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Carries, we'll step in.
Do you have anything first?
Under new business, we'll also have public comments
for an old business.
Everyone, that Summerfest takes place this Saturday.
I'm done by the Main Street Association.
So thanks to the Walton Main Street Association, as always.
We're doing Summerfest, it's a great event.
So, hearing nothing else for public comment,
we're going to move right into new business.
a new business. So the first thing on
new business is the introduction
of the Wilton Ambulance
Assistant-Chief, Mike Dickinson.
Who'd like to join his chief?
Good. So for the benefit of everybody, you want to introduce
that?
I'm just my alarm to say at 6 o'clock.
So thank you for sharing that.
Sure.
So welcome aboard.
We just wanted to have a chance to introduce you to the public
and even though, obviously, we don't have a lot of folks here.
Jesse Salisbury is here from the Milford Cabinet,
and perhaps Jesse would like to get your information
and get your pitcher.
Goody, stormwater pollution.
plan for the works garage.
Yes.
And sort of give a summary for it for the benefit of our compliance
from the permit.
Basically for every town facility that meets certain criteria,
we're supposed to have a stormwater pollution prevention plan for the site.
So the police station has one, the fire station has one.
I think the big difference maker that I don't think was completely
understood when the town first started getting
and making stormwater pollution prevention plans
was that you have to be kind of like a garage.
But basically what they is, it's just what it says on the
just what it says on the tin site.
Works garages or highway facilities,
whatever you call them, whether they're small nodes or big ones,
are obviously an area that's very concerning for stormwater permits in general.
You have a potential for salt runoff.
Staff at the high structure of our...
So as far as the stormwater pollution prevention plan,
I'll email the copy out to everybody if I haven't already.
I've seen it today, but thank you for sending out.
Yeah, and if you have questions ahead of time, I would welcome you to see that.
This one right here.
We'll post it on this.
the website and ask them to put and see where we end up at the next regular meeting for it.
And there's also a purchase approval for a camera.
Yes, so.
Second memo from Bruce.
Yes, so I asked, there's still some open questions about what sewer, what storm drain camera to actually get.
I sort of leveled with Bruce in the stormwater interim and obviously we have some,
in the interim anyway, the people probably are going to be your stormwater people in the interim
until we sort of redevelop some of our things about that.
So Bruce had one that he recommended after I, you know,
I asked them to take a look into it here and this year or a lot more expensive,
like in the seven, like essentially that include, like,
I think at that level for our needs at present anyway,
obviously we want to do something that's for this,
we're always going to need probably a just a general stormwater camera
that we can just look at an SUV or something like that at a certain point another.
So Bruce,
Bruce and Lillian recommended going, getting something bigger would make it like stormwater interns
or whoever we have working on currently.
What I would like to do is get a bigger, more industrial camera on the capital improvement plan
for the highway department in this upcoming year
and have further conversation about going to need something that's strong,
something that is industrial at some point or another that can really
force its way through some of the more complex storm systems that we have
and you're going to need things like
like active...
That's it. Yeah, yeah.
That's going to be...
Recommendation follows.
This one specifically, you start at a catch base
and snake it upwards and see what's inside there, if you can
actually see any obvious solicit connections or stuff like that.
And it may make more... And I guess I'll use this as like an opportunity
to do like a general stormwater update too.
We finally got around to having our follow-up conversation
with our grant people and we basically used all the
grant that we originally got last year.
for mapping updates and data updates.
We've actually reduced the number of outfalls the town is legally obligated to from like 31
down to like 18, I believe.
The rest is either clearly owned by the state and they should be maintaining it and due on-up.
So it's a little complex.
So New Hampshire DES worked with me to...
Associated with the URPC is nice, but people who are very conversant
in the actual stormwater permit itself and then it can actually
want to advise.
I just want to go ahead.
So you're going to go ahead.
Which one of these cameras?
Bruce, going out in the field for this kind of stuff.
Of course, in the summer, we're going to be mapping the new stormwater area,
which is, extends down to a little past, it's not only one side of the river,
but it extends, extends down past, you test something.
You have to literally spend a couple hours every time before you go out, just like,
preparing to expire after a couple.
If you got an AMO company, we'd be happy to take it.
for any of the preliminary catchment investigations we actually start doing.
We will not be doing it without a lot of advance notice to you guys and then the community at large.
In fact, we're going to print out hangars if we eventually get to that this summer.
So we'd actually go up to people's doors and put a hanger on it saying,
hey, on this day, we're going to always a little bit of war.
Same with that.
Nobody was caving in of one of the catch faces down any of that.
When he went out and did that, he was informed by some other town personnel, some other town officials,
that place back in the day or there was there was a real environmental concern about that catch basin previously, which is why it's not really a real catch basin. It's just basically a...
Just sitting in blocks with a great scene on it. Where does it go?
Basically, I was advised that...
You're saying the catch basin doesn't actually go all the way?
I noticed I looked at the campaign, like even just the way it's set up right now, we're probably getting contamination from other sources rather than just to the gap.
If the way it is right now, you're already getting the pollution that you're getting otherwise.
getting otherwise. So if we're going to do something in that
2015. There should be documentation somewhere if we get over our phone.
Basically, this is just the recycling center people reaching out and saying they wanted to get their
blessing to have their typical Saturday that they typically work off that day.
Because it's the 4th of July.
And I don't see any harm with that in fact, but, you know, it seems like it's pretty humane.
I would assume that, I mean, it's a town holiday that crime.
I didn't have wanted to do for a long, but basically it's just a way to codify all existing regulations and structures.
and structures in town into a single document.
The only thing I'd say that I don't have a copy of it yet,
I'm going to email that to you guys in Gary.
It's just codifying structures and diffining,
because I think it's an underappreciated part that we get a lot of inquiries from the public
how things work within departments sometimes about how things work
as far as policies and procedures, and how, you know,
for example, Kermit, you were on the board when,
from like 2019 to like 2021, where a lot of the town's financial policies were put in place with
input from all the departments, essentially.
Those policies, I'm not going to say, have always been followed.
So I don't think it's...
Yes, so what I want, what the start of this would be, and there's also some
comfort of, true comfort of life things, which is basically do some employment tables
and organizational tables for the departments that basically say,
so, for example, the clerk's office is authorized,
to hire right off and unclear about how many people they're allowed to hire without
select board input. We're actually funding them, so we want to make sure that's all clarified,
and if that gets just another layer of changes at present is the purchasing policy, which
we think we just change up the levels and what to what you do it on. And also carving out
these special exceptions that you're okay with. Why is that? I'll send out copies.
It's like you guys are interested in getting a...
So, as I understand, Janus, they haven't
that there's some disagreement about how they should be
paying, you know, what they're obligated to pay under the existing, you know,
scheme of the town. I know our assessor has some issues.
We had some issues last year with last year's pilot program, and then he's
recommending that we deny it this year, essentially.
And the town have reviewed the assessor's letter, so it sounds like you
to get more legal input about the disposition of what essentially.
But I think that there was some, you know, a lot of the spaces around, is based around the fact that,
you know, there's just basically an average, a pilot program that was chosen based upon.
I remember what the exact number was last year, but basically there's, the assessors
ask assertions that you have to qualify for the pilot program currently.
And that's something with them, you probably have to review the pilot.
program in the future. So I know the clarifying questions that we'd probably be good to ask is
the nature of the private business that you guys house on site, which is the cafe.
Yeah, the 24-seat cafe. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, he'll talk cafe. Yeah. Okay. The question that Brendan had was, is it charitable, is it educational?
Basically, it's charitable educational, the richest of the intentions of the, the attention
we're going for. And the second part of the question is that a true pilot plan does go into
like the three years. You and I kind of talked about that, and it's based on a formula. It's not just an amount.
It's based on an actual formula of what the taxes would have been. It backed up the school and the county taxes, which still
made to be paid by the time in any ways. And then it's an amount that once the assessment is done, then, you know, you can, you're not in mind around how it
came cheap rather than just kind of, you know, you made a generous offer last time that the first
board accepted, but that's why it wasn't a true pilot because of that.
So because we, I started to interrupt you, because we made the offer of $8,000 instead of $5,000,
that made it not a true pilot?
Well, I don't think, I don't know if it would have been $5,000, but every year that amount would change
over the three-year period, and it is based on you would still be paying the county, you'd still be paying the school,
and then the other amount is going to be paying the school. And then the other amount is
based on a percentage of the DSS value.
Okay.
So, and I'm happy to, you know, go further in that.
But I think Nick's first question was, you know, charitable versus educational,
and we have the 24-seat cafe, which is kind of an anomaly, a bigger word.
Yeah, so the cafe is not necessarily associated with the Cadmus Corporation or the Temple Wilton Community Farm,
which are the two primary charitable.
and entities that are, that the Hilltop cafe is a private cafe.
Good ingredients and it's the culture of the general areas.
They're both.
Another question that was just the, you know, obviously it's charitable purposes involved with how, like, the participation with...
On-profit provides community education, adult education.
Your requirement does it have to be...
The charitable benefit, particular for...
Unfortunately, we are, after you guys approved, the variation on the structure,
reach out from the Kimball Physics folks, and I just gave them a summary of what was going on
and that we're still tentatively scheduled to be closed, you know, starting in August for, you know,
better part of two months at least.
More specifics, once we get a scheduled from...
I saw the email from Julie Abbott from the state saying she submitted the reimbled...
How that's all going to interact.
From Road Bridge, you know, it's going to be stuck in...
Permit. Street Bridge. I'm actually meeting with Joseph tomorrow to talk about some of the extra stuff we need to do for the...
Rob will get it to do. The dam was the more interesting concept.
Yes. How did that go? So, I think we lucked out. Pretty good.
Her back was there because she has some desires to get some grants to preserve some of the dams versus get rid of them.
She sent us a letter about... Some follow-up emails. I'm going to review this... I'm going to review tomorrow.
But basically, it sounds like...
the urgency is limited right now.
So last time the dam bureau had been out there, they were very stern with us,
basically saying that, hey, you need to follow the letter of deficiency that we did.
And basically, after he, Mr... basically, he...
The new reservoir dam has sort of been static for quite a while,
and there's been no real change, as far as we can tell.
They're okay with the town taking its time, so...
Okay.
Obviously, as long as we're...
Because that was sort of the ambiguity.
around what our last contractor did was saying, okay, what is the water level lowered to that level to do?
Perfect.
In his estimate, in the Dan Bureau's estimation is that, you know, we're not in danger of people.
And to be specific, this is a new reservoir, Sandro, he did send me some follow-up stuff.
I'm going to review any way.
His indication is that we are able to commission Gomez and Sullivan to basically investigate both options
instead of just being ordered to do one right away.
So I've asked Phil Mez and Sullivan to do kind of like a high-level analysis that's going to take several months,
and then afterwards that would be leading for itself.
I mean, he wasn't really interested, I'm going to say.
He wasn't planning on it, but yeah, it's a similar situation to that,
is that he's not particularly too concerned about it failing or anything like that,
but there's obviously stuff he doesn't like about it.
He didn't like the spill way, which is, that's the feedback group.
So I know Jennifer Beck still wants to try and go for an...
an LCWC grant for one or both of those dams at some point or another.
I thought it was specific just for...
Walked the entire building over.
He pointed out some...
So Dennis, for example, was very concerned about one of the windows that's facing the rear of the building.
There's some, this heavy, like, eating out of it, basically the wood.
Dennis had some concerns that was related to water something, somehow flowing through from the roof.
See Slate saw, he thought it was more like...
like a historic backslash issue, so water either spraying off from the roof, getting diverted
by something else, though.
He's going to do some conference.
He said that he did say that he was going to get to us sometime in the summer, so that's a good sign.
We also showed him the...
Since his opinion, proud, you know, he's going to actually take a physical look at things
to see what he can actually see and what that tells him.
But his thought was that, you know, that it's just getting hit in a certain way when it's really, really...
the worst thing that's going on, but obviously we just...
I can't imagine this slave loser.
A consultant, other departments have been talking about,
about to prevent snowfall,
and that includes the example.
Mr. Vachan, seemingly expensive,
so John is going to take a look at what happened
at Peterborough and what he could quote us, basically, and that
have no updates on the highway garage yet.
There's no as soon as they're... I'm going to give you guys an update
that I did hear back from,
I did get a call
anyway, from both Temple and Lionborough.
Linebroe asked for some meeting minutes.
That's really the Cyprey meeting that we had, you know, about the sent to sexual numbers,
and basically we split the bill according to what we booked.
That was capital appraisal associates out of Concord?
Yes, so...
Right.
We're waiting on that.
I could, if you guys want to...
Do the invoice?
...precipiting...
I have some disagreements with that, but I guess we'll just wait and see if they do.
Do you have anything on that while you're here?
If we hear more about that, we'll update you folks immediately.
Obviously, we want to...
if on the agenda is somehow cashing out
the other two towns, depending on the timeline for it,
so we'll keep you guys in full with that one.
Wilton Dumb.
So, we had some reach out from the Main Street Association related to the dummy.
They originally got this quote to actually repair the dummy.
2024.
Obviously, the dummy was basically an operable.
It was kind of like damaged physically, so they had to reconstruct it.
It ended up, since it took so it took so.
long, there was some extra costs involved. They ended up costing more than they were
expected, so they were inquiring if there was some ability to help them out with it.
It sounds like the number was 1,500 versus the 2,500 we were kind of like guessing.
Their original cost for it was quoted as 3,500, so.
It's obviously a... I think it's a reasonable. It's a relative news last week.
So I've been filling in a lot for the land use administrator office, helping
popping in, and especially these first set of meetings when they didn't have.
the staff. Our ZBA meeting went right past midnight, actually. The meeting
around Sarah's place. So scheduling this time around, we only had two people that were attending
the interviews a couple years ago, but then we've got, you know, up to four just for the first rounders
and some of who can't attend this week. Obviously, I think the select board would like to have
some input or know who's going to be hired, so my treated as any other inflect. I will say the
lane use office has not been busy at all. Honestly, a lot of it.
just put in a proper message about directing who would call for subject matters.
And, you know, some of the general inquiries sort of dry up.
I think it would be good if we get that office open up as quickly.
RPC is going every other, coming into the office every other Wednesday.
I was a little worried that it was not going to be enough, but it seems to be working out where if something does come here,
I'm sending it on up to be a meeting.
That's the got to be able to be able to, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it looks so far not going to, I think we'll be able to, um,
make a decision on him.
The Summerfest already.
Superfest, yeah.
I mean, I would say Silverfest except.