Select Board, December 11, 2018

The town published minutes (text) and an agenda for this meeting. Those minutes are the record; what follows is a guide to the recording.

capitalelectionsplanning and zoningpublic commentrecreationtown departmentstown meetingwarrant article

Present: Chair of the Select Board (chair); Chair of the Planning Board (chair of Planning Board); Susanna / Suzanna (member); Katie (member); Jamie (member); Town manager (town manager); DPW director (presenter); Karen (Parks Commission member). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

1. ▶ 42:52Add the marijuana questions to the May 2019 ballot as recommended by the Planning Board. — moved by Katie, as heardfailed for lack of a second

And 4 procedural: motion to adjourn the joint meeting with the planning board. (▶ 52:50); motion to adjourn, second, discussion. (▶ 55:28); motion to adjourn the parks meeting. (▶ 1:49:45); motion to adjourn the meeting. (▶ 1:59:09).

Against the town’s minutes

The town published minutes (text) for this meeting; ours were compared item by item. 6 agree, 3 caption errors resolved by the official reading, 3 substantive differences. The town’s minutes are a full record.

1. differsMarijuana ballot question vote▶ 42:52

   recording Add the marijuana questions to the May 2019 ballot as recommended by the Planning Board. — failed for lack of a second

   town’s minutes —

   Our minutes record a motion failing for lack of a second; the official minutes record no vote. Check the recording near t=2572 and whether the official minutes omitted it.

2. differsSafe Routes to School sidewalk grants amount▶ 1:51:50

   recording Safe Routes to School sidewalk grants: up to a million dollars

   town’s minutes “she stated they are currently accepting submissions for sidewalk grants under the safe routes to school”

   Ours gives up to a million dollars; official prints no amount. Check the recording.

3. differsBoard attendees

   recording Chair of the Select Board; Susanna / Suzanna (member); Katie (member); Jamie (member)

   town’s minutes “board of selectmen: jamie toale, chairman; damon mcquaid, vice chairman, katey adams,”

   Ours names Susanna as a board member, but the official minutes list Susanna Jewell as a Park Commission member. Check her role. Katie is Katey Adams and Jamie is Jamie Toale. Damon McQuaid is missing from ours.

Compared 2026-11-05. Neither record is treated as the referee: a caption error is the same fact heard badly; a difference is for a person to check at the timestamp.

The money

1. ▶ 57:59Skate park cost

   Early skate park idea was priced at an initial figure; later estimate rose with size.

   as heard:a hundred thousand dollars250,000four hundred thousand dollars

2. ▶ 1:50:28Accounts payable and payroll warrants

   The town manager read accounts payable and payroll warrant totals.

   as heard:five hundred and fifty three thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars and ninety one cents500 78520 eight dollars and 18 centseight hundred seventy nine thousand six hundred forty nine dollars and 64 cents

3. ▶ 1:51:50Safe Routes to School sidewalk grants

   Town only eligible for primary school location; grants could reach a large amount.

   as heard:up to a million dollars

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 44:14Chair said the marijuana item would return when the full board is present; January 8 meeting committed for discussion of marijuana.
• ▶ 1:44:33Parks Commission member to email concerns to the skate park group; skate park group to return with questions and talk with the Senior Center; smaller and phased design to be explored.
• ▶ 1:52:51January 15 workshop planned on town facilities; next meeting December 18.

Documents and exhibits

In the minutes’ list and not identified in the recording: Draft Articles 1, 2 and 5 amending the Code of Lunenburg §250-4.10 (marijuana cultivator, product manufacturer, transporter/retailer) with proposed ballot questions; Handout of written input signed Phyllis on marijuana prohibition.

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Public comment

1. ▶ 0:12Chair asked for public comment at the opening; none.
2. ▶ 50:59A resident said she and her husband voted yes on question four for different reasons, want the questions to go to the ballot, and said some residents avoid meetings because of how they are addressed.
3. ▶ 1:55:36Chair asked for public comment at close of meeting; none was recorded.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

• facilities60 min · 51%
• planning and zoning57 min · 48%
• recreation54 min · 46%
• capital54 min · 46%
• elections44 min · 37%
• town meeting36 min · 30%
• warrant article7 min · 6%
• public comment5 min · 4%
• grants2 min · 2%
• town departments2 min · 2%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:12Joint meeting with Planning Board: ballot questions on marijuana prohibition explainedinformational · 6:42 long · planning and zoning, warrant article
2. ▶ 6:54Debate over whether to put five prohibition questions on the ballotno resolution · 35:58 long · planning and zoning, elections, town meeting
3. ▶ 42:52Motion to add ballot questions fails for lack of second; moratorium and zoning discussionmotion not seconded · 8:07 long · planning and zoning, elections
4. ▶ 50:59Public comment and wrap-up of Planning Board joint meetingreferred to later meeting · 4:52 long · public comment
5. ▶ 55:51Joint meeting with Parks Commission on skate park size, parking, location and maintenanceno resolution; follow-up conversations · 53:54 long · recreation, capital, facilities
6. ▶ 1:50:28Warrants and committee reports (Safe Routes to School)informational · 2:23 long · grants, town departments
7. ▶ 1:52:51January workshop planning, Town Center disagreement, and adjournmentinformational · 6:18 long · facilities, planning and zoning

What the captions could not carry

• Whether the Accounts Payable and payroll warrants were voted; outcome of the adjournment votes
• Garbled speaker identity throughout; several figures were rendered inconsistently

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

• ▶ 57:59Skate park costsWhat would the proposed skate park cost to build and maintain, and who would pay?

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