Select Board: May 15, 2024

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0:00 Agenda, but not before saying that, uh, uh, that this meeting is being re recorded via Zoom. And, uh, and we’ll get started right away on Memorial Day. Alright, Dave Rogers, please welcome David. Good evening. Thank you. And thank you for doing this every year, and thank You Organizing it Well. Hope we have another good one. Perfect weather.

0:27 I think you have this. You do. Uh, well, Memorial Day weekend on Thursday is the Veteran’s Breakfast at, uh, the COA, sponsored by the Masons. And, uh, usually have a pretty good turnout and anybody’s listening at home. Any Yvette, please give the COAA call and just so they’ll know how many, how many are coming. But everybody’s welcome. It’s always a nice event.

0:58 Saturday, May 25th is a traditional grave flagging at Waterside Cemetery. Meet around the, uh, bell Tower 9:00 AM sharp on, uh, it’s a great event for the public, the young, younger children, little education, and everyone’s welcome to flag all the veterans Graves. Sunday, we have a small service at the Star of the Sea Cemetery on Lafayette Street, uh, 1:00 PM 1300 military time. And, uh, we have Monsignor Moran. It’s been joining us the last few years and, uh, the VFW

1:44 and, uh, it’s a nice little service. There’s a few who were lost in the wars up, buried up there. Uh, Mike, Mike cu, the Cudahy, uh, John Cudahy. Mm-Hmm. Uh, many knew the Cudahy family in town. It was a big family. And others. On Monday Memorial Day, we have, uh,

2:15 the eight o’clock Clark Landing State Street Wharf ceremony. Uh, it’s always nice, short and, uh, honor those who passed away at sea ships got sunk. They lost in battle, including Merchant Mariners. We’ll reform up by the old townhouse for the 9:00 AM parade. And, uh, the only things different is we only have the high school band this year. It’s gonna be great. Uh, they’re gonna do their best. The other band, after many, many, many years disbanded and, uh, the leader retired.

3:01 I made an effort, but it’s pretty hard to get a band for Memorial Day. And when you find out around the 1st of May, you don’t have one. So The high school’s gonna be fantastic. Yep, They’ll do fine. We have, uh, general David McCannon speaking at Memorial Park and, uh, Tom Mathers, uh, at Waterside Cemetery. Oh, That’s great. Tom has stepped up. That’s great. And, uh, we’ll have, uh, a little musical performance by, uh, Jeannie Stahl and Mason Daring at Memorial Park. And Jeanie wrote a song about the Vietnam Wall, and they’re gonna perform that. Uh, our Grand Marshall this year

3:49 is, uh, Ken Drury World War II Naval Veteran, 99 years young. And I’m gonna honor a couple other veterans this year, uh, as well. Uh, talked to Carl Siegel today. He’s gonna join us in the park and possibly another, you know, Carl’s in his nineties Korean War, and that’s about it. Excellent. Another year, Dave. Thank you. Let’s hope the sun is out. It’s not just another year either. It’s, it’s your last year. Thank you. So, so don’t go anywhere, don’t go anywhere. So I would like to have a motion to prepare a proclamation rec, recognizing David’s many years of service to the town.

4:35 So moved. I second. All those in favor, unanimous. Thank you.

4:59 Thank you. Thank you. Much Appreciated. You Bet. So, you Bet. We’ll have a, we’ll have a good, good day For sure. Thank you, David. Alright, uh, we next have a public hearing, uh, concerning the My Thai Lounge and Amanda Breen, if you would please come up and join, join us at the table. We’d much appreciate it. Uh, thank You. Now, this is a public hearing, so what I need to do is to announce that this is a public hearing that has been legally advertised and abuts notified. Uh, you are the, uh, applicant, Amanda Breen. And, um, is there anything you would like to, to say

5:44 and in regard to, uh, To the motion? No, we’re just applying for the permanent outdoor seating. Um, we’ve been allowed the last couple of years because of the Covid regulations, so we would like to go ahead and make that a, a permanent addition. Okay. Thank you. Uh, anybody wish to speak, uh, opposed to this application? Anybody online? Anybody in the room? No. All right. Anybody wish to speak, uh, in favor of this application? Nobody. I line. Alright. This, uh, public hear hearing is hereby closed, and I’d like to open up for any questions from the select board members. Any, any questions of the applicant? It’s been successful in the past, it’s been successful in the past,

6:31 and the motion is pre self-explanatory. So I’m gonna go ahead and read it. I’d like to entertain a motion to approve the application as presented from my Thai lounge, LLC six five Pleasant Street, to extend the premises of the all alcoholic beverage license as common b by attending, by adding seating outside the premise for, for, uh, with maximum of 18 seats, subject to approval from the landlord, and receipt of all required certificate of liability and department signoffs. Uh, the hours of operation on the license is 9:00 AM to 12 midnight, Monday through Saturday, Sunday, 11:00 AM to midnight. And this, so move. I have a second. A second. Okay. We have a poll vote. Uh, Ms. Singer in favor? Mr. Murray? In favor? Mr. Nye In favor, Mr. Grader in favor, unanimous.

7:19 Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Best of luck. Happy summer. I know it’s gotta be a good place. Yeah. Okay. Uh, we, uh, the third article on our, uh, agenda here has been, uh, postponed. So we’ll move to the approval of the minutes. Uh, and I’d like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes of April 24. I think you have them all in your packet. April two, uh, April 24th, 2024. May 6th, 2024. May 7th, 2024. So moved. Second. All in favor? Okay. Unanimous. Next on our, uh, agenda is the, um, uh, the breast cancer walk that will begin at Devereaux Beach on Sunday, October 13th at 9:30 AM

8:08 So we have an application here from Rocco, and very good cause involving the MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center. And the motion is pretty self-explanatory. If I have any, no questions on this. And I’d like to entertain a motion to approve, uh, the request from Roco Sena to hold the annual Best Friends walk on Sunday, October 13th, 2024 at 9:30 AM subject to approval from the Marblehead Police recreation parks, uh, and receipt of the required certificate of insurance in the amount of 1 million slash 2 million. That’s the occurrence in the aggregate naming the town as additionally insured and, and police details. The walk will start and finish at Devereux Beach.

8:54 No permanent markings are allowed on the streets, and all temporary markings shall be removed at the conclusion of the event. So moved. And a second, please. Second. All those in favor? Okay. Unanimous. Outstanding. Um, okay, now we have, um, a, we’re gonna vote on the National Prayer Day, which is actually, uh, what they call a nun proton, uh, vote, which means that the National Prayer Day has, uh, occurred. Uh, but that we, we need to, we need to vote on it, uh, right now. So the motion is, uh, to approve the request from Don Warren and Rabbi Meyer to hold, uh, the Annual National Prayer Day at Abbott Hall on May 2nd, 2024.

9:40 So moved second. All in favor? Thank you. Uh, we now have the Reserve Fund transfer.

9:49 Um, this is a re a request, uh, from the fire chief, uh, Thatcher. Do we have any, uh, uh, any, any background on this? Yeah, this is just, um, to cover some additional maintenance costs on the ladder truck. Um, so given the current budgets, the chief chief is asking for transfer from the reserve fund or the, the Fin reserve in order to cover this unexpected cost. Okay. Uh, motion self-explanatory to authorize the fire chief to appear before the finance committee to request the transfer of the sum of $16,000 from the Reserve Fund in accordance of Chapter 40, section six of the Massachusetts General Laws. So moved. Second. All in favor?

10:35 Alright, thank you Chief. Um, okay. We have the, a gift to the town, specifically to the police department here of a stationary bicycle. Um, that has not been taken in yet. Uh, we don’t know the, who the donor might be, but would wanna thank, uh, him or her. And the, I’d like to entertain a motion to accept as a gift to the town, a sole stationary bike, and put it in the care and custody of the police department. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Can we just add, just to send a thank you note, um, you don’t have to announce it, but send a thank you note to the person, to the donor. So,

11:21 So, so noted. Alright. Okay. We have a 5K company to heroes, uh, run. And the request, uh, comes on behalf of Claudette Mason on behalf of the company to Heroes. So it’s a family, uh, run and walk on September 14th, 2024. I’d like to enter, enter into motion, uh, to Reque, uh, from the, for the request from Claudette Mason Company to Heroes to hold a 5K Family run walk on Saturday, September 14th, 2024 at 11:00 AM Subject to approval from the Marblehead Police, receipt of the required certificates of insurance in the amount of 1 million slash 2 million for the occurrence slash aggregate naming the town

12:07 as additionally insured and police details. The walk will start and finish at the VFW on West Shore Drive. No permit markings are allowed on the street, and all temporary markings shall be removed to the conclusion of the event. So moved. Second. A second please. All those in favor? Alright. Unanimous. Okay. So we, now we have the, an an agenda item to, for the Town Charter Committee. And by way of perhaps I can start Thatcher by way of sure. Or you go ahead. You go ahead and do it. Yeah, go ahead and give us a brief. Sure. So, um, and again, we’re getting guidance from the Collins Center as we, we navigate this, this endeavor. So, um, re that, um, the board as well as appointing the whole committee is to,

12:53 uh, appoint a chair and a vice chair so that the workload could be distributed, uh, that way. So, um, based on, uh, one looking at the qualified applicants, uh, and the role as well as guidance from the score sheets that, uh, the board filled out, um, the recommendation, uh, coming forth is to appoint Amy Drinker as chair and Rosanna Ferrante as Vice Chair Chair. And, and in, in, in anticipation of this, you know, we wanna do some coordination that they willing to take it on. They’re, they’re willing to take on these duties and presuming a, a, a affirmative vote, uh, ready to launch

13:40 and schedule, um, the initial meetings of the charter committee, I’ve also been in touch with the Collin Center that they’re on the ready. So, we’ll, we will coordinate for those meetings that, uh, all the pertinent participants are available in there. Mm-Hmm. Yeah. I’d just like to, you know, emphasize that we did, uh, you know, in select, we decided to select the chair and vice chair just to really jumpstart the operations of the committee and get it going. And the two that were selected were the ones that scored the highest cumulative votes when we did our, did our rating. So we took a very kind of methodical approach to it. And, you know, we couldn’t be happier, uh, frankly, the entire board with the, you know, with, with the selection that we have. So There’ll be plenty of other tasks

14:25 and duties for the other members. Yes. That’s a hundred percent, a hundred percent true. A committee of 11. So it’ll be a big task. Okay. So with that, I don’t think we have to take any, any votes or anything. Well, would We need suggest that we need to put them in nomination? Yeah. Okay. Um, well, we’d like to approve the appointment Of Amy Drinker Chair. Yep. And Rosanna Ferrante as Vice chair of the Charter Committee. So moved second. All those in favor? Alright. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Uh, Thatcher. Um, alright. So we are at, uh, agenda Item 11, parking regulations. Uh, it’s a safe route to School’s, grant.

15:11 And, uh, you know, I could read the letter if, if, uh, Peter Thatcher, the chief would like to give us some, some background on that, that would be, yeah. Chief’s put a lot of work In this. Yep. No, I’d like, love to, love to hear about it.

15:26 Good evening. Good evening, chief. Welcome. Um, and so I’m, I’m not a trained traffic engineer. They play one on tv. Um, but, uh, the Safe Route to School grant, uh, that we applied for for three years and finally got this year’s finally coming to its end in, uh, conclusion, which means we’re gonna be putting up, um, signs and lines, um, in and around a couple different schools in town. And so, um, Maggie Wheeler and Amy Chu are both engineers. And so, um, I have them here for support if there’s any more questions, but I think we’re okay. So basically, um, these spots and locations were determined by, um, mast,

16:13 DOT ACOM is a, is a contracted, uh, part of mast DOT. And their engineers came in and made suggestions on how we better, uh, make the roots in and around the schools. And so the village, uh, school was the primary focus and will receive I think probably a majority of the $10,000. Not all of it, but a majority. Um, and that includes markings. And, um, more importantly, while I’m here asking you for, uh, reduction in parking, um, which I will never do lightly, only if there’s a purpose for it. And in this particular case, it was recommended, and I’m asking for some parking to be, um, eliminated, um, in front of the school. So Village Street, I believe it’s the westbound side in

16:59 front of the school, um, that will be, uh, determined and finalized, um, by the engineers. But, um, there are some markings that have already been done. So that is, and I think Mr. And I, what you’re looking at is the, is what we’re talking about, Brian. So, um, They’re basically, that is the request. Five areas that are, uh, that are affected. Right. And, and I will say this, so the markings are something that stick out. So we’re gonna, one of the recommendations in around the school is to put school in the street spelled correctly. Um, and, um, that’s Good. And, um, and it really ist an effort to slow people down, but also to make them aware it’s such a busy, uh, place in the morning and so, or during drop offs and pickups.

17:45 And so, um, it really is gonna improve the accessibility, the mobility, um, and the safety of kids coming to and from school. That’s awesome. And the amount is roughly is what? 10,000? So the grant’s 10,000. Yeah, we will, we will use it all. Awesome. That’s great. Well, job well done, chief job. Well done. Okay. Any, uh, let’s see. Let me go ahead and entertain the motion and we can actually, just a quick question. You have a question? Yeah, go for It. Yeah. Um, for seeing where these markings are, uh, parents would be able to drop their children off there but not permanently parked. ‘cause I, So I, I think that it’s important to say that, um, drop off and pick off are, are designated by the schools. ‘cause they know the flow better than anyone. Right. So we facilitate and help with them in that.

18:32 And so they will be marked with hash marks to identify themselves as, as they’re, this now will be in our parking. I’d imagine that it will be part of their, um, drop up plan. I just don’t wanna say definitively, I Just wanna be clear. The reason why I say that is I have one son that goes there and I have another one next year. So I’m very familiar with the drop off there. And you can’t use the U-turn because the buses go in there. So that’s where parents usually unfortunately drop ‘em off in front of people’s driveways, which obviously upsets the neighbors. So this might actually offset that. I, I, I’m gonna say that it, it most likely and certainly will. So the, and the recommendation is that they are moving that way according to the, to the design. Um, the safe route to school are not so interested in idling. They’re very much concerned about idling vehicles.

19:17 But the drop off is something that, um, you know, I’ll be working with and we’ll be working with the new principal when we go over the design there to, I think you’re just pointing out the obvious. I think it’s a, it’s, it’s okay. I just, it’s a, it’s a natural spot to have that Flow flow. It makes sense because I think it’s gonna alleviate the, and it’s also, again, I think a lot of teachers park there, so it makes it hard to see. So I think this is a good plan. So Thank you. And, and the only thing I’ll say to that is though, that the definitive part that ends it is, is we really do consult with the schools to make sure that the, the drop off and pickups are, are working.

19:50 Any other questions, comments from the board? No. Thank you. Okay. I’d like to entertain a motion on recommendation by Chief King to approve the following parking regulations. Village school signage. Make the entire area on Village Street in front of the school a no parking area. Install, no parking. R eight dash three a signs on Village Street in front of the school pavement markings. Paint the word school marking. Uh, paint the word school as a marking on the pavement on Village Street on both approaches within the school zone. Strike the entire area on Village Street in front of the school with white hatching paint to indicate no parking area.

20:36 Install yield lines at shark’s teeth pavement markings in both directions of Village Street. At least 20 to 50 feet in advance of the crosswalk marking on Village Street in front of the school. Do I have a motion? I moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Unanimous. Thank you, chief. Thank you. Well done. Welcome. Thank you for pursuing this

21:02 Mr. Chairman. The next item, Joe Alek, is on his way to present. Okay. Uh, we’re moving faster than, Than anticipated. Anticipated. So if we could come back to that when He Yeah, let’s go ahead and do that. So, we’ll, we will, uh, we’ll put, uh, agenda item, item 12 on, on the back burner here, put it to the end of the thing. And we’ve got 13 I think are contracts. Yes. Okay. We have a series that we need to vote on, and you’ve had a chance to look at them. The, uh, motions are self-explanatory as to what the, to what is involved. And if not, then we’ll ask on the, uh, on, uh, Mr. Keyser to give us to, you know, shed some light on it. Okay.

21:48 So the first motion to entertain, I’ll go right ahead in and to amend the contract for the Harbor Plan project between the town and in its associates to extend the time for performance to June 30th, 2023. And authorized the chair to sign the amendment on behalf of the board. So we have notes here, Thatcher, that says, uh, this is being done in order to close out the project file. And I guess that that involves Still in the contracts of final payments are captured within the dates of Gotcha transaction. Okay. Still moved. Second. All those in favor? Unanimous. The next one is a publicly employee, a public employee committee contract. Uh, and the motion, uh, is to approve the public employee committee agreement

22:34 as presented and reviewed by counsel. So most, Well if the Okay. If the town administrator Yeah. Let’s have a discussion. Yeah. Patrick, if you can. Yeah, if, if I think it’s pretty self-explanatory, but, um, Yeah, I think, um, just sort of a quick overview. What this is, this is the agreement for the health benefits for the town and school employees. Um, and the way this is negotiated, it’s coalition bargaining. So the unions and the retirees are, um, combined to negotiate with the town in order for the benefits. We had in place a five year agreement that’s expiring on June 30th. Uh, we started meeting January, February timeframe.

23:23 Um, we had, we’d actually had hired a consultant and went out to bid to get pricing from, um, various insurance carriers to see if we can get better pricing on, on the plans. We’re currently with the, the GIC, the group Insurance Commission, which is the state, um, provider. Um, well actually they’re the facilitator. We went out to bid and we received no bidders. So based on the, the history, the, the, uh, experience history, there were, um, you know, a number of employees that, that had significant medical costs. Yep. And so what happens that,

24:09 that they look at a three year history. So in this agreement, what we ended up doing was agreeing to a two year extension to the current agreement. We agreed to clean out. There was a, a, a bunch of language that was transitory because Marblehead was coming from another insurance carrier into the GIC five years ago. So there was all these provisions, we’ve cleaned that out. Um, and then, um, we only up, we updated one section relative to eliminating a 60 day wait period for new employees under a new state law. If you’re hired on the first day of month, you get health insurance first day of the month, if you’re hired subsequent to that, it’s the first day of the next month.

24:55 So we reflected language in that all the other terms remain the same. And the, the, the goal is hopefully in two years, our experience numbers will have improved and it’ll be another opportunity to go out to bid and see if we can improve our pricing. Okay. So Is is there a reason we didn’t get a, a bid? Uh, A bid? Yeah. Based on the numbers I saw, I mean, it, it, it, it would’ve, we we would be a money loser for any of the carriers insuring us. So in other words, they look at what we’re collecting in premiums, what they’re paying out and benefits. And it would’ve been a net loss for any new carrier coming in. Coming in. Yeah. So, Okay. Now, at some point, are you going to, you know, we,

25:41 we will approve this if we approve this motion. Do we review the, the, uh, the A agreement? The final? The final? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what’s, what’s in your folder is the final agreed to terms. Okay. So the, the union will do their votes and this is us accepting it. Uh, so with approval here, and they may have already voted, I I, I don’t recall, but it would be just collecting signatures at this point. So this is the final proposed agreement as, as, as we’ve come to. Okay. Yeah. Alright. Um, okay. Do I have a motion? Any Yes. Shall moved. And a second please. Second. All those in favor, recused. Okay.

26:26 Alright. Our next motion is a good narrative with this, uh, the motion to approve change order number 0 0 1 to amend the contract between the town and environmental partners of Quincy Mass for pavement manage for the Pavement management project to extend the contract date to March 31st, 2025. And additional work scope to include intersection and corridor design per scope to be completed, uh, additional five tasks in three months. Letter dated April 19th, 2024. And to also increase the contract amount by $79,500, uh, even and authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board. So moved. Second. Second. Uh, any, any comment from you, Thatcher or, so

27:12 These, these are a bunch of, and with all the hard work she does on this, it’s an opportunity for her to Yep. Talk about that. Great work. Nope. So thank you. Construction season has started my favorite season pull up. Okay. Um, so this is a lot of change orders, which we’re extending contracts that we have and adding work to them. And it’s also gonna be work that you’re seeing happening in the street this summer. So, um, this change order actually addresses a lot that we’ve looked at through T sac and it comes out of our, um, assessment of the sidewalks and streets and intersections. Yep. So we now have four sections that we’re looking at, gathering more information so that we can get a final design, um, for those. And that is, uh, maple Street from Humphrey to Tedesco.

28:01 Mm-Hmm. Uh, west Shore Drive at Lafayette Street. Mm-Hmm. And Pleasant, the Pleasant Street Corridor and the Beach Street corridor. Okay. So we will be taken into account, um,

28:16 comments from our bike plan, which we won’t have before we get these, but this is, they’re also a bike group and we will be looking at complete streets and all those in part of the design as they do that for. And it says that it was delayed because of a implementation of the new. Uh, so the Management plan is actually the assistance of environmental partners for us to, uh, work with our capital improvement plan and which, um, which streets we’ll be paving and actually to get bids and specs out. That portion of it was, um, a year contract for a hundred thousand dollars not to exceed just a, a fee. We really haven’t used a lot of it, but I extended the time, uh, with that. So. Makes sense. Okay. So we have a motion and a second, um, if there are no other questions, all in favor.

29:03 Thank you very much. Thanks Amy. Appreciate your hard work and you’re coming back, I think for the, for the next one. So you’re gonna sit put, I’m gonna go ahead and, and read the motion, so just keep rolling. Yeah, exactly. So I’d like to understand a motion to award the contract for, for 2024 to 2028. I think that’s right. Or is that in a contract number? That’s actually our number. Oh. So it’s actually the number of the, of the contract. Okay. Project number for a contract for 2024 dash oh, 28 0 28 pavement, uh, maintenance crack sealing project to seal coating ink, doing business as INDUS of 8 24 Granite Street, uh, Braintree, mass oh 2 180 4 in the amount of 73,000 $188 even. And authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board.

29:50 So, so moved. Second. Okay. Uh, for discussion, Amy, if you’d like to. So this contract is actually maintenance of existing roads that don’t need to be paved. And they were actually very, they were higher rated in the pavement, uh, program. But it actually is that small ceiling that you see that looks like snakes all over the road. That cracking that allows you not, that stops the water from coming into your asphalt and then freezing in the winter and causing it to buckle and potholes and all the wonderful things. So, um, this is, uh, gonna be done, uh, through the chapter 90 program. And it was procured, uh, through 30 39 m so we went out to public bid for it. Uh, just a question. How long does the crack ceiling extend the, the expected life of a road? If there’s been comparison? I mean, they’re talking about years to make it extend the

30:37 most, you have to do it right away, right? Or you have to do like a seal coating right away. And of course most of our roads had gone Yeah. When, when we originally did it. Right? Yeah. Or right now even, you know, we’ll be sealing roads that we just paved not long ago where you see it like El Street will probably get, um, where the new pavement, about the pavement from last year. Mm-Hmm. That will get a piece and that will extend that road. I, Well, I’m just wondering, wondering about it’s, I mean, rule of thumb it’s it’s years. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Now, well this is part of the, uh, you know, the pavement management plan that’s, That’s done so long. And this is the maintenance side. Yep. So this isn’t part of the improvement side. Right. That has to be something that’s gonna last for 20 years. This is gonna give you five to 10 extra years Understood. If it’s, if you don’t have too many to seal. Understood. Understood. Okay.

31:24 So we have a, a motion and a second. Uh, all those in favor? Okay. Unanimous. The next uh, motion I’d like to entertain is to amend the contract, uh, for MDPW dash 23 dash uh, zero six Stormwater Management Consulting Services. MS four General permit support between the town and Woodard and current of Andover Mass by extending the contract to 12 31 24, uh, with no increase in costs and to authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board. So moved. Second discussion. Amy, if you do want To. So this is a consultant who helps us with our stormwater permit. Uh, he has reviewed what we are in year five of our permit. So we’re looking at new permits probably being issued by the EPA. So he’s getting us ready for that.

32:10 We’re looking at our storm water management plan that needs to be updated. Uh, we hope to come in front of the board, uh, at the end of June for some public comment and to look at the storm water management plan, the revisions that will happen this year. Um, this was delayed again to the GIS server and um, they basically give us a drain overlay and we put a lot of information that we wanna get into the ESRI systems. Mm-Hmm. But since we have been over a year trying to get that up and running, it’s uh, definitely delayed all these projects. So this is no cost, but just an extension of time so that we can get all that information into the

32:47 Questions. Any comments, questions? All in favor? Alright, unanimous. Uh, the next motion I’d like to entertain is to approve change order number 0 0 1 to amend the contract between the town and our Federico Inc. Of Westin Mass for two thou for 2024 dash 0 1 0 Front Street sidewalk and railing repair project by increasing the contract amount not to exceed by $32,000 and authorized the, uh, the chair to sign on behalf of the board. So moved. Have a second please. Second. Alright. Amy, if you could, uh, this is an increase. Uh, I think it jumped down. Yeah. Did I re One? We can, okay. That’s, We can do that one now. Okay. I think let’s just go

33:33 with the one I just introduced. That’s the next one. The K five or It’s the motional for change order change order number 0 0 1. Sorry about that. That’s the side. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. So change order one is for the front street sidewalk and railing repair. Um, Yeah. For an increase in 32,000. Yep. So now that we’ve gotten down there, there’s a lot of ‘em foresee things which we figured there might be. So that’s a storm damage that happened in January. We’re trying to get it done, uh, by the end of June. So he does have equipment here, but there was a lot more than we needed to replace, especially on the capstone Yep. Piece. Okay. So, okay. Have a second already. Uh, all in favor? Okay. Unanimous. I’ll proceed now to the motion to amend, uh, the contract for the town wide pavement markings between the town

34:21 and K five of Rockland Mass by awarding the first option year for the period of June 1st, 2024 to May 31st, 2025 for the not to exceed price of $48,625. And authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board. So moved. Second Discussion, Amy. I think this Is perfect. So that one is for the same contractor who came in last year. Um, it’s the same price. It’s a not to exceed price, we play by the foot. So this is gonna be for double yellow lines, cross box, uh, white lines, and then all the other markings. So as we move forward, Okay. All in favor? Okay. Unanimous and final times Have changed. I did that 40 years ago, all summer. Did you Franklin at night.

35:10 So we would go out at four in the morning to all the intersections early, early That, that was night for him early. I think he’s volunteering, right? He’s got a skill. $300 a week. It was awesome. Donovan and myself. Yeah. He should bid on this next year. Yeah.

35:30 Did it all without a mask or anything, right? Yeah. Fantastic. Different Time. Alright. Alright. So the last motion is to, to entertain is the, uh, to award the contract for, uh, lease agreement of one Ford F five 50 state body truck with plow and liftgate and one Ford F five 50 aerial bucket truck to First American of Vic of Victor, New York for a 60 month lease term in the amount of $62,000, uh, annually. And authorized the chair to sign, uh, the contract on behalf of the board. So moved second. All right. So that’s, uh, maybe you can give us a, This is actually really Exciting News. Covid has, uh, really slowed down any kind of the truck deliveries.

36:16 Mm-Hmm. This aerial bucket truck is the one that we had on order last year. Uh, and it was actually, um, under government contract to be an international truck that we were gonna purchase. But international after a year and putting us, dropping us off each build year, canceled our order. Um, so I thought this aerial bucket truck was gonna take another three years and it turned out that we found an F five 50 through the Plymouth County, uh, corp that we’re able to put to build and make an aerial bucket truck. So that one will be delivered, uh, fingers crossed by August mm-Hmm. And that bucket truck’s gonna be used by the tree department, the sign, the DPW signs and also the electrical inspectors with the lights. So, um, you know, it’s gonna be a very versatile, it’s a smaller one.

37:02 It’s not like our huge bucket truck. So they’ll be able to do smaller things, get us over to the side of the road without blocking a whole street. So I’m looking forward to that. And then Awesome. We also, uh, were able to find an F five 50 for, um, the plow truck that was, uh, voted this year. Um, it will come after August, but Mm-Hmm. Uh, working with Alicia, we were able to talk to the different leasing companies and combine that two leases too, so, Okay. I do have, I do have a quick question. Uh, have lease rates gone up with, uh, with, with, you know, general increase in interest rates? Yeah, this is about 5.7. 5.7. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So we were, we were getting that closer to two and a half, three a couple years ago. Right, Right. So I have a truck that years think it was around three and a half that we got three years ago.

37:49 We paid twice on the lease and the truck’s still not here. So, but, and Prices themselves, They’ll be paid off by the time. ‘cause these leases are, you know, purchased to own lease to own. So Lease to own straight up, it’s not Right. So you’re amortizing the whole Right. The whole, the whole cost. Okay. I think we, we have, uh, all in favor. Alright. You unanim this. Thank you. Thank you very much, Amy. Appreciate it. One sort of cap off on all this, I just wanna recognize Amy, because in addition to running water and sewer, DBW managing all these projects that we’re doing with the sidewalk plan and the all, all the other plans we’re doing, and Amy went through the state procurement courses to be certified for procurement,

38:36 she’s handling all the procurement for all of these items. So this is, um, an extraordinary effort to make all this happen. It’s looks nice, smooth, easy here, and there’s a whole lot of thrashing that, uh, is going on. So I want to give Amy credit for the extraordinary and above and beyond work that she’s doing just to bring these things to the table, Amy, that’s understood and very much appreciated because we, we know it’s a heavy lift and, uh, you know, there’s a lot of adjustment too, right across the, across the town when you’re taking up that role. So Absolutely. We appreciate your, your patience and, and forbearance on that. Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Alright. We, we have Joe Kulik is here.

39:22 Joe is here. Yeah. Joe, it’s not good. Alright. I think, let’s, let’s go ahead. Uh, and it is agenda item 12 12 12. Please join us at the table, Joe. Thank you.

39:38 Alright. Good evening. Good evening.

39:44 Well, if I believe that old saying that road to Progress is always under construction, we’re making great progress in this. Pretty good. I have to remember that. I tell, I tell my wife that joke. Amy’s favorite season. It’s great. Exactly. Um, just gimme just a second here. So I’m gonna go through some slides. I appreciate the opportunity to here tonight. Um, You’re entirely welcome Joe. Hey. No, it’s really, uh, with, with our police chief, uh, Dennis King. You know, I want to just kind of go through these permits that we need for parking restrictions. I’m gonna start sharing my screen here Now. Take your time. Can you see the screen behind me? Not yet. Nope.

40:31 No. There it goes. You’re up. Now we can see it. Wow.

40:39 Go into presentation mode.

40:46 You good? There you go. You’re in Good. Um, so there are really three projects I wanted to review tonight from small to large and from near term to a little further out. First is, um, we have had a project that’s been limbo for several years. We’re now finally ready to get it done, which is the school street parking lot area. That restriction we’re asking for is one day Monday, starting at 4:00 AM until 10. The pieces have been in place for several years now. And really all we’re doing is activating the existing equipment, the new equipment. So I’m just gonna try to make this pictorial.

41:35 I’m gonna take you through that. Um, so we’re, we’ve put in new primary lines that are sitting there right now, but they’re not energized and they’re servicing customers on pleasant school in Washington. All those customers are fed from Transformers. Those cans that you see on the poles and sometimes the bigger boxes on the ground, they’re all within the school street parking lot. And they, they do in fact incorporate not just today’s electrical meets, but the anticipated electrical needs of one 20 and 1 24 Pleasant Street. So this solves an immediate problem and also sets us up for potential future needs there. So this is the area in question.

42:21 Uh, this is an older photo, but you can see, um, pleasant Street. Um, this is the parking lot. And if you look at those little green arrows Mm-Hmm. Up or down, up means it’s a, it’s uh, on a pole down means some, it’s on the ground. But within this perimeter of this parking lot, there are four transformers. And that this, this actually doesn’t show the fifth that we’ve just installed in the removal along, but the point is, this downtown area is served from within the center of the block. It’s sort of a hub and a spoke. So our plan is to get this done quickly by bringing in four to five trucks at four o’clock in the morning, get in there, start pulling, you know, finish,

43:07 make the new connections, pull out the old wire and get out of there by midday. But to do that, we’re gonna have, you know, four to five trucks in there. And we really can’t have people getting out of their car and wanting to go to work or going to, you know, the little theater or something of that because it just will disrupt us and will also be a danger to them. So the, you know, we’ll be pulling old wire down, so it’ll be, it, it’ll be dead, but it will still be heavy material on the ground that’s gotta get rolled up. So the area, it just, we, you know, I think for the safety of our citizens as well as the efficiency of the project, this is a project that I think really does warrant that kind of restriction. So what we’ve done is preliminarily place some warning signs

43:55 about Monday the 20th from four to mm-Hmm. The second one I just want to go back is about what we’re calling this Commercial Street extension. I hope Amy is still here behind me or she’s sneaker. Yeah, she’s here. She’s here. So this one is gonna last over, we hope not more than two to three weeks starting next week. And then the third one I wanted to talk about is, uh, this new Village 13 substation upgrade, which is a larger project and it really is not gonna happen until the later part of June, but it without a doubt it will cause some disruptions on the days of those moves. And we’re fortunate because our town administrator has

44:42 experience, direct experience in moving large transformers into a jurisdiction for which he’s had responsibility and could tell his war stories at a later time. When did that happen? I got a new bridge out of it. That’s right. You selected the color of it too, did you? No, that was, that was bridge being built. It was a ship bringing in a large transformer on the Merrimack River onto one of our docks. And we had to do all the prep and the ship hit one of the smaller bridges, which put it outta commission. And we got a brand new bridge out of it paid for by the insurance company of the shipper. So let me, let me, I’m going to go to the commercial street, so if you’re not familiar, you might not be with the Commercial Street Extensionist because it’s a name I made up

45:30 and it’s really, it just describing the, the end of the segment of Commercial Street. I dunno if you can see my, my mouse moving. Yep. It’s really, This is, this is our plant 80 commercial street. There are two driveways. We call this one the upper and the lower. And it’s really this area from the lower driveway down to the dark. And here is the entrance to Hammond Park. And I don’t know how many of you actually use this area in the summer, but it’s gets pretty crowded sometimes and it gets pretty smelly other, most of the summer. ‘cause there’s bait and gury and all kinds of good stuff festering on the ground there. So our plan is to, in, in the spirit of,

46:16 you know, the, the CZM grant that we have, the resiliency grant, our objective, and it’s been my stated objective as the general manager of the light department, we have had an independent project to improve the physical security of our plant. We’re from a national, from a national reliability point of view. This is too loose a target. This is actually a substation right here. And it is the original substation of the town footprint. So it’s downtown, it’s this building, it’s the police department, it’s the fire department, you know, people don’t realize it, but this is a, a vital piece of our town’s infrastructure, this section of this building. So our plan has been to put up her perimeter fence

47:03 with gates, and those gates will close around the entire parcel, which sounds very unable. And, and frankly it will be. So we’ve sort of taken it upon ourselves to say, okay, how do we make as part of this CM grant make the public area more, you know, public friendly, public accessible. So what we’ve agreed to is to create a wider opening here. The CZM grant dollars will be spent to put a sidewalk here, so they’ll be elevated above the street. Um, and then we’re looking at creating a, uh, a crosswalk to go into this little area down here, which is one of the best kept secrets in Marblehead mass.

47:50 This little pocket park down here. We want to connect it by removing some of the ledge here. So to do all this, I we’ve, I’ve been working with the Harbor Master, the boats that are here now, the first three boats have been moved. We’re hoping one more gets moved. So that as we need over the next say three week period, we’ll be putting signs up to tell people not to park in this area. And we’re gonna, we need to do that initially because we’re gonna bring in precast concrete footings, which we are gonna put along this wall along the hill here so that we can have a sh a secure perimeter. I’m gonna show you some pictures as to, you know, how we discovered the need for this.

48:38 So this is the area I’m talking about. We’re talking about bringing, um, again, precast concrete. There’s about 12 pieces we have to bring in. They weigh about three to four tons each. We just physically need a place to put them in proximity to the work, which is gonna happen right here. So again, there’ll be a heavy piece of equipment that can move three tens of concrete going back and forth. We really do not want people parking their, you know, first of all parking their cars in this area. And we also recognize the need that we’ll probably need, uh, a private duty policeman to help facilitate pedestrian moving, moving through here. We’ve talked to a representative of the, uh, commercial fishing community here.

49:24 Um, and so I think we’re communicating to all the relevant parties. And what we’d like to do is so get that restriction so that we could physically say, okay, we know we’re gonna be moving some things today. We put the restriction up on days. We know we don’t need it. We don’t have to have the restriction, but it’s gonna go over our work to put in the fence line. We hope to start next week. And then Amy’s got a schedule right now for the sidewalk, which is gonna lag by about a week. So it’s gonna, you gonna see some action, which is putting up a fence, then we gonna seal a weak load or awarding bidder will be, uh, bid and will then complete the work. Quick, quick question, Joe, will this, will this interrupt commercial activity at all?

50:11 The attention is not to No. So they end so they still access. Yeah, so the, the folks that we’re using for the construction of the fence is in fact the same firm that we used down over at Village 13. But I’ll talk more about in the future. So we’ve got a good crew, they know the town, they have a sense of the nuances and you know, so I have reasonable confidence that, you know, we can work with people. I don’t know if anyone got over the village, you know, this village 13 substation in the last month. But I’ll show you some photos of what’s been going on there. And we’ve really had, you know, I’ve been over there quite a bit and we’ve really had, I’ve had no personal interactions other than that, other than, than positive ones. We’ve had no calls that if the department is to negative interactions,

50:57 I don’t know if we had anything downtown. So I think it, I think it went well. So we’re looking to replicate that kind of Yeah. Sort of experience. Yeah. In our, in these two locations. So with, with regard to the site, we’re gonna put up Gates as a light department, but there’s also this shipyard area C level resiliency project. It’s a two year grant. Amy and I have both served on the committee. You know, Becky’s uh, uh, retirement, uh, has implications for moving this forward in this period because we have, as part of the grant agreement, it’s a two year grant agreement. The town made some short term commitments to make improvements that would unlock CZM grant funding.

51:42 Those grant funds expire June 30th. So we are highly motivated to get this work done. So again, part of the reason to secure this is so that we’re not inefficient because, you know, people are parked their car there and we get, we can’t get around it and things of that sort. So, um, okay. And just to sort of identify what some of those things are, as part of our fence agreement, we’re, we’ve taken down the existing railings around Hammond Park and we’re gonna put up child proof railings. So there’s a lot of young families in the area. Yeah. You know, little kids that, the peace stone, they love the peace stone. They throw the peace stone. The mothers are on their, you know, the young parents are on their mobile phones

52:29 and then, you know, not necessarily paying the amount of attention they should. And the little kids are throwing peace stones. And right now those kids could go to that wall and it would, you know, it would be significant liability to the department and the town. So we don’t wanna see that happen. So, and then we’re improving, as I mentioned, the access to the park and the waterfront. Um, so there’s a, just some tactical things that are going on. Um, let me just show you the pictures. So we took the fence down, if you remember the fence had the dingy up against it. I was torn ‘cause I felt like it became part of the culture of the street to say, but why don’t you just leave this section? And I was to kind of torn with that among others who said, no, let’s, let’s make, let’s really make this happen.

53:16 Extend the access to the waterfront. But when we took down the fences, we learned a few things that we weren’t really cognizant of. One is, this is a, this is a tripod support for guideline that’s holding the boat ramp securely. This is in this, the fire chief is said the fire lane is no longer in need. So this is now about the approximate width of the sidewalk. This is in the middle of it right at the entrance. So we, you know, so we said, ah, didn’t think of that one. The also, the other thing we did also didn’t realize is that at the footing here, you see this nice granite block wall, which is the same material used in the sea wall.

54:04 It’s stops about 20 feet from the entrance. So there’s an 80 foot section where there is no hard edge and there’s been significant erosion of the, of the, the asphalt. And this is, this is the, the other real problem we uncovered is where is the edge of the road up here? So this is where we came in and said, we have these footings that we actually originally intended to use for our land bridge and said we didn’t need them, was, and our public works director, among other responsibilities, was creative enough to say, well, why don’t we use ‘em over here? And we agreed. So we’re gonna, we’re gonna redeploy them, put them in here. Um, so we’re gonna dig this up.

54:50 So I cut this out, create, get a good flat foundation, put in the footings and then core holes in the, in the concrete footings and put the fence posts in those. So that will be a secure footing. The sidewalk can go in immediately after the road can go in a year and, you know, a year later or five years later, we don’t care because we feel like we’re putting in a firm edge that will allow the town to independently deal with this, the elevation of the road and so forth without impinging upon this, this fence line of gate. So that’s the plan. Um, this is just another look at that. There’s a pole here. You can see this pole right now, you know, is in the middle of the entrance. As we widen this entrance, which we intend to do,

55:36 it would be just smack dab in the middle of it. So we’re moving as, as an MMLD expense. We’re just gonna move the pole in here. Um, and we’re also replacing the tripod structure with a guy with the current structure with a monopole. So you might be asking, what is a monopole? That’s a monopole. So this is the monopole in the corner of Hooper in Washington Street. Yeah. You’ve walked by it a thousand times. Turns out there are two more identical to this one that have been in our substation yard for 25 years and we are taking one of them out and gonna use it as a monopole for this location. So we’re, there’s no out of pocket to the town or the MMLD.

56:22 We’ve, we’ve had this in our, you know, inventory for frankly decades.

56:28 And this you’ve seen before is just the, the overall plan is that, you know, the vision here is that this will now have a sidewalk, there will be a widened entrance here to the park. This is the park. Um, there will be a crosswalk here, a handy handicapped accessible crosswalk. And we’re gonna chip ledge, um, here to, to, so the objective is to get a consistent 18 foot width so there’s better access for, for the, for the trucks that need to get down here as well as the workers who have to, you know, are in those trucks, but then cut through so there’s a more visible, uh, level grade walkway into the park park. So I, I think, you know, I think

57:13 we’re very happy with this design. It seems like it, it will retain the culture, the, the feeling of the, of the neighborhood. You know, it’s really still gonna be very much a working man’s area, but as well as a beautiful recreational area. Um, you know, this pocket park, most people don’t know it’s existing because you can’t get to it. Um, I’d say ultimately, you know, going forward in the future if we could, we have the means to put in ev charges out here. So you could have a classic Marblehead harbor view ev charging station. So in any event, this, and this is the ledge that we’re cutting away, this, it’d be this section here, this section here,

57:59 and then this is the pocket park in here. So it’s really trying to get as much of this as flat as we can within the allowed budget that we have. So, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll, and the objective is to get all this done by June 30th. ‘cause it’s state money.

58:16 Okay. So that’s are Are you feeling about the timeline doable? I’m gonna, we’re gonna make it happen. Yeah, make it happen. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, we’re, no, I I think we’ve, uh, you know, it’s sort of hesitant on an side, but there’s, there’s been outstanding not good outstanding cooperation between the town departments and our vendors. We’ve been very fortunate in the vendors we’ve selected. There’s just been outstanding cooperation. You know, I really, this project is much simpler than what we just did over Village 13 in terms of this land bridge and we got that done and the, and the, you know, the originally planned time. So I feel like we have a small capable multi-department team that is getting things done. You

59:02 Got the contractors mainly Lined up. Yeah. So it’s, I think, you know, knock on wood, you know, I hope we continue that same set, same approach. So this final one is, is a quick debrief on Village 13, you know, which is our name for a substation. And just the bottom line to take away here is this facility is a critical piece of our town’s infrastructure. All the electricity we have in this town comes to this substation. All of it. So, you know, we really, the care and feeding of this substation is really important to us. Yep. We have known for years that the toast transformers that are in there, which are taking in the higher voltage

59:48 energy and reducing it to a lower voltage that gets sent out to other transformers and to other substations to reduce it to a street level.

59:59 We know that they’re, you know, in their end of life era, their analog devices, they don’t fail the way some things fail, but we test them. We know they’re getting older. We know we have to replace ‘em. So the, one of the questions that we were faced with, well, our electric load actually has been flat for the last decade. So, you know, one ar one could argue that we’re just gonna put in this, we’re just gonna replace what’s in there. We’re gonna just put in new versions of what’s in there. Now we did not do that because, you know, we’re anticipating these federal and state electrification policies are not going away, and they, they shouldn’t go away. So that, but the implica, the clear implication of those is that our electric needs are gonna get dramatically larger.

1:00:48 Frankly speaking, I think they’re gonna, in the next 20 to 30 years, they’re gonna double to triple. And we don’t have a plan for the doubling or tripling yet. So what we have done is we’re putting in a substation here, which we know to be the, the, the capacity when it’s activated will be 50% larger than what we have now. And it is, the companion equipment is called switch gear, which, which is basically like, you know, the, the circuit breakers you might see in your circuit breaker box. We’re suddenly gonna have more positions in our panel. So we can do more things. We can bring in power from someplace else. We could attach a utility scale battery. It’s gonna give us the flexibility of adding effectively additional capacity.

1:01:35 And so we, we’ve made those decisions. We we’re spending more for this piece of equipment. Um, we’re feeling good about the size it’s coming in at. This project has been in the works for the last four years. It’s, as we’re looking at it today is a penciled together. Today it’s an $8 million project, and it’s all coming out of department capital funds. So we’re moving forward. We ran into Covid, you know, these, these, uh, supply chains really disrupted us. We’ve ordered equipment that were getting delivered. Now, we’ve ordered more than a year ago, so I won’t go through this, but there’s some details on, um, so here are the logistical challenges and why. Part of why I’m here tonight, the transformers

1:02:23 that we’re getting is two of them, they weigh over 120,000 pounds each. They’re in heavy pieces of tractor trailers, which also weigh in the order mag to the 80,000 pounds. So these weigh, you know, basically 200,000 pounds each, and they’re 120 feet long. So they are long and they are heavy. They’re gonna require special permits to go. They’re being manufactured Virginia. They’ve gotta go through about, I, I think six states. Every state requires its own special permitting. The states do not cooperate with each other. Just getting from Virginia to here is a logistical complexity with uncertainty. So, so that’s

1:03:09 what we’ve been knowing we’ve been dealing with from day one. Um, which makes it a uniquely Marblehead problem is Village 13 is only accessible by a right of way. There is no road, per se to get to it. And I have a map to show you exactly, you know, what we’re dealing with. And, and historically getting equipment into Village 13, we used the Pleasant Street exes or going through Maverick Street, and we were encouraged, strongly encouraged by our water and sewer superintendent not to continue to do that, because it’s, that entrance is also the location of the towns main four sewer main,

1:03:55 which is also end of life. So the clearly the worst case scenario that we could envision is that we’re bringing in this heavy equipment and break the sewer pipe, which would be just a catastrophe. You know, it would be, you know, you just think about it. And, and you know, when, when Amy described to me the situation that if a pipe broke in that location, her on option is to turn, you know, is to, is to close the gate in four hours and let sewer flow either to the harbor or the ocean, not good. So our feeling was we are not gonna break a pipe.

1:04:40 So we ended up saying, we’re coming in from Bessam Street, we’re not gonna drive along the pipe, but we, we do need to cross over it right at the front door of our gate, of our substation. So we just spent, we just spent the last, you know, three months in, you know, designing, constructing, and installing what we are calling a landbridge, which we spent $150,000 on just to protect that. The sewer pipe has heavy equipment drives over it. So that piece has been done. And so now we’re ready. And again, that was done on a very short schedule. We thought people would be coming, these trucks might be coming as soon as the end of May, and there have been interim delays.

1:05:26 But the, one of the uncertainties here is the exact arrival. We’re not gonna have an exact arrival day. We’re gonna have an idea of the truck has left Virginia, the truck is going through Maryland. Yeah. The truck is stuck in Connecticut. And, and I believe it’s the Connecticut, Massachusetts border, which is particularly problematic. Connecticut wants them to travel at night. We don’t. So it’s, and you know, way stations are not always open at the border, so your trucks literally have to wait, wait for a waiting station attendant to come in and wave the freight. So, so there’s that fundamental uncertainty and everything we’re doing here. So what we need is a turnkey plan, but we can activate when we have a hard firm date.

1:06:15 And so that’s, that’s the approach we’re taking to the context. I just wanted to share with you today, um, and really the delivery route that we’re looking at, where the potential police, uh, or or parking, uh, restrictions would go into effect is we, we, we believe, based upon taking the driver through the town of Marblehead to come in from Esco down to Pleasant Street, take a left onto Bassam, and then a left onto the right away. Which in a way sounds counterintuitive because Pleasant Street does get narrow after Phil Street going in town. It does. And that’s from, from on Pleasant Street, starting at Village, that’s

1:07:01 where things are gonna get interesting. Now, the, the truck driver said, we took him down here. They said they can, you know, take these rigs down to knowing exactly what Transformers they would be hauling. And really we’re gonna work, our objective is to work closely with them, DEPW and with the engineering company that’s responsible for getting the permits in Massachusetts, which is Bayside Engineering, which is coincidentally the firm that designed this bridge for us. So we think we have the right people at the table up, you know, working together again, collaboratively to say, we do need to remove cars, or we can, if we can block the traffic for,

1:07:50 or divert the traffic for three hours, we can, you know, just drive down the center of the road. So I think some of those sort of logistic options, you know, the other people love them myself, can sort of address those and come up with a recommendation with an objective of minimizing disruptions. Great. So, so this is only the first part of a, this is gonna happen more than once. It’s gonna happen eight, maybe eight times. So to do this, we’ve been now, given that a transformer can show up on June 27th, before we have the transformer, we need to get a crane in the substation to lift this transformer

1:08:38 off the trailer into its position. Mm-Hmm. That is also a significant piece of equipment that’s gotta get in there. So the crane company we’re using Shaughnessy and a Hern, which is a Boston base, you know, bender, who’s done a lot of heavy lifting downtown. So we’re, they’ve been to the site, they know what we’re trying to do. You know, we’re using, we’re using their recommendations. So our plan right now is to say we want approval from the, you know, we’re asking for approval from the select board to allow this small working team of, of DPW police department, Bayside Engineering and, and the, uh, and the trucking company to work out the specific details as we get closer to a day,

1:09:24 you know, we’ll know exactly what we’re gonna have to do and, and move forward with that. Okay. And as part of that, we recognize the, the reality it’s gonna be disruptive and the need to communicate that to the public. Okay. This is the area we’re talking about. All right. You know, this is the swamp, old swamp Scott railroad line, Salem railroad line. Mm-Hmm. This is where they converge. Yep. So we’re coming in from Beson. Yep. Okay. That’s great, Joe. So the summary of all this yes. Is we need parking restrictions. We need parking restrictions. But I have to say thank you for the broad contacts and we’re actually, uh, you know, grateful that you’ve taken a, you know, you’ve given us a lengthy Sure, uh, description of this.

1:10:09 Um, I think you need, you’re basically saying you need the flexibility, uh, you know, of, of, uh, in coordination with the police chief. Correct. And the DPW had to, to open up these spaces to work. So it’s ama it’s amazing what’s going on, Joe. Yeah, it really is. It really is. Load to progress. Yeah. Uh, any other, any questions, any thoughts before we entertain the motion? Very detailed. Yeah. Thanks for the explanation. Yeah. Super helpful. Alright, I’d like a motion, uh, to approve the request from Joseph Alek Mar head, municipal light for parking restrictions on Commercial Street, SSAM Street, heritage Way, roundhouse Road and School Street Parking lot as presented. And to coordinate with the police chief and DPW director to facilitate these restrictions. So moved.

1:10:56 Second. All those in favor. Thanks much, Joe. It is a very good presentation. Thank you. Exciting to get those transformers In. Absolutely. I don’t talk about ‘em. Jesus, You and I both. Woo. Big sleep. Better Hold

1:11:13 Breaking a sewer. Yeah. Everybody sleep better. That’s great. All right. Let’s see. We are, we, we did contracts. I think we’re at the letter of 14. Did we do contracts or do we need Separate? Yes, we’re 14. 14. We’re on 14. Letter of interest. Yes. Alright. Um, I think we’ve got a letter of interest, which we’ll put into the record from Karen, uh, CIO for Harbors and Waters. And you can see her, uh, excellent detailed letter of interest and, uh, her cv.

1:11:47 And, uh, we’ll, we’ll go ahead and please put that into the record, Kyle. All right. Uh, have it all. Holiday pops. December 14th is next on our, Wow. It’s happening. Yeah, we’re planning for it already. Memorial Day yet, Getting ahead of the game. So this is for December? Yeah, I think the, yeah, it’s always a great festive holiday. The motion is self-explanatory. I’d like to entertain a request from the Rotary Club of Marblehead Club of Marblehead Harbor to hold the annual holiday pops concert and pre-con reception at Abbott Hall on Saturday, December 14th, 2024. Subject to the usual rules, regulations, fees, and receipt of the, uh, required certificate of insurance naming the town

1:12:33 of Marblehead is additionally insured as follows. And to waive the rental fee for the event Friday, December 13th, 2024, 8:00 AM to noon, Saturday, December 14th, 2024, 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM Monday, December 16th, 2024, 8:00 AM to noon. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Okay. Unanimous. Thank you. All right. We now have a, uh, one day liquor license. And this is for the, in relation to the holiday pops. Again, the motion is pretty long and self-explanatory. I’d like to entertain a motion from the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor for a one day liquor license for Sunday, sorry, Saturday,

1:13:18 December 14th, 2024 at Abbott Hall, 180 8 Washington Street, 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM subject to the following conditions, delivery of and receipt by the licensing authority of the required fee, $50 delivery of and receipt by the licensing authority of proof that the alcohol will be purchased from an authorized source. Proof that the applicant can receive proper delivery, provide proper storage and disposal of all alcoholic beverages purchased. All in accordance with the requirement of general law. Section 1 38. Alcohol will be purchased from North Shore Bartenders Liquor liability insurance. No alcohol is to be stored on premises overnight. A motion please. Moved a second. And it’s, it’s a polled vote. Thank you. Murray in favor, Mr. Tenai? Uh, present Ms. Singer? In favor,

1:14:04 Mr. Grader? In favor. Okay. All right. We have another poll vote coming up in relation to, uh, so This is the go to the executive session, so we’ll Oh, that’s right. It is. Okay. So this brings our, that’s correct. So this is, uh, in, in conjunction with a motion to adjourn. We’re gonna move to executive session, uh, from which we will, uh, you know, end our session there. So the motion is as follows to move. Why Don’t we do the Yeah, we’re just Reordering We just flipped that down, didn’t we? Right. You took it Yeah, you explained that to me. So public comment before we came into the meeting. Yeah. So the arrows there. Yeah. Okay. You’re right. We gotta move to public comment first. Uh, anybody online or within the room, please?

1:14:49 Mr. Albert Jordan Roosevelt. Have I, I’m just wondering about Dave Rogers’ position. I don’t see anything in the paper. He’s a one man crew. Um, I referred a lot of people to him over the years, so, so I’m wondering, is someone gonna be in there day one when he leaves? Um, so, because when people have deaths and everything like that, yeah, they’re very distraught. So I don’t wanna see a six month delay. So I have yet to circle, it’s a very good question. I have yet to circle back with him to kind of confirm that, but that’s, that’s been on the edge, on the Okay. On his, in, on his priority list for sure. You know, our new, uh, director of personnel, I don’t see we’re advertising for Yeah. That position. We know it’s open. So Please, The board’s information. So we have a number of positions that are gonna be vacant or are currently vacant that are funded for July 1st.

1:15:36 So we are, anytime we have vacancies, we, we review the job descriptions, we make sure everything’s up to date. We are intending to post and advertise this position and a number of other positions as quickly as we can. We go through and, um, process them. We waited for town meeting ‘cause that’s where they set the budget to guarantee that we have the funding for all the positions. And so now we’ll go forward. So you, you’ll see advertisements and in the next few days. Thank You that for that clarification. Yep. That’s great. That’s great. Thank you. Alright, thank you. Any other public comment? Anybody online? No. Okay. Uh, if we could move to the town administrator update Thatcher, if you got anything for us. Sure. Uh, a couple things real quick. Um, I want re-emphasize just for clarity purposes,

1:16:23 after the town meeting was completed, the fact that, um, in regard to the MBTA zoning, uh, Warren Arco, that that did not pass. Um, so as this stands right now, Marblehead is still a compliant community in that regard. Um, we are compliant until, uh, December, the end of December, 2024. Um, and as I’ve said in other places, I think what adds to the confusion is what happened in Milton was that the town of Milton passed in town meeting successfully passed their zoning amendments, and they had a deadline of December, 2023. But they have a provision provision in their charter that allows a citizen ballot

1:17:09 to repeal an act of town meeting. And so the citizens did that in 2024. So that immediately after the, they were in violation to repeal it, they were no longer in compliance. So it, it is not the same scenario here as it is, uh, in the case in Milton. So, uh, I just keep emphasizing that ‘cause I keep getting calls or questions in, in that regard. So we, we are compliant un until the end of the year, um, um, until we, um, can try again to, to try to get, uh, some kind of zoning amendment passed. Um, the second item, um, uh, in regard to, uh, the JCC is awarding the Marvel Head Police Department,

1:17:59 the, uh, stall community service award, um, for the police department’s efforts of making them feel safe in their buildings, as well as, uh, the Epstein Hillel, um, who is recognized in the Marblehead Police Department at the end of their, uh, and their school year. So, congratulations to the police department for all the work they’ve been doing, um, with those folks, uh, in the current climate to en ensure their safety and, and, and make them feel safe, uh, within the community. So congratulations to the chief and this,

1:18:41 and finally the last, uh, one more success story from the police. This police night, I guess, um, at, at the last meeting we did the, uh, sort of the provisional appointment for, for a new officer trying to get them into academy. Uh, we’ve successfully got them enrolled at the police academy in Lowell. So, um, by the board’s action early gave the, gave us the opening, the chief got him the slot. And so our, our candidate police candidate is currently attending the academy. Awesome. So that is outstanding. Outstanding. And Is police appreciation Week. Well, which we appreciate. He’s like, we appreciate all year long being and the police, yeah. You’re gonna Get him upset.

1:19:29 They kind of have some accolades. It’s, it’s national police, weak, Which is great. It recognizes those for their service and those in the past. It’s, um, a big event from DC but it’s recognized nationwide. Thank you. Thank you Chief. Alright. Concludes my Report. Thank you Thatcher. Uh, we move to, uh, select board announcements if anybody’s got any, any announcements to make at this point? Nothing. Okay. Uh, and I think we can now, uh, move to executive session, uh, with a motion that, uh, I’ll,

1:20:17 yep. You got it. Okay. I’d like to make a motion to go into executive session under Mass General Law section 30 a section 21 A six for the purpose of discussing the value of real property and settlement negotiations, where the public discussion of some of saying may have a detrimental effect on the negotiation po negotiating position of the public body. Votes may be taken, and if they are votes will be released at a time deemed appropriate by council. The board will not reconvene an open session. So moved. Second. Second, Mr. Aye. In favor, Mr. Singer? In favor, Mr. Murray? In favor, Mr. Gr In favor. Alright.