Select Board: June 25, 2025

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0:00 Jim, you wanna turn on? Okay. You ready to roll? Yep. Alright, call the meeting to order select order meeting of June 25th. This meeting is being recorded. Just kidding.

0:16 From the all no from me. It always records from the mics. Yes. That’s, we’ve got him on. Yep. Still being recorded. We will. Is do you have Moses on Zoom? Let me, we do have one member participating remotely. Um, yeah, he’s on, I’m promoting. Okay. And we are expecting one more l we’ll be here soon. We’re gonna start off with public comment. Um, if you have comments about any of the three presentations, you will have the opportunity at that time. So any public comment not having to do with those presentations, be welcome. Step on up. Hi, Albert Jordan Roosevelt Avenue. Um, I know you just renewed the town administrator’s three year contract.

1:01 Um, I just wanna make sure before the three years are up, um, that the next time the school committee negotiates contracts and we get a new town administrator, he or she, um, that we put in the language, or we consider putting in the language that they’re on the negotiation team. So we don’t come up in any surprises. It’s really sad that the kids had to go to school in a hundred degree temperatures. Um, I I’m sure they were appreciated supporting the teachers. The teachers thought that, um, I hope the teachers, uh, you know, could tolerate the heat the last few days. But, um, I just wanna make sure in the future that, um, the kids get to go to school. They don’t have to go and protest with the teachers during school days and they’re in school learning because I don’t believe when the temperatures are at this

1:48 temperature, um, you know, that they’re really thinking about learning much. So they lost so much of 11 days of school. Um, and, and then, um, you know, the last week was brutal. And even earlier on we’ve had some substantial hot weather. So I’m just hoping in the future that we can put the, uh, you know, in Salem, the school committee, the mayor’s on the school committee. I think we need to change the language and, um, you know, it’s the biggest budget in town, the school department, and I think the town administrator, um, should know what’s going on there. I’m not saying he’s gotta go to every meeting, but he needs to be known, um, especially, um, if they’re gonna walk out and everything like that. Um, because it was sort of like people thought it would never happen in Massachusetts.

2:34 It’s a law that’s illegal to do. Uh, I’m still amazed how the teachers could dictate to the town and threaten the town and not go to school. And the town people, the town people didn’t give to it. So, like I say, I hope, you know, when next year comes, um, you know, if they’re gonna have to be cuts in the school department. ‘cause I don’t not think teachers are gonna be funding these overrides for salaries. Um, I think it’s gonna be very, very difficult. So I, I just hope that we keep this in mind. Thank you. Thank You, Mr. Jordan. Anyone else? Anyone line there?

3:11 Don’t see any Hands. Why don’t we move on to town Administrator update that. Sure. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Um, I’m gonna highlight, I provide a memo to the board. I’ll give the highlights. Um, I like to focus on, on different areas of things that people are doing. So, uh, our veteran services agent, uh, RO Trian fee Elli, and I’m gonna keep practicing her last hyphenated name until I get it right, but that’s why we all call her a call. Um, been very active, um, uh, doing a number of engagements out in the public. Um, and one of the things she’s seeing is, uh, activity has increased of veterans coming in, especially now Vietnam era veterans.

3:57 And, you know, I, I think when I first went in the Air Force, the Vietnam vets were the ones that were running the show. Um, so I get to know, you know, that that whole generation, um, they’re not ones to complain, want, help, uh, talk about things and well, they should, they need to. And Rose’s doing a good job of getting out into the community, engaging in activities and getting them to come in and get, get the help that they deserve and they’ve earned. So she’s holding coffee events. Um, she, um, did a presentation at the library for the, the Deborah Sampson event. And Deborah Sampson, if you know your history, is a woman in the Revolutionary War area, uh, uh, dressed

4:43 as a man in order to fight in the war. And so, um, uh, there’s a recognition program for women veterans. So she was a speaker at, at that. Um, and, um, she’s gonna be reaching out to the area, nursing homes to, to engage with veterans there. So, um, and finally she’s getting positive feedback from the actions of town meeting where town meeting approved the expansion of the property tax abatements for veterans. So that’s being appreciated. Good job. Um, saying again, as July 1st is upon us, uh, next week, I think, uh, that’s when we flip over to our Munis Financial software. I know I’ve talked about in the past. That’s a really big deal.

5:28 And just to call out primarily the folks, Alicia Benjamin, who, who led the whole effort. Um, I can’t tell you how many all-nighters she pulled to, to make this possible, but all the finance staff and all the department heads and others who are eng who will be engaging with the software, there’s a lot of training, a lot of learning. Um, so kudos to all those who are putting in the extra effort to make this, uh, transition possible. I’m sure there’ll be some bumps along the way, but, um, we’re launching on July 1st. And, um, we will have a much better software system. A lot more transparency, a lot more accuracy, a lot more information at our fingertips. Will we be running parallel systems? Yeah. So well sort of, we’re, we’re closing out the soft, right.

6:18 Um, I think there’s limited bandwidth to maintain both systems. So I think the parallel will just be closing the books out and cutting it off. What one of the things that’s not gonna happen. And it’s because the incompatibility between the old soft right system and the way that’s structured and the accounts and everything, we’re not gonna be able to import from soft, right? The history into Munis. So what we’re gonna do is we’re going to document the soft right history. Uh, probably just have Excel spreadsheets of the last so many years put that, make that available publicly. But Muni will be starting fresh going forward. Okay.

7:03 So, um, outta necessity, that’s what we’re doing. Uh, next, um, another big project is on June 27th. We’re for all employees. We’re kicking off the salary survey classification study. We have a consultant, uh, Katie y from MGT, um, and this is where we’re gonna update the entire classification plan. The classification plan is the authorized list of all the positions. Um, and again, town meeting is the one who, uh, controls that authorized that though the compensation committee is delegated to handle that between town meetings, um, is to come up with a classification plan and salary schedule, looking at our comparable communities

7:52 and our competitive communities to, uh, develop, to propose salary scales that keep marble ahead competitive in the marketplace. Um, and the classification plan is to clean up and look at all the authorized positions and, and valid make, make, make them all current valid positions, huge project lot, all the employees will be actively engaged in this process. How long will that take again? Okay. Um, the schedule has us going to November, December timeframe to complete, which is good. ‘cause that’ll put us right into budget building season, and we’ll want this, um, um, at that time. So there’ll be a role for the select board, um,

8:38 what the select board from a policy perspective, when you have all of the wage comparisons, um, there’ll be a range of averages of all the communities, again, that competitive as well as comparable. Those may or may not be the same communities. Yeah. In other words, there’s communities, for example, the city of Salem is not comparable to us. They’re bigger, they’re a city, but we compete with them for employees. So, um, the policy will be, um, for the select board, when you look at the range of salaries, is where to put Marble Head as a percentage on that range. Previously it was at 50% of whatever the average is. And I think we’ve had conversations previously that

9:24 that puts us behind competitively. And so they’ll be at some point coming to the board. Our goal is 75%, but that’ll be a, a topic of discussion at the board. Um, and finally, 4th of July events. I know that there’s an agenda item to go into the, the events itself. I just wanna point out all the, the pre-planning work, police, fire, Harbor Master Public Works, uh, all the folks, uh, that do a lot of work to be prepared for, uh, the, the events coming up this year, the, the event falls on a Friday, which means we expect bigger crowds. Um, it, it, you know, Fridays and Saturdays have a different flavor than a middle

10:10 of the week type of event. So, uh, we’re prepared. We’ve done a lot of planning, uh, and our, our folks are ready for folks to have a good time. Great. Thank you. And that concludes my update, uh, through, through the chair Annual 4th of July elimination environment. Hello? Yes. So, uh, on behalf of Alexander Faulk, who is the chair of the committee, and, um, he’s, he’s over in Europe, um, um, enjoying himself, I’m sure over there. Um, so I said I’ll, I’ll pick up and do the announcements and, and then, and then there’s a vote by the board. Um, what’s important to know, um, that the fireworks, the timing is going back to a previous schedule

10:58 and what it’s been in the recent history in which the illumination will be starting at 8:45 PM um, and that the fireworks will shoot off at 9:00 PM This is an adjustment from the last several years where everything was held later mm-hmm. And most people held to the old the new time, and some stuck to the old time. So, um, you know, he reaches out and works with all the, um, all the, the, the yacht clubs and such that are all big part of the, uh, festivities are rent wrapped around the harbor and the residents. Um, because of, uh, the, the, the Barge fire last year, um, we, we raised enough money from that to, to pay

11:44 for the fireworks for this year in the contract. Um, however, we want to encourage this year’s fundraising as well as next year’s, because next year’s event is gonna be the 250th. The fireworks are gonna be bigger. Uh, there’s gonna be a lot more competition. So I’m sure that the, the contracts will be more expensive. But we’re looking to do a, you know, a much bigger event for next year. So we, what we want to do is use this year’s fundraising as well as rolling into next year’s as normal in order to, uh, raise the funds to cover the fireworks in the, in the flares for next year’s event. Yep. Mr. Chair, can you hear me? Yep.

12:30 Oh, there’s Moses. Yeah, apologies. I just wanted to be able to do a, be able to do a sound check here. I didn’t have a chance to respond to the administrator’s comment, not administrator’s comment. Do you, uh, how’s, can you hear me okay? How’s your sound check working? It’s working. Perfect, thank you. No, I can hear, I can hear you guys loud and clear. You remote. Uh, yeah, I just, I, yeah, look, I just wanna emphasize that Roe is, is really doing a wonderful job with her human touch, and she has really deep knowledge and kind of specializes on all the ins and outs of, uh, of, uh, veterans, uh, you know, the rule, the rules and res around benefits and so forth. So I’d encourage any, you know, any veteran in town to really reach out to her, uh, because she’ll, she’ll spend a lot of, uh, real quality time with you.

13:16 And also, uh, kudos. Again, this muni launch is really very, uh, is a long time coming. It’s a huge effort. It probably is 1.5 x on the, on the level of effort for the, you know, for the folks that are involved in doing it. So I can’t wait for its rollout. Uh, and, uh, you know, congrats to, uh, uh, to Alicia and, and her team. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank You. Appreciate your colorful shirt as remote as always. Thank you for continuing that. Any other questions on fireworks or comments, If I may? Um, I, this, it’s not so much the fireworks, but the, the planning and preparation for the fourth being on, on a Friday. Um, I know in the past,

14:02 and I, I, I know that, I think, I’m pretty sure Chief King was reaching out to the Coast Guard because in the past there’s been issues when, especially when it’s like on a, a hall, like a long weekend, like a Friday, concerns around the Browns Island kind of boat tie up and, and Crown and Shield. And I know they’re like, a lot of the homes and neighbors in that area have faced like enormous, uh, rubbish and crowd control and disorderly conduct. And, and generally there’s like, and I understand like a jurisdictional issue even with the Harbor Master and the police up to a certain point. So, do you, is there any update on, I I, um, you know, how his outreach to the Coast Guard has been on that or what the plan is around, uh, given the, the, the weekend time and, and, um, uh,

14:48 and just past experience? Yeah, I, I, I’m gonna guess I’m, I’m, I’m not sure I’m gonna guess the Harbor Mass is the one that’s done the coordination with the Coast Guard. The chief has reached out to the trustees of the now Crown Shield Island. Mm-hmm. Uh, formerly known as Brown Island, um, has reached out and engaged and coordinated, um, the activities, uh, with them to, you know, help with the cleanup as well as mm-hmm. You know, sort of, I don’t want to, I guess the word is enforcement to make sure folks are behaving appropriately. The other factor in all this is the timing of the tides. Mm. Right. Um, right. So I think it’s a 1:00 PM high tide. Uh, so It affects whether they’re walking

15:35 or boating back and forth in that. Uh, if I can one more mention on the fireworks I think is important to get out to drones or UASs since they’re highly, highly popular. So, um, anybody who’s recreational like me, who just has a drone, you have limits. You cannot fly them over, over public space, over crowds, over moving vehicles, you’re prohibited. And then those who have commercial, uh, licenses to fly, there still are restrictions to be adhered to. And so the Marblehead, uh, they have the website, the Marblehead Fire Works slash drones. So anybody who’s engaged in flying any kind of drones,

16:22 either recreational or commercial need, should hit that site and, and have clarity as to what’s allowed, what’s not allowed, and where, where things can fly. Great. All right. Well, if we could entertain a motion to hold the annual Harbor Illumination fireworks display on Friday, July 4th, 2025. Rain date of Saturday, July 5th, 2025. Harbor Illumination starts at 8:45 PM and fireworks display at 9:00 PM I’ll move that motion. Shall move Second. Okay. I think we have to roll call since Moses. Oh, yes. Bill, Mr. Grader In favor? Ms. Nunan in favor, Ms. Singer? Uh, Well, She’s coming late. She Okay. Didn’t, uh, Mr. Sen in favor, Mr. Fox

17:08 In favor passes. Uh, if we get, have Maggie come on up. Yeah. Let me, Oh, you’re here. She’s here. Do, do you need to be promoted in? Can I, yes. So Maggie’s gonna discuss our annual review of the storm water management and our MS four compliance. I just like saying that, Get ready for some great acronyms.

17:58 Saw you out in the streets looking into, uh, some holes. Oh, on Atlantic Street. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Can be found. So does that work? Okay, great. Awesome. Hello everybody. Nice to see you. I’m Maggie Wheeler, I’m the town engineer and I’m here representing the Department of Public Works to discuss our municipal separate storm sewer system compliance and our, um, swim report. So it’s the storm water management plan and reporting. So this is our annual review of our stormwater management plan, um, which is available for everybody on the website. Um, we do an annual review each year, um, and update our plan, incorporate any public comments and latest and greatest from, um, what we know

18:45 and from our consultants. This is all falls under the Federal Clean Water Act. Um, and Marblehead is a phase two municipal separate storm sewer system, which means we are a small system in Massachusetts that is in an urbanized area where our drains in the road. So our catch basins in the road go to dedicated pipes. That flow then untreated out to our waterways, which is mainly the ocean and marble hud. Um, so this is the vessel for, um, regulating our drainage system, make sure that we do operation and maintenance and, um, housekeeping, which we’ll get into a little bit more later. Um, but it is also an opportunity for us to ensure that the water quality in our town’s drainage

19:30 and what we are releasing into the harbors is as clean as it can be. Um, so this is our chance to review our plan and our operations and, um, we do need everyone’s help. So I’m glad we have a big crowd here today. So what is a storm water system? I will say drains, I will say storm water, I will say storm sewer, but effectively it is those catch basins, which you can see on the right there that then flow untreated down to a water body. Um, you can kind of see the water that flows through these drains is untreated and it collects friends and foes along the way. Um, namely pollution. You can see if that, that car in the middle of the picture there has an oil can next to it. And there’s a sheen that’s flowing off from there. There’s a pet waste that flows into the drain there.

20:17 And so these are all things that then end up in our water waste. And we do wanna highlight that today. This is more, so this is just the drainage system. It is not a sewer system. So if you have a toilet, which I hope most people do at their house, and you flush it, um, that water goes to a separate sanitary sewer that goes to a wastewater treatment plant. That’s not what we’re talking about today. We are talking about the drains. Um, so this is an example of what the inside of a catch basin looks like. Many of ours have hoods and that tries to, um, shield the floatables that you can see in this image. Um, and it has a sump beneath it, which collects debris. And you may see our clamshell bucket trucks out and about town right now. They’re actively cleaning our catch basins that we do annually to ensure, um, things get clean,

21:03 just some more really wanna drive this home. What is on the roads and on the ground does flow into our drainage system and what you put into the drains, we don’t want it there, just water. So we’ll get more into that. So storm water does also carry pollutants. So we are regulated by EPA, um, the small MS four program, and there are six primary control measures that we work on. So I will go into this now. Public education, very important for what we do. Um, we wanna make sure that people understand the work that we are doing, um, and understand where the drains go. I think some people marblehead maybe not know just from some of the things that we have seen in catch basins, but, um, it is an important opportunity for us all to understand that there is, um, they’re going out

21:52 to our outfalls, you can see on the right here, that is a pamphlet from Salem Sound Coast Watch, um, that we support. And that is a sign from Riverhead Beach. Um, so that is definitely one of our primary outfalls that we are doing a significant amount of investigations in. Um, and we also engage with the schools. We try and go to a bunch of events that around town sustainable marble has been awesome in incorporating us and having an opportunity to speak with residents about drains. Um, and if you ever wanna talk about pet waste and marblehead, I’ll get to that later. Um, public involvement again, we do have, um, tabling events, sustainable marblehead. Um, we are planning on going to a farmer’s market this summer, so we have a chance to speak with the community and really drive home, um, the importance of our drainage system.

22:39 Elicit discharge detection and elimination. So this is a program that we have, which is also available on our website. Um, and there’s a couple different kinds of connections to drains, but basically we only want storm water and we want it to be as clean as it can be. That goes into our drain system. So you can have indirect discharge, that’s a spill. Um, somebody releasing, dropping a pet waste bag directly into the catch basin in, um, if there’s anything that’s running off from the road, that will be an indirect connection. And a direct connection is there. If Marblehead is an old community, there are some locations where we believe there may be, um, direct connections of people’s houses to this, the storm sewer system. So the storm drains. And so we, that’s something

23:24 that we are actively looking for to remove. So in the past year, we’ve done approximately 35 days of sampling throughout town, targeted areas, looked at different catchments and outfalls gone manhole a manhole, and have done a pretty extensive program to try and rule some of these direct connections out.

23:40 This is some of that work here. You can see. I wanna give a little shout out to our new assistant engineer Caroline. And the photo on the left, um, investigating a drain. This is some of the CCTV footage that we’ve done. Um, these are befores and the of the pipes cross sections. And the bottom picture is if it were lined, we have not done lining this year. Um, and then the photo of the very green, um, manhole that’s inside of a manhole. So that’s where you can see the pipe and the water flowing through it. That’s US dye testing in a select area in town. Um, so we have been doing some targeted dye testing, going door to door mailings and such to make, to rule out areas where we’ve seen high bacteria counts. So a lot of what we’re looking at is humanoid bacteria. So it’s indicative of, um, human waste,

24:25 AKA sanitary sewer in the drainage system. So we’ve done pretty extensive dye testing this year as well. I just wanna shout out to, um, the water and sewer commission who separately has elicits in their systems. Um, and that would be a sump pump directly into the sewer system. Um, that’s not what we are talking about. We’re talking about direct, like anything that’s not storm water. So that’s, um, that’s not allowed in the drainage system. But I just wanna say if you need more information about that, if you have a sump pump connected to the standard tree sewer, I recommend you go to re sump.org or reach out to the Water and Sewer Commission. Um, oh yeah, I have a good, so this is the, on this is just a couple of different examples of what can be done.

25:10 Um, so our next minimum control measure is construction site runoff control. Um, so that we do have a town bylaw chapter 1 95 that has for storm water management and erosion control, that primarily looks at parcels that are developed that are greater than 40,000 square feet, which are approximately one acre. Um, but there’s also best practices for construction site runoff that we should use. And that top right is a photo of somewhere in town where, um, we could have had an opportunity to have better construction site material maintenance, post construction, stormwater maintenance. So this is making sure that if we do implement anything, um, we are doing adequate maintenance. If we’re putting in rain gardens with some of the work that we were doing on the rail trail, um, there’s some planting. So that will be something that we’ll be more engaged in in the future.

25:58 Good housekeeping and pollution prevention. We’re getting to my favorite parts. Um, these are some photos, um, not from this year, but of pet waste deposited directly into catch basins. So these are both two full clamshell buckets. Um, I, I don’t know the exact size of it. It’s probably like two by two. Uh, it’s a pretty big volume of, of pet waste. And we’ve had a couple scoops come out of a couple key catch basin areas. Um, and so that’s something that I, I wanna reiterate is please do not put your bagged pet waste directly into a catch basin. It is not treated and it goes directly to our ocean. Um, and then the photo here on the map is a photo from us doing an inventory of stormwater control measures

26:43 that we can ensure that housekeeping. So again, pet waste management. And I wanna read from my notes on this one ‘cause these are some reminders that I wanna have. Okay. So this is a reminder to all dog and pet waste owners, uh, dog and pet owners and marblehead, if you do not pick up your pet’s waste in your backyard, you have added pollutions to the town water waste. If you do not pick up your pet’s waste in the woods or on the side of the rail trail, you have added pollutants to the town waterways. If you do not pick up your pet waste on the town, sidewalks, grass trips, parks and beaches, you have added pollutants to the town water waste if you do pick up your pet waste, but forget it on the side of the road, the trail or otherwise, you have added pollutants to the town waterways. If you do pick up your pet waste and then throw it into a catch basin,

27:29 you have directly polluted the town waterways. But if you do pick up your pet waste and properly dispose of it, we would like to thank you for not polluting the town’s roadway wastes. And I feel a little bit silly saying that, but this is a real thing. I don’t, people in Marblehead, I don’t know if you walk around often, um, people just leave their pet waste on the side of the road. And so it’s a definitely a problem and I encourage everybody to try to take part and keeping our oceans clean. And there are fines and you can report to DPW and we would be very happy to follow up on it, if not otherwise. Okay. So this is just a recap of some photos from this year. Um, the photos on the left are photos from dye testing. Um, so far we, the dye testing that we’ve done of sewers in homes have gone to the sanitary sewer, which is great.

28:14 They were not connected to the drains, but that means there’s more work to be done because we have seen some elevated levels in our drainage system. The middle photo, you may not know, but that is a sump pump connection directly to the drainage system, which you often vote on here at the select board as a private connection to the talent drainage system. Here’s a photo of one that you voted on recently. So thank you. And these residents, thank you. Again, this is a photo of some construction site management. Um, it’s close to a town drain, so we had that move before rainstorms. That was good. The top photo there is a photo of a town outfall that was recently repaired this year. And these are just some photos of catch basins that we’ve fixed over the course of the year. It’s so, like green and, sorry, so dye. Yeah, so that’s the dye testing. So basically what we do is we have a non-toxic dye

29:02 that we place into, typically a toilet, and we flush it. Um, and then we open up the drain manhole downstream, and we open up the sewer manhole downstream, and we check the pipes to make sure there’s no other washer dryer in that looks like it’s going somewhere different. And then we check where the flow goes and we to verify that the, each homeowner in this targeted area is going directly to the sanitary sewer versus the town storm drain system. So it’s, we use, we were working in a specific area, and so we used two different color dyes so we can tell like, when the second ones comes through. Um, we didn’t have to use our third dye, but it was, it was a fun time. And then there’s always more to be done. So we have a number of projects that we are looking into, um, for, for the coming year.

29:48 So, um, I think that’s all I really have to review, but I just wanted to give anyone a chance to give comments if they have them questions, Buddy. Thank you so much. Yeah. For, uh, the presentation. It was great. Uh, I, the, I love the, um, new green signage boards that I remember. Yes. Andrew presenting to us. I think they’re great. I’ve seen one down at Harding Lane and Riverhead and there’s one at Village Doc now, and they’re starting to fill with really good information. Yes. Um, I think it’s a nice, it adds, it adds a nice, um, informational space for, for notices, most importantly notices around health. Uh, but, um, with regard to the, the dog waste, yeah. Um, it’s really, I remember this coming up last year

30:34 and I was floored. It boggles the mind. It’s completely inexcusable. It’s shameful that people behave that way. And I, um, wonder if there’s certain areas. I think I seem to remember one area being like a particularly, uh, abused is like the neck, which obviously is like, is runs right. A Couple areas. Yeah. So has the DPW thought considered, you know, barrels, waste barrels there within areas that are repeat problem spots and Yeah. Is that something DPW does or, or is it rec Park? Rec And park Is is the barrels park, could you, is there communication around like, those repeat offender spots and catch basins? Yeah, so, So some of the things that we have done is we’ve done target and flyering in those areas.

31:20 Um, we have sent home letters, sent letters to areas. We do put mailers in, um, to, or we, our goal is always to have mailers that go out with the PET licenses as well. Um, and so we do targeted mailers targeted, and then we have done letters. So we haven’t done engagement with the parks department. Um, I know since co COVID, there’s, there are a few less barrels. But, um, the goal is to, I, I don’t have an answer necessarily on if we’ve worked better with the parks or if they’re what the question is. ‘cause they do manage that, and they’re pretty short staffed with, like, picking up, I do know just from like hearsay that there’s a lot of pet waste that ends up in those barrels. And, um, there’s also a problem with people just stacking them up near barrels. So like, really people should be encouraged to carry their pet waste home as well, for sure.

32:07 So it’s carry and carry out. But it is a good comment and I’ll bring that to Amy. And As well, we have two really awesome rec commissioners here tonight, so it was on my mind and It’s awesome. Yeah. Um, I wasn’t actually clear, which if, if DVW did any of the barrels. No, we don’t. Okay. What else? Thank you. It’s a great presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Maggie. I appreciate it. All right. We are gonna move on to, uh, call Tom Ro from Board of Health to go over creating a healthier marble. Wood. Wood. Yeah. You there? Yes, please. Good evening. Hi, how are you tonight? I’m well, Andrew coming up too.

32:50 Um, got the slides. Okay.

32:55 I have a full folder here, so I gotta make sure I get the right one. Okay. I am looking S-P-H-I-M, is that it? Yeah. Yes. Strengthening public health in Marblehead. Thank you very much for allowing me to present. I’m gonna introduce my new colleague, Dr. Amanda Ko. No, from the Board of Health. We haven’t talked, we are not deliberating Don’t even look, don’t Even look at it between us. But Welcoming con Hey, good evening to see welcoming. Congratulations. Thank you. And before I get into by talk, I want to make certain, I was at all of the meetings at, at the town meeting this year, and I heard many times, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

33:41 So I wanna make it very clear. Public health today in marble hitting is not broken. We are not fixing it. We want to strengthen it. Okay. It, it needs to be strengthened. It’s, it does great job. We have good people, but it’s very limited, limited in resources, limited in time. It competes with the transfer station for Andrew’s time, for the board’s time, and we’re gonna go to five next year. And so we’ll have more opportunities to use the robustness that we hope will deliver to public health. But it is clearly, it is clearly not broken. Okay. Um, but there is

34:31 a different world out there for public health. And we all grew up thinking that public health came out of the CDC, um, prevention and control of disease processes. But, but pandemic changed all of that. The new vision for public health is much more proactive. Public health is what we do as a society to create conditions in which everyone can be healthy. It’s a very progressive and ambitious activist oriented public health, health and, and it, it really is right for the time. The next slide, please. For in tomorrow’s public health, the changes

35:16 that people will see and, and some of these changes began before the pandemic, but, but leadership at the national level understood that too much public health had become important, but too much of public health was coming outta Washington and Atlanta. Okay. And there’s a focus called Public Health 3.0, a focus to bring much more activity for public health into the communities. Communities are where public health plays out, and therefore they should be involved in conversation. They should be involved in at least debating strategy. We we’re not expecting the CDC to listen to our, even when we go to five, they’re not gonna be listening to us.

36:03 But I think the town will be better off if we have the ability to discuss these issues in the board of health meeting. And we now, we, we are gonna have the capacity with five people that will really be able to go into the issues there and make sure people understand the challenges that are out there. So I, I see that as a very positive, positive sign. And, and again, it, it came out well, it started well before the pandemic, but it’s been reinforced by everything we know. Um, clearly, uh, the, the second thing that’s gotta happen in, in the public health world is those of you who traveled much realize that America’s unique, the United States is unique, and that public health is very separate from the practice

36:51 of clinical medicine. The doctors and the hospitals are separate. Most places. They’re sort of integrated and have a fairly large Venn diagram. Um, we wanna move, we, we in public health, and I believe that delivery system wants as well, wants to move those systems more closely together, share data and use the same vocabulary, protect privacy, all of those things. But really make a, make the partner partnership between public health sector and the delivery system much more, much more, uh, tight than it has been historically. And CD CDCs developing data systems that we’ll share. You de-identify the important things so people don’t, don’t,

37:40 privacy is maintained, all sorts of things. So that’s a positive direction. And finally, from my perspective, one of the things that’s really happening in public health is we’re becoming much more proactive about promoting wellness rather than preventing problems. Mm-hmm. Okay. And I think that we’ve seen in the last several years, a a secondary consequence of the pandemic is the enormous importance that we’ve become aware of now. It’s always been there of mental health. We’re really gonna be talking about on our board already now, how do we develop much more public mental health approaches to deal with the society, the, the cha challenges in the society?

38:28 So we’re, we’re gonna work with our partners in, in the delivery system, and we’re going to be much more proactive about, uh, how we are, um, de delivering public health in, in the environment. So if we can strengthen our public health systems and our services and, and we invest in them, we’re gonna need to be able to come back to this group and the town meeting and say, okay, you invested some more money into us. This is what we’ve produced. We have to become more accountable than we have in the past. So it’s not that we weren’t accountable, but we had limited, uh, agenda. Um, and so, um, if you really wanna be truly accountable, you have to know

39:15 where you’re starting from in your accounting. And what we think we need to do to make all of that happen is we need to know what T zero is, what’s the health status of the community? And we have contracted with, um, UMass Boston to develop a health profile of the town, um, probably starting sometime after Labor Day. Okay. And why UMass Boston? Well, UMass Boston has, has done this same health assessment activity in 80 municipalities in the Commonwealth in the last decade or so. They’ve done Salem, they’ve done swampscott. We’ve talked to many of these people. They’re very happy with what they’re getting with,

40:02 with UMass Boston. And we, we’ve begun to meet on a regular basis, um, and I I, that that’s gonna really be quite positive for us. Next slide. We are not gonna be just dealing with, um, traditional chronic disease type things. We want to talk about big picture health, and we wanna talk about physical, mental, social, emotional, intellectual, occupational health, all aspects. It, it, it becomes holistic, uh, in, in a very great way. And we’re gonna be dealing with social determinants of health, those characteristics were, which are in the town, whether it be be the built, uh,

40:47 the built access, the built environment, um, the economics, all all of those things. What makes, and particularly as we move toward, uh, mental health issues, what makes wellness possible in a town like ours. Okay. So next slide, please. Um, what we’ve called our activity is creating a healthier Marblehead with the acronym calm. Okay. And, uh, um, it, it’s our program to, uh, promote community wellness. And I wanna make it very clear that to this point, and for the next year or so, there will not be a dollar

41:33 of the town tax money into this. We have been fortunate, we have a very generous community. We’ve raised money from, uh, some very generous nonprofits in town, and I was able to write a couple of little grants, and we’re using some of those grant dollars to make it happen. So by the, by, by the early part of next year, we will have a fairly sophisticated health status profile or wellness, wellness profile of the town. And we’ll really be able to use that, um, to, to make our pro set our priorities and determine where we wanna invest. And, and the, the last slide is what, what comm will actually be when we, when we get,

42:19 when we get there, um, in the spring of 2026, we’re gonna, UMass Boston is gonna do document reviews, all of those things, understand the demographic profile of the town. We have a five or six person team that’s meeting to discuss the survey. We really, really, but part of the reason I invited, I tried to get invited here, is because we really want the endorsement, all of the select board and everyone else in town, because when the surveys come out in the fall, we want everybody to think it’s really a great idea to fill out the survey, because it’ll be good for us. The survey’s free getting there is free, and it will allow us to, whatever money we have, we’ll spend much more intelligently if we know what’s going on.

43:06 So we’re gonna do the survey for everyone under, uh, o over 18. Um, and then we’re going to have at least four professionally led focus groups looking at specific topics. D drive down into the weeds a li a little more deeply than you can in a, in a survey. Okay. And we’ve got four examples. We’re gonna, somehow, we have to ask what’s it like to have a family and raise kids in Marblehead? Okay. What’s it like to grow old in Marblehead? Mm-hmm. Um, what’s it like to have a business in Marblehead? What’s the Chamber of commerce got to say about the, the health status of the community? How can they contribute? And then clearly it’s United States in 2025, you have

43:54 to address substance, substance use. I mean, it’s the, the, the, the elephant in the room, uh, for, for mental health. So that’s what we have. We are really, um, we’re really excited about the opportunity. We, we actually have now that as obviously two physicians on the board. I don’t think that’s ever happened before. And we are really prepared to try to bring public health into a highly visible and worthwhile activity for the town. Sounds amazing. It’s, It’s wild that this is, hasn’t happened before and Marblehead on the stairs and that we’ve been behind. So thank you for, for bringing that forward. Will the, so the surveys will, they’ll all be mailed out at some point. That’s

44:42 One of the mechanical issues that we’re struggling for most of the time. UMass Boston has dealt with seniors, seniors like do, do pencil and paper. Yeah. But we wanna go all the way down to 18. 18. My son, my, I have a 17-year-old. I don’t think he uses paper and pencil ever, even in school. Um, so, so we need to figure out a way that we can get the entire spectrum. Okay. And we are gonna, we’re we’re talking on a fairly regular basis on how we do QR codes, how we do mail in, can we use the iPad, the newspaper, uh, any of those things. And if you all will have the tolerance to invite us back in September before we submit the survey, we’ll share with you the mechanics of that, of how we’re gonna do it so

45:28 that you can help us, if we can get like the attendance at the town meeting last time, if we can get 30 or 40% of the town to really respond to. UMass Boston had one, I don’t know if you know which one it is, but it’s a town on the Cape that got 50%. It was a limited population. It wasn’t the whole population, but it got 50% responding to a survey. I mean, that’s world class. Yeah. Yeah. But we can get something like that. Then we’ll have real data to make decisions. Of course. We’ll do what, whatever we can help as we get across. Sure. Anybody else? Any questions? Mr. Chair, if I could make a comment? Yes, sir. Uh, Tom, this is, this is Moses. Greater speaking, I’m behind you. But, uh, this is really very exciting.

46:14 I mean, the, the, the idea of, uh, of setting a baseline, looking for accountability and then, you know, and then reaching out. So I, I, you know, in terms of ensuring that it’s, uh, successful, I imagine that, you know, people need to be satisfied. The privacy issues are going to be safeguarded. And as well, I think if there’s any way that we can get out our priori, you know, in front of the survey, kind of, uh, an, you know, uh, education about the baseline and how it gets created through the, the survey. I think that that’s just a suggestion, but I think it would be very helpful. Well, we’re gonna put together a little group that’s been, we’re gonna meet, um, bimonthly through the summer to develop the survey, and there’ll be time people on that in addition

46:59 to the board, uh, and, and, and, and the direct people. And we’re happy to come back. I mean, but, uh, a any way that the town realizes that this is a good thing. I mean, swampscott, it, it changed swampscott according to the, the people that ran it. And it came out of the Center for the Aging in s Swampscott. And the first thing they told them was, you can’t do it that way. You should do the whole population. You can’t just talk about one, one part of your population. Salem did it, uh, when the, I guess it’s the current lieutenant governor was mayor, and she ran with, um, both housing things and children. They now have a child’s advocate’s office in the mayor’s office that deals almost entirely with it’s social worker

47:46 who was in the schools deals with the problems of, of, of, of being a child in, in today’s world. Hmm. So th these, these, these assessments come with meaningful, meaningful results and mm-hmm. I’m, I’m excited. Um, does it, That’s great. Thank you. Um, I, I’ll like Moses, I really think the methodology, um, and approach to revamping like that the educational component of, and the outreach in terms of public health, side of board of health is, um, is great. And collecting the data and starting with that baseline is really critical. Um, I, I was going to say that there, that if you don’t know that the high school just perform every year,

48:33 they do their risk assessment, um, uh, uh, school-wide data risk assessment, their survey and, um, with Gina Hart, and so they have that data. Um, I lost my train of thought. Um, So yeah, that, that’s a great piece of it though. So Chin Hart comes to the Board of Health and presents that Okay, perfect. The results of the YRBS survey. Will you guys pull any of that in? Will you help you to pull that data in and, and combine the two Watson about using some of that data? Obviously it’s for kind of a narrow group. Sure. Um, so obviously they generally look at one high school class. Um, but that potentially could be brought into the group. Well, one of the grants that we’re using to support comm is, and we got it through, uh, the town to the,

49:22 from the, from the, um, governor’s office or the, the Lieutenant Governor’s office to develop a landscape for child and maternal health in, in, in Marblehead. So we’re meeting with the provider community. Last week we were in an obstetrics group. We went to Marblehead Pediatrics, went to pediatrics in Salem. So, and we are, we’re gonna try to develop that as a, as a parallel process because we, we can’t go directly with the kids without parental permission. I remembered what I was gonna ask. Uh, so I, I’m wondering if also your efforts in this respect in creating the demographic profile will help with future grant, uh, applications and being more competitive in, in those, in, in,

50:11 in seeking funding for future initiatives. I don’t think there’s any doubt. Yeah. I, I’m a recovering Academic. That’s, well, it’s a worthy endeavor. And I’ve written grants all of my life, and this is a great opportunity with all this stuff that’s going on about adolescent mental health with screens in schools and all of that. It, it with, with, so with the data that should come from both the landscape and from comm and our collective experience in, in dealing with these, with these issues, uh, from a public and public health and a clinical perspective, we should be in great shape. And I just would, you know, being that being the case, encourage you to promote that aspect of responding to the survey.

50:56 Because I think sometimes people are like, well, what’s the point of where’s this going? How’s it being used? And I think that, um, you know, if people know, especially residents in town know this is gonna benefit, maybe not even yourself, but other people that respond, our responses in general, and you’re taking the 10 minutes or whatever amount of time it takes to fill it out, uh, that’s where that’s one of the huge benefits to conducting a survey. That’s a really valid point. I mean, with our limited resources, this will be our strategic plan of what we really should be focusing on. Mm-hmm. So if we get all these answers from people saying, Hey, we really need to be focusing on more on X, Y, and Z, that’s what we’ll be focusing on. We can look for grants to kind of help deal with some of those issues. Um, but yeah, that’s the real plan with this to guide us with our limited Resources. Yeah. People might be more willing to just, you know,

51:42 fill out a survey if they know it’s gonna bring, if it could, it’s gonna lead to funding in the town Benefits. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you all. Hi. Through the chair. Um, I just a couple questions. If someone was participating, did you guys say they, would it be possible for someone to participate without giving information that would identify them? Like, I’m just trying to think about the, The TUR will be totally de-identified. Okay. We figure We’re gonna Figure out, I’m just Thinking about, we’re encouraging Participation, trying to see if we can do the same thing we do for absentee ballots or something like that, that, you know, it’s from a certain house or, or, or you know, it’s legitimate that it comes from somewhere, but once it gets tabulated there, the data will be totally de-identified. Okay. Yeah. So I think

52:27 that’s probably one of the things that will people Question the most. If we invited back, we’ll have Dr. Coyle come with us and, and share. She was gonna come tonight, but we knew time would be limited. You will definitely be invited back and I think that’d be great for, for outreach. So, and hopefully one of those questions will be be answered by that as well. Yeah, That’d be great. Well this is sort of the Labor day timeframe. After the summer that we develop those. We’ll come and we’ll talk to you about how to deal with the populations and how to guarantee uh, privacy. I think. I think you Think that’ll help. And I think, you know, we’ve done surveys through the town as well and I think that you highlighted this a little bit, but it’s been a couple years. But just to share, I think, you know, some people use email, some people use other methods. I think, you know, having some sort of access point maybe

53:14 where you can even like come job at hall like community. Correct. You know, like Council on Agent because maybe I could pick it up, fill it out, put it in a box, you know, if I wanted to do it in person. But I think that, you know, just from what we’ve seen with engagement, you know, just digital as you said was not always the best. So yeah, there’s a little over 15,000 people within that age range that we’re trying to hit. Uh, so 30% is 4,600. Um, so obviously as you go up to the 50%, you know, 70, you know, seven 50, um, so yeah, every option that we can to get people to easy access to it, either online, in person, drop off, all those things we’re taking a look at to try to make it as easy. Yeah. Like if they’re doing it within their normal like pattern of Right. The co A on a regular basis, Can they sit down with somebody at a computer and fill it out?

54:00 Can they do it by paper and drop it off at Avid Hall? Yeah. Mary Allen and other places. Yeah. How can they just use that Q QR code to go right online? Yeah, that’s gonna be our biggest challenge. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for your Ideas. Thank, thank you. It’s great presentation. Thank appreciate your hard work. Up next, shall I from Rec park to talk about the Liars Anderson proposal?

54:22 Can put that Mic, this one here? Yep. Welcome. I do you have uh, access to that? Yep. Okay, Great. You gave it to me. I was quick to click On the you’re on it. Quick. Click on It. I was trying to get prepared. You’re showing, you’re showing that up. I could share now. Thanks. Oh, I’d like to be prepared. And I didn’t realize that you couldn’t see what you were doing, so this makes sense. We are gonna call our meeting to order because Okay, great. We did post it online as a public meeting in case three of us. Were gonna show up If you guys would just introduce yourself or people watching as well. Yeah. Um, do you want me to call it to order? You can call the meeting order. Um, so on behalf of Rec Park Commission, I call our meeting to order at seven, whatever time it is. 7 56. Um, I’m Karin Ernst. I’m not the chair.

55:07 Uh, Shelley bad and vice chair Larry Simpson. Nice to member. Nice To meet you. Welcome Larry. Nice to meet you. Okay. Uh, before I start news, you’ll be the first to know that the U 11 softball team just won districts where they win over PV D 16 one. Alright. Ooh, that’s fake Making news. You beat the news over here to it. A that’s good thing they showed up. Yes. Um, all right, perfect. So it’s been a long time coming on this and I spoke to Aaron intermittently the last couple years at a little bit with Alexa and wanna give you a project update of kind of where we are. Um, there’s no official ask today. Um, it’s just an update. There will be an ask in September, but, um, this is, this is sort of an overview of what we’ve been working on the last couple years. Um, on June 2nd, rec Park and Unanim will, uh, voted, uh,

55:53 to formalize a procurement process, uh, for the concept and design and budgeting for a three phase project at Green Street. Um, it’ll take six to nine months to formalize the final plan, but we need to start the process right now. We’ve done all the legwork, we have budget quotes and all that, but until we actually have a formal like landscape architect or construction manager that can validate what we’ve done, look at the engineering studies and say, this can be built there. This can’t be built there, or your budget quotes are way off and it’s gonna cost a million dollars more than you think it is. We can’t in good faith, put a strong ask you to spend that or invest that large money without having a real concrete thing of what we can actually build there. As you know, it’s a swamp. There’s gonna be some level of a cistern being needed there, um, but we really need to hire someone first.

56:38 So the first step would be engaging with someone. Uh, Becky, I’ve been working with Becky the last month to get out a RFP for that. Um, it’s ready to go in July. Um, it’ll be awarded or opened in August 8th, and then we start picking which one we wanna use and then sort of go from there. But, so today I’m just really here to talk about sort of the dreams and, and what we have, um, what we’d like to have happen if everything works out perfectly. For those, um, that are new to the select board, I did give, um, Aaron and Kyle, um, a 17 page report that probably has more minutia that you’d ever need to know about this project. So you could kind of know from the beginning. But today, I swear, only have six slides. Um, again, just an overview so you can, um, know kind of where we’ve come, um, and, uh, where we’re going.

57:26 So over the past six years, rec and Park has hired McLaughlin management to do feasibility studies. We’ve had working groups with various stakeholders. Um, we’ve vetted every possible option of how to invest this money. Um, and putting the best plan forward to really honor the bequest of Mr. Anderson or the wishes of Mr. Anderson. Um, and I think this program we have for phase one is about as close as we are going to get. The challenge with this is how do we best support Marblehead Youth Hockey, um, have community skating, which we’ve never had on a consistent basis. Um, host a facility for other sports with no available town owned land. Um, and it has to be self-supporting. So there’s a maintenance plan in it with no municipal impact with $3 million. So how do we accomplish that? Um, it’s important to know

58:13 that the actual verbiage in the bequest, um, which is currently worth a little bit south of $3 million, um, it’s not non-binding verbiage, but it was intended, um, to go towards a winter sports facility such as public skating and ice hockey. The bequest documents also, uh, refer that various sports and other functions need to be supported. So that was what his intention was, and that, and the spirit of it, although we don’t have to follow that, we’re trying to get as close to that to honor his wishes. So, um, the goals are to create a weather independent sports deck to, um, provide consistent seasonal community skating on the current footprint of that rink Right now. Um, the key word there is consistent. We then, for that would be for about 20 weeks a year.

59:00 Uh, we wanna then convert that space to a versatile sports deck for the remaining part of the year to support those other sports functions and also build a community space and think about this other youth sports programs. So the summer playground program that’s currently at Getches and there’s no coverage there. And when the storm comes in, you see those little six years old walking out with their lunchboxes. We could move something like that there. We currently have no backup space for Festival of Arts, so having something that’s sheltered, um, could really serve the whole town, um, in a great way. So here we go. You ready? It’s really exciting. So, phase one of the project, uh, which we believe can fully be funded with the Lars, um, bequest with remaining money left over for phase two, is a refrigerated ice rink, a pavilion style roof

59:48 with a welcome area, dashers, glass and boards and modular turf. Okay. That would be phase one. So The modular turf comes in. You’re showing me, Sorry. Right? Okay. Yep. I got excited. I’m sorry. Yeah. Excited. Excited. So, um, that’s what, so if you look in our spring, our spring sports get wiped out, right? It’s rained every Saturday from, you know, from since March. So if you roll that turf out, I got the idea from Holder. Actually, that’s what they do with Air Rink. Um, it’s their indoor rink, but that’s what they do with it. Um, and they roll that out. It takes about 48 hours to install it. And you can have lacrosse practices there, small area, um, soccer games or whatever the case may be. And again, it would be sheltered, um, not fully obviously and fully enclosed, which would be I’m sure youth hockey’s absolute wish, which could come someday. But to start with a style roof that can make sure

1:00:37 that refrigerated ice can stay cold for 22 weeks. If it’s consistent and it’s sheltered, it can be sold

1:00:45 if it’s not consistent or sheltered or rented. Excuse me. I was gonna say. So I can’t, we can’t say the youth hockey, uh Okay. Rely on us for ice time. Yeah. If we can’t actually commit, commit to that. Alright. Um, so that’s kind of something to think about. Um,

1:01:04 Okay. So it’s important also thanks to the current footprint. Current footprint, right? Of that rank right now is 85% of regulation. Alright? So it would never be able to host a game, which, if you look at the USA hockey development models and the development models of soccer and lacrosse, everyone’s focusing on small area games. It’s how you build your eye hand coordination, quickness, speed, all of that. So for a practice deck, they don’t need a full regulation ice rink.

1:01:33 Right? Mike, with the president here and the treasurer, mark Nintendo, um, you don’t need that. Uh, what they desperately need is consistent ice at five and six o’clock at night. Now, to give you a little edification on how ice time works, we don’t control it. I say we, ‘cause I used to be the treasurer and scheduler for six years, so they don’t control it. Lynn or Salem State can pull ice at any time, which they’ve done the last two years. They’ve pull the five and six o’clock sheets. So what that means is that our littles and Mike has done a great job growing the program, will have five teams next year, which is most they’ve ever had in my memory. They have to go to Revere and practice, they have to practice at seven o’clock at night. Now, hockey people are used to going wherever the ice is, right, six o’clock in the

1:02:18 morning, the morning that, or whatever, whatever time. Yeah. You have an opportunity to really ease some pain here. Um, to take my commissioner hat off again and put on my hat, as someone that lives in a rink for six days a week, 40 weeks a year, youth hockey is the oldest sport marblehead that have never been provided a beautifully manicured baseball diamond, a field, an auditorium, a stage that bought everything they’ve had to do themselves. And we have an opportunity to ease that just a little teeny bit. And I think now it’s time. So I’ll take my, that hat off. I’ll put back my commissioner hat. Um, so phase two is looking at that field refurbishment and, and lighting issues. So obviously it’s no joke that the integrity of Green Street is disastrous, right? There’s gonna be ankles broken,

1:03:04 the lights are completely dilapidated. Softball, men’s softball almost had to call off their season this summer because we couldn’t get the lights on. Um, so part of that is, you know, collaborating with electric light. Again, we’re working with ‘em on GTLs, you guys know that. So we’ve got a great relationship with them to upgrade that lighting with a new timing system. And again, the point is working on weather independence and versatility. So we have rental options. So if I give you some background, our youth sports organizations pay tower $185 an hour to rent their turf. They pay them a hundred dollars an hour to rent their jig. Now, some organizations have long-term contracts, maybe a little bit. So if we have, say, in a grand world, a turf field down there, we can offer, well, I’ll go on,

1:03:50 this would be a pay for play facility. It’s not gonna be, we need a maintenance program that could do that. And I’ve got agreements from everyone from youth hockey, lacrosse, soccer, just build it. We’ll pay to rent it, and we can reinvest that money back in the town and redirect it. Um, so that’s, but I’m assuming, sorry to interrupt, but I’m assuming it’s not all pay for play, you’ll still be using some of this as public, it’ll be public space as well, or no? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah, absolutely. Open ice times, things like that. Yeah, absolutely. And that’s part of this process too, where, you know, you’ll see later on the presentation, we have a community advisory group. We’re gonna have to do community engagement in this process for the next six to nine months. And there’s gonna be ideas we haven’t thought of yet. Sure. And that’s the point of having this whole team together. So this is really just the beginning. Um, so if you were to look at, my thing is over here, but if you were look at, this would be a, a dream

1:04:38 for phase two, but if you turf that whole field and, um, use, you know, brown turf for the bases, then you have something that could be used for soccer and other sports too, because you can do small area drills. So the point is, weather, independence, versatility, focus on as many people as possible with no municipal impact. So the funding sources for phase two, which would not be obviously started yet, is the remaining large sanders and seed money. Um, we can talk about naming rights. Um, soccer’s ready to chip in and donate money and fundraise. So, um, and we have developed, you’ll see later, literally a long-term bio plan for maintenance, um, that will make sure that in 10 years when we have to redo something, the money’s already in the bank, which I think is pretty important.

1:05:23 Um, Any questions? I can stop there real quick unless no, Um, uh, is, are the bathrooms down there, what condition are those in? Still applicated and unusable. So it, I’m just wondering, like for phase one, if you’re, is it, is it, is it, is it a problem if there’s no bathrooms? Yeah. Well, it, it, it’s not ideal. So we have a choice. We can have a roof or we, with the money we have. So we’re a position of this is what we have. Yeah. What can we do? We can have a roof or we can have a warming shelter, a warming shed with bathrooms in phase one. Mm-hmm. In our meetings with Alex, the town planner, he suggested putting all a DA things walkways,

1:06:09 bathrooms in its own phase. Mm-hmm. It’s easier to get grant money that way. And that can work concurrently with, it doesn’t have to be the third phase. We can start with a grant process now for that. And that can be done before phase two is done. Mm-hmm. But he suggested putting it all there so we can work it that way. That was, that was the thought. Um, do you have a question? Oh, no, Jim, did you have a question? Yeah. The, the RFP will be for phase one, is that correct? So what Alex suggested is that he wanted the RFP to design, do the pro design, all of that for all three phases. So we have the whole project built out. How we envision it’s for first starting is the first meeting, um, would be, you know, with whoever gets the RFP, the landscape architect

1:06:56 or whatnot, with all of our stakeholders in the other departments saying, what are concerns? What do you need? Then we expect him or he or her, the firm to come back with like an, a la carte menu of pricing. This is the pavilion roof of its architectural cloth. This is the roof of its metal. This is this. So we can then say, okay, this is what we can do. And that project, you know, will change. So, so, so the RFP will be for design, service Design, all design of all three phases and construction management of phase one only. So they will build phase one. Okay. Not phase two and three In this same RFP or mm-hmm. Okay. And that, I, I think I saw that was about 2.6 million year. That’s what I project it To be. Yeah. And there’s about three in the, the whole build.

1:07:42 The whole build, we expect the, we have a budget quote from a landscape architect that the design and engineering will be about $170,000. Okay. And then our budget quotes think that with a pavilion style roof, again, there’s about a $250,000 difference. If it’s architectural cloth or metal, there’s some advantages to both, um, and disadvantages to both. Um, so that whole thing we think would be about 2.6. So it leaves us a little bit of money to, um, wiggle room and seed money. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Also, you wanna find out now if the area’s buildable Out might not be right, maybe like, okay, we have to start over at, but or somewhere else. Because they’ll say, don’t even waste your money because the cistern that, but it may not even do the job.

1:08:29 So that’s why it’s kind of the point of, but we can’t get there. Don’t get construction management, don’t put a bid together to need construction management for two and three when we may not be able to construct two and three there. That’s sort of the point of why we just limited to phase one. Makes sense. All right. Okay. Um, I’m gonna go through this, but, so operations and maintenance, which is a pretty big deal. This is gonna be our vision as a tier one, as I said, um, weather, independent sports facility. Um, it’s gonna need, you know, obviously it’s gonna be pay for play rented sort of by the youth sports programs. Um, it’s gonna need a part-time employee to drive as Zamboni. It’s gonna need, um, you know, someone to maintain that. That’s all worked into our plan. Um, and again, we’ve done proformas, um,

1:09:16 for all four seasons of what the operating costs are projected to be per hour. What we could bring in as revenue. These will be firmed up once we know we can actually build. But we think this, that, you know, this, this could actually, and we’re not in the business of making money, but if we have all this money in a special line item, special revolving fund or whatnot, that’s gonna be over time in 10 years when we have to redo turf, let’s say or redo something, there’s a million dollars already sitting there. And we’re not gonna have to, you know, do private fundraising, do private fundraising or any of that. But again, these are all, again, it’s conjecture at this point. ‘cause we don’t know what we can actually build. How long do you think that process will be to, to get to that, even understanding what you have? Look at that. Okay. So the next step, can I, can I introduce the team?

1:10:03 We’re working so well there. I introduce The team first. Yep. So, um, some people on this list haven’t been asked yet, but I know they’d love to do it. So, um, we have, Alex is our town planner, who I think is wonderful by the way. Worked with them on a couple projects. Jamie Block, our superintendent of recreation, myself. Um, we try to get people that were, had experience in multiple organizations. Um, myself, obviously I’m familiar with youth hockey and how it works. Chris Kennedy, one of our new board members, um, is representative for men’s soccer, men’s softball, and was also on the Piper Field fundraising committee. So that would be a great resource for us. And Steve Cummings hasn’t been asked yet, but I’m sure he’d love to be involved. Um, our citizen advisory group, which has been great and is actually essential in, um, helping us with this plan. And some of them are, uh, zoomed in right now.

1:10:50 But Corp Beal is a municipal recreation director for another town. And he’s built these facilities before. He’s corrected in fixed facilities that people have built before him. And he understands municipalities and how it works and community engagement and all that. So he is essential to this project. He’s also a marble Youth Hockey board member. Used to be a Girls lax. He’s retired and is a leadership on the boys lacrosse. Uh, second. So he’s got his fingers and hands all over the place. Pat Nunan is our liaison for, uh, MYHA, I’m sorry, Misa Soccer. Emily Reese, who’s gonna be the president after Mike Calabrese. That’s when they’ll actually be affected. Um, we’ll be representing hockey. She also is rep, used to be the president of Flag Football, which is important. They need to be served, um, in women’s soccer.

1:11:36 Um, mark MIUs, who is on the phone now, is, um, a project manager for Turner Construction. So I’d like to have another set of eyes from a citizen to make sure that we’re being properly represented. And then John Clark, which is, um, girls lacrosse. And I’m sure this whole list will grow as we go along in our process. Obviously con com needs to be involved. I know Alex handles that. So if we were to go back to the next steps, so, uh, Becky’s got the RFP. I also send that to Kyle too, if you wanted to read it. It’s, um, great reading. But, um, the RFP can go out for the design and budgeting of phase one, two, and three and construction management of phase one only July 7th. The date in there to open them is August or August 8th. And then we’re, we’ll take two months, two weeks to a month

1:12:22 to figure out who we’re gonna pick from that. ‘cause we don’t necessarily have to pick the lowest bid, we have to pick the right one. Mm-hmm. And there’s, that will take some time to maybe figure out. Um, and then we’re gonna, we’ll know what that number is and we’ll come back after we agree on it, come back and ask you to spend that money. We think it’ll be about $175,000. We’ll then I think it’ll be a six to nine month process. ‘cause we’ve done so much legwork already, um, to confirm the elements of what that will be, um, to do the community engagement, to do the interdepartmental collaboration so we can get some construction efficiencies, like if DPW can use their backhoes a little bit like that, you know, drive the price down for things that we’re already paying for in the community. Um, and then once we know what that plan is firm, we’ll return to you folks to get approval

1:13:09 of the Lars expenditure to complete phase one. My goal would be to break ground May 1st. Mm-hmm. Good to have a goal. Let’s go. Let’s go. I would like to November 1st, 2026 St. Lambert Exchange to have outdoor games there. Let’s go for it. Even though it’s not, it’s 85% they can do the games. Yeah. Okay. I I mean, it’s not, it wouldn’t be a real game. They do it, it’s like a, they do it on, on Saturday afternoons, so we do it up in Canada. It’s like a four on four, not five on five. Um, Um, but very good. That, that’s pretty good. This is first of all, amazing work all of you guys. This is Well, No, we all take, Matt Martin and Linda Rice have worked on this for years. They’ve rolled off. A lot of their stuff is in here as well. Um, but yeah. Yeah,

1:13:55 That’s, so There we are. That’s, That’s exciting. Thank you for this great presentation and all the details. And Thatcher, I expect you to play goalie for the first time. We, we’ve heard a lot about it. We haven’t seen, I’ve seen it. I haven’t seen anything yet. But any, um, any questions or comments from the board? Yeah, I just wanna say for me personally, um, former Marblehead used soccer and, uh, basketball coach for, uh, Jamie over there. And so many other things, sport related and marblehead. Uh, fields are always, um, for lacrosse, for soccer, I mean, we’re always like scrambling for trying to get field space. So anything that is and provides the opportunity to roll over, which, you know, we can accommodate multiple different sports and programs in town, I think is an amazing idea.

1:14:43 So I commend you guys for trying to work through that opportunity and that field desperately needs some attention. So taking a look at that I think is really important. And the end of the other things, uh, I, that really spoke to me in your plan was that you’re thinking about the five tenure year maintenance plan. And not only thinking about that, but how do we budget for it? What’s the rising cost of that? What, you know, if these refrigeration systems turn over, what does that look like? And I think for anything of this nature into, I really utilize this generous donation, which I, you know, we’ve talked about on the board for many years now. And I think really wanting to be good stewards

1:15:31 and do our due diligence to respect the, the principle behind what was given to us. I think this, you know, I really commend you for really trying to respect what that was and what the witches were. And also trying to also think about holistically, what is this gonna cost us now and in the future, but providing a service for the town. And they, you know, I mean, it’s absolutely true that the youth sports pay significantly when they need to in regards to trying to find places to play. Because the seasons here, as we all know, are short and spring in Marblehead is often rainy. Mm-hmm. As it’ll be this Saturday too. Yes. We Skipped one Saturday. Know that was good. I know. Yes. Mr.

1:16:17 Chair, if I could you, Shelly, thank you for, for recapping what has been a, a really, uh, thoughtful and long effort on, on the part of the, uh, you know, on par on the part of Park and Rec. Um, you know, it’s, it’s just such a wonderful opportunity to be able to use our limited open spaces in town in a, in a really, uh, constructive way. And, and it’s, it’s remarkable how we’re able to address the needs of youth hockey as well as the other sports and to really create a, a venue that, uh, that we really need in town. So, uh, kudos within, within a reasonable, a reasonable budget as well. So, uh, you know, kudos to you and thank you for everybody. Yeah. I mean, I just to echo what, um, others have said, I think, you know, I remember, I think we,

1:17:03 it’s been seven years since this was gifted, and I remember, Um, us everybody wrestling with it, it, it was like during the pandemic, I wanna say 2021. And it became kind of this behemoth and, and a bit of a, a hard thing to wrap your head around how to use it and, um, and match it with the intentions. And I think that the way you have presented it and kind of, and thought of it as, you know, obviously the demand is, is huge. Huge. So that’s one thing. The idea, like you said, that it’s versatile and that it captures as many demographics of use uses as possible is great. It’s inclusive and it’s also has a potential to, uh, revamp and, and make what has been long underutilized.

1:17:53 Like, you know, just wasted space. I mean, it’s nice open space. I mean, we lost even the dog park there. It’s just kind of been the most underutilized town open space that I can think of in town for is way back, way back to like, you know, my youth. So, um, uh, to, to create a, uh, to, you know, make that a whole new, uh, sense of space in town that people the whole community can use is, is I’m all for that. Um, and we still do have a dog park. It’s just, I was gonna say, okay. Have to hike. Have to park, and if you’d like to have to do a dog run a coffin, we’d be happy to help that. I was perfect. I was there. Say, just Slide that in there. Yeah. I just wanna say I do like the, um, phased approach

1:18:39 and I’m, I’m glad the, uh, trust fund has been sitting there for quite a while and I’m, I’m glad it’s being put to use because you, you just erode it, uh, financially over time and as a fundraising effort, you know, take a shot at the town manager I think would be a, a good thing, you know. No, no pads, no head here. Perfect. Excellent. We did promise. Excuse me guys, if you just keep it down just so we can continue here. We did promise an opportunity for public comment. If anybody wants to make public comment on this, that was your opportunity. Hi, me. Roll with it. Is anybody online? Kyle?

1:19:17 I don’t see. All right. Don’t say we didn’t give an opportunity. Did you Wanna adjourn our meeting? Um, yes. I’d like to adjourn our little meeting of Rick and Park for today. Um, guys, thank you for your time. Thanks. Thanks for coming and well Done Shelley. Thanks. Well done. Yeah, great job Shelley. Appreciate it. Are You the new chair? Shelley? Vice chair. Rosas chair. Okay. Yeah, she’s on a plane. She’s going to Vegas to see her mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For likely story. Yeah. Everyone has a mother in Vegas. I Believe her. She’s absolutely, she’s Trustworthy. So we’re gonna move on. Moving on to our home funds. Alright. Yeah. Moving on, Brenda. Thank you.

1:19:56 Home funds are federal funds provided through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, otherwise known as HUD, to support the creation and preservation of affordable housing. While the funds are structured as loans, they typically function as grants with the loan mechanism used to enforce a required period of affordability. Once that affordability period expires, the restrictions are lifted and the loan is discharged. Gotcha. Do you wanna expand on Yeah. So, um, the, these HUD programs, uh, it comes from HUD Federal. Um, the city of Beverly is the fiduciary that serves the whole region of municipalities to flow these funds. So it’s federal housing funds to help affordability for living. So as it was just described, uh, folks will apply for it

1:20:45 that are eligible, they’ll receive it, even though it’s a grant, it’s structured as a loan in order to make sure that they comply with the affordability component. And then once it’s no longer necessary, um, it’s, uh, distinguished extinguished. So because these two properties are in Marblehead, it flowed from from PBD to Marblehead in order to issue these funds. And these are just discharges of mortgages. Yeah. Is basically the summary of it. Yep. Great. Any questions? Great. We’ll need two motions. If we could have a motion to approve the discharge of mortgage and affordable housing restriction as presented for the North Shore Home Consortium. Securing the property at 18 B Pond Street Marble in Massachusetts, otherwise known as property and recorded on August 19th, 2009 with Essex South

1:21:31 Dis Essex South District Registry of Deeds And Book 2 8 8 7 2, page 6 1 2. And authorize the chair to sign behalf of the board. So moved. Second Full vote. Yeah. Uh, Ms. Noonan In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor? Mr. Zon? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. We could have another motion to approve the discharge of mortgage and affordable housing restriction as presented from the North Shore Home Consortium securing the property at 1 56 Elm Street, Marwood, Massachusetts, recorded on October 8th, 2013 with Essex South District Registry of Deeds and Book 3 2 8 7 6, page 5 1 7. And authorize the chair to sign behalf of the board. So moved. Second, Ms. Singer? In favor? Mr. Zin?

1:22:17 In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Ms. Nunan In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Next on the agenda, we have a streetlight request from Curtis Street. Thatcher. I think you’ve been involved in this. Yep. Uh, so we, we, I received this correspondence request from Neighbors on the street. Um, I did some coordination between DBW Community development, um, as well as municipal light. So, um, it, there’s a need in that, that, that part to have some additional lighting as requested. Um, if approved by the select board, the municipal light folks are the ones who put up the streetlight and we add that additional light onto our electric bill that we pay them for all the streetlights that we pay the electricity for.

1:23:05 That’s a good thing that homeowner requested it and we’re giving what they want. Yep. That’s great. We’re responding. Any questions? M-L-M-L-D uh, pays for the hardware, is that correct? Yeah, that’s how I understand it. Yep. Yeah. Okay. What Else? Looks like three, um, households have signed on. Yep. In support. Yep. Great. There’s no further discussion. The motion to approve deny with conditions request from Lender Pfeiffer and Raymond Greco to have a streetlight installed on utility pole number five on Curtis Street. Subject to review and coordination with the Marblehead Municipal Light Department. So moved. Second. So moved all Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Ms. Newton? In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Next on the agenda is

1:23:51 to merge housing committees. As I’m sure many of you know, we’ve had two housing committees, uh, the Fair Housing Committee and the Housing Production Implementation Plan Committee. Over the last couple years I’ve been meeting together, we’ve had some issues with getting quorum and there is a lot of overlap, uh, between the two. Both committees did vote last week to merge the two. We’ve come up with a, a combined mission statement, which encompasses both of them as well as, um,

1:24:19 uh, a group of, of people here. So our, our total committee to establish. Um, and we’ve combined, we have a couple of things to note here is that we did take off the select board representation. We will have a liaison as well as the town administrator. And we have put the community development director as the chair. And then we will still have, um, representation from the task force, the Town Planner, disabilities Housing Authority. And then we were able to keep, uh, everyone who was on those two boards. So we didn’t have to get rid of anyone. So we’ll have four at large members and two alternate members.

1:24:53 Is there any questions, or Thatcher if you want to add anything to that? There was a, there was a lot of work by this committee, by both these committees. I would like to say some great work by a couple of the members, some new members, some older members. Um, and it was, it was good collaboration. Yeah, Moses and I have both, um, been, uh, uh, served on that, uh, on this, on these, either both of these, these volunteer boards. And I think it is time to, um, to kind of coordinate that. And I, I think a lot of the long, there’s some longstanding membership on the board as well. They’re very dedicated and very passionate about expanding housing choices and, uh, uh, opportunities for residents in town. I think the mission statement as worded is excellent. Um, and that’s it.

1:25:39 Great. So there is just a note. Yep. It doesn’t touch the Marblehead Housing Trust Committee, which is still separate. You see the select board mm-hmm. And a couple additional, so that’s separate, but as discussed in the past, that’s the bank. Yep. And so, right. If there are any housing projects, proposals that would seek that, it would come out of this committee be requested to the housing trust fund. That’s good clarification. And I forgot to mention the new, it’s not that, not that ingenious, but I think it, it encompasses the Marbled Housing committee. Oh, the name? The internet. Yeah. Great. Yep. Moses, I think I heard you. Yeah, Look, I think, uh, yeah, I just wanna say, I think it makes a lot of sense. I think the Fair Housing Committee predated the original, you know, the, uh, the ad hoc committee that subsequently,

1:26:25 uh, you know, came about. And, uh, it just makes a ton of sense to merge both efforts into, into one committee. So, uh, that’s well done. That they’ve been able to, to do it, uh, seamlessly, you know, uh, and, and making all the, and keeping all the members, uh, on board. Excellent. Yeah, I think they’ll be able to work more, more efficient way and be able to get quorum. So I think it’s, it’s a good there. Any other discussion? We’ll move on to a motion. Uh, the motion to merge the Fair Housing Committee and Housing Production Plan Implementation committee and establish it as a Marble Housing Committee with the following members. Community development director, town planner, task Force against discrimination Representative Disabilities Commission rep, housing Authority representative four at large. Members with three year staggered terms and two alternate members with the one year terms.

1:27:12 Still moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Grader. In favor, Ms. Newan In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor? Mr. Sissen? In favor, Mr. Fox in favor

1:27:28 and move on to Reappointments. Um, where we’re gonna do this is where we will read all the reappointments here. Um, we will be basically, unless otherwise noticed the reappointments for one year. And I’ll note if there are otherwise, if anybody would like to put a hold on a particular, um, on a particular appointment, say hold other, and we will pull that out and we’ll vote on them all. So looking for a motion to accept the following appointments all for terms, as I mentioned, expiring in June, 2026. Unless noted and accept those placed on hold in accordance with town bylaws. Town Administrator, Thatcher Keer, American Disabilities Acts Coordinator, Thatcher Keer, animal Inspector Dan Proof.

1:28:14 Thank you. Building Commissioner and Inspectors Building Commissioner Steven Cummings. Local Inspector Bob Lie. Ben Leitz, local Inspector Roger Enis. Plumbing Inspector Bradford Smith. Wiring Inspector Eric Chisholm, canine Control Clerk Robin Micho, who’s also the town clerk. Assistant dog officers for the parks. Peter James, Brad Lyle, Greg Snow, Sam Andrews. John Vicki Town Council, which is at $2,000 per year. Jeff Shridman. And we have Assistant Town Counsel, which is the firm of Brody Hardon. Parkinson Keston. We also have Leonard Keston, me, Erman and Costa LLC. And Hinley Allen. Counsel on Aging Director Lisa Hooper, emergency Management Coordinator, chief Jason Goland

1:29:02 and Charles Sru, assistant Finance Director. We have Alicia Nun. Ben newly Benjamin Flag Officer. I’ll see if I can do this. Roseanne, TFI Zu. Come on. Help Me out. Maselli. Maselli. Thank you. Mazu. Thank You. We’ll try that. I’m sure. I’m gonna try that again here. Forest Warden Chief Jason Goland, fire Department Harbor Master and Assistance. Mark Souza Harbor Master. Hold. Craig, hold. Sorry. I don’t know what should I said. Hold first. Yep. You wanna hold? You wanna hold this One? Uh, yes. Okay. Uh, you wanna hold the whole Well, I think just ‘cause we’re, I, I know that in conversations with, um, are you in the right one? Oh, sorry. I’m sorry. I’m thinking of Harbor’s water. Sorry. Nevermind. Wanna remove, disregard, disregard. Yes. Okay,

1:29:49 We’re gonna remove that. Hold Harbor Master and Assistants. Mark Sousa Harbor Master Craig Smith, deputy Harbor Master. We have Assistant Harbor Masters, which are seasonal. Rick do Andrew Ette, math Thompson, Steve Leland, Jared Russo, Alma Hurro, Mike Holby, Andrew Nro. Chris Ben Dixon. And alternates are Felix Amsler and Jeffrey Flynn. Keeper of the lockup. Chief Dennis King, licensing authority. Dual designated agencies, sorry, agents, police Chief Dennis King, captain John L, acting lieutenants. We have Michael Everett, David Ovi, Jason Conrad, and Eric o Sadden. Sergeant Sean Brady, Brenda Finnegan, and Andrew Damari.

1:30:35 As well as Timothy Morley, measure of Leather. Bri Brian Ruco and Amy a Agel, A thank you town designee for the Mass Water Resource Authority. Alternate Amy Ew. From Water and Sewer Commission. Parking clerk slash hearing Clerk Jeffrey Shridman, chief Procurement Officer for the time being. Thatcher Keyser, public Works Director Amy McHugh, records access Officer Kylie, a Wiley for the town and Chief Dennis King for the police department, the retirement board, which is a term of three years. Charles Gasner, right to know Coordinator. Uh, chief Jason Gilland, sailor of weights and measures. Leonard Rose, special Auxiliary police patrolman.

1:31:21 James Donovan, superintendent of public Buildings. Steve Cummings, who’s a building Inspector. Tax director. Treasurer Elli Town Engineer. Maggie Wheeler, veterans Agent and Director of Veteran Services. Roseanne Trium. I, I don’t, I don’t know. I can Elli Melli. I’m hoping Third time. All right, here we go. Veterans Graves. Officer Roseanne Triumph, Elli Workman’s Comp Agent, Massachusetts Inter-Local Insurance Association,

1:31:53 Uh, affordable Housing Trust Fund, the Select Board. And Kurt James, board of Abbott Public Second Century Fund. Peter Jalbert, ju Judith Eisner, cable Television Advisory Committee Liaison Robert Peck. Caretaker of Fort Beach is David Rogers Chapel and Marblehead Police Department. Reverend James bis, Bixby Conservation Commission, which is a term of three years as a staggered as Christopher Ola constables for the purpose of serving civil processes. Mic Mark Izi, Christopher Kamo. Jared Walsh, Julio Quila. I’m gonna Yemi Renoso, Gabrielle Ello and Cindy Diaz. Constables Shellfish, which is also a three year term.

1:32:40 Jack Ridge is the chief constable for one year terms. We have Raymond Bates, Dave Donahue, Jeffrey Flynn, and Rick Ner, as well as Craig Smith, Douglas Eggman, f Webb Russell, and Eric Cauley. Counsel on Aging, which is three years. Phyllis Smith, emergency Medical Services Counsel, chief Jason Gihan from Marble Wood Fire Department Finance Committee Term three years. Michael Janko. Timothy Schottenheimer. Leonard Gifford, clerk Fireworks Committee. Alexander Falk, Fort Sewell Oversight Committee. Larry Sands, who is A-O-M-I-A rep. Alex ler. Tom Planner. Peter James from Rec and Park. Simas Daley from Glover’s Regiment.

1:33:26 Judy Anderson is at large. And Christine Nuccio is also at large Green Marblehead Implementation Committee. We have the town administrator, town planner, one member of the select board. Two representatives from Sustainable Marblehead who are Lisa Wolf and Eile Mathew Public Health Director. The building commissioner, finance director from the Marblehead Light Department. We have the general manager and the commission chair and the school department Representative Harbors and Waters board. So I’ll hold on that. And I also, I meant to hold on Finance committee. Okay, so we’re gonna put a hold on Finance committee as well. And a hold on Harbors and Waters. We’ll come back to that after Harris Street Cemeteries Oversight Committee. Eileen Harrington at large, John fas at large. Edward Nelson, historical commission rep.

1:34:14 David Bitterman, historical Commission rep. Chris Hardy at Large Hazard Hazard Mitigation Plan, implementation and monitoring team. Jason Gilland, fire Chief Emergency Management Director Maggie Whaler, town engineer. Amy McHugh is the Superintendent of Water and Sewer Commission. Alex Eiter, town Planner. And William Connolly from Historical Commission Historian. We have Donald dor Historical Commission, which is also a term of three years staggered. William Connolly and Pam Peterson, marble Hood Culture and Council. And council term of three years. Catherine Barker, Alexander McCarran, mark Phillip and Marjorie Norman Marble Hood Disabilities Commission term of three years. Andrea Mountain and Bridget Duffy

1:35:00 Marblehead Forever Committee. Karen Lang, Meredith Rearden, Linda Dahlberg, Carrie O’Shaughnessy and Kyle Wiley. Marblehead Housing Committee, which we just talked about. We have the community development and planning Director, the town planner. Deacon Johnny Whipple will represent the task force against Discrimination Disabilities Commission representative, housing Authority representative. And then just to note here, we will be staggering those, uh, those terms so that we don’t have someone new or everyone coming up all at once. We’ll, Mimi Hollister at large with a 2028 expiration. Um, let’s see. Kurt James at large 2028. Deborah Larkin at large, 2027 Nisha Austin with a 2026.

1:35:46 And for alternates, both with 2026 Ramon Garcia and Bob Noose, Massachusetts Ethics Commission Municipal liaison, Jeffrey Shridman, MBTA Advisory Board tra Tracy Lawrence, metropolitan Area Planning Council, which is a term of three years, is a town planner and it’s an alternate old and historic districts commission. Bob Bragden, Gary Arick, Charles Ard, Paul Per and it’s alternate Duncan Facie All Burial Hill Oversight Committee. Judy Gates, Stanley Goodwin, Andrew Gallucci, Pam Peterson, who’s the secretary representative Alex Finnegan. Alex Aler as a town planner, red star of voters term of three years. Robin Meho, who is the town clerk, sister city liaison, which is Grass France.

1:36:31 Marian Zuber, task Force against Discrimination. Blaine Hazlet, who’s co-chair? Maureen Darley, Ru Roco and Deacon John Whipple. Christopher Brule, Reese Dahlberg. Eugenia Gustafer. Chief Dennis King, who is ex officio. Diane Gora, who is also co-chair. And Nico Von King, who’s a student rep Taxation aid committee. Lisa Hooper Cammy I I I Treasurer Exofficio. John Kelly, who is the chairman of Board of Assessors. Ex Officio who Traffic Safety advisory Committee for term of three years. Gary Herbert, Hebert Town Physician Quadrant Health Strategies Tree Warden, Jonathan Berg. Zoning Board of Appeals Term, five years staggered.

1:37:17 Bill Barlow is the only one that has, uh, a different than one year is 2020 eighth alternates, which are all one year. Christopher Casey, Bruce Raker, William Rudolph, mark Lieman. So if I could have the motion, So, so moved. I’ll second. Okay. All right. Ms. Ms. Newton in favor, Ms. Singer? In favor? Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Let’s go back to the two we had holds on, uh, finance committee, which includes, we have three people, sorry, two up for term of three years. Michael Janko, Timothy Meyer and Linda Gifford is the clerk. Um, yeah, so I just, uh, I I think I’d like to see, um,

1:38:08 I’d like to personally open one of these seats and, um, I think we should take them in order. Okay. Um, I just, um, I guess do you wanna take in order and then I can, yeah, Why don’t do that? We take in order one at a time, we can discuss, yeah. So if we get up a Motion for Finance committee for a term of three years from Michael Janko.

1:38:30 But yeah, again, what, uh, we’re looking for Mr. Chair. I didn’t, I I didn’t quite hear what the, It’s we’re Yeah, let’s go back there. So we are gonna take them individually for finance committee. Right? We’re looking for a motion to reappoint for a term of three years. Michael Janko. Uh, so moved. Do we have a second?

1:38:51 I’ll second that. Okay. Would you like to have some discussion? Yeah, so I mean, I just, I, I wanna, I wanna say this in the most respectful way with deep appreciation for all of our volunteers. Um, and I do think this, you know, um, this said, this is a three-year position and a critical role, a mission critical role as we go forward, uh, with a very difficult budget season this year and the following year. Um, and I, I personally would like to see this, um, this seat open up to, for more candidates. I, I have some personal concerns around, um, like just performance and observance and, and voting record. Um, it’s, you know, um, Mr. Ni has been off, often been the sole dissenting vote four

1:39:37 times this year on finance committee on Warrant for Warner articles this year, which in and of itself is, I don’t have a problem with it all. It’s just that it doesn’t come with any explanation or, or re outside research or effort to kind of explain that, um, that vote. And I, you know, so I’m not sure what the, what the point of that is. And I just, it’s, it doesn’t seem to be in com comport with the ethos of the, of the committee, um, when somebody is just a contrarian vote without any explanation, um, on four, uh, votes in one year. Um, I also just candidly think that it comes a little bit from an ideological place just based on, um, you know, my observations

1:40:23 and I, I’m not sure that it’s always in the best financial interest of the town. Um, for example, um, you know, I appreciate political diversity and, and it’s, and, and the spectrum. I think it’s, well, it’s well suited and we should, and it’s, it’s very important. I just, um, it just needs to, it needs to comport with the mission of the committee itself. And like one example of that would be, um, his vote to defund the sustainability commission, um, the sustainability coordinator position this year, which I, I think it’s well data proven that that’s, um, been a financial benefit to the town. It’s brought, well, more funding into, uh, no more funding to the town than it expense in terms of keeping that position. And it’s supported by our board. So I was very surprised to see, um, that, uh, that, that he,

1:41:09 uh, supported defunding that on the Citizens article petition, where even the sponsor of the Citizens article, you know, saw the light on that and with, and withdrew. So that gave me, um, that didn’t sit well with me. So, uh, I also just think, you know, we’re really hand handing into the, like I said, the challenging time. And I know that, um, you know, I think that there, there were some mistakes on the health and waste, um, assignment. And I know, I know that he’s owned that and taken accountability for it. But I mean, this is, we do really need people that are faithful to the process. And in of it, in and of itself, you know, um, a shortcoming on the actual work is not a problem. It’s just combined with the other, like I said, um, the other concerns I have that I I, for that reason, I don’t, I don’t, I, I won’t, I, my vote is not

1:41:55 to reappoint him personally. Thank you. Any other discussion? Do we have? Yeah, I, I would just, I would just make a countermeasure, you know, reflect a little bit on what you, just, on what you just, uh, said, Aaron, you know, I don’t think we should be, you know, uh, passing ideological tests or kind of judging, uh, kind of how they vote and so forth. I think Michael, on, on many occasions has made, you know, uh, reasonably, uh, you know, articulate reasons for his vote, although they, I do admit they’re contrarian. Um, but I actually kind of value that, uh, that voice on, on the board. And, uh, you know, I think we can, uh, you know, leave aside the, the ideological suppositions that, uh,

1:42:40 you know, that people may or may not have. So that, you know, that’s my position on that. Sorry. I think, I think maybe misunderstood. I think, um, I think that the, not that I would hold somebody to a certain ideological standard. I think that it shouldn’t come into play and that I, I questioned the objectivity of, of the candidate that that’s what I meant. Not that, in fact, I do think it’s, I appreciate if somebody does, is contrarian, as long as it comes with, you know, a rationale and a reason and, and it’s articulated or it’s in a collaborative sense. So, um, no, I don’t, I absolutely, I think if that wasn’t clear, that’s not what I meant. I I was actually saying I think we need to be objective and the committee members need to be objective in that.

1:43:27 It’s just gave me the sense that some of the decision making was based in a personal ideology versus, you know, what’s in the best financial interest and the role of the actual com, you know, the, the mission of the committee and the work and the process. That’s Fair. Okay. I mean, yeah. I mean, I think we can, I think, I think that’s right. He’s fiscally very conservative, and I think that’s what you’re hearing. He is a finance professional, you know, but look, I mean, I, I, I think, again, it wouldn’t hurt, uh, to, you know, if you felt that way to talk to him and say, look, you know, this process should really be, you know, about advising and recommending, and we’d like to hear more from you on that. And, uh, you know, anyway, I, at, at this point, I, yeah, I would, yeah. I Take no issue that he’s fiscally Yeah, I don’t think that’s, yeah, I, that’s not what I hear. I, I, I think what that’s appreciated actually, I think

1:44:12 what I’m hearing is objectivity or lack thereof. Yeah. Um, I will say that I did talk to Mr. Janko today and had someone discussion with him about this just to share with the board. Um, so Mr. Yep. Mr. Did, Did we have a recommendation from the chair of the Fin Finra? Either way, or, um,

1:44:33 I mean, we have, there, there, I I think that the, the chair has deferred to us mm-hmm. On this, that this is our job to a point. Okay. I don’t, I have not heard, you know, I, I think I, let’s put it this way. I’ve not heard from the Chair Al Goolsby. I think that if you talk to different people from the chair himself, different people On the committee feel Disappointed. Um, different people feel differently. The chair has not, um, asked that he not be appointed. How about that? Okay. If that sounded a little, I I think that’s, I think that’s fair. Yeah. I sounded like a double negative, but I, I, hopefully, hopefully that made sense. Yep. Okay. So I think we’ve had full discussion. If we could Yeah, go ahead. Do a poll vote.

1:45:12 So you have the motion a second, right? Yep. We had motion a second already. Thank you, Ms. Singer. Not in favor, Mr. Sen. I’m, I’m new to this, and, you know, and I haven’t had a lot of firsthand experience. Um, but I am gonna go, um, in favor, and, uh, Dan did say he spoke with him, so, Okay, Mr. Grader. Yeah. I’m, I’m in favor as well. And Mr. Fox In favor? Did you miss, you missed one. Oh, Ms. New, Uh, not in favor, Sorry. Yes. Okay. So the reappointment does happen. Uh, moving on to Timothy Meyer for a term of three year. Could we have a motion to reappoint him to finance committee?

1:45:58 So moved. Second. Okay. Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? Discussion In favor? Ms. Nunan? In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor, if we could please have a motion for Linda Gifford as clerk on the finance committee. There. She’s, yeah. I Don’t think, we don’t need that one. No, It’s On my sheet. I know. All right. Well, we can acknowledge Linda, how about that? Excellent. Moving on to Harbors and Water Board, which we also had a hold. Um, Ms. Newan, you put a hold on that and you’ve had some, Yeah, so Moses and I have had conversations with John and Gary, um, and just with some succession planning. And, uh, um, Gary is, uh, stepping back.

1:46:46 Uh, he’s also, um, made some, you know, he’s, he’s really, uh, located in Florida more, more of the year than he is here. Um, and kind of looking to step back, I mean, Moses spoke with him today, so I’ll let Moses kind of update on, um, what, what he, his suggestion was or where he was his, um, yeah, Yeah. Look, I mean, I, I think that, uh, you know, as you all know, uh, Gary’s service has been really extraordinary in the sense that he and, and the rest of the board, obviously at the time, but he was, he’s been predominantly the chair for a long, long period of time. He, he basically restructured and, and rebuilt the, the enterprise fund during a very difficult period and has been able to maintain that. Uh, so his service has been long and, and, and,

1:47:34 and so valued by so many, uh, select board members. But, you know, he’s been contemplating retirement, and I think he’s as, as, uh, Aaron said, he is moving to, uh, you know, he does have a house in Florida as well, and would like to spend a little bit more time there. I think, you know, selfishly, from our point of view as a board, I think we want to continue to have to keep in touch with, with Gary. I mean, especially as we start considering the potential, uh, bonding by the, uh, harbors and Waters board, uh, of the Enterprise Fund to fund some of these, uh, you know, harbor some of the harbor plan, uh, elements. I think his insight and understanding of how that can get done, because, you know, you have to do a lot of adjustments around the, if you wanna create that bonding capacity,

1:48:21 you really have to create some, uh, you know, some changes to the licensing, which he is really, you know, very expert on, on, on pulling together. But, you know, Gary has agreed to, uh, to, to, uh, you know, to become an alternate, uh, on this board so that he can maintain, you know, he can stay in touch. And I kind of consider him, uh, you know, uh, uh, an alternate emeritus, if you will. Uh, someone who can be a mentor to the rest of the board as, uh, you know, as we, you know, have other folks, uh, step up and, uh, and, and, and be part of the board. So, you know, pleased to report that, uh, you know, that, uh, that Gary, uh, is, is pleased to be able to do that. Great. Thank you. I would also, I guess just to discuss

1:49:07 or replaces him, uh, I would like to see Steve Wolf move up. I think he’s been dedicated for years mm-hmm. To this board has put on a lot of time, very knowledgeable if anyone else has that discussion. And then we, with that movement, we would have, uh, we would still have one, one opening and the alternate, which we can then post for future fulfillment. Yep. Any other discussion or, Um, yeah, no. So we could, um, both them. So if we wanted, could I have a motion for Harbors and Water Board to appoint, uh, reappoint John Dub, uh, Jay Micho, Rick Ner t Clark Smith and Steve Wolf. And for alternates, Karen Puccio and Gary Gregory.

1:49:53 So moved. Second. Second. Okay. Uh, Mr. Sen in favor? Degrader In favor? Ms. Nunan In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. All right, I think we’re done with Reappointments. Thank you. We’re gonna move on to, uh, consent agenda items. If I could have a motion to approve the following consent agenda items, accept those put on hold the minutes of May 14th, 2025. And did I miss one? Oops, I’m sorry. Thank you. I got all excited. I’m gonna move back. Thank you. Kyle got me out. So, could we also, I think it would be great to acknowledge and send out appreciation to letters to those people who,

1:50:41 uh, did not seek reappointment this year, who’ve spent a lot of time, who reached their term limits. Mm-hmm. Um, I can read those. If we get a motion to send a letter of appreciation of the following individuals who did not seek reappointment this year, or who reached term limits for their service to the town. So Moved. I’m just gonna read ‘em and then we’ll do it. Dirk is Branson, Ruth Ferguson, Kate Mosson, Marjorie she, Karen Jansky. Tara Samuels. Kenneth Breen, Rose Gould, Charles Gesner, Steve Veroni, Mariana Beta, Michael F Fer, Pamela Foy, and Bonnie Grier. So moved A Second. Second. Alright, Mr. Grader, In favor. This nunan in favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Sisen?

1:51:28 In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. I’d like to just also mention that we do have some openings and volunteer opportunities on the town’s website. We’ll be updated to reflect this. We appoint residents over 30 boards, committees and commit commissions in the town that we do accept letters of interest regardless of a vacancy. And we’ll keep such letters on file. So even if you do not see a vacancy, we would encourage you to put a letter in and we’ll notify you for vacancy occurs during the year. We strongly encourage anyone interested in applying for position on a board committee commission to attend regular scheduled meetings. So you can learn about that board, committee and commission and to reach out to the chair of such boards committee commissions to gain further insight and a better understanding of the committee’s purview scope. All the contact information for boards, committee’s,

1:52:15 commissions can be found at www marblehead dot marblehead mass.gov. Our new website. You can also contact select Board Office at 7 1 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 or email Wiley k@marbleheadmass.gov. Um, we would recommend that you submit a cover letter and the resume also to that same email address at Wild k@marbleheadmass.gov lobster and phishing shanties if I kind of a motion to renew the following, request to premises owned by the town of Marwood on Front Street at Little Harbor, commonly known as Turner Land, subject to the receipt of proper application, current fishing license, and all taxes paid to the town. Steve, by number two, Jeff Flynn, number three, John Burns, number four, Doug Percy. Number six. William Brown, number eight.

1:53:02 And Dave Rogers, number nine. So Moved. So moved. Second, Mr. Grader.

1:53:10 In favor, Ms. Noon In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Ssen? In favor, Mr. Fox. In favor. Now we’ll get back to consent Agenda items. Motion to approve the following consent Agenda items except those put on hold, the minutes of May 14th and June 16th, 2025. Temporary street closures and traffic regulations are recommended by Chief King for Friday, July 4th, hall Road Parade, fireworks display and Festival of Arts Street Festival as submitted license for a private drain connection to the town drainage system between the town and j Carey of 37 Baldwin Road. As presented and authorized the chair to sign on behalf of the board and to declare the following items of surplus and no longer in need of initial purposes, so may be dispose

1:53:56 of, of and accordance with the town’s policy on surplus equipment, a Smith Air Compressor, greater Pacer, a weight and measuring trailer, a Ford F five 50 dump body, a large V blade plow, a Smith Salt Spreader. Two of them mission parts are stainless, a photocopier cannon and miscellaneous survey equipment. I would just like to put a hold on the May 14th minutes because I wasn’t here. I wasn’t a member. That’s all. Okay. Do I have a motion for the rest? Some of Second. Second. Ms. Newton In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Ssen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Could I have a motion to approve the minutes

1:54:44 of May 14th, 2025. So moved. Second. I have lost track where you started. Ms. Newan In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor. Mr. Ssen present Mr. Grader? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Maggie, You’re back up for the line painting and signage. Thank you for waiting. Now you’ve got little al.

1:55:16 Yeah, thanks. Okay. I’m just gonna try to share my screen again.

1:55:24 Find the right button. Okay. So this request, um, is primarily a formalization of contracts that have already been voted on, um, for the two ongoing rail trail projects. So, um, we have the, as i I like to lovingly call it the prototype, which is from Pleasant to Smith Street, um, that you can see has been reopened in the last couple weeks. And the Clifton Ave and Rockaway Ave project, both the contractor for both is Rafael Construction. Um, but the Clifton and Rockaway is being run by Brendan through community development. Um, so these are recommendations for signs and lines that were originally outlined within our realtor master plan.

1:56:10 That was, um, brought about in late 2020. So it’s just a formalization. Um, all of these signs and lines are improvements overall to increase safety and awareness of pedestrians caught crossing the street at the rail truck crossings. Um, often users of the rail are vulnerable users. You have a lot of people on bikes, people walking, um, lots of different modes of transportation that you can include. And this is a key point where they interact with motor vehicles. And so we wanna make sure that we have adequate notice for people driving that there’s going to be people present. So it’s, um, I have a better picture here. Get full screen. So it’s these yield shark teeth, which is, um, a notice for motorists in the road. Um, there’s trail crossing ahead signs

1:56:57 that will be at each crosswalk in both directions. So it’s a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 of the trail crossings ahead at each of these. Um, and the continental crosswalk styles, which have been studied by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. And they have established that those are the easiest to, for, um, people with vis visual disabilities to see. Mm. So that’s why we are, you may see across town we’re moving towards these continental crosswalk styles. And that is because, um, for the visually impaired community, it is easier to see. Um, so all of these signs and lines, which are outlined in the document, and I can, I have some slides on them. They’re engineering, so they’re not that pretty. But, um, these will promote trail safety at crossings at the trail. Excellent. Thank you.

1:57:43 Anybody have any questions about signs? No. Thank you. All right. Thank you Maggie. Sure. Could I have a motion to approve the request for Maggie weer the town engineer to install line painting and signage on the rail trail crossings, pleasant Street, Smith Street, Clifton Avenue, and Rockaway Ave in accordance with contracts number 2 0 2 4 dash 0 4 1 and 2 0 2 4 dash 0 7 1 executed by the town.

1:58:08 Uh, second. So moved. Uh, Ms. Singer, in favor? Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Ms. Nunan? In favor, Mr. Fox? In Favor. Thank you, Maggie. Thank you. Welcome. Uh, moving on to some parking restrictions. Mr. Er, would you like to give some details? Yep. So this is, uh, request by Joe Quack, general Manager, uh, municipal light. This is very similar to last year, sometime when they were moving in a new transformer into the Village 13 station. Uh, they are now moving in very large pieces of switches, which will come on, um, multiple vehicles. So the key information here, um, there’s

1:58:53 more detail in your, in your book, but, um, on July 16th, there’ll be a 275 ton crane that’ll arrive on Bessam Street to do the lifting of the equipment. And then on Thursday and Friday, July 17th and 18th, the delivery of five massive switchgear sections by oversized lowboy trailers. Um, so he has, they’ve done municipal light, but Joe has done coordination with all the pertinent departments, um, police and others. There’s actually gonna be some work done to clear some ledge and remove some signs. These, these trailers are, they’re gonna be low and they’re even, I think, wider than the trailer

1:59:41 that brought in the transformer. So we’re making sure the path all the way is clear and easy for them to get this equipment in. There may be delays because these six switches need to come in. They’re coming in from Ohio, so they’re being transported long distance. They need to come in by a certain sequence in order. They’re not things you can shuffle around on the site. So there are, there are potentials for delays on the dates, but that’s the, the dates as presented.

2:00:16 Okay. So I had a question on my motion. I see the 16th through 18th, the letter we have 16th through 20th, a few voices. Do we want to change that motion to the 20th? Okay. Yeah. Some latitude would probably be helpful. Yep. Okay. And any questions on that? No. All right. I have a motion to approve the request from Joseph Ka ick, general Ma, manager of Marble Municipal Light Department for temporary traffic and parking restrictions that presented July 16th through July 20th, 2025 to allow for the safe delivery of new electrical infrastructure equipment to be installed at the Village 13 substation, subject to approval and coordination with police and fire.

2:00:58 Second, Mr. Sen. In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Ms. Noon? In favor, Ms. Singer? Okay, Mr. Fox In favor. Next on the agenda is to establish a donation account for the Board of Health. Um, they’re requesting to create a public health donation account for fiscal year 26. And it looks like part of this is for, we heard, but before for the board conducting a public health assessment during this coming fiscal year, they’ll be funded through grants donations and will not need town appropriations as was previously mentioned. So, if I could have a motion to approve the request from Andrew Petty Public Health Director to establish a donation account for public health assessment

2:01:45 to be conducted during fiscal year 26 funded through grants and donations.

2:01:51 Second, Mr. Grader, in favor, Ms. Newton? In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Next is a letter of support for the Safe Streets to School Grant Thatcher, do you have any? Yeah. So as, as you’ve done and, and Logan is any questions as we, um, signif a grants, and this is, um, for a comprehensive safety action plan, uh, looks like through the Region’s NPO Metropolitan Planning Organization. Um, and so it will allow us to implement two demonstration pilots. Well, one, it will do an action plan study, uh,

2:02:37 plan efforts include Marblehead, complete streets prioritization plan, bicycle facilities plan, sidewalk plan, so it incorporates all of that, um, plan and then, uh, conduct, um, pilots based on the plans findings. So this is a request for a letter of support from the board for the application seeking this grant money. Correct? If I get a motion to send a letter of support for the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program and authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board.

2:03:09 No. Moved. She said. Okay. Couldn’t hear you. Uh, Ms. Moon. Sorry, Ms. Noon in favor? Uh, Ms. Singer? In favor? Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor? Consent. Consent agenda item contracts. A motion to approve the following consent agenda item contracts for the town. Accept those put on hold and authorized the chair to sign on behalf of the board. Change order number three to amend contract number 2024 dash 0 6 4 COA recreation bocce facility project between the town and price, landscape and construction. The amount of $3,000 change. Order number two to amend contact 2024 dash 0 7 1 Marblehead Rail Trail Swamp Scar branch Early Construction

2:03:56 Construction Project between the town and Raphael Construction Company. And on a $16,700 change order number five to amend contract. 2024 dash 0 7 7 Elm Street Park Project between the town of Raphael Construction in the amount of $66,796 change order, one point 0.0 ITC seven one Fiber optic municipal area network. Mary, between the town and contract and the amount of $57,176 and 8 cents end of year transfers. I’m sorry, that’s through end of year transfer change order number one to amend contract. 2024 dash six seven State Street Landing resilience improvements project between the town

2:04:42 and Collins Engineers Inc. For extension of time only to June 30th, 2025. Change order number two to amend contract. 2024 dash 50 Cliff Street, Bullard Underground Storage Tank between Town and Collins Engineers for extension of time only to July 31st, 2025. Change order number two to remain contract. 2024 dash four seven Marblehead Shipyard Resilience project between Town and Collins engineer for extension of time only. December 31st, 2025.

2:05:12 Uh, so moved. Second. Second. Um, again, I forgot where I left off. I’ll go Ms. Singer. In favor? Mr. Sen? In favor, Mr. Grader? In favor? Ms. Newan In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Does anybody have any select board announcements? I, um, two related to our, our fire department. One. Um, just wanted to thank again the fire department for, uh, getting the hose out the la during this extreme heat wave. And, um, I can also share that Dan told me that he also partook in in the fire. I did. I I went in. It was, it was a great hose down, cooled down. Yep. It was. I can’t believe more adults were with all kids. Only the kids did it, but yep.

2:05:59 Um, so I did take Only my shoes off. It’s lots of fun. It’s great. Um, and, uh, and then second, I just wanted to, uh, congratulate Captain Tom Rice on his retirement and, uh, wish him best. Congratulations. And thank him for his, uh, long service to the community of the town of Marblehead through, um, his employment at the fire department. That’s Great. And I just would like to say thank you in advance for everyone who works for all the festivals that happened throughout July 4th and Marblehead Arts and everything that’s done on the front end and the back end. And, uh, fingers crossed for a beautiful day and, uh, a great, uh, experience through the whole week. So that’s Great. And then I just would like to discuss our annual retreat. Oh yeah. Um, if it’s okay, I’ll probably just send out a,

2:06:47 uh, a doodle or something like that for some times. Perfect. And send that out to everyone. Moses, you know, how do you use doodles? Uh, yep, I figured that out. Thanks though. We’ll, we’ll get someone help. If, If not, if not, if not, I’ll call you. All right. Perfect. Call Thatcher please. So I’ll send out a doodle, we’ll try to do, I think we usually try for like a Friday morning or something like that. Yeah, or you can send it out. I was just trying to take, you know, the charge here. All right. Can we have a motion for adjourn? So moved. So moved. Second. Mr. Sen. In favor, Ms. Singer? In favor, Ms. No In favor, Mr. Grade. In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Goodnight everyone. Good night.