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We have the payroll or manifests have been passed on already, and they have the abatements.
The payment number 2026-35 for Erica Pratt at 17 Memory Lane for $99.90 for sewer.
Evidently, she was filling her ground per pool.
The customer had made aware that the deduct meter, and that will be their only abatement we got a pool filling.
Item number 202636, which is Michael and Kerry Kristen Perry, 169 Thornbeck Road, Conroe, for 299,800 an assessment.
Wow, the building was destroyed by a fire applicant has filed for duration application per RSA in 76-21, where buildings will be assessed in how many days.
it would be available for its intended use divided by the number of days in the tax year multiplied by the billing assessment. So it turns out that she gets a $299,800 for document.
Item number three for exemptions. We have John and Ophelin Fort Perelli from 71 Prescott Road for solar exemption.
We also have Jennifer Peacock at 8 Chalone Street, solar exemption.
and Maria Alberti and David Lupertozzi of 2019 Gilmore
Porn Road solar exemption. And David and LaGaria Woodward,
a 443 Mountain Road solar exemption. So each item is under change of ownership
for the original exemptions granted. And item number four, the tax collector six cycle.
the sixth cycle, 2026 Water and Sewer Commitment Warrant. Water, 145,48113, and the sewer at $170,27,000, $142.46. Item number five, we have a request for Chamber of Commerce 50-50 Raffle drawn to Prey's annual golf tournament on August Camp.
The date is August 17th.
And that is an annual event.
Item number six, we have the Meeting House Record.
Number 2026-7 for Karen Van Adzin Memorial Service, August 1st, 1030 to 1130.
And I see that the, uh, that she's already made her a check deposit and it's been recorded.
Item number seven is the boy.
is the Board and Committee appointments. We have Michael George to the ZBA as ultimate number.
Turn to expire 2028. He has been through the ZBA appointment process. And then we have John McCarthy,
School Budget Advisory Committee. McCaffee has volunteered to serve.
Okay, any questions on the Consumption of Younger, gentlemen?
No questions.
No questions.
Okay.
Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make the motion. We accept consent agenda items one through seven as presented.
Do I have a second?
Okay. All right? Say aye.
Aye. Okay. Old business. What's your old business today?
All right. So old business is the lease agreement for the Jack Reed Historical Society.
We've had a couple rounds of this for the past couple months.
couple months. I think we're pretty much in agreement that we can go forward with it now.
And really, uh, being a member of the Jaffian Historical Society, we are very pleased to be over here.
I mean, sincerely.
But a quick question, probably, uh, if I might, John, get an opportunity to talk to, uh,
the building inspector, see what we need to do.
We're in a downstairs kitchen.
We want to use that old, uh, copy room.
I just put us saying.
and some electric appliances.
Okay.
Other than that, new carpets going right in.
We've already talked about it's.
We've got a foreign guy lined up.
We've got the painter all lined up, so it's going to be moved quick.
Okay.
And I'd like to be able to invite Peter over to sign.
He said the full authority to sign for the Japanese Historical Society.
Okay.
Be ready tomorrow morning.
warrant.
So not?
No.
How is that?
Excellent.
Have to vote on this?
Yes.
Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion that we accept the old business and town office lease agreement
with the Jaffrey Historical Society.
Is written.
Okay.
All the second.
Say hi.
Aye.
Unanimous.
Thank you very much.
New business.
There's nothing here on the new business.
So they're referring to the town union.
You got to go to the town board.
But yeah, I'll take it for.
here if you don't mind Mr. Chairman. So our auditors require us to do select board review
of the comprehensive financial policy every year, which we are doing. We typically do. We want
to have it done before July 1st. There have been no changes since you reviewed and approved
it previously. So it was submitted to you for your review and my recommendation is that you
certify the annual review of the finance policy.
Okay.
I think we've already submitted a stack of paperwork.
I think you've signed up on it already.
Now we have the road naming for Melville Circle.
Again, John, I'm going to refer to you on the one of the one.
Yeah, so this request was submitted by Mike Shea on behalf of MJMJMJ.
Very simple process.
They're requesting the name in the development be Melville Circle.
If you approve, this goes to David Chamberlain, he goes to E911, and then it becomes
an official road name in the 911 system. So it's part of that process.
Do you have any comments or any thoughts on it? I'm fine with the name.
James final. Which one? Melville. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, if you look at the
historical annotation here, the stone building was built by Jonas Melville back in the
1800s and it seems fitting that since the school's gone but the
convent the building George's house is still there.
Melville plays circle is appropriate name for it.
I agree. I did a little research on that with the
Seattle Historical Society's building committee back where it came vacant and
looking for a place for a home for a society. It's a handsome building and inside is pretty
They make beautiful condos or something someday.
Well, I'm probably going to make a nice restaurant.
Or a heck, a heck of a restaurant.
Yeah, yeah, it would too.
You're going to be in water too.
Yes, yep, the recommended motion is accept the road name Melville Circle as requested by
MJ and MJ.
So moved.
Second.
Okay, all the favor say aye.
Aye.
We have under new business, the sale of union streets, again, the town manager, John.
I remember we had some discussion on this last year.
Yes, and you would actually approve the sale of the property, you know, on the terms as we had discussed.
We're getting to the point where closing is imminent, you know, in the fine New Hampshire way,
your indefinite delegation of authority to sell property.
includes a required recommendation from the Planning Board and the Conservation Commission
to public hearings and then a separate meeting to hold the vote.
So in order to satisfy the legal requirements, we want to get this done by the end of August.
July 14th, I'll be presenting to the Planning Board to request the sale and getting their recommendation,
presenting to the Conservation Commission before our July 15th.
July 15th meeting. We meet on July 15th. That'll be the first public hearing.
The second public hearing will be July 29th. And then you'll be meeting on August 12th without me.
This will be the only item on the agenda to vote on the sale. Because for whatever reason,
the state RSA does not allow you to vote on this after the public hearing. You have to wait
seven to 14 days.
So that is the timeline.
You know, we'll get this all ready to go so that then, you know, we can get the legal things out of the way and on to the discharging the easement to John.
Is this just a physical sale or just transfer of the property to another?
It's a sale of the easement. It's a sale of that property that was delineated in the easement that was we entered into, God, five years ago.
No, John, when the lease that, wasn't it?
Open to the public?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it was quite a while ago, we entered into the easement, and then John Frederick approached me regarding selling the property
because the easement only benefits me or whoever owns the properties, and now it's delineated
by offense, so it really only benefits me. So I agreed to a sale, and that was quite a while
back. Yeah, we get through all his legal business and move it along. I'm ready. So there was a purpose
for the easement. I don't know if you were involved with that or not. Not originally. No. Okay. Well,
purpose for the easement was that home, that house was, um, had an address of Union Street.
The fact is Union Street stops, comes off from Stratton Road to the east side of, uh, of the
property and then stops kind of like by, if you're familiar with Phil Connoir's house.
So it, Strat, I mean, Union Street does not continue through community field.
So this house was, you know, virtually landlocked. And so we made the agreement with this,
with this 20-foot easement to be able to gain access to this home.
If I remember correctly, Union Street used to go right through the parking lot.
And this is not in my time, I don't know, feeling new to Jaffrey, but I was told by some of the
older folks that that that street used to go right through all.
Almost to the river. Well, it was horseshoe shaped, and it came back, and it followed parallel to the railroad tracks and came back out where,
where a lab and lager is now gone, but it's kind of horseshoe shape. Just kind of served the freight yard back there.
When the town absorbed the freight yard property, I guess being a town property, then maybe get.
Yeah.
Yeah, when the town bought community field, that was kind of left by the wayside for somebody else to the later time to clean up.
And that's exactly what we're going to be doing.
So we need a motion on this, too.
Yeah, you just need to approve the meeting and hearing schedule for the sale of the easement, and then we'll proceed.
I mean, my consensus, how do they can see?
All right, so, other business.
We have the reports of the selectmen.
Do mine first, and?
Yeah, as far as that's concerned, yeah.
We have more up the street tonight or no?
You did that.
We did that in non-public before.
All right.
and that's we've got the timeline set up and it's marching ahead so all right well
I was told six o'clock so I think that he did out perfect you missed all the lawyers
talking about wasn't here yeah well that's all somebody smarter than me came and took care of
that somebody uses bigger words that's all that's all all all all okay very much
we'll see it okay we had the budget community as again on hiatus for the summer
we had to select the cemetery committee meeting last Thursday at the old
barring ground John I have a request if I could speak Todd didn't make the last meeting
but when this is a short story when Kevin Sterling was the overseer of the old
bearing route he collected broken stones that were kind of not repairable kept them in his
garage
and when he retired from that position,
and I took over as old, you know,
as overseer. He gave me all those pieces.
So they're in my garage now.
And what we did with Conan, we took,
with Todd, we took access to the vault and put all the
unrepairable stones in there.
Some of them have initials on them. Some might have some carving on them.
I was hoping to do the same thing with the stuff that's in my garage.
if I could get Todd to open up the bolt.
Okay.
And I'll work it out with him if you don't mind.
Yeah, that's fine.
And the other thing, real quick, for the Astrovers Society,
the Good Now sign that was on the original Good Now has been,
hasn't been restored.
It's been stabilized.
So we can hang it now.
And when we're talking about hanging it and we'll stay well.
I could talk about having not have.
happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can give a call after you.
Yeah.
I'd like to see from, you know, whomever, where it's going to go and, you know,
precisely where it's going to be.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
That would be Peter.
Okay.
His branchstone to put that in here as opposed to over there.
Is this, is this,
somehow part of this building is part of the original
the original store.
No.
This was never part of the...
The site was.
Yeah.
This, the parking lot was where the original
Goodnose store was.
This was never part of a Goodnose store.
The town, 10 Goodnose Street was part of the
store also, which was an open barn for
party out front of here, not including the bank,
is where Goodnose was.
Almost, I almost think it would...
Yeah, the size of it might be stairwell here.
well here.
Yeah, it's pretty long.
It's got to be 15.
12.15.
Okay, well, that's all I had.
So the Economic Development Commission did not mean.
However, the Menadnach Food Co-op is going to have two information sessions.
One will be Wednesday, July 1st, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Civic Center.
And the second meeting will be Wednesday, July 22nd, from
5 to 6 p.m. and I'll be at the American Legion.
I would encourage you to go. They've got some exciting things happening at the new
Food Co-op where the former Rite Aid Building was.
The Conservation Commission did meet.
We had a presentation and continued discussions about the rails to trails,
their extension from Webster Street, which is where the Legion is, towards Old Sharon Road,
More to come on that.
We were supposed to have a presentation by a group for the Gilmore Pond Association.
Apparently, they're concerned with the water quality, and they will be at our next select board meeting on July 15th at 4 p.m.
And then up at Stony Brook, there was an old bridge that went over a trail up there.
Stony Brook, and they'd like to reconstruct that bridge and connect the development to the golf course, more to come on that.
That's all I have to report.
Any, can I have those dates again, please, for the co-op?
Sure. Wednesday, July 1st, 4 to 5 p.m. at the Civic Center.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m. at the American Legion.
Planning Board met on June 9th.
Most of the meeting was taken up with conversation about update to divide up the work amongst they'll start working.
Hopefully we'll have, other than that, I'm done.
Okay.
John?
All right.
Well, I hope you remember gone for the next two weeks starting on Saturday.
It'll be in New York.
Joanne Carr submitted to you an update on WW Cross and Elite Laundry with the Brownfields
updates. We're moving along with WW Cross trying to come up with a suitable timeline that would work with DES's desire to have Black and Decker involved in the liability piece.
So that's there for your review. And, you know, Izzy's been with us now since mid-March, and we'll continue. She'll be working with Judy well in my absence while working on
filing old select board records and then she hasn't been told yet that she'll be submitting
to you the budget report next week in my absence so oh oh boy I thought you were going to tell
that on your way off the door no you get a little word yeah so no there's no she's been reviewing that stuff so
put together uh you know revamped the town
code reformatted it, linked it. So when you go online, you can actually, instead of flipping pages, you can just click on what you want to see and it'll get you there. So did a really good job with that. That's a nice little feature that. I can assure you I did not have a patient for. So thank you for doing that. That's all I have.
I have a question. Yes. What if Stanley Black and Decker doesn't respond? There are. They're responding. They're responding. Yes.
Okay. Favorable communications. So that brings you to that Joanne's letter about the mentions Black and Decker and something to do with the water quality over at the elite laundry in some of those areas. Is that something we need to discuss?
No. This is just an update from her on the, on our brownfields.
Do you have a chance to see it?
I did.
Submitted as part of the electronic package too.
Okay. Any other business? Anybody wants to bring up while we're still in the session?
I have none. I could say that you can officially close the meeting if no one else wants to speak up.
Meeting adjourned. Thank you.