
[1:16:25] pleasure being uh at your meeting. Thank
you.
[1:16:28] » Pleasure was all ours. Uh all right,
let's go to tab number 12. All right.
[1:16:33] Tab number 12 is an appointment of Paul
Bender to the community preservation
[1:16:36] committee as historical commission
representative. Uh in our documentation,
[1:16:40] in our packet, we have an email from
Gina Solaris, who's the historical
[1:16:44] commission chair. Um uh selectman
Harrington, you want to read that in the
[1:16:48] record, please?
>> Yeah. So, uh it's from Gina Salales
[1:16:53] says, "Hello. During the historical
commission meeting on August 6th, 2026,
[1:16:59] Paul Bender was unanimously voted to
represent the commission at the CPC
[1:17:03] meetings. All our members of the
commission were in attendance on August
[1:17:07] 6th. Roy Van, Ray Rose, Leo Baldiger,
Bill Jones, Zack Oriel, Paul Bender, and
[1:17:14] Gina Solaris. Thank you. And it's uh
from Gina, the chair of the rental
[1:17:18] historical commission.
>> Right. And just to thank you uh
[1:17:23] Selectman Harrington. And just to remind
the board, um these are kind of I hate
[1:17:27] to use the word rubber stamp, but I'll
use the word rubber stamp. So uh if
[1:17:31] anyone has any questions or comments,
raise your hand. Otherwise, I'll go
[1:17:34] right to the motion. All right. Seeing
none, chain a motion to appoint Paul
[1:17:38] Bender to the community preservation
committee as a historical commission
[1:17:42] representative for a term effective
immediately and expiring on June 30th,
[1:17:48] 2029.
>> So move.
[1:17:50] » Is there a second? Second. So motion
made by Selectman Anderson, second by
[1:17:55] Seleth.
Any further discussion? Being none,
[1:17:58] we'll do a roll call vote. Selectman
Anderson.
[1:18:01] » Anderson's yes.
>> Selectman Harrington.
[1:18:04] » Harington. Yes.
>> Mammoth.
[1:18:07] » Mammoth. Yes.
>> Yellow. Yes. Motion carries 40. Please
[1:18:11] let uh Mr. Bender know to go to the town
clerk's office and get sworn in. Okay.
[1:18:16] Mike shaking your head. Yeah. Everything
okay? Do we need to add something to
[1:18:20] that? [clears throat]
[1:18:23] No. Okay. I couldn't hear you, but I
I'll take that as a no. Okay. Let's move
[1:18:27] forward. Tab number 13. So, um, tab
number 13, uh, is a vote to approve the
[1:18:35] issuance of a $5 million general
obligation bond and, uh, bond
[1:18:39] anticipation note or ban dated September
17, 2026, and to execute any closing
[1:18:46] documents related there too. Um, in our
packet, we do have the, um, the
[1:18:51] documentation supporting it. um shows
the votes of the select board,
[1:18:55] description of it, and uh we do have
with us uh town manager Mike King, who
[1:19:00] might be able to give us a quick summary
of what we're trying to accomplish here.
[1:19:04] » Uh Mr. Chairman, uh we actually have
with us tonight treasur collector Kathy
[1:19:09] Nelson, who uh will be willing to speak
on the subject if you would be okay
[1:19:13] recognizing her.
>> I would love to recognize her. Can you
[1:19:16] do me a favor though? You guys do this
sometimes and I love you, but you don't
[1:19:19] put it in the packet and then I look
silly because I go to you asking for
[1:19:23] information when I have Kathy right
here. So, I apologize, Kathy. Welcome to
[1:19:28] the meeting. Uh, I'm going to have you
unmute in a second, but welcome to the
[1:19:33] meeting. It's so great to have you.
Thank you for all you do for our great
[1:19:36] town. Please let us know what we're
trying to accomplish this evening.
[1:19:40] » Sounds good. Thank you very much, Mr.
Chair. Um, the town had held a
[1:19:46] competitive bid sale on Tuesday, August
25th, 2026 for a $5 million one-year
[1:19:53] bond anticipation note to finance the
beginning phase of the Rodrik Elementary
[1:19:58] School building project as approved by
the town meeting on June 1st, excluded
[1:20:03] from limitations of Proposition 2 and a
half and by a vote of the town passed on
[1:20:09] June 15th.
The town received five bids on the note
[1:20:14] and TD Financial Products LLC was the
winning bidder with a net interest cost
[1:20:19] of 2.84%.
Uh what is before you tonight is the
[1:20:24] vote to approve the note sale. The
entire vote needs to does not need to be
[1:20:30] read but must be included in the board's
minutes.
[1:20:34] Uh, upon approval of the vote, I'm
sorry, upon a vote of approval, there
[1:20:40] are several pages of documents that need
to be signed by the majority of the
[1:20:43] board. And please note that wet
signatures are required and that one of
[1:20:48] the signers must be Mr. Harrington in
his role as clerk of the board.
[1:20:54] » Well, that's fantastic, Kathy. Thank you
for that summary. Bill, can you sign for
[1:20:58] me, too? No, I'm just kidding. That's
That was a joke.
[1:21:02] » I had to sign today. It's like getting a
mortgage all over again.
[1:21:06] » So Kathy, um just so the board's well
aware, and I'm sure everyone is, the
[1:21:11] reason that we're doing this ban is
because we don't want to pay interest on
[1:21:16] a huge amount of money like 40 or $50
million, right? Because we're not ready
[1:21:20] to we're not ready to actually break
ground um and you know uh with the new
[1:21:25] school. So what this ban does is it's a
it acts as temporary financing if I'm
[1:21:30] not mistaken so you don't have to pay on
the full amount.
[1:21:33] » Right. Exactly. And then this this ban
will be rolled into a bond next year
[1:21:39] » is the is the plan at this point.
>> Okay. Fantastic. Appreciate the
[1:21:44] explanation. Appreciate you being on
here this evening. Uh select board
[1:21:48] members. Does anyone have any questions
or comments? Starting with Selectman
[1:21:51] Anderson.
>> Uh none Mr. Chair. Selectman Harrington,
[1:21:56] » no questions.
>> Selectman Lamoth,
[1:21:58] » no questions.
>> And I I have no further either. Mike
[1:22:02] King, now do you [clears throat] want to
add anything? Are you still okay?
[1:22:06] » Um I'm just happy that we got Selectman
Harrington with me this evening to sign
[1:22:10] as the clerk of the board immediately
after the meeting. [laughter]
[1:22:13] » That's great. So uh all right. Uh chair
would entertain a motion then at this
[1:22:17] time to approve the votes as written in
the form of the document that was
[1:22:21] prepared by bond council and provided to
the board for the $5 million general
[1:22:25] obligation bond anticipation notes dated
September 17, 2026 to be issued to TD
[1:22:32] Bank TD Financial Products LLC.
>> So move.
[1:22:37] » Motion made by selectman Harrington,
second by Select Moth. Any further
[1:22:40] discussion? Being none, we'll do a roll
call vote. Selectman Anderson.
[1:22:44] Innocence. Yes.
>> Selectman Harrington.
[1:22:47] » Yes.
>> Selectman the moth.
[1:22:49] » Moth. Yes.
>> Chris Gallow. Yes. Motion carries. 40.
[1:22:53] Um Mike, can you please make sure that
Maya or Amanda follows up with the
[1:22:58] board, reminds us to come in for wet
signatures.
[1:23:02] » Yes. We'll just need
>> And thank you.
[1:23:05] » Sorry. Go ahead, Mike.
>> We'll just need two more board members
[1:23:08] um in addition to Mr. Harrington. Um
preferably either tomorrow or Thursday.
[1:23:13] All right, sounds good. And Kathy,
thanks for being on with us this
[1:23:17] evening.
>> Thank you.
[1:23:19] » Okay. Um, let's go to tab number
14. Okay. Tab number 14. Mike, um, this
[1:23:28] is the discussion of the 2025 volunteer
of the year nomination form.
[1:23:34] Mike, do you have I'm gonna I'm gonna
pass this one off to you.
[1:23:39] » Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. So
annually, the select board identifies
[1:23:43] two members in reviewing applications
for the town's volunteer of the year
[1:23:48] awards, which include an adult award and
the Henry Carr Youth Award for
[1:23:53] individuals that are age 18 or younger.
Um the awards are presented at the fall
[1:23:57] town meeting. Um the board can identify
two members who will serve in a
[1:24:02] reviewing capacity this evening as well
as discuss um whether there's any
[1:24:07] interest in making any updates to the
application or selection process.
[1:24:12] » Oh great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um so
Mike, I appreciate you taking the lead
[1:24:16] on that. So uh board typically what
we've done the past couple years is um
[1:24:21] selectman uh Anderson and selectwoman
Rouse volunteered to kind of lead this
[1:24:26] up. Um, one of the things that we
discussed last year, Mike, if I'm not
[1:24:31] mistaken, was keeping the youth award
exactly how it was, and then potentially
[1:24:36] we discussed uh uh making uh a couple of
edits or at least discussing an edit for
[1:24:42] the other award. Is that is that a fair
statement? [clears throat]
[1:24:47] » That is my recollection, Mr. Chairman.
Currently, the adult award is for an
[1:24:53] individual and there was some discussion
about whether or not it could possibly
[1:24:57] be an organization in the Renom
community that does good work.
[1:25:01] » Right. So, I guess we want to just get
some guidance from the full board. I
[1:25:05] know Michelle's not on tonight. she's
out sick. But um from us who are here um
[1:25:10] you know I think the in my recollection
Mike too and I say this with all with
[1:25:15] all due respect there was limited um
participation in the adult award and
[1:25:20] there's always pretty good participation
in the youth award. Is that also a fair
[1:25:24] statement?
>> That is correct Mr. Chairman. So, what
[1:25:28] we're trying to do here, gentlemen, is
um you know, uh because there wasn't an
[1:25:33] abundance of participation on the adult
award, we started brainstorming and
[1:25:37] saying, "Geez, I wonder if we could open
it up to, like Mike said, groups that
[1:25:41] are doing good things around town as
well." I do think that the the youth
[1:25:44] award is very important. I think people
uh you know, take it very seriously. Um
[1:25:49] and it's a it's it's it's a great event
for the youth, so I think we should keep
[1:25:52] that one alone. I know Select Woman
Rouse agrees with me on that. Um but
[1:25:56] what are your thoughts? Does anyone have
any comments or thoughts if he wanted to
[1:26:00] make that edit to the adult award? Maybe
opening it up or do you want to keep it
[1:26:03] the same?
>> Open it up.
[1:26:07] » Go ahead, Roy. Open it up.
>> I think I think going with a group makes
[1:26:11] sense. Um, again, to your point, very
few applications.
[1:26:16] Uh, I think we would I think there are
far more groups that would benefit from
[1:26:21] the recognition.
uh even even the one we spoke about
[1:26:25] tonight which is the neighbors of rent
them.
[1:26:28] » Yeah.
>> You know, fantastic. So,
[1:26:30] » right.
>> Yeah.
[1:26:31] » Okay. Appreciate that. Uh Bill, you had
your hand up
[1:26:35] » through you, Mr. Chair. I think we, you
know, I agree with u you and select
[1:26:39] moment Rouse open it up to groups. Uh
should also obviously leave it to open
[1:26:43] up to you know individuals
broaden it out. Uh it would be good to
[1:26:48] have some additional
applicants if you will and you know
[1:26:53] people presenting possibly groups or
individuals.
[1:26:56] » Thank you.
>> Yeah, I think that's a great idea. That
[1:26:58] was the intent. We're not saying that an
individual couldn't apply, but we're
[1:27:02] opening up to your point, Select Man. I
think that's good. Uh Select Manison.
[1:27:06] » Yeah, I concur uh with with both Roy um
and and and Bill on this. Uh my question
[1:27:14] is this is that are we picking uh two
select men or select board members to uh
[1:27:22] to do this tonight?
>> Mike, do we need to vote on the sub
[1:27:26] quote unquote subcommittee this evening?
>> Uh you don't need a vote, but if you
[1:27:31] have any volunteers, um that'll be
helpful
[1:27:34] » through you, Mr. Chair. I thought we
volunt I mean I thought uh the um
[1:27:38] Selectman Anderson and Selectman Rouse
volunteered for that in your initial
[1:27:42] opening comment.
>> Yeah. You know, I kind of thought they
[1:27:45] did too. Uh Selectman Harrington.
>> Well, that's what I heard. I'm not
[1:27:49] positive we breaking up a little.
>> Yeah.
[1:27:52] » So, Mr. Chair,
>> yeah,
[1:27:54] » if if I recall correctly, uh Select
Women Rose and myself have done it for
[1:27:58] for several years. Um, and I thought we
said last year we were going to let
[1:28:02] Younger Bloodood um t take over and give
them an opportunity to actually
[1:28:09] be able to experience the um the
volunteer of the year award.
[1:28:14] » Mr. Jimmy, when you say jungle blood,
what is that? [laughter] What does that
[1:28:18] mean? What does that
>> I I want to make a correction. I am
[1:28:22] probably older than all of you
[laughter] and I did do the scrubbing of
[1:28:28] the individual awards last year.
[snorts]
[1:28:31] » Oh, you were. You It was you and
Michelle.
[1:28:33] » Yes, that's right.
>> So, the common the consistent uh the
[1:28:39] consistent select board member is
Selectoman Ralph. I'd hate to take that
[1:28:42] away from her.
>> I would agree. In fact,
[1:28:46] » she's not here. She enjoys it.
>> [laughter]
[1:28:50] » She enjoys it. She It's a passion. Okay.
So, uh,
[1:28:54] » Mr. Chair,
>> yeah.
[1:28:55] » Yeah. I I would make a motion to to to
volunteer uh Select Woman Rouse and
[1:29:02] Selectman Lamoth to continue their great
work and do the volunteer of the year
[1:29:07] awards this year.
>> I I I would second that motion.
[1:29:11] » I third it.
>> All right. Well, Roy,
[1:29:15] » I didn't think there was any other way.
I [laughter] think last year
[1:29:19] » I just got to tell you Roy, the reviews
are in. Five star Google review. You did
[1:29:24] fantastic.
>> So you guys are gonna run it for another
[1:29:27] year.
>> Good. Let's go.
[1:29:31] » We appreciate you. Appreciate all the
hard work of all joking aside,
[1:29:34] appreciate you and Michelle uh tackling
this. It's important that we do this and
[1:29:38] uh you guys did a great job. So thank
you. All right, let's move on, Mike. So
[1:29:42] there you go. Well, that's the vote
and let's have uh let's go to tab number
[1:29:48] 15 and talk bylaws.
>> Could I just ask that?
[1:29:53] » Um I I don't know what the procedure
was, but I just asked Michael to have
[1:29:57] Maya forward all of those applications
to us. Is is that typically the
[1:30:02] procedure as
>> Yeah, I don't know. Have we we haven't
[1:30:04] received any yet, right, Mike?
>> No, but as we do. Yeah,
[1:30:08] » we haven't opened it up because we were
waiting for direction on whether to
[1:30:11] allow groups to apply.
>> Okay. So, yeah, my Maya and and or
[1:30:17] whoever gets them in the office, we'll
be sure to send those to both yourself
[1:30:21] and uh Select Woman Rose.
>> Mr. Chair, how many years have this been
[1:30:25] going on?
>> Um, Mike, do you know off the top of
[1:30:29] your head?
>> It's been over a decade. I'm not sure
[1:30:32] exactly the the number of years.
>> Yeah. So, Mr. Chair,
[1:30:36] » go ahead.
>> I I I want to say it's been probably at
[1:30:38] least 15 or 16 years.
>> My recollection, Roy, in talking to
[1:30:44] people is is what Select Man Anderson is
alluding to, 15 or 16 years, but I don't
[1:30:49] want to formally say. Um, I'll get that
answer for you, though.
[1:30:52] » And and we're getting the mileage we we
anticipate from it. I mean, the kudos,
[1:30:58] the I don't know. I'm just asking.
meaning uh the the activity, the
[1:31:03] interest or what mileage do you mean?
>> Well, I mean there's got to be some
[1:31:08] benefit for the effort that we put in.
So, I mean,
[1:31:14] what's the town's benefit? Is it it
appreciative, you know, or is it just
[1:31:19] two individuals or that walk away with
their,
[1:31:23] » you know, proud as a peacock for a
moment, you know?
[1:31:25] » Yeah. No, I I uh and Amanda did put in
the chat it's the 19th year for 2026, so
[1:31:30] that's great. I think there is um you
know, the family that started this, I
[1:31:35] don't want to speak out of school, but I
I know that this uh there's a there's a
[1:31:39] family that started this due to um I
believe it was a child passing away. Um
[1:31:45] and in part of that grieving process,
they established the these volunteer
[1:31:49] awards. I can tell you that my neighbor
um won one of these uh a couple of years
[1:31:56] ago um and um you know took it very
seriously, Roy, and and and he thinks
[1:32:02] helped get him into the college that he
got into, showing he's a well-rounded,
[1:32:06] balanced student, you know, not just
academics, not just sports, um but
[1:32:10] community involvement as well. So, you
know, I don't know, you know, the
[1:32:15] mileage you're you're talking about, but
to me, um, you know, I think it
[1:32:19] definitely does, but I don't know, you
know, that's just my humble opinion.
[1:32:25] All right. Um, okay. Uh, but I
appreciate the question. Mike, do you
[1:32:30] want to take the lead with the bylaw
discussion or do you want me to run
[1:32:33] through this?
>> I I'll take the lead, Mr. Chairman.
[1:32:36] Thank you.
>> Go right ahead.
[1:32:39] So for the town bylaw update discussion,
so fall town meeting has been scheduled
[1:32:44] for Monday, November 9th. Uh and the
warrant is currently open for town
[1:32:48] meeting article submissions. And I would
like to gauge the board's interest in
[1:32:53] submitting a housekeeping article uh to
update the town bylaws to reflect the
[1:32:58] current titles of town manager, director
of public works, and director of
[1:33:03] planning and economic development. Uh
these updates would ensure consistency
[1:33:07] with the title established in the town
charter uh which is the controlling
[1:33:11] document and takes precedence over the
town town bylaws. So a couple years ago
[1:33:17] town meeting voted to upgra up update
the titles with the charter. There
[1:33:20] hasn't been a vote to update the bylaws.
So now we have some inconsistency in the
[1:33:24] in between the two documents.
>> So Mike, just to clarify, this is this
[1:33:29] is strictly kind of administrative. Um
you know, this is lowhanging fruit. This
[1:33:34] shouldn't be confrontational. Uh, you
know, we're not looking to do anything
[1:33:38] that um, you know, uh, could potentially
be viewed as such. This is more just
[1:33:44] kind of administrative
>> housekeeping.
[1:33:47] » Yeah, I would agree that it's an
administrative housekeeping type of
[1:33:50] article.
>> Okay, I see no issue with that. What do
[1:33:54] the board What's the board think?
>> I'm with you, sir. Press
[1:33:58] » I concur.
>> Okay, Roy,
[1:34:01] » thumbs up. Yeah,
>> Mike, go ahead. move forward with it,
[1:34:03] please.
>> Thank you for the directions.
[1:34:06] » Okay, [clears throat] at this time,
let's go to public comment tab 16. So,
[1:34:12] uh as part of our uh uh meeting uh
agenda, we have an agenda item, a
[1:34:16] standing agenda item for public comment.
Residents who wish to participate in
[1:34:19] public comment will be allotted two
minutes to speak and must state their
[1:34:22] name and address. For the record, we ask
you to put your camera on if possible.
[1:34:26] At the start of the comment, a timer
will be sent via message from Maya
[1:34:29] Matarazzo. It should be visible on the
top of the screen and an alarm will
[1:34:33] chime when town time time is up. At this
time, do we have any residents
[1:34:36] interested in making a public comment?
I'll give 5 to 10 seconds.
[1:34:46] Okay. 5 4 3 2 1. Okay. Let's
[clears throat] go next on the So, Jim,
[1:34:52] this is um I don't know if you saw this,
but this is a new thing that we've added
[1:34:56] to the agenda um starting last meeting,
and I know you were in Alaska having a
[1:35:02] blast. Um but, you know, we have two
specific um select board appointments uh
[1:35:08] in Roy and Bill, and as you know, Roy is
the select board representative on the
[1:35:14] um uh housing production plan committee.
Uh, and Bill is a select board
[1:35:18] representative of the CPC. So, we Mike
and I and Michelle were speaking and we
[1:35:24] thought it would be prudent to put a
standing agenda item um to get updates
[1:35:29] [clears throat]
uh because these are the only two
[1:35:32] committees where we have representation
uh as the select board on both of these
[1:35:37] committees. So, the goal would be for
Bill and J uh Bill and Jim to give us
[1:35:41] updates on the respective committees. Um
if there's any votes or anything that we
[1:35:46] need to discuss coming up, we would, you
know, there's no the any vote that we
[1:35:50] take is strictly for um guidance in our
opinion. Um there's no pressing vote,
[1:35:56] right? Because clearly uh we don't
control the CPC, nor do we want to, and
[1:36:00] we don't control the housing production
committee. But it's a vote of kind of
[1:36:03] confidence or vote of support if you
will um that we've done um you know at
[1:36:08] especially at the last meeting with the
the two projects that were up for CPC.
[1:36:13] Um so uh Mike King, would you say that's
a fair assessment of what we're trying
[1:36:17] to accomplish with this agenda item?
>> I would agree with you, Mr. Chairman.
[1:36:23] » Okay. [clears throat] So with that being
said, I'm going to start with Roy this
[1:36:25] evening. Roy, um I know the committee,
the housing production plan committee is
[1:36:30] still very new. you know, essentially
your charge is to do a study, tell us
[1:36:35] what the housing plan looks like, what
the what, you know, what the the number
[1:36:38] of units looks like, and obviously the
ultimate goal of the housing production
[1:36:43] plan committee is to make sure that
we're always above that safe harbor of
[1:36:47] 10% affordable housing. So, I understand
you're the chair. We've established
[1:36:52] that. We established that it's a very
new committee and in in its infancy
[1:36:56] stages. Do you have any very high level
updates uh for us um at this meeting
[1:37:02] that you want to share?
>> Very high. Yeah. So, we're we're at like
[1:37:04] 11.4% 11.7 560 some odd units. So, we're
in good shape and we're going to stay
[1:37:11] that way. Um and this committee is
looking to put something in front of um
[1:37:16] both the zoning board as well as the
select board by the end of the year. Uh
[1:37:21] the first draft of the housing
production plan that was produced by RKG
[1:37:25] came just about two weeks ago, right
about the same time we did this meeting.
[1:37:30] And I've read through through it
entirely. Uh personally, I don't have
[1:37:35] any questions or concerns about the
content. It's a lot of fluff where they
[1:37:40] they're repeating statistics and things
about Rentham in such a form that would
[1:37:46] allow the state to approve it. So, um,
again, not much in there. The only thing
[1:37:51] I took was taken back by was the amount
of non-compliance we have within our
[1:37:56] zoning bylaws for housing. It's upwards
of 40 to 48%. And, you know, when I
[1:38:02] spoke to um Shane O'Brien about that,
that's pretty typical when you look at a
[1:38:07] town as old as ours and the setbacks
from the street. There were no zoning
[1:38:11] back then. And when you're looking at
different types of housing programs, you
[1:38:17] know, in order to accommodate the
builder, there's certain adjustments or
[1:38:20] accommodations we make. So, you know, I
was taken back by it, but now that it
[1:38:25] was explained to me by Shane, I
understand it. We also received So,
[1:38:30] that's moving along. We'll have another
meeting with them on September 15th. Um,
[1:38:36] we also have received the proposal by
the Ein group for the uh the community
[1:38:42] engagement. Again, like I said repeated
last week, I wasn't really particularly
[1:38:47] happy with them. They did come back with
a list of questions that'll be on the
[1:38:51] survey. Um, we also have a QR code
that'll be going out on postcards as
[1:38:58] well as flyers. They'll be at in
attendance at our retham day. We've also
[1:39:04] set up a time to for a a com a meeting
by constituents at the fisc library. So
[1:39:11] those things are going forward and we'll
be able to complement the uh the draft
[1:39:18] um by the end of October. So um it's
moving forward. We we we feel good about
[1:39:23] it.
>> All right. Great. I appreciate that.
[1:39:26] Anybody have any questions for Roy
before we move on to Bill?
[1:39:32] No. [clears throat] Great job, Roy. Keep
it up. Uh, appreciate the high level
[1:39:35] updates. Let us know how we can help you
out.
[1:39:37] » Okay.
>> All right. Let's move on. Uh, Mr.
[1:39:40] Harrington. So, C, let's talk CPC. So,
uh, CPC bill, there was two votes for
[1:39:46] two projects. Um, the first project was
the rice complex field lighting that
[1:39:52] passed 53.
Um,
[1:39:56] so let's start there. What are your
thoughts on and again, we understand.
[1:40:01] Let me just I want to make two things
clear. We understand both Roy and Bill
[1:40:07] that you guys have your own opinions and
you you're the ones that we've appointed
[1:40:12] on these committees. So, you're
obviously always going to make your vote
[1:40:16] and we want you to make your vote. The
only thing that I would ask is chair
[1:40:20] that when you're on these committees
representing us as a board, if it comes
[1:40:24] to a vote, I'd always want you to at
least say the select board supported
[1:40:29] this. the select board didn't support
this. Not that you have to vote that
[1:40:34] way, but I want you at least to be
acknowledged that the board either
[1:40:38] supported didn't support it because I I
just think that's kind of I I think
[1:40:41] that's part for the course as the
elected uh or appointed official from
[1:40:46] this board. Does that make sense? Is
that fair, Mike? Would you agree with
[1:40:50] that as well?
>> It would.
[1:40:54] » Okay. So, with that being said, let's
talk Rice Complex. It passed 53. It
[1:40:59] looks like uh Leo, John, Jane, Chuck,
and Andrea voted for it and then Robin,
[1:41:06] you and Steve voted against it. Any just
curious the reasons to your knowledge
[1:41:11] why people didn't support it? Can you
give us just a high level?
[1:41:16] » Sure, absolutely, Mr. Chair. So those uh
as
[1:41:21] the vice chair on the committee uh and
the chairperson on the committee had
[1:41:26] requested additional information from
the recreation department which we never
[1:41:31] received.
>> Uh some specifics uh we have an email
[1:41:36] from Heather sending it to recreation.
We didn't get it. Uh I myself um
[1:41:44] the chair and the one of the members
didn't feel as though the recreation
[1:41:47] department was being transparent in
their communication with us. Um it uh
[1:41:54] that you know they're losing fields.
They kept presenting the fact that
[1:41:58] they're losing fields and they're being
taken away from them. Well, the land
[1:42:02] belonged to the school to begin with.
It's it's it's for the betterment of the
[1:42:05] town and
the department I mean the town has
[1:42:10] funded quite a bit of money to the
recreation for it. Uh they kept touting
[1:42:15] the fact that they're the only
department that makes funds to offset
[1:42:19] costs but they didn't provide any
information. U
[1:42:23] you know it just it wasn't transparent.
uh the bid, we weren't notified that the
[1:42:29] bid had been submitted incorrectly and
there was a problem with it. And for
[1:42:33] them to come back and have change it up
after the fact to not to exceed 350,000
[1:42:39] did not seem to me something that as a
member of CPC as a select board member
[1:42:45] and a citizen that I wanted to support
something that I didn't feel was
[1:42:49] transparent to the town. That was
>> okay. No, that's that's fair. I
[1:42:53] appreciate that. Anybody have any
questions for Select Man Harrington on
[1:42:57] the Rice Complex vote before we move to
the other one?
[1:43:01] No. Okay. So, Bill, thank you for that.
Appreciate your opinion on that. Um,
[1:43:07] let's talk about Mirror Lake. So, this
is the one that for me it's a little bit
[1:43:11] more um I'm a little bit more concerned
about this one. Um, so this vote pa this
[1:43:16] vote passed 6 to2. So, it was Leo, John,
Bill, Robin, Chuck, and Andrea voted for
[1:43:23] it. And then there was two people, Jane
and Steve, voted against it. This is the
[1:43:28] one that we actually got a legal opinion
from town council on saying that in
[1:43:34] their opinion these funds could not be
used for uh what they were saying is
[1:43:40] maintenance
uh and thing and and and instead alluded
[1:43:45] to the fact that you know these funds
should be pre used for preservation
[1:43:50] one-time you know uh um activities. Um,
so the concerning thing for me is that
[1:44:01] town council highly recommended or or at
least put their determination that we
[1:44:06] shouldn't support this. I you know I
know I don't want to get too much in the
[1:44:11] weeds, but can you just kind of walk us
through the rationale of still
[1:44:14] supporting the project?
>> Absolutely. So uh we had quite a bit of
[1:44:19] discussion with regards to Mirror Lake.
uh the amount of money that has been
[1:44:24] spent by the town provided to uh Mirror
Lake for the study to determine what is
[1:44:29] at the base of it and ultimately what
will be done to it. Uh so in the letter
[1:44:35] we provided to each of the uh board
members we gave them an opportunity to
[1:44:39] read it to get an idea of what they
thought. Um, I came up with one very
[1:44:44] specific line in the letter that was
provided and it says, "Preservation is
[1:44:50] protection of personal or real property
from injury, harm, or destruction." So,
[1:44:58] this crappy little weed that's in that
lake is going to destroy the lake if
[1:45:03] it's not properly prevented. Uh, so you
can I mean, the attorney's letter
[1:45:08] doesn't clearly state no, you shouldn't
or can't do this. it was a
[1:45:12] recommendation. Uh we also would have
liked to have seen a counter to that
[1:45:17] from an attorney that might look at it
differently. Um which we obviously
[1:45:21] didn't get. We would all of us quite a
few of the members went on to the state
[1:45:26] website and there's numerous towns that
support
[1:45:31] the destruction of their lakes uh as a
result of weeds. Number one, uh,
[1:45:37] Tingsboro happens to be one of them,
which is they recently voted on it
[1:45:41] again, and there's they're they have our
same attorney. Um, Norfor,
[1:45:46] I think it goes this week. They're uh
they have a they did a five-year plan
[1:45:53] for it. Uh, and also the attorney for
Nor represents the same law firm as
[1:45:59] ours. So, I think I mean I like I liken
the letter. um say saying that they
[1:46:06] don't recommend it. Uh but I don't
believe that it would be an issue down
[1:46:11] the road, especially where it's clearly
stated it's more of a preservation
[1:46:15] thing. Uh she likens it to having grass
and not mowing it. Well, if you have the
[1:46:22] grass and it just regrows, it's going to
grow weeds and it's going to destroy it.
[1:46:26] So yeah, maintaining it with
preservation of mowing and treatment
[1:46:32] would make it a more of a beautiful
field. So
[1:46:36] » yeah, that's interesting. I appreciate
that feedback. Mike, what I think we
[1:46:40] should do, obviously let the board
members opine, but Mike, if you're okay
[1:46:44] with this, I'd [clears throat] actually
like to put this on a specific agenda
[1:46:48] item for next meeting. And I'd like to
get town council to come either
[1:46:52] remotely, zoom in, or come in person
because we're actually going to be in
[1:46:55] person at the next meeting. We're doing
the police um swearing in ceremony on
[1:47:00] the 14th, I believe. Mike, it's the
14th. Yeah. No, the 15th, I'm sorry. And
[1:47:05] we decided to do a hybrid meeting
afterwards. So, Mike, I actually want to
[1:47:09] dig into this a little bit because to
Bill's point, I want to get some
[1:47:14] understanding. How are other towns doing
this? How are other towns that our town
[1:47:19] council may or may not be representing
doing this? What's the difference? And
[1:47:24] then what happens if because I I started
reading into this myself, guys,
[1:47:29] [clears throat] and you know, my
research tells me that if it's deemed
[1:47:33] that we're misappropriating
CPC funds on projects that were not
[1:47:38] supposed to be, it's a violation of Mass
General law and we could be sued. Uh so
[1:47:43] it's not something I'm taking lightly
here at all. And for that reason, I
[1:47:47] think we need to add it to the agenda.
Uh, specifically to talk about this,
[1:47:51] Mike, and I'd like to see if town
council's available to come in, weigh
[1:47:55] their opinion, and then I want to walk
through the whole process. I want to say
[1:47:58] to town council, okay, what happens?
What could we do from here? What happens
[1:48:03] if it goes on the warrant and it gets
voted in at town meeting? What's our
[1:48:09] liability? What's our potential
exposure? What does that look like? Um,
[1:48:13] is that something that we can do, Mike?
Yes, it can facilitate town council to
[1:48:18] attend on the 15th and Mirror Lake can
be in agenda item in the CPC vote.
[1:48:23] » All right. Excellent. I think it's that
important. Um because Bill M you make
[1:48:28] some fair uh points that I want to dig
into a little bit. Uh Roy, Jim, do you
[1:48:32] guys have anything to add on this? I am
going to make it an agenda item, but
[1:48:35] obviously I want you guys to opine give
your, you know, whatever you think. So,
[1:48:39] uh Jim, starting with you.
>> Yeah. So, Mr. chair. Um I didn't see
[1:48:43] that letter from town council, but was
that a recommendation or was that is
[1:48:47] that a letter stating um we should not
do this?
[1:48:52] » I'm going to let Mike uh would would you
consider it a recommendation or uh uh an
[1:48:59] opinion that we shouldn't do this?
Yeah, I saw it as an opinion um that the
[1:49:07] weed maintenance has transitioned from
possibly a preservation to a maintenance
[1:49:11] due to the frequency uh of the timing of
those treatments. So I I see it as as an
[1:49:18] advisory that the CPC should not move
this project forward as it is
[1:49:22] maintenance.
>> And that's Jimmy. That's why we want to
[1:49:26] get clarification from town council be
able to ask these questions to your and
[1:49:30] Bill's points. Mr. Chair, either through
you or uh
[1:49:34] » Go ahead.
>> Either Mike or or maybe Bill. Um half
[1:49:37] that that lake is in
>> Nor
[1:49:40] 85% is in Norfor.
>> Yeah. So So what is Norolk doing to
[1:49:45] support the the weed?
>> They whatever I don't know the specific
[1:49:52] uh
oneird 3/4 I forget what the the
[1:49:56] specific acreage is. Theirs is a very a
much smaller chunk of the
[1:50:01] » 15%.
>> Well, the 15% uh but they approved I
[1:50:07] believe it was three years ago for a
fiveyear treatment.
[1:50:12] » So So are they currently maintaining a
5-year treatment?
[1:50:16] » They're in I want to say it's possibly
year three or four. I don't know for
[1:50:20] sure.
This is this is the second
[1:50:26] second time that uh Mirror Lake has come
back for funds for this particular.
[1:50:32] » So So do we know what Norolk's using for
fund funding on that weed control?
[1:50:38] » CPC.
>> So So Norolk is year after year using
[1:50:42] CPC funds.
>> They approved it I want to say three
[1:50:45] years ago for a fiveyear treatment plan.
Correct.
[1:50:48] » Okay. Jim, so the only caveat to that,
because I asked the same question, and
[1:50:53] Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, the only
caveat is that, and this is why we need
[1:50:57] legal counsel to come on. I asked Mike
King to check with legal counsel on if
[1:51:03] because it was a one-time approval of a
five-year treatment that it's a one-time
[1:51:08] approval of a 5-year treatment. My
question is, is that considered
[1:51:12] preservation? because it's technically a
one-time event covering 5 years. And I
[1:51:18] want to see if Norolk then goes back and
asks for more money. Does town council
[1:51:23] now a think that that would be a
violation of allowable use for CPC funds
[1:51:29] and a violation of Mass General law?
>> Okay.
[1:51:34] Yeah, makes sense. I I I do think it's
important to have town council at our
[1:51:37] next meeting.
>> All right. I appreciate that. I concur.
[1:51:40] uh select lamoth.
>> Uh well, I I think it's like the Bible
[1:51:44] up for interpretation. So I I think
another opinion would be of good service
[1:51:50] if you want to do that. Um
I I do believe it should be treated uh
[1:51:57] particularly with you know the potential
of dredging this whether that happens or
[1:52:03] not but now that they looking to go out
and get grants from the state and
[1:52:08] federal to dredge this and really
resolve the issue we we should at least
[1:52:14] support them in the meantime. And as far
as I'm concerned, I I I I don't care
[1:52:21] whether it's maintenance or
preservation. I think we should fund it.
[1:52:24] » But I won't be here on the 15th. So,
>> well, I app I appreciate that statement.
[1:52:29] Uh I'll make sure that you know the
board uh the board hears that. Um but I
[1:52:35] I will just caution you that you may not
care, but if we violate Mass General
[1:52:39] law, Roy,
>> no, I I I understand. But I again, it's
[1:52:42] an it's an individual legal opinion.
Okay. It's not a fact and it's not black
[1:52:48] and white like like uh
>> well listen Roy that's what we're going
[1:52:51] to have them come and and and we're
going to ask them questions and we're
[1:52:54] going to ask them to give us case law or
examples where communities have
[1:52:59] potentially violated CPC funds and what
the results have been. And I could tell
[1:53:04] you one of them that comes to mind
turned into a lawsuit where residents
[1:53:08] sued the CPC
uh for violation of Mass General law,
[1:53:13] misappropriation of funds, and the town
had to pick up the legal bill uh for the
[1:53:18] applica for the the residents the the
town's legal bill and it had to pay the
[1:53:23] CPC money back, I think, with a fine. Um
so we are drudging in uncharted
[1:53:28] territory here. Um so I I want to be
very careful,
[1:53:32] » Mr. chair.
>> Yes.
[1:53:34] » So, is it possible? Can we get a ruling
from the state on this?
[1:53:39] » It's a good question. Uh, that's a good
question. I think we could ask uh we
[1:53:44] could ask Mike King to ask the state
what their opinion would be. Mike, is
[1:53:48] that possible or are they going to say
it's up to us because it's CPC funds?
[1:53:53] There are funds. Well, there is the if
you go on, not to uh not to interrupt
[1:53:59] Mike, but if you go on to the the
website for it and the director, Stuart
[1:54:04] Sagenoff, um I don't know if he would
give a specific answer or not, but I
[1:54:10] asked Mike to have uh Heather go on the
site and look at the towns that are
[1:54:15] doing it, how long they've done it for,
and maybe we could send an email to
[1:54:19] Stuart and uh get his opinion on it. I
mean, clearly myself nor the any member
[1:54:26] of the board want to do something that's
going to cause harm or foul to the town
[1:54:29] to be sued. Um, of course,
>> in reading their specific letter, um,
[1:54:35] it's to me it's gray. And I I mean, I I
think it, you know, if you read it and
[1:54:42] you read what it says, I think it's a
gray area, uh, on
[1:54:47] preservation. Uh because if we don't
take care of the lake with this
[1:54:52] treatment, it's going to destroy it.
It's going to be ruined. It'll be it'll
[1:54:58] be
>> I don't think anyone's debating that. I
[1:55:00] think they're debating whose funds
should be paying for it. I think that's
[1:55:03] the question,
>> right? You know, it'll turn into the the
[1:55:06] crap hole in the corner of Pock and and
Mil Street. Um, so that that's
[1:55:13] and and
funds all of the weed treatment on
[1:55:19] Lake Pearl because of the beach and the
boat ramp, but quite frankly,
[1:55:24] Mirror Lake is open to the public and
partially town owned or it's all town
[1:55:30] owned.
>> There's no access though.
[1:55:33] » The access for
>> the access for boat ramp in Northfor. Uh
[1:55:38] but the it is completely accessible to
residents of North Fork and Rentham.
[1:55:43] » Yeah. Right. I'm all I'm saying is
there's no access direct access through
[1:55:47] Rentham. We own a parcel. You can't park
there. There's no beach in Renthm. You
[1:55:51] know, in my opinion, Norfor needs to
step up here. Um and you know, I want to
[1:55:56] see how much money they've spent versus
how much money we've spent. And Mike has
[1:56:01] to have a conversation with town council
and the Norolk town manager in my humble
[1:56:05] opinion. Um, so as we can see, there's a
lot to this topic and that's why I want
[1:56:11] it on the next meeting agenda so we can
really dive in um, and you know, ask the
[1:56:17] necessary questions. And no one's
insiniduating, Bill, by the way, that
[1:56:20] you want a lawsuit to happen for the
town. I'm just saying, um, we got to
[1:56:24] make damn sure that we're pretty
comfortable uh, that that's not going to
[1:56:28] happen. Um, that's my point. So, uh,
let's go ahead and get that on the
[1:56:32] agenda. Mike, let's see if we can get
any followup determination from um the
[1:56:38] state per Jim and Bill's request. Um and
let's let's get our ducks in a row and
[1:56:43] ready for a a good dialogue on the 15th.
>> All right,
[1:56:50] » I'll
appreciate the update. Roy, appreciate
[1:56:53] the update. Um if there's nothing else
from the the update on the board
[1:56:57] committee representatives, I'm going to
pass it off to Mike King for his town
[1:57:01] manager report.
[1:57:04] Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have
several updates for the board this
[1:57:07] evening. Uh the first is in regards to
the public works building project. Uh so
[1:57:12] the public works building committee
recently voted to demolish the existing
[1:57:15] DPW facility once staff transition to
the new building that's currently under
[1:57:20] construction. Uh the committee had
originally planned to retain the
[1:57:24] existing building for cold storage.
However, after reviewing the costs
[1:57:28] associated with preserving the structure
for that purpose along with future
[1:57:32] maintenance expenses, uh the committee
determined that demolition was the more
[1:57:36] appropriate and cost-effective approach.
As part of the revised plan, a vehicle
[1:57:41] canopy will be added to the site to
provide additional cupped storage.
[1:57:47] Uh my next update is on a pavement
management plan for the town. Uh as part
[1:57:51] of the town's ongoing efforts to
maximize its investment in roadway
[1:57:55] infrastructure, a five-year interimm
update to the comprehensive pavement
[1:58:00] management plan is currently underway.
Uh the current plan is approximately 5
[1:58:04] years old and is due for an update to
reflect current road conditions and
[1:58:08] priorities. The town is working with
engineering firm Tai and Bond which will
[1:58:12] present its findings and its
recommendations at an upcoming select
[1:58:16] board meeting. Pavement management plans
are valuable tools for prioritizing
[1:58:20] roadway improvements and helping ensure
the available funding is invested
[1:58:25] strategically and cost-effectively.
[1:58:30] My next update is on the strategic
communication plan. Uh so the town will
[1:58:34] be distributing surveys this month
focused on both external and internal
[1:58:37] communications. A survey outreach is
planned for Rem day similar to the
[1:58:42] housing production plan. Hope hopefully
we can get some coordination there. Um
[1:58:46] where attendees will be encouraged to
provide valuable feedback on how the
[1:58:50] town communicates with residents in the
community. Uh the surveys will help
[1:58:54] establish a better understanding of the
effectiveness of current communication
[1:58:57] practices and identify opportunities for
improvement as the town develops its
[1:59:02] strategic communications plan.
And my last update is um is the
[1:59:08] retirement of Ray Rose from the
Department of Public Works. Um so
[1:59:12] longtime employee Ray Rose retired from
the Department of Public Works on August
[1:59:15] 20th after nearly 40 years of dedicated
public service to the town of Rem. Ray
[1:59:22] made many contributions to the community
throughout his long career and we thank
[1:59:27] him for his decades of service and wish
him all the best in his retirement. And
[1:59:31] that concludes my town manager's report,
Mr. Chairman.
[1:59:34] » Great. Uh, anybody have any questions or
concerns for Mr. King on the TM report?
[1:59:39] » Yeah, Mr. Chair,
>> go ahead.
[1:59:41] » Yeah, so I I would concur what he said
about Ray Rose. I've known Ray for for
[1:59:47] many years, well over 30, and um he's
always one of the most hardest working
[1:59:52] guys they had in the DPW. Um I'm sorry I
missed his
[1:59:57] um celebration. Uh I was away on
vacation, but um I'd be more than happy
[2:00:05] if someone could give me his contact
information to reach out to him.
[2:00:09] » Yeah, that's that's that's very fair,
nice, and I'm sure Mike can do that. And
[2:00:13] Jim, I'll let you know that I was able
to stop by and uh it was a great
[2:00:18] reception. Um uh I presented him on
behalf of the whole board a really nice
[2:00:23] proclamation. Uh I read it to him. I
shared some kind words uh because I too
[2:00:27] have a relationship uh with Rey and uh
he was very touched and appreciative and
[2:00:32] knows that this board and the town um
you know really appreciates his 40 years
[2:00:38] of service uh to the community. He was
very very very touched and he plans on
[2:00:42] you know remaining active as you know
he's you know very involved in other uh
[2:00:46] volunteer groups within the town with
historical and you know uh you know uh a
[2:00:52] lot of other things. So uh you you'll be
seeing a lot of them still. That's for
[2:00:55] sure.
>> Perfect. Thank you.
[2:00:57] » You're very welcome. Anybody else?
Okay. Selectman Anderson, welcome back.
[2:01:03] The floor is yours.
>> Well, Mr. Chairman, I'm not sure who uh
[2:01:09] Who closed out the meeting last time? I
was not here. I'm sure.
[2:01:14] » Who did it?
>> Michelle.
[2:01:18] » Did Michelle do it? Yeah, Michelle did
it. She did a great job.
[2:01:20] » Well, well, that
>> is yours. But
[2:01:23] » then I've got big shoes to fill.
>> But with your permission, I'd like to
[2:01:28] make a motion to adjurnn.
>> Is there a second?
[2:01:31] » Second.
>> Second by motion made by Select Manison,
[2:01:35] second by Select Mammoth. Any further
discussion? Being none, we'll do a roll
[2:01:38] call vote. Selectman Anderson.
>> Anderson's a yes.
[2:01:41] » Lechman Harrington.
>> Yes.
[2:01:43] » Selectman Lamoth.
>> Lamoth. Yes.
[2:01:46] » Chris Gallow. Yes. Motion carries 4.
Thanks everybody. Have a great night.
[2:01:50] » Thank you. Great job. Eight two hours.
Blat. Great job.