Select Board: January 28, 2026

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0:00 Meeting on the selector for January 28th at 8:07 PM This meeting is being recorded and Ms. Newnan is on remotely. Mm-hmm. Um, any public comment? Yep. Sarah Fox 40 50 Street. Um, I’m requesting that the select board start putting their documents, their packets up online the way the school department does. We got a tremendously positive response from that when we did that. And I think the best marketing tool you guys can use if you’re looking to get something off the finish of like over the finish line, is to just flood people with information. What you don’t give them, they’ll make up themselves online. Um, the, a note on the capital for a town our size

0:46 with the number of buildings, I know we have professionals that who done a few years ago suicide, we said between two and two and a half million a year for capital is appropriate. I would probably double that to say for a town our size, what is an appropriate investment capital each year we really wanna maintain buildings. We hear this, this narrative that people want things kept up, which I agree with, but there’s a cost to that. I think the estimate we saw, we get a professional estimator can then would be roughly four to 5 million per, um, year for that. And my last comment, um, I meant to talk about the tech school assessment. I think you really need to dig into that. Essex Tech just awarded the Marblehead Public Schools, um, a 333% increase in their seats, which means roughly

1:32 20% of our eighth grade class every year will have the opportunity to go to ethics tech. You are previously given nine seats, it just went up to 39. That’s a big headcount, big decline in enrollment. Four years from now, you’ll see roughly, um, you know, a hundred to 150 less kids at the high school, which is, is not, um, insignificant. So just this assess the assessment this year alone is going to be pretty significantly different on the cherry sheets. So that’s not something I think you can find out the bottom of the ninth. You need to plan that ahead. Um, so I just wanted to find that to your tenant. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? I do someone online. Online? Okay. Patricia, Adam. Patricia, are you there? I am here.

2:22 Okay. If you could just state your name and address. Uh, pat Adams, uh, village Street Hood. And, um, this is not on your agenda, so I don’t know if I’m, um, allowed to make this question or not, or ask this question, but before the question, I just wanted to, um, say thank you to the town and all the employees for the hard work that everybody is doing and, and, um, lieu of all this, um, snow that we have accumulated everywhere. Um, but the question, I wanted to ask it through the chair, but I don’t believe, um, um, Ms. McCue is there any longer? I did see her in the audience at the previous meeting, and my question was going to be for her,

3:08 but maybe someone there might be able to answer this. Um, I wondered where we are. Um, the, um, the surrounding sidewalks of the town schools where we are on the DP W’S list to remove the excess snow that’s covering all the sidewalks, um, and making it extremely dangerous for people. And primarily the students who are being, um, subjected to dangerous situations, being dismissed, um, after school to walk upon all these active trafficked streets with buses, cars, et cetera. And no sidewalks to walk on. They’re walking in the streets, literally down the streets. And I witness it every day

3:53 because I live across from the school. And, um, I’ve been trying my best to con contact, um, superintendent, a police chief, uh, the principal of the village school, the DPW. Um, I just, I don’t see any progress. So tonight it’s supposed to be a snow removal evening, and I’m, last night I expected to hear the backup beeps of trucks taking the snow away from the sidewalks here and nothing occurred. And I know the town’s in a mess ‘cause I’ve driven around a very little bit. But, um, I think the, the schools are really a priority here. I mean, you have children literally in the streets with active vehicles, one little slip off of a snowbank

4:40 or on the slushy icy street. They could be under a truck tire or a bus tire or whatever. I videoed it today. I videoed it yesterday. I’d be glad to show it to anyone who would like, um, to see it. But I, I just hope that, that someone will get to this as soon as possible before we get another storm, which is possible this weekend. So that’s it. I don’t know if anyone has an answer. Um, as I said, I was hoping, um, Ms. Chu would be able to answer that question, but I don’t believe she’s there any longer. So thank you Pat, Dan for speaking here. Um, we, I know that Thatcher will give an update during his town administrator update next about snow removal. And Ms. Chu is still here who can speak to that as well.

5:26 So that is okay. Okay. Thank you. Into it perfectly. I appreciate that.

5:39 Okay. So we’ll close public comment and move on to the time Minister update. All Right. My update will be to introduce,

6:00 I thought you were gonna say something little about other stuff. Someone wants to talk about snow, He’s giving Stuff. I’m all, I’m fried. My other stuff was just getting town. Bring this comment. Yeah, There We go. That’s right. Good evening. Thank you for all the hard work as Pat said that you guys are doing. I know it’s been a lot, so if you could just do the time, minutes, sort, update, give us an update on, on the progress. Sure. So as you know, we, uh, had a, a lot of snow start on Sunday night. We were in over, uh, 34 hours plowing. Um, the result of that plowing is moving everything from the street, the sides of the street, and onto the sidewalks and everywhere, wherever, everywhere else we go. Um, we then thank,

6:47 thankfully you guys did do the emergency, um, public safety so that we were able to actually move some of the snow to places. Um, we have, we have always started and we’re following the same plan that we’ve followed in the past, which is Pleasant Street, Washington Street, Atlantic Street, uh, and Atlantic A Those are actually, um, either heavy business, have a lot of bus, uh, stops. Um, and a lot of the school, you know, they’ll lead towards schools. We have, we do clear the crossing stations, but we actually do have to work, um, hand in hand because the school department does help us with our, uh, snow. They are part of our snow team, but all they do is schools, right?

7:33 So, um, all of their equipment and all their people do just the school properties. And then once they get those school properties open, they start to work out towards the, the, um, crosswalks, I mean towards the sidewalks, excuse me. We do the crossings for them. So we are dependent on them to try to get those sidewalks right there. They do have the sidewalk equipment, you know, we have the large equipment, which right now we’re trying to move huge amounts of snow. So, um, and we will be reaching out, uh, you know, I’ll work with Paul to see where they are and definitely where we can help them, but we’ve gotta get all of the smaller roads that are, uh, down through the historic district so that we can get all the public access through. So, um, it’s, it’s hard.

8:20 There’s not, you know, now that you’ve had everybody out plowing for a significant amount of time, we have to let people go back home. And we actually are pretty maxed on our equipment right now too. There’s a, it was a top 10 big toll. It was a top 10 storm, right? I was surprised to yes. That in terms of just the one storm done. Yep. Yeah. So Boston, it broke a record in Boston. Yeah. So, um, it definitely was a lot. Yeah. And, and Dan May I I, I’m, I’m sure what that is referring to as the village school, which is of all the schools, uh, probably the most dangerous, uh, because even without Snow, village Street is tough, so whatever. Yeah, I know. There’s a lot of whatever can be done there. I, when my kids went there, it was always white knuckle.

9:09 So any Terrific. Thank you. Thanks. I appreciate you. Good sleep. We’ll Be back next week for the next Film. No, We’ll see. We can get some sleep. I hope so too. Yeah. Thank, thank you crew for, um, next we’re gonna move on to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Um, the task force Transf discrimination is holding an event on Friday, January 30th at noon, uh, in the select board meeting room, and all invite to attend. As we have done past years, we will read the proclamation for those who can’t attend. Um, and that says, whereas January 30th, 2026 of International Hall at Cross Remembrance Day marks the 81st anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz Death Camp.

9:55 And whereas honoring the victims and survivors begins with our renewed recognition of value and dignity of each person, it demands for us the courage to protect the persecuted and speak out against bigotry and hatred. And whereas on this anniversary, we, we commit ourselves to combating the global in antisemitism. And whereas recent acts of hate service, painful remind of our obligation to condemn and combat rising anti-Semitism in all forms, including the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust costs, excuse me. And whereas this anniversary of the opportunity to reflect the progress we have made confronting this terrible chapter in human history and our continuing efforts to end genocide. And whereas the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances definition of anti-Semitism, which is adopted

10:40 by the US Department of State as its working definitions, reads as follows. anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti antisemitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and or their property towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilitators facilities. So we will read that again on Friday, the 30th at noon. Welcome all to attend next. In our agenda, we have a recognition of a local citizen channel if you wanna talk about this. Yes. Um, I think, uh, most people in town know, know, or know of, uh, Nico Mina and this, uh, Saturday, Dave Aldrich, also known

11:26 as the the bagel guy. He is having a, um, event for Nico Nico’s in the process of moving to Florida. And, uh, Dave is going to have 10 to 12, um, bagels, coffee and cider at the, uh, the beacon. And, uh, I think a lot of people plan an attending. So we have, um, authored a proclamation, uh, honoring Nico that we plan to present to, uh, him on Saturday. Um, if I could have a motion to prepare a document and recognition of Nikolai Minos and his lifelong commitment to the town of Marwick. Moved a second. All in favor this to be pulled That is remote. The Ms. Singer

12:12 in favor? Yes.

12:17 Aaron, are you there? Sorry. In favor. Si in favor. In favor. Just The boss in favor. Jim, you wanna read that? Yeah, Sure. Um, on behalf of the town of Marble Ed, the Select board is proud to recognize the lifelong commitment. Nico Fina has been a, to our community through his infectious positivity, warm spirit, and unmistakable presence, Nico has brought smiles and laugh to the countless residents and helped make Marblehead a brighter, more welcoming place for all. In addition, the select board rec recognizes Nico as an inspiration in role model for residents young and old alike. His remarkable dedication to extreme cycling and fitness, along with discipline and

13:04 and enthusiasm exemplifies the values of perseverance, health and lifelong vitality. As Nico and embark in a new chapter in sunny, warm Florida, we extend our sincere best wishes for happiness and continued success in his next adventure. While we wish him well in warmer weather, he will always remain a cherished part of the Marblehead community, and he, we hope he returns often to visit perhaps when the temperatures rise and the snow is filing mouth. Great, thank you. Next up on the agenda, we are gonna discuss a potential resident survey. Aaron, do you want to take the lead on this one?

13:43 Yeah, so, all right. Um, so, uh, one of the things I think, um, I mentioned, um, back, I know we’re coming up on making a lot of decisions and one of the things that’s been, I know we all hear about it, is community engagement more than just kind of a, a, a trending buzzword. It’s, it’s actually, um, becoming a lot of, um, focus for municipalities around, um, around the commonwealth. It was the focus of several diff different conversations, um, at the last uni, well, last year’s, um, mass municipal conference. And, um, so I kind of was poking around and doing a little research for us, uh, around different, um, towns that have maybe engaged in with some of these.

14:30 Um, they’re really like online community engagement platforms, uh, speaking particularly to, uh, resident survey, resident, um, survey, uh, services. And I came across, um, a few, uh, well really, um, two that STA stood out. One being a company called poco, which, um, it’s, it’s one of these platforms. It kind of helps with the strategic planning around, um, and budgeting and also just kind of empowering residents and they partner with this NA, national Research Center. So, um, they work closely also with the GFOA. And they’ve also been featured at a lot of, um, ICMA conferences, which is the, um,

15:17 city managers associations. And I came across a survey that, uh, on de the town of Dedham had done just this past 2025 and ended up was able to speak out, um, and reach with the town administrator in Dedham, um, the other day regarding, you know, how they came to it. And, um, sorry, I’m just gonna grab some of my notes, but, um, this company has, uh, poco, I think I, in your, I had sent an email, which, uh, Kyle then forwarded out to everybody as part of our, our packets. Um, the company,

15:55 Um, it, it uses a survey results to track, uh, trends over time. And, um, the idea is that you get a sense of, um, like I said, trends, but it helps to make, um, it helps to also get an understanding of gaps between interest levels and service delivery. Um, you can also use it as, uh, you can also benchmark across over 500 different towns and municipalities across the country. You can even kind of customize the benchmarking to fit, say, you know, um, re uh, towns with populations of around 20,000 people with a medium income of, you know, x and or like in a region you could kind

16:40 of benchmark your town against, uh, other towns, um, similar situated. Um, and it can help a lot of towns inform their budgeting processes and strategic planning. And, um, so I guess I can screen share, um, one of the things that you kind of, or just to give you an example of, um, what it looks like. Let me just figure out, I’m sorry, one second. If I could screen share. Um,

17:13 Okay. Shoot, I’m not sure why it’s not, Is it turned on? No, I know. I pick screen share and then I go to share and then it just says desktop one. It might be something, a setting on my phone. I’m sorry. Hold on. Oh, there we go.

17:42 Okay. It’s, for some reason Zoom isn’t letting me do it, but I did send it to Thatcher and Kyle, if you don’t mind putting it up there for me. And, um,

17:58 particularly show, like, it’s like the third slide

18:05 Where it says, you know, monitors, trends, measure, its government performance. Um, and then if you scroll actually to the fourth slide,

18:17 so it focuses on overall livability of a town by category, it like categorizes, uh, it into to these 10 facets, which are on that slide. And it provides, so they can provide a full picture of how residents feel about their community. And these facets that they highlight on this slide that, um, are tailored to the survey, a lot of that aligns with municipal departments. So it makes it easier for different departments like rec and park or utilities or, um, public works to see how their department aligns with public opinion and the, and how it benchmarks across other communities. Um, what the, you can,

19:03 what they do is they do a scientifically, a scientifically, um, valid survey where for a town of Marblehead size, they would select 3,500 randomly selected households to receive a survey. It’s open for six weeks. They kind of geolocate this in in some way, and then they actually apply, um, they compare the returns to the demographic profile and, um, of the town, like as it relates to census data to provide these final survey results. So you can rely on the data, um, on these, on these surveys. One of the things that came up, both in talking to the town of Dedham and with the representative from poco, was that you can have an open survey where participants,

19:49 you know, you put out a SurveyMonkey or a qual texts or you just do an what’s called an open type survey where you put it out on Facebook and social media and the newspapers, and you try to get people to respond to it. Um, but what has been, um, true and, and even in the town of Debenham’s case, they were able to understand also that when you get those results from an open type of survey, it’s not very reliable in terms of making decisions around, you know, a ballot initiative question or, or government because it’s, there’s a lot of self-selection that goes into it and a lot of, um, biases that, that come into play. And so, um, the town of Dedham, for example, you know, it was the first time that they had done a poll like this.

20:35 They looked to Needham, they had done this poll and Needham about eight to 10 times so that they’ve now been able to establish trends over time, and then they can ask customized questions. And along with the standard questions, and Franklin also used it, um, for the first time as well, recently, it was kind of around those budgetary headwinds and, uh, like an override proposal potentially that they were, um, they were gonna face. So the town administrator from Dedham said that they had a really good experience with it. He, uh, emphasized that, and we hear it’s true, you know, for us too, as we’re thinking about strategic budget planning and even master planning really, because the categories in the encompasses the survey really

21:21 encompasses most areas of quality of life, um, for a livable community. And they, they said that, um, it helps to get the best information possible because a lot of times, as we all know, we hear from a vocal minority of folks that are, you know, maybe a, a small hand, smaller handful relative to the size of the population, folks that are actively participating in government, but it not, doesn’t necessarily, um, reflect the actual sentiment across residents. If you were to go to the polls or, you know, to do a scientific survey, um, such as the one that they, they can provide the, um, you really do get the best information, um, as compared

22:08 to an like kind of an open survey. Um, and some of the things too, um, they, so in Dedham they did the scientific survey and they did the presentation afterwards. They had a statistician come in and do the presentation. They got like a 30 page report, uh, which is standard and all the data is broken down. And it’s like, you know, how do, how does this age group feel about, you know, this, this aspect of government services? How does, um, your income level affect how you feel about different services? Um, so the in, um, they were able to work with, they got a community compact grant and worked with the Collin Center, uh, at UMass to do an overview of what potential budget reductions that they could do as a town.

22:55 And they were able to also facilitate and have more community meetings around those decisions. Having this data. They felt it was really helpful and, um, they, they said that it told a story for them. It told a story that folks were willing to spend on certain functions and not others. And, and, and he said in, in more than in one occasion, it, it went against conventional wisdom. So, so they did have the scientific survey and then they left it open for the open survey for two weeks after the scientific survey closed because people wanted to feel like they wanted to have their voice, if they weren’t ran one of the 3000 randomly selected, they wanted to still make their voice known. And so they seg they separated out and they, um, were able

23:41 to show the open survey results as well. So people were able to give their feedback. Um, and that was able to be considered, but you, there was a s skew between it, it did prove itself true that in the data that, uh, there, that the SKU was, was, um, was there for an open selection survey and, um, the demographics that would, would, um, re respond to such a survey versus the, um, empirically valid one. Um, so the other thing I’m just, um, lemme see if I can, if you go to, um, if you scroll down to, um, let’s see, they, uh, there’s a slide six, it, it shows, you know, kind of

24:29 the breadth of the national community survey, um, data that they have. It go, kind of goes across the, the, the country, but again, also customizable by size and, um, different demographics. You can do it by region, you can do it by median, um, household income. And then what I thought was kind of interesting, just to give you a sense, if you go to slide 10 on the PowerPoint presentation, it’s that, um, it is the, it’s the, uh, quality importance and quality gap slide, which is interesting. This is kind of, I thought was an example of how it’s helpful. So the blue dot represents how respondents

25:19 that obviously the importance of which respondents put that facet at in government. And then the green.is the quality. So you can see the gap, you know, where, where there’s gaps in that. So you could potentially, you know, divert and allocate resources accordingly as you’re planning. And other towns in Massachusetts that have used Poco services, um, I mentioned Dedham and Franklin and Needham, um, Brookline, Shrewsbury, Cambridge Ton and North Andover have also, uh, have also utilized their survey, uh, services and it breaks it down

26:08 and they do a presentation. I sent, um, I forwarded out the kind of scope and the proposal of, of work. I have a call set up on Friday at one with another company called Flash. Flash, lemme say Flash vote, flash vote, which was another one that Dedham had looked at. And he, the town administrator explained that it was less expensive, but they ended up going with Poco because, uh, the flashpoint flash vote didn’t have the national community survey, which does the benchmarking and kind of the trend analysis over time. Some of the communities would, you know, do, would then they save that data. So if you were to do a survey, you know,

26:53 a town did a put out a survey once every two years or three years, you could over time have a collection of trends, um, and, and public opinion. So I thought it was something that was worthwhile given, you know, the, the like budget situation that we find ourselves in, given that it could be useful for, uh, de departments as well. And you know, we have some other planning initiatives going on, like the master plan. It does, uh, you know, it does, one of the facets is of course, you know, open space I believe, and, you know, mobility, e economy, parks and rec, um, natural environment safety, education, arts and culture, health and wellness, you know, kind

27:40 of understanding where our residents, uh, value those services and then how they feel the quality of the services are relative to how they value them. Um, so I mean, I did send out that, um, email and information, so I just thought it would be a good time to maybe consider it as a board and, um, you know, if anybody has anything to, to add, I don’t know that I have questions. We can certainly bring, um, people back to present to us and um, but if it is something people are interested, I just thought we could, um, maybe talk about it and see if it’s something we can move forward. There is somewhat of a timing to it.

28:26 If we were to utilize the data, it’s a, I believe so they keep the survey open for six weeks, but he did say the rep could, did say that they, it’s something that they can move very fast on. And the other thing is you can also, in addition to the benchmark questioning, the traditional benchmark questioning that they do, it’s like you can also add your own custom questions. So, you know, for example, in the town of Dedham, one of the links that I sent to the group was you could, you could see, you know, um, drop down menus for a question like, you know, if the found the town’s faced with, um, you know, uh, budget restrictions, do you, would you prefer, do you, would you prefer, you prefer to see town services or, or, um, taxes raised to per

29:13 to appropriate and for towns to save and preserve services? And you can strongly agree, agree, disagree, somewhat disagree, data like that around people’s inclinations in terms of their, um, palate for, you know, increased taxes as well.

29:31 Thank you, Aaron. Um, anybody have any questions, conversations, thoughts? Yeah, I think it’s something we should take a look at as like timeline opportunities to gather as much information as we look at the cost and how that factors into everything else. So I think it’s a good place to start a conversation. And I think if we’re going to, if I hear that timing on this, Erin, I was on that call with you. If we want to get this information when we’re making decisions, we have to jump on it pretty quickly. Um, how to get the survey done? Aaron, do you remember? I think it was about a, I think, well they have their standard benchmarking questions, but they could help us, they could work with, you know, um, Thatcher

30:17 or two of us if we wanted to, uh, develop, uh, some customized questions for the survey that, uh, you know, that, and that maybe a couple weeks to put the survey together. And, and I should have said, uh, what they do is they will, their first approach is that they send a postcard out to the selected 3,500 households that they’ve geolocated and they send us a postcard out. They get, um, then the fall, the second mailer they send out is a paper, it’s a cover letter with a paper survey. ‘cause some people respond better to filling out the paper. They do get, uh, the town of Dedham got a 17% response rate, which looked like a hundred, I think around like 460

31:04 respondents, which was, is higher than the national average. He did make the point that Massachusetts tends to skew higher than national average for response rates. The margin of error is about four or 5%, typically like a valid survey that they rely on and the national average is around 13%. And that it would be, you know, that there’d be something that, that they would expect to receive. That’s what the data, that’s been the results that they’ve gotten. Um, I think that’s kind of one of the guarantees in it as well with hiring them is that you will get a scientifically valid response rate and if not, you know, they would have to keep continue at it for some reason. But he didn’t seem concerned given that Massachusetts response rates to these are pretty, um, above the, where the national, um, respondents are, You said it was 17%?

31:51 Yeah. Yeah. And within, so it was about nine. They, they said it w they it was 95% accuracy. So it’s a plus or margin 4% margin error of error. It is interesting though too because, you know, the open survey polls, I, after kind of looking into this and looking to flash, you know, just going on flash, um, what, sorry, flash votes site and speaking with Dedham, and obviously I’ve heard from, you know, the rep from Poco was gonna say that, but just to understand truly, you know, there really is, um, a, a, you know, some there is weight in doing a scientifically, um, methodology to it because the open poll surveys really can be, uh, not really reliable in terms of, you know, if they’re very self-selecting on who responds to them.

32:40 I mean, it seems, it strikes me as a little improvement out, but still a 17% response rate seems to be kind of self-selecting within a, you know, within a subgroup as well. So there’s probably a skew to that number as well, but, Well, so they had this petition come on and, and, and self, um, and explain it. There’s a link to the, um, I can send the link to the presentation for, for a deum, um, but I, there, there’s some science to that, um, 13% being what you would require basically to be beyond reliable. Um, that’s, that I don’t, there’s, there’s a science to it. I don’t know where that number comes from, but, um, and it is all randomly selected. And then they also offset it with the results

33:25 with the respondents. They can, they do some analysis between the census data for the town and the respondents themselves also to aggregate that data so they feel like, um, they can, you know, be within that margin of error and they feel that it’s like, you know, pretty indicative. But I think, you know, a lot of, we could also, I’m happy to make more phone calls too. I was already planning on making some phone calls to some of the other towns and reaching out to them and maybe Thatcher, I don’t know if you know some of these town administrators, we can talk about it later and you could reach out to them and see how, you know, if they found the exercise useful, if they were able to make, you know, if they felt it was able to make the right data, you know, informed decisions,

34:11 data-driven decisions around some of this stuff. Otherwise, it’s like, I think having talked it, we do, we do hear a lot of like vocal minority groups in town and you, you kind of think get this one impression like, everybody must feel this way or, or a lot of people do. And it, and you know, you can have, you know, I guess you, you can get those, um, you know, contradictions.

34:37 Some thoughts. I mean, I think it’s given some decisions that we might have to make. It would be good to have some input from the, from the community on, and I don’t, I don’t think that the data one that we saw would necessarily be helpful, but we can customize it or tailor it to something that might help us. I would, I would be open talking to it further and, and moving forward with it. So Like I said, I, there’s another call at one if, um, on Friday that I, you know, I’m like, we could have another person or, you know, somebody else could take it. Um, but we could have at least two of us on that call, um, on Friday at one, depending on who’s available to kind of get, you know, hear from a different vendor and then we can make, you know, kind of do some research into these other towns

35:22 and to see if it was something that they found valuable as well.

35:28 Let’s put it this way. Is anyone against looking further into it? No. Listen, I think the question is how actionable is it and how useful is it so we can do a little more research? Yep. Okay. So if, if anyone wants to volunteer to join that, um, on there, know on Friday, I’d want. Great. Thank you, your Honor. Are you gonna stay on you? Uh, I can hang. I think it’s a short, yeah. Thank you. So let’s move on. Number stick. Um, we have the Abbott Hall Festival of RX Friday, March 26th. This is to launch, uh, launch auction of the Robinson Frame, M-F-I-O-A logos. If I could have a motion to, to approve the Abbot Hall Malware Hall Festival of Friday,

36:14 March 6th, 2026. Subject to the usual rules, regulation fees, and receipts of the required certificate of insurance. Some moved. Mr. In favor? Mr. Si in favor? Ms. Same? Say in favor? Mr. In favor? Mr. In favor. Next on our agenda is the Hobbs house. Um, they have a, they had a lease there that was five years and they had a five year option on it. Um, so this is to extend it within their original, they would like to extend it additional. This is what Ho House is. Um, Mental health plan. Mental Health Clinic. Thank you. So same terms, same terms, it, they at lease does stipulate states of those same terms?

37:01 Yep. And, and the price, they get a discount because of services they provide? Yep. Um, we have looked over this. They are just looking to extend the five years, which they have option to do at the exact same terms. Any questions? So if I could have a motion to extend the lease for an additional five years from February 15th, 2026 through February 14th, 2031 for the lease of 66, equipped now between the town of Marblehead Counseling Center for annual ranch amount of $7,488, and to authorize the chair to fund the lease on behalf of the board. So moved. Second. Uh, Mr. Sisen? In favor? Ms. Singer favor Ms. No.

37:47 In favor? In favor? Aye. In favor? Um, looks like we have a one day liquor license approved for a Marblehead Festival of Arts at the Marblehead Museum.

38:03 If I could have a motion missing One thing. We have another contract. It works. Oh, it wasn’t in here. I missed it. So it doesn’t mean it’s, um, yeah, it’s right there. I just missed it. Sorry about that. Thank you. We have one more contract. Sorry about that. It is, we don’t wanna miss the, we don’t wanna miss the I do anything if we Do one thing, improve the final. Sorry about that. It’s a lot of piece of paper in here. All right. So if you guys want fireworks,

38:40 I I would definitely, even though there’s no recall provision, I think if we missed this one, I, I might recall provision. So the fireworks, if we’re looking to, with a pyro technico fireworks, um, for July 4th with the rain fee of the fifth amount of 55,000. This, uh, the funding source in this is mainly comes from the donations books by the fireworks committee. If I could get a motion to award contract, 26th dash 48 for the July 4th fireworks display between the town and Ro Technico Fireworks Inc. The amount of $55,000 and authorized chair to sign the contract on behalf of the board Shall move. Second. Ms. Singer? In favor, Ms. Nunan? In favor? In favor? Mr. Objection In favor, Mr. Fox.

39:27 Strongly in favor. Now we’ll move on case. Any in case case there? Any question if I was against it, and that’s why I skipped it here. Law Fireworks, um, one day liquor license, marble Festival of Arts. March 6th, 2026, uh, in the Marble Museum. March 13th, 2026. If I could get a motion to pre produce request for the following, one day liquor licenses, as I said, marble Festival of Arts at Abbott Hall, March 6th, 2026, five to 7:00 PM Beer and wine only. Marblehead Museum at the Jeremiah Libra Kitchen. March 13th, 2026 at 1 57 Washington Street from six to 8:00 PM on subject to the, sorry. Yep. Hold, I just wanna make sure. Yep. This says March 13th. This says March 6th.

40:13 So I think it’s been adapted to March 13th, correct. Thank you.

40:19 March 6th. Yep. And the other one? Yeah. So the sixth. Think it. So that is you are looking at the, for the Robinson. Okay. I just wanna make sure. No, Thank you. We weren’t voting wrong. Nope, I listened. If I missed a fireworks, I’m gonna miss the date, that’s for sure. Um, as we de, if I have a motion as stated so far, subject of following conditions, delivery of receipt of the license authority of required fee of $50 each delivery of receipt of the license, authority of truth that the alcohol will be purchased from an authorized source. Proof that the applicant can receive proper delivery, provide proper storage and disposal of all alcohol beverages purchased. All in accordance for the requirements of GLC 1 38. Uh, li Liquor Liability Insurance. No alcohol is allowed to be stored on premises overnight, and alcohol will be purchased from Kathy’s importing Es

41:06 and Seaboard beer. So, Right. We have a second. Second, Ms. New in favor? In favor, Mr. In favor? Ms. Sand? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor? Um, moving on. Any select board announcements? Aye, I do All right. Yeah. Yeah. I’d like to thank, uh, the town of Bo. They’ve been plowing the town, uh, the advance 34 hours or something, 30, 38, whatever it is. And, uh, hopefully they’ll be able to rest up for, you know, the potential of a, of an oncoming storm max. But it’s much appreciated. It’s a lot of work that we never take it for granted, but we have those assets to do that. I’d also like to announce the retirement of two longtime,

41:54 uh, town employees. Uh, Bob Titus, who’s been at the, uh, DPW Depart of Public Works for, uh, 31 years is retiring. And, uh, as, uh, is Peter James, who was at, uh, park Iraq. He was there for 39 years. So he was a fixture, uh, uh, you know, of the, of the par and rock. And, uh, I would, I would, uh, ask that the, the select board prepare a, uh, congratulatory letter to both of them for their long wage things and, uh, and that we, uh, you know, congratulate. Yeah, that’s good. Uh, so motion move. Second. Second. Hey, uh, we, we, we may have a third that comes to mind. Dana Lamu? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. I might be fired.

42:44 I know Dana so well. Karen, which mine. Annie. Yeah. So Fireworks and Dana Lamu. Yeah, exactly. Sorry. Sorry, Dana. Karen, Let’s, uh, let’s roll my, my apologies On that. Yep. Good Catch. Can I have a motion to send this letter of appreciation? And thanks to, um, Mr. Tez, Mr. James and Mr. Ou Moved. Thanks. All right, thank you. This in favor, Ms. In favor Ms. In favor? In favor, Mr. Fox? In favor. Could I please now have a motion to, I’m, I’m screwing up. That left, right. Sorry, Aaron. Oh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was just going to echo what Moses said around the snow removal. And, um, I think that not everybody is aware,

43:31 but it, you know, not everybody in town is aware. We are aware that, um, our rec and park employees, as well as cemetery employees also, um, contribute to the snow removal. And I, I was actually, um, expecting a lot more, uh, of public comment, maybe around the sidewalk situation. It’s always becomes like a, a pastime to kind of, um, opine on the conditions on Facebook around, around our sidewalks in town after a snowfall. And I, it’s, um, just encourage people to, you know, be patient and that it was the eighth largest snowfall, um, in Boston’s history that we just, um, experienced. And, you know, with our sidewalks, as Amy has explained

44:17 to us at our last meeting or our last special meeting, emergency meeting, that it is difficult with our sidewalk plows for the marblehead sidewalks, given the conditions of the tree roots and the, and the size of our sidewalks as well. It’s really difficult on the equipment. So, um, they do the best they can and it, and they’re working hard and, um, just appreciate people’s patience and understanding around that.

44:43 Great. Anybody else? It’s gonna be extra careful here. Anybody else? All right. If I could have a motion to adjourn. So, move. I, I, second. Second. Alright. Cool. Same in favor, Mr. In fact, Ms. In favor? In favor, Mr. In favor.