you you you you you you you you you you We're going to call the Narragansett Town Council regular meeting to order. Today is Monday, November 20th. The time is 7 p.m. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands when the people with liberty and justice crawl. Okay, next on the agenda is the approval of minutes. So I have a motion to accept and place on file the minutes from the October 16th, 2023 executive session meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler. Seconded by Councillor Copac. Motion passes 5-0. Next up we have announcements and presentations. First up is the Narrow River Dredging Report from FOT Engineering. Good evening. Good evening. We're here. Yep. We're here to talk about the Narrow River Dredging Report that you folks had us do in September of 2022 So we did an engineering feasibility report for the narrow river from Boston wreck neck road out to the mouth And we kind of located two Kind of long term goals and some short term goals based on what we've seen At the moment you're trying to you see see that you got the sand is coming in and notes the short-term goal. We got long-term goals that go from the neck out. Concretion of sediment with the niriver has caused only, not only recreational hazards, but it's potentially significant impacts to wildlife, habitat, flooding of adjacent properties, and reduced title flushing in the entire estuary. The following, so I got some slides that are going to show you what's happened over the last 13 years. So this starts in April of 2010, and the kind of significant here is that you can see that nice channel that goes along the spit near the Doons Club. As we go along, this stays pretty consistent. This is 2012. It's moving around a little bit, but I think the spirit of that channel is retained through 2014. Starting to see a little bit of accretion on the tip, but that channel remains in the same place. Starting to see a little build up on that, where it's starting to change shape a little bit. You can also see that that's kind of an important little spot for recreational boaters. You can see them all lined up along that spit there. So, you know, you have a lot of use to this spot. February 2018, it started to kind of realign itself back to where it had been. 2019, this is a high tide picture, so that kind of changes it. But you can see that that's kind of remaining in the same place. March of 2020 and then October of 2021 you can see that that is started to change its shape and flatten out and start to connect a little bit to that sand bar that's to the north and west of it. By the time you get to June of 2022, you see some significant differences. Now you're here, spring 2023. So if you just kind of go back a little bit and take a look, this is your main problem, is that spit right there. So in terms of short term concerns or emergency or emergent type of stuff, this is the area that you're looking at, but you've got accretion throughout the estuary in there. So we looked at a couple of different options for you in terms of dredging that you could look at it short term and long term. The quickest need is the hatching that you see there. For this alternative analysis, we found 37,000 cubic yards. This material is the stuff that's blocking your recreational boats. It's kind of a cork in the end of the river. It's choking up a little, your tidal flushing. So to get to minus four mean low water, everything's referenced to mean low water, which means that the lowest tide you'd have four feet of water Plus a one foot overdrive, which is common in the dredging industry. You'd be at about 37,000 yards for this particular alignment It doesn't address all the concerns out there, but this is the one that would get you get the ball rolling for you The second option is a little more extensive. At this point now we've added the entrance channel. Those are typically a little bit deeper to account for if you need four feet on the inside you put six feet on the outside. That means that someone's coming in with a boat. They have a little more water to get through if it gets a little snotty for them and then you've got a couple of entrance channels there that we looked at. The one on the north or the top of this sheet is some existing deep water. If you utilize existing deep water, you can limit the amount of dredging you need. The main channel as it exists. Oh, point. Thank you. This probably has a point or two. This bottom channel down here is the one that's currently active, and that's the one that most people would recognize. So if you keep the 37,000, and you add volume for the rest of this to get a kind of a reasonable, recreationally sized channel, you'd be at 83,000 cubic yards. Alternative three is the first piece, the second pieces, but now we've added a channel between the bridge and where this meets up down here. This only adds kind of an insignificant amount of yards, but if you're going to go through the process of the regulatory process of getting permits, it makes sense to show this from the bridge out as any material that's in there that shows up later is going to be easier to get yourself a permit for the dredging going forward out there. So once you have your dredge material, you've got to find a place to put it. Options for this material, the Army Corps of Engineers really likes beneficial reuse. Beneficial use is they don't want you just put it into the sky and take it to the offshore disposal site if you can reuse it someplace else. So you have a beach, you have narragantite beach over here and we looked at a disposal option over here. It hasn't been designed but we're looking at places that could potentially work for you in terms of where you could put it. The other main option would be building a dune on the spit. This might be helpful because it might prevent overwash in the future. You know, a properly designed dune there might solve a couple of problems. And the other area is, and I know that the town has done some dune restoration in this area over here, maybe continuing on with that program based on existing stuff that's already been done out there. All right. Okay, up next I'm going to let Kate talk next and she's going to go through some of the work we've already done on the site for sediment sampling and how that relates to the regulatory requirements. Red flag. Caitlin Cross from FOTH. So in order to progress the project forward a little bit, we've developed a sampling analysis plan. This is the areas that we chose to develop for the sampling analysis plan and we developed this in conjunction with the Army Corps and CRMC in order to give the most usable space to develop the channel, because obviously this area moves around a lot. So we wanted to be able to develop the channel as the area kept moving and growing and forming. So as part of this, we developed nine sampling locations. We collected them via Vibracore sampling. The sediment was sent to the lab and grain-sized analysis is due back in early January. Based on that, we'll be able to determine, like Mike said, design some of the disposal locations and see where the material is best suited. Based on that, we've hoping to have a compositing plan so that we can move forward with some chemical analysis as well to determine whether or not any contaminants of concern exist within the material. You can see this table over here is the potential analysis that we're going to be running on the samples. And that's based on beach criteria from the CRMC and Rhode Island DEM. This is just an example of some of the material we found within the area that seemed more suitable based on its grain size for beach nourishment. You can see it pretty much is sand. However, some of the color varies a little bit and is a little bit different than that found on the Narragansettown beach as well as in the Spit area adjacent to the town beach. In addition to that, we also found some material that was not consistent with beach sand. It had much higher fine contents. Beneficial reuse requires 10% fines or less and this material had significantly higher based on what we found in the field. The lab results will tell us a little bit more about that and we'll be able to make a final determination as well as the agencies. We'll be able to make a final determination on that. So this kind of brings us to our next steps from here. Obviously, like I said, we need the laboratory analysis back to develop any further steps forward or paths forward. But right now what we've identified are two tracks. One being an emergency situation where we focus on the spit in that area is return to existing condition based on some of those photos that Mike showed earlier. Alternative two would cover some development of a dredge footprint from the Bostonic Bridge all the way down to the mouth which would give you guys some more long term serviceability for the area, for recreational use, it would provide benefits for habitat and general flooding inside all flushing in the area. As part of this we also recommended that a circulation and sediment transport study and model be implemented. This would allow us to better predict life cycle erosion rate information, and better quantify the dredging needs within the area as well as the longevity of placing it on any of these adjacent beaches or dunes as restoration. That analysis also will help us develop any of the dune restoration templates and be able to optimize any of those designs. And that is all. Thank you for that report. Any questions from the council members? Councillor Copic. Of course. Hi. Thank you for your report. I appreciate it. A couple of questions. You know, one of the things that I'm interested in is understanding why this happened. You showed us slides for about eight years, I think, and you know, some of it varies and clearly it varies because tides vary, because weather varies, et cetera. But, you know, at the end of the day, there's a lot more sediment there than there was before. I think anecdotally, what you've got here is you have those northeaster storms that blew through in that winter, and each one of them overtopped. You also have reached, at some point, if you add sand here, it's eventually going to make it's way there. And we are adding sand. That's pretty much where you are. there and we are adding sand. That concept is really important going forward, because the sediment transport model is what's going to help you understand this process. This is a complex area. A lot of times people will try to look at these models and just look at the peach. Here can we back up a couple of things? They'll just look at this piece. They'll say, oh, well, this is the beach that's going on here. But in this case, you don't have just the beach. You've got the beach that's doing its thing. But then this, the estuary is doing its own thing. So the interaction of what's happening here is a really complex model because you've got to iteratively go through the process, try it, see what sett process, try it, see what settles, try it, see what settles. And that's not something that you can just look at and someone would look at and say, there's a very big predictive model that goes into that. This is kind of played out in the samples as well. If you look at this sand that came out of number six and number three, those two came out over here, which is where you'd expect it. That's the nice beach sand that you had on the beach and then it came down. If you look at where this other stuff came from, this black goo right here, this organic marine sediment, this is, this is, you're gonna have to be very difficult to place this on a beach. That's, it wouldn't take much of that to make it so that you couldn't put it on the beach. Where did you find that? Those sandpakes can tell. The cape was actually out there doing it. Those came farther up. Farther up. So the first one came from up here, which is pretty close to the bridge and some outfalls that are up there. The other one came from down in this corner over here. Which leads to that in concept, the idea that you have a coastal mob, a coastal beach situation, and that's where the sand, the source of the sand is. But if you look this organic marine sediment, it's come in the other direction. And how that interacts at the end of that estuary is Something that you really need to think about because With most reging it's it's a wear item. You got to look at it like the brakes on your car Right you go out. You're gonna do some dredging. It's gonna be good for a period of time And you have to go back again, but it could vary you know one storm later And it could overtop the whole thing, and you might be back to it. So you wanna look at those things and design smartly for what the conditions are at the site. And this is a challenging site, it really is. You've got some, the spit is there. There's potentially, you know, where can you work on that spit? That's the first question. The next question is, what kind of material do you have? So it's going to come down to what the regulators will allow you to do and how much it costs to do it. And there's going to be some short term thinking here and there's going to be some long term thinking here. In the long term, excuse me. The long term thinking is that where you have this sort of sysophysian thing where we're going to be rolling the boulder uphill and it's going to come down and we're going to bring it, roll it back up again. It's going to be like this. I know that the circulation model and the sediment transport study will help us predict and we'll get a nice rate that it'll tell us how long it'll take it for it to fill back in to existing conditions. I do think also this, this is unfortunately it just takes one storm for this to happen in this material that used to come down here and flush out nicely on this side. Now it gets caught up right there. And then it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and comes back. So it can't like flush nicely like it wants to and as it would have before and like it did for all those years. So conceivably, one potential solution would be to ensure that it's constantly flushing on the south side there, right? So that you, because it seems like it goes back and forth on the north side. Our first alternative option is to look at that area that's blocked off there. And come up with a plan that's, it may not align with the final long-term thinking of the estuary, but the short-term right now, you have a real situation here, where you can't basically get a 16-foot center console out there at low tide. Right. And that's a problem for what you normally use this site for. So going forward, just so I have this straight. What we need to do is find out what, you know, find out what the sediment samples tell us. And then we have to make a determination because in some cases we might be able to retrieve the sand and reuse it. But if we don't, then that has to go somewhere. Yeah. So your disposal options, you basically have three disposal options. Beneficial reuse, i.e. put it on the sand, put it someplace, if it's clean enough, put it someplace to reuse it. Offshore disposal, which is when you put it in a sky when you tow it off of Block Island, there's a disposal site out there that the Army Corps operates. The third option is Upplin disposal, but that tends that's landfill disposal and you only do that if you have to. In other words, if you hit on one of those criteria that Kate has shown us, then you could potentially be in taking it to Johnston for wherever to get rid of it. We're Johnston. Okay. So you'll be back to tell us about what happened to the sentiment samples in January. It's funny that everybody is really busy right now. And she dropped our stuff off and they told us 60 days at the lab or something. Okay. So that's pretty much where we're at. So we'll be running the grain size first. They'll get that back. They'll let us know what it comes back with and potentially reduce them so that we don't have to run every single sample for chemistry. We can combine them into smaller groups and maybe only run two or four instead of nine and then from there we'll run the chemistry. Okay. And then at that point once we figure out what the best solutions are, you'll be around to help us figure out how we do that, right? Yep. All right. Great. bus figure out how we do that, right? All right. Like I said, you know, there's the regulators drive a lot of the bus with this stuff. What you can do is not always what you want to do, but you know, we've got a good relationship with the regulatory agencies and an understanding of what they will allow. So that's all you can do is follow these steps you get to this point and you show them the material is clean enough for this or for that and then it's going to come down to getting the permit and finding the money for the grant. Okay thank you very much. Any other questions? I'm the council. Councillor Loughlar. So the work that you were engaged to do the scope of the work, does that include you went through three different recommendations? Will that include coming back to us with exactly what that entails? How much that would cost? Yes. I would say we have at least one more meeting associated with what's going on. We can do a better job of fleshing out what your options are once this material comes back from the lab. And then you can start to see some real numbers, you know, other projects that we've had in the works that we have real numbers on. You can start to apply those numbers to get yourself a budgetary number to figure out what you're up against in terms of cost. Yeah, our contract that was awarded to us when all the way up to essentially preparing the bid documents. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Accounts with Frandy? Any questions? Yeah, just had a question. The one spot, you know, with the beaches and it goes, it's like a ball up in there. Was there any determination if it's just the regular, you know, the some of the sand that know the other side that were a little to the right of that? Yeah, that area right there, all in there. Is that a lot of sand that was put on the beach that's making its way there? Or is the study gonna try to find out what that is? I think she's actually got the, one of these was right there where you're talking. The bottom one. But see the one at the number six. Yeah. How the color changes at that tongue depressor. You probably have material that was there for equilibrium in the channel and it stayed there for a long time. The stuff on top looks fresh, something that's probably been recently deposited. But this is a really dynamic environment. I mean, there's a lot going on there. The material you can watch the sand come in by the end of that spit when it's coming in. You know, it's moving around constantly. Like I said, anecdotally, people say, you know, those three noracers that blew through that winter is when this big sand pile showed up. And there's just not enough tidal flushing as it exists now to keep it clear the way it was before. And that's how you have, like if you go back here, see how it's remained pretty much static for a long time. That's just because that's the equilibrium that it wanted to be at. And then, poof. June 2022, it just overtopped everything and went into the channel. And that loss of flushing, now it's not at its normal equilibrium. That's like, and if you go back to our alternatives analysis, that's what this one tries to recover. That's what this one tries to recover. That's what this is trying to get you back to skim out. Just, let's see if this has got a point. That alternative analysis will get you this piece out. Down to here. This is right about minus four. Ish. Minus three. Fish. Sorry. So those are all this material that comes out. That's where that would come out. It's just about getting a permit and then finding a place to put it. And that's what the next step is going to be. But as an estuary, this is a dynamic system. This small piece will get you part of the way. But that's without the sediment transport model and not without a proper design of whatever you put out there, you could just be three nor easters away from it going back out there again, which is something I would never not tell you that. That's the problem with this strategy. It lasted a long time. But this is pretty much, this is not sustainable. I think you've got to do something about this. Thank you. Councillor Sissley, but I don't know what do you have any? I'm just wondering timeline. I know you're going to come back with more information and proposal. Are you thinking three months, six months before this council is done in November? I'm just trying to get a timeline of when it will come back. We'd have this finished up probably six weeks after the documents come back because we have to, we'll get that sample. Kate will interact with the agencies. They'll tell us what they think, hey, you could do this, maybe you should try that, and that takes time. And then after we've got an appeal for what the regulators would be interested in, then we can give you some recommendations and some budgetary numbers to start thinking about going forward. So more like the spring, that we think I'm just trying to follow the time. I would say so. Probably early spring is like March. Yes, more realistically. The grain size comes back in January. It's going to take a little bit for us to analyze it. And the agency's to take a look at it. That'll probably take about two weeks, maybe, two to three weeks. other 45 to 60 days for those additional samples to come back. So you have spring probably the earliest we would have all of the results in and that's when we could really develop a new path forward. However that doesn't include the sediment transport model because that hasn't been initiated yet and that has about a six-month turnaround time limit. Okay thanks. Any other pictures you want to see before I hand over the flicker? It's a nice spot. It is. Okay, I think that's it. So thank you to folk engineering. I said it right this time. You're welcome. And thank you and we look forward to getting additional information. Thank you and we look forward to getting additional information. Thank you. Thanks. Okay, we do have our public hearing that's going to be starting in about five minutes. So for the sake of time that we do have a couple presentations, but I'm going to skip to the proclamation. We do have a couple presentations, but I'm going to skip to the proclamation. We do have a proclamation today in honor of Family Court Awareness Month, which is the month of November. So I will read the proclamation. A proclamation recognizing November as Family Court Awareness Month, whereas the mission of the Family Court Awareness Month Committee is to increase awareness on the importance of family of a family court system that prioritizes child safety and acts in the best interests of children. And whereas the mission at the FCMAC is fueled by the desire to create awareness and change in the family court system for the conservatively estimated 58,000 children a year ordered into unsupervised contact with abusive parents while honoring the hundreds of children who have been reported as murdered during visitation with a dangerous parent. And whereas the mission of the FCAMC is to increase awareness on the importance of empirically based education and training on domestic violence and child abuse, including emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, as well as childhood trauma, coercive control, and post-separation abuse for judges and all professionals working on cases within the family court system. And whereas the mission of the FCA-MC is to increase awareness on the importance of using scientifically valid evidence-based treatment programs and services that are proven in terms of safety, effectiveness, and therapeutic value. And whereas the mission of the FCAMC is to educate judges and other family court professionals on evidence-based peer-reviewed research, such research is a critical component to making decisions that are truly the best interest of children. This research includes the adverse childhood experiences study, Co-Principal Investigator Vincent Folletti Kaiser Permanente, CDC, Child Custody Evaluators' Beliefs about domestic abuse allegations, Principal Investigator Daniel Saunders, University of Michigan, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and Child Custody Outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations, principal investigator Joan Asmire, GW Law School, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice. And now, there are four. We, the town council, the town of Narragansett, do you hear by proclaim the month of November to be family core awareness month and encourage all residents to support their local community's efforts to prevent the harm of children and the hands of family members and to honor and value the lives of children. Adopted this 20th day of November 2023. Thank you. Okay. Would you like to say so we'll move. We'll start with the public hearing which is starting in a couple minutes. So we'll have our stenographers first set up. And then once we complete the public hearing, we'll go back to our analysis presentations. We do have a lot of them this evening. So I'm looking forward to the other ones that we will be speaking about. And of course our town's report as well. Okay. Okay, so for the public hearing, we have a motion to open and hold a public hearing on an application for the transfer of stock only for the class B. Victual or alcohol beverage license of new dragon incorporated doing business as new dragon Chung-Hing-Low, 50% James-Low, 25% and John-Low, 25% 80 point due to the road assessors plat P lot 324. So I have a motion. So moved. Second. All in favour? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler. Seconded by Councillor Copic. Motion passes 5-0. Anyone wishing to I know from the public. Okay, hearing none. This is the quickest public hearing I think we had. So do I have a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler, second by Councillor Copac. Motion passes 5-0. Next up we have a motion to approve the transfer of stock only for the class B. Victual or Alcohol License for new dragon Incorporated, doing business as New Dragon, Chung-Hing-Low, 100% stock, to New Dragon Incorporated, doing business as New Dragon, Chung-Hing-Low, 50%, James Low, 25%, and John Low, 25%, 80 point Judith Road, assessors Platt P, lot 324, subject to state and local regulations. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler, second by Councillor Copa, motion passes 5 0. Next up we have a motion to open and hold a public hearing on the renewal of alcoholic beverage licenses for the license period of December 1st, 2023 to November 30th, 2024. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Is there anyone from the public wishing to speak? Seeing none. Do I have a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler, second by Councillor Copac. Motion passes 5-0. Next up, there's a motion to approve the renewal of the following class A alcoholic beverage licenses for subject to compliance with all state and local regulations, bonnet spirits incorporated, doing business as bonnet liquors, 965 Boston Neck Road, O'Neill's package store incorporated, doing business as O'Neill's package store, 366 South Pier Road, Pier Lickers, Incorporated, doing business as Pier Lickers, 29, Pier Marketplace, and Schwabby's Wine and Spirits, Incorporated, doing business as Schwabby's Wine and Spirits, 85.J point Judith Road. So moved. Second. And it's all in favor. Hi. Hi. Oh, opposed. Next, we have a motion to approve the renewal of the following class B, Victualing Limited Alcoholic Beverage Licenses, six, subject to compliance with all state and local regulations, carries incorporated, doing business as out carries, 1240 ocean road, Beniz Clamshack LLC, doing business as Beniz Clamshack, 12 Santa L.C.O. of Road, hook, line, and pizza, LLC, doing business as hook, line, and pizza, one angel road, JB Coffee Company, doing business as co-cool beans cafe, 18 Kingstown Road, Julius LLC, doing business as Leo's pizza, 909 Boston Neck Road, and Montajans Restaurant Incorporated doing business as Montajans Clamshack, 190 Ocean Road. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler, second by Councillor Copic. Motion passes, five, zero. Next we have a motion to approve the renewal of the following class B, Tavern, Alcoholic, Beverage Licenses, three subject to compliance with all states and local regulations. IMP beverage services LLC, doing business as Shore House and Beachcraft, 113 Ocean Road, the Surfshack Bed and Breakfast LLC, doing business as the Surfshack Bed and Breakfast, 83 Narigantite Road, and the break LLC, doing business as the break hotel and share five restaurant 12.08 ocean road so moved second all in favor I all opposed motion by council lawler second by councilor Copic motion passes 5.0 Next we have a motion to approve the renewal of the following class B, Victualing, Alcoholic, Beverage Licenses, 20 of them subject to compliance with all state and local regulations. Caterina's Italian Restaurant Incorporated, doing business as coastal cabin restaurant, 945 Boston Neck Road, Italian Restaurant, Incorporated, Doing Business as Coastal Cabin Restaurant, 945 Boston, Neck Road, Champlain Seafood Deck, Incorporated, Doing Business as Champlain Seafood Deck, 256 Great Island Road, Diamond Arturo Corporation, Doing Business as Arturo Joe's, 140, Point Judith Judith Road number 19. George's Galilee Restaurant Incorporated, doing business as George's of Galilee 250, Sandhill Cove Road. GFO Incorporated, doing business as Poncho Amalese, 140 point Judith Road number 20, 21 and 22. Hammerhead, Grill Incor Incorporated, Doing Business as the Bond View Inn, 1230 Ocean Beastro, 1230 Ocean Road. Marinor Grill, Incorporated, Doing Business as Marinor Grill, 140 point Judith Road, Eunice A7. New Dragon, Incorporated, doing business as new dragon, 80 point Judith Road, one eye jacks LLC doing business as Buster Crabbs, 265 Great Island Road, Pellies properties doing business as Pellies Place, 909 Boston, Nick Road number three. Port side restaurant incorporated. Doing businesses port side restaurant. 321, Red Island Road. Ralph Jagschitz doing businesses the tavern. 140 point Judith Road unit A5. SAG's enterprises LLC doing businesses PJ's pub, 135 Boone Street, Spain of Narragansett and corporate doing businesses as Spain restaurants 1144 Ocean Road, South winds corporation doing business as the Coast Guard House 40 Ocean Road, the bike stop cafe incorporated, doing businesses the bike stop cafe, 148 Boone Street, Trio LLC, doing business as Celeste, 15 Kingstown Road, Sonoma, Asian and Sushi Bar, LLC, doing business as Sonoma, Asian Bar and Sushi Bar, 21 peer marketplace, TRG2, incorporated, doing businesses, T's, Narragansett, 91 point Judith Road, and Twin Willows, incorporated, doing businesses, Twin Willows, 865 Boston Neck Road. So moved. Second. All in favor. road. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler. Second by Councillor Copic. Motion passes 5-0. Next we have a motion to approve the renewal of the following class D club, club alcoholic beverage licenses, six of them, subjects to compliance with all states and local regulations. Regulations, Bonnet Shores Beach Club Association, doing business as Bonnet Shores Beach Club, 175 Bonnet Point Road, Dunes Corporation, doing business as the Dunes Club, 137 Boston Neck Road, GBC Association, doing business as Giali Beach Club, 220 St. Hill Cove Road, and Meditux Improvement Association, doing business as Medituxet Yacht Club, 30 South River Drive. Pediscwomp skit Lake Shores Improvement Association doing business as Pediscwomp skit Lake Shores Clubhouse, 50 Wood Zier Road, and Point Judith Country Club doing business as Point Judith Country Club doing business as point Judith Country Club 150 when Mayor Road. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Council Lawler, second by Councillor Copic. Motion passes 5-0. I think that concludes it. I'll say. Nice job. Thanks. All right. I'm going to need. I'll see. Nice job. Thanks. All right. I'm going to need a sip of water. You're on a huge ride. Okay. Thank you, Taurus, to Niagara for. I think we're good. Thank you. So we'll get back to our announcements presentations. So we do have from the Secretary of State's office, we have Ms. Lauren Fogarty, who will be presenting on the Rhode Island 250, Semekwin Centennial, the 250th R.I. 250 commission. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome the Godwards. Fogarty of 50, Woodmark Way, Wakefield, Rhode Island. Thank you, Council President and Council Members. I'm the Program Coordinator for the Rhode Island 250th Commission, semi-quinn centennial, 250th Commission, or R.I.250, I know it's a mouthful. Thank you for having me here today on behalf of Secretary of State Greg Amore on the beautiful town of Narragansett to promote the creation of local 250th committees. I'm joined this evening by my colleague and Narragansett resident Nick Edwards, as well as kind of a coincidence, but nonetheless this has been an ongoing conversations members of the South County, sorry, those little, South County Museum to support of this particular endeavor. In 2026, we're set to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For some, this milestone may elicit memories of the excitement associated with a bicentennial period in our nation. I'm here today to bring attention to this tremendous opportunity for each community across this nation and state alike. R.I. 250 has been charged with developing ways to recognize and honor this anniversary in our state. The mission of the commission is to commemorate the 250th anniversary of our nation, the events throughout history in which our beautiful state has had a massive influence, and are largely forgotten role in the formulation of our nation. Most notably, our contributions to the ideals of freedom, equality, and independence. We at the commission are most excited to help facilitate this milestone statewide in years-long multifaceted commemoration. And we intend to engage as many Rhode Islanders as possible. And we believe the natural next step is to organize at the municipal level. One of the duties of the commission is to collaborate with local organizations to promote the pivotal role that Rhode Island played in the founding of our country. Therefore, we would like to take this time to invite Narragansett to organize a local 250th committee to highlight your unique history and encourage as much public participation and events that highlight our nation and state's diversity. And I've shared with your clerk a pamphlet by the American Association for State and Local Histories, ASLH, who have taken the reins on this project at the federal level or the national level. Although this information is directed at a larger scale commission like RI250, I find that the resources and toolkit outlined in this document are helpful for this endeavor. The example of a working group seems like the best approach. Our neighbors in South Kingston have been celebrating their 300th anniversary this year. The programming academic resources and public engagement have been significant. The town has marked this unique milestone with a lecture series on the town's history, large-scale bonfires, and elevated regular events like their annual Arts and Culture Festival, and something that they like to call River Fire. The town will also, and has, installed at this point, a 14-foot sculpture designed by the influence of their history and identity as a community in their town green. The opportunities are really endless. Commemorative events like the semi-quince and teniel can bring together communities and promote a sense of identity. There is so much progress to celebrate. During my time with RI250, many people look back at the bicentennial with fond memories, and I think that we can make this the best commemoration yet. Secretary Amore envisioned coordinated projects with each municipality that can include a pop-up archives presentation. And today I brought a small collection of archival documents and photographs from Narragansett that I have placed at the back of the room to highlight just what a pop-up exhibit could look like in these documents range from an act to incorporate Narragansett in 1881, the votes of free men of 1788, and photographs from across Narragansett in the 1920s, as well as damage from the hurricane of 38. This is an example of a type of display that could be curated at a Narragansett 250, of course, in coordination with Rhode Island Department of State and State Archives. In addition, Secretary Moray hopes to coordinate projects with each municipality, including evergreen ones such as the planting of red maple trees in town greens. Therefore, I come to you today to urge this council to establish a committee to mark this milestone and then like to invite Nick to give some remarks as my predecessor. So you can speak to this. Thank you, Lauren. Great job. Good evening, members of the council. Great to be here tonight in my hometown to give a little pitch about RI250 and what Narragansettu 50 could be. So, look, Lauren covered most of what we have to say here tonight, but this is a big opportunity for not only our entire state, but for our town here in Narragansett. It's an opportunity to boost tourism and economic development as well as spurring education in K through 12 schools. It's a big moment in our nation's history, and I really just urge you to take this chance to establish Narragans 250. I'd also like to say Dr. Richard Vanger-Miche has been a big part of this process. I've met with him several times. And as our town historian we can say he would serve as a great asset to this Narragansett 250 committee as well as Susan Valinstein in the South County Museum they've been terrific partners over the last three years so again I urge you to work together and let's get a Narragansett 250 committee and Narragansett I'll even serve if the council rules will allow it. Thank you I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys may have. Thank you. Do any council members have any questions from this Fogarty? Thank you. I've had to see Mr. Vangermish wanting to speak? Yes, sure. Yeah, I had what's going to say this at Open Forum, but it's better here. I think many years ago, Al Bacinia would wave, and Susan would remember this the navig at times of late March of 1988, the celebration of us, and Tantiel. Eventually I figured out if I added 25 to 1988, I spent numerous attempts at doing this. And finally, Chris Wilkins, who was on the council at that time, said he got disgusted with hearing me. I was ready to give up and he said, okay, we'll try it. And all of a sudden, we really had a magnificent success. Now, I won one thing that is outside the time frame of this, that is crucial. And that is the 350th commissaration of the Great Swamp fight, which took place in South Kingston, but the narrow gancets and their Wampanoa friends left from Karnachit Farm and other points in to go to the Great Swamp where they unfortunately were killed. We have three other major revolutionary events that happened in geographic narrowing against it. And that is the November 6th to the 8th, 1777 victory at near the rocks on Point Judith, the light, the current lighthouse. The South Kingston people, North Kingston people, I think the Bristol people captured the HMS Siren and two other ships. This was done by the militia in each town, not the state. And as a result, it's not known as well as it should be. But this was the only victory we had in Rhode Island, and we really don't know about it, and we want to celebrate it. General Lafayette visited and stayed at the Robinson Farm on his way to the old South Ferry to go to Newport to meet with General Rochambal in May of 1780. And then George Washington came here to the South Ferry to go to Newport the next year to meet with General Rochambal, which led to the great victory at Yorktown. So we have much to do, and I thank Nick for measuring this, but I really need the same people that stepped forth for the Navigants at 125. Because once we got it going, people came out of the woodworks, and I had to beat them back, really. So please, as our speaker said, and I say, please join us in celebrating the and commiserating also that horrible thing that happened at the great swamp. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Voguelli. Thank you, Mr. Roberts. Real welcome Madam President. I think we found our chair for the guests at 250. Thank you. Thanks. We'll be in touch. Thank you very much. OK, so next up we have from the South presentation South County Museum 90th Anniversary. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. I'm Lynn Wagner from South County Museum. So I'm here on behalf of the South County Museum Board of Directors. As you may know, the museum turns 90 years old this year. To celebrate our anniversary, our print shop volunteer came to the board back in December of 2022 and asked if he could recreate an exact duplicate of the Declaration of Independence printed by John Dunlap on July 4th, 1776. This was no small task. We are a museum. Our goal was not to do this in two days as Dunlap did. It took Ed and his volunteer six months. We had this ready for our fourth annual, our annual Fourth of July Chick Hatch. One of our volunteers in period clothing read the Declaration out loud to attendees. The museum is so thankful for the town's continued support. We would like to present to you a printed copy of the Declaration of Independence reproduced by our print shop. That's amazing. Thank you again. Thank you very much. That's an incredible gift and I really, we really appreciate that. Mr. Vainer, we want to, I'll let you speak since your hometown historian. It's important. I'd like to stress that every historical celebration you can grab at, you want to mark it. Now, against it has a spectacular history that can be marketed. It is more difficult to sell history now than it was 30 years ago. I've been selling histories for 60 years and I've marketed 36 all over the world on this. And I know it's a difficult marketing job because history has been forgotten in schools currently. History course after history course is dropped at universities, but we still have the ability to market history. And I will tell you what I told the people at celebrating the 375th history of Rhode Island. That was my idea. And I said one thing. How many people in this room will be around for the 400th anniversary? And nobody raised their hands. So I said this is a good idea that we celebrate 375. And it actually happened. And I say to you, 90 may sound insignificant, but a lot of us, including me, is going to be struggling to make it to the 100th celebration of the South County Museum. So any time you've got a chance to market history, it still sells. Thank you. Okay. All right. So finally we're getting to our town managers update. So Mr. Terney. Every one of them is a very tough act to follow. First of all, I would like to thank Lynn Wagner. She has been a tremendous partner with the town since she's taken over at South County Museum. And the partnership has been great. Now, thank you. A couple of updates, the library, there will be a delay on the completion. It is no fault of the project manager, the owner's representative, or the library bullet, or the staff. Keo, the representative has reviewed Berman's request for time extension, and it's been recommended for approval. The contract required completion date by November 28th, but the extension is through January 31st, 2024. It's due to delay in the shelving that's needed in the stacks that has to be procured under a separate contract, and it's just not here yet. It's no fault of the library board or the staff or the project manager. It's just one of those library board or the staff or the project manager. It's just one of those things, but everything's moving along other than that. Well, the grant writer research, the RFQ for the grant writing services will be advertised on Friday, November 24th as a component of the research assigned by the town council to explore options for engaging grant writer in some capacity. The bid opening will be on Wednesday, December 13th at 11 a.m. Middlebridge project. The revised completion date is now May 17th of 2024. This is primarily due to the vegetation and landscaping portion of the project, which will not be able to take place now. They would have to happen in the spring. I advise the council on Friday, the Bout de Bietch capacity study. Tile engineering has provided some preliminary data with their survey. It's their first shot so far. They, it's very raw data. They have a way to go, but it's just want to give you an update on it and the public an update on it. There's more data they have to get and they'll extrapolate what they can from that and apply it to their analysis. We're at deep into budget prep again and that is about it for now. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So next we will go to our open forum public comment portion of the meeting. Again, the comments of citizens addressing the council are neither adopted nor endorsed by the body but heard as requested. Note public comment will not be taken on matters involving open litigation. And the rules are signed into speak. The sign in sheet is at the back of the chambers. State name and address speak only on topics not on the meeting agenda. And there's a three minute time limit per speaker subject matter. And please be orderly and respectful. Mr. Tierney will get the sign in she and we will call the first individual up. I hope that anyone will take again. You have spoken. Okay, Dr. Alba. Dr. Alba. Dr. Alba. Dr. Alba, 24, he goes Nest Terrace, Narragance of Rhode Island. I filed two APRA requests to the RIDM. Hopefully I'll be receiving it soon. They have a 10-day window with file November 10th. I would say one state. I would like all correspondence from those who approved an authorized RIDM. We'd have to pay for the demolition of the layhouse in. I would like to see justification why the RIDM is paying for the demolition. I did read it in the Times that right now it's still up in the year. So maybe they had a change of thought. I don't know, but I would like to have all correspondence. I also stated I would like to have a copy of the new lease if there is one for the five acre possible for the two of the vehicle parcels because they're still operating their parking lot, even though the lease technically expired and it was supposed to be out of the August first, they are still there. So I'm quite concerned as many others are, why is the RIDM still allowing them to operate parking lots there? I don't know if the town council can send a letter to the RIDM, even the governor's office saying, what's going on here? Many online, including myself, for our way you oppose the additional signage around the pair. It's been working beautiful for years, and we just don't feel we need to have more signage. During my daily tours during the summertime, it's show that even on Memorial Square and the area squares, we have the two-hour parking, people park on a hot sunny day, people are gonna park there, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna just hitting people up for tickets, you're gonna have more signage pollution, and it's gonna take away from the beauty of Narraghancid. So we want to be welcoming, as the previous speaker said, let's make Narragiancet welcoming for tourists. Let's not make it a hindrance or barriers. We are different than Newport and we are different than a lot of other towns. We have people pay to go on to our beaches. So let's not give additional burdens. Beach crowds was a non-issue. If you could watch my videos online, there was no issues with beach crowds. And I would strongly recommend we consider opening up one of a lot during the weekdays, either in North to South La as the data has shown, they are how they virtually ever fall to capacity. So I had to see little kids and seniors walk from the West La across the road on the dirt road to make it to the nearby beach and to me that's just making me shake my head when there's more than available parking on either the north or the south lot. I would also recommend that the cabana rentals we consider not having rentals and perpetuity that we should have some kind of limitation so that we're all residents who want to rent out can do so and we can have a revolving timeframe. The last shall be first. So those who are waiting the longest, those who waited the longest, have them go up on the ladder first. Thank you very much and I appreciate all your help. Thank you. Anyone else who? Mr. Tierney, is there anyone else signed up? and I appreciate all your help. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else who, Mr. Tierney, is there anyone else signed up? Oh, that was it. Ms. Emertha. Susan Emmer, who's a 111 West Bay Drive. I just want to say thank you to Twin Wellows and to Trio recently that helps support the library in raising funds for the new building that we're anxiously going into, which, now, sorry, is a delay. But they've stepped up to the plate and I'd like to thank everyone who attended the fundraiser to the residents who have churned out time and time again to help pay off the library and raise funds so we can have the best library ever. And I also want to mention that there's a jewelry and purse sale coming up as the next fundraiser, which is going to be December 2nd and 3rd from 10 to 4 at the Narragance Casino, which is in the Pierre Marketplace. So if you're thinking of jewelry that little kids want to buy for their mothers, that they'll treasure for the rest of their lives, this is the place to get it because it'll be very very inexpensive. So this is the place where you can bring your kids and save some money. So, and from what I've seen, the purses are nice. I'm not a purse person, but there are people who are guling them. So I would say it would be worth your time to show up. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Seeing none, we will move on to consent agenda. Do we have a motion to approve consent agenda? Second. All in favor. I all opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler, second by Councillor Copac. Motion passes 5-0. Next we'll move on to new business from the Parks and Recreation Department. We have a motion to award the bid for the purchase of picnic tables for the Parks and Recreation Department to the most qualified bidder, ME, O'Brien and Sons Incorporated, and the amount of $23,820. Some moved. Second. Any discussion from the council? Anyone from the public? Oh, Dr. Alaba, 24-year-old, and that's Terrace. Yes, so I'm all for this. The beautifying of our parks. I mean, that's very important, you know, and having, I know many people have discussed about, you know, having money is available for the children and families, so that's good thing. I was thinking, though, it'd come to my mind. I know we have a bench program, and I know that does generate some kind of income where people have a little play, or a memorial on the benches. So I don't know if you might want to consider, maybe for these different picnic benchesches if that might be a consideration too But I just wanted to build that out there. Thank you. Thank you Anyone else? All in favor? Hi I opposed motion by council lawler second by councilor Copac motion passes five zero Next up from the public works department, we have a motion to approve the purchase of one new 2025 international model HV607 4x2 heavy duty truck with 11 foot snowplow and sander with anti icing system from allegiance trucks pursuant to the source will contract in the amount of $256,138 and $6. So moved. Second. Okay, so this one, so the funding source is a capital projects account and is vehicle replacement. And this will, this is the equipment multi-year replacement program. So the entire fleet of vehicles and equipment is regularly reviewed and updated after taking into consideration current needs and service ability. Funding for the replacement of Highway Division Truck No. 8 was requested by the department and approved by the town council in the FY2024 capital improvement budget. The truck number eight is an 18 year old 2005 sterling L8500 with 11 foot row plow with a chassis mount sander. It's been selected for replacement due to excessive mechanical issues, lack of available parts, continuous ground speed and hydraulic issues, and lack of liquid application capabilities to better enhance our winter maintenance capabilities. So the current winter operations plan of the department utilizes eight large plow trucks and approximately 15 smaller trucks to plow 10 designated routes. Currently seven standards are equipped on trucks that each have 150 gallon. Liquid tank for salt, rye, and application use. This replacement will keep the department status of eight large plow trucks to complete their duties in the winter months in a timely manner. Just wanted to kind of just put all that information out there, but it is a large purchase price, but it was budgeted, and winter is coming. So any discussion? I'm just going to appreciate it. Yeah, and I'm doing this for Mr. Wichikowski. Any discussion from the council? Anyone from the public? Dr. Alba? Dr. Alba, 24 Eagles and that's Terrace. I know some of our roads, such as Boston, Neck Road, you know, Ocean, where we have some state roads that we are service, I would imagine. I don't know if there's a way of reaching out to the state too to see if they have any monies that they might be able to help contribute for this purchase since we have probably an all likelihood taken care of some of their roads. So I don't know if that was looked into but sometimes you know you see some of these grant money's out then. I know it was discussed you know we're going to have grant money's out there and I know it was discussed you know we're gonna have a grant rate of some time considering that but it's just a consideration thank you. Thank you. discussion all in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Council Lawler, second by Councilor Copac, motion passes 50 next up from the engineering department. We have a motion to accept a grant from RI housing in the amount of $100,000 and authorize the town manager to sign the statement of work with RI housing and western and and Samson Engineers to carry out an infrastructure capacity assessment subject to review by the town solicitor. So moved. Second. Okay, I'll just kind of go over this one. So this is just some background on this. And this project is 100% funded by R.I. Housing and requires no local match. So that's always great to get one of those grants. So the background on this is in early June 2023. Rhode Island Housing launched a new funding program, the municipal technical assistance program, M-TAP, targeted to aiding cities and towns with completion of tasks related to housing production, particularly for low and moderate income households. The program is administered by Rhode Island Housing. According to guidelines approved by the Rhode Island Housing Resources Commission in collaboration with the State Department of Housing, this program is funded through the state's Housing Protection Fund of which $4 million is reserved for MTAP. The town of Narraganskis submitted a pre-application request to evaluate the capacity of the town's water and sewer infrastructure to serve existing developments and conduct a needs assessment to determine future infrastructure requirements to enhance the town's ability, pursue more project that will increase the inventory of much needed affordable housing and arrogance. The town's pre-application was accepted in August, which allowed the formal application process to proceed and the town of Narragansett reviewed the R.I. housing list of qualified consultants and saw a consultant to carry out this program and provide a proposed project approach in scope of work description, project timeline, and itemized project budget to complete the objectives of the infrastructure capacity assessment project as required for the formal application. Of the firm solicited only Weston and Stampson was available to commit the necessary resources to the project and provide the documentation required for the formal application to R.I. Housing. The town submitted the formal application prior to the filing deadline. An R.I. Housing approve the town's application, scope of work, budget, and timeline on October 18th, 2023, and provided statement of work number eight to formalize the grant consulting and consulting agreements. So that's the background on it. Do I have any questions or comments from the council? I have a question. Councilor Ferrandi. I'm not sure who can answer it, Jim or I guess this is John's. What is this? What is the scope of the work? Is this just to look at our sewer and water capacity for the future? Or is this because I know there's one now that's looking into focus groups about is this separate from that or is this something different? What's go? There are two different grants that we would directly to apply for. The two different grants are directed to apply for by the council through the municipal technical assistance program. One of them was for community outreach for educational purposes and to get to the community to embrace and fully understand what affordable housing is as it affects this community and how to have them embrace the attitude of whatever one can do to help it. That is one of the grants. That is the one that was I believe 33,000. This one was the second grant that we were directed to apply for and we were accepted for $400,000 to study the current infrastructure that can support additional housing within the community. And they'll look at a variety of things, sewer capacity, water capacity, and which will also fall into place with some of the things that'll be done now, to waste what a treatment plan to consider a long-term facility maintenance plan. No costs to the town will provide us with a great deal of information to see what the possibilities are. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions from the council? Anyone from the council? Anyone from the public? Mr. Edwards? Good evening again, Nick Edwards, 36 Crest Avenue, Narragansett. I just wanted to take this opportunity as the chair of the Narragansett Affordable Housing Collaborative Trust to thank the town staff for applying for this grant. This is tremendous. It's a great opportunity for us at the town level to continue to promote and study a great issue in our town right now with affordable housing. So I'm in total support. Anything that I can do as the chair and my committee members were certainly happy to help. And I urge you to pass this tonight. Thanks very much. Thank you. We're certainly happy to help and I urge you to pass this tonight. Thanks very much. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak? Okay. See you none all in favor. Hi. I all opposed Motion by Councillor Lawler seconded by Councillor Copic motion passes five zero Next up from the town town clerk's office is a motion to appoint up to five members to the Galilee Advisory Committee for staggered terms. So moved. Second. Okay, so this one here, so for the Galilee Advisory Committee, that's the liaison to that committee. For tonight, there's five, we have five members to appoint. We're going to be staggering terms. Four of the terms are going to expire on October 1st, 2026. There will be one term to expire on October 1st, 2024. And there's three individuals requesting reappointment, two vacancies, member number two and member number eight, and there's two applications on file. So basically we can fill all these tonight. So I'm going to ask if any council member would entertain a motion to reappoint Harvey Kataldo, William Sheppard, and Stephen Marasco to additional terms expiring October 1st, 2026, and a point Roger Jadows, position number two, to the term expiring October 1st, 2026, and Gina Jorama, position eight to term ending October 1st, 2024. So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor? Does anyone, does anyone first first anyone have any comments on that All in favor I Opposed Motion by council lawler second by councilor Copac motion passes 5 0 so we'll go back to the original motion as amended All in favor I Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Next up from the town clerk's office, we have a motion to appoint four individuals to the juvenile hearing board for staggered terms. So they're, sorry. Two seconds. Second. Okay. So this one here. We have four members to appoint. There's two applications on file and two current members are at max terms. So it asks if any of the council members would entertain a motion to reappoint Victoria Hathaway and Stephen Jabri to terms expiring November 1st, 2026 and to appoint David Cronley to term expiring November 1st, 2025 and Carolyn Plant to a term expiring November 1st, 2024. So moved. Second. And discussion motion to as amended all in favor. I all opposed. I go back to the main motion to as amended all in favor. I all opposed. Motion passes 5 0. Thank you. Okay so next up from the town council, I'll go over this one. We have a motion to reject the recommendations of the sewer policy committee and approve the waiver application for PLAT 5, law 40, 649 point Judith Road on the basis that the proposed project will be permitted the property. 649. On the basis that the proposed project will be permitted to connect to the privately owned sewer funding. The property, if a waiver, is granted, which was not documented at the time of the sewer policy meeting. So moved. Second. Okay. So I'm just going to go over the background of this. This is coming back. So on the on the October 2nd, 2023 meeting, this motion was brought before the town council and it failed with a two to vote. At the 11th at the November 6th, 2023 meeting, a motion to rescind the motion passed 3-2 and the motion from the 10-2-20-23 meeting is now being brought before the Council for consideration. So it's being brought back. Just as some background, the sewer policy committee meets on an ad hoc basis to hear appeals from staff level decisions relating to the town sewer policy. The committee met on August 21st, 2023 to consider the request for relief submitted for PLAT 5, LOT 40, 649 point Judith Road. After discussion, the sewer policy committee voted to recommend that the town council deny point Judith Road. After discussion, the sewer policy committee voted to recommend that the town council deny the necessary sewer policy waivers for this application. Draft minutes of the August 21st, 2023 sewer policy committee meeting and a plan of the subject property along with the project summary and draft plans depicting the existing conditions and proposed redevelopment provided by the applicant are attached for the town council's consideration and reference regarding the subject application for relief. Also attached is a copy of correspondence confirming that permission to connect to the privately owned sewer, which is required as a condition of approval can be secured for the proposed project, which has been provided at this time by the applicant for the town council's consideration and further support of this request. This permission was not documented for the sewer policy committee at the meeting and would have affected discussion and Possibly influence the committee's Deliberation on the waiver application for plat five lot 40 649 point Judith Road if presented at that time Note that subsequently to the sewer policy meeting, engineering has determined that the gravity sewer in the West Winds condominion property is owned operated by the town and not by West Winds. The only private sewer line for which permission to connect is needed for the proposed project is the Manning Line low pressure sewer. Per the sewer policy implementation section, sewer capacity is reserved for projects that provide affordable housing opportunities under the town's affordable housing plan or some measure of commercial or industrial growth and for failed onsite wastewater treatment systems. The applicant's proposed to redevelop the property to provide eight new residential housing units, three of which would be affordable, load of water income, housing units, and have indicated that the project's viability is dependent upon providing sanitary sewer service to the property. There is available capacity at the Scarborough Waste Water Treatment Facility. A waiver of Section 2D, if granted, will allow for eight units to be permitted for this property. A waiver of Section 4, if granted, will allow for sewer connection to the parcel not located within the sewer areas without expanding the sewer policy sewer areas. If the town council is inclined to grant this waiver, the following conditions will apply. Any sewer extension must be designed and installed across the full frontage of the property in question to all design and construction costs must be paid for by the applicant and the sewer must be inspected and accepted by the town before actual connection permits are issued. Sewer lot development fees, all areas and infiltration and flow removal fees, areas tributary to the regional wastewater treatment facility only apply to each unit according to the sewer policy. For, if a connection to a private sewer is under consideration, the applicant must present written approval to connect to the same from the owner and said sewer as a condition of approval. Number five, the applicant will be responsible for document that the existing private sewer manning line only has sufficient capacity to accommodate the additional flow from the proposed development and this proposed development project will be reviewed by the planning board. So that's the background. Do I have any discussion from the council? Council Law Loller. I do. So after we had the last meeting, I emailed, I see attorney Marcellus here in the audience. I emailed a clarifying question because I was asked by a resident. Is it true that this project will also go to zoning? And what I learned is because we do have an affordable component attached to the project that the planning board will actually act as a zoning board review. Looking more into this, there's one sentence that I would think that the town council we should probably take out of the project. And that is the following sentence. A waiver of section 2D if granted will allow for eight units to be permitted at the property. I spoke with Attorney Davis today and it was his opinion. I'll have him speak to this as well. As a town council is not permitted to actually authorize units, the number to be built. That is something that goes to the planning board. And it really is a second component of this motion. The ability for the council to say yes, that we would approve a connection to the sewer, that we should approve. So I'm suggesting that we eliminate from this motion the sentence, a waiver of section 2D, if granted will allow for eight units to be permitted at the property, because that really goes to the planning board and their expertise to see what should be at the property. Now, no, Mark, do you wanted to add anything or Steve? John does. I think that's correct. You're voting on whether to allow the sewer connection. It is not in your scope of authority to be passing on whether eight units are appropriate or approving of eight units. That's the planning board. So I think it would be smart to revise that to make it clear that you're only speaking to the sewer connection and not speaking to the approval of eight units. Thank you, Mr. Gerhard. Just one clarification on that. This is not approving those 8 units in particular, but you have the sewer policy limits the permits to 1 unit per lot. So if you would to revise it to allow it, the approval of those additional units on that lot, subject to approval by the planning and zoning board, I would recommend that, but the sewer policy is specific. Item 2D is the limitation of one unit per platted lot, and that's the waiver that they have to apply for. It's essentially what they came to the sewer policy committee for. So rather than removing that completely, if put a conditional or that it's approval for up to eight units on that lot, subject to the approvals necessary by the planning committee. So Mark, the conditional approval. Thanks, John. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? Councillor Ferrandi. Just have a question. So this is not approving eight units for that lot. It's approving just the one sewer line to the lot. Yes. Right. That's a step to the point. Yeah. This is so this so the motion that we're we're discussing is we're rejecting the recommendations of sewer policy committee which we were to did not we we did not we were both there and that information was not presented. So we both voted no. So that so the background of that was that information was presented which they had written letter stating that they got the authorization to connect to the private manning line so then this is to approve the waiver. So this is if we would have, it's approving just the waiver application for the sewer connection. We have nothing to do with any of what goes there. All we're doing simply here is we're rejecting the recommendations to deny the sewer connection or the sewer waiver, excuse me, and then know, just the recommendations. So the first part is rejecting the recommendations, which they were both were no, and then approving the waiver application. So we're just approving the waiver, we're not approving any development on there. Everything has to go through planning. So this is really one of the criteria for affordable housing is, I mean, for a sewer waiver is affordable housing. So that's why this is on here. So Mark, what do you recommend as far as, as what we just, how should we change this motion? I think what John suggested is fine just making it subject to planning and zoning approval. Conditional upon planning approval and well planning approval. To the extent yes. Okay. Oh we could just vote on what we have right in front of us from the president's motion. Correct. Because what John said matters too right because of sewer policy so we need that in there. So I'd rather go with what we have in front of us based on what John said too. Well our attorney is advising us that the council is not able to make that. I think John suggested making it for clarification purposes. I agree with John. Just make it subject to planning. Yep. Which is fine. That's the way it would be anyway, but if we want to just dot all the eyes and cross all the tees, you know, we'll, okay, so we'll make, I guess we'll have to make an amendment for that. I will take, you know, comment any other council members, we should comment. All right, anyone from the public? So just it's the motion is to reject recommendations and the policy can be improved. I'll allow but 24 Egos and I'll ask terrorists. Is this working today? Does that allow? Is it people having me? We can hear you. I guess it's on. Okay. So, I think we can do that. I think we can do that. I think we can do that. I think we can do that. I think we can do that. about. Is it people family? I guess it's on. Okay. So I guess my one concern is, you know, the Civil Committee rejected it once and you know, we're playing the waiver and I'm all for affordable housing. I don't know, I know this certain time limit when you do have these affordable housing units that have to X amount of years, they don't have to be affordable housing anymore. I don't know how long that is. But, and you know, this is above my pay grade. You know, I know that's why we have the experts. I used to consult with Jeff Ciceroon On this issue when he was acting engineering he was great and we have an outstanding engineer My one concern is you know That they did reject it for some kind of reasoning and I know that it was about a waiver as long as it's not going to be taxing our sewer system anymore over and above that it should be. And also that, you know, I don't think we can preclude people who buy these properties. If they can go and rent them out and if they rent them out, we know then there's going to be a possibility. You know, we don't know how then there's going to be a possibility. You know, we don't know how many people are going to be living in these properties. So these are just all considerations that I have. I know I know we should road proxy onto you, Paleo. They brought some affordable housing units out and now that now. So as long as all these concerns are brought forth that down the road, five years, ten years down the road. When this year gets, you know, when these people own these houses, if the affordable housing expires, that our sewer system is not going to be overly taxes. That's my main concern that, you know, we're investigating our sewer system now and our infrastructure. And we've had water quality problems in the past. And, you know, maybe we could And maybe we could also look at revising our sewer infrastructure as well. But thank you so much by now. Anyone else from the public question to speak? Mr. Admerz. Good evening again, Nick Edwards, 36, Crest Avenue, Narragansett. I certainly would urge the council to reject the recommendations of the sewer policy committee tonight. Look we've heard from the town engineer and staff that this is doable. It's supported by them. And I think what we're missing which we've clarified tonight is yes this is still going to the planning board for the full hearing. But I just would be remiss if I didn't say any chance for development for affordable housing, especially those that contain more than the minimum percentage, should be welcomed. I mean, this is three units we're talking of affordable housing, eight units total. There's more reasons to do this than not, so I would urge you to pass this as is. Thank you. Thanks, Nick. Anyone else wishing to speak? Ma'am? I'll just state your name and address. Martina Murasco, 645.2, the vote. And there against it. Can you pull the microphone down? Thank you. Can you hear me? Thank you. So I just want, I realize that you are not making decisions as far as the property, as far as the plan of what they're doing. They're a proposed plan. This property has zoned R80 and it's been designated as a wetland. It was purchased in 2021 for a fair market price and the house needed work, the house itself on the property. It's a very large property or piece of land. The majority of it is wetlands and that also has been determined and pointed out and designated and needs to be considered. And the wetland, it falls under the wetland protections. And that area is just a beautiful area of property, but it's my property. There was a little bit of confusion with that article in the independent. Sorry, I have a lot of different notes that I've written. So I just wonder if, and again, I know that you don't make the decisions as far as the project goes, but to even for them to consider putting eight units on the property, it just, it totally disregards the zoning of our 80 designation. So I would ask that you consider the whole, the affordable housing part of it is important absolutely and what was done on Clark Road was done very well in my opinion. It was well thought out, it was done by the town. And it was a good amount of space that is offered as affordable housing. So that being said, again, because of the property itself, because it's a wetlands area, very small portion of it is actually has a house on it. It really, I feel you should not go along with this waiver. That's my request. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Marasco. Any other discussion from the council and if anyone else is there, somebody would like to, somebody want to make a motion to just amend that, just for the subject to, I don't know, the wording of the motion. I'll make the amendment to approve its subject so that it's going to go to the conditional approval. Yes. Do I have a second? Second. One question, can we just make sure I think the reference day units has to stay in there. I think the reference date unit has to stay in there. Yeah, so the reference needs to stay in there, but what we'll do is the motion was made to amend it subject to conditional approval. So so they'll that this puts it in the planning board's hands, Steve and and Dave. Yeah, because we don't we do not have the authority to do that. We're just again, just redirecting everyone. We're just approving a sewer connection. That's all we're doing tonight. Nothing other than just approving a sewer connection. Okay, so all in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Sicily and Bonanno. Seconded by Councillor Lawler. Motion passes, 5-0. Now going back to the main motion. Main motion as amended, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Okay, next up from the town council. We have a motion to approve an amendment to the employment agreement of the town manager to increase the vehicle allowance from $6,000 to $7,200 a year all in motion. Sorry, so moved. Second. Discussion, I'll just go over this. So our town manager had requested an increase in the vehicle allowance. So currently the vehicle allowance is $500.00. A request of 600. That's where the $7200 annually comes in. So in lieu of a town vehicle, our town manager uses his card. That stipend covers the gas, covers maintenance, it covers insurance, depreciation and more. So that's just one lump, somebody gets. I just want to add that it is tax. So in the end, you don't really get as much as we're giving up. So I think if it is 600, you get like 360 what I was researching today. So again, it covers everything. We don't have to worry about buying a vehicle, maintaining a vehicle. I know when I got tires, I paid 500 for one of my tires. So our town manager takes on that responsibility. So that's just the background. So that's good to have the background. I had no background. It was like, OK, is that $600 a month for guests? I mean, it's good to have the background. No, I forget to put that in there. That's why I wanted to discuss it now. So any discussion from the council? The only thing I'd like to say is I think it might be useful to look into procuring a vehicle for the town manager. Electric vehicle would be excellent. They have so much less wear and tear and there's no gas. Thank you. I think it's a good idea. I see a lot of town vehicles around. I think the manager should have one and I think we should look into it. Yeah, I think for next budget, for this coming in budget season. Okay, any other comments? Anyone for the public? All right, all in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion by Councillor Luller. Second by Councillor Copac. Motion passes 5-0. Next up we have a motion to receive and place on file the 2023 to 2026 towers management and operations plan. So moved. Second. Okay Councillor Copac would you as the liaison putting this forward? Would you like to? So what I want to say is every three years, we, the Towers Committee generally approves for forwarding to the town council this management operations plan. I wanted to just highlight a couple of things that I think are kind of good to know. First of all, I would say that the towers has, as of this year, pretty nearly recovered from the incredible losses during the COVID pandemic. But I also want to mention some of the capital improvements and major repairs that are done largely as a result. There's a stipend that the towers receives from the town, but there's also, I think it was 119 private events in 2022, and they cover the costs of a lot of interesting things. So some of the things that have happened in the last couple of years include significant facility improvements related to access and egress, including improved main entrance handrails, storm protection of balcony doors, additional handrails, improved lighting, finished floors, walls and ceilings in the east tower, stairway and a new ceiling and lighting in the west tower, first floor lobby were also completed. The elevator door operators were replaced, so the elevator works really nicely now. The replacement of exterior and interior lighting with new energy efficient LED fixtures continues. It's pretty nearly done and of course that leads to significantly less cost in terms of replacement over time. The towers also purchased 200 natural wood ballroom chairs for events in the beauty there is that we do charge rental fees for those chairs and we now own them outright which is a little bit more revenue. And there's also the completion of updating and enhancing the second floor west tower which is the bride's room and the board room and they include the improvements included new lighting window treatments, Wayne Scotting, a paint wallpaper carpet and other features and this was completed in April and it's really quite lovely We get a lot of compliments about that. So I just wanted to make that point. So I'd like to recommend that we approve this document. Any discussion from the council? I didn't finish eating the whole plan, so I want to abstain. I started to read it, but I didn't finish it. All right, anyone else? Anyone from the public? OK, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? I'm abstain. I'm abstain. OK. I'm staying okay motion by Councillor Lawler, seconded by Councillor Copac. For it for yet for I and one of extension. Next we have a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing to continue the operation maintenance and restoration of the towers and accordance with 2023 to 2026 towers management and operations plan. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Do you want me to read it? No. Okay. All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Okay. For. Motion by Council Lawler. Second. It by Councilor Copic for in favor and one abstention. Okay so now we will be retiring to executive session. We have a motion to retire to executive session of the board of the board of the decision of the planning board by the state housing board of appeal relative to the denial of master plan approval for old Boston NECC. LLC. That Boston NECC road LLC. So moved. Second. Okay. I need a roll call for this. Deb Copic, aye. Jill Lawler, aye. Steve Ferrandi, aye. Susan Susslene, Vanona, aye. I have a journalist's key I motion by council lawler second by council copack motion passes 5 0 and then we will be back from the executive session for disclosure of executive session votes and then German of the meeting. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you We're back from executive session and for the disclosure of executive session votes we had a motion to seal the minutes of the executive session motion by council lawler second by councilor Copac motion pass 5 0 Then finally we had a motion to exit and we convene into regular session motion by council lawler seconded by councilor Copac motion pass 5 0 And now we'll adjourn our regular meeting. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Second. All in favour? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion by Councillor Lawler. Second by Councillor Copec. Motion passes for zero. We're adjourned. May.