Agenda – Select Board Agenda September 12 2023

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foreign welcome to the select board meeting of Tuesday September 12 2023

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Anthony

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pursuant to chapter 2 of the acts of 2023 and act relative to extending certain covid-19 measures adopted during

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the state of emergency signed into law on March 29 2023 this meeting will be

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conducted via remote means and in person members of the public who wish to watch the meeting May do so in the following

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manner tune in to Pac TV government access channels Comcast channel 20 15

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and Verizon channel 47 and watch the meeting as it is aired live or watch the

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meeting on Pac TV’s website pacttv.org members of the public who wish to participate in the meeting can meet us

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in the Great Hall second floor Plymouth Town Hall or via a remote means the zoom

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link is on the agenda on the town’s website under the agendas and minutes

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Mr chairman thank you that this giant police join the board in the pledge of allegiance to the flag

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the pledge of 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 the liberty

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and justice for all

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first Hardware business approximately 508 PM will be an executive session the

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select board would hold an executive session pursuant to Massachusetts general laws chapter 38 section 21A

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Clause 6 to consider the purchase exchange lease a value of real property if the gso declares that an open meeting

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may have a detrimental effect on a negotiation position of the public party

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do I have a motion I’ll make the motion to go into executive session

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you have a second second motion by Mr Blazer second by Mr Canty

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Mr bletzer I vote Yes Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr

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Mahoney yes in myself yes the board will be returning at

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approximately 6 pm to open session thank you

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of Tuesday September 12 2023 went back to our Open Session

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I’m going to move right over to licenses and administrative notes and the one licenses for Tavern on the

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wharf and then we had 10 administrative notes

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but we’re gonna remove six and seven this evening those are not ready so six and seven will not

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be included in our vote all votes

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I did get a call from somebody from Tavern on the wharf explaining that this is for a fundraiser

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and if they needed to be here we could reach out to them and they they would answer any questions the Rotary Club is

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handling it from at Memorial Hall wish of the board

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I’ll make the motion that that we accept this license second

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motion by Mr blatta second by Mr Helm discussion

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all those in favor Mr bletzer I vote Yes Mr Helm yes

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Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes yes myself yes unanimous

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any questions or comments on admit admin notes

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push of the board I’ll make a motion that we approve administrative notes

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one through ten excluding six and seven as a group

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second motioned by Mr Canty second by Mr helm

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discussion Mr bletta I vote Yes Mr Helm yes Mr

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Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes in myself yes

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who’s going to have the presentation from the town of Plymouth delegation recent visit to shishi gahama

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telling me so good evening is it on Green

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just push them there we go okay perfect thank you I can do music but I can’t do buttons

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um so hi my name is uh Andy loretz I am the chair of the distinguished visitors committee we recently sent a student

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delegation of 10 students as well as two school committee members two teacher chaperones and a select board member and

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Mr Derek bryndisi the town manager over to our sister town of shichigahama Japan

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I am pleased to report that it went very well for all involved we have a couple

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students here tonight who will speak on that and then we will also present

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to you the official gift that our friends in chichigahama sent over to us

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as our town gift for us to have and I did want to say I’m very very proud of

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these students in particular we had four orientation meetings to prepare them for

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this trip they really worked quite hard prior to the trip in order to be able to

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attend this they had to interview they had to participate in fundraising events

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and generally get the word out about what they were doing to the community at large as you can see being presented

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on the screen they had a lot of fun these are just a couple of photos that Miss Savory

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um the of the school committee sent over and we can also hear from teacher

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chaperone Miss Jackie Gervais and also maybe Mr Canty If he if you would like

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to speak on it but again the students did a marvelous job representing our

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town and really put their best foot forward in making sure that our 30 plus

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year relationship as sister towns is not only doing well but it’s thriving

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after the pandemic we were concerned about international travel and how we would continue this relationship we were

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doing things such as virtual delegations in the meantime and this was our first delegation back and it was really

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important that these students reset the tone and I think they did that by Leaps and Bounds so I’m very proud of them

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again and I will let them have a couple of minutes each if that’s okay to speak about their experiences as well so if I

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could please ask our student ambassadors to come on up and kind of form a single file line and we’ll start with Jonathan

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just because he’s first go ahead

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oh one second hello my name is Jonathan bird and I’m an eighth grader at

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Plymouth South Middle School my experience in Japan was amazing the culture was rich and there was never a

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moment where I didn’t feel welcome I think the best part of my experience was probably the little moments I spent with

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my host family nothing really significant you know just kind of eating dinner talking at

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breakfast stuff like that that’s the moments where I felt that were really important

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um you know and the bigger things too were cool we went to this amazing Museum we went to Sendai city which was

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absolutely massive um it was an amazing experience and I’m ever grateful for it thank you

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hi my name is Henry farag I was lucky enough to be selected for this trip and

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the program I’m so very grateful that I got to go to a new culture a new country and just see how different it was over

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there the biggest takeaway for me had to have been the food because over before I

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went everyone in my family including me was nervous that I wouldn’t like the food but when I got over there I really

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enjoyed the food and that was one thing that I think that I’m never gonna when I was younger I never thought that I was

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going to have like Japanese food or like sushi Ramen but over there I gotta try

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it and I got to see how much I like it and see how I want to have it more and maybe want to go back one day thank you

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thank you hi my name is Sophia Kovach and I went to Japan too and I feel like my biggest

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takeaway for myself was embracing the culture and I learned a lot of new things and New Life habits like I got up

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a lot earlier there and it kind of stuck with me for the school year and I made a lot of connections and I never would

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have made without going like my host family I they will always have a place in my heart and it was really nice to

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meet new people that I never would have met otherwise

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hi my name is Lily DeMarco and um I had a lot of fun in Japan and like

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being able to meet everyone and being able to like Embrace a different culture

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was really awesome and my host family was just so amazing and they did like anything and everything they could to

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like make me make sure I had a great time there and it was just really awesome experience to have

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hello everyone I’m Sam Emily thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak I mean what a wonderful experience I had

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in Japan with a lovely family of four despite the busy schedule they’re able

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to go up Beyond and above to take good care of me my favorite part was probably

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going tubing I got to eat such wonderful Foods it was so much I could barely eat

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it all I also became good friends with the Sado family which is Henry Ford

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Hawks thanks thank you so much for giving this opportunity to speak

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and Mr vay I don’t know if you want to speak as well thank you um before she does that as you can hear

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the students this was a life-changing experience for most of them um and this is something that

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we as a town have this opportunity and not many other towns do this I never had something like this growing up and I can

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only imagine the windows and doors that would have been open for me and my perspective changes that would have

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happened at an earlier age so the fact that 10 students five of which are were able to come tonight 10 students were

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impacted this I hope those impacts Ripple across through the rest of our town throughout the rest of our history

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everybody my name is Jackie Gervais and I’m A literacy coach at pcis I had the honor of being one of the two teacher

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chaperones for these students and I just I think leaving both Mrs Vino and I were

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just talking about how proud We were and how proud the our Plymouth Community should be of like the students that we

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took with us they were able to put themselves out there and just be vulnerable with their

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families and really take in the whole experience and I think they were able to get so much out of that with their

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families meeting new people um so we were just so proud in general um

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so one of my favorite Parts is a couple days they were with their families and we had the students send some pictures

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of what they were doing and they were just so different like what each kid was able to do with their families we had

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people were at the beach people were boating people were at baseball games they were I’m doing arts and crafts

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making traditional foods and these are just from like one or two days where they sent us these images so just seeing

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what they were able to get out of the experience was so was such an amazing experience for me

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um and as a teacher one of the my favorite things that we did is we were able to participate in a professional

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development with Japanese teachers and administration we talked about issues

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that I think that as Educators we all think of um think about all the time but the the theme was like how do we make

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students dreams come true and it was so empowering and so powerful as an educator so but yeah my favorite part

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was just seeing the experiences that the students were able to have thank you

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I don’t know if Mr Canty or Mr brynicy want to speak to anything as well I

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don’t want to put you on the spot but feel free if you would like to

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thanks Andy yeah no problem uh so I had the opportunity to go and a little

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different experience than the student delegation we did have some overlapping events but uh the adults that went

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myself Mr bendizzi and two members of the school committee uh were in what was

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called like the VIP delegation and the moniker could not have been more accurate to the way that they treated us

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they would we would get up in the morning we’d eat breakfast at the hotel and then for the rest of the day we

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would be shepherded from one event to the next with translators learning about the community that we were of

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shishikahama the surrounding communities the culture the recent history as well

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as their extended history um dating back we saw one area that was over 800 years old a shrine in

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matsushima we saw the areas that were devastated by the tsunami in 2011 we saw

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Community groups that had formed and response to that um

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and it was stunning how much they were doing for us and how in how enthusiastic

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they were about having us there at all these events um it was also very encouraging to see

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how from the outside looking in how well the student delegation was doing and

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they were very they seemed to be getting along very well with their families both the adults as well as the kids a lot of

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these families had kids of various ages and to see them interacting as if you

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know they were cousins on a family vacation as opposed to somebody that just met like three days ago and the

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families seem to really be treating our students like they were part of their own families and treating them to the

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best that they could offer it was somber at times to see how much shushugohama

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had been affected by what happened in 2011 we would go around we’re used to in Plymouth going around and seeing

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areas that date back to the pilgrims that you know the Oak Street school over here is a store because it’s 100 years

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old Hedges 110 the North Street fire station they have large sections of their town that are 12 years old because

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they were devastated by what happened in 2011 and you go around to see the buildings that are there now and there’s

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marks of this is how high the water level was um

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and that was very you know we have a lot of problems in Plymouth but we’ve never had to deal with that so we’re lucky in

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that regard but we had a lot of similarities with them as well we had an education Summit where we talked about

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uh concerns for students and the concerns of Japanese Educators and

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administrators and officials for how to build better citizens and happy and

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productive members of their society as opposed to just people that can recite a bunch of facts are very similar to the

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same concerns and thoughts that we have here in America even though we were literally on the opposite side of the

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earth so it was um it was encouraging to see how much similarity there was and to connect on

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sort of a human level despite the vast differences in our culture our food our

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climate it was very muggy there but it was it was truly a remarkable experience and something I was very happy to

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participate in myself and to see the student delegation to and I can’t thank the town oshigahama or are certainly our

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translators who made it all possible for us to understand what was happening enough for everything that happened

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while we were over there thank you

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uh good evening and so you know we’ve talked a little bit about our experience in shishigahama when Mr Canty and I

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first returned and I’m not going to repeat all the experiences you guys all have heard the experiences both what the

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students have shared and what Mr Canty have shared but I can tell you though when I was the assistant time manager

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here five years ago I often heard about the sista City relationship with shishi

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gahama and they never had the opportunity to experience it and then you you know you see the artifacts on

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the fourth floor and you still don’t really get a sense of you know what is this really all about and I can tell you

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with all honesty that you have to go to shishi gahama to truly understand the

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bond between the two the two communities it was it was a it was

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I’ve had the opportunity I said this in Japan I’ve had the opportunity in my air force career to travel to places like

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South America Central America and Africa in this trip is by far and away the best

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experience I’ve ever had and we’ve made lots of friends we made colleagues joking that they’re 13 hours

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apart so when I’m up at midnight I have someone I can text who’s awake and you know at noon time back in Japan like the

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mayor for example so I am looking forward to them returning in uh in US

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hosting them they have set the bar extremely high I

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know that vsb has already appropriated they’ve doubled their appropriation for

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next year I hope that we can do that through the budget process this year and the school committee can support that so

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we can double the resources that will be necessary in order to deliver on the

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standards in which that we had the opportunity to enjoy so I’m looking forward to meeting for you all to meet

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them next year in hosting them in their delegation so but it was definitely I

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would say the best experience I’ve had in my life

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thank you to you both um for your comments on that and thank you both for going

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um it really meant a lot I know before you guys went that they were very excited to have the representatives from

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the town as well so thank you for both attending and also thank you to the other members of the committee who who

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helped put this together for everyone including Mr Steve Lyden visitor

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Services Bureau chair um and everyone else on the distinguished visitors committee especially Miss Kim Savory who was

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integral in all of this and also the secretary over at central office Janine

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daily without whom none of this would have really been possible especially from the records and bookkeeping aspect

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of this our final thing is they did send the

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official gift and so I’m going to read what it says and then present it to the

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board so it says to our beloved sister city of Plymouth this time the gift of Plymouth the gift

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to Plymouth is a Sendai tansu Baku which is a traditional paper file made in

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Sendai Sendai tansu is said to have its roots in a piece of fittings made by a

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master Carpenter when dates lord of the dates Castle

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Sendai tansu chests are characterized by the ornate metal fittings decorated with Gorgeous Ornamental Iron Work and the

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Beautiful moving lacquered finish this piece’s metal fittings are in the design of a dragon and the box is

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decorated with the auspicious Vermilion lacquer coating which is said to be a color that brings good fortune in

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Japanese culture we are sending this artisanal gift to Plymouth with the wish that it will bring happiness to the town

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from the town of chichigahama and so I will open this up in a moment and I

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figure maybe we can take a small photo op if that would be possible thank you and again thank you to those maybe who

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might be listening in chichigahama for sending this over it means a lot to our town as does this continued 30-plus year

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relationship with them so without further Ado I will open this up and if we could get the students to go up in

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the front by the select board and we will take a photo momentarily

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should we go around yeah

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see I think

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that’s true thank you

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you’re right here

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all right

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appreciate it

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don’t lose it open it up Perry look

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yeah it’s very cool yeah

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yeah it’s all wood Mr chairman

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can I say a few words

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you said chairman can I say a few words absolutely yep

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I’d like to thank I’d like to thank these young folks out here for representing the town of Plymouth

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uh it’s obvious that you come from great parents great families and I want to give

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some credit to our school system because your products of our school system and I

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commend your teachers and uh you know you all the all the officials in the

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school system for giving you an education you were very articulate and very mature and I’m

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sure your representation in Japan was was incredible and you made you made

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Plymouth proud and I’m so proud to be an elected official of Plymouth because of you folks so and it’s it’s because of

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you that they’re going to be students in a couple years going over this program will continue because it’s because it

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because a young uh ladies and gentlemen like you representing that town so you should be

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proud of yourselves and that you should be part of your parents and your teachers too thank you

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Mr Helm um and having been on the distinguished visitors committee at the time uh this

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all uh came up um and the amount of work that it took

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in a very short period of time there is someone who did not thank themselves and

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I need to thank him right now because without him this never would have happened and he’s sitting back there and

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his name is Andy Lawrence and he is um I don’t want to say 100 responsible

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but he is extremely responsible for this happening so thank you very much Andy for your leadership

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foreign

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sorry all right so

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I’ve made the trip Derek is absolutely right they set the bar pretty high over there

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um I was very impressed with the the students that get up to their microphone because I could I wouldn’t have had the composure at your age for public

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speaking it’s for me it was a an acquired taste having said that when I went over in 15 I am jealous of Derek

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and Kevin because they got to the local baseball team they saw a game they were on the road when I was there

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that was my one big regret but I look forward for their delegation returning here because you’re right they you know

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we got to take our game up a notch which we’ve done over the last few visits but I’m just glad that post-pandemic they’re

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really they’re coming back and I’m looking forward to that

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you’re gonna say excuse me good job to all I wanted to actually make the trip but I

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couldn’t but I have been over there several times and I have some friends there a lot of

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friends there actually and um it’s a pleasure going over there and you do get treated just the way

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you’re speaking of which is why when they come over here I always go out and Beyond

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in a memorable year and I can’t remember the anniversary but it was an anniversary year

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that our relationship was going on and I went over there and I took the um

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the town manager the assistant to the town manager the chief of police the

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fire chief it would have been awful if something ever happened to the plane because poor Plymouth we were all on it

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but something I’ll never forget in the friends I made there and if you went to

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cook Zamora from saying it properly I hope you watered my tree outside there

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and um I know Derek did so I will say thank you

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representing us and like all the others here we’ll do our best to give him the

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best visit when they come over here so thank you

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moving right along eligibility requirements for the elderly

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disabled and tax assistant donations

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foreign

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I have copies for all of you of the eligibility and the application that are

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both our online and they’re going to be at the treasurer’s office too just identify yourself for the record for the

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viewers please my name is Grace Keenan and I’m the chairperson of the committee okay

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um we’ve been thank you really blessed with um the donations we’ve received from the

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very generous um citizens and also the businesses of the

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Town we’ve received seventeen thousand seven dollars and 48 cents to date

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so um now we’re just waiting for our applications to come in and then we’ll allocate our

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proceeds

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does anybody have any questions questions from the board Charlie thank you Mr chairman yeah uh this is a great

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program uh how many have you got how many applications have you gotten for

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for help as of today just one just one okay but they just started on September 1st and they go through till the 3rd of

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October but Ward will get out and what kind of uh what kind of assistance were

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they looking for um it’s the maximum that they’re going to be able to receive is a thousand

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dollars um the criteria is you know very simple

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um in its you know application that they have to fill out requirements have to do with their income

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it’s every every little bit helps and that’s great absolutely that sounds like you get enough to get going but we do we

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got to get you some more money too so you get you’re plenty once this takes off people are going to be looking to

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help we hope so hopefully the economy gets a little bit better but uh but I think at this time right now where the

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economy is tough for everybody that it’s important that people do apply if they’re eligible in the fixed income

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people are the ones that are looking for it so correct it’s not it’s probably not going to change much for them probably

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not oh yeah oh good keep up the work it’s a great program I’m glad I’m glad

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we come up with this so thank you thank you any other questions or Mr Canty

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so you said the maximum somebody could receive is a thousand correct so will

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there be like a gradient system between like well when we depends on how many

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applicants we get and what we have for funds okay and then we’ll be at a distributed economy accordingly so would

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the division be purely based on the total number of

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apples correct everybody is equal everybody is equal okay

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thank you is this application online it is online

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and it’s available to Treasurer’s Office also it is and all applications all applications have to be submitted by

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October 3rd or either here at the treasurer’s office or else they have to be post back by the

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Third of October of October so maybe you could come back and visit

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us after October 3rd to give us an update of how many residents actually have applied exactly uh you know what

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the percentage is uh like Derek no but you know if you don’t mind coming in

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I’m just curious let’s make the uh the public aware of what’s what’s out there

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oh I appreciate that and you did a very nice job very thank you my committee is wonderful yeah

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okay thank you thank you very much

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fall town meeting Warren articles review 2A

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miss it Mr chairman before I turn around I just wanted to introduce Mr William

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Coyle who’s here this evening he is our newest DPW director you all have

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received his uh his information via email in the past I’ll turn it over to

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to Bill to give a little bit of background of what he’s done over the course of his career Bill good evening

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thank you good evening Mr chairman members of the ward I’m very excited to

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be here a little bit about myself I’m from the Central Mass area I have 27

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years of Municipal experience 11 years with the state with massdot 13 years as

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a DPW director and talent engineer in a town of Auburn and uh a little over two and a half years with the city of

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Worcester as Deputy Commissioner and I can tell you I’ve spent the past couple weeks it’s my second my third week now

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meeting the DPW staff meeting the department heads and all the town employees reason I can I can say I feel

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very welcome here to tremendous staff I’m very impressed with the leadership

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impressed with the meetings I’ve had with the department heads and their staff and with the DPW staff the

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division heads the employees very hard working individuals when I come to work everybody’s out working they know their

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job and they’re hitting hitting the ground running I’ve been spending some time going over

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a lot of the important projects that we have ongoing and there are a lot of them which I’m I’m excited about I like to be

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busy I like to get involved in projects and Plymouth certainly has its share of

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projects be whether it’s the Water Street Sewell project the four miles of

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water main that we’ll be replacing the ball fields that we’re going to be building the bridges that we’re going to

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be building there’s just so much work in town and I’m very excited for that and be happy to answer any questions that

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you may have any questions from board members comments

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Mr Blazer Mr Carl welcome aboard you’re jumping right into the fire it’s a it’s a busy

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town and the word I heard when I was running for office a couple years ago

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was how unique our town is and it’s it that’s you can underline that unique but

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in this room right now we’re all a lot of the department heads and it’s a great team

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you know and you’re joining a great team you’re going to be I saw your resume and

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I’ve heard great things about you and I’m looking forward to seeing uh

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you know seeing you in action and because it’s you’re gonna you’re gonna stay busy that’s for sure and like I

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said you’re with this there’s there’s folks out here a lot of the Departments they’re great people to work with thank

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you and I can see that a lot of experienced staff members and they’ve all been very welcoming to me and if

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I’ve had any comments there or questions they’re right there to answer them for me well you’re bringing expertise from

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the outside coming in and hopefully you can work with everybody and and bring

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your expertise and just just just make us even better than we are right now so I look forward to it I think there’s a

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great team in place and I’m just hoping to add to that team yep well I’m excited I’m excited for you thank you thank you

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thank you Mr Mahoney Bill congratulations welcome to Plymouth

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thank you sir I think my experience has been that you know I think at 10 or 15 years ago

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people would have prioritized like Public Safety or public education above the DPW but I think that doesn’t happen

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necessarily as much anymore I think we value how much infrastructure adds to

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the quality of our life and this community has been proactively investing in infrastructure over the last decade

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or so and that’s your department and you know I think that you know the community

36:08

is showing through investing tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars proactively that we value that and

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that’s going to be your department and looking forward to you continuing those Investments so that we can you know

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address some of the issues that we have going on in the community thank you and I sure certainly can see the amount of

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the investment that the town is making and the the infrastructure and it’s not unnoticed and it’s appreciated it makes

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our jobs easier in the long run that if the facilities are maintained well and we’re upgrading the facilities and the

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infrastructure we have less Sewell main breaks and less Waterbury breaks if we have newer infrastructure and it

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benefits the general public if our infrastructure is working well it’s less disruption to everybody’s lives

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any other comments from the board as I said to you welcome to Plymouth

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thank you and if it’s busy you wanted you landed in the right spot thank you I look forward to working that I can

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assure you all right thank you and I do have to say Okay when I walked in I think I said hi John because you

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resemble I don’t know Dana Mr Right John Rogers when I walked in the room I said

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wow I’ll be applying for a committee so you have a look you have a look-alike so if I make a mistake I can blame him you

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blame him man thank you thank you hmm article 2A

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so I’ll just introduce so article 2A is about 10 different departments have some

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line item adjustments to their budgets that were voted in the Springtown

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meeting in your packets tonight there was backup memos explaining the reasons

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for these adjustments the Departments are here tonight either here in person

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or through Zoom to answer any questions that you may have

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any questions for Miss Barrett

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Mr Canty so sorry Lynn to ask immediately after

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you sat down um so just broadly not about any specific

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but broadly uh last budget cycle was sort of a belt tightening experience

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that involved both work on the town side and the school side to meet our sort of

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financial goals so obviously we’re making some adjustments uh you know mid-stream here so

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um is this these adjustments things that we need done and how and I

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assume and I’ve read the backup materials so I agree with them but how how is the town’s overall Financial

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Health currently and um are we keeping consistent with that initiative that we

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took part in on the spring by making these adjustments yep so we um these

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adjustments are made through additional state aid that was received and

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adjustments to our local receipts we’ve basically kept the same property

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tax revenue amount that we need to fund this budget so the adjustments are being

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made through those other resources and all of these adjustments each

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department they were either corrections to the original budget

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you know modifications to move some things around because of change of service for example The Dispatch Center

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being outsourced so a lot of those adjustments were for that some of them

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are to address some of the selectment goals that have been set so those are

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the the kinds of things and areas that are being adjusted one of them primarily

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also was to a significant increase to

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the snow and ice budget to get it to a level that we actually spend every year we had been creeping up to that amount

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but by very slow you know slow pace but we have an opportunity to do that this

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year because we didn’t have a deficit that we had budgeted for so we’re moving that amount into snow and ice so it’s

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just some of those are some of the examples thank you

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any other questions or comments

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2B so 2B is really this a similar adjustment to the budget and primarily

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for the sewer and the water Enterprise budget as you know because of the cost

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of doing business for those areas with regards to chemicals and service

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contracts those things have increased so they provided documentation they are here tonight to answer any specific

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questions I saw that on the uh the chemicals for

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both yeah both the balance is crazy yeah any questions from board members

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Article 4 Capital recommendations

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are you going to vote all of them like well and can we vote move them all or do

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we have to vote them individually I believe I mean it’s easier to vote them individually but you certainly could

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vote them as a slate unless a board member wants to pull them out

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uh I’ll make a motion that we prove article 2A

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motion by Mr Canty for 2A seconded by Mr bletza discussion

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Mr bletza I vote Yes Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr

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Mahoney yes and myself yes that’s unanimous to be

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I’ll make a motion that we approve the inclusion of article 2B in the fall town meeting award second

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motion by Mr Canty for 2B second by Mr Mahoney discussion

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Mr bletza I vote Yes Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes and myself yes

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unanimous article 4. so Article 4 is the capital

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recommendation at this time normally we like to do most of the capital at the

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annual town meeting and the fall is really for items that are sort of an

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emergency in nature some kind of timing with a purchase it would be better at

42:56

this time versus waiting until the spring or an item has an available fund

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a grant associated with it and we need to you know provide our match and

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there’s some timing requirements with that so we met individuals with all the different

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departments that had submitted items we sort of um we push some stuff out that

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said that we could wait into the spring for those items so this is really the list that we presented to the Capital

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Improvements committee last week they ranked them that information is in your packet in addition to that each of the

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Department’s requests and their backup materials are in your packet and again

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they’re here this evening if you have any questions

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any questions to Ms Barrett see you none bring it back to the board

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article four I make a motion that we approve the inclusion of article 4 in

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the fall Town media War I’ll second that motion by Mr Canty second by Mr bletza

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discussion seeing none Mr bletza I vote Yes Mr Helm

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yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes and myself yes unanimous

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article 17 we’re going to hold off till next week right there that’s right okay

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article 16. okay I will I’ll start this so um just

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go back a few months during the conversations of one of our reorganizations as you all recall

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um we you agreed to transfer the harbor Master’s office over

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to the police department and during those discussions we had a we had a

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lengthy discussion about the Habra Masters team so the

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habermaster and the three assistant have a masses being moved over to group four

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pension system and the chief has been working very closely with the attorney

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from the Retirement Board to draft legislation for a home rule petition

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that will go in front of the town meeting members on October 21st so that’s complete and that’s what we had

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to present tonight chief even German uh Dana Flynn chief of

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police as the time I just stated this was part of agreement or discussions we had earlier

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this year for the reorganization placed in the Harvard Masters under my department

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and the whole premise for them be coming out of my department there was a change in uh or a law passed two years ago

45:45

police reform under police reform anybody who who

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enforce any type of law or carries a firearm on duty or is engaged any has

45:59

any statutory powers of arrests have to have to be post certified none of the

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post certification you need to have a full-time Police Academy previously the gentleman we’re talking

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about tonight only required a part-time Police Academy did not have full police policy throughout the community

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and I did not enjoy all the benefits of police officers in the state

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since the change they’ve all meet the qualifications of post they met all the training requirements

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to receive this certifications and for all intents and purposes they are full-time police officers

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since they became unto me I made them special police officers which gives them a little more

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um control and Authority throughout the community and I think this move here is

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uh is much in line with the new new responsibilities uh in training

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requirements any questions or comments from the board

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I I’d like to make a comment Mr chairman I’ve been working for the trial court

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I’m currently an assistant chief in for 27 years and for 27 years

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my unions told me we’re going to get you for it and we’re still in that group four

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and this added benefit to the Harbor Master this is a huge benefit going from

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group one to group four it is it’s it’s a you know it’s it’s a it’s a huge

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benefit and it’s something that for 27 years I wish I had it because the

47:36

benefits are it’s just incredible so I’m glad you’re doing this because they under because they deserve it you know

47:44

as police officers that deserve this group for uh grouping so anyway great this is a great thing thank you

47:53

Mr Canty then Mr Mahoney uh Chief this is

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related to the subject matter but a little different than what you’re exactly presented on so it came up uh

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last two weeks ago rather in a discussion we were having during

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our goal setting Workshop about obviously this

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transition happened at the end of last year took effect to the beginning of this fiscal year I’m glad you touched on

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a lot of the transitions that they’re post certified they’re up to stuff on that stuff it was mentioned though that

48:30

there was still some admin work that’s being done by I think the former admin from the

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billing and payroll correct that’s discussed that today as a matter of fact and that should be rectified by November

48:46

1st November 1st okay great thank you that’s good to hear thank you

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if I know this is I’m fully supportive of this article and it was part of the discussions we had

48:59

with respect to the change in the structure this has been talked about before is it

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is there a reasonable expectation now that this will pass uh up at Beacon Hill

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I can tell you that I have had conversations with members of our state

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delegation who feel confident that they can convince their colleagues to vote in

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favor of this and there is there is always the chance that

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some legislators um may think that this sets a precedent with other Harbor masses on the coast

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um and so may vote against it but I can tell you that at least what I have been told they feel confident that this will

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pass at the State House okay thank you you know if I may add um Mr Blitzer always admit says we’re unique it’s no

49:50

different with our master’s Department if you do a survey up and down the coast from Gloucester all the way down to New

49:55

Bedford Westport area every town runs there hob Master’s Department different

50:00

um our high Master’s office have always been armed they’ve always had certain police Powers they’ve always gotten

50:07

themselves a lot of times they did the training on their own accord without being required so we are unique in that fashion and I

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think we have the support of the Plymouth Retirement Board I’ve spoken to Mr Saco their their representative

50:20

attorney and uh he believes we have a good case

50:29

thank you Chief thank you

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pleasure of the board make a motion that we approve the occlusion the inclusion

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of article 16 the fall time meeting warrant seven second

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motion by Mr Canty suckered by Mr Mahoney discussion Mr bletza

50:58

I vote Yes Mr Helm yes Mr Canty yes Mr Mahoney yes myself yes unanimous

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thank you anyone wishing to speak on the public comment

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anyone online Mr chairman uh if anybody is available online you may

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click the raise hand icon at the bottom of the screen appears that there is no one

51:37

CNN move on to the town managers report Mr brindisi sure so just a couple quick

51:45

updates some of them I say to them last week but you should see starting next

51:50

week active demolition taking place at Stevens Field so the two structures that are at Stevens Field the DPW has met

51:57

with Mr Gould who’s the project lead on that on the Stevensville renovation and

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they’ve committed to stat starting the demolition next week moving on Mr Mahoney and I and Mr David

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Gould will be attending a tour of the lighthouse over at sequish with the

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government services Administration this coming Thursday as you may recall CPC

52:23

has expressed an interest back in June time period to pursue the the

52:29

acquisition of the lighthouse over at sequish right now it’s been cons it’s

52:35

been put up a surplus property by the federal government and CPC would like to at least go through the process I think

52:41

it’s a eight acre parcel of land so we’ll keep the boy posted on that and certainly CPC as well

52:48

just as a reminder that folks that are listening at home this is the last weekend of the crossover

52:53

so it’ll be closed after at the end of this weekend some good news as you can recall last

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year the town for the first time participated in the chamber of commerce’s annual Halloween

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trick-or-treating event on Court Street so the morale committee

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has actively organizing our participation again this year so the

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good thing is on Tuesday so we’ll be open until at least six o’clock for our folks and children to come

53:25

trick-or-treating so this is my plug for individuals who want to donate candy to town hall so we can distribute we’re

53:32

happy to accept donations Mr brandisi yeah so

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my company’s donated the candy last year for you and be more than happy to do it again this year we appreciate that you

53:45

donate I think what a dozen big cases of candy last year yeah she does things in a big fashion that’s

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right so we appreciate that and Go Diego Go Home Betty we’ve we’ve already received phone calls uh last week from

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parents asking if we’re going to participate again this year yeah um so uh as you know the LA it seems

54:07

like we continue to get these extreme rain events as of late you saw what

54:12

happened in the news last night in Leominster they had severe flooding in Central Mass which is unusual giving

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that it’s not a Coastal Community and so working with a fire chief and his

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Emergency Management director we are actively monitoring hurricane Lee we don’t have any clear information just

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yet we expect to learn more over the next coming days as to the track of Lee but we are expecting uh certainly heavy

54:39

rains and high winds and with all the heavy rain we’ve had as of late certainly we’re concerned about power

54:44

outages because of downed trees so we’ll keep the community cued in as to what we’re expecting and

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certainly will have resources mobilized to respond to any type of emerging event

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um I want to thank the fire Association for a really organizing a greater uh

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nine September 11th event yesterday over at the at the memorial we had

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um our Congressman Keating was in attendance reply nacho was intent in

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attendance it’s like when bletza was able to speak on behalf of the board as well and reply

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Nacho’s husband who was a New York City police officer was the guest speaker

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yesterday so he’s now a police officer in Kingston I was able to talk about his

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experience at 9 11 22 years ago so again it was a great event and think the fire association

55:41

association for pulling that together just as a I know I mentioned this a

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little bit last week but we just appointed six new offices uh yesterday five of them will be entering the police

55:55

academy the end of this year but that still leaves us with eight vacancies at the police department so again we’ll

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continue to work through the Civil Service process which is cumbersome to say the least to fill those vacancies

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um on another note we hit a milestone go to

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a bad depends how you look at it where our co-response team at the police department so we have as you know two

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clinicians who work at the police department that respond to mental health calls for service

56:24

as of last week we hit our 500th call for service these these two clinicians started their

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work a little over a year ago so April of 22. we’ve already had 500 cultural service and as you all voted a couple

56:41

weeks back we want to add a third clinician for the third shift and so we’ll be working with the chief on that

56:47

goal of the cost of the next 12 months just as a reminder about that Road

56:52

Bridge Project we’re expecting to begin in November again this was a highly discussed and important Bridge

57:00

reconstruction project and we’re we’re tracking to start in November so we’ll keep folks posted on that one and then

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last I just wanted to bring up as you all know yesterday was the last of the MBTA Town Hall discussions led by Mr Lee

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Hartman now that that’s complete we are hoping Mr chairman to have a joint

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meeting with the planning board on October 25th which is a Wednesday if the

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boy so desires and now that you bring that up I did speak with um

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the chairman in Joel you know but I’ve had some health issues so October will work fine October 25th okay so we’ll

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we’ll plan for that then yeah sure appending any questions that’s all I have for this evening any questions for Derek

57:48

John and Charlie yeah Derek thanks for the update

57:53

especially on Stevens Field that one has been I think almost 20 years in the making so that’s significant but

58:01

is it also going to close down as soon as they go into demo and they’re mobilized

58:06

that that is off limits to the public correct that’s correct right once they set the demolition they’re going to

58:11

close the pack down yes okay so they close the park down and uh that probably should take us whether permitting

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through the majority of the 24 season according to Mr ghoul he is they’re

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tracking to reopen the park July 1st of 24.

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okay all right that’s good that’s great news if that

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happens so that’s fantastic thank you Mr chairman

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I have a comment to the the res the resource the Mental Health Resource

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that’s right with the offices that’s probably one of the greatest programs that that we’ve enacted with the police

58:55

departments uh 500 calls it’s just amazing and I just wanted to make a

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comment that I was at the Cal the other day in Taco Michelle Brady and she

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brought a young lady out from Bridgewater State who was volunteering she’s a clinician a

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student that’s volunteering twice twice a week and I think that is fantastic

59:19

helping the seniors so you know I was very excited to meet her and I think that’s going to be a

59:25

great program so that’s great thinking out of the box I don’t know if that was Michelle that did that and she’s I want

59:32

to give her kudos for that whoever else was involved so then I have a couple of questions the number one question I hear

59:40

from everybody in town is when is the Spire going to be done does anybody have

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any idea when it’s going to be done I told them sometimes I can tell you

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what I was told that they were supposed to be complete with all their work by the end of November end of November

59:57

that’s what I was told but when I look at the progress or lack thereof I question whether or not that’s a real

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Target date right and the other question is that you brought up the lighthouse

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uh Corvette sequish the only the problem I have with it and

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is as a Plymouth resident we own that that land but we can’t we can’t go there

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because it’s it’s private we we’re not able to access unless we’re visiting the

1:00:28

resident there so I I think people might we better be careful how how we’re going to do that

1:00:34

using taxpayers money that can’t access that that build them so so if we do if

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it’s something that’s CPC and that and we feel is something we should do until meeting does we better change the access

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there it’s no it’s not dexbury it’s Plymouth

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sake wishes Plymouth so anyway we’ll have to change uh that

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works yeah we’ll definitely have to look at that yeah it’s it’s something to really consider so agreed yep thank you

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anything else would there new business

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I I just want to touch on one thing uh years ago and John’s probably done it uh

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a couple times EOC training we used to have drills for the board members I know

1:01:26

it’s when we had the plant I get it but when I look around what’s going on in the world I’m very concerned every night

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believe me um and being living through a massive hurricane uh firsthand I I know what

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happens and what you have to do um if the board feels fine and not

1:01:46

saying we don’t have competent people we do we have plans but I also think that the board should be well aware of how it

1:01:54

plays out with the staging areas uh when me missed call when you make press releases so I mean as a selectman I

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think everybody should be well versed in that just to be prepared which brings me

1:02:07

to the next thing because we have two chiefs here and a new DPW director I I really was going

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to bring this up anyway but I would like to see us and I know we have a plan but

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I would like to sit with the Chiefs and direct maybe in the DPW director and

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actually see something right here on paper just a very simple you know like

1:02:30

you said we’ll get Cruise ready where will the cruise be how much equipment do we have how many trucks do we have who’s

1:02:36

going to be called in so then I know it’s going to take its form at the EOC I get it but when I sit where I said I see

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and I see different things and what I’m comfortable with and I would just be real in if the EOC director naturally

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should be there something simple but something that we all know so something happens I’m I know where I’m going and

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um and that’s where I’ll be if I’m in this chair that’s my job and it’s all our jobs

1:03:07

so those that are interested I think you know we should talk about it uh you should talk about it with the other board members and and see

1:03:15

and uh I would just feel better knowing something on paper I don’t know what the protocol was where you were before and I

1:03:23

know where we have the experienced people but I like to see something a little you know we have 10 trucks we

1:03:30

have five guys we have 20 guys this will be the first step this is the second step so we can come out and say you know

1:03:37

we’re well planned for this this is where this is what we’re going to be doing as a town this is where you should

1:03:43

be Sheltering uh every you know and I know that’s already in the main plan but

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the more I see and the more I don’t see is the reason I’m bringing this up

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because I would like to just just so I’m clear Mr chairman that that request is this book in preparation hurricane Lee

1:04:01

in general yeah because we’ve been very lucky in this community and I I don’t

1:04:07

want to to push it without having something that I’m really comfortable I definitely think we could have something

1:04:13

a training down at the EOC especially for some of the new board members who haven’t had a chance to go down there

1:04:20

um there’s been an investment made in the EOC and if you haven’t seen it I think you’ll be very impressed with the

1:04:26

work that’s been put in by Christian Horvath and the fire chief to make that a 21st century EOC and then I think on

1:04:34

top of that we can go through a process and opening up the comprehensive emergency management plan and going

1:04:40

through roles and responsibilities I would encourage those folks who haven’t taken an ICS course that’s a basic ICS

1:04:48

100 you can taken online and that gives you some basic understanding of if we

1:04:53

were to mobilize and have to open up the EOC the basic structure of federal structure which we all have to operate

1:04:59

within so that would be helpful as well okay thank you

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anyone have anything on the letters all business

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okay just two one because the DPW direct is here I I brought this up a couple

1:05:19

times and I’d like to bring into your attention when a water main goes on the

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street um the people you know the residents they sat calling me and they have no

1:05:31

water and some of them it’s a health thing they have to have water they’re compromised and you know how do

1:05:37

we reach out to them I always you know if you can’t go door-to-door I understand that but if not why can’t we

1:05:44

do a reverse number and I guess the only way to do that is if they voluntarily give you their information so I guess my

1:05:51

question is what you’ve done in other communities you don’t have to answer this today but um maybe some recommendations on how

1:05:58

we can go about that whether it’s a mailing or the Chiefs get a CNM Chief Lynn

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so I spoke recently with uh assistant uh director Nikki Defrancesco at the

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Sheriff’s Department uh we can use their reverse and I want for that and they can they can narrow

1:06:19

down their calls to um the street

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the neighborhood two streets or whatever what we need to do is we just need to come up with a list of authorized

1:06:31

requesters requesters and it’ll be done well why don’t we leave that between

1:06:37

Derek and yourself to figure that out but that’s awesome great that’s

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that’s what the community’s been looking for and my last thing is

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I don’t know it’s my night tonight I guess uh street lights

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um I’ve talked to Patrick Farah this morning on yesterday morning and there’s a lot of them out now he

1:06:59

called back and says he agrees there are quite a few well there are what’s the root they’re out when I say out I’m not

1:07:05

talking one I have to watch where I’m going because I’m looking up more than where I’m going and I’m getting told to watch where I’m

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going by someone else so that being said I guess he reached out to eversource in

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the long and the shot of the story was they don’t have that department and that used to be Jimmy latasick if anybody

1:07:23

that knows he’s retired now but basically Plum is one of I think three towns that does not own their street

1:07:30

lights that’s right I know it came up with previous administration they didn’t want to do it for whatever the reason

1:07:35

was and we could have got it you know a pretty good deal so you know I guess the bottom line is

1:07:42

this it’s like they’re really not worried about it so I think you need to put a little teeth to them if I may

1:07:49

um if it means a legal action I know it’s over a hundred and something thousand dollars we pay them if only

1:07:55

half the street lights are working I don’t think we should be paying a hundred and something thousand dollars something to get their attention

1:08:01

and whether you know whatever you might think or discuss with them or go back and forth maybe you and Patrick and

1:08:08

bring it back to the board because it’s something that needs to be addressed if they want us to take over the street

1:08:14

lights and you think it’s a good idea are the powers above you then let’s look

1:08:19

at it and but I think it should be the deal that was made you know why is all that changed I mean it’s a no win for

1:08:26

Plymouth I guess what I’m saying right and they did say in that in that correspondence that they don’t have

1:08:33

staff to monitor street lights that are no longer working in that they wrote in the email that

1:08:41

their expectation is that residents will report out street lights so that’s their

1:08:46

business model which really does make a lot of sense and then they also wrote in that email

1:08:52

as to you as you to your point Mr chairman that we are one or only three communities that haven’t purchased the

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street lights and you know Patrick Farah came before the boy I want to say it was the April time period

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and did a fairly um in-depth presentation on what it would take for the town to acquire the

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street lights and I believe it was about a 1.7 million dollar acquisition very different than where we were five years

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ago and we could have purchased that for less than a hundred thousand dollars but the return on the investment is

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about seven years so you know every day after year seven we make money on the

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acquisition so it’s a policy decision at some point I think that we should maybe you know if

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it’s up to the board have as an agenda item prior to the budget process and

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this would have to be a budget item for consideration but is that something

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that we want to do because we know if we wait a year or two years that 1.7 is going to be 1.9 or over 2 million so at

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some point we have to make that policy decision but I’m happy to continue to work with Patrick and ever saw us on

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trying to get them to pay closer attention to their street lights and I appreciate that and I I understand all

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that so I guess my question really is and I’ll just let it be you don’t need the answer right now is to hold back the

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payments to eversource and get their attention I mean I don’t think there’s a quote in

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the Commonwealth that’s going to go against the community our community paying a bill that we’re not getting

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service fund if you point blank at telling us you don’t you did away with the people to fix it then do away with

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our bill a do away with a piece of it so I I think until they’re pressed I don’t think they’re going to do anything

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as long as you just keep paying it I think I’ll leave that to you in the league of eagles but I would I would try a bite of

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that Apple sure I know it would get my attention if I was at eversource but I

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don’t know so Mr Canty I would with that

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my only concern I agree that we want the lights to work for people I don’t

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we also don’t really have the staff to be monitoring the lights well I don’t

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think because our staff is already doing a lot of work in-house all right already so if we’re going to be taking on a

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bunch of Lights scattered throughout the town that’s going to have to be factored into Personnel decisions

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also the prospect of buying a bunch of Lights many of which are not in good

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working order is not particularly enticing so that the relative state of

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repair these aren’t a bunch of Cadillacs a lot of them are a bunch of old you know beaters that have been running on

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fumes for a number of years so I I just I we already have a existing

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Town infrastructure problem that we’re not we’re working on fixing but we’re

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not currently great at and I would hate to just add more to that pie with the

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best of intentions without a plan to actually maintain them once we’ve acquired them eversource may not be

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doing it great but at least they’re doing it to an extent as long as they’re being notified

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how are we going to step up to the plate and make it different for people and add value to the equation that’s just my

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concern thank you and to that concern I’ll have my concern

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if we if we had actually purchased them five years ago we wouldn’t be having the discussions

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right now and we’d be putting out the new lights like they have right outside the building they only leave they are

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doing it in some communities but they’ve done away with the person that that does this and I agree with you I I think when

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it was presented it did have the maintenance and how many people and you know I think that was all presented but

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if we can just look at it I’m not saying but I just have a big problem paying a

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hundred and something thousand dollars for something we’re not getting I mean you don’t do it with paper you don’t do

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it with anything else when you go to the gas station do you you pay them 20 bucks and leave when it’s 40. I mean that’s

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where I’m coming from but that’s it for me

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anybody else have anything emotional adjourn Mr Canty Mr bletzer

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I just want to touch on why I’m in dress down mode I’ve had an illness

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and I’m battling with it and I’m gonna win and that might be like this for a couple

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weeks so just bear with me as soon as I can suit up I will I’m not on vacation

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but it’s just a situation I’m in right now so thank you for watching have a good

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week thank you