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good evening everyone and welcome to Tuesday May 16th Plymouth select board would you please join us in the Pledge

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of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with

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liberty and justice for all thank you any everyone our first order

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of business will be um we have some new officers to swear in

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and it’s an absolute pleasure to be part of it so we have Captain Higgins and

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oh my God Captain manual I couldn’t like yikes

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Captain Higgins

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good evening my name is Jason Higgins I’m a captain with the Plymouth Police on behalf of Chief Dana Flynn I’d like

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to introduce the three newest members of this department these officers graduated from the Randolph Police Academy this past

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Thursday and have just started an intensive training program at the PPD I hope that you will wish these officers a

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long safe and rewarding career here we go officer Dylan Ralph Dylan has lived in

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Plymouth for almost two decades he grew up and lives in manomet officer Ralph select woman cavako and this Captain all

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realize that Management’s probably the coolest place on the planet it is Officer graduated from rising tide

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charter school he’s an avid basketball player and is interested in just about anything sports related Dylan and his

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girlfriend just walked into a beautiful baby girl less than a month ago and everything that he does is for the two of them in his own words he’s extremely

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humbled to be serving this community as a police officer officer Connor Doyle Connor grew up in Duxbury he was

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disappointed he didn’t grow up in Plymouth and he’s always wanted to be a police officer Connor is a Marine Corps

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veteran and has been deployed twice overseas he recently married and thanks his wife Megan for supporting him

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through this process in also Doyle’s own words it was my greatest honor to serve this country and his people now this is

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another great honor to serve the town of Plymouth I promise to do my very best every single day to make Plymouth safer

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also Liam Stone Liam is a graduate of the rising high school and is a family that believes in

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service in their Community he’s a graduate Anna Maria College he just started the Master’s reprogram in his

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own words he’s very excited to begin working for the town of Plymouth and he can’t wait to start serving this community Gentlemen The Command Staff

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from the police department welcomes you into this incredibly rewarding profession not necessarily rewarding the

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monetary sense but in the sense of accomplishment and pride you’ll have after the completion of every shift there’s nothing like responding to

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answering and handling the 911 unknown call you truly have entered into a noble

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profession I would ask our town clerk Kelly mcelry to come forward she will now administer the police officers oath

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of office

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thank you

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the Constitution of the United States in the constitution of the Commonwealth

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of Massachusetts and that I will fairly and equitably

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execute the laws thereof within the extent of my authority

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in jurisdiction so help me God I state your name

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do solemnly swear that I will that I will faithfully and impassionately

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discharge and perform all the duties and coming up upon me

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as a police officer for the town of Plymouth Police Department

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and I will obey and be bound by by such rules and regulations

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has now are or maybe from time to time

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established for the government of the town of Plymouth Police Department

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so help me God one last paragraph I state your name

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hereby accept the position a police officer

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in and for the town of Plymouth Police Department of the town of

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Plymouth congratulations

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thank you madam John clerk now that the oath is complete the officers need their badge it’s a badge that signifies them

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as peace officers officers that are committed to serve this community officers that will enforce our laws

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fairly and equitably officers that are committed to run towards danger in whatever form it takes I would ask Megan

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mccourtney and Lisa to step forward

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officer Ralph will be pinned by his girlfriend Courtney bull officer Doyle will be pinned by his wife Megan officer

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Stone will be pinned by his very proud mother Lisa Stone

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it’s okay to give him a hug a gentlemen

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foreign

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did you get a Mrs Stone did you get him officers do me a favor take one put towards me

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turn around and facial border select one please

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well it’s a very proud moment we always enjoy doing these kinds of things and unless

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um I know the board members do you have anything you’d like to say to These Fine Young gentlemen

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no with all that being said please be safe

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and thank you so much for your service you’re dismissed

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thank you

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there is

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we’ll just take a moment to let the room clear

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okay the next order of business is public comment

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up we have Mrs page Mr Weber

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Mr um Pinto

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Mr serkey and Mr Abbott you have a whole lineup a whole lineup yes and this and then this gentleman who

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I’m not sure who you are so okay okay Mrs cavaco at this your last meeting as

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a member of the select board I am here as president of the Plymouth retired employees Association Along with

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members of my board to Simply say thank you thank you for your service to the town

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of Plymouth oh okay I’m okay

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and also thank you for all that you have done for the

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retirees of Plymouth we want you to know how very much it is appreciated by all the retirees

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thank you again it’s my pleasure Mrs page

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Mr Weber

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thank you madam chair and members of the board for the record my name is Dale Weber I’m the pairing before you tonight

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as the president of the collective bargaining relief association with the acronym of Cobra

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to follow two pages recognition for you madam

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chair we have presented and we will present and we have

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put together a what we refer to as a dust collector but

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I know that there will be no dust on this in your house because there is no dust and your dust would never dare to

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go to Betty cabaco’s home so anyway this is a plaque and it’s awarded to Betty

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kovacco in recognition for your service to the town of Plymouth the collective bargaining relief Association honors you

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your integrity effective communication thoughtful decisions resilience during

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difficult times understanding of different perspectives empathy and collaboration are an

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inspiration to all These Fine leadership qualities and your steadfast efforts bring honor to you

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to us and to all those living and working in America’s Hometown this is awarded the

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16th day of May 2023 and it is signed by the table offices of cobra with with us

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tonight are many members of Cobra and the different groups they’re not planning on speaking but you

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know that my comments are echoed by them also president vice president Butch

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Machado former select board member Machado is here tonight and he has the

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actual plaque uh for presentation to you and uh he’s approaching you now uh with

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that

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oh come on Dale come on up here we’re gonna if you don’t mind I would

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like to get a couple of shots for our monthly newsletter Betty

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thank you for everything you’ve done for us continue to do thank you and if you

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can hold this plaque let her get it I’ll get behind you guys

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hold on one minute I’ll wait there hold on one more Dickie please come down

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because this last round of negotiations and for all the ones you’ve done I’d like to have you in this picture too for

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our monthly newsletter done plenty for everybody in this town they’re a generous man

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foreign

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good evening everyone Tom Pinto continue to spread the love here Betty um so tonight I’m here to speak as the

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president of the Education Association of Plymouth Carver and the spokesperson for the Coalition of employment

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employees many who are here today in support with me is Laurie good evening Lori Enos I’m the vice

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president of the Plymouth Association of teachers so uh I’m pleased to be here to

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celebrate and I thank the chair Betty for the all she’s given to the town of Plymouth and the employees of Plymouth

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Betty’s had a tremendous impact on her Town she’s given countless hours of service promoting many wonderful causes

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Winterfest White Horse beats to name a few under Betty’s leadership we always knew we had a strong supporter of Plymouth

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employees she cared about the town and the employees that worked for it recently we

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were able to create a six-year health insurance agreement to help Mr Quinto an accomplishment that’s ever been done in

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the town of Plymouth on behalf of the Education Association of Plymouth Carver we want to thank you

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and present you with a beach bag in hopes that you’ll spend more time

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with your family and more time this summer at White Horse Beach thank you buddy

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thank you

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foreign

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I didn’t bring Kleenex I’m not supposed to be getting emotional I need a Kleenex

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if anybody has any out there um but I think that

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some of the things that people don’t realize is that this was a true pleasure for me I I loved representing our town

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one of the biggest things that I am going to miss is my interaction

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with everyone and especially this board despite what

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people may or may not think we we get along very well we respect

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each other very well although we may not agree on things

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I’m really going to miss this being with them I love teasing John

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about his time machine you know um I I think I’m just gonna have to call

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him and do that on a regular basis and I have to say that in my experience as

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serving for six years on this board this is the best board Plymouth has ever had we have really literally moved mountains

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not only for our residents but for our employees and our retirees and that’s

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important to all of us um so I

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thank you all so much for allowing me to be your representative and honestly it

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truly was a pleasure I am looking forward to spending some a little bit more time with my family I did put my

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name into b-town meeting member because I don’t think I could go cold turkey so

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um and I’m in I’m I’m really looking forward to that ability to be sitting

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out in the audience with you folks the next time so uh like I said I I really appreciate

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everything all of our relationships that we have built um they they are not going to go away

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because I’m not in office so and if there’s anything out there that anyone ever needs they know that they can reach

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out and and ask me to help them and I will certainly be there for them so

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thank you so much foreign

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good evening Rich serkey Precinct 2 town meeting member

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last week during public comment I explained why Ms cavaco’s April 24th

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letter to Pine barons threatening not to extend Pine Barron’s

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quote-unquote five-year lease of 158 Center Hill Road

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was both legally unsupportable and politically motivated

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at that time I assumed as did everyone else that the lease would indeed expire at

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the end of Five Years on July 31 2024

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but afterwards just to be sure I made it my business to get a copy of

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the lease to confirm that it would indeed terminate at the end of five

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years what I found was astounding

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on the very first page of the lease there’s a provision giving Pine Barrens

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the option at its election to extend the five-year term

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for two additional five-year periods that means that the town will have no

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right to refuse to extend the lease after five years

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and no right to refuse to extend the lease after 10 years if Pine Barons

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exercises its option to extend thus

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Mr cavaco’s letter was not only legally unsupportable and politically motivated

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it was factually unsupportable too I would like any other board members who

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voted in favor of sending this letter to raise his hand

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one what kind of a person sends out a letter like this

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until I measured Ms cavaco’s letter against the terms of the lease

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I had under underestimated the depth of her venality my eyes are

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wide open now as are the eyes of the townspeople

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Mr Cirque I hate to inform you that every single board member knew that letter was going out and voted for that

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so I understand that you’re a zoning attorney you might want to stick to that

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and let our Municipal attorneys do what they need to do because that letter is

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not being retracted that letter States if you continue reading that it’s through the approval of the board that

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that first five year and second year would would be approved by the board to

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whether it moves forward it’s the unilateral right of the tenant to extend

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not once but twice with the permission of the board so where this is yes it is

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Mr Abbott

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thank you madam chair last week at your meeting David golden

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an opponent of the charter stated that I was not entirely accurate

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on a particular Charter fact during the recent debate his statement was misleading and because

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it’s he’s spreading this misinformation on social media I want to set the record

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straight and be sure that Plymouth voters know the whole truth the statutory Charter process requires

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that the charter commission submitted to the Attorney General of preliminary draft of the charter honor before a fixed date which in our

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case was September 15th last year we did that and our preliminary draft contained

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every change in the organizational structure and offices of town officials and division of authority among Town

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officials of the town government every change including the expansion of the select Board of seven members

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three of which are district members the election of the moderator by the town meeting and importantly the preliminary draft

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had a note at the beginning of chapter nine the transition chapter which read as follows

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transition Provisions may be revised or expanded as the charter commission completes its deliberations

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the Attorney General then at four weeks to issue a written opinion citing any conflict between the proposed Charter

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and the constitutional laws of the state she issued an opinion that there was no

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such conflict the only items later put into the final report

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were the transition provisions and minor non-substantive edits

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the commission submitted the final report to this board on November 15 2022.

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in order to remove any doubts regarding the legality of shortening the terms of the moderator

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and the select word members I asked our commission counsel at Anderson and Krieger to give us his

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legal opinion he responded as follows your best argument which shows the

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virtue of being the correct is it the dissolution of existing boards in the shortening of the terms of office

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to which offices were previously elected is a power held by the legislature and

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is there for one that can be exercised by a town in the adoption or amendment of a charter

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and since Mr Goldman’s statement mentioned the Attorney General I asked our commission Council to comment on the

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process that we followed here which is a common process of a charter commission adding

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transition Provisions near the end of the work which would be frequently after the Attorney General had rendered its

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opinion on the charter at the preliminary report our commission’s Council sent me an

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email just this last Friday May 12th reading as follows

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I’m quoting I spoke to Kelly gunnigan how she was the Assistant Attorney General

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in Boston who reviewed the Plymouth Charter I spoke to Kelly gunnigan

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at the Attorney General’s office about this yesterday and that would have been last Thursday May 11th

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and she made two important points first she had no concerns about changes

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to the draft Charter they were not in the preliminary report which is the version reviewed by the

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AG’s office that were included in the final report which the AG’s office does not review

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second while she’s not immediately recall an example of a charter amendment that

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curtailed the terms of certain officers in quite this way she noted that every Charter in which a

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town has adopted a city form of government Braintree being the most recent the tenure of office is elected

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are eliminated the offices that are then in office are eliminated as they move from a town to a city

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there are many other examples I don’t see any material difference between say abolishing the select board

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in favor of a manager Council form of government and reorganizing his select board with a new election structure is

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the Plymouth Charter commission has done Mr Abbott your three minutes is up do

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you how much more time do you need pardon me your three minutes is up how much more time do you need another

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45 seconds

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in either case the town has the power to end the tenure of existing officers and start fresh

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with a new elected board bottom line

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it’s the opinion of our commission legal counsel that our Charter is legal in all respects Mr Golden statement was

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incomplete and therefore was misleading thank you

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well unfortunately Mr Golden isn’t here to defend his actions

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which I believe wholeheartedly thank you thank you

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please state your name for the record sure Dan Bell

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nine steps in court and I am ending my

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first and only term as a town meeting member and I figured I’d come up just to

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let everybody know why I’m choosing to to not continue

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um but it’s kind of obvious tonight Betty thank you for uh for the years of

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service to all you guys it’s uh it’s not easy to come up and get sand

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kicked in your face on your last day um but I guess that’s part of it anyways

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um things have changed in my life and I

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uh I’m not going to make time to be a town meeting member but there’s a few

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reasons why and um I see Pat is here that our chair

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she did a great job and I really liked working with her but it’s the overall

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feeling that it just does not make an impact

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one of the main reasons is that ninety percent of the votes or more just follow

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the fincom recommendation there’s a lot of housekeeping that gets

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thrown out onto you know into the meeting that is is like does this really

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need debate you know I mean look at the last town meeting where we spent 45

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minutes I think debating a thirty thousand dollar appropriation that was

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actually already appropriated the bills just didn’t get paid um

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I I did the math I did math on that one and I figured okay it’s a 250 million

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dollar Town budget I think I’m right with that number thereabouts and thirty thousand dollars that equals

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as far as my household budget I’d be debating on whether I wanted to pay a three dollar bill

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so I I don’t know I I was just like this is this is a little bit

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a little bit ridiculous um you know I don’t want to be all negative some of the things that were

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really good is that suddenly as a town meeting member I started getting emails about committee meetings and different

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activities that were associated with the town because my my name was on the uh on

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the master sheet which was great um

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so yeah the the whole opportunity to speak on the floor too if something

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doesn’t isn’t going to go your way like uh at the the special town meeting

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um unfortunately I couldn’t log into that that was my first meeting and um

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being a hybrid I had a computer issue but

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um you know I come from a background of of media I used to work with Pac TV I

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worked with sandwich Community television all as a government uh meeting coordinator

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and one of the meetings I did was up in Kingston and there was one meeting there

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that Ali dimasito turned vote just by selling his point and he he I don’t even

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think he was a representative Beyond a member um and I don’t know maybe Kingston

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doesn’t even have a member I can’t tell you whether they’re a representative town meeting or whether

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it’s just citizens but he turned the vote and actually got his argument bought

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um and that’s a great thing that’s a great benefit to town meeting so um but

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that’s all something that could be done ahead of time a lot of town meeting members seem to

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come in and just make their argument there on the spot at the moment

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without scheduling the time to speak with the moderator up

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beforehand um so with those Reasons I’m pretty much

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out the the final nail in the coffin really though is I think there’s inadequate security

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at town meeting I would have liked to seen metal detectors this is a violent Society

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we’re living in and I I don’t really feel like I want to be

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sitting there for six hours in a meeting that people can come and go

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so for those Reasons I’m out thank you all for for doing what you do

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thank you good all bogged down uh probably are going to Precinct 2 much

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more peaceful side of the precinct than the previous member that spoke um also on the thing on the charter our

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employer are going to vote no it’s a shamshatter but aside from that Betty uh we got blogged down here thank you very

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much for what you did for the town of Plymouth the employees and on behalf of the Plymouth firefighters thank you

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thank you Brian um Betty we love you thank you

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Steve Lyden there’s an old saying that if you give six attorneys an issue

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you’ll get six different answers so now we have to pick on which you want you want Mr Abbott you want Mr Golden’s

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uh personally I’m going Mr Golden because um the childhood to me is something that

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never should have been done Mr Abbott says they have the power to change my

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vote for the moderator and selectment you want people to vote you tell them

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get out and vote now you’re telling me my vote doesn’t really matter because we can have a group a child a commission to

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change it what the hell did I vote for you know it doesn’t make sense it’s yeah

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they have the they have the power but they didn’t have the right to do that

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thank you anyone else Anthony no no public comment

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okay so now we’ll go on to the next order of business uh license and administrative notes

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if we could um have a motion to move the group

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if any unless anyone has any questions

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motion to move as a group second motion to move by Mr Helms seconded by

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Mr Mahoney discussion all those in favor

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I’m sorry discussion

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I’m sorry I’m sorry um all those in favor

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roll call Mr Helm yes Mr Mahoney yes Mr quintal yes and myself yes Charlie

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oh what about Mr blood I’m sorry

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okay thank you and it’s unanimous

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now next is the proposed or reorganization phase three by Mr

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brandisi

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okay I’m gonna do this from this seat because I don’t like having my back turned towards the audience

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Anthony can we bring that slide back up there we go okay so um this is the phase

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three the last and final proposed reorganization

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um as you know uh last week we covered the police department in the harbor Master’s office

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um so today’s discussion is focused primarily on the what is now the

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Community Resources department and what is also inspectional services department so like I had done last week I I’m I’m

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showing you the table of organization expanded within those departments so you can see which divisions fall under those

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various abandonments so this is what we’re proposing today

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now this is going to be a work in progress because in summary what I’m proposing is to take the framework of

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the Community Resources department and move that to a Health and Human Services Mission oriented Department

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and so some may ask why and so from the memo I had provided the board just some quick facts that we were

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able to lift from the community health needs assessment that was conducted by bid Hospital

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45 of Plymouth residents state of air using more substances than prior to the pandemic

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35 of Plymouth residents stated that they have had 15 or more

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poor mental health days in the past month 18 of survey respondents stated they would like their Community to have

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better access to healthy food 25 of Plymouth residents are worried about their ability to purchase groceries in

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the coming weeks the percentage of adult obesity was

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higher in Plymouth than the Statewide average and lasts 44 percent of survey respondents stated the need for more

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affordable housing so the data I provide is just a snapshot

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of the Varian Community needs that we’re starting to experience here in Plymouth and this department

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again is focus on being a responsive organization to those varying needs

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as you all know Barry de Blasio retired back in April We have replaced Mr de

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Blasio with an interim director his name is James Gardner he served

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for the city of Worcester as the Health and Human Services commissioner for a number of years he has since retire in

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this final retirement home in on the cape he is going to help us transform this organization into the health and

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human services department you can see we have a very strong framework that already exists with um

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our Center for active living our library our Recreation Division and our veterans

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division and then we also support the disabilities office

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all the items we want to consider as we move towards this organization is moving

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the health division which is now an inspectual Services over to this new form department and then also

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considering creating a Human Rights Commission as well that’s something that would be under

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consideration we would certainly work with the committee on no place for hate a Human Rights Commission is is the next

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step up from a no place for hate committee so it’s something we want to explore a little bit further we’d also

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like to explore the possibility of creating a working with a youth

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commission which was created not that long ago and seeing what we can do around supporting our youth working for

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the schools as well so again this is going to be a work in progress over the next three to six

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months and it’s something that I expect to bring back to the board once it’s final

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any questions from Mr brandisi nope

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and do I have a motion

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second motion by Mr Mahoney seconded by Mr helm

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discussion all those in favor Mr bletzer

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I I I’m in favor yes Mr Mahoney Mr Helm yes Mr quintal yes and myself

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yes it’s unanimous thank you I just wanted to go back to one of the odd administrative notes

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quickly um the the candidate for the retirement

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Plymouth Retirement Board is here so I just wanted to recognize the board will vote to appoint Sharon LaRosa to the

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Plymouth Retirement Board effective immediately for a term to expire June 30th 2026.

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so we already voted in congratulations you’re going to have a lot of fun on the

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Retirement Board I’m sure especially with the gentleman sitting next to you

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so congratulations and thank you for your service so the next order oh

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you’re welcome you’re welcome uh so one of the things that

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um I thought was important that Mr brandisi put on his uh or had us put on

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the agenda was the FY 23 selectman board goals and priorities uh year in review

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presentation and once you see it I’m I’m thrilled that this board was able to

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accomplish so much and so little time

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great so while yep no rush Anthony so while Anthony teased up that presentation I just want to go back and

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just spend a few minutes talking about the three different phases we went through for reorganization and so I like

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to say to folks is that what we’re really trying to become is more flexible more accountable and then more

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responsive to community needs you know when we think about flexibility

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oftentimes you know we have to we’re a regulatory agency in some respect and so you know we have to enforce laws

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statutes and things of that nature but you know sometimes things aren’t always black and white and so what we’re trying

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to get across the spectrum of all of our different departments is to be more flexible and to work with businesses

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work with our residents and try to find a way to yes and then accountable

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we are accountable to the board of Selectmen we are accountable to town

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meeting members but most importantly we’re accountable to our residents and so accountability I think is something

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that we are really trying to impress upon from our front line staff all the way up to our administrators

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and then last as I touched upon with the health and human services presentations just to be more responsive

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responsive to the Ebbs and flows of of what’s Happening daily but be more

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responsive to the evolution of town government and what’s happening in our community

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we can no longer continue to do business like they have in 2000 in 2010 and even

41:52

2015. so having that flexibility and that accountability and that responsiveness I think

41:59

these reorganizations will get us moving in that direction and so now that our presentation’s up

42:05

let’s do a year in review Anthony did you play the music for the

42:11

Yen review all right so again as the as the Chia

42:18

pointed out we went through a process last year let’s bring everybody back to about 12 months ago we worked with all

42:25

of our departments and our division heads we engage them we have conversations around creating goals and

42:32

priorities setting benchmarks so that we can measure ourselves for success in the year we then brought that information

42:39

back to the board the board reviewed it there are items that the board removed

42:46

there are items that the board added and so that set when it was these goals and

42:51

priorities so normally we probably would want to do this in the June time period but give in

42:59

everything that’s going on with the chairs last meeting we thought it’s best to kind of talk about the things we’re

43:04

able to accomplish these past 12 months so this slide deck so this slide right here is just kind of it’s going to give

43:10

you an overview of how this thing is organized so if you see a green check mark that means we’ve completed it

43:18

if you see this blue check mark That’s halfway complete it means it’s in

43:23

progress and then there’s this blue plus mock

43:29

that those are items that were not on

43:35

that when not on this document so as you all know every Tuesday night

43:41

at the end of the meeting board members are hearing their constituent concerns

43:46

day in and day out and so oftentimes we get asked or tasked with following up on

43:53

some of these items so um we had to be responsive to those requests and so this this blue plus Mark

44:00

represents all the things that were added on during the course of the year and and I have to say we’re probably

44:05

missing a lot here but these are the items that we’re able to capture with this presentation and thank you Anthony for putting this presentation together

44:13

so I’m going to try not to read everything and go through everything uh because this honestly could probably

44:18

take me an over an hour so but I’m not going to do that to everybody but as you remember one of our buckets or domain

44:26

areas was to ensure a safe and healthy community and so you see in the top these are the things that we’re able to

44:32

complete so we know when we talked about last week we’re moving our Dispatch Center over to the Sheriff’s Department

44:38

that’ll create for a more responsive more efficient 9-1-1 system under the chief’s leadership we’ve

44:45

expanded the SRO program we’ve actually expanded that in a sense that not only

44:51

having offices but able to on them in such a way to protect our students the fire chief just presented a few

44:57

weeks back the fire operation study has been complete now we’re going to move that next year into implementation

45:04

this is a big one the Asian dementia friendly Community designation this is going to take us years but under the

45:10

leadership of Select man Helm who’s chairing this committee over at the Cal and in the leadership of Michelle Brady

45:16

we know we’ll get there in the next year or so the police body One camera program we’ve

45:22

done everything but appropriate sum of money so our policy is a complete working with the unions has been

45:28

completed we plan to move within the next two months to an appropriation of

45:34

Opera dollars we hope in order to buy the body worn cameras and then we would

45:39

then move to a complete implementation by September 1st and to identify engaged community at

45:45

risk populations I mean this is really what Health and Human Services all about so you know we’re starting that

45:51

conversation today and then we’ll move forward in FY 24 with doing our own

45:56

assessment the full day summer camp where’s our rec director she would say I was working on

46:02

this but we hit a roadblock when we were trying to think about Hedges

46:08

Pond as a place to have a full day summer camp as you know we’ve run into a roadblock with some of the structures

46:13

out of there so once we remove those structures we’ll then go ahead and revisit this goal again but uh we were

46:19

moving quickly on this one identify blight properties so this is

46:25

something that the through the the commission of inspectional services working with the Attorney General’s

46:31

office we’ve been able to identify a number of light properties and get them into compliance the next step now with

46:37

the commissioner and he’s actively working on developing a nuisance bylaw

46:42

that we will take to Utah meeting so again we’re halfway there we’re not fully there so it’s a work in progress

46:48

but we are making strong progress in that respect so these are some of the add-ons during

46:54

this this um this past year that we have a confident dog program that’s working with a second clinician

47:01

so remember last year we had one mental health clinician I was working with LPD now we have a second one and we have a

47:08

comfort dog who also goes out with our clinician as well land Acquisitions and infrastructure

47:15

improvements so again we worked with 80 make piece they

47:20

donated to a capacity land for this land acquisition this will help us identify

47:25

the best location to and yes I come to construct a new fire station down in

47:31

South Plymouth ensuring the safety of emergency housing residents so in short that was the

47:37

town’s response to the migrant issue that transpired this past fall that took

47:44

a lot of time a lot of energy no one could have predicted it but a number of our departments came together

47:50

to respond in such a great fashion

47:55

Sheltering team was developed by our Emergency Management director we’ve never had a Sheltering team but this

48:01

came out of a meeting we held down at the EOC where we realized that we need

48:07

volunteers whether it’s for a cooling center or for a warming shelter

48:13

during the winter time period so that was created and then as you know through time meeting support we were able to

48:19

pass the um the bylaw to create an elderly and disabled tax assistance committee which

48:27

is actively working in implementing this new program again all new add-ons during the course

48:32

of this past year so financial planning

48:38

I miss one so financial planning so working with

48:44

our federal and state partners uh we um

48:50

secured a number of financial Air Max Stadium Max the finance director created a 10-year

48:57

Capital Improvement plan which was we’ve never had a 10-year Capital Improvement plan now we can look out 10 years to see what our needs will be

49:04

um although we look at them they’re at a large so then we then have to go ahead and move forward and create a financial

49:10

plan around some of these Capital needs such as a Facilities Management plan working with a finance director and

49:17

assistant time manager we’ve come up with a couple different creative ideas that fund the facilities management program but still that’s a work in

49:24

progress um the so we’ve had a financial

49:29

forecasting tool in years past we’re actually taking that upon and putting it back together so that it can be a little

49:36

bit more useful so that we can predict our revenues and predict our expenses for a town meeting and years to come

49:44

we were able to sell the board back in June made a commitment to town meeting that they would sell any of our

49:50

underutilized properties so there’s just about a month ago we were able to sell the property at South Mentor Road we’re

49:57

actively trying to dispose of the old fire station in North Plymouth and I think we’re going to hold on to Long

50:02

Pond Road for some time um Grant Awards so this is just a

50:08

snapshot of some of the grant Awards so about six and a half million dollars in Grant Awards um this year alone we’ve already applied

50:15

for 25 million dollars in Grants um this 6.4 million dollars does not represent the grants that we had

50:22

received prior to uh to achieving this goal for example the 25 million omnicore

50:28

project that’s coming to the town the next year or so another add-on was this opeb liability

50:34

analysis so now that we have this new PEC we’ve submitted this new pc agreement to the actuaries who are now

50:42

looking at that and will rate that against our open liability we’re predicting that a liability uh may we

50:48

may see a dip in our liability because of the new PEC agreement

50:54

so communicate and engage with the public so this is a heavy on technology

50:59

so we rolled out two weeks ago the new C Quick Fix program which is being heavily

51:04

utilized by our community right now a new website was created

51:10

a lot of new enhancements to our customer service experience at town hall for example our kiosk which you can find

51:16

in the two different lobbies that help folks navigate their way through town hall

51:21

there’s been other changes in how we deliver our customer service experience we have a help desk on the on the main

51:29

floor here and our treasure collector’s office has changed how they give out Beach stickers and transfer station

51:35

stickers to be more accommodating to all of our citizens um this and then the developers how my

51:42

communications plan as you know that’s a that’s a big one for me we’ve been able to not complete the communications plan

51:50

but you know we’ve we’ve created different modes of delivering that

51:55

message whether that’s social media through Pat TV engaging the local print

52:00

media and just to try to get the proper message out improve the online bill notification

52:06

payment tool again a work in progress but for two years in a row we we know we’ve been getting complaints from folks

52:12

saying they haven’t received their bills so we’ve created a new online tool where

52:17

folks can sign up and then they’ll get their bills electronically versus having to wait for the mail

52:23

so again that’s a work in progress we haven’t totally rolled that one out just yet the phone system we all can agree is

52:29

a problem I often get phone calls from board members and others saying we can’t get through to such and such department

52:34

so we’re actively trying to figure that out in some of our offices I saw the

52:40

town clerk she’s already created what’s that system we’re bounces

52:47

the hunt uh changed the the system to a hunt group so instead of calling one line directly it bounces to all the

52:54

phone lines so anyone somebody’s not at the desk somebody else can pick it up that wasn’t in place a year ago so just

53:00

trying to think about other ways to be more accommodating to those Folks at a call in town hall

53:06

and just just just generally technology upgrades the Sherlock room the Atlantic room has technology upgrades the Great

53:12

Hall this room here has new technology to try to create the the customer

53:18

service experience a little bit better and then just creating uh For Us hybrid town meeting and using owls to help us

53:25

with some of our hybrid meetings

53:30

I talked to already about engaging local and Regional media Outlets um

53:36

the town email I think one of the folks under public comments spoke

53:42

today about one thing he really appreciated was getting more and more information coming out of town hall that

53:48

was enhancing our email listeners and a lot of the great work Anthony did just pushing information through those

53:53

listeners social media archiving something that we created this past year and then you know

54:00

new accounts Instagram LinkedIn all different social media platforms

54:07

that didn’t exist just even a year ago again trying to find people and meet them where they’re at

54:14

so we all can agree that this is something that you know we really want to do more and more on really focusing

54:19

on economic development and really working with our business sector we have a task force that’s been created

54:25

they’ve met a few times this past year that will continue to think of policies around Economic Development the open gov

54:33

which Nick Mayo was here two weeks ago in the e-premitting system really enhances

54:39

our contractors and how they can do business here at town hall and then creating this this One-Stop shop program

54:46

for Town permitting so now you don’t have to drive around town all around town to apply for a building permit you

54:53

can come to town hall you can meet with the fire prevention office the building inspector the wiring sector the plumbing

54:59

inspector all in one office you don’t have to go down to fire headquarters to have these same conversations so again

55:05

trying to make it a little more efficient a little bit easier for folks to do business here in town

55:10

we had a led by the economic development foundation and the Department of

55:17

Environmental Affairs we supported the blue economy conference uh and and want

55:23

to work with our fishermen and locksmen and others around blue economy knowing that we think this is going to be one of

55:29

our big items in the future we passed two bylaws last fall around

55:36

zoning to help enhance Economic Development here in town digital records is probably going to be

55:42

a five-year project but we receive funding in the fall of public records access officer is a process of

55:49

digitizing all of our records so that it’ll be easy to go online you click on one parcel and it’ll give you ever it’ll

55:55

link every public document will be linked to that that parcel through this

56:00

digitizing program and so again trying to support the downtown master plan hasn’t gone

56:07

underway just yet but Merchant Association is now up and running still need work to do in the facade

56:14

Improvement program and some of our daily maintenance downtown so a little bit more work has to get done on that

56:19

end but the merchant Association is live and vibrant graffiti task force this came as a

56:26

request through I believe it was select when Quinto asked us to pull together our graffiti

56:33

task force we have the task force together it’s made it’s a multi-disciplinary task force looking at

56:38

ways to try to address graffiti in our community and then I’m happy to report as of last

56:44

week we think we have our locksmen and our fishermen are all on board the American Cruise Lines is on board so we

56:52

are actually working out a pilot program for this August with three stops with the American cruise line so again

56:58

nothing we could have predicted a year ago but something that came to us and we took full advantage of it was a lot of

57:03

work working with our lops cement on that to make sure everybody was satisfied with the cruise line when they tie up

57:13

all right improved Town infrastructure and protect the environment so Cemetery

57:19

Land was a big issue last year we now know where we can build a cemetery we

57:24

have funds appropriated for a cemetery website designing the cemetery so more to come on that but we were able to

57:30

check that one off but again some more work to do them in that vein we were able to achieve the Green

57:36

community designation um by our climate resiliency planner

57:43

Patrick Farah and others came together working with the cans committee on that

57:48

in the Green community community as well I think we have how many vehicles now electric vehicles six six vehicles and

57:55

now electric vehicles we’re planning on purchasing another four vehicles in FY

58:01

24 so those Vehicles again we’ve received a lot of positive feedback

58:07

in that front a tracking program for septic systems just came directly from

58:12

public health so again this is something that as you all know it’s a big problem septic systems down the cape is trying

58:20

to creep its way up into the Plymouth area so we’re starting to folk a lot of focus a lot of our energy around how we

58:25

deal with um septic contamination

58:32

our climate resiliency plan is now actively engaged on a climate action plan that’s going to take at least a

58:38

year after two years to complete but that’s already started the wastewater treatment plant needs and upgrades have

58:44

been identified so that’s both at our main wastewater treatment plant and our treatment plan over at the airport as

58:51

well so upgrades will commence in the very near future I would say within the next two to three months

58:58

um so identify future water sources and water quality betterments this was one

59:04

that I was really hoping that we you know last year we were actively engaged with a number of landowners around

59:11

acquiring land for future water sources is this going to take longer than I thought you know probably a couple more

59:17

years you know but I’m hopeful that in the next two to three years we’ll have identified at least five passes of land

59:23

that we can build wells in so really trying to secure our water our water sources for any upwards of 50 to 75

59:31

years once we complete this project um and then again something that

59:36

we didn’t predict but we have a problem with from capacity in West Plymouth as

59:41

far as water and we were able to work out an agreement with Claremont they’re going to build a booster station so we

59:47

don’t have a a water deficit as much as we have a problem moving water from one part of town to the other part and that’s what the booster station is going

59:53

to do for us so again didn’t predict this problem is going to come up but another leadership of that DPW director

59:59

was in the back there we were able to to finalize this agreement

1:00:07

um The Sims house task force came together they um came they brought after convening for a better part of three

1:00:13

months they delivered a set of recommendations to the select board one of those was the

1:00:18

issue in RFP on the on the disposition of Sims house so again not predicted

1:00:24

something we pulled together last minute and able to complete that project a lot

1:00:29

of conversations last summer about all of our packs and our beaches so White Horse Beach parking we were able to

1:00:36

issue an RFP we were able to get an organization to provide

1:00:43

enforcement down there I think we spent about forty thousand dollars for the

1:00:49

contractor brought in about fifty thousand dollars worth of Revenue so I’d say that was a success and then now we have a new portable

1:00:55

restroom we piloted that last September that portable restroom was now over on Taylor Ave and will be used this entire

1:01:02

summer Allerton Street improvements again something else we had to respond to

1:01:07

Neighborhood needs we expect to see the Allerton Street Park improvements completed in the next month or two

1:01:15

more impact traffic plan and and how we kind of manage the beachgoers in Warren

1:01:23

Park this summer we’re able to come up with a set of recommendations for that based upon again neighborhood needs

1:01:30

I mentioned a little bit of a Hedges Pond earlier Hedges Pond we will tear down those buildings in the

1:01:37

next few months and hopefully get that back on on short order so that we can

1:01:42

really think about how we want to use Hedges upon in the future whether that be a summer camp a dog park or things of

1:01:49

that nature speaking of dog packs we have a dog park committee now again shared by slugman Helm looking exploring

1:01:56

a couple different options out there and I think there’s going to be a presentation the next couple weeks May

1:02:01

30th by selectman Helm around the future of dog parks here in town so again a lot

1:02:08

of Staff support with that committee as well the fog program was revised that’s

1:02:16

factual in Greece so uh it’s a a revision to the existing rules

1:02:21

and regulations we we recognize that we still had a number of ssos in our town

1:02:27

and so we had a revise a fog regulations in order to respond to those ssos

1:02:33

roadway improvements 70 735 tons of asphalt responded to 525 pothole

1:02:41

concerns I know you I know everybody in this room knows it’s a big Community but we have a very small DPW compared to the

1:02:48

size of this community so I always like to compare our Plymouth to Worcester

1:02:53

what’s this 33 square miles has 500 DPW employees we have 104 square miles with

1:02:59

about 130 DPW employees so this team of DPW staff is doing a lot of

1:03:05

work and trying to cover a lot of areas so a lot of work was done in that respect path this past year

1:03:13

strengthen the town’s Workforce and I think a lot of the Union folks that we

1:03:19

had today really highlighted the Chairman’s focus in our employees and so

1:03:27

if you kind of like look around the things that took place with just trying to engage employees focus on their

1:03:32

morale you know we had tree lighting Festival in front of town hall we had we

1:03:38

gave out candy out of town halls or the Halloween event and we had coffee events

1:03:44

they appreciate the the health insurance agreement they appreciate the the salary

1:03:51

increases and the equity adjustments but what they also appreciate is just coming to work and feeling that they’re part of

1:03:57

the team and so each human resource department did a lot of work in that respect as well

1:04:03

and then just modernize and standardize their practices had anybody a year ago ever been onboarded in this town very

1:04:11

Antiquated very old now everything’s 21st century click a button and everything gets sent so again they put a

1:04:18

lot of work in time to just trying to modernize HR recruit and maintain professional staff

1:04:24

we had a large turnover just in the administrative level this past year we lost Barry de Blasio

1:04:31

Jonathan beader Ed Bradley a fire chief we had a new

1:04:38

town clerk that came on board so you know just how administrative stuff I think we had at least 50 new assistant

1:04:43

time manager new HR Director so there was a lot of work as it relates to

1:04:48

succession planning and I think there’s going to be more work you know we know that some of our more long-term

1:04:54

administrators are going to be leaving in the in the next few years so we have to con continue to think about

1:04:59

succession planning we talked about that not too long ago here in this in this room

1:05:05

the aeating CPI training program we are actively trying to acquire aeds just two

1:05:12

weeks ago the DPW certified I want to say 60 to 70 DPW employees in AED and

1:05:18

CPR we want to roll that out to town hall employees as well and other employees

1:05:23

talked about successful negotiations with PEC I think it was one maybe it was

1:05:30

Mr Weber who said this was like a historic PEC agreement a six-year agreement

1:05:35

that is just going to kind of changed the trajectory of town finances so

1:05:40

that is probably one of the biggest successes this past year in large part to the board

1:05:46

and then create a health and medical safety net program for our town retirees so this is a commitment we made to Priya

1:05:52

that we would create a program that would allow all active employees and

1:05:57

even retired employees to submit you know on a regular basis to this safety

1:06:03

net program this money would be used to help those retirees that are in need

1:06:09

um so we did some reclasses with a non-union and Opie positions and then another big one this past year

1:06:15

was updating our personal bylaw and creating the Personnel code that’ll make government much more efficient by moving

1:06:22

some of these changes to the select board versus having their time meeting and then a couple last ones here we

1:06:29

talked about the reorganization plan the last three weeks um so I’m have so I started I want to say I

1:06:36

started in March 16th 2022 and over that course of the 12 months I happy to say

1:06:42

in large pot because of our Administration Brad Brothers Silvio Gennaro from HR we

1:06:51

didn’t have one arbitration Hearing in that in those first 12 months so

1:06:58

we will have some coming up but you know some of our labor our attorneys said you

1:07:05

know they would sign up Plymouth would average sometimes 20 to 25 arbitration hearings per year so that was a big win

1:07:11

that you know we were able to resolve the issues before we had to go to Boston and go to dlf so that’s a that’s a Time

1:07:19

Savings in labor costs attorney costs in just in a Time sock with just our

1:07:26

employees having to get involved in in those uh in those hearings so again that was a big win

1:07:32

safety compliance with various trainings and programs whether that’s through Meyer through our safety officer at the

1:07:38

DPW and then I think I already talked about modernizing human resource operations

1:07:47

so again just creating a fish in town government um so we enhance our agenda management

1:07:53

system by creating workflows and tracking so that we can see exactly what the requests are and then deliver on

1:07:59

those in a inefficient time frame

1:08:05

I talked already about how we we change how we issue Beach and pond stickers and transfer stations uh permits through our

1:08:13

treasure collector’s office one item that we’re still working on I know that the chief has a goal of

1:08:18

creating a substation for police I know we talked about doing something similar for our residents in South Plymouth as

1:08:25

far as having like a like a mini Town Hall down there so we still we have a lot more work to do this costs

1:08:31

associated with that and given a budget this past year that just wasn’t feasible but we recognize that you know if you

1:08:37

live in South Plymouth and you want to get a say a birth certificate you know you got to pack a lunch for the drive up

1:08:42

here find a parking spot get your birth certificate and drive home it’s sometimes so if we can do something to

1:08:48

try to provide services to the southern part of Plymouth we really want to do that

1:08:54

um updating policies and bylaws was a big one last year we revised 16 of our

1:08:59

select board policies we have about 50 in total so about we’re about a third of the way there

1:09:05

and then I mentioned last week the formation of equality Council our quality council is a group of um

1:09:13

active employees who are really focused on quality improvement and quality assurance

1:09:20

and then just last I’ll end here this is for future Generations um so you know these are some of the big

1:09:27

long-term items that we really need to focus in on I talked to already about water quality how this is a big one I

1:09:33

think uh select Mahoney would say it’s some it’s our future and we need to secure that and so we plan to do that

1:09:40

and then working with our planning department and our plan our

1:09:46

planning board around updating our Master plans both the master plan generally speaking but

1:09:52

our village Senate plans as well and then wanting to work with the school department still talking about facilities management and other

1:09:59

opportunities to consolidate some of our work and then last we have we know that we

1:10:06

have a lot of underly utilized Town owned properties and we know that this is going to be a big goal for halfway 24

1:10:13

looking at this this massive spreadsheet of all these passes of land that town knows and

1:10:19

figure out you know what’s the best approach and how do we how do we deal with those properties so so that’s a lot uh you know I try to

1:10:26

keep it as succinct as possible but there’s a lot to go through and we’ll post this document online so folks are

1:10:33

aware of some of the things that we’re able to complete you know but you know when I one thing we decided to do last

1:10:39

fall is in the past I we always meet with our department heads every Tuesday but we were missing the division heads

1:10:46

um you know and they’re they’re a big participant in the work that we do so we started to meet with them on a

1:10:51

quarterly basis so that they’re actively of all in these in these um in these conversations and you know I think this

1:11:00

set of goals that we talked about today is just

1:11:06

kind of uh it’s evidence that everybody in the organization really care about their job and so as I would say to

1:11:13

Anthony you know one of our acronyms is gas and what does that mean in a

1:11:19

it means give a and so but we say to our employees it’s like you got to come to work every day and you have to

1:11:25

care about your job and we want you to care and so that’s an acronym we pass around a lot because we really expect

1:11:31

them to uh to give a about the work that they do so so I’ll end there I think that’s

1:11:37

probably the best way to end this conversation and turn it back turn it back to the board

1:11:42

thanks so much Derek there’s a lot of gas up here so um I mean that you care

1:11:52

um and it you know when you actually see all these accomplishments

1:11:58

um in such a little time it’s it’s really unbelievable how we were able to

1:12:03

work through all this stuff and you know when you talk about the arbitrations and

1:12:09

grievances I mean everybody knows that they used to drive me absolutely insane

1:12:14

and when you’re talking 2025 arbitrations and Grievances and all that

1:12:20

stuff it’s well over a half a million dollars that the taxpayers would would be burdened with so

1:12:27

um I’m excited I don’t know if anybody else has anything to say Mr Mahoney you

1:12:33

look like you’re perched for a little ride in the time machine no but I had to get one just one

1:12:42

so no Derek great job on the presentation they had just Madam Chad

1:12:48

just a couple of quick uh comments and obviously there’s a lot of material they

1:12:54

had to go over but you know with proper planning you reference I think you referenced the donation of the two acres of land for

1:13:00

the fire station down off of Born Road so you know when you’re a community of 104 square miles

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you you shouldn’t have to go hat in hand to a private property owner to get a two

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acre donation and you know with proper short and long-term planning we can avoid those things in the future

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um when we talk about Wells and water my colleague Mr Helm I think a month or two

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ago brought up the uh the work of the conservation the water conservation committee and they had three suggestions

1:13:31

for us and they did an excellent job and it’s not it’s obviously a big

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problem with respect to Wells is where are we going to locate them and you reference like five locations that could

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possibly be secured for a well but there’s a multitude of other things that goes in the conservation of water also

1:13:48

and we need to make sure that you know in the month next month or two that we come back and take a look at those three

1:13:54

recommendations again and then I’ll just leave it the last Point here

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was that you know Barry de Blasio just retired uh that solution he had for

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Hedges Pawn was excellent and I hope that we keep that on the back burner as we move forward I know some of the

1:14:12

smaller out buildings are going to come down hopefully in the next few months but then we’re going to make a move and we got to figure out what we’re doing

1:14:18

with the main structure and obviously um if that’s not going to work his

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his suggestion should be you know revived and brought into the next fiscal year

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Charlie go ahead oh yeah yes sir

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I just uh Derek I’d like to uh just recommend you all those accomplishments

1:14:50

that you just put up uh couldn’t have couldn’t have gotten done without your

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leadership you know you come in you know we hired you to you know to to come in and take a

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look at the town and see see what the defects and you did just you command you

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observed you you Community you listened to people you talked with you

1:15:17

to popping heads sat down with them let them have Imports and what we needed to

1:15:24

improve things you worked well with the boards and it’s because of that that uh you

1:15:31

know all the accomplishments uh got done you know like you said the negotiations

1:15:36

with the the union contracts it was a pleasure uh there were you were

1:15:42

respectful and again you listened and that’s why all this these accomplishments uh got done in such a

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short time and I just can’t wait one of the best things we did

1:15:55

the second best thing we did is extend your contract and Betty was a huge fan

1:16:00

of that you know she she really pushed it wanted to get that done and it was the right thing to do and I just I can’t

1:16:07

wait to see what you do in the future so I just want to thank you uh for for

1:16:14

making the you’re making that board look good I believe and you really helped in the town so I just want to say that

1:16:21

thank you thank you Charlie thanks Charlie Mr quintal

1:16:28

thank you Betty uh Derek hats off to you and Brad

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I’m glad to see that we brought you both on change of management and for the direction the new direction

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of the town um it’s been what a couple years with minus

1:16:46

one happy year for covert but what a turnaround

1:16:52

and I have to redo it on what John said because I was going to actually bring that up about the water conservation

1:16:59

committee that it wasn’t so much that you know me personally didn’t like their idea I just one of the ideas I was

1:17:06

worried about one size fits all and what that actually means but was really a

1:17:12

discussion point you know as how much you use and all

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that you know so I think that needs to come back to whoever might be sitting here and and get to work on that

1:17:25

that would be very nice and uh yeah we had a reputation a while back where we

1:17:31

would call frequent flyers up in Boston because every

1:17:38

disagreement went full gavit up there and I’m not exaggerating that’s where

1:17:43

they went so I’m glad to see that’s turning around I’m glad to see I’ve said it before and

1:17:50

I think John noticed it now since you’ve been back too that the morale in this building is a

1:17:56

lot different so that says a lot to use and to the board and to the people that actually

1:18:03

work in this building so that’s all I’m going to say to that good job

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Mr Helm I’ll keep this short um try not to repeat anything others

1:18:15

have said um Derek thank you Brad thank you for all

1:18:21

the work that you’ve done in the last year that’s quite a list and having been in in town government whether on the

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fincom or on the select board for a decade it’s an amazing list I’m not sure the residents will really understand how

1:18:34

incredible it actually is but we brought you on board to turn take this town in a

1:18:40

New Direction this all is evidence that you have been quite successful and I’m

1:18:46

really looking forward to Future years so um congratulations to both of you

1:18:52

you’re a great team you’ve really energized the directors the employees

1:18:57

there’s a whole new feel around town you’ve done a great job thank you thank you

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well I guess I mean what can we say you know we um

1:19:09

the band is back together that’s pretty much it for me so you guys have done a

1:19:16

great job um brought division heads along and department heads along that you know

1:19:22

weren’t so thrilled about the ideas in the beginning but they seem to have embraced the new direction that we’ve

1:19:28

that you’ve LED this town in so um and I have to say that you know I

1:19:34

don’t think it all could have been completed without these these board members up here as

1:19:40

well because one thing you know is that we support you 100

1:19:45

and I hope you know when there’s a new board hopefully not all of them knew after May

1:19:54

20th I hope they provide you with the same backup that we did because you guys

1:20:01

have done an amazing job so thank you

1:20:06

thank you yeah if I could I just so I appreciate all the kind words

1:20:12

um but as as you all know I mean this is a team approach and it’s you know it stats

1:20:18

stats over here you guys pulled together the team that

1:20:24

you wanted to make these things happen and we just execute you know and I say to folks all the time like it’s odd job

1:20:29

you know whatever Direction you give us on Tuesday morning we wake up on Wednesday morning we execute outside

1:20:34

jobs so um you all all five of you have been super supportive not only myself but of

1:20:40

the of all of our department heads and our administrators but even our Frontline staff and so you know the

1:20:46

they’re the ones that did all the work as you all know so you know I know I’m kind of preaching to the choir on this

1:20:52

but you know I’m I’m really excited to come to work most days not every day because of some bad

1:20:59

days but uh most days I really love coming to work just because just the people I get to work with and so they do

1:21:04

great work and you know I you know I I say on a regular basis that

1:21:10

when I went to the city was searched three times the population three times a budget some really smart people and I

1:21:16

would I would rack and stack any person any Department heading division that

1:21:22

I’ve ever worked with in Plymouth against any one of them because that’s the level of professionalism you have working in this town and I think I don’t

1:21:28

think people realize it because they see some of the the weaknesses in our game but we’ve got some really great people

1:21:34

that work here and we shall be proud of that that most definitely

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okay um the next order you don’t need a vote or

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anything right Derek this is just informational and we’ll get that up on the website as soon as possible

1:21:52

so the um next order of business is public hearing

1:21:57

change of ownership Tavern on the wharf LLC sixth Tavern North Wharf I don’t

1:22:05

think we really need much of anything unless Mr trafletti you’re here for that

1:22:10

if you’d like to say something yes good evening Madam chair members of the board Stephen truffletti I’m here as

1:22:17

the attorney for Tavern on the wharf LLC which is seeking to add Peter lucido as

1:22:23

a 50 member of the LLC initially was filed with Paul Tupa as a sole LLC

1:22:29

member he is here this evening with me we have already changed the records with the Secretary of State’s office to show

1:22:35

Peter Lucito as manager for the LLC there’s no consideration for the transfer of interest and technically Mr

1:22:42

Trooper is transferring 50 of his 100 membership interest to Mr lucido thank

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you if you have any questions be happy to answer any questions from the board

1:22:53

none no no and do motion

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motion by Mr Mahoney seconded by Mr quintal discussion all those in favor

1:23:04

roll call Mr Helm yes Mr bletzer

1:23:11

you’re you’re muted I saw your lips say yes yes Mr Mahone yes Mr quintal and myself yes

1:23:20

congratulations thank you you’re welcome um before we have our select board

1:23:26

discussion I we just came out of the executive session and the Water Street

1:23:33

project was part a part of that certain aspects of it that we can discuss so Mr

1:23:42

brandisi if you just like to give a quick update sure I’m happy to give a summary of where we stand with the Sue

1:23:49

and deceptive project on Water Street as of today there’s been agreement made

1:23:54

with our Town Engineers our contract resident

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engineers and with Northern construction that we will re-begin we’ll restart

1:24:08

construction on May 22nd which is this coming Monday and that’s to install the

1:24:14

Wells we expect construction to begin to go through June 30th

1:24:22

at that time I would say around June 17th we’ll go

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see a lot of the heavy equipment will be removed from the site and we’ll start putting the road back together with the

1:24:34

last couple days in June say around June 27th June 28th that time period it’ll just be line striping things of that

1:24:41

nature we do ex this once this phase of the project is

1:24:47

complete assuming things go well we’ll be 50 complete at that time we’ll have

1:24:52

to come back to this project sometime in the fall that is yet to be determined when that will be we know it’ll be

1:24:58

sometime after Labor Day and before Thanksgiving but then to complete the other 50 of the project I do plan to

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have a meeting this Friday 9 A.M here at Town Hall over the Great Hall so that we

1:25:12

can provide more details I’m just kind of giving a 40 000 foot overview right now with the construction timeline looks like but what happened to me was

1:25:19

businesses interested residents and neighbors here this coming Friday 9 A.M

1:25:24

at the Great Hall to answer all their questions and give more detail of what that construction schedule looks like

1:25:32

thank you okay select board open discussion new

1:25:37

business letters old business anyone Mr Mahoney

1:25:46

so Madam chair on behalf of the board in the town I’d like to give you this President uh for your service for the

1:25:54

last six years and Beyond to the community it is a 400th Edition

1:26:01

400th anniversary edition of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford oh okay

1:26:07

thank you so I know you got a beach bag earlier you can put that in your bag and you’ll have some reading to do down on

1:26:13

the beach so I’d just like to say a couple of

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things I’m not a native of the community but since my involvement

1:26:25

especially when you look at budgetary issues and I am not qualified to explain why

1:26:34

but I think I’m comfortable in saying that I think that over the last several decades the village of manomet

1:26:41

had never risen above maybe a secondary fiscal consideration in the community’s

1:26:46

budget and I think that change when you get on the board and you have to be commended

1:26:51

for not only speaking up but you know for the village as a whole but especially for the White House Beach

1:26:57

area okay and the last thing I’ll say is that

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I once asked Mr brindisi in his 30 almost 30 years of being

1:27:08

involved in government in multiple communities what his favorite election cycle was and he told me it was the 2017 select

1:27:16

Board race in Plymouth Massachusetts so I just want to thank you for carrying me across the finish line that year okay

1:27:22

thank you thank you John I appreciate your kind words and I I will so much Miss This

1:27:34

and that over there on a little TV so um you know what we’re

1:27:40

a dysfunctional family that I adore so how’s that

1:27:46

Mr quintal well Betty Visa also on behalf of the

1:27:54

board thank you and um you know I sat here

1:28:00

I don’t know how many years off and on and I’ve met some fantastic people I can call it my friend

1:28:09

and one of them was in the audience I never knew Butch before sitting with

1:28:15

them on the board and uh a great friendship come out of that

1:28:22

and I have to say the same thing with you not only am I going to miss sitting here

1:28:27

with you even if I’m sitting there but more than that Betty you’ve been a friend

1:28:33

and there’s some things going on in my life you know you just been there every day

1:28:41

and I love you

1:28:47

and I’m gonna miss you but I’m really not because I’m going to dodge you every day so you think I’m

1:28:54

going to leave you guys alone do you guys really think I’m going to leave you alone no because I’m not no

1:29:00

um so and and you really love this community as I do and as you all do

1:29:07

but um we moved some some big big rocks that we have we certainly and uh it’s

1:29:14

been a good run yeah fantastic I wouldn’t change anything thank you on behalf of the people in

1:29:21

this town they all thank you you’ve been a a voice for everybody that ever called

1:29:26

you I emailed you whatever they do on Facebook

1:29:32

it is what it is right that’s what goes with it but you’re you’re definitely been a good friend and I’m I’m glad I

1:29:39

got that out of this term and um keep it going thank you thank you

1:29:48

Charlie yeah first of all uh Dicky uh we love

1:29:54

you and we support you you know this and whatever we’re there for you

1:30:00

uh Betty I’d just like to say I I want to congratulate you Betty for your six

1:30:06

years of service public service to the town of Plymouth yeah you gave so much to this town your

1:30:13

passion is second and then uh you know in what you believe in and you really

1:30:20

care about your constituents especially the men and men way to a speech area when I get elected

1:30:26

because a few people ask me what are you what are you going to do with work with Betty how are you going

1:30:33

to work with Betty I’ll tell you and then my answer was very simple Betty’s very passionate and I want to I

1:30:41

want to get better to spread her passion through the whole town and you’ve done that since I’ve been on the board

1:30:47

and and I really appreciate this it’s been an honor and a privilege to sit with you and I just want to say uh one

1:30:56

more thing to kind of echo what Tiffany said not only are you passionate but

1:31:02

you’re a very caring person and as you know I’ve had some health

1:31:07

issues over the last couple of years and currently I’m

1:31:15

I’m going through some issues now some health issues now that I’m recuperating from and you’ve been right there for me

1:31:21

uh so I and I won’t forget this so I I congratulate you I wish you well

1:31:28

I know I haven’t seen the last two videos I love you thank you thank you Charlie and I love you guys

1:31:35

too so Mr Helm well let me just

1:31:40

change the tone of this because

1:31:46

Betty I’ve I’ve worked with you beside you and known you longer than anybody

1:31:53

here from our days on the fin calm right many many years ago

1:31:59

which was when they mistakenly sat you next to me we had assigned seats there

1:32:05

as well and I knew from the moment from the very first meeting that you were trouble

1:32:12

and and you have you’ve done nothing but demonstrated that you are super

1:32:18

passionate and you will go in the direction you are going in with passion

1:32:23

and I think that that’s great but this isn’t about what you used to do

1:32:30

at least my little talk you’re running for town meeting right I

1:32:36

think you have an interesting Adventure ahead of you in town meeting I have no

1:32:43

doubt that you don’t intend to remain merely a town meeting member

1:32:49

so everybody buckle your seat belts but anyway I congratulate you on all

1:32:57

your previous years of service but also with the knowledge that you you will

1:33:04

have many years ahead of you um it’s just not like you to go away so

1:33:11

you know I mean that’s that’s and and I say that as a friend so

1:33:18

um anyway congratulations on everything you’ve done and been for the town so far

1:33:24

and it’ll be interesting and I look forward to seeing what you do in the years on down the road

1:33:31

thank you and and thank you everyone so much um you know I talk about my board and

1:33:40

and I can honestly say that I hope you believe how much I care about each one

1:33:46

of these guys because they are like big brothers little

1:33:51

brothers and I I just because I I know we’re all about the same age except for

1:33:58

the Young Buck over there in the end so um but I have to say that you know it

1:34:05

does take a lot to do this job you cannot half ass being a selectman and I only

1:34:14

said that because he he said the s word earlier um but one of the things that I really want

1:34:23

to shine a light on is my family

1:34:32

my husband and my kids have stood by me 100 percent

1:34:41

you know all the way taking a lot of time away from them

1:34:46

they never complained they always knew that Tuesday night you

1:34:52

eat a sandwich or you read something because I got to go to a meeting so um I can’t take that away from them and

1:34:59

I’m super excited to be in another venture down at Mass Maritime where my eldest

1:35:08

son attends I’m so thrilled with my youngest son who

1:35:14

has had the ability to work with in my opinion one of the greatest people in

1:35:20

this town and that is Mr quintal um so again I want to thank you all it was

1:35:29

a pleasure to serve you not saying I won’t be back but I’m just going to take a little break

1:35:35

thank you so much

1:35:45

anything else anybody you do

1:35:51

I’ll take a motion to adjourn do I have a second second okay discussion all the discussion I

1:35:59

have is May 20th get out there and vote vote is if your life depends on it

1:36:05

because it does thank you