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I'll make a motion to see on the terms of the non-con session.
I'll see if you're going to add, firstly, I'll make me up until, say, June 30th.
A second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Hi.
You're reminding me.
What's an announcement?
Tom, you're going to do?
Um, I just, I'll let you guys know, really not a public announcement, I guess,
but I'll let you know the road agent things tomorrow.
I hope we send our people up there.
is sending them home early with pay.
I'm sending them out there so they might learn something to get out of the office.
That's a good employee.
Okay.
Um, I kind of have a slide with, and I'll be in the one or not set on that.
Craig's speak to.
And it's a unique way that she served.
So the RPA voted for her.
The parade will start at two money down in the grade and Mike Whitehead would be helping reform.
Unfortunately this year, because of logistics, the Civil War
Reenactments will not be with us.
They're doing the,
the Peterborough parade first thing in the morning and then it had to have a student around for about four hours before our parade and they said they just can't do it.
They're suffering from the same problem that we do. They're all aging out. I would hypothetically say that most of them are in there late 60s if not.
I know one of them is a green array from Vietnam. So that student is around basically will do the salute at the Civil War.
The most important part of the parade for those who may be listening online.
is at the intersection of Goddard Road, Main Street, and School Street.
The first salute we'll do there is where the Revolution of One monument.
We'll do the salute there, which is right at the meeting house.
Go up Main Street and then play the Starspan.
I did talk to Victoria.
She will be singing a very beautiful.
And if there is a brain and the brain can't see the Star Span who will be singing.
If the big, major deviations, sometimes people don't come.
even after they say they will be.
And that's a bench about it.
I think that that covers it.
The Girl Scouts will be there.
The Boy Scouts will be there.
The Chamber of Commerce will be there.
Fire Department will be there.
Hopefully this year we have volunteers that will be covering the barrier.
And I'm wondering, will you be walking.
It says the walking select McCodies.
We could put you in a vehicle.
It didn't better.
So I think, you know, myself, I stated this at the IPA meeting
that this is supposed to be about a fallen hero.
And to me, it's not about the select one.
Well, that's the essence, because the praise of the Y-O-C-A,
I can't remember all the different groups,
but every group in time was there, including the two political parties,
and a number of extraordinary groups that were part of time.
And Tim Weston and I had a long talk about this,
and I agree with you wholeheartedly that this should be about the veterans.
And what we've done is we've broadened the ceremony to include
the men who served in the military for the sense in the meeting house.
There are still veterans that we honor.
So, but this, let me put it this way.
You are invited to March 4th, right.
I appreciate that, but to me I think it's that's your good.
It was 4th of July or something in the United States.
All right, you're only walking down or whatever, I'll do it.
But it's stars.
So for me, and for the people that are home, Memorial Day is supposed to be a Salmord Day.
Right?
We're remembering people that died to have freedom and that has asked people that before you have that hot dog
and that hamburger and you take that first bite, say a prayer for the minute.
women that died for our freedom so you could eat that hot dog.
And with that in mind, a number of different issues with half a lung, diabetes, a simple stroke,
and other things.
And I was informed this afternoon about 3 o'clock by Jenny Lopho, and I'd confirm it with Robbie Knight and Heather.
If you'd like to say any couple words, we can all allow our heads for cranky to say something.
As we gather together, let us remember the service that Paul White provided to our country,
a son of Wringe who served with wonder from the United States,
Marine Corps. Let us thank him and our prayers at night for his service and his dedication
to the town of wrench. We ask the name of the Lord.
So, yeah, getting back to, you know, I guess there were Jeeps offered to us to ride and stuff.
I'm like, I'm not, certainly not riding in a Jeep, but there's a veteran, a lot of our veterans are
agents or age and out too right, they should have their buttinets.
They should all right. They should be sitting there. I'm definitely going to be there.
I'll do what I did last year. I'll sit on a farm and I'll sit on.
I mean, it's more about that concern.
You're right, though. I appreciate that.
I've got a commitment, but I'm open. I like to go to this.
One other quick question, the roll one of two, you're starting there. Is that like around
1.30? Yes. Okay. You're starting at 1.30 or 1? No, we will.
We did not show up. If everyone there,
and hold and show up. Thank you.
Approval of the payroll for 514, 2026.
and 521, 2026. Has everyone seen that?
I had a couple of questions yet again this week, but they get, they get answered.
It's just kind of hard how we've done this week.
I'll make a motion to approve the payroll of 514, 2026, and 521.
But I have a second.
Are you on the last week's payroll, we're all handled.
Now we're clear.
Two, zero, zero.
Both of 514, 2026, and 521,
2026. Everyone's seen those.
I had a couple of questions on the one from not this week, but last week, I think those have been resolved.
I think we did resolve. I just can't remember what they went.
I think we talked about it. I think that we got the results.
Yeah.
And then you found you found her.
Oh, yeah.
I'll make a motion to a second.
I'll make a motion to approve.
I'll second.
All in favor.
Aye.
Aye.
saying no vote.
2.00.
It's available.
Did you see my age name?
Yes, I did.
You have a few things that one on that day?
Oh, just hold that.
Old business.
Update on AEB as a fire chief, I guess you're going to talk about.
I have the update.
I'm just going to read you all what Chief Fosson said.
The crew went out today in inventory.
One, rec center has two and they maintain them on their own.
Two. Library has one, and they maintain it on their own.
Three, school has two.
has two.
Four, police department has two.
Five, meeting house is currently missing.
Six, DPW does not have any.
I would like to propose the town purchases two eight, purchase two ADDs for the DPW and one for the
meeting house.
I recommend that we go with the FivTAC model from Lifesavers Inc., which will run about $1,064
for package number two, each, plus shipping.
These are the ones that town facilities have and it would be consistent across the board.
consistent across the board.
What was the price on that name?
1.064.
1064?
Yeah, 1,000.
After one other one other one.
One meeting house to DPW?
Right, two, two DGW and one meeting house.
One meeting house is what we said.
Hang, hang on.
And one at meeting house.
That is what we said.
The meeting houses currently,
the meeting houses is currently missing.
What did they recommend?
And I would like to propose the town purchase
two AEDs for the DPW and one for the meeting house for a total fifth.
Real.
Yeah.
There's one other section that you want me to read as well.
I would also like to propose the fire department to take over the responsibility
for the inspection and maintenance of these AEDs.
Does them currently?
I'm clear.
It's either unspecified.
Maybe it's DPW or maybe it was in chief office.
Why is that somebody?
Yeah.
I'm getting the feeling that maybe they just haven't been.
Correct.
And I guess what times I would assume the battery would be.
the thing that time's out, right?
But can we replace just batteries?
I think it's a...
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
It was the responsibility of the...
No, the actual...
The actual person who is in the fire department.
It was their response.
I believe that both there.
It's going.
It's back.
Back.
I would like that, I know Craig says, I'm not doubting you,
but I would like to look into, you know,
if these are not replaceable just a battery,
I'd like to know if they have them out there,
they can replace just the battery.
I don't know if he says it's missing.
I know the fire department did take it.
Yeah, no, no, no.
I mean, if we buy new ones,
but I'm saying they don't...
So if we do purchase new ones,
you know, three that have...
You can just replace batteries and not the whole unit.
Yeah, yeah, certainly.
I think that's...
I think the...
The paddles, too, yeah, because they do have...
Because it's still, but...
It's generally a year.
It's not generally...
What fund does that come out?
I see here that these batteries last for five to seven years.
You know, that's usually.
I'm on a building, building fund, but adjusted last year, because when you do the annual inspection for time,
it's one of the things that gets checked, and there is no budget for safety items like all the batteries
that are in all the exit lights and everything, and it was recommended to have a separate budget line
for the AEDs, all the stuff that has to be maintained for public safety, because it always came out of
might be, you know, but it's never budgeted for.
Well, because the batteries are rechargeable,
and you can get them cheap, like they were, oh, you've been bucks.
Wouldn't he just waiting kind of for our approval to go ahead and the floor?
Yeah, exactly, yeah, because I think at the last time...
You have any discussion on a lot?
No, that's fine. Yeah, I don't know what.
You need to, but I don't know if you got a garage and you've got another building,
and I'd be pretty happy to have one.
All right. Um, motion can be made. I second it.
All in favor.
All right.
Hi.
In the business, approval of paving bids, pursuant Parasade, 41, colon Nadi.
Everyone has their bids.
It looks like they have two bids.
I talked to Mike about it.
It looks like they kind of swap on and off, just about every other year.
One year, one is cheaper than the other, and so just about every other.
This year's heating came in cheaper than all state by, I think it was $2.35 cuts.
Tom, the lights recommend that we go with the...
It's 10% higher than we paid last year.
Yeah.
You know, I know a lot of them's patients because they've better replace, I believe, a collar.
It's a cathedral and it's, um, what's their own?
Fitzgeraldon Mountain.
Oh, that Fitzgeraldon, Old Cathedral?
Not Cathedral.
Oh, sorry, yes, absolutely, yes.
Yeah, I think I've sent any...
I mean, 10% more, like you mean, Canaan Road, preserving the roads without, you know,
10% of us, you know, I've done the math a little bit, you know, we paid $2.8 miles.
$3992,000.
We paid $2.8.
This year, I don't know what his plan is on Mountain Road.
If you take the whole mountain roads, you know, we're looking at it, about $2.2.
From the boat rent down towards the college is the worst part.
Going at mile and other road, you know, pay some.
Chip ceiling is about 30% less.
Yeah, but didn't they do that on a cathedral?
That didn't last very long.
That's a cathedral.
That didn't last very long.
Four or five years ago.
I know that crack sealant has been brought up too, but if I get my driveway crack sealed
and sealed every of the year, like, crack seal it's killed up as if they made snowball on it.
Well, I don't know how it's going to do with commercial flag plows going across.
Well, I understand the crack seal thing, but nonetheless, chip seal is kind of the same thing, but
you know, the cost we're paying $103 a ton for asphalt and, you know, the base,
you know, so it's about about 750 tons a mile, and roughly, and if you chip sealed a mile,
you know, it's about $4,000,000, about $103.
Was it the cathedral kind of an experiment in the state?
they do that they grow it yeah so i i think it might be worthwhile i mean that you
if you if we pay amount or i'm just using examples if we pay mount road with an estimated tonnage
you know you're paying $80,000 if you do the whole road you pay $118,000 and if you chip seal two
you know two miles of road you only spend a hundred grand if you do more of a premium chip seal which is out there
It's, you know, instead of 50,000 a mile, you do 75,000 a mile, you can still do two miles and be, have an extra $100,000 left over.
So, you know, I'm not going to argue, but I think it'd be worthwhile quotations done on chips seam on several miles of road.
I mean, Fitzgerald Road's a pretty low maintenance road.
It's actually a pretty good shape, so one or two bad spots that would be shipped out.
Same thing with old Cathedral Road.
I'm just throwing it out.
Only one vote out was just alternatives.
Greg Longer and different, I think,
if we're going to do our homework without being fair on spending our dollars.
My homework was all done on the chip ceiling when they did Cathedral Road and my windshield was broken.
I saw a lot of it fought off with such.
I think it was a grant that he needed some mistake.
I said I don't have the answer.
I know.
Some of the courses I've taken about payment
maintenance. It's other times around on some of these lower remains road.
This jail probably would be an ideal candidate.
I don't have the answer.
I'm just suggesting that we may be considered alternatives for a year.
There's a lot of other ways to prison roads.
I think Victoria is a question.
Yes, that you have a question.
How much do you say it comes in?
Um, the ballpark I got today,
and I didn't get a quote, but I talked to one of the experts.
In one of my classes, it's about on a base chip seal,
called, you know, the metaframine,
it's 47,000 bucks a mile, roughly.
Just, I'm not quartered it.
So you can go up from there.
I went to 75 because they use rubber-based stuff
now which flashes with the road rather than,
and it gives you about seven to ten years.
And it creates a good base to top on with asphalt.
In a hundred and three tonne and I don't want to inch and a quarter.
I don't want to hit you a quarter.
You only put three quarters in an inch down.
So, I was just going to throw it out there.
I don't have any problem with the big.
But, you know, we only paid in 2.8 in the last year.
We're going to pay two for the same money.
We might be able to get a stretch of dollars.
I'm sure you're familiar with timber top.
They started there with chips sealing and all paid now.
Right, but that, so that goes up.
If it was chips, if it was something, they'd be paid it.
Right.
It creates a good way.
It creates a good thing.
If it was better, I didn't continue that with chips, you know.
I guess is what I'm getting.
Well, it creates a solid base on a dirt road.
So I'm not saying we can do that.
Maybe we upgrade some of her dirt roads instead.
I'm just throwing ideas out here, man.
I mean, I like my dirt road too, but nonetheless, you know,
we have a couple of high traffic dirt roads that are constantly there.
Brand Road.
It's a major cut through, and it's always going to work.
And it's always hungry.
I'm strong.
I'm just throwing it.
It doesn't have to have to bring.
It was an approval of making minutes.
I'll make a motion.
I'll second.
Any discussion more on that?
I think it's a little late to be looking into it now,
which we're known months ago,
so we all had time to research on this before.
Well, I suggested it, but you know,
didn't go anywhere.
So I think, I don't have a problem with the quote.
Well, that's what we're here for tonight.
So we can always ask them to go out and get a different fit.
I made a motion.
I second it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
I'm going to have Mike look at it again.
I already used it.
It was basically good for a low, very low speed.
I can have lots of driveways as far as something.
They've already proven me what I think of chip bathing on Cathedral Road.
They can see most of it's gone.
Well, I can't put the chips in the car or the chips in the windshield.
Not to mention, you have tire rocks and in humps like that,
it gets, that's the first thing that gets peeled right off is all the chips sealed.
kids are not flat roads.
You get a flat blade going across them.
All right, so we have a motion.
Second.
We have two votes a year so far.
I'm good.
That's the same.
It should be doing.
Save the taxpayer's money.
So it's 201.
The next Department approvals,
pursuant RSA 41-11.
Connick Middle High School Graduation Ceremony
requests for approval with a special net permit
for the Coenck Middle High School graduation
High School graduation ceremony at the Franklin Fierce University of Peel House on June 12th,
2026 at 7 p.m. Approximately 800 attendees,
have been sponsored by Jeffrey Ridge School District County Middle High School.
Practamental reviews have been completed with approvals from fire police and highway.
It includes one officer, cruiser for traffic, security and fire EMS, standby
staffing, no road closures.
You got to see the permit?
Yeah, there is.
I will almost sign, but I just figured we...
Everyone's okay with that.
We make a motion to approve special events permit
for the Coenic Middle High School graduation ceremony at FPU.
Now, this is no road closures.
I'm going to be specific on there.
No road closures are right here.
Because we had a road closure at the graduation, which didn't work out well.
Somebody drove around.
the barrier and nearly had a go-cart.
Passed by the police.
It is certainly motivated for warrant to that the owner of that vehicle.
That is why it's important to me.
It's important to have the area is in an officer.
I'm sure it's, I don't see it specifically, but it says right here,
no road right here.
It's here somewhere.
Yes.
You did that motion there.
I didn't make a motion.
motion. I'll second the motion.
Hold in favor.
On the 12th of June.
It's 7 p.m.
Next, we know the town council opinion regarding life safety inspection fee allocation
pursuant to IRS 8.
Do you want me to...
Yep.
If you'd like to speak to that.
So this doesn't necessarily require a vote.
It's kind of an update of a change of something that we discovered.
In 2014,
there's a town award article that passed to establish the fire evolving fund.
Fund was established to collect revenue and donations to help offset operating budget lines
to fire department.
When it started, life safety inspections, fees, and fines went into this fund, actually.
At some point, the town stopped putting funds into there
from life safety inspections.
Fire chiefs in town's administrator discussed this, and TA saw an opinion from the town council
to determine if the life safety inspection fees and fines were intended to go
into that account, considering there was no consistent process.
It was going in there. It wasn't. It was. And it was kind of scattered across the past.
Town Council confirmed that funds generated from this, from fire ordinance fees and those
types of things should be deposited into that account based on the language of the warrant article.
We touched based with Helene afterwards and Andrea as well who deposits the checks.
So that's going to be funneled into that account moving.
forward. Which specific account is it? Oh, sorry. What do I call it? The fire evolving fund.
There is back and forth in the history. What we should be doing, these could and should be used to offset some of the operating
expense. The fund, I'm not sure why I didn't know. Oh, yeah.
The SP is involved. And I think it was in the first quarter of the year. So it's not multiple.
I'm going to put that into the course, but how to think about using that of, oh, great, money comes in,
well I'm going to spend it on to set in a third. It would be interesting given that.
see how that improves and what it could be used for.
Well, it's kind of spells it out. Well, such funds may be expended only for the purpose created,
namely to pay five personal wages and benefits associated with the details, cost of fire
prevention materials, and maintenance, and replacing the fire equipment vehicles and apparatus.
Yeah. It sounds like it was around your time, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I know if you're all
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And if we got into that, I mean, think about how we had that, you know,
have we been doing this, maybe we would have more funds to, so that's an update.
on insurance company have a pay off on that.
So, Mike, we forward to...
That's just, I have the same concern.
I don't know if it's a big for it out of the general fund.
Yeah, and it was, all three quotes were roughly the same.
This one was like six.
Yeah, no, these, all three of these were times.
Can I say?
Or does that hurt refugees?
We submitted that to the insurance company?
The individual has submitted it now to his...
No, I'm saying the company.
Yeah.
They're looking for a quote to approval.
Yeah, Griffin.
So my guess is...
It's not...
They might question your vehicle, you know, on the crash
and deep down the auto body, but since it's not...
But the owner, you said he would have submitted already
because we don't know which quote we're going, right?
He, Mike left it.
Mike and I left it said, oh, yeah.
Is he okay with who the guy pepped?
Is who okay?
Mike.
Yes, Mike is...
I know, but if we ended up having to take him a court,
we can wipe at least 25,
sound that.
Sounds like there's a good order of...
The lawyer's fees.
I'm not kind of like, I'm a big fan.
Let's submit it and get a check
from the insurance company, and then we'll follow and get it for fixed.
To me, it's just plain safe.
It's not a lot of money, but this is I'm just a sentence or just...
Yes, I know, but if he's worth you know, but if he's not paid and we're going to end up in court.
I'm going to discuss a legal.
Am I missing one on my business forum?
C3, and I saw Craig's hand go up first.
referred to the ladies. Okay?
Thank you for it. The Ward Trust, Trust, $35,000, Oversight Committee.
Yep.
Right, but there's other options.
Thank you. God bless it to them.
Do you guys know if you all have you all had the same thing about?
No. No. No.
No. One other thing about people who passed away, Doug Gilroy and Martha Gilroy.
Doug was with the fire department.
Doug was also a science teacher at the middle school for a good number of years.
Martha was also very active in the community
and also in the javry community
and the nurse.
Now, one thing about the roads.
Fitzgerald Road.
Is there, and this is possibly
other roads in town, Grand Road.
Could some of these roads be posted
as no through traffic?
It's kind of amazing
what I see going down
Fitzgerald Road
equipment, home
depot, yeah, 18 wheelers.
People are following their
GPS
using these roads
and they're not
going to a delivery on
Fitzgerald Road. They're going down
the South Woodbound or you're talking
about wear and tear on our roads.
It's people
following their GPS. So is
this something maybe the town would look into.
trucker.
Yeah.
The Fitzgerald Drive.
Yeah,
the Fitzgerald Road also gets confused
with
Fitzgerald Dry in
Jaffrey and one snowstorm
we had an 18-wheeler
lose it
on the hill.
So to your first point,
Mr. Gilroy was my science teacher
and I believe this is 9th grade.
Okay.
So he may have taught at the high school,
I believe, a long time ago, I believe
was 9th grade.
Secondly, I don't know how that worked.
Secondly, I don't know how that worked.
as far as posting roads, you know.
Taking the Road Committee.
Yeah.
If that's something that the Road Committee wants to take up and discuss?
Are we picked that? I tell you really.
Yeah.
Are you a lot?
Are you a lot of it?
Roadway.
Both may be something that you can bring up.
Next, would you take that up?
An agenda item?
Many complaints about it's zero,
but I've heard plenty of cuts from.
We've been doing a lot of work, as you know,
at the Rand Cemetery right here.
And while I've spent some time up there,
and there is a lot of traffic.
I'm going down and making a delivery somewhere, but then one day I drove down
the delivery trucks down on Woodbubon.
What's Cisco?
Well, yes, Cisco always uses it.
The porta-potty guys use it.
Cisco must be going to put it around here.
Yes.
So are you done?
Are you done?
It's a class six anymore.
It's not in my class six anymore.
Where is the class six?
It's still a class six road because we need access up there.
So I was up there one day working with a true green truck comes up.
On my GPS.
This road is not a true road.
So to my point, Mr. Chairman, number one,
the state has changed the rule to confirm for the state
that the...
I've spoken to Carla, the Elected Light Fund.
And what doesn't make sense is we've spent money from that fund,
so why the state is asking for verification.
for verification.
I really know.
But I want the board and actually because I'm working on
Dwight's Left Town.
But...
This fund is $5 a year?
Is this money?
And the legislature is the one that
change the law?
It's always accessible.
That's not a question.
The question is, how is it for?
We have...
Buy an act of the legislature.
I think it's a file.
No, it's not in our state.
It's objective.
The legislature.
Check the law.
No.
The difference.
You worked with the legislature to get
all which you never will have.
A supermatorium goes voting on the air.
I think there's a key store the flow.
That's the off on.
Yeah.
Talk to my point.
And to your comment about the ADD up in Ed Schack,
I don't think that's heated all the time.
I just wanted if you could just go inside,
like maybe this is right.
Well, again, absolutely.
I don't disagree we should have it.
We should have an update.
I'm just, I'm wondering if we leave in Ed Shacks
and it's going to deteriorate the battery course.
Enough.
something that's near and near like, heart.
All right.
One law for a citizen forum?
Regarding heat.
Who are you?
I'm sorry.
So, but my question is regarding the trustees.
I was the last person to start digging into that.
I haven't, she's back, she's back, but.
... from that account.
Each chapter would change,
because when the selectmen accepted that money,
it was to be under the same.
terms, nothing changed.
No, we just want to know what an exact consent.
Yeah, so the trustees of the trust funds, you need to put the requests into them.
Well, I thought they would have.
Yeah, so nothing changed.
They would, I thought they might have.
It was in the 13.
2006.
No, but the town took it over.
Yes, 2013.
But she died in 2000.
Colorado on the subject of the wounds called up like a
thanking for not buying a thousand memorials.
And like if Rob Boyer,
I'd like to thank Rob Turk for doing all the planting initiative.
And watering.
And watering for all year.
All year long.
Yes.
That's it.
I'd like to adjourn the meeting.
We had a motion to go with that.
Oh, that's right.
I get that motion.
A lot of pursuit to, what did you say it was?
What did you say it was?
See?
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
Let's have a good one.
Thank you, I.