001All right, good evening. Um the time is now 6:35. Um we're starting a couple minutes late. Uh we had a lot of folks attend which is great to see and we wanted to make sure everyone was registered before we started the public hearing. I will now call the meeting to order and I will now read the legal notice. Portland Board of Selectmen Legal Notice of public hearing June 18, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Pursuant to section 12034 of the Portland Town Charter, a public hearing will be held by the board of selectment on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in the Buck Foreman community room to consider public comments and questions both orally and in writing on the below supplemental appropriation. public access also through Zoom link www.portland.org. Now therefore, be it resolved that the
002board of selectman hereby approves the following supplemental appropriations in the below listed line items funded through an estimated increase to revenue and line items 01-0000-00-00328 structural permits of $96,250. The impact um to the uh um accounts will be as follows. 01- 025-0000-11003 Part-Time payroll $32,500-14-0000-37019 Planning and Development Matterners $34,000 01-014-0000-37013 General Town Council for Services $7,500 01-034-0000-38010 Miscellaneous engineering $17,750 01- 034-0000-38007 general services $4,500. The total is $96,250. A copy of the complete resolution to be voted on is available for public inspection in the town clerk's office and in the town website at www.portland.org dated this fifth day of June 2025 and attested to by Michael A. Pelton, first selectman of the town of Portland. Um, I'll now open it up for public comment. Um, I don't know if you guys would like me just
003to run through what each one of these is actually for, if that would be helpful. Um, I'll give a quick summary. Um, regarding the part-time payroll, that increase to that line item is, uh, required. We had a building official who was out on a medical leave for a period of time. The increase to this budget is to cover the part-time payroll for the work that was done in his absence. uh planning and development matters. Um in talking with that there was there's obviously as everyone can see there's been a lot of activity in town. Part of that has to do with has driven up some of the legal expenses. That's what this line item has to do with this has to do with some general land use matters. Um some blight matters that were attended
004to costs and legal costs associated with incremental projects. And there was also a lawsuit that the town has been navigating um that that basically has charged resulted in some additional cost. The next line item uh general town council for services, right? This is the general town council. Um this is against higher than uh higher than act higher than average activity. Um so basically the cost come in higher than we were budgeted and part of that cost was in fact the fact that we went through the transition in town leadership and some of the some of the um um items that had to be worked through uh during that transition. U miscellaneous expenses uh miscellaneous engineering rather. Um this has to do uh this incremental above the the baseline has uh primarily driven by by two
005factors. In large part, it has to do with um the work that's being done at the riverfront access and and basically the boat launch that is being uh being constructed. There were work um engineering work that had to be accomplished, other um requirements that the state had in terms of some of the reports and things that had to be done uh that we had to complete prior to us being able to access some of the funds uh the grant funds themselves. So, those that line items up a little bit more. And there's also been some expenses associated with the work going on to do the expansion on the airline trail. Um and then the general services um probably the the line item when I spoke with our finance director earlier today u one of for
006example one of the line items that was not an urgently anticipated that impacted this had to do with um getting the new scoreboards uh you know up and running and some some work that had to be done in terms of some analysis and things of that nature. So um bottom so the bottom line when you sum it all up is that with all the activity structural permit revenue line is is is up u the what's being proposed is using $96,250 of that to offset and basically um take and adjust those line items in this year's budget so that those budgets will actually closer to where they need to be to go through the remainder of the year. Um I'll open it up at this time for public comments or any questions. Okay. Not seeing any
007Oh, check on Zoom. Yeah. Anything on Zoom? Okay. Seeing and hearing none, um I will close this public hearing at 6:41. Is that All right, we're now going to go into the second public hearing of the night. Um, it is uh now 6:41. I will call this meeting to order and I'm going to read the legal notice. Portland Board of Selectman legal notice of public hearing June 18, 2025 at 6:35 p.m. Pursuant to section 1203.4 Four of the public of the Portland Town Charter. A public hearing will be held by the board of selectment on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at 6:35 p.m. in the Buck form and community room to consider public comments and questions both orally and in writing on the below supplemental appropriation. Public access also through Zoom link a www.portland.org. Now therefore,
008be it resolved that the board of selectment hereby approves the supplemental appropriations from capital non-recurring fund balance in the amount of $200,000 and authorizes the funds to be added slashinccreased in the following accounts. Account 08141-0000-890, Highway Division vehicle maintenance replace pickups in the amount of $88,500. Account 08-141-0000-89080, Police Department equipped cruiser replacement in the amount of $61,500. Account 08-141-0000-89040 Fire Department MSA SCBA air packs in the amount of $20,000 and account 08-141-0000-8910 0 resource recovery department- purchase compactors containers in the amount of $30,000. The total is $200,000. A copy of the complete resolution to be voted on is available for public inspection in the town clerk's office and on the town's website at www.portland.org dated this fifth day of June 2025 attested to Michael A. Helton uh first selectment. Um again kind of a quick
009synopsis of what this has to do. Um given the age of some of our vehicles um there we had a very successful and have had some successful auctions of some of our existing equipment that generated uh a couple hundred,000 in revenue. Um and in speaking with the um again our financial director um what's being proposed here is to use the revenue from the sale of that older equipment to buy some new equipment that is needed. This is equipment that was on and has been included in the long range capital planning but was not included in this year's budget as it was approved. So trying to basically accomplish a little bit more with this revenue that's available to basically do this as a supplemental appropriation on this year's budget that ends on June 30th. Specifically, um
010the highway department, they're in need of a new F350 pickup truck with a utility body. Uh that's anticip anticipated to be 88,500. The existing truck is functional and would become one of the spares. Um the police department is in need to replace vehicles and update their fleet and additional cars in the town's fleet have gone past their useful life. Specifically, one of the things that has occurred since uh the budget was passed was they the town actually ended up with a vehicle that was stolen. Um and the and the vehicle ended up uh there was also another vehicle that you know blew a head gasket. So they have had some vehicles in the fleet side, not on the police side, on the fleet side of things um that have that are no longer functional by
011adding and using allocating some of this money to buy another police vehicle which we need. You know, we've been adding officers and we have an older fleet anyway uh for for our police vehicles. This allows us to put our officers in a new vehicle and then reclaim the the vehicles that would be in this case the one vehicle that would be made um spare would then go back to fleet use. So it it's going to cover two needs. The fire department uh this is the uh the air packs um for $20,000. I think we need to keep this equipment current and uh I know we had done an upgrade of of some of that of some of this equipment a few years ago. This is um some updated impacts for that as my understanding. And
012then the resource recovery is the last 30,000 of this. Um some of the folks at the trans at the transfer station, if you take a look at the large containers, the ones that we have there now, a couple of them are actually to the point where they are rotting. Um they're leaking. So they're they're just becoming less serviceable. Taking the opportunity to replace those with with new ones. Um, at this point I will open up the floor for public comment or any additional questions. Okay. Anything on Zoom? All right. Hearing and seeing none, I will close this public hearing at 6:46 p.m. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you can say it's fine. Don't worry about Hey, good evening everybody. I'm going to begin the uh the first town meeting. It's uh 6:47 p.m. and
013I'm going to call the meeting to order. The first order of business is to elect a moderator. Are there any nominations? I'll nominate Mike Hernandez. Second. A motion has been made and seconded. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none. Is there a motion to close nominations? So moved. I'm gonna put John and Jim. I'll second it then. All in favor? I. All opposed. So moved. Um, is there a uh motion to uh nominate Mike Hernandez? That was made in second. Yep. So all in favor? I. All opposed. So moved. Mr. moderator. Thank you. We got to go up here being nominated. I think didn't you nominate you nominated? Um, you know, I think yes, I did. All right. Thank you, Mike. I'll check it. No, no, I would I would next like to read the
014call of the meeting into the record as published in the River East News Bulletin on Friday, June 6, 2025. I would also ask that the town clerk record the return of the notice along with the minutes of this meeting. Legal notice of special town meeting June 18th, 2025 at 6:48 p.m. Orling, Connecticut. The electors and the p persons eligible to vote in the town meetings of the port town of Portland, Connecticut are hereby warned and notified that pursuant to chapter 12 section 1203.4 4 and chapter 5, section 503 of the town charter and special town meeting will be held by the board of selectmen on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at 6:40 p.m. in the Buck Foreman community room, 265 Main Street, Portland, Connecticut for the following. Now therefore, it be resolved that the board of
015sacment hereby approves the following supplemental appropriations in the below listed line items funded through an estimated estimated increase to revenue in line item 01-0000-00-328 structural permits of $96,250. Okay. 01- 025-0000- Z-11003 Parttime Payroll 32,500-014-0000-37019 Planning and Development Matters 34,000 01-014-0000-37013 General Town Council for Services $7,500 $100-34-0000-38010 Miscellaneous engineering $17,750 01-34-0000-38007 general services $4,500 with a grand total of $96,250. A copy of the complete resolution to be voted on is available for public inspection in the town clerk's office and on the town's website at www.portland conneut.org dated this 5th day of June 2025 attest michael a pelton first selectman. I would like to now entertain a motion to introduce the resolution entitled supplemental appropriation various general funds expenditure line items and increases to estimated structural permits and to wave the reading of the resolution. Do I
016have any motions? So moved. Seconds. Second. I will now call for public discussion on a resolution. Anyone in the public wish to speak? online. So this actually mean this meeting because it's an inerson vote. Um yeah there's so no online. Okay. All right. Being there no further discussion I will entertain a motion to move to the question tonight. So moved. Second. So this is the green green ballot. So there's some pens up here and then you can come up and just put it in the green box. Pens right there. There's some pens up here as well. So you don't you in the vote. Huh? I know you um I keep you you've nominated for the vote, right? After he asked for to call it a vote. Yes. Yeah. And u John and John seconded. We
017we we kept it. Matter of fact, that's good. I'll call John. We'll keep that same case. I'll let John know. We'll keep that same case. Make it easy. So this is this is how we do it. This a vote one green middle. [Music] It's still 40, right? Any any other votes before we start count? Okay. I did Mike have to make a motion to not reread it again after he read the legal notice. It's just a pro for them with proformatics say to wave the reading because you just read it. Okay. All right. But but if somebody objected to to the reading Good. It's great. People are interested. Yes. You know, I was looking too in the, you know, the river east. I've been reading the little town's budget flows. We came well. We came
018when we passed it the earliest. I think East Hampton's back to the drawing board. Eastampton's back. They did pass. That's right. I'm friends with the tax. So, the motion passes. The result of the vote was 27 yes, 13 no, no abstensions. Is there a motion to close this meeting? So, so moved. All those in favor say I. I. I. The meeting is now adjourned at 6:55. The time is now 6:56 and I will call the second town meeting to order. The first order of business for the second meeting is to elect a moderator. Are there any nominations? I nominate Mike Hernandez. There's Is there a second? Motion has been made and seconded. Are there any nominations? Hearing none, is there a motion to close nominations? So moved. Second. All those in favor of closing nominations
019signify by saying I. All oppose? Nay. So moved. Are there all in favor of electing Mike Hernandez as moderator? Signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed? Nay. So moved. All right. Thank you, Mike. I would like I would like now to read to call of the meeting into the record as published in the River News River East News Bulletin on Friday, June 6th, 2025. I would also ask that the town clerk record the return of the notice along with the minutes of this meeting. Legal notice of special town meeting June 18, 2025 at 6:50 p.m. Portland, Connecticut. The electors of and those persons eligible to vote in the town meetings of the town of Portland, Connecticut are hereby warned and notified that pursuant of chapter 12 section 1203.4 4 and chapter 5 section 503 of
020the town charter. A special town meeting will be held by the board of selectmen on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at 6:50 p.m. in the Buck Foreman community room, 265 Main Street, Portland, Connecticut for the following. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the board of Sacramento hereby approves the supplemental appropriations for capital non-recurring fund balance and the amounts of $200,000 and authorize the funds to be added increased in the following accounts. 08-141-0000-89090 Highway Division Vehicle Maintenance Replacement Pickups $88,5001-0000-89080 Police Department Equipped Cruiser Replacement $61,500-141-0000- Fire Fire Fire Department MSA SCBA AirPax $20,000 08-141-0000-89100 Resource Recovery Department Purchase Compactors and Containers $30,000 for a grand total of $200,000. A copy of the complete resolution to be voted on is available for public inspection in the town clerk's office and and on the town's website at www.portland Connecticut.org
021dated this 5th day of June 25th attest michael a pel and first select them. I would I would now like to entertain a motion to introduce the res resolution entitled authorization to use capital non-recurring fund balance to purchase highway pickup truck police equipped cruisers fire MSA SCBA air packs and resource recovery containers and to wave the reading of the resolution. We have a motion. I'll second it. I will now call for public discussion on this resolution. Being no public discussion, I will entertain a motion to move to the question tonight. So move. Second. Okay. So this is the the purple Jim, did you did you um make the motion for the vote? Yes. Hey, how are you? Did you make the motion for the vote or was that John the Yeah. Yeah, John. John did
022that one. Okay. He's messing with me. I know. You could you give him a hard time later. I hear you guys had a good meeting last night. Okay. Hey, how you doing? Are there any other ballots is looking at cast to see recommendation last night? last night I don't have all the details before we go down Yeah. What if you say you know proposal [Music] opposite Oh Definitely shouldn't do nothing. But the first one was she proposed. All right. Motion passes. The result of the vote was 23 yes, 17 no, zero abstensions. Is there a motion to close this meeting? So moved. Second. Second. All those all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Meeting is now adjourned at 7:04. 704. What were the notes? The Thank you guys. 717. the king of glory.