Select Board: October 14, 2026

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0:03 Continue to order. I show this meeting is being recorded, and we hear an echo. All right, great. Open up to public comment. Anyone has any public comment they’d like to make? Could you just announce your name and address for our record, please? Hi, how are you? Stephanie Simpson. My name is Carmen Arnst, 93 Lafayette Street. I’m on the Breckenridge Park Commission, and I’m here to deliver a survey that was done with the Friends of Marblehead Dog Park. When we came before and asked to consider keeping some of the land public property, owned by the town, we were talking about going and talking to the abutters, which was done. And, I was going to email it to you, but I thought I’d just hand it to you perhaps. So three questions were asked. They went to 17 abutters’ houses. Three questions were asked. Nine abutters answered positively on these three questions. One answered negatively. So out of the 17 houses, they talked to 10 individuals. The questions were: “Are you in favor of the Recreation and Parks Department request to earmark a portion of the Crawford property for public use?” Nine said, “Yes,” one said, “No.” Question two: “Would you approve of a secure, fenced-in, daytime hour dog park in a portion of the former playground?” Nine said, “Yes,” one said, “No,” one said, “No, thank you.”

1:35 And then the third question, “What uses should Recreation and Parks consider should the town keep at least a portion of the property?” And the answers were dog park, green space, kids play area. It’s not official. Sure. It’s just us walking around. If you just want to leave them over there- Okay … we can get them out there. That’s more of a problem. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate you coming. Thank you. Okay, great. Anybody else? Anyone online? I don’t see anyone’s released. Yeah. That’s for public comment, please. And we’ll move on. Next up, we have a resolution to honor the life of a young man, Owen Paradise Coyne, who in a very short period of time, had an immense impact on this town. What I would like to propose is that we vote on this motion, on this resolution, and then we can read it in front of this page 76, which I think is appropriate given what he gave to this town. So if I could have a motion to approve a resolution prepared in honor of Owen Paradise Coyne. Second. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? Great. So, like to go up here and do the resolution. If your family would like to come up, friends, if you’re online, love to have you guys come up as well. Thank you all for coming.

2:57 Yeah. Yeah, no, Aaron. The next 30 minutes are important to us, so… So this is the Town of Marblehead Selectboard resolution honoring the life of Owen Paradise Coyne. Whereas the Town of Marblehead mourns the tragic and untimely passing of Owen Paradise Coyne. A beloved Marblehead High School senior, student athlete, town sailing instructor, and a proud member of our community. And whereas Owen generously gave his time and talents to the Town of Marblehead, serving for three summers as a talented and much loved sailing instructor through the town’s Recreation Park program, where he shared his love for water and passion for sailing while helping young sailors discover the same joy he found on the water. And whereas Owen was a three-sport athlete, football co-captain, an exceptional student, known for his kindness, humility, leadership, and compassion. Whereas Owen loved Marblehead deeply. He took great pride in being a magician and made a lasting impact on his teammates, classmates, friends, coaches, teachers, and the many young people that he taught and mentored. And whereas, in his final act of generosity, Owen gave the gift of life of five others through organ donation. Carrying out a decision he made at just 16 years old, when he received his driver’s license, a final expression of his compassion and selflessness, and defiance of his love.

4:31 And now, therefore, be it resolved that the Marblehead Selectboard, on behalf of the Town of Marblehead, honors the life and memory of Owen Paradise Coyne. And honors the lasting impact he made for our community during his 17 years. Be it further resolved that the Selectboard extends their deepest condolences to Owen’s family, his friends, teammates, coaches, teachers, and the entire Marblehead community. And joins in celebrating this remarkable young man he was as adopted the 14th day of October. So Mr. Coyne, Brian, I’d like to present you this resolution. It’s all yours to have and keep. So as well as to the rest of the friends and teammates, on behalf of the town of Marblehead, everything I’ve heard from all of you and sort of in line with our town anthem, he was a Marblehead forever kid, and please know that Owen will forever be a part of Marblehead. Thank you very much.

5:47 Yeah, absolutely. You want to take it from here?

5:58 Do you guys want to add random things?

6:11 I’m just going to keep plugging away and blowing them sandwiches. Good test.

6:35 Thank you, Alder Grant. No, I appreciate it. Yep. Yes. Spot. Please don’t feel the need to say that was the highlight of the meeting. No, it’s nice. Yes. Yeah. No, appreciate it. Please read the minutes. Thank you. Yeah,

6:54 we do appreciate it. Thank you. Yes. Thank you.

7:14 Next up, Town Administrator update. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me start with an update regard to our blue light parking ban notification system. Hmm. This is the start of the education process for that. We talked about it last year when we sought the funding, and we received funding to get it implemented. So we are close to having the blue lights in place in various locations around the town. In your memo is a map with blue dots that signify how we’ve dispersed them out. Yeah. And so they’ll be in strategic locations throughout the town, and they will be in place for the inclement weather that we expect again for this season. And so this will be hand-in-hand with our updated parking ban policy, which you have on your agenda to renew. That gives myself and our public safety folks and public works folks the ability to determine, on an as-need basis, the start time and end time for parking bans. So the utilization of the blue lights will enhance that. We will still continue with the messaging through the mass alerts, emergency notification system, our social media. And what we also intend to do, there’ll be signage at each of the light locations that’ll also refer people to our website

8:47 and to a phone number. We’re going to designate a phone number people can dial. They’ll have a recorded message with whatever information. So this is all an attempt to provide as much notification for parking bans in advance. So again, an enhancement to communication systems. What we’re also working out are the protocols and policies as to the utilization of the lights and the timing of whether we turn the lights on in advance of the actual parking ban so that folks have fair warning ahead of time of when they need to remove… We’ll figure out the protocols that work so that folks, one, we don’t want lights to come on and folks to ignore it because it’s too far out in the future. But we also want to give residents a fair opportunity to see the lights and to make accommodations for parking. So more information to follow on that. Next, a number of facility repairs that I want to highlight. I talked in the past a little bit, but these are at the completion stage. One is the public works garage floor. That’s been completed. So this has been an open item for years, with a price tag, I think, over $200,000 to repair.

10:20 Up at the highway garage, it’s actually two levels, an upper level and a lower level. And the floor that was deteriorating was on the upper level. And so if we didn’t make critical repairs at some point, both floors would be at the same level, and that wouldn’t work for us. Steve Cummings, and with the help of Andy McCue’s crews, repaired the floors in-house. And again, the methodology used was at the lower level to build a concrete wall, a concrete block wall that– Where’s my measurements on here? On my bottom. 31. Yeah, 31-foot-long by 9-foot-high block wall. Mm-hmm. Backfilled with flowable fill, which is a very stable fill, on top of installing a compacted stone base and then pouring the new concrete floor on that. And we sacrificed about eight feet of lower level storage space in order to create that, and what that allowed was then the repairs on the upper level. The cost to doing that, by doing it in-house, was about $45,000. So we saved well over $150,000 in doing that in-house. So the ingenuity of Steve Cummings and the- Mm-hmm … workmanship of the folks there, a real benefit for the town and the taxpayers.

11:52 That’s outstanding. In the same vein, the fire headquarters boiler replacement has been completed. So the old boiler, I don’t know, it’s been there probably since the building, I’m not sure, was on its last leg. Mm-hmm. And we’re trying something new on some of the maintenance. We’re trying to replace the parts before they actually fail. So that we can do it on a scheduled, timely manner. And so in this case, and what we put in was two single boilers, smaller boilers. Much more energy efficient. I think we go from like 80% efficiency to 96, 98% efficiency on the boilers. And by doing the two boilers, having the redundancy, so allows us to actually take one offline for repairs, maintenance, inspections, whatever, without having to close the building. Again, that’s a 24/7 operating building. Our firefighters live in it when they’re on duty, so we need to maintain the heating systems throughout. Again, the cost was approximately $60,000. We saved, I think it was about $50,000 in savings by, again, this was our inspectional services folks, our plumbers, electricians, along with Steve Cummings putting in. So again, savings to the taxpayers in putting the work in to maintain our buildings.

13:24 Next update, Green Community Designation update. So as you’re well aware, this board voted for the Green Community. The Municipal Light board voted to enter into the Mass Renewable Energy Trust Fund. And so we are now filing well in time for the December 31st deadline to hit this next cycle for funding. I believe we will automatically get somewhere around 150,000 to initiate and then be eligible, I think it’s up to a million dollars depending on the projects going forward. So a benefit to the community. Next, police staffing update. So it was a couple meetings ago you appointed Officer Luke Morris. He has begun his orientation with the police department. He was in this week. He has a date, starts Monday, October 26th at the police academy. Following that, he’ll have six months of field… Well, six months at the academy, and then he’ll have about eight weeks of field training when he returns. And so by this summer, he should be a fully independent operating patrolman here in Marblehead just in time for the summer season. So that’s one new officer. We’re also working to hire another officer, hopefully in time for the January 2027 police academy class. So we’re recruiting for that.

14:55 And again, both these positions were funded through the override in order to plus up the staffing. That leaves one more position available. And that one, the intent is to do a hybrid hiring process, which is now allowed in Massachusetts so we don’t have to go through the civil service list process. We can do, I guess I’d call, a more traditional hiring process. And with that, would bring staffing to a total of 33 officers net complete, which is at the level that the chief recommended and was supported by the voters here in Marblehead. And finally, just another update. Coppin School redevelopment update. So the RFPs are due October 19th. That’s when the submittals are due. Now, the submittals will come in. It does not mean they will be public documents right away. The first step is the chief procurement officer to make sure that they’re compliant, valid applications. There’s certain documentation that’s a requirement. So that’ll be the check, and then we’ll have the evaluation committee sit down, and based on the criteria that we set up in the RFP, score the various projects in order to recommend to the select board one, maybe more, final projects to be considered and voted on by this board.

16:26 Perfect. May I just make one comment? When you mentioned the police academy, Citizens Police Academy, we went down to the Winfield facility a couple weeks ago. It’s actually behind the Winfield Marketplace, the old Boston Sports Complex. It’s beautiful, but I will tell you, it’s a six-month, very intense, academically, physically, and psychologically progress. So it’s really very impressive. So, we didn’t have anyone there, but we’re going to have Luke, I think, at that academy. There’s several. And- Luke’s going to Northern Essex- Okay … Community College. Yeah. For the January- Okay … the January goal is the field. Okay, great. So, yeah, they’re scattered around, and it’s tough to get in, and then it’s just really impressive. So. Great. All right. Thank you, Patrick. Next up, Roe. You want to give us an update on the Veterans Day Ceremony? Good evening. Good evening. Hi, Roe. How have you been? Good, thank you. Busy. So we have… It’s the job. It’s okay. So we have several things coming up in November. Military retiree activity day is at the food court at Hanscom. It’s not just for military retirees. Anybody who’s military-related can go because there’s lots of vendors there, especially VA Healthcare. I have a number of veterans from Marblehead who are meeting me there to go through that process because that is a huge savings for them, VA Healthcare.

17:57 The veteran breakfast at the Council on Aging will be on Tuesday the 10th of November, the day before Veterans Day, and the Masons take care of that. They sponsor that. And I invite all of you to be there. So it’s completely open. And then the Veterans Day ceremony is that Wednesday the 11th. The chair is going to go upstairs with the stanchions and the flags Incorporated in the Veterans Day ceremony will be the dedication of the chair and the missing man table. So we’ll have all that. So it’ll be a little bit longer of a ceremony, but that’s okay. And then, I’m confirming Thursday, tomorrow night… My week has been shortened. I’m confirming tomorrow night on whether or not the VFW is going to do a little collation afterwards, what they’re going to do. I’ve already heard from 99% of the people who have active roles, thank you, Moses, in participating for the Veterans Day event, and that’ll be it. And then sometime in November, the VFW is going to do a fundraiser for New England Home, for vets on Court Street, so bringing them some much-needed supplies. And that’s it. The office has been busy. I’m in my temporary office, looking forward to moving to my permanent office eventually. And that’s all I have. Do you have any questions of me? That’s great, Robin. No, I think you covered it all. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate all the hard work. Hope to see you all there. Always appreciate your hard work, man. Thank you.

19:28 Especially what you do behind the scenes. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well done. Thank you. Is that your phone? It’s my phone. Sorry. Great. Thank you. Next up, we have a transfer of wine and malt beverages with cordials. We’ll open this public hearing. This hearing has been legally advertised. I’d like to call the applicants to the table, Jose Dimas Tejada Lumus and Divino Gusto Trattoria of Divino Gusto Trattoria. Good evening. How you doing, guys? Great. How you doing? Welcome, gentlemen. Feel free to have a seat. Yeah. Thank you. So, thank you. Appreciate you guys waiting tonight. Tell us a little bit about your application and maybe what you plan on doing there. Maybe any history. Yeah. We’re going to have, like, Italian food in there, like we’re serving. Okay. We’re going to have some, like, good cocktails, like nice wine, like with pastas and all the stuff in there, like pizza and all. Okay. I’ve been working in the kitchen for the last 15 years, and as head chef, so I have a lot of experience, so. Yeah. Where did you work? Where- I work in a restaurant in Lynn right now, La Copa Cafe restaurant bar. Okay. Yeah, been there. Great. Yeah, we’ve been there for two years, and then we want to expand to be in Marblehead, and I’m happy to be part of this town, and it’s, like, nice, you know? Yeah. Excellent, excellent. Anybody else want to add? It’s pretty straightforward. Yeah. Obviously looking very straightforward. We’re excited to see that place activated. Yeah. Looking- We’re going to have good brunch in there as well, too, like- Good brunch. Yeah. Oh, good. Like, start to, like, Wednesdays until Sunday, you know, like- Yeah. Yeah Yeah. Sounds great. Yeah.

20:58 A lot of good stuff coming in there for you guys- Great … come and check it out. Okay, great. Yeah. Absolutely. What’s the timing? When do you think- I think Monday and Tuesday we’re going to have, like, a dinner timing- Yeah … like 4:00 to 9:00. Yeah. And then, from Wednesday to Sunday, it’ll be, like, let’s say, like, 9:00 a.m. to- Great … to, like… We brunch at 3:00, and then for mainly to 9:00 p.m. till, you know. When do you think you’ll open? Hopefully this coming month. We’re going to do some- Is that real? … like, little updates in there, so. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. But you’ll do a little work in there- Yeah … and get it open. Great. Yeah. If everything goes well, so hopefully by the end, next coming month, so yeah. Great. We’ll look forward to it. Yeah, a couple months. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully. Great. Excellent. Does anyone want to talk in op- speak in opposition to this application? Anyone want to speak in favor of this application? No, we just gotta follow our process here. Okay. All right, I’ll close public hearing. Unless anybody has any questions, I’m ready to move forward. Great. Yeah. All right, so I could have a motion to approve application for common victualler license for Divino Gusto Trattoria Inc., 114 Pleasant Street, Manager Jose Dimas Tejada Lumus, Lumus? Lumus, yeah. Thank you. Subject to receipt of the required fees, forms, certificate of insurance. Hours of operation are, as you said, 9:00 a.m. to 12 midnight, Monday through Sunday. Seating capacity is 25. So moved. I second it. Second. All in favor? Great. If I could have a motion to approve the application from Divino Gusto Trattoria Inc., Manager Jose Dimas Tejada Lumus, for the transfer of the wine and malt beverage license with cordials number

22:28 04439-RS-0656, 114 Pleasant Street, subject to receipt of all required fees, forms, and department sign-offs. Same hours of operation, 9:00 a.m. to 12 midnight, Monday through Saturday. 10:00 a.m. to 12 midnight on Sunday. So moved. Second. This will be a poll vote. Poll vote. Yep. Ms. Ferrante? In favor. Mr. Zissimides? In favor. Ms. Noonan? In favor. Mr. Grady? In favor. Spott? In favor. If I could have a final motion to approve the request from Divino Gusto Trattoria Inc., 114 Pleasant Street, Manager Jose Dimas Tejada Lumus, for an annual and Sunday entertainment license for TVs seven days a week and live entertainment seven days a week from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., subject to receipt of required fees and approval from the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Safety for Sunday entertainment. No music is heard from the streets. So moved. Second. All in favor? Congratulations. Thank you. Good luck. And good luck. All right. Yeah. Thank you. Can’t wait to tell you. We’ll see you. Yeah, appreciate it. Have a good night. All right, take care. Have a good night. All right, good night. Next up, we have a Marblehead 400th Anniversary Committee interviews and appointments. We have seven open seats, that we need to, we don’t need to, that we want to fill. Okay. We have, I think six people present. We’re going to run through quickly. Come up one at a time if you just tell us a little, you don’t have to tell, spend too much time telling us a little bit about yourself and what you think you could add to the committee. We’ll just go in alphabetical order here.

24:01 Adam Phone? Hi. Hey, Adam Good. How you doing? Good, thanks. So just want to tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to serve on the committee? I’ve been a resident of Marblehead since 2013, but I spent most of my career in the brand creative and storytelling space working for brands like Nike and Converse, telling stories about people, products, and events and moments. And I have a lot of pride for this town. And the 400th anniversary is a big deal, and I think that the way that it looks, the way that it sounds, the way that it, uh, is presented for our town folk, as well as to a lot of the people that are going to come visit us during that time is super important. And the way that it looks from a social media presence, a website, to the way the events look and flow and the overall brand identity of this moment, I think is super important to get just right because you’ll never have a chance to do 400 years again. So I think my experience in this space could be a real asset to the committee to help make sure that the way that it looks and feels and sounds and smells, uh, is amazing for the time leading up to the event and then for the memory of it for many years after. Great. It sounds like we’re lucky to have you based on your experience, so thank you for volunteering. All right. Thank you very much. That’s great. Appreciate you joining tonight. Sounds good. Thank you. Mr. Dolliver, welcome back. We haven’t seen you for a couple of weeks.

25:21 Good evening again. Hello, Don. You can keep this brief. I think we know a lot about your history, but yeah. And being a historian, like let’s not do a historian. Unless you want me to go on. Well, that’s- You know- You, you- You’re the decider … can go sit with Moses after. Absolutely. Oh, I’ve always got an ear for it. Sorry, Don. Yeah. You’re good? Yeah. You can do more than that. So for those who don’t know you as well as we do, maybe you can tell us what you’ve been doing in town for less than 400 years. Um, eliminate 350 of those years, and I’ve been part of celebrations going on. I offer planning and, uh, experience and, uh, that’s all I have to say. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Adam, he is a, a- Thank you, Don. Yeah, thank you, Don. And Adam, he is the brand identity puppet. Eric Dahl. Hey, Eric. Hey. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. I’ve lived in Marblehead since 2002. My wife was born here. Actually, she wasn’t born here. She’s not a Marbleheader. She was born in Salem. She came back two days later. I’m a full-time writer. I write books on history, American history. Some of my books have dealt with Marblehead. I’m pretty familiar with publicity, and I’m very familiar with American history and Marblehead’s history.

26:53 I work from home, so I’m available on call if something needs to be done. I think I work pretty well with other people and, um, I really love the history of the town. We just moved in. We used to live in another part of town. Mm-hmm. We just moved into 111 Elm Street, which is a house built in 1753. And I don’t think the walls are talking to me, but there- … there was some fascinating people who lived in there before. And I think living in that house gives me a little bit more of a connection with the history of the town. But really what I have to offer is I’m a good writer, uh, I think, and, um, I’m interested. Great. Well, thank you for volunteering. Appreciate it. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Yeah. And good luck with those ghosts. Thanks. Um, Dan Marshall. Good evening, Mr. Marshall. How are you? Hello. How are you? Good. Good to see you. Good. All right. Welcome. Well, I’m Dan Marshall. I’m the executive director of the Marblehead Museum, um, and started in that role in, uh, beginning of July. Uh, but I’m have a, uh, over 25-year museum career, uh, starting with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Um, here in the area, I worked for the House of the Seven Gables and most recently before this position full-time with, um, uh, the Lexington History Museums. Um, I was there as we celebrated the 250th- … anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. Uh, so I have experience in,

28:26 um, staff training, of, uh, liaisoning with, uh, law enforcement, um, in, in a little capacity, you know, when there’s crowds. Um, you know, hopefully we’ll have some good crowds on, you know, on a lot of our events for the 400th anniversary. Um, I personally just, I think I bring my passion for history, um, with along with others that, you know, that have been talking about that. But I really, um, I just feel that this is the opportunity to tell kind of that full tapestry of Marblehead history, from the heroes that we know to those that we don’t know a lot about. And it just gives us that opportunity to really kind of expand the field and, um, and show how important Marblehead is, not only to Marbleheaders, but to Massachusetts history as well as the nation’s history, so. Great. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Um, Pam Peterson is not here, but I think we’re all pretty… She’s away for a couple of weeks. I’m sorry. That’s, yeah. She’s giving a talk at the Adams Library in February. Oh. Oh, and then she’s going away. She probably agreed, yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah. Well, that’s showing that you know your history, current, past, present. That’s great. Good job. Just throw a little extra in there. Uh, Brian Sell? He’s online. Okay. When he speaks he’ll pop up on the screen. Okay, great.

29:57 If they ask him. Good. Hey, Brian. Hi. How are you? Good, you. Uh, I don’t know if you’ve been listening in. If you could just tell us a little bit about yourself and why you’d like to serve on this committee. Sure. So I’m probably, of all of the people here, a newbie. I’ve only been here for six years, but I’m a resident of the North Shore for pretty much my entire life. And I have been pretty much a service-oriented person for my adult life, kind of trying to deal with CCD and school volunteer jobs and then, after the kids graduate, into the Rotary Club. And so when we lived in Redding, I was a chairperson of the Redding Street Fair, and I just enjoy kind of trying to find ways to give back to the community, and this is a great way to celebrate Marblehead. Great. Well, thank you, Brian. Appreciate your time. Sounds like your experience with running Street Fair could be helpful as well, so appreciate you coming. Tim Swigger. Hey, Tim. Hey. Good evening. Good evening. Good to see you. Good to see you, too. Moses. Some of you know me, some of you don’t. Yeah. I’m Tim Swigger. I have the antique shop here in town, Old Town Antiques, that I’ve run for four years. And been a Marblehead resident for 22.

31:30 I know Moses and your wife’s been in my shop. Yeah. And Erin and your mother’s been in my shop. And just to say, basically, I think Don Doliber certainly is qualified, because here is the program for 1979, and he was one of the 10 committee members in 1979. Mm-hmm. So I mean, this is an example of what I sell in my shop. This is the anniversary program from 1929, so the 300th anniversary. And it’s really kind of neat to go back and look at what it talks about, the different committees, the different events they do. Mm-hmm. And just a big history fan. Have been buying and selling Marblehead stuff forever. Work closely with other people in town- Yeah … to acquire some items. Yeah, you do other things in town, as we know, on the Board of Registrists and- Yep, I’m on the Board of Registrists. Yes. Yeah. I live on Front Street. Yep. I live in Old Town. I just, the history. I’m a history buff, and just enjoy everything about the town. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Thanks, Tom. Yeah, appreciate it. Yeah, no. Thanks. All right. Appreciate that. Thank you. Take that away before Moses sees. It’s for sale in the shop. Yeah, don’t tell anybody. If I could have… Anybody have any discussion? Feel like we have seven unbelievable applicants that have- Adam, Alan, Don is what a line-up. Yeah. Yeah, right? This- Yeah … I mean, we couldn’t do any better. Mm-hmm. This is like a varsity team here, and how lucky. I mean, the backgrounds. And I think you’ll enjoy working with each other also, which makes me excited.

33:00 And I think we should probably have, like, a liaison in case things come up. At some point, or maybe it’s just the chair to work- Happy to have whoever wants to be a liaison. Moses, if you’re jumping out of your chair. Yeah, absolutely. I think that- Be delighted to … Moses, given- Perfect … sure … given so many reasons. Okay. It’s great, isn’t it? That’s it. I’m trying to restrain myself. I was thinking the stuff that was going to come out wasn’t going to be as cohesive, sound. So- I’d be delighted … awesome. Great. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah. Great. Thank you. All right, so if I could have a motion to appoint Adam Holmes, Don Doliber, Eric J. Dolan, Dan Marshall, Pam Peterson, Brian Snell, Tim Swigger to the Marblehead 400th Anniversary Committee. So moved. Second. All in favor? Great. Thank you, guys and ladies. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Can’t wait to see it. Yeah, it’s going to work really well. Exactly. All right. Next up, we have overhang sign, Amy. Amy Connelly, come on up. How are you, Amy? Excellent. Thank you. So you’re going for another one, huh? I’m going for round two. Okay. Yes. Great, so we’ve seen- Love that … what type of store, Coconut Radio? It’s going to be a sister store to Local Noon. Okay. A little more nautical- Great … a little golf, a little tennis. Cool. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So I love the sign. Thank you. Any- And it’s a great name. Thank you. Thank you. It is really good. Nice looking name. Thanks. Looks like it’s pre-read.

34:32 Any questions? Any reason that we have to let her go? No, I love the sign. Where did the name derive from? I was- Uh- … killing me all day. Yeah. Well, it means the island grapevine, so how gossip travels, and that feels very appropriate for Marblehead. But also, another professor on Gilligan’s Island who made a- Oh, yeah … reference to the grapevine, I guess, so it was that. I love both of them. Yeah. Great. Yeah. I don’t like it. It looks great. Great. All right. You came all this way for nothing. Yeah. So motion to approve the request, Amy Connelly, for Coconut Radio, 80 Washington Street, for an overhang sign and percentage subject to approval from Old and Historic Districts Commission, a signed permit from the building department, and receipt of all fees, and required certificate of insurance, same as the town, as additionally insured per sign overhanging the public way. So moved. Yeah. Need a second. All right, all in favor? Good. Great. When are you opening? Congratulations. When are you opening? Two weeks. Oh, really? Yep. Great. Thank you. There’s a sign already up. It, yes. I confess. All right. Perfect. Thanks. All right. Thanks, Amy. All right. And next up, Dennis, if you want to come on up. Dennis Thatcher. This is a policy on priority officer details and retired officer details. So I see the board. Yep. A one-pager on the very top. Yep. But she’s a little more in-depth- You got it … than the active policies behind that. Yep. So we’ve all seen this, the policy. Thank you. And looks relatively straightforward to you.

36:05 If you want to give us basically a high-level overview and- Sure … benefit, because I know we’ve discussed. Yeah. So, both of these were negotiated at the last- Union contract negotiations. And so it agreed upon as part of the memorandum of understanding, of which was presented to the select board, and then ratified. So this is the policy back end of it and the specifics on what, for example, constitutes a priority detail and what would allow for that to kick in. So, they’re two very separate things. The retired officer working details is mutually beneficial for both the town in terms of safety during traffic details, but probably which is more important to me, it really does give an off-ramp for our retired officers to have an ability to- Thank you … stay engaged and the like. And so we need officers to fill details. Many times I’ve been before you, a couple of times, about MOUs with other departments to help us augment some of the work in town. And so this will augment that staff. But, it literally does, again, allow for us to take care of our retirees as they age. So there is some specifics to it. What I think the biggest points are, it’s at no cost to the town. Right? So I’m going to recommend the ones that are qualified to be sworn in as

37:38 special police officers of what the power of the select board is. All of the training, all of the things related to their own equipment and the like. Unlike today, we pay for everything that our officers have. The retirees will be paying for their own time, and uniforms, and the like. And so, it’s experienced people that know how to do these details that are going to come in, and I don’t think we’ll drop down in any of the quality. I think it’s a deal. So questions on that one, I’ll take it, in terms of the retirees. Yeah. So right now, if someone’s working a detail and you have an all-hands event, you can draw on them to go to that event, crisis. Will we be able to do that with the retirees? Is that still appropriate? So yes and no. All right. So the answer is that when we have an event that is specific to the town of Marblehead, I call on all of our resources for full-time police officers. Okay. These officers would be more in the realm of the additional officers. So I wouldn’t be demanding that they come in. So I have the ability with my full-time officer- So I mean if they’re actually at a detail at a moment something happens, would you be able to use them for other than- Oh, yeah. For sure Okay. Cool. Yeah. So again, kind of the benefit of having the sworn officer route. Yeah. So really important detail. Thank you, Jim. They’re all certified, keeping up with training,

39:12 post, all of the things that are required of a full-time police officer they’ll be required to have. So they’ll have updated trainings so that if there is a situation of unrest and they have to make an arrest or do something to that nature, they’ll have the ability to do that, the lawful authority, which is very important. And there’ll be no hesitation. So that is a big plus. Mm-hmm. And it just seems only beneficial. Yeah. For the town, it’s great to keep retired police people on. It is the trend. And it’s great. Yeah. Yeah. And I will say this, never a negative from any other neighboring chief or town, and I was in Salem. Those special officers do phenomenal work and they continue to. PVD’s been doing it for probably close to two decades. And, there’s generally a group of people that want to continue to work. Little participation rates pretty good. Yeah. If you’re signing up and doing all this training, you want to work. Yeah. It’s great to have a familiar face- 100% … as opposed to someone from the town. Yeah. It’s really important. Yep. That’s excellent. I don’t have any questions. Are you good to go? All right. Great. So that’s- We’ll go to priority. Yep. So priority was also negotiated during the contract, and what it allows for is in a long-term planning event, which is usually a week or later, when we have big construction jobs.

40:43 For example, maybe some of the gas jobs that we have this winter coming up in Old Town and the like, where we know that there’s going to be massive disruption on a major artery, there’s going to be one lane of traffic or different things that fit the criteria, and it took a long time for us to kind of come up with the criteria and make sure that it fitted. That I’ll be able to designate, not the contractor, not the officer. I’ll be able to designate something a priority detail, and it gets filled before all other details are filled. And so, it is not an uncommon practice. For example, Boston uses a tiered detail rate. So the most important jobs that they have to have people on traffic in the busiest areas of the city, those get tier ones. And then tier two, it’s on the ancillary streets, and so on. And so this is my ability to identify a priority detail. Did a lot of background on this in terms of what would qualify. I’m going to be the one that designates, or my designee, which could be a detail assignment officer. But it’s going to be a formalized process. So if a contractor is saying, “Chief, I don’t agree with you, I think that you should make me a priority detail, and we’re willing to pay the priority rate,” which is an increase in rate, “What do I need to do?” I’m actually going to have a form that whoever it is can come and kind of fill it out and then have a discussion and see if it fits the criteria, and we’ll go through it. It also seems like it centralizes the kind of control and coordination

42:14 function right across the details. It helps. More specifically. Yeah, it helps. And so this is a mechanism that’s going to help with longer, bigger jobs to make sure that we have essential officers there. And- I have the ability to designate that, again, was negotiated through the contract. And the union’s been very helpful and productive in any input that we’ve had on both of these. So this was done with union input, legal input, and all else above. And again, as you mentioned, that increase charge goes to contractor. It goes to the contractor. It’s not paid out of our dollars. It’s for the contractor. That’s right. Right. Yeah. I think we’ve discussed this before. Feel good about it. Anybody have any questions or, Rick, Mike? No. Thank you so much for putting in all the work. Yeah. To write the whole policy and everything. Yeah. And it’s in place before July 1st of next year. Right. Yeah. Why don’t we start with the special police officer retiree detail policy. If I could have a motion to select someone to approve. Marlboro Police Department proposal special police officer retiree policy, as submitted by Chief of Police, Dennis King, establishing the qualifications, appointment requirements, and conditions under which eligible retired Marlboro police officers may serve as special police officers for the limited purpose of performing paid police details subject to applicable laws and regulations. So moved. Second. All in favor? Passes unanimously. And

43:45 priority police detail policy. If I could have a motion to approve the Marlboro Police Department’s proposed priority detail policy, as submitted by Chief of Police, Dennis King, authorizing the Chief of Police or designee to designate certain paid police details as priority details based on operational necessity, traffic conditions, and public safety conditions, including the payment of a 20% premium above the prevailing paid detail rate, consistent with applicable collective bargaining agreements. So moved. Second. All in favor? Unanimous again. Thank you, Dennis. Appreciate it. All right. As always, thank you guys for your time. Yeah, Dennis. All right. Next up, we have a licensing hearing, revocation hearing for 257 Washington Street, Inc., Barrel Man. Notice has been sent out again to Benjamin Newman. Did not show up last time. Looks like he is not here again. We do have here, however today, Bill Moran, who is the owner of the property. Bill, do you want to come up? Sure. Technically, so everyone understands, the license is not his. Yep. And unfortunately, we cannot give it to him. Barrel Man would have to be up to date. But want to hear from Bill since you’re going to be a new owner in town, and that, in theory, you were supposed to have this transferred to you. So maybe if you could just tell us a bit what you’re going through in this process. We purchased the real estate

45:17 about six months ago. As part of that, we had a deal to purchase the liquor license as well. And then basically, the previous owner has been unresponsive. So multiple attempts made through me personally, and through attorneys to try to motivate him to sell it to us, which it seems like he’s been unresponsive in the same way here. So, we are hoping to apply for that license, if and when it does become available, as it seems that it is. So, I’m just here to answer any questions or provide any information that you guys may have or that you may need to get comfortable with us, to get to know us. No, I appreciate you coming. Yeah. We’ve talked a few times, and it’s unfortunate that you’re in this position given what your intention was, but we’re all here together in some ways. So, I appreciate. I know that’s a lot of work . Yeah. It is. But we’re happy to do them. We’re happy. This town is very excited to have you. Yeah. Welcome guy. We’re excited to join. So we want to do everything the right way and, yeah, so. Great. Well, our role is to not have empty storefronts. And it’s unfortunate it comes to this, but we have to get things moving. Yeah. There’s a significant amount of work that needs to be done, but we’re going to do it the right way. We’ve been through the permitting process, which has been great. So yeah. Great. Yeah. Stan said, I just constantly hear people are very excited about it. You guys must have a great reputation with your other store.

46:49 So, I hear about it a lot. We work very hard. Yeah. So that’s nice to hear, and we’re hoping to continue that here. Bill, thanks for coming to chat. Yeah. Thanks for allowing me to speak. I appreciate it. Let us know if we can help with anything else. Thank you. Any discussion? That we have to ready to revoke. It’s the second time. We have to do what we have to do. Okay. So we’re going to do this as a roll call as well, but if I could have a motion on October 14th, 2026 to revoke the all alcohol beverages license number 00024-RS-0656, 256 Washington Street, Inc., sorry, 257 Washington Street, Inc. at 259 Washington Street for failure to operate and failure to appear before the board, and to send notification of this revocation to 257 Washington Street, Inc., and notify the Alcohol Beverages Control Commission of this decision. So moved. Second. Roll call. Ms. Newmaster? In favor. Mr. Gray? In favor. Ms. Ferrante? In favor. Mr. Zisson? In favor. Mr. Fox? In favor. Great. All right. Let’s move on to another licensing. We have Sunday entertainment of Ben Yang. This is something that we probably should have done last time. It just got missed. And this is for the Sunday entertainment. We approved everything else. And basically, this allows them on Sunday to do something similar that we

48:23 just passed for the new place on Pleasant, so. Nick Comer’s going to be up on Sunday. Yeah Yeah. And this is just even to play TVs, right? To even have his, which is their intention. But by law, we have to have this for TVs. Yeah. Yeah. So if I could have motion to approve the request from Fundy in 10 schools, three for Sunday entertainment license for background music and TVs seven days a week, subject to receipt of required fees and approval from Commission Department of Public Safety for Sunday entertainment. So moved. All in favor? Great. I think we need poll on that, correct? Aye. Number 11, Thatcher and Maggie. So- Maggie was here … Maggie had- Okay, great … so this is a request for the annual preambulation of downtown ways. So this is a requirement that originates back in 1641 for the towns to establish their boundaries within a certain amount of time of their establishment. So, it goes back that far. It used to require that the selectmen themselves do it. They’ve since delegated that, and I’m sure that applies to selectboards as well, equally so.

49:54 So it’s a five-year requirement. And so in Marblehead what we’ve reestablished after a break of duties is to alternate between the Neck preambulation, which was conducted, I think- I was there last … for the last in the pouring rain. Mm-hmm. And then, Maggie, is she in the room? I see her raising her hand, so this time I’ll- Let her in. Yeah, we’ll let her in. And then so this year would be in the old town area of market areas. And so Maggie’s coming online and she can give you more details. And while we’re waiting for Maggie, just thinking out loud, there are some public ways in other parts of the town. Do we cover those in preambulation? But yet at different times of the year. But there is a- We did the Neck, and now this is- No, but besides the, there’s a couple ones. Yeah, but then- Yeah, part of the work Maggie and others have been doing is to make sure we have documented all of those public ways to- Okay … and then do this process. Okay. So Maggie is- Maggie is- Hey, can you guys hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. Hi. So yeah, sorry, I’m not there. But, so this is, as Thatcher discussed, it’s the

51:24 preambulation. I have a couple slides which are included in your packets, and this is the opportunity to ensure the establishment of the ways we alternate annually. There was a time in history, fairly recent history, that the conservancy was designated by the Selectboard to do these preambulations. And we want to make sure that we get the preambulation done for the downtown routes in the 2026 calendar year. So I can share. I hopefully can share my screen, and let me see if this works to show you guys the map. Let me see if this works. Sorry.

52:15 Welcome to the Jungle Book. So can you see this, here? Now. Oops. It’s all going- Did that work? Got it. I can see it. We got it. Awesome. So this is the list of the downtown ways. So we previously had done the Neck last year, the Saturday after town meeting. And so this is the opportunity to coordinate with Thatcher and Don Dolber, who I know was there earlier, the town historian, to kick off at Abbot Hall and advance the walk by the end of the calendar year this year. So this is the approximate route, if you can see my mouse. You go from Abbot Hall, Lookout Court, Prospect Alley, travel down Front Street to Cross Back, between Pickett and Circle, Circle and Merritt at Hollyhocks, the alley steps, Cross Back over, and Gingerbread Lane, Knights Hill. And there’s two alleys, one between High Street and Elm, and another between Mechanic Street and Market Square. So I believe prior to COVID, this walk in particular, I want to say it was upwards of 200 visitors. I know it’s a great opportunity to get people out on these roads, and around some of our great businesses in the Downtown District. So we’re excited to make sure that this kicks off before the end of the year. Maggie, I have a question for you. When assessing downtown in the

53:46 Neck, and there’s also different public ways, like at the end of Green Street that goes down to Danger Beach, 11 Kenneth Road, one that goes up to Bubman. One, two, one. The list goes on and on. Are those also- Yeah … are those also walked regularly? Those are not part of the preambulation regularly. Some of these are ways. I have a slide actually about that. So these are more of these pathways and such. Some of those, like I know near adjacent to 11 Kenneth Road is actually a Selectboard parcel. So they’re different establishments, so those are not part of it. I know I tend to visit many of them regularly, but it hasn’t formally previously been part of the preambulation. The preambulation has historically alternated between the Neck and the downtown Okay. I’ll follow up with you after I find it, because those are- Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I’d love to chat more. Yeah. Great. Well, thank you for your work on this, Maggie, for coordinating it. Yeah. We need to vote to authorize. So if I could have a motion, I don’t think I have one here, but I’m sure I can figure it out. To authorize town administrator to coordinate with appropriate town officials to establish a date and plan for the preambulation of the downtown ways

55:17 prior to the end of ‘26. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Great. So the law requires you select board members or two designees. So that’s what this actually is doing. We just gave those. Yep. Right? Okay. And so if you fail to do so, it’s a $20 fine. Well, that’s a fine. I’m glad we took care of that. If we don’t show up and do it, you get a $20 fine. We both? That was the one, the $18. Yeah. All right. Just so you know that. That’s- In the date is TBD, right? Right. Yeah. We’ll announce that. We will establish the date. Okay. That seems like a fun one to- Yeah … you might get at least one or two anyway. It’s a season for you. Yeah. I’m happy with that. Yeah. All right. We can all go. I think, yeah. Have a little- At least one more. Yep. Done, I think. So next up we have flexible work policy, which we discussed at our last meeting. Actually, you have a memo here if you want to just go over it. Yeah. I just did, again, a one pager to highlight. So we’ve presented this a couple times already in the past. So, the workplace policy establishes a consistent framework for flexible work arrangements, while also maintaining management oversight, and to maintain our municipal services. So, the key policy provisions, work arrangements, so it allows flexible schedules, hybrid work, and remote work when appropriate for department operations. So from the very first proposal, it was more of our remote work. This was expanded to give

56:49 more tools, and basically allows more of our employees to be eligible for some type of flexible accommodations, such as a flexible work schedule where they can start earlier, later, have compressed hours. Again, all this will be worked out with the department heads in agreement. Eligibility. It applies to the eligible non-union town employees, so it does not include schools at all. So, if approved, it’ll immediately apply to the non-union or admin employees. In order to apply to the MMBU employees, I would have to enter into an agreement with them. And then it would apply to them. So the intent would be if the board approves this, I will engage with MMBU. I’ve already been in discussions with the president, like this is coming stuff. To what percentage of the town employees is this applying, roughly? Based on the expanded, I don’t want to say 100%, but a lot more. In human resource space, so you have those that work in, say, in area alley and administrator functions, and they can perform their functions- Yeah. Just all the industry … remotely, right? Yeah. Yeah. Right. And then you have folks whose job it is, they’re out in the street. They’re not office workers. So having

58:21 the flexible schedules and such allows some options to them. So as an example, Amy McCue had mentioned this, for her DPW folks, they have required online training that they have to do. She can allow them to- Do it … do that from home or whatever, or remote location, not via work. So it gives those options- Yeah. Okay … to that. Key thing, management authority. So flexible work, it’s not an employee entitlement. Approval is based on operational needs, job responsibilities, and employee performance. So it’s purely a management decision to allow or not allow. Accountability. Department heads are continue to be responsible for the employee supervision, productivity, staffing, and public service delivery. So for example, for those customer-facing offices, the department head would have to coordinate so that there is someone in the office, the walk-in service, if there are other employees who are on a different schedule as such. So we still have to get the job done in that way. The arrangements are subject to an initial 30-day review and annual review. So the whole idea, and we have forms at the back. Yeah. So it’s a written agreement of how this would be done. There’ll be a 30-day review, basically to make sure the

59:53 productivity is still there. Let’s say if they’re working remote. So you can modify it if- Yeah. They can’t work with it. Yeah. And again, management has the right to revoke at any time, for whatever reason. And then the other key point, again, with the renovations going on Marion Alley, right now they’re in the lower level, so it’s noise and things that have some impact. But once that portion of the lane is done, the contractors are going to move to the other office spaces, where we’re going to need to relocate people. We’re going to need accommodation. So it’s having a policy in place to address that when that happens. Is there anything in particular regarding department heads and how this applies to them? That’s- That’s just- Yeah. Like- That would be my– It would apply in the same way from me to them. And then, in terms of the training plan, like I presume some managers may want training on how to manage this type of- … situation. Yeah. So is that something that’s, again- Yeah, we’re working- Or what’s the- So one of the things we’re doing, we’re, and again, the development of this was looking at a number of other communities who have had this in place, put this in place. So one, that’s where sort of the compiling this policy and adding the new components, and it’ll probably also mean that we’ll reach out to some of the other

1:01:23 communities that are doing this to get more information on the implementation of how they manage this. So this is something with our HR director and with the department heads. And so we’ll have a department head meeting, the next ones that are scheduled, we’ll go into this in more depth, laying it out. So, yeah. We want this to work. Mm-hmm. I mean, you can revoke it at any time, correct? Yeah. And that’ll be part, so. And it does address another issue as I talked about. Yeah. Just about every interview of candidates for employment they’ll ask, “Do you have flexible…” And the answer is, “We don’t have one.” Mm-hmm. Yes. We’ve had people, that was all they needed to know, and they went elsewhere. So it will help in recruitment. We’re not turning into Google where people show up once a month. We’re on the opposite end of that spectrum that it’ll be on a limited basis, but because it has to meet the needs of the town providing the services first. Yeah. In my experience, I’ve seen people manage or struggle when they give that opportunity to people, and then people do abuse it a bit. Yeah. Right? And then being able to have those difficult conversations in terms of pulling it back. And so, I’m in favor of this, generally speaking- Mm … but I think without the right training- Yeah … it gets messy for the people managing.

1:02:54 Yeah. Some people are comfortable, some people are not. I’ve totally seen how that plays and it’s- Yeah … I don’t know, it’s not productive in that way. Yeah. Makes sense. Mr. Chair? Yes, ma’am. So this is very comprehensive. I think it’s great. I think since I first came on the board, yeah, I think it was 2021, we’ve really gone from not having a whole lot of written policies as a massive organization that employs an enormous workforce, to having financial policies. Now we have Tom, our HR director, has brought forward some human resources policies, and I welcome us, and even Chief King bringing us some policies that we can finalize, we can amend them, future boards can amend them as needed. I feel like this addresses three types of situations. The ad hoc, a situation where someone has a kind of unique situ- their car breaks down, but they’re capable of working, and it’s a phone call and some permission to do the work from home. And that’s my understanding of the ad hoc, a kind of an off- Mary Alley Building. Right. And then obviously there’s more of the routine flexible work, which you see now, modern

1:04:27 employment and people are desiring of this. If we want to be competitive employer for some of these, especially back office, but professional services, if we want to attract good talent and maintain good talent, especially when someone’s proven, maybe they have a change in life circumstance and we’re able to accommodate a one-day from home or a two-day as needed, depending on the situation, as is outlaid here. And then also that intermittent flexible work schedule where maybe somebody is recovering from a surgery, there’s no reason they can’t do their job, but they can’t come in the office. That’s covered in here. There’s a number of… And there’s plenty of language to me in here that provides for wide discretion from both department heads and ultimately a town administrator, and at the end of the day, the entire policy is pretty discretionary. But then there’s also that progress monitoring, and kind of running it through the HR department as I read, that this all will be run and go through HR. And so you have that kind of layer to a department head support for, “Well, what do I do?” You have that HR help and assistance with just what you were speaking of. And so I think it’s a way that we’re modernizing our operations and hopefully able to compete and,

1:05:58 like I said, be a competitive employer and understanding the way the world is moving, so. Yeah. I guess I would ask, as someone that benefits from that, does the town have town-issued laptops with the appropriate software, two-factor authentication, and all that kind of stuff? It’s in the policy. Yeah. I mean, the budget for that. So we’ve, four years ago I sort of established that, in that everyone needs to be able to work from wherever they are, even before this was in place. And one instance where that absolutely paid off is it was a Tuesday morning after a three-day weekend when we showed up at Mary Alley, and it had been broken into and things were smashed. Right? We had to close the building, had everybody, “Get your laptops, go.” We could still perform the functions because we had that capability. So that’s already designed in our IT- Okay … purchases and such. And the policy chapter or section 11 and 12 go into detail about the confidentiality and the information security in the policy itself. So. Okay. Great. No further discussion? All right. If I could have a motion to propose a flexible work policy as presented. I don’t have one. No? I

1:07:29 don’t. Do you have a nicer motion than that? It’s just fine. I mean, mine sounded pretty amazing, but- It’s not- I mean, it says it’s sitting- I’m sitting with a lot of words. All right, ignore my motion. Apparently, it was too succinct. We’ll go again. If I could have a motion that we approve the Town of Marlborough flexible workplace policy as presented by the town administrator, establishing guidelines for flexible work schedules, hybrid work, and remote work arrangements for eligible non-union town employees with implementation for employees represented by collective bargaining units subject to negotiated agreements with their respective unions. So moved. Do I have a second, please? Second. All right. All in favor of this amazing motion? Thank you. Thank you, Kyle. Yours always sounds better. In the nick of time. Yeah. Phew. Close. Next up is snow emergency policy. My only question here is do we need to put a finish time on this? Because if we suspend the town of May, do we then have to put it back in place? I think we… Yeah. Last time they had language, the end of season. So it feels like if we suspend it- The regulation ends seasonally every quarter So does it automatically end the regulation itself? Okay. Right. Okay. So it’s suspending, I think what’s already a seasonal- Okay … policy. Great. Okay. Yeah. Great. So if I just- Depending on.

1:09:00 Go ahead. A question for Thatcher. So I feel like last year there was a time where, and I know Amy has mentioned this to me, and we’ve worked out the kinks where you suspend it, it’s like a 72 hour. And when the timing of when am I… There was something with the timing of when a snow emergency… Chief, do you want to point them out? If there’s a snow emergency and whether we expect the snowfall at a certain time, but we want it… I’m not articulating. It’s been regulated from the midnight to 7:00 AM. That’s what it used to be. We can’t do that. This overrides it. Right. Okay. Yeah. So as long as that’s addressed in this. Yeah. Is that- That’s why we did it last year and gave them the ability to do that- Okay … because otherwise- Right … the timing was ridiculous. Right. It allows us to establish the start time- Yeah … and the end times based on the conditions. Great. All right. I have five motions to suspend the Town of Marlborough traffic regulations, Article 5, Section 8, known as the current all-night parking ban, and to implement in its place a snow emergency response to snow events on an as-needed basis. The DPW director, fire chief, and police chief, in coordination with the town administrator, shall establish the start and end times of a declared snow emergency based on the forecasted weather conditions or live weather conditions as required to keep streets maintained and safe for vehicles and pedestrians. Any vehicles that violate provisions of this motion are subject to the issuance of parking tickets and towing. Notification of declared snow emergencies shall be done through the town website,

1:10:32 Regroup automated call system, town-managed social media accounts, MHTV, and any other outlets the town has available. This vote is revocable upon the determination of the police chief, fire chief, town administrator, Department of Public Works, or their designees that is negatively impacting public health and safety. So moved. Second. All in favor. All right. Next up, we have the FlashVote results that were from the Kaufman School. I know that anyone who answered those was able to see the results. Since this is our first time doing it, and we all have access, Erin, who is going to just sort of give us some details on a little more in depth on what you can do to see it. You can break them down by different sections than what you just see in the PDF. Okay. Erin, the floor is yours.

1:11:29 Okay. So I thought this would be fun. It’s our first survey, and we’ve had a great response. And I just wanted to go over it for folks in the public. I know us on the board have had a chance to view a video and an analysis that our FlashVote folks who walked us through this, but I thought I would go through it a little bit quickly. We had a total of 300 participants. And so what you’re seeing here is you have 300 participants. Our panel size at this time is 488. So, and you can see here, of the 488, we had 273 complete the survey within the 48 hours. So there are going to be some people on the panel who, they don’t… It’s a short survey, there’s a strategy around it. So 273 people of those invited did respond on the panel. And then we had this 27 others, which they said is usually a small number. Those are participants that were invited or someone had shared the survey with them and they weighed in, and they are factored out. And so if you drop down here, and everybody on our board can

1:13:01 do this, and you can, locals only reflects… Let’s see. Sorry. So the panel is really the important number. That is the unbiased community panel who didn’t know the topic beforehand, and then these others, the 27 are ones that sort of self-selected in, and took at the topic with note. So, okay. So the margin of error here is plus or minus 6%. That is based on the panel number and the way to think of it was explained, if it’s the minimum possible error you can have in any sample, meaning that the estimates of these percentages, you can think of as 19 out of 20 times, they would be within 6% of the true population responses. Okay. So, and then over here, you just have what was the response time most people… Within the first hour, we had a lot of those people respond within the first two hours. And then that’s the date. Okay. So right now I have it on, let’s do keep it on all responses. Okay. So question one was sort of a filtering survey. I can explain it later, but this felt a little validating in terms of communication and outreach in that 70, overwhelming majority of respondents knew that the select board had

1:14:32 controlled the property, knew where we were in the process, knew that this was going on, which is good to know. And what’s interesting is that includes the random SMS invitations that Flash Vote sends out. So we have people joining the panel because we’re all promoting it. It’s on the website. They’re hearing about it that way. But then Flash Vote itself sends out a load of random verified residents through SMS, and then those people sign in. So even those people who got it randomly through that way, weren’t on a website, didn’t hear about it from somebody, they also knew about the property. Okay. And then to go down to question two, “What types of housing do you think we need most to offer more affordable homes?” And so the most popular answers were obviously single family, small starter homes. They considered them starter homes. And then

1:15:39 we had age restricted and townhomes. Those three were the top tier answers to that question. And then you sort of group them in the other, going down a tier, that second tier would be tiny homes, ADUs. Sorry. Yeah. Tiny homes, ADUs, and apartments and duplexes. Okay. And then question three, our question was, “What is most important for the select board when we review the proposals?” And here, the number one response that two thirds of respondents said, “Making sure the design and the layout fits with the neighborhood or is naturally buffered.” So that’s a significant response. The other response that received over 50% was that it provide affordable housing for residents with lower moderate incomes. So those were the top two standouts. And then another tier you kind of look at, then kind of grouped here going down would be providing some area for public use, providing senior housing, and then the lower tiers were the providing a financial return and quickly addressing the property. So nobody’s rushing or urging us to rush on this decision, would be the takeaway for

1:17:11 that. And then for question four, we zoomed in on the public use. So we kind of asked a conditional question. If the town retains a portion, we wanted to zoom in on where folks felt that what they would like to see there. And what stood out, not surprising to the Flash Vote folks, was the walking path. They said that crosses all generations. People love to walk . They love that green space. So green space with walking paths, benches, and shaded area took the top significantly. And then the other kind of top most popular uses were playground area and then sort of a natural garden area, kind of maybe raised garden beds or stuff like that. And then, let’s see. So I did ask them why– So if you recall in the survey, you could choose up to four. And when I saw these, I said, “Why did we let them choose four? Should we have just said, what’s your most important or…” And the science to it was that explained that the poorly designed surveys just ask what’s important and can you tell, and tell us what’s important to you. And you can list a bunch of things, and then it’s everything’s important, right?

1:18:45 And then some of them do the ranking, ranking order of importance, but what they find is that’s not really how people think of these in their heads. So when you ask it, you make them make a choice.

1:19:02 Creating number four creates a scarcity. So people have to make a choice, and then the rankings fall out in the data So that was a question I had, like why four, and is it too many? How do we know which is one? So, and then on question five- At the end … on question five was- Thank you … we had just sort of any other comments or suggestions. And, so what we’re looking for here, apparently, is you’re looking for an idea that you didn’t have or a question you didn’t ask. So there’s 92 responses, right? And so you go through them. It’s just interesting and like I said, you’re looking for something that stands out, like a question you didn’t think you should’ve asked. And then they have this way to an AI content summary of those responses for that question. So it just eliminates for ease of, for our sake, duplicates, redundancies, and it kind of provides it in a nice synthesized way. And then you have your concerns listed here, and then there’s questions that came up and some other. Okay. And then, so right down here for the board, if we click on this, you have additional

1:20:33 survey reports. And so if you click on this, this was a little bit, like I said, it was the nerdier data feature. And so this shows you how question one becomes a… Sorry, I minimized something. So question one becomes sort of a filter for other responses. Okay. So question one was, how much do you know about it? So if you get to question two, okay, so this color code. So we’re going from… So the blue. So blue signifies here low, the people who answered, they didn’t really know anything about the property. And those of those people, single family homes was their number one answer. So we’re going from… And then if you wanted to see, then yellow was most knowledgeable. So you’re going from blue, least knowledgeable to most knowledgeable. So you can see there’s different, like, it depends on how much they knew where the choices shook out. And let’s see. And then you can also change the, let’s see. I think you can change the filter for by age, too, which is interesting. So under 35, they said this is

1:22:06 very common. It’s such a small amount that they protect anonymity, so they don’t register. That’s very common for these municipal surveys. But based on some things completely, it’s irrelevant, age doesn’t really make a difference. But for some things like you can see the 36 to 50, they felt strongly that townhomes, right, were the type of housing that we need most to be affordable. But if you’re 66 and up, it was definitely the age restrict, not surprisingly, but age restricted units for adults kind of was up there with smaller single family homes. So that’s just an interesting way to play around with the results and the data. And- Is there- Yeah … a filter for where in town people answered? I don’t know that we- It was- They can get granular like that. I think it’s an option. It’s not on here, I don’t think. Let me see. I was just curious if there was, like, a scattergram show, like- Yeah … where people answered from. Right, I mean, based on the- But it is a feature they can do because I remember talking about that. Yes. No. That they do. It is something that they can do. I think it goes into the panel. I think we can see on the panel there, they try to make it so that it’s representative within the panel. I thought that one of the points of ANA was knowing the demographic so that- Like-

1:23:37 … you got a broad range. I think we should ask them. Yeah. I’d like to see the highlights for it. Yeah. And- With something specific like this one, that’s really important to know, right? Yeah. Other ones that might not be asked for. Right. But this one does make sense. Yeah. Which is another data point. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think it’s just interesting was another where age, so if you’re 36 to 50, 67% wanted the playground. Right? That kind of makes sense. And then, so that was a standout based on age response, too. So it’s just interesting kind of a way you can play around with the data and kind of go a little bit more granular into it. So Erin, where can the public see the results? So the PDF, so anybody who opts into the panel and it’s, I think I sent the link to Pat, it’s on our website. Yeah. So once you sign up to be a member of the panel and receive these surveys- Mm-hmm … everybody at the same time. I get it at the same time, you get it at the same time as Mr. Dorr would get it if he signed up. 48 hours, it closes, and everybody sees it at the same time. The results are right there- They get a PDF or they get this? They get it in an email. Yeah. And, or if you’ve signed up with a text, you get an alert about it, text with an easy link- But I think the question is people that aren’t signed up, where can they see it? So if you’re not signed up, like for this particular survey, Brendan has posted the results- Okay …

1:25:09 to the coffin reuse- Yeah … page So, I think we discussed it in the public meetings at the public packets. We could post it wherever we- Maybe we could create under Flash Vote … appropriate. I would figure the newspapers would publish it in an article, just have everything kind of come up. It’s on somewhere. But sign up, because then you know you’re going to get the result. It would be nice. No, I don’t think that’s a- No, it’s- Yeah. No, I agree. It’s on there, but maybe what we do is we create a place where we put all questions. Yeah. Both results, right? Some place on our website that we can do. I think so. It might be a good place. I think that might work. Yeah. People should be able to see it whether they sign up or not for sure. Yeah. Community development? Yeah. Okay. Just put- The tool … this is their tool, and if we can have Brendan put it on there for sure. He might already have it. Yeah. We can look. The purpose of the- Was an individual allowed to take it more than once? No. No. It’s very- They’re associated with a phone number, yeah … they’ve planned for every- So if they forward it like they did, so you can see that was the 27 or 28- Right … were people who aren’t registered who voted outside the panel. And in the panel, even in the top of the panel- Well, you filter that out … it’s verified by locals only. So locals only, when you signed up, if you provided your address and it’s verified, you’re in the local onlys.

1:26:42 It’s people’s choice. If you don’t provide an address, you just say you’re a resident, it’s not verified that you’re a resident, but you’re saying you’re a resident, I guess. Again, you don’t know what the survey topic’s going to be. That’s the whole point of it being a panel. And so, it’s just- So we go back to locals only just for one sec. So of the locals only, you had 239 people, and they still determined us with this 6%- Mm-hmm … margin of error based on the number of people. Yeah. Right? And then when you do that- Most people who got it … you could see below, and you can go and look. Because it feels to me like that’s the one that we care about. And then- I think that locals only should be able to give you the distribution that you would get- Yeah … the data set. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we can ask those questions. Overview. Yeah. Well, I have a, Mr. Chairman, though. Yes. I have a question and then a comment. And the question is, I don’t know whether you know this or not, maybe, of the flash, what proportion of respondents we’ve got by the flash responses? Because that flash response is quite interesting, actually. And I don’t know if you happen to- The panel? Well, it’s the panel … because if you subscribe, you’re in the panel. And so if you’re a panel member, anytime we put out a survey, you get a survey, it’s random. No one’s self-selecting in it. Yeah, no. Of the panel,

1:28:14 488 people on the panel- Yeah … 273 people on our panel- Yeah … were able to answer the survey within the 48 hours. Yeah. And then there were these 27 others that are not on the panel, but can respond to the survey. That’s what I’m focusing on. Yes. Okay, so it’s 22. That’s the answer. Okay. They said usually that number’s pretty small because it’s designed this way.

1:28:38 It’s just data. So he said one time they had, that number was 1,000 one time in one of their surveys because it was about a hockey rink. And it’s interesting. So then you just say, okay, these are self-selecting people, and these are hockey people, and so this is what they think. But- But you have the ability to filter out stuff … generally the idea is that you want it to be representative of the true population, and you’re not getting people self-selecting in based on their special interests. Well, I guess that question is, is the flash is a randomly selected portion of the town. So basically, it’s to get- No, everybody in the panel … so the flash is what, then? Are they outside the panel or inside the panel? The flash vote- Oh, it’s okay. Yeah … but I find it interesting. It looks like it’s 22 in this instance. The only reason I’m raising it- Yeah, 22 … because it would be very interesting. Outside of our panel were these 27 others that chose to answer the survey. I find those interesting because they are different. And you can filter by that, I think. Let me share. Okay, so you can take out, this is member panel. Right. No, that’s okay. Take out- I find it, that’s an interesting look … panel members answered this way, other people answered it this way. Why is the next best thing to- The lined up Because it’s randomly selected. No, I would disagree. So that 27 means that I received SMS or something. But randomly. No, no, no. As part of Flash. And I say- Signed up, so he got it … “Karen- I like that term … you live in Memphis. I want you to come and do this with me.” So those

1:30:11 27 people are not necessarily from Marblehead. It means I sent it to somebody, and I’m like- Oh, okay … “Hey, go vote for this.” That’s helpful to know. It’s like if my company is running, I’m like, “Get everyone to do it.” I almost think that you take those out because you don’t have no idea who they are right or from. Well, see, I think if they were part of the Marblehead household base, and it was a random- For your point … a true… Well, thank you for clarifying. Yeah. That’s why I took the question. Because if it were really random and people responded, that would be a very useful data set, even though some- Just like people can’t select in by topic- Right … but you can’t select yourself out by not choosing to answer. Yeah. Right. In the 488 number or whatever it was, is that the number of people that have signed up via phone? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we had an onboarding, Brendan, myself, and Diana helped out a bit. To build the panel took us some time. That was part of building your panel before you can really get going. And so what they also do, so we’ve got to hit a certain number, and then they go, “Okay. We have-“ We have a data set of phone numbers.

1:31:24 They’ll cold test verified Marblehead residents and invite them. So people that didn’t hear about it, these are people that aren’t paying, frankly, just in tune as much to others. We want to capture them, too, because they still vote, right? But they might not just be so dialed in that they didn’t read the paper and haven’t heard about it. So we’re fetching those people who aren’t always dialed into town, too. So there’s a group of people getting texts that have never signed up for Flat Vote asking them this paper. That makes– I- Yeah. They send out an SMS text message to some number of… Because we want to build the panel so it’s representative, and inviting them as a Marblehead resident. They’re verified as a Marblehead resident, inviting them to participate. So it’s inviting them to join the Flat Vote by text. Yeah. It’s not- If they’re not registered … just paying any specific survey. Yeah. But we’re trying to- It’s first get them in the pool, and then they’re- Right. The whole idea is so that, if you send out a Google survey on a topic or some of these more unsophisticated tools, you’re going to get people responding because of their level of interest in the topic, not necessarily what’s going to go to how the entire… Like, what a voting population, what you can rely on as accurate of the town at large. Okay. Yeah. So we can also ask more questions here. I think it’s probably time to- Well,

1:32:55 the second part of my- Oh, sorry … is a comment. I think one of the things that all this data is useful for is to shape how we think about the project and how we evaluate it. So question three to me is very actionable because it’s basically a set of prioritized criteria that we can use when we evaluate the proposals that come in. And what’s interesting is, as Aaron highlighted, the ones over 50% were fits the neighborhood, the other one was senior designation and affordable, and the third criteria was open space. Okay? So I just want to- Yeah … highlight that. I was actually surprised that that came up so high. But question three, I think, is very useful when we- Yeah … kind of structure the criteria. Okay. Let’s move on. Everyone good? Good. All right. So we are moving on to some consent agenda items. So I motion to approve the following consent agenda items subject to the usual rules, regulations, minutes, fees, receipt, required certificate of insurance, minutes of August 26th and September 23rd, both of this year. Private drain connection between the town and 49 Public Street, as presented, and authorize Chair to sign on behalf of the board. So moved. Second. All in favor? Harbor and waters. We have a gift to the town. Seth, I’d love you to explain what that is. Sure. So, we’re dealing with a derelict vessel. So it’s a vessel that’s in the harbor, tied up.

1:34:28 I think it has a number of issues. The owner has advised our harbormaster that he’s unable to make arrangements for the boat or pay for its removal. So what was worked out was that the owner has title to the vessel and has said he’s willing to donate the boat to the town, and then the town can surplus the boat and recoup whatever costs that maybe it’s owed in order to remove the boat and whatever the hazard that boat’s causing in there. We worked with Mass Environmental Police, who’s also been involved in the matter. And I laid out in the memo that there are a number of options on how to deal with a derelict boat such as this, and I won’t go through them all, but if from the harbormaster, and we’ve also had our legal counsel review this, the best option that we have found is to have the boat owner donate it to the town. We accept it as a gift. That’s what the action is. And then we’ll put it on the surplus list and surplus it out. Where is it now? The- I’m not quite sure where the– whether it’s- Because it’s from Amesbury, so We have a different harbor. Merrimack River. Right. Yeah, it’s in Merrimack. I didn’t get the title. Yeah.

1:35:59 So, I- I’m an Air Force guy. Yeah. A tough guy. That’s right. Fair enough. Yeah. Does Mark know if the gift and deed has any value? My concern is, okay, if it has some value and it pays for the cost of, say, disposing of it and whatever costs… The fear I have is if it has no value and we spend some money. I realize we have to spend some money because it’s a hazard to navigation, it seems. But it just rubs me the wrong way that it has to go about that way if it has no value. It’s actually costing us money. And I hate… In my neighborhood association, we manage this all the time. We have boat storage. Yeah. And someone has a vessel they no longer want, and it ends up staying there. They move and they don’t care. And I would just hate for this to repeat itself. And- Okay … I’m sure they’ve run this aground, and we got to get it out, but- Yeah. Based on the conversation I had with Mark Souza on this, this was the best option. Yeah. In that the other options is we put a lien on the boat- Yeah … on the individual, which that’s never going to get covered. Then all these other options are going to cost in some form or fashion. At least on this option, we have an opportunity- I don’t know what the boat will be worth, it is. It’s still floating. It’s worth something, right?

1:37:31 Maybe not. If I had known- You can say maybe- Yeah, maybe- An old saying That’s why I’m asking. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it’s a lot of money to go in the bracker. Yeah. Yeah. It’s… We’re getting our chance now. Hold on, guys. Guys, thank you. Yeah. I appreciate the comments but- Yeah, this is not- It seems like we have no choice, is what I’m reading from the other options. It’s going to cost us money no matter how we go at it, to get rid of the- Yeah … and if it sinks, it’s going to cost us more money. And this is not the boat that was involved in Mashomack against the island. Yeah. The surf hustle, the way we surf hustle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is, but I… Yeah. If I could have a motion to authorize the Town of Marblehead to barter the vessel known as the 30-foot Pearson Debonair, more particularly described in the Purchase and Sale Agreement on the terms set forth therein, to authorize Town Administrator through Executive to execute the purchased Sale Agreement and any other documents necessary to complete the transfer of title to the town, and to authorize the appropriate town officials to arrange for the vessel’s removal and subsequent lawful disposition. So moved. Second. All in favor? All right. Next, we have one day liquor license for Rotary Club Marblehead Friends of Performing Arts. If I could have a motion to approve following application for one day liquor license, Rotary Club Marblehead, Abbot Hall, December 12th from 7:00 to 11:00 PM, Friends of Marblehead Performing Arts, King Cooper Mansion, November 12, 2026, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM, subject to the following conditions: Delivery of receipt by licensing authority required fee

1:39:04 of $50, delivery of receipt by licensing authority of proof that the alcohol will be purchased from authorized source, proof that the applicant can receive proper delivery, provide proper storage and disposal of alcohol, alcoholic beverages purchased all in accordance requirements of GLC 138, liquor liability insurance, no alcohol is allowed to remain on premises unattended overnight, alcohol will be purchased from North Shore Bartenders and Capie’s importing. So moved. Second? Second. Full vote. Mr. Greader? In favor. Ms. Frante? In favor. Mr. Zisson? I am going to vote this present, only because I’m a member of the rotary. Okay. Sure. Ms. Newton? In favor. Mr. Fox? In favor. Let’s see, we have three contracts. The first two are… Well, the first one we’ll deal with that contract 27-11, is being paid for out of Chapter 90. It is painting of traffic markings and line painting. It’s for up to three years, and it’s basically as it comes up for 55,000. So if I have motion to approve contract 27-11 for traffic markings between the town and Pro Finish Lines Corporation for 55,000. Authorized chair on behalf of the board. So moved. Second. All in favor? The second one is similar, Chapter 90, Vitumanous Concrete, supplying of it. And this is for up to five years. We have on here the price per ton, depending on the quantity

1:40:35 used, it’s a different price used, and it allows department public works to go and have them do it. If I could have a motion to award contract 27-19 to Vitumanous Concrete to Amorize Northeast Inc., an amount of $217,350 for up to a term of five years. Authorized chair to execute the contract on behalf of the board. So moved. Second. All in favor? Last one. Catherine, can you take this? Sure. This is the trash recycling collection curbside contract with Republic Services. So this is a five-year contract, so it exceeds the three-year threshold. And it has a rounded number amount of 1,400,000 estimated costs. It is a one-year cost breakdown. So that’s the first-year cost for the five-year contract. Okay. And we are approving this because it is an extended contract of 10 years. So it exceeds the three years- Yeah … so the select board has to approve, and then… And actually, I had a conversation with the town accountant as to whether this is on the board or the select board- Mm-hmm … where the authorization is. Having the board vote to approve this takes care of this contract,

1:42:07 and we’ll work on any other contracts that fall under health. The issue is which boards have the authority to enter into contracts and which ones don’t. Some do, some don’t, based on statutory language. So we’ll- And this, obviously, where the amount is 1.3, it’s not the total amount, because the total amount of the override was higher. So this is one section of it, for some people understanding that. Andrew, actually, if you can just explain that for people confused about the- Yeah … confusion we just passed with two of them. With the contracts. So curbside trash collection is, for this coming year, will be 621,308. The curbside collection of recycling will be 621,708. Yeah. There’s also the recycling costs of processing. So unlike just trash disposal, Republic will be doing all the processing. That is estimated at $312,500. And then we also have multiple weeks of curbside collection of leaf and grass. That’s a total of $96,000. So I guess my question, Andrew, right- Additional costs … so my question was, we passed a higher override for that. There’ll be another contract for the- Well, the base disposal contract, that will be coming to you- Okay … for approval. That’s what I just wanted to clarify, because there’s a big discrepancy in that number for people wondering what we’re doing with that money. Okay. So we’re just finalizing that contract over the next week, and we’ll bring that to you. And then that’ll come to us next. Okay. Great.

1:43:38 The motion I would put- Yes … is five years rather than 10. Okay. Yeah. Five-year contract. Okay So, and again, that’s over- We’re up to … we’re up to, and that is over the three years. That’s why- Right. The black one’s authorized by town meeting to go up to 10. That’s what that- Got you. That’s why this came- But this, this contract is five … this contract is five. Uh-huh. Any other questions, concerns? Great. Motion. Move. Could I have a motion that the board award contract number 26F26 for trash and recycling collection to Republic Services for the term of up to five years, with annual cost varying based on the services provided and applicable contract pricing, and authorize the chair to execute the contract on behalf of the board? So moved. Second. All right. All in favor? And we have one more, number 19. This is Division of Marine Fisheries. This is an announcement under, according to Chapter 130, Section 4074A, that Devereux, the Division of Marine Fisheries has re-examined the water at the Devereux and Tucker’s Beach, and this is classified as conditionally approved and in the closed to shellfishing status based on the season. As a result of the examination, the division has determined that the area now meets the established criterias for the harvest of shellfish, and has changed the status to open to shellfishing as of sunrise on October 3rd, 2026. Therefore below the defined areas open to harvest for shellfish

1:45:08 for direct human consumption. And it looks like the seasonal status change from October 3rd through April 30th of ‘27, and that is for Devereux and Tucker’s Beach, and we just need to announce it. Great. Moving on. Any announcements? Yes, Jimbo. Two brief ones, Jim. Yeah. I hit the Citizens Police Academy item one already. Item number two is we met with Detectives Gahan and Sweeney just two weeks ago, and a lot going on in Marblehead. A lot more than you would ever think. They’re very busy. In item number three, last week we went to the Essex County Correctional Facility in Middleton, and I didn’t know what to expect, but we went through two sally ports into the facility, into the yard, and what really amazed me is the sheriff came out and talked to us, and the budget for Middleton is the same size as our budget for the entire town. Almost $120 million to run that facility, and there’s a lot going on. Once you go in there, you can see it. But I was just shocked and, but anyhow, quite a facility, quite an operation. And I’ve never been inside a prison before. Hopefully, never again. But I’m surprised. Yeah. I am, yeah. Yeah, you should go. I open myself. Anyhow, that’s my

1:46:39 police academy update. Good one. I have one announcement. I just wanted to acknowledge and thank Officer Jeswanth Dinelli, also from Marblehead, and the response from the NEMLEC Stars to the high school. They immediately brought in these– They were very welcome, and it was a really great treat for the students at the high school. They were there for two or three days, the, sorry, the therapy dogs. There’s three of them, Derby, Sorre, and I forget the other one’s name. Ban? I forget. Yeah. But, anyway, and Officer Sean Sweeney… Sorry. The police were fantastic, and I have two students at the high school, and the support from adults, from the administration at the school department, We Are One Town, going to give a shout-out to the school administration, and Chief King, and all of the resources that they sent for grief counselors and, like I said, the NEMLEC Stars response was phenomenal. I do have one announcement. I’m not used to doing this. So as per our MOU with the Schools and Finance Committee, we will be doing our quarterly reporting next week, and the MOU requires that the town administrator and the superintendent report to the chairs. We will do that on Monday, and then

1:48:09 in turn, so you can put a board report at our following meeting on October 28th. Yeah. And Dan, will you cover the, in that report, both the town part and the school system? I think I will just cover the town part, and the schools will do their own report. Okay. But we will meet as a group as required by the MOU. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. All in favor? Great evening.

1:48:45 Good night.