Millinocket council approves warrants, Halloween closures, weighs runway funding

[0:00] Council Chair Gould: Go for it. Yeah, good afternoon. The time is now 5 foot 30 on September 24th. Like to call the regular town council meeting for the town of Milan. Occult order. I get a roll call, please. [0:18] Councilor Danforth: You may. Councilor Danforth? Here. Council Chair Gould? Here. Councilor McLuhan? Here. Councilor Pelletier? Here. Councilor Raymond? Here. And Councilor Runyon? Here. [0:30] Council Chair Gould: Can I have everyone remove their caps and the Pledge of Allegiance, please. [0:34] Speaker C (unidentified): Please be [0:39] Councilor Cameron: United States of America. Actually, we probably just stands one nation under God and with liberty and justice for all. [1:03] Council Chair Gould: We get started there. Any adjustments to the agenda? No, sir. Excellent moving on looking for the approval of the minutes from the September 21st executive session. So move second motion and second kids any council comments none seeing none all in favor see unanimous on there's no special presentation so we can get right into to the town manager report Mr Town Manager awesome so it's been a while since there's been a full [1:41] Town Manager: manager's report so I am going to take some time to highlight some of the 20 pages of this oh many pages but I'm going to go over highlights from the first 10. Brown construction has started mobilizing over on Bait Street they were out Tuesday morning doing their test pits and that sort of beginning work they'll be breaking ground in a in a much larger capacity very soon and they will work as long as they can until they cover it up and finish it up in the spring the abatement work at hang [Councilor Cameron: on at the] barn over in Little Italy 13 Henlock Block that is the abatement process is going and demolition and cleanup will follow shortly after the leaves are pretty quick and efficient with the demo and cleanup that you know generally takes them a few days and once all is said and done that dangerous property will be added to the list that have been turned into safe and clean properties the FY 27 tax commitment is coming right up on us there have been a number of hurdles as you know there's one major account that we end up quite a bit extra working back and forth on before we can actually commit but all of the new values are entered into the system we expect those to be uploaded on Monday September 28th to the website so folks can have some time to review their own property values and call in and ask any questions they may have on the buys and hows of how that works we expect to have our assessor Lorna here at our next meeting October 8th to present on all things tax commitment Followed by the tax commitment orders, mill rate, the delinquent tax, that sort of stuff. So we can look forward to that within days of that, the commitment button should be pressed and those bills will be expected 30 days after commit. So we are a little later than we like to be on that. You know, we usually shoot for mid-September, but it'll be a few weeks beyond the. The most recent news on the runway is that we've, as of Monday of this week, learned that the contractor is hoping to get started with some of the woodcutting work over the winter, which pushes the need for funding that project up quite a bit sooner than we anticipated on that. That so I have a few messages out to question, you know, whether or not we can move that date and also out to the bond bank about the spring session and any glaring concerns that they might see coming up. My concern and that of our treasurers that in order to fund that by the 27th we will need to approach that with the bond anticipation note, which obviously, you know, incurs a, you know, significant amount of legal fees. Our last bond anticipation note ranged between, I think it was six and eight thousand dollars worth legal fees and I am, I'm not confident that we would be that we would receive a bond anticipation note for that amount of money followed by, you know, the process with the bond bank starts, you know, end of January, you know. So we're just, we'd be just a couple of months ahead of redoing all of the legal work for a long-term bond, just a couple of months away from an anticipation note. You know, you all received an email about, you know, a concern with bond anticipation notes, you know, stating that, you know, they're not actual money and that sort of stuff. However, that's not the case, as you know from our experience with them, you know, once that document, the closing documents are signed, you can draw on those funds immediately up to the total amount of the project cost. You know, I just don't think it's a good, I don't think it's a great idea, but we don't have to make a decision on anything tonight. Bev and I have more digging to do and we'll be communicating with you in the coming week to have a more solid plan on that once we're able to have some deeper conversations with those. We've been continuing to onboard the new fire chief, McAdam. Him, he's getting pretty well situated in his position. The other than some technology nonsense, you know, things have been going quite well. He's, you know, working diligently to get caught up from caught the department caught up administratively and is very near finished the DEA license for the prescriptions, taking the ball from what was started to, you know, completion. So in the coming months we should revisit the discussion of the purchase of those drug safes and the cloud storage and that the former fire chief and I had presented to you a while back. You know, it's not a tremendous amount of funding. They're, you know, a couple thousand dollars a piece, but it is not within our budget to cover those, so we'll have to have a discussion on whether or not we stick with the system we have or we upgrade and cover the expense moving through. Oh, and as of this morning, the deed for the former Rush property was fully executed and sent off to the registry to get reported, so we'll be moving forward with that in the coming days. Yeah, yes, four years so far and almost there. So getting into the departments, public works has been working through the annual flushing of the sewer system again. That's a DEP requirement, has to be done every year. That's why we added to the team last year to be able to start accomplishing that annually, as had not been done in quite some time. They've been working on preparing some sewer basins around town and doing a great job. They've actually, they've made use of the new roller and the locally attainable asphalt from the Lee plant over in East Millinocket. If you notice around town, there are larger patches going in than what would normally be used with cold patch and potholes. So they've actually done a really good job resurfacing those areas and making them smooth again. They're not very long-term fixes, but, you know, when you can buy, you know, a ton of asphalt locally for $90-something, I think Brian said, and, you know, get a lot done with the local crew, they're actually quite good at it. I've been really impressed. They've started going around cleaning up some of the tax acquired properties. It's a progress process we put in place last year where, you know, the extra mowing people and then some of the cemetery crew, if they're available, we, you know, towards the end of the summer, we're able to get them moving around and helping to clean up some of those to keep things looking okay. They've worked on several more sections of the bricks down here on Propston, Scott Avenue, on the sidewalks. Those continue to improve. We did have a hydraulic cylinder fail recently at trash compactor. That's in process of getting fixed as soon as possible. It is going to be a twelve thousand dollar job, and in this year's budget we reduced that line to ten thousand dollars. So we're, I think we're able to split it into, you know, another line or two if need be, but that one, that one fix is gonna clean out that whole budget line. So we're, you know, keeping an eye on that for the remainder of the fiscal year. If we move down into to code and life safety, you know, that department's kicking butt, doing a lot of good work down towards the bottom of that section. I want to mention, you know, counselors received a thorough update of our workers compensation with MMA. Our inspection that was about a month ago. You know, having Tom in that office has given us the opportunity to put more focus on improving those things. We've finally, after a few years of working towards it, we've made it to the top tier, three, which is really good. And we got a refund from our last year's workers comp price, and moving forward we get a 15 discount for being in that tier. So that's, that's good progress. When, you know, when I, when I came on, we were very far from that, and now I'm just proud of the team for putting in the extra effort and right fall season doing the right thing. One of the major concerns in that, aside from, you know, the carpets in the building and the condition of the password, was the second set of deteriorated back steps that we have. We replaced one set last year. We were able to get in touch with American Concrete right before they shut everything down, so within the next few weeks, between public works and American Concrete, those, that second set of steps will be replaced and safe and much better. You're not doing the heated one on that side because nobody actually, but it'll be nice. Over at the airport, taxiway extension project is completed. The final inspection is now done. Jeff and I've been going back and forth on Updated hanger and commercial lot leases for land. We have a handful of people interested in jumping on hangar lot leases in the very near future. I didn't realize that was on screen. And we have two local businesses looking to lease land. It's airport development that is along Medway Road. So all of those leases will increase the revenue over at the airport and continue to improve things. Also, Jeff's prepping up for the annual fly-in and cruise-in to be held on October 10th. That's a pretty cool event over there. They've got a lot of neat planes and little helicopters and cool cars that come in. There's a pioneer hose company does barbecue to raise money for their organization, which supports our better station. Over in Wastewater, I just want to recognize Everett Hale has retired as of September 11th. 30 plus years of commitment to the town. The man is an absolute genius. He's a remarkable human being in his intelligence and he was a huge asset to our operation over there. We were very lucky to get Jason Pelkey, who came to us from East Millinocket to fill that position. He came with a Grade 3 license and has already been a huge asset to the department. So we're really excited about that and how things are going over there. there. Community initiatives has been, you know, she's jumped right in taking the rain on community events. But if you've happened over the summer back to school, supply getaway giveaway bandstand jams concert series, the pool party that was held to celebrate the closing of the pool. She's been working with some other organizations and volunteers on planning downtown cleanups along prom scott avenue with public works has been pitching in to help with that as well coming up on fall and winter events the trunk retreat halloween movie nights light up millinocket we'll shoot again for the festival of lights this year hopefully we won't get weathered out of that one grace continues to work on the downtown revitalization efforts with main downtown affiliate program for main development foundation. So she's continuing to play and facilitate those and those planning meetings operation or to be submitted soon for some operational funds for that work and somebody to focus on it. And you know, planning and coordinating smaller scale projects that are low hanging fruit, but highly visible and improved downtown. And so, as we know, our last allotment of brownfields funds has been spent. We were able to work through an impressive amount of properties with that half a million dollars and do some really good work. We're planning to, we're getting ready to submit another application this fall. It's the advice of our colleagues at the EPA that we go for the big one this year. They think we're a good fit for it. So we may be looking at quite a larger pot of funds in more of a revolving loan fund capacity that may be able to do assessments and cleanup. Up so that work has been really and we've we've we've got some attention from you know national offices and organizations with how quickly we jumped into that work and how much we were able to get accomplished in a short amount of time. Recreation apartments going awesome lately, they've been putting on these nighttime soccer groups and getting quite a turnout of kids and adults alike. They're having teams, they're playing under the lights. Everybody's having a blast over there. With the lack of partnership from our neighboring rec department, we are beginning our own youth soccer after school program very soon. You know there was some there was some frustration with sign-up sheets and times and locations and that sort of thing. It just made it impossible for children from Millinocket to participate. So we are now just working with these small with Medway and creating programs that will benefit those two communities and keep things going. Cheerleading starting up soon. Coach Pete certainly ready to hit the mats with the young kids there. We're going to have a lot of fun this season. We're probably going to take home another couple trophies. Really looking forward to that and Taya and Evan are you know putting things in place to get that ski toe opened up, you know, as soon as we can this year. So that is something that we should be able to run after the first couple snows. So hopefully by this is a Christmas vacation we'll have kids running up and down that mountain. And that'll be awesome. Last year we got two weekends out of it, so I'm hopeful that we get some pretty good snow. The town Clark's department does an enormous amount of work and it's all very high quality. You know it just went past the lean stage of the year three day notices and lanes. There were quite a few of those that went out, maybe a little bit more than usual. Major majority associated with one account owner that goes through that process and then comes in and pays those off, so those aren't Necessarily much of a concern, other than the absolute waste of hours and work time that gets put into. See, we've got some good updates from the police department here. I have a report from the library attached. The code enforcement permit summary that was included with packet was not the right one. So I did supply some to you guys this evening when I realized that there's some extra copies up on the bench there. We take one, I guess, but there's, I mean, it really impresses me how much the education around permitting and the participation in permitting has increased over the last couple of years. You know, if you, if you compare the data that we've collected in the last couple of years to the past 30 years, it's, it's nothing to a lot. So that, you know, I always say it, but that certainly helps us stay in line with our legal requirements with property values. If by any, many plays into a more fair cut of the tax commitment. Now, if you build a garage and it's not permitted and it's not on the, town files, then you're not paying your fair share tax. Taxes, right, so now that everything is documented and included in the system, you know, once we talk about the tax commitment in a couple weeks, it'll be, you know, easier to understand. But, you know, some people's taxes will go up quite a bit because, you know, there have been a lot of improvements to their property over the years that weren't done, and some people that didn't do anything, their taxes might go down or stay the same. You know, we have, we've got a little more work to do to get onto that and. We'll hear from Lorna a lot more a couple of weeks. There's also the town clerk's receipts report and a non-zero balance report included in there, and I'll take any questions or comments you've had any. [24:48] Council Chair Gould: Counselor comments, yes. [24:54] Speaker F (unidentified): Yeah, I just have a quick question for the taxes. We're doing the same as we did last year, I'm assuming, with the second portion not being due until March. Thank you answering. Yeah, questions there. [25:16] Councilor Raymond: Runway, airport runway, so do we think we're gonna make that, or are we gonna to again blow by the November 27th day? I am, because that's been, as far as I know, that's been known for a while, and maybe we should have done it first of this year come and get ready for this big project, but I don't know. I'm coming off, you know, what the usual thing to do here. So, yeah. [25:52] Town Manager: Monday's email was the first that was made known to me. So that with the November date, and I think that has to do with them wanting to start cutting the trees over the winter, as opposed to starting, you know, 100% in the spring. But yeah, I have, I'm very concerned about that. That the bond process, you know, can take months. If it's very clean and easy, it can take a couple of weeks, but you know, I, yeah, I do, I'm very concerned about that. So I can't even, I can't tell you a hundred percent if the bank we work with will do an anticipation out for that amount of money, you know. In the past we had to go to a different bank for a larger sum of money, and you know that project didn't end up shaking out in accordance or in relation to the biorefinery, so you know we didn't end up owing that money, but [27:03] Councilor Raymond: Yeah, meaning that deadline will be hard. Okay, yeah. On in the fire department, what did you say on the states that we're going to be look at purchasing? What are they going to cost for them? States are going to be approximately, were they 20, 22. [27:20] Town Manager: Yeah, all together. So we'd need three smaller ones and one bigger one, and they are connected to a cloud service that are that tracks, you know, pin credentials for who logs in, who takes what, it tracks all that for added level of security and safety. But yeah, we're looking at between, you know, eight and ten thousand [27:50] Councilor Raymond: dollars all together. Okay, and from the cemetery, I know it says a large number of obstacles maintaining around. A lot of them are trees and brushes, bushes, and there's not supposed to be any trees and bushes in the cemetery cells. We maybe could address some of that, would probably help out with them having to mow up around there. Some of them, they've overgrown so much that they can't even see the headstones. So I think if we look down to our neighbors down in East, I don't believe there's any trees of brushes, bushes down there. So I think, I think there's actually a ordinance against it. [28:32] Town Manager: So there is, yeah, and the cemetery committee sets rules that are official, and you know they limit what can be there for decor around grave sites. So a lot of people stick stuff in the ground or hang on the top or, you know, but we've had a ongoing thing with white marble rocks this year on people putting extra rocks and different things around the grave site to decorate them, so yeah, it's just something we have to [29:07] Councilor Raymond: Try to get a better handle on, and because I'm only here till November unless I get re-elected, but on the public health and safety, the blighted properties around town, we need to do something about this. It's getting out of hand. I'd say some, I mean, if I went around, took a bunch of pictures, it wouldn't be pretty. And I tell you right now, I wouldn't want to be living next door to, you know, a lot of people take pride in their houses and stuff and what they look like and put money into it, and then you got a dump next door, and that's what a lot of them are. And if we don't start getting the handle on this, it's going to get worse. And like I think a lot of it is coming from taking the dump. I've mentioned this before, so there's two things that we probably could take care of here is shut that down so it's not turning into dump three and dump four and dump five and up six. So that's that. Like I said, it would be something down the road. Can I speak to that [30:11] Town Manager: for a second? You know, we talk a lot about this type of effort, and you know, respectfully, I do take offense to the statement, you know, leading in the direction that nothing's being done. The way our ordinance says, our old ordinances are written, and the laws that we have to abide by make it very difficult. We do spend a lot of time addressing those and working towards those, and it's, you know, we're very limited in what we can do, you know, the larger scale ones that we've worked on and addressed over the last five years, you know, we've, we've had four major successes, and they all took between two and a half and four years to get to that point. So, you know, please understand that we work on that continuously and spend a lot of time on it. So it is hard to navigate, and with [31:33] Councilor Raymond: the limitations in the legal system. Yeah, because I know Council of Medora and myself, we're on a committee on that. The last time he was on the council, we addressed a bunch of that, increase some of the fines and stuff. It doesn't seem to bother some of the people, but we've got to come up with some type of option that's gonna, you know, stop it. So I don't know what it is, which I don't [31:55] Town Manager: As Counselor Ghoul knows, as Counselor Bragdon was putting some effort into the code group that was created with him and Asher, myself, and Tom, our recommendation that is with our attorney Maynard right now is about the junkyard and property maintenance stuff. And you know, the ordinance is solid, but the teeth in it are not there. The solution we're recommending is adding the same civil penalty wording. Hurting because if we go tell somebody they need to do it, they can either participate or anything. Tell us to pound sand right now, and there's not a whole lot we can do about that given the legal system and what limitations we have with getting through it. However, once we are able to do that, we'll have a stronger case to me, and they'll be, you know, immediately find through civil court and taken seriously. So yeah, effort being made toward, and let's see, oh. [33:32] Councilor Raymond: On the airport, and I know Jeff can be having another flying in over there on the tent. Is there any type of budget for that, for that flying, or do we just, he just does it running by the seat of his pants? Pretty much by the seat of his pants. [33:51] Town Manager: Okay, there has been an effort for the past couple of years to encourage the sale of the t-shirts that are bought to be recirculated in as a revenue source to do that. I think that's the only or the biggest expense about the whole thing. Jeff could speak more about that, but. [34:19] Councilor Raymond: Yeah, I agree with you. Well, if there was something to help me that I'd be willing to help with that. Let's see, okay, on the wean date on the tax collector's office, how far out do we usually go out on that? Because I know the last time I was on the council, we started looking into that and we had gone 30-something months over and we went so far over that we couldn't collect the taxes. We lost out about $90,000 taxes. So we want to make sure we didn't want to do that again. So I know there's a balance of $301,000 in it looking to get lean, but some of it gets $12,000, $24,000. I don't know how far out they get, but we need to keep an eye on that. So we said we don't ever want to do that again. You know, people got away with paying no taxes at all. And that was on us as a council because we didn't know at the time. So, I remember the. [35:33] Town Manager: Exact timeline off top my head right now, but I can find that out. It's 30 something months. I think it is. [35:40] Councilor Raymond: We,, like I said, we, it was 90,000 dollars that we. [35:44] Councilor Danforth: We're unable to collect the collection process if I may, it starts from the commitment date. And there's a there's a timeline that is set by state law that we follow, and we've been in compliance. I don't know what you're talking about, but maybe personal property, this was I think [36:03] Councilor Raymond: before you even got to meeting the clerk, and it was yes it was personal property, and it went over on date of the state appointed date, and once we found that out we there was around ninety [36:16] Councilor Danforth: thousand dollars personal property is a different entity in itself, that is a mechanical lien if you will, we would we wouldn't be filing registry liens because of personal properties not a stationary item if you will, no we've been in compliance with our lien process as far [36:34] Councilor Raymond: as I'm aware of, and I want to thank Pete for the manager's report, and I'm sorry it took so long, but it's been a long report, and I just thought there was some stuff I need to ask about, so thank you, thank you John, any [36:52] Councilor Cameron: other council comments? Yeah Mr. Cameron, I'll make a couple comments. [36:59] Councilor Pelletier: Actually Councilman Glollin took my question, I wanted to make sure there was the opportunity for our taxpayers to have yeah the bill broken up like it was, I think that worked out in our favor last time to have two payments, so that's good. I'm disappointed at the information about the airport runway, I know since I've been on the council been working on improving infrastructure over there, and it's been a priority of mine to support that, so that's very disappointing, and just please keep us clear communication up to date on things that you find out what we might be able to do for plan B C or you just we [37:45] Town Manager: will figure it out, let's figure it out one [37:48] Councilor Pelletier: way or the other, and so I'll switch gears and just good news, welcome to Chief Kevin McCadam, lots of great things already things that are going on in your department, and also I want to give a shout out to Assistant Chief Matt Farrington, probably people probably don't know or do know he's my brother-in-law, but he's family, but I know he did a great deal to keep our fire EMS family together in the interim, and I just wanted to give a shout out for the role that he played, I think it was very important, and the morale was high, so and [38:24] Town Manager: as we discussed you know we'll we'll approach about offering a recognition resolve for that, and I think it's been more than well deserved. [38:41] Councilor Pelletier: I will give a shout out to the downtown committee and those that working on, not because I was part of it, but maybe because I was part of it, the sip and sweet, sip and coffee and sweeping our downtown sidewalks to get ready for Trails End Festival, which was an awesome event. The weather held out for the first day. The second day, it wasn't so hot. It was rainy, but the music and the entertainment and the event itself was awesome. So I think those people in the room that were part of the committee did a great job. [39:15] Councilor Cameron: That's it for me. Thank you. Yeah, the counselor comments to the public. [39:22] Council Chair Gould: That's Matt Bragg. Please say, please turn on your camera and state your name and. [39:31] Matt Bragdon: Matt Bragdon, 108 Morgan Lane, Peter. We sent those recommendations to the lawyer on the, code ordinance for the junkyard quite a while ago. Have we not heard anything back on her opinion of if that would work or not? Her and I have discussed it a little more. [39:53] Town Manager: It has not been at the front of the pile for either of us for a little while, but we, you know, with the, with the rush property work completed, we should be able to jump. [40:07] Matt Bragdon: On that and turn it around pretty quickly. Perfect. That was my really only question, just a comment, and then I'll stop. But I would like to continue going over the code book once we, get word back on this ordinance, as it's been stated that code book is extremely outdated, and there's some ordinances in there that definitely need an overhaul to quote unquote give them teeth, and others that just simply need to be omitted. So I know I no longer get those emails, but Asher or Councillor Gould, if you. Wouldn't mind keeping me up to speed on when we do get a response, I would like to hit the code book again. [40:48] Council Chair Gould: Sounds good. That. [40:53] Mary Alice Cullen: Is Mary Alice Cullen. Hi, Mary Alice Cullen, 99 Minute Man Drive. I've got a, I guess a suggestion or what I would like to see happen as far as the debt goes. I feel we're getting at a point where you need to lay out some sort of analysis that looks at, for debt planning purposes, I mean, when you look at a 6.6 million dollar ask, and then there's that six million dollar bond anticipation note should that come to fruition, I think there needs to be a schedule laid out that lays out the various components. That make up the debt, the school, the waste water, the airport, and general bond obligations, because there's only certain percentages that you can lend, borrow against those categories as a percent of the total valuation. And I would like to see some sort of analysis done on what is an acceptable level of debt for the town to be carrying. For example, right now in the FY27 budget, the budget is $257,000 for the town's debt. Just going to the bond website and calculating what a 20-year loan would be on $6.6 million, that would be $490,000 annually. So that in and of itself would double the present debt. And then you get into, particularly when you're talking about the airport is you know what are the future needs because there's a limit on what you can borrow but you're kind you're stepping into gray area as far as looking down the road on other grants and what the town's match would be because it's not going to be five percent like it has been so I think there is a need to lay out what we have how that measures against the lend you know what is the acceptable borrowing rate what our future needs are and the other thing you've got to balance out is that you know and what the future needs are for all the departments the school the wastewater to see that you have got enough headroom to meet those needs, and it stays within what is a comfortable borrowing range for the tax base. [43:30] Town Manager: I totally agree 100%. You know, I will say that our totals overall right now debt ratio is fairly is still fairly low. It was very low in recent years but it's it's it's still quite low you know we don't expect to pay off 6.6 million dollars you know over 20 to 30 years with taxes we're still very confident that 'll be covered with federal funds I guess you know November will be a very big player in that but Mary Alice is 100 right I think we do need to lay that out as she suggested very good thank you very much any other public comment [44:38] Councilor Cameron: Councillor Danforth could I have you read order 212 please yes Mr Chairman order number 212-2026 [44:44] Councilor Pelletier: Six providing for execution of fiscal year 26 town warrant for September 24th 2026 it is ordered that the fiscal year 26 town warrant for September 24 2026 in the amount of eleven thousand five hundred and sixty three dollars and seventy five cents is hereby approved [45:01] Councilor Cameron: Second any heavy hitters I will follow one heavy hitter seven thousand six hundred and [45:07] Councilor Pelletier: Twenty four dollars and sixty four cents bound treaty medical and that's fire department ambulance [45:12] Speaker F (unidentified): What's the flies. [45:15] Council Chair Gould: Any councilor comments? Now to the public. Seeing none, all in favor? Councilor Danforth, could I have you read order 213, please? Yes, you may. [45:30] Councilor Pelletier: Order number 213-2026, providing for execution of the town warrant for September 24th, 2026. It is ordered that the town warrant for September 24th, 2026 in the amount of $171,288.38 is hereby approved. [45:46] Councilor Cameron: 2nd, and 2nd, any having it. I'll pull out a few of the top ones. [45:53] Councilor Pelletier: 20,000 dollars to Frank W, Russian sons, and that's from the funds for the order we passed last week for. The 2 properties and avenue. 859 8,599 dollars and 55 cents calls LLC and that's fire ambulance uniforms. forms nineteen thousand six hundred twenty six dollars and eleven cents main municipal association that's a workman's comp eleven thousand one hundred seventy four dollars and thirty three cents municipal waste solutions that's disposable tipping fees fifty five thousand nine hundred ninety three dollars and sixty four cents cv mart engineers and that what the manager just talked about that was the community-wide browser and twelve thousand four hundred four dollars and ninety six cents per cent power or percent i don't know how do you say it firstly first i give it okay there we go [46:56] Council Chair Gould: any counselor comments mr mayor yes mr down manager very much not a counselor but [47:06] Town Manager: Just a note, the $20,000 check to Frank W. Russian Sons needs to be voided and rewritten. So that one is in the process of being voided right now, and they'll come back in a different name on October 8th for it. So you will see that amount again. Yeah, there was an issue with the pay. Don't be just after we do it. Dba. [47:40] Council Chair Gould: All right. No, the comments public comments like [47:50] Speaker C (unidentified): walls to burn street on that rush building on that 20,000. Did we go ahead and vote for her? an engineer's appraisal or architects appraisal for that building are we no so [48:09] Town Manager: an engineering firm that we work with regularly has knowledge and former access of that building and working a report of recommendation to me to be presented in the near future but it shouldn't cost us any additional with the information they've already gathered and then viewed with their [48:38] Speaker C (unidentified): treats and spectrum how soon will that be demoed if it's once it's done any idea well i mean [48:46] Town Manager: First of all, it depends on the recommendation. You know, I did make that promise to the to the family. Although, you know, the council has final say. I mean, I think everybody agrees so far that, you know, the backside, the bar, and all that needs to come down no matter what. You know, there's a some pretty strong reasoning to say that the main structure will need to come down. There's there's concerns of the foundation and support structure in there, but it's hard to say until I have that document in my hand. It shouldn't take very long, and then, you know, it would be something we would have to bid out, so we would usually put those out for at least 30 days. [Councilor Cameron: I can] pretty confidently doubt that it wouldn't happen before beginning of sure. Never know, I'm really want to bid for us a couple years ago and took a building down in mid-December, so you know, the next couple of weeks will be very telling on a timeline for that. Thank you any [50:09] Council Chair Gould: other public comments? Seeing none, back to the council. All in favor of order 213. [50:23] Councilor Pelletier: Yes, order number 214, desk 2026, providing for execution of the wastewater warrant for September 24th, 2026. It is ordered that the wastewater warrant for September 24th, 2026, in the amount of twenty thousand four hundred and five dollars and eight cents, is hereby approved. [50:45] Council Chair Gould: Stronger in my left ear, seconded by Councilor McLaughlin. Any heaviness? I will pull, I'm going [50:51] Councilor Pelletier: to call up one twelve thousand five hundred and forty eight dollars and seventeen cents, and that's Town of Millinocket, and it's for vehicle maintenance on the flusher truck, gas, oil, that sort of thing. [51:06] Council Chair Gould: Council comments. See, not that in the public. Seeing none, all in favor of order 214. That's also a pillar tier. I have you read order 215, please. Order 215, 2026. Providing for authorization of certain street and parking lot closures for Halloween. It is ordered that the Milwaukee Town Council, on the recommendation of the Health and Safety Officer and Town Manager, authorizes the following street closures related to Halloween events on October 31, 2026. Massachusetts Ave from Heritage Drive to New Jersey Street from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Independence Lane and Massachusetts Avenue intersection. Section Veterans Park, Veterans parking lot, and Popular Street from Peninsular to Qatad Nav from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Winter Street and Forest intersection from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Second any counselor comments? Sound [52:14] Town Manager: Manager again, not a counselor. Yeah, the I'm realizing the independence. And it's laying a message that new intersection, line didn't include the time. That would be the same as. [Councilor Cameron: The,.] Mass have to, from heritage to New Jersey, Florida. So, [52:39] Council Chair Gould: Thank you. I wanted to make a comment. I really want to thank he's filling up at police department. I was going to say every Halloween of how great of a job that they do and enforcing this and really being. being part of the community with the children so I mean so I know Marshall any public comments seeing none back to the council all in favor of order 215. All right moving on to reports communications I see the Warren committee for October 8th 2026 Council meeting will be Councilman McLaughlin and Council appellateer for his last vote yeah [53:21] Councilor Cameron: Yeah last one Louie last one finish strong bud yeah I just did one that's why I made her read so much all the ones next time moving on any chair I don't know you're coming she doesn't know I don't have one okay next time seeing [53:50] Council Chair Gould: Nothing this is the time we can open it up for two minute public comment there's anyone to have a public comment please that [Town Manager: Is Scott Bushard] Please state your name and address please [54:02] Speaker L (unidentified): I just wanted to mention that now that you're looking at a deadline that you have to meet with this funding back to the airport that I would review the termination clauses of that grant acceptance and maybe go back to them if by chance the money is not awarded found however you want to put it I would make sure that it doesn't fall under the termination where more is lost because there are some termination clauses in there where the FAA portion could also be affected the way I'm reading it. I just wanted to make note that it might be worth touching base to them on that. [54:49] Town Manager: Yeah, I believe Scott's right. And Jeff nods his head in the affirmative. [Matt Bragdon: Yeah, thank you.] Further into that too. [55:07] Council Chair Gould: Any other public comment? [55:12] Councilor Danforth: Yes. Chair Gould, if I may, I would just like to address the public that we anticipate the absentee ballots for the November election. We already do have our local, but we do wait for the state to mail out the ones that are ongoing and also for the people that are interested in voting in person. So we anticipate them 30 days to be available. So the 30 days is prior to the elections so we still await the state balance so you can request an absentee we just do not have any in our possession at the moment thank you 're welcome well [55:52] Town Manager: Those are some more orders that'll be coming up don't let me forget [55:56] Councilor Danforth: I have it on my portal. [56:03] Council Chair Gould: Any other public comment? I was going to say something earlier. I know it's been a tumultuous couple of weeks, but I really wanted to thank you for all your efforts as well on the Trail Zen Festival and to also send out nothing but condolences for your loss. And I hope you know every day how much you are treasured by this town down and how much that you do that it was really just want to pass that on towards the end thank you said all in favor of adjournment I make a motion to adjourn second in favor all opposed host. [56:57] Councilor Raymond: I didn't want to break it up.