Sims dr. Sims you I'm sorry I missed the last board meeting are we gonna do this strategic planning we our strategic planning is obviously been affected by kovetz so we were not able to get to move on that in the last few months as we would have liked superintendent Reichman if you can maybe because well you and I have a super 10 right but I have talked about this I would suggest you've got a captive audience with zoom I mean I know it's not ideal but it actually gets people together in a much better way than actually having people to have to move to a place right no I agree and I think that we could do it again superintendent right when I have discussed an approach for Superintendent right but I can give you the floor you can you can discuss it now yes um we decided to suspend just for now these tick-tick-tick planning because everything has changed and you needed to focus on making sure that we set up a system of online delivery of education and supports and then right now we're starting the planning process for partially reopening our campuses and offices we're looking to plan for the summer we're planning for the opening of school in August we have to be prepared for whatever comes that is the full opening with social distancing that is opening and then closing and then being online again that is a partial online partial in-person classroom so we have to be ready for a different possible scenario so with that there were we we have so many changes that do a strategic plan at this point in time wasn't a priority but I do want to get back to that I agree with you this is really a critical component of the agency and the board to develop a strategic plan so it's thinking we could start in October but if you have other suggestions I'm open I'm open I want to complement and totally appreciate all of the work that the people in the agency are doing that being said the dialogues that the board could have are not precluded by all of these issues so I think there are board level discussions that could proceed now and maybe by then some of the people would have a better context or a better understanding of where they want to go by October that's my my own gut feeling because I understand I don't think I would say how about we have dr.
Rex and you come in and give a whole presentation right now with everything you have going on but I'm not sure that doesn't facility doesn't preclude brainstorming and people having a more open dialogue about what they think could or shouldn't happen for the agency so that that's my only take on it now so if those were done perhaps come October you guys might be a little bit more settled for that it to be more of an interagency process where the leadership is directly involved in it that's my only that's my teeth okay so I will confer a president nine glow we'll see what we can do and this is David dr. Sims the we do have the other strategic plans our planning meetings that we have are still on the schedule and and it's it's still potentially if we could still proceed with those we haven't cancelled any yet we could still do our agendas they're likely going to change because they're not as far along as we might but to get the board together and talk even if it's over zoom at the next you know scheduled area we could still likely do that but you know we're going to be limited in our input that we get from the leadership because there are resources that you mentioned are greatly being used on Kovach response so I'm I'm certainly open to having that that next scheduled meeting and have you zoom I know zooms a little bit difficult you know with I think we've done a decent job today you know but it's it's a much different than everyone being in the same room agree in any in any event for the next you know that the next strategic planning session that's still there for the July 3rd board meeting though would you like to have update on any topics that we may talk about in June or I have no specific request those okay thank you Thanks is there anyone else that has a suggestion for the 23rd I don't see any I'm sorry David just a is there not a mechanism for public comment during this board meeting dr.
Simms there is not a mechanism at this board meeting when we were you know our IT staff is again dealing with kovat so I didn't have them prioritize the platform for this meeting as much we we had some issues determining what type of mechanism we'd use to get public comment and this type of setup so we didn't have it today I hope to on the 23rd I'm I hope to have it returned if we have the 23rd a person with social distancing guidelines in place it will be no different I mean we'll have public comment that calls the public in the beginning at the end of the meeting like we always do if we have to do it again in an electronic format I'd like to think about some other alternative way if people can submit short videos beforehand that might that might be something that we can do certainly for this meeting if anyone has any comments that the board has an email address they can email us or the public can email us anything you'd like so that that's certainly there but for this meeting we do not have any calls to the public or for public comment I see Mike manually raising his hand Mike this is my family so like the State Board of Education and some other words they've had people submit their comments in writing and they've either simply read them aloud or posted them either before the meeting and I think fulfilled the short-term public comment part during these until we can meet back face-to-face that might be something an easy way to get over the bridge at least for one more meeting is to explicitly tell people that either will read them or post them thank you for that but I think those are those are both ideas that we have to do it electronically next time is to have it either a submission of a short video that you could shoot you know an iPhone or something like that or have a written email that you could submit and that'll be right into the record yeah similar to what we would have you know orally at the meeting I see we remember both raising your hand hi yes this is Linda Bove I'm wondering about the opportunity for a public comment maybe sending in videos and things like that I just want to make sure that somehow we can and will do that type of announcement and how will that work I'm sorry what type of announcement would we have to solicit that that comment okay yes exactly sure I would think that we can include it in the notice you know a week before these meetings we would post the agenda and the ancillary documentation on board board Docs so we would have in that announcement a mechanism for the public to comment on that you know for those particular agenda items if it's written that'll be fine we have an email address and a deadline for them to submit you know these emails of a certain length to a certain email address and then anything received by certain deadlines will read into the record if we do go the video group there might be some technical guidelines but that would all be done on board dog stuff that the public is interested in looking at that again pay attention to board Doc's and you'll see instructions there but for the next meeting for provided its you know we're not in purchasing and sure absolutely we want to make sure that we do an announcement and let them know it's because of Kovan 19 we want to give the public an opportunity you know they could send in a video or send in an email whenever their choices and they're welcome to do so I just want them to know they're welcome to participate thank you no I thank you I understand for this meeting anyone can send an email of course and make any kind of comment and I see board member Gordon is raising his hand I am Thank You president we've been doing zoom meetings every day for 6-8 weeks now sometimes as many as 30 40 50 people on a call and there's certainly growing pains that will occur but it seems to be a really reliable format and as Mark said before you know the opportunity to electronic group meetings is uh it's a format I think we really should consider or as most everything will go forward will be a hybrid and have combination of maybe some people in person but also some electronic remote access because it it really does work and in some ways I think it even works better because because just the layout of the access and the exchange is a little more concise and I know this meetings been probably some growing pains but overall I think it's a it's a format that that's here to stay and I I hate to think we don't we might under utilize it thank you all right there any other comments from board members I see we remember Howard just real quick when I shut up if it nobody else has already done it to the IT folks or set us all up I know it's complicated job well done appreciate it thank you I echo that as well okay if there are no no other items for next meeting we will move to 9.01 actually item for German again thank you everyone for joining us in this alternative format and I'll entertain a motion to Geron I see board member Davison and I move to adjourn this meeting oh one moment yeah Mellie holding up her finger so belly I guess I'm sorry this is Shelly again before we adjourn I want to thank the interpreters and the captioners as well it's been excellent accessibility and I really appreciate that during this meeting thank you so much thank you all right remember David Sydney I move that we adjourn this meeting i i ii are there all those in favor I see board member Gordon since Davis called both Manley and Howard all indicating yes I vote yes as well that is unanimous again thank you everyone and echo Commons that others have said thank you for the interpreters and the IT staff for setting this up captioning we have the ASL interpretation we have the live stream out to the public it was it was not entirely clear how we were going to do this you know a month ago so again thank you very much and I hope to see you all a person in July and we will go from there thank you bye-bye thank you
11 20 20 please rise to pledge allegiance to the flag please I gotta get my flag on yeah where's your flag yeah okay here it is I believe it's to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God please remain standing please to honor all our of our servicemen and women serving our country both here and abroad past and present and please remain standing to keep our heads bowed and honor all our healthcare heroes every one of the frontline workers god bless them all amen thank you very much I'm gonna do a roll call tonight and so first thing I'd like to do is give Sean McGinnis the authority to sign the warrant so we need a roll call so those in the affirmative please answer yes or no mr. Tatem yes mr. Gracey mr.
MacDonald yes mr. Harun yes mr. Mickelson yes you have the authority to to stamp the and sign the warrant thank you okay I don't see John is he on there John sit well he's right on my left yeah yeah so I got a unanimous decision to sign no appointments 603 marijuana host committee agreement vendor review presentation we need to vote on it's an application to award a host community agreement welcome I don't have any audio I got audio no I hear what I'm not I don't hear anybody from oh well we can hear you you can re Partho therapeutics who wants to speak yeah just Nate state your name please Matthew Matt you're it's the President and Secretary of apothecary putress hey so you have quite a presentation on I'm very impressed and I know we have to go through this in you'll be some questions but you want it you want to give us a little bit of an outline at this point you don't have to be in too much into too much depth but just to give the people that are watching at home a bit of what what your company wants to do in our town there's no my wife is telling me there's no audio at the office of the DC TV Peter my wife just said the same thing Peter all right thank you yep thank you yeah it'll be recorded so I'll go right ahead Matthew a popular myth would like to open a recreational dispensary in the town of Dartmouth on four seven nine fonts corner well we aim to ensure a very high exalted experience for the town of Dartmouth or a community we plan on opening in and the customers that would be locally around the dartmouth area so you know that this is just the first part of the application obviously in you uh but this is our second time around I think I believe mr.
McGinnis this is a second time around well yes Father defied the first round and they came back and fight for this that right well good for you any of the members have questions I have a question mr. mr. chairman mr. Harris will you be purchasing your product from working purchasing it from vendors in the state of Massachusetts can be provided to both medical vendors but we have vendors ready for product as well there's enough supply for all the vendors coming online absolutely anyone else I have a question on the host agreement is now the time to talk about that or later well we can ask a few questions now we can talk about that after a generic version mr. temple thank you recognizing that there's an awful lot of laws to follow and well-written laws by the state and certainly a follow them by making this presentation and you've got an organization that comes from all facets of the it security or supply I but this is your first venture how much have you been able to rely on information or on-site of other organizations how they're running in to mechanic's replicate that is and maybe even improve it of course course the past two years Mia might have been going to various conferences and other entities as well to spawn go there and see their operations in terms of how they handle their security their staff and their overall compliance with the CCC and with other organizations in other states we have seen multiple cultivators and retailers in this state as well as states in California and Nevada as well and some of the people you brought on to in the organization have had first-hand experience in this kind of operation yes actually carneros is here he is the third-party consulting company that my brother and I Andrew have worked with consistently he has been able to be in this industry since 2014 is as the experience of opening multiple licenses and helping people open licenses in both cultivation and retail as well as finance and finances operations in overall compliance with the CCC since this industry has come into fruition will he have an active role or consultant from the outside looking in or how do you perceive procedures roll him in terms of operation and overall management in terms of guidance and advice yes thank you about security Matthew we have here Nancy Sheldon she's our director of security she has extensive experience in overall retail working in three different Macy's retail in terms of overall theft prevention and overall maintenance of security as well in all those areas whose extensive spirits in of the Seekonk police force as well I also noticed that you have you have committed to have here Nancy felt like justice ease our director of security she has extensive experience in overall it's always retail already different Macy's retail it's in terms of you know overall overall the service services are here we are director whose extensive delivery service fear however also non-retirement members in terms of restoration to contract and over as well we do this have any standards convocation is what the regulations are currently today require God's to make sure you don't get robbed on well as my understanding of the regulations there has to be what the body cams ask me more than one individual in the car to capture what the instance is occurring so that they can go back in the recording okay thanks but that no net gnosis not necessarily would be a guard he's just another hired end yep not necessarily a table this is all taken by a separate entity and that will be contracted with the pato therapeutics overall right and that that entity would also need to have a host community agreement with the town would also great anyone else if the delivery company had to have a host agreement with that cut into the 3 host agreements we have with the town I don't believe that it would because that is separate so that would be a separate host agreement that's just for delivery it's not for retail sale the retail sale would come from another entity with the host community agreement I've never heard of a host agreement for a delivery yet this is the first time I'm hearing of this when oh go ahead Matthew this is the first time the state plans and implementing it there were first talks beginning of last year but this is the first time based on the Kovan ramifications and restrictions as well that they were been thinking about implementing this to help small businesses any V of the states are you aware have deliveries California Colorado Nevada are aware as well as I believe Cal Florida is implementing it as well but the meat is actually the West Coast I think Colorado did it first yes yeah mr.
tattled on the the timeline is submitted as needs to be pretty much updated and read it redone the time I whistle in this presentation well the one that we that well the one we was submitted to us for the meeting not that not the there are a few response yes that timelines changed a little bit because of this covet situation that was that was simply the one we were gonna meet at some point but in the in the past but there has to be now this has been updated now that has to be redone the timeline that we presented in our in our packet correct but yeah we had hoped to have apothecary putress before you in February but okay what's going on they took this much time okay Thank You mr. Gracey excuse me yeah I don't want to spend too much time on delivery but just something that popped up in my mind if you do if you get to the point where you do have a delivery service is that a dedicated delivery service to you or as a like a drop-off where they could work for many different server places each delivery service has to be contracted to a single dispensary only okay thanks interesting anyone else mr.
Harun any other I have a question on the the community benefits it's like eighty-five thousand dollars a year for four years and it seems to me that it would be we would be committing to three things parks health and public safety will we be locked into parks health and public safety as a test not as not as a the distributor but as ourselves the reason why I asked that if I had $85,000 today to use I'd be giving it to the you know Council on Aging so I can answer that question John it's it's 85,000 for FY 23 40,000 per year for the following years that money we we dedicated to those entities Health and Human Services Parks and Recreation and Public Safety it's up to the board they can decide which year which entity receives the funding or if they want to break it up three ways each year it's really up it's the board step it's the town's decision on meeting no it's just a slight Board's decision correct yes right but well we're not locked into parks health and public safety right now we could change that to direct cost of council on aging you could split however you want between those thank you especially now the types of change so when that was written obviously we were not going through a pandemic so I can understand that anything else mr.
herring that's it for me thank you anyone else have any questions okay just add a big listen I just wanted to thank the our host community agreement review team our internal team that did a lot of work reviewing many of these are few responses and also taking a lot of their time and effort to really do a detailed review of all the materials you can see that just this one response has a lot of material and they reviewed many they really put a lot of thorough research into this project so along with me was Greg Barnes director of Budget and Finance Deb lender the director of development Christine O'Grady our Director of Planning Dave Weiner director of it special services Deputy Chief James story and also Cody Haddad who was our analyst intern who really did a lot of work for us a lot of the legwork a lot of the research so he was really involved and did excellent work on this so I just want to thank that group they did a great job ok mr.
McDonald we were sent a presentation so I guess what they were going to show the board are we going to see that because I know under normal circumstances we'd be sitting in a room face-to-face and we'd be seeing this versus here the people that are watching this or will be watching this on review merely have no idea what's what this is all about other than read a retail store there's no look other than the location of fonts Corner Road they haven't seen what we've seen the the voluminous packet that's in our package but I know the slideshow that they had the presentation can only kind of give people an idea of what what this is involved in what you know what it's gonna look like I was gonna suggest the exact same thing well it can also be posted on our website is that correct um mr.
McGinnis yes definitely you know cuz it is quite large but if somebody really want the packet is it's his wonderful job as I said earlier in the beginning you did a great job to explain things to us to the layman pictures explanations this must be 300 pages and a lot of work I would I would agree that I think this short slide presentation maybe a quick review of that to give us an idea or the people in public out there an idea the sides the building and what's gonna be in just a brief synopsis I think would be a great idea I agree with Frank and Chiana now so I you are you capable of doing that now mr.
Medeiros are you capable of just doing a little overview with a slide presentation if you would like I can share my screen and do them presentation so the public can see it as well yeah sure that's wonderful anyone single screen yep great excellent so first and foremost thank you to the select board in the town of Dartmouth for having me and my team here today today I'll be going about our overall mission our team our proposed site the interior operations as a whole is security the operating procedures our timeline to open the town benefits we will be providing as overall a summary for a positive therapeutic start with La Belle therapeutics is dedicated to producing and distributing high quality products while also transcending exclusive experiences for every single one of our customers our entire mission is supplied unparalleled service to both our customers as well as our community a path o or a PT has three values our acuity for researching and understanding the science of cannabis in its cannabinoid derivatives for customers the philosophy of hiring locally and also hiring diverse demographics and backgrounds to create a unity by diversity culture so everyone no matter what background they come from and go toward a main goal of serving as community and finally tenacity ensuring every single customer not only grasped the facts of our products but also receives a personalized experience for what they like about cannabis products in guidance for use as a whole our leadership is headed by three people my brother Andrew Madeira is the CEO is an experienced leader with the Apollo team has experience in education as Professor and will excel in areas such as customer education best practices as well as including and unifying the epochal team as we continue well website will be ed by myself the President and Secretary of Apollo therapeutics my background is in biology and biotechnology with extensive experience in laboratory research and oversight but also mainly management roles in chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical and biochemistry research and management as a whole in that process I learned the safety and efficacious manner of hiring honor as mentioned previously is the director of nucleus one is a third party resulting firm again since 2014 has been in this industry and has experience in business operations financial management and compliance we plan on use using Connor and his team for overall on-site oversight and ongoing management at the dispensary through the startup phrase and during operations as a whole we also have Stephen Lima who unfortunately cannot join us today he is our finance and treasurer he is PA and MST with over 40 years of experience in financial management of various privately held companies and public accounting firms he as a whole will ensure that our municipality programs and enhanced business-to-business processing programs are not only by C standards but also Felicia's beneficence of the talents our compliance or general manager is Ronald case which is here it's a new as he is here today he has been a community leader for decades in experience in assisting at-risk incarcerated adults youths at risk as well and recent years working as a general manager for a local fitness company where has not only provided jobs and internship the locational training to employees with special needs as well as several other member of her members ron has extensive management experience and will be conducting on local experiences at apothecary putress Dartmouth E C Sheldon has mentioned previously as our security director she has served in numerous security and asset protection roles in the retail industry as well as serving as a public safety sector currently she serves as a manager of asset protection across three Macy's department store in our a and M a Orion ma it will be a head of our security for a pot though therapeutics Dartmouth overall this is seen by the board but for the public this is a 5,000 square foot proposed site and for seven nine Fox corner overall it was up to weigh accessibility and ample parking of 35 spaces on the site mmm the building exterior we have Lucian nuisance mitigation protocols and programs in which a traffic study was completed and only in am below seventy seven more vehicles will be going through this area which will be easily handled by the two Lots which I will be explaining today overall our operation manual manual include that lights will be set and illuminated for the safety of people parking and walking on the public sidewalks of Dartmouth as well as mitigating noise and traffic waste policies as set by the standards by the town of Dartmouth our odor mitigation system which we plan on putting inside the building is a carbon filter to ensure that any odor and smell is captured by carbon molecules inside of this filter it is not exacerbated outside the building so all smell stays inside of the dispensary we also have secured loading and unloading dock systems to create a man trap for all products going in from other cultivation facilities to ensure that no access can be out can be obtained from outside of the dispensary or authorized members as a whole the building will be back to 100% by a generator which means our security systems will be uninterrupted or power supply no matter what the weather throws at us also the exterior signage and visibility as a whole are in and will comply to CCC standards as well the town of Dartmouth standards as well over operational layout we will have 14 POS systems and ample space for customers if Kovan regulations and restrictions still go ten months from our proposed plan and when we plan to open we will actually be open every single other register with six feet of social distancing space and markings on the floor to ensure that we will comply with future regulations upon opening if this persists also if code voted if Koba does not we are able to open with regular restrictions and guidelines we would have customer flow guided by our floor layout we would have customers wave down upon entering by each custom peach associate in easily mitigate all foot traffic flow also we have secured delivery and storage of all accesses so no product will be able to be accessed by a customer coming into the store I will be further going into the stores overall security processes in the later slide but overall the security cameras will be covering all 360 degrees with alarms glass break sensors and dual access control for officers inside of a path of therapeutics Dartmouth the second floor is a whole include interior office space that overlooks a dispensary this is what we plan to use as management only staff and overall corporate admins for epochal therapeutics and our other locations as well but programming primarily Dartmouth the leadership at the suspensory will ensure that the integration overall with the community and charities will be implemented from this office as well I wonder what our sales process as well mmm a customer will first enter in through a secure vegetable or mint wrap if you will in which they will give a verified ID which will be scanned by receptionist and upon verification that ID is 21 years older it will be released or buzzed in if you will to the sales floor and then go in two directions first they can go into the regular sales floor they have QQQ lines in which they will be able to access all of our registers and be able to be helped in product selection and verification of their ID again when they're at the registers once they choose a process the sales associate will then process the transaction and they will receive to be move outside the exterior security vegetable and leave in the exit only door the second is for foot traffic mitigation as well the movie implementing which is online ordering this online ordering process will also upon entry be put in a queue in which a sales associate will scan the ID and that ID will coordinate with their online order the online will then be tracked and processed through this and they will also be grounded for online order give it to the customer process the sale and the customer will leave out the same door as a regular customer coming in without an online order which is secure inventory inventory overall will be handled by our inventory manager this will be purchased I'm at each cultivator to ensure no system no short of once ordered it'll be shipped and received and it will go into the men's rep as previously discussed this meant trap we'll make sure it is secure and no one outside an unauthorized can access this in terms of transferring from the vehicle into the pendulous loading area items will be counted weighed and compared in the in which they will be either being accepted by CCC standards of quality and overall purity or rejected on rejected items that will go into the metric system which is a CCC standard programming for tracking all inventory standards and they will be returned to the supplier and it will be noted and documented if it is accepted it will go into the metric system anyway and go into the epochal therapeutics vault in which the vault will go into the sales for no more than one hour prior to opening to prepare for a high foot traffic also these items will also be used for online ordering processes in an a will track who ordered what and that will be processed from the ball onto the sales floor as well and for customers selling items all unsold products at the end of the day will be locked and secured back in the vault as well overall security and there's 24/7 security coverage in this location with on-site interior exterior during all business hours there will be video surveillance coverage capturing both exterior and interior processes which are products storage s registers and also a waste disposal as well it complies with business there also be continuous interior and exterior security monitoring to prevent theft in overall diversion finally and there will be secure delivery for storage areas with limited access interpretive aliens to ensure compliance in safety the overall site parking if you see on the left-hand side indicating la one that is our dispensary location with 35 spaces for customers also on the right hand side you see this is our secondary lot with the cameras that has 360 degree view this is an additional 29 spaces where if deemed high-traffic areas is too high for flow we will have employees park here and proceed safely on the sidewalk for the dispensary before operating hours we will share their safety to the dispensary a lot - in this example of the proposed site on the other side and this is not for a path of therapeutics use but a general overview and spatial variation of where we're going to be in this area the overall interior security I will walk you through second I'm sorry so essentially can everyone see my arrow yes so essentially this is the mantrap investible is talking about this is where customers will walk in they will be on camera here for tracking purposes in case anything happens with a weapon of any sorts upon entering they will go into the sales floor where they will be tracked with two 360-degree cameras upon entering any cases permit if this happens that an individual walks it in intending to harm anybody on sight there are if you see every other register panic buttons that are be directed to not only our security offers but also to the town of Dartmouth police as well so they can have immediate contact times and respond times also you see there are cameras behind all the POS systems this is for tracking inventory and overall cast management for our employees to not only show compliance but safety of products and overall monetary values there are also obviously two two bathrooms we here in compliance as well and the most important thing again is that is our secured inventory tracking and processing system we will have alarms in overall security measures as well tracking with cameras each window has been seen here will have alarm systems in case broken in the traffic flow will go that they will walk in around the dispensary and leave out the exit only is there security a general access are important I don't know is that this area is not to be accessed without an authorized card for management so that customers and or staff employee that are not incorporated with a pathes overall management process will not be able to access this area as well auto nucleus one together have developed comprehensive SOPs and guidance documents to exceed regulatory hand side you will see a list of every single one of our dispensary protocols and SOPs that we have been amended over time that would be ready by the time of opening if not have already been completed as a whole these detailed procedures will provide details for all staff to focus on compliance safety and overall security these will be implemented for a generic and increased staff accountability or pontil therapeutics and the safety of the staffing plan who will be able to hire experienced and knowledgeable individuals in this industry Wilo special efforts again to hire local people in the town of dartmouth while also including diverse demographics as well they will be thoroughly trained in excellent service in education as well as going under other programs have been newly implemented in the industry to ensure high D verification in overall product accountability overall the report and notion to have is the floor staff plan which will consist of ten individuals in seasonal floor staff consisting of four individuals these will all be shift based positions and we will make sure that foot traffic is highly regulated with the amount of staff that we have on the floor regarding a covert regulation or not our overall timeline is as follows we hopefully plan to have all meetings and approvals for the town by this month or next month permitting we will then apply from the CCC portal luckily since epochal therapeutics has already applied for another location and is ongoing in that our overall background information is relatively the same and our overall process will be a lot faster since we do not have to go through new background information as a whole upon as you can see upon the timeline we plan to have an open for sales by December or February q1 of 2021 our overall construction will be permitted by two groups against team individual will be continued will be factored exterior of the building while valley in America who is in this meeting as well will be doing the interior with a pastel therapeutics as a whole as you can see we hope to have the timeline finished by January to be open for January or February permitting on how things are going with coded regulations how fast the industry is going as a whole we plan to I keenly identify candidates in October to be amply ready for opening oh we plan to hire various full-time employees however we most importantly plan to hire 50% of our staff in the town of Dartmouth by employing from local communities and being filled 43% higher than the minimum wage of method Massachusetts for our blood 10 years especially at 1826 an hour we'll be able to reinvest this back into the community of Dartmouth as a whole as mentioned previously we haven't we have benefits for the town of Dartmouth you see the chart on the bottom left this is our overall forecasted revenue and how we plan to distribute the fees a very important factor is actually our travel contributions 10,000 of this will go towards marijuana and other drug education as well to the community as a whole to ensure the knowledge about these products and about other products in the safety of the community as a whole is of the highest priority for a bottle therapeutics overall for the site construction we plan on to incorporate sustainable practices and technologies as well as implementing waste management and water conservation to meet town ordinances as well we plan to be as environmentally friendly as possible with corporate license they renew military material usage overall low emissions technology and turf and alternate transportation strategies only implemented a scene that keeping up with market trends right now we are in this ever-changing time do the covent trying to keep up with as much market turns as possible for the industry when Massachusetts opens back up for recreational sales overall these products movie packages and branded with CCC compliance to ensure the safety of individuals under 21 are not enticed to get these in these packages we keep these packages in CCC compliance to ensure that only members of 21 and older will be able to use these packages and no one younger will be enticed to use these so essentially no colors or call they're cartoons in these packages as well as you saw previously in my outline in summary Apapa therapeutics plans to bring exterior experience that from Plainville to dartmouth as well as new is using nucleus one for experienced setup in that the site overall again we are committed to hiring locally 50% of full-time employees from Dartmouth it will work closely with the fire department and police department to ensure security plans and procedures and again we estimate a ten month timeline from our complications missing to our grand opening we thank you so much and we are open for questions at this time thank you very nice thank you very much in this new Medeiros any questions gentlemen mr. Gracey Thanks it's not really a question I just wanted a compliment you folks on the package you put together and also on the presentation that's you make it very clear I appreciate that so thank you anyone else mr.
tatelman a couple of small questions a great presentation thank you for that the second location you're working on is gonna open sooner or after this could you expand upon that we first submitted for a Plainville location in September and we plan on opening in July or August of this year this and yes answer sort of finances won't be an issue for you a second location well we we split our finances to fund each entity separately thank you last one last question I think it's a great idea you have the extra parking in the back but being a retail and myself if you oh you know are you prepared with these two parking spaces prepare you for let's say a mega grand opening where you have issues of out on council on the road of parking and cars and congestion what were those tools in your mind if it's that big take care of that problem of course so one of the things that we have actually planned on free Wingull that we plan on implementing at Dartmouth as well is what you have to do is you have soft openings to people understand you understand the traffic flow as well and then from there you have a gradual grade if you do one grand opening at once you'll see similar trends in the industry when it started of these massive traffic build ups not very efficient for the town so if you have soft grand openings at first especially limited to one or two you're able to see the traffic and understand how the traffic flow works before you have a massive grand opening thank you know anyone else we need to take a vote on the marijuana host agreement a community host agreement with Apollo therapeutics we'll take a roll call vote all it's the tattle bomb yes your motion first thank you make a motion that we sign an agreement a host agreement between the town of Dartmouth and apothecary putress sorry no motion by mr.
McDonald a second by mr. Gracey mr. Chadha Baum yes mr. Gracey yes mr. McDonald yes mr. Harrod yes mr. Nicholson yes affirmative all five thank you very much in graduations and good luck thank you so much and thank you for having us it's good luck [Music] yeah see everybody dropping out we have no next crowd the parade just just Town Meeting this could be practice me Gloria he is supposed to be here [Music] Bob okay Terry wait look at everybody not nice okay are you ready to stop I just want to make sure everybody's here doesn't everybody show on the screen I'm getting about half well you have to you have to move it over to what I can I can't look at everybody it wants a little gallery view I did that [Music] push the wrong button all the goodest in now you don't like that no quiet over there wait I can tell you one thing your buddy's got interesting names on their little sleeve there all right so I want to thank everybody for this momentous occasion where we have a meeting of this sort with the joint meeting with the School Committee and the Finance Committee in the Select board at our homes safe and sound I hope Carol though who would like to mr.
chairman before I go before we move on I think we should have each member of the boards interval there everybody knows who we are but as far as the Finance Committee I know there's some new people on and people looking at home if they notice days everybody has a little name under theirs what this some people that don't have the full name so people at home don't know exactly who they are so if the chair of each board can introduce their people or at least start and just raise the hand so everybody at home knows or whoever's watch it at a later date those who you are I was going to ask that same thing so yeah you will you will have to I'll call the Finance Committee to water my name is Sarah diem and the gym person Gloria Bancroft do you want to put your hand up to co-chair thank you do you all we have Lou Garibaldi Bob Glavine Brian oh here rappy who we'd copper is that correct Debbie yeah okay um Jeff Raymond and Adam Silva Adam is not feeling well he might just be was sitting in tonight and then Jenni and Simmons is Janine we do have three new people do you want to have the school committee goes yummy yeah why do we do that cumin madam Jami thank you so uh my name is Kathleen I am rollin the currently the chair of the School Committee and I have with me if you could raise your hand my um excuse me my Chris Oliver he is the vice chairperson of the School Committee and well it's do we have here dr.
Shannon Jenkins is here dr. Carroll Cara foetus is here and John was there you are hi John and we also have with us our superintendent dr. Riley yes here there he is in the but in my bottom corner he's our assistant superintendent of Business and Finance right - operations so thank you for having us welcome all so - so would you like to start this sure I want to say thank you as you did sealing this is an unusual situation and I really appreciate the help from DC TV and also from Greg's supporting three new members to the Finance Committee who we've asked for a lot of information in our process this year and he's been available for all of that so as finance community members we recognize that we're the Oversight Board to the town meeting and I know that the select board has counted on us to do the detail work in reviewing the budget proposal in the past and we did that despite that you know we had four meetings before we were interrupted with the kovat order so again I we really relied on DC TV and and on Greg and Sean to get us the information that we needed to finish out the process and you had a chance to I guess you received the draft warrant rationale and the cover letter one of the things we've talked about I know for a few years in the Finance Committee is trying to do some kind of cover letter to the town meeting to give an overview and we were able to accomplish that again the committee it's a great committee they ask a lot of questions they have a lot of ideas everybody on the committee has been willing to take a piece of this and work on it and that's been really nice and in our discussion there were a few areas that we spent a lot of time on you'll see in the votes even one of the soft side at the beginning on the schedule a we had a long discussion on the position of youth advocate and week answer any questions that you have on that but we tried to explain and I lengthy rationale where we were coming from one that we we were concerned about schedule a the operating budget even before this pandemic because we were looking at a request study that changed his Valerie structure for many people in town settlement of many employee contracts who and we were seeing forecasting a tightening of the budget before this happened so you can imagine where we are you know in light of this we appreciated the policy that was put in place in terms of a hiring freeze and a freeze on non-discretionary spending and in our support for the budget moving forward we hope that continues that's our recommendation because we have very concerned about where revenues could be in the next budget year not so much finishing this year but in the next year and then the year after that were very concerned and we had some concerns about the social Day program at the Senior Center and and we can explain more of that if you if you have questions about that but the biggest thing I think is that given the the situation that we're in we're recommending that we meet with the select board for the next few months to look at the status of the budget we as we said in the cover letter about 30 percent of the revenues we are anticipating come from sources that have pretty much frozen up right now so we don't know where this is going to stand in the future and and everybody on the Finance Committee feels strongly that we should check in with the select board we know we only have another Town Meeting in the fall but before that time and before any further consideration of capital spending we really think that it's important for us to check in have a plan to move forward as in not in a reactive way and and for that reason even though we we recognize the limitations of our role we have a very significant responsibility to Town Meeting to say where things stand and it would be helpful I think we all think if the School Committee and if the Select board could give some advance thought to how decisions would be made in the event that a budget cut was necessary if there were reductions and I know people have been thinking about that because we've had a lot of conversations with school committee people already and just in and you know I will say this has been said before that the School Committee did a great job with ramping up for this very unexpected process we find ourselves in and so we have had a chance to talk quite a bit but we would like to ask both the Select board in the School Committee to do some advanced thinking about what what how decisions will be made if that if that happens so given the the draft that we sent out to you and the cover letter if you have questions about any of those let's have a discussion about that I might answer questions or other people in the Finance Committee might answer depending on what the questions are so anybody that has a question just raise your hand please and I'll acknowledge them no questions Oh mr.
telephone I would like to first say that I look at the screen here and I see many many past and present members of the Finance Committee Finance Committee is an interesting place because you spend your time looking at numbers and deciding things based on a lot of black and white and when it comes time to institute programs that have no black and white love for them and simply it has to do with what's almost right and wrong I think the letter that was written and how the approach was made was an approach that I think is the absolute best way for our Finance Committee to approach the town's finances to integrate thoughts as a time when the process is early on take advantage of their delving into detail and then and then making decisions based on facts and then trying to make a decision that ultimately works right for the most amount of people in town and what's affordable iPod the Finance Committee what they've done how they've done and I look forward as we go forward as soon as possible to work on these details are saving money in places where we can save it would be more efficient and maybe even have to look at certain positions and programs that need to be looked at but do it in a way that's it has a lot of logic and a lot of detail to it as opposed to making it after the fact that too late thank you for the work it did thanks mister Talib on anyone else McDonald the artist with you is pretty much cut and dried with the Finance Committee recommendations for most part that's pretty much unanimous decisions across the board with the exception of a couple here and there specifically the explanation on the the 5-3 vote on the budget is you know it's pretty much cut and dried as to why you know that was there you know they really don't have anything much to say other than you know appreciate what the time that they spent on this going through all the information you know I mean I did it for three years you know many many moons ago so it's you know sometimes it's a it's not a task that's totally appreciated really members of the Select board they're a former Finance Committee members mr.
Gracey yeah again is one of those one of those four out for people miss and this one it must be a new great Frank as a person who spent a lot of time over on the Finance Committee and I I know how much work it is right yet I wanted to say I appreciate the work they've done and the summary they've put together is quite obvious over easy to understand so thank you very much for all the work you've done I guess Stanley I would ask about because we need to agree to meet our think I was just gonna mention that in favor of meeting and and then the second request which is I don't know what process you'd follow how you'd get together to do a plan in terms of approaching any necessary budget cuts but that we wanted to mention that just so that we're not in a reactive situation over you get to that point I would imagine we need to isolate these the things that will will stick out right now that could be a problem in let's look at those immediately and I'm sure maybe we could have a small group get together and meet a few times and then have both boards meet if you want to do it that way mr.
macginnis maybe we could do that talk to Terry and see what what things are troublesome as it is as we can see today that will be troublesome as we move along this is going to be an incredible year incredible two years for us will not be angry so I meet with mr. Barnes weekly to review the finances but he will schedule a meeting monthly with the Finance Committee and also probably in August's with the Select board I would recommend having another joint meeting because that would help us and we may be doing it monthly as numbers start to come in from the state level and local level of where our revenues are at I think we might want to meet earlier than in August you do seems to me I don't know the date yet but August seems to be too late mr. McDonald McDonald please I was going to suggest I know I know mr.
McGinnis and mr. Barnes meet on a regular basis especially on the finances but there's no reason why Sean and Greg can't meet with James Wood Jim from the School Department and get the three of them together and basically just write of a synopsis of the meeting and send it out to the you know to the three boards so at least we have an idea or the regular basis as to what's going on and then as far as meeting with you know having another one of these meetings you know I think probably a quarterly meeting is it's probably a good point as long as we get a monthly update as to what's going on and how the finances are you know I think that should be more than enough at least getting an idea and as far as developing any kind of a plans or any kind of contingency to look at budget cuts I'm fully confident in the three of them coming together and coming up with some kind of a at least a scenario as to where you know where things can be done or or what can be looked at and how the revenues are coming in and how that's going to shape that kind of information and that kind of discussion miss him yeah can I add something yes miss Jenny oh I know mr.