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Yeah, they're going to be posted.
Katie made a motion.
Was there a second?
Second.
Jack seconded.
Any questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Oppose?
None.
Motion carries.
That's a little bit different for some reason.
It was this one.
Yeah.
This too.
Like they printed funny or something.
Yeah, it looks like they zoomed in when they printed.
Okay, next we have some more abatements.
There's two recommended for denial and five recommended for approval.
The two for denial are map 5, lot 63-2, and map 4, lot 30-1.
And the fight for approval is map 18, lot 15, map 20, lot 20, map 7, lot 9-1, map 18, lot 15, and map 7, lot 64.
Any changes or questions or comments?
All those in favor?
I. Opposed. None. Motion carries.
Next, while those are going around, there's no motion needed on this.
Intent to cut. This is for max 7, lot 36-1.
The access road is Purcell Road. There's no work going on out there.
No. Next, we have a solar exemption.
This is for map 12, lot 4, on Old Spafford Road.
Everything is in order with this.
I'll entertain a motion to approve.
Make a motion to approve.
Any questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed, none, motion carries.
Next in here, there's an application for a sewer connection,
and an application for a sewer connection, and an application
for a water connection.
Two different applications, both for the same address, so I'll do them both as one.
This is for Map 2011-1 at 21 Warwick Road.
These have all been reviewed and approved, correct, correct, correct?
The water and sewer superintendent.
Second.
Any questions or comments on this?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed? None. Motion carries.
Next, in the financial folder.
First up, there's a request for withdrawal of funds.
So these funds need to be withdrawn from the water fund and deposited to the sewer capital reserve fund
and then paid to Bar Harbor, correct?
Initial that.
So the operating fund to the sewer capital reserve fund, correct Amy?
Correct, Amy? And then the check written to Bar Harbor and the amount of $16,284 and $13.
So what this is is basically part of a grant that we got the asset management grant.
So we set aside $30,000 as a match to this grant because it was a half and half is 50-50 match.
When the invoices came in, it was my error.
I took it from the Capital Reserve versus the purchase order that I took, that we had encumbered.
So I need to close that encumbered funds this year and reimburse the Capital Reserve the funds that I took from there.
So that's what I'm asking you guys permission to do.
Okay.
So create a check to Bar Harbor to put those funds back into the capital.
capital reserve. So the money is going to come out of the capital reserve?
No, it's coming out of the operating budget because we encumber those funds.
The incumbent funds to Barbarra.
Exactly.
So more.
Any other questions or comments?
All is in favor?
Hi.
Hi.
Next to the request for payment out of the revitalization funds.
Um, one for $300, one for $300.
One for $400.
$77.11. I'm guessing this is for music in the park?
One of them is for the park.
Oh. The other one is for Jason. He purchased flags or something.
Yeah. Any questions or comments? All those in favor?
All those in favor? All right.
Opposed, none motion carries.
Next is a request to withdraw funds from the Water Capital Reserve Fund.
The amount of $85,183.
and $85 payable to the town of Winchester.
Second.
Any questions or comments on this?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed. None. Motion.
Carries.
I don't think that is an installment payment for the water tank project.
Okay.
Just reimbursing the town.
Okay.
These are internal transfers.
So next, we have two sets of internal transfers.
First ones for supplies and postage.
The supplies total is $3.
$3.85.
And the postage is $5.45.
And this is all just like usual, each department.
uses supplies and then they reimburse the line item that purchased those supplies.
I get a motion to approve.
Any other questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Opposed? None.
Motion carries.
The next one is the internal transfer for fuel purchases.
And the amount of $2,020.70.
And this is all.
all the fire department cemetery, water and sewer, fuel that they pump out at the highway department, and this is reimburseing that cost.
Is there a second?
Second.
Okay.
Any other questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Opposed.
Non-motion carries.
And last but not least is the encumbered fund list.
So as we mentioned last week, just so people.
people at home and in the audience understand with the encumbered funds, these are projects that throughout the year have already been approved, but this board's already approved them.
And the projects are either not complete or haven't quite started yet because of scheduling.
But we approved them in this year's budget, so we have to encumber the funds so we pay for it out of this year's budget.
So the totals are, so the town is $50,957.
And 90 cents.
The water was $148,686, and the sewer was $50,957.
And the sewer was $507.
Second.
Any other questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Opposed?
None.
Motion carries.
There's just one page, the second page back to sign on that.
Everything in there.
The only update I really have at the transfer station is, so we've got the inside lights work in the new building now.
The outside lights, we had to buy a couple more parts to hook them up, and those have been purchased, so now it's
just a matter of when meal is available, again, to come do that.
The second failure that we approved last week has been ordered and should get delivered sometime the middle of July and set up and installed and everything.
And the Bobcat that we approved last week money for, I was supposed to go look at it Friday.
They were using it in blue a hydraulic line, so they called me and asked me to come Wednesday.
this week because their mechanic was going to fix it on Monday, and it ended up needing more than the one line.
So it took them a few days, but they're replacing all the lines, and I'm going down to Maronite to look at it,
and it'll have new lines on it now, too.
And they said they'll keep the price the same, even with all the new lines.
So I'll let everybody know how that goes probably Friday morning, because I've got to go to Maronite at 7.
Yeah, we haven't purchased it.
We haven't purchased it, yeah.
No, I'm going to go down and run it around and make sure that it's, I'm pretty sure it's doing what they say it's doing, but I want to physically tell that.
Outside that, I don't have any other updates I don't think out there.
Does anybody else from the board have anything?
No, no, no.
Carrie.
Yeah, just a couple updates.
Next week, 7-1.
Brown and Caldwell will be here at 5.30 to give their monthly update on both of the big watered sewer projects.
So mark your calendars next week, 530.
I met with Jeremy Miller and Nicole from Salt and Light.
They always do, every year, they do a week of community service.
So we were discussing, they, they call them.
hall and asked if I could meet with them, and I know the town beach needs some TLC, so down at the
beach, actually on the beach, they're going to come down, and during the week, third week of July,
they have a group coming in of young kids and some young adults that are going to come in and
help us clean up the town beach.
I don't know if anybody's been down there, but it's very grassy on the beach, and there's
some little trees growing up against the wall.
There's some moss growing up on the top on the top of the concrete wall, so they're going to chisel that away.
They're going to go over to the little picnic area and, you know, pick up any sticks and brush and rake in the actual driveway section where you park your cars.
It's very grassy.
So you don't really know where you're parking.
So they're going to see what they can do about cleaning that area up.
If they have time, they were talking about possibly,
standing the picnic tables and re-staining or repainting them.
So I just, I think it's a great opportunity.
Oh, yeah.
And we could use the manpower and the help getting that town beach cleaned up since we haven't had anybody.
If you can, reach out to Suzanne, Beaubay.
I actually just 10 minutes before I got here for the meeting, answered an email that she sent.
to the beach committee about whether the beach committee should go down and do some
clean up down there.
So reach out to her.
Yep.
I will.
Okay.
That's all I have.
Okay.
Monica, you got anything?
Do not.
Do not.
Amy, do you have anything?
Did you have a...
We don't know yet.
You don't know yet.
No.
Just give everybody a heads up.
week is our last week of the fiscal year.
The numbers that I'm going to provide to you aren't set in stone because we're going to have to
have audit adjustments, and we still have a few days left in this fiscal year that the adjustments
will be done during our audit.
But currently right now in the operating budget, we're at 10%, which totals 741,89287.
In our water fund, there is a $7401,89287.
at 7.31%, they have a balance of 42,80675.
And in our sewer fund, we're at 8.33% with 50,16280.
Going back to the operating budget, though, we have outside details that came in.
I just did another deposit today to the bank for over $11,000.
I haven't had time to go through.
all the details, run the numbers and everything before the meeting tonight.
So I would ask that the board allow Carrie to sign off on the outside detail transfer,
so I can take it from the outside detail budget fund and transfer it back into the operating fund
under the outside detail line, so it's in within the budget for the end of the year.
Yeah, I'll make a motion to allow that.
Second.
and she got some outside detail money last minute,
and she'd like to get that transferred before the year-end close-out.
So just give them carry permission to sign off on that.
And deposit it.
I don't have the actual dollar amount, so.
Just over $11,000, though, right?
No, because I got last week's deposit as well.
So I have to go through, do my checks and balances on my reports that I have,
and then just transfer the money out of the outside detail fund
and put it back into the offer.
budget under the line, under the outside detail.
Because currently, if you look at the budget, the outside detail line is over $71,000 negative.
So I'm trying to bring that because at the end of the year it should be positive,
but we haven't collected all the monies yet from our vendors.
Great.
So my motion was to allow Carrie to sign off on that for her.
I second that.
Any other questions on that?
All those in favor.
Hi.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Amy.
Well, we get most of that money back, though.
I mean, by the end of the, we won't get it back by next week.
We won't get it by, yeah.
So we'll have to put it back in there after.
Yeah, they'll just be in and then just spent.
Okay.
Rick, do you have anything for us?
A few updates.
I did send over the protection report to carry a few weeks ago.
I don't know if anyone reviewed it, but most of that stuff has been mitigated and taken care of.
So we saw a decrease, but it's hard to tell with this, you know, summer months.
We'll see that will kind of pan out come fall time.
But we were pretty good on taking care of that with another contractor.
Just an update for citizens on high street, 15th, front of 15 high street.
Sadly, we're going to be replacing a fire hydrant.
It's a narrow road.
Not a lot of parking available.
We've already talked to the property manager of 15.
He's talked to the residents about not parking near the hydrant,
but I would, again, just like to put that out there for the residents in that area.
Please do not park around the hydrant.
We've got a signposts if we need at least two parking spaces on the east side of that hydrant.
We'll be moving from there up to Michigan Street and Maple on the corner doing that hydrant on Saturday, too.
Just so the public knows, beware, but especially High Street, because it's narrowest tight.
There's a lot of vehicles up there.
Yeah.
So there's a...
That road trying to drive through with no construction going on.
Yeah, I know.
So don't be.
surprised me to come up there and you get turned around because that might happen.
Right.
When we're trying to switch out the hydrant or put in thrust blocks and stuff, getting them off the truck.
So just wanted to put that out there.
Water project, they kind of ran into a, they slowed down a little bit.
They ran into some ledge, big rocks.
So the last three days, they haven't moved very, very far, but I didn't get the last
gist of what was going on this afternoon.
I didn't have time.
But it looks like they started to move.
They were in the same spot with some massive mold.
that couldn't be moved.
So I was up there earlier today.
Did you see what they were, yeah, you saw what was going.
Like, yeah, it doesn't surprise me you hit ledge.
Yeah, so hopefully they don't, the rest of the way on the Westport Road,
they don't run in, they don't encounter anything like that.
We can hope not, but.
Yeah, I hope not.
Ledge growth good around here.
Again, you can see what's going on on the pump state, the booster station a lot.
There's already rocks that got to be removed there that are going to be challenging.
So, um, also.
So just like, I think, I don't know if anyone's aware, the sewer project's been, it's kind of at a stall right now.
They're just working on some, you know, RFPs and some change orders and rerouting of, you know,
just some discoveries for conduit banks and stuff of that nature.
If anybody's curious, if you're on a sewer plant, you can kind of see what's going on.
Yeah.
You could easily explain why it's kind of stalled.
I know I touched on it last week.
Tomorrow at 1 o'clock EPA, you'll be here to visit both sites.
the booster station site and the wastewater site.
So they'll be reviewing that, makes sure that the money's being spent on what it's supposed to be spent on.
The sewer department really, the sewer parking really hasn't got down to that, but the water has.
And again, we maybe, I know it was mentioned about the asset management of the sewer,
those deliverables will be in August.
So that's basically done, Brown and Caldwell, we'll be wrapping that up.
And when those liberal rules will be presented to the Board of Selectmen when they're ready.
So that report will be.
coming.
So basically that's all, just needs to be polished up and finalized by Brown and Caldwell.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
All good stuff.
It's all happy for it to.
Yeah.
Thank you, Rick.
Oh.
I wanted to, no, no, you're all set, Rick.
I wanted to ask, wasn't there people from, they're going to put up tables out on the sidewalks supposed to be here tonight?
Yeah.
He wasn't able to make it.
He had a doctor's appointment in New York.
Okay.
So, sorry.
I was going to come back before the,
event, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I forgot to tell you, I called him last week the next day after the meeting,
and he was like, I got doctors.
I'm not going to be able to make it, and I forgot to let you guys know.
But he'll come next week.
No, the department heads, so public comment.
No public comment?
How long was vacation?
What did you miss, Amy?
On the highway department,
For the encumbered funds, we didn't encumber the funds that are remaining the $60,000, $8,55, $4549.
If we could, if I can ask the board to encumber those and to carry them forward because they're allocated for the five ways, that would it's called?
The water maids.
Is that the paving money?
Yeah, it is the paving money.
So it's the paving for the five corners?
Again, I don't know if there's a better number, but the agreement was that the contractor is going to
reclaim everything. He's going to put the base down.
Then the town's supposed to come in and put the top.
So I don't know where we're at with that.
We've got the pricing or not.
So I just told Amy, Amy, because I know we're talking about the bottom line budget, what's going to go back.
I was just, the highway has an opportunity to get that price for that top.
Now it would be the time to do it because we're talking about, having to try to coordinate
the same contractor to do the base in the top.
Well, this is part of the same project we've already approved.
We've already approved that.
You've already approved the work to be.
be done, yes. But the appeal was never
done. And I haven't
seen the cost. Anyone given us a vote
on that? What was that total amount?
So in the line for
paving for the highway, it's $60,855
and $49.
So I'm asking that to
be encumbered to what's the vendors
that's going to be doing the paving?
I believe all-state asphalt's
going to do it, but I do not know that for sure.
We can ask tomorrow. So if we can just have
it to Allstate and then
encumber those funds and carry them
forward as well. With that
being said, we have
in Highway Block grant a total of
$341,927
that's going to be moved forward as well.
But that's a grant, so I didn't have
to put it in the encumbered. But that's going to come
off from that $700 and
whatever dollar from the amount that I said.
The 60
that you just said. The 60
and the Highway Block Grant, which is
341,927.
Yeah, but we only have to encumber
to 60. You only have to encumber the
60,000 855-49
and then authorize me to carry
that forward. You got that number, Monica?
Yep. I'll entertain a motion
to approve that encumbrance.
Jack made a motion.
Is there a second? Second.
Any other questions or comments?
All those in favor?
Aye. Hi.
Hi. Thank you, Rick.
Good catch.
Thank you, Bork. Yeah.
All right. Still no public comment.
All right. I'll entertain a motion to go
a non-public under RSA 91
A32 Little B.
We'll call.
Teresa. Aye.
Trevor.
Aye. Herb.
Aye. Gat.
N. Aye.
I'll go to first.