Castine Select Board Approves Pavilion Dedication, Salt Bid, and Event Requests

[1:13] Select Board Chair: Okay. Okay, welcome everyone. It is Monday, September 21st, 2026 at 4.01 PM, and I will call this meeting to order. We have a forum. Do we have any additions, deletions and correctives to the agenda? I have the additional. Do we have anything else? No. Okay, great. So let's start with our warrants. We have a general fund warrant for $64,958.84. We've got $9,400 to Pine Tree Waste. We have $16,978 to Industrial Protection Services. We have $13,000 to Maine municipal and everything else we have 44 220 to the Hancock County Planning Commission and with that I will make a motion that we paid this sixty four thousand nine fifty eight cents it is pretty normal we like small bills like that and I will make a motion that we pay one thousand two four three seven zero eight for a wider one do I have a second okay all in favor and Dan Leader says okay now we have minutes from previous meetings we have a select board meeting from August 17th we were all there right no okay I will make a motion that we accept these words on August 17th do I have a second I'll second all in favor and Dan Reader says hi and then we have a work session of a meeting and work session on the 27th of August and so you were not there either myself yes okay great okay and I will make a motion that we accept these minutes so I have a second all in favor and yeah Leader says aye and now we have a work session in minutes from 9-1. I will make a motion that we accept that. Do I have a second? All in favor? And here we are. And then Amy, you are here on this one. So we have select board meetings from September 9th and I'm not there so I will either of you I'll make I'll make a motion okay then we have a select board meeting and work session minutes on September 14th and he was the chair I was zooming in and I will make a motion that we accept this do I have a second all in favor great okay I did I do it yes thank you thank you okay that's all the minutes right Sue yes okay next we are going to approve the renoodle renewal bottle license for the Casting Yacht Club which was just a matter of them filing things right yeah I've already gotten their approval from [5:43] Town Clerk: the state and just so you guys know I've received the approval of Danny Murphy's from the state and the application so everything is all tightened up here's the approval from the state for the Yacht Club. Okay, great. Yes. [6:00] Select Board Chair: Okay, I will make a motion that we approve the renewal of the Bottle Club license for the Casting Yacht Club. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? Amy Guto says aye. Roberta Blasgood says aye. And Dan Reeder says aye. Next, we're going to approve the annual General Assistance Appendages, A to H. Sue, can you help me with this? [6:23] General Assistance Administrator: You need to open up a public hearing once we get into it too on that just real quick okay so i can help you with it this is just general assistance maximums which are sent to us every year it's prepared by the municipal association all the different counties are involved of course hancock county including them and then the maximums for food for rent assistance for electricity and heating Are in there as well as mileage rates and then like personal stuff like shampoo, toothpaste, burials, cremation. Should somebody be eligible for that? And the actual ordinance does not have. Oh, and also the new thing now is this recovery residences rent amounts which have separated off in the law. law. The actual ordinance has not changed since we redid the whole thing last year, which incorporated some of those state law changes with homeless and residency houses. So do you want to open up a public hearing just on this for any comments or questions and then we can close it and approve it. [7:38] Select Board Chair: Okay, I will open a public hearing. [7:44] Town Clerk: Yeah, I mean, this is the public meeting, if you will. It's just, I think what Derek is trying to say that you offer public comment to this. [7:55] Select Board Chair: That's what I was gonna do. Okay, and would anyone like to comment on this approval for the annual general assistance appendices? [8:06] Speaker D (unidentified): don't all raise your hand at once yes i'd like to ask a question yes maybe derek can answer [8:16] Resident Assistant / Public presenter: this agenda item is making the child [8:22] General Assistance Administrator: ordinance compliant or consistent with the state guidelines right it's annual housekeeping so every year we're supposed to be doing a like a survey of the costs of like these different things and updating the maximums because the general assistance application is formula driven and i have to put in maximum amounts of assistance doesn't mean that's the amount that goes in there except for on food but so like when we do that we do income and expenses for the last 30 days of the next 30 days and then they may put like $1,800 whereas our maximum in the thing is for now I gotta get to them so like a maximum overall level of assistance for a house of let's say four people and Hancock County would be $2,252 right so that would be the maximum level of assistance I could get of course it goes down a household of one would be 1350 doesn't mean they get that amount of assistance and often like with food or anything i wouldn't provide it but like food family of four is one thousand twenty three dollars, or two hundred thirty seven dollars weekly for housing. They have two different prices, like heated and unheated, so in Hancock County, let's say a two bedroom house would be $1,400 unheated and $1,615 for heated. So those would be the numbers I would put in there that we might pay if everything's equal and they end up having a deficit or an emergency. You can also declare emergencies, but they have to, when you do the formula, they have to have a deficit, and it's the deficit or the maximum amount of assistance, that can be the maximum amount that we would pay in any one of those categories. And so this is done in every town of the state by law. And luckily here in Maine, we have MMA that does these surveys every year, meaning Maine Municipal Association, rather than having to go out and do all that work ourselves [10:44] Speaker D (unidentified): and figuring out what those are, [10:46] General Assistance Administrator: which is how we did it in New Hampshire, which was not fun. [10:50] Select Board Chair: Okay, anyone else? Well, [10:55] General Assistance Administrator: I'll tell you what, I was pretty busy in other places doing this for Cassie, and I've only had to do about three applications and, you know, two years, so it's not that often. They should, it's been around for hundreds of years now. That's why they are the overseers of the poor in their title, and that's where general [11:25] Select Board Chair: assistance law comes in, and so there's a poster out on the board, right, for general assistance, and it's on our website [11:38] Town Clerk: and I'm assuming, Derek, like some in professional capacities providing like, you know, social work or other resources to individuals, or physicians or others or teachers, would they also be a resource for helping someone know that general assistance might be a benefit or they might be eligible [12:00] General Assistance Administrator: yeah if they call 211 or usually if they're applying for like the li heap or anything else or if they call their local representative or senators they'll always say you know go to town office with tried general assistance. General assistance is supposed to be the source of last resort, if you will. So oftentimes I'll ask people, but I can't deny them if they've checked with like a local church or food pantries and stuff like that before they actually use the general assistance part of it. [12:37] Town Clerk: And you do that here too. People come to you, talk to them. [12:43] General Assistance Administrator: If they're ineligible, I will point them in other directions that they could go or where they may close the gap. You point them to the- Or I know I can close the gap for them by making some phone calls also and saying, okay, look, I'm allowed. I can only give $200 worth of assistance for electricity bill. Do you guys have the other 200 that maybe they can get from them? The money never goes directly to the person. It goes either to their landlord or I can send a voucher to go to like the market or someplace like that, or directly to CMP, [13:21] Town Clerk: things like that. And you send people to the interstate fuel plant here? [13:25] Speaker D (unidentified): I do that also. Yep. [13:27] Select Board Chair: Yeah. And again, this is all highly confidential. Right. Between you and me. Exactly. [13:32] General Assistance Administrator: Okay. How much is in our core channels? I forget how much we put in there off the top of my head. It's not as much as that we would have to pay if somebody came in and it's one of the places that we can overdraft if necessary without a special town meeting should have come necessary you give me a minute I'll tell you though I want to say it's 5 000 but I don't want to it could be less that's yeah there's not a lot but I mean ideally it's I forget what our total would be I think it's like point zero three so take three zeros like 400 what's our valuation roughly like 400 million or something There'd be four hundred thousand is how high we could go like but there are reimbursement formulas in there just so you know so the state pays 50% up to a certain amount and then I've never had to file a report since I've been here because we've never had one but all right general assistance coming maybe but next it needs to run a little faster on this wheel with that one's quicker the probe oh it's so slow why is it not working hopefully [15:29] Town Clerk: Not something different Why don't we have a question while we're reading? [15:34] Public commenter: Yeah, you could if you got one. [15:36] Town Clerk: Oh, there we go. Go ahead. Well, the correct money is for similar things, [15:45] General Assistance Administrator: But it won't go in that first line item. [15:47] Select Board Chair: Right, it's in its own line item. [15:49] General Assistance Administrator: So it's discretionary. Yeah, right, that's a little more open. The rules aren't as stringent on that. [15:57] Town Clerk: If someone didn't meet the standards for general assistance, Derek might have an opportunity to offer assistance. [16:06] Select Board Chair: And if someone came and needed assistance in that way, we would have to vote, one of us would have to sign on it, but again, we wouldn't know who the individual was. Totally, yeah. So I think it's so important that everybody understands that it's strictly confidential. [16:28] Town Clerk: And I think also what we discussed also our funds and the opportunity to have that money kind of on its own separate budget line item is that it could also give people in town an opportunity to maybe donate into that line if they chose to, or if we wanted to be encouraged that line item was kind of up at a minimum, like if we get a report from Derek each year or semi-annually or how that money might be have been used that could be an opportunity for you know some local assistance without perhaps the regulations of the general assistance you know [17:06] Select Board Chair: have a little more flexibility and the answer is actually 2 000 that we budget so it's not a lot [17:17] General Assistance Administrator: That's really just a placeholder though, yeah it is, ideally if we're if our costs are going up though I'd put more money in there, it's just because I wouldn't want to overdraft it, so yeah, so yeah, so our values are 450 million now of the other project, so okay good to move on, yeah you can close the comments and vote on it, okay. [17:47] Select Board Chair: So we're closing comments, I will make a motion that we move to approve the annual general assistance amendment because it plays through it a second, all in favor. Now we have an appointment to the community working group and that is Rachel Sawyer who they filled up this application and we are so glad that she wants to do this and she says, "Because I'm raising a child in town and as a Yacht family, I see the importance of family oriented spaces and activities throughout the town." So I will make a motion that we approve Rachel to the community working group. Do I have a second? I'll second. All in favor? I think Rico says aye. And Dan Leder says aye. Thank you Rachel. [18:53] Town Clerk: Yes, I'm so excited that she's joining us. Yes,. Okay. [18:57] Select Board Chair: Okay so this is a big moment in the history of Casting, David. We are so glad that you are here. Can you hear me okay? Yes, good. So today we are going to review the gazebo dedication proposal. Okay but thank you for this gentleman. Yeah but I know but David I feel like you are such an integral part of this that I have to you know answer any questions. Okay and Ted I just have had so many unbelievable compliments from guests, visitors, residents in town. I mean it has been without exception a colossal success and I personally was thrilled to see your skill set because I didn't know I knew you were an architect I didn't know that you were like such a skilled post of being so I would like it's I'm gonna if I'm just gonna read this I have a proposal for your consideration regarding the pavilion at the town dock that I built I am sending this letter to ask you for your approval and support for a dedication ceremony Monument. It's over 25th, which is Noah Brooks' birthday. I would like to name the structure Noah Brooks Pavilion, dedicated to the children of Castine, young and old. This site at the bottom of our historic main street has been the connection point for visitors of our town from the water and an arrival destination for travelers from land. Noah Brooks was one of Casting's greatest citizens and his contribution in history deserves a small place in our public realm. The Brooks Pavilion would honor this place in the most appropriate way and get our Casting citizens to look into the contributions that he made and I am happy to go over these if you aren't aware. I would like to send out invitations to those who contributed to the effort to restore at the pavilion on our top town deck. I would like to invite you the Select Board and the top and the town employees to attend and invite the press. David you are officially invited. Okay this would be a ribbon-cutting ceremony as I am working on the finishing touches of the signage and a plaque that I have already that have ready that I will have ready by this time. I would also like to have some refreshment for those who attend if you think this is appropriate. Absolutely October 25th falls on a Sunday this year if you feel the event should be set on a work day or perhaps the end of a Work week, I would consider shifting the date to make itself, make it a celebration. I am proud to have left a small part of my soul to a town that has given me so much. I hope you agree with me in naming and dedicating the structure as appropriate to do. This pavilion was designed to encourage conversations, provide shade and shelter, while eating and looking out into our harbor. I am thrilled that it seems to achieve this goal and more. Thank you, Ted. Okay. So, I have no objections of having it on October 25th. [22:19] Town Clerk: Your thoughts? I have a couple questions. Go for it. Can I ask a couple questions? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, I'll direct my questions to Ted exactly. So, I was doing some additional research just myself on Noah Brooks and fascinating life. So I see some sources that make his birthday October 24th and some on the 25th, and I'm wondering have you been able to reconcile [22:43] Speaker D (unidentified): that, like what have you learned in your research? I'd go by the date on its page. But it is in all the historical records ambiguous as to which date, the 24th or the 25th. So I just went with what they have. [23:09] Town Clerk: It was interesting because the things that some were historical sites, you know, like websites I was looking at, battlefield websites, you know, things like that, and I thought, okay they all seem kind of legitimate, but yet I don't think she knew which day he was born. Well if you hear that, you know, going back in the ages and he might not remember of course the same one, but I just wasn't sure if there was, you know, how we were focusing on the [23:33] Speaker D (unidentified): 25th, but these, if we have a celebration and the let's say the town employees are asked, you know, I want to celebrate many of them, many of them contributed to the effort, you know, doing it on a Friday afternoon might be a really nice thing to try to do. That's like an end of the week, let's go off into the weekend with a ceremony at like three or four down at the town dock or something like that, whereas doing something on a Sunday, you know, everyone's got things going in their life, it might be a little more complicated. So I just wanted to put that out there that it might fit the calendar a little better. We actually just do it around his birthday, but do it on a end of the week thing so that it would sort of work for the employees of the town, I think, rather not being asked to come in on a day and spend weekend time or something. Sue, your thoughts? [24:27] Town Clerk: I'm open to anything, Amy, I mean, well, selfishly, I won't be here on the 23rd, so I'd love for it to be on the 25th, but you don't have to do it around me. I just feel bad that I wouldn't be here, but [24:42] Speaker D (unidentified): But I don't want to ask people to come. I'll need to know what it is so I can set out the invitations or in a few other places. I mean, it would be nice if it would be nice if all [24:53] Select Board Chair: three of us could be thinking. Yeah, I think it would be very nice if all three of us were there. Yeah, so if it's, if it's, if we're being a little self, if we're being a little selfish, [25:05] General Assistance Administrator: let's, let's do it on the 25th. I think we should do it on the 26th, my birthday, because No, that is my birthday, but no, you don't have to do it. [25:22] Speaker D (unidentified): I know. You helped me through a pretty stringent line. [25:26] General Assistance Administrator: I know. You were a tough one. I didn't know if we were going to come out of it friends by the end of it. You're kicking me off your job site. [25:36] Speaker D (unidentified): You were interrupting real work. [25:42] Town Clerk: do you need just to cover bases of such is there any to your knowledge is there any policy or any i guess it probably a town policy that dictates the naming of structures on town property or things that we need to consider that we might not be aware of select [26:06] General Assistance Administrator: board as far as I know, unless Sue knows of some policy that they passed, that you have the power [26:12] Speaker D (unidentified): to do that. Only Congress can go. Well, his best friend really has a library you might not have [26:21] Town Clerk: anything yet in our town, so yeah. Well, I'm going to ask one more question because as I understand you have like a special, like I don't know if it's connection but interest in Noah Brooks. [26:36] Speaker D (unidentified): Yes, I gave three lectures on him. And that's it. Exactly. [26:39] Town Clerk: So can you help us understand, like, where does your interest in Noah Brooks come from? How did you come to wanting to name this pavilion in his, as opposed to other people that have had, you know, impact in casting? [26:51] Speaker D (unidentified): It's actually something that came later on in life for me. As I came here as a child, I heard about him and heard he was sort of an Abraham Lincoln friend and things, but you didn't know too much about him. And then I read the life story of him, which is the Lincoln's Confidant book, and I was just blown away by everything. I called the author and got to be good friends with him. He's given me all of his research, so I have all of his microfilm stuff that he had done on Dollar Brooks. So I'm sort of the holder of a lot of Noah Brooks things, and I sort of work with Historical Society and the Milking Museum to sort of try to put it all together as a collection. His, you know, contributions are sort of, he often wanted to sit back and fall into this, you know, not be out front, and he wasn't big at tooting his own horn kind of thing. So he always liked to help people but step aside, and I sort of admire that approach. For me it's a renaissance. He's an artist, you know, he's a writer, just someone who I think that people need to know more about. So by naming a structure in town, maybe more of the people who move to our town might... [28:20] Select Board Chair: And you've just added 15 minutes to every keyword. [28:25] Town Clerk: All right. Oh, I already talked about all of this, so why Scarlet first? Okay. [28:32] Speaker D (unidentified): Absolutely. Absolutely. So and of course I buried a number of interesting items underneath each post that relate to Noah and a few other things, so I will be explaining those at the dedication. [28:42] Town Clerk: Oh, so on this plaque, yes, it will just, perhaps, how, I mean, I love the casting young and old, I love that, but what all will it, well, I was talking, I wanted to have a [28:59] Speaker D (unidentified): talk about this size that would be inside the pavilion on the back, on the back seat that faces you when you walk in. Okay, so it'd be something that someone can lean against, just a little engraved piece. Now I'm trying to get like bronze, which is what they use on like sailboats when they put little makers marks on the sailboats, trying to find someone who will be brave, because my, the people that I normally go for, so I'm trying to find an engraver for that, but I was going to work with Scott Vogel, he asked me to work with him about what is actually said on the engraving, which it would essentially say what I listed there, the dedication of the Noah Brooks Pavilion, dedicated to children of casting young and old, with the idea that when people come back to Casting for the summer, their method is sitting down there in the ice cream and looking out at boats, and the structure was designed to try to remind them of the old one that was there, which was so wonderful for seeing people have conversations. Inside it, and I tried to do that with the seating arrangement, the current one, and so that sense of creating a space for conversation among strangers was really important to me, and I think that would be a nice thing just to talk about when we get down here. That's good. [30:32] Select Board Chair: So with that, we don't have to have a vote, we can just say that we want to have a vote. I think you want to go let's do it okay really okay so I will make it a motion that we give Ted approval to send out invitations to the dedication ceremony on October 25th [30:58] Speaker D (unidentified): Do you have a time in mind yet not yet okay we'll leave it to your discretion yeah I'll be [31:04] Town Clerk: Talk to me during that can I add to your version of course and to name the structure yeah that's the most important okay [31:15] Select Board Chair: I would I would think about the party [31:17] Town Clerk: Part I'll step in okay [31:21] Select Board Chair: And now we have a very exciting presentation about Blue Pill Peninsula Forward Alan thank you the floor is yours welcome back thank you so my name is Alan Katz n-r-e-t-z [31:47] General Assistance Administrator: First name is a-m-l-e-n and I'm here today as the co-coordinator of Blue Bill Peninsula Forward Blue Hill Peninsula Forward is a network of elected and appointed officials from nine towns on Blue Hill Peninsula we've been meeting since 2021 Roberta knows this very well Roberta was one of the founding members we've had every month never missed a meeting and we are working on climate resilience issues under searching energy reduction energy efficiency greenhouse gas reduction community resilience In all of its forms and I'm here today to talk about actually first of all thank you as a community thank you as a slight board you have been supportive of live open and forward right from the beginning both in person and in many other ways you help support as a co-applicant our funding that we've just wrapped up for a year's worth of work doing energy coaching climate resilience and social vulnerability assessment it's actually very fitting that you were speaking with us we're on here today as You prove your general assistance EXPENDITURES FOR NEXT YEAR, YOUR AUTHORIZATION FOR NEXT YEAR. Because the major project that we had this past year was assessing social vulnerability and potential resilience of community members in four towns, Castle Eve, Blueville, Pinopsa, and Sury. And that project has now basically concluded with the issuance of a 33-H report. And we have here a summary, I think U.S. As select board members might have received this, I will pass out copies to, Derek, if you could just pass this down. Sure. Here's one for you, and one for everybody. Can I have a few copies for, David, I think you'll want one. And everybody else can share. So saving one, photocopy that we can share. Anyway, this report I want to hand to you is a two-page handout of the key findings of a project that interviewed 28 individuals and had focus group discussions with social service providers in our area, basically your area, to find out what are social service providers doing well, what are the gaps, what can be done to coordinate, what can be done to improve services. I've already heard you mention tonight in your discussion the importance of this and the different functions and opportunities for providing this assistance, and that's what this report really is intended to do. The report basically identified nine different themes and 17 different potential actions that could be taken by towns, by community groups, by social service providers, by any of those entities working together to improve what we have both here in our four-town area and also across the entire peninsula so that's the objective and I want to turn to the further because Roberta was one of the key members of the advisory committee and was very much involved in both listening to people and pointing us to people with whom we could talk and I was not part of those discussions Roberta was along with Emma Leave I think an interview with Emma and I think Robert he could be having some session in a couple of weeks to follow up I'll turn it over to you [35:23] Town Clerk: I'm hoping to have a session on October 1st to just go through the entire findings go through the findings of this study and so everybody's invited but it was very interesting to talk with people and casting was very difficult it was really hard for us to find people that wanted to talk to us about issues it was difficult across the peninsula but across the other two towns as well but casting was really tough and we persevered and we finally found several casting presidents that would sit down And give us 30 minutes or an hour of their time and talk to us about it was we were mostly interviewing people about how did the storms of 24 and 25 affect them, if they were affected, who helped to them, how did they get that help, you know, word of transportation, food issues, were there electricity issues, what would be major problems, and what did they see as potential issues going forward, and how the town or the community could help them in the best way. And so if you want to know more, I'm on October 1st, but it was fascinating and we learned so much to start, but we have more to do. [36:49] General Assistance Administrator: Right, and in the spirit of more to do, these are listed as 17 potential next steps and what we're going to be doing now Emily, who is our project person on this, is already starting to write grant proposals to look for funding to help implement some of the, basically the three words, three verbs we use are to coordinate, catalyze, and to convene people to work on this. So in fact, we're having a conference on the 19th of November. On Thursday, we'll be announcing more details about that, where we are going to be convening social service providers governing body other community people leaders to get together to really focus on how do we coordinate and then two major themes on what do we do about this coming winter in terms of feeding and the other thing the third theme of the conference will be how do we include mobility and transportation for people who don't have an easy way of getting medical appointments or the grocery or pharmacy or whatever so be a very exciting conference and we're looking forward to that thank you so much thank you so I will just mention that Emma is writing proposals and one of the things that would really be helpful would be and other select boards have done this is to officially encourage us to seek non-profit funding so that really lands very well and we can say in a grand proposal that we have all of our select boards or it's behind us looking for that sort of support. [38:22] Town Clerk: I have to recuse myself if we can vote on it. [38:26] General Assistance Administrator: But if you were to entertain a motion to adjourn it. [38:29] Select Board Chair: But do we have to vote on that right now? [38:31] Town Clerk: Yeah, I think we should. [38:33] General Assistance Administrator: You can do a letter of support, but you could vote just to support. Yeah. We're not asking for a letter of support. We just would like to say we probably need those anyway. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So if you were going to send a motion to encourage Global Peninsula Forward to seek further funding for social vulnerability, that'd be great. Okay, I will move some moves from this second. [38:57] Select Board Chair: I need them enough to redo it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes, I will. I will second that. All in favor. That's that's good. You know, Alan, I'm glad that you mentioned that. [39:21] General Assistance Administrator: Because while Dan was gone, because I was out of town, right, and I called into the meeting, claimed that we had the fastest meeting ever on record, but I think that we had an even faster meeting while you were gone last week. [39:38] Town Clerk: I'm just kidding. [39:46] Select Board Chair: Thank you again. Okay, well, you're going to miss the best part of today's, so that's what it really is. [39:55] General Assistance Administrator: sorry i don't have this printed out yet i still need to proof it but as i often start for the people in the audience and the millions watching around the world on youtube there we go ah so we need to do a salt bit award tonight for 77.47 per ton to new england salt also sandbit award for 1950 per yard of robert wardwell construction that beat the 22.75 per yard that haven supplied let's see fort madison embankment just as a highlight that presentation that project was done last week and you got To see that in the Water Street embankment engineering, there's still some more work to be done, but I wanted to just give you a little highlight of where we are on that financially and everything. So let's see, Fort Madison contract is 44 100, fed shares 33 220, so locally we need to pay 10 880. So that one ended up being a little bit more than a 75 25 split, but we also, as you know, went to the top of the road, whereas FEMA was only going to pay for the bottom part of the storm damage and restoration. and of course we got bigger problems for both Fort Madison and Water Street on that but so that was Fort Madison there's also a provision in that contract went worth partners of for a construction oversight permitting for 23,600 which isn't included in it yet so we're gonna have to figure out whether we extend it more but I need to talk more with FEMA about whether or not they will pay for part of that or not as part of the construction costs so there's that let's see i already mentioned Remember this project was originally only to restore erosion at the lower levels, not the elimination of the knotweed and the further erosion up the bank. Water Street, you also saw Water Street contract is 58 400. The fed share was 78 301. Local share should be $26,100 for design and engineering. Design engineering costs are actually lower than the contracted price for design, so I need to check with FEMA on what they want me to do with the extra money they sent. Maybe they'll tell me to use it on Fort Madison. There's also a provision in that contract for a construction oversight permitting at $28,900, which is something else that I need to discuss with them, whether or not they'll flip that into the actual construction funding. I've sent MIMA the project cost estimates for their review. Remember this project was originally only to restore the lower amounts of the erosion that I added up to the top of the embankment because the erosion and failure of the road up there, so Water Street came in less and FEMA gave us both Water Street, Fort Madison going to be over a million dollars just so you know, and we know there's the bottom phase and the top phase. I don't think the states or the feds are going to pay for the top phase like that. They may, and that's what I need to find out next, to see how we pivot that into different project. If not, we'll be looking at a potential bond issue to borrow the rest of the money. One of the questions, if you remember, I asked Steve Evoni when he was here was whether we could do one and not the other, and he said no, they kind of go together, so we need to like doing both. Let's see, so as we know, we're gonna end up having a town meetings here, special town meetings at some point, fire station, fire station location, and then the contracts for that. Just as an update for the design and engineering and landscape design are at the Warriors now being reviewed. Greg's actually working on the survey contract with Haley Ward, and I hope by the next meeting I'll have those contracts for approval and signature. Also something that we haven't discussed and I need to talk to Greg in more detail, that we have not RFP'd or anything, we also need to hire a technology specialist for computer systems, surveillance and other things they'll put in the conduit and design that conduit, but they're not going to design what those things need to look like, so we're going to have to get somebody on board with that because that's outside of the actual architect engineering scope. They'll put in whatever into their plans, that the locations and stuff like that are going to be something that we need this other specialist for. So we have money in the budget, we should be able to hire people for that. So let's see, also, and I don't remember the person, maybe Sue remembers, the Harvard committee voted to reimburse a $150 fee for a dinghy permit that somebody had bought in May. When they went to use it in August, didn't have any space for them. So basically want to reimburse them $150 for that fee. Just so you know, we don't apparently shut off our dining rentals. So ideally this person use it earlier and been out there and be fine, but they didn't use it till August. So it's something we discuss whether or not we need to visit a change of policy or not in the future let's see speaking of that sue bill corbett is the new chairman of the harvard committee just so you know xander's stepped down let's see witherly woods cleanup oh so write that down for to do thing 150 refund funds we need to vote on when i'm done whether we would clean up by mma will be october 24 20 26 9 to 12. They'll be having a barbecue afterwards for the volunteering students. This year it won't just be mugs because they will be no longer midshipmen under guidance, they'll be regular midshipmen, correct, fourth class, fourth class, thank you. See, I'm learning these little terms slowly and surely how things work. So one of the things they talked about was they needed money for a cookout in firm, perhaps the trust, the town fired, which is the town in my opinion, fire department, MMA, we could come up with some money to feed and have something for these students, whether we pay for it out of contingency or whether or not we solicit some donations to buy a couple hundred bottles of water or whatever is decided. I think we should plan on like 250 bucks to do that to reward them for that work, and it will be in the similar areas. Apparently it's already started growing up, poll permit, I have a poll permit here, I need authorization to sign. I'm not sure what we've done in the past, but this one I believe went to Someplace and it hasn't been assignments for that Water Street poll across some Oxford Market that I discussed that we need so that we can get power down to the new pump station that's being designed. So that will be another thing to approve. And so I would just say the whole permit application on Water Street dated 4 22, no actually April 21st 2026, and either I can sign it or you can sign on the three spots of that Amy. So there's that. Water Department generator was installed back around the 17th. I don't think we've had a long meeting for me to do a manager's report for a while, so you're getting some of these updates from those other mini ones. Let's see, let's see, let's, oh there we go. Wadsworth Coke, just so you know I have that under a speed study because right now it's kind of reversed. The fastest part is from Battle Lab all the way to the town beach to that corner, whereas I believe that should be the other section from the corner to 166. So they're looking at those two sections of roads. Should be doing a recommendation or sending us some guidance on some speed changes occasionally. Let's see, personal policy, I'm still working on that since we did it. Purchase policy, I'm working on that one also to update it, but I'm trying to get some others from some other towns to see how those limits should go. I did get Roberta sent me the car fund policy. I have not had a chance to read it one more time, but I think it's almost basically ready to go. Fireworks ordinance, ditto, I have it but I need. To make a couple changes, get it off the lawyers and then we'll present that to the voters. Let's see, it's still waiting for the community resilience partnership for whoever needs to sign that to get that sign so that we can engage Oliver to do the engineering on Western Court Street. We did the gazebo. Golden Sunday Care opened up last week on Monday, so they are in business. I have not had a chance to get in there since we had all the locks changed on it, but I. [50:12] Select Board Chair: Want to get in and check it out. It looks so lovely. Yeah and they're, they're very grateful for any donations either financial and or toys and or you know furniture. Excellent. October 7th and 8th. [50:28] General Assistance Administrator: Will be the MMA convention in Augusta, so this office will be closed so the ladies can attend and myself, and I encourage you to also attend if you would like. Registration is open. Let's see, let's see, Penobscot Expedition Commemoration had a meeting with the reenactors and some other people about organizing for that commemoration, and it looks like we got some reenactors on board. In fact, one of them is coming in town Thursday because they're doing a presentation for the Penobscot Expedition at the Historic Society. So he's popping in to see me. Of course we have that same evening at six o'clock the public infrastructure public forum, so which starts at six, just so you know the expedition for starts at five I believe, so it is going to be streamed on YouTube. It's already sold out or filled, so you won't be able to get in if you haven't signed up anyways, but hopefully they'll keep that YouTube up there for people to watch. Grant for loading and offloading boaters, I ended up canceling that because the harbor committee decided they want to do something different to make some docks that will be angled in order to not have those intrude into the channel from the boat launch because otherwise they would have intruded and perhaps hung up on some boats so we decided that we would hold off as part of that but we 've also been discussing using the congressionally directed spending money to actually put in or pay for part of the cost of a wave attenuation device similar to main maritimes academies that thing's going to cost about 480 000 just for it, where Scotty and I will be investigating like how much it will cost to actually install it, and then discuss whether or not we use chains or whether or not we use pilings. So we still need to cross that bridge, but that's going to take more money than the money that I think the state gave us, the feds gave us was 385,000, but it's something that will protect the town dock for a long time to come, so that's what we're kind of starting to key in on for those uses, and it's already been Laid out by Dave Wyman and JT on CAD for navigational purposes and how the docks would end up looking. They are also going to be ordering, would build some more dinghy docks that will go over near the boat lift into the right of the town dock over there to accommodate some more dinghies. And let's see, missing signs. I don't know if you heard about the drama. I think I might have told you, British Canal. Well, first it was the welcome to Casting sign over Labor Day weekend that was stolen, and I had asked Main Maritime Academy to send out something about that. But on my way in on Tuesday after Labor Day, I noticed British Canal was gone, and that just about set me through the roof, and I said, hey guys at the British Canal, because the welcome to Cassine sign actually came back, and ultimately so did the British Canal after an email went out. So I commend the students for bringing back the sign and all in good fun I guess, but I prefer them not to be taking down the signs in the future. They are fairly expensive to replace. Finally the public works, for public works guys are now driving around in their what do you call it, environmentally responsible hybrid pickup truck, Ford Maverick. It's white, you might have seen it around town. So I think it's our first like green vehicle that we really have in town, so and I guess they enjoy driving it like I enjoy driving my little Ford Maverick, and Gabe is a Ford Maverick driver and Ted is the Ford Maverick driver and his is green right [55:00] Town Clerk: So can you just add on to back to the signs for a minute that the signs have now been put in? Oh yes, right, because we've been getting a lot of chatter about where are the signs, right, and I did [55:15] General Assistance Administrator: I told them just let's take them the signs now rather than putting those ones back up and taking [55:20] Town Clerk: them down. So could I add, yeah, I heard at least one of the sign returns was there a note there [55:26] General Assistance Administrator: was a note apologizing. Yes they did said we apologize, we didn't realize this was that expensive and that it was you know a crime or whatever to be taken, so and [55:37] Town Clerk: because of the recent activities, typically they don't get put in for winter storage until after the Columbus Day and indigenous people's day, but because of the recent activities they've been put under wraps earlier, right but [55:57] General Assistance Administrator: we're not missing any others that we know of anyways, right, so that's good and that's it, thank you, but we do have some other things to do [56:07] Town Clerk: i just add on the on the mma day on october 24th october 24th whether we would screen up it's not just students right thank you mma is inviting members of the community who would like to be a part, to be either a part of a crew or a crew leader. So if anybody would be interested, Justin would be really happy to have you. [56:45] General Assistance Administrator: Could I add to that the Blue Hill Peninsula, Iowa Hope Community Wildlife Protection Plan is also adopting that as an official activity [56:55] Resident Assistant / Public presenter: and we'll be having people with promoting that as well. [57:04] Select Board Chair: So we have two votes to take. We've got four but five, four, five. So the first one is the 150 dollars. We can make the first ones. Yeah, sorry for the dinghy. Yeah, so we're, I will make a motion that we refund 150 dollars to the appropriate person for the dinghy rental that they could use. Do I have a second? One favor. Any good? Just as I converted. And the next vote is [57:37] Town Clerk: the salt bed. Yes, are the salt and sand that's up there? Yes. Yeah, New England and Salt get our bid [57:44] Select Board Chair: for that for 77.47 cents per day, 77.47. Yes. Okay. Oh, per ton. New England Salt. Okay, so move. Do I have second? Second. All in favor? Amy Guto says that, right? Last week's again, damn leader says [58:04] General Assistance Administrator: the next one there, sand bid would be to Robert Wardwell Construction for 1950 per cubic yard. [58:12] Select Board Chair: So move. Do I have a second? Or second? Sorry. All in favor. I will make a motion that we give Derek permission to issue the poll permit. [58:38] Town Clerk: I'll second. Okay, all in favor? Amy Kutow says aye. And the next one? Derek, did we need to set aside money for the M&A Workday? [58:49] General Assistance Administrator: We could either that or wait, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to just have it ready to go. [58:54] Select Board Chair: Why don't we just take a motion that we could have saved $250 for the M&A Workday, by the second. [59:01] Town Clerk: Can I ask a question? Yes. Do we specify, this is kind of a contingency committee, do we discuss it with Karen, where... Because I'm wondering, do we have... I can't remember what the... [59:09] General Assistance Administrator: I don't think we have any other... No, I think that's it. [59:14] Select Board Chair: town cleanup or i don't think so i think we just say that we'll look up some contingency that's that's your place so okay so i have a second i'm sorry what was the amount 250 dollars from contingency for the mma workday for mma and community working second all in favor amy guto says aye and last are you going to vote on that yes thank you [59:40] Town Clerk: Him, that was October 24th, right? Yes. And I think that's all I have. Yeah, did you remember? No, but [59:48] General Assistance Administrator: i was thinking do we want to give gabe palmer the floor for a minute just so he could describe what he's working on for the community i guess absolutely willing dave let's hear the like would you like to do you want to you don't necessarily yeah so yeah let's use that thank you [1:00:12] Public commenter: That I was sitting next to, but Gus Vasil at the men's club the other night, and he said, do you know that the whole property of the, how do I say this, the whole property of the habitation has been sold to somebody in California, and the price was given as something more than a million dollars. I can't imagine this. This. I need somebody to check this out. Gus, you know the son of Gus Brazil is Matt Brazil, and he was the caretaker of that whole property. Which property is this? I've seen him over there many times. I even met the owner of the property, who is up in Quebec, and I don't have her name right here now, but it's, I should have brought it on that little, my little thrill book, but this was unimaginable to me. I've spent a decade trying to deal with the erosion problems on that, on that piece of property, and many other things as well, and I just can't imagine, because now the owner, Louise Pemberton, is dead. She died on the way to Florida with her sister. She's in her grave right here in the town. Something is out of cover, everything I think of and what I'm going to deal with. In. So somebody has got to do this. And we have one requirement that is dealing with the Blue Hill Heritage Trust, and that's that they are to come in once a year and examine the whole property, which is on a piece of paper. It's a very flat view of the coast from one end of it almost up to the house on the property and down the other way, that's this, we have all the empty, the property pieces of the of the mill of the of the different buildings, which are now half out in the water because the stones have fallen out. But we have in Blue Hill, we have George Field. He is a professional geologist and he's qualified to deal with this thing. Give us an idea. And I asked him for several years now, you get there once a year and give us an evaluation. He hasn't shown up. So I have to go call him again. But this is, it's, you know, the top of the property at one time was for the Penobscot Indians to come in the summer, and they would sit on the edge of that cliff, and that's where they did their fishing for the summer, clams, fish, whatever you can name. That had no respect. Today, it's a field of grain for the deer. How do you get rid of those? Well, I know how you do. You send them over to our backyard. They eat up all the rhododendrons. They're eaten all by the deer. [1:04:36] Town Clerk: Does anybody have any questions? May I ask you a question? Are you looking to find out who purchased the property so that you can talk to them? Yes. Okay, so that's what you're asking for. [1:04:53] Public commenter: Well, I'd rather find out who the people are in California. [1:04:58] Town Clerk: Okay. Okay, thank you. [1:05:01] Select Board Chair: We will do that, David. [1:05:03] Public commenter: And I have no idea who the realtor was. I don't know. [1:05:17] Speaker D (unidentified): David, [1:05:21] Town Clerk: I'm trying to understand. Your question relates to the sale of private property between the Pembertons or the Pemberton estate and a new owner, or do you think there was property belonging to the Blue Hill Heritage Trust that became part of that sale by accident, or? [1:05:43] Public commenter: When you say part of the property, it's very clear to say it is a part of it. It's in the National Historic Trust, that property, but it's a definite piece of it, going from one end of the property to the other. [1:06:03] Town Clerk: so david what was sold does the does the piece of the habitation belong to blue hill heritage trust or do they just come in and check on it they have an easement they have an easement but they don't own it so the whole property was sold including the habitation that's what you're saying okay it was sold with the easement right got it okay i understand [1:06:33] Public commenter: The property goes right up to the, to the road at the top of the hill. [1:06:42] Town Clerk: I know that we've seen it listed, but I don't believe that we've received any notification that it's been sold yet here through the office. Okay. [1:06:51] Select Board Chair: Okay. Okay. So David, we'll look into it. We will. [1:06:56] Town Clerk: Okay. So Gabe, was Gabe, you know? Yeah, Gabe. I think when I ask a question, I think I interrupted. [1:07:03] Speaker D (unidentified): I was just going to say, a few years back, I spoke with Bill Murtaugh about the habitation property. Bill is a historic preservationist for the National, and he thinks it should be determined to be a UNESCO site. Yes. One of the few UNESCO sites here in the United States. So it's that important from a historical standpoint. Point and so when we see private ownership and private this and it's not really being honored. That's a level that it should be honored. It becomes a an issue where you might be putting, you know, irresponsible people dealing with a UNESCO Heritage Site. [1:07:51] Public commenter: Many times I brought him down when the early on came in. I brought him, he came down with a good friend from Penobscot, he had a little house there, and he really appreciated just sitting in the car and looking at the big ship that we had in there at the time. And so when he died in 2018, we happened to be on our, we went back to Italy where we met all those years ago back in 1966, and we married in 68 at that time, and this is our anniversary day today. [1:08:45] Speaker D (unidentified): Would you like to go now? Yeah. What's the best way to do this? Are you, can I get to know you? [1:08:52] General Assistance Administrator: Yeah, you can pull. Thank you. If you want, nope, go ahead and come take this. How's that's what I know I was going to be though. Sorry. [1:09:25] Town Clerk: David, while Gabe is setting up, this is your 60th wedding anniversary? Yes. No, this is our 50. [1:09:33] Select Board Chair: Sixty-six. Fifty-six? No, you were married in 66? [1:09:39] Public commenter: We were married in 1968. [1:09:43] Select Board Chair: Oh, okay. [1:09:45] Town Clerk: Wow, right. Congratulations. [1:09:49] General Assistance Administrator: Yeah, I didn't see anything in the registry, only Blue Hill, some Pemberton property. [1:09:54] Select Board Chair: Go for it, Gabe. [1:09:55] Speaker D (unidentified): Dave, so I was asked by the Commonwealth Regiment at the Academy to design some kind of job board for students. So students would use that work. So this is a form that we would ideally hang up as a part of the survey. Students would fill out this survey, put in all their information, like when they could work to do. You know, let's say they want to break leaves or move boxes or something, they list their skills, their availability, quick bio about themselves, so that residents can trust them, and then importantly the phone number and email address. And so has good box, there's still a box that I've included so that I get sent all these surveys, and then when they put in the right passcode, I know that they're a student, and it's awesome kind of scam, and then they would then get admitted to this, which is what the Residents will see which is I have titled it Mariner's Work. I'm not married to that, so if you have suggestions I love them. But basically as residents you would go onto this website and you would see postings from students who I have approved. So I'm approved as a test and so is Justin Cooper the commandant. He's also approved and we've set our hourly rates. I set mine at 20 an hour. He said is that 25 I don't know what skills he's put down for work but okay great. So you can you can filter by skills. So I have just right now both maintenance dog walking heavy lifting house sitting snow removal I don't tutoring I guess and guard work and you would as more students fill up the form and then as I approve them they would pop up here and can just select between more candidates. And then finally you would scroll down and you would be able to send a request. So you put in your full name as a resident your email address a description of the task and then you would choose between you know whatever Candidate you want so today choose Justin and you set the date and time and then this would be sent as an email automated from your email to theirs and then from there it's direct communications in the studio. Yes is this going to be linked on the town website so that someone who has a project they go to the website they see a Mariners Work link or something they would then pull it up and say oh I gotta get someone to break my leaves we haven't even talked that far I just got confirmation from Is he the president isn't she there's chief staff I didn't make that this is love you can go ahead with this how does the public act where do they find it they find it that's what I'm trying to think about I don't know if like a workshop would work I think putting it on the website would help but also I don't think it was just if it was just there that they would know about [1:12:52] Select Board Chair: The casting connection David's here I mean it should go on the website yeah, we can do it a text message thing. Yeah, I think Yeah, [1:13:07] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah just getting coverage from the chief that was like Yeah [1:13:15] Town Clerk: This is huge so is this connected at all with the, what was the,, [General Assistance Administrator: Shark Tank game?] The conference that we had when all Maritime students presented their programs, there was a program that was presented that was sort of like that, to find people who wanted to work in the community. [1:13:41] Speaker D (unidentified): I've had this explained to me a couple times. Oh, this is like that one thing that those students did. [1:13:47] Town Clerk: So I was wondering if community people, if workers other than Mariners could also access that. [1:13:55] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, when we were talking at the town and gown meeting, I think one of the things the faculty suggested was that we try and distance it even more from the academy. I have designed it so that it's something that isn't endorsed by the school, but even changing the name from America's work I think would go further, and they were even discussing having non-college students be able to make accounts up here and be paid for that network, so that sounds good to me until code this he's gonna do everything so [Town Clerk: do you list] the possible tasks or is it just a blank I couldn't see that I see if I can get to my account it keeps asking me to log in [1:15:01] General Assistance Administrator: what's the thing called Okay. [1:15:14] Speaker D (unidentified): I've personally added skills up ahead, like above, of like things that I imagine students would do, but as they fill out this form, it would then take, oh, never mind, no, they choose between OSS skills. So I could go in behind the form and add in more skills, depending on what residents are looking for. [1:15:35] Town Clerk: okay because there's someone that i know that 's been on the alice's site today about transportation okay transportation and then there could be like house cleaning or yeah like is there an like a blank space that they could write their own service that they might need well that [1:15:58] General Assistance Administrator: that was one of the things that was discussed today by shane was the fact of having an ability to do like a little message board of needed services and so then people could add that to i guess their list he hasn't figured exactly what it's going to do with that yet if [1:16:18] Speaker D (unidentified): you call it something that's helping hands then it's open to both community members who put on there as well as students to put on there and things so that some of some of the young men and women in town who are doing the gardening and the stump grinding and things of that nature could also get in on it. Yeah. And I didn't tell this at the town of Galmedy because I didn't want for Shane to know, but we actually brought this to the club fair. [1:16:47] Town Clerk: You are in a public meeting right now. [1:16:50] Speaker D (unidentified): I brought this to our MMA club fair. Oh yeah. To get the students and we got a great, we had a whole forum with students who signed up and say what clubs are interested in stuff and or if they're interested in this but they loved it so there's a they're already excited to get on it so and then the other thing was this is something I made a little while ago this is a parking map it was designed with students mind as they came back so we were told that the freshman class was much bigger than previous years and they would probably bring their bring their cars so this is an attempt to give them something so they at least you know how to park instead of having to go through the traffic ordinance and then also when Derek tickets them he can point to this he's like you had something to look at so this is just an attempt to visualize everything listed in our traffic ordinance everything that's you know not filled in is assumed to be okay to park there or you know a free-for-all but yeah students have this it's on their there's a QR code hung up around the academy and they're like you know student halls and I can see who's viewed it so far and it's been viewed 864 times so students are looking at it I don't know if they're yeah I don't know if it's like helping but [1:18:20] Town Clerk: for people's benefit can you click on a street so you can see what information you provide [1:18:24] Speaker D (unidentified): right to Court Street so it just says no parking on south side of Court Street but the in the in this program which is actually what's limited this little GitHub page and it looks much better on your phone like the margins are smaller or bigger and it's easier on the eyes but this little colored key so you can just quickly look at this and see okay well you know we're on Court Street [1:18:54] General Assistance Administrator: heart so the entrance to Fort Madison because it wasn't on there because that's our biggest problem is people parking in that driveway then people can't get out so you'll see you added that on there because it's probably the [1:19:17] Town Clerk: the most ticketed spot in our website too right yes it can be found our time [1:19:32] Speaker D (unidentified): what's it I've just thrown it into I think you put it on our yeah and then it's like at the bottom here yeah I mean yeah and you would find it but we [1:19:44] General Assistance Administrator: can you know yeah totally Derek do you mean Fort George or Port Madison oh Fort George is the worst place right but the little entrance road wasn't on there and I'm like please add that one on there that's the biggest problem I have today they're parked all the way to the street [1:20:30] Select Board Chair: Okay, first we have a request for a food truck this weekend for one day as part of the celebration at the school, and I will make a motion that we get German cuisine for a homecoming weekend at the school. This will be a 9.26. Do I have a second? I second. All in favor? Can I ask a question? [1:21:01] Town Clerk: Yeah. Yeah. How many food trucks are we up to for homecoming, or where would this be located? They're all at MMA, and honestly, I don't... I think there's like... [1:21:12] General Assistance Administrator: They are in the parking lot between the new commuter gravel lot, I believe, and I think so, yeah. Between the goalposts where the tent will be, I think. [1:21:22] Town Clerk: I think there's three or four. Or so. Does it, does it say anywhere on the application where it's going to be located, or do we just know that to be the case? But that's where MMA has a map of where their food trucks are on their website for the homecoming events, and yeah, because they don't have, I don't think that they actually know. I think MMA is placing them. Okay, but they know to go to MMA as opposed to the town doc. Yeah, they know that they're going, that this is all homecoming. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because in their email, because this came to the town office email and they said that this was for MMA homecoming. All [1:22:12] Select Board Chair: in favor? Amy Guto says aye, Roberta Bosgood says, and Dan Leader says aye, and next we have Elliot Blackwell here, and you have a request, Elliot. Yes, so I [1:22:35] Resident Assistant / Public presenter: just wanted to come in person. Any requests, there is interest in an event that I'd like to throw at Fort George in the beginning of October. I believe October 8th is the day that it landed on. It's the stargazing event. This is something, as a resident assistant, part of my job is throwing some events for students. But I wanted to throw something that was more open to anyone who was interested in coming. So me and Professor Andrew Kingston, if any of you know him, he has a big interest in the night sky, so he's co-hosting the event with me. We're going to be, we're, we'd like to use a space in Port George to do an evening stargazing event. Essentially, we're bringing telescopes, we're hoping to have binoculars for students and other folks who want to show up and join us. What time will it be? Seven? Oh, there's nine p.m. Great. Yeah, sounds so exciting. Yeah, I'm really excited. Kingston is interested in kind of running us all through some of the phenomena we can see in the night sky, and I'll be there as well to point out some constellations and whatever that I can see. So I just wanted to check in with the town and see if everyone was comfortable with. [1:23:59] Select Board Chair: I guess we have to have an official vote, [1:24:01] Resident Assistant / Public presenter: which we will have right now. [1:24:04] Select Board Chair: And I will make a motion that we allow Elliot Blackwell and Professor Andrew Kingston to host a Stargazing event on October 8th between 7 and 9 p.m. at Fort George. And this will be a great thing to put on the website, Sue. It would be quite a fun thing for the town. I'll second. All in favor? [1:24:44] Town Clerk: ultimate big question just come back or just call us and let us know about those phone days [1:24:50] Select Board Chair: i also have i wasn't able to get it onto my proposal but i do have one other [1:24:57] Resident Assistant / Public presenter: thing that i'd like to bring up. I understand that since it's not on there we can't talk about it in work, but I'm, I might be willing to put it on an agenda later on. Okay, yeah, so just very quickly, so there the road that goes to the back shore around fort george, there is, there's this light at the very corner of it that shines into fort george, and I've noticed that just based on its positioning there are spots in the fort where you can get away from it and get really good stargazing, but part of that light is causing really serious light pollution in that field, and I'm interested if anyone else would consider finding some way to like block half of that light, shield of something. Exactly, and that would make the field really prime stargazing as long as it's not cloudy yet, I mean we'd have to see if the [1:25:59] Select Board Chair: safety issue, but yeah, we could certainly consider it. Is that a cmp issue as well? We're gonna [1:26:04] General Assistance Administrator: have to pay if they get a caller for it to direct it, then that will be something we'd have to put on [1:26:11] Select Board Chair: there. Yeah, we have to look into that, but thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, you really have [1:26:16] General Assistance Administrator: been come about once a year, so it's pretty expensive. Otherwise, all right, any other business? [1:26:23] Select Board Chair: Okay, thank you very much, Amy. Do you have any other business? I have to be in a school will, okay. Now for the other highlight of the meeting, do we have comments from the public and agenda items? Okay, thank you. Now for communications, and we have a bunch of communications here, all happy communications, a bunch of thank-you notes. We received a thank-you note from Life Flight of Maine, and we should be thanking them first [1:27:04] Speaker D (unidentified): before they thank us for all the good work they do. [1:27:07] Select Board Chair: But they're thanking us for the $660 that we gave them. And we received a note from the Bluebell Peninsula Forward, thanking us for the $600 of support that we gave them. We received a letter from the Tree of Lights for the directors, thanking us for $175 donation. Donation we receive a nice note from hospice thanking us for the additional support of fifteen hundred dollars to hospice volunteers of Hancock County. And we received the note with our continued support of towns and we said this is from the Eastern Area Aging. They didn't get the value and then and that is all of the communication. Okay now we could select work comments that I have a pound. Okay so Derek it was a week and a half ago that we had the meeting with the community scale so the consulting group that has been working with the 10 pounds kind of gave an update of their report which is really fantastic. There were more than 50 people in attendance. It created a lot of excitement and the we are winding down with community scale in December. Derek am I correct? I believe yeah. So they're gonna they're gonna leave us with a toolkit that includes types of housing we could build. I got an email from them today where they are highlighting places in every town where housing could be built either on private land or even land that's owned by some of the land trusts. So there will be a map like housing could go here, there in all the towns. There will be just examples of the type of housing and it's really been quite interesting. And as a result of that the organization hoop that we've kind of set up housing opportunities on the peninsula we have made the decision to have that become an official non-profit. Bill Dudeen one of the residents of Casting his law firm has offered to do this pro bono to set up the corporation and the nonprofit and there is a first pledge of it's a matching pledge of fifty thousand dollars towards who that would that it's matching but you have to raise 50 to get to 50. And there is already discussions with someone who could be a potential executive director because right now it's just a group of volunteers. So it has been a real concerted effort it's been interesting it's been complicated and I would expect you know maybe by the first of the year we will have another nonprofit in town and the goal would be that when there is enough money to hire an executive director that person would immediately start looking at like this is a potential real project you know How could it, how could it, what would be there, how could it be built, what it would be cost, how would we finance it, how many units do could we build? Because they've actually lowered the amount of units that the peninsula needs. They're saying now that the ten towns need 900 housing units to meet the demand of housing and community. The 900 is not a small number. If you look at ten pounds, it's 90 units per town. It's those are very daunting numbers, but there's been good work and it's it's it's both the challenging and exciting and satisfied all at the same time. Thank you. Okay with that any other select work comments? I have none. Okay next our next meeting we will have a work session. Before that I just want to say that on the 24th this week at 6 p.m. the town engineers will be giving a status report on the infrastructure in Castine. This is not about the select board making any decisions. This is about informing the community of the state of the infrastructure. And hopefully we will get a sense of what we need to prioritize because it's a big list and it's an expensive list. And if we just have to, we have to address it. Oliver and Associates. Yes. So we're not conducting the meeting we'll introduce them and they will be running the meeting and they will be taking [1:32:19] Town Clerk: questions and comments upstairs it's upstairs and it and it's going to be available via zoom [1:32:25] Select Board Chair: right yes so it'll be our live stream okay so but it's a really important step and it's the timing is critical because we're going to be starting the budget process in january And if there's a, if there's anything that is really pressing, we can, we can deal with this. Okay. With that, we have a work session on 9th, 28th at 4 PM. We have a select board meeting on October 5th and October 19th at 4 PM and 19 to 2 38. e-h town yes okay the 19th baby i am going to be in a car so you will you got it okay and with that i will make a motion that we adjourn the meeting so i have a second all in favor and thank you all for coming