Select Board Meeting 8/19/26

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Microphones on. [clears throat]
>> All right, folks. We're about to start
the select board meeting for August 19th
at 6 o'clock. We will start with the
pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> Thank you all for coming. Next up is the
consent agenda which consists of profit
and loss, balance sheet, check manifest,
and payroll for two weeks. Public
minutes from 8326
and 8526.
Job description updates. One of these
has been strike permit, which is the
town administrator update, but
treasurer, finance HR director and
assistant, facilities director,
custodian, tax collector and deputy,
town clerk and deputy, parks and recck
director, senior camp counselor and
counselor. Job descriptions are all in
this update. Sandborn Head Weekly
summary report July 29th through August
4th for Allied Tannery.
Sanborn Head weekly summary report
August 5th through August 11th for
Allied Tannery. Manadnock environmental
report map 183D lot 149 sublot 10 2025
MS-535
for signature waiver of municipality
liability for private roads. A timber
intent number 26-049-02T,
map 81B, lot 23. And one more timber
warrant number 26-049-01-T,
map 47, lot 32, sublock one.
>> Do I hear any corrections on the
minutes?
>> Look good to me.
>> Do I hear a motion to approve the
consent agenda?
>> I'll make a motion to approve the
consent agenda.
>> Do I hear a second?
>> I'll second.
>> All in favor? Hi.
>> Hi.
>> All right. Next up,
>> next up we have a road name change from
bus from Carolina.
>> Step on up.
>> Hi. Um, I'm Stephanie Alisa. Uh, I'm
here
in proxy
for foretta Alexa. She she is out of
syn. Thank you.
>> She sent a note. Um, do do you want me
to pass this up? Okay. All right.
Awesome. Thank you.
>> So, as we kick off, just an FYI, we have
this new fancy little toy in front of us
for a 15minute timer for the approved
time frame within the agenda. So, feel
free.
>> All right. Wonderful. Well, thank you
select persons and guests. I will read
this letter to you. It's it you do have
a copy, but uh just for verbal record, I
would like to read this this letter from
uh Terraetta Alisa.
Since regarding the petition to rename
Surf Iron Road to Alisa Drive, dear
members of the board of select persons,
[laughter]
I am writing to respectfully request
that the board consider renaming
Sturbion Road, where I've lived and
raised my family for decades, to Alisaya
Drive. When I built my home on this
road, I was asked whether I prefer
Garish or a Boswin address. I chose
Boswin and my address would have been to
Stirrup iron pond road. I asked whether
pond could be dropped as my name was
already long enough and the town
graciously agreed. When I later built a
home for my daughter nearby, her address
became uh number it's actually number
two. Apologies or number
number two. [laughter]
Caroletta's address became number four
for purposes of 911.
I share this small history because it
reflects how closely my family's life
life has been woven into this particular
road and into this town. My family has
called Boswin home for many decades.
her. My parents, David Christopher Clark
Jr. and the Honorable Clare Clark,
settled here in 1969 and spent the rest
of their lives in service to this
community and to to the state of New
Hampshire. My father founded the New
Hampshire uh heart of hearing
organization and was personally
responsible for bringing TTY technology
to conquer hospital giving hearing
impaired residents the ability to
communicate by telephone for the very
first time. He also served as associate
warden at the state of New Hampshire
prison. My mother spent 33 years as a
guidance counselor in the Winniswam
school district.
served five terms as a state legislator
for Bosowin on the education committee
and sat on the Marramac Valley school
board
for the district and helped lead the
effort to build Bosowin's new nursing
home way back when. [laughter]
I've tried to carry that same commitment
forward. I served as a state legislator
representing Boswin from 2012 to 2018.
Stepped away for two years at the
invitation of Congressman John Lewis of
Georgia to help lead voter registration
work. Then she returned home to run
again and complete a fourth term from
2020 to 2022. Locally, I served on the
Marramac Valley school school board for
19 years as a Boy Scout leader. Served
on the Old Home Day Committee happening
now, and have spent many years
personally helping neighbors with
housing, rent, jobs, transportation,
food assistance,
and safe shelter in times of need, even
when I was little. I've always al I've
also worked closely with our police
department sharing information and
camera footage to help keep our
community safe. This request also
follows a local precedent set on this
very road. Sturb Iron Road takes its
name from Sturbon Brook and on the
Salsbury side of the same corridor. The
road is called Garish Road.
named for the Garish family, a prominent
local farming family for whom the Garish
Depot, I believe now the snowmobile
club's
uh
location
uh was also named in 1855.
Town records also show Henry Garish of
Boswin represented our town at New
Hampshire's second provincial congress
in 1775.
In other words, this very road has
already been used once before to honor
honor a local prominent
multi-generational family for its
contributions to the town. remaining
Serb Byron Road, renaming Serb Byron
Road to Alicea Drive would continue in
that same tradition rather than depart
from it.
And in conclusion, to the best of our
knowledge, her knowledge, ours was the
first family of color to settle in
Boswin. And many residents are unaware
of both how long we have called this
town home and of the contributions
our family has made over three
generations. Renaming this road to to
Alisa Drive would be a meaningful and
lasting way for the town to recognize
that history and to affirm Boswin as a
community that welcomes and values
families of all backgrounds.
Carolina Alisa respectfully asks the
board to consider this request favorably
and would be glad to provide any
additional information, documentation
or testimony the board may need. Thank
you for your time and consideration.
Respectfully submitted Perleta Alisa.
And then just um really quickly that
those second few pages uh double-sided
it just talks about each uh I will he's
my grandfather
uh my grandmother and then Carola and
then it discusses the history of uh
stirrup iron in a little more depth and
that's for your kind of perusal if have
questions, feel free to ask. Uh, and I I
really appreciate your time. And then it
also has
uh what we were given for
recommendations when we requested this
meeting
and this considerations.
I feel like I need a little time to
review all of this information. It's a
lot. It's a lot to kind of show up at
the meeting. Um,
>> understand.
So,
if uh folks would be amendable, I'd like
time to review what information she's
given us and review how we name private
roads in in Boswin and go through all of
that. So, I have a clear view of what I
can and can't do.
>> I would certainly be amendable to the
idea of giving a little bit of time to
sit on this and
>> yeah,
>> look through everything.
>> Absolutely. And just just for uh your
reference, I kind of I looked that up uh
just about naming renaming roads and it
is
with you as far as I understand what I
could find. Um the RSAs state that
this is a this is a town and it's up to
you guys.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. All righty. All right.
>> Thank you very much for coming in this
evening.
>> Okay. And then you guys will let me know
or let Carola know further.
>> Right. Our next select board meeting
would be when
>> September second
>> maybe not the September 2nd but the
following because I'll be fresh back
from Colorado on a plane that morning.
Just
>> so for the second meeting in September.
Yes.
>> For discussion.
>> Okay. Wonderful. And feel free to reach
out to myself or Carola for any
additional questions or information.
>> Is she home? Is she
>> she's actually caring for we had a
unforeseen
medical. Uh so she's caring for for some
someone else. She was fine. Yeah. But
she had to quickly go help my brother.
>> okay.
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> All right.
>> All right. Thank you guys so much.
>> Thank you.
>> Have a great evening.
>> You too.
>> All right. Next is e-waste recycling
discussion. Zeke Gable.
>> Hello.
>> Should I speak into this?
>> Good evening. How are you?
>> I'm good. I'm good. How are you going?
>> Good.
Um, so I'm uh here through um my
association with uh Sue from Hilltop
Consignment. She referenced me to Lauren
and um I went to the economic
development forum for BO had a
discussion. My name is Zeke Gable. Um as
of a few days ago, I run Remind
Recycling LLC. I got my my name. I'm in
the process of incorporation and my
background is in e-waste and recycling.
Um 16 years ago I had a company we ran
events. We did e-waste recycling.
E-waste for anyone that doesn't know is
electronic waste. So especially circuit
boards, computers, anything with a cord
though um it has kind of its own unique
challenge. There's um sometimes
materials in there that can be um stuff
you don't want in the landfill, but also
there's precious metals, things like
copper. So, it's a a net good to try to
pull those things out and get those
metals out. I took a 16-year detour,
started a family, learned a lot from my
first business, and I'm kind of coming
back to it now with a plan, and um
really excited to talk to some towns,
try to get an anchor uh partnership with
kind of my vision for how to do e-waste
recycling better. Um do you want me to
sort of just continue the pitch? Do you
have any questions right off the bat?
So, uh, Connor Bailey is our director of
public works. And Connor, how do you,
uh, handle e-waste recycling right now,
or do we do any?
>> Right now, we have a vendor that
collects, we have a essentially a
container that all our computers and our
TVs go and when it gets full, a vendor
comes and picks it up.
>> Thanks, Mr. Bailey. So um is there a uh
is the scope of what they capture um
just TVs and and and monitors or is it
also computers or other electronics?
>> Pretty much all the electronics.
>> Um it's it's various amounts. It's
computers, uh monitors, TVs,
>> and are those handled as a like a cost
per item per pallet? How is the
>> Right.
>> Right. Yeah. So, one of the things that
um I'm hoping to bring to the industry
is what I call a cost and credits model.
So, um I went to the NH Recycles
conference, talked to a bunch of
municipalities, and it seems like it's
fairly standard right now for the
industry to basically have a rate chart
and say, "Hey, you know, for a a TV
between this many inches, it's this
much. For plasma, it's this computer."
And what was interesting to me is that
everything there was a a cost line item.
Um and as someone who works in the other
area, I know that while there is costs,
obviously, you know, I have to pay
myself um you know my costs, there's
also value in there. And so what my
kind of part of the cornerstone of my
business is that we'll create a
transparent sheet which will um make
sure that you know I'm not giving myself
the short end of the stick but for items
that have valuable materials in them
there will be a credit that gets pushed
back. So the vision is that it will help
reduce municipalities
total um total e-waste bill and in some
cases become a revenue source and I feel
like this also sort of incentivizes
um you know if if you want to create
this as a revenue source you can either
work with me as a event coordinator or
with your you know your own talents to
say hey we're having a drive we're
looking for you know these kinds of
computers and stuff like that that can
then go into your cost center or your uh
your revenue.
Um, is there currently some sort of uh
like legal exclusive contract for
e-waste that you know of?
>> Uh, I don't believe so. No.
>> Okay. Um, I think I I know Lauren was
there at the economic development forum.
I think I may have seen another familiar
face here, but I'm not sure. But I know
one of the suggestions um was,
you know, we're interested in the idea,
but you're new. We don't, you know, have
a rapport with you yet. So, what about
sort of taking some of the stuff and um
proving your reliability and then maybe
moving into the items that are a more
formal sort of pickup relationship
later.
>> Um I think that was I don't remember
that
>> John Porter I think made that
suggestion. Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, I'm I'm interested in
um
kind of working with you or anyone else
in the in the town. That makes sense.
Yep.
>> Uh if that's something you guys are
interested in. You have any questions?
You specifically since you're kind of
more on that committee.
>> Um
I guess what would exactly what would it
look like? Do we do we still collect it
in like a container and then you guys
come in and take what essentially is
valuable to you guys and
>> Yeah. and and um depending on how we
structure it, we could take everything
and we would basically give you ahead of
time um the cost and credit so there's
no surprises and um you just keep it
there at whatever interval makes sense
to both of us. Um I don't know how often
you guys as I understand correctly it's
is the town I know it serves Boswin.
Does it serve other areas as well? Not
by choice.
>> We're not supposed to supposed to.
>> That's funny. Um it as far as that
container goes, I mean it takes a little
while to build up. It's not very often.
>> What about um appliances that maybe are
less obvious like dishwashers,
uh you know uh so not sewing machines,
sorry, dishwashers or uh washer dryers.
>> No, that does not we do not uh recycle
that.
>> So right now someone brings out you just
say, "Hey, keep keep moving. go drop it
off somewhere else.
>> Uh washer and dry typically goes right
in the metals scrap metal.
>> Mhm. [clears throat]
>> Um makes sense. That works for me as
well, but if if it was better for you
guys to have one vendor,
>> that's also something we could do.
so I think I'm not sure if I answered
your question. I think yeah, you guys
could continue leaving it in the same
containers if you had some sort of
exclusive deal. Obviously, you know, I
don't want you guys to violate any deal.
Um, if there's only certain waist
streams that I could take, we could work
that out as well. Um, and
yeah, any
>> Do you have a written proposal at all
that Connor might consider?
>> Um, I can get I can get you one um
fairly soon. Like I said, I finally got
my name uh wrestled back from the the
state of New Hampshire and my website
should be up soon, so I was hoping maybe
to be a little further along, but um I
can send that out. Um, and uh, I guess
the the question for me when when
tailoring that would be would we be
looking at um, would I kind of be
bidding on the entire e-waste stream or
would you be looking to just separate
like the things that would be um, not a,
you know, things that you could stop
being a cost item when you're going
there like computers?
>> I'm not sure how to answer that. um
without I guess without a proposal.
>> Um I guess I would need a little bit
more information on
>> Okay. I can write up the proposal to
kind of have a a a two uh track, you
know, option A, option B
>> just so I can understand it a little
little bit better.
>> And um if not, no problem. Not a lot of
people do have these records, but do you
have like records of the stuff that like
you've sent out? cuz I could then kind
of tailor into what you typically get.
>> Uh, yes.
>> Oh, that'd be awesome. Okay. Um, would
you be open to sharing that with me
before I send the proposal or would you
Okay, that'd be great.
>> Yep.
>> What do we do now? We plan the container
and then bring it to
>> Yeah, a vendor comes in when once it's
full, we call a vendor and they come and
pick it up, drop off another container.
>> So, that was going to be my question.
Logistically, are you showing up taking
away the container, dropping a new
container, or are you bringing a box
truck and just loading it?
>> So, depending on the throughput, I I
might bring in a box truck. Um, is it a
Gaylord right now? Is it like a pallet
on a G? It's a Gord.
>> No, it's it's a shipping container.
>> Oh, it's Oh, you do a full shipping
container.
>> Oh, definitely. I can understand why
that would take a while to to to uh
bring up. So, um
>> we could handle that whatever way makes
sense. We could drop our own shipping
container on site if you guys prefer,
but um I don't I think that logistically
it would be more efficient for us to do
the unload as long as stuff's not loaded
in half-hazardly
um you know pallet or or even just
stacked, you know, it's not like a a
hoarder house.
>> No, they they stack it pretty neatly.
>> Yeah. Um then I think it would make
sense that we would just unload it at
least for the time being. You know,
maybe we get to a higher scale. makes
sense. That's possibly another benefit,
too, is that we could also um do it on a
more reoccurring basis if we didn't want
to fill up an entire container.
>> So, at this point, is there any revenue
from this sort of e-recycling that we
receive?
>> I don't know. I don't think we make any
money off
the computers.
>> I think that's actually a cost to us.
That's consistent with what I saw too.
>> Other than the charge of disposal to the
residents.
>> Yes. Exactly.
>> Right. Yeah. And it's it's typically
this, you know, [clears throat] pass
that on. I get that. Um and then how you
want to structure that if you want to
pass some of that savings on or the
revenue stream, the rain fund, you know,
that's that's up to you.
>> Well, it sounds like you and Connor need
to connect.
>> Yeah. I'll give you I'll give you um
should I wait till afterwards? We'll
we'll connect each other's email. Yep.
>> Great.
>> Yeah, that works. I have a card, but
it's downstairs.
>> Fair enough. All right. Thank you so
much. Appreciate it.
>> All right. Now, next we have the tiff
committee of recommendation,
Mike Tardy, Central, New Hampshire.
>> Good evening again.
We had a good meeting with our tiff
committee on the 11th.
Um tiff committee made a couple of
recommendations and I offered to uh make
the pitch to you for you know relative
to those recommendations. The first one
is um to set the baseline for our
commercial street tiff beginning January
one and to trigger that tiff start to to
to collect the difference between the
baseline valuation and any new
valuations
to as we move forward with all things
commercial street actually you know we
waited until it seemed like there were
some things happening and I would
imagine a uh an RFP going out hopefully
in September regarding the the
redevelopment of the tannery site is one
of those things and um you know
discussions about potential
uh you know what happens with the uh
with the gravel pit as well. So
and there's a you know the second topic
actually. So that was the first ask to
to and you know that's we're early for
next year but wanted to bring that to uh
to the board's attention
>> and it then ties in with the uh the
proposed Northern Borders Regional
Commission application to their catalyst
program for uh funding for commercial
street infrastructure,
water, sewer, road. Not quite sure
what's underneath the road. We'll find
out one day. Um, and you know,
especially with the, you know, who knows
what happens with the tannering.
>> Do we know if we actually own that road?
Because I know over the years there's
been discussion of we don't actually own
the road, we own the right of way or
>> I don't know that. and um a valuable
piece of uh of research to as as we move
forward. You know, I know that that's
been, you know, that that question has
come up in the past. The um
actually what what we're proposing in
the pre-application for the Northern
Warriors is um asking for a million
dollars in infrastructure funds.
It's remarkable actually for Boswin. So,
Northern Borders, you have one grant for
the park improvement. The I think the
smallest grant they've ever given out,
$39,000 with the $20,000.
>> I would have asked for so much more, but
you know, me
>> for the amount of time that we have
spent on on the admin side of it, it's
uh but we've learned a lot about the
admin side. So, the planning commission
is actually the local development
district. So we provide assistance to
the to the staff uh to you know work our
ways through the grant management
system. A reimbursement request is going
to go in at in the end of the month once
we hit our match requirement. The um
Bosowan was added to Marramac County was
added to the northern borders area about
a year and a half ago. We had been
asking for a long time northern borders
rate reaches from northern Maine into
western New York. Boswin is the only
town in our region that has a 20% match.
The other communities have 50% match.
It's, you know, their calculations on a
distressed community.
>> And it's a bit of a black box if you try
to and and and honestly what we have
heard is that those numbers change and
it could go back to a 50% match,
>> but for now it's a 20% match. So we
would ask actually for a budget of 1.2.
two with a 20,000 a $200,000 match,
ideally from a TIFF funds, but also
could be developer agreements. And those
developer agreements could be the
developer comes in and redo the uh you
know does what they're going to do with
the the tannery. It could actually be
down the street with uh the the
excavation. That's this is a
pre-application. We don't have to have
all those those answers, but um we have
an application due date of 5:00 this
Friday.
Um Kelly's been very busy punching in a
lot of different things. We've got we're
breaking out just some details in the
budget and things like that. We're
hoping to get your approval to move
forward so she can hit send on that
pre-application.
There's still other steps. We would hear
back in a couple of weeks whether we're
asked to submit a full application that
would be due in October. All goes
according to plan. They give you a
notice to proceed sometime in the first
quarter of next year.
>> Hit send.
>> Yes. Well, I and don't I recall the
updated statistics that
for a a family living in Bosquin, median
income to buy a house in Bosquin, a a
median sized house, it's 6.7
times their annual income.
>> So, so our number is like 59 to six.
You're the highest ratio in the entire
region.
>> Wow. So the highest cost versus median
household income.
>> And that number has just for for all of
our communities has increased yours has
increased a lot since 2019.
>> So this is you know but I think the
ability to include a potential or you
know a future grant to kind of meet a
developer or whoever halfway on the
tannery.
>> [clears throat]
>> You know, overall in in our tiff, we had
about $3 million identified in 2024
dollars in infrastructure. We're about
we're bumping up some of those numbers
by 10%. But, you know, we you know,
things cost a lot more even from a
couple of years ago. But, you know,
knocking down what
would needed to be, you know, the amount
that would need be needed to be funded
through the tiff and developer
agreements by a million dollars in
northern borders gets us that much
closer to redeveloping industry.
So our two asks were to, you know,
consider the, you know, starting the the
tiff,
you know, setting that baseline and
starting to to separate those dollars
and the difference in the valuation
January 1st, but two
to go ahead and hit send at some point,
hopefully before 5:00 on Friday, we're
aiming for noon.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> All right. Thank you, Kelly, for working
on yet another Northern Regional Florida
grant and um thank you, Mike, for
pursuing I think a more reasonable
amount of money. Go for the million.
Yeah,
>> that's what we were thinking. And uh you
know, but you get into infrastructure
versus, you know, so
>> and I and I think um Northern Borders
really want you to be successful with
these grants. You know, they they've
actually been very good. We've been on a
couple of calls just counseling how to
navigate the pre-application, what's
being looked at, and don't make it too
big, have it have it be right sized for
what we're asking for. So, that seemed
to be a pretty good budget budget,
>> and there's so much that needs to happen
down there. It's a It is the town's best
opportunity to uh improve an area that
has a substantial impact on taxpayers,
but it's going to take some significant
infrastructure.
>> Well, when you look at what you're
raising in taxes on, you know, it's
still less than $30,000 on that on that
whole street.
>> So, you know, where will we be in 10
years? you get, you know, a lot more
valuation and then once the, you know,
you paid off the tiff, that's all going
to the general fund.
>> You want a motion on the
pre-application?
>> I would love a motion on the pre. They
should make a motion that we authorize
Kelly to hit send on the
>> And I'll second that.
>> All in favor?
>> I. Excellent.
>> And do you want to take action on the
second portion, the setting the
>> baseline?
I think that's up to you. January 1st.
>> Yeah. I think we need to need some time
to figure out what that baseline's going
to be, but Yeah.
>> Okay. So, you want that number?
>> The number. Yes.
>> You got it.
>> Thank you very much. Very much
appreciate it. I'll talk to you
tomorrow, Kelly.
>> All righty. Thank you.
>> All right. Next. NHDS transfer station
update. Connor.
>> Um, so back in July, uh, New Hampshire
DS came in and did a random inspection
of our landfill.
Um, and part of that uh inspection they
found some asbestous pipe that was
somehow it appears
brought long time ago uh put in a corner
and almost pushed up into a uh bank and
buried and left. Uh they took a walk
around. Uh it's Orangeberg. That's what
the name of the speesus pipe is. Um they
said for now for that day they they
wanted uh immediately or as soon as I
could put a tarp over it to cover it
from wind, water, so on so forth. Put
warning signs out. So there are warning
signs out there. Um and then kind of it
was wait for the report to come out and
they would kind of guide us on to how to
proceed. Um, I heard from them a couple
days ago, talked to them. They're going
to send out uh the report and I guess
it's kind they asked me if um we had
done anything about it yet, but as they
the the inspector told me, he told me to
kind of wait for their guidance. Um, so
now that they're going to send the
report out, I've kind of gotten a
go-ahad to um have to have a contractor
come in and
remove it. Fortunately, it's one of
those deals that we kind of have to have
to do it. So, I'm going to go about um
trying to find I don't know if the town
uses has a certain
>> asbestous person that they use or
>> No, it's just a it just has to be a
state certified.
>> They should have a list. So, I'll go off
that list and kind of get like a few
quotes together on what it's going to
cost.
>> Who did we use for the gauge street?
>> Um, seems like you had several choices.
>> That was It went Yeah, I'll have to look
that up.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> I just wanted to bring it to you guys'
attention because that's a cost that we
kind of didn't anticipate, but
It's one of those deals that kind of
have to,
>> right? Is there any uh I mean,
theoretically, we shouldn't have to be
worrying about this anymore, but when it
comes to construction debris, is there
any oversight or people just are on
their honor to bring things in and dump
them?
>> No, there's oversight. Um, one of our
employees, whatever, is pretty good
about keeping an eye on what people
bring in.
>> Okay. Um, obviously if somebody throws
something in a, you know, in a bag or
whatever,
>> you know, we don't go hop hopping in the
hopper to,
>> you know, see what it is. But
>> yeah.
>> Do we take construction debris anymore?
>> No, we don't.
>> No.
>> So, this is longstanding
>> and there is like a telephone pole
across it. It's blocked off.
>> The farthest people can go is the the
leaf pile.
>> Okay. So, but if you if you venture out
to the leaf pile, if you look to your
right side, uh that's where you can see
down just across the uh over or whatever
to the right, you can see where the
warning signs are.
>> One of the other issues was our tire
pile was overgrown. So, um, I contacted
our vendor, they came, removed it, and
we had to do a little bit of a dirt burn
to contain the tires, but they were they
were happy with that. So,
>> tires going out to be recycled into, you
know, crack seal and asphalt.
>> Yep. Right. [laughter] Yep. Yep.
Exactly. Tracks.
>> You all set?
>> All right. The next one is credit card
points followup. So, um earlier this
year we discussed that we had some uh
points on our credit cards where we can
apply them on gift cards and we
postponed that discussion till August.
So, I'm coming back with that. We have
$425 that we can claim in gift cards.
There's only certain v uh companies that
we can get gift cards to, but some of
the
ones that I thought were probably easier
to use were Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart,
and then I know for elections I think
they usually get Panera. So, I put that
one on there, too. So, you wanted to get
some direction of how you wanted to use
those.
>> You can't use the points for credits. to
pay off the credit card.
>> No. So, they're working towards that,
but they don't have a timeline.
[clears throat] They told us that when
we got the cards in the first place, and
we've had them for about a year now. So,
I don't know when that's going to come,
but
again, I don't think they expire. So, if
you just want to keep I don't know if we
will be able to apply this even if they
do allow you to put credits in the
future. I don't know where those are
existing. These will be able to be used
that way. So, we can just keep it
rolling if you want. I'm just bringing
it back up in case you want to use them.
>> I think I would be in favor of keeping
it rolling until we have a specific
need.
>> Yeah. Yeah. The only alternative would
be to utilize those gift cards as like
the prizes for 5050 or more, you know,
cruise night, old home day events like
that. That could be, you know, $10, $15
versions you can hand out. But
>> yeah. Are these Amazon credit cards or
just like a
>> um like how do we earn the points?
>> Um so the town has credit cards through
it's called corporate payment systems
Elon
and for every dollar you spend you get X
amount in points and then those points
convert to dollar values and credit
cards. So, one of the reasons we swapped
from our prior credit card company is
because we weren't getting anything at
all. So, we figured that we might as
well make something off of
>> what our use for it. So, if everybody
wants to do that, we can just keep them
rolling and then
>> fine with just keeping them
>> just keep it in the back of your mind if
you guys think of anything that could be
useful.
>> Something coming up.
>> Okay. And then the next thing is for
cruise night. We are looking for
permission to have a beer tent. Um we've
talked about it for a while. We've been
talking with Allen's and I've talked to
Chief Caller and he we've addressed all
of his concerns with Allen's. So if you
are in favor of it, I do have some
paperwork to sign. They are also who is
doing the beer tent at old home day.
So I don't know if you have any
questions or if you want me to present
what we have for paperwork.
>> Paperwork is fine.
>> Um so this form essentially they need is
this just says that the board has no
objection to the beer tent. They have to
send that to the liquor commission.
>> What will they be serving? So, beer,
wine,
>> um,
>> canned.
>> Canned. Yes.
>> Canned beverages.
>> Yep. Um, so that's that one. This is a
agreement with them. And then this as
well is for the liquor commission for
off-site catering approval. This only
allows one signature. So we'd want
authority for one of you to sign and
it's under the site of Americans
>> and they have all the appropriate
insurance and etc that require
>> should already be on file for alone
actually
>> should be but just checking
>> I have no objection to it.
So, I would make a motion to accept and
authorize the chair to sign.
>> I'll second that.
>> Oh, of course. All right.
>> I
Do we need three signatures on the state
of New Hampshire one?
>> No, that's the one with the one.
>> That's the one with the one.
>> Okay, this one is contracts.
>> All right, great.
>> Thank you. And then next, Nicole asks us
to present this. So, election day
volunteers are needed for the September
state primary on Tuesday, September 8th.
The town is looking for friendly,
reliable volunteers to help at the polls
during Septe the September primary.
Volunteers may assist with greeting
voters, helping the check-in lines,
directing traffic inside the polling
place, and supporting election officials
throughout the day. So, there's a couple
shifts. They are half day shifts. Um,
those include 6:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and
1:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This is going to
be at the Boswin polling location at
Boswin Elementary School. one best
drive. And if anybody's interested in
helping, they can contact the town
clerk's office to sign up or learn more
and they can call in at the main number
6037539188.
>> Is that out on all the social medias and
the website and everything else?
>> I did see this on the website. I'm not
sure about Facebook, but I can check
mask.
>> Gotcha. Can we hold for one second?
Yeah, while we're talking about
elections, um,
whoever from the town,
the election day is obviously the 8th.
Day before that, Labor Day the 7th,
there's no school. There's no school on
the 4th, the Friday before that. So, um,
you guys need to get a hold of either
Julie
B
or Rick Braun, my replacement, to figure
out when we're going to set that up with
you.
All right, I will let her know. So,
>> normally we have a little 20 minute
meeting or whatever. What time does the
voting start? Seven.
>> It's seven.
>> Seven. Get there.
>> I've been voted down numerous times.
>> Okay. So, [clears throat] we just need
to, you know, it's probably end up, you
know, Thursday or Friday or Saturday,
whatever works best for you. I know the
school district will accommodate.
>> Okay. I'll let them know. Thank you.
And then the next one, this was sent
out. This is ESR number 89 um with the
amendment for Underwood Stewart rate
model update for approval
with the um sewer rate model update. One
of the questions we had theorized was
about this small system development
charge and if that could be included in
here.
>> Small system development.
>> Yes. And do we know if if that question
was answered that if it could be
included as part of this?
>> I'm not uh I do not know the answer to
>> Yeah, I didn't notice it either, but I
didn't know if the question had been
asked.
I can't ask them. Oh,
>> wait. Task three. There it is.
>> DC calculation.
>> Okay. So, it does include it.
>> All right. That answers my question.
>> Ted in the back.
All
right. I hear a motion to approve the
ESR
>> update underwater engineering.
>> You make a motion to approve.
>> Very second.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I.
>> Right. Kelly Manadnaugh environmental
consultants invoice. So, um I'm bringing
this forward to see where you would like
it coded to. This was approved on the
consent agenda, the final um report
evaluation, and there's a bill that's
due. So, we just need to know where to
code it to to send out the check.
>> I think the question is that there's no
um I think budgeted line right now for
stuff like this. It's a code enforcement
action.
>> So that's
>> So can it come out of contingency?
>> I think contingency has been used for
the 30,000 where it's gauge.
>> So then unassigned
>> well it's [clears throat] unassigned
>> unbalance.
>> Well, we we have to assign it to a
budget account.
>> So which account would you recommend
then? Health code. Yeah, there's no
budget under health and there's no code
budget. So
>> somewhere in the plan
>> it's too expensive for dog. So
I mean you could I guess put it under
administration
>> which administration
>> executive.
>> Okay. Like a specific budget account
within
like
>> I don't know which Yeah. Yeah,
>> because it's it's really unfortunately
when we do our budget again, we probably
need to put something in there for this
sort of thing.
>> I know. I think Kelly had proposed a
couple of years ago having a budget for
health remediation.
>> I agree.
>> And it got taken out and then this year
we have the gauge street which is health
remediation which we had to charge to
that which we don't have any money for.
So, I mean, I guess you could
you could put it under health
remediation and it's just more you're
going to have to transfer to that line.
>> expenditure, but yeah, townwide safety
that may or may not get used depending
on how the other engineering comes out,
>> right?
>> Well, I think at least temporarily if we
put it under
>> health. Okay. Yeah, that would make
sense because that's what it was about.
We probably should look at maybe the
next department had looking at this too
because I think Connor has some of those
that we temporarily charge like the gas
pad that we had to do. Feel like oh the
the um
>> guard rail. So we have a few of these
that we're going to have to find money
for. So um okay. So for now we'll code
it to health remediation.
All right. Next is the park pavilion
proposal
under approval.
>> So there is a um the town improvement
committee.
The purpose is you received this and we
need a signature for that. And
>> to talk about this or
>> are you talking about the park? I didn't
know if you were here to talk about
view that has led to each.
>> So there's two things. So we got the
proposal from Pekkham and there it was a
9% donation, right?
>> That's correct.
>> So that's there for your review. Um
>> if you approve that, then you would have
to have a contract done for it.
>> Yeah. So, it sounds like Charlie wanted
us to present this to you to see if you
had any questions and then a contract
will be coming forward for you to sign
to formally approve it. So, if you have
any questions at this point,
>> so 9% of the total cost of their work
will be donated.
>> Donated. Correct.
Is that this amount on here or is that
after the
>> I think it's 20 something
>> roughly $25,000
donation. No,
>> be happy to move forward and look at a
contract.
>> Do you guys have any questions on the
project work?
>> Yeah, because Fred's here and he can
answer any questions you might have.
be excited to see breaking ground.
>> Yeah. Supposed to start Thursday next
week.
If you guys approve that, we'll get the
contract and the hope is by the
definitely first week in September.
>> Waiting for the doorbell house to close
down the summer operations and we're
storing a bunch of stuff over the whole
state. Um, we're going to store all of
the donated gravel, whether it's bank
run or brush. Uh, oddly is donating all
the squints and gran donating a bunch of
granite curve.
I'm going to see about the striping. The
guy that does GMI striping is the same
one the parame
25 years. So, I'm going to ask him to
donate that. I think he will. Uh
everything right now is ready to go.
See any thing blocking us at this point?
Conor.
>> Nope.
DW got a bunch of the blocks moved over
there. The all state parking lot. Uh say
you have a subs
landscape company. They're going to
place all the blocks.
Somebody's putting a fence on top of the
blocks. So, we're ready. We're ready to
go.
>> All right. So, I would make a motion to
approve the proposal and uh authorize us
to move forward on the contract.
>> I.
>> So, the second part of this is um I
think what Dean usually does for to use
GMI and alpaca for road resurfacing in
accordance with our purchasing policy.
So, we um generated a motion for that.
Do you want to do this now or when you
get the contract?
>> I'd say contract.
>> Okay. We will put that on hold.
All right.
And it looks like Josh, you're next for
the GSSGI
agent to sign. Is that Yeah. Or is that
you? So, I'm going to give this to Josh
to sign because he's taking over for
Katie and I guess Katie's the one that
signs this. So, it's a um it gives them
permission to sign off on waste
documents on on your behalf. So, you're
looking for authority for Josh to sign.
Yeah. In place of Katie, I'm assuming.
>> Yeah. Because I think we gave the
authority to her.
>> Yes. And she's not here. So,
authorize Mr. to Josh Crawford to sign
on behalf of Miss Katie Phelps.
>> Is there a second
>> for for the purpose of uh generators
>> green site services company to authorize
the sign on behalf of the generator?
>> Oops.
>> I I would second that.
>> All in favor? I
>> Next is a select board computer
expenses. Lori.
>> Yeah. So um we had we used to have iPads
for each select person and some of um
the individuals also had iPhones
provided or or cell phones provided by
the town and this we have done at all of
our own expenses. I will say from my
personal perspective um the cost has
gotten to be quite great for me in terms
of printing ink uh and computer expenses
because our computers are not covered by
the count contract. So when we get uh
when we have a computer issue, it's our
issue personally and it can be very
expensive
particularly uh if something comes
through the town system to our personal
computers. So I I would ask that we
think about this a little bit and maybe
um from a number of perspectives it
might be
a better choice to go back to providing
the select board with some sort of
computer access that is townowned
so that we don't a expose ourselves
personally and b charge personal if be
charged personally for town expenses.
Well, I had something to thought about
that too. Like the playing board stuff,
there's a mound of paper. If there was
uh computers or iPads for the for the
boards and maybe committees to utilize,
maybe print one hard copy for anyone
that wants it and then that way it's all
accessible, right? Yes.
>> I just imagine you save a lot of paper
and ink and
>> Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
We haven't really looked at the cost of
all that, but I imagine it's it's quite
high. And I think that, [clears throat]
you know, iPads are small enough
and inexpensive enough uh especially if
we didn't
>> even like a even even a Chromebook's
likeund 100 bucks.
>> Exactly. and something that would tie
into the town um computing system such
that if the uh equipment failed, it
would be covered under the town
contract, right?
>> Is there any way to see how much paper
we actually buy? Because I know it's
like split up between everybody.
>> How do you guys order yours on Amazon?
>> Yeah, we order on Amazon or Wason.
>> And it comes to our pocket.
>> Okay. So you could figure out
>> I think I pay with a credit card.
>> Okay. It would take some research, but
we could probably get an estimate
>> just just an idea. See if
>> what's probably generates the biggest.
>> Yeah. Because that's a lot of
>> Yeah. [clears throat] Yeah.
>> And then, you know, to be barely looked
at some of the documents just thrown
away.
that and the fact that if anything were
to come up in [clears throat] any type
of legal question or anything along
those lines, your personal cell phone,
mine, hers, y all admissible. Like it's
>> and and you can imagine how particularly
if it's a work phone, how that could
interfere with your ability to do your
job.
>> Correct.
>> That's why I got this just for this
just in case.
So, um I know we we had things arranged
differently in the past and with budget
cuts we eliminated that but I think we
need to rethink it given that the world
is a changing place
>> entirely around computers.
>> Yeah. Why did we get rid of them before?
>> Savings.
>> Money. We were trying to save money.
>> But in saving money, then you grant
exposure to yourself. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
>> But was it just the board that had them?
Like not all the committees have.
>> No, just the board had them. Um, but I I
do agree because when I was a water
commissioner, that was the other that I
advocated for that that we each have an
iPad because again, all those different
things that you're looking at. You're
looking at um all the curb stops, all
that sort of stuff. If you just have it
on an iPad, you can access it easily
instead of climbing up and going through
the paper files and Yeah.
>> Well, I think like in schools, they have
like that bank.
>> Where you know, then you have a login. I
don't know what that would take to pull
off, right?
>> But any information you can gather, I'm
great.
>> And Cybertron may be able to make some
recommendations because if you have a
stupid unit, you know, that you can just
do your town work on, that would be
ideal. And any printing, then you could
send to the town printer.
>> And you could you could have one that's
always in this room for committee
meetings that Yep.
>> the chair of the committee could
utilize.
>> Yep. Yeah. That's why I'm like, yeah,
that way
>> all the boards could use that same one.
>> Different login for each.
>> All right. Connor, do you have any more
updates,
>> Kelly?
I don't think so. No.
>> And then I just have
>> Oh, I do. Sorry. Um, road name that the
print out that I gave you, that's based
on naming a new boat. The reason I gave
it to you was I wanted you to see that
E911 doesn't recommend names, using
names for roads. Um, and I think it's
really important to get input from um
fire and police.
>> Yes. Yeah.
>> Also before Yeah.
>> Um, making any decisions.
>> And I know we did that with uh there was
a request for I think it was Lord Edward
instead of Red Oak.
>> Um, and
>> we rejected it because it was a name.
Yes. And we talked to, you know, police
and fire about it. And I know um
>> the police once
>> Yeah. the police [clears throat] stated,
well, people already know this name.
They know where to go if you had an
emergency. So, I think you're right. We
should do our research and
>> and if you do it for one, it sets a
precedent for
>> everybody else. Yeah.
>> Is there rules with the accent above the
letter on the road name? That's what I
Yeah. All right.
You good? That's it.
>> Nice.
>> And then I just have one more thing.
It's a donation for $1,000 from Jim and
Kathleen Payne for the Town Park
Improvement Project.
>> Awesome.
>> Motion to approve the $1,000 donation
from Pays.
>> With gratitude.
>> Yes. Thank you very much.
>> Your second.
>> All in.
>> Yes. And thank you. I think we're good
for public format.
>> Public?
>> Not bad. Not yourself.
>> I'm doing absolutely great.
>> Try not to watch as much on on whatever
the heck it is. Drives me up a freaking
wall. Um I couldn't hear you, Kelly, if
you don't mind me. One from Nad. Was
that 709 Fremont Street? No, Manadna was
for 2028 commercial street.
>> Okay, that's fine.
>> Yes,
>> I can find my notes here.
Just a few things.
Okay.
First of all, I think it's nice if you
got a welfare director strictly for
welfare rather than have to have that
person sign um registrations, collect
taxes. go out and do all that because
that's what they like to do. I think I
know that one person that you had
working here at one time, she left
because she didn't like it all. I don't
know what happened with the last person,
but I think it's good that you've got
something for that. And the uh person
that was in there was never budgeted
that I knew of in three years for
administrative assistant to uh the town
administrator.
>> So, that's another thing. And not to get
off the hat, I think that she does a
great job at everything. Okay. But
>> who who's she?
>> Katie.
>> Oh, Katie. The town administrator. Okay.
>> Administrator does a great job. Okay.
And I had she was always great with
anything I had to do. Same thing with
here. But somehow selling stars for the
or cutouts for the old home day
committee because they don't have the
time to do it and the ad commission
doesn't want to do it. gets way up and
beyond to stuff like that. And for her
to support some committee comes up with
an idea, well, they don't want to do it.
So, she takes it on. If the committee is
not going to do it, I've said this
before, eliminate the committee because
they're not there to do that. But when
we were together, we eliminated the fact
that the uh I'll just use the um a
commission every time up here to your
but your thing. Hey, can you do this
picture? Can you do this? You do that,
which they always doing, but at least
now they're not doing it. But the the
boards the up here and downstairs are
not here to support the committees. If
they have an idea, the select board, the
liaison come back in, brings it to the
select board and say, "Hey, this is what
they want to do." Was it a good idea or
not? I don't know. So anyway, but that's
my thought on that. And again, she does
a good job. I don't think you'd need an
administration assistant at this time in
2023. She did eliminate that position
off the budget.
I know that because I was there for that
meeting. That was my first year for
budget. Okay. So there's that there.
Park improvements. Again, everybody
knows that I am not in support of that.
I have never done anything to stop it
though. Okay. But my one of the things
that I'm looking at here is the pilgant
public work director agreed to make this
crew available to assist. Now that went
out to bid to three companies. Two of
the companies are going to erect the
whole building. this company that you
hired, and again, I have nothing against
anybody, is supposed to um erect the
building. You ask the question when you
when you sign the paper, do you have the
people to do it? I'll get volunteers to
do it. Somehow, if you're bringing your
crew over to put that building in, that
is town paid money into that project,
unless it's going to come out of their
budget and pay him back for his
employees. That's, you know, I
understand you want to get it done, but
it went out to bid that you're going to
wreck the [clears throat] structure and
for him to come in and get town
employees to come in and put that up,
unless they're doing it on their own
time,
which I kind of would doubt, but we
aren't going to go there. That's my
quote on that there. Um, administration
backpack program. I'm sorry to see that
go, but that was uh two person two uh
welfare directors before and downstairs
tried to help it keep it going. Keep it
going and it's again it's a shame it's
going to go. I was a firm supporter of
that and uh but with friends of children
we can work with them also.
Back to you with the credit cards. I
just heard that tonight is Home Depot.
Can you get them from there? Yes, I
believe that was one of the ones I had
>> because if it's on there, why don't you
get the Home Depot card, give it to Gary
and Connor because you're down there all
the time. You got it and you can spend
it that way there. And I don't think
there'd be any problem with doing that
because you don't get it off on your uh
>> on your statement, but at least you can
do it that way there rather than uh give
it away for prizes and all of that
stuff. Uh now 79 um Tmont Street down
there. I'm going to just ask the
question. I'll lay it out there. It
doesn't make a difference you want to
ask it or not. Was there a condemned
sign down there as far as that goes? was
and I'm just asking because I'm I'm
reading in the minutes that um they
stopped do stopped work on halted uh
work on it
and uh as they were driving by they not
somebody noticed it.
>> So at that point there and they said
it's been abandoned since 2025
but who was notified? I mean somebody
else probably bought the place correct.
>> So they knew about it. It's been
condemned since 2005. It was condemned
by the health officer and the um right
>> code enforcement officer,
>> right? But that's all fine and dandy. I
mean, but it's their responsibility. Are
we supplying the engineer to look at
that? [clears throat] Because the way
I'm reading the minutes
>> no
>> said that we're going to supply the
engineer. So, I'm just looking at the
minutes and it says we're going to
involve engineer from the town along
with uh the building inspector. So, I'm
just asking because a lot of times that
all happens. I'd hate to have something
like 20 High Street happen again,
[clears throat]
but we won't go into that because that
>> like um anything if an engineer had to
look at a structure, that would be the
cost of the owner
>> because that would be the cost of the
owner because I I looked that up too and
everything that in the U owner can buy
as a condemned building and they have to
come in take out the permits and
everything else to make it right. Okay.
He hasn't pulled a permit yet, right?
Just cleaned it out.
>> Yeah, that's fine as far as that goes.
And back to that's enough. I noticed I
know one time you were talking about
with a fire truck cabin chassis, which
our fire chief brought up, which I
understand that if you're going to buy
just the cabin chassis, it's going to be
a three-year project out. To me, it
would seem like, oh, we bought the cabin
chassis, cost us 500,000. We're going to
lose a h 100,000 if we don't take it.
you have to spend the other million
dollars, towns, folks. That's just my
own personal opinion on it and looks at
it. Um, [clears throat] and the other
thing was the solar arrays and the
buildings and to come in and do an
engineering study up there. Although it
was $250, you don't have $250 in any
budget to do it. You found that out
everywhere because you had a tight
budget this year, you know. So, I would
just recommend no, we can't do that
right now. Don't spend that money
because you're going to need it
someplace else. And again, that's just
my own opinion. I'm I'm the new Ray.
>> No, you're not. You're much better
looking. I'm much better looking. You're
just glutton for punishment. For
punishment is right. But anyway, that's
my my observations and everything like
that because I was on that budget and
[clears throat] looked at it and it's a
hard thing to do and and not to say
anything against you, Kelly, because I
like you a lot, but we need to stop
pushing on things that we really don't
have to do. Just because the RSA says we
can do it, you don't have to. And do we
ever did I'll ask you folks. Did we ever
put a lean on that property yet as far
as that goes? Because if we didn't
>> what property are you talking about Gage
Street?
>> Okay. Gage Street. Okay.
>> There's a lean in place cuz
>> there's going to be We're in the
process.
>> Okay. What's to stop me going to that
person that owns it? Find them because
it has to be somebody owns it.
>> Nobody owns it.
>> What's that?
>> That's part of the problem. Nobody owns
it.
>> Somebody had been paying tax. I know the
bank was spanned. Somebody had somebody
had to pay the bank
>> for something.
>> They're dead now. But yeah, they've all
passed away.
>> They had to have something. Somebody had
some work because I remember downstairs
had a grandson that came in and you even
talked to the grandson and said they
wanted to
>> but they have to file for probate and
he's I understand that.
>> But if I myself or somebody else came in
and said, "Hey, I want to buy that
property for me. Here's $50,000. Let's
um do that."
I buy it.
>> You'd have to go to the court and
somebody's already attempted that and
the court is throwing it out.
>> No, no. I'm just saying that if I find
that person and you do that, I'm not
saying I'm going to do it. Yeah.
>> But if that person does it, then you
don't have anything on that property,
>> you lose.
>> So,
>> but but the lean's already going. The
process is being
>> But the process is in, but it's not been
done.
>> It it is it's in the works right now.
>> In the works, yes. But it has not been
done. And if it hasn't been done, that
means it hasn't been done. So you can
still sneak in under the bottom side.
I'm just saying devil's advocate because
it's been three months or two months
since you tore it down. So
>> that's all I [clears throat] got. Thank
you very much. Carry on.
>> Oh, one more thing. I still got three
and a half minutes left in the
time.
I don't want to be that guy. But, uh, if
you're going to get a laptop or
something like that, get the extra ones
they have left over. And, uh, I don't
personally on myself, I wouldn't want
it. I don't care about it. I didn't take
a salary for a year and a half.
>> I did it as a volunteer job. That's what
this what I thought it was. But that's
my own personal thing.
>> And just to come out and have it to do
whatever. And if you're doing 287 pages
that you're printing out because you're
doing research on something else that
people look at and it's like we're not
this isn't the place that we're going to
go Obamacare. We have to pass it before
we know what's in it. Thank you.
>> I won't take as much time as Bill.
Lauren Martin, 225 Water Street. Um,
couple things that I heard tonight. The
credit cards, great idea. I love that
they give rewards, but there's a lot of
other ones out there that you could use
um that would let you put those funds
toward paying your bill off, too. I
think the hard part for us is a lot of
the companies we researched required
that the credit cards were tied to
employees social security numbers. So,
if you have any recommendations that
aren't like that or open to it, um,
there was very few that we could find
that were like that. Okay.
>> So, they're corporate.
The ones that we could find were like
corporate cards.
>> Does the town not have a tax ID number?
>> It does, but those cards you had to put
the employee social security numbers on
the cards. Only certain credit cards
allow you to use the EIN.
>> So, that's what we're running into.
>> Okay. I'll let you know on that because
there's a lot of good ones out there and
I'm always kind of checking on that.
>> Um here in the conversation about uh
computers for the select board, it kind
of raised um a few other issues in my
mind as well because there's many um
departments, many committees um you
know, supervisor of the checklist when I
wear that hat. Um you know, we're all
using our own personal computers. the
town IT people have hooked us up to the
printer here for that. Um, which
potentially could be an issue for the
town because it's that's all connected
to your network. Um, so I'm not sure. I
know the state had a program with
computers. You know, they would recycle
stuff. So, I don't know if there's a way
that we could have something set up here
so that any, you know, whether it's
planning board could come in and look at
the computer or the supervisors could
use it for, you know, I mean, maybe set
up a schedule and there's three
computers or I don't know if it's in the
library. I don't know. I'm just kind of
thinking there's got to be something.
It's not just the select board that has
that need, right?
>> Um, exactly. I use my work computer,
which I'm not going to be there forever.
I use my personal computer. I bring that
here. You know, Vern, Kevin, when we're
doing supervisor, all three of us are
hooked up. Um, I did propose something
to Nicole and I'll be coming in
something for supervisors. I I think
there should be a a line item under her
budget specifically for supervisors. Um,
right now everything changed over the
last
this last year. So, um, annual
verification of voters now has to take
place where that used to be once every
10 years. Um, so that's just been coming
out a year. I'm like, I don't know who's
who's paying for this, but um, there
really should be a line item for that.
Um, I talked Nicole was looking into a
grant to get um, some iPads. I know she
was working on that. So, I don't know
where she's at in that process, but um
it makes a lot of sense to me.
>> Just to tie it to town, you know, I
mean, that's an issue with just the
safety of your network. It was just this
past uh December when you're,
>> you know, lost your server, lost a
little bit of work there.
>> Uh I had to redo a bunch of stuff. I
know wearing the other hat. Um so, it's
just would make good sense. it would be
protected. Um, you know, I don't know
about emails. Everybody's looking at
emails on their iPhone or on their, you
know,
Android phone. So, I think people are
still going to look at emails. Um, but
when you're talking, there's no way I
could look at like planning board
documents on my phone, you know. So,
>> and I don't like even looking at it on
the computer, but I I do look at it
there to do my homework, but I do print
a lot of stuff for that, too. So, I
don't want to print any more stuff. I
would like less paper. Um I think the
idea of having, you know, maybe a
central station and then be able to have
limited copies available for people to
share
>> print one plan where we all kind of look
at it or have it up on the screen. We've
been doing that a lot.
>> So something but I think maybe somewhere
whether it is the library or somewhere
in town hall where we could have a
workstation where we could have assigned
times where different committees could
use it.
it would make good sense. Um, you know,
iPad's probably not the cheapest option
out there. The Chromebook is probably
the cheapest if you're talking just
internet access. Um,
>> well, and if you book by with a school,
you could lower your costs.
>> So, yeah, because I don't know what they
use on there, but they must have
something for word processing.
>> That's really all you need.
>> They're using Google Docs and Google
Sheets and
>> Yep. So something like that where we
could get in on maybe could be a cost
savings and then have it available to
you know so that maybe ad commission
when they want to do a flyer instead of
asking town employees to do it they
could prepare their own flyer and print
it or
>> and this is so true if you had you know
access to canvas software and that sort
of thing then a lot of folks could do
some of their own stuff. Um, just
speaking from my own experience, I'm
burning through about $28 a month just
in ink. Um, plus I'm going through
several reams of paper a month because
of the all the different committees and
commissions and things need to be
printed out and they need flyers for
things and I think we all as volunteers
try to do as much as we can but there
comes a point at which you know there
needs to be uh I think more ownership by
the town of some of their responsibility
too.
>> Yeah. And I I mean even looking at the
the stuff for the annual verification
for example, you know, that's just
getting tacked onto admin budget
somewhere for for printing. I I don't
think it's being separated right now.
But I mean, it would be good for the
town to know who's printing what or how
much or what those, you know, whether
you're logging in so you have that
access. I don't know. But, you know, we
we had to mail those out. It's not going
to be a once every 10 years. We have to
print those checklists 10 times a year
now. um depending on how many elections.
It's so ridiculous. I had no idea what I
got myself into when I signed up for
this. It's a lot of work. Um and it's,
you know, changing daily.
>> It's still not there yet. They're in the
middle of waiting for one right now that
they're like it's not going to change
between this the primary and the regular
election, but we'll see.
>> It could just Yeah. So, you have to meet
so many times then you have to print
everything.
I feel bad we're printing this checklist
to add the six people we might have
added. But right
>> now we we're taking them off now which
is going to make people mad because
they're going to have to come in and
reregister this year. So
>> and they and they will be upset because
they won't remember they haven't been in
for an election or two and why am I not
on the list? I
>> even though they got the letter which
>> I'll talk to is Katie not in this week?
>> No, she's on vacation.
>> Okay. Um, oh,
okay. Brings me to another question.
But, um, I'll circle back to to Katie to
see if she can get something up on the
website, too, about voter information
out there because that is going to
happen. Maybe a banner on our website.
If you have not voted in so many years
and you got this letter and you did not
come reregister.
>> Well, and and the other thing I would
mention is something that uh someone
brought up to me last election is, and I
know we have them, I just don't know
where they are. They there were these
little flags like they have at the U
Sokco station that wave at the side of
the road.
>> Yes. Yeah. Um if we could find those
because people can't remember where
they're supposed to vote.
>> Yeah. They they like to think it's the
basement of the church.
>> We haven't been there for a very long
[clears throat] time.
>> Years. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. But if
we could find those just to stick them
out.
>> Nicole should know where they are. I
know we have them because she bought
them a few years ago. We probably hit
them very deeply, so we never pul them.
>> Maybe they got
>> thrown out
over Doorbell House. I don't know.
>> And great job everyone on the stars. I
know Katie shouldn't have had to sell
them, but I'm glad she did because I did
not get in here early enough and so she
held my star aside.
>> And they're all looking beautiful down
there in front of the Kenny's. Most of
them anyway. Well, you know, I love to
see the community participation. To me,
that's so important and I feel like we
should have maybe a few levels of
ability because, you know, the kids
really can't compete with the adults.
So, um maybe that's something for future
thought is that if we have a couple like
a kids category
>> is there. They're not doing something
like that.
>> It was my understanding they were doing
three different levels this year for the
judging, but maybe I heard wrong.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're we're working on
>> Yeah, that should definitely be
something that
>> Yeah,
>> give it a pilot try, right? Yeah,
because we did the same with the parade.
In the parade, the old days, everybody
was in the same category and then we
segregated it so that you wouldn't have
corporations competing against kids,
>> little kids who are putting together the
a great sign, but not but not anything
real high. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yep. Perfect. All right, that's it for
Lauren tonight.
>> All right. Is your birthday July 29th?
>> It is.
>> It's so weird.
>> Why?
>> Well, I just little point of fact here
and like this was this was raised to me.
Um, so her name is Lauren Jean and my
name is Lori Jean and I was born July
28th and she was born July 29th. I'm
just Isn't that
>> There's an old farmer There's an old
farmer down in um Lichfield. His last
name is Jean and his first name is
Lauren, spelled the way my mother
decided to spell my name, L O R E N.
>> So he likes to call my office every once
in a while and say Lauren Jean for
Lauren Jean. And we're like,
>> but he just thought it was very cool
because back in the day I had um a
license plate that said Laurens and so
he was he goes, "What are you doing with
my license plate?" I'm like, "That's my
license." Yeah.
>> So, yes, very funny. But
>> I did not know that.
>> Happy belated.
>> Oh, happy belated birthday to you, too.
>> I am going to call a pause for a moment.
>> Yes, please.
>> And then we will be back. So, a short
recess of five minutes.
>> Five minutes. Five minutes.
>> See?
>> Motion made by me to go into 921 91 A2C.
>> Roll call. Lor,
>> yes.
>> Josh,
>> Matt, yes.
>> So, I make a motion we come out of
non-public under RSA 91 A2C.
Um,
>> Roll call vote. Josh,
>> Lori,
>> Matt, yes. And I would make a motion to
go into non-public under RSA 91A2A.
Do I hear a second?
>> Yes. What?
>> Roll call yet. Josh Lori.