Select Board: June 11, 2025

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0:00 Now we got rid of that. Okay. I called the meeting of June 11th, 2025 to order. This is the 377th annual convening of the select order for the Town of Marblehead. This meeting is being recorded. Uh, we have one member who is remote. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can You hear her loud and clear. Perfect. We’re in the radio world, five by five.

0:31 Um, so the first order of business is to, uh, nominate a chair for the upcoming year. So I will ask for nominations I would like to nominate, um, board member Dan Fox. Okay. And I’ll second, I’ll second that. Okay. Are there any other nominations?

0:55 Seeing none, I will close the nominations. Um, we have one member, so I will take it to a vote of the board. Um, Do you motion We need A vote. Follow? Yes, it will be a vote. I move that we nominate Dan Fox for this terms. Um, chair of the board. I second. Okay. So, alright. So the motion is to appoint Dan Fox’s chair of the Oh yeah, Right. Appoint. We did the, okay. So we’ll call, uh, Mr. Grayer. In favor? Ms. Nunan? In Favor, Ms. Senior In favor, Mr. Zin? In favor, Mr. Fox? In Favor. It is unanimous. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you.

1:40 Congratulations. Yes.

1:47 You look very eager to move. Aaron,

1:55 Before I read this, I just thank you all. I, I, uh, I’m honored to be the chair. Um, I’d like to thank you, Erin, for being the chair the last few years for the year that I was here. Uh, it was quite a year. Mm-hmm. To be the chair of the sophomore. A lot going on and I don’t think many people realize how much, uh, you put into this behind the scenes every day. I saw a lot of that. So thank you so much and thanks for, uh, for being a good steward. And I look forward to continuing. So thank you guys for the trust. Great. I guess, I guess my first, uh, duty is to read the Town of Marblehead Land Acknowledgement. We acknowledge that the land on which we reside now known, now known as the Town of Marblehead, is a ancestral homeland of the M Keg band, the Massachusetts

2:42 and Pawtucket tribes that lived here under the leadership of the Great s Satche Oshman. Since, since time and Memorial, 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 rival of European settlers. The non-tech people suffered great loss of life during King Philip War, and the smallpox plagues and the surviving members were disposed dispossessed of the land. Sorry. Although we are unaware of any nom keg descendants living in Marwood today, we honor the nom keg people of the Massachusetts and Pau Tribes past and present as original stewards of this land

3:30 and pledge to include their history in the history of our town. This was Article 32 of the 2022 annual time meeting.

3:40 First on our agenda is public comment.

3:46 Albert Jordan, 64 Roosevelt Avenue. Um, I’m very pleased with the citizens of Marblehead that came out yesterday. It was a very impressive, uh, number, I believe for, uh, what was going on. And I think the taxpayers have spoken, especially on the school department to see the percentages that it is very difficult to be, to beat an income and to see the percentages of these other people. But I actually supported the, is quite amazing. And I hope they just realize that they look at the school budget really, really thoroughly. They fix the roof, they fix the heating system. Um, and I just hope that they don’t come back next year

4:31 and ask for more money. ‘cause we give them more and more and more. And it seems like we got more problems. We need to get control of all the budgets in town. We gotta look at ‘em really, really, really close. And we gotta spend the money where we get the best pocket. And that’s all I’m gonna say on that. But I’m very, very happy that the citizens took the time to come out and speak. I hope they continue to do that. A future. Uh, number two is, um, I’m a little, uh, amazed to see one of the local papers today that the Board of Health, um, funded another position that a month ago they poll. And, um, I, I just think we want transparency here. And I think before we hire any more people, Laura Haley’s put a freeze on hiring.

5:19 Um, and, and, and, and, and I see in the paper it’s not gonna affect the tax rate. Uh, I have to pay to go to the dump, so it’s gonna affect my pocket. Okay. And, um, I think we should even look at maybe privatizing that place up there. So I think we should have looked at that. We privatized it. We got rid of the town employees that did the regular trash pickup years and years ago, and I negotiated with that. And that could have been saved. But there’s a lot of cities and towns that have had that been a privatized. It, it’s a lot of private places doing it now. Um, and, and the other thing we should look into is like South Essex Soar. They, they, there’s like five communities in it and that’s over in Salem. And all the other communities pay a big assessment. Salem gets a quite a deal over there for hosting it.

6:05 These people coming in from out of town, we should be talking to these other towns and they should be subsidizing, uh, ‘cause it’s gonna cost us money on the retirement. The health insurance, it’s a lot of other costs besides the salary. There’s another third on that. It’s probably $125,000. And, uh, I hope they hire a in town employee that’s getting 40 or 50,000. I hope we don’t have a nationwide surge because these little people that work in town work their ass off and they always get bypassed. And we hire these people from out of town, uh, making six figures with benefits. And we have a lot of people in town that live here for a lot of times that are scraping to get by. So I think we should spread the wealth around. And a lot of the little town employees work their ass off and get paid peanuts.

6:50 So I think we need to look in house. We don’t need a nationwide search. Thank You. Thank you. Mr. Jordan. Is there anyone on line?

6:59 Let’s see. Anybody else move on to town administering Officer Uptake? Sure, Mr. Chairman. Um, it’s gonna cover three items and, um, it’s in my memorandum to you. Uh, one, we are transitioning our domain name for the town, uh, from marblehead.org, which been in place I think since, since we’ve had the internet, uh, established to Marblehead in a.gov. So we’re moving from, from a nonprofit domain to a government domain. Um, the domain is the DO gov domain is, uh, managed by the US General Services Administration.

7:44 And one of the reasons we’re encouraged to, to make this transition is, um, one within the.gov domain. It adds, um, um, uh, legitimacy, that’s the word I was looking for, for all communications coming from a do gov. Um, so, so it’s not taking, it, it allows from some capabilities for single services by different government agencies. So there are, there are events as well as it’s managed and protected, uh, domain. Um, the marblehead.org domain will stay in use for an extended period of time to, uh, allow everybody ample time to, to, to shift over,

8:30 um, change any, any, uh, shortcuts or anything to that domain. Uh, so it, it’ll officially be in place on the 17th of June, uh, next week. Um, so everything will move in that direction. But again, uh, the, the.org domain that’s still working, it’ll just, um, redirect to the.gov domain. Uh, next, um, we are, uh, ready to post for the chief procurement officer position as well as we’re, we’ll be implementing an, uh, a new procurement software module. So, um, the history this, so our former town planner, Becky Kern was also our Chief Procurement Officer,

9:15 which is a significant role in managing all of the procurement requirements. So again, we have chapter 30 B for goods and services, chapter 1 49 for, uh, vertical construction, chapter 30 39 in for horizontal construction, chapter seven for architectural. Um, and I think I missed some, another one somewhere in there. And they all have different requirements, thresholds and such. So, um, when Becky retired, uh, we went and filled the talent planning position. As far as the chief procurement role, I took that on. And because you have to have somebody assigned as Chief Procurement Officer,

10:00 I was the former Chief Procurement Officer for the City of Beverly many years ago. Um, but we had, uh, uh, Amy, Ew and Alicia, uh, Benjamin, who both got their certifications and took on the additional roles of managing a whole number of procurement cases. Um, that’s not sustainable, doing it that way. So, uh, it, we funded it in the budget. It’ll be assigned to the select board’s office because it’s a function that’s gonna serve the entire, all, all the departments of the town. Um, and, um, and hire that the software module that, that we intend to get will manage all of our procurement processes. So right now we contract out for the larger procurements,

10:49 uh, to online services in which we upload our proposals or in invitation for bids and, and for fee. They manage, they collect all of the, the, the submittals, uh, manage the responses, help us manage responses to questions. There’s all these prescribed procedures. Um, what will happen is the module is that we’ll bring that process in house and the module that we intend to use, we’ll also provide that function. In addition, it’ll be a, it’ll manage all of our contracts. So after the procurement process are done, and we have contracts, it’ll be our contract database, it’ll maintain deadlines, uh, expiring contracts, all

11:36 of those, those functions. So it’ll very much improve the efficiencies and the transparencies for all the procurement process, as well as managing all the contracts. So all whole bunch of US department heads and others are looking forward to having that position filled. Um, and finally, um, working with Amy McCue in Public Works, we will be coming to the board. Uh, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll do a presentation and then, uh, a following meeting, ask the board to adopt the new Street sweeping plan. So, generally speaking, in the past, um, we’ve had the seasonal winter parking ban where the, the entirety of the winter, no parking on the streets.

12:23 And so public works would schedule the street sweeping and the, the, uh, catch basin cleaning before that ban expires. Streets are open easily, uh, to, to get the work done. Um, as you know, this past season, we’ve changed, rather than having an all winter ban, um, went to, went to the overnight ban and now to the, uh, as needed where we, we, we will call a parking van, snow band when necessary for storms. So we’ve lost that open window for street sweeping the vehicle. So, um, we’ve scheduled, currently scheduled, and, uh, for street sweeping, the challenge has been,

13:09 especially in the business district, in the old town where it’s very congested, um, despite putting the call out, um, you know, a lot of vehicles were not moved. Not everybody’s getting the, the notifications to move. So we know we need a better plan. So what we’re thinking of proposing is that moving forward, we will define well in advance a period in the spring, a period in the fall. ‘cause we have to do it twice a year, um, that we set as the standard times for Street Sweeping, advertise it. And then we also need to encourage, uh, as many residents as possible to sign up onto the code Red system so that they can get the notifications for that.

13:56 Because what ends up happening is our only alternative to get the street sweep and catch basin done is the tub. And we would rather not have to do that. Um, we, we, the street sweeping is a requirement, not just for aesthetics and, you know, making the streets look nice. It is a requirement for our stormwater permit to street sweep and clean the catch basins. If we don’t do the street sweeping, the rains come in, washes everything in the drains, we’re in violation of the Stormwater Act, and as four requirements, we start getting, you know, requirements and fines and other bad things happen. So we need to do street sweeping. Uh, we need the residents cooperation.

14:42 So we’re looking to, to come forward with a, a better plan that works for the residents, works for the public works folks. Great. Thank you. Any questions, comments, questions? Um, if I may, yes. So, uh, just, I just wanted to state for the record, I know that there’s been a lot of, uh, or there’s some, some questioning around some new hiring that it’s been going on. And I just wanted to state for the record with regards to the Chief Procurement officer, I’m really, really glad that we are funding this position. I think, uh, Dan and I went to an MMA conference, um, in like late winter and at the, and really became obvious to us in going around and talking to other towns and other, and, and the vendors that were there.

15:27 They were all, you know, oh, well just, you know, have your chief procurement officer get in touch with us. This is definitely a full-time job. And towns much smaller than ours have, have been utilizing this position. They have employed in their, um, municipalities this full-time position. They negotiate the contracts and all the other things that Thatcher had had laid out. I mean, like, towns like way smaller than us, like Rally and Barnstable. This is, uh, commonplace. This is, uh, industry basic standard. And I, I know that there is some questions around some new positions that have been created, but I just, you know, hope that people trust the board that we’re, we’re doing the research, uh, that, that these are, these are investments

16:13 that we’re making in people and there’s a reason for it and their best practices and also, um, uh, that just because we went without for a while or we had somebody else doing the position or serving, uh, Dustin way, uh, operationally, uh, for us to go forward as a town. So these are, um, improvements and, uh, they’re based in research and data and best practices, and I’m happy that we can close that position very much. Mr. Sheriff, I could also add,

16:50 if you can hear, can you hear me okay? Yeah, We see you too. Perfect. Okay. Yeah, Thatcher, uh, job well done. On the execution of this, I think, uh, procurement is a key part of, uh, you know, of, of the resource management centralization that we’re trying to do across town. And I just wanna concur with, uh, with what Aaron said, it’s an important function, especially in a town as complex as ours. And the most important thing is that we’re doing it within the existing spending, uh, of the town so that we’re not, you know, we’re not, we’re just rearranging resources so that we get a, a more efficient outcome. And, uh, you know, that’s been a part, a very successful part of your strategy. Yeah. And this was the position exists, so we’re not creating a new position that exists.

17:36 It was Right, right. Halftime by the time planner. So, uh, there’s that, uh, secondly, you know, at the FinCon there was a whole lot of discussion on this and, and what I described as enthusiastic support. In fact, one of the members of the FinCon is a former member of the Inspector General’s office that oversees the procurement process of the cities and towns. And highly advocated for it as, um, one, you know, the towns that don’t have are the ones that get in trouble with the, the, the inspector general’s office for, for failing to follow camera processes. And he described this position as a value add, not a cost. Um, because I made reference to, you know, the department heads, other department heads are picking up

18:22 that role, which means they’re not doing their primary function. Sure. And so this is about, um, efficient allocation of, of resources. So thank you for this.

18:35 I would just say with a, a likely uptick in capital projects, um, or report. And just for clarification, does the school department have their own or do we cover some of it, or? So they have, uh, they have individuals plural, that are covering it. And we’ve had conversations with ‘em ‘cause we, we talked about sharing resources and such and, and they’ve, you know, they’ve said the way they’ve got it arranged, they’re satisfied with it. But, um, you know, we’ve always offered, when they need help, we’ll help them. And on many occasions when we needed help, they’d come over and helped us. Yeah. Well, plenty of work on side, I think. Yeah. Yeah. That’s great. Plenty. Yeah. All right. Well that, we’ll move on to a public hearing. Um, this is a public hearing about the

19:23 public shade tree removal. Uh, this is a public hearing held in accordance with Mass General Law Chapter 87, section three on the request for remove two public shade trees at the rear of 3 44 Ocean Avenue. I would like to open the public hearing. This public hearing is a, um, the request of Martha Walton 3 44 Ocean Ave, requesting removal of two Norway maples and the public road. The trees are located on the Brown Street side of the property is, uh, share line. So, Okay. Yeah. Martha Walton is in the room for participation. Okay. Why don’t we, Martha, if you’re there, if you would like to present your request.

20:08 I know. Okay. Good.

20:16 Martha, are you on line?

20:22 Martha, can you hear us?

20:25 You have her unmuted and her camera’s off.

20:31 Looks like she raised her hand. She’s like now. Yeah. So

20:40 Try again. So, Martha, you’re, you’re unmuted on our end.

20:46 If you’re speaking, we’re not hearing you.

20:53 Yeah, I can see Martha, you’re still muted.

20:58 Oh, that’s that zoom. So

21:14 She’s unmuted office.

21:32 Oh, there we go. You have lot video.

21:38 We still can’t hear you

21:52 on Zoom. You may have to hit the little carrot next to audio and tell your computer which microphone you’re using.

22:05 The carrot is a little symbol next to the audio. Okay. You wanna call her? Yeah. Do

22:18 we have the number, the phone number calling?

22:22 Lemme pull it up.

22:31 Martha, we’re gonna try to get the phone number for you to call in and use your phone as the audio. It’s on the post, it’s on the meeting posting. That looks like it’s

22:44 Right there. She should try to call those numbers, but Okay. Have That set up on your Zoom. Yeah. Do you, do you have the meeting posting?

22:58 So let me give you a phone number you’re ready to copy. It’s 9 6 4 7 1 4 2. Hold on one second. I think that’s your, that’s your meeting. I need to look at the, the one below the 2 5 3. Okay. All right, let’s start over. So area code (253) 215-8782.

23:27 So that’s the phone number to call. I’m going to give you what, what, what happens Then it asks for the meeting ID or Call. Yeah, we haven’t done it. Lemme give you a meeting ID number and that is 9 6 4.

23:48 Be ready. So meeting ID 9 6 4 7 1 4 2 0 8 1 4.

24:02 And then there’s a passcode.

24:06 7 7, 3 1, 7, 6. Good luck. We’re get you Parallel drive here. Yeah.

24:20 As, um, Turner, we can have John, I was gonna say at the same time, uh, the tree warden John forward, do you wanna come up and give us your review of the request? Sure. Thank you. Uh, John, forward tree warden John Martin Hood. Um, Thanks. Come on table. That’s the real microphone. Okay. Uh, John Ree, warden town of Marblehead. Um, Mrs. Walton of, uh, I can’t remember the address on the top of my head. 3 44 Ocean, 3 44 Ocean Ave. Uh, requested, uh, removal of two, uh, one I think nine inch and one,

24:57 Yeah,

25:03 11 and 13. 11 and 13 inch. Uh, DBH Norway Maples, um, located four to five feet from the rear of their fence on the property that abuts on Brown Street, so it wouldn’t be in the front. Um, I came out and made an inspection on the trees on the request. Uh, they are probably 50 to 55 foot skinny Norway maples with no foliage until you get up to about 35, 40 feet. Um, even still they’re considered Norways are considered a weed tree, but still they are a viable town tree. Um, Mrs. Walton has put in the request, uh, she’s followed all the rules under chapters gen general laws, uh, Mrs. General laws chapter 87

25:48 and the minor pledge shade tree laws. Um, I don’t have a problem with this, uh, request. We’ve, uh, come up with a compensation, whether the vote would be replacement trees, um, equal value of the, uh, according to the DBH and according to, uh, the, uh, shade tree laws. Uh, so she agreed to the compensation and they’re responsible for, um, not at the town’s expense, but at their expense to remove, uh, both the trees and remove both the stumps and it’s in a dirt area. So they would also be just making the area, uh, back to the original and they’ll be replacing it with two, uh, shade trees to be determined in that location and two more trees somewhere in town. Okay. And go ahead,

26:36 John. Were those, do you think planted or were they we seeded Themselves. They were, we seeded themselves. It’s, uh, I’m very familiar. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And the trees have been posted for two weeks with a sign on them with signage, uh, with the, uh, initial request, um, that we’ve written up. Yeah. So there’s been plenty of time for people to see what trees are in question and they’re really skinny trees with just canopy at the top. And, uh, yeah, Once they start Going this coming back, I, you know, there’s still shade trees, so we still need to go through the process. Yeah. And I respect that they called in and actually went through the right process because we’ve been running it through a, a problem with people voluntarily shaking down trees without permission. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Correct. Um, what is the

27:24 area like in terms of other foliage? Uh, there is, uh, across the street there’s some, uh, black cherry, there’s, uh, there’s other trees in the area providing canopy across the street. There’s other Norway maples too, that are larger, and that’s what kinda shaded these out and made them grow skinny, fast and tall. So eventually they’re gonna become a, eventually they’re gonna become a problem tree for the town as well. So, okay. I don’t have a problem with the, the removal request. Thanks, John. Yep. Thank you. We’ll be able to get her phone. I would say, uh, based on the fact that the way this is gone. Yeah. We, she, we have in the record her letter, the record letter and, and Don.

28:09 Great. Is there anyone opposed this application? Anyone in favor of the application? All right. With that, I’ll close the public hearing. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from the board to approve the requests from Martha Walter to remove two nor Norway Maples at the rear of 3 44 Ocean Avenue, since to replace the trees in accordance with the Town Shade Tree regulations and under the supervision of the tree ward. So moved. So, Okay. Any discussion? Further discussion. All right. Uh, roll call Vote. Ms. Newton In favor. Mss In favor. Mr. Susan? In favor, Mr. Creator? In favor, Fox? In favor. Okay. All right. Thank you, Martha.

28:56 Next on the agenda as a licensing for Printing Yacht Club. Uh, call Atory, uh, to George. Yes. Welcome. Come on, have a seat. Now we see your application. Do you mind present your application if don’t say anything about yourself? Sure. Um, Dave Jadi was the predecessor, uh, to Yacht Club for around 30 years. Um, and, uh, I was, there was a search committee and I was selected as the general manager. Um, so I’ve, uh, I’m on the executive committee with the whole team there, and we just opened up in April. And, uh, yeah, I’m glad to, uh, I worked at, up in this area, Turner Hill back in the day, and I lived at Sters Country Club and from the North Shore, and people have been very welcoming.

29:41 But, um, yeah, I come from Boston with, um, working for the Cater Affair and Restaurant Associates at the Museum of Fine Arts and so forth. Uh, but I’ve held other liquor license and all sorts of responsibilities, uh, and I’m glad to be in the town and, and make sure that, uh, the members and the community, um, that were engaged and supporting things in, in, in a rightful manner and giving people good experiences and, and being diligent of, uh, the process as well. Actually, welcome question In Your own word, the road now? Yes. Yeah. In Boxford. Oh Yeah, there’s another bachelor. Yeah. I, my family and I reside, reside in Boxford, Massachusetts. Yeah. Fool me on that. That’s right. I’ve had the GPS that fool me too, and brought me not all of them. So that’s all I wrote. Yeah, that’s good.

30:29 I want, there’s no other comments. Uh, if I could have a motion to approve the application from the Corinthian Yacht Club one Han Street for the change of manager license number 0 0 8 dash cl dash 0 6 5 6. Salvato over second. All vote opposed This Ms. Singer? In favor? Ms. Si, Mr. Simpson? Mayor, Mr. Grade In favor? Ms. Newton? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Thank you. Good luck. Thank You very much. Good season. Thank you. Next on the agenda, we have the special election, early voting hours for the July 8th election. Um, the board of registrars and the clerk have determined that we will have two days. Um, this is the hours

31:17 that they have suggested are Monday, June 30th from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and Tuesday, July 1st from eight 30 to four 30. Uh, the reason that they’re ending now is basically because we have July 4th coming up there, avid Hall will be taken up with a Festival of Arts, and this is at the recommendation of the town clerk. There will still be, um, so two days early voting will still be mail-in voting as well. And we just need to approve the recommendation of the clerk and hang on. Has any discussion on that. And so I understand it’s the recommendation of the clerk and the board of Registers. Board of registers, yep. Okay. Exactly. And Authorized the early voting, the select what sets the hours of the early voting based on the recommendation of the cloud.

32:02 Okay. And we just add five days, but this is heed in by the July 4th holiday is, is There Is like a window. It can only be so many days in advance, So Yeah. So they need one that, so yes, the building closes, we close early and Thursday all day Friday for fourth, the July. So that pushes things back. And then there is a timeframe between the early voting where the clerk’s office has to do whatever the processing is before the election time. So they Need, like Monday we put an early vote this time. Right, Right. It’s just too close to the actual election time. So, um, based on conversations and input from the clerk’s office saying this is, this is the window we can, we can work with.

32:48 And, and they, I guess they couldn’t have started it, um, Before the, before the 30th, is that correct? Yeah, I, I don’t, um, as far before the 30 Oh, those days before, um, I think there’s, is there a timelining for notice? Just Trying to all the processing and the time, short time period that, Oh, between this election and the next one? Yeah, I think there’s a notice time for the polls. Again, the clerk’s office has the technical requirements on it. So, um, my understanding is we’re pushed in on one end to set this date, and then we’re limited on the other end because of the holidays, because of the use of the building.

33:35 Um, okay. In the time they need to process Yeah. In this mail. And anyhow, Is is mainly voting? Yep. And then the actual Dave, the timeframe for the actual voting. Any questions? Moses? Any questions?

33:55 All right. All set. Thank you. Um, do we have a motion on the recommendation of town clerk to hold early voting for a special election of July 8th, 2025 at Abbot Hall as follows? Monday, June 30th, 2025, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and Tuesday, July 25th, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM July 1st Left. First Son. Oops. Did I mess up? Thanks. Sorry. Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM after the month May So moved. Second. Second. Full vote. Mr. Sisen? Um, affirmative. Yes. Mr. Grayer? In favor.

34:40 Ms. Newton? Yes, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Pops in favor. Moving on. We have a consent agenda items, um, motion to approve i a motion to approve the following consent agendas. Accept those put on hold the minutes of May 5th, sixth, and 19th, 2025. Holiday hours at Abbott Hall and Mary Alley Building from Monday, June on Monday, June 30th, 2025 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM Thursday, July 3rd, 2025, 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM And on Friday, July 4th, 2025, closed all day.

35:25 Abbott Hall will be open for a Festival of Arts activities. Also the 4th of July, Harwell Parade, which is on Friday, July 4th, 2025 at 10:10 AM And subject to approval from the police of Cho, uh, police, chief of police, and receipt of the required certificate of insurance. The trade route will be the same as the previous year, starting an ending at the National Grand Bank. Rain date is set for Sunday, July 6th, 2025. And the BNS Fitness annual Wicked Half Marathon on Sunday, September 21st, 2024. Also subject to approval from police, fire, recreation and Parks Department, police details and receipt of the required certificate of insurance. And the town of Marlin is additional insured. No permanent markings are allowed on the streets

36:12 and any temporary markings must be removed. The conclusion of the event.

36:18 So moved. Second. Okay. All vote on this. Okay, Mr. Grayer. In favor?

36:27 In favor, Ms. Same. Mr. Sen. In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. We have an open meeting law complaint, um, from Dan Albert. We have some information in here about it. You read about it. We need to discuss, um, basically to approve, to, to send it over to Town Council.

36:52 So if we could have a motion to approve and delegate the response of the open Meeting law complaint filed by Dan Albert on May 25th, 2025 to Town Council. So moved. So vote, Take us a second. Any discussion? Any further discussion?

37:10 Vote Ms. Noon. In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Assistant In favor? In favor? In favor. And we have some one day liquor license, approve Plan, yacht Club, star of the Sea and Bubble Bar. Boston would like a motion to approve the following applications for one day Liquor license, subject to the following conditions, delivery of and receipt by the liquor Licensing authority of the required fee of $50. Delivery of and receipt by the licensing authority of proof that the alcohol will be purchased in 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 requirements of General Law. 1 38 Authorized distributor to be determined prior

37:57 to license being released. No alcohol is allowed to stay on the premises of town buildings Overnight. Liquor Liability insurance for events on town property for the Play on Yacht Club of 42 Foster Street, July 2nd, 2025 from six to 10:00 PM Start of the Sea at 85 Atlantic Ave. June 28th, 2025 From five to 7:00 PM in the bubble by Boston of on 88 Washington Street, July 4th, fifth and sixth, 2025 from 12 noon to 5:00 PM

38:36 Okay. Um, this same in favor? Mr. In favor? Mr. Grayer In favor? Uh, yes. I favor Mr. Fox In favor. We also have a notice from the, uh, board of Water and Sewer Commissioners would like to invite the public to the water invite us as well as the public to the Water Sewers Commission to the annual rate set Hearing Setting, hearing to be held on Tuesday, June 24th at the Commission’s offices located at 100 Tower Way Building 11. The public hearing will commence at 7:00 PM

39:16 And finally, we do have a resignation from Amy Hirsch. Uh, she is resigning from the Disabilities Commission effective immediately. Um, Um, Amy’s been on that, uh, commission for quite some time, uh, if I recall. And I’d like to make a motion to accept her resignation and send a letter of appreciation. Vote

39:45 A Mr. This favor, Mr. Gray? In favor? In favor, Ms. Ing? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor, are there any select court announcements?

40:00 Bill, I’d like to just, uh, congratulate Jim, and it’s wonderful to have you at the table. Um, and also wanna just, uh, extend, uh, congratulations to all the new elected, uh, officers of the town that have been, um, uh, voted on by the town to serve in the community in various roles and also extend, uh, deep gratitude for those that have served and are stepping down.

40:29 And chair, if I could, uh, add to that, I’d like to congratulate, uh, Jim Zon on, uh, on joining our board. Uh, very excited to work with him and also to, to congratulate you on your chairmanship. It’s a, it’s a, it’s a, it’s an honor and, uh, and a and, and a tough road to hoe sometimes. And, uh, we really appreciate you stepping out in that capacity. And I, I would just like to add, uh, everyone that runs is a winner. You know, whether you win of the polls or not, put your name out there, you know, for the good of the town is really appreciated. I, I think that’s really important. Yeah. It takes a lot. Just put to put your name out there, put your pace out there and it, it does not as easy as it might look. Right. Correct. As you know. So Great, Jim, Jim, and hope for your speedy recovery too.

41:15 Absolutely. I mean, Full context point. Yeah. One more. We hear about the Marines, but I see you showing up with, with this injury, so thank you.

41:28 Absolutely. Anybody else? Yeah, I’d like to welcome you as well. And Just to echo the same statement for everyone who had the courage to run this year in an election, I applaud you and for stepping forward and trying to make a difference and appreciate all the effort and anybody who ran for an elected office. So thank you. And also, um, just wanna commend, uh, the chief for a, uh, the firefighter event on Sunday and was great event and everyone to attend it. And, um, always an honor to be there. So Thank you both for, to be there. So thank you both for attending. Appreciate it. And both, that’s A very nice shirt you can grab out.

42:09 I Thought, I thought you might notice that Chief. Pretty jealous. We have a Group post elections for recognition, the volunteers, the poll workers, and the people who support making the elections actually happen. Yeah, all volunteers. Um, All volunteers, but them, we wouldn’t have democracy, so Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. Thank You all. It think that the, um, location at the high school worked really well and that’s where I voted this year. Yeah. And, um, I, I did just, you know, incidentally, people had commented about just how smooth it was. No problem. The parking, it’s handicap accessible and easy to park. So It was great to see such large StartOut as well. Yeah. To see the participation of this time’s. Nice.

42:57 Absolutely. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So, so moved. I’ll second that. All Right. Mr. In favor? Yeah. Ms. Singer favor. Mr. In favor, Mr. Fox In favor.