Raynham Select Board 06/30/2026

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Permits are the paper trail of a town’s future, and this Raynham Select Board meeting makes that future easy to see in numbers, timelines, and votes. We start with the building department’s midyear snapshot: how many building permits are coming in, how ADUs (accessory dwelling units) are accelerating across town, and why most of those ADU projects are conversions of existing basements or space over garages instead of brand-new detached structures. We also clarify a point that surprises a lot of residents: standard building permits, including ADUs that are by right, do not trigger abutter notifications, even though there is still an appeal window after issuance.

From there, we shift into a detailed, practical discussion on the permit fee schedule review, the first major look since 2019. We compare Raynham’s approach to neighboring communities, talk through square-foot pricing changes, and unpack why commercial renovations can generate big permit fees under the per-thousand structure. The board wrestles with a real balancing act: keeping fees reasonable for residents while making sure the town is not falling behind on a schedule that should be reviewed every few years. The decision lands on approving the commercial-related updates with an effective date of August 1 and taking more time to evaluate residential building permit changes.

We wrap with the governance work that keeps the town running: appointments, committee recruitment needs, line item transfers, liquor license actions, library staffing, and a COLA vote for part-time dispatch clerks. You’ll also hear timely community updates, including Raynham Community Celebration Day planning and a full slate of free summer concerts.

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Transcript

Call To Order And Minutes

SPEAKER_03 0:01

All right, good evening everybody. Call the meeting to order at 7 p.m. Inform the public of the English broadcast live and recorded by the Rangan channel for playback. Um I would ask those of you with us to join us in the Pleasure to the Flag of the United States of America to the Republic of Richards. Thank you. I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes from uh June 16th.

SPEAKER_05 0:32

Motion to accept the minutes as printed.

SPEAKER_03 0:35

Second. All in favor. Aye. Approved. Department heads, our building commissioner, Bob Ayfredi, Bob.

Permits, ADUs, And Active Projects

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Thank you, and good evening. So calendar year numbers for the building department. We have uh through um June 24th, uh we have 142 electrical permits, 208 plumbing and gas permits, 261 building permits, 45 sheet metal, nine trench, and um six ADUs in the last six months. Uh total income uh 254, 565 through all those weekly permits. Um since last February, we've had permitted 25 ADUs, and we have about three or four more in the queue. And uh we talked to people almost on a weekly basis about what they can do and how they can do it. So that's gonna continue. You're gonna see more ADUs throughout the town, like most other times. Uh lately we we've been working on uh the new permitting platform, learning the new platform, which has been a little bit of a challenge. Uh but I think we're making progress day by day. It's a bit more difficult for the consumer on the other side of the um uh of the program to get used to it because everyone will get used to the old program, but uh little by little we'll get there hot spots are still the same. Uh Thorndike's 40B development off of Church Street, they're about halfway through. Um and then the line build two subdivisions off of High Street. The west side's about three quarters done, and then paving on the east side, so we'll be getting a lot of releases there in the near future. Other than that, our planning board has been pretty quiet. We haven't had a meeting for about a month and a half because we just don't have nothing in front of us. We will have a meeting on the 16th. Uh we have two estate lots uh that are requesting special permits, and then we have a preliminary uh on a small subdivision off of Locus Street. Um other than that, I think I've reported to you that we did uh approve the hotel on Commerce Way and several other small commercial buildings that are being constructed on Broadway.

SPEAKER_05 2:54

Um we find or separate units?

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Um well sometimes you don't get the full pictures. They tell you only what they want you to know and not actually what's gonna happen. So most of the people I talk to don't give me that information. Some of the ones I've seen are definitely for family members. There's a lot of them that are gonna be used other you know for other people in rental property, and that's allowed. We we can't we can't we can't condition that. As you know, we try to do a bylaw to condition that and we get thrown back. So um it's gonna be a little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_05 3:38

Okay. Another question on the development coming in with Party City is is it Chick-fil-A? Is that still on track?

SPEAKER_01 3:45

I'm sorry, I should have told you this. Uh, Chick-fil-A and Popeyes both have permits in the queue. They're waiting for sign-off from uh the water department. Unfortunately, they did not do the planning board special permit process and the water department process at the same time. Um Chick-fil-A is uh really anxious to get started. I told them they can have a demo permit. Uh they do have a meeting with the water department scheduled for mid-August. They would like to get started in July. I'm not sure if they're gonna pull the trigger or not. They'd like to have a building permit in place before they take the existing building down.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

Okay, thank you. Uh no, I didn't have any other questions. To Pat's point, are the ADUs do you find a lot of them attached or detached?

SPEAKER_01 4:31

So far, most of them have been attached in the basement, uh, over garages. Yeah. There um there are a few that um I've talked to recently that are gonna do separate structures. But when you get into separate structures and foundations and new construction based on the construction costs, yeah, it's really not advantageous. It's better to use an existing space and convert it. Um I would imagine at some point we're gonna see the additions be built. Um, but um most of the ones of the 25 that we have are existing spaces.

unknown 5:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:04

Yeah. Uh Bob, also ADUs for you. Seems like that's the topic that you are. I I think I know the answer, but I hate guessing. I'm assuming since it's by right, there's no notification to abutter. So if uh an abutter had a concern, um, it's not abnormal that they wouldn't have been notified, correct?

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Regular building permits, uh, we do not notify the abutters. If it's a special permit and it's got to go to a public hearing, then abutters within 300 feet would get a notification. So, no, you do not get a notification if your neighbor's gonna do an ADU. You can contest the permit. You have up to 30 days once the permit's been issued to contest the permit. I haven't seen that happen yet, but um, there is no notification to answer a question.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Okay, but thank you, Bob. Uh, if there's no objection from the board, uh so we can get Bob out of here time, we have like to take EDA item, but whatever, no objection. No. All right.

Reworking The Permit Fee Schedule

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Uh Mr. Andrade, I know this is something that you had uh got the ball rolling on. Did you want to start or do you want me to have Mr. Iapre start?

SPEAKER_04 6:05

No, Mr. Iap can start.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Thank you. So I was asked to um review the um permit fee schedule for the building department that included the electrical, plumbing and gas, and the building both residentially and commercially. And that's something we really haven't done uh since 2019. So we're going on about seven years. Actually, tomorrow will be seven years since the new last time we reviewed these. And typically uh these get looked at every four or five years. So we're probably a couple years behind. Um, what I was asked to review when I did do this, and I've done this several times in my career, um, what we usually do is we do adjoining towns, towns of similar size or towns that are but uh Ringham, and we see what their fee schedule is, and we try to you know try to stay in line. And I think last time I did this, I think as a chairman, you were here, you didn't want to be in the high end, you didn't want to be in the low end, you want to be somewhere reasonable in the middle. Um so based on the fact that um we really haven't gone up in fees, and after our review, we really basically we're kind of still in the middle. Um, we're not we're not high, like Eastern is very high. I think I shared some numbers with you. Um other towns a little bit lower than us, but not very much lower than us. So uh what I've done here uh with the information that I shared with you is yellow lined some thoughts we had to make some increases, and not the increases are not across the board. Um, they're just uh basically square footage increases and some other smaller increases on permits that we really don't see a lot of. And I'm looking at the commercial and the residential building. Um electrical and plumbing are pretty much, I mean, if you have any questions, I'll try to answer them. But we're pretty much in line with other towns with the electrical and gas permits the way they are, with the small increases that we've recommended. Um, other than that, I mean I can try to answer questions on uh what we've done to try to gain a little bit um more revenue. Uh the square footage prices, we've only I mean we're only recommending a five cents per square foot on um new finished spaces and then um 20 cent jump in accessory structures, decks, and unfinished spaces, which would include garages, basements, and things like that. And that 20 cents jump was based on the fact that we didn't really make a jump the last six years. So if we did review this three years ago, we may have gone up 10 cents. Uh, and then maybe now it's time to go up another 10 cents, which would bring us to the from the 50 to the 70 cents. And if you look at that and how it's used, basically it's a deck. If you have a 200 square foot deck, um you would go from $100 to $140. So it would be a $40 increase, not a huge amount of money, but a small amount of money. And if you build a standard-sized garage with a new $70 per square foot, your new cost would be about $115 for that two-car garage. So not a huge amount of money. Uh but when you look at the commercial side and the way we have it structured, we do have new construction at per square foot cost, and it's the same 75 cents. But where we where we kind of excel with permit fees in the commercial side is renovations. When you charge $15 per thousand on commercial renovations, which in this day and age renovations cost a ton of money, um, you generate a lot of permit fees. Um so if you've paid attention to what's going around town, the Ford dealership, for example, last year they they had a major renovation. Um their permit fee was $50,000 for renovation, and they're gonna go through more renovations there. Attractor supply, that building's going through a major renovation, right? Though that's per per thousand, fifteen per thousand. They paid a permit fee recently of thirteen thousand dollars. Um I can go on. Um, the Ford dealership that's taken overstop at shop. Um million-dollar renovation, they had they just paid a $19,000 per. So there's some big numbers coming in on the commercial side as it is now. So that we didn't really want to make too much of a change and then end up being at the higher end of the scale when you come to commercial, commercial, you know, building primitive piece. So basically, that's pretty much where we are, what we're recommending to you tonight. Um, and you know, I'm open to whatever you decide you want to do. Um so if you have any questions, I'll try to answer. Thank you. Bob Mr. Hiley.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

Well, I would just say, um, Bob, it looks like you did a lot of work um putting this together, and it's really good.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

I won't take all the credit. My my other inspectors helped me with it.

SPEAKER_05 11:00

So well, even so, a lot of work was a team effort there for sure. And I understand what you're saying too, is that you know, we want to be competitive. Um, at the same time, we don't want to just discourage renovations and improvements, so it's sort of a balancing act. But uh I don't have any other questions at this point.

Balancing Revenue With Resident Costs

SPEAKER_04 11:20

Um, I had a chance to review everything, and I always look at in comparison to the adjacent towns, towns that we border directly with, and like what their numbers are because that's always most interesting to me. Some of these towns have mineral infrastructure and stuff like that, so some of you hold it different weights, I would feel. Um, you know, looking at the five cents increase on residential, um I thought five five cents is kind of low on the lower end. That's my general feeling to it. Um, Bob, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but is all of the 40B projects that are out there, those fall under residential building permits, correct?

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Yeah, the apartment buildings on the 40B they go by square footage because they're a residential use.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Okay, alright. So those would fall under that same new construction of 70 cents.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

It will, and when you and when you take into consideration that, like let's take 251 Broadway, for example, those buildings, those are three-story buildings, there's a lot of square footage there. Yeah. Uh building number one suprema fee was um just shy of 25,000 for one building. So, and I believe there's going to be six buildings plus some accessory buildings on that broadway.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

Yeah. Um I I I'd be open to see what the rest of the board thought on what their numbers are at. I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing 80 cents as opposed to the five cents increase, just because I think that the last time we looked at these was 7.1 of 2019. I feel like maybe we should be revisiting these more frequently every three years, and if we made a five cent increase every five, every three years, you know, maybe you know, it would have been more on par at this point for a five cent increase. But I just think 2019 was like a different world that we were living in. And I just think that, you know, if you look, for instance, Easton, which we bordered directly with on 138, theirs is a dollar 75 a square foot. And we would be recommending to go to 75 cents, which is a dollar difference. Um I have no real major concerns with like the commercial side of it, because I think that you know, commercial side is gonna drive in business and everything else, but um you know, I'd be curious to see what the rest of the board thought about where these numbers shake out and what their thoughts are because I mean, as far as I see, there's tons of new construction that's going on in town, and like I've said before, you know, these commercial buildings that are bringing in new business, they're not making a huge impact on the town except bring in new services. So, you know, I I obviously want to see growth in town on all fronts, but like I just think that our fees and stuff need to stay, you know, somewhat competitive with the adjacent towns that were near.

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Um I think I'm kind of cutting them down the middle. Um, most of these proposals I I don't have a significant objection to, but I am missing Andrew on the other side of the fence from you on the residential building permits. The the five cent square footage increase that doesn't concern me, but and I fully recognize percents can be distorting at times, especially when you're copying around these numbers. But it was kind of sticker shock to me to see, you know, 50 and 100% increases on some of these, recognizing it's been, you know, seven years since we've done it. Um but I've always been concerned with when we go through these exercises, um loading up on the front end to make up for past years where we didn't do increases, um, you know, recognizing in the residential sector, sometimes there's uh improvements that are being made for health and safety, a route, for example. Uh, and I want to make sure that, in my opinion, anyways, that we're making it affordable or as affordable as we can for our residents. Um, the rest of the stuff, and and I don't know maybe this makes sense, but uh if the board was amenable to it, perhaps we take, if there's no objection to the commercial ones, we approve those tonight and take a little bit more time to review the residential. Or if the board fails differently, we can do however the board wants. But uh, my only concern is with the proposals for the residential building part of these.

SPEAKER_04 16:05

I have no objection to that. I mean, if you want to approve the commercial ones, because I think some of these and the wiring and the plumbing ones, I didn't find anything, you know, I felt like those are pretty on par with adjacent towns and where those fell. And some of these increases felt warranted. I went I don't think find them to be egregious. No. Um, you know, I think if you if everyone wants more time to digest the residential ones, well.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Um, I just want to bring to your attention that so as far as the residential fees goes, most of those uh improvements, Mr. Chairman, that you're concerned about, we haven't changed that. It's still siding, roofing, doors, and windows, some of those regular repairs that homeowners make, and even some of the stuff that goes on along with like an ADA ramp or something like that, those will always fall under the same uh permit fee that we have now, 15 per thousand. We're not we're not talking about changing that. Uh when you go south of that line in the rest of the permit application, most of those permits that you see there that have gone up $25, the percentage is big. I agree with you, but some of those permits you don't see a lot of. Sheet metal permits, you see, we're in line with other towns at 75 bucks. Um mechanical permits, um, foundation only, minimum permit fee, some of those things you only see very rarely. So that's those things are not going to bring in a huge amount of money. Um, but they're more in line with what we've seen in other towns. But when you when you when you your concern is the um you know the residents and the consumers of rain here, we're not talking about a huge amount of increase when you go, like I told you before, the square footage on a 200 square foot deck going up 20 cents a square foot, you're talking about a $40 increase. And then the renovation side, we we're not recommending any any um change in that 15 per thousand.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

Okay.

unknown 18:03

Ms.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

Riley, any additional thoughts?

SPEAKER_05 18:05

Um, no, but I would say since everyone seems to agree for the commercial, we could uh prove that tonight and get that out of the way and then take a little longer to look at the residential. Just as a compromise, if Mr. Chairman, you're a little less than what Mr. Um Andrade is saying that maybe a two-step project, a process, so maybe goes up so much and then in another year tiered increase instead of all at once.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

And to Mr. Andrade's point, too, I don't have an objection with the other residential components. Yeah. So I think that's what you were implying, right?

SPEAKER_04 18:40

Yeah, I don't have any, I mean, these like to Bob's point, we had in the in in this year alone, we had like you could count as many on two hands of sheet metal permits. I mean, that you know these aren't like huge numbers. I think overwhelmingly it's the new construction, the accessory uh structures, stuff like that are like you know, the real impactful stuff that we see every day when you drive down and you see new construction, where it's like I think that we need to take a really good look at those. I mean, I and I'm not opposed to saying we'll table the residential for now. We can make sure we make an educated decision, whether it be a tiered approach like X amount this year and next year. I just think you know, maybe going forward we look at these more closely every two years or every three years, and we just say, hey, listen, we should probably, you know, look at these. Yes. And I mean, if you know the economy drastically changes, maybe we change it at that point. But you know, the climate that we're in now, I think it needs a hard look.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Do you have any issues, Ms. Riley, with the uh residential wiring or residential plumbing?

SPEAKER_05 19:48

Uh no, not really.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

Okay. Would you want to make a motion then to approve all of these as presented, but for residential building permits?

SPEAKER_05 19:56

Maybe Mr. Andrade would like to make that motion. I'll make that motion.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Uh one question uh for discussion. When would these be effective by that uh that's a good point? Typically we do uh at least a 30-day window for notification for folks. So I don't have a preference. So August 1st. August 1st. Yeah. Okay. All right. So I'll make that motion. And I'm a second to all in favor? Aye. That is approved, and we'll take the last piece under advisor. Thank you, Pop. Thank you, Bob. All right.

Appointments And Committee Needs

SPEAKER_03 20:24

Uh appointments. We have two that were uh left off of um last session's appointments. It's Evelyn Brown to the Council on Aging and Paul Zella to the Library Board of Trustees. What's the board's pleasure on the motion to appoint? Second all in favor? Aye. Mr.

SPEAKER_05 20:46

Sachica, we do have Ed Mahoney for the Cable Advisory Committee.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 20:50

And I did speak with the chairman of the Cable Advisory Committee, Mr. Kevin Ellis, today, and um he is in support of Mr. Mahoney, and also wanted us to make note of the fact he still needs one more member because currently they have three and they have a five-member board. So if we can advertise that we will need one additional and I'll make the motion to appoint.

SPEAKER_03 21:10

Thank you. Second. All in favor. Thank you for catching that. Uh any other old business was frightening? I have none. Mr. Andrew. None. All right.

Transfers, Licenses, And Staffing Votes

SPEAKER_03 21:19

The new business, uh, discussion and vote on line item transfers. Uh, and that was also detailed as a separate attachment, uh, and will also be subject to the finance committee's approval. What is board's closure?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Motion to approve.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Aye. That is approved. Next is change of location, all alcohol restaurant license rating derby, club 1990 Broadway. Uh set the error date, Mr. Barnes is requesting July 28.

SPEAKER_05 21:45

I will make that motion.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

Seconded. All in favor, aye. That is approved. And transfer of license, change of owner, manager, and corporate, all alcohol restaurant license. Gennaro Sarkaterf 77 Broadway. And again, Mr. Barnes is requesting July twenty eighth.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Make that motion.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Seconded. All in favor. Aye. That is approved. Next, discussion and vote and villain filling circulation supervisor position at the library. The person has resigned from the position and the library director is looking to fill that vacancy. What is the board's pleasure?

SPEAKER_05 22:15

A motion to approve.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Seconded. All in favor, aye. That is approved. Discussion and vote on FY27 COLA increase for part-time clerks. Those are dispatches, uh, would be 2%. What is the board's pleasure? Motion to approve. Seconded. All in favor. Aye. That is approved.

Town Administrator Updates And Next Steps

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Time administrators report, Mr. Barnes.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

Yes, uh, we have received uh along with the planning board uh three candidates for the uh associate member of the planning board. Uh you may recall that we advertised and gave a deadline. We're now past that deadline. Uh the deadline was uh June 23rd. The candidates are David Young, Timothy Wells, and Chris uh Moyne in hand. Um the idea is that the um uh planning board uh might want to discuss things at their next meeting, which is uh June, I'm sorry, July 16th, and uh we can then have uh a joint meeting where the actual decision is made on um uh July 28th. We will obviously have to confirm that with the planning board members, but but that is the thinking um that uh hopefully by July 28th we'll be ready to make a uh joint decision of the two boards. Um also um our uh representative uh represented uh the town clerk uh a copy of the declaration of independence. This is something that was provided by the state, I believe, to all uh entities. Um I believe the town clerk is looking into um getting this framed um with the hope that maybe we can put it up in safe this room so we all can read our um declaration of independence.

unknown 24:35

Is that correct?

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Yep, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 24:37

Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Barnes? I have none. None. Thank you. All right, so let's vote

Community Events And Summer Concerts

SPEAKER_03 24:42

for what Ms. Riley.

SPEAKER_05 24:43

I have a couple things. Um, the first planning meeting for the annual Rainheim Community Celebration Day was held on June 22nd, and I can tell you that everything is on track for another great celebration of our town. We already have confirmation that the event, which will take place on Sunday, September 27th, will kick off with a return appearance by the Bridgewater and Tiffany Brass Society Band led by Rainheim's resident Mike Palmeri, opening ceremonies, and then an afternoon of back-to-back entertainment in addition to the array of vendor tables and exhibits featuring Rainham area groups, organizations, and businesses, demonstrations and displays, open house at the senior center, Ray's famous bake sale, and pie baking contest. Copies of the application to participate are available at in our select board office here at Town Hall or by emailing rayvolunteercoordinator at gmail.com. The next meeting, planning meeting will take place on Monday, July 13th, beginning at 6.30 here in the municipal meeting room at Town Hall. Other upcoming events people might want to know about, Park and Recreation Department's Summer Concert Series, which will take place on Tuesday evenings in July, beginning with the Cactus Gang on July 7th, four in a row on July 14th, Dale and the Duds on July 21st, and Forever Fab on July 28th. They all take place from 6:30 to 8.30 on Tuesdays at Bazebo Park in the Borden Colony Complex. They are free and open to the public. You can bring a blanket or chair and enjoy. Also, the month of July brings the summer concert series back to the Stone Church, sponsored in part by a grant from our Iranium Cultural Council. The concerts begin on July 8th with the Westwood Spring Swing Band and continuing on July 15th with the SOS Big Band, July 22nd with the New Providence Big Band, July 29th with the Roy Scott Big Band, and concluding on August 5th with the Dixie Die Hearts. All concerts are on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. and they are free and open to the public. Donations are accepted. The concerts take place in air-conditioned comfort at the First Congregational Church at 785 South Main Street. Over at the Senior Center this Thursday, the newly reorganized Friends at the COA will be meeting at 2 o'clock, and anyone interested in joining is invited to attend or is learning more about the Friends Group membership. It's open to anyone of any age who wishes to support the Rainham Council on Aging. Their new motto is honor yesterday, support today, and protect tomorrow. And other than that, I just want to send out congratulations to our retiring sewer department superintendent, Rob Carey. Congratulations on his retirement and many thanks for a job well done. Wish him a happy retirement and wish everyone out there a very happy, healthy, and safe 4th of July holiday. Thank you, Ms. Riley.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

Mr. Andrew.

SPEAKER_04 27:45

Nothing to add. I mean, that pretty much sums it up. I mean, 4th of July is coming. Hopefully, everyone has an awesome weekend. Stay cool. It's going to be hot.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Thank you, Mr. Andrew. Thank you. Two quick things to echo your sentiment, Ms. Riley. Congratulations to Rob Carey on the well-deserved retirement. And about two weeks ago, I had the chance to join the Lions Club to present the annual scholarships to two very deserving young women, Marine Aunt Julia, and Marina. Marina is headed to Telvey Regina and Julia, you mess Amherst, their business school, which is very prestigious, and always congratulations to them, to all the applicants, and to the Lions Club who continued their generosity in our community.

Resignations, Notices, And Adjournment

SPEAKER_03 28:25

Correspondence, we have a resignation from Dan McNally. Hello, everyone. Please take this letter. It's notice of my intent to resign from the finance committee effective at the end of my term on June 30th. I truly enjoyed my time at the finance committee and wish you all continued success.

SPEAKER_05 28:42

Motion to accept and wish Mr. McNally good luck on his new position with the Bridgewater Radium School District.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Thank you. Second. All in favor? Aye. That is approved. And then we have uh notice of corporate name change for fuel storage. Uh it looks like it is switching to aggregate industries. Actually, amorized to amorized, okay, from aggregate industries. Uh there's no action taken, it's just notification for us. No members of the press with us this evening, no emergency business, citizen and community input? No. Performance of administrative duties just to notify the board. I've signed the time of rating of invoice and payroll wards, along with the finance director. At this time, I'll obtain a motion to adjourn. We'll head into uh executive session under mass journal laws, chapter 38, section 21A2, to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non union personnel or to collect conduct collective offering sessions or contract negotiations with non union personnel to find a chief. We will reconvene in open session for the singular purpose of adjourning.

SPEAKER_05 29:47

I will make that motion.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Seconded. All in favor? Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you all. Have a good evening.