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You will notice that all our meetings are recorded and made with a summarization of movements.

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Visitors are welcome and we allow 5 minutes of comments per visitor and 15 minutes per topic.

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Discussions will be held in a calm and civilized manner, respectful of others.

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Select board members present are Mike Denault, Nancy Pashika, John Hunt, Kirk Amari.

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Will there be any adding of items or removing items from tonight's agenda?

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Will there be any adjustments to the agenda such as changing the order of items?

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Hearing of visitors, reading and approval of records and orders.

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Except was unable to make it tonight.

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Are you able to go up onto Bulger Road next day to look at the water problem?

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We can't go. Everything that we're doing is...

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You were able to go?

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Oh, good.

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It's not a new issue.

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I would have been there earlier, but I had to talk to this old couple up on the road.

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This is the house at the base of the hill.

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Oh, you got snared? You got snared by the British?

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I was up looking at deer, that's what I was told.

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Okay, anything on recycling?

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I have nothing.

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I just got the cell phone number today, so I will give them a call tomorrow.

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I'll start calling tomorrow.

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We also need to think about getting our caller registrations ready for 2026.

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Right.

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Is that something SWIFT is going to do and we don't have to anymore?

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Because I think we both did it last year.

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And they're on check.

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That's right.

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I will check with Scott.

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Who is BFI?

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Is that Casella now?

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Yeah, it was Casella. BFI was before.

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Anything on your discussion?

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Respondents, Lori?

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No, and last week we got this fire for some reason we were here early.

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Okay, old business.

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The airhouse on 1022, do you have information on that, Lori?

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It's for the emergency training?

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I do.

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Aubrey just called today.

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He said that the tabletop exercise is expected to go from 8 to 2,

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but he wants you to feel comfortable just stopping in for 20 minutes,

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half an hour.

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10 minutes, if you have the time to just check it out.

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Don't feel obligated to commit to the whole time frame.

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He's not going to go through all the motions of opening up an emergency shelter

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and all that because we've got school in session.

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But they'll go through all the planning and the what-ifs

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and the decisions that they would make.

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And will somebody from the state there,

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or are they probably going to be online with the state?

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Because it sounds like it's more of a district.

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It's a statewide, yeah, it's a...

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It's preparation for a statewide event.

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So maybe there'll be computer screen set up

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or talking to somebody would be interesting.

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Okay.

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Did he give you any update on the 911 numbers?

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He did.

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Okay.

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He thinks he'll get the okay to drive next week,

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so he will start driving next week and seeing...

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if he can put together the inventory.

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If someone comes here to ask you about a 911,

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do you have that information?

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Or do we have to ask a resident?

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So most people come to ask me,

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and Bill usually is the one who actually asks me.

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We're in a camp over there.

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So I passed my camp, just recently bought it,

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and they don't have a number,

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and they asked me if I could get it.

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So they're in Connecticut.

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Is it a camp already that's there?

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Yeah, I think they bought it.

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I'm not mistaken.

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And he'll confirm it's like a piece of paper,

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kind of like maybe half the size of this,

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that you fill out and has a donation on it and stuff

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like that, or maybe that might be a benefit.

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So maybe it has some...

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I don't know if you have them here.

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I know you can buy a sign from a fire department,

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but you can also put your own sign up.

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There's rules to that sign.

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But they just wanted to know what their number was.

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If I can, I'll get that later on.

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It may have a number.

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And they just don't know.

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Right.

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That camp already existed.

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They bought the camp, I don't know, two years ago, maybe.

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Whose camp was it?

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I don't even know.

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Right across the street from the Risky Ranch camp, we're...

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Remillard is there.

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We can at least look it up, because at one point...

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They're from Connecticut.

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Gio Giofino is the old name.

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Some camps have numbers.

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A lot of them are still known.

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With the pond in front of it?

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Yeah.

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Gio Giofino.

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That's the one that they, that's the one they own now.

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Not these people, but they own one.

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Oh.

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The guy from Adams owned it.

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His last name, because I can't remember.

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Let's look in Lori's book.

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Yeah.

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It's right across the street from there.

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So it's on the same side as my camp.

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Probably.

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So if they need one, they don't have to actually come and give it to you?

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You can give it to me.

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I'll buy the sign for them.

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Right?

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And then give it to them, and I'll charge them double.

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You got to pay for my time.

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Yeah.

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But I got one, and then someone told my wife it was the wrong one.

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And then I got it.

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I got it.

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I got it.

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I got it.

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I got it.

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I got it.

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I got it.

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I got one, and then someone told my wife it was the wrong one, and she got another

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one.

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And I put them in my garage, and now I got both of them.

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So I have to find out which one's right before I put mine up, too.

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And then I got one down here.

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Ask Lori.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I don't know who told you it was wrong, but.

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My wife told me.

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I got two different numbers.

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Apparently, she got a number, and then there were signs.

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I don't know whose fault it was.

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We'll find out.

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Yeah.

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But now I got two different signs.

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Either one of them at the camp.

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So I'll give you the other one at the camp.

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They would get there –

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Yeah.

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Would Lori, when you give them the 9-1-1 sign, when they get it do you give them

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the instructions and where to post it?

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Yeah.

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Maybe they get a letter saying, your new 9-1-1 number is, and then there's a second

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page of how to put it up and where to put it up and

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And then they can get whatever sign they want, wherever they want to get it.

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Okay.

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The vegetation has been removed from the front yard.

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It's all raked off, all staked off, ready for the sun.

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Thank you very much, Jim Stimson.

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Did a lot of work there.

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Halloween hours.

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I just want to reinstate them again.

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And there's something going on here at the school, Trunk or Treat.

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Trunk or Treat.

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And that, I think, runs from 6 to 8.

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Yeah.

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So there's an overlap there.

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And the other question is, we're going to do as best we can with where to put a fire engine.

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Because we don't know how much room the Trunk or Treat people will take up.

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I don't know whether they'll just be in the ellipse here in front of the school,

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if they'll be over into the church parking lot or not.

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Yeah, because last year they came over.

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And I think there's a dance afterwards, too, or during or after a Halloween dance.

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Okay.

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And Lori reported to me last week that all known dogs are registered.

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Wow.

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Shocking.

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All known dogs.

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Oh, good point.

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But the vet usually keeps us informed by sending the town a rabies certificate.

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And they are very good at that, the vet's office, to try to keep us informed.

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New business.

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Or any other old business first.

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Did everybody sign?

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Go ahead.

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National Service Agency policy.

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When we do the warrant, people that the voters have approved giving money to last year

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are automatically on the warrant without having to go through and get a petition.

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So if you are new or you want to increase the amount you're asking for, you would need a petition.

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Well, last year I never received a request for the green-up day appropriation.

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So it was not put on our warrant.

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I had sent a letter saying now you need to do it.

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You need to sign a new petition and have the 5% of the people sign.

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They say they sent the email to me with their request and that perhaps with our new website

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and change of email address, I never received it.

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I can't confirm whether or not that's true.

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But they want us to now honor their 2026 email.

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They want us to now honor their 2026 email request without having to go get a petition.

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What did they request?

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Same amount?

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$50.

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Okay.

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It's the same amount.

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Oh, because they, yeah, yeah.

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But now there's a lapse.

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So now by rights they need to have a petition and start over.

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And we have a policy that says that.

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But, so how are we?

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How about administratively you override that?

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We didn't do it last year, but how, I mean, why don't we?

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But it could be an error.

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Yes.

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In lieu of the possibility of an error.

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Yes.

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I would like to say let's just let them have it.

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We're putting them where they're at.

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Yeah, I was the community update coordinator.

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And the person from the organization, she indicated to me that she had communicated with you.

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She said she, yeah, she said, she said the email.

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But maybe just fell through the cracks and.

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Yeah, I mean, we're talking good cause, they asked for $50, let's just do this, push it through.

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I mean, I know Jason Morris Morin has an aggressive,

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I don't know what you call it, firewall, so that things go into spam as opposed to coming to us.

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Yes.

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And every 30 days it wipes out, so I can only see a month, right?

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So by the time she said she sent it, if it went into spam, it's gone, I can't.

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We should see if we can put it on our website.

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If you contact the town and you don't hear back from the town within three weeks.

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Yeah, try it, it could have gone to spam.

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Reach back out to us, because that wouldn't prevent that, you know?

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Well, we're getting way more than $50 worth of service.

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Oh yeah, I mean that, and if you don't put it on, I'm giving you $50.

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I still have bags, I still have gloves, I still have used up from last year.

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You probably do too.

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We can override our policy, and that's what I'm saying we should do.

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By a vote on the board, we can override it.

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I would say go back to it.

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All in favor.

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On new business tax bills.

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They were sent out.

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In August, September, and everybody here knows that mail delivery has been terrible.

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Yes.

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So, I would like it known, and if Lori could put it on our web page.

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If you're going to mail your tax bill in, send it in a week ahead of time.

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Don't wait for the due date, because according to town meeting vote, post marks are not accepted.

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We've got a drop box there.

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Right, November.

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November 20th.

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Put it on your, let all your around the town friends know, especially New York, Connecticut.

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That always seemed to be a problem, getting the mail from them to us.

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Yep, that's on my list.

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So, any applicants for assessor clerk?

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No.

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Any other new business?

267
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Whoa.

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More money.

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Boy, this is really.

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So, if there's no other business, I make a motion to go into executive session for pending,

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or probable civil litigation.

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This is the last one.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

275
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Okay.

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Wow, 17 minutes.

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Is that a record?

278
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Wow.

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I think so.

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I think so.

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I think so.

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And who kept it that long?

283
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It wasn't me.

284
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Wow.

285
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Wait for nine.

286
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Could be 14 minutes.

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14 minutes.

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Wow.

289
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Amazing.

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I got time to go to the bar and bat, and my wife won't even know where I'm going.

291
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She won't even know.

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You're ready?

293
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Yes.

294
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You're ready?

295
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Yeah.

296
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So, I got my treat, so 250 and up.

297
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Oh, wow.

298
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How are you doing now?

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I know.

300
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It's so easy.

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See you later.

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See you later.

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Bye now.