thank you frank cable access good evening everybody welcome to fox bros board of selectmen today is tuesday february ninth i'll go over the agenda starting at seven o'clock we always had citizens input will follow that with the select liquor license for the v f w at seven thirty five we're going to have a discussion on the domain foxborough i'm sorry the foxboro domain which is the forty b off of fisher street regarding the  mitigation set forward with the zoning board of appeals at seven forty five and seven fifty five will have i'm sorry seven forty five will discuss the enable town meeting warrant not to be confused with the fall town meeting which change to the winter time meeting which is next to  february twenty third and they will have the time images update the system time managers update and then we're going to go into executive session at the end to approve the january twenty sixth executive session minutes and discuss regarding the gillette stadium and the fire station discussion of real property so if we could join it could you lead us in the pledge allegiance god thank you the seven o'clock is there anybody here for citizens i  the following tuesday because that's the special town meeting on tuesday at the high school starting at seven o'clock so ok and is eight warned us seven thirty check the website it lets you there might be seventh selectmen and all the applicants had worked pretty hard on so if you could go to that that would be great shout out to the advisory committee they work they've been working kind of double duty they're finishing up the fall town meeting went to town meeting at the same time that they're reviewing  the budgets for the following year towards the may so they meet it's pretty much as been every wednesday at the public safety building that starts at seven o'clock so if you get a chance to go to any of those meetings it's a good opportunity to see all the departments all the budgets all the discussion before it gets too far so please try to go to those meetings one topic we always have a  sentence or two on the agenda that says anything that's not anticipated within seventy two hours can come forward i guess bill a bill is going to give a brief update on the storms with national grid in the d p w probably part of your time and your time energy is update if it's ok with the board i want to extend that discussion to include the board with the storms on friday and saturday the one yesterday on monday in moving towards the next storm the next time that we're meeting is not going to be for several weeks i've given bill a suggestion to reach out to national grid bill is not here during the two thousand two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve national grid outages a lot of commitments and promises and expectations so i wanted you to hear from the board and get some additional information and then maybe give you some direction to go to the national grid i will talk about me i wasn't very happy with the response on friday from national grid so i think i think we need to wrap our arms around that and then discuss it at the end of this meeting so if you listen into this seven fifty five you can have that discussion  it's ok with the board we'll go to our action items the seven action items louise hall i'll second that and thank you must solve your donation motion made second with gratitude for the discussion of those in favor motion carries five zero number three bucks for recreation friends group make a motion the accept the grant in the amount of three thousand one hundred two dollars for the partners and patriotism fun to the foxboro recreation friends group for c c r a installation of smart board for the discussion under discussion and more of a clerical thing both of these meeting minutes and it jenny thank you for putting them together both of these meeting minutes were done at a meeting where only two people went to so it's not a board first i wasn't it was advertised as a public meeting but it never made that because there's only two people in with five of us only two people can vote on a c on we'll never get the majority enough to approve them so i think i would make a recommendation to put these in our yeah i agree i agree with that but i mean it's nice to have it in the file for information if you want to do  trying to move through the process once quickly as you can because if we can get this approved before the end of the fiscal year we might be able to get the funding for the project so joe you have a question if you could just introduce yourself for the record my name's joe garrity i live at sixty eight spring creek just curious about timing on the warrants tonight you guys approving ford to have the the warrant from the board of selectmen to have the presidential primary section one eighty one and section one eighty three a in chapter one thirty six section of town a far from revised general bylaws article five section six and also stadium rules and regulations will conduct a public hearing on tuesday february ninth two thousand and sixteen the ending at seven fifteen p m in the foxboro high school media center south street through the application submitted by craft soccer l l c for the two thousand and sixteen the world revolution games including potential home playoff games as well as an international match and double headers that include the revolution all events are proposed for gillette stadium all applications for these events are on file at the offices of selectmen all interested there are any significant changes to our operation this season i'm sure you've reviewed in your package the application it most identical to the previous two seasons we are requesting the opening of three twelve so the only thing is we're about a week earlier than last year and we are we do have a snowmobile plan in place in the event that we do have snow for a rex match we're requesting seventeen home games and hopefully any post season play that's the franchise makes it into the seventeen h the time of year and the weather we do significant walk up sales for each of our our gain in the summer on saturdays when we have nicer weather we're operating a lower bowl of the stadium again on both the east and the west side and we will prior parking is included in the price ticket as in previous years and that's it right now we don't have any double headers requests hopefully some may be added moving forward and we do have some international soccer matches in the works we have one application already at town hall so i'll be before you for that one separately this application is pretty straightforward as of right now just the seventeen how much ok thank you very much she did so in our packet this correspondence from the public safety officials than what's been happening in previous years i just want to highlight though that the the revolution's attendance was they were given our award for thirty percent up and attendance last year and i think that's good news for the and i think it just says that the the reds are getting more and more popular and let's hope we can beat that this year so the town can benefit from the rest perfect well said thank you and if you could and never done this fast and any other updates bill you want to entertain us with just a few minutes i just will note tonight that just prior to tonight's meeting we that final payment which was which really concludes the two thousand and fifteen season of events resulted in going from going to hitting the three point three four million dollar mark which is a new high  upon what i'm seeing now for scheduled events coming up this summer we said we could easily see a similar type of a repeat in terms of revenue so that is good news in that regard so i wanted to just pass on that great consulting who has been doing has been our power our power broker and as your broker for the past i think twelve years or so ten twelve years for the time they actually did other one of the three composite does this work as well and so i had a presentation from them today so that that sort of rounds out the three three groups i actually went to to denim to see the presentation from good from good energy on a regional basis you had the one from from a former colonial as well and then we had the one from the one from state today so it's clear to me that this is an opportunity that that's a good thing for the for the town of for the residents and so i think i really would like to go to the board pursue this so i'll put it on as a as a potential  i've seen often anywhere anyway what are so yes on the aggregation if that's the case then they they really that wouldn't be losing they would just well be they'd be locking in for longer term actually but i just want people to be aware that possibly down the road the town is going to go into an as a longer term locking which means that you're guaranteed of a pretty low rate for a long period of time where is your free lunch at the market i mean you're locked in for a year or two at the most with with ever geishas but you're always subject to the of people signed up for that as well so much stuff so that's that's what it is yet so i don't know that i don't i don't i haven't seen anything that concerns me about the sun edison program through suggest to you that it that people shouldn't do that  don't feel like he's going to have the time to put in to take care of it tomorrow it's been basically doing it for him so we brought it up at a meeting because she's not a member of the v f w to have her by or serving to minors things to watch out for things not to watch out for and they collect dues and they actually do their own self compliance checks they bring somebody in from the outside to go around to different establishment that are  members and they share the results internally do you know want to make those public which is understandable ok but it's just all off of their internal use and to try and be responsible for what their service so let's get to a really good group and i strongly recommend it as i'll be next item on the agenda i'm going to spend a few minutes just to kenny a little background i first of all i apologize was nothing in the packet chris had called me up earlier there was some information provided but it's a little lengthy if you read right at the meeting  the typically people don't call in the forty b there was a housing development affordable housing development on a mass laws that was proposed off officially street behind the ninety nine it went through that process primarily with the zoning board of appeals  forty b application bypasses a lot of local permitting regulatory authority and in town so during the zoning board process they have the ability to approve it disapprove it or prove it with conditions they prove it with  conditions subsequent to that it was appealed appeal was dropped and now they're moving forward so part of the zoning board approval and if you look at the conditions as to conditions that bring the selectmen into a little bit of authority on this one condition is a monetary condition that will be provided to the town through the board of selectmen to be held in a fund should we vote for it and then the second one is some consideration for roadway improvements coming down fisher street for right turning lane and the option is do you there approve the steps of designing permit and building it or accepting the money in working in you guys wanted to come to the table to kind of explain to the board the background of this and give us some insight i also reached out to the neighbors through one of the members that i knew told them about this hearings on this and voted them to the meeting and see if there's a people in the background so where this is a not a public hearing but i'd like to open it to hear it discuss and then open it up to any of the neighbors if they have any additional insight or consideration that we would think about before we make a decision if you could just introduce yourself welcome and thank you for coming up on air over again be currently the chair of a board of peel's at the time of the permits consideration i was not the chairman but i had been a member and was a member throughout the entire process ok and you're the chairman now in approving the the forty billion proving the comprehensive permit we impose a number of conditions two of them require for the selectmen attention and ultimately action one of them is for the payment of one hundred fifty thousand dollars to the town of foxborough that amount is to go into a medication for and it's to be used for whatever purpose the board of selectmen determine it's your discretion it's absolutely your discretion there is no time limit as to when that money has to be used and again there's no limit or restriction or requirement relative to the us the only requirement is that the handover company or  next month so at some point in time that between now and when that building permit is issued the head of a company has to pay the town one hundred fifty thousand dollars ok there's no vote that needs to be taken on that it's just a determination that the board has to make as to whether they want the money now or they want to weigh in my recommendation would be it's better in our pocket than it is in our pockets and this is no reason not to require that at this point in time so if i understand it correctly the the requirement is they have to make that payment before the first permit is issued correct that's and if we don't act on it by the time that they say it takes us three months to three months they can't get a permit until that's issued or they can get a permit and we didn't vote on it so we lose the money i think all we have to do is vote to accept it all right all right this is the first the first we don't have to have because for now ye it's forthcoming they are looking to start clearing in march so i think sometime within the next four weeks prior to me issuing it there will be submitting that first of one hundred fifty thousand dollars payment to the town they're just going to automatically submit that we don't have to rewrite it or correct correct so we don't want to do vote on anything to do with it and i've already mentioned decision be made as to what what use that money should be before we ever had any thing like this before like a lump sum for mitigation that had no the hand over  group with the logic foxborough when that forty three development was constructed they also had mitigation feet on medication fines but they were a year mark for specific specific items where this wine at the suggestion of town manager was to be put into a lump sum for for consideration and used by the select which i think was a better way of handling it that it was with the original foxborough because they came back several times before the board to modify that decision because money was moved around to a process for how those funds should be appropriated and use for certain purposes as opposed to just submitting purposes into the c v a for consideration into the permit why was it once you put it into the permit then you have to hold a hearing to to the specific purpose for use of such amount to be determined by the fox proposed selection so again there's nowhere in here that says you have to vote it's it's up the onus is on the applicant to get that info to get the permit so let's lump these together a little bit let's move on to the second one or the second one is a little bit more more complicated as far as what wired beef developer the board of selectmen has as an option require the developer to design a right hand turn only lane on fisher street as it approaches route one forty the developer then would be required to go to the does not approve it or does not act within one year then payment is to be made to the town in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars less the cost of the design and whatever out of pocket be used for roadway improvements and safety and again the decision has to be made before the issuance of a first building  and carried out before the last occupancy permit correct correct so that's the window there correctly so the hundred fifty thousand if we didn't put in make them to the right lane hundred fifty thousand goes to us and it's on the town to do difficult to get approval for that i would then they're right in turn away but i would also think if you had a right hand turn lane it would probably require most people or at least convince most people who are going left to use that left lane and not to be mitigation would what you would consider is whether we put a right hand cuing away right there back about one hundred feet and that would allow us any cars that are going to back up from this to go into that lane and make a right hand turn just to give you an orientation of what you're talking what we're looking at and just to clarify things if all the neighbors are out there shaking their head no we don't want it how did that right hand lane come up again who's saying that they want  politics there's a study that was done by hand over the head over a company's traffic and saw the nats and they looked at all the different options out there and one was would a that it probably would not if the light there was time properly because there wasn't that significant amount of traffic that would be going down fisher street that information issue a permit thus probably again i'm doing the plan review now they haven't applied yet but i do expect that for the next couple weeks  they could probably mid march so i was i was thinking there's a lot of information this track reports i do want to hear from the neighbors not a decision we can just at this table make tonight you know  thius i don't know what the terms of the settlement were but they did not impact the to my knowledge the town we've not been requested to to review anything or to in any fashion modify the decision yes of so it was it was a you couldn't do that tonight because there's no further action to be taken out of the great and at a subsequent meeting process as to how you want to accept that i think what i'd prefer is there's nothing in here that says we have to vote on it i think when when the applicant provides it to the that developer saw for a little while this was going through the process so that wasn't taken into consideration ok as i had said i'd reached out to one gentleman that was we were in quite inquiring back and forth through this process i let him know today that this was on the agenda and i see some people from the neighborhood you're welcome to add any comments that you have for the board and if you could just introduce yourself and i in your i weinstein one twelve south high street there's a couple things that  neighbors were concerned about that we want to address here the first would be that no point has anybody in the neighborhood ever been interested in a right turn only lane from fisher street on two hundred forty that was never ever ever something anybody in the neighborhood asked for that was something that either the z b a conjured up on their own or one of the traffic studies conjured up on their own but that was never something we have or we did ask for and what we are under the impression was something that was going to be worked on was since ninety eight percent of the traffic goes down left from you so it's still two lanes that right still have two lanes but one would be a dedicated left only and the other would be left or right ok so in effect you could have two cars coming down fish raise our concerns about is i've you know driven by sharing commons i don't know a million times since they pulled all the trees out and then didn't build anything there i think we would like to make sure that everything was scared away ahead of time with the there thank you thank you anyone else from the audience john mcdonald for robert st i'm in addition to the second the two left hand turn lanes are you know when the neighborhood not wanting the right hand turn it was our understanding throughout the process that the mitigation funds that were to be set aside this one hundred fifty thousand dollars would be used as part of the mitigation for this area and for the impact that it would have on the town i was here shaking it had bell now we were led to believe that that the select into it correct to judge it i guess right now i could it's ok thank you thank you thank you but you're talking about the medication items that i mentioned that are not in these copies because they're on page seven that's to be borne by the developer the yes those will be actually but that's still that is still mitigation meaning you know sidewalks maintain the fence do that to the shelter for the school bus stop if that doesn't come out of the hand fifty that's all right i know i know but what i'm saying is there were other mitigations listed so my question to you is what we are right there mitigation that would that you would like to come out of the hundred fifty thousand dollars i th there is a bit of a mitigation right might my thought would be the first one hundred fifty thousand should be set aside for something that may or may not happen that's unfortunate yeah i'm foreseen for a certain amount of time and five years from now if everything's great should be a neighborhood contingency fund yeah thank you that's my thought of how it all originated we don't know what's going to happen it's really impossible to know what the full impact is going to be on the neighborhood it's impossible right for instance that the reasoning behind the two left hand turn lanes is because the hanover traffic study estimated that eighty or ninety five percent of the traffic would turn left and conservatively they estimated when you download that traffic study you'll see fifteen hundred car trips per day and you know what ninety five percent of those taking a left turn we didn't want to see the queue come up to their entry exit way so we don't know what it's going to look like and that's why we were hoping that the board of selectmen in your wisdom would hold back that and say ok let's look let's see what happens and then make a determination about what mitigation we couldn't foresee would be necessary thank you you thank  goes and what will be needed well there are more trees more anything else so we would just like to see those funds set aside a block down to be just for this for such a period of time be it three five seven years so you know actually see what the to some people that were at those meetings but we've been in projects where one hundred percent of the mitigation goes towards that development that's in front of the town or it may go towards a fire apparatus be to support it or may go towards the schools because his kids there or may go towards the town departments that to support the building staff on their inspections so you know it could be a whole bunch of different stuff so i didn't want to decide at this table tonight and i think over the next couple weeks if you guys want to look at the meeting minutes talk to the people talk to the neighbors if we put this on the next agenda sometime in march you know hopefully we can come to a conclusion and not hold up the building permit if it takes a little bit longer so be it but i don't want to vote on a motion one is to pursue the design and construction of an approximately one hundred foot long right turn lane only add in a to spade a cost of approximate hundred fifty thousand or two is to make a mitigation payment to the town in the amount you know yeah and it was clear that the second one was for impacts directly surrounding and particular the fish astri and i'd also like to point out we don't know what the terms of the selman or correct and how much board decides not to direct the hand over group to proceed with the design and implementation then they hand over the town will receive one hundred fifty thousand dollars at which point  go towards any traffic impacts that will be created from this project and if they if we go in that direction we could vote to accept the money and then not do something with it right away until it's built until it's up and running and then we can see what the impacts now are and not imagine any more there are actual impacts and i think i'm sorry john had i was going to want to make just two points from my own perspective i look at a forty b proposal comprehensive permits affecting the town as a whole not just the area in which that development is going so cordingley when i sat and deliberated and considered mitigation conditions to my mind because the town was also being affected as well as the neighborhood was the town was being intact and it would be appropriate for the board to have discretion for that hundred fifty thousand dollars that's the go to mitigation fund second and i can't necessarily say that this is would be agreeable to the developer but if the board felt that he needed a little bit more time a reasonable man a time to make a decision as far as the traffic design versus the order of one hundred fifty thousand dollars we can certainly request that of the it would it would probably be probably within if they estimated that based upon destruction estimates some designers to mit's initially just to do the right hand turn because you don't you're not actually changing the signal at the point you buy a signal then you're talking good i don't know the terms of the settlement but what i do know is that there was nothing that the board of appeals was required to do with respect to the permit that we that we granted and so i think we have to look at this on the face value of what the approval and the requirements are from the towns perspective it may overlap if we look at this and say i was going to take the money and build a covered bus stop and we all agree and then the neighbors came back and said well no they were going to do that in a private settlement i can see an overlap later on but right over again three robert street just on one of the comments i was made here is is that one of the first hundred fifty thousand was going to the board of selectmen because this project would affect the whole town and in some ways it will affect the whole town but that's going to happen in the on the phosphorus circle you know that again maybe down the road we great to have that extra money set aside if we don't use it all for this area but i do know i don't want to see any of that go away until we know that this is ok next on the item we've got a list of in your town warrants for the excel spreadsheet with the warren title sponsor and date they believe to provide for improvements to to the roads stabilization fund for southeastern regional school that was something that they requested several about a year ago i believe in the fall i guess we regulations was a sub was not the economic development i was a separate group right that's the regulation a service and that's right that's a little different though because i know the economic development committee is working on it but i don't know if there should be the sponsor the ones that we're asking for now the selectmen of the actually building this year we had a meeting of the housing trust before this meeting and a topic came up we may have to actually change the charge of the housing trust because it says that any expenditures of funds would have to go to town meeting we had to consult and from the state who told us that it really mechanically would work better if it was a check and balance with the board of selectmen could bless the expenditure of funds from from that salto existing into the system so we would from utilize it for that purpose but we have to we have to gain authorization from time to do so that would be a private vendor coming in and using it and then making the town money to use it to what we did earlier earlier this the late late last month or earlier this month which we saw thought was very productive a lot and sort of like so that was a pretty town meeting review with the c e o so they had the option to ask questions just to let everybody know that the initial filed submits they came in lower than the original estimate so that's that's about that represents about their original estimate for that cost about two point six million dollars they can get around two had at least five or six different betters which for each of that's a good  board needs to discuss and you need to hear from the board our perception from the public safety meeting that we had on monday with the fire chief the police chief public works public works it was one portion of it but what happened i think years ago in the promises that were made in the expectation that i think kind of fell short a little bit so if you want to give you an overview of the storm and we can i know thank you for doing i i first i want to say thanks for the work that very cold later on today and froze in some cases so it was difficult to remove that but they did the best job they could under the circumstances and then we had a follow up story right after that which which occurred yesterday which added to that that  six so it was a it was a better storm to manage in that regard the because the original storm was such a difficult heavy wet snow it did obviously have an impact on the power outages and one point we had about forty eight hundred households out of power here in the community it was pointed out to me which i was unaware of until actually that meeting on monday that actual towns of stay longer than anticipated the total estimated time for for outages in a commune was around thirty hours in total some of those it was totals some of those outages lasted a matter of just a few hours some lasted a good twenty eight twenty six to twenty eight hours in some cases so the problem that we ran into the observations that we had in and the efforts that were made to try and when the storm hit they were able to get hold of crews and crews reported here from quebec canada as far away north as what the canada and other and other areas north of the north of our area but they didn't arrive really until saturday so we so we would show left short with crews for a period most a period on friday into saturday morning some of those about twelve of those crews were stationed here in town who are back crews were stationed here in town yesterday just in case we had more problems for outages so if yesterday's storm to have to be worse than it was we were pretty well prepared for that event but as chairman develops points they were not really as prepared as they could have been a prop should have been before the storm that that occurred on friday so as a result our responses were delayed in terms of getting wires back up and service back restored in the in the middle and it was generally  but generally speaking my experience has been was at a thirty hour response given the same type of storm that we had was not a bad response but it could have been bad and there were gaps and where the coverage could have been there were certain outages that could have been repaired fairly quickly if they'd had if they had crews and time in town to address them but they were actually scattered in different places to try to get power restored as quickly as they could in areas of all around us so i think we didn't have really enough people time to address the needs that we had at the time yeah so that i mean that was one item of where the crews were and why it took so long and the other item was that you remember in the end of two thousand and ten and two thousand eleven it kind of was a wake up call to the town that there was a lot of limbs that were hanging over trees yes that was just not maintained by the requirements of national grid or our requirements by national grid following the storms and i think you saw a lot of utility trucks going back and forth a lot of tree clearing i haven't seen in years and in one i'm hearing from him he's got below was the soft pines those are the limbs that were falling right down it's not that they were high winds in the three thirty feet away fell over and hit the wires those were those the limbs that over the last couple years grow they grow quick as a soft wood and then they fell where has the maintenance been over the last couple  years from national grid because that was i think the town made provisions and our laws on historic roads and stuff that they can go in and they can go from ground to top and clarity and that's what they started to do so what i suggest bill was rather than tell national grid our unhappy we were if that's the collective and you guys got the phone calls to rather reach out to national grid say priest please give us a formal report on the status of the two storms for profit you know most likely that the first one the response times and the number of crew so we can look at it and then kind of report back that either that wasn't the case that we sorry it was insufficient and tie that into the the maintenance but also the experiences of i heard a lot of people calling national grid to get the recording they would say nine thirty on saturday night you know across the board and it didn't change and i heard people want to go to i think i probably wouldn't have it wouldn't bother me but that was specific items and then you know just the just the whole where i was with this and what are your thoughts on what you guys were hearing with the store great maybe ask for their particular storm years ago it was chaotic communications ok the key cations actually what i did was i formally formulated a sort of like a funnel of communication so we didn't get we didn't have multiple people reaching with and great and i left it at that and if and the only time i could i only called reached out to national good once and i was when we didn't get an immediate response to some of the information that the requests that we made which i  got a response once i called so i can tell you that i respected that chain of command throughout the entire process and they seem to work well so well that try to follow that same kind of format going forward  unless of course something requires us to change it but i think having that central voice a command is a much better approach than having a multiple points of contact with with with national gri if unless it's a clear emergency where something is on fire requires emergency response for some has been heard or you know there's some kind of a fire or something that requires an immediate level of response but something like a power outage you should call a business line to report it there was well reason why that's good is because and then we have a wreck we have a record locally of that as well the previous experiences i've had is that we tried to keep them from not calling dispatch out of because it can and it was difficult they were in a race for as you mentioned a race against time to try to get off the roads before it froze so the rajah said he had been out there for seventeen hours and you know honestly it was probably one of the heaviest snowstorm so not deep but just  but i think what happened was that they've been working for so long around the clock to get the snow on the on that storm that it just i think they just ran out of time but i would suggest at least like a main street around the column and those wasn't like the day after it was a day and a half after the storm right nothing and i wasn't just sure if i've heard you know rumors from people that they're not doing certain sidewalks anymore i'll need you know by schools or yeah and then again i had to echo and well to follow up on the question of communication years back i mean i was joking we should give my she reads the president of national grid cell phone number out to all the angry residents and say you're call i'm not getting we have any and here and i was afraid to see bill on monday morning because you were saturday night answering residents calls and e mails along and your two thousand and ten beginning of two thousand and eleven along with but it's just a communication you guys did a nice job for thanking everybody she thought it was i think that's the probably most critical piece is to let people know that we're listening you know we're paying attention to things that we do get word out pretty quickly i mean once we get there something's a real serious problem dispatch goes to a great job to get that word out of the problem is that sometimes we force i never knew that somebody was still out as early as sunday morning if you hear something like that feel free to let me know because i can i can address that well i would have i got the call at seven a m sunday morning and book a call back at eight because i in that mean time i was gone actual goods website doing some life for that check out facebook page check out website for any updates and kind of in the central flow of information would members if you have a concern feel free to let me know and i will in turn let the chief agreements that you approved and meeting with the unions to make sure that our understanding of the language is the same is there some talk about implementing so we had a very successful one with the steelworkers last week and it was it was fun to all be sitting in the real same ro out and implemented there aren't any questions or misinterpretations for it so that was successful we also have a lot of stuff going on in recruitment and hiring right now we just made two offers to dispatcher one full time on part time to fill vacancies we're in process with civil service on all of the paperwork on two promotions for the position of lieutenant those are being finalized this week we made an offer to a payroll coordinator to fill a vacancy and i just got a text that they accepted the offer and we did final interviews today for public work supervisors to fill in retirement and we have another one opening in public works we're going to be interviewing for so we were cleaning up a lot of those positions it was kind of felt badly the d p w is a little bit short staffed but what i just said you know he felt he was ok during the storm we  also working again as bill mentioned with personnel wage board on the revision of the by law we're going to roll it out to the employees as you know there's about ten employees impacted by the current by law but we're going the language in your packet well before then it's pretty much drafted and it's going to go to town council in the next week or so i just wanted to say i had the pleasure of attending the hugs meeting on february third it's a great organization and they have done a lot of great our new library directors instituted regular staff meetings as you know library because of the the way the stuff works it's hard to get the whole group together so he's instituted quarterly staff meetings where he had a morning and afternoon session so the both people could attend and i had the pleasure of sitting in we rolled out our korea a process and all of that out but i had a great interaction with them and i've been promised five minutes on all the next meeting succumb so i just want to com more often heard you know a fox purport a newspaper i was just so when exactly where the promise is made by national grid formally made to the town in terms of response all right thank you sir three items are to approve the executive general twenty six meeting minutes to talk about the joint statement of these negotiations and then the third one is a fire station discussion