00:00:40,329 S1: I thought it was that November 3rd. 00:00:42,570 S2: No, you just got those. But I didn't get them in time to advertise for this meeting. So we'll have them on December 1st. 00:00:47,869 S1: Okay? Okay. That's fine. You just come fast in fear. 00:00:51,070 S3: All right. Good evening. 00:00:51,899 S1: Would you like this back then? I'm sorry. 00:00:53,929 S3: Sorry. Do you know where to start the Monday, November 17th Selectboard meeting? I'll call the meeting to order and we are all here, right? The three of us here. No, nobody. 00:01:05,170 S2: Nobody. 00:01:06,000 S3: All right. So no roll call vote. Other than looking at us here. All right. Favorite part of the meeting? Board and committee openings. Affordable Housing Trust has one opening. Conservation Commission has two openings. Community Preservation Committee has one opening for a member of Historic District commission. Finance Advisory Committee has two openings through the moderator. Who's here tonight? Historic District Commission has two openings for three year terms, two openings for two year terms, and one must be resident of the historic district and one must be a resident realtor. And the Human Rights Commission has two at large openings. Do we feel something? Do we feel one of the conservation? I feel like there was less. Do we fill up spot on the Conservation Commission? 00:01:52,799 S2: I think that they have an applicant. I don't I think they're still too open to that. Okay. 00:01:57,170 S3: All right. Um, we'll now time me for public comment. We will take a maximum of 30 minutes of our meeting time. No more than three minutes per speaker. Uh, the microphone is open if you'd like to come up. 00:02:13,530 S3: Joe? Anybody online? 00:02:14,629 S2: Nope. 00:02:15,300 S3: Okay. All right. We have one item on our consent agenda tonight. We have a, uh, approve minutes of the October 20th, 2025 Select board meeting. Do I have a motion? 00:02:27,430 S1: I move that we accept the meeting. We accept the consent agenda. 00:02:32,530 S3: Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Unanimous. All right. Moving on. First item on our agenda is a national grid pole hearing for Asbury Street that has been put on hold or revoked by the by the applicant. So we will move on. And that might come up in a future meeting or go away? We're not sure. The next one is also a National Grid poll hearing for Echo Cove Road location. So is the applicant here to speak to it? So come on. 00:03:09,669 S2: Up. Come on up to us. 00:03:18,129 S3: Good evening. Name and address, please. 00:03:19,770 S4: Hi. Ismail McHugh, National grid, 44 River Street. Beverly. I'm here for the public hearing for installing pole for HD one on Echo Cove Road. So we are replacing five poles and two transformers due to a system improvement for a safer power distribution. And we are here today petitioning for installing a new pole for area which will be on the west side of the road. Um, we are doing it. We are deviating our line because we need to remove a tree guy between existing pole for 79 and the tree. Doing so will put a lot of weight on pole for 79. So we decided to install, um, across the street, the pole for 81. 00:04:10,930 S3: Up on the screen. Yeah, we'll throw up on the screen real quick so you can walk through it. 00:04:14,729 S4: Of course. 00:04:27,170 S2: And that was the one that got withdrawn. This is the other one. 00:04:33,930 S2: There we go. See. So 480 is there. They're going over here to 481. Will that remove 479 as well? 00:04:41,930 S4: No we are we are keeping for 79. Um, so between 479 and there is a tree on the other side of the road. So there's a guy wire between a pole for 79 and the tree. And we have to remove the the guy, the tree guy. So that will put a lot of weight on our line. That goes from 480 for 79, for 78, etc. so we decided to deviate our lines from pole for add to the new pole for 81 one and go back to the west side of the road. And we are also not removing the pole for 79 so we can keep serving the house. 186 Eco Cove Road. 00:05:23,300 S2: So power will go, so the line will go from 480 to 481 and then connect to 478 and to 479. 00:05:29,769 S4: Correct. So the distribution and primary will go off this road. But for the 479 only the cable that will serve 186. Okay. 00:05:43,600 S2: Good. 00:05:45,399 S3: So are there any butters here tonight okay. So we'll get to that in a second. I mean, we're always in favor of getting rid of poles, not adding poles, but there's no way to get rid of a pole. 00:06:00,829 S4: Yeah. Otherwise, we will have to trench over the street and go underground for House 186. Uh, so in that case, the only way will be to stay overhead for 186. So we will keep that pole. Uh, and having the service only on that pole will not be very heavy for for 479. 00:06:23,699 S3: So I'm trying to pull up an image here, but what else is on the pole? Is there a cable and other utilities on the pole too. 00:06:30,370 S4: For the for 79? I'm not sure about if Verizon or the telco companies will stay on it. Right now they are. Uh, I don't know if the future they will keep theirs too, but we are deviating ours. And usually when we deviate, they go with us. Uh, on the on the same side. 00:06:49,069 S4: So they might keep the service for their wifi or telephone for on the same existing pole. 00:06:59,069 S3: You're back. 00:07:02,370 S3: Any questions? 00:07:05,300 S3: I'm just hesitant with the keeping the pole, but I wish I had an. I'm trying to pull up a street view. Um, does, uh, does a better want to speak? Yeah. Please. Come on. 00:07:19,000 S5: Should I? Hi. 00:07:26,500 S6: My name is Dan Kowalski. I represent Mary Monahan. Current legal owner of 186 Echo Cove Road. Um, that house actually will be transitioning to me as the legal owner in a short period of time. Uh, Mary Monahan is my mother in law, so, um, I do want to make a correction. The gentleman said that there was a guy wire from 479. There is no guy wire on for 79. The guy wire is on pole for 78. Um, I used to be on a board, and, um, one of the things that I. On that board, actually a select board, one of the things that I didn't like as well as Mr. Olsen said, is additional poles and double poles and things like that. Um, I am concerned about adding another pole there and not dealing with for 79. For 79 is right in front of my house. Um, now you're going to have wires, the power wires going from 480 to 481 and then 481 to 478. But your Comcast and Verizon wires are now appear to be unknown. Splitting maybe staying from 480 to 4 to 79 to 478. It creates a and it creates a non aesthetically pleasing environment. I think when you have multiple poles right next to each other and wires some wires traversing the street, because you're going to need to traverse a wire from 481 to 479. So it would seem logical to me that 479 should come out. And, um, unfortunately, yes. That means the power company would need to open the street, um, I believe to serve 186 I do intend to put underground, um, utilities on that property. That property is, um, going through rehab or will be rehabbed soon. Uh, and that will be my, hopefully my final home of my life, um, at that site. So, you know, I'd like to respectfully request that the board ask, um, the electric company to explore options to remove pull for 79. Uh, additionally, there is a light on for 78. I'd just like to make sure there's probably not going to be another light on for 80. Um, so I think it's a little unclear to me. Um, I think it's being done maybe most economically for, um, the electric company. I'll also highlight that I'm sure part of the reason these wires are being moved is, um, the wires are actually tightly touching a tree that is between 186 and 198 Echo Cove Road. So, um, maybe they're trying to move the wires across the street as well to, um, not have to cut down that tree, but the wires are presently touching that tree. All of the wires, the Verizon, the Comcast. So I'll respectfully request that the board, uh, define a comprehensive solution, which would include, um, required changes for Verizon and Comcast if we're going to have another poll on Echo Cove Road. Happy to take any questions if you if you have any questions for me. I pulled out the chair. 00:10:51,570 S3: I pulled up the Google street so I can see exactly what you're talking about. It's very clear what you're talking about. Yeah. How does the how does the how the house is on the other side of the street get currently fed underground? There's any wires crossing the street anywhere? 00:11:09,330 S6: They must be overhead. I don't even. 00:11:11,169 S4: Know. Everything here is overhead. I mean, maybe you are talking about 187 and 175. Yeah, everything is overhead, so. Yeah. 00:11:20,929 S3: I just don't see it. 00:11:22,169 S2: Yeah. When I was there and 175 is there, but I don't see it doesn't look like there's any wires across the street to 187 175. 00:11:29,399 S3: Yeah. There's no. 00:11:30,269 S2: It's in this. 00:11:30,769 S3: Image. Oh here they are. Further down there. Further down the street okay. 00:11:36,399 S3: So yeah. Thank you, thank you thanks. Thank you. So I continue the conversation with gentleman from National Grid. So is that something that you could entertain. 00:11:47,230 S4: Yes. So there is a way to go underground for what it is. Six Echo Cove. As I said before, the first one will be to remove Paul for 79 and then trench over the public way from 480 to the house. And the second option would be more aesthetic will be to keep for 79 and then from 79 underground to the house. This is something a lot of houses do, especially in Gloucester and Rockport right now. But we can also go from the other side. But that will be I think I still have to check with our team, but it might be on the customers side to pay. 00:12:26,570 S3: To go under the street. 00:12:27,570 S4: Yes. 00:12:28,200 S3: Because and and once again, you can't use that pole because too much stress on the trying to figure out what you. 00:12:34,970 S4: Need for both reasons. The first one because there is a tree behind. So where the 481 is behind it. On the west side there is a tree and there is a guy wire between the three and 479. And we have to remove that guy wire. It's not in the standards anymore. We're not touching the trees anymore. And for that reason, it's putting a lot of weight on for 79. And the second thing will be. 00:13:01,169 S3: We think there's a guide wire too, for sure. Have you been out there to look at it and seen it? 00:13:04,299 S4: Yes. Yes, sir. And there is. And maybe if you have Google Street View, I can show you. It doesn't show much until you see it. 00:13:12,970 S2: We have Google Street View. You want to come? All right. Come over here. 00:13:16,570 S4: Can I. 00:13:19,000 S2: Go? Go. 00:13:20,370 S3: Here you go. On this side. No. It's fine. You can go on this side. So this is the pole right here. 00:13:26,470 S2: 79. 00:13:30,330 S7: This is. It's coming through. 00:13:33,500 S7: So it's probably a lot of weight. 00:13:35,799 S3: That pole right there. Right? 00:13:37,470 S7: No, actually. 00:13:40,529 S5: Go to the other one on this side. You will see it from here. And if can see. 00:13:48,399 S5: A lot of it. 00:13:51,629 S5: Here. 00:13:54,870 S5: I'm trying to find which one that is. Sorry. That is so much. 00:14:01,769 S2: Oh, there it is. You see it to the right. Oh, no. 00:14:09,870 S7: Right there. 00:14:10,970 S4: No, it's not this one. We have another. 00:14:12,600 S5: Call. 00:14:12,870 S4: That has from the. 00:14:13,730 S5: Top. 00:14:14,600 S4: That goes overhead to the. 00:14:15,769 S5: Tree. 00:14:16,370 S3: Look, look, see right here. There's there's 479. 00:14:19,399 S2: And there's the wire right there behind it. Your finger is just on the wire right now. Right there. No. Right. 00:14:23,730 S4: No, we do have another right there. 00:14:25,529 S2: That is a wire right there. That's a tree. That's a. 00:14:27,970 S3: Tree. Yeah. 00:14:29,330 S5: No, but there's also. 00:14:30,799 S2: I. 00:14:31,330 S5: Don't know much, but there is a wire that goes from the top and to the tree. So. 00:14:37,000 S3: So what's your timing on this? I mean, obviously we're talking about the first time tonight. When, when are you going to do the work? If we wanted to look at this further. 00:14:44,029 S5: Um. 00:14:47,429 S4: So if we got the petition today, I would say between 2 and 3 months, our team will be there and replace all the poles and install the new one, uh, on the street. 00:14:57,299 S3: So we will if we put this off for a couple of weeks to talk about this further. 00:15:00,330 S2: We have a meeting. We have another meeting on December 1st. And I think that given the discrepancy in the photo, would be advantageous for the board to have a visual. 00:15:08,500 S4: All right. I can come back with visuals too. Of course, sir. Yeah. 00:15:11,700 S1: And you would come back with, uh, proposals for the other options. You would talk to us about that and why one would be better than the other, as. 00:15:22,029 S4: I can check with my team and see if there is any more proposal we can bring with. Yes, of course. 00:15:28,070 S1: So something that's maybe just explored a little bit more so that we can understand. 00:15:32,899 S5: Of course. 00:15:33,769 S1: I think this is the best option. 00:15:35,370 S4: Yes of course. 00:15:37,230 S3: Thank you. Thank you. I just want to make sure we're doing the right thing for the better. 00:15:41,669 S6: Um, yeah. I mean, I've never seen a guy wire on 479. There is definitely a guy wire on 478 that is going to a tree. Um, on 175 Echo Cove Road. The folks cut down a tree. Um, they had to leave a stump that's about 20ft tall because of the guy wire that's going into the tree. But that goes to poll for 78. So, um, I do respectfully request you extended, and let's make sure we kind of do this right. Please. 00:16:14,230 S3: We'll come back in two weeks. 00:16:15,470 S6: Happy to. 00:16:16,429 S3: And, um, so you'll come back with the proposal and then do we want to look at engineering for keeping for 79 and seeing if, I mean, your engineers have looked at every option to keep for 79, and there's no way to keep it without adding. 00:16:29,830 S4: Yes. I will still have to check with our engineers. She's the one who did the design. Uh, if there is any way we can remove for 79, that's all we will. Okay. Otherwise, we will come back with more solutions. 00:16:41,870 S3: I appreciate that. 00:16:42,629 S4: Of course. 00:16:43,169 S2: Thank you. 00:16:43,870 S6: Yeah. If we could figure out the whole Verizon and Comcast thing, too, because I don't think we want two poles with two separate sets of utilities serving the same neighborhood. 00:16:55,230 S3: So I had to be a mess, right? No, we're trying to get things less of things, but. 00:16:58,129 S6: Magnificent. 00:16:58,769 S3: Thank you. Thank you for coming. All right. Thank you. 00:17:04,170 S7: Thank you. 00:17:05,069 S3: Anything else on that one? 00:17:06,029 S7: Nope. 00:17:06,430 S2: Looks like we'll move on to the next thing. 00:17:08,329 S3: Yeah, I'm glad we have Google. I'm glad we got Google earlier. 00:17:11,130 S8: That was really all right. 00:17:12,069 S3: Three for you. All right. Um, next item on the agenda is tax classification and tax rate setting with Director of assessment. Uh, Jean Louis. Hi, Jane. 00:17:23,369 S8: Um. 00:17:24,700 S1: So this is the event where you vote on exemptions. 00:17:31,029 S9: And you also vote on the residential factor. So the board of assessors will go over that with you and the other two owners are Josh Hochman and Chris Campos. Oh, boy. 00:17:46,869 S3: Okay. 00:17:52,529 S10: We've been here before. 00:17:54,829 S3: Um. 00:17:59,400 S10: My my cohorts, Josh Jackman and Chris. Um, I almost said Connelly. Sorry. Campbell are here. Uh, and before we get to that, I got to tell you that Jane has been the head assessor for over a year now. She is unbelievable. She gets things done. She has grown into the job. I frequently go to visit one of my kids on Saturdays. I ride by the patent homestead. It seems like her car is there. More often than not, she gets things done and I'm just blown away by how much work she has done and how she's gotten the job done. It's amazing. So without further ado. 00:18:43,069 S1: Thank you. I've always known Jane was the power behind that assessor's office. 00:18:48,369 S10: Well, what's happened is that I've become her arm candy. 00:18:54,170 S10: Okay, so we've got the the factors that we go through every year and we can possibly have open space. We can have a residential exemption, we can have a small commercial exemption. And none of those things have ever worked. Any time anybody has studied them, they've seen that they are useless in our small town, and that what we need to do is adopt a residential factor of one, which is. 00:19:23,430 S2: Given right off skipping four. 00:19:26,130 S10: I have skipped right ahead because. 00:19:29,329 S2: I try to keep up for everybody. 00:19:30,700 S10: Else. If anybody has questions, I'll be. I was going to say happy to talk. I will discuss it with you in detail, but believe me, a residential factor of one is what all towns the size of Hambleton have, and that's what works. And so that's what I would recommend that you do. And if you would like to vote on that right now, I would then give an explanation of our tax rates. Summary if you so choose. Otherwise I can sit down and shut up. 00:19:58,970 S3: Is this any different than what we've seen previously? This slide deck seems pretty similar. So it's the same. It's the same deck, correct. 00:20:05,000 S10: It's the same same stuff. 00:20:06,569 S3: So unchanged. 00:20:08,269 S10: You need to make a. 00:20:09,529 S7: Or is there a difference on the last slide. Of course. Yeah. 00:20:12,170 S3: Right. Yes. No I get that. Yeah. 00:20:17,599 S10: On the tax rate summary if you want I can just go over that very briefly before we have a vote. Yes please. So that'll be the you want to skip to the slide. Yeah. Okay. Um, the main thing I'd like you to turn your attention to is to go to the bottom column, the bottom lines in the last column and the dollar sign, the dollar change in median single family tax bill, and I prefer the median over the average because the average is skewed by high properties, high end properties, as well as very low end properties. So the median is a much more reliable measure of what is going on. And what we can see is that the median single family tax bill is going to increase $261, which is less than 3%, and which is, I believe, less than the rate of inflation. Uh, the way we've had that occur is that we've raised values across the board, across the town, some neighborhoods more than others. The town is divided up into neighborhoods for assessing purposes. And some neighborhoods went up three, 4 or 5%. Others went up five, six, 7%. The idea being that we're trying to catch up to the values that have increased, uh, that started during Covid, uh, during fiscal 24, 25, values have been relatively stable. But what we consistently see is that prices exceed assessed values. And that's something that's frowned upon by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. So we are doing our best to get our values in line with the assessed the assessments, with the sale prices of values. And my own downtown neighborhood was increased as much as anyone, because what I saw in my neighborhood that you had a lot of sales for 7000 900,000 that were assessed at five, six, 700,000. So we've got to catch up, and that's what we've been doing. So the assessments across the board were raised. That resulted in a relatively modest increase in the tax rate. Excuse me, a decrease in the tax rate from 1565 per thousand to 1504 per thousand. So the tax rate has gone down. The the median tax bill went up slightly but less than the rate of inflation. And um. Anything else I can illuminate. By all means ask away. 00:22:52,099 S3: Don't make sense. Yeah, right. Just because the tax rate went down doesn't mean our taxes go down. Because our price of the value of the house goes up. Right? So that's correct. Balance. 00:23:00,069 S10: Well, in an ideal world, if you whatever you raise the assessments, it would lower the tax. Excuse me. If you if the assessments go up, the tax rate would go down and the tax bill would stay the same if the town spent the same. 00:23:18,769 S3: Same. 00:23:19,369 S10: But that doesn't happen. 00:23:22,700 S2: Not for lack of trying. 00:23:24,730 S10: I concur, and I. 00:23:27,029 S3: Thought you said it's less than the rate of inflation, so yeah. 00:23:30,700 S10: I. And if anybody has any complaints or concerns, they can talk. Ahead of time if you want to file for an abatement. The month of January is the time to do it. The deadline is February 1st unless it falls on a Saturday. In which case it's the third or whatever it is. But I just tell people apply in the month of January the tax, the form is available online. You can download it, fill it out. If you need any help, call the office. Somebody will help you. Call me. I'll help you. Well, this is all about fairness to us. We want everyone to be assessed fairly. But please keep in mind that if you have an issue with your assessment and as we mentioned last year, you should double check that you aren't under assessed for some reason. For example, if your assessor field card, which you can print out by yourself at home, everything's available online, you should go over the field card and you should check to see if the data is accurate so that you know, if you think, well, I'm being over assessed on something, some porch or whatever, or the condition you want to keep in mind that if you have three bathrooms and the assessor card says two, when we are going to come out to inspect your property one way or another, if you file for an abatement, and if we find that third bathroom, it's possible that your application for an abatement is going to result in an increase in taxes. So you want to double check your data to make sure it's accurate, and you don't want to shoot yourself in the foot. Okay. 00:25:08,430 S2: So the board needs two votes, one to accept the assessor's recommendation of a residential factor of one, and one to accept the the assessor's tax rate of 15.4% dollar value. 00:25:24,400 S3: Any questions when we vote. 00:25:29,269 S3: Any public comment? 00:25:33,200 S3: Okay, so I have a motion. I'll accept a motion to accept the factor of one. 00:25:39,900 S11: For residential. 00:25:40,730 S3: Or residential factor of one. 00:25:44,400 S1: So moved. 00:25:45,200 S3: Okay. Do I have a second? 00:25:46,400 S7: Second. 00:25:47,299 S3: Any further discussion or questions? All those in favor say aye. 00:25:50,170 S7: Aye. 00:25:50,569 S3: Aye. And I'll take another motion to accept the 2026 tax rate of $15.04. 00:25:58,569 S3: $0.04. 00:25:59,799 S1: I move that we accept the 2026 tax rate of $15.04 per thousand. Per thousand. 00:26:08,069 S3: I have a second. 00:26:08,769 S7: Second. 00:26:09,299 S3: Any further questions or discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Thank you. 00:26:25,730 S3: Next item. Sale of bonds With treasurer collector Peggy McLaughlin and assistant town manager for finance Wendy Markowitz. 00:26:38,700 S2: Makes the dream work. 00:26:44,430 S3: If you can pull up that. 00:26:52,200 S7: Fact that I do. 00:26:53,799 S12: I'll take the wheel. 00:26:56,470 S2: I'm gonna have to get clean. 00:26:57,400 S13: I have Peggy McLaughlin, the treasure collector. We are just here to have you guys signed your life away to a 1.5 million bond that we just got approved. Fidelity capital just bought. We got a 3.419723 00:27:13,200 S13: rate and 127,653 00:27:18,269 S13: 65 and premiums. So the town did really well on its bonding. And we this is the last bonding we need to finish the town hall renovation. 00:27:28,829 S14: This is through CPA. 00:27:29,970 S13: CPA Community Preservation Act. So that doesn't increase anybody's taxes or any of those lovely things. 00:27:39,200 S3: So do I have not approved too many of those or what else we need to look at on this. 00:27:43,970 S2: Dramatic reading here? 00:27:45,329 S13: Yes. Rosemary has to read the acceptance of the bond. It's Joe has it in his packet. 00:27:51,869 S14: There should be a summary version. 00:27:54,170 S2: You gotta. I think you have to read the whole vote. 00:27:57,470 S3: I got to start right here. I get the part here. 00:28:01,970 S1: Start with the. 00:28:02,529 S2: Vote. 00:28:02,930 S3: Right here you go. All the way through. 00:28:05,769 S2: Yes. It's a couple of pages. It's a couple pages. 00:28:08,599 S13: It is. It's very wordy. 00:28:11,069 S2: Do you want that? 00:28:11,529 S13: I know the last time. 00:28:12,900 S3: There we go. 00:28:13,500 S12: Thank you. 00:28:16,200 S2: Okay, everybody, bear with her. It's going to be a minute. 00:28:18,200 S12: Clerk. 00:28:18,730 S1: That's why. 00:28:19,529 S12: Yes. 00:28:20,569 S13: And there are two separate signatures. 00:28:21,930 S3: You have to read all the numbers. Like per line per year. 00:28:24,500 S2: I know just where it says voted and then further voted. Um, and then I would refer. 00:28:31,170 S1: Further voted. Further voted. 00:28:33,630 S2: Yeah. 00:28:34,069 S13: And then I don't have one. 00:28:35,500 S3: I gave it to you. So you can skip the numbers and the dates. Be able to say all the text. 00:28:38,769 S1: Holy bananas. 00:28:40,170 S12: Okay. 00:28:40,869 S1: And then I further certified. Do I. 00:28:43,200 S2: Need. Yep. 00:28:43,970 S3: Yep. 00:28:44,869 S1: All right, everybody, brace yourselves. Holy Mecca. Okay. Um, do I need to read the first paragraph? I the clerk? 00:28:55,869 S12: Yes. 00:28:56,200 S1: There we go. Okay. Uh, the clerk of the Select board of the town of Hamilton, Massachusetts, otherwise known as the town, certified that at a meeting of the board held November 17th, 2025, of which all members of the board were duly notified in which a quorum was present? The following. The following votes were unanimously passed, all of which appear upon the official record of the board in my custody. Voted that the sale of the 4 or 5 million general obligation of the Town Hall bonds of the town dated November 25th, 2025, for hereafter referred to as the Bonds to Fidelity Capital Markets, a division of National Financial Security. National Financial Services LLC, at the price of $1,569,751.15 00:29:56,470 S1: and accrued interest, if any. Is hereby approved and confirmed, the bond shall be payable on October 15th of the year and in the principal amounts, and bear interest at the respective rates as follows. Further voted that the boards that the bonds maturing on October 15th, 2020, 39, October 15th, 2041 and October 15th, 45 each. A term bond shall be subject to mandatory redemption or mature as follows. 00:30:32,869 S12: I don't believe that. Correct. Okay. Are you good? 00:30:37,269 S1: I do. 00:30:39,230 S2: You can move on to that. 00:30:40,799 S13: She doesn't have to read that. 00:30:41,670 S1: Further voted that in connection with the marketing and sale of the bonds. The preparation and distribution. Distribution of a notice of sale and preliminary official statement dated October 29th, 2025 and a final official statement dated November 4th, 2025 here and after the official statement, each and such form as may be approved by the Town Treasurer be and hereby are ratified, confirmed, approved and adopted. Further voted that the bonds shall be subject to redemption at the option of the town upon such terms and conditions as are set forth in the official statement. Further voted at the Town treasurer and the Select Board. B and hereby are authorized to execute and deliver a Continuing Disclosure Undertaking in compliance with SEC. Rule 15 c two dash 12, in such form as may be approved by bond counsel to the town, which undertaking shall be incorporated by reference in the bonds, as applicable, for the benefit of the holders of the bonds from time to time. Further voted that we authorize and direct the Town Treasurer to establish post insurance, federal tax, tax, compliance procedures and continuing disclosure procedures in such forms as the Town Treasurer and Bond Council deemed sufficient, or if such procedures are currently in place, to review and update said procedures. In order to monitor and maintain the tax exempt status of the bonds and to comply with the relevant securities laws further voted that any securities or documents relating to the bonds, collectively called the documents, may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be regarded as an original and all of which shall constitute one in the same document. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to a document by electronic mail, in a PDF file, or by other electronic transmission, shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart signature page to such document, and electronic signatures on any of the documents shall be deemed original signatures for the purposes of the documents, and all matters relating thereto having the same legal effect as original signatures. Further voted that each member of the Select Board, the Town Clerk and the Town treasurer b and hereby are authorized to take any and all such actions and execute and deliver such certificates, receipts, or other documents as may be determined by them or any of them, to be necessary or convenient to carry into effect the provisions of the foregoing votes. I further certify that the votes were taken at a meeting open to the public, and that no vote was taken by secret ballot. That a notice stating the place, date, time and agenda for the meeting, which agenda included the adoption of the above votes, was filed with the Town Clerk and a copy thereof posted in a manner conspicuously visible to the public at all hours in or on the municipal building. That the office of the Town Clerk is located, or, if applicable, in attendance, with the alternative method of notice prescribed or approved by the Attorney General As set forth in 940 CMR 29.03 to be at least 48 hours, not including Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays prior to the time of the meeting, and remain so posted at the time of the meeting that no deliberations or decisions in connection with the sale of the bonds were taken in executive session. All. All in accordance with G.L. chapter 38, sections eight, three, 18 through 25, as amended. 00:34:55,730 S12: Perfect. 00:34:57,369 S13: Now, you don't have to sign that page next to Bill. There's so 45 signature pages that all three of you have to sign for the bond that I will overnight tomorrow to our bond council. 00:35:10,869 S2: The ones that say there's. 00:35:12,630 S13: Two that are just for clerk. 00:35:14,199 S2: And the rest require all. 00:35:15,869 S13: Three signatures. 00:35:16,769 S1: So I don't need to. 00:35:17,429 S12: Sign this one. It's just. 00:35:19,130 S2: Those. 00:35:19,369 S12: That. 00:35:19,630 S1: I signed in. 00:35:20,369 S12: The yellow vote. Yeah. 00:35:21,869 S2: You have to vote. Correct? Yep. That's a lot. Okay. 00:35:24,269 S3: So what's the motion, Joe? 00:35:28,269 S2: Just a motion to accept the. 00:35:32,829 S13: Sale of. 00:35:33,130 S2: The bond as proposed. And the. 00:35:35,670 S3: What was the motion to accept the sale of bonds as proposed in the vote, as read by the clerk of the Select Board. 00:35:43,530 S2: So moved. 00:35:44,900 S1: Second. 00:35:46,429 S3: Any further discussions or questions? Any public comment? I think it's a great rate. 00:35:53,769 S12: So yeah we did. 00:35:55,300 S13: We did really. 00:35:55,829 S12: Well. 00:35:56,170 S3: Well done. 00:35:56,699 S12: Yeah. 00:35:57,429 S3: All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. 00:36:01,130 S12: Thank you. 00:36:01,570 S13: Thank you very much. 00:36:02,469 S3: So we'll sign them after the meeting and get them to Joe. 00:36:04,570 S13: Perfect. 00:36:06,829 S12: Through 25 copies. I'll start now. 00:36:12,530 S2: All right. 00:36:12,769 S3: Next item on agenda is authorized temporary license for National Grid, a town hall property discussing vote. So no, sorry, I skipped one. Forgot to finalize the warrant first finalize the warrant and vote recommendations for December 9th, 2025 special Town meeting. So last time we had tabled the recognition for the vote because we were hoping to actually get all five members here, but we went from 4 to 3, so we went there. 00:36:38,170 S8: Do it now. 00:36:38,869 S3: We do it now. So we're still going to do the recommendations tonight. It'll be quicker. And then we had a couple things we were gonna enjoy reminding the couple they were that we had wanted to have further. And I think we needed further text or further verification on. 00:36:52,329 S2: So you all know everything you the updated most up to date version of the warrant is in front of you in written form and printed form. I printed one out for each of you. There were several comments and highlighted areas that have been noted by Town council. Tom McKinney, who joins us on zoom, and Wendy and Mark Conners, the planning director. We have filled in all of we've answered all those comments and highlights, and the version in front of you is complete except for the zoning. The planning board is meeting tomorrow evening and planning to finalize their zoning and recommendations. At this point, I would suggest that when we get to that article, the board discussed the possibility of making a recommendation before town meeting. Since you don't have the final zoning to look at, and you won't have the benefit of the Planning Board's decision to support whatever decision you want, you may make. Uh. 00:37:44,670 S3: Okay. 00:37:48,269 S2: Just for people watching at home, the version that is on the screen and is being broadcast on zoom is not the most recent version. This went into the packet that went out to the select board last week. But as I said, since last Thursday till today, we did a lot of work on it and the award is in final form, except for the zoning, which will be in an appendix to the actual document. 00:38:07,300 S3: Okay, so besides recommendation, do we need to vote on anything else? 00:38:16,469 S2: No. You need recommendations. And I would note that the Income Finance Advisory Committee has voted. Um. Oh, let me put that in. Okay. The finance and Advisory Committee voted unanimously three to nothing in favor of all five articles on the board. Okay. 00:38:31,969 S3: And the other thing we asked fin com to look at was we had a resident make a recommendation if it made sense to put the funds from the Gordon Conwell, um, development agreement into a separate account or not. And I'm not sure if we have any. I know we may, even if we were going to do that, we might necessarily put that on the warrant for this meeting. But I didn't know if you guys had a chance to talk about it and had any sort of thoughts for us. Do you want to say yes or no? 00:39:05,869 S10: I apologize, we did meet, but we did. 00:39:08,530 S15: Not talk about it. Okay. Um, we do have an opportunity to do that. Um, Wednesday night Before we adjourn from the five chairs meeting. But, um, my personal opinion is this is a seminal moment for the town, and I, I personally feel that it probably warrants to be segregated. Um, in a separate account, similar to what was done for the patent homestead. So that's my thought, but I will address it, uh, with the other Finkle members. Either way, the funds are not going to get lost, dispersed, erroneously, mysteriously, or anything else. But it is sort of a seminal moment for the town. So that's sort of my personal point of different funds. 00:39:57,699 S3: Do we have like this? I mean, you mentioned Pat and but are there other funds like that? 00:40:03,500 S12: We have many special ribbons. 00:40:05,469 S3: Sorry. 00:40:06,070 S15: Yeah. 00:40:07,769 S3: I have people at home listening and I apologize. 00:40:11,070 S14: I should know better. We have multiple special revenue funds, grant funds, trust funds. So it's not an ordinary to set up another fund. 00:40:19,929 S15: It's a little extra work. 00:40:21,469 S14: It's extra work. And we will need your vote to set up the fund and put the money there. 00:40:26,369 S3: But who needs a vote? 00:40:28,530 S2: It'd have to be a town meeting vote. 00:40:30,670 S14: Um, I think it's just a select board vote to set up the fund. Fund revenue? Special fund. 00:40:36,269 S2: Maybe it'll be general fund revenue. And it'll have to be designated by town meeting to be put into a separate account. 00:40:41,429 S12: Okay. 00:40:42,099 S14: John knows better. 00:40:43,130 S3: We'll talk about you. Talk about what we're gonna do. We'll make sure it's on the agenda for town meeting and town meeting. But it's something that we should do. We should do it. But I don't want to screw it up by rushing it. 00:40:53,329 S15: Yeah, I completely agree. And we'll we'll get in front of the fink on. Okay. 00:41:03,429 S3: Anything else from the board before we go? Article by article. Bill bowler. Anything that we need to consider. 00:41:12,630 S12: I just. 00:41:13,769 S2: Emphasized that. 00:41:16,099 S16: I was confused so that the special town meeting is on Tuesday night. It's not a Monday night. I was on the ground. 00:41:26,900 S17: On Monday night. 00:41:28,670 S3: Okay. 00:41:29,170 S16: That's correct. So I think you're getting the word out. That's important because it stuck to you. 00:41:36,469 S3: Okay. 00:41:37,300 S2: I think it would be a great point to bring up. I'm probably contact the HW news and ask them to help us by doing a special story about the special town meeting in advance of the special town meeting, and make sure everybody. 00:41:47,900 S3: Knows that's a great idea. 00:41:48,829 S2: We really need the need the community to come out and turn out for this special town meeting so that we have a quorum and we have a that's true. 00:41:56,469 S3: It's a we have a great thing to that we're going to do. So make sure we come out of the ninth and votes. So but yeah, that's Tuesday, December 9th at. 00:42:07,829 S2: 7 a.m. at. 00:42:08,570 S3: 7 p.m., 7. 00:42:09,400 S2: P.m.. And it'll be at the It'll be at the regional high school in the cafeteria, not the auditorium. Okay. 00:42:20,400 S18: If I may obnoxiously speak from the audience, I believe the paper is planning a story on that meeting. Okay. And it will likely be prominently featured. Well, and that. 00:42:34,369 S2: For people who don't know, that is the editor in chief of the Hamilton Welcome News. So Eric Convy assuring us that he will provide press coverage. 00:42:43,769 S3: Okay. As well as other other media in town. We'll make sure it gets pushed out. Yeah. Okay. And because we're voting as we go through this, I just want to do public comment now because we're going to vote as we go through the recommendations, any public comment before we start voting on recommendations? Yeah. Okay. So we're going to go. I think we should go article by article and we should. Um, I'll I ask a motion recommending favorable action. And then we'll. And then we'll vote at that point. Um, articles. Uh, and, Joe, we plan on doing a report. 00:43:25,670 S2: Uh, one of the reasons I made sure to invite the moderator is to see if he wanted to open something up. There are no boards of committees that I know of the need to provide a report at this time. So. But it's a part of our standard warrant. So you can just pass over that. You can inform us if you plan to pass over that here. Same for the next article. One. 00:43:45,429 S3: Same. Yeah. We're not planning doing any consent motion because they're all individual articles that are quite different. So we were not and they're not that many. We're not going to do a consent motion. Okay. So our article 20 2512 2-1 prior year bills. We talked about this last time and we explained that there was a couple larger I think it was a legal bill and another bill that were $26,000. So obviously we need to pay these bills. So do I have a motion recommending favorable action to pay prior year bills for article 20 2512 2-1. 00:44:24,730 S6: I'll make a motion that. 00:44:25,929 S19: The board propose recommend favorable action for article two. Dash one. 00:44:32,869 S3: Second. 00:44:33,730 S12: Second. 00:44:34,199 S3: Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye aye aye. So three zero. 00:44:42,900 S3: Article so I can make the motion. You can move it or you can make the motion. We'll make it quicker. You make the motion you can just move it. 00:44:50,400 S19: Uh I'll make a motion that the select board recommend favorable action for article 2-2. 00:44:58,699 S3: Um, do I have a second? 00:45:00,170 S12: Second. 00:45:01,329 S3: Uh, any further discussion? This motion is for the, uh, funding CPC funding for town hall. For another $250 in a contingency fund. 00:45:15,570 S3: Um, any further discussion about that? All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. 00:45:21,829 S3: On to the next one. 00:45:24,670 S19: Um, I'll make a motion for that. The select board recommend favorable action for article 3-1. 00:45:32,099 S3: Do I have a second? 00:45:32,829 S12: Second. 00:45:33,630 S3: Any further discussion? This article is for the extension of the lease of the cell phone tower, which gives the Selectboard some flexibility to negotiate the sale of a lease in the future, which might be a benefit for the town in terms of monetizing our assets. Um, all those in favor say aye. Aye aye. 00:45:54,300 S12: Okay. 00:46:02,869 S2: This is the, uh, National grid easement. 00:46:04,469 S16: Right at the. 00:46:04,869 S3: Bottom. So you get a. 00:46:06,500 S19: Oh, yeah. Um, I'll make a motion that the select board recommend. Favorable action for article three. Two. 00:46:14,869 S12: Second. 00:46:15,369 S3: Second. Any further discussion? This article is for the ability for, uh, mass electric, also known as National Grid, to run power. Um, underneath, between the pole and the town hall. And requires an easement. Um, all those in favor say aye. 00:46:35,099 S12: All right. 00:46:39,570 S3: And the last one. 00:46:43,099 S3: We'll table the make a motion. Just make a motion, and we'll. 00:46:46,730 S19: Uh. So a motion that we are going to vote on the floor or. 00:46:50,769 S3: Just to make that motion. Yeah. 00:46:52,699 S19: Uh, I'll make a motion that the select board, uh, recommend action on article four one at town meeting. 00:47:01,400 S3: Five second. 00:47:02,199 S12: Second. 00:47:02,869 S3: Any further discussion? So, as Joe recommended, we'll have the language. Hopefully within the week we can review it at our. 00:47:10,599 S10: Hopefully. 00:47:10,900 S2: By Wednesday morning. 00:47:12,070 S3: And uh. 00:47:13,400 S9: So. 00:47:13,630 S1: Do we. 00:47:13,829 S12: Need to. 00:47:14,570 S3: So. 00:47:15,170 S1: Table that. So what are. 00:47:16,199 S12: We going to. 00:47:16,829 S3: Make a motion. 00:47:17,800 S2: You made a motion that you'll make a motion at Tommy. Okay. Assuming that my my my assumption is that if the if things go well tomorrow night that you're meeting on the December 1st, you can make a motion to make a recommendation for favorable action and then deliver that at town meeting. But the warrant will already be posted. Notice will already been provided to residents. So it won't go into the warrant book. But you'll you can vote that on December 1st at your next meeting. 00:47:44,230 S3: All those in favor say aye. Aye aye. 00:47:46,469 S12: Aye. 00:47:47,500 S3: Okay. And Joe, so what else we need to do. When do we need to sign the warranty. 00:47:52,869 S2: So I have a copy of a signature page here for you this evening. Um, where kind of can you get into the. We have to be done on on Friday of this week so that we can pull it all together. Have the QR code, have the postcards printed, everything else. So I would ask you, since you've made recommendations, that you could do that. The problem is the planning board's recommendations won't be in it unless and it's only on one article. The planning board only has a recommendation on one article, so you could sign that warrant. Book one page here tonight. I have one for you that we can then have the town clerk post next Tuesday morning after everything is done, but otherwise we'd have to have you. 00:48:36,099 S3: Come by town by town hall. Okay. 00:48:38,000 S1: I I'm okay. 00:48:39,300 S12: With signing it. Okay. 00:48:40,800 S2: I have it here for you tonight, so. 00:48:41,969 S12: Okay. 00:48:42,599 S3: And then do we need to sign? Who's going to talk. Do we need to do the script tonight? 00:48:46,300 S2: We can do that in the meeting on the first. 00:48:50,000 S3: Yeah. Bill, please. 00:48:58,369 S16: Go. Boulder. Moderator. Just a reminder to all boards or anyone that wants to have a handout or a slide at town meeting. They need to submit it from my review by December 1st. 00:49:13,429 S2: And to clarify, you're talking about items that. 00:49:15,099 S6: Are on the. 00:49:15,829 S16: Items on the warrant. 00:49:17,570 S2: Regular report. 00:49:18,070 S16: Right. So okay. That's all. 00:49:21,000 S3: Thank you. So do the script on the next meeting and. 00:49:29,170 S3: Anything else? All right. Moving right along. Uh, next item on the agenda is the authorized temporary license for National grid at Town Hall property. So this is a carryover. 00:49:43,429 S2: From, I think, unless you have something to add, Tom McEnany, you're free to go. Sorry. That, uh. Sorry, I didn't have to ask you a question. 00:49:50,630 S20: Oh, no. That's okay. Thank you. Have a good night. And Joe wants, um, the final version of the warrants available. If you could just send it to me and I'll prepare the script. 00:49:58,070 S2: Will do. 00:49:59,170 S20: Okay. Thanks. Have a good night, everybody. 00:50:01,170 S12: Good night. Tom. 00:50:01,969 S6: Thank you. 00:50:03,269 S3: So next item is the carryover from what we just talked about which is the easement. But in the meantime and Joe can walk us through the mechanics of it. But Joe needs a license in order for the to, to to move the easement forward. So kind of Joe, walk us through the mechanics of it. 00:50:17,199 S2: So the, the issue is that we, you know, we're at this point in the town hall project where we don't want things to stop. That building is going to need power so that the contractors can start to move inside and complete their work. And National Grid wanted an easement, but we can't complete the easement until after a special time meeting on December 9th. I proposed to them that we do a license, which by rule I could sign, but the license they sent over had space for your signatures, not mine. So I thought we'd bring it to you and ask you to accept the easement and vote to sign it tonight, and then we can return it to them tomorrow, and then they can go ahead and start scheduling the work so we don't delay ourselves another 2 or 3 weeks waiting for that. 00:50:55,929 S3: So we're not authorizing you to sign. We're actually signing it. 00:50:57,800 S2: You can actually sign it yourself. And I have that here this evening as well. 00:51:00,130 S3: All right. So I have a motion to authorize temporary license for National Grid at Town Hall property. 00:51:04,829 S12: So moved. 00:51:05,829 S19: Second. 00:51:06,599 S3: Any further discussion? 00:51:08,269 S1: Just a question. This license will only be effective until the easement is passed. Hopefully at a special town meeting. Okay. That's fine. 00:51:18,769 S3: Those in favor say aye. 00:51:20,030 S19: Aye aye. 00:51:23,230 S3: All right. An important one, but the tough one we're going to actually work through. So this room will be undergoing some renovation, some improvements. 00:51:35,199 S2: So the the library. 00:51:36,670 S3: Is in January. 00:51:37,829 S2: Exactly. Library is undergoing renovations to their HVAC system. Uh, I guess understanding what I've understood is that a good deal of the mechanicals of that are in the ceiling in this room. This is all going to be torn down, and this room is not going to be habitable during that period of time. So we won't be able to conduct our meetings here. We don't have another fully, um, remote option. the, you know, option to do hybrid meetings anywhere else in town until the town hall gets completed. We are. So I want to discuss with you. I wanted you to know the US town of Wenham and Hamilton Planning Board are no longer going to be able to do our meetings here in January and February. Wanted to see if you wanted to discuss the possibility of either moving to a different location. Uh, some of those locations could be the multi-purpose room at the middle school, the Council on Aging. Um, or you could go completely zoom for those meetings in January or February, I would say, with the caveat that, uh, the second meeting in January is scheduled to be the presentation of the FY 27 budget and capital plan, and that meeting usually gets a good turnout. We have all the department heads there. You're here. The fin con will be here. Um, I would ask you to also direct me to either use either the multi-purpose room at the middle school because it has ample room or potentially if the community house is available, it would be a good public space where people could come. We could have an audience and have a presentation. The only problem with that meeting is that would wind up being taped by H.W. Campbell. Wouldn't be live, but but it would be taped. And people who wanted to participate live would there'd be room in the audience for either of those events. For that meeting, I do think the CoA room is too small. 00:53:23,969 S1: So I think I would agree that we'll need a larger room for that meeting. But I'm wondering if for the other meetings we would, we could consider using the Koa. 00:53:37,099 S2: Whatever you want me to do. Um. 00:53:39,829 S3: So if we do it at the Koa, are they still taped or are they live? 00:53:45,000 S2: So we've done some meetings there with the use of the owl. I just have to get taught how to use the owl. I know Mark Conners knows how to use the owl. We we could do some meetings there and potentially use the owl to do some hybrid. I know Bill Melville's used them a little bit. We could use it and do those meetings that way. Um, it would limit the amount of space we had for an audience. And the the function is a little bit funky, but we could. 00:54:12,469 S3: Put it on. You recommend. So you have you have Koa, you have the middle school multi-function. 00:54:18,329 S2: Multi-purpose room here. 00:54:19,469 S3: And what else we have? 00:54:21,000 S2: Um. 00:54:22,269 S3: I see someone raising their hand back there. 00:54:23,699 S2: I understand. 00:54:24,929 S12: The. 00:54:25,070 S21: Seminar is available. 00:54:27,369 S5: Thank you. 00:54:28,269 S2: I will say that it's been pointed out to me in the past. I appreciate that offer. And it's been pointed out to me in the past a little. There has been concern in the past about rooms at the seminary because of the separation of church and state, and the fact that there tend to be crosses up at the seminary in the meeting room. I that's not particularly a problem for me, but others may be sensitive to it. I want to make everybody aware that if we accept the generous offer, we may get some pushback on that. 00:54:54,300 S3: What about. 00:54:54,630 S2: Community House? The community house is generally willing to work with us, and they don't usually charge for us. But if we're going to ask them for all for yeah, it's a lot. It's a busy time of year. If we ask them for four meeting nights, they may choose to charge us. So if we don't have control of that room, we could possibly also see about the Gardner post out on School Street. I just find that to be a little further away and doesn't really necessarily attract people that want to come. It's not on the main road. 00:55:20,329 S3: CoA for a typical meeting seems perfectly fine, right? 00:55:23,099 S12: Yeah, it'll be fine. 00:55:24,030 S1: It's cozy. 00:55:24,929 S3: So I say we do. I'd say we do. Counsel an agent for typical meeting, and we'll do the middle school multi-purpose room for the January meeting you're talking about, and we'll see how it goes. And the owl? I've used the owl. I have an owl. They're very easy to use, so we'll try that. Now, if we have an issue with the owl, we can't live broadcast. We can solve the meeting. It just gets taped. And it's not a requirement to go live. Right. If we have a technical issue, we can keep going. Is that correct? Yeah. 00:55:49,230 S2: We so just so just to clarify for everybody, everybody knows when you read our agendas, um, we note that these are in-person meetings that we use a hybrid function for people's convenience. But if for some reason the the technology fails us and the zoom goes out, we continue on with the meeting. The meeting is an in-person meeting. The business gets done here in the room. We try to be as accessible as possible and we offer the zoom. But if the zoom fails is beyond our control, we still carry on with me. So. 00:56:15,769 S3: All right. Fair enough. All right. New business. Um, so for new business, I know that we're going to have a public hearing next week before our next meeting. That's going to go from 630 to 730. 00:56:30,329 S2: 630 to 730. You're going to have a public hearing, as requested by the neighbors of Old Cart Road to talk about that property. We'll come with the department heads and the I'm sure the Butters, um, and the I'm assuming the attorney for the property owner. I haven't spoken to him. I'm assuming the attorney for the property owner will want to show up to that hearing and see where the state of things is. We'll try to have a report ready for you prior to that. 00:56:53,900 S3: And then we'll do the script for the town meeting and we'll keep it short meeting the following week. So. So. 00:56:59,670 S2: Yeah. Um, I think those are the only two major things I have that have to be done at that meeting. Uh, that should be pretty cool. You'll do? I think you'll do licenses at the second meeting in December. So although most of the alcohol licenses are in early, but we would normally approve licenses for the coming year at the last meeting of December. And Simon, that night will be another signing party. Yeah. 00:57:22,170 S19: Um, I have an item. We all. We received a letter from the environmental Impact Committee about, um, an initiative they're proposing. So they are looking they're seeking to get, um, Hamilton labeled as a climate leader and a certification from the state, which essentially would open us up for, uh, a lot more grants from the state up to $1 million. And this would be relevant for a number of different projects around the school, around weatherization and fixing the roof and things like that. Um, there's about four of the six requirements that we've met, and they want to initiate the next two, which is an energy code and a zero emission vehicle first policy. So they're talking with the planning board about this as well. But they want to come to. The board and sort of present what they want to do and what they're looking for. So I. Want to bring up this board to have them come and tell you. 00:58:13,900 S3: I think they come to us. Previously on some code issues on like requiring certain things and new, new. Home construction. Is that what that's. 00:58:20,500 S19: Yeah. The energy code. 00:58:21,300 S3: Yeah, yeah. 00:58:21,869 S12: All right. 00:58:22,300 S2: Yeah. There is one other item. You will have a public hearing also been advertised for tonight. At 7:00 for the renewal of the Verizon license. So we've completed the contract. You had the. 00:58:35,230 S2: You had the previous hearing. Beginning November contract's been reduced to an executable version. And so we've been. Advertising for last week and then next week for the December 1st meeting. So that. That hearing will happen at 7:00. And then subject to a good outcome of the hearing. You can finalize that contract and sign that. That night as well. So those will be the main items on the December 1st. Agenda. 00:59:02,469 S3: Yeah. One of them just got a big grant. What do they get a grant on? I read that in the paper. I didn't get a grant on something. 00:59:08,000 S2: Sorry, I didn't see it. 00:59:10,570 S3: All right. Anything else for new business? 00:59:12,269 S1: I just wanted to make a request of my fellow board members. Um. Planning board chair and I are planning to write a letter to the editor and endorsing the, um, special town meeting, the passage of the body. And we're supporting a development agreement, obviously. So, um, in my capacity, I wonder if the board would consider allowing me to speak for the board, since everybody has, um, agreed that everybody has endorsed this through the board. 00:59:47,230 S3: Joe, how does that work? 00:59:49,400 S2: Uh, I think that you would among the three of you would have to vote to say that, yes, she could speak in an official capacity on behalf of the board based on your votes in support of the development agreement. Thus far, the board hasn't voted on the zoning per se, so you wouldn't really be able to speak officially. 01:00:05,699 S12: About. 01:00:06,070 S1: The development agreement. I could if if my board member agreed that I was. 01:00:11,769 S12: Speaking. 01:00:12,170 S3: With you. Right. I mean, I don't need to be a voter. I just have to be. 01:00:14,400 S2: A I might make her feel better if you had a vote. 01:00:17,000 S3: It was on the agenda. Can we do it now or not? You could. 01:00:19,670 S2: You can you have a policy not to bring things up for the first time? But this isn't really. 01:00:23,769 S3: We've already voted. So yeah. I mean. 01:00:25,030 S2: You've already made the vote, so. 01:00:26,500 S3: I wouldn't have a motion to allow was made a published an article stating that the board is in favor of the development agreement. 01:00:36,369 S19: So moved. 01:00:38,369 S3: Of second. I'll second it. All those in favor say aye. 01:00:42,030 S12: Aye aye. Thank you. Yes. That's great. 01:00:46,670 S2: Speaking of which, I think I have a signature page for the development agreement here as well that you can sign say, because I believe the way we have it is set up and I'll double check it, but I believe we have it set up. Is for Bill to sign on behalf of the Select Board. Um, and I will it's not anything that you have to take action on, but as a point of information for you, all the town did receive Friday afternoon from um HLC and the, the secretary of the attorney general, um, notification that our three a by law has passed by the state. They had no comments. There was nothing that they wanted us to go back and look at. And there might have been one thing, but there's nothing significant that they wanted us to go back and look at. Um, we are in complete compliance with state law. And as regards the NDA community housing law now. So it's good that's done. You've got all those there. I'll look at what else here has to be signed. Cool. We need a motion to adjourn. 01:01:37,670 S3: The motion. 01:01:38,400 S12: To adjourn. 01:01:39,070 S3: Second, those in favor say aye. 01:01:40,469 S12: Aye aye aye. 01:01:43,699 S3: Record timing.