Select Board: June 12, 2024

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0:04 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I, Moses Drager. Do solemnly swear and affirm. Do Solemnly swear and Affirm. Affirm that I will faithfully and impartially, that I will faithfully and impartially Discharge and perform, Discharge and perform All the duties incumbent on me. All The duties incumbent me As a member of the select board, as A member of the select board, According to the best of my abilities and understanding according To the best of my abilities and understanding According to the bylaws of the town of Marblehead, according To the bylaws of the town of Marblehead And the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. So help me, God, Help me God. Congratulations. Thank you.

1:13 All right. Okay. I like the way you’re keeping that company down There. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

1:25 Right. You ready? Right over there. So You ready? I will call to order the 300th and 76th annual convening of the select Board of the Town of Marblehead. The first order of business is to nominate a chair for the upcoming year and ask for nominations ‘cause there a nomination for chair. Yes. I, Mr. Moses, I would like to put Erin Newnan name as chair or make a nomination. Okay. I’ll second. Okay. Are there any other nominations for chairs? C and none? I’ll take it to a vote. All those in favor of Erin Newnan as chair

2:13 for this coming year. Raise your hand. Vote for myself. You Just, you can vote for yourself. You better vote. That is four to zero Feels weird. Chairwoman Newton graduate.

2:42 Thank you. Um, So, uh, being that it’s the first meeting of the, um, 24 25 select board calendar, we read a, uh, our land acknowledgement. Uh, so we acknowledge that the land on which we reside now known as the town of Marblehead, is the ancestral homeland of the nom keg band of the Massachusetts and Pawtucket tribes. They lived here under the leadership of the great s Seche, Nana passionate since time immemorial the nom keg, people maintain this land and surrounding water with the utmost respect, preserving it for future generations and treating it as sacred ground for the burial of their dead. They had an organized and thriving community before the arrival of European settlers. The non keg people suffered great loss of life

3:30 during King Philips war, and the smallpox plagues and the surviving members were dispossessed of the land. Although we are unaware of any non keg descendants living in Marblehead today, we honor the non keg people of the Massachusetts and Pawtucket tribes past and present as the original stewards of this land and pledge to include their history in the history of our town.

3:53 So we do have one item on the agenda. Um, it is the, uh, contract, um, chief King has brought forward. It’s, uh, for an a DA, uh, grant project around, that’s the flooring. Um, and it, my understanding is that we just be able to speak outside that this is something that can be completed by the end of the month and is required for the purpose of the grant to be completed by the end of the month. So, right. Um, I dunno if there’s much else to say on it. No. So I, I will mention, so we applied for and received, um, uh, grant for a DA accessibility at the police station. Um, we looked at a number of projects.

4:38 Uh, one of ‘em that was completed was the, uh, I call it a water bubbler, but, uh, water station. Uh, it’s the new filtered where you put the, your sports bottles and, and, and, and so you don’t use the, the one use bottle. So that’s been, uh, paid for by the a DA grants and installed into the police station. This one is to put a non-slip surface, um, in the, it’s in the jail area. Right. Uh, special kind of pay, um, uh, that puts it down. So for those with, um, with disabilities as well as anyone else, uh, have sure footing, uh, in that area.

5:23 And the key is the grant expires at the end of the month, June 30th. So, um, we want to get this project approved and done. Uh, they’re ready to go, so we take advantage of this grant. Great. Okay. Um, can I have a motion to award a contract between the town and SOEP Painting Corporation in the amount of $23,365 for re resilience, re floor coating and improvements to the police station male cell block area? Sure. Second. All in favor?

6:01 Great. Okay. Thank you for bringing us all these grants and the work that goes into that. I know you worked with Becky on that one, right? Yeah. Becky’s grant. Okay. Um, She loved, Yeah. Um, okay, so that brings us to select board announcements.

6:24 I just, oh, sorry. Oh no. Go. I, Madam chair. No, a punch on That. Dan, uh, welcome to select board. You, you ran a really great campaign. Uh, people throughout town responded accordingly. You landed the plane, you know, really, really well. And, uh, you know, we look forward to working With you. Thank you. I’m very excited to be here and, uh, looking forward to working closely with you all as well as Mr. Murray. So ready to get going. Thank you. Thank you for all of your support throughout this as well. Yeah. It’ll be an exciting year. Um, Brett Murray did have a longstanding, uh, uh, commitment tonight and, um, we, you know, back when, you don’t know when the election is gonna be set for, so, um, I know he would be here if he, if, if he could. Uh, I just wanna say thank you and I appreciate the trust

7:11 and faith that, that you have, um, in me and extending me another year. I had a little interruption I feel like in last year, so I really appreciate the chance to give it my full all this year. And I look forward to nominating one of you, um, next year. And I really thank you for the vote of confidence. Absolutely. Look forward to it. Okay. Mm-Hmm. Anybody else? Okay, welcome. Thank you. Thanks. Motion to adjourn. So motion. Second. All in favor? That could be a winner. That could be awesome. I know. Look at that. Under.