Now in session. How? So again. Alright, the bike. Are there any more people wearing the end of the room? Alright. And so the town clerk is knowing that the return of the warrant shows the warrant was do we posted it? Probably served. So we’ll defense with the reading of the warrant.
We have a list of non registered voters and non residents who wish to attend this meeting. And upgrading Turkey. So we have Lisa Mosczynski from the Metacomet Land Trust, Karis North Town council. It went Lindholm, Town planner Bill Kessler, Fire Chief. I will gains. ABA BMI.
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I’d like to just give you the various elected employees connotation parking tonight, cleaning myself. My name is Tom Merolli. I’m yours, town moderator, sitting right here to our wonderful town clerk. Ellen Canboro over here on the right are the metrics, particleboard as well as our interim town Ministry teams
Commission and Town council, north and over here on left early members of the Finance Committee. And I’m sure there are other elected and appointed officials here if they want to identify the position to they like to speak tonight. They are welcome to do so, and before we get started, I just
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Going to say both open and then you are going to be allowed to vote. Please vote on this nice test question, which is are you attending the sand parade and tree lighting on Friday 12 month. Eating poke yes or no, I wait till we have the people amount votes.
Roughly that we have as people in the audience. You know your clickers working. If it lights up things in the lights, well, if you see and you should see, OK. Yes, so you. Can do that? Service. So that’s right. You know, I don’t see it. Let me. Think about this question.
So then we talked about and those 47 to 42, are you attending the Santa parade and tree lighting on Friday, 12 months and that that’s how that’s going to work for each question. You’re not. Yeah, for the uh. If you do have any questions, need any assistance or do not
Understand what’s going on, please ask. We will try our hardest to get I the answer for you. I can’t make answers appear after you know, but I can try. What? I’m so without further ado, I’m going to jump right into it. Article 1. Uh. All right.
I won’t hear the town will vote to transfer from free cash. The sum of $17,325.97 and to pay bills were prior year. These bills are as follows. Verizon $577.36 MIIA $7862.31. Thanks for accounting $4200 Quest Diagnostics $133.57 and humoresque $4572.73 starting. And Mrs?
Ohh, that was the last one on there is Ameresco 4570 two 73. And it’s not on the screen. That wasn’t what was spinning the survivor. I can fix it with like. That’s how much it is in the motion. Discussion.
Five bills of a prior year that need to be paid for a total of 17,300 and 4596 at Verizon amount was an incorrect journal entry that was made to another budget. And then corrected once corrected, this left no available funds for the to ENCUMBER. Mia MIIA, is that Massachusetts Interlocal insurance association?
Each I really found premium payments depend on was missed due to personnel change, its outgoing human resources, personnel and equipment, and personnel gap kinsherf accounting. The invoice was, umm, that automatically to an email that was not being monitored during the leave of personnel, and the
Automatic reply was sent to an email that wasn’t monitored on the accountant and umm, you can first diagnostics. I was for a for routine without a routine three physical demands. The invoice receipt was received after the physical year and prior year services and have Moresco is for electrical
Services, for street lights of the utility. Billing is not going to include a different different timing such that 12 utility bills made in each fiscal year will be paid August through July. You do have a finance company recommendations Finance Committee recommended town improve Article 1. You do we have any further discussion? Right.
I’m going to open the phone. I right now I’m going to close this vote now. Article passes 113 to 6. Article 2 to see if the town will vote to raise the Propriate indoor transfer, some of money from available funds into the stabilization account.
I move that the town of how to transfer from free cats the sum of 175,000 and just stabilization account. Right. Do we have discussion? UM, the balance of the stabilization account as of 630-2023 is 1,090,000 and $200.00 of this. These funds are replacing both thumbs that were transferred out
At the May 23rd outside May 2023 annual town meeting and or 75,000 for a multipurpose track list and dump truck vehicle and 100,000 for the Town hall water treatment system. You do. You have on finance me recommendation. Finance Committee recommends of the town of 3/2. You further discussion, right?
I am going to open the boat. Closing the road. Our house is 112 to 13 we need. Right. Article 3 Season Council vote to raise that appropriate and or transfer as some of the money from available funds into the capital expenditure account or after you anything or listen
There I move that the town vote to transfer from free cash telling the capital expenditure account. 2nd right, do we have a fine time? They come recommendations. Finance Committee recommend to town approve Article 3 and do we have discussion and capital capital expenditure account as
Of 63023 is $209,708.00 and so with this transfer the balance will be $309,708.00 you further discussion on this? I’m opening the vote. Hate about closing? 113 to 12 passes. Hey Article 4 to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate transfer from available funds and or otherwise
By the summer might be added to the other post employment benefits, OK, Liability Trust fund, or take any other action relation there too. I move that the town vote to transfer from free cash the sum of $5000 to be added to the other post. Employment benefits will have liability. Trust fund.
Second, did you discuss it? I with this transfer, the OBEB Liability Trust Fund will be $170,387.00. If you give you everything, com recommendation Finance Committee recommends that the town improve right before you. And further discussion. That now let’s take a boat. Love it. Who? It’s time employees in the road. Article path is.
Thank you. And our five see the town will vote to accept the local option of MGL, Chapter 44, section 54, as amended, per some great sections and chapters, also known as the Prudent Investor Rule, which seeks to optimize returns on trust fund monies. I couldn’t get the town vote to accept the request.
We have MGL chapter 44, section 54 as amended per section 26 of Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2023, also known as the Prudent investor Growth, which seeks to optimize returns on trust funds on 82nd discussion. I on 8923, the governor signed the FY24 budget and Section 26 for turbines.
The use of the prudent investor rule for trust funds this section enables municipal treasurers to apply the prudent investor rule to optimize returns on trust fund monies as defined in SGO chapter 203 C This fraud with the current available options for investing while still maintaining the
Responsibility of effectively managing safety of equity and yield you do we have further discussion on this second. You funds. You guys like James for S 72 Bellingham St? Put some current advocate balance at the Towns Trust Fund please. We have against her on that. The we don’t.
We compare, we do not have an answer right for that one exception. Any other discussion? Hey, I’m going to you to work and both opens. Alright, I’m going to close the boat. They are the passes. OK, Article 6 to see if the town will vote to raise and
Appropriate indoor transfer from available funds with some of money purchase 2 mobile speed limit signs would take any other action in relation there too. I move that the town vote to transfer from free cash the sum of $8200 to purchase 2 mobile speed limit signs. Alright, station the Highway Department wishes to purchase
Two portable mobile speed through three limit signs which can be removed and attached to any speed limit sign in town. This will be done in conjunction with the Police Department to aid in speed limit enforcement and compliance. These types of mobile signs have shown to increase awareness and
Slow traffic, which in turn makes the roads safer into public. Safer to travel for the public. Thank you. I’m doing the same time recommendation Finance Committee recommends that the town through Article 6. Thank you further discussion. Alright, I’m going to open the boat. Very proposing vote. You article passes. Article 7.
See if the town will vote to erase an appropriate indoor transfer from available funds. A sum of money to purchase a new or late model used dump truck for the Highway Department or take any other action relating there too. Imagine select board recommends that the town meeting pass over
Our seven of the special town meeting warrant for N6N62023 and I. So move. Do we have any further discussion? Right. Ohh. Comments again. OK. Umm. And then open about. Focus on. Both pass it over. That’s very good. Hey, one thing about what? Every time they never stops.
I’m thinking people are done and then. Right now I’m closing the book. Yeah. That’s good. Or don’t you have over past the not the hard part but and? OK, Article 8% of Earth’s article. OK. That’s OK. Looking the wrong phone, see if the town will vote to raise and
Appropriate indoor transfer from available funds. A sum of money to purchase computer software for the Highway Department or just take any act together. Accumulation. There too, I moved at the town vote to transfer from free cash the sum of $19,000 to purchase computer software for the Highway Department. 2nd exception.
The Highway Department will be purchasing work order software to increase efficiency and track Rd repairs. The software may be later expanding to track to track following salting and manpower use. You do. You have been come recommendation by this committee. Recommends that the town, through our blade. Thank you. Alright, further discussion.
I’m opening the vote, seeing nobody. Hey, I’m gonna close the boat now. The passions. OK, Article 9. Give the Council vote to raise the appropriate therefore transfer from available funds for some of money and purchase a FoB based key system for all exterior doors and town hall, or
Take any other action in relation there too. I move that the town vote to transfer from free cash the sum of $12,000 to purchase a FoB. If you could exterior doors in the town hall, right. Thank you. Further discussions for discussion in general, it was
Recommended that the door locks on the town hall and town hall annex the formal living former library building, be updated with the same system views that the police and fire stations. It’s going around more security and let me access electronically rather than handing out and collecting physical keys to those who require access.
You think I’m recommendation by this committee? Recommends the town through our the line. You further discussion on this. OK. Alright, that’s seeing anyone. I’m going to vote. I am closing the vote. Article passes. Article 10 being and. And see if the town will transfer some money from the CPA
Budget reserve account for professional design services and flipping signage and keypads for an 18 hole disc golf course on town owned land. Location to TBD or take any other action relations things. Emotion. Yeah. Outside. Hang on. You know, like that it’s green. Doesn’t say I’m waiting cause it’s different slightly.
I wanna type the correct words. You’re good. Yeah. So when take me private, you know because it’s St between your presentation twins and look at the town transfer $10,000 CPA budget reserve account to fund professional design services for an 18 hole golf course on town owned land location to be
Determined that so you wait which gets up there nothing well discussions. Ohh, I’m just doing a discussion from the people presenting our first never moved you think comment and and then office picked up living things on recommendation on this the Finance Committee does not have a recommendation for the town
Due to the 22. Sweet. Thank you. If we have just touching from the proponents. So this money would be to fund just the design phase of proposed control. Of course, on time when we have quite a bit of open space that we have reserved and we could use some more recreation options
As well is a perfect fit for our local space areas and. You have the discussion, yes. Jack Hodgens says 16 King Philip the pad rise. But my capacity as a member of Finance Committee, but as a citizen of cannabis. Umm, I I rise in opposition to this two reasons, 1
Procedurally, and then two, substantively. From a procedural standpoint, I think a cursory review of any one of the other articles that is for you here for Special Town meeting. Up here to me to fairly have some maximus to solve the problem. Press some little version.
See any of them as bills and the like difference in, for example, secure the facilities and town like uh. So be my suggestion that this could push to be annual town meeting procedural basis for that reason. 2nd subjectively, I believe that you better be suited for
Discussions there to figure out what is the all the end of this. You know, $10,000, which miniature for study, you know. Prove this letter. Kind of meeting, quite frankly, I think it’s going to be difficult that only do at a annual town meeting in OC as
$10,000 would have been spent and leave it, you know, but yeah, OK, bar the door, that’s really the horses out with the $10,000 is going, quite frankly, I think did sounds good. Greater, greater priorities and greater heads and involved. So that’s good. But now thank you. 22 Yeah, finally discussing. We have a.
Thank you. I’m going to invite you. I can’t wait. So this call is an activity that is umm can we play my friend people? It’s played just like regular golf, but it’s not irregular golf course. It’s not clear cutting. You know, like you’re using your natural resources to put in this.
Of course, of there’s you’re playing in the woods, playing, playing and field. Umm. And when you play like young, old. This is a course that’s been offering right now it’s a 9 hole course from an 18 hole course and this is multi use area. It’s off of the bike path.
You may from these biking area and it’s also utilized and it’s all of course and fishing spot. I’m going to it’s very well received over there. We do not have an 18 hole course in the southern Blackstone Valley on so this would be the first bit kind and. You have invitation for it.
So that’s me. That is my first priority and Lisa late, but just to show that anyone use somebody older than age can pick it up. I just picked it up really couple years ago. I tried to the first one, but I’ve played a lot this year and
That was my first version you can play with old and young alike different skill levels. Umm, most of it’s free to the public if it’s on public land, it’s free. If, if it’s a private force, then usually be they talking to pay. But I’m public questions cannot, and the tests are relatively inexpensive.
You don’t need special clothing. You just come as you are and basically if you can throw Frisbee, it’s like a high. Like you don’t. Sweet. You get some health benefits from playing. Disc golf and it’s a full body exercise. Works your on switch shifts back you shoulders.
You can lose weight by being out on the disc golf course because you’re walking for an 18 hole course, you’re walking approximately 2 miles at least, depending on how sweet you are. Umm. If you’re outdoors, you’re getting mood and energy boost improves your heart, tells and improves your sleep by reducing stress.
This is OK travel discount of course. Done on monkeys venue, as you can see, they just it’s it’s in the regular and natural environment. They didn’t clear countries. That is the tree that fell. That was not that. Trees was caught alone. And that’s very typical.
There’s a lot of them that are just in the words they’re going on with the lake is an old sickly site. That I’m just sitting there. Like when do anything with it? Because I think it had stuff there. I think this one I sent. Thanks and that’s another example of using the natural
Environment. We can’t really see it, but it’s a for the future, but the baskets way, way down. Ohh and the truck through that nice uh. That’s it, right? No one more thing. OK, absolutely. So in order for me to, umm, get started now, the reason I’m
Asking for the money now is just both designers come to the Northeast and the winter, so they’re not gonna come if we don’t get the money till may. And then I have to wait another good cycle to just get the design for them to look at our properties, where we’re gonna several properties.
But you want email. We start that until next winter, so pretty $10,000 design study. It’s being used. What is special town meeting actually attended here? To pretty good tonight. Not much different than maybe. Very much, yeah. So would you have a rough estimate for 18 holes?
Umm for the equipment and the design services is $24,950 and then you’ll add any landscaping services on top of that. We estimate that to be another 30,000. So the whole project, we estimate that 60,000, that’s not our firm number, but we would come for the rest of the money
And many assuming that they say that our mind is my 4th. OK. We have further discussion. Please come sign up by the mics. Good. And then on my left or another thing you did, meaning you’re gonna Commission. I would have found the first person.
I have the phone answer because I’ve known you for difficult fortunate I guess. You board information which could be helpful to college plan where where are the possible locations. I think you might want to know that. The people who live in the area, UM and and I understand that please pushed you presented.
This gonna have me down marking the restrooms. I wish there was no resting now marking maintenance of the properties. A lot of information I think to make of it. Yeah, absolutely. Directly fonts to. So the the maintenance on at this golf course, that random
And typically you would ask for volunteers to come say there was a big storm and there were falling branches, you people would walk the course and you were falling branches. But the nice thing about this problem is they’re really once it’s scan, there really isn’t any maintenance. You have teeth. Teeth.
That’s where you’re gonna stand and throw. Might have to be brushed off, but the players do that. Typically, there are no bathrooms on different courses. You tell me where you playing games and parking the locations we are looking at the three locations that we are looking at all have parking already.
Umm, so that’s that’s one of the considerations we got then answer everything. I I’m sorry around the right to OK with the following 56 Blackstone Street. I just have a question. Previously on the calendar. You should have it and I I’m writing right now.
I’ve already had women and people coming into my yard, which is sort of a concern and should be very private. I sorry, this isn’t this. I’m time with panic. There’s as it pertains to the article, before understand, that’s one of the functional design. Those and discussion discussing any locations that just talking
About the study. So I would ask you to save your comment when they actually the stuffing what gave us. But I guess to be unless it has to do with the angels studies, how many trees come down? OK, that’s the thing. Really funny. Umm.
Like for just just about in general, how many trees do we have them getting and I can give you a number, but chance with you, OK. So you have to find out the setting. What would you? This Office 3 Jones at dusk. One. Alright, thank you.
I’m wondering if I like them three questions about how well attended is received by golf course in Milford. We get. I actually know this number because I talked to recently, so they uh, there’s an app called. You just let me track.
So really the number I have only track this people that use the app, but the app is getting about 250 people a week. Now at that dissolve, so with with nine goals, that means that anyone time they might be. Not very expensive isn’t. It’s not at all the time.
You know people there and we never have neither. I do think he is of his average was like he’s making. Sorry I don’t know what to make a comment because they heard you presentation. Umm. Building things, at least back that is going to track people from into town.
I think it can be a real benefit. I know what you’ll do. Some of our smaller you know attractions and you know I local business and can benefit from that extra effect. And so I think you know, that’s certainly one of the best places to this. Thank you. I’m any other further discussion.
Not gonna go to a close right now. Period. Be anyone? I’m opening up the boat, yeah. Hey I’m plugging develop. Article fails. Almost. You OK? Article 11 is a really good one and asking you please refer to the yeah. So how meeting warrant was?
Where do you and he’s going to jump right into that once you’re on this one. Uh, we have a motion. CPA and you have I’m standing up. And you can just keep talking. Sorry. Uh, yeah. Later, the department tree. Yeah. Yeah. And we can make Preservation Committee moves that the town
Vote to acquire by purchase gifts or otherwise. Then accept the grant community town of permanent conservation restriction to hold as a Co holder with mechanically interest basis or other eligible Land Trust organization, or as the full folder, and then covering all or enforcement
Departments are going to learn now formally only by now or formerly owned by James Harden and Cherry Bethel Industry Percentage. But you paralyzed chapter 24B12 and DLC180 four, 31 and 33 to the under the care and custody and control of the conservation restriction and the metal Comment Land Trust that parcel
Of land being described, as well as a portion of two parcels of land with addresses of 1 on one and 109 N Avenue, 111 acres identified with assessor map by Black 189 lot 101 and 15 acres identified in the sensors to have 5 + 189 block and in the
Back end for the time that there’s a map being on file account part and further to see if the town will vote to appropriate $225,000 from the undesignated Community Preservation Fund account under the GAIL 4344 B of the general laws and amended for any other enabling authority for this
Purpose and any expenses related. They’re too limited logging, including but not limited to, the purchase price, legal and Sociated acquisition cost, and be authorized that our contribution Commission and town officers to enter into all agreements to any and all enter into all agreements and execute any and all instruments as they
May be necessary to affect the set purchase. And you take all related actions necessary to appropriate carry out the back Commission and I felt. We have a big congratulation on this Finance Committee recommended the town and providing 11. Thank you. Discussion is there a second of we?
To be in the second that motion. Thank you. Have discussion. Thanks one. And have them to fly. Yeah, alright. OK, this phone would help to preserve 116 acres of the Vandersluis farm from development and preserve it in perpetuity, even if historic farm lands and iconic North Ave
Phoenix views and allowing public access to the secular property. This purchase would require really taxes renewable bride, and you’ll get a conclusion because there are more than enough funds currently in the CPA accounts. Next slide please. You might recognize the white barn. That Maple Farm Sanctuary, spell 116 acres.
That the town would help to preserve includes most of the farm fields. The woods behind the buildings that are farm pond and portion of money drug the buildings are not included in the conservation restriction and tried to. The town event comes Lancut would be buying the development
Right where a conservation restriction devices with still own the land, but they in teacher owners would have to keep it up with space and our farming and tell out the public access forever transaction. Find me. A professional phrasal is done to determine the value of the conservation restrictions.
If value of 1.6 million even though the value is 1.6 million, the town only have to contribute 225 thousands towards the project. The conservation restriction value is high because the land is primed for subdivision and the vendor solutions would be giving up the option to sell the property for development. Thanks. Bye.
Thank you. And town contributed $225,000 when a common Land Trust applied for a mass partnership grants $175,000. And how many friends would raise $18,150.00 for the total project cost of $418,150? The value the conservation restriction as well, though 1.6 million the development value that they understand the
Dominating is over 1.2 million, different, extremely generous. Thank you. We can’t right next slide please. Even though the verses with all the properties the public would have access on trails that are planning the back of the property, this would include patent and recreation activities
Such as hiking, cross country skiing, snow showing respect for nature observation and educational activities. Currently, the ventures of the Do not allow hunting on the property and this and it would continue to be no hunting on the property. I’m fine. The red lines of the material map shows the property boundary
Of the land that would be preserved but not including where to go into located to give you bearings for straight left Gray line on the left of the screen to have Ave and the straight grade line on top of the screen is Hotel St the
Perspective trail can be seen by yellow dotted line on the property but property also about 2 preserved of the space areas one is the property where there’s only. Yeah, there’s probably something like Shirley Jean Smith, Agricultural and Arts Center under the control of the area
Where the Smith hearing that that you agreeable to having the trouble connection on his property, the Blue Line dedicates where that trail. Beep and travel long as you don’t long and by the open hadfield to the trails on the bench, looks property. The pink areas are at the hotel conservation land and we’re
Trails also continue. Thanks. Slide. Here are some views and property beside the rule pastoral view of the shade hills from the road. This property is vacant, spanning when I was the property and followed her pants down the hill. The sound of the traffic faded away.
I felt like I was in performance if the peaceful, tranquil and picturesque wildlife habitat, one exciting opportunity with fiscal tool, only one block away, we have an educational locks for students on the property which are does deals perfectly with teachers at the school looking for opportunities for after education.
I hope you were required with the training opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. I have. We have heard that discussion on that. If you have something to say, please line up near the microphone. OK, email address. Yeah. Anymore getting 14 bars park drive. No one that you actually just brought up is.
There’s probably no access. Problem domain. Two different both streets. The access is based on somebody giving us permission. Is that permission? You know, my first thing is with that permission be in writing for, you know, for the life of that possibility. Based on the last article, I think we have almost right down
The town. We have almost 700 acres of open space slash pontification out of 11,000. For almost attempt 10% more. All we have is trends coming from a younger couple with three young kids in the schools. I wanted to give four years. Most people in my group with younger kids were traveling
Outside the town. You can walk through the woods. That’s great. We’re traveling outside town is going to West Hill, then going into the trunk line trail and felt we’re not using the current conservation land doesn’t have because there’s nothing there. The last part we don’t want anything there or why do we want
To purchase another 100 and you know 26 acres add to the 700 meter we have that we’re not doing anything in my opinion it’s flipper time to development. Frankly, I think this town needs funding element growing up. The Franklin doesn’t need to become fragment belt and moved here to get away from that.
We need a little bit have to be able to support the town in the future because the town should not going in the right direction. That was. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Haven’t answered to his first question about the writing. Yeah. So the conservation restriction, which would the town buying a
Conservation restriction without buying the property which is buying the development right and in that conservation restriction it would be written down that you know that would be trails and access to be in perpetuity. And so so that would be you and the third party that has I’m
Land price would be and monitoring it so that all this would happen. So it’s it’s very informal and that would make translate probably if you you know the number there. In this code, Carl #15 Miscoe Rd like speak this chair of the Conservation Commission, which would go on the conservation
Restriction with Metacomet Overseas. We voted to approve this purchase our earlier this year on the basis that it would preserve the historic rural character of Mendon, and it’s also especially because they think it’s a Jason to the two to two other conservation lands, one Mendon and the other another 8 * 20.
Go ahead. So David Atkinson, denying Blackstone St the glad you made it tonight and remembered high school in 1959 trying on town. Now the town is almost unrecognizable from what he used to be. We have more Mike Mansions and then do now and we leave.
We we need a space to be more like open word. I definitely support having this wedding since property because of me. I’m not the porting part part. I don’t disagree with the fact that we need that base of town.
Like I said, we have posted 700 acres of it and it’s not that we need it, frankly, it’s whether the town we can afford it, we are paying $225,000 to not owning these property. Umm. And get vision for that. You’re getting your tax money.
You know the taxes from the owners now, but that tax revenue could be more if it is developed, whether it’s business or whatever it deed. So having that space is great. We have plenty of it. It’s whether the town Hereford to to let go of the future. Thanks. Why is it bad?
Most of me that you see that is open is not reserved. So I think people sometimes assume that you know a lot of ways protected. And and Constance Services had about division puts on the town is not usually covered by the taxes in several studies have shown that and so.
Office space is actually very important woman and it’s after I’ve been finishing the kitchen and it’s going to continue preservation because at least half that money didn’t come from town voters. Umm. And I just wanted to mention what I was saying that. Not protecting plant has a real human health, environmental and
Financial consequences that can’t be overlooked. Open space can help prevent flooding, erosions, the bigger impact of extreme weather events in progress in the hot temperature. It keeps the airplane. It holds carbon infiltrate thrown off so that we have clean drinking water, which is really important for many because most
Of us have well and all these things is it’s much cheaper to keep your water clean that’s have to go back and remediate and have it cleaned up and. Human studies show that being a natural prove mental health and besides all that is provides beauty and rural historic legacy
To our town by preserving open space, you’re going to dollars ended after cleanup and contamination remediation can be avoided. You. I’m you’re going to German friend in the house? I look forward to Mary, so we recently moved to town. This moderator, I sort of agree with prior gentlemen saying, you
Know, and that’s not necessarily the size of land to do with it having prior to just decline this installed for us because we are we are once again not raising trees and not you know sort of like melding this into a part of the land makes me a
Little concerned about ah, you know, should we conserve this land like how devoted are we to actually accessing and utilizing space and best we can. So I can agree with that point and we’ll see most of the fighting part of this article is the proximity of the Miscoe school year.
So coming from Hopedale for children, last year they developed this forest friend program and they’re preschool and the preschool age children here probably gonna be the numbers, but uh, you sort of access to this open space, integrating that school environment, having sort of this full day or it’s like oriented preschool.
Uh, it’s probably one of the best decisions being made as parents to provide for our children. And so to me, I understand percentages of land that we have between perhaps needed school, district and accessibility would be the most important part.
Uh, I think again, I would say like it is like we to do this to move forward. We do have to commit to using my. The best we can cause, I think you know if you don’t want to. If you want to serve this face not reasonably, and I think that
We need to be creative, but access that some of it about school, district, something involves like other sort of development. Thank. Something. The language 77 you went out? I guess the first question is, do you want to have? Can you see the group? I believe you can find a single query.
Uh, if there’s ever they’re in this week, you know. Yes, I’m going to keep them and see the group. I do not see any buildings going up to do with that. Excellent. It’s so 45 for that and I just wanted to where’s my work first
Because I am currently using the property basis that which is a good morning Player 131 before the and the currently managing the land there and to the farm operation there. And I would like to or one per for sharing germs with different conventions, and two also to help us sort of.
OK, they’re also help out the termination of this is that they have there increasing the traffic and we can create things like and also this generally help out the future plans tonight farms possible attention of your needs in the future, but not necessarily. But that’s definitely like, that’s definitely made for this.
Also help instead of, but I also wanted to kill to have this. Have you heard of a popularity to you? Have something like that like other people are saying, educational opportunities and have set of like but I feel like we can definitely use more you.
It’s very good at professional like specially with me specially set of feature walks and stuff and hello possible teacher option and then if OK with you. Thank you for your thank you for your. Yeah, I know what you have. It’s not what it makes every much. I don’t have it in this.
The money is already in the Community Preservation Fund, so it’s not coming another like you have to do anything, but it’s there and. They I’ve got the ballot. It won’t sound completely time and we all have. And you have another problem with the baby publishing the water. Please, I’m telling once, right? Yes.
Understand we don’t use that would be good for qualifying. You know, locking sometimes you know we can not or not think. And umm, you have picture of the lot of me in time, but it’s just historically alone time and because the way to keep it
Looking like the world comes, it’s depending on what he finds you have like full support of his. Thank you. Feathers. And then if there’s no other view comments and then move to about just before three, I believe several of these. Yeah. Please, please, that’s just before taking the time straight.
I believe in several of the arguments that were used in favor of this article. Just ingenuously in the sense that we can’t say that it’s a good investment if there is no return on Ted investment. We talking to on there talking to gain from it and you are the
Potential returns of future savings for not having. Clean ups today. Arbitrary guess that something may happen. On top of that, I don’t think that this is. Thank you. The worthwhile investment you have to own the software and then she would tell us that service layers is a direct correlation to allow lawyers.
They are separated by a significant distance, so I don’t think that you can correlate one to the other and it’s I strongly opposed. Thank you. I’m. I’m Barbara byer. I live in 103, you know, with Ave and I moved about in 10
Years ago from Northridge and I wake up in the morning and right behind the barn and see say something and gear. And you know, you’re Cotes at night and saw a rabbit. And they’re chipmunks. And freckles and boxes and all kinds of violence.
And the last two or three years, I haven’t seen anything. I haven’t seen it. Do you have? I haven’t seen a rap for me because we laughing. We have nothing preserved. Why I take that? And I think when I miss you wake up fields here, my darling, I’m going to heaven.
The times from melting you just get that they know they can’t. It’s gorgeous here. I mean, and I think that’s that’s beautiful piece of property and there is still some mild, right? Let’s keep it so the kids can see it.
How I see it here once in a while in the wild, you know? And that’s why I find that I’m doing that. Why people want to amend this? Is it OK? You can say beautiful and what people want. Can you? I don’t ask the question account, I mean if it’s a new
Question that hasn’t happened yet. Yeah, go ahead, question. You will get 14 hours apart. So one of the speakers, I don’t have a third booking, plus I might. People can’t hear you. You’ve been there twice already. I spoke. I can’t talk.
EPA has money like it was stated to people that don’t get past the case. Why aren’t we going to use that money to do something with the land rather than just money? It’s been. Thank you. Alright, I don’t and we don’t have anymore. When we do about about is now open.
And just to be clear, this this has to pass by 2/3 in order to pass because it’s. Acquisition of interest and they have something open English. I am going to close about down. Meeting articles well. Well, the account will go through that pond St but I think
This is we have select board and they at the Mendon Board recommends that the town meeting pass over article with the special town meeting warrant for November 6, 2023 and I move. All right. And we may burning discussion of passing this over after that I recently attended at the counter.
That’s that’s that’s in the final approval by the. However, there was information behind allowed to build an advertising public hearing required part of the process. You are right, we are in discussion on this. We done alright? Moving on to voting, on passing this over, so I’m just joking.
If you do actually want to just past it’s over, you can then just the last article. Uh. Well, is open. Alright, I’m gonna close the valve. But you have it. We have a motion imposed the morning. Thank you. Have a great day, everyone.