May 22, 2023 Select Board Meeting

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welcome to the select boards meeting a May 22nd 2023 please join the board in

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the pledge of allegiance to the flag

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all

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first order of business tonight will be swearing in of the new select board members

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kids

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and Dick one uh well it’s up to you but you should probably stand but you might want to bring them Mike close to you

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dick Mr quintal when I’ll swear you in first raise your right hand

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I which repeat after me I Witcher Quinto hi Richard Quinto do solemnly swear do

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solemnly swear and affirm that I will Faithfully and affirm that I will faithfully and

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impartially and impartially discharge and perform discharge and perform all

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the duties incumbent all the duties incumbent upon me as a member upon me as

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a member of the select Board of the select board for the town of Plymouth for the town of Plymouth according to

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the best of my abilities and understanding according to the best of my abilities and understanding agreeably

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to the rules and regulations agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution of the Constitution the

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laws of the Commonwealth the laws of the Commonwealth and the charter and bylaws of the town of Plymouth in the charter

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and bylaws of the town of Plymouth so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you

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[Applause]

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repeat after me raise your right hand aye Kevin Canty aye Kevin Canty do you

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solemnly swear do you solemnly swear and affirm that I will and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially

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faithfully and impartially discharge and perform discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me all the duties

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incumbent upon me as a member of the select board as a member of the select board for the town of Plymouth for the

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town of Plymouth according to the best of my abilities according to the best of my abilities and understanding and

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understanding agreeably to the rules and regulations agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution of the

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Constitution the laws of the Commonwealth the laws of the Commonwealth and the charter and bylaws of the town of Plymouth and the charter

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and bylaws of the town of Plymouth so help me God so help me God

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[Applause]

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hmm

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thank you very much [Music] okay now we’re gonna reorganize the

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board do we have any nominations for chairman

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I would like to nominate Mr Richard quintal for the position of chair of Plymouth select board

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I’d like to second that nomination first and second

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discussion I’ll accept the nomination

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[Music] all those in favor roll call Mr Helm

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yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes Mr bletzer

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yes unanimous thank you

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thank you nominations for vice chairman of nominated

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Kevin Canty is vice chairman I’ll second that nomination

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first second by Mr helm I accept the nomination accepted

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discussion Mr Helm

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yes Mr Mahoney yes Mr bletzer yes myself Mr

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quintal yes Mr Canty yes unanimous again

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[Applause]

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I wanna would you like to say a few words not people and sure so I uh I certainly

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appreciate these select boards confidence in my abilities to start as Vice chair it has been an honor to serve

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the committee of the community rather for the last nine years on the advisory and finance committee

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and I look forward to spending at least the next three years serving on the

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select board I have grown up in Plymouth as I’ve said many times over the last

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five months to many groups of people and it is an honor to be able to be in the

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leadership of the town that I have spent my life in that my family lives in and

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that I love so much I Look to make Plymouth better for future Generations

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so that they can have the benefits of growing up in this wonderful community

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that I had and I hope to be able to do so during my time here and I’m very

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appreciative of all the folks that worked so hard on my campaign whether that was working on the committee

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whether that was meet and greets at your house holding a sign standing out in the rain on Election Day making a donation

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to The Campaign anything of that nature every little bit helped this was a team

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effort we made a great go of it and I’d also like to thank Everett malagudi

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vedna Haywood wrestling Brewster and of course Frank Mand for their efforts it

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was a great campaign six candidates running for two slots and I think everybody did their best and I was

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appreciative that the election for select board went so well so and the

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campaign for it as well so thank you those are my remarks and I look forward to beginning the work ahead that the

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select board has thank you

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thank you Kevin I just want to say thank you to everyone in the voters and citizens of Plymouth

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it was a a long road and um naturally I’m happy with the results and

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I want to thank my family for pretty much given me the okay to do it again and

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all my friends that helped me and supporters and as Kevin said all the

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candidates that put their names in this isn’t an easy job and um at the end of the day regardless

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we don’t disagree on everything I mean ugly on everything uh there I go already and uh we all want

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the best for Plymouth that’s the bottom line so I want to say thank you to everyone out there and I want to be

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brief because we have a quick shut off time tonight at six because there’s another meeting following us and I’d

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also like to say that I will not interested in being chairman next year if somebody nominates me because I have

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other things to do and it requires quite a bit which is going to bring me to my next thing quickly I have a new medical

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issue going and I don’t know if I’ll be here all the time or what it’s going to bring that’s

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still in the process but I’ve always been honest with everybody and I want to keep it honest with everybody in there

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I’m going to have to lean on the other members which I would do anyway with no problem and of course the vice chair Mr

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Mr Canty so as long as we all know that going into it I can’t be any more honest

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than that so thank you and let’s get on with public comment my

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favorite anyone wishing to speak the jumble in the back

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when you come up to the microphone oh the green light will be on just identify yourself for the record please

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good evening Eric Cody I just have a question for the chair will you be allowing public comment during that part

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of your agenda that deals with water and sewer rates

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if you’d like to speak to that at that point I’ll let you speak sure I’ll put you in the hand up so

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yes same thing absolutely sure

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licenses and administrative notes

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Mr Helm I would like to move that we CA we vote on these as a group license and

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administrative notes okay well second for the second I just want

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to uh Harry the Mr Helm uh administrative note number one I think

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that’s pretty important okay can you just read that one and then we can take them all the board will authorize the

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application for and if awarded acceptance of a grant in the amount of eighty thousand dollars through the

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Massachusetts Community one stop for growth program to fund an MBTA

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communities multi-family zoning study

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okay all those in favor

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oh we got to do it yet Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney Mr blutzer

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oh Woody you’re muted yes thank you unanimous

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then we have um solid waste water sewer rape proposal presentation

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um good evening Lynn Barrett Director of Finance we have a PowerPoint

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presentation that we’re going to put up on the screen for you but I’m here tonight along with

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my colleagues Sheila scarzi the acting DPW superintendent Peter

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Gordon our water superintendent and Doug pinard our sewer superintendent

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there we go okay let me turn this on

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Okay so so we’re here tonight um we’re making a recommendation on the

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rates for fiscal 2024 which effective July 1st 2023 to June 30th 2024. so for

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the water and sewer rates it’ll be for the quarterly Bills starting in in July

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which are due in August through the end of June of next year and the rate

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recommendation is based on the required funding needed based on the Water and

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Sewer budgets and the solid waste budget that was voted this past year at town meeting and then also we we just want to

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make a point of that we’re working or the the DPW will be working with the

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water conservation committee you’re familiar with the report that they presented to you back in December of

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2022 with a laundry list of recommendations that that we are going

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going to consider the DPW is actually going to hire a like engineering company

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to assist us in reviewing these recommendations and developing doing a

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rate study for both Water and Sewer for recommendations to you for next year’s

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rate for fiscal 25. so that’s our goal and we just wanted to make sure that you knew that we were working on these

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recommendations that were given to you this past December chairman

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and Lynn we already have funding in place for that study money said

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he said Water and Sewer budgets and depending on the prices that we get back from the engineering company we may need

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to seek some additional funding but we think that we can get started with it and you think that’s a report that would

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be be able to be completed by New Year’s Eve by the end of the year

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okay [Music]

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you think by January 1st okay guess what I’m driving at is I

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don’t I don’t want the perfect world I don’t want the boy to get this data in May of June of next

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year just before you know as soon as we get that data that needs to be you know given to the town manager to the board

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and the public because that’ll be a significant decision understood yes yep oh

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John I just want to say that part of that study is going to include a a seasonal rate you’re going to take a

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deep dive and look at a seasonal rate and a seasonal rate isn’t something that we want to surprise the rate payers with

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so if we can agree on a good seasonal rate to you know to implement there’ll

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be sort of a rollout process so you’ll get this information well in advance of next June

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um or July hopefully it’ll be sometime in the winter the study should be complete

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thank you and then I guess if and when that goes out to theater we you land the individual or the firm that’s going to

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execute this maybe you should come back to us so we can make sure that all the questions we want to have answered are

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going to get answered sure deaf definitely

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so um they’re we’re recommending an eight percent increase to each block so

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the water Enterprise rate structure is set up with a a flat fee plus a rate per

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cubic foot of usage so we’re recommending just straight across the board an eight percent increase to each

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block no changes to the annual um meet or the the quarterly meter fee

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and no changes to the manual meter read at this time

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those rates the eight percent block rate will cover the increase in the operating budget for the water Enterprise fund

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we’re seeing dramatic increases as everyone is and utilities

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chemicals testing and Debt Service on capital projects that we have voted for in the past in the water Enterprise fund

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the other thing that’s happening is in the last few years we haven’t seen dramatic increases in water because we

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were collecting revenues on water service charges for large developments

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that happened in town and those developments are not necessarily around

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anymore so that’s why we’re seeing the increase in the in the fee to the rate

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payers the next thing is is we need to build up the water retained earnings

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balance right now it’s about 360 thousand dollars it was

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we used about 2.2 million of the retained earnings this past spring for

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Capital Improvements Capital within the water Enterprise fund

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so basically this eight percent increase Lynn can I ask a question can you

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um give us some detail on the 2.2 million used on the capital projects yes

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so um Peter yeah

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so as you may or may not know um we did receive a relatively large Eda

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Grant to do an upgrade on the water mains down in manomet that that Grant refunds us a maximum of

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3.528 million eight five two million dollars excuse me so a lot of that money that we had to take out of retained

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earnings was to match that now we kept getting um Engineers proposals of probable cost

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for this project and this this started midcovid and went on the cost just went up up up up so the only way we could

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attain the funding that we needed to to secure that Grant and hold on to that Grant was to take it from our retained earnings and so that’s that’s where the

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biggest chunk of that money went to so it was a uh matching yes okay Peter

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the three projects that we just voted at the Springtown meeting what didn’t include the Amanda met no no we did I

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think we did we had I think we had a truck at town meeting we did um

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yeah we did I think we did um have the two tank projects

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um news source investigation yeah but I think we bonded out the tanks right I think

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new source investigation came out of yeah so we had three capital projects at the spring annual town meeting one of

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them was the new water source investigation project

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um a piece of equipment I believe a truck and a water tank improvements

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and those are part of this it’s part of the 2.2 million that we used in retained

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earnings thank you yeah um so what this slide is showing you

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right here is just what the average increase is for three different types of

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users in Plymouth so a residential user who uses the 25 cubic feet of water

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every quarterly billing is going to see an annual increase of 19 which is 5.6

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percent a business who uses 111 cubic feet of water on a quarterly basis we’ll

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see an increase of 114 dollars which is a seven and a half percent increase and then a restaurant that uses

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1230 cubic feet of water every quarter would see an increase of 1415 which is a

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7.9 percent increase and then to the right what we’re showing you there is

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the the this average quarterly Bill and how it compares to some of our

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surrounding communities and you’ll see that Plymouth water average water bill

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for these three types of users is still very low compared to our peers

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and Sewer on the other hand we’re asking for sorry Lynn you’re you’re doing this

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quick and that’s great going back to the other thing is this sample quarterly water bill is this current or Does it

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include the um this is at the new rates this is at the new rates okay thank you

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um on the sewer side what we’re recommending is to keep the quarterly meter charge the same which is the 87.50

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a quarter no change to that but we’re asking for a three percent increase on each of the block

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um tiers for sewer and it’s the same consumption table as the water table so

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a three percent increase each block um now on sewer

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the operating budget the net operating budget increase for the whole Sewer

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Department was actually a decrease of 2.6 percent and the the really the reason for that

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was an increase on the operation side of salaries and expenses of 5.3 percent but

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our debt service decreased by 16 so debt dropped off to the tune of 486 000 and

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that debt was the last payment on a 20 25 year note that we had on the original

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sewer plant and Force main construction so that debt came off and now so

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so even though we’re asking for a three percent increase it’s really to cover the whole operating budget and to

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continue to bank some money into our sewer retained earnings to help pay for

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infrastructure even though the overall budget decreased this past year we’re asking for a modest increase on the

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sewer side the other thing that we’re seeing on the sewer end is a decrease in

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the sewer Bank receipts and the sewer bank is the tie up for anyone any new

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businesses or new tie-ups to the Sewer as the water fund and the general fund

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we sort of reap the benefits of a lot of a development in town we’re not seeing that as much anymore right now so we’re

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going to see a decrease in that Revenue oh sorry going the wrong way

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um now here we’re showing you that average increase of three percent to those three sample users the 25 cubic

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foot user on a quarterly basis is going to see a 25 percent increase 25 increase

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on an annual basis 2.1 percent increase the business of 111 cubic feet is going

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to see an increase of 150 dollars which is 2.8 percent increase and then that

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restaurant of 1230 cubic feet a quarter is going to see an annual increase of

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one thousand eight twenty one which is a 2.9 percent increase and Sewer as you can see is one of the

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higher rates as compared to some of our peers and that’s primarily based on because

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our sewer system is so much smaller than a lot of these other as our peers

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um and and I think we’ve known this for a while that we try to encourage you know as many tie-ins and add-ons into

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our sewer system as as we can but it does and we are covering the cost of the

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new Force main that we had to build into the sewer

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rates so that is being a hundred percent funded through the sewer rates Miss Mahoney this quick question for

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Sheila I don’t know if she can answer this

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so we know we only have what 34 3 500 customers in this system Sheila and I

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know I don’t know five to eight years ago we did some expansion l44 when we picked up some new business and then obviously there

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was a blip with the whole pipe Fiasco is there are there any plans in the near future for

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more expansion I know our options are limited but is there anything in the pipeline with respect to that yes the

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next area we were looking at was Camelot Park we’ve actually designed a new sewer on Camelot Park that whole development

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includes a pump station so that would need to go to town meeting and that would be a betterment project so that’s

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the next expansion area we’re looking at if you recall at Springtown meeting we uh funding was also approved for a

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comprehensive Wastewater master plan so that will start in sometime after July 1st and we will be revisiting the

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entire sewer collection system and expansion areas so obviously

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if you do all of Camelot you need to vote of the board to approve the betterment and that’s

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basically everyone is in what is the potential gallon daily usage down there

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I would have to look that up and get that back tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands it was tens of thousands

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it’s an industrial box okay all right just checking thank you

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see that um Solid Waste now

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we’re actually recommending of all of the different fees that we charge in the

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Solid Waste Department we are recommending an increase to three

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of the annual fees one is the second vehicle from ten

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dollars to twenty dollars the recycle only from fifty dollars to

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sixty dollars and an increase of five dollars to the trailer fee we’re not recommending an

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increase to the regular annual transfer station charge because if for example if

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a household has two vehicles that go to the transfer station then the household

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increase will be the ten dollars to that second vehicle um in addition to these three increases

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that we’re requesting I wanted to talk about the bags so as

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you know back in 2013 we implemented a pay as you throw program in Plymouth

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um it’s the orange bags the users purchase them at the local supermarkets and stores the bag price is structured

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in a way to cover the cost of the Tipping for that trash that’s in those bags the disposal of it and the actual

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cost of the bag Plymouth has never increased the price of these bags in the

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10 years that we’ve had the program cost of disposal in that time frame has

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increased from 22.53 cents a ton to a hundred and two

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dollars and 44 cents a ton in that same time frame the cost of the

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bags has increased from 30 cents a bag to 44 cents a bag and that’s for the 30

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the 30 pound bag the larger bag when we implemented the program back in

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2013 we were at the very end of our original like 20-year contract with

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cmass for disposal and we knew that we were entering a new

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era in disposal contracts where they do you know short five-year contracts and

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they’re really the only um the only disposal place in town so to

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speak so we’ve tried to negotiate you know as as good a deal as we can

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um but our our second five-year contract that we have with them comes to an end in 20 calendar year 2025 so we’ll be

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and in that particular year the price per ton is going to go to a hundred and

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five dollars per ton so an increase to these bags we think is

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um is required at this time because probably at least a year ago or so it

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sort of shifted where the revenue from the bags wasn’t necessarily covering the cost of the bags and the disposal so

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it’s time that we need to increase the cost of those bags so what this is

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showing you is Plymouth cost of its bags as compared to

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our neighbors like Duxbury Kingston sandwich most of the communities charge two

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dollars for the larger bag which is the 30 pound 30 pound bag we are charging

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right now 1.25 and then the smaller bag I think we’re charging about 78 cents a

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bag and other communities are charging over a dollar for that bag

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so our recommendation at this time is to increase the bag prices

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the 30 gallon bag I think I was saying pounds before but it’s a 30 gallon bag

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from 1.25 to 1.75 so that’s a 50 Cent increase for that 30 gallon bag and then

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the 15 gallon bag from 78 cents to a dollar nine this will cover the cost of the cost of

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the bags and Disposal and it will we’re projecting sort of a slight Surplus

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which will help offset us having to increase the annual fee so we saw no increase on the annual

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fee of 190 dollars so we keep that the same because this sort of offset will

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help us not have to do that

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um so our summary of recommendations is on the water side asking to increase the

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block rates by eight percent on the suicide increase the block rates by three percent

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um we’re beginning a rate study for both Water and Sewer to implement next year on Solid Waste we’re recommending

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increase the second vehicle by 10 to 20 dollars increase the recycle only by 10

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to 60 dollars increase the trailer by five to Fifteen dollars increase the pay

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as you throw 30 30 gallon bag it says pound there sorry uh to 1.75 so that

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would be 8.75 for a sleeve of five so when people buy them in the store they

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buy them in a sleeve there’s five bags and a sleeve so we would go up to 8.75 for the larger

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bag and then um 8.75 for the smaller bags and that’s

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a sleeve of eight bags there’s more bags in that sleeve so it would equate to

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about um a dollar nine for each bag and for the bag prices we’re recommending those

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increases to become effective August 1st of 2023 instead of July 1st because we

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have to give the stores the vendors ample time in advance to roll out the

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new prices to customers so the vendor that we deal with asked for 45 days in

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anticipation so we said the timing of that would probably be appropriate for August 1st

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so those are our recommendations if you have any questions for myself or for the

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staff please let us know Lynn I just got a couple of simple ones so who

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I mean next year’s 2024 so who negotiates the new tipping fee which C mass is that yourself the town manager

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or we put a team together and they go over and I know this there’s like you said they’re the only show in town but

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yeah it’s usually a DPW superintendent of the Town manager you’re saying that the current five-year

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deal apparently ends December 31st of 25 so that for that fiscal year of 26 we’ll

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have two tipping fees I love the old one and then whatever the new one is beginning New Year’s Day of 26. okay

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thank you and I just want I just want to make sure

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that Mr Cody gets the opportunity to spank no we will any other questions from board members

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CNN the gentleman that requested to speak on a public comment

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uh Eric Cody as I said before I’ll be brief I just want to stand up and credit the

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DPW and the Water Division for the seasonal rate study that they’re anticipating undertaking this year uh as

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you know that was one of the three recommendations that I made when I was acting as chairman of the water

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conservation committee last December I have stepped down from the committee so I’ll make it clear that these are my

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personal comments but I will go on to say that I’m happy to assist as an individual act as an outside resource to

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DPW as they undertake this study I do have 40 years experience in the utilities including a lot of rate making

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experience Ms garzi and Mr Gordon very nicely

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agreed to meet with me a few weeks ago where they laid out their plan for this year I’m completely on board with this

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they’ve already begun looking for a consultant be happy to help them on that

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but I just hope that the the select board will lend your support and encouragement to

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this effort as well it’s been a very long time that this idea has been on the table here in Plymouth and it’s time to

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investigate it and see if it’s what we need to do thank you

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yeah go ahead so I just want to make sure that I just

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want to reinforce that Mr Cody has a tremendous asset and he brings a lot of knowledge to the

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table and the other thing is he did point out that you’re going to incorporate the seasonal raid aspect

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that’s only one of the three recommendations I’m hoping that we can at least look at the other two

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recommendations that that committee had within the context of that study okay

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Steve Leighton I have two questions one uh these rates will they include the construction going down by the

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Waterfront and the increased costs cost and the other one is that when we have a

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sewer line like in West Plymouth and summoned septic system fails is it

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mandatory that they hook up to the source system and if not why not other towns have done it so I think that would

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be a good idea thank you I’m happy to answer the Mr leiden’s

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first question these sewer rate changes do not include any potential additional costs to the

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Sewer Interceptor project so we’re still working with the contractor on any additional claims

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Mr is the second question who’d like to answer that

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yes so we do have a mandatory sewer Connection by law that would be for a

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failed septic system that’s within the Sewer District you mentioned West Plymouth West Plymouth does not have

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Town sewer so if you’re on a septic system in West Plymouth where we don’t have Town sewer you wouldn’t be able to

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tie in does that answer your question

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any other questions from the board I just have a few questions

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would it be make any sense or well there’s only one facility in town taking

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Solid Waste if we band maybe with a few other communities why don’t we do it

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like county-wide would you think there’d be any savings to that or I know that I mean Derek and I just

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talked about this morning maybe um invigorating our Solid Waste advisory

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committee again and quite possibly looking at what our

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alternatives are so I think that’s something that you know we’re discussing and probably will do okay yeah and they

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have two more now I saw up there and I think it said restaurant fee which was the I think it

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was twelve hundred dollars or something 14 14. how many restaurants actually in

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that category yeah I mean because that’s one side of the equation so like at home or in houses if your water

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bill is 150 then you’re Super Bowl going out is 300 roughly on maybe even more right yeah so so the the restaurant the

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restaurant that I use and I uses the restaurant that I use in my analysis

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here was probably one of the more higher users that’s on the waterfront um so

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yeah because I’d also like to look at those recommendations again that we had

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because to help them use less water which is really the object and then it wouldn’t

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be so much of a pill to swallow which is my point I don’t know if I made it clear when we had the presentation was it in

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December or so yeah what are we doing to educate yeah we’re not just businesses

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but all of all citizens I mean right because we have commercial users and residential users so we’ll look at all

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of that when doing the study and I’m not trying to stump you because it’s my first night in the chair but I I have to

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ask about the bags um because some people use them and some

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people don’t so is it because not everybody’s using the bags that we we see an increase so

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we’re looking to fill in the budget nothing to do with that so okay it has everything to do

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so as far as the increase in the bags because the bag price is set to pay for

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the cost of the actual bag and the cost of disposing what’s in the bag

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um the users the number of users that use the transfer station has pretty much

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stayed the same in the last three to four years um talking internally with the staff

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down at DBW we think that the users may

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increase because not only is disposal sort of a one-man show but if

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you have curbside collection a lot of our little smaller ones are being bought out by bigger ones and a lot of people

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are I think their prices are increasing for curbside collection as a homeowner

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so we may see an increase over here to going to the transfer station

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but the bags is really such to encourage recycling because we

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still do recycle and um and the more you recycle obviously the

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less number of bags that you’re going to use so we would still like to keep you know the bags in the picture

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okay because maybe that’s I think you just answered it but so it’s really to

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subsidize uh Solid Waste stations to get rid of curbside no

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because no some private holidays we don’t do orange bags they’re not the ones that we don’t do curbside at all

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anymore so yeah so it’s just for the trans division yeah okay thank you

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absolutely hello my name is Dale Bryan I’m the

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current chair of the climate action Net Zero committee that you this body help form in the beginning of 22. I would

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like to widen the perspective a little bit in part for the study that’s going to be taking place later on

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natural resource use both land and water are Staples of concerns and climate action plans

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conservation and production objectives that address water conservation and infrastructure are also components of

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those plans so I’d like to do is encourage you to think of we will be probably promoting a public education

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campaign on water conservation as part of a future plan voluntary conservation is usually less

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effective than something as pay as you go but I think it’s important to understand that water security and safety in light

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of climate change and disruption are also concerns of the committee and should be concerns of the town for

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example increased use of non-essential purposes can decrease management flexibility during drought

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the hazard mitigation plan that’s been reviewed by the town for 21 will be coming up again I’m in discussions with

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Mark reel and Chris Horvath of the emergency preparedness office to be more

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fully aware of water usage and how it can be affected by unknownessential use

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increased demand during high heat days presents similar concerns for meeting cooling needs of residents and tourists

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invariably increased use across the water table will lower it accordingly

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what we don’t know is what the similar usage is across our

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shared Carver shared aquifer users Carver completely Wareham mostly and born

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Kingston and Plymouth Plympton in part presumably the seasonal use is similar

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thereby lowering the water table which can lead to a concentration of natural and human pollutants and thereby

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decrease water quality and last all of that presents risks of having salt water

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intrusion along our Coastline as the table decreases thank you for that

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thank you

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hi I’m Linda Lancaster I’m at one shinglewood and I just have a few comments on the seasonal water rate I

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think it’s an excellent idea as a way to get to motivate people to conserve water if there’s anything we can do to avoid

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the expense of a new well or at least delay it a few years that’s going to be good for all of us

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and I think many times summer water use is very flexible I mean you see people

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watering their yards in the rain you see people watering watering the street so

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it goes down into the gutter you know I think there’s a lot of room there for conservation and the tiered rate seems

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like a very fair way to encourage that and I just wanted to say I’m glad the

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town is going to do a study on it and I think it would probably be good for good for everybody so thank you

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thank you any questions or comments from the board

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waiting emotion I’ll move I’ll make a motion that we approve the

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water rates as presented by the finance director second second by Mr Canty motioned by Mr

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Mahoney Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes Mr

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bletzer yes myself yes unanimous

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do you need a motion on the sewer rates yeah because he only made one-on-one right okay yeah yep I thought we would

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take them in three so seeing no other motion I will make a motion and we also approve

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the sewer rates as presented by the finance director second by Mr Canty motion by Mr Mahoney

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discussion Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes

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Mr bletzer yes and myself yes unanimous again third and last motion I’ll make a

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motion that we approve all the changes to the solid waste rates as presented by the finance director

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second motion by Mr Mahoney second by Mr Canty

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discussion Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes

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Mr bletzer yes to myself yes unanimous again

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thank you and thank you for your comments thank you hard work

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Mr Tavares

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okay uh thank you Mr chairman um and congratulations to you and Mr

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Canty on your recent election and I’ll try and keep this as quick as possible and later the time happy Fourth of July

45:13

everybody I’m here as usual in May right before Memorial Day uh to start talking about the Fourth of July this evening I

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just wanted to give the board a high level uh rundown of kind of where we are and the events and then we’ll be back in

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the upcoming weeks to give you the full nuts and bolts of the of the day’s events

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um so on Tuesday July 4th we’ll be celebrating in America’s Hometown the

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Fourth of July 7 30 in the morning we’ll have our fourth of July 5K

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any information on that you can find at Southshore race.com at 9 00 a.m the parade will step off

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from cordage Park where we returned to last year where we had a tremendous

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success in uh actually think it went a lot smoother than some of the places that we’ve stepped off before

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at 7 30 p.m the Plymouth Philharmonic will have their annual concert on the waterfront and then around dusk or

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somewhere around 9ish PM we’ll have our typical fireworks from the the harbor

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with our two barges again this year um and we and are working with the same

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fireworks company that we’ve done in the past we have a number of new acts mixed

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in with our annual participants in this year’s parade and we’ll be sharing with those with you over the next few weeks

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um we are about halfway to our fundraising goal uh with so that still

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leaves us significant ways to go but we’d like to thank right now the help from that we received from the visitor

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service board pgdc and the town of Plymouth I’d also really like to thank

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the Plymouth Police Department for issuing and quickly I might add selling out of the first ever commemorative

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Fourth of July patch um I’ve been informed that they are also selling commemorative t-shirts with a

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graphic of the patch on it as well I expect those to also be a big hit and to sell out as well they have uh told us

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that the proceeds um that they receive uh will be donated to the July 4th

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committee to put on our parade and fireworks so we really thank the public Police Department for helping us there

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as well as what they do for us during the day obviously during the events I’d

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like to everyone to remind everyone at home watching and listening um this is your parade it’s your

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fireworks and without you at home it it cannot happen if you have the means we’d

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love to receive donations we have an online July the number four plymouth.com

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donation button that you can go to and do it very quickly online or through your phone but if you’d like to send in

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a check to the post office we do have our PO box it’s July for Plymouth Inc

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P.O box 1776 Plymouth Mass 02362 and also if you

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have a band or a float or a group that you’d like to have participate in this

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year’s parade go to our website july4plymouth.com our registration

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deadline this year is June 19th so that we can line up the parade and get the appropriate information out to everybody

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but we are always looking for musical acts and the local groups to participate

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I know it feels early but it comes up quick as I had a conversation with chairman quintal earlier it’s going to

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be here before we know it and we’re all going to be marching down the street so I’d like to thank on behalf of the

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committee I’d like to thank everyone for their donations so far and hopefully we

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can get right towards the end at the finish line here and hit that goal and move on to the the next year and so

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thank you any questions or comments from the virus

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I just like on behalf of the Town I’d like to say thank you to you your family your dad was very active in that and Mr

49:17

Metcalf and I don’t know if they’re all the same play as but I do have a question are you maybe starting a parade

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in at the old location and I asked that first selfish reason because I live across the street or because the outside

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driving isn’t there anymore yeah we so last year we moved to cordage park due

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to the outside Drive-In taking up a lot of the space and it actually the flow of traffic and the ability

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um the ability for our youth groups to participate and be dropped off as

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opposed to kind of being dropped off on a street and saying I hope you find your group over there it’s worked out a lot

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smoother to be able to have cars come in they’re in kind of a boxed in area and then they can leave and there’s no cars

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driving through the parade organization if you will so so you’ll be sat in that we’ll be at cordage Park okay yeah all

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right well thank you again if we can help you with anything uh let me know but we’ll

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get those donations we’re going to donate the month of June on the pizzas for you oh all right

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fantastic wow well that’s news you heard it here first thank you very much thank you

50:30

Town manager’s report Mr in DC all right so I’m going to make my comments really brief we have eight minutes before we

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have to leave this room we have the handicapped meeting that sets at 6 30 and pack TV needs 30 minutes to set up for that meeting so just a couple quick

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announcements um we met in this room uh last Friday 9 A.M with area businesses

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to go over the construction schedule as we talked about last week the the

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construction restarted today they started to install the monitoring Wells that’ll take place for a week and

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they’ll at next week next Monday they will then restart the excavation

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phase and then excavation will go until June 17th and then immediately

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thereafter they plan to put the street back together at no later than June 30th will they be

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off the street we do expect them to complete all their work a little bit

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earlier than that assuming things go well so we presented that information to the area businesses last week we had a

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good dialogue we promise that we will keep them up to date with the weekly construction updates whether that’s via

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regular email or social media and then just two quick announcements uh

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next well this coming Friday is Public Works day over at Camelot Drive that’s

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going to take place from 10 a.m to 2 p.m so it’s a Family Focus event so hopefully folks can bring their children

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out and then on Monday is the Memorial Day Parade that’s May 29th it’s coming

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Monday the parade will step off the curb at 9 A.M at Memorial Hall and do what’s

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a typical tour this coming Monday we will honor Mr Bob Davidson with the

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humanitarian award so looking forward to that as well so I’m going to end my comments I’ll Reserve everything else

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for a future meeting yes any questions for the town manager

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okay select board open discussion new business

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Mr Mahoney so on 40.

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36 minutes this room will probably be standing room only I think most of you know that I chair

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the state decommissioning panel for the nuclear power plant so a few hours ago I got the results

52:51

from the state from the split sampling on the million gallons of water down at the plant

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um Mr brindisi I just forwarded you that email if you could share that with the other my colleagues on the board

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and I would just ask that the board keep that under your hat for at least an hour because the zimbago one of those results

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being made public until 6 30 tonight so tonight the state will get up at that Podium and they will go over that report

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in the analysis from the lab and they will tell tell us the results and explain to us the ramifications and then

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the other thing I had is um are we meeting next Tuesday

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no are we going to go to June 6th I talked to the chairman this evening oh okay sorry all right I’m good thank

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you that is

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all business so there’s just two things we’ve been notified by the moderator that we have

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to appoint somebody further and um correct me if I don’t say this right shadow review committee chataroo

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committee okay the selection not to be confused with commission okay committee

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so we’ll put that on for the next meeting that’s right okay and we’ll discuss that and take a vote

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and I know Mr Helm’s interested in that correct okay yes and the other thing is we go to

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a summer schedule and once the board objects we usually do or unless we have something pressing

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okay then wait a motion to adjourn second second Mr helm

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yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney and Mr Blitzer

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yes thank you for watching have a nice week and we’ll see you on June is it sixth

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June 6th June 6. thank you thank you