thank you frank good evening everyone welcome to the slackness meaning for tuesday april fourteenth we're here at the high school media center i'll read the agenda first the chair reserves the right to call items on the agenda out of order the times that are listed for items are approximate times and items may be reached earlier or later than the post the times the listing of items is those recently anticipated by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting at least forty eight hours prior to the meeting not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law so at seven pm we'll have citizens input topics not reasonably anticipated by the chair forty eight hours in advance  meeting seven o five selections update seven ten will open a joint meeting with the planning board to discuss and vote on gary white house's reappointment as associate member of the planning board seven fifteen m p s will have a public hearing to discuss and vote on the monster jam application seven twenty five board will discuss the spring warrant articles seven thirty five bill keegan will discuss the use of the term of fox care's emblem seven forty five the board will discuss have a discussion regarding concerns about the heroin epidemic seven fifty five bill will provide us with information about the performance evaluation process for his annual performance review and at eight o five bill will provide us with a town manager update  upset that we were denied access to public records including the the warrant the warrant for the draft warrant for the for the annual town meeting i was told a couple of weeks ago there isn't one i came back a week later and i was told there is one but it's in draft form you can't have it it's the first time this is happening twenty five years and it's interfered with the newspapers ability to inform our readers of what's going on in foxborough and we read a couple of bullet points that we researched from the public eye state public records it's brief introduction this is from secretary galvin the secretary of state first thing he says the founding fathers of our nation strove to develop an open government formed on the principle of democracy and public participation and informed citizen is better equipped to participate in that process what records are public every record that is received by  government entity or an employee is presumed to be a public record on a specific statutory exemption permits or requires it to be withheld in whole or part if the custodian of the record which  town hall is saying that it's not a public record it's someone that custodian to give the exemption the legal exemption why it's not a public record an oral request made in person now by telephone is permitted access pop public records a custodian of a public record shop permit all public records within his or her custody to be inspected or copied by any person during regular business hours almost done i think if your patients waiting a few days i thank you we never had a problem with this but i'm we just can put it out there in the interest of open government all record custody and are strongly urged to waive the fees associated with access to public records but are not required to do so under the law of the public records cannot ask why you want it we find ourselves because we we like to get along and it's really all about relationships not like it not legalities and that's what we want you know will  sometimes say why we lie we like it never you know get more it's not going to be some terrible story but the request it does not have to say why it's they own it taxpayers citizens and i'm just going to close with a couple more which are not issues but just because folks don't seem to quite understand the wow this law is laws work meeting minutes there's no requirement that the minutes be transcribed or approved before they're made public when they drafted when they're written public record of course it is the public records localise the e mails and and videos nine one one eleven calls all that sort of thing you don't have to be the subject of a public record to have you get no special access if you're the subject of a special of a public record in other words if one guy goes into the town hall with a three piece suit who is a lawyer involved in an issue he's not entitled washy to any more access to public records than somebody who might go in there dressed otherwise and finally notice handwritten notes the notes kind of be considered merely a reference to assist the secretary in fulfilling duties but rather the notes compromise a government file itself by which that's kind of repeating the part where debbie who does just such a wonderful job and taking notes right now if i take a decorous somebody want to come by to morrow or in science a step can i question you don't have to respond back to me the question is frank's a very reasonable person i've seen requests come into town hall that says for instance show me all the legal bills for the last three years that's something that you know probably takes a lot of time to put together if somebody asked for something simple for this man to stand up here he was visibly shaking it wasn't a probably an isolated thing i guess my question is when you don't have to discuss it what is the policy and what is our response to it because if someone asks for something as simple as a town warrant out of which we've all had the advisory committee has and he's being said no maybe it was a misunderstanding i don't know so i just don't want someone to come up and say ok we take it under advisement and have this person leave because i think you know i've been doing this for five years and the public requests in the open meeting law and stuff is something very important to me so i just wanted some discussion if we can do it tonight i understand it but i am upset that he had to come up here and he's visibly shaken and he's been doing this for a long time he takes his job seriously i just want to know how it happened and so we don't have to do it again you can just have it as an agenda item can we do that i think i think we should have and i was agenda item  mention the upcoming baseball parade the date has been changed on that from april eleventh to april eighteenth so we just want to make sure everybody knew about that  ok so our first item is a joint meeting with the planning board discussion gary white house reappointment as associate member of planning board so with the cleaning board like to come forward the original intention was at the time was for the planning board the ability to work can't add an interested citizen at the town meeting floor made a request that it be a joint appointment with the selectmen  see the next item on our agenda is a public hearing for n p s to discuss and vote on the monster jam application revised general bylaws five section six and also stadium rules and regulations will conduct a public hearing on tuesday april fourteenth two thousand and fifteen beginning at seven fifteen p m in the foxboro high school media center so street to review the application submitted by m p s l l c for the months to jan two thousand and fifteen this event is proposed for joint stadium application for this event is on file at the office of selectmen all interested parties are so we're here tonight to talk about monster jam which this will be the second year now that we've hosted this event we're asking for june twentieth with a five thirty gate and a seven o'clock start time it's the it's essentially the same exact event that we hosted last year so a feld entertainment our fellow motorsports entity it's about a two hour program we have the entire lower bowl in the mezzanine and the club sold not sold but we will eventually get to that point the ticket sales are trending a little higher than they were last year at this point to the price of twenty five dollars between twenty five one hundred dollars and we didn't have any significant issues last year so  overall things went really smoothly last year it was a really it was a really pleasant surprise actually how easy it was to move a ton of dirt on and off the field of absolutely zero damage and about three days so all that are is actually already on site so they sourced it last year trucked it in dropped in a parking lot and moved into the stadium and then everything now has been kept onsite so it will be a little easier this year because we're not doing individual truck runs like your last year but also they'll be less just traveling from the lot so that will actually help everybody we did a little extra street sweeping inside and outside the stadium and then also we had additional water trucks on site last year we'll have even more this year again to sort of keep everything as as damp as possible leading up to the event and minimizing any but the dust that might be rolling around the trucks are coming from east rutherford so they'll be there they're towed in you'll be using the same exact footprint that they did last year for any service and or maintenance but they won't be driving around at no point did they ever you know move around the property of the facility without it becoming actual and osha construction zone so everything is really highly coordinated with this group and we look forward to another successful  george i just wanted to know that there will be a practice for our night leave forty six because it's it's it's noisy but it's really didn't create a problem the noise last year we will be there observed but question not question but the progress there is construction of the stadium the optimum lounge as well as the cross the billion and that's on schedule and that is not  outside the stadium and they worked directly with chief hatfield and wu badly on all of the fuel requirements where they where they were comfortable having it stored overnight whether it was in or outside of the vehicles so they went through a really detailed plan and they well again signing autographs until live and fifteen i read somewhere else the parking lot closes at all of that is that when you see the parking lot close up being everybody so everybody should be out just saying that the parking lots closed two hours post event that we don't allow anybody to wait or to tailgate you know everybody's just moved out of the facility into their vehicles and off property we have licensed it through eleven fifteen simply because that's sort of our the town curfew and that's what we respectfully request but it certainly won't last that long last year lasted about an hour so i think it went to about ten fifteen ten thirty and even at that point they felt like it was too long so that's why this year they want to break it up it was just one massive line that people sort of queued up and went through so we've broken up into several lines that on but last year was successful i think it sounds excellent more efficient this year setting up i think the only complaint i heard last year was that a lot of the people didn't realize it was going on until it was too late so i think that they want to bring their families to know what's going on and i look forward to it i think it's  i have a question and it's just it's really doesn't pertain to this it's more pertains to the whole process of stadium coming to us for licensing how far  advance do you have your your van scheduled for the summer you know it's it really depends it's case by case an event like this you know we know finance because he signed a multi year deal with fellows to come you know on property  announcement sometimes it's four weeks lead time before you know before an announcement or before we can even say anything outside of the building so it really varies i'm just and your reason i'm asking is for for efficiency see if you can come in with multiple  events at once and we can kind of just hear you know what's going on kind of all in all at once for the stuff that you know you come in once a week we listen to what you do because it seems like it's it's the same process over and over again and if we can kind believe usually done just like a couple two or three at the most really for each meeting i guess it depends on what other things have to be fit on the agenda for that time to this separate hearings and they are separate hearings each one of them you  resident in the community so also have that sort of be aware of any traffic patterns that might be disrupted they'll be cognizant of noise so i know that in advance so that when the friday night practice in the police will know so in case anyone calls the police oh yeah absolutely open and before us we have done actually as a part of this we did five applications that were before now we're bored and this is the second one to come forward process that leaves everybody leaving with kind of that you feeling so yeah and i get nervous about that too because this is about as public as it gets so and i was really disturbed and concerned about that when i heard that this was that was somehow well there's didn't  we've got a lot of public discussion about the document but it was still a draft form until you actually voted to present it my experience has been there until but while it's a working draft it doesn't make it presented to the press to the public until it's finished i could be wrong in that and i've heard frank's words tonight so but that's been my experience is that doesn't get present until gets followed on and so that's third so if there's a disagreement over that or if there's a misunderstanding over that piece i think know the press has always had access to it before with the understanding that they didn't have the final document from so that i think it's a misunderstanding every every community is different because i can tell you that's not the way it was in the past twelve years i didn't know in the previous expect community so so for process in our office this year so in their in their lives part of problem but there's no excuse i'm just saying that that's how i get i was used to working with it and so as a result but i actually did have a conversation with frank about this matter a week ago and i didn't know  much of a concern to him if i if that had five known that i was really want to address the with him directly but i did he did talk to me so he was concerned about it and then he said the thing was just a misunderstanding and that's the way i left it and they realize he was going to thank you for your policy building a lot of people know you doing a good job and working hard and what happened here is not a reflection on this board of selectmen at all that's certainly not a reflection on the two terrific people you have working for you in that office but i am going to trees you just list some of the letters and so forth by the kind of the title of the letter what what's this letter about it might be about the forty b young fishes streets over the a list but you don't make a copy of it and that's that's fine that list is absolutely a public record and it's important for the public to have immediate access to it immediately the sense of when it's there on the table not saying you have to go to your file cabinet if you it's very important because the board is getting information from various sources some of it is some of it something that you may or may not be interested in one of them in the list tonight is about a special mass that the archbishop is having that a lot of these things are from out of town and some you don't have to make copies of them but i was flat out told that i cannot see that that those documents until are affected that way but this needs this need to be straight now people need to have have access to the public records and the last thing i'm going to say is there is substance there's me to the why i'm so upset and why i was shaking and jim thank you for recognizing my upset and anger important decisions have been made in this process bill about what's go happen to the foxboro in years to come and it's happened in the last few months and there in the draft warning there is that one of the draft articles is is a contract for the fire department wonderful it may be a wonderful contract it may be just what everybody needs and find people who serve as volunteers on the advisory committee have reviewed it and i assume they support it so it's not an issue of of work but we're just now learning that be project in fisher street people of everybody made me want to have a group hug about the last year on your administration bill but there's some people down on fisher's street who aren't feeling quite that way because they got blindsided the whole town got blindsided on how the sewer is going to be used and this is so article on the warrant they are substance to our need to have seen that warrants and a member of the public doesn't have to go to every single meeting day and night in order to keep up with things if they don't have the time to go to meeting but they want to go to town with a man i see a certain record that's how they're catching up from the board in how we look we want to utilize this information because i've had members of the staff ask me if we can utilize if they can utilize this emblem on documents that are going to come from the town and honestly on a lot of head per se but on one town documents from some sort from some departments and and i did wasn't in a position to comment that because we never really spoke about it was that i think the board endorsed the the the concept of utilizing the phrase fox cares and very supportive of that but we've never really had a discussion about how that can be utilized especially on town documents and i was hesitant to to give the green light to that until we had this conversation so this is more of a yes and then use the logo right as part letterhead on the documents or you know for instance are there anything that would be used as informational documents for the time from the time you a little bit of other background many years ago when there was a big celebration going on and fight for a state official was out here to make a presentation and in the course of conversation said to the town you are a g among the town and the owner of the local theater picked up on that and on of all of his programs from then on a said general not for county he wanted to build a business to come to foxboro i have received some very interesting comments about that as i've done programs in different towns around this area how come you know you guys thank you  originate g o p if i could just to back up a little bit for over fifty years now i've been writing about the sense of community the make farfel so unique now remember back we were their own and is that sense of community i think that is still alive and well in this town and it comes up many many times at the thought was if we could have a visual of that sense of community instead of explaining it again and again and again it would say to the whole world that forceful cares so that anytime we were doing anything that was reaching out to other people such as a fundraiser for somebody that had a a bad time in the family on the road race for some cause signing reading cards for veterans whatever we're doing reaching out to other people if we could just have a logo there to say remind people for focus so if you saw something going on across the common and you saw that local whatever it is it's a caring  nice to identify and saw what was proposed at the time it came before the board of selectmen was there at this design would be available to groups and individuals when planning projects and charitable events as being driven by people who care very much about others in this very special place called for it so that was what we were trying to do and with the board approval of that if you remember you were shown i think of four or five different designs and just so just so particular one was chosen and the hope was that down from that time  on any time that somebody was doing and over before going to others or something promoting a way that they'd be able to use it for four years yeah that's how i remember it was really meant to has every city in town in the county to submit a photo that would be symbolic of their town every single town scimitar to building a picture of a building spro if you recall i went to the commission and then i came to you people we submitted a photo of a grand celebration taking place on the common because that spoke to the sense of community that makes farfel so great so all of the towns are represented by a building and we are represented by people gathering in a sense of celebration in the physical and philosophical center of our john mean i mean if you get a program like this that comes from the town historian went to the school system i remember you know the teacher the whole process of all the students we picked one and i'm kind the time letterhead i don't think that's what we're looking at but i think if it shows up on t shirts and things at the time promotes i know dually was using it for his outreach in the community so doesn't have to be just how governments any one that's doing you know a lack of better words charity about who we are to me that's that's the beauty of it that's going bl it ok so the next update on the agenda is the discussion that we're going to have concerning the heroin epidemic so this was yeah if you would first of all thank you for letting me put it on the the agenda of them kind of nervous about this topic it's something that i think it's a big topic and i think we're going to be dealing with it for quite some quite some time so i put some notes together just because i had a lot to fit in in ten minutes so i'm also finally coming to realize that these glasses have to just keep coming on because you can't you just can't see any more  become struggling with these so i had asked for it to be put on the agenda or and you know that the topic called heroin epidemic it probably could have been you know drug addiction or opie add as you pointed out addiction drug emergency and if you read the reports last night that came out from plainville it could have been termed lock up the houses because they're breaking into houses on spruce street in their you know tacking on the heroin issue to that too so it could have been a bunch of different terms i chose heroin addiction heroin epidemic i think heroin is still a word that kind of scares me from the last generation i think people pay attention to it so i wanted to talk about three things i wanted to provide the board with some facts that i'm finding out i wanted to give you some insight on why i'm doing this and then to kind of wrap it up with some ideas that i have on the direction i think the town could go on could go with the heroin issues that are around right now how we can deal with it so if you facts that i've picked up over the last couple months massachusetts is one of many states if not the majority of the states one of many states that's dealing with trying to combat heroin use in the towns a year ago if you remember governor deval patrick term the phrase the heroin epidemic any through twenty million dollars at the at the issue of that was that was a year of last month so now governor baker comes along and he put together a seventeen member panel to kind of understand the issue in a dress it with money and  panel is made up of politicians past attics and they've been doing community outreach for a number of months now so over the past three months just the past three months alone meant over two hundred two hundred over deal with deaths that's in mass in massachusetts and if you think the fact that we only have three hundred sixty or so towns it's in those two hundred plus heroin dass don't include the three biggest cities boston springfield and west or ok so a lot of the drug overdoses that you're seeing are not even reported correctly either so if you look at the two hundred a lot of people are saying that is massachusetts and it's a mix of probably seventy five percent of the reported deaths are men in twenty five percent women in the average age is thirty six which much younger than any anyone in this room by far ok i'm surprised at thirty six i thought it was lower the average age so you know what why is this happening so you know i asked that question to two to one addict and she kind of laughed i mean she says you know nobody nobody wakes up and says i'm going to put a needle in my arm and put heroin into my arm you know it's just it's just not done that way what the trend is and what you're seeing as is over the over the last years a lot of the kids and adults too but mostly the kids are getting addicted to  addicted and it's a quiet addiction and it surprises everybody needs kids are in their teens and then they get stuck on it and then they start stealing to try to buy it and they go into medicine cabinets and go into family's medicine cabinets and they exhaust all that and the next step because they need it is they go into heroin and heroines a lot cheaper to buy in the street then a prescription of or or oxycontin ok and once they have it in their  blood they're either addicted for life and they fight it the rest of their life or they die from it and it's happening now you're not going to see in the newspapers and is probably reasons why because it's kind of a hush hush thing but if you want a police scanner and you listen to it you're going to hear it on a police scanner at night when you know you can get a police scanner you can get on your computer now in the buttons that you hit that come up automatically or rent them foxborough walpole sharon norfolk and just about every night you see somebody calling with an overdose you seen police dispatched with not can but it never shows up in the in the in the reports after that because for different reasons so why why am i bringing it up if you recall there was a woman that came to our meeting over the winter and she asked a simple question why aren't the police carrying are can line the police addressing this and there's a whole discussion about that later but a few months not too long after i got a call from a resident a past resident who was an addict and after some help so since then i kind of went into this whole new world that i didn't really even know it was to be it that was out there to be honest with you and i've been through the courts i've been to the police the hospitals i reached out to just about everybody can that either knew about it o more about it than i did and it's pretty scary right now and i'm not a i'm not a panic person i put in the category where where you know i get kids i watch him closely could never happen to my kids but this girl that came to me was  star athlete she was a warrior and on the foxboro teams her parents volunteered it just from scouts to the churches to the j c s to just about everything and it's a good family and i said je this kid who could have written a ticket at the college after high school to play at any division wanted to college she basically lost everything lost two young kids custody lost her job it was pretty much you know there was no place to go other than death it was kind of a wake up call for me so having gone through that circle you know i've been to the governors council discussions and event to see whatever town other towns are doing intimate i'm not saying foxboro is any better or worse than other towns but we've got to get in front of it because it's not going away and it needs to get talked about now you know i did i'm just not want to just say this is an issue and what are we going to do about it it's not a school issue entirely because a lot of these kids are out of school so certainly the school can help in the early school with their talk of the early classrooms with a show in the movies and talking about it and bringing awareness but it doesn't fall in the schools entirely it's not a police issue entirely because the enforcement doesn't address the outfall and it doesn't address the awareness it's certainly not all apparent issue because some of right now people are bringing their families up from rhode island to have wakes in foxborough because they're so embarrassed to have it down where they are in this so many of them she hasn't seen anything like it so it got me thinking you know what you know when this person came up to us you know what are you going to do about it with a knock and i think we're going to take a step higher and say what are we going to do it about it from a town perspective now the selectmen were a volunteer board you know we do this part time at best it can't fall on our shoulders because this is not a town board that we all raise a hand and say i too but what i want to suggest is some support from the selectmen as this goes forward does to people that  of spearheading the effort so they've been working on it a lot longer than i have one is with me tonight linda walsh and in the other one is chris long a christian long it is a little higher level in this you she works for the kind of the state level and trying to bring awareness so working with lender on you know over the last few months you know and i said to linda what's your involvement why do you want to do and she's just simply said you know i don't know if i can save one and one family to have to go through this it's a home run so as i look at it this way look at some of the other towns if you go a few towns south from here they have a  all of the hospitals coming in speak and the very active in it you go one town north in the doing the same thing but they're doing it collectively in their own town foxworth has an opportunity to kind of i want to get ahead of it but i think we're still behind it but if we can look to the community similar to what we did for the child sexual where ness committee where we reached out to the different sectors i think we can do that in this town and be very successful  you know there's a we're very lucky to have a d n a agent that lives in town and i spoke to him and to be honest with you he's scared to death about it as well he's got little kids and he says he speaks to them every single day from what he sees coming into the area in this coming in you know through fall river and all that is coming from mexico and he tells me the process in the profit that you can make and how they distribute it and it'll just it'll scare the heck out of you know what i brought when i was thinking how i was going to bring this up i'm sure there's going to be people that have been affected and know what i'm talking about and say thank you it's been a long time common in this will help but i'm also aware that there's going to be people that would rather have the attics just got rid of them put them in jail is one less lock they have to put on the door or one less dollar they have to put in the taxable to you know for prisoners just just get him out of here before what i meant i heard it's not as easy as that it's got be community wide based and i'm sure there's people that this is surprising to that heroin is in foxborough and back we're not in the city how did they get here but i'll tell you when you're in when you're in a town that ninety five goes through it for ninety five goes next to it route one goes through it it's a conduit and you're going to see it on the hotels on route one you're going to see in the parking lots and and i can believe me if somebody in this room wanted heroin they could get it in fox boro within ten minutes it's well better different than anybody else so it's here in what are we going to do about it and i think it's a community outreach program there's enough people that want to get involved i've spoken to several school committee members who are very anxious there's two offices in particular who are very anxious to get involved a social services you name it but i just wanted to start the discussion if it doesn't surprise somebody  know it's a good opportunity to do it here you know and in closing out i'm just going to say if linda if you want to speak a little bit about it is an event coming up in may that i would say it's a kickoff event but the craft organization has donated the use of the to i want i met with achieved and i asked him you know do we have anything years ago he said the coalition that kind of went away so we do the national night out with the j c s and and we work with with the cheap with that but that's come to be kind of a fun night out for the kids which is it's great for the kids but they want more information tables they're more packets for people there's nothing worse than  having your family member you know have to have an archaean and minister to get him to the hospital safely and then you know you're left with oh my gosh i didn't know what what do i deal where or why go from here so we'd like to try to put together some kind of a package that you know that you know during the crisis but within forty eight hours somebody go back and give them a packet of here's a list of things that you can you know jack and jill and and organizations that are out so we also reached out to a gentleman down in jersey that has done a documentary and scarred an american ever demick it's killing our kids deadspin ali about getting it into the schools so that we can be proactive as much as we can so we'll have a couple speakers there cheaper larry would like to get the pharmacist a member of the i a member of the district attorney's office and a physician there to be like the panelists so that people could ask questions and hopefully get more information we'll have  about we are a community we come together now these days folks aren't that that jim is mentioned they're not the dregs of the world they they are you know homemakers had twelve unintentional opiate overdoses in the past twelve years we don't know and i don't have the numbers for fourteen yet but as john said there was ninety one pedo overdoses and not for county in two thousand and fourteen and we also want to let people know that   and it comes with other things just as the break ends another concern as i myself found needles by in my yard when we were raking last fall i'm a little concerned for the folks that are going to flyers starts in them around the cheap is actually going to share them with other other chiefs around the area and invite them and it's going on the addicks months site which chris's responsible for hope to get a good showing we also will be doing a walk steps of pope at patriot place gillette stadium on the seventeenth of may hope and again to get more information out for folks to be available to than then it's going to start off slow that we have to start somewhere so just just to add to that one thing that you didn't mention that i think is is something that we have to strive for but is if somebody is in your family that becomes an addict where do you go you know short of picking up the phone book and making one hundred calls to friends and people that have gone through it if this group can be a resource that if you know the jones family has an issue they can come someplace in the summer they can sit with that's been through it they have information their phone numbers they have information on insurance they have you know some some rules of thumb that you know don't try to get a halfway house because you're not qualified or it's an insurance there's just so much in talking to all the different departments the left hand doesn't know what the right hands doing and that's just the way it is right now so we need something that we can we can g t them and a shoulder as well as information because it's scary so i just want to mention when you know i saw this agenda item i did reach out to the company that i used to work for which works in the area of opiate treatment and they are willing to have their regional director participate in any way that would be helpful their program does link it link closely with police departments in the specifically in the towns where they have their clinics to raise awareness and safety but you know tons of information and they'd be very happy to  support any efforts to address the issue you know we've we've met great a few folks from different organizations and more than helpful to us and in learning about how it goes and the frustrations of the families as well as the attics and selves they said they'd be willing to come here to get something off i said you know i would talk to the board and i would certainly connect them with the chief first before they until you know how it goes from prescription drugs right down the line and also you know the folks that are out there that are shopping around get started in this and then i'll go to this town and get the doctor to give me this and you know so everybody has to be she has something they have something else this day but they do want to get involved and the chief is going to reach out to one of the visions if they could actually come and give a better explanation manically is funny brought that up he's a first person i went to and basically he walked me through the steps of you know finding a sponsor for this person finding out a place for this person to go what to do and what not to do because i'll be honest with you i  my thing was well just grab this girl and put her in a you know a safe place and introduce it in nice people and they just doesn't work that way and marc had a lot more vision than i ever did starting this just from his experience and through the community so that was  you know that goes back to finding people that have dealt with this for some and not coming into it knowing nothing being in contact with people that have been around it a little bit it was very helpful well thanks mi actually created a group in town that was made up of a lot of folks from all walks of walks all walks of life to get the word out because it clearly is an epidemic and  is something that you're absolutely right whether that it's something that people don't want to talk about because it's not something that you would typically hear you've had to most people would be in denial that it's actually happening you're ok here but i can i can assure you that it is happening virtually everywhere and i don't always single community that's actually prepared for this that's the scary thing about that is i felt that in you know the common german made early about the fact that you could get drugs you know anywhere in town is a reflection on the police to power because they're doing everything they can do to address the issue the question is there aren't enough resources to actually address that period so i think what's happened is that the one of the way you can be a factor in drag rescue scenes is that a lot of people have to become fully aware of the issue and a lot of people have to bring more attention to it so that some people can be protected i can in this last week i worked and we had there were several people that i knew were actually died from overdoses so it was really quite alarming to me to find that out going on  public access vauxhall capable of drug addiction a town that was ten years ago was almost to the day and nothing ever became and we tried to start this back then and nobody can for you if you don't think heroin some statistics it's in almost every family ok she say jim says they start off a major injury sometimes head trauma concussions and then they shut off the pills on my street alone in the last ten years to say our father of a four year old model boy the time was bruised whose parents were both had cancer got addicted to the oxy caught her parents would prescribe the the vice principal school i don't know what's going on since then because i'm not in touch with schools like i used to be with bert we were good friends but hope we're doing some i suggest you have a great joint meeting with the school committee and start as cus you more because it's like ten years ago brushed on the rug i don't want to tell you how many kids i know in this town and want to with us in the street fareed because nothing was done about it and the s get funding it's got a whole nother branch of the tower part of the board of health i'm sure you go and check out what side i hunted it's pretty easy to google will figure it out pretty fast just copy spot with a k google it when you get home you haven't seen the walking dead check it out it's frightening yourself so and don't think you're immune because you know you you the kids are not going to get addicted and i'll tell you some maybe a little strong from people swallow if you've got a kid high school star drug testimony about trust in many more as well making sure they live because that's how bad it is and most of it starts with kids sixteen years old working for a boyfriend that's got the addiction and strength to grow out and next thing you know it's five years later he's dead she got his two kids and the parents are taking care of him there's no funding for the parents to take care of these children these kids are now either dead walked up or in rehab and then you know i can claim a child as a dependent now you get grandparents raising children with a lot of special needs there's no funding from the state available me big time on board now and and i think we need the rest years and you know having been part of the treatment side of it and witnessing that it's so miraculous when you see how many people are able to become functioning citizens again and it's just so joyful for you know people who work in that field when that happens because it is so difficult have their own support group they stick together usually meet on tuesday nights and have dinner and they go out for ice cream but you got to keep them busy and you know and then people get convictions they've got records they can't get jobs you know what was if people do rehab believe me i know plenty of people that have had worse crimes when it comes to a crime not addiction i don't call it i don't call this new england addiction and they are very productive going to the curb and a lot of them have back line issues other than heroin is usually alarm goes right back charles heap to me they were raped as kids they were abused as kids you know they didn't have a good  in the document and then every year using your self evaluation form a time to look back on where you were with last year's how you did it's a good tool and it's it's not a word document where you know you're cutting and was something a couple of the other managers that i know you and this one was from the time weston and it's just a little bit of a different rating scale  personally when i try to use it when i went through and did go to town on the valuation on it i thought it was a little cumbersome and that it was missing some of the categories that we look for in this program  energy before that didn't have any reviews i don't think i don't think anyone's ever reviewed them in the years and years so last time manager once you got through the ten pages with ten columns and twenty rows with five people trying to discuss it  in a time manager it was it was kind of an wielding so i think it was awkward so if there's an opportunity to keep it simple paperwork is fine it's going to get the file someplace very member when we did the last time managing and really you're going to nasty email from a resident saying basically how dare you review somebody in public like that it was you know leaving it should be private in my response was it absolutely should be public that's what it's all about right and i'd rather have more dialogue about it and less paperwork because the time we went through all the matrix it was an hour in nothing that said because we were dotting the i's and crossing at least so i think ties into your contract so if we can get a refresher on you know you've got the cost of living or is this a american review that relates to salary we have that information we don't know yet was addressed i don't think we have  tricity aggregation which i want to take a look at and then also determine if if this is they do in the one direction we want to go over there there are others ways we can go with this but the topic of electricity aggregation is something that really could help the town i think over the long term with the question is what's the right vehicle for us to get there so i want to spend a little time working on that one on the border be aware that there is something that is worth further discussion that involves town meeting customers that can be brought together the better price we can get from the from the industry to provide electricity to each community so we're not getting into the electricity business percent but we are getting into the into the business of at least understanding least getting a good price for it so that everybody could could get their benefits unions and begin talking about benefits are going to have a name needing to talk about what the health insurance rates are going to be i will get those numbers in the end of april and we're looking at some alternative plans manage their time like a long term disability plan a whole life plan family members and these are all employees so bill and i just sort of revitalized a consultant study that was done two years ago the benefits there was really elaborate benefit committee but you know that employees are gone and consultants went out and did a study and then nothing ever happened to me so we met with them again and they're you know refreshing the numbers using the data a little bit and they're going to come back and give people some options and some input thank you there are just a couple of other information items on here there's the facts for planning board public hearings for twenty also in our packet here for information there was a letter from the root one business association requesting consideration of extended delay rare rail service between foxboro station and south station the sense of support for that know run through action item of memories of various town committees the terms of which expiring on may first two thousand and sixteen in may first two thousand and eighteen second thank you to all the volunteers all those in favor of just for the record regard to the veteran service department another get to acceptance i'm glue that the bush white men approve the donation of the del vos drove three four five zero laptop computer to the fax from veteran services department by the national forward sales i move that the buzz like when approved the application by rodman forward sales for a one day beer and wine license for may second two thousand and fifteen from seven pm until midnight to question so they aside the next one is let me explain this yes due to the condition of the playing field the facts for youth baseball and softball organization is requesting to amend the approved parade application from april eleventh to april eighteenth and possibly to the twenty fifth depending on the condition of the fields because they're pretty bad you can't they can't play on that so i move that the board of selectmen approved the amended event the second the second any other questions comments