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It's small.
Quality of timber.
I mean, we can waste their own, but I don't make a motion to open the meeting for
June 16th.
I'll second it.
All in favor?
Hi.
Hi.
Go ahead.
It's small.
Quality.
Quality.
I put average location.
It'd be good.
And the other one, I put zero for size.
They just small, you know, only three and a half acres.
Works for me.
He was here when I walked in.
He's back in the area and wants to know.
They worked out perfectly last time, so I had, I had no problem.
He's up there.
He's paranoid or is this one?
He's going to start back.
He didn't realize that they were in the real.
He was because of the death and the family and everything.
So he came in and wants to make it right.
Okay.
I have no problem with you.
I have no problem because I know we worked within the last time.
I guess he's, he's coming back here, permanent.
He was looking, uh, looking for a couple of good weather.
Must be, aren't, no.
Yeah, you already saw Ronny?
Yeah, he wanted to.
Yeah, he was on the private apartment with a later here before.
Yeah.
I told him what kind of, what kind of vehicle he has now.
He was thinking of talking about getting back on.
The sticker or who's in charge of the guides lot now?
The guide's association.
Hey, I don't.
Hey.
How you've been?
The guy's association, somebody from Downblow is actually in charge of it now.
I don't know.
I wouldn't know the contact person, but I know they still pay their lease fee in the dollar a year or whatever it is.
Okay.
It's not the guy's association of old.
Well, yeah, I just stopped by there, and I was like, I see the sheds gone, but he used to keep down.
He stopped by, stop by Tall Timbers sometime.
Tom Carrens.
still involved with it. Is he?
One of the owners of Salt Timbers.
Somebody told me they haven't even done the show in years.
Oh, the guide show hasn't been done in 20 years.
I wonder if we could get it back again.
You'd have to talk to Tom Caron about that.
All right.
I stopped joining the Guides Association because everything just started happening down below.
Really?
The people who took it over just wanted the assets.
Yeah, well, I see they got a for sale sign across the street.
Well, with the parking lot and stuff, we used to do it.
Yeah, it's, uh, I'd talk to Tom Caron, because he had done more of the details than I would have.
All right.
Who the president is and any of the other elected offices.
Yeah, I'll have to stop and see him.
Not you bad.
Not too bad.
Busy.
Staying on top?
Trying.
Yeah.
I'm just, I'm just happy to be home again.
You're working up here now?
Yeah.
I moved back up, back working for Robinson again.
So, I'd be working on the house this summer.
So you're here permanent?
Yeah.
Yeah, finally.
I never wanted to leave, but I went down because of dad, and then he passed away, but I was still stuck down here because of my kid.
He's 18 and graduated now, and so I was able to come home.
Goof actually heard I was bad.
He'd come down to Robinson's looking for me.
No, no, they're looking for you.
Hard to find, who?
Yeah, I don't get around too much.
I'm always busy with my kids and everything else.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
How many kids you got now, though?
Two.
Two?
That's enough.
Yeah, that'll keep you busy.
I'll remember that.
Just uncliff it, but we just didn't want it to disappear.
I wonder why.
Yes, that's life suit.
Hi, how are you, Matt?
Good, is it okay, come in?
Yeah, come on in.
Nice to see you.
You as well.
Hi, I'm Matt Coder.
I'm all right.
This is what you done?
Come on.
Hey, Toby.
I'm all right?
Mr. O'clock, please you make it.
You guys want us to sign?
Do we sign in or something?
No, you don't want to sign it?
Yeah, because they have to, they have to verify it.
Things are good?
Yeah.
Just like a regular petition.
Mrs. Martin has been hoping she was,
be here the meeting that you came.
Yeah. Hi. I'm that for one.
Hi.
Hi. Ever source.
Yes. Good one.
All right.
It's about the double poles.
Yes. Yes.
We're going to get rid of those.
We are.
When?
Yep.
So I was going to talk about it
at the board, but
so we are getting ready to,
so in theory, I'll tell you how it's supposed to work.
Is somebody
drives into a pole or tree
comes down on the pole, we go out and we put a new poll, we put into a database that we've transferred our lines, and then the next communication line is supposed to come in.
They have 30 days to do it. And it's all on this database. And then after they do it, the next, they submit it, and the next one comes in, they transfer their stuff.
So I don't know how many communication lines you have here, three or four maybe.
It's going to the area.
Yeah, it depends on the area down in Berlin. There's five or six, so it can take a while. But in theory, they're supposed to have.
have 30 days to do it. We know that that doesn't happen. No, because how long?
Yeah. So we know we know it's that it's been that way. So we're doing a new process called single pole transfer.
So all the utilities kind of got together and chipping in to do this. My understanding is that's going to be in Pittsburgh here soon. So the double poles, like we generally
don't transfer communication lines onto our polls because it's not our equipment.
We don't like to touch equipment that doesn't belong to us. We'll do it in an emergency,
but generally we don't do it. We ask the communication companies to do it. It's an issue. It's a new
state initiative whether the legislator started it or the DOE started, but it's a new process. It seems
we're working well. Honorable Pittsburgh is one of the communities. That being said, you're going to have
more double pulls because next week we're starting the second extension. You know how we did the first extension? So that starts next week. So it's going to bring better service to the town, better reliability. So, but that's we're aware of it. And we'll, yeah. So I know what you mean. So in Cheryl can tell you, you know, before we did phase one of that project, I connected you with consolidated in advance and said, you know, you know,
this is where they're going. They're going to be done by August. Hey, they're going to be done in two months. Hey, they're going to be done in a month.
Now they're playing this game.
But it's, it's, uh, so does that answer your question?
Yes, it does.
That's 50.
That's 50.
Oh, you mom, almost.
You can sit right next door.
You can sit next to me, but you can't sit on me.
Oh, that's right.
Hey.
I guess I'm going to take this over here.
I got plenty of room.
Is I giving up one?
Oh, yes.
How are you?
I get out of mine.
Just pull my ear.
Oh, no.
I'll hit you with my chain.
Hey?
I got out earlier, so I figured I could come to a phone.
Yeah.
It's fun now, putting it back together.
Yeah.
Position for the, uh, the county home.
Oh, from me.
for.
Wayne Dorman brought that as not super five.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Now what's that to close the county or to keep it?
I don't know.
It's not a sign that, but.
Might need a homework.
Might need a home room.
Might need one single room people thing?
I get it in the mowed up now.
I see, you know, the errands in the area and not my.
Yeah.
Back on, good, right.
Sure, we have one level.
Absolutely.
They could do two one levels.
We were level at the bottom and still level it at the top.
Yeah.
We've got two levels, but only, you know what I'm saying, but you know what I'm saying, but you'd be driving in it both of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I don't know what they're going to do there.
Who knows?
Yeah.
The commission's spot.
Oh yeah?
Local.
So.
Thank you.
Great thing.
Yeah.
Great thing.
Yeah.
It's 50 years.
Yeah.
Call that's first.
I don't know.
I'm going to take them up in the floor.
I'm still at the handbook.
Yeah.
That's what I heard.
That ball instruction has been cutting down a road many times.
It's not good.
No?
Mm-hmm.
Love?
No.
No.
Do you do this very long time?
I said he is.
Don't we'd say.
You want to come?
Yeah, we can all stand for the French, please?
I pledge of the United States of America and to the Republic, to which it stands,
one nation, on your eye, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all around.
The doctor's appointment.
I make motion to approve of this.
All in favor?
Aye.
Well, I'll second.
All right.
Agenda adjustments?
Oh, tonight we're going to end the meeting at 445
because we get a non-public that we have to attend.
So wherever we are at 445, that's there we are.
That's the only adjustment.
The department reports, Ricky.
All things are going well.
We're getting caught up.
And just a couple of roads left to grade.
We've been doing some ditching.
We've got some more that we've got to do.
I'm going to start next week with some culverts in the back leg cross section that we're going to pay this summer.
So that you've got to spend the winter sand go out so we can get that done before
this after day road project.
When we're going to put the active paper.
Cheryl, I believe has a spot saved for this week.
Approximately the same as that we got last year.
Looks the same as we have the last year, so I don't have a problem with it.
You all said, if we have Cheryl's hit that spot.
Oh, yes.
Do you get anything else?
I've lost it.
Does anybody have any quick questions for Ricky?
Do you get any questions for Ricky?
Okay.
Okay.
Business as usual.
So, actually calls, it goes to our tournament.
Graduation went well this weekend and I know Ron has talked about John and the CASA.
He's met his goal.
He's actually the leader in his group.
So he will be going off the route with a GoPro so we can all look at it later in that.
I think we'll just wait and show it at town meeting.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Actually, if you sat screen, we got to have it.
We do have to have it.
So that is next week.
And I have some other information, but I'll work with Matlin.
We start speaking about polls.
Any questions are right?
No.
So are there preoccupied?
Transcrestations in the same predicament.
They're having problems with bacon, fridge?
You know that, right?
Yeah.
me down today and told me that they get problems.
Administrative?
I had a visitor yesterday.
Someone came in about the bacon boat launch.
They'd like they were requesting a new sign to be,
but they said if the town refused to pay,
if I could at least order it, then they would pay for a news sign.
I don't know what the rules are.
the rules are.
I thought that was a state boat watch.
I thought that was a state boat launch.
The town's on running the boatwashes, I don't believe.
That was a public one.
The one on Merrill Road is the town right away.
It was for boat launch.
I just thought I always thought all fishing name maintained all the boat launches.
I don't have a problem putting a sign up if we get the money for it.
Under parks and wreck we have, the parts and maintenance that I have almost a lot.
I have almost $1,000 in there.
Just the one sign there, right?
Right.
I would just order a sign for that.
Is that an old state sign or is that?
I can't even tell Diane.
I don't know.
That's why I was sending you a picture she wrote me.
If it's a space and we have the rest of the fish and game.
Right.
Yeah, it looks like it would take the vampire.
I would call fishing game and check the damn first.
Okay.
I'll do that.
They're also going to be specific on the decision sign.
If it's not their sign, I don't have a problem to get an sign,
but check in with them first.
Okay.
And I got a phone call about a Phidium event
that's going to be held Thursday at the Mountain View Grand Resort
where they're giving away awards.
They're celebrating the fact that Phidium is now complete.
complete the whole initiation the initial process is done. You should go and just
tell them, well, they haven't finished up moving on with the whites.
They're going to pay for one selectman to attend the dinner. I said it was kind of last minute
notice and I didn't know if anybody was available. This week?
It's Thursday night.
Yeah, this selectman is not even going for a free meal.
I don't know.
I don't know if I was wrong.
go, but I'm going to go.
I'll ask Ron.
Do you want to go?
You can't.
I'm not the one that's in a terror of this.
That's why it's mine.
You could be honorary select person.
I have plans.
Your terror is so busy.
I'm also put a letter in there about a payment arrangement for a
for a resident.
I wanted to say.
see if that was okay.
I don't need to plead his case.
No, we're familiar.
Okay, good.
So I am.
That was all I had.
Any questions to show?
You're here for the fire department?
I'm here for these guys.
Don't buy the pattern for these guys.
Just free to jump up.
What they were referring to is that there's a problem,
apparently one of the pumps is in failure.
for the store and that's what they're working on.
That's what I'm William and Dick on here tonight.
Okay.
scheduled speakers is the number of them other than Matt.
Fortweather?
Sure.
Sure.
So for those of no many, my name is Matt Fuller.
I've worked for Eversource.
I've been another source for about three years.
I'm in what they call community relations.
I'm the liaison between our company,
which has about 11,000 employees
between New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
and municipalities.
So my municipality.
area of coverage is Orpard to Pittsburgh.
I do everything from, you know, cars into poles,
to working with towns on questions about bills
or rebates on solar or heat pumps or those types of things.
Projects that are coming through town,
for example, the three-phase project that we talked about earlier.
Vegetation management.
So I'm joined by Nick Kinslow from our vegetation management unit.
Yeah, sure.
So I've been working for ever since.
Working for our resource for about three years now.
I've been the arborist for northern New Hampshire for about a year now.
So I cover basically everywhere north of Tilton right now.
We are doing most of our work this year in Pittsburgh and in Parksville.
So I'm here to answer any questions.
I know I've been working on a case-by-case basis whenever anybody calls in about vegetation management
management or just trees around lines, they got response.
So generally speaking, you know, I'd say 90, over 90% of our outages come from trees or branches.
So we try to identify those in advance.
We try to remove or resolve those trees or branches that we think can cause an outage
before it happens.
So Nick has been very proactive in identifying those areas using some of the
contractors such as Aspaulin or the tree service, Davey Tree Service, whatever
things would be in doing, you know, maintenance or vegetation clearing in advance.
So that when the wind blows or when there's ice, then we won't have an other.
So the best way to avoid an outage is to try to, you know, try to avoid it right from the beginning.
So, so Nick can speak briefly about the procedure that he follows, messaging that goes out.
So I don't want to steal a slender, but messaging
goes out to all the customers in advance, try to message this is what's going to happen.
Now that is different than when an actual storm, the clean-up responsible,
that's actually different than when a storm comes through and knocks down in a tree or a branch,
and our crew goes out and clears it to put the power back up so they can go to the next one.
So do you want to talk a little bit about kind of your scheduled maintenance in advance and that type of thing?
Sure.
So this is what's referred to as the 355 X10 circuit.
It covers all the way from Clarksville to the top of Pittsburgh, the edge of the resources range.
We started this year doing our scheduled maintenance trimming.
So I'm sure a lot of you received our mailer in the mail in the mail in January.
So we sent those out mid-December, about the second week in December.
Those are our 45-day notice cards.
So they let everybody know that we're going to be coming through in trimming.
At that time, if anybody has any questions about the trimming,
then they can call and our contractor will meet with them.
They did that all throughout January.
And we started doing the trimming probably the second week of January.
That was when the first cards were up.
Our 45-day notice was up.
They are still going.
As you can see, we had some trucks tried to do.
some trucks tried by just as I was walking into the building.
So right now we have about 20 crews around Pittsburgh finishing up.
So you may or may not have seen them today.
They are off-road crews and bucket crews.
So some of them we're doing are trimming on Route 3,
if you drove 5, way in here.
In addition to the maintenance trimming, we've done a
a good amount of tree removal, risk tree removal.
So what I do is I go out ahead of time
and mark high-risk trees for removal.
So whether dead decaying are otherwise defective.
So we need to get permission from each landowner
for this case. To remove any trees, we need permission.
I have our contract here.
Make contact with each landowner.
And he's been pretty good about, we've had two or three rounds of profiling done, as I call it.
So profiling A Street for risk trees.
Myself and a contractor from Aswell's did it.
Some areas received are intense trimming.
It's a new program that we started doing this year.
It's called resiliency tree work.
So it mimics the work that we're doing to transmission lines,
just on a smaller scale.
So 10-foot brown to sky, there is.
Within 10 feet of the lines from the grounds to the sky,
there should be just air.
So compatible species are left.
So anything that's not going to grow up into the lines
or over the lines can be left.
It's something like a crab apple can be left.
Up underneath the lines with no issues.
Any low growing brush can be left, no issues.
I try and have the guys keep that.
whenever possible.
They see it, they should be immediate.
Now, I know we've had questions about stubs being left over.
Other stubs are just stakes left over.
These are foot or two high stakes that are left over
after the mower or the ground crew has gone through
when there's no bank for otherwise high snow levels.
That's something that whenever I see it,
I send them back to go and remove.
I just,
one round at least of quality control over every inch of their trimming and I'd send them back if it's not up to our specs.
So leaving states like that is not up to our stuff.
So whenever I see it, I'd send them back.
So I may not have gotten to all of them, but if that's the case,
you know, I'll be handing on my card and you can let me know or you can call the customer service line
and go directly to the area.
So my role is to, again, be a lady
on between the town and our company. So I think I got an email from Cheryl about, hey, we had some issues.
Chief texted me, we have a relationship, he texted me some photos. I was able to send them to Nick.
This is the area, clearly unacceptable. Nick took it from his end and, you know,
the contractor is going to go out and run it yet.
So that type of communication, like we take it seriously and want to make sure that things are done correctly.
done correctly. So that's that's good. With respect to, you know, or I'll kind of
leave it to you, Nick, when an Assylin or a northern tree service, when they come out and they do that,
you know, preparatory work or preventative work, like this time of day where you have a blue sky,
whose responsibility is it to clean up the brush in the trees versus in the middle of February when an ice
storm comes through, or high wind swarm comes through, and there's trees that land in the lines, and our linemen clean it up.
So can you kind of talk a little bit about the difference between the two and the responsibility for brush clean up?
Sure. So any non-emergency work, so anything that's planned, whether it be trimming for new line placement, new pole placement, or just our scheduled maintenance, trimming, or tree removal, we clean up all brush.
So everything that can be run through the chipper,
to be run through the chipper. I did a few calls every year about when that doesn't happen.
And I also find when that doesn't happen. And I send them right back to take care of it.
This year, we ran into some issues where snow would cover up their brush panel before the end of the day.
And on springtime, I sent them back to go and remove it. Now, during emergency operations, so storm response, tree falls on the line.
in the middle of the night during the blizzard, that's not something that we go out and take care of.
It would be the same as if a tree fell in the backyard and not something that we're going to go out and clean that.
So the difference is, to your point, a blizzard in February, our linemen, their goal is to make it safe and get the power back on.
The line, that 355 line is what they call a radial line. There's no redundancy. We can't back feed.
So if that gets severed down here, everyone on the other end is out.
So it's one line that goes up.
There's no other way.
You get down to southern New Hampshire, you can back feed from this direction,
you can back feed from this direction, and that type of thing.
So this line is a radio line.
So our goal is to get the lights back home.
And that's why, that's one of the things.
Our goal is to avoid the outage if we can with the work that Nick's doing.
And if we do have an outage, get the light.
back as soon as we can.
Yes.
Reference to what they're talking about with those little polls, the states, what I want to call
them.
If I'm been doing it already, John's been told he needs to do it.
If we see some, we get a poll number that's right there in the vicinity and get a list and
we'll get it to Matt.
If you can, maybe the road guys, road agent, if you guys can ask him to do the same thing,
and we'll just compile a list, not just willy-nilly send it to Matt, so you can't just,
send it to Matt, so he's at 10 of the same polls.
But he's like, you can give me a poll because everything moves on a pole.
You know, they know exactly the poll is.
You can send it to me as well.
Okay.
You can send it right to my email, and that'd probably be faster.
We don't expect a miracle, but some places are what previously spoke of.
When I've been finding it, I've been sending them back.
I appreciate that.
one of the problems of trimming in three feet is now.
It was older.
So the poles have unique markings on them.
So a poll, you know, one, two, three, four, dash seven in Pittsburgh is going to be unique.
There's only one of those in Pittsburgh.
So to the chief's point, if you can give us a picture of that unique poll,
and, you know, we have a, you have a situation, you know,
300 yards to the south and 300 yards to the north,
but this is the central location.
That's unique, and I can give back to our operations,
I can give it to our bench management guys,
and that can direct them to that location.
You know, if I were to get a description of...
Okay, I'll cater it back.
Okay, thanks, bye.
If I were to get a description of,
we have a tree on the line on Route 3 and 15th, I'm not.
I'm not, I don't have that narrow focus, right?
So just like a, you know, a plate number on a car, it's very specific.
So, you know, my direction to the chief is if you get us a poll number,
and it's very specific, and it'll zero our crews in to that location.
So with respect to, since we're talking about polls and we're talking about averages,
we are doing that extension project.
So I think we started it two years ago.
That was phase one where we went with a taller pole.
a bundled cable. The benefits of that, the poles are a little taller.
You know, and that was above some of those tree heights. So if a tree would fall,
it would miss the line, which would reduce the outage, the possibility of an outage. And that's what we're trying to avoid is those outages, especially in this community.
And that bundled cable sometimes referred to as Hendricks.
It will allow for a tree to land on it, touch it, and not have an image.
That bundled cable can actually sometimes be on the ground and still be energized.
You're still having the power.
So it's extremely unsafe to touch any type of tree that's on that's on that bundled wire,
regardless of whether you know it's bundled or not, our recommendations, do not touch it.
Do not touch any tree or any branch that's touching.
an energized line or a company utility line, regardless of whether or not, if you know what's bundled or not.
So call on our customer service line dispatch, Colbrook dispatch has different emergency lines.
It involves, you know, so we go through an emergency preparedness training.
We've given some at the fire department. And so there's all kinds of different lines to direct customers to certain areas of our specialty.
But what I'm getting at,
with that extension phase two is that project is to try to reduce outages and, you know, less than the lights going out of up here.
That phase two is going to start, I'm told, amid the mid of next week.
You know, and I think our messaging when we first sent it out a couple of years ago was going to be a two-phase project.
First one was going to be in 24.
The second phase is going to be in 26.
And it'll look very similar to that phase.
phase one project.
Little taller poles, bundled cable,
it'll be more condensed.
And it'll
can you cut the other ones after that?
So with respect to that, I know
double poles are an issue.
Everyone knows what I mean by a double pole.
So, and I spoke to that here
before we started about
what we consider a double pole.
You know, there's complaints about it.
For those that
here we generally
only touch our equipment
which is at the Barry Taught.
We don't touch those communication lines
because they don't belong to this.
It's their equipment. So we generally don't touch it
unless it's an exigency type item.
Are they your poles or the
public poles?
So the poles that have the
electric on it are ours.
The poles that only have
the communication lines are not ours.
But what about the ones that you
switched over are up like to, you know,
If they have, yeah, so if they have a, yeah, to your point, that double pole would be ours.
So the procedure would be, we transfer our lines, our electric lines to new pole.
We put it into a database notifying the communication companies we've transferred ours.
And then they get a message and they're supposed to go through and they're supposed to transfer theirs within so many days to our poles.
And then they, that communication company sends a message and the next communication line comes through.
So we know that that that process is not,
working. There's a recent initiative, and don't quote me, I want to say, it's
similar point, single pole transfer, something to that effect, where we're having contractors
come in and they're going to do that. And Pittsburgh is one of those communities that we're going
to do. Yeah, I do. What are the big battery packs coming north? Yeah, I'm in five,
with a flight of balance, right? Yeah. What's the deal there? I mean, hearing room is everywhere.
Right. I guess ask you guys and we'll know.
Yeah, yeah, sure. So probably two weeks ago was the night of the North Country Chamber of dinner out at the Omaha Falls.
So we had some engineers, some of our engineers, distribution engineers, they came up for the event.
We did a presentation at Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital where we had, you know, lawn was there.
We had Clarksville select board members, Stewartstown, Colbrook Town manager, elected officials in the area, business leaders.
And the whole point was to talk.
about our distribution projects in the area. We had our engineers and our operations
personnel talk about the distribution project here in Pittsburgh. We put it on a map. We
discussed why we're doing it, the benefits to the community, lesser outages, you
know, better, better response time. So we talked about that and after that meeting,
one of our distribution engineers spoke with Braun about would there be an appetite, would
there'd be an interest in possibly having a battery facility in Pittsburgh, you know, to God
forbid, if there was an outage, again, I talked about the radial line, if for some reason
that were to get severed or hurricane or whatever the case would be, would there be an appetite
to have a battery storage here in this community to power this community until we could come up and get a
fix? So that was an initial conversation. I didn't necessarily hear it. I know that our
engineer spoke and wrong about it. Understand that there's a tremendous
amount of planning and work that needs to be done. So just because that
conversation happened doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen. So it's
more or less, you know, is this something that, you know, you guys would be
interested in as a benefit to the community of being able to keep the power on?
There's a tremendous amount of planning that needs to go into that.
So this isn't, this hasn't all planning and everything hasn't
absolutely no no okay there are people on the street talking like this thing's
going to happen that this is happening at first like damn and so it's in its
infancy our engineers have to you know do it you have to study more make sure
of be an appropriate fit we have to check with different leadership levels the
cost you know who would absorb that cost is it us and would be are you know are there
different you know avenues there to so there's a tremendous amount of planning
that would happen before this is done and that would involve our engineers
coming up our personnel coming up speaking to the select board speaking to
town officials and getting a flavor for you know your input would be solicited
as not only community member but also as a representative from the fire
department so so we will not you you will not see a battery pack next week or
anything like that there will be messaging to the town there will be meetings we
will talk with you about this we will be
will discuss all those safety mechanisms you know what it would look like um that
it's just that i've been smooth on some of those and just they're pretty scary unit
yeah so they had very beneficial but right placement for those would be key so if you're interested
you can google uh ever source battery storage down in provincetown um we did one that was it was a
quite successful uh project where they put one out in in province town if you're familiar
the cape again it's a radio line yeah um right at the end and if that got severed those communities
would be would be impacted right so so they put one down in in provincetown um and it was it's a
you know first of its first of its kind um and i think they're trying to see you know would that be
appropriate to put in other communities maybe not at that size but it would be appropriate
to put in other communities um Pittsburgh was identified as possibly one of those communities because it's at the
of the radio line we can't come down from can't come from can't come from maine you know what
i mean so it's it has similar characteristics um but people with an engineering degree much much higher
than me you know they'll continue to review it but rest of short we will we will have better focused
conversations with your board and you know emd fire chief police to make sure that that is something
that everyone understands okay where is the last when does it become just a
an area that's not back fed where you cannot back feed it growth in lancaster area
um i'm not going to speculate just because i oh you know yeah i personally don't know um i know
from conversations with our engineers and operations they've talked about it being a
a radio line but um i'm just wondering how far south it went before it was able to be back fed
in any direction i can't okay i can't give you that because i don't yeah
flex so out of a run 49 there's a possibility but not not really not really not really feasible
so the 355 is fed out of largeville uh or scourstown actually westernstown uh in order to back
that you would have to be going all the way through Colbrook right now that's not not in the
foreseeable future yeah I'm just curious here chief you you made a moment
province town facility was 49 million dollars yeah so very very expensive right but you know
every source has some of the best engineers and you know around and so we look at you know you know
new technology and what we can do to provide better customer service and like i said you
know i don't know the size of that related to the one that would possibly be up here
but it is technology that they're looking at you know i've said it multiple times tonight
we're trying to reduce averages and got the bit if we have one trying to make it as small as possible
so it's new technology that you know certainly you know might be appropriate in this situation
more to come you know more to come and uh we're keeping close so this is a two to 10 here
plan down the road i don't know this is not something that's going to happen this is i don't know where
you where you got that no no no i'm just saying this isn't something that's going to happen overnight yeah
so to your point it won't happen overnight um you know i can't emphasize enough uh there will be
communication specific to that there will be conversations with the board there'll be conversations with
the emergency personnel i'm not going to speculate on when this might occur when it might
not occur i'll just say that there'll be you know most of my messaging would probably go through
shiro hey we want to talk more about this can we schedule can we schedule a meeting can we come
out and talk about it um and so it's it's and like i said earlier it's nothing that you're
going to wake up and see ring and be surprised um that would not have any question the only other other thing
comment is safety we take community public safety extremely important um i've said it multiple
times tonight do not touch any type of energized line or or downline or anything like that
we give chief do you remember are you the assistant excuse me do you remember when we came up
and the fires and wires yes okay so um so we gave a class to first responders um on the dangers
of the dangers of electrical safety rate at pittsford fire that's a good course yeah your your
ago and it's it's come to my understanding i didn't see it i don't know all the specifics
there may there there was a tree on a line that fed a house um to here in pittsburg
the resident called our customer care center um and there was confusion on on our end about
the messaging that was delivered it's my understanding that that customer cut the tree and that because
they received not good information so um i want to clarify that and nick actually has a handout
that he's going to lead behind if you can share that on your local facebook at least that um if anyone ever sees
a tree on a line that feeds a house or go on up a driveway or anything like that there's a number
that they can call um to report it um you know if it's on fire that elevates the thing and a call to 911 would be
appropriate um so we can get you know expedited um but uh we do not encourage and we do not recognize
you know a property owner or land owner cutting any trees that are touching any type of
utility so if we leave that behind with you Cheryl you could maybe skin it up to skin it in and
that would be that would be great thank you um and you know not i don't want to make it too confusing but that
course we talked about fps 1 2 and 3 that's a mechanism that we train dispatch senators
talked about in hansher whether it's pittsburgh or berlin or troupef or grafting county
fps1 is a fire police standby one where a house is on fire there's a car in will pull
in the lines are on the lines are on the car where the house is on fire there's someone in the house
that would generate an immediate response
our closest line crew to de-energize de-energize that line and fps2 would be a number
would be a separate line again all those dispatch centers have that information and that would be
a route three is blocked with wires down and traffic can not go traffic can not go around
and that PS3 would be a tree down with wires down blocking the road but
people can get around it so there's different you know classifications
that we have again we train first responders in this we train dispatchers in
this so when those calls come in the right terminology and clarifications are being
used you said you know cards yep so your airlines can walk 145 and go
north you guys don't have anything it goes down this way right
I didn't think so a little bit but it does not go all the way down so our our line goes down
145 and then hooks are right at Whizwall Road yeah I mean you come off this pad at 145
you go down in three right a little bit it stops it stops it goes down to
Steve Morrow's house okay Steve Lloyd's house was this the last one on New Hampshire
Electric okay there's nothing and then when you get down to
clats fell that's kind of a confusing mess right there and at bishop brook because the
bishop brook all the friend from flat all those houses are on ever source but roger's
drag or behind him is on new hampton electric there's a there's a there's a that's a that's a there's a
little buildings that you can see each other and i have two different services two different
outfits that are welcome to another yeah yeah and thank you for your opportunity to come in and
kind of talk about this like I said part of part of my job is that proactive
messaging I don't know if you had a chance to talk to Ron about you know his
impression of presentation and we gave at the hospital it was a couple hours we
talked about the project here we talked about one in Clarksville we talked
about a solar project in Stratford right along in 355 we talked about some
other Jefferson one in Bethlehem so these different projects one of me Street in Colbrook
you know it's not as simple sometimes we have certain constraints whether it's
easements we have to go underground or different you know so so you know if we can come
in if there's ever any questions please reach out to Cheryl and I can you know I'm
glad to come in or I can bring in the correct representatives to answer your
questions so that way that way you know the only question I heard is on the polls to
night and then all the other small poles that went from when they cut in the wintertime and
of course one five feet tall it just don't look pleasant but you answered those questions
and you know okay thank you thank you good good out if you all right
all right if you just want to give your cards to Cheryl that's that's sufficient for us
all right hope that we'll have a mod cloud have a good night you too good seeing you're good seeing you we're talking
Yeah.
Okay, thank you.
Good to meet you.
Yes, thank you.
There's action items.
Old business.
Thank you.
Last week we mentioned about making
offering Diane
a liaison slide and offering out over to the snowmobile
club also.
There's no state mandate on it, but it's important
the ATV club and the snowmobile club
is a major economic driver.
on a driver for our community.
And it is the only economic driver we have.
Having her heavy seat at the table rather than just being the guest is that she's able to talk about trail maintenance,
trail conditioning, community engagement, activities, landowner disputes, etc.
This came evident a couple weeks ago when we had the
issue where Cheryl received the call before we even address it.
Diane had already been contacted about it, unknown so it had already put action in place.
So I'm again making the suggestion and I'm going to make the motion that
Diane be allowed to be a liaison and again will extend the same courtesy to the snowmobile club.
I'm not in favor of that.
I waited until next week.
next week so we can all talk about it. But personally, I'm not in favor of it.
I feel that the town elected the three Sarkland to run the town and if the question comes up,
we can direct them to reach out to whatever club they need to reach out to.
That's just my opinion.
The last week we were going to say in regards to that complaint that's a private road
and that we're not doing it.
And Diane and our group had already taken action and help to solve the problem
which they didn't have to.
She has no voting rights or anything like that.
It's a liaison to us.
It's a direct here, it's a direct place at the table with us.
She's not controlling us.
She's giving us information.
And being an economic driver of the community,
I think it's very important.
We're here to conduct business.
And this is business at hand in the town.
We should have a representative here.
No.
representative is a welcome to come to any meeting they want.
That's fine.
If you don't want to, I'll bring it back up again then when the board is here next week.
We're going to back up again next week.
I'm sorry, Diane.
Any other business?
New business?
I don't have any.
Anybody else?
I do.
It won't take just second.
Should it go in trouble?
Hmm?
Should it that go?
under public input?
Oh, yeah, you should spoke up under public input.
You get three minutes.
I'm in here in regards to the French sedentary.
All right, just a little background.
Benjamin French was born in 1823 in the Indian Stream Republic
to Jonathan French.
Betsy French was born in 1829
to John Langdon Haynes and Laura Appleby
in the Indian Stream Republic.
Betsy French, while together they had 13 children,
two of them are buried in the French homestead behind the cabin,
now owned by the Kaplan family.
Betsy French died in 1906 and is buried in the French Family Cemetery,
and Benjamin French died in 1892,
and is also buried in the French cemetery along with some of their friends, family.
And I've been told that we can't maintain it.
The grass is as high as this table.
Horrible.
No respect.
You've been told to stay out of it.
Is it a town cemetery?
It's on.
No, it's not.
Just a minute.
Why don't you ask somebody to know his history of this town?
I went and stopped...
First of all, I really think you need to calm down.
Well, tell me that it isn't.
I'm going to tell you anything.
I'm just saying you're going to speak like normal people.
Well, I went and stop.
I went and stopped to Louis.
Talk to Louis.
It's on his.
He said he's taken care of it.
None always took care of it.
I asked him, he said he wanted to take care of it,
but he was told to stay out of it.
It's on his land.
Why can't he maintain it if he wants to?
If we don't have any more respect
for the people who settled this town
and developed it in the industry with public.
I don't know who told the owner of the property they couldn't maintain,
but weren't me.
Wow.
His side was also told to stay out of it.
As a representative of the town, he is supposed to stay out of it.
RSA 289, that pertains to private cemeteries.
It's not private.
It's not a municipal cemetery.
You show me where it's a municipal cemetery.
It's been since 1,800.
It's been since 1,800.
will be the documentation. We don't have any documentation on it.
Has the town maintained it forever?
No. Yes.
Doug always voted.
I thought that had been maintained at the time of the past multiple years.
We had been when I was growing up, but since I've been here.
How long has Doug been done?
Two years?
One on three.
Three.
Well, what he's maintained it.
What he's done.
his own, he's done on his own.
I'm sure the town re-inversity, or pay him.
It's not a municipal cemetery.
You're walking into a legal nightmare.
There's certain ways to do it, Robert, and do it correctly.
Then let's do it.
Then look up the RSA and come back to me and talk to them.
I don't have time.
Okay.
I'm trying to get the fifth cemetery taking care of.
I have to have my own family's stones clean
and plus some others.
The town should be done.
The town should be taken care of that, the amount of money that's raised for the cemeteries.
We're going to go to our non-public schedule meetings.
Reach out to the sexton and have him work up the tariff's safe.
I can't find you.
He's gone most fine.
I'm going to answer it.
Just find his phone to leave a message.
Are you guys going to let the town know about the discussions?
As soon as we get all the information, the representative for the town,
just totally.
that we get in using, he didn't have time to get into all of it.
But as soon as we speak to him, it'll be in public anyway,
but it's probably next group will be the best.
Okay, great, good, great.
Make a motion to go into non-public for a legal matter.
All second.
Parliament, favor.
Aye.
Aye.
I'll take the motion to go back into public.
Make that motion.
All right.
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Special announcements.
We'll be back.
Next.
week, same time. I hope to see everybody here and have a safe week and happy weekend too.
Make a motion to adjourn.
I'll second it. All in favor?
All in favor?