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Board of Selectmen Meeting - 07/13/2026

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July 13th, Board of Seckman's meeting.
If we all rise, we'll pledge allegiance, please.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it seems one nation under God
and divisible with liberty and justice for a.
So the board was just coming out of a paper review
in a brief non-public prior to this discussion
or prior to this start time.
First up will be the review and approval of consent items.
In this evening's consent folder, we have the accounts payable manifest for June 30th
for $2,245,0.48 for July 7th for $28,000,937.64.
For July 14th, for $101,594.294.
We have payroll manifest for July 2nd, for $73,613.4 cents.
For July 9th, for 73,9th,000, 9.
$0.10.5. And for July 16th, for $72,318.74.
We have the May, 2026, Treasurer reconciliation. We have an MOU from the Board of Selectmen
between the Board of Selectmen and the Town Clerk Tax Collectors Office, which was approved
their earlier meeting. And we have a purchase order for our Bulldog for $17,456.26, which is the
engine for repairs.
remove anything or make a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second.
Motion made by Mr. Perry, seconded by Ms. Planski.
Thank for the discussion. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. I. Opposed. Motion carries
5.0. Request for any additional items or other business.
Yeah. I will like to talk about the bike path in the resident
That's the call we had received today.
There's no objection to that at the end of the agenda.
Anybody else have anything else to add?
Nope.
No? Okay, so I'll be at the end.
Next up is supposed to be a pinning ceremony from the fire department.
Maybe.
I lost the pin.
Maybe not.
So we'll just delay for a second.
First, public input, it will occur a note earlier than 6.45 p.m.
We'll hit into the business agenda to get some things out of the way.
First up is the approval of minutes of the June 22nd.
We had the opportunity to read and review.
Anybody have any changes?
Motion to approve by Mr. Larry.
Do I have a second?
Second. Second by Mr. Gannon.
Discussion? No?
All those in favor? Say aye. Aye.
Opposed. Motion carries 5-00.
Chief is just walking in. So, Chief, would you like to come in and surprise us with your ceremony?
Sure.
We probably should make him wait.
We made us wait.
Back of the line.
Come on, Joey.
Step it up.
Come on in.
Come all the way in.
Yeah, we come on in.
Feel free to fill in any seats.
Yep.
Get comfortable.
At the least, everybody here should be in the room.
Chief, you want to maybe try to stand in front of the mic there?
Hi there.
Mike.
Just so we can hear you.
The floor is yours.
Thank you.
Good evening, everybody. Tonight, I am here with Joey in the Marotti. Joey's been with us for eight years on the fire department. He is also a full-time firefighter paramedic in Hudson.
And Joey started his career in Hudson as a fire explorer and went up through the, through the whole system in Hudson. He had a full-time career with hooks at fire explorer.
rescue and then ended back in Hudson where we started.
He's been on our call department for, again, eight years, and he's very passionate about the fire
service. He's always a, he's a very valuable team member, and he's been instrumental in some of the
newer things that we've been doing over at the fire station. And now with the promotion of Captain
Cardia and left an opening for one of our on-call companies, Company 3.
And so Joey tonight is being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
His fiancé is here and she's going to do here.
So congratulations.
Thank you. There you go.
Don't draw blood.
No, you can.
If he did anything wrong lately.
Congratulations.
Congratulations. Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now you're going to go have a party when it can't come, sir.
Yeah.
We'll text me after.
I will text you when you start turning, yep.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for coming.
All right.
Next up will be Conservation Commission and the update on the Mitchfield of the States.
Jay, we'll talk from the back of the room. Don't worry.
Do we have a, uh, it's, it's probably wherever you left the last and you used it.
From the floor somewhere.
Right by my feet.
So I'll be quick because I believe Fieldstone will probably be presenting their own plan.
Okay.
So George Lavash, 13 Pearson Street, chairman of the Litchfield Conservation Commission.
So we may.
We met last Thursday with a representative from Fieldstone, who was representing Patriot
and the issue of the remediation or the restoration of the clear cutting that happened.
I apologize for this.
The way this looks.
So they came to us with a plan which was much more comprehensive than the original plan.
The original plan had 24 pine trees.
This one now has a hundred and seven.
17, perhaps, trees and shrubs. They place shrubs in areas where we asked them to put
shrubs, flowering shrubs, or we asked them to put flowering shrubs. Initially, there were 25 red maples
and 25 red oaks and 30 white pines as part of the plan. We asked for them to add an additional
five oaks and maples. So there's 30 maples, oaks, and pines, along with 10 lilac trees.
The lilac trees were asked for for flowering.
shrubs over in an area where they had encroached within the 50-foot setback.
The only other changes we made to their plan, and we asked them to actually put it on the plan,
and I believe I sent you, I received this at around 5 o'clock tonight, their updated plan.
They had four notes on their plan that we asked for, so we wanted to make sure it was
spelled out on the plan because if it's not on the plan, it's not necessarily enforceable
by the building inspector. So by putting this on the plan, it's now enforceable. So it
says the project shall be subject to a five-year monitoring plan, which includes the following
items, a yearly reporting to the Conservation Commission by December 31st of each year, monitoring
and removal of invasive plants over the five-year period. So if there's any bittersweet or other
invasive that comes in. They're on the hook for finding it and removing it.
And part of the original landscaping notes here, they said that installation of plants or shrubs
are guaranteed for one year. I think that's a standard thing when they do a landscaping install.
But what we added was replacement of any dead trees during the five-year monitoring period.
So in case a tree dies within that five-year period.
that tree has to be replaced.
The shrubs may not be as important because a lot of them might be understory and as the trees grow larger,
those shrubs may die off.
So if a blueberry bush or something dies, it's not as important as we thought as the trees.
Okay, so they made those changes and our letter to you, as we voted,
said that we were fine with the plan as long as these things were put on the plan and they
were. I don't know if you have any questions for me. Yes. So the bond, where you're
looking for a five-year plan, is that bond going to stay in effect for all that time?
Are you going to give that back? What is the plan for the bond?
That's not my purvey. I think that's the board. That's the board's decision. You have no thought on it?
I would think after they do the major amount of work, the replacement of individual trees will not be that expensive.
So as long as, I would say, the bond probably has to go out for a year or 18 months or something like that.
I don't know.
Whatever you guys decide.
The bond should stay in place as long as the guarantee is in place.
It doesn't need to be for the amount that was originally stated.
Originally done that's what I was thinking.
But I, that's, we have no recourse otherwise.
I mean, let's just say they pound all these units up in a year and they leave.
What recourse do you have to go back if trees die?
Other than their word was.
they were going to take care of them. If they have a bond, there's something there.
That's cool.
Yeah, because we have something else that you had come up today that I was like, great, there's no bond
to require that work to be done.
Yeah, I was surprised that you'll let the shrubs go on one year.
I mean, this isn't going to grow that much in a year if you start losing bushes.
Pine trees grow pretty good.
So you're going to get a foot or two, max.
So my thought is, this is a wetland area, right?
It's going to be plenty of water there.
Things that they put in there, the blueberries and these other shrubs,
there's already blueberries growing in that area.
I think things are going to work out pretty well.
So I am not too worried about the things growing.
And a lot of, like I said, the blueberries, and there's a couple other plants that are growing already.
So these are just going to enhance what's already going to.
to grow. So this is giving it a jump start.
So I didn't really think that the shrubs were required.
And the trees are the major thing.
So those trees, they're going to have quite the head start over the seedlings that are growing right now.
So we thought it was important for those trees to be replaced.
I will say.
This is jumping the gun from death on the, I'm at least happy there, at least 15 gallon.
that's an 8 to 12 foot tree on average.
I'm pleased that we're at least getting that for trees.
So otherwise to me.
And I will say that we did have the county forester come out and we walked the land with him.
And he had reviewed this plan and he was taken back a little bit at some of the dogwoods and the lilacs.
And I said, well, those were sort of requested.
He said because they're not necessarily, the lilacs aren't.
necessarily native. But he seemed to think that it was a decent plan. And by adding in the
understory plants, it will help with the invasives. So it'll give them a put hold ahead of the
invasives. So he thought the plan was decent. He also said that he thought it was going to regrow
pretty quickly by itself. He's a forester, right? So they do clear cutting in different areas.
And it's part of their plan for various.
I mean, like, we do that out here.
So he thought it would regrow, you know, to some extent on its own, but this will give it a jump start.
So we have to, we have to accept the conservation commission's recommendation and then, I guess,
it's bind it.
I don't know that we've accepted until after we hear from peels don't.
Yeah, we can listen to them too, but I think we left the meeting with, if conservation was going to be good with it,
then we're good with it, right?
But we should get a full story.
or anything else for you? I think right now we're good.
Wait a minute. I'm going to, one more point. When the county
forester was there, actually Harry asked him a question. He goes, what's that plant out there
in the distance? And so we walked over and we took a look at it. And so they have an evasive
knotweed. I think it's Japanese knotweed. And it's in a number
of places on the property. So the forester
told John Heavisides, I believe it is, you know, the name of the DES person that deals with the
invasives. So I made sure Fieldstone was aware of the knotweed that is there. I also made sure
the building inspector is aware of the knotweed. So knotweed is very hard to remove and you can't
transport the dirt from that area somewhere else because I guess there's little nodules and each
nodule, if you break it, it can be replant.
So it has to be buried like seven or eight feet in the ground.
So that's going to be another thing that they're going to have to do while they're working out there.
I mean, the good thing is they caught it at this point in time when there's still the possibility
to bury it because they can't take it off site.
So they can either bury it or they can treat it with a roundup, you know, glysofate, something
like that. And in this, I don't know what they're going to choose to do, but I made sure
building the expected new and I want to make sure you guys are aware of that now that is
completely outside of this restoration okay but that was going to be my question is is
it in this area at all or is it outside of this whole area it's outside of this area so
it it wasn't affected by the clear cutting right and this restoration plan deals with
something completely different but I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware of that
I've made everybody that I could.
It's in the builder's best interest to take advantage or take care of it while he has the equipment out there and bury it deeply.
The problem is without the canopy that used to be there, those invasives can travel so much easier.
And so like I said, but it's on and they can bury it or they can pay some.
But no, there's some stuff, not knotwood, but there's some other invasions.
Cool.
Not yet.
I'm only speaking of the notwood.
Thanks, George.
Good evening.
How you going?
Mr. Chairman, members of the board for the record, my name's Chad Brannon, civil engineering principal owner with Field Stillman,
Consolence.
I think George did a really good job kind of giving an overview.
And so I'll just touch on some highlights.
As you know, we were in front of this board shortly after our first time before the Conservation Commission.
And at that time, we knew we knew we had some work to do.
on the landscaping plan, as well as, you know, meeting with the county forester and such.
And all of those items have been done.
We hired a landscape design professional, brought them on board with the project.
They took a look at the site, kind of the native species, and, you know, it's consistent with a lot of the initial feedback from the commission.
We essentially, you know, modified the plan to make sure it was more holistic,
not just looking at the perimeter, where we were proposing the 24 eastern white pines
with the buffer signage, but also including the buffer area as a whole.
And so what the landscape designer does is looks at the soil properties, you know,
native species, ultimately the lay of the land and comes up with a plan that they believe is
not only going to hopefully address the comments and concerns that were raised by both board,
but also be successful over time because it's a significant investment.
And the goal here is to make sure that it, you know, that it works.
You're always going to have some loss, you know, year to year, just the way it works,
whether the, you know, the plant has some condition that you get from the nursery or if it, you know,
suffers on some hard times with the first frost, et cetera.
But the new plan that we have is substantially different.
The latest plan was actually a plan that we submitted in PDF to the Conservation Commission this afternoon.
I did bring hard copies, and I'm happy to distribute it to the board if you'd like to take a look at it.
It's essentially the same plan with four or five notes added and then about 10 trees added to it.
So taking a look at the plan that we're proposing, there's kind of a matrix of,
of vegetation. So you start with the shade trees. And what we're proposing is 10 Japanese
tree lilacs. What was 25 red maple has now been modified to 30 at the request of the commission.
And then what was 25 red oak has now been modified to 30 at the request of the commission. And then there's 30 white pines. So the tree
The tree count for the, you know, the shade trees is significantly more than, you know, what it was before.
You, and in addition to that, we have understory trees.
And so part of this plan contemplates seven service berries, eight eastern redbud, seven flowering dogwood and five pagoda dogwood.
And so the total number of trees with the modification request from the commission last week is a
127 trees. So significantly more than the 24 that we had in that initial plan.
On top of that, we do have 60 shrubs mixed in, and those essentially consist of four main species.
You have 15 high bush blueberry, 15 winterberry, 15 dogwood, and 15 arrowwood vibram.
And so in the, you know, in reviewing the plan with the landscape designer, the goal is to kind of create, you know, what would be a natural layout, mature vegetation size so that these are successful as long as possible.
So, for example, although the shade tree and the understory trees over time will certainly kind of wash out, likely some of the shrubs, like we're talking many, many years before that will happen, just because it will take so long for them.
to get that large and to have that kind of, you know, a canopy.
So we agreed to a five-year monitoring plan with the commission.
That was actually proposed in the bond estimate that was provided by the owner, just so you know.
So that was kind of, it was requested by the commission, but was also already kind of anticipated and included in that bond number.
So the only item remaining, I think, is the bond.
as long as this board is comfortable with the commission's recommendations.
My client tried dearly to have that bond for tonight's meeting, but we actually need a formal letter from the town requesting the bond.
So the bond companies, we shared the minutes of the selectmen meeting.
We actually asked the commission if they'd be willing to write a letter, but it was not really in their jurisdiction.
And so if the selectman can author a letter, we have shared this with Ms.
Ashina, so she is aware that we need a letter as well.
If that can be facilitated, certainly the bond will be produced as fast as that can be, you know, drafted.
Our goal is to ultimately, you know, with the condition of a bond and hopefully the approval of this plan,
my client can start, you know, selling in.
and working through the appropriate process, certificate of occupancies, and such.
The plan is to have this area restored this fall, which is an appropriate time frame.
You don't want to do these types of plantings during the summer months.
And so it's either a fall or a spring plant, and the commission asked for this fall to be, you know, the time frame.
And so that's what we're working towards, just so everybody understands what the timeline will be here.
On top of the landscaping plan, there were a number of questions and concerns that were raised relative to the area of impact being larger.
We went out there and field surveyed the limits of disturbance.
We also field laid out the approved location of the silt fencing, and the silt fence has been relocated to the approved location in a number of areas where it was not quite, you know, correct.
I don't know how that was laid out initially.
We were not involved in any of the layout, but I can state that that has been field corrected and adjusted.
And so there were many comments received, many valid comments, and I think there's been a lot of work done over a fairly short period of time to try to bring the site into compliance to the extent that it can be and then to work forward with this re-vegetation plan.
So I'm here, you know, tonight really to try to answer any questions.
that the board may have.
You know, I hope that you find the new plan suitable and consistent with the commission's recommendations.
Questions from the board?
All right, I'll start.
Thank you.
Thank you for cooperating.
Thank you for bringing back a plan that's more than palatable.
It was a good attempt.
It was a good effort made by everybody involved, conservation especially, to make sure that they got the things that they wanted.
is important to have out there. So again, thank you. The shade trees, I still wish
were higher, but at 15 gallons, when I did research, it says it's 8 to 12 feet, one to 1 to 1.5
inch diameter. Is that correct? That's correct. I mean, it will range, you know, based on the
species and how well it succeeds at the nursery. The 15, what I can tell you is just from years
of experience, and I'm not a landscape architect, but the 15-gallon trees.
are more likely to be successful in, you know, a New England planting scheme where, you know,
it doesn't have a long time to root before you get into a winter, but because the trees are younger being an
inch and a half in diameter, they are just more hardy and more susceptible to take.
And so I think it's a good plan, but yes, that is roughly the range height-wise.
Okay.
Planting is going to be fall early, a late.
fall. I would think early would be better.
Earlier would be better. It's ultimately a function of lining up, you know, so if everybody's in agreement
with the plan, the next job is to secure the plantings with nurseries, you know, order. And then
when they come in will be a function of, and line up a landscape installer, you know, to install
these. So I know my clients committed to doing that. That's right around the corner. And so we have to
make some phone calls and lock these species in. So hopefully it'll be as early as
possible in the fall to give it a little more time. I will say that, you know, there's a fair amount
of, you know, work to be done here. So it's not going to happen overnight, but looking forward
to getting started. And are all of these plantings in the wetland areas? They're all in the buffer areas.
They're all in the buffer area. Okay. Okay. You can? Yeah. So my question is, just there
you're going to be doing this manually digging as opposed to machine. Is that correct?
There will be machine digging in the buffer areas. There will be no digging in the
wetland. No digging in the land. At all.
At all. And there is Jeffrey who's the head of the EPA that was someone I spoke to.
Jeffrey Blissargic? Yes.
So he's the head of their enforcement?
So you've spoken with him?
I've worked with Jeffrey, unfortunately, a lot over the years in there.
Yeah. Not a good, not a great thing they would do to have.
I think they would have.
He's a great guy to work with.
It's just unfortunate.
We're talking with him someone's made a mistake.
Yes.
Okay.
So that's what he told me and said that it couldn't be,
it had to be manual digging.
If it's in the wetlands, it would have to be manually.
The state has no jurisdiction over buffer areas.
Those are just local.
And there is technically no wetland violation.
But if we had a violation in the wetlands,
then the restoration would have to be done manually.
to be done manually. You're correct.
Okay.
Anything else?
No, I like the revised plan.
Do you put anything down, like
around the plants other than just mulch in the air?
Do you do like a blanket, like when they shred trees and stuff like that usually?
I forget what they call that stuff.
So the trees come burlaped and wrapped in material.
So that gets, you know, the area gets, you know, the area gets
it's prepped. I mean, all of those details are on.
The landscape architect put the planting details on,
the landscape plan as well.
The, I don't think there's a surface treatment necessarily
because you really want it to be natural,
but the root ball of the tree has, you know,
the materials there that, you know, should allow that.
Yeah, I was talking about the areas outside of where you're planting.
Like, if you plant five trees in an area,
there's spaces in between those areas.
do they get blanket wood scraps or stuff like that to make it to prevent some of that crap from growing in between?
Or do we want to allow that?
But we often use a conservation seed mix where the area is disturbed
and we just use like the New England conservation seed mix.
So we try to make sure that we're not just allowing, you know, the invasives to come over.
And certainly there's a monitoring plan, you know, that would take care of that too.
But the disturbed.
areas will be overseeded with like a New England conservation mix.
Okay.
That should do a good job, though.
Anything else?
Any other questions?
The only other question I have is for the board.
At what point do we release the hold on the COs?
I think what we talked about was when this was agreed upon,
we released it.
When the bond, when we received the bond.
Once the bonds in place, we release it.
So I would say we approve the plan based on the conservation recommendations
that we heard tonight.
tonight we state the bond needs to be requested at $106,000 if we can write the letter
tomorrow I can come in and sign it on behalf of the board that's what they'd like to do
and then we can either fax at our scan and email it to whatever we have to send it to
I know Jones sent an email about it to by email I don't do it by email.
Do you have the exact all amount of that bond?
156 even.
It was 156.
That's what I was, that's what I keep from John.
I have, I do have it here.
But you guys voted on it.
I think at your last name, last month.
156, though.
156.
See?
You were going to short us.
I'm going to get in trouble for correct.
So 156 is the bond amount that we agreed upon.
So I would take a motion that we approve.
So we're approving the plan?
The plan and requesting the bond.
Because they have to bring the bond back to a,
we have to get the bond back efficient.
Well, we already approved the bond.
No, we have to send a letter to the bond company that say that we approved it.
They need it in writing, so we've got to do that too.
We don't submit it to the bond company.
They do.
No, we have to send a letter to the bond company saying that we're requesting the bond and the amount of the bond.
We need a letter from the town saying that they're requiring a bond
because the bond companies, they won't issue a bond unless somebody asks for it.
Right.
So you get the letter from us for the request for the bond.
Yeah, wherever it goes.
Correct.
more of the legwork, that goes to him.
We just need a letter that the board is requesting a bond formally in this amount.
All right, so we're sending the letter to you then instead.
That would be perfect.
So I make a motion to approve the new final restoration plan.
That was submitted to the conservation as well as us.
And to also draw up the paperwork for a bond for $156,000.
$56,600 for them, Fieldstone, to be able to go get the bond, said bond.
Second.
Is there anything I missed on that?
You have that look on your face.
The only correction I would say is that with all due respect, I'm not going to getting a bond,
but it would be the landowner and Patriot holding.
Patriot holding.
Just from a technical standpoint, it will be from them.
So I'll amend it to Patriot.
I like helping, but we're not doing that.
but we're not doing that.
And authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board.
And authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the bullet.
Now that's the second.
Yeah.
I second.
It's a much better plan.
Motion made by Mr. Perry, seconded by Ms. Planski.
Further discussion?
My only question is when will the occupancy permits be released where they can start selling and moving in?
I would say once the bond has been authorized and you receive?
and you receive it?
Secured.
I would say on the next meeting of 27, we could make a motion to release it.
Okay.
There's no other issues at the site.
So will we do that now after this motion or will we do it after the blunt bond has been posted?
So that will be at the next meeting?
Okay.
Because I also want to hear from the building inspector too, so I know he's been going down and checking
in and make sure there's no other issues.
I don't believe there is, but we'll make sure that's the case.
Okay.
Or it's the case.
Thank you, Chad.
All right. All those in favor, say aye.
Aye.
Opposed. Motion carries five zero zero.
Thank you for all you have work.
Thanks to the conservation for the extra work.
And George, I like all your emails.
Thank you for letting me go first.
Enjoy your rest of night. Take care.
Next up is Chief Jones.
Chief, what are you got for us tonight?
Good evening. Nice to see all of you.
Again.
It's been a long time.
So two things.
First, we are doing our first ever national night out.
I don't know if everybody's ever heard of that, but it's basically a nationwide community event.
For the community to get together with law enforcement and obviously it's an educational piece
and trying to, you know, get the message out on what to do.
But it's also just a fun night where the police can interact with the citizens and business owners in town
or really anybody who comes to town.
come to town, but Mel's Funway Park is being generous enough to host it.
And you're going to give us access to the go carts and the laser tag room and
give us cornhole and things like that to play.
So there'll be food trucks there.
So there will be food, there'll be activities and then again,
whatever else we have going, National Night Out.
It's going to be Tuesday, August 4th, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
So I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of that.
It is on our Facebook page and it's also on our website.
If you go to the police department, you know, just click on the police department.
It's all the way in the left on the bottom.
There's a link that shows, again, you know, some of the things that are going on there.
Is that free charge or? Free charge, yep.
Absolutely.
And that's open to all residents?
Open to all residents.
Anybody who should, yeah, really open to anybody who shows up.
I mean, even if somebody from Hudson wants to go up and see what's going
on Litchfield, come on up.
Sounds good.
And then the second thing is Detective Sweet came to me, or came to us,
Vanessa and I, and asked about getting an ATV so that we can get out and get on some of these trails
and just do some patrol, and then also if there's an issue,
have the ability to get to that issue in a timely manner.
So, of course, my answer was, well, if you can get it for free,
you know, I'm all four.
it.
God, you belong here.
So, very quickly, he came back to me and introduced me to the CEO of Naltz Power Sports
and Marine right in Manchester, and I had a conversation with him, and we were just asking
for any TV, but after talking to him, I guess that they have this program that they've done
with other police departments, he said, well, based on what your needs are, we talked about what
we want to do with it, and he said, you'd probably be better up with a side-by-side.
So they are loaning us, or with your permission, they are willing to loan us a Kawasaki mule side-by-side.
Our obligations will be obviously fuel, but quite honestly, if an officer is driving that mule instead of a police car, that's a save for us.
We checked with the insurance provider for the town, and that's going to be under $100 a year, so not a lot of finance there.
we will be obligated to take care of the maintenance on it, and that's in the hundreds of dollars.
And talking to him, he said that most departments, if you have to service it once a year,
it's going to be a few hundred dollars.
Again, he said, you know, three or four hundred dollars at the absolute most, depending on, you know, exactly what it needs.
And then at the end of the season, once snow flies, they take it back, and then, you know, if it goes well,
they'd be willing to give it again next year.
They don't trade it in for you for a snowmobile?
No, no.
Will it have lights or?
Yes, they are willing to put the lights on it.
They're going to put the decals.
And we actually have some extra decals when they built our last set of cruisers.
They actually made an extra set accidentally.
So they're going to label it somewhat, but then we'll have stickers that we can add to it if we feel we need to.
Have you seen the meals?
Have I said, I haven't seen this one, but I've seen.
seen meals in the past.
I have a side-by-side down at the house if you want to just get a rough idea what it's like.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
I assume we'll have to get a trailer to transport it, and then will we have the option of purchasing it eventually?
We don't need to.
They're going to keep giving it to us.
Yeah, so I didn't ask about that, but I'll be talking to them again, so I can find out about that.
And we'll see how much we use it and, you know, see how it works out for us, but I would say
for what it is. It's a great opportunity.
So your primary use for this is going to be for the state forest?
State forest or whatever. I mean, even things like when we have a spooky world, things like that
would be nice to be able to traverse that big piece of property in case of an emergency or be
able to carry people or whatever. And I know the fire department's there too, but, you know,
they have their own mission and we have ours. But yeah, so we'll see. And again,
if it works out that we don't really use it or don't have any.
need for it or whatever, then, you know, next year we'll say thank you, but no, thank you.
There's also a lot of trail systems that actually go on farmers' fields, private, and they're posted,
but people still write over them.
It might be worth of you to get together with conservation, have them to show you some of the other land.
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Yeah, go down Morris Falls. Have you been down there? It's beautiful.
Oh, yeah. No, I have, yeah. I have, yeah. But there's other trails that you may know and have a chance to see.
Right. And somebody asked about a trailer.
At this point, I don't know that we'll get a trailer.
Well, again, we'll see what our needs are.
The fire department has trailers.
Negotiate them to drop it off.
Oh, yeah, they are.
They're happy to drop it off.
You can make it roadworthy.
Right, yeah.
So, and, again, we'll weigh all that out.
You don't want to get a ticket.
No.
That's right.
I won't stop.
I've heard a lot of activity down by
behind Doroches and down by
power lines.
Even in the state forest, there's a lot of activities going on there.
Yeah, yeah. Right.
Yep. And people hurt and getting to them.
Yeah, that would be fire's mission.
Fire as well.
We didn't have an ATV before.
I think, I believe, the conservation owns it now.
And that was for the same.
Police had one.
Police did. Police had one, right? I'm not sure how much they're using it.
Well, police had it. It was stored for a long time, and they weren't using it.
They were only using it.
They did a, I think they were doing a once-year inspection on the state for a suspension of the requirement.
I remember.
when it was offered.
Yeah, it was back here, and then it was given to conservation.
Are they using it, Steve?
They use it a lot, yeah.
Yeah, it's good for dragging stuff around and having tools and stuff.
Compared to a new side-by-side.
It's, you know, the old ATV was a 2000 maybe that's 24, 26 years old.
I'll go on the record as saying, if it doesn't cost us anything, I'm good with it.
Well, I'll make a motion that we approve the acquisition
or the borrowing of this side-by-side from Naltz Power Sports?
Second.
Motion made by myself, second.
But I missed to Perry for the discussion.
Hearing none, all those in favor? Say aye.
Aye.
Opposed. Motion carries 5-0-0.
You got your TV.
Thank you.
Well, you got the right to go convince them to give it to you.
I think that's already done.
He was actually excited.
I talked to the CEO.
and he was actually excited about it.
Just keep getting us more free stuff.
Right?
Yeah, that's the idea.
Thanks, Chief.
And if anybody...
Now you can patrol the bike path.
Right.
If anybody didn't notice, we got our...
Pickup our cruisers today.
Other, right?
Three cruisers here, just waiting on a couple
little things that have to get done,
but they should be fully in service
in the very near future.
They're all parked on the back line if you want with them.
Excellent.
What would you get?
We got two explorers and one charge?
Two explorers and another pickup truck.
I do have another question.
for you about the bike path.
The motorized bicycles?
Oh, good question.
Are those an issue?
Because if they have pedals, does it fall under a technicality?
Or is an electric motor still a motor?
So, well, it depends.
Yeah, for the trail.
For bike path?
I'm talking about the bike path.
You mean?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'll be honest.
I don't know what the...
I mean, it is motorized, so...
It shouldn't be there.
It shouldn't be there.
Usually what towns do, like I walk the trail
between Manchester and golf.
town and they say you can have a class three, I think it is, but not a two or a one, or maybe
it's that way around.
We don't have a post in.
I don't think we have an ordinance that says anything otherwise.
Right, so that's what I'm saying is, I don't know if you want to post a lot of the ones, because,
you know, they started, you know, 20 miles an hour for a top speed, then they go to 28 and then,
like my brother had one that did 51 miles an hour.
They moved.
Yeah.
I didn't know that one.
All right, that was just a general question.
Yeah.
It's something I think we have to look.
look into an ordinance and get ahead of it because now you're seeing seven-year-olds,
10-year-olds, getting killed on them or riding them down the road and they don't understand
that it's a vehicle traveling at 30 miles an hour.
So let's plan on working on that.
I can do some research if you want and check some other ordinances.
That'd be great.
That'd be great.
Yeah, I'm looking, I'm just looking at an ordinance list right now to see if we have anything specific
about the bike path because I thought at one point there was a sign on it, said, no.
motorized vehicles but there's nothing posted anymore now and I don't see anything
in here regarding the bike path so we do need to probably get that addressed but
then as I was I was saying it's it's pedal and it has gears so it's still a bike
it's just motor assistant but it's still a motor yeah well it's an electric motor
oh wait a yeah it's electric motor the question now is so wait wait a person is so wait
Personally, I think motorized anything shouldn't be on it.
I would say anything motorized shouldn't be on it at all, but.
Especially with a variety, the great variance that there is and the speeds that they're able to do.
Unless, of course, it's the clear snow.
Yes.
We have a bike audience that says only bikes on a lot on the bike on the bike on the bike on the walkways on Pinecrest.
Sidewalks, yeah.
But nothing.
that I have found for the bike path.
So something we have to address.
We'll see.
See if you can find something for us.
Perfect. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, Chief.
Have a good night.
Okay.
Next up is...
$2.50.
Open public.
Yeah, let's see.
It's 714.
So let's open the floor for our first public input.
If there's any members of the public, they can come forward and speak.
Please do so.
Crickets, crickets.
No, the guy that's next is the one that wants to come up.
Yeah, I know.
All right, I'm going to close public input at 7.15 p.m.
Come on forward.
Next up, it's the 2050th committee donations.
You could say that Tesla is an electric vehicle with pedals.
Does it have pedals?
Yeah, the brake.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
You're going to be falling for that with a plane and thinking.
All right, I'm not a Tesla or aficionado, but don't they only have one pedal?
No, it's an automatic brake when you let go of the gas, isn't it?
No, they have both.
You can put it in, like, golf card mode so it does slow down.
Well, as soon as you, yeah, as soon as you take your pen for,
you know, the torn kicks in and it and it's sold right out.
I don't know.
I remember the quote.
Joe Stapleton, 21 Mark Lane, here for the 250th committee.
So I do have a quick question.
How come you guys' nails don't look as nice as Diane so?
That's a good question.
I'll have nails.
How come what?
So you should have received.
That's all that matters.
Kim, the request for the monies.
But
there has been an update, one of the costs.
A couple costs have gone down.
So we have a
copy here.
You can't get any of it.
The one that can't give you for the
information. You can't update it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I use thicker paper and so
you.
the nice stuff.
This isn't coming out about budget.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
No, we'll tell a little bit of it.
So some of them will need a little bit of
explanation. What we're asking for
is some of these checks to be
approved, but not necessarily
immediately issued
until I get, and I have
files for every one of them,
it has, which
I give to Kim electronically,
which has the minutes of the meeting,
it has the request for
reimbursement. All reimbursement
requests come for me only as the
treasurer. So you should get
nothing from anybody else. That way I can
keep track of it. When the auditor wants
to look at the records, I have
everything. Okay? And then there'll be
invoices. W-9s and
insurance certificates for all of them.
All right.
Now this spreadsheet, I don't know if she gave you the real
big one with all of the contact
information on it.
But so I just gave you the front
page. The changes were in the yellow
was the days
they dropped their fee
to 800 from $1,000.
Okay. And then
United Sight Services, we asked them for a new quote
on the
wash stations. Instead of
just having it for one weekend, we have it for two.
There was no change in price. When I
initially put it in, we thought it would be double.
They did not double the price. They just said
keep it at the price that it was.
So that lowered that.
So I can go quickly over these
if you'd like. The
Samantha Ray, we had, I brought
that before, but I brought it again
just to make sure that we're all set because we do
need that check for that weekend.
And we have all of the paperwork.
I have the minutes,
the reimbursement, the insurance,
and the W-9 for that event.
So, and Kim is happy with all that.
The one for Richard
Loco, Loco,
that's the band.
I have everything for him also.
So everything is good there.
The lack of principles.
I have all of the information also for that.
So everything's all set to gift to Kim
and she returns.
No checks will be issued until she gets all of the proper paperwork.
For the next one, the A&E events,
it's just a net balance due.
You already proved this before,
but this is the balance due.
So that will be a check for them.
The next one was Jim Least and Magician.
He doesn't care if the check comes later.
He's getting the,
all the information to W-9 and so forth.
So just an approval on his amount,
but again, subject to him,
give me all of the paperwork that's necessary.
So that way we're going to have to keep coming back to you
over and over again for approval.
For the LHS line, which I put separately,
that one I just need to re-vote on
because you initially approved the $650,
but it turned out only to be $3402.50.
So the initial vote was not
for the correct amount.
So that one would go.
be an adjustment for that.
A grand rental station here in Hudson has agreed to provide us tents we need,
but we will pay for a delivery and set-up fee for that because I'm too old to put tents up, you know.
So that would be a $310 charge for them to take care of that.
The United, well, I'm sorry, the Sunbelt was before that.
The Sunbelt, they agreed to loan us a generator, but there
is a little bit of a fee to it. It's the delivery charge, plus on their invoice, which I have,
there's a $62.50 insurance charge, and what that will do for us is that gets the town off the hook.
Something happens to the generator. So that covers that.
The Porter Party, it's the governmental idea, the Porter Party, again, I have the corrected quotes,
which lowered that to the 1595, okay? Bruce Byberg, he is the Hardier Balloon. It's a net balance due.
and I do not have anything from the bus company yet.
However, it's the one we use for a school system, so it's not something that's going to be difficult to get in a moment's notice from now.
All right, so, and that's what they quoted, one of the people that Tara went and got the call.
You remember Tara?
So that's a good number.
The pyrotechnic guy, he just has a balance due.
We already put $850 on that, I think it was.
Now, the,
The logo lock for the T-shirt.
I've got that all set to go, the quote, and everything else, and they're all set working on that.
So I need the approval for the 3310.
Then we had been trying to find a vendor who could do our signs and banners that we need.
We got a quote that was way more, okay, than what we initially had.
So we put down not the 1680, but on the 1680, but on the.
that one, we had a not-to-exceed amount because we needed to put in the shipping.
As you can see on the end, it's a not-to-exceed amount.
So the initial one would be for the banner, it would be 1680-plus, and we're figuring somewhere.
I think it was 1850.
I'd have on that one?
1850, yeah.
Yeah, and then the next one was for the signs.
Again, it was 600 and something for that.
$6.60.
Yeah.
So, and that's because we didn't have the shipping portion.
So those would be a not-to-exceed-old.
seed amount when I get all of the building die.
So if that makes that easier for you, and one thing to look at all these and approve, or
any questions or anything that you might need?
Yes, I have it all.
And I have it all. And I have electronically, if you want, electronic copies of these.
Do you want to see?
I'd like to make a motion that we allow these checks to be written for the event.
It's coming up in.
How many days?
In two weeks, right?
Less than two weeks.
Plus, I would just...
So we won't meet again before...
Diane, if I could ask, she can put also the caveat that only if the paperwork is submitted.
Right.
Okay?
Because I don't want to release anything until I feel comfortable that I have all of the paperwork
is necessary.
So I'd like to make a motion then that we are able to release the checks that have all the paperwork
that is necessary to pay the vendors at the event.
With a total of $27,000.
$1,795, yes.
And this is all money that's already there, so it's not.
And anything else is going to have to be taken care of and then come in as an expense.
Right, to close out of the books.
But we're not going to meet again before they are then.
We'll meet the Monday afterwards, right?
Monday after, right?
So we will be able to get people's money back to them pretty quick.
All right, so we have a motion on the floor to approve the expenditures and authorize the checks
as when all the criteria has been met for.
The total amount of $27,795 and $0.25.
Do I have a second?
Seconded by Mr. Leary.
Further discussion.
Yes.
His not-to-exceed numbers increase that number by an extra $236.
Yep.
So it's $28,031.25.
So I'd like to make an amendment to that dollar amount to $28,0301.25.
Not to exceed?
Not to exceed.
Yeah, not to exceed.
Okay.
I'll second amendment.
Okay.
So, am I mean.
Amendment has been made and seconded.
All in favor for the amendment. Say aye.
Aye. Aye.
Opposed amendment passes 5-0.00.
So now the new motion now is amended at 28,000.
31, 25.
Thank you.
Against a balance of 33,168.
That was going to be my only other question was how much we had in there.
We are well within budget.
We got another 650 that we, that was deposited today, but we did already make some payments.
Who is that from?
Right now.
We did some of the net balance.
payments, yeah.
60.
The Democratic for 150.
Okay.
And the Washington?
Garnet Reynolds.
Was that $500?
Yeah.
That was for Washville.
I think that's the car wash place.
Oh, Randallels Holdings and then LLC, yeah.
Yeah, and you have another 150 coming from the Republican.
And you got a letter from DeMuas or market basket?
Oh, yeah.
Can I come in tomorrow and pick that out?
Yeah, yeah.
So what's happening is I said, just for a change, I request.
requested some items from Market Basket and they decided to do a gift card.
And so with gift cards, because they can be very squirly, you want to make sure things, they come here,
and we record all the numbers that are on the card, and any monies that are spent from that,
receipts must be, that's the criteria that I've set as the treasurer on.
Okay.
Yeah.
All in favor, say aye.
Aye.
I oppose.
Motion carries five zero zero.
Do you have your money?
Enjoy it.
It's going to be a great event.
Thank you very much.
Yeah.
So a lot of good things going to be.
It's going to be.
It's good knowing you're holding the reins real tight.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, and I'm working tightly with budget.
As a matter of fact, there's a company that somebody said, and I won't say,
because I don't want to get, it said, good luck trying to get money out of them, and I think I am.
Don't say it.
Don't wait to be incorrect.
You want this?
Put the other number?
Yeah, I'll take it.
Perfect.
Yeah, you're good.
I wrote it down.
Thanks, Joe.
Have a good night.
Appreciate it.
Have a good one.
All right.
Next up is the...
Sure, we'll see you all there on the 25th and 26th.
Yes.
Is the reappointment of Captain Paul Kelly as the health officer?
Can I ask a question?
Yep.
Or we want to read this out?
My question is going to be, I thought he was temporarily
placed in that role?
He was.
And we just don't have a replacement,
so we're just doing it for them for three years?
I think it's, well, my understanding,
basically the building inspector,
who's still going through all his training,
is really focusing on that.
We want to give him a little bit more time,
and Mr. Captain Kelly doesn't have a problem
in continuing the role.
Okay.
So it would go to the building inspector at some point in time?
That's been, yeah.
And I think Kelly was the assistant.
Kelly was the assistant, yeah.
He was just digging in the primary role for now.
Paul is.
somebody you don't ever have to worry about.
But I just wanted to ask that because I thought it was at one point just temporary.
Yeah.
Well, you're absolutely right.
It wasn't just temporary.
So with that, I'll make a motion to appoint Captain Paul Kelly for a term of three years
for the health officer position.
Effective July 14th, 2026 through July 13th, 2029.
Mine says 2009.
I said 2029.
Second.
I know what you said.
Seconded by Mr. Leary, further discussion.
Hearing none, all those in favor? Say aye.
Aye.
Opposed.
Motion carries 5.00.
And there's two pieces of paperwork to sign here.
And there's three on that, but then it's all the hours in the other one.
Okay.
Next up is the cash receipt policy.
I will just interject that.
It has been requested by town staff and by some feedback received from Mr. Perry that we'd probably defer this one more meeting.
Let's get some time to kind of clean up some of the writing, some of the wording and address a couple of concerns that were raised by staff.
If there's no objection, we'll just table for the next meeting.
Next is the proposed Hawker Pedal and Hockers and Pedal Ordinance.
read. There will be a public hearing in the 27th.
I'm hoping for the public to come in and actually voiced her comment, but has anybody had a
chance to do the second read? Any other feedback?
I like it.
That's good enough for me.
Go see. One more there and then the other ones and then two more. On there, so no
additional changes then? Yep.
Okay. I like when a plan comes together.
So, again, the public hearing is on July 27th.
I know it's been posted already or is going out, so it can be out there in time.
That's when the public has had an opportunity to come in and voice of concerns
or request for additional changes or those kind of things.
Next up is the proposed amended town fee schedule.
This is the second read.
Again, this will hold a public hearing in our next meeting.
Anybody have any thoughts?
Just the changes or anything like that?
I went through it. It looks good. The only change
is the front, which is for the
Hocker and peddler permits.
So
just in case somebody didn't open it, what you
see is all that changed.
I believe they, I believe,
it's usually the changes. Yes.
Yeah. It's all right there. Okay. Yeah.
And I believe that all the department
has were reached out to. I don't think anybody
I hadn't seen any recommendations coming back.
So I assume it's
just that change.
Yeah. Okay.
Good to that.
Okay.
I was getting stuff done.
Yep. And as I said earlier, public hearing will be on July 27th for public input
before we adopt the new fee schedule.
Next is the land use change tax.
So we have one, two, four, three.
Show me the money.
So tax, land use, tax, change.
We don't see it.
Land use, change.
tax for map 18 lot 62-005 for 21,500. Map 18, lot 62-006 for 21,500.
Map 18, lot 62-007 for 21,500. And then finally, map 18, lot 62-0-27 for 21,500.
And then finally, map 18, lot 62-027 for 21-500.
How would the board like to handle this?
Thank you.
I'd like to make a motion to move all of those.
for approval.
Do I have a second?
Second by Mr. Leary.
Further discussion?
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Say aye.
Aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries 5.0.
Zero.
So I'll have plenty of things to sign a few minutes.
All right.
Next up is the LMS impact
fee request.
Is nobody here
from the school?
I thought Brian was going to be here.
I heard he would be.
I mean, we have the letter.
Yeah, the letter is here.
I mean,
talking about.
Yeah, I mean, obviously they're under, I mean, the sum of it all is they're in the middle of fixing
the parking lot at LMS, which is requiring them to adopt some new ADA appliances to deal
with parking for that and basically making it larger to accommodate the size of the school.
So they're looking, they're requesting $100,000 from the middle school impact fees to be encumbered,
to offset the cost.
If you want some input, might be.
only input was, I'm kind of surprised they didn't ask for more.
Why didn't you that? Because I would have actually exhausted more of the impact fees for this.
But it seems like they might come up with a plan or have something else in the works that they're going to use the other money on.
So how much more money did they have, Steve?
Do you know what's another two something?
200-something today.
LMS impact fees is $20,000?
How much two-something?
Like 280 or?
Yeah, let me see it.
I look right now.
They had quite a bit in them.
Is there anything coming up for LMS?
Yep, just for the LMS one.
Next year, I think in 2027 there was a couple coming up.
That would be returned back to those developers.
I don't think in LMA.
Let me look.
I don't know.
Obviously, I'm inclined to give it to them.
I think it's a proper use of it.
But, yeah, that was a good question.
Why do we not use it all in this?
I mean, they're taking it out of fun balance.
I mean, end-of-year funding to pay for the majority of the project.
Yeah, I mean, I...
This is a good cause.
I actually think it's a great use for it,
providing more parking spaces, making it ADA compliant.
I think it's a great use for the impact fees.
As I said, I'm not trying to second guess what they did at all.
I'm just surprised they didn't ask for more.
$255,947 dollars.
After this?
I know.
That's what's in there right now.
$3.55?
$25, $2.55, so there'll be $155 left.
Yep.
You know what's in the other schools?
Yeah, I'll look right now.
And so Derry Road, $255, Derry Road and Corning,
and, you know, we're still getting impacts from them.
Will it go into the middle school or that go into the general one?
It's going to the new one, right?
No.
It should.
Yeah, it should be.
No, because theirs was approved prior to the change.
I thought we, I thought we, I thought we voted.
I thought we voted.
to put it all back until one school in Peck.
No, we did not.
We did, but it was probably.
Yes, we did.
We did. We absolutely did.
Yeah.
I didn't vote for that.
Yeah, that was voted on.
A couple years ago.
The high school has 367,164.
92.
We talked about not doing that because it was bad.
Elementary school.
It's actually good.
It's really interest.
I thought you voted for it.
Yeah.
I've never done that.
I had not a fry high tailed on it before.
All schools have been really telling.
And they have 68,735.
So there is at all schools.
Yes, yes.
But you can't apply the all schools to the others?
Talarico.
Because they were approved before that?
Yeah.
So what they do when they have the plans is they put what the impact fees are at that time.
All right.
That makes perfect sense, then.
Okay.
So we still have some old ones out there.
Good job.
You got the answers.
The discussion I remember.
This was when the old superintendent was in town because they wanted them all in one account.
Because they wanted them all in one account.
they were going to empty the accounts and put it all on building a new elementary school,
which would have depleted all the accounts for the other schools.
They would have had no money for anything.
It should be their discretion anyway.
It's their money.
It's ripe.
You have to trust the process and the people that are in place.
You couldn't trust the people that were in place.
We can now.
As proven.
We know we can now.
Right?
So,
John, you ask the question, police is January 28th, 2027, is, we'll start going back, police.
Oh, please.
Municipal is February 4th, 2027.
So we got a couple coming up in 2027.
And high school in June of 2020.
Do you ever do a report on that that, like, sends it out to all the department heads and says,
hey, we got some that are coming up?
I think you did that recently, didn't you, Karen?
No, so one of my reports at the end of the month gives the fund balance.
I mean, I could probably either put a date on that or I could send out, yeah.
I've still have legitimate reasons to use it.
Could we at least?
Yeah, I sent it to you because we also have some of them that have incumbent funds that aren't using them.
Yeah, I remember going, I think maybe I carried that information, and then Julie came back to you on it.
Because you had informed me because I was very interested to see what was going on.
in those accounts. Could we at least furnish
the department heads that have funds coming up
in less than a year to expire?
Yes. Yes. Of the amounts that they have and
when they'll expire? Yes. I would appreciate that.
Their balance in it.
Yes. Yeah, I will do that.
All right, so that's back on the request.
The worst thing ever in that, the impact fees.
It's a tax on somebody for buying a house
in time. Everybody is. You know the developers aren't paying you.
Oh, they're writing the check, but that's coming off of the sales.
Everybody's doing it.
on the sale.
All right, I'll make a motion that we authorize the amount of $100,000 from the middle school impact fees to be encumbered for the LMS project.
Second.
And sorry for sidetracking us on that.
Motion made and seconded by Mr. Perry.
Further discussion.
I mean, I think it's a good use of money.
Obviously, it's something to be done.
So, all right.
All those in favor, say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Oppose?
motion carries 5.00.
And I need to text to chief until I get it's butt over there.
All right.
Second public input.
We have one more item, which is the topic, the conversation around.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
All right.
So we received, well, I received, the board received the message from Primex with regards to a resident
filing a concern about the bike path and the bike path.
lack of maintenance over the last 10 years, and that there's safety concerns of people
using it, which would expose the town's a liability.
I did reach out to the individual.
I did have a conversation with them.
They're adamant that we're not maintaining it correctly and that there are areas of concerns.
I offered to, I asked that person to meet me, to show me.
I also asked about who he apparently has been reporting this problem.
to. He was not inclined to share. I've checked all of our official records. I've checked with the road agent. I checked with the town administrator. And no one has heard about anything anything from this individual about the bike path. Now, what's off put in here is that the message stated that we've reached deaf ears from the town's perspective that he reported these problems. And I don't, again, I don't like we're neglected it. And with that we're neglecting it. And that we're at fault. So, um,
Again, I will certainly share the areas of concern if he chooses to meet with me like I asked and show me.
I did ask Kevin if he had thoughts.
He said, there's certainly areas that could be repaired or be, you know, be done, but there's no funding for it,
and we have to deal with that.
It sounded like he was more concerned of the trees.
Well, it was trees, and there's stump, you know, there's roots coming up to the certain areas of the walkways.
There is areas where it's like frost heaves kind of, you know, dense indentations.
Yeah, but it sounded like.
the low-lying brush and stuff like that, like a brush impeding the trail.
I mean, it's supposed to be to walk on.
It's not supposed to be, to fit a track to trailer down.
I mean, I take exception.
I take exception to the way it was reached out to our insurance company.
Well, I do too, but.
And not to us.
Agreed.
If it's just a low-hanging brush, Kevin has a multer on his tractor that he could easily address.
Right, but can you imagine what's going on?
happen when he goes down there with that and cuts all the back,
and now the bike path is exposed to the sun?
Yeah.
I was driving down today going, I don't see it,
but I can see the overhang, but I can only imagine
coming down with the trimmer and trimming it back
if you're only to be upset because the shades wouldn't take it away.
I mean, it's like, I don't know what to do, right?
It's meant to be, it's called the bike path, but it's a walking path.
The way he proposed, or the way he posed his complaint
wasn't specific enough for you to look at a specific
area. It was the entire bike path. It was the entire situation. So I don't think that we can do too much about it until he meets with you and give some specific feedback. But we do need to have our own building, I'm sorry, go ahead. We do need to have Kevin Brown inspected.
Which I'm assuming he has.
So this was done, this was a voicemail received by the town, correct?
It was a voicemail that YSA was forwarded to us by fine-knacks.
Okay, so it's a town, it's a town voicemail then.
So it's a matter of public record.
In the manner of being totally transparent and clear and open with the public,
should we play the voicemail?
I don't know that that's right.
Why not?
I mean, we basically are...
It's a public document now.
Well, I would think that we should at least extend to the citizen that we are going to, that we are going
to if he would like to be here to defend the reasoning why.
Because in all honesty, I would actually be great to do that, to get the reasonings why,
because I've been here since March, and I've heard nothing.
Maybe he filed a complaint a year ago.
Maybe it was two years ago.
Maybe it was five.
But we don't have any records of it.
We don't know where the problems are.
I know of a couple of spots where there's like a little bit of a sink.
I know of a problem.
But nothing that's...
I just think that...
being open and honest and being forthcoming with the public that I know there's only 10 people
watching this, but they're all sitting in home going, well, what is this?
You know, what is this complaint?
What is, you know, I think we should play it.
I mean, the boards can do what it wants, but I think it's the right thing to do to play the voicemail.
I don't have a problem with you playing it.
I think we should do it after we invite him here.
We could certainly invite him to come to our next meeting after we've had an opportunity to go walk it
and get an assessment done.
I've been, I'll say
also, I've been on here, what, seven years
or eight years now, and I've never heard
a complaint
about this at all. You've been here, what?
Four, five?
Four, five, yeah. Same. I've never heard any issues.
And we've never discussed having
a line item to fund maintenance of the bike path.
So it hasn't been an issue that we have
address. The only thing we carry right now
is mowing and
snowing. Yeah. That's it.
Nothing for actual maintenance.
And I think
if someone comes out of this conversation, which
we should ask Kevin
to look at what it would take
and address some areas that are concerned, if he
has concerns with him too. And I like your
idea of us walking it as well
and taking a walk down.
You know, maybe we each take an area,
take a walk down. No way. We should all do the whole thing.
Let's go.
I'm not worried about me.
I'm riding a knee bike.
I usually walk from pinecrests all the way down to
Century and back.
And I go the other way.
Yeah. Yeah.
And ride my bike the other way.
Oh, I drive it too, and I'm like, I don't see it.
But, I mean, I don't seem like the overhang part of it,
but at my concern, if we cut back the overhang,
people may be concerned that we're cutting the shade out.
Right, there's no reason to cut it back.
So I don't...
Got a job.
So I'll talk to Kevin to
tomorrow and just ask him to go through all my time
with his areas that he believes are concerned
that's reported. I'm not saying
cut down the over. I'm saying if anything
is truly impeding in the walkway
address that. But I don't think you're
going to find that. No, turning it into a
If you're riding on a bicycle and you're going to get hit
in the head with a branch, trim it.
Got it going to lean down. But I think, I would think
when Kevin felt mowing, he would
take me under that and have it. Well, he's also driving
his truck down to the water of the flower
planters too. Those will look and
lovely. Yeah, so. All right. Well,
Well, like I said, I'll let you know, I'll let you know if I get the opportunity to follow up with them and follow up them and kind of walk around with the areas of concern are.
And I'll invite them to the next meeting, too.
Okay.
All right.
Did I get you the second input?
You guys try to get me to do it.
No.
No. All right.
We open the floor for a second public input at 7.45 p.m.
Maybe on newly reappointed health officer would like to talk.
He didn't know he's being reappointed.
Don't talk about it now.
He wasn't.
As much as tomorrow, he'll start skiing.
Yeah, I've got it again.
He said every day's a Saturday.
It said every day's Friday now.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
See enough nobody from the public here.
I'll close public input at 7.46 p.m.
Next up is Tom Ministry report.
Karen, I don't believe, can you give you anything to the report?
Yeah, there's stuff on here.
Okay, go ahead.
So she had the Hampton Department of Environmental Services
has channeled over 223 million in state and federal dollars
to the P.
FAS, the P-FAS response efforts over the last seven years.
New Hampshire DES issued the governor and the executive council a report
summarizing the work done from 2020 to 2025.
And she has that information below on the portal.
Local testing data is also available on the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services P-FAS sampling dashboard.
There's also New Hampshire, Governor Kelly Aon, Aon, has not yet,
taken final action on House Bill 1300 as of Thursday, July 9th. The legislator
officially enrolled and sent the bill to her desk July 1st. It is currently awaiting her veto or
signature. Under the New Hampshire law, the governor has five days excluding Sundays to sign a bill,
veto it, or allow it to become law without a signature once it is officially presented to her desk.
House Bill 1,300 would require every town and ward in a city to include a tax cap question on its general election ballot in November 2026 and 2028.
The question requires the three-fifths majority to pass.
If adopted for a two-year period, one, the local property tax levy may not grow beyond the prior year's amount, adjusted for inflation and new construction.
Two, SAU central office spending may not exceed 6% of total school district appropriations.
And three, the bond to capital costs are excluded from both limits.
These caps apply only to administrative operations of the SAU office and do not affect classroom
instruction, school-based services, or other municipal expenditures.
Then upcoming public hearings on the
27th, you kind of went over there, went over that, the acceptance of public road, Windsor Drive.
Town fee schedule updated for the Hawkers and Pedalers, Hawkers and Pedalers,
ordinance, RFQ issued for the fur town engineer due to Lou Karen's retirement.
Thank you to the highway department for removing Bitter Suite from the trees at the transfer
station. We will monitor the trees and determine replacement if needed this.
fall. Thank you to Ken Daigle, the building inspector for repairs to town hall
bathrooms and building siding. Swampy, Inc. and municipal pest management services is performing
collection and sampling in the town as contracted. They send over reports of testing that has been
completed. Bulletin's like the one on the portal are also shared. The state detected two additional
mosquito pools positive for JCV for collections on 630, one in Salem and another
in Fremont. While this brings a total to three detections for the season, the risk remains very
low. They will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide updates as needed.
Currently, MPMS reports that all of our specific sites remain negative for pool
detections and most sites are still abnormally dry for the season abnormally dry
for the season.
Thank you.
That is it.
Next up will be Selectman reports and comments.
Mr. Larry.
All right.
Thank you, Judy Brennan.
She is the best too, Jason.
You're cheat cheat.
Right?
Yeah, cheat cheat.
They've been working on the
inspection report list from Primax. Talent Hall has always had first aid kit and ice packs in storage room.
It's updated twice a year. Men's urinal was fixed. They had a leaky urinal over there.
And IWAS station has been purchased and storage room has been cleaned out, organized.
Nothing is blocking doorways. Sports leagues have been reminded to keep their equipment organized
and on a signed labeled shelves. Matt's rugs are being purchased.
being researched and being pre-up of the office upstairs is being planned for August
and preparing for the Roy Memorial Park for the 250th and the powwow the following weekend and we meet
two weeks from tonight from tomorrow night one meeting in July okay
miss Plansby so it's been very nice little break it's going to get tougher it's going away it's going away but it was a
a nice little three week break. The planning board hasn't met for three weeks.
They meet again on Tuesday, a week from Tuesday rather, the 21st, so they didn't have one on
the first. They do on the third week. And it's next Tuesday at 7 o'clock. I have been still busy
with the 250th, but you've heard that everything's going very smoothly with that. We're still looking
for volunteers to help with the games and the crafts and anything else that needs to be done down
there. And again, I can't thank the companies in our town, very few businesses and they all
came out really strong to help the town enjoy this 250th celebration. And the check, the circumvential
highway exploratory committee, I need to make some phone calls and get that back going. But we didn't
have anything that was extremely pertinent that needed to be addressed immediately. So until we get
get a new agenda, then we'll call in that group again.
Okay. The only thing that I've had is the budget committee would like to have to have all the default
budgets submitted at the same time as the primary budgets. It's not it works, but okay. Is that possible?
Yeah, why not? I don't think so. I don't think so either. The theory is if it's on a spreadsheet, all you have to do is add one
column for what would apply.
Because they're the ones that are now going to have to approve
the default budget.
Well, aren't they approving the DRA form, not the budget itself?
They're actually approving the default
budget.
The DRA form.
The default budget.
Well, you put the default budget
into the
port. They now have the rights to make amendments
to the default budget.
Yeah. It's their budget.
Yeah.
So that was a request that they made.
I'll follow up with that again at our next meeting when Kim is here as well.
The only other question was there was a question asked about where the Pennichuk water evaluation had gotten to.
I had had a conversation with Kim and we're still waiting.
Well, it's a lot of up around the merger shit.
Right.
It's still because the merger hasn't been completed.
There's been almost no ground.
made until that can happen. I feel like that was a poison pill. I would agree.
It was a ploy to prolong it as long as possible and hope we forgot what I think, but.
But I say I was going to go back to the default budget. I agree adding a column and doing it would
probably be easy to do. So it shouldn't be too much of an issue because it's really going
to be this year's budget minus whatever the one-time expense.
Minus are added, yeah. It shouldn't be that hard.
Yeah. It should actually simplify the process.
Well, I think we do usually have it ready about that time, but it just seems to be reviewed at the end.
Yeah, I don't think I would actually put it on the same spreadsheet, though.
I think it'll confuse columns because remember last year we were running by, here's what I had to fall,
and they were side by side, and I don't think they could look at the wrong side.
Oh, yeah, no, default is totally separate spreadsheet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we'll do it with the same, right? They just want it.
They asked if it could be just in another column.
so that it was all in one sheet.
Oh, really?
Yep.
I don't know if I would do that.
Tell them, no.
I mean, that's...
I can tell them anything you want.
I mean, we can...
You're almost...
We can tell the column that runs off of the other sheet.
And if you want it to do that, we could do that, but that'd be kind of...
I think there's just too much on them already.
They're just very...
It's very hard to read, yeah.
It is hard enough.
When you try and look at them there.
I need my glasses.
All right, well, there's no budget committee meeting
until August.
Anyway, so when we meet at the next meeting,
we'll have another small conversation about it
so that Kim can give her feedback as well.
Feel free to give her whatever information you think is appropriate.
And then I'll take whatever you tell me to back to them.
That was all I have for now.
Mr. Gannon.
Energy Committee, we're expecting to start up soon
with the notification of the change of contractor.
Conservation Commission.
Obviously, they've been very, very busy with the Olsen Mobile Home Park.
And also, the members have been very busy working on cleaning up the old musterfield and putting signs up and prep for the 250th celebration,
where you can go up and scan a QR code and get information about, like, the cell a hole or the different markers along.
So a lot of work.
going on there. In fact, they left here and I think they went over there.
Can't sit.
All right. The only thing I had was the facilities improvement committee. I actually missed
last week's meeting because it's due to a work commitment, but they're still going through
through what they're going to do with GMS and the rest of the programs and no decisions been made
at this point.
I skipped the Heritage Commission.
They're still working on the Paucauanaway sign.
They thought they had a location.
for it and now they don't and they want to go to Mel's and ask Mel for an area
to put it. So as the selectments rep, I'll be going with them to go do that and see what
they want where it's going to go. Okay. Go ahead about that. All right. Well, that is it
for today's agenda. We have one more piece of item which is a non-public session under
RSA 91A 911A column 3, Roman 2, Section I. The consideration of the
of Matt is relating to the preparation for in the carrying out of emergency functions, including
training to carry out such functions, development of by local or state, safety officials that
are directly intended to thwart deliberate act that intended to result in a widespread or severe
damage to property or widespread injury or loss of life.
Do I have a second?
Second.
All in favor. Say aye.
Aye. Aye.
motion carries 5-00. As I said, we're going to come out of this meeting, come out to adjourn our public meeting.
So good night, Litchfield. We'll hope to see you all at the 250th next weekend.