##VIDEO ID:zwgjoUXCgiY## uh good evening welcome to the town dict Board of Select regular meeting today is Wednesday October 23rd at 6:00 p.m. this meeting is being recorded the listing of matters are those reasonably anticipated by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting not all items listed May in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to be extent permitted by law can we please have a call to order Nicole Melo present Mark Pico present and P present and now can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and just a moment of silence right after for Christ Rosa Christina Rosa who we lost this week I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Alexander You're Just in Time come on up all right we won't give you a hard time I promise how do you pronounce your last name um just have you speak into the mic please which means what it's Portuguese oh that's okay um so you have an Eagle Scout project you want to tell us about it yeah sure it's um I want to try and build a flag retirement box sure around this building if possible um and it's basically just a place for people of the community to put they're like old unusable flags that can't be flown anymore to like for organizations such as the Boy Scouts to go and retrieve those flags and do a proper retirement of them okay what is the proper retirement of them um um so we would get together on our meeting day or night and we would start a fire and silently we would slowly burn off the flags until there's nothing left of them okay great I didn't know that's how the proper you've heard all kinds of rumors how they be supposed to be disposed of but I didn't realize that was a process that you guys did great um you talked to Tom Ferry I'm assuming yes and did you talk to Jim AAR about the property and where it's going to go and I have not you have not uh Tom is that somebody who he should go through I don't believe so one mechanics is myself and okay and it's going to go on this property here at the old town hall or the other Town Hall I have a I had a presentation I could give you guys but um I have a couple proposed locations okay great you have that with you I do yes sure thank you must be excited little bit little bit let's try want me switch the pages for you yeah I can let you know one too so on the the picture right there is a a reference photo that I found online MH it has a little awning over it and below it is a box where people can uh dispose of their prods for us to collect them so here I have the purpose of the box and any maintenance that has to be done to it so I would hope to have it checked monthly uh by uh my troop and just check to see if there's any Blairs needed for it or touching up the paint or anything like that and just to check if there's any flags that are um dropped off there it's not a very large box it's roughly four 4x4 feet and in total with the covering would be 8T tall and it would be constructed of pressure treated wood some shingles Stone and paint and we estimated it to cost around $600 did you raise the funds already I have not I'm going to start that after this sure um here I have two proposed locations at the Old Town Hall one of them is out front um in the park like near the parking lot on the grass like where people can easily see it from the road and if they're just in the area and the second one is lower by the vet agent um I thought it was a fitting spot if sure the veterans agency and the flag disposal box would be there it would be right on the grass probably between the building and the uh handicap parking side okay I thought of two other locations over by the new town hall one of them is closer to the to the um the road in on the grass area behind the parking and then there's another one that's up against like closer to the side uh of the Town Hall uh where you would be able to see it if you pulled into that parking lot from the main road itself the uh other Town Hall gets more foot traffic um but I think it'll look nice over here especially with the veterans being uh just in the same building yes I'm not to interrupt you I'm sorry no I'm oh you're off set anyway great uh Nicole do you have any questions no I don't have any questions how did you come up with the this idea um my cousin from uh true 2000 couple couple years ago actually he he did this as his project for uh his town and I just really like the idea and looked into it and we didn't have one here so I wanted to try and build one oh you advertise that it's here and people to use we can make announcements here certainly during the select meeting but are you going to do anything on behalf of your project I can let people know in the different extra curricular groups in scouting I can let them all know that sure in use great um we could use people could post on Facebook about AB they wanted to Y awesome awesome uh like I said the other Town Hall gets a lot more foot traffic so it would be seen um and obviously you can make that decision along with time as to where you think it should go but uh I'm sure you'll have the right uh right decision made okay great well we have no other questions for you but congratulations thank you for coming this evening and good luck with it thank for having me you're you I like location too as well Town Hall yes you have to do anything further with that or is uh no okay just a presentation okay thank you again sir it a pleasure meeting you good luck to announcements please on Saturday October 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 2: p.m The Drug Enforcement Administration um DEA will coordinate with the dayon police department for a one-day prescription takeback initiative event to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from the homes on Monday October 28th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m there will be a pumpkin patio pot fundraiser for the dayon Historical Society at AR Farms 1522 Williams Street this is $50 per person um includes all materials please bring your gloves pre-register required call 508 669 6988 early voting notice in person early voting for November 5th 2024 State elections will be held at the dayon Town Hall Saturday October 19th through Friday November 1st um see the attached flyer for voting hours and I believe they're online the town of dayon food bank will be held next on November 16th located at Town Hall in the lower level this is a time for public input or there'll be an additional one does anybody have anything they want to talk about tonight no want to continue okay TR administrator report welcome sir thank you I want to again thank you know thank this Bo for for selecting me and putting your faith in me and so far it's been a good three days and uh again I'm really happy that you selected me and I'm I'm looking forward to coming to many many many more of these uh meetings I know that sounds crazy but it's something I I look forward to doing sure so um as far as the uh Town administrator's report to you um we had started uh think on the gym um a pre-own meeting meeting uh to just to go the special uh special the warrant for the special to I was attended by Sue Peter of the finance committee Serena Karen myself along with Town Council Matt Costa I reviewed the articles there were no substan no substantive changes uh we had a discussion on article six uh that you uh may be aware of I I know you have received a um uh an email from uh from Kevin Smith uh regarding fom's recommendation of the $1.2 million versus the SEL Uh Kevin uh Smith provided to you in in email explanation of the msba reimbursement additionally to that article 13 uh you know these are really the two articles that got some traction 250th anniversary committee for $4,000 uh I know you had call it a grant word smithed it words Smith it a little bit uh it's more to be matching funds right you know than a grant uh and then um you know um I think in in both instances for the um uh for article six and for Article 13 um we have to the uh select me should confirm where the funds are going to come from and I think s has provided recommendations for uh for the additional funds for the for the school would be from the from the capital account and then 4,000 4,000 passes from the from free cash uh in addition to um to special town meeting we had a discussion in the office and how do we prepare for the November 5th elction that exclusion question um so we're going to move up you it's a very good presentation that was done on it we're going to move the presentation up in the uh web page um Civic plus has a what's called a news blast so we're going to put that out there and we're going to get in touch with uh dton um dton cable Access TV to see if they could uh see if they could reun the presentation with some frequency just so people are aware what the issues are sure and uh that's all I have for now great well thank you very much it was a great first presentation uh yeah we hope we have many more meetings to come to yeah uh Su do you have a report for us Nicole I just wanted to mention um that last Friday the COA hosted um the vaccine clinic that we have every year um this year um we didn't have it within the health department just because we're trying to rebuild that so they took on that um for me and they did an excellent job um I came they had it set up fabulous I couldn't have done it better myself um and they're always just they're really phenomenal so I really appreciate them doing that this year great thank you Mark no report okay um the only thing I want to say is um can I mention your new sure Mark our selectman has added an addition to his family his wife uh gave birth on Friday Friday and it's a girl it all went well I heard well awesome thank you congratulations congratulations I appreciate it better bring it to the next meeting I will got a morning inowe right yeah future voter yeah okay we move mov on to Old business please um this is a review discussion act order select holiday meeting schedule in the proposed changes uh the only thing that I have uh is December 18th was going to be a placeholder um if we needed it or not because we are not meeting on the 25th and we didn't know if we were going to meet the 18th so some here somehow on this schedule should be that it's a placeholder so that if we decide not to have the meeting not angry people angry who might show up here thank you I agree with that other than that I have no issues so this is a review discussion act so is there any more uh uh discussion if not uh can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to accept um with the edits as suggested by chairman Karen I'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I on to new business again this is a review to discuss an act signing the warrant for the special town meeting sorry can I ask one question sure um the assessors are on November 20th having their tax rate hearing November 20th November 20th okay and I thought in the past the BOS also met on November 20th yes we do we talking about December for the placeholder meeting okay November 20th is listed on is on I can also make a notation that's the tax okay um so are we ready to sign the warrant this is a review discussion act did we have to make um changes the article 6 and 13 funding sources I believe oh we going to add them in there I believe we have to yeah change right now you don't identify oh okay motion tell me okay oh all right nice now what happens with Article 13 um we're voting for The 4,000 as a cap if um um if at the town meeting it gets changed or or denied um not not denied if it gets changed or um somebody doesn't votes against the way it's it's it's worded and they don't want to do a matching and they want to just go for the 4,000 how will that be be done so that motion I would think would come from the floor y to CH the amount no not so much to change the amount but as supposed to mention fund right 4,000 yeah uh I just that I heard concerned concerns about it it's not a big deal um they just I think there might be uh a question about how it works and if they can just get the solid 4,000 and get raise another 4,000 on top of that it would make it easier for um for something they have to commit to I would think that's would be made on the floor what do you think from the floor they would have to have it worded properly in the motion yeah okay so either way the maximum that we're going to spend is $4,000 right now unless they make a motion for 8,000 okay yeah and was approved y i i don't want to money to the water so just just ask okay so uh does anybody have any questions about the uh the warrant I don't no okay is there a motion on the floor to approve it I'll make a motion to approve the warrant uh as presented for Signature I'll second that can motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor for signing the warrant tonight I I I we'll do that at the end thank you um the next few are uh basically um all the same this is for Ralph being a assigned to different uh acting as the um representative from the selects board for signatures and uh I guess we'll do each one R you discuss an act authorization for the Town Administrator um um I have no um yeah I'll make motion motion to allow for the Town Administrator for the signature authorization form I'll second that motion made in seconded any discussion all those in favor hi hi appointment of Ralph to the finance committee I mean I'm sorry Insurance advisory committee I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the insurance advisory committee second motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I appointment to Ralph to the Tiff review board I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the Tiff Review Board second motion made in seconded any discussion do you want all these appointments yeah okay okay all right it doesn't come with a pay [Laughter] raise uh motion made second any discussion all those in favor I hi hi appointment of Ralph to the policy review board I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the policy Review Board second motion made seconded any discussion all those in favor I I I appointment for Ral to the sick Bank committee I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the sick Bank committee second motion made and seconded any discussion all those favor I I appointment of Ralph to the capital outlay committee I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the capital outlay committee second motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I I uh Point Ralph to the solid waste committee I'll make a motion to appoint Ralph to the solid waste committee second motion made in seconded any discussion all those in favor I I um that's it for you Ralph thank you uh you get your plate full certainly um this is a review discussion act with to appoint John meager to the cable to the cable committee uh usually at this point we required that the person be here for us to appoint but um you have something you want to add sir sure okay um I just wanted to speak on John's behalf sure um so last week on Thursday John and the cable committee had about an hour long I don't want to call it an interview but it was kind an interview of what his skill set was and um we're pretty confident in his prior experiences and going forward that he would be able to execute great at a high level sure with the cable committee and be a great addition okay thank you very much how many more are you looking for more folks You guys fully staffed um so we have one more opening the KB of the cable committee caps out at 5 so right now we'll be at 4 um so if anybody if anybody wants to by all means but yeah right thank you John comes highly recommended and he is known by the selectman so we're going to make the exception tonight that John has to be here so this is a review discussion Act is there a motion on the floor to approve I'll make a motion to appoint John Meer to the cable committee second motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I this again a review discuss an act the D Lance uh D lights on FES festivities okay um this is for 11:30 24 uh the hall in the surrounding area this is for uh approval of the uh of the grounds it just needs our um our approval it's the same thing that happens every year food is serve but it's it's a free event uh so they'll need all the necessary permissions from everyone including the selectman I don't know if the Board of Health gets involved I don't think they do because it's food I think it's just cake and they use the lion surf safe the lion are there okay yeah we do get the alliance okay is there a motion on the floor to approve it I'm on the committee so I'm gonna abstain from it okay um I'll make a motion to approve the um the request um and it also asks us to wave the fee so I will also include that in my motion to wave the fee for the Dayton L Festival all right I'll I'll step down and second the uh motion all those in favor I I um the disbanding of the current agricultural commission we have talked to the um person who's left on the committee and he wants to keep it going uh I understand we have three candidates who want to be on the uh the committee that um they'll decide interview them and decide whether or not they they should be appointed and then they'll come before the select for approval okay so we're not going to disband them so I don't know if we just take this under advisement or U table it I guess make a motion the table dis Banning of current agricultural commission motion made um I second that and seconded any discussion all those in favor I I uh then this is a correspondence this is again a review discuss and act resignation of Matthew Silva as a full-time fir fire paramedic and he sent us a letter uh to the chief to formerly resign his position as typical we just don't read the uh resignations on on on the air I make a motion to accept the resignation of Matthew Silva with thanks and appreciation I'll second that motion made in seconded any discussion all those in favor I I okay approval of the warrants okay I'd like to make a motion to approve the warrants paid by October 17 2024 16 a-25 for $4,388 67 16 B-25 for $747,000 Warrant paid by October 24th 2024 17 a-25 for $4,487.29 $ 39629 186 I'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor hi uh this is again public input opportunity is there anybody online no hi if you don't mind sure I've received some feedback from some members in the community about the Board of Health agents yeah and I didn't know if you guys maybe we can put on our agenda for our next meeting to discuss perhaps maybe Our Town Administrator could talk to all the different parties like for maybe making the help subbing out um you know the inspections like the food inspections and the septic inspections um just something to consider with the economy I don't have an opinion on it just something to explore sure what were their what were their concerns um well we haven't High one for a while and uh I think just it's a a way to look at savings it would be one less salary to pay if if there's a way we can provide those Services um and maybe offset the costs with the inspection fee something to consider so you want to consider subing it out with um people who are not hired by well hired by the town but not employed by the town so wouldn't be a one full-time or part-time position it would be perm right yes yep kind of back how it was in the 2010 era sure of Dayan okay we'll just have to look into we'll probably that Grant which okay um because then we won't have anything um but we we'll include that in that discussion okay yeah I'm not advocating for it either way just want to look into it and then discuss it with no I understand where folks are coming from too and if they don't I don't think the public has a huge understanding of what the health department does right um so that doesn't help when you're like what are they doing um yeah right uh the Board of Health is much better shaped today than it's ever been but I understand the need in the urgency for a health agent um the Board of Health itself is doing some of these uh inspections and they're getting a little free okay hoarding is unfortunately um not just a diting issue but it is a big Dion issue and it is in all communities and that really does that really needs somebody like that okay great any else no that's it thank you uh on to the minutes please I'd like to make a motion to approve the board of selectman regular meeting minutes of October 9th 2024 second motion made in second any discussion all those in favor I onto executive session we need to sorry I only did one um I'd like to make a motion to approve the board of Selectmen special meeting minutes of October 16th 2024 second motion May seconded any discussion all those in favor I I okay on to Executive session we need a u roll call vote to go into executive session and then a motion on the floor so is there a vote to go into executive session I you want to hear from Tammy she's oh yeah Tammy is here yeah Tammy I don't she's not in yet Timmy she's connected she Tammy she might be do the a oh Tammy maybe she just wanted to see us go into executive session yeah that's impressive thing to see so I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session under Massachusetts general laws chapter 38 section 21 A2 to conduct strategy sessions and PR preparations for negotiations with non-union Personnel or to conduct collective bargaining session or contract negotiations with non-union Personnel Administrative Assistant Board of Selectmen Town accountant um I guess I'll continue on here uh under Massachusetts general laws 30A section 21 A7 to comply with or act under the authority of a general or specific law or federal grade Grant an aid requirements approval of board of Selectmen executive session meeting minutes of August 21st 2024 and approval of board of selectman executive session meeting minutes of September 25th 24 I'll second that motion made and seconded any discussion all those in favor I I uh we will not be returning from executive session so everyone please have a good evening thank you we need a roll call vote too yes we do I'm sorry I think we so mark I Nicole Melo I and Peter Karen I do you guys need that to be recording no we're done thank you oh yes it did okay did we miss it yes okay do it again [Music] nice record it is on my recording can you use mine we can yes okay okay so it is online awesome great thank you sir your point that you made earlier about people not different for that's in Department to within the next couple weeks we're have the studio open be sending an email to I believe it's be end getting people in there oh good I like that yeah did you say we not running yes I beautiful that's unless you want to [Music] no is she leave okay like she didn't even say bye was it something I said oh right --------- ##VIDEO ID:NBPuiQunVg4## all right um this is this is the this is the health feed right yeah I plus okay all right there he is good evening I'd like to call to order town of dayon Board of Health special meeting at the Oldtown Hall 1111 sumers AV this is also a remote participation Zoom meeting it is a public meeting being recorded for cable broadcast and Internet Posting on YouTube at www YouTube youtube.com toown of dyon the time is 433m at this time stand Pledge of Allegiance please pledge aliance to the flag FL America to the which stands indivisible can you guys hear me yes yes we can can you see me we can see you see you too I don't know which is worse um I'd like to take um new business d& out of order and present them now 4 d is Grant process Denny would you like to elaborate on that please you have to make a motion oh I'm sorry um I will step down as chair to vote and make motions for the entire meeting at this time I'd like to make a motion to take d and e Out of Water present them may I have a second by second and we have a vote I hi hi whenever you're ready Vinnie we like to hear what you've got to say about the grants okay so uh like what I was talking about is as far as um the grant uh process is concerned is um you know how you apply for them uh you go to you know grants.gov we've been talking about this just a a little bit about um you know you set up an account you go to grants.gov then you look for the grants that are applicable for each uh you know for our department so for example uh we have talked about um you know grants for CPR we've talked about um you know grants for other things related to the to the Board of Health so what my plan is uh and the other part the other part of the process is that uh you need to have a few things you need to have a UEI number a tax ID number which I have uh for the town of dayon you need to have a um project name and the project name doesn't have to be formal so I spoke with Serena about what to do about a project name this kind of where I was stuck as I was going through um going through the uh the application so the project name you can you can make up a name you could say uh Board of Health uh CPR uh project for um you know schools in the town of Titans something like that budget would be zero because there's no budget then you apply for whatever whatever funds that you can find that are available what you have to do is what what you have to do is you have to let Serena know the name of what the name of the budget is and what the grant is so that she'll be able to flag it if we get the funds when the funds come in so um that's all part of the process now the other piece that I uh that I had talked about in some of the other meetings is that the forms a lot of the forms as I was going through this was were cookie cutter so they say fill out form I forget what it is let's call it 17b and then the next Grant is fill out form 17b so part of what I'm doing is just which goes into um 4E is to set up the forms then put those into a Shar Drive location into a folder that's on a Shar drive that anyone on any board in the town of dayon could access and the forms would be here's the form with the UEI here's the form with the tax ID number because some some of the grants want UEI number some of them want the tax ID number and then they could go in with those forms and then apply for the grants um that they want my other thought uh that I had as far as that share Drive is that let's say that I found some grants that were available for the sewer department well I could take that Grant name and or that that download put it in that file so if we had say we had different sections that were in that Shar Drive Board of Health Sewer Department um Etc you know um you know the building department Department um Street Department whatever it happens to be and put those into those files so that people would access for them there's a few things that this helps is that um it's not only might not only be like individual um uh boards or or departments but would also be something that could be General generalized so that we could get monies into the into the um general fund so again I've talked about how we're in the hole as far as the BP project is well if we can find fund uh and apply that to the general fund um we you know and you know get the um the um the deficit down um that would just help everybody in the town you know we're not going to have to pay taxes things like that so that's a you know a lot where I was going with it um then the other part of that I was talking about was people I know barbar's looked into it I don't know if Tammy's looked into it uh but if you've looked into this process it can be a bit um uh challenging I don't it's not difficult but it can be a bit challenging if you've never done it so what I was going to do was to put in um like a quick start or like instructions in another folder that would be a Shar drive because I certainly don't want to write grants for every department and uh board uh in the town of dtan that's that would probably be a a full-time job but if I if we put in like a startup or instructions it's like go to grants.gov create your create your name here's where you can get uh grants for this for the um from the state here's where you can get grants uh on in the federal government and then break it down that way here are the forms that you would you would need you would need to set up you know you're always going to need form 17A you know that form is available in folder you know in the folder in in the um shared Drive uh so uh that's where I was going with that um and what I'm going to do um now that I know more of the process and like the stumbling blocks for me were um names of the projects and then budget and um then some of the other things like the UEI number the tax ID number which I have so I'm going to start going forward with that and um if I do come across other other other grants or things that would be applicable for other towns you know I'm going to tuck those away in a folder on my own until we can get this um shared drive you know up and running I did speak with one of the Selectmen um about this uh recently about okay how how would we go about creating a Shar Drive I don't think the town has one he thought the Town Administrator would be able to do that um I don't know to have Barbara have we hired a Town Administrator yes he just started yesterday I believe I haven't met him okay so you want me to give him like at least a couple of hours to settle in before I we're giving him a little rest before we uh go and visit him while so what what I'll do on my end is I'll just start tucking these things away in folders and on my own anything anything that I find with that is applicable to the Board of Health that I think we can use or if you think uh we should apply for just call me or email me and then if when I find them I'll share them with um everyone on the board and of course with Liz and uh and then we'll go from there you know what I'd really like to see what what my my goal would be is to get this into and expand this you know not only for the Board of Health but again through every single board and every single uh Department it in the in the town of dayon make it easy for them and I would certainly assist again I'm I I I don't want to write and I won't write every single Grant but I certainly assist them in in ordering to do that I think Barber had mentioned about having someone on each U board or on each committee uh in each department that would be designated as uh applying for for Grants and I think that that's a great idea great idea you know I would be willing to assist but you know I don't want to do it uh the other part of it is as Barber knows because I think she has applied to some of these grants is that the reason that I'm talking about streamlining these forms and putting them in folders is to save time if you had to do it every single time it's going to take you an hour an hour and a half to apply for a grant but if you have cookie cutter forms where you're filling in Pay town of dayon all of that information here's the tax ID here's the here here's the um UEI number um here's what you have to do here's the contacts and if you just fill all that in and leave the rest blank like project name budget Grant that you're applying for things like that now it's just a matter of pulling up that form plugging in those few pieces of information streamline the process apply for the grants um my sales background in in sales if you're familiar with this it's called a sales funnel you fill up the sales funnel think of it as a cone and you fill it up with leads and eventually some of the leads are going to come out of the funnel and that's what you do the same thing with grants keep filling it up with grants keep applying keep applying keep buying because some of them might be 18 months out some of them might be 6 months out some of them might have you know $50,000 and then six months from now they have $25,000 but if you can get 5,000 here 10,000 there 2,000 here you got it's all going to add up and even if we can take that money and apply it again to the general fund for other things that the that the town could pay for the um um you know the trash bag um program that we have uh apply it to something like that that would make you know maybe you know cut the cost of that if we could even though Barbara and I sat on a meeting with with Missy about it only applies for um the cost of the bags and not the program but there may be something out there that would be applicable to to the program that that we could leverage and you know and apply for and do so um that is my long wited explanation of um you know start out with you know small steps and then expand this as much as we can and make sure that everywhere in the town is available but you know I'll take care of the other steps as far as reaching out to uh the administrator you know once they've get you know they' they've got their feet wet and they're kind of settled in um and getting access and what's involved with that we have to get involved with it and things like that so good job thank you that's I'm gonna start doing that I've been I've been working the polls in the city of Taunton so um you know I've been a little bit uh busy with with early voting and things like that but what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to start doing that if I if I can't start it like this week I'll do it I'll probably have some time either over the weekend or early next week and I'm going to start you know putting that those things together and I'll share with you all you know my my progress and um you know where we're going with it and um you know how far along we are and and and then like I said hopefully we can we can uh get those monies that we need you know all across the board uh Vinnie Lisa calonia would like to speak hi I'm from conservation I'm the conservation agent and I'm listening here and it all sounds really great I just wanted to throw in um as a suggestion I think every two months we have department head meetings is it every two months I haven't been to one yet and I've been here since July well every few months we have got to start having them again department head meetings might be a good venue for you to present yes yeah I I I I would have no issue with that either by Zoom or in person that's no that's no problem yeah that'd be great thank you Vinnie yeah you're welcome Vinnie you can contact also um Karen oan up at the office and they could find out when you could get in to talk to the new ta okay I'll I'll do that thank you Vinnie you're welcome next [Music] um old Business Review discuss act B animal perit notification we've decided that there are a lot of uh buildings that these animals are how closed in and we did have the bond permit and it was taken off last year but we've come that we have quite a rodent problem and we need to investigate we need to try to find a way to stop this and um a lot of the people don't realize how fast rodents can multiply and what the safe how we can stop them how we can prevent them um and this is basically why we've want to put the bond uh back in bond permits back in and uh the letter reads attention property owner due to an increased number of complaints in regards the keeping of animals the Board of Health is reinstating permits for Bonds in Dion a bond is considered an outdoor shelter for animals such as livestock cows goats sheep sheep chickens Etc this perim is being required so that the Board of Health can inspect properties for sanitation and proper housing reinstating this permit will also help the town of dyon be better prepared for disasters or outbreaks for which notification and slash or evacuations of bond animals might be necessary this is separate from a kennel license which is required for three or more dogs at one address if you need a kennel license please contact the town clerk this is SE separate from a stable permit which is required for horses if you have a stable permit you do not need a bond permit part of the permit involves an inspection by the Animal control officer and or Health Department your property has been identified as having animals and requires a bond permit please fill in the enclosed Bond per permit application and submit to the board of he with a check for $25 made payable to the town of dayon if you have any questions as always you can please do not hesitate to contact the board of health any discussion on this I think it's absolutely needed it is not to mention any zuntic diseases that we could experience so I think it's very important that this is monitored that just a draft so if you want to add something to it please I think it looks fine I thought it was fine I did as well I mean I reviewed it I I emailed Liz back I I don't see anything wrong with that I think it's perfect no it's perfect I think yeah so if they have a stable license because the way you read it is if they have a stable license they don't need a barn permit but what if they have chickens and horses we'll have to decide on that stable or can when they go out to do the stable inspection I think it would be two separat separate so we may have to change that part of it and make it clearer because when you just read it I thought it I was like what I know I was reading it too Liz and I'm like I would think that if you have a bond permit um or stable license Animal Control comes out so she's going to be aware of the chicken so I don't think that both I don't think both would be needed for something like that they different permits though they're different paperwork so that's why it's not that's why it's two separate they're two separate collections also yeah but you wouldn't send someone out there twice to do it inection all at the same time so maybe just adjust the pie rather than I think stable Barn is 25 and stable is 25 so if you're getting both do a $40 charge to do more research on this yeah I agree more research how about we table it until next meeting and do some research on it sure and find them the fairest way to do it because they're not going to go out there and place they're going to go no do it once but I mean so the only thing that that one person is paying extra for is that certificate yeah yeah but I don't think we should make it outrageous for people either because not with the cost of feed and everything going up yeah we want to be there for the residents so we want to be honest with us and yeah absolutely absolutely can I have a motion to table this until next month I'd like to make a motion oh I'm sorry public I'm so sorry go ahead Lisa calonia please um just thinking out loud um a lot of these structures if they're not um under a commercial Farm commercial Farm would be exempt under the wetlands protection act um not the local bylaw as much but um residential like recreational Farms they would have to also file probably with the building department but definitely check with us to see if they're in a regulated area so that we'd have to work something out you know unless you're going to get on permit link which I think would be great if you guys get on permit link we're we're working on it yeah because then you could just task conservation task the other departments and know that exactly I'm just throwing my two cents well you you you're invited to chat with us and let's get this all sweed away so we can I know it's necessary I me especially we forget about you a lot conservation sorry as long as it's not on I I know no we never forget about you on purpose Lisa believe me um so we oh could and could I have a vote please we need to make a motion first I thought you just did no she um stop okay that's rightor sure I'd like to make a motion to table the um Bond permit stable permit situation until um we can do some more research second I don't think it's not going to go out till next year anyway yeah so we have time yeah let's do it right so could I have a vote please I I I motion passes 4 B review discuss act conservation request we have talked with conservation and have decided to redo the application culation tests and observation holds to add conservation to it therefore we wouldn't have to bother with it later on and have problems in between Lisa would you like to speak on this sure yeah I can so I included in your packet you may not many may not have want to sit at the podium I mean sit at the podium you can try sitting at it but stand at the podium I don't know can we put her on it should go to her when she starts talking Benny can you hear me I can hear you yeah I can't see uh her though oh there she is did you find her yeah I see her okay um so um I put a packet together basically perk reviews have been being done for conservation um and border of Health for over 20 years that we know of um so the packet I put together um is includes the letter from my Cham and Jim digits who is here the new form and then the form that was created in November of 23 the form that was created and used between 2020 and 24 and then there's two more forms a form that was used around 2012 to 2020 and then previously around 2003 ironically I was involved with the 2003 one yourself I know I am so much so anyways the the forms have evolved over the years the main concern for this is not to hold things up but to educate someone um because you'd never want them them to access the lot through a regulated area if they don't need to you know and clear Baba knows with her you know history she knows that you know so basically Baba and I sat down and revised the form the the newest form here it also puts um because a lot of times when I get a perk request review um I ask them for a sketch or something that shows where on the lot like a locust map doesn't have to be a formal plan in any way shape or form but approximate area of where they want to perk so we put it right in there and made the soil evaluator sign below we put the other things they need as well like the trench permit needs to be obtained Water Service needs to be marked out um and that the soil evaluator needs to SK Ule the um perk not the owner of the developer um we also added back in there the $50 fee for the perks which we were always getting until um the end of 23 through 24 if I'm going to go out and review it then the Conservation Commission should be collecting a fee for that it's a very small fee of $50 what else did we change forever add in the Dig Safe number oh yeah Dig Safe was important um one more thing we I see we remember we added was a lot of times the people filling out the form don't know if they're within a resource area so they either leave it blank or they just circle nose so in this case we let them Circle unsure because you know it's not always their expertise to know if they're in a wetland um we added the flood zone also yeah we added as a site within a flood zone because a flood zone is technically a regulated Wetland area that the Conservation Commission has jurisdiction over so you know the goal of this is just to educate someone so at the beginning when they're going to perk I would go out as I have been doing for years and I would review the location of the perk to see is a location within 100 feet because on a new lot you can't put a septic system within 100 feet of a wetland so why would we let them perk within 100 feet um you can't put a septic system within 200 feet of a river um or perennial stream and 200 feet of a veronal pool so why would yeah it's that's that's a b Health concern so they they have to make sure when they're reviewing it that they're allowing that okay to isn't that isn't that also no that's not our our bylaw yeah the engineer our plans he make sure all those things are accounted for that's why we have an engineer review all our plans when they come in instead of one of us doing it because it needs an engineer to look at it with all he knows all the laws and all the specifics great um we're trying to get it covered so nobody gets in trouble and they do it all within the law no has to smoothly you know you either can do it or you can't do it y right and then a lot of times you know you know even with existing structures so um we just we're revising our bylaw conservation bylaw for the fall meeting so that um any existing structure um does not have to meet the 100 foot setback or 200 foot setback because obviously we want them to replace deceptic system um but we would require them to still file a very basic form with us so that we can ensure that a they're accessing the site properly and B they have the erosion controls in um so like I said it's good for them and I've talked to a couple Engineers about it as well to know at the beginning instead of when they put in the design together and the health department has a copy and then they call me and say does this lot have wetlands and I say well why why am I just seeing at this point they've already spent thousands of dollars on the design I'd rather have be at the we've seen that we've seen that you know Barbara should also know that we had a septic uh approval this past meeting and they wanted to put it in one location and Lisa said no it can't go another one and they found out that was a much better location because they didn't need to do pumping it was all gravity flow and it was going to be cheaper for the homeowner in the I'm sorry just I I have to jump off um I have a previous engagement I no no no that's okay time this this is um interesting I wish I could I could stay for that I have the form in front of me but I'll leave it in in you you have to vote on this form now will v no we can do it with two okay we can do it with yeah because you're still in discussion right yes okay thank you Vinnie all right I did review the form it looks it looks okay to me I had some questions but um um but I'll leave it to you guys I'll okay okay thank all right we'll see you by bye bye bye um so you know I I don't know if any you guys had any questions but but basically um I just think that the way bber and I just changed the form it's a little more inclusive it gives us a conservation the $50 back um I guess we just have to talk about like the process of that how would that work so would you guys collect the 50 or would you make them bring it to me um you know collect it Elizabeth and jot it down and then forward it over to conservation it would be they a separate account line I'm sorry they have a separate account line conservation does I know but could we accept the check and just keep an envelope and let them know it's here and have them pick it up would that be possible okay yeah that's one step I think that would be good yeah definitely I have them running all over the place you know it's right place and that's it so I mean I don't know if you guys wanted to change anything else on it do you have any feedback on it no no the only thing that b had asked was the Dig Safe number y yeah that's something I've wanted for quite a while right makes sense to me having that number there definitely it's all in one fault exactly yeah yeah I mean so the fees are exactly where you want them right this would be the time if you're going to change fees I think they're all right for now yeah we just yeah I don't want to raise anything I really don't right all right [Music] um so you know then you know it's pretty straightforward the bottom and I try to get them back to you guys within a week anyway yeah if it's not within a week it's because they haven't provided me with the Locust map so it's like I'm not going to go out to this five 4 Acre Site and just walk around aimlessly when you you might want to perk it at the front right right right you might want to retreat lot you know so sounds good Lisa thank you you're welcome guys want to vote on it yes to vote on it motion to accept the new application for percolation test in the observation hle as presented I'd like to make a motion to accept um the application for the culation test and observation H thank you and I will step down and uh vote uh second it I'm sorry second we've had a discussion could let's have a vote I I motion passes thank you I think it oh he definitely it's going to solve a lot of problems before building out had some I'm sure about some of the disasters I've been involved in a couple those disasters sorry no we don't do the building but if they don't have a c test they're not right right yeah yeah we just want to avoid hassle for you know the residents and then not have to worry like you said if they already started the process and then you locate problem and then it's just going to cost more money and it's just going to be more headaches so let's do it from the you know do it right from the beginning yeah a couple examples I mean there's a lot on William Street I can think of that you know I noticed it was and then I got the I contacted the um who looked like the new owner and I said because I knew him and I said you get that you know looked at by a wetland scientist I'm going do that that's a good idea he said I'm glad I did because there's a wetland it's not on hill but there's a wetland in the middle of it yeah and he said that affects everything for us so you know things like that um like I said it's not to stop things it's just to help it to help the process if something should happen no that's that's a great idea you know like you said you spend thousands and thousands of dollars per can whatever and then all of a sudden you find out whoa that's a wetland or it's too close to a wetland right and right right and then you have problems and um where there are more and more houses going up they're looking for every little piece of land and a lot of those pieces have already been perked or have been looked at and people are like no there too much trouble and all of a sudden somebody buys it and they go oh it's going to perk and it doesn't always perk and exactly you know there are problems we we'd rather do the problems right at the beginning instead of having them put thousands of dollars in and then realize that they can't use the lock absolutely that's our goal that's our goal yes thank you very much Lisa thank you very much for bringing that to my attention and working with me on that you're welcome it was well needed I appreciate you uh listening to me on this you know it's it's most fortunate that we can work together oh yes and Harmony between departments are uh is going to help the people moving into town absolutely and it's going to help us too you know absolutely have a great night we've got plenty good night thank you guys back back to the meeting um you guys want to add C to the next meeting that's kind of a big yes yes um so we'll have to vote on table we have a meeting on Tuesday for the interview so I can add it to that meeting sure it'll get discussed before next month yeah could I have a motion to table for C sure I'd like to make a motion to table fore the health agent candidate withdrawal Mee I'll step down and second that and can we have a vote I I motion passes oh this is a good one 4f review discuss act rap complaint and North dton off for a better word verman we got another one last week pardon same house now a different house okay and then we got one about linkoln Village okay but as bar found out they did some construction and I think that it's steering everything up yes it it's that time of year it's get cold the Vermin they're coming in they want to be friends of everybody they want to live with them and um so people please check around your foundation see if you can find any holes or little Pats that the the rats simple terms are trying to get in um call the Board of Health we'll give you some names of things you can use or call an exterminator that would also help we are working on it we really are working on it I've been working on it for once the bment is in place and we got to figure out that abandoned property there's an abandoned lot in the middle of all of it so oh okay trying to see we can find the owner yes North dayon that's probably where they're all hiding hiding okay that makes sense yeah that totally makes sense I'm sure and come back and they have yeah absolutely don't you cover all your garbage um pant please put covers on them just sand that your garbage is in a garbage can doesn't do the trick because the rats can go in they enjoy it if you have animals please keep all the food for the animals in metal containers and um try to pick up whatever the animals don't finish because the rats will eat through everything have a great supper okay is anything else on that no huh okay so what is our plan for that particular complaint oh I've already contacted them I always contact right away a register certified letter okay yeah and good they haven't responded so the next step is a violation okay we'll be sending that letter out okay yes uh one way or the other okay um G we you discuss act dinon police autism and dementia program that was that's a program the D police are working on and um what it is if you have someone in your house that has dementia or Autism you can fill out a form down at the dyon police department this is a new program our Police Department is starting but it's getting huge and all the um surrounding departments I think eventually will pick it up I think it's AJ swatz I think that's his name um the officer that is is has devised it and if you do have a person in your household with autism or dementia are some special needs if you could contact the Dion police they will note it down they will put it into their computer so then when your phone call or your address comes up it will flash on the screen and the police officer that is responding to your home will know of the special needs in your family and I think it's going to be a fantastic program it certainly is we had that in Island before I left a great program yeah it is certainly is a great program because then they can tailor to how they're responding a little bit differently yes and also he had um on seat belts it's a covering on the seat belt that also alerts if there's a car accident and this person is in a car the the people responding em indicat that's fantastic special treatment much needed yes yes he will be coming in uh a future meeting to speak on this awes yes um okay items not reasonably anticipated within 48 hours I've got interview for Town Nur um we've got an applicant we like to interview him him I'm sorry I'm so sorry it's I'm so sorry Liz and that's set up for next week next Tuesday at 6:30 Tuesday at 6:30 and we've got that set up at Tuesday special meeting at 6:30 list yep for an interview that's going to be here okay add the health agent to that agenda okay approval of minutes September 19th 2024 special meeting you read them yes okay could I have a motion to accept sure I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes from September 19th 2024 and October 16th 20124 okay so we're doing both meetings so that's October 19th and October 16 16 the health agent interview meeting that was the second one and I will step down and second that motion could I have a vote please I I motion passes next meeting um we've got a date of 1119 24 for our next meeting it would be here at 4:30 could I have a motion to adjourn sure I'd like to make a motion to adjourn today's meeting and I second that motion I have a vote I I motion passes good night everyone see you next month oh no we're have one next sorry about that