the finance department and we're going to be discussing the december fifteenth two thousand and fifteen auction properties mary beth bernard and bill keegan our town manager and assistant time manager will be discussing with us under executive session the library contract and then we will approve the nov seventeenth two thousand and fifteen board's like and select one executive session minutes following the executive session will come back into public view when we have about thirteen or fourteen items  read the agenda at that time starting about seven o'clock so do we have a all is in favor of going into executive session and watching harry's five zero yes yes yes yes yes yes yes hearing we convened earlier at six thirty we have a we had an executive session we came out of executive session and the topics that we discussed at six thirty were lorraine brewer randy scholars from the town the town asset review committee with kevin wine felt also lisa sink this came in from the finance department and we discussed the auction that's going to happen on december fifteenth for three properties in town the two items that we did not discuss because we ran out of time we're going to tack on at the end under executive session is we're going to be discussing the library contract and we're going to approve the november seventeenth meeting minutes so i read through our agenda for this evening at seven o'clock we always have citizens input at seven o five selections update at seven ten welcoming page duncan our new planning director starting this week seven fifteen chris gallagher our town engineer is going to discuss the sixty five elm street easement with national grid proposal at seven twenty five we are very privileged to give offer a bill greeter a say tight citation many years on the planning board in many many committees in town at seven thirty five we're going to be very very very privileged to honor ray mckay for many years of service in town at seven forty five jack off what is going to continue with michael johns to talk about the state of the ancient cemetery in town give seating issue that we've been going back and forth with at eight twenty five we're going to revisit the special town meeting warrant article just for an update and general discussion and then when to close it off with bill  do my quickest selections up they have all they wanted to say they hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving and special call out to the jaycees the rec department the library if you've noticed over the thanksgiving holiday all volunteer efforts all private money donated to light the trees did a wonderful job bringing out and setting up the nativity scene i think we had a record number of kids for this record numbers of second year but the kids came out and did the tree decorating with the world it's just nice to have a nice safe happy weekend so that's all i'm going to say on that at seven ten is paige duncan you want to come up to the table kevin you want to come up also so paige duncan this is our new town planner coming from wrentham and we thought it would be a nice idea just to welcome her and have her introduce herself and kevin you were involved in the in the process as well so turn it over to the both of us are the board is very very pleased and feel very privileged to have had an opportunity to interview and hire page share as long experience on both the municipal on the private side and the engineering firms you yes i start tomorrow morning finally it's been something i think we started interviewing in august so it's great to finally be starting and then attending a few meetings getting to know the community and  energy here is something makes me very excited you know i i have some energy to so seeing a group that really from all the boards i've met and all the town hall staff i'm just very excited so thank you very much for welcoming me and ready to get to is next wednesday nights out right now i'll be there you got home i have three and then i've fed had the pleasure of working with paige for a number of year not over in wrentham and very good communicator i've seen her bring fresh ideas all the way through town meeting presented at town meeting get support very good communicators so i think all the work that the planning board's done with the master plan moving it forward very excited so we welcome you and can't wait for you to get started thank  down and had a quiet corner of town hall with the inspection department is that they do pretty well producing legends of you remember a couple of years ago we learned pete turner is foreclose first ever building commission and all the years that he served so now we're here tonight for ron another remarkable public servant by the name or a mckay but just to give you a quick profile of this gentleman he was born down in some sunlight farm and so street in the fourth grade he was one of the last classes to attend a one room quake a whole school jack i really hate to interrupt but it's not often we have something like this  would you want to come up to the table you would you like to come up to the table i think the people at home would like to see who you are another lifelong friend drawn to her who was raised eleventh grade history teacher but really broaden the world of many students he taught with science and social studies and he was also like to do a term on the school sessions when ray checked the scale of a pump followed the state law to the letter to attach a visible sticker read for even years green for all ideas to reassure consumers the device had been inspected the and most gasoline stations are now combined with convenience stores the test equipment was owned by the tom which included a set of weights the smallest being a one tenth of a gram so you can imagine ray had to use tweezers to handle that order of the day even as inspections continue in the new off season they plowed driveways from that point on no school fundraiser was ever short of scrub some plants to sell or auction and then just final christmas tree sale last year gallons for every one hundred and six gallons it delivered all those years rate well that if it what did you change a pound is still a pound a gallon is still a gallon even with  meter but there was an addition to the sealers responsibilities when the town started licensing taxis so ray laid out a measured mile and so street to check the media's twenty four gene proved to be a time is at seventy seven finding something down on the board of directors bringing an end to the cattle shows tractor pulls pumpkin contest and for rich competitions and i would also suggest they were the only ones on earth that did  were entitled to in the classroom in the marketplace and in the community tonight we are able to unveil a plaque which will hang in the in recognition of your forty nine years of public service mr mckay we do have a plaque but before we do that i just want to offer up to the board if they wanted to offer some some some words i actually printed out the article in august you it was the ray mckay day over at the  read all about that for those people at home and maybe even the board our general bylaws require us to appoint weights and measures and officer police to measure it's a one year appointment so a gallon of gas is a gallon of gas the meters on the taxis the scanners in the in the shopping center it's a way for the top to keep the integrity so that consumers in the buyers are all on the same page in the same integrity in the system and into do that for the number of years that you did for foxborough you must have seen an incredible change in the systems that we do here in india kept up with it so extremely grateful for the for the longevity and the truly going to miss that but thanks for doing that for over those really foxborough yeah i actually got to know ray pretty well when i had my landscape company was always the go to person when i needed that one or two other shrubs just you know for as long as i can remember you know pumping gas looking up at them at the pump seeing that sticker ray mckay is going to be weird not seeing that signature on that on that sticker going forward like thank you for everything thank you for well i won't lie it's certainly nice to have people say good things about your day happened to be true it staggered thinking about all the people who i knew in the town of foxborough of them i've been associated with that i've helped in they've helped me in the more i thought about it but you had to work but she wanted me to tell you that you were her favorite inspector i'm going to talk to her tomorrow but you wanted to let you know that and you're welcome really had to deal with people as much as performing the inspections there was more than just being a good inspector and measuring that puppet is about developing a working relationship with people and was no better person than right to do that  kevin got certified was ready to take over the position re retired now one thing ray and i have in common is that it's  school but we like to take care of the equipment we have where it doesn't matter if it's duct tape or rubber bands doesn't matter it's forty nine years old we like to get the most out of equipment and what kind of proud that we still have that equipment kicking around so every once in a while the state would step in and say you can't use a galvanized can anymore you got to go to stainless steel ok so we do it but we'd be forced to do it ray retired kevin to cut those out on his me yet joel's gulf and he she turned around and swung in the just about the time i was going to open my mouth he hit my f i actually i have a question well bill still here as well so i was looking through our byelaws to get some history of weights and measures so we appoint your position and we appoint the rec department director and we appoint the veteran's agent and we appoint well standpoint from our position here as selectman plumbing inspector wiring inspector gas inspector to burial agents like to come up to the table so we can roast  we've used up all our goodwill tonight bad timing though so i thought out how we were going to do this tonight but it's the first of all welcome thank you for coming back to what you guys are for tonight  bill has an incredible resume of service to town over his years so rather than try to explain it we have a citation for you and i and i read it and it kind of puts everything in perspective and then we can go from there this is the official citation from the foxboro board of selectmen the board of selectmen on the on the occasion of retirement from public service commands william eeg reader junior on supporting the town of foxborough for more than twenty five years recognition is given to william e greeter jr for yourself lists dedication as a member of numerous committees and projects involvement in the project involvement in the town made this recognition express our appreciation for the many years you spent helping better the community on cable access cable review cable television advisory committees comprehensive waste water management committee founders day committee propose racetrack advisory committee zoning by a large review committee the planning board the foxborough outline our vision with the complete master plan we acknowledge your contributions to the community in the many and varied projects with which you have been involved including the town's public safety building and board library expansion patriots place in july at stadium chestnut green lake view pavilion water treatment facilities the solar facilities sports areas such as the basketball courts ice rink the booth building and ball fields as well as twenty subdivisions with one hundred seventy four lots who wish to commend your leadership dedication and efforts towards efficiency and improvement of the town foxborough has benefited greatly from many years of your commitment congratulations on your retirement we so i think you can get the breath in in the history of bill j barrows i believe was planning it was not able to come but he also offered a citation you want to read this  just remind you this is suitable for framing the commonwealth of massachusetts the house of representatives did hereby know that the massachusetts house of representatives office it's in serious congratulations to william eek reed a junior in recognition of your retirement after serving the community of foxboro for twenty six years the entire membership extends its very best wishes and expresses the hope for the future good fortune and continued success in all  s given this third day of december two thousand and fifteen at the state house boston massachusetts by rabid julio speaker of the house and offered by f j barrows state representative so i wanted to give the board an opportunity to say a few words and then we'll open up to the public and welcome if you want to say something as well you know and i'll start off bill is going to be i'm going to miss bill this is my six year on the selectmen and you know it's kind of thinking this could be a roast and funny or i kind of stuck the dog park in here you know you were on that committee but the most controversial project i'll give you credit for that you know that a lot of time before things come up on this table i'll sit with bill and i'll call bill for his advice a lot of the stuff that we deal with kind of on the shoulders of what bill has done with the planning board you've survived for twenty five years here and you do it with integrity you do it with honesty and not many people have the will say thick skin to be able to you know keep going forward you and your wife kathy been stand up citizens for a very very long time  more often than not when i ask you questions and we go through different things the one that was saying don't let the bastards get you down and i think what you meant was don't let the bastards get you down because you know mostly on the planning board you're in a position where you are reviewing things you're planning and moving forward but you are the police for the zoning in you know whether it's subdivisions or development you've got friends and enemies on each topic potentially but you keep going forward and you don't let it bother you and you do what's best for the town in very few things way you in because of that we've got your fingerprints on the master plan everything through town has build reader at some point on it and i'm very very grateful and i know the board is as well so i think when we start from right to left and we're just still sure you will work together for many many years as jim said you're your d n a your you know sweat really shows in through all the different stuff i've done you've always been there and reading that west of stuff including the dog park years you definitely had a huge influence on the styles of thank you very much thank you unfortunately we do not work a lot together but i wish we had but i have reached out to a number of people that have had interaction with you and there was one common theme integrity and i think that exemplifies what you're all about nobody had a bad thing to say about you whether on this side table or the other side of the table and you were always fair and spending time on the other side of the table kathleen for many many years i actually enjoyed thanksgiving dinner with them this past weekend you exemplify is everyone said integrity  and everything you did was for the good of the town and when you were just the institutional knowledge that you have is going to be very had to replace so but good friend good good public servant and just an all around nice guy is long and but sometimes he gets and you stand with that little but thank you very much for everything and kathleen kathy could you stand up and just be recognized because kathy is truly the woman behind me an communities from the inside out as it were because i was associated with and facilities in town administrative and whatever and so we chose foxborough   to be accepted and allowed to work with so many great folks in many organizations and and committees and just had a tremendous learning experience for  and i look forward to coming back and they will say that we're leaving my favorite loved one here just to make sure nothing goes a right because he's got a scanner and you know so  what can be done with respect to the state of the of cemeteries in town and you will get a very very clear picture of what does proposal is all about this is the center burial ground as memorial hall in the background there were many  this will give you a very very clear picture of what has evolved over the past many many years and this is of course damage in the  making that could be arrested sloan's it could be restored and here we know we moved down to the peace and cemetery on chestnut street thirty five graves in there and  off somewhere thrown off to one side broken stone there are protocols for fixing many of these but here we have the conflict of man and nature with the roots of the trees but also you see the challenge when the town had to work on that tree to remove it you can see the delicate balance of getting that heavy equipment in through the gravestones and to the scene of the work but again state law required federal law requires that if leg will be placed on the grave of every different prayer to memorial day every year and this is follow religiously but here you see flags being placed on the grave of a civil war veteran and the flag stands all bright and clean and new but the grey stone itself also there are many different types of stones for veterans some plied by supply by the government others by the family but we see here again  natural physical presence in the ground all these years and all of the things that would come to influence that here we have some erosion erosion of the soil would probably stop that  the soon to be inflicted with even greater damage here the small stone up against a big stone you can see how it slid down over the years but the image  are protocols on protecting forming gravestones that cannot be uprighted there are ways to accommodate them on the ground but again you know you have good grow it's a very very busy cookie has a street going by there and hardly a sound her just in off the road here nature provided the of us this but it would be a very simple task to work other cemeteries have been filled for decades but again the sea is some of the some of the more frequent over here was obviously some ground work done to build up around it but that is the of the role of stones remaining there said law to build an occupy home in the territory the became parks there was pageant sixteen ninety one and his grandchildren were the first weight children born in the new territory but some work has been do that just being on the cemetery other fields just to the left of the cemetery is waiting riveted to elements the drew people here you build ability of water the availability of tillable land and they were drawn to this spot and that is what brought them here and also mr britt now happened to be an officer in the royal navy stationed in the muddy river brookline smaller and smaller couldn't get the boat up any higher he had to get up and walk and that was the name that stuck on waiting river so these are the gives you their view of the cemeteries  accept the reality of it and we agreed that we had to meet and see what could be done and so making and bought we set up a date but then the historical membership in the historical commission but he's on the been on the rock hill cemetery board for many many years but one of the main purposes of the meeting was we do we go from here how do we address this problem we strongly believe that no one group can just pick up with this and run with it we wondered a public forum where this could be presented to the entire community and this is why we asked to be able to what we're talking about but also it will by the nature of the problem involve for example the town clerk's office to retrieve all the documentation of when the town took over the cemeteries but the conditions were other the deeds of all of the language in the town meaning votes of all of those things finance officer on some of the early cemetery funds that came with these  all things like that and it's going to involve d p w tree impact conservation assesses finance office oh things that would help us get a solid base of knowledge but then the open up opportunities for groups like the historical society guidant club civic infringer fraternal organization scouts and everyone willing to respond and i bet if we need some advice from  people grave veterans subject to very strict protocols established by the veterans administration and we can and we will address each of those concurrently with the broader in the state recommendations as stablished specifically for preservation guidelines for munis oblique on their real problems so they recognize the uniqueness of our challenge and farkle certainly isn't alone now there are few certainties about the challenge presented by the city cemeteries except that if we do nothing soon there will be no we all know that eventually we will be dealing with various agencies utilizing experts who specialize in such challenges seeking funding applying for grants but first we must we are required to take the following steps as it forms the baseline upon which everything will be based number one documentation including the origin of the burial error the registered deeds dates of the first  detail schedule b cemetery would also be necessary so that locations of particular graves could be referenced to for work as there would be going in to work on them and her h access could assist us with some aerial footage with a drone to get a footprint of the cemeteries and once we have that data are in place we will then be in a position to make the best possible decisions as to how we can move forward with the restoration and preservation of the graves of our veterans of the revolutionary war war of eight hundred twelve in the civil war as well as the graves of the founding families of our communities efforts to establish the database can begin immediately and certainly members of the historical commission are already pulling together a variety of documentation but there can be  with all the computer contributing agencies involved if we have support and encouragement from the board of selectmen we want to know that the whole time would be harmonious to what we were doing precisely where this leads us and the path we're getting near we're not sure yet but we have every reason to believe that fox will history will be well served why this project so bad  is we just couldn't take the risk of people just trying to pick up and run this and then begin to hit obstacles but if we can approach this through the board and through the talking manager i think that the picture is worth a thousand words it was certainly eyeopening to see it and then also to hear that the number of cemeteries that we have in that they are owned by the town they're not private so there is a certainly a responsibility that the town has  apart from a moral perspective but other one as you said from a from a regulatory if we're required to do certain things in this protocol for big picture this is more than a d p w effort in  scouts would lead blowers in you know super glue it says professionals that document in and put the process together documentation phasing restoration complete for ration but i think what you're looking for is the first step for the selectmen to say one this is important and something that we want to get behind in to help you begin the consultants can do the cemetery in beach street which somehow got obliterated over the years just one burial however i now have a fresh lead that i think might solve that that other departments to to address it i mean it as a been other towns we can use a model that may have been able to get well yes yes i have that all documented the other state that publication about m remarkable evidence that there's a template for rip we're going to tackle this it's not absolutely true so it was something we'll never get done right but whatever gets done whoever does it it is by set protocols and if we follow those steps we're or something like that to have some color to it so there's a chance for people to get it will so as a first step because it obviously this this is from beginning to end is going to take years to get you know to the end goal but maybe as a first step why don't we say you come back in in april so four months but in the meantime if it's ok with the board kind of direct time manager to open up resources from the clerk's office d p w for the communication to happen with the historian commission and then basically help them with whatever resources that they need with the staff's time to get something going and i'm thinking four months is enough time to probably put a least a boilerplate together of going to the next step and the reason i'm saying four months is because i don't want to just say thank you for your time and we'll see you again if we set something to come back i think it helps us juggle it a little bit better this is a project that i've worked on   the damage that i saw in these pictures is actually quite astounding to me in some ways and it's in the fact this is so spread out all over several different seven burial grounds is it is actually and interesting to me as well because i' it's some point i need help from an expert to oh absolutely and to come in and it's going to require some level of funding commitment to do this and i think we're going to need somebody to actually done a five the type of work that needs to be done because every single stone every single plot is going require a certain level of improvement there's why we would have an observation each and every stone sure so that gives an opportunity to say here's all the information we have be involved i mean they're already started selling information so when we pencil for months and then if you want to talk to the commission and if they think they do it quicker or it's not enough time we can adjust it and i think that's a good starting point those stones and that's very well laid out and we can replace those the material the stone self at no cost to the federal government and then yes it will be a matter of contracting or you know i'm available if you know where the town manager says that we're going to do to support this community effort to to restore these bring my special team in veteran services and and federal benefits  applied now so actually they will actually supply the stone it's not funds for the veteran was what we had the the biggest part of the work is getting the documentation says two things for the better ones that is the proof of service which the further you go back the harder it is to get and then the proof that you know where the ride in some of the if we don't have documentation which you know we do have a lot of it  it's somewhere between seventy five twenty five and seventy five dollars to get the documentation through the federal government and then they will actually provide the and gravestone or in there in the case of the of the all the stones actually raised letter stone so they're it's a historical game because don't do that against replaced with so that sending money they're sending a stone and the timeline on that at least for the more modern stones it is about three months and i don't have any experience and the talking the three to six month period to get stone sent him once we provide them documentation and signatures you know from the from the town you know with the documents right resources that i used to develop records of individual soldiers i can produce for each one of those people so at least it gives us some specific with a seared how they say when they died so it might help getting that  documentation there is some of the graves if the veterans family needed systems from the government when he passed away the government provided the stone and if they did that and that stone is damaged his long is it wasn't cemetery personnel who did it that's a very good replacement because the government did the first place they'll  well it would it would be best to do something now you can take those pieces and provide a proper ground insulation but you know you can't little bits and pieces of stone with some of these information on it isn't lying around somewhere and they whatever and play if they want to replace it ok so i think the first biggest step is the public awareness and we have that  now across the board so go you reach out and vice versa over the next few months and hopefully come back with a plethora of information that can get into the next step whether won't be empty handed and thank you very much for again next day and we have is roger hill talking about the street lighting on south grove street we had a request some time this summer from a guy down at the end of grove street there there's a situation down there the tree canopy just really really begins and at night it's a fairly long space between there's a light on their first floor so right now to put a light on any one of those three poles would require the board to vary the policy of one every three and i looked at it i found a pol if if if you count that as the third poll yes votes in another town did you have it's a long ways away from from lighting up the series of though and there's no you know when you're crossing a boundary like  that you know polls are funny they have to put them on curved down into space she is not the same all the time and sometimes you get a big gap between polls and somebody got too close together or you can see the red dots on the a where the polls are so those polls are those dots where the polls but not the lights the green dots are the ones with lights the red dots are the ones without so at any tariffs you have a poll number eight that has a light on it you don't have poll nine ten and eleven that are on fox row without lights and then the last green are in mansfield that actually has a light on it you know the looking at it roger i think we both agree that poll number ten the second one in from the town line is the best best location for it that way don't have back to back polls straddling town line it brings a little closer to ray charles circle which is where the the complaint originally came from  the concern came from paul number nine has a transformer on it and is not really suitable for forestry light and it's also very close to a whole number eight that has a light on it so that's a huge attention to it walking around town paying attention to lights on this road of a ticket if you go down south street the light it's on sol street the actual fixture is a total different fixture than everything else i've seen and it's a lot brighter so i had this looks like it needs another light somewhere but every looked into the difference and fixtures what we're trying period of time we could actually start paying for some of the lawyers to be replaced so it sounds like you recommend i mean if our policy is every third light i mean a third pole we don't we didn't meet our policy here because that means that would be a light on poll number eleven which you would need to change our policy if we put it at eleven but he's saying that doesn't make sense because there's one on the right side in mansfield so going to ten is your recommendation because you're saying that makes sense with the distance is it just not to say you don't want to jump of a neighbor comes plainsman is a one neighbor or is this a problem area that i see it as a problem area where my i didn't i didn't look at it from a standpoint of whether one guy is the only one  so if we have an affirmative motion to vary from our policy to propose a light at the poll number ten grid so will will pay for the electrician actually install the light national grill come out and do the connection and then it's a it's a matter of whether it's a national bird polarizing poll as to who actually owns the fixture street lighting being installed so we can do that actually less money to run it right for that would be a good especially in that area where the strongest women i wouldn't want to do too many of those at this time though because you know what this is this is a one off and no there's a reason why the technology is his rapidly changing on my poll lights and right now they say within four to five years every so we could put our gadget on a special mount on every six pole and do away with having to read every water meter in town just do away with it who would all be transmitted electronically twenty four seven three sixty five and it would be a huge improvement because almost every water meeting we have two or three people say i'm by meters running fast my meter is running fast and you know you we can go out and record the meters but we're recording them once every quarter you know this way here it's twenty four seven and you can pull that data out show it to him and say you know show me why you think it's running fast and then you don't need the the gadgets that we have today we we don't need a person to go out there and drive around some of our meters today you have to get out of the basement read him still because people don't want you to put that look the air on that worried about electromagnetic radiation  that don't know you sure are ready scholars finance director i was before you about six weeks ago talking about refunding a refinancing of some of our bonds and you authorized that and so we we did that out and i'm back with the underwriters on nov nineteenth for seven point five three five million eleven year general obligation to refunding bonds f t n financial capital markets was the winning bidder with an average interest rate of one point five seven percent bond proceeds will be used to refund the outstanding balance the town of originally issued on the in two thousand and five and august fifteenth two thousand and six this refunding will generate a savings of one million thirty six thousand four hundred fifteen dollars over the remaining life of bonds which is about two hundred forty three thousand higher than what we had originally estimated and prior to the sale standard and poor's rating services affirm the towns double a plus bond rating and revised its outlook from stable to positive and so i'm here to ask for your vote to accept a low bid so we can complete this transaction over the next two days and  provided a form of vote for the clerk and it's a page and a half long and unfortunately it does need to be read and then after the meeting i'll be hovering over you to collect all the signatures so we can get say you can only do this once you know with with twenty year bonds you know refinance once so that's why you know we have to ask for permission from the board to do this and it's a great environment you know part of it is information here is fantastic that not not just not just for for the for the reassuring of the want but their statistics and data here and towns that are invaluable and could actually use this document you when reviewing the budgets or any of that you know looking at population statistics isn't there some really good information that's thank you for saying that that's why i like to share it you know with with the board because it is other than the financial statements themselves all the statistics i think it's probably one of the most comprehensive as a factor documents that you could provide about you know the just financial health of the community and all the different things if to drive it so i do have the clerk is asked to certify so i think the motion will be to read the vote of the board of selectmen and then we can second that and then discuss it so read this is  present the following votes were unanimously passed all of which appear on the official record of of the board in my custody voted that in order to reduce interest costs the treasurer is authorized to issue refunding vons at one time or from time to time pursuant to chapter forty four section twenty one a of the general laws or pursuant to any other enabling authority to refund all of the towns fourteen million thirteen thousand dollars and general obligation municipal purpose long of two thousand and five bonds dated june fift thousand and five to maturing on june fifteenth in the years two thousand and seventeen through two thousand and twenty five inclusively inclusive and in and  million five hundred fifteen thousand dollars and general obligation of public safety facility bonds dated august fifteenth two thousand and six maturing on aug fifteenth in the years two thousand and seventeen through two thousand and twenty six inclusive together the refunded bonds in that the proceeds of the proceeds of any refunding bonds issued pursuant to this vote shall be used to pay the principal redemption premium and interest on the refunded bonds in cost of issuance of the refunding weldon's further voted that the sale of the seven million five hundred thirty five thousand dollars of general obligation refunding vons of town dated december third two thousand and fifteen the bonds to have t n financial capital market at the price of eight million forty eight thousand eight hundred eleven dollars and  in accrued interest if any is here by approved and confirmed the bond shall be payable on august fifteenth of the years in the principal amounts and bear interest at the respective rates as follows year two thousand and sixteen six hundred twenty thousand dollars three percent the year two thousand and seventeen eight hundred forty five thousand dollars at three percent two thousand and eighteen  forty thousand dollars and three percent two thousand and nineteen eight hundred thirty five thousand dollars at three percent two thousand and twenty eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars or three percent two thousand and twenty one eight hundred ten thousand dollars or three percent two thousand and twenty two eight hundred thousand dollars or three percent two thousand and twenty three seven hundred eighty five thousand dollars or three percent two thousand and twenty four connection with the marketing sell the bonds for preparation and distribution of a notice of sale and limit every official statement dated november thirteenth two thousand and fifteen and its final official statement dated november nineteenth two thousand and fifteen the official statement he chin such form as may be approved by the town treasurer and hear by ratified confirmed approved and adopted further voted to authorize the executive exact you excuse me the execution and delivery of a refunding escrow agreement to be dated december third two thousand and fifteen between the town and us bank national association as refunding escrow agent and paying agent for the voted for the town treasury and the board of selectmen be and here by are authorized to execute and deliver continuing disclosure undertaking in compliance with s c c rule fifteen c to dash twelve  such form as may be approved by the bond council to the town which undertaking shall be incorporated by reference in the bonds for the benefit of the holders of the bonds from time to time further voted that we authorize in direct the treasurer to establish post issuance federal tax compliance procedures in such form as the treasurer and bond counsel deems sufficient for such procedures are currently in place for review and update said procedures in order to monitor and maintain the tax exempt status of these bonds further voted that each member of the board of selectmen and the town clerk in the town treasurer be and hereby are authorized to take any and all such actions in execute and deliver such certificates receipts or other documents as may be determined by them for any of them to be necessary convenient to carry into effect the provisions of the foregoing votes further certify that the votes were taken at a meeting open to the public that no vote was taken by secret ballot that a notice stating the place date time and agenda for the meeting which had gender included the adoption of the above votes was filed with the clerk in a copy there of posted in a manner conspicuously visible to the public at all hours you know or on the municipal building that the office of the town clerk is located war if applicable in accordance with alternative method of notice prescribed or approved by the attorney general has set forth and died forty c m r r twenty nine point zero three to be at least forty eight hours not including satirist sundays legal holidays prior to the time of the meeting that are made so posted at the time of the meeting that no deliberations would decisions in connection with the sale of the bonds were taken executive session all in accordance with g l was to authorize us to go into discussion the second time we came back with a draft so we thought went back to bill and our council went back and sat with a craft organization went through the fine details of it and came to an  receive a dollar fifty two for each each of those seats for them per times ten games recent all of fifty two is the numbers because that's the number of n f l games with the year as a higher number that we that we have four or four  the the business is evolving before our eyes and that so this point in time that a lot of things that weren't considered to be part of the original lease talking and now time for us to start looking at those things to see how we can collectively gain both financially as well  bracco one twenty six mechanic straight so the optics that i see on this is this strikes me as very similar to a request for the waiver of admission fees to maya games because this is related to the fact that there is an admission being charged for entry to these clubs that we you know it seems like it's being waived so i'm really it's not the same because the the the reason why there's a dispute over this is because they said this is a different type of fee being charged for it's not a ticket fee per se but with it we're treating it we're resolving it that way in terms of what the value was for the seats that have been removed again to me it's too close it's the payment of taxes that's being affected here so you know what i understand there's been a lot of writing about this and i'm not privy to it but  the optics to me are exactly the same as waiving an admission fee so it's not the same as because because the the ticket fee is his very specific in terms of there was actually a ticket they've been exchanged for a seat in the stadium this is actually an additional fee for it for a new area and so as a result the tickets for the rest are many part of state are still being charged this is a case where they removed seats and now they charge a fee meeting and i and i i wish it was a black and white in my it took a few years but i think we finally realized it but at the very beginning of this exercise we engaged our town council to say what's the opinion from our legal perspective and then we asked for a legal review or a legal response from the craft organization and i think it's all public record there on two different sides  mediation the mitigation the litigation all that stuff and we i think we looked at the pluses and minuses and we've come up behind on that the craft of organization feels one way we feel the other this is a let's take a time out let's try to work out over the next couple months if we can't we're back exactly where we started and nothing is different and then we decide we saw each other or you know we won't go at it so ok the process of the advisory committee or clarification that people want it if it's not on the agenda we really can't talk about it so is there anything that has changed from the advisory committee that we need to discuss congratulation goes out to normandy farms family camping resort which is located right here in foxboro for being named the was awarded the lodge park of the year by the national association of bobby parks and campgrounds during it recognize them for that for that for the award that's one of the kind number one in the country and in the country so congratulations to them that it's a great great facility it's always been lauded as has being one the number one campgrounds in the wing for years possible the second thing is is that we're looking at trying to resolve a piece of land issue that was foremost a state hospital land located on a wall that wall that street and and north st i believe is the there's a piece of land that they would they want to use and it's a long lead one forty one forty so they want to use some of that land for for housing authority to use as well and that's that's being worked on as we speak so i'll just bring up to date on that program and they're going through the process which the initial actually starts on the summer eighteenth by my first identify the new tip contacts for each community so typically i would run through our office in the town engineers so that's an easy step and that's has been by december eighteenth they're going to be looking for projects complete projects funny application forms by january thirtieth so if we have a need to project which i'll discuss w january twelfth or through to look at the account process so we will be involved in that and in various shapes and forms but those are the main topics we've been working on the other thing is of course that we are going to be undertaking a a major auction which has not been done in this topic for many many years on very pleased to see that when the movie falling moving forward on this on this front the town asset review committee has brought forward four different properties and folks are probably seen as they drive through some a town that they form a fire station and the and the funeral home located directly behind the stations are up for auction and they will be then auction will be held on group i have a few updates i would currently be happy to announce that we're using on an automated applicant tracking system this is something the time for just a few years ago but now our infrastructure is caught up in our staffing so we have three positions currently advertised on our website one is due to a resignation payroll coordinator we're looking for two minute takers to the d h b and the out there canonic development advisory board and the advisory committee they're both looking for wednesday night minute takers and we also have a retirement of public works also reports to the public park supervisor position so i welcome everyone to go onto our website click on to job opportunities and next you from there to an automated applicant application you can fill out we're happy to announce or making some progress on contracts we are meeting with the con tomorrow night in this board and later an executive session to discuss the library contract oh and we're hoping to have another one solved by the next meeting and we've started negotiations the next i go with on another creating a stand alone policy document manual with creating the mission statement and we're using an h r console to help us and those will be ready for the annual town meeting my hoping in and we're article form and then on it was mentioned already by chairman develops but i just wanted to make a shout out to the recreation staff they jaycee's and on our new library director manny made for all their ok so we need to go into executive session but there's a bunch of action items to go through that see not all those in favor you can carry five zero zero nine recreation department and make a motion to accept the gift donation the amount of twenty five hundred dollars from foxborough youth baseball and softball association for dugout construction up twenty dollars came out of foxborough public schools a red white and blue fundraiser day that they held brought every additional fifty one dollars to what they had already brought in which was already approved five hundred sixty the fourteen recreation department click to make a motion except the gift donation worth approximately twelve hundred dollars for two hundred one day pass says to the winter skate