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We need a light bulb.
Actually, that one's not out on either.
And that one?
The camera's on.
It is 3 o'clock on June 22nd,
2026.
This is the Energy Committee,
and this meeting is called to order.
I'm Carol Schutie.
I am the chair of the committee.
Ellen.
Ellen Gans, Vice Chair.
Beverly?
Beverly Mutry, Secretary.
Perfect.
So first item on the agenda.
Is the use of note-taking during the meeting helpful to you?
Not really, because it takes too many words to go through.
Okay.
If you like it, that's fine.
I mean, maybe it's good to use it or have it in the background just in case.
I don't know.
Notes, and it's easier to type off of my notes.
Well, that's an answer.
I wanted, we tried something different.
Yeah, I don't mind trying it because, you know,
a lot of people, even the library trustees would like to do it if it's feasible or a time saver,
but it could be a time saver to me.
Okay, well.
I think it's still worthwhile to do it easy.
Right.
That's what I said.
And then keep it in, uh, keep records.
Storage or something.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, how long does a town keep the video?
Five years.
five years.
Okay.
Well, there will be a holistic approach to all this presented, not from the Energy Committee,
but something Scott's working with for the AV upgrade,
because if you're going to do good minutes from speech to text,
you need good sound and video.
So he's working that in harmony,
and I got tasked by the selectmen to make a recommendation,
so I let them know we're doing this holistically, and he's doing a demo in early July here in the town hall.
I think you might have been aware of that.
One of the companies is coming in, and they're going to put in demo machines so you can see improvements and go from there.
So Scott's kind of working that.
Do you know whether this company would have something that would be AI,
or video, but it would also do, come off the recording of minutes for us?
There's two different solutions that you can attach to something like a teams or a Zoom meeting.
And that would be part of the overall picture.
And even if we tried one and we didn't like it, we could go to the other one.
Sure.
So it's very flexible that way.
but I don't want to speak for Scott.
He can go into more detail next month, but it's progress going in that direction.
But any other comments on our use of AI speech-to-text at this point?
Well, if somebody else wants to take your AI thing minutes and then try to type minutes from it, be my guest.
I mean, Alan, if you want to try it, go ahead.
You mean as far as the current?
program? Well, yeah, use the current program that
Well, I didn't bring that.
You didn't do it today.
I didn't bring it for today.
We have the last months, and you could see how, I mean, it's quite lengthy, obviously, because
we talk a lot.
Well, there's two different versions.
There's a summary with action items, and then there's the complete transcript.
Yeah.
So the summary is better.
Yeah.
I'll say the summary is better.
But with the transcript, you actually get a recording.
So if you wanted to see who said what, you could go to that time, and you could actually hear it.
Right.
So, but I think you could do the same with whatever Scott's going to be bringing forward.
Or whatever the town has.
Yeah.
Provided people talk into their microphone.
All right.
Well, we tried it.
And I'm glad we'll be.
We'll be smarter about this as we go forward.
All right, on to Secretary's report.
I recall that Scott requested some edits to the minutes.
He did.
He printed, he put him in a document.
He edited the document, so they're in what he sent out.
So everybody saw them.
Then you can have a motion to approve what he wrote.
Added in.
Motion to approve Scott's edits to the minute.
So moved.
Second it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Perfect. Thank you so much.
Saving energy and costs for Hampton Falls, focusing on Lincoln Ackerman.
Not a lot of action from Scott this month.
He's not here.
I did go over the bills to show some things.
to show some trends.
And Scott wanted to
take a look at that in more detail.
I don't want to send out a response
that's just Carol's response,
but more the committee's response.
So we're going to take some time with that.
But any initial observations from what I sent out?
Is it possible to know
when the big spike occurred?
Is it during just the winner?
Or a particular?
particular one month, three months?
Do we have any idea?
And this, I assume, the 2025
is the whole year
when the bills were paid, or
when the
energy use
was started?
that month? All I
did was plot
the total energy use per year.
I did not do it. I did not plot it
by month. You didn't plot it by month.
So that's why I
guess we need to look at
2025 a little closer.
Maybe.
Well, it's a place to
start. Any other questions
about that?
No.
Any
energy relevant
legislation?
Actually, what I did was
I have the energy legislation
for the first half of the year.
Do you want me to give these to
Andrea?
Yes. So I've got one for her.
But this is all the
this is
for four main pieces of legislation.
What I take out of this is the state is trying
trying to
get
costs under controls for the consumers as well as
for businesses. They are the state is
clearly, in my opinion, pro-solar.
There was a bill that passed that said
that they are
going to allow plug-in solar,
which I thought was very interesting. I never heard of that before.
Maybe, are you aware
a plug-in solar? No.
they use those in Germany
in apartments so you would actually
plug it right into your
electricity outlet
and it would provide power
and it would reduce your bill.
It would be like something you'd put on a balcony
in an apartment. It's a portable
like a holding screen.
It's kind of pliable plastic.
I've seen one. A friend of mine uses
it. I think it's, I guess, great.
So
there was
one other thing I wanted to address
there was a company who I'm trying to find
where it is here. IASO
New England. This is item
for apparently they
lack of a better word ripped off
the customers and Governor AOT
is
trying to
resolve the
overcharging by these people.
So hopefully that will happen.
But
the state is, you know,
there are things going on,
but they're going
slowly.
Quick as mud.
Yeah. This is a wonderful
summary. Thank you, Alan.
You're welcome. Is there anything else
you want to highlight?
Not really. No.
Okay. This is great.
Thank you.
You're welcome. Any questions, Beverly?
No, because I have to read it first.
But, yeah, thank you, Alan.
You're welcome.
Great. So other items,
you've made a request
to talk about solar.
The floor is yours, Beverly.
Well, my
request sort of came, and it was just off the top
of my head, my request sort of came
because our
Historical Society
president came and
was aghast at the energy bill
costs that that
big building over there uses
the museum. And then when
we combine it with a little schoolhouse,
which has
AC, a mini split on
basically all the time
because we want to keep the
temperature low
and the humidity low
in both buildings
it was like
800 bucks a month
just maybe for both
of those. So
I know solar would
make it cheaper but
there's an upfront cost
and the question is
where in this town
do you put it
where it can be
you know on town-owned property
and connect to the grid
and the whole nine yards.
So I don't know.
I'd like to see,
I know Carol's comment was
we need to do insulation
and other efficiencies first,
and I agree to that,
but I don't know,
we need to see if there's any way
to get some grants or credits
or something.
So I just, I think solar
is maybe the only
way to go around here
other than
finding out how to
get cheaper electricity.
Alan?
I think we're all in favor of doing something
solar again. I don't know where you would put it.
I would assume for the
school you could do something, you know, if it wasn't just for the whole
area, you could do something on the roof or something
of that nature. Or over the
parking lot. The
library could have one over their parking lot
too.
Yeah, the museum's roof is perfectly, I think, well, it sort of faces east, but it does get a lot of southern light, too.
But it's a slate roof, and I don't think anybody wants to put solar over on the slate roof.
No, it's in it's historical.
But I guess the question is, how much electricity is, or what's the cost of electricity for the museum?
Well, 800 bucks a month for two buildings.
I would have to look at what we're paying just.
for that one building what's what I'm sorry what's the second building the school
house is that even being used during well as I told that we have to keep it air
condition because we have artifacts in there so we can't yeah we don't open it to the
public that much but we have to keep it temperature and humidity control and
the buildings have to be that way both buildings are they running the air
conditioning 24 hours a day what temp it's just
mini split that's all we have what what temperature you know about 67 that'll say
why that's gonna that's why we spending so much money I guess the question is the problem is
once you want to use the building yeah it's below 65 or something like that it takes
too long to get that one up to heat up to comfortable heat because it's such a high ceiling okay
So that's a problem with that one.
The schoolhouse, we could turn it way down to 60, but that's as low as it goes.
Are there fans in the museum?
No.
Well, yeah, there are two fans in the ceiling.
Are you using that when you go in?
No.
I got to tell you.
I think they work?
I know they work because we have two fans in my family room, and I can really,
so it only works for people against moisture thing on your skin.
It's a moisture thing on your skin, it's sweat and so forth.
So you don't want to leave those on when nobody's here because it's not doing anything.
Right, right.
But I've got to tell you, when we're home, I can turn the thermostat higher up, put those fans on the family room, and it's nice and cool.
Because the breeze is evaporating the water from your skin.
So that would help when you say it takes so long to hold down as an example, okay?
That would help a lot.
or it takes a lot to heat up the building too.
I mean, if you leave it at the 60 or 65 degrees for length of time, yeah, that's fine.
But then when you want to come in and have an event there or a program, everybody's freezing.
Because you can't, you have to put it on a timer so that it starts like two hours ahead of time, heat up.
But I guess the question.
question is, is there an insulation problem with the building? Probably.
Because, I mean, it's a small building. It's not like it's a big building.
The insulation is lacking in the museum. I insulated that building myself, the schoolhouse myself, so I know that's up to snuff.
But that, I think there's insulation in the ceiling, but I don't know how much. I doubt there's any
insulation in the walls. So there's a way of it. So there's a way of it.
to go up in the attic and look, and I'm not doing it.
Somebody else can.
Has that building ever had an energy audit?
No, not as far as I know.
Would that be something the trustees would be inclined to consider?
Maybe now that we've gotten an $800.
Energy bill, yeah.
I would think that between them and us,
we need to see if
we can figure out what's going on.
But it is a town-owned building.
The museum is, or the historic society only rents that building.
So whatever gets permanently done in there, I would assume the town would pay for.
Our role is to give advice to the selectmen.
But let's just figure out where we are.
Maybe if the trustees are willing to do an energy audit.
that would be helpful to get better insight.
Correct.
So if they're willing to do an energy audit, is that something we would arrange?
You can just call and ask for a free audit.
They'll also give you a card to do one you pay for in more detail,
but see what the free one.
We had a free one, that fellow that came through here, remember, about a year or so ago.
I don't remember that.
Who was it?
I can't remember his name.
I thought that you have to qualify to get a free one if you're energy.
bill is high and you're they want to know how much you spend every month and total it up
or home yeah are they doing something different for government buildings I don't
recall the details Beverly I don't either it's worth exploring okay I'm sorry
any comments from the public yeah you got to know where you're losing heat or
yeah crawl space
right because there's cold air coming in from you know the cracks in the
granite and you know at one point I don't think it's a wet cellar I've been down
there and it doesn't seem to be wet at all but there are a lot of no you're
basically crawling on all fours and you can't even go all the way to the back of the
building you can only go across the front so anything else on solar I just have
question about the crawl space is the ceiling in the crawl space
consolidated no that's easy yeah there used to be a vapor barrier on the floor
in the crawl space yes I don't know how they put it in I mean it's just it can't
cost much it's a small building I mean no but I don't know who you're going to get
to go crawling around on their belly to do it because there's a lot there's an old oil
oil tank down there
there's all sorts of rock things holders and whatever else so it's not flat maybe spray foam
or something be easy but I don't like that stuff on an old building that's a no-no yeah
yeah so so back to solar I think we're all in agreement solar is a good direction
where it goes I don't think anybody in the town wants solar on the roof of any
historic building whether the roof is aligned with the sun or not
So that means there have to be other options.
It might be easier at the school, as you mentioned, in the parking lot.
Sitting down with Matt Ferrar, who's, I think, over finance for SAU 21.
They were looking into strategies for solar for, I think, all their buildings.
And I think since the grants dried up, that hasn't been as active as it
initially was going to be and I told them you know we were contemplating that
possibility for us sort of saying where where should it go and you know you don't want
it in the historic historic museum you don't want it in town hall the
the alignment on the public safety building may not be optimized and you
may not be able to put in as many panels as you'd like
on that building, and there's pros and cons for the library as well.
So you look at other options.
Well, one was possibly the town land around the library,
but with all the new gardens going in,
despite asking on multiple occasions to coordinate the plan with the energy committee
to make it solar friendly, we have gotten ZIP from the library.
And I know you're, that would be a,
line of communication, that would be really helpful.
But I don't have my hopes up in that direction because you'd need a lot of panels.
And the other, we don't have a good line of sight to the south from near that building, unfortunately.
May I finish?
What I have done, I try to follow what other towns are doing because there's a lot of lessons
learn that maybe Hampton Falls can piggyback on.
on really wise people's decisions in other towns.
And Exeter comes to mind because they just put in a whole bunch of solar panels over there.
I think it's a town dump, but I'm not sure.
But it's that kind of facility.
And I said, how does it work?
It's off-site.
How does that cover the electricity bills for your municipal buildings?
Well, it's right next to an electrical line,
so it basically feeds electricity to the system and the town gets credits for all the electricity that's generated from the solar facility,
even though it's not immediately at that location.
I mentioned that to Matt Farrar as another option.
And then I sat down with the building inspector, and I said if it was up to you,
because he knows a lot about solar and he knows a lot about electrical engineering.
and he's really smart.
And I said if it was up to you, Mark, where would you put solar panels to, you know, provide energy for all the municipal buildings?
And he pointed out a seven-acre plot of land off parsonage that was donated to the town.
And it is near power lines.
It's not, it doesn't appear to have wetlands, but it's full of trees.
And he said that that might be a possible location.
So just something to consider.
I don't, I don't, I haven't been in the town long enough to know if that was proposed and it made sense either from buying solar panels or doing a purchase power agreement with a supplier, whether people in town would be up in arms for clearing some of that land for, for that application.
I just don't know well enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you've got to turn the mic on first.
You can come right up here.
That one doesn't work.
That one doesn't work, so, yeah, I guess it pressed the button or there's a button.
Near the bottom.
The bottom, maybe.
Just hold it.
It should be, you get, there you go.
Yes.
What's your name and address, please?
Yeah.
It's Google, 16, 7, etc.
So, I understand the solar, I mean, I have it, and it's in the front cost, no doubt.
the building, the utility building for the town dump.
That structure is probably 80 by...
That's not what I'm recommending.
No, what I'm saying, that's the entire building.
It's not historical.
This is the opposite side of the road from the dump.
Yeah.
It's a raw land.
Yeah, trees.
You want to do the dump?
The dump, no.
So the dump building.
Okay.
I don't know what it's called.
totally building or structure it's basically the dump, yeah.
The roof, if I recall, the roof on that building,
is probably going to get replaced in a couple of three years.
It came up a sip.
What I was saying is,
one ounce, soil poles in a historical building.
Right around's, soil pools on the roof that may have be considered ugly were.
That's just, it's not going to tell us like that.
As far as clearing the rain and we're looking at pedestal mounts to get their orientation right.
And there's some of the parts to that.
The reason I know while that particular street is pretty good is a gentleman across the street from that dump.
Putting in heavily wooded, but I think the 603, the orientation, they're not passed on the line.
They're fixed mounted.
And it's advantageous because the main power line coming through that particular part of the town is right there.
And he's back from right there.
the distance of power line to backfeed into the, I guess, the state lines.
I would think that particular building will be at least a consideration.
That's all.
That power line that you made reference to, it goes right through that seven acres of the town
lands.
So you need it really close to the power lines, compatible with solar.
Right.
And you just need to clear it.
Well, yeah, that's the area.
Yeah, so there's an element there.
Yeah.
There's more cost with that.
I do agree.
We could do a ground-based.
There's a level of effort there.
You've got to clear, maintain the clearance, and there's, I'm sure there's some fence and you're going to put it around it, and the animals and all that.
But if it's elevated, like roof, and everything would argue that the town built structure is historical by any means.
honestly, the roof is there, and I will not put any solar on any roof unless the roof is in, you know, good shape.
So that's it.
That's what I want to say.
It's worth of an answer.
No, I appreciate that.
The only question is how close is the dump to the power lines.
It's right across the street because there's a resident.
Yeah.
Right.
I know that because he came through the zoning border.
I really.
directly across the street.
He has two arrays.
And one of the selling points, his drop, I mean, back how he feeds the main line, is really tiny.
It's not that much.
It's probably at us to 150 feet.
If we, I initially got an estimate for how many solar panels we need for these three buildings.
Town Hall, Public Safety building in the library,
and they all would not fit on the roof of the public safety building.
If we looked at this in harmony with Lincoln-Ackerman,
if they didn't put it on their roof or over their parking lot,
over the parking lot costs more,
then we'd need a lot more land to handle a lot more panels.
Something like clearing parsonage might make that land and parsonage.
But right now, every option's on the table, and then you look at cost-benefit,
and you look at whether you pay for the panels up front or you do a purchase power agreement,
which is what Dover did for their schools and their solar panels.
And I believe that Rye did the same thing.
They didn't buy the, they did not buy the solar panels up front.
They just pay a monthly fee towards that for a service.
certain number of years.
Yeah, the problem of themselves, they get better each year.
Yep.
They're up to, say, say, standard 28-inch by 52-inch.
There's two, it's probably a 5 million watts.
Um, it's grown.
Yeah.
It's 50 was a standard.
Now it was 4-50.
I mean, it's up there.
Where are they being produced?
China, Germany.
Canada.
Yeah, Canada.
I don't, but I want the source of Canada.
Um, but, but, you know,
we got 4,000, so 450-watt panels, um, that up pretty quick.
So, to change, uh, same subject, but to change the top a little bit,
would it be possible, you know, I'm not, I, I don't know how this stuff works, but is it possible
that we could lease or pay, pay a resident in town to use their solar system?
The reason I ask that is, um, is it possible that we could lease or pay, pay a resident in town to use their solar system?
The reason I ask that is,
Right up on, if you go up 88, this is this guy that has two massive units.
You're talking David Coe?
On the corner?
Yeah.
Yeah, Parsonage.
Yeah, that's David Coe and John Shaw, I know him.
So.
And they're, it's not his two.
It's one belongs to John, one belongs to David.
Okay, so I mean, is that something?
And they turn.
Yes, they've got that automatic turning.
They put those in it.
My understanding is they originally put them in, they didn't have approval, but then they
Right, right.
came after the fact they kind of jumped the gun any good lawyer will tell you do
it and then beg for forgiveness well that could be too but no getting back to my
question is that something that's possible the hard as I know it is the we have
I think 40 homes with solar last time I looked in there's there's probably a few
more.
There's a little bit of excess that goes into the grid, but probably not enough to cover
the municipal buildings.
We would have to have our own systems.
And you think about the school, too.
No, I understand, but like I said, I don't know anything about this.
Looking at the size of these things.
They can't, you've got to go with your house.
I can make a comment here if I can.
So the short answer is,
No, you can't buy electricity from one neighbor and give it to the other neighbor or another building.
That's, down the road, though, there's legislation with smart model,
essentially when it comes down to, if the power is made in the town, that's coming up.
There's a bill, but the technology, the smart motor isn't there yet.
Where that would help you is you, you have, you have access support.
You have to pay the person who has the solar generation for the supply, but you pay less for
distribution costs, which is a big saver.
So, because it would be local.
Yeah.
And then you need the meters, too.
You got to have the meters.
So, because right now, like I can talk to myself, I produce about 30% more than a, I don't have an
year.
Me too.
I've got excess power, too.
But, and so you're right, you'd probably bring your kitty up with the power company at some point, you're just riding it.
Say that again?
So, what is your excess room?
I've got about, I've got about 16 meg, something like that.
Right, so you probably, you're probably, you're probably drawing a credit.
Yeah, I am.
I got it, $800 from a dollar credit.
But that power went somewhere.
the power went somewhere.
To the grid.
And I can get a rebate, the electric company unit, said, do you want your excess credit that's on your bill?
And I said, no, because we're going to use it up in the winter.
Right.
But the power itself, you're talking on the monetary side, but the power itself is peanut bread spread all through the grid.
Yeah, correct.
And they don't account for it.
And so that's free energy out there.
Does current legislation, I think so much it's benefiting because they don't have to produce another, have another power plant, right?
Right.
Right.
But for Hampton Falls, approximately, like 60 homes that have solar, approximately.
Legislation is pending or going out, but you need this smart leader, smart meter, so that the power company can say,
where that power of camphoon stays here in the town.
So the town benefits, not with peanut benefits, but an extra kilowatts, all over the place.
So on that legislation, which is actually regulation at the puck, because Unital is the first one to look at smarter meters,
and they've asked the puck to install these smarter meters, which would help.
net metering people, which would be the solar folks.
I think there's an additional charge for them, and that one is still being reviewed at the puck.
But it's a wonderful direction, and it's wonderful to see them being forward thinking in that regard.
To satisfy, I mean, to simplify what Alan will suggest is that if we could buy power from an individual person to offset their car,
and that it's not there yet.
Excuse me.
I have heard.
I don't know if it's still in existence or not, but there's such a thing as community solar,
where people, neighbors join together, and they all kick in some money,
and they agree to build a solar field on somebody's property,
and they all get to share in the production of the solar field.
So it's a group of like-minded people.
I don't know how far apart they can be.
and I assume it can be the same thing for the town.
I mean, if you've got five buildings and you put in one solar field that should go to all the users provided they're on the same bill.
My understanding is that places like Maine might be doing that on an individual residential basis basis.
In New Hampshire, it's done by town for that benefit.
But I don't have specific details in front of me at this time.
But there was one built that Community Power Coalition in New Hampshire just highlighted.
It was one of their major projects.
But that was in the Eversource territory, so Hampton Falls would not count.
So apparently New Hampshire does have community solar right now.
Yeah, that's right.
That's very interesting.
Because I know there's a big, huge solar field down in Salisbury or Seabrook or something,
and it's stuck in the middle of nowhere along a highway,
and they're pulling power off of that for somebody.
I assume it's the town, buildings.
It won't be the actual power being like a credit.
Or if it's a credit.
a field that people are tight proximity wise that can benefit directly because there's loss
has involved you know if you go more than two three hundred feet yes there is a loss
so what I'm thinking that field is simply a dollar credit back to the town correct I think
it's not power not physical power right on anything it's basically all in the
billing I mean you produce so much power at one site the if it's owned by the town
and the town uses five buildings, you know, has five buildings to produce the power,
they will give you credits.
They will transfer the credits to those accounts.
It's analogous to what Exeter's doing over their dump to cover the electricity for their buildings.
We just got to get the details right.
So we've had a good discussion.
I don't know that we've
come to any agreements but it's a very important area and I think it takes time to
solidify thinking and on what kind of recommendations we may want to make in the future.
Really important to this whole effort is to seek tax credits and other encouragements
out there on a federal basis.
So we can be spring-loaded.
time something changes in that direction.
Well, I suggest I think that was my idea was to start studying it now so we can get ourselves armed
with some information ahead of time, right?
Well, we're sort of doing that in that we're upgrading the buildings.
Right.
We did half, well, roughly 50% of the offices to heat pumps, but we still have an oil
a boiler for some of the offices along this side, and if that isn't sufficient,
the next step would be to put in more heat pumps to make them more efficient.
And at that point, you'd know how much electricity you'd need for this building.
We'd probably get a better handle on how much electricity is needed for the public safety building
and other buildings we may want to cover for solar in the future.
future. I will report. I was talking to Tamison the other day, our bookkeeper, and she said she was freezing in her office.
So something is not set right there. She's either getting, I guess, during, there's too much AC going on,
and I said, can't they adjust the vent or something? Is this the side of what the mini-splits are or this?
The other non-minisplit. How recently was that?
This is last week.
It's probably something that they can do with balance the system.
She said that the building inspector has been up to the attic six times trying to figure,
trying to adjust it.
So it's not working the way it should.
Maybe she's first on the line so she gets all the cold air.
I don't know.
This is important for our committee to keep current with.
And Scott sort of as a lead on the upgrade, because if it's not
working right you're spending too much money to heat and AC the rooms and they're
not working that's important thank you but you have to remember it seems like
the mini splits are working yes in here no I'm saying in the offices yeah it seems
like the mini splits are working yep it's not the whole building well no what I'm
saying all the mini splits that we let me put it this way all the many splits that we
have in the building right seem to be doing the job yep yep
So maybe that's part of the solution.
Well, the CIP and its wisdom said go halfway.
Right.
Use the keep the more, the younger boiler and augment the building with the new mini splits
and that's what we did.
But we always had the other option as a backup plan.
So we'll see what happens.
We may be able to adjust it so it works.
a lot better than what it's doing now.
I would still question
how efficient it is
on this side of the building is compared to the other side.
No, I agree. I don't know how you
figure that out.
Other than asking the employees,
is that what you're talking about? No, I'm talking money
as far as BTU usage.
You can't differentiate
the electricity, but
you can keep an eye on the oil
usage next through the winter.
So we'll see what that is.
That's a good way to
do it here. Any other pearls of wisdom on solar?
No, I just think we need to start exploring what's available.
I'll see what I can do.
Sounds like a plan. Anything else, Alan?
No, ma'am.
All right. Well, I just want a brief touch on roles and responsibilities.
Do we want our roles to be more specifically defined
and specifically, Alan,
yours versus mine,
and if for some reason I'm not
able to attend a meeting,
you know,
what
you need to do
to step up and things like that?
Yeah, I think I could run a meeting
if that's what you mean.
And the other thing is, I think for a public meeting,
you need to have an agenda
posted at least a certain number
days beforehand.
Beverly would know that. Is it two days
minimum?
They usually do it a week here.
Usually you post that there's going to be a meeting.
It's 24 hours ahead.
I don't know about posting the agenda.
That's something newish.
So all I heard was that if you,
the land use lady Liz prefers that she will put the agenda
on the town website and the minutes.
She likes to have both of them together.
there. Right.
So, but I don't know how far in advance you need the agenda, I would assume, the same 24 hours.
I don't know.
I, um, I try to do it a week in advance because you never know if people are out that you need to have posted.
And I look at when the selectmen minutes go out.
I mean, not the minutes, but their agenda, and that's usually several days in advance now.
The only thing I'll mention is,
when I do the minute or I do the agenda, the structure is along the lines of our mission statement.
The, I mean, there's always the secretaries report.
They're saving energy, following energy relevant legislation, and then there's outreach and education,
but we haven't done much outreach and education, so that's not on there.
And then, I mean, if you map to what our mission is, it's pretty straightforward.
Anything else today?
I make a motion to adjourn.
I think that's a good idea.
All set?
I know the library would love to save money if they don't have to save money if they don't have to pay the electric bill.