thank you frank good evening welcome to the foxboro board of selectmen is meeting for tuesday april twenty eighth will read the agenda the chair reserves the right to call items on the agenda out of order the times that are listed for items are proximate times and items may be reached earlier or later than the posted times the listing of items is those reasonably reasonably 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 the discussion for discussion to the extent permitted by law at seven pm we have citizens input topics not reasonably anticipated by the chair forty eight hours in advance of the meeting seven o five selections the growing opiate addiction problem seven thirty five we have chief o'leary for a discussion on commercial parking lot regulations seven fifty bill keegan will provide us with a discussion for on the public records request at eight the board will discuss the possible vote on an omnibus motion to support water and sewer commission actions eight ten the board will discuss the town manager evaluation for bill and at eight twenty bill will provide us with a town and many people look all over the world last year who helped him celebrate his birthday so i'd like us to take a moment of silence  ok i wanted to mention a really great announcement last night that senior class of two thousand and fifteen announced that they were creating a class gift a memorial garden for sam burns and it was presented by kayla seppi and also by brian develops to the school committee so i think that's you know a wonderful tribute to sam and i'm very proud i'm sure we're all very proud of the presentation and also the senior class thank you very much and they've just so that everybody knows they've created a go fund me site and are working to raise fifteen thousand dollars and then just as a reminder this saturday on may second is cleanup foxborough day to make sure that everybody comes out and helps clean up fox h and sounds like the weather's going to be great so i hope everybody shows up right so it's being around seven ten which like to come for of what's been going on at the school and so forth and then you know give it is a very quick overview of our total budget but then really focus in on fox brokers are obviously but that being said if there's anything in the darkness that we provide that you want me to get into more detail i'd be glad to to do that on respect your time and so forth so you know this year has really been a year celebration for our school we had completed a thirty four million dollars renovation project that was completed on time  under budget and will be able to do without any assessment increase to any of our nine communities and that's really allowed us to do some great things and some programs in and we're starting to see that pay off  not just that we have a record number of involvement in roman is up for for almost four and a half percent from the previous year is going to continue we see that continuing to grow not because we are accepting more students but because  we're we're in rolling students in programs that they really enjoy and in so forth so what's happening is our upper class mid size or very high his peers continuing to grow our dropout rate is less than one percent you know which are which is  pretty spectacular we also recognize as a level one school for our academic achievement in fact the commissioner of education cited our school as having the greatest gains in math and cast as high school among any also on the career side quite a few of our students go on directly to work we have a senior cooperative education program which seniors can actually get paid in work out on industry we've increased at about thirty percent this year in fact this year alone our seniors will generate over a million dollars worth of income that they've that's their own money that's going to help support their families and so forth which  overview of where we're at we when doing the two thousand and sixteen budget where we were a school district that operated at what is called foundation budget and that school spending meaning that that years i will say that in order to stay at foundation budget this year the school committee had to had to dip into our excess and efficiency account because of a new assessment that we're faced with around state retirement when the district was formed people that were not part of mass teachers retirement district joined the state retirement system and and it's always been the employees one hundred percent funds that hundred thousand dollars a year so we had to we were able to absorb half of it in the budget in the school committee voted to pick up the other half out of there being the fund so again that's not this year next year at least it's not going to result in any increas assessment to the community so we're working with the legislature to try to minimize the impact of communities on that so and that's been very well received affected by some special legislation filed just got approved by the house and is now on the senate s it's relatively small number twenty three students in two thousand and sixteen and as a result of that the assessment is up sixty two thousand dollars to three hundred in one thousand nine hundred four which is an increase of twenty five you know on the assessment piece one of the ways we're able to control that is in addition to operating budget we have transportation costs as a regional school district we're not allowed to charter transportation the state supposed to we're supposed to  rse the communities subject of two to appropriation to two to have the adequate amount of money so they they typically they funded as much as ninety percent they funded as low as twenty nine percent right now it's around it's around sixty percent we're able to look at our bus routes very closely do some efficiency measures we're actually reducing our transportation cost by one almost eighteen percent so that was that was you know that was in that money  it directly goes to the community so that's that so those are the kind of things that we can do in fact out of the budget the amount that the increase of sixty three that with the increases  sixty sixty two thousand and nine eight sixty thousand and seven fifty seven was it was actually mandated by the pattern of education the part that the school committee myself have control over is only one thousand three hundred  forty forty one dollars so as you can see there's there's not a lot of wiggle room there in terms of us trying to provide some relief to the communities that being said you know as our and roman increases were able to to provide some great programs and in that's led to to being very successful we have over eight hundred applicants are ready for for the incoming freshman class we only accept about seventy five so the first time we'll actually have more people on the waiting list unfortunately than we're able to accept the freshman class two to that point i might add that the admission process  is is is fairly rigorous for the students to come into the school it's not an open door and a lot of work before the students come in to southeastern during the application process there may have to have their feet to the fire in the foxboro public school systems to get grades to a level that's acceptable to move forward in the admission process is that southeastern so for the student if if he or she really wants to go to that school they have to demonstrate an effort to want to get into that school and that's a cooperation between the community the families of the students and the student themselves and we've seen that firsthand and  also the feedback i've received from parents who students have made it is it has been very positive and for the people at home with there's any feedback that they want to give me in other words i'm in the book and easy to access so i just want to make it clear that it's not easy to get yourself eastern and once it is it's a really valuable experience for the students and it's a type of student that goes them so it sounds like you're still doing that with respect to foxboro it looks like there's about eight or nine or so towns where one point six of the entire population now it doesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason to the different beginning but maybe it's up from the last couple years is it because foxboro students are applying and not getting in or they're not applying or you do marketing to get people to understand what the school's about small freshman class that did carry for four years so what happens is you see it going down and then it starts to come back up so you see so so so we tend to see these four year kind of fluctuations on a you know you can see the same thing in mansfield applications we're seeing the same number of applications i just did a on the way here i did just a quick look up of the number of students have applied and how many have been accepted the incoming freshman and it's about forty percent have been accepted so you know so we figure about you know eight hundred applicants that's not far off you know it gets about half so so and we still have we still have about one hundred twenty five openings so so we have by no means done with the application process and it's not just grades in fact we follow what's called a blind admission so we're not allowed to look at where they come from of their special or whatever so but we do  and it was me i think if i had to see where where there's been some challenges is seventh grade attendance for some reason seems to be an issue for some kids and that's you know that's and they lose you know lose some significant points for that in foxboro i don't see so much behavior issues being you know they seem to that doesn't seem to be an issue but but really attendance in grades you know you know although behavior is a big part that's probably the biggest percentage points because you know we feel that if someone is going to make an effort in they can they show up to school in just like any school that they were going to be able to educate and make them successful if they don't show up it's very hard for thousand and one the state use what's called a aggregate wealth model for assessments so the total amount that we get at the same amount per student from all night communities the difference is in how much state aid each community gets that the city like brockton which is sixteen of our students they get about you know eight one thousand dollars ten thousand dollars twelve thousand dollars i think per person doing it in state aid and they so they pay percentage   went from two thousand and seven sixty two down to two thousand two hundred not a significant number which in we've seen i've seen in some periods where they've seen a huge decrease and that's actually when we did our our renovation project we looked at ten year projections i'm sure you have those and you know what the projections are going to be so so you say well we have less students why is your system it going up you know because under the average wealth model what the state says is you still your property values are actually going up so the good news in fact where is your growth is four point seven percent which is almost double the state average so so so the state says well ok there's less kids but far fewer can afford more money so we can give you less state aid so that's why it's kind of this it's all it's it there's a lot of factors here that go into that but that's why you see a disparity among assessments the bottom line we get is the same amount it's just a matter of who to get a look at how much state aid how much the community gets assistance from the state and it's affected by so so in reality the more students you have the less you pay which is kind of an odd formula but it's really true and i think david's question is probably the most common question we get from town leaders writing we've seen this with other communities when we've been talking about going out on the show if you will here that's a spot on question love showing off yes because i learned i learned that we're very quickly that that no matter what i say if the kids can say much better than i do and so yes that's true school district we're not allowed just we can't put money aside for for a long range couple planning unless we have what's called a stabilization account is the only means that we can we can make it we can if the ever situation where there is a little bit of  of a surplus or whatever we can put we can put up the five percent towards the stabilization account if it's a vote in approved by the school committee and the majority of the communities what what the reason for the stabilization account is we had just spent quite a bit of money on the school and we want to make sure that we maintain that building and we want to preserve you know preserve it through not just an annual maintenance plan but as anyone knows you know th five year ten year capital planning that you need to do not for in order for us to do multi year capital planning we need a stabilization account we don't have any other means because we operate at foundation budget so we have to spend the money to meet minimum contribution so we don't have any other means so so basically right now with our fund we're faced with having to fix things on an annual basis which is fine for small things but if there's a new roof or a you know major cost because it's just putting aside our backyard and the land use and the goal is to not to to not ask for an assessment it's to know if you discussions with the school committee made it very clear that that we do have a pretty extensive adult evening program and post secondary program and we would try to tap into those revenue sources to fund the stabilization account so that we don't have to ask for a separate assessment for capital improvements and things like that so  know so that's that's one that's what that allows us to do it is not to try to try to create additional susman any additional susman would have to be voted in agreed but union agreed by a majority of the of the communities you know which which we know would be very difficult anyway so so you'd still have that ability to do that and you not you'd be more transparent because it would have to come before that would have to be presented at you know at the budget time you know if those can be any expenses stabilization account we have so if you're projecting that you'll have to contribute another sixteen hundred thousand dollars next year is that what you do you have yes so we so so this year we're counting on five hundred seventy seven thousand hundred thousand dollars a year so so so yes so going forward that may become an issue you know i don't know if we'll be able to sustain being a for being a foundation budget district with assessment that being said we're not alone there's thirty two regional school districts in regional and it is some of them not even school districts that are hit with this new assessment and and everyone understands that even if you look at study that number is just going to start going through the roof so so so we're so that there's a will to try to address that in i'm hoping that it's going to go through more of like with a lot of communities to there's a employer portion that's paid each payroll period few years ago with the create with trying to trying to get those rates under control so i want to thank him for that but you're right so do we need to take a vote to support your budget or wake up the next item on our agenda is a discussion with the board regarding the growing opiate addiction problem we've invited at our last meeting we had a presentation from jim and linda wallace and chris long on this topic and you know we talked about bringing someone in here just to give us a little bit more background on it and i was wanted too bring or if you want to join susan at the table also in case there's any questions you want and then when susan is finished i wanted to invite linda and chris back up to talk again about the program that's coming up in may so just by way of introduction susan works for c r c have it up koshi is a licensed alcohol drug counselor also a licensed mental health counsellor with experience working for  she's worked in the non for profit and for profit field of addiction treatment also has worked for emergency rooms in crisis centers and  currently has her own outpatient private practice so susan thank you for coming in q fresh writing me so lorraine had asked me to come and speak a little bit about sort of the growing epidemic regarding opiate addiction that's been happening for those of us that work in the field we've been seeing it happen i think much quicker than folks in the community it's just now it's hitting a level where  really cannot be ignored so is as recent as march of two thousand and fourteen governor deval patrick declared a public health emergency in the state of massachusetts in response to the growing opiate addiction epidemic he specifically directed the department of public health to take several action steps to combat overdoses so it's not just that there was this growing problem with people developing an addiction but not really seeking treatment in a timely way and accelerating in their use in such a drastic way that it was leading to unintentional overdose and not knowing how to respond to these overdoses or potential overdoses even knowing how do do i in a fire them really lead to some eyeopening experiences in a great deal of fear and concern in particular because the overdose the overdoses that work hering we were starting to see happen in an age group that we really wouldn't be comfortable with not that any age group is comfortable but when you're looking at fifteen sixteen seventeen year olds overdosing on opiates it becomes alarming so two things have this quite a few things that have happened since since march of two thousand and fourteen but two specific things that really have impacted and started to move things in a very positive direction was permitting all first responders to carry in administer in a lock zone or not can which is a safe and effective opioid in tagging is to reverse overdose so training first responders having that onboard being able also to train family members or anyone who would like to  to be able to dispense it has really created a huge impact they're also required to document so if you do receive the brief training on how to administer an are can and you do  administer it you're asked to report that to the state so that they can keep track of how many times it's happened and and if it's being effective it's if it's working the other thing that they really pushed on was exhilarating a mandatory use of prescription monitoring programs so years ago it was an option if you went to a primary care physician or a pharmacist and you were filling a prescription for any type of opiate it was an option voluntary whether or not they wanted to run a prescription monitoring your name through a prescription monitoring program which would just indicate if in fact you had recently filled another prescription of that type now they're pushing to say it's mandatory if someone comes in seeking treatment you know a brand new patient to a p p there's they're complaining of pain they need pain medication they're really saying it's your responsibility to run this just so that we can curb if there's misuse or abuse happening so those those are two of many things that they're really trying to push along with some centralized areas in the state of massachusetts that are working on overdose prevention and building community taskforce and really trying to make a collaborative effort collaborative effort towards working on this problem so just today you know we were talking about how we had heard that the new a statistic for two thousand and fourteen have recently come out and that sadly you know the overdose has hit a little over one thousand in the state of massachusetts but for two thousand fourteen prior to that in two thousand and thirteen they had confirmed about nine hundred in two fatal opioid overdose deaths and eight hundred sixty three of them were unintentional so it's the numbers so speak for themselves so with that being said you know we're clearly aware that it's a problem we know that it's a problem and it's sort of like ok well now what are we doing the epidemic is felt everywhere we can begin looking at the impact in our hospitals so as lorraine mentioned i've worked both in typically on the weekend overnight shift so those are a lot of fun and long and what we get on the weekends is anyone who is struggling a great deal with an addiction typically for some reason we don't see it as much monday through thursday but friday saturday sunday the ers are inundated and there isn't enough support to really meet their need so what happens is when they find somebody who has any type of addiction background you or that go to person because oftentimes they're frustrated they're seeing this person for the fourth or fifth time in the last six months you know what are you doing here we already sent you in why are you back again this is the kind of language that we hear you know unfortunately sometimes professionals using and not because the they're not empathic but they're frustrated they don't know what else to do and a hospital isn't necessarily the ideal place to provide treatment and support for somebody struggling with an addiction so they'll call on social workers some of which you have addiction background but many of which do not so i know in preparing for my master's degree i took one class in three years i was a three it was a three year full time program on addictive disorders everything else that i learned about addictive disorders i did through obtaining my secondary license postgraduate so unfortunately while someone might be a licensed in  field they may have very little experience with this particular problem so then you'll see that crisis centers also get inundated and for i don't know how familiar folks are with a crisis center but most crisis centers are addressing outpatient mental health issues when i first started working in a crisis center are about eleven years ago again i did it part time per d m i remember seeing folks come in you know there was classes everywhere we have to buzz folks in for our own safety because we don't know what what's happening and why people are coming in and then we do a brief assessment or screening to kind of to figure out is the they're safe enough to sit with us for an evaluation do we need to call some support and often times i remember seeing clinicians again not with any mal intention but this is the way the field looked that it would come in and say it's just it's drug use give them a detox list give them a phone and let them know that they have to call and these folks would sit in a waiting room and make phone calls to detox is by themselves not knowing this is certainly what they were going to get on the other line and there was no assistance because the thought was we are not  addiction treatment center this is a mental health crisis centers or from mental health and it was now the good news is that changed a great deal in that crisis center and in part because of myself and two other clinicians that really worked a great deal with him in other facilities with addiction and really provided that support and so that makes no sense we need to complete a full of valuation regardless of what they say their reason is is or isn't and we need to figure out what we can do to help even if at minimum some of them came in with family members even if we can talk to the family about what they can do so it shifted but these are the things that these folks deal with when they realize that they have a problem it's not as easy as we think it is to get the help that they  need and then the very other tragic place and difficult place to manage is when we find out that someone has an addiction as a result of a baby being born who's dependent on opiates so often times you'll see that women will risk not disclosing that they have an opiate problem for fear of what is going to happen in terms of treatment judgment while i find an o b g y n that understands my situation is d c going to get involved as soon as i give birth to this child and not everyone's level of addiction is the same so you'll see folks that manage their addiction for years without anyone knowing that they've had a problem other than those that are very close to them and so what they do is they try to manage it on their own we most hospitals now are a standard where the test babies and so it's they're macone i'm comes back positive which is their first tool if they're macone and comes back positive for any substances typically some type of d c s involvement is made doesn't necessarily means opens a case but they bring it in the dangerous part is had we known that the mother was opiate dependent their treatment would have been different while they were pregnant versus not knowing so how do we support folks who have an addiction to be able to reach out and ask for help is really crucial and then we spoke a little bit about primary care physicians the struggle they have and then finally the biggest ones outside of the folks that are actively using our their families i feel that all too often they're the forgotten folks i started speaking or started being invited to speak at some chapters was learned to cope i don't know how familiar folks are with that but it's a great program it's appears that peer led group for family members of those who have an addictive disorder i think right now there's about twelve chapters one of them meets and brockton that was my first experience i walked in and there were fifty two people there fifty two i walked in and i was shocked and i only had like twenty five minutes to speak and i didn't leave in the line they had to ask that take it outside because the line of parents that were in front of me wanting to ask me additional information about what else they could do so again it's not just something that stigmatizes the individual with the addiction it stigmatizes that family they then start to fear seeking help and asking for help because they don't want to out themselves and some of the sayings that i've heard them say some of the struggle that i see is really looking at  their frustrations continue to increase because there's such a significant change in the presentation of the person that is not them someone who's in peer herd does not behave normally so if we've ever been over medicated after surgery we know that we're not operating as our normal self and with addiction it's tenfold so this is overbearing and painful for families the families start to search for cures answers resources all the while they're worrying are they out in the street are they going to die today should i give the money should i not give them money should i kick them out should i not kick them out you know what is the right answer they'll go back and forth with whether or not they can trust what that person says how much they can trust what they say in these questions fear and anxiety just go on and on and it brings a lot of family and loved ones to a breaking point i've seen marriages fall apart i've seen families separate and become divided as to how to best handle this it's really debilitating and so often times i listen to families and the biggest thing is they will ask themselves time and time again like did we do something wrong you know what did we do why is my child doing this and it has nothing to do with really anything other than the fact that we have access to mood altering substances at a rate that we' never experienced before you know i have three children and i always say i have no idea what could possibly happen because they spend very little time in my care you know you work they're in school they're at games they're with friends you have no idea what they could potentially be exposed to and the rate of exposure is at a much higher rate even via the internet recently there was something on the news where they're ordering different substances called different things and when you get it it's synthetic and it's creating some significant problems for the kids that are taking this so what i can say is there are a lot of wonderful things that are happening so sometimes we need something to kind of like shake us in order to bring us together because most of us do have the resources we just need to be more collaborative in our efforts so some of the things that i've seen program communities do is they are developing task force tasks task force i'm sorry been up since four fifteen at small a little tired and the ones that i find are the most effective are the ones that have the participation of their local law enforcement  providers who are really invested not in selling their programs but in working towards providing support and resources the big one of the biggest challenges with opiate addiction in particular is that there is such a strong societal view about how to get sober how to recover should it be abstinent should it be medication assisted should it be residential personally i think it's up to that person who is afflicted by the disease not anybody else and if something works for them in their building their life in their demonstrating improvement we really are in no place to make a judgment or call as to how they should or shouldn't proceed with their recovery the stigma definitely we talked i mentioned a little bit of that impacts it access to resources and understanding levels of care i left a resource for you folks i developed this a while ago i do a lot of training in consultation these are all the different levels of care available in the state of massachusetts and underneath that will tell you the criteria what most people don't understand is based on your insurance and what your current symptoms are and your symptoms could change within two or three days so depending on when you last used how often you've been using what's on board you could present one way today and three days later you're no longer meeting the criteria for that level of care i've seen people with addiction say you serious i have to go and get high in order to get in to get help so and i'm not being critical of treatment centers i'm just saying we need to really revisit the pressures that insurances place on us for this disease in looking that it's a much bigger problem than simply did i just use yesterday or not and so most families are not aware of this so when they do try to help you know their family their loved ones to get into treatment they realize it's not so easy their insurance may or may not accept them so it's lorraine said i have a private practice and oftentimes because i like to speak in just get the word oh it's something i love doing i don't know why but i do like working with this population it's really a blessing to see how much somebody can change their life when they do get clean and sober and just like how excited they are about the fact that it's possible and as well as their famil often times i'll get referrals or people will call i just had a mother who wants me so badly to work with her son and the insurance has denied it twice because they're not accepting new providers and there's enough providers on the list so these are the frustrations that so i think i'm still working with them regardless it is what it is at least a couple of sessions to kind of help the family but the fact that we can't even choose who we want to work with you know that's frustrating so i hope that i did look a little bit in terms of the statistics within this area and it looks like i think still when i was looking at the county in one other area actually has doubled in overdoses in the last ten years but all the others seem to have a slower increase which is good and this would be the perfect time to really build that community support resources prevention education you know looking at how can we get our can available to those folks that may potentially need to have it maybe they have a child and adolescent who they suspect is using it could save their life certainly the presentation gives us i think a good picture of the lack of resources that are available for people who have to have problems with drug  abuse the district attorney stopped by the police chief's meeting earlier this month and he ran law for some figures because he's been working diligently on different programs and book you know that on a regional basis we actually had more people die of drug overdoses county last year than we did and motor vehicle crashes the ages range from sixteen to sixty three and involved a cross section of socio economic conditions for the people a lot of the programs that we're doing now with the pharmacies are result of working with the district attorney's office he's actually hired a pharmacist eventually in those cases transfer over to other drugs such as heroin and when we have a ring of crimes of break ins very often when my staff does make arrests we find that the people have severe addictions and if you think about two hundred dollars a day going towards pain for somebody that is really us hardcore per user and needs to take fifteen to twenty injections a day just to stay normal that's what they're looking at and we probably look at our own family budgets and figure well where would we come up with eight hundred dollars a week and with people that don't have a skill set perhaps because of their addiction to get paid for one one so it's something that is really crucial to our community and i was thrilled when linder and chris you know have come up with a concept to start putting us as a community on the right track to start taking steps now to hopefully reduce the risk of families here in foxboro because it's not enforcement that ship sailed a long time ago but we have to find ways of some prevention and some mitigation to make things easier for the families that have somebody's household that has developed into addiction and probably don't have the skill set to adequately deal with them thank you so anyone have any questions for susan or i just just very briefly susan thank you for coming in you know having three children and working with what you do i mean you are on our docket for twenty minutes and i know you probably could have spoken for twenty hours on this topic very important but the one thing that you said is collaboration and you know law enforcement funding the government social services  clergy down to the funeral director it's a community wide issue and you know it's starting to get headway here it's kind of late in the game on many levels but i think you're going to start seeing that when you hear the police reports of people breaking into homes in the going to put two and two together and it's not going to be too long when we have a death of one of the young kids that is really going to send the catalyst and when something that like that happens and there's no place to go for the family or for direction that's why i think it's so important at least start talking about this and getting it out so it's not a taboo when people start feeling comfortable that so and so is a heroin addict and you can talk about it because it's not going to get better and this and this scares the life out of me the younger kids across the board they're getting younger and younger and the general population is going to be very surprised you see it every day but the average person county and i actually can send you a list that tells you sort of you know all the towns and the surrounding towns every surrounding town or section has a crisis center the problem becomes what is the culture of that  philosophy so the one that i was working in when i as i said when i first started working there you know eight years ago the mentality was if you have came in and you looked like you were high or you looked as though it was a primary direction it was here's a detox list and have a nice day it wasn't even have a discussion with them find out what's going on when i left we were we were completely doing different things we were even paying for you know cab rides to get them to a detox because that's the other thing they could get into treatment but then how do we get them there and there's no assistance to help them get there so there were some of us that would just like you know it doesn't matter we'll get them there so you're right there isn't something specific for addiction and then as far as treatment centers did you talk says you know it's ridiculous that kids have to get high before they go into treatment they will you walk in and you don't test thirty kick you out but there's not enough beds correct so a couple of things that she is right about so there's a there's definitely a lack of beds but there's also a lack of resources so for example when when somebody with an addictive disorder is on their last stretch they've burned all their bridges they're homeless they're living on the street mom and dad are saying you can't come back in here like we can't take it anymore which is understandable because sometimes the presentation gets really ugly i'm sure that you know folks as some folks have seen that they their primary issue may be addiction but then sometimes what you'll see is some fabrication of symptoms to now get into other beds so because we're not identifying those right so because we're not identifying the problem correctly to begin with it's hard to then allocate additional spending for something that we really click clearly can identify it's definitely a vicious cycle i'd like to see specific treatment settings just for that but it was some time you talked about  testing from the b b yes yes i've been going on it's happening more often in depending on what hospital so each hospital has its own set policy but a lot more hospitals are doing that simply because it's just like with anything it's to help prepare as to how to manage the b b some o b g y n sir are now making it a standard to test pregnant mothers and again it's because of the concern not that they're trying to get people into trouble but if you do have an opiate dependence or drugs on board your treatment as a pregnant mother needs to be different he needs to be considered a high risk pregnancy and be able to kind of so that's the struggle that they're having but again to me it goes back to we should be facilitating an environment where mothers should be more open to saying i need help and that's what we need to push towards but in the meantime i think providers are trying to do the best they can to just to make sure that a mother is safe and that her newborn is safe thank you  well that's what's reported you know and so the nice thing is that there was also something that recently passed that's allowing us to better track this so prior to and i can't quote the day because i don't know it for sure but there was a time when  for example if someone called nine one one as a result of someone overdosing oftentimes people were in fear of doing that because everyone would be arrested is specially if there were any narcotics on the premises and now there is something that's happening in which only if somebody has a warrant would they be arrested but if they're if they're calling to get assistance for someone because that was another thing people were leaving you know other folks who overdose and by themselves so it's only what's reported we can only imagine putting money into it but i'd love to see where that money is right now i guess we're waiting for a report i've gone online and i've seen things up to two thousand and fourteen but i haven't seen where that money  gone so obviously would love to see that and more beds in facilities available to us but what we can do at home is become aware of that it is here and give folks our passions of what they can do who they can reach out to facility wise and so that they understand that they're not alone that they're rather other people out here so we are having that meeting the movie on next  and that will be out showcase live and we'll have information tables there as well as the speakers and in then again in may we're going to have a walk for steps of hope at the gillette stadium and it will just only be a mile just to bring awareness and so that bring togetherness of the family the addict themselves that we cover and professionals that that want to come out there and have their information available to us so little by little you'll see more of this grassroots group of of what we're calling raft y n the regulations that were in place and so it was in two thousand and thirteen i did send out an e mail through the  business mage group i just to let them know that we're going to be looking at the regulations and i didn't know whether there was anything specific that the board wanted to see looked out and in terms of revising them i would certainly want to have a working group as we did two years ago to have input from the people that are actually operated the various lots along the route corridor i think the topic came up and because of the recent inspections that were taken that there were certain laws that had excessively high numbers over their license to figures so i think at the time there was a concern that there was no penalty aspect to the regs but in fact there is a penalty right in the regulation fifteen there's a penalty for a first  violation because if the price for parking one hundred extra cars in collecting four thousand dollars you only pay one hundred dollars fine even my limited business experience knows that that's not really a bad deal but there was a penalty there i think some of the feedback from the people that i spoke with were reluctant certainly to have the state police involvement they had offered to do a service if i could get out with more planning to do but i know that this coming year i'll put that as one of the foxboro police right versus the state police why one versus the other well the captain that was running the detail offered that he had people available if you think of i for the event they're the opposite they are wave are the people arriving cars get in the men to the lots so that once we corral everybody i don't know that they're the ones that have capacity to go around and look at lots and do columns so that was one of the reasons that it seemed to make sense at that time you know we've had a report the report that the state police did that brought this to our attention there are you know there was some what they were like five because of but there was one line that i believe was if it wasn't one hundred it was all almost one hundred which is it's pretty egregious of packing was that the first time that the parking lights had been checked to make sure that what they were license for they were actually packing to that limit and boswell had his people doing car counts just to make sure that they had adequate with and i know at different times mr sparrow and the deputy fire chief steve back we have got out just to verify but it is something that you know i'm willing to take on as a task for my staff to make sure that we do have compliance with the lead but it's not a separate the size of the watch and it's  and and what did did anything happen to the people who were agree just sleep over the body did they get fined no i sent them out letters to those that were significantly over i talked with the nine people individually making contact with them to go over you know what the regulations are and i felt that that initial warning to that group was adequate certainly if we go back and it's the same people that we would probably issue some type of fine mechanism i would almost think that that would have to come before this board in order to get much like a look or a violation prove a case have evidence have you know certainly representation by the water operator and th if they were in violation for the board to determine the fine would be determined by how many cars over that particular lot is so in the regulations now is there a mention of a fine while the hundred so if you had if you had that would that one particular lot and i don't even know who whose light it was that was almost one hundred cats agreed to i would say courageously over so what's happened and what's happened since then i mean obviously land must have been cleared to do those extra hundred cars is it obvious now when if if there's an event there is there a demarcation on with the license to pat and as opposed to what was the extra time in other words to that when the lots when you when you license a why do you have it do you have like lines a b demarcation meaning ok from here to here we license for fifty six cats it depends about all right safe if a lot is license for fifty six cars how about you have fifty six pieces of paper that you can hang from your from your rearview mirror as the cast come in one two three when that fifty six last piece of paper is given out that's it the lights fault well is that something that could be that could be we could be made part of the regulation so we can control it certainly you know the boy and again i would what input from the people that do it i know that in talking with people after the sabbat you know several of them use of method you just described you know they know what their parking limit is once they reach or they close the walk as they don't want any particular problems so i thought we could make that part of the i mean it's the best practices for some people we could make that best practices to give out the card then right when that seventy six comes in you don't have any more placard so you can pack them and you know you know i'm concerned that the the the license holders who stick to the number of their life in their their license bases it's unfair to them to have somebody packing one hundred extra cats so i think that the parking lot owners would be willing to  have a method to make sure that everybody is following the rules and regulations of the commercial parking it's to their own benefit well you know we might perceive that i don't know how the  operators themselves perceive it and that's why it would probably be good to have a meeting and maybe a member of this board be part of a subcommittee with myself and well i would i wouldn't do it i did i did write it for two years ago so i'd than happy to do that so if the board at some point if not tonight i saw many of the operators of come to light to listen as to what we'd be doing and i know in talking with one of them and to kill it they would certainly want to participate with us so things you can pull together a group with obviously after this meeting tomorrow morning i'll put out an e mail and see what we can do to have a group together i know that we're in the process of preparing the parking licenses coming out in july one it would be ideal if we were going to have and i know you know the board has a very tight time schedule in terms of meetings if we could come back with the board so that prior to the issuance of fiscal sixteen if there were going to be any current licenses those could be incorporated into type two months at the time of renewal and if someone had over the years somehow decided they were needed to park or were going to park a hundred more cars but they could apply for a higher number for the license crisis you know of as people develop their property or lose property to other uses you know they can amend the yes they they have an opportunity if they have expansion you know they've taken out some trees to give another fifteen or twenty cars and they can approach the board you know for requests for additional licenses ok can i as for a little clarity where we haven't gone through this before with the fines in the penalty phase it sounds like you're running compare an analogy with the liquor licenses in the fines for parking if you read the liquor license is a set process for part of caring if i read the regulations that says you know criminal or one hundred dollars fine i didn't read that that you issue a fine they have to come in front of the selectmen so the group forms and in moves forward at least can we get some clarity if you want to issue a fine i read it as you issue the fine if they want to appeal it maybe they come in for the selectmen earth or a different level but if you issue six fines penalty can be a sassed whether it's through the building commissioner's office for example the use of marijuana a public spaces a two hundred dollar fine that a person would get a ticket might want to have in this process and i know really with all that is happening within our community that you don't have a lot of free time tired and that's why i don't expect a line of brings except socially high based upon what their license capacity was and i think that needs to be addressed because we want to be to be consistent about it otherwise it's really don't know what's a person having a license so i think we want application i believe just last year from the select men's office said that the number of spaces could not be expanded upon it is never said that before but i believe just last year's letter said that and the other question i have is the enforcement of so we're talking tonight about the fines that are out there for the license lots i believe there's a similar vehicle in place for residential parking that  specifically more street main street some of the issues we had in the past years that brought it up to members of the board here there was also a vehicle to fine folks that don't have licenses at all and i wonder what the board's opinion of that is and what actions you might do moving forward with that i think in terms of that language about not increasing number of spaces  you know i don't recall it being discussed in front of the board but to me it makes sense if someone has the ability to do that you know as long as they're willing to pay the application process or that makes sense actually given i was talking about this before the meeting and she said that that particular  would certainly continue it as part of an overall safety thing for the neighborhoods because there are people a few houses don't seem to be operating friends and neighbors every weekend or private party  operations which caused concern and in getting back to not street we have that ongoing problem of the no limit most cabs you know idling during events waiting for people to pick up people faded over the last forty years that they've been out and also to have worry about not just parking but standing which would be you know a life parking situation so that you know people could take more action out of right now in the taxis do i i had i had occasion where i had to take a taxi cab to arrive in forward to pick up my ca and i was just talking to the taxi driver news tell me all about how they idle who are waiting for and i'm thinking oh my god you know he talked to so i mean it is it was anecdotal before you know but i mean the time to drive told me that he said they'll be a do like a taylor swift or one of the one direction shows and that seems to clog the traffic even worse because now parents are coming into the grounds of nine thirty they're trying to find spots to park and then getting additional cars that out of the facility certainly makes it a longer commute for a lot of people yet and i was told by the the taxi driver that he was not allowed to bring people into the stadium area that was forbidden by the i mean this is what he told me the stadium personnel and that was one  his concerns complaints you know well if you remember during some of the shows that we had last season when they were using the luxury suites this much  a test program on the pathway in which cabs from some of the shows were able to go in and out to see if that would be more effective and i found it very effective for getting people at the end of the show they could within a lighted area in a stadium parking lot in the cabs to come out pick people up and get them out of the area so that was really i thought a successful short because it kept cars for the most part away from north street because they knew they could get a kick out ranks that of having all the cabs congregate in different areas such as ash light and i remember when just came before us for some of the concerts that was when the questions i asked if they were going to do that drop off that the taxi dropped off as they as they had before would you just describe that was successful and she yes she said they would do it but is that something that we could for the event licenses like tell them that they you know mandated that to do that i mean if it were relieved no on street if it  that's not available because we don't have right but it but i think most of the problem with no street is like on concepts that football games it's an educated audience everybody knows up and then there's a back well there's lines at north street of cabs in people and it's like you know if it were if you had a better system of bringing them in actually bringing them into the stadium through the through that that roadway dropping them off and then say this is where we will pick you up a cab will pick you up here and then you can just you know it seems to me that if it was successful before it could be successful  areas but if you open it up to taxis you know you build it they will come you get vans and taxis and the people in north street don't want to go through a four minivan taxis all day long either so it's an inconvenience on one side but there's also neighbors that do right not just one concert you know you know a good time maybe a season to see how it see how it works out thank you thank you and the next item are there are were multiple versions of the of the draft war in there that's not something that's on call it happens actually quite often and my concern was not too widely circulated doctrine that would more than likely change until it was ultimately finalize during that same week last monday and what we all came to understanding as to how we will try to address these matters going forward we agreed that we would be more meet more regularly on topics of concern to the news media i have committed toward working on some internal public policies and improvements on this topic and secondly we have requested them a grant of systems from the public records division to come out in june and provide some updated training to the public on the public records area finally i've reached out to my professional man never to experience to be corrected while some may argue that the impact of this mistake was somewhat limited i would argue that no mistake should be taken lightly and we should take also we should all take steps to learn from this experience i for one would regret if this ever occurred and we remember that and procedures so we can handle it properly going forward so we don't run into these kind of issues going forward again everything that was done in this instance was done to provide accurate information to public without any intent to try and withhold information out during the day so we won't be able to do that but we what we will do is try and get as much information that we can share and maybe do a mini summit for for a book by the boards later on showing what the commission they provided for us bill can you can the discussions i've had it is his intent was not to hold back information for any other reason because that that's what you did in the past and the way you thought was right for i've got a concern that kind of elevates over your position  so i look at there's two different issues one is the open meeting law and the other one is the public records records law ok and there was an interaction what concerns me is we've got a brand new attorney ok that somebody i'm the warrant article was distributed at the selections table and at the advisory committee and when it was discussed publicly ok that's the open meeting law so once a document is on a table is discussed i i think he's wrong on this and this is why the exemption that he's citing is an exemption for information that's under deliberation that it would harm the public if it got out of his policies  i spent a lot of time with the state on this over the last couple weeks in open meeting law or greed that once it's on the table it's out in the open the public record is telling me that regardless if it's on the open table or not that warrant out a call in it's infancy and it's draft all the way telep it's final is a public record now if somebody comes in history that's not news to it it's if you look at the wording on it and basically at the end of our attorneys findings he's saying the biggest reason not to give it out is because it will confuse the public rights of someone takes it and said here's a warrant out of coal in somebody puts in the paper or distributes it and it's not final confuse everybody i'm sorry but that's the public process we can put draft on or whatever you can hold back a document because of that the statute does have limitations so if there's a warrant article and they say we're going to sell  the we're going to change his own ing on something in there and we've set a price on a building that we're going to sell in this harm to the town because it goes out there and a developer gets that information too early and it's changing that's under deliberation and that may be exempt ok so that's one article out of twenty articles so if someone asked for the warrant article then somebody that's versed on the public records would go through it and they'd read back that they take that one i did  confuse the public and he's not citing anything in here i think is wrong and i think he's going to take a second look at that with all the information so in other words if he's saying it's public only because it's on the table i still think that's wrong and i want that resolved obviously before the next town meeting you but my question to him is you know maybe we have him in here and have him explain it and if he's wrong maybe he's going to take the open meeting law because  you know education is good and every time there's an issue everyone's going to take it but i took it in two thousand and eight i took in two thousand and ten it took in two thousand and twelve to get the updates i'm not taking any more open meeting law sessions because staff or attorneys making decisions this is a very important issue to me so for going to talk about it in june i'd like to address the attorney for their opinion to have him take a second look and i can give an e mail and that i got from the state that says perhaps  wrong and let's resolve this before i said yes and do you think would be helpful to have both of you work together with the attorney to go through this because that way you can do it i think sometimes it's hard if if both circulated so perhaps he's he's looking at something differently as well so i think it would help to be have to have a conversation so may be able to understand where his position was on the up because you know several several people who i've talked to are the impression that the deliberative process is different it is a reason that it's different from what you just described so that that is that is news to me so maybe if you could work with  was what i want it's a pretty lengthy motion because there's obviously a lot of a lot of actions that occurred between two thousand and thirteen and now so we have to go back to the some before when out the window if you will so i think this is really important to have this conversation and to have the would take action so the purpose of this is to address many many of the mitten all the normal actions of the board w taken and i and any one of the issues that i've looked at there are a lot of actions that specifically have been taken but i think in terms of selling capacity there was only and it was only one instance when eventually sold capacity during th into the record and then we can have a discussion ok i move that the board vote to ratify and approve x of the town's board of water and so a commission is which were voted determined are entered by the commissioners on our after december fo night two thousand and thirteen to current date including the following the setting of water and so rates the acceptance in the conveyance of any interest in real estate relative to water into a sewer operations any decisions are determinations concerning the disposition of an application for an abatement of rates fees and charges in a decision our determination to impose water use restrictions the approval and denial of any application for a permit for water service water main installation a sewer connection our sewer extension the adoption of water into or sewer rules and regulations in amendments there to the setting of water and sewer permit fees penalties in minimum charges the declaration of any emergency operations the execution of an agreement entitled agreement a stab in the m f in regional waste one a district entered with towns of mansfield and no in january two thousand and fourteen to establish the n m m f in regional waste water district in accordance with the provisions of chapter one zero one of the massachusetts act of two thousand and ten the appointment  representative are representatives of the of the commission is to serve on the waste water district commission of the m f and regional waste water district second on the and there will have discussion a second bill could you please explain item number two the acceptance and conveyance of any i compiled the results and we'll also include bill's goals and objectives for everybody's information so we i compiled those results came up with some of the key points of that first two thousand and fifteen the following is a summary of bill kagan's performance evaluation for the past year in the category of leadership ineffectiveness bill has quote clearly and unequivocally established himself in the role of town manager and quote he possesses strong leadership skills and has gained the respect of the board of selectmen employees and citizens for planning in organizing bill exceeded expectations in planning and organizing to include the establishment of a working group to develop  replacement of town hall combine facilities maintenance plan and the town meeting and warrant process bills professional susman of the needs of the town and his strategy involves looking at the big picture while rich reaching out to build consensus in the category of communication and community relations the board felt that bill exceeded expectations in this category he was allowed for his open communication with the board of selectmen members as well as development of positive business and community relations quote so in the category of problem solving innovation and decision making bill a chief and exceeds this by always reaching out to board members for their input and expertise so he can make an informed decision he has successfully defuse situations by learning the facts and bringing parties together for a positive outcome you know heritage some problems and has dealt with them effectively the category budget and financial management was successfully achieved in his first year i don't see the  he basically met the standard ok so this is successfully achieved in the first year in the budget process was completed in a smooth professional manner as a result of bill's leadership working well with finance director school administration and advisory committee to make the process understandable and transparent resulting in a balanced well thought out budget for fiscal year sixteen with regard to customer service bill demonstrates tact and the ability to address difficult situations bills outgoing  approachable with positive outreach to residents with perfect evaluation marks in the category of personal professional and organizational integrity one member felt that this is his strongest asset quote he is honorable when conducting business and exercises fair and unbiased professional judgment always advocating for what is best for the town of foxborough another quote bill demonstrates high ethical standards and great integrity bill exceeded the board's expectations in cross department organizational management not only bringing town departments together but also working well with the school department to collaborate on centralized i t facilities men and facilities management he demonstrates a team approach to go for accomplishments gaining the confidence of the board selectman town employees and citizens through purposeful leadership in communication bring the town to consensus on the new town hall working closely with the school department on i t budget maintenance plan successfully negotiating contracts finding a new era of mutual cooperation in organized approach to the town meeting warrant process creating expectations of employee conduct and professionalism established a new team of assistant manager slash h r executive assistant labor counsel and special counsel creating better dialogue with one businesses craft organization and setting the groundwork for economic development consistent with the town master plan developing a fiscally conservative budget process great job step pushing a new line of communication with the community with broadcasts on cable meeting with seniors meeting with the chamber of commerce and other community partners objectives for the coming year establishment of a business economic development committee to promote economic growth through the town but especially in the business nodes as noted in the master plan work with town employees on growth and development opportunities to foster professional workforce seeking continuous improvement upgrade websites with information from all boards and committees especially the posting of meeting minutes were with the public building committee with the permanent building committee on town hall design and finances simplify the town's waste hauler arrangement implement best practices and continuous improvement programs for all operations water and a summary of overall evaluation comments those first years town manager has clearly been successful well certainly not devoid of challenges and controversies bill has with professional vision and a few pounds of grace guided the town to a better place than we were a thank you to the board for thank you making this process for i think we should have a conversation about salary increase at this time near  on debbie has been been tremendous as well so it's been a very good experience and i just look forward to a number of years going forward and continuing to develop this momentum that will really start to build now which i really still feel i feel very good about in that relationships inside and outside the organization working with the craft group and working with the business model and working with the various business partners that are going to develop over the next several years so working with snyder electric have all been very positive  so in terms of having a discussion about the salary increase for bill could you just give us you know where we are with the budget basically  not decide to forgo a step increase in july one last year so this year there is a step increase budgeted as well so that would be a total of four point five percent and i think even with the executive pay plan and for no other reason i just wasn't prepared to talk about salary i want to i guess maybe look at the contract from last year i think in the big picture and with the other staff members are getting a member of a few years ago we were in one direction time manager wanted to raise nobody else got one and it was an upheaval but i do want to look at you independently and plus we're down one board member could this be put off to the next meeting and whatever we decide is probably retroactive correct will yeah it's also at the door ok and we can certainly have the discussion but i just don't think i'm prepared to vote on a salary adjustment tonight and then maybe that was my shortcoming i didn't expect it and sorry if you guys did i didn't realize this i think that again given that the board may change and in a week my thought was that we would you know have this done before that happened you know employees in both the unions and also the right so for the current fiscal year there was two percent salary increase in the staff bill didn't get the staff this year you know it's odd in this is obviously the public process i don't want result here and it is what it is in the public but you know years ago we went to the step another step in america to reward people that were innovative and went above and beyond and then you know mixing the private process with the public it didn't go over so now we're back to the steps and today's somebodies you know the caller is given but merit based on what everyone else is getting you know right or wrong it's tough for me to do that because you know that's so you know why why have why do this job performance if you're going to get what everybody else a should be getting more if you did more or in fairness you should be getting less if this was low so you know just because it's budgeted and not be an argumentative or just because the money's there you know what's everyone else is getting he should be getting the same thing that just drives me nuts to do that and you know think of it's a private public defense i'm having trouble with i guess i think if you know i'm i'm looking at it as it's it's that number in total if i get a motion i moved to to consider a way in which we could actually recognize the entrepreneurial spirit of this community and i had some thoughts about this recently i said you know not a has been discussed about the other spirit of young especially young people trying to develop their own businesses and in my thoughts are that we should we should try and recognize it as a community you know and i therefore developed  then actually then ask and reach out to any one any one person or the process committee who is actually developing a business a new entrepreneurial business that actually leads and helps a local economy foxborough has an interest in celebrating the entrepreneurship of its citizens and whereas entrepreneurs provide opportunities for students and future are entrepreneurs by fostering personal and professional growth and whereas the town of foxborough acknowledges that the entrepreneurship of residents is important to the long term growth of this community and whereas the town of foxborough acknowledges admiration of entrepreneurship on an annual basis and whereas the town of facts pro congratulate entrepreneurs on maintaining and managing their own businesses and wishes them continued success now therefore be resolved by the board of selectmen that the month of may be designated as entrepreneurial spirit month in the town of foxborough it witness whereof we have set our hand and cause the seal of the town of foxborough to be fixed on the twenty eighth day of april two thousand and fifteen said i've been a credentialed manager and i see him a for the past five years and every five years i'm required to to do a multi raider assessment before through through a tool that they that they provide me to to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses and multiple multiple categories so this is what you provide to me was it was an assessment of what i've done this past year but this is sort of a built a learning tool for me so that i can continue to develop my skillset so i can maintain my precious status in the head i see a man for those who don't know what credential status means is that i've committed myself to a lifelong learning curve of professional and very proud of and very strange strive to continue on with so i i'm going to need the assistance of the board and members of the community at large to work on this with me so i can actually continue to develop that learning learning tool it's something that i've never gone through before so it's a money i need you know some some help with this or with and i've asked to reach out to other managers in the in the state to who are credentialed have gone through it and they give me some guide saw so i'm working on this on this piece right now so i just wanted to let everyone know that i'll be reaching out to various folks throughout the community to to to provide some get some can gain some input from things that they know about me and how they how we can continue to develop my my my my  work expectations if you will and then i read this receiving it i noticed this past week from columbia gas that they are going to be going up rather significantly over the next year they   because the fact that their their actual lines in there in the capacity is not adequate to meet the needs of the of the growing growing demand here in the gym asked who's in the region for that matter i actually attended a gillette stadium this past week also on the same topic and it's quite intriguing to me to see that other passive country have we have plenty of gas supply that's not the issue is we don't have the capacity to deliver that supply and so what's happening now is that there is a growing concern and growing cost of developing that capacity throughout the entire northeast region so folks in his father country going to be seeing some rather significant jumps in their utility bills with a comes to gas supply primarily because what they try to build build the infrastructure so i just want to wait to be aware of this it's something that we will see probably in the course by if it gets approved will be effective next that there's only so much gas you can put through that line and we just have a we have the infrastructure here in massachusetts and the way the region is older it with we've never been a big demand the big big demand for gas supply  over the years so therefore the infrastructure was never built and then on top of that we most of the regions in the throughout the waveland sickly and in the urbanized areas are really well developed so they're trying to build a infrastructure through that developed area financial need the club's mission is to develop players for the highest level of play and to become known across the us as an elite level club so i know that the boys like going to prove the one day beer and wine license for f hamburgers hot dogs and buns box for fire departments provide in their large grill new england patriots are offering two tickets to the two patriots game preferred parking in a one day field pass fox for never forgets money towards the cost of the t shirts they're donating fox for a stop and shop the beverages and water schneider electric is using their facility over its night of growth to host the event in dili disposal is providing all the labor  picking up all the trash the trucks to haul it and then the disposal fees so huge huge community event of people have the time to go out on saturday would be great long term power outages in september two thousand and eleven after hurricane irene in october two thousand and twelve after hurricane sandy that prompted an aggressive true move program by both national grid in the town hundreds of disease damage and problem trees have been removed long public ways in the town since the trees have been removed the town has an experience to post or power outage due to trees taking out power lines we proposed to purchase five thousand dollars worth estimated eighteen to twenty five trees large enough in a suitable species for street trees under the supervision of the tree warden we will provide plant trees trees along designated streets in suitable locations in proximity to residents homes who volunteered to adopt and wanted the n