Shapleigh Select Board signs referendum warrant, adopts state general assistance rates

[0:09] Select Board member: Yeah, those surplus sounds are great. Oh, yeah, I'm doing that. [0:34] Speaker C (unidentified): There isn't much you can't do. [0:37] Select Board member / Town official: I get off cars. Yeah, [0:43] Select Board member: we have a rec committee meeting on Monday. We have an old banner that says the 21st, so we're just going to slap a three on that. [0:49] Select Board member / Town official: Yeah, that's what we can do. So they always used to put it at the commons where the arch is, out at the corner. And that way everybody saw it as you're coming through the center of town, and I told Liz that you guys are welcome to hang it there, or we can have the handyman hang it there, but we want to wait until after this weekend because there's a celebration of life over there. [1:16] Select Board member: Yeah, that takes, that's awesome, plant the tree. [1:25] Speaker C (unidentified): You have to pick up the tree. [1:26] Select Board member: I know, I got it right here. I got it right here. It's not very far. I got it, I got it. Close by. I got it. Yeah, well, that was a good find. Thank you for finding that. Yeah, the other one was a few hours away. The other one, wasn't it? Oh, was it? Yeah. Are you opening up for me with the Pledge of Allegiance? Yes. The Pledge of Allegiance is to provide for the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I have approval for the minutes from 9-15. I make a motion to approve the minutes. Second. [2:09] Select Board member: Any discussion? All in favor? Passes 3-0. Public comment? None? Unfinished business. Michelle? [2:22] Select Board member / Town official: So we have the workers comp insurance renewal packet, and it's, it's always premature as far as our budget schedule goes, because we're not in deep, but I have to have this to them in the next couple of weeks. They want to know how much our payroll is going to go up next year. Should be flatline, guess at three percent. So we had talked, the public safety building had their septic tank pump a couple weeks ago, and I made mental note to revisit that, because I can tell you for probably at least eight years for sure that the town hall all septic hasn't been pumped, and I have no idea where it is. Stony? [3:26] Select Board member: Wouldn't a septic plant have been filed? For the town building? [3:34] Select Board member / Town official: Well, I think that was before. [3:38] Select Board member: It has to be record. Before you had to put a septic plant in? [3:43] Select Board member / Town official: So if I can find the septic, is the board okay with me scheduling that to be done? We'll have Rob dig for the cap. [3:53] Speaker C (unidentified): Yeah, when it's coming. [3:56] Select Board member: And then send it and get it scheduled regularly. Right. Well, if it's been five plus years, then we can be pretty lenient on that schedule. [4:11] Select Board member / Town official: The transfer station goes to fall winter hours on Thursday, so that means they're open, they were open today, they will not be open tomorrow, and they'll not be open Thursday. The next day that they'll be open is Saturday this week, so Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday this week. Then starting next week, it goes to Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday. As a reminder, the volunteer barbecues this Friday, it begins at 530. Sure, the board will be here early to start the grill up early because they come in, they come in hungry. Plenty [4:59] Speaker C (unidentified): of chips. Celebration of [5:07] Select Board member / Town official: life for Jim Brown is this Saturday at 11 after the pancake breakfast that the Lions Club puts on. It is here, and then after the service here, there'll be a walk over into the Commons for planting a tree in Mr. Brown's memory. Again, that starts at 11 on Saturday here. I had a phone call with a homeowner on North Shore Road. We talked about a lot of things, but one of her concerns was that there are duplicate house numbers on the Shapley side as the same as the Newfield side, North Shore. So the deliveries are always getting confused. I'd be concerned that, you know, fire or rescue might be getting confused, but do you know that to be true, that there are duplicate? I'm not, I mean I'm not sure what we could do to remedy that because the numbers now 9-1-1 usually go from the end of the road in depending on what [6:25] Select Board member: yeah whatever size whatever and then right so [6:33] Select Board member / Town official: numbers are from Civil Lake I'll [6:38] Speaker C (unidentified): check with Tom because Chuck, my son, lives on North Shore, on the Newfield side. [6:44] Select Board member: If you Google it, does it come up to the same, to both houses? [6:49] Select Board member / Town official: I didn't Google it. [6:51] Speaker C (unidentified): I'll Google Tom's address. [6:53] Select Board member: I mean, one's going to be Newfield and we should have an issue. Right. So 9-1-1 should have that distinction. Right. They should know we haven't had a problem in years prior. [7:05] Select Board member / Town official: Apparently UPS and FedEx can't do that. [7:07] Select Board member: Well, that's UPS. Well, yeah, that doesn't surprise me. We haven't had a problem for fire and rescue for that. So usually dispatch has it right down to the town line or whatever. Hopefully their numbers are visible. That would save us a lot of time. Of course, that's an important thing. [7:25] Speaker C (unidentified): I just put in Tom's address, my son, who lives on the Newfield side, and I put Shapley instead of Newfield, and it came up Newfield. So he's at the end. [7:40] Select Board member: Yeah, Fire and Rescue isn't going to make that. Okay. Because we haven't had a call since, so. [7:51] Speaker C (unidentified): Oh, my son's property is not [7:56] Select Board member: Shapley's. Well, they'd have to clear that for the 9-11. That's UPS's [8:07] Select Board member / Town official: job. Deputy Kummer has proposed an initiative to start doing volunteer property checks where people could fill out an application and leave it here for him, and then we would deliver to him, and he put on a list for people that go away for the winter or extended vacations. He can, it's no guarantee, there's no cost to it, but he can add them to a list of properties to keep an eye on, knowing that they'll be vacant. We will keep this information here at town hall, and any freedom of access request in regards to these applications would have to be submitted through your County Sheriff's Department. But that this is just something that he thought would be a good idea where we have a lot of, 54% of our water farm properties, and I think it would be, I mean no extra cost to us in our contract. He's not guaranteeing it, but you know as time allows they'll take a stroll by and check on every place. And so he wanted me to put that in front of you guys to see what you thought, if you're okay with it moving forward with [9:23] Select Board member: that. That's fine with me. Yeah, SBIA, Jane Curtin used to run a program and people would sign up through there, so I think we put it out on the website just to make sure everybody would know, and let the camp people know, because I think that's more in the camp areas. We used to go around once a week in the winter, or maybe it was once a month. We used to go and check on camps and report back to Jane on them, to everybody. Yes, Steve. If it would be okay with the board for me to approach the deputy, it would be nice to log that information with the 911 dispatcher, because I can't begin to tell you how many times we go to somebody's camp for something and we can't get in touch with them because we have no contact information, but if they're going to fill out a form for them to go and take a look at their property, maybe that information could go on to the site file for the dispatch. They don't charge us anything that site file information. I think it's okay with the board to definitely seems like a good idea, but it seems odd that you wouldn't have contact information. They don't, and many times we'll go somewheres and there's no contact, mostly for seasonal. I've had both. Yeah, I've had people say call and say hey, I see you on my ring care, I'll hear something, you're on my ring cam, and I'm like hey, we trying to find, you know, gas leak. yeah, I mean I would just coordinate if you're okay with that. Well yeah, I would. Coordinate with the officer, common, we've talked about the officer karma, you guys getting together and well-checked type things for people, for elderly and stuff like that, which I think is a good program through the wintertime and everything else at the same time. Make a list of all the elderlies in the town and just, you know, just say, you know, if you're driving by or something, just stop in and say everything okay. You just never know. Yeah, so. [11:32] Select Board member / Town official: And Shapley Rec is hosting Trunk or Treat this year. It will be held on Halloween, October 31st, here at the community center from 530 to 630. We are accepting candy donations at the town hall, as usual. Actually, somebody was in a couple weeks ago and left us a bag already before you guys had even decided. So we will keep a collection going over there. And I'm assuming that if you want to sign up to decorate a trunk you can reach out to the rec committee at shapley rec at shapley.net get email or just give Penny or I a phone call and we'll forward the information to them. That's it for my list. [12:22] Select Board member: General assistance ordinance adoption we're going to table until after the public hearing tonight seven o'clock. [12:32] Select Board member / Town official: Official town meeting warrant November referendum question so following the last public hearing that we had was suggested that perhaps the gentleman who submitted the petition might want to rescind it after finding out that municipal tax living did not include the school and the county, and the next day we sent out a letter to the gentleman asking for him, if he wanted to rescind it, to do so in writing by today, as we have to have absentee ballots available. As of today, this afternoon's mail, we haven't received anything, so the board needs to move forward. The warrant you approved weeks ago in the writing and now we just need the board to vote to sign the warrant so we can arrange to have it posted. Motion to [13:32] Select Board member: sign the warrant for the referendum November make that motion second any discussions all in favor passes 3-0. October 20th is still the set date correct for the next hearing for the next meeting on that the discussion is that we've talked about still working on is to make that also part of the discussion about basically about taxes not school and County just municipal because this referendum just controls a municipal so it would be a discussion and as always it's always we're talking about taxes. I know we're going to get off subject because somebody's going to ask a question along the way. We're going to try to keep it towards that, but we're going to have an explanation on our end of how it would work if this referendum went through, what the numbers would look like. And if by chance it did go through room and the things we didn't have enough money to pay for all the services, the choices that you would have to be made if we didn't have the money in order to spend. I mean, that's what it basically comes down to. You have so much revenue right now, you have so much revenue and you have so many expenses. That's what you get for services. If one goes down or the other one goes up, somebody's, you got to make decisions along the way what's going to be changed. So we'll have numbers, spreadsheets up here trying to explain how it is. We'll talk about the referendum itself, but we'll talk about the taxes of what that is just on the municipal, municipality end of things. That's all we control. We don't control school, we don't control County except through you voting. You do controlled by your voting. Yes, that were to get approved, when would that take effect? Would that be this budget cycle that we're going into, reevaluate? That would take effect immediately. Okay. [15:47] Select Board member: Anything else on unfinished? We're all good. Okay, new business, department heads. Mr. Darren, we're working on the transfer station as everybody can probably tell. It's coming into it pretty good. It needs quite a bit of gravel around for the approach, and that has to be good. We can try and get that as much as I can in tune, so after they pour the pad, I won't be too much behind getting everything done. Some grading last week. Finished running the pits today. Those ones did very well. Went down, everything burned down good. Cleaned up the driveway, pushed the leaves off sitting there, and watching the piles burn and pushing the piles in, and that's it, just getting ready. We're being, Jeff had talked about doing stockpile and I gotta get over there and do my business at the sand salt facility in the next week or so, and so we're all set to do that. We second week in October going into the third week of October, I guess we talked about if everything works out right, so hopefully we have a schedule this year, but we're going to try that. I guess that's it. Perfect, Jeff. Yeah, same thing, I've been doing a bunch of green trying to get caught up on that screen. Set up and getting that all my side of it all squared away, so get it before the leaves fall, Mr. Steve. we've started evaluating our fire ponds you know, we're still in a drought, you know, we got some rain but not enough really to make a big dent in where our dry hyphens are. Myself and Chief Payne, we spoke and we're going to start activating our tanker task force. We have a list of tankers, if we have a working fire, to bring them in much sooner because we may have to travel a great distance to get water. So we're this week we're gonna send a crew out to evaluate where we're at with that. We do have Point Road which is a good source of water because that's right out of the lake and that hydrant is in really good shape. And then we've got the one on off the main street, I gotta keep, if you get all false road there, we've got, yeah, that's on Shapley Pond, that's a good dry hydrant we've got a few other ponds but like johnny pears off the road here this is just be sucking mud so you know we 're still in a drought make sure you get a permit and make sure your fire's out and that's all I got. Did you talk to the planning board or code enforcement officer about the new houses that have the long driveway that are not wide enough and talk to the code enforcement? We're working with some, working with someone on 20 but during Rich spoke to him today, he's gonna put in a hammerhead so that we can pull up to. He's like 900 feet off the road I think, right, you can make us turn around up by his house so we can turn the trucks around. But I've only talked to code and not to the planning board. I was hoping to make it to the next meeting to discuss that so we can try to get some verbiage out for next I think it's a good idea, so I'm sure we follow up on that. Yep, Mr. Tyler, so for the rescue 24 calls so far in [20:15] EMS/Rescue Chief or EMS representative: in September. We've got six new employees. They're currently on orientation, going through a process. Tonight, we're voting on a seventh new employee. After that, our EMT roster will be completely filled. We're not focusing on any EMTs anymore. Now we're moving up to ALS, the paramedic level, the AEDMT level. The AEDs have been delivered. There's one on the squad. I delivered the other one to Michelle. I also got the AED housing units in, so we can put one, I guess, in the community center and then the other one in the town hall. I am going to need help with that, Mr. Darin, installing it. Sure. I don't want to install it upside down or backwards or anything. Just get me a show. And then our staff meeting was a success. We had 17 people. We just about ran out of food, and we went over DA stuff, and our expectations moving forward. [21:10] Select Board member: All is well. Well, hopefully we're going to have a food spread like that every time. [21:17] EMS/Rescue Chief or EMS representative: Bless you. Our next meeting is going to be sometime in November, so we're going to try and do them every other month. [21:24] Select Board member: Nice. Great job getting the team together. Yeah, absolutely. Both of you have done a great job. We appreciate it. Next is a rescue applicant. [21:36] Select Board member / Town official: So we have this applicant who's an EMT. He's been through the background check and sat down for an interview with the chief and assistant chief. This is the last EMT position to fill in the roster. Chiefs are looking for approval to hire. How [22:11] Select Board member: many paramedic positions do you have that you're looking to fill? Right now, between three and four. Three and four? Yeah. Ideally. Yeah. Can he work for it? Who else does he work for? [22:42] EMS/Rescue Chief or EMS representative: He works full-time with me down in South Burleigh. Oh, okay. So he's another one of my co-workers. [23:06] Select Board member: He's not fired by chance? He is. Oh, he is? Yes. He has fired one. That's a good plus. Maybe. You can maybe give me some more money and you turn out here. From my seat, it's a good plus. I'll make a motion that we move forward with a rescue applicant. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Passes 3-0. Nice job. Good luck with the paramedics. State surplus equipment bid program enrollment request. [23:52] Select Board member / Town official: So, Andrew, do you want to just give the onlookers a... [23:57] Select Board member: Yeah, so this is a program that the state runs, and all we're enrolling is just... we need an official to on behalf of the town that we can accept surplus state property oh okay that's all the applications for can I get a motion that we go forward with the state surplus bid program I'll make that motion to go forward with the bid program [Speaker C (unidentified): I'll second] any discussion? all in favor? passes 3-0 [24:28] Select Board member / Town official: requires just one signature [24:30] Speaker C (unidentified): they [24:34] Select Board member: have all kinds of different equipment on there trucks excavators tractors SUVs do they publish a list like I know New Hampshire used to do online they do for like regular civilian like anybody can go and log in but as far as [24:51] Select Board member / Town official: surplus items I don't think they do I think you have to call and ask so I'm not going to look today [25:00] Select Board member: Definitely quite a bit of stuff we could use a boat. Do you have any fire trucks? [25:09] Speaker C (unidentified): I didn't see any of those. [25:13] Select Board member: You probably don't want one of their boats. That's why I bought it. Like they always say, when you have a boat, everything's broken on it. You just don't know it yet. A liquor license, Special Event 10-3-26, Bablin Brook Farm. [25:34] Select Board member / Town official: So Popping Bottles is the name of the caterer. They're looking for a special events liquor license for an event at Babbling Brook Farms. It's [25:46] Select Board member: a winning. I make a motion that we approve the liquor license for the special event. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? How are they doing on, is this the one on? No, this is Babbling Brook. Where's Babbling Brook? Charlie, okay, all right, any discussion? All in favor, pass, 3-0. FOA request 9-17-26. So we have an FOA request, all the paperwork's been filled out and everybody's all good with that. We'll release it for tomorrow at noontime. All good? Yes. Perfect. EPR program delay, letter to Governor Mills. So this is a letter that's been drafted by ECO Maine. The funding for this program, EPR, remember the acronym, Extended Producer Responsibility, it's a program where the producers help fund some of their recycling as well as the state funds some. Apparently the funds have been delayed, so they've asked that participants in the program send a letter basically asking to expedite the funds being released to help encourage the funding for the recycling. So I passed that letter on to Michelle, so this is just a recommendation that we send this letter to governor Mills this [27:38] Select Board member / Town official: Now, this is the first year that EPR program has been in existence, and we had to sign up for it, and they were supposed to pick somebody who was going to oversee it, I guess, and administer the program. And that was supposed to be done months ago. And so we've signed up, and we still don't know. They say to track your spending, but we don't know what we're tracking at this point because they haven't created any rules to go along with this law because they haven't, they haven't picked somebody to administer the program. So ideally this is should help supplement to a good extent the single sort recycling costs that we have with hauling and disposal. So the delay and here we are, you know, we're at the end of the third quarter and no [Select Board member: money. Yeah, no] No money yet, so I have put on the town letterhead a copy of that letter that was forwarded to you all if you so choose to sign it, to send to Governor Mills. [28:48] Speaker C (unidentified): I'll make a motion to sign the letter to Governor Mills. I'll second it. Any discussion? All in favor? Move zero. [29:24] Select Board member: No other new business information. Public hearing following meeting at 7 p.m. to discuss general assistance ordinance updates. states. October 2nd, 5.30 p.m., volunteer barbecue dinner. October 2nd, deadline to request capital project budget request for 2027. October 2nd, ground maintenance bids due for 2027 to 2029. October 3rd, lion's pancake breakfast, 8 to 9.30. October 3rd, celebration of life for Jim Brown 11 a.m. October 20th public hearing for closed municipal tax levy ordinance October 30th deadline for operating budget request for 2027 conservation committee meeting minutes 7 21 26 interim deputy town clerk tax collector appointment Joanne Rankin through 3 13 27 or until till permanently filled. Deputy treasurer appointment with check signing authority, Penny. And I'm going to... Tear it up. Through 3-20-28. I apologize. We already had our executive session. Signatures, AP, payroll warrants, letter to Governor Mills signed, special town meeting warrant, November referendum question signed. Any other business the board wishes to bring forward? Okay. Beautiful. Can I have a motion to adjourn [30:56] Speaker C (unidentified): I'll make a motion to recess sorry I'll make a motion to recess [31:03] Select Board member: until 7 o'clock for the public hearing oh thank you second that all in favor I can remember my mother going down and giving her a heck one night because I ate too much medicine I didn't want to eat dinner what did you eat what made the difference Well, I didn't eat what my mother cooked. Yeah, but you ate something. I know. She was all upset. It was good. I cooked all this meal. Yeah. And I didn't eat it. Okay, you're a no. I felt bad. [31:49] Speaker C (unidentified): I bet you did. [32:17] Select Board member: Yeah, I know. Only got 15 seconds left. All right, 7 o'clock. Motion to come out of recess. recess. I'll make a motion to come out of recess and continue with our public hearing. I second that motion. All in favor? And public hearing is open. [32:49] Select Board member / Town official: So annually the state updates their appendices to the general assistance ordinance to accommodate for cost of living increases and so forth. And as a municipality we have to adopt the new appendices into our ordinance annually by October 1st. We can adopt the state maximums or we can increase that number and create our own. Historically, we've always stayed with the state number and never adopted our own in addition to. We'll start with a summary of the changes in one year to the next. So the overall maximum that we would pay out per case on a non-emergent basis, which means a second half-time applicant, first-time applicant is an emergent basis, and you can exceed the maximum for the first time to avoid an emergency. So the maximum in 2025 for one person was one $1,278, 2026 is going up to $1,409, that's an increase of $131, broken down that's a 10% increase. No changes were made to the electricity maximums, the housing maximums for a zero bedroom or an efficiency apartment, there was a $126 increase, which is 11%. One bedroom is a $102 increase, which is 8%. Two bedroom is a $95 increase, which is 6%. Three bedroom is a $165 increase, which is just under 8%. A four bedroom is a $211 increase, that's a 9% increase. And then on the food, the food only went up for a single person by $8. So it went from $298 a month to $306 a month. That's an $8 increase of 2.5%. Heating fuel, they appropriate gallons and not dollar amounts on their maximums there. And that runs from 50 gallons to 225 gallons, depending on the month. Obviously the colder months, the more gallons you can put out. But in comparison to this time last year, oil was at $3.49 a gallon. It's currently at $6.07 a gallon. It's a 73% increase over last year. So any fuel assistance through the General Assistance Program is going to see a significant increase. And then the only other increases that we see are on the mileage rate, and that's for going to medical appointments. That's an allowed expense. That went up two cents per mile. which is a 3%, a 3.7% increase. So all of these increases, while they don't seem substantial, we range from 2.5% to 10% increases, which matters in our budgeting. The state reimburses 70% of these expenses. expenses. In comparison, I've got the last five years data here. In 2022, our total expense for general assistance was $3,500 and change. And this was COVID, the rent protection was still in effect then where this the state had a pro state and federal had a program where basically they were paying your rent for you anything that you couldn't afford in 2023 that rent protection program ended and that's when a lot of people became homeless and they also the definition of homeless you didn't have to originate in Shapley you could be You could have been in Sanford when you became homeless, but that program, the program ended, they're Out on the street, and they just show up in Shapley and say, I'm homeless in Shapley. And so then we were, they're finding temporary housing. So a lot of that in 2023 was hotel stays for a lot of different folks. We spent $40,000 in 2023. In 2024, we spent $30,000, and that was primarily temporary housing. 2025, there were some changes made to the law which reduced the temporary housing emergency to 30 days a year. So it was, when you're homeless, your emergency didn't stop after the first month. Once you're homeless, the emergency continued. So the temporary housing could continue pretty much all year long. But in 2025, the law changed, and we now only have to pay 30 days in one year for temporary housing for one household. So we saw a lot less temporary housing once that law changed. And we saw a lot more electricity and mortgage assistance in 2025. So we're down to $11,000 in 2025. 2026 year to date, we are at $6,000 expense. And that, I haven't had any temporary housing this year. We've had some assistance, rental assistance, mortgage assistance, oil assistance, and electricity. So, in numbers, we had eight individual cases this year. They might be repeat applicants, but eight individual households. Households. Last year we had 10, the year before we had 20, the year before that we had 19, and then back before it all fell apart we had 4. And that was primarily for an electricity bill or an oil bill. So that's the summary there. What has changed in the ordinance? This is a state program that the town of Shapley is obligated to be enrolled in. 30% of these fees are the town's burden to take care of. This [40:48] Select Board member: Down the numbers you gave was that after reimbursement from the state? That was before. [40:52] Select Board member / Town official: After reimbursement, our highest, our 2023, was $12,000 cost to the town. 2024 was $8,800. 2025 was $33,000. And this year, our cost so far is $1,800 under this program. [41:12] Select Board member: How fast is this? We pay 30% punish. [41:14] Select Board member / Town official: The state reimburses in about three months. [41:19] Select Board member: Three months? Yes. For each individual case? No. [41:22] Select Board member / Town official: No, so we submit a monthly reimbursement form. So whatever we paid out for the month, we submit that. Within three months, we'll get the check. [41:42] Select Board member: Yeah, but what do we have on hand? [41:46] Select Board member / Town official: Oh, so our budget is $10,000 for general assistance. [41:51] Select Board member: And you've used $6,000? [41:53] Select Board member / Town official: I've used $6,000 so far. [41:55] Select Board member: But that's without the reimbursement. [41:57] Select Board member / Town official: That's without the reimbursement. So we've used $1,800 of our own money. [42:02] Select Board member: $1,800 out of the $10,000. Winter isn't even here. [42:09] Select Board member / Town official: So from the conversations and the phone calls that I'm getting is that the LIHEAP as it always is delayed. So LIHEAP is your county community actions program for low income fuel assistance. And so LIHEAP they'll usually give you a set amount of gallons that you can get from them, and that's usually at the beginning of the year, but for the past couple of years, it's delayed, it's delayed, it's delayed. They don't even see that money until January, so I have a feeling that we're going to get hit in December with people that can't fill their tanks. Hopefully, nobody's filling it right now at $6 a gallon, and hopefully we see something happen over the next month because it's going to be a sad story. We have our emergency fuel assistant fund, which is all through donations, a lot through the Lions Club, and we've done some fundraisers. We have some fundraisers coming up to do them. I think I have $6,000 in that, and that's about what we typically spend in a year in fuel assistance, and that's outside of the general assistance program. So that's an elderly person that might just get a little bit too much Social Security to qualify for General Assistance. And we would use the discretionary donation funds for at $6 a gallon, that's 10 people that you can help all year long at that amount. Literally cuts it in half. So hopefully we see something big happen with that price in the oil and diesel. [43:54] Select Board member: I imagine LIHEAP too goes off a certain amount, and with these prices going up, they're probably only... Right. They can only serve so many people out of that. Exactly. [44:08] Select Board member / Town official: Yep. Does anybody else have any questions about the program? Close the public hearing and then, if convenient... [44:21] Select Board member: Close the public hearing at this time, 7-12. Can I have a motion to accept the... Try to get this right. I apologize. apologize. General assistance ordinance adoption. Can I have a motion to accept them? State rate? I'll make that motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? [44:50] Select Board member / Town official: Passes 3-0. Make a [45:11] Select Board member: motion that we adjourn. Second. All in favor? Thank you very much for coming, folks.