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Any questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
None.
Motion carries.
Again, two pages to sign with that.
Next, we have a sewer abatement.
I need to bring my attorney.
All right, I'll turn it over for you to you.
I know about it, but I don't want to mess any wording up, so I'll let you guys discuss it.
All right.
What we are proposing to do is currently we have...
have Glock 17 and Glock 19, Generation 4 pistols that are, say, 15 plus years old.
They're showing somewhere, which is one of the factors.
They are no longer in production due to some issues Glock's had.
You can basically pull the back off of Glock and make a machine gun.
So Glock got a lot of feedback, so they've re-enert.
or re-tooled the newest level block, so you supposedly can't do that.
So they're probably going to be phasing out the support for those guns.
Because a lot of states are also banning those generation guns, we're at a point where
probably the trade-in value is probably going to be close to the highest we could get for them.
The other reason we're looking to replace the...
guns are pretty much everyone else is using an integrated optic, like a glass plate
with a heads-up light on, I guess that's projected onto the glass.
Majority of police departments in New Hampshire have gone to that.
When we sent somebody to the academy, I think the license said there were like five or six
departments that did not have that.
Majority of the departments in Cheshire County either have them or
planning on going to them.
We have the cost probably out of budget is probably about $4,000 with the buyback and using the money
out of our firearms licensing account.
We get $10.
Everyone comes in and gets a resident pistol permit.
One of my other concerns is because these optics are becoming
best practice, pretty much everyone's using them.
So if, God forbid, we were involved in a shooting, and we didn't have those and something went
wrong, like an officer missed and hit somebody else, like a bystander or something that might
be a liability issue.
It's probably conceivable within a couple years.
The academy is going to actually require those firearms from what we've heard from, the
firearms instructors.
There's no time that they're planning on.
and do us, but they've been discussing it.
So we looked at it last year, and then the cruiser died, so we kind of backed off on that.
We have money in the equipment line to make the purchase.
We also have, how much are in the...
Well, can I see that, Chief, then?
How many offices you got now?
So you're asking for trial, right?
Yes.
So, I mean, our authorized strength is
eight full-time officers, two-part time.
You should always have at least one or more spares in case one goes down or an officer is involved
in a shooting.
That gun is seized for a significant amount of time.
So we want to have extras on hand.
Currently, we have 13.
What we're looking to buy is a Glock 45 MOS.
It's a combination of a Glock 19 and Glock 19.
17. It has the shorter barrel and slide of a Glock 19, but the lower workings of the Glock
17, which gives you 17 rounds of ammunition, as opposed to the 15 that's in the Glock 19.
Go ahead.
Sorry. No, I just want to go over the finance part, but if you have more questions about the gun.
The only question I had. You said the barrel was shorter.
It's, so we have, so we have now is Glock 19s and Glock 17th. So it's an in.
I think between the two guns.
So at the distances, an officer would most likely be involved in.
It's not a huge factor.
I'm only, where I was going on with my question is,
will any of the implements that you currently have,
the holsters or whatever, still be used,
or do you have to replace those also?
Because of the lights and the optics we would need to need.
holsters. We actually owned, we bought the holsters last year, so we actually own the holsters
for this gun. So they're new one. For the new ones.
Oh, okay. That was it.
All right.
That was one of my questions.
Yeah. The lights are transferable. We have on our current guns. The magazines we actually
have for the Glock 17s will use work on these guns.
Go ahead, Amy, with the finance part of it.
Okay. So correct me if I'm wrong about.
So he's perfect.
purchasing 12 guns at 807 apiece, the price is going to be 9,684. They're going to buy back
13 guns at $265 apiece, so the buyback price will be $3,450 or $45. So that leaves the total of
of $6,239. In three of his funds, the pistol fund, the DARE fund, and the drug fund,
he has a total of $2,259 and $18.
The Pistol Fund, I'd like to stay to keep open, but the DARE Fund and the drug fund, I would like the board's consideration to close those accounts because they have not been used in about 20 years.
They only have, the DARE fund has $165 and $40 in it, and the drug fund has, the Drug Forfeiture Fund, has $322.98.
We've been carrying it right along. The auditors have asked for years now for us to, like, do something with it.
because it hasn't been used, and it's just sitting there.
So if you guys approve this, I would like the permission to close those two accounts.
Leave the Pistol Fund open, obviously, but close those two.
So bottom line, at the end of it, he'd need $3,979.82 to purchase the 12 units.
What are you going to take that money from? What line is that?
So it can come out of his budget, because, like I said, I'm putting money back.
in, so that's going to up his bottom line budget.
So it will overdraw his supplies and expense line, but bottom line, he will be fine.
And where you would, you take it out of, like, the outside, outside, X-30 fun, or?
Equipment.
Equipment.
Equipment.
Sorry.
$2,000 out of the equipment.
I'll make a motion to approve it.
And does that motion include closing those two accounts after they're empties?
I second it.
These are going to be good for another 15, right?
Yeah.
That doesn't sound like a bad deal.
No.
Any other questions or comments?
The current ammunition that you have for the current firearms?
Yes, though.
It's 9mm, so the, like, performance ammunition we use for duty ammo, and the practice ammo will work with that.
It will not be a problem.
What are you going to do with that ammo?
It's not going to fit in your new firearm.
They're both 9-millimeter.
Oh, I thought you said it was at 45.
It's a Glock 45, but it's actually 9-0.
It's rather confusing.
I'm got it.
First time I heard it got me.
Okay.
Now you can't request.
Any other questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Hi.
Oppose, none.
Motion carries.
Oh.
I didn't put a sticky on there.
I was just one signature.
Yep.
So I'm on the hook.
that one.
You don't care.
You got it.
Yeah.
All right.
That is everything in the folder.
I don't have any landfill updates
tonight.
The only thing, I do
want to make sure everybody, I know
we've got flyers up everywhere, and
it's on the radio, and
anybody that's driving around
has probably seen all the traffic, but
tomorrow the carnival
starts, the Fire Association
carnival.
Anybody that hasn't
seen it yet, it's
pretty massive, and
pretty impressive to fit in that community center field.
I did fly over a little while ago with my drone,
and I'm going to go back out after this meeting and get it lit up
and get some pictures on Facebook tonight of it all lit up.
But it should be a great weekend, a great event.
Hopefully, we've had nothing but positive feedback on it,
and hopefully we see a lot of people there this weekend to have fun,
and I'm probably going to gain 30 pounds over the weekend from all the fair food.
but that's part of course.
All right, that's all I have.
Anybody else have anything?
I attended the ribbon cutting last week on Opportunity Drive,
I missed it, which was very nice.
The road is very, very well done.
They're going to keep it blocked off until they need to get down in there
to start doing any of the project.
But Mike Pekarski from Pekarski's sausage was there,
and he is meeting with engineers
and starting to get things rolling.
So hopefully maybe in the fall, something will be going in there with that.
And the other company, which does something with wood products.
They don't actually mill wood out there.
It's like repackaging and stuff.
They're supposed to start probably early next year.
No, that'll be good.
I was actually going to reach out to try to reach out to Jessica or Lindsay, one or both.
I drive down through there like every once a week, once every couple weeks just to look and see what's changed.
And I was out there today, and I noticed that because of where they have the blocks blocking the new road dock and being a brand-new asphalt,
like people are driving up to the blocks and turning around to leave,
and they are starting to dig the new asphalt up a little bit from turning around right there
and doing a 10-point turn in the middle of the road.
And there's a bunch of dirt and rocks kicked up on that new asphalt.
And it's starting to – people are driving over those when they drive down in there.
I think the blocks are that far down so Jason can get into the trailer shop because his driveway is right there.
Right.
So I think that's why they moved them down there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, people are turning around down there and starting to tear it up a little bit.
I mean, they haven't damaged it bad yet, but I happen to notice it today, so I might still just reach out to them and share my concern.
I do have one.
I wanted to think Todd and his company, the Mustfield Park got mold and it looks great.
Carrie, could we reach out to the Lions Club and maybe get one of the rubbish cans moved out there?
Because I did notice there were some cans just thrown on the ground out there.
Now that it's mold and it looks good, maybe people will start using it.
Yeah, yeah, I drove by earlier, too, and I know to check it.
it out. Yeah. It does look nice. I wonder if we could get somebody to donate some picnic tables
out there. Wasn't the picnic table was in pretty rough shape last year when we were out there?
Yeah, I don't even think. I think the only picnic tables that are left there right now are the ones in the
gazebo, aren't they? Yeah. I mean, it might be worth the, yeah, can next conservation meeting just
see if they've had any discussions about that.
I remember years ago we talked about picnic tables, but that was, I'm talking.
13 years ago, so I don't know what's happened or not happened since.
We had discussed picnic tables putting a new one up to the piece on Forest Ave that goes down to the lake,
and then another one at the wolf property off Ash Willis Street.
So I don't know where any of that stands, but.
I wonder if you guys can bring it up.
Yeah, maybe Jack can the next meeting bring it up and ask.
It's looking good. Might as well.
Might as well. Put some nice looking stuff out there, make it more attractive.
and appealing the people to use and utilize.
I like the ones we got up to the lake on the beach, the metal ones.
They don't lug those off.
Yeah.
Those are nice.
Anything else from anybody on the board?
Carrie, you got anything else for us for us?
Just a quick reminder, the school is doing their community cleanup day on Friday.
So Sarah Fasette has, I believe she said, like 92 kids coming to do different projects.
They're going to be walking some of the roads doing roadside cleanup.
I know that they're going to be over in the gazebo park doing a huge clean out there.
I've got a group of them we're going to be walking through the community center cleaning up any debris and trash and litter around everything there.
Yep, so that'll be Friday.
So they'll be out and about for a couple hours doing some cleanup.
So thank you to the school for allowing the kids to come up and help out.
I think it's a great little program.
Yeah, doing it for a couple of years now.
Yeah.
On that note, just for the people watching at home,
home, anybody watching, whatever, because there's going to be adults walking around with students from the school doing different tasks.
Everybody, especially Friday, please pay attention on the road when you're driving, slow down.
I really don't want to see any, I hate seeing people speeding all the time anyway, but I don't want to see them hit a kid.
All right, go ahead, Kerry.
That's all I got.
Oh, okay.
And those signs, I wanted to say those signs for the, because my kids on one of the signs, they'll look fantastic on Main Street.
So we should thank the people, because I drove five when they were putting it up,
and I couldn't see who they were that helped, that put those signs, those Keene High School graduates, flags look fantastic.
Yeah, the school board at the last minute, finally pulled that together and buried their,
grounds and maintenance.
I don't remember what this actual title is.
I couldn't see.
I had to watch the road.
They were out there with a lap.
He was out there putting them out by himself,
and I felt kind of guilty just driving by him,
so I ended up turning around,
and I helped him for a few hours.
There was two or three of them helping, but I didn't know what was very.
But they do, they do look good.
Jason Kerber was out there on most of the day Sunday.
Yeah, take the own ones down.
Yeah, we had to take a few of the old ones down.
He took down all of them that were torn.
really bad.
Yeah. They needed replacing.
And we took down the ones that were still good that they left up, and we're going to.
Barry took a picture of the flag on the specific pole so that next week when he takes
the school ones down or whenever it happens, he can put the same flag back up at the same
pole.
That way, whoever owns those flags, they'll still be in the same spot in the same location.
They won't have to hunt for them.
Well, think Barry and his people.
Thank you. Monica, did you have anything?
I do not, thank you.
Okay. Okay, we've got a lot of department heads here.
Amy, you got anything else for us?
Chief, you got anything for us?
I just wanted to recognize the hard work of all my officers.
In case you weren't aware, we had a shooting incident up in the Elm Street Cooperative
overnight from Saturday to Sunday night.
Quickly became an all-hands-on-deck event.
Some of these people, officers were here for 16 hours.
We were able to.
take a suspect into custody and seize a firearm late Sunday night.
All my officers put in a ton of work.
We got a lot of assistance from the state police, the sheriff's department,
Hinsdale, and some federal agencies.
No, good work.
Continuing to investigate and develop evidence.
I think that's all I haven't.
Yeah, no, definitely very good work by everybody involved.
Dan, you got anything for us?
So we've got the Delmore here.
They're doing all the catch bases.
Those are getting done there, average in about 40 a day.
So that's going really good.
Out here in front of the town hall, last week we pulled up the sidewalk.
They had a, wait, 2-inch gap between the river sidewalk and what the state was going to fix.
So we pulled that out, had to put gravel in,
because when we pulled that up, it was underneath ours,
and it ripped it all up, so there's dirt there.
But the state's aware of it, and they're going to get out as soon as they can.
No, it looks great.
I came out and checked it out after it dried and came out really nice.
Were you guys able to get the school catch basins?
Yep, we did all those.
We got one.
I guess we got to go with a backo, the outlet pipe or something is clogged,
so when we get five minutes, we'll go there and open that up.
All right, good.
I'm glad those got done.
All right, perfect.
Yeah, thank you, Dan.
And thank you, Dan.
And thank you, guys, for all right.
their hard work, too.
Who else will we get over here?
Kathy, you get anything for us?
Rick, you got anything for us?
While Rick's walking up, I do want to, on behalf of the Fire Association,
I do want to thank Rick and his guys, so the hydrant that were, that we hooked to for water
for the carnival, they came out and flushed it ahead of time, tested the meter on it,
everything worked fine.
We hooked the hose to it to actually use it, and couldn't hardly.
get any water out of it. Rick came out that night, found the problem.
The next morning, him and his guys rebuilt the hydrant and got everything working, so
we still didn't miss a single second of giving the carnival the water they needed.
So good work by them, and thank you to you and your guys.
Thank you, Ben.
All right, go ahead.
Okay, so I got a bunch of updates for you.
The first one, I'll update you on the water, the booster station upgrades.
Basically, all the tie-ins, there's been four tie-ins.
plan from Elm Street.
Order to have Clark and Chesterfield Road has been done.
Oh, Westport Road.
That'll be a direct tie-in, so that'll be the last thing that's done.
So those were all done yesterday.
So today they've started the water main replacement on Elm Street,
and for the next few days,
they'll be traveling right straight through Ochesterfield Road to that,
to the tap and sleeve that was done there.
So the public knows, be careful, go slow.
I just went over that trench, just a little solve.
So there's plenty of room to navigate through there, but just beware, it is soft.
And small cars with low clearance, really beware.
Yeah.
Next thing, on the water side, we did a, we had a town-wide leak detection done.
So basically, every hydrant in the town was touched by a leak detection specialist.
Did find a good leak.
It's on Chesterfield Drive.
So we've been working at that.
here recently. Highway helped us today, so we got everything pretty much under control.
Now we've just got to make some improvements there to strain things up.
Some of it was on private side. Some of it's on our side.
So we've got everything shut down.
We've got some back feeding for some other house to feed the house to Chesterfield Drive
the water's been shut down, basically.
So good cooperation everywhere there, so we'll know the next couple of days.
That's close to been 50,000 gallons a day.
So that's a pretty good leak.
Yeah, that's a good leak.
There's some energy savings there.
But I do not have a report yet as soon as I have it.
I'll put it to carry and she can share it with the board.
So that's all going pretty well.
Good.
And we'll finish that up hopefully in next few days.
Sewer biosolids improvements, that's going along.
They have excavated for the electrical shed and the transformer pad.
a pad, we're kind of standing stills for the re-broad hasn't been approved yet for
to start doing the footings and the forms and everything, so we're just, we're kind of waiting
on that.
They did power up their job trailer and everything, their offices, that's all going today.
My last conversation with today, they're going to switch over to because they're struggling
for things to do right now so they can get a lot of these approvals in for the equipment and everything.
So they're going to start inside the one of the oxidation ditches.
just start pressure washing that, getting that ready for some coding.
So it sounds like I haven't seen no approvals yet from Brown and Cabo and their coatings yet,
but it sounds like that one of the ditches will be coded this year.
So that's good news.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good news.
That's all I have for you.
All right.
Thanks for perfect.
How are you guys up there on the five corners?
They're doing a great job.
I was up there today.
Sharp crew, huh?
They're doing a nice job.
They've got some nice techniques, yeah, sharp crew.
They got a technical.
They know what they're doing.
Yeah, they're very good.
I mean, as, like I said, I know I shared this with the board, I couldn't find no bad reviews.
These guys are top-notch.
They really, yeah.
I mean, they basically, they made their own trench boxes for all the tie-ins,
stabilized them, so they're all set.
So they're just taken off from those and going on with, you know, the water main replacements.
Those will stay in place until they're done.
And they basically make trench boxes and put, you know, big steel.
steel plates over it so they can continue on without being, keep excavating.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I was glad to see him.
The job for him is very, very seasoned.
I was glad to see him put that a little bit of cold patch around the steel plates because you almost don't even peel them now.
No, no.
I mean, again, they've been working on, they, you know, that was the plan from the get-go,
but it takes them a few days when they originally get up and go on the motor, you know,
motivate, you know, motivate, I'm not going to get that word out, but anyways, they, they,
Yeah, they finally got that.
So now everything's in place.
When they pull them up, they get them tired right back in, so there's no real sharp edges there.
But again, like I said, the trenches, I mean, it's going to be a little, you know, treacherous for people.
Just beware when you go through there, go slow, and, like I said, low cars, try to stay out of the trench if you can't.
I mean, they're going to stabilize compact and gravel the trench after,
and we're going to leave it alone for a while to, so we can let it settle as long as we can before the payment gets replaced.
Right, you know, just, they just, when they dig,
today, I mean, obviously, you only can do so much, and then you get a little bit of rain on top
of this real dry, so things are really dry, believe it or not, you know, even in those wet areas
that they put stuff back in there.
It's pretty dry and get some rain, and it gets a little mushy.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Brett. You're all.
No other department heads. No, nothing else from the board still.
I'll open it to public comment.
Kelly Kalanski, Ashwlett. Just a couple things first.
I just want a quick shout out to Dan and the crew.
Our road was getting pretty bad, and they came out in a very timely manner,
given how busy they are and understaffed they are.
Did a great job, as they always do.
So just appreciation for them, because I know that they're pretty scrapped right now.
And I have finally an updated seminar,
list. I'll give this to you, Monica. We did add two more people. So with Bill McGrath
passing, he was Air Force Reserve, and Ken Harvey was in the Army. And so they've now been
added to the list. The next couple of days, I'll go get their flags and standards out. But
now I think we have a complete list for now.
So that's exciting, that that's all done.
And then just another shout out to Maria, the sexton at the cemetery.
She's just been incredibly helpful.
I probably bug her a little too much.
And she's always very quick to respond and provide any information she can, do anything she can to help.
She's been really great.
So just appreciation for her.
Thank you.
Any other public comment?
See none.
I'll entertain a motion to go into nonpublic under RSA 91A3-2, little B, and little C.
Second.
Roll call.
Teresa.
Aye.
Trevor?
Aye.
Perb.
Aye.
Jack.
Ben, aye.