001Good evening and welcome to the Milford Select Board meeting of January 26, 2026 at 6 PM in room three of town hall. Tonight's meeting selectman uh chairman Olaflin is Zoom. He is uh in the meeting but again he is participating in this meeting via Zoom. With that, the first agenda item is the signing of the warrant. >> Yes, selectman Walch. I'll entertain I'll make a motion to sign the warrant. >> I'll second that. >> And I would make that unanimous. The next is approve. >> You have to do a remote call. You have to do a roll call vote, Michael, because I'm in remote. >> Oh, I'm correct. Yep. >> I >> that's unanimous as well. Next is the approval of the regular session meeting minutes for January 12th, 2026. A >> motion to approve
002the uh regular session minutes of January 12th, 2006. >> I second that. >> And I would make that unanimous. Roll call, please. >> I >> And I would I as well. And next [clears throat] is the uh regular session meeting of January 15, 2026. >> Yeah. A motion, Michael, to approve the regular session meeting of uh January 15, 2026. >> I second that motion >> and I would make that unanimous. Roll call, please. >> I [snorts] >> and I would vote I as well. Okay, next agenda item is public hearing. We do have one public hearing tonight. It is National Grid in Verizon, New England with a poll location on Depot Street. We have somebody here from I believe National Grid if I'm not mistaken. [clears throat] >> Please identify yourself and then uh good
003evening. Um I'm Michael Parent from uh National Grid Senior Designer Office. >> Yeah. >> And um just had a petition for a new poll right outside the substation. Um it's for reliability purposes equipment up to monitor the uh wires that are coming out of that station. Sure. >> Paul, do you have any questions? >> Yeah. Yeah, no questions. I just know that everything was um um proper. Uh the um petition uh that was uh addressed to um the select board was uh very uh uh it it it explained everything in in detail. Um uh and seeing uh that it's a public hearing, Michael, do you want to ask because I want to make another motion after? >> Sure. Ask Tom. Do you have any comments, sir? >> I do. I do not. Mr. Chair, >>
004this being a public hearing, is anybody online, Andy? >> Uh, no. >> Anybody in the audience? >> Okay, go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say, Michael, that seeing this is a public hearing and there are no abutters either present or either on um uh Zoom um and um we did everything that we could to uh make this um legal and also um given that the sports past experience with Mass Electric and uh whatnot, I do make a motion uh that we do approve national grids petition as presented by Michael Parent um and as described in the petition that was given to the select board uh by u national grid as well. >> Tom, >> I would second that motion >> and I would make that unanimous. Roll call. >> I >> and I would
005vote I as well. >> Thank you very much. Have a great evening. >> Thanks, Michael. >> Okay. Our [snorts] next agenda item is scheduled appointments. And we do have one tonight with our finance director for the financial update in the budget for 2027. >> Good evening, Zack. >> Good evening, Jack. >> Good evening. >> How we doing tonight? >> Good day. How are you? >> How are you, Chief? >> Oh, doing good, Zach. >> Excellent. Excellent. I apologize, Chief. I I'm distributing a document. And I meant to email it to you, but I'm just going to talk briefly. >> I received it. >> It's actually a separate one, but the these are just some highlights. You'll get it. So, let me refer you to the one I handed out. Looks like this here. Financial facts.
006All right. So, originally my plan, I was going to give you a halfyear pretty thorough update, but in light of state aid coming in, I think that should be the uh majority of the conversation we have today. But I did want to just go through real quick highlights, just kind of some reminders and uh put your mind at ease for at least the current year. So things are on point with the budget. There's nothing really alarming um in comparison to previous years. We're right there percentage-wise. So we have nothing necessarily to report from that perspective, which is great. And then I'm just going to go through a couple reminders. Then I want to pivot immediately to what we're looking at for the fiscal 27 budget. So, right now for free cash, we had certification from
007last year, 6.4. We did spend the vast majority of it at the last town meeting, but we do [clears throat] have a little bit over a million dollars remaining right now. That could be used at the May town meeting, but I also believe we're going to use a little bit of that at this upcoming uh special town meeting in a couple weeks. All right. >> Yep. >> Um stabilization fund balances right now. I mean we've been we've been contributing pretty heavily as you know we have the two fund balance we have two separate stabilization accounts our traditional long-term which is looking at just under 37 million right now great number and then our capital account is 6.5 million so collectively we got about 43.5 million in our savings which is great but we do have
008plans to use that for this new school >> possibly may come back to that later when you have some questions >> um some housekeeping ing right now. I'm going to ask for a motion. We have uh our snow and ice budget $600,000. It's no surprise to anyone that is we had a couple really big storms, especially this past weekend. >> We're not currently deficit, but with the snow removal you saw last night and I believe I spoke to Chris Foley, he's doing it again tonight. So, I 100% expect we're going to enter deficit status. So, I'd like to get a motion to continue deficit spending. I can pause at this time if you'd like to have that motion made. >> And that would be to continue deficit spending. >> Yes. >> In any specific uh
009snow. >> Snow and ice only. >> Snow and ice. Okay. Yeah. Then a motion, Mike, uh uh uh that we continue deficit spending for snow and ice. >> Tom, >> I second that. That's the only item that we can actually deficit spend. >> Right. >> Correct. >> Not. >> And I would make that unanimous. Awesome. You need roll call. >> Yeah. >> Roll call. >> I >> Tom >> I >> and I as well. >> Great. Thank you. The rest of this document is just again as it says financial facts. Take a look at it. Might help you along the way with some key numbers, but as of right now, this particular year, we're pretty good and I'm happy about that. Now, let's switch over to state aid. state aid came in a couple days
010ago and I think uh me and some of the financial team have been holding our breath waiting to see these results and they're not good. I'll tell you that state aid numbers are not good and there's going to be a massive ramification. This might be the toughest budget year we've ever had. >> Excuse me. Excuse me, Zach. Uh a little while ago I read in the um Commonwealth the uh newspaper that they have for Massachusetts and they were mentioning that Governor Healey said that there would be no decrease in in in in in aid for for you know for for local aid. As a matter of fact, I think they even gave a percentage of four 4.4% increase. Did you hear that too? >> Something some something along those lines. Yes. >> But I thought
011that was good news instead of bad news. >> Yeah. Well, we're not losing money, but we're very dependent on state aid as in not just not just Milford, any municipality. Remember, our basic income, the largest being the levy, second being state aid, third being local receipts, right? >> Levies constrained by two and a half, Prop 2 and a half, local receipts is very difficult to have increases there. In fact, we're pretty stagnant. Sometimes high, sometimes low, but nothing material. Right. Right. So, uh, we did not go down, but just to put in perspective here, we're looking at, in the biggest number of of state aid, as a reminder, is chapter 70. Y, >> we're looking at 6% increase. 6 a little over a half a percent. All right, that's at the chapter 70 level. Turn
012that into dollar value, that's $350,000 over last year. Now remember, state aid is not just the money they give us. There's the flip side of assessments, money they take away. It's the old here's 20 bucks, but I'm taking $2 back. >> So to make the matters worse, assessments actually went up $200,000. So net net the only increase we're looking at right now out of the governor's budget is $150,000. >> Yeah. >> That is not good. Now, to put it further in perspective, I'm going to rattle off a few numbers to you just to kind of so you can see how big of a hit this is. Starting in uh fiscal 23, all right, chapter 70 increase was 21.5%. Fiscal 24, 18.8%. Fiscal 25 little dip 4.3. Fiscal 26, which is the one we're in now,
01311.8%. current year.6. >> Yeah, it's horrible. >> Again, not good. I know you probably say, um, I read the boy that cried wolf jacks in here all the time saying, "Be careful. Be careful. Be careful." But here it is. This is what I've been warning about. All right. >> So, we're here. Um, what kind of impact does that have on the overall budget? A good one. All right. >> Probably probably just either level funded or a moderate increase. >> We're going to be very lucky if we can level fund. I'm telling you that right now. All right. >> So, I mean, I think we would like to avoid layoffs at all costs. I'm not going to that level just yet, but I am telling you, um, there's tradeoffs that need to happen, right? So, right
014now on our projections building, Paul Abdaner, the financial analyst, and I, we build like very conservative models, but also realistic, right? So, we know not everyone could do a 2%. I know the school comes in higher. And we know health insurance is a huge challenge. So put a pin in that. That still remains a big challenge for not only Milford, probably not only Massachusetts, but the whole nation. >> And in in the contracts we just settled. >> And we just settled contracts that were fairly lucrative. They're good deals. That's all going to come into play here. So um again, not great, but uh >> put perspective. So, keep in mind when we build out these models and we built it out expecting maybe a 3.5% state aid increase. Again, we didn't get 3.5. We're at
0156. So, even when we built out 3.5, it was looking like we were going to have about close to a $2 million deficit. When I say deficit, we know that we've been maintaining excess levy capacity of $6 million. So, it's not a real deficit, right? we can handle it within our levy capacity. However, >> yeah, you're taken away. >> You're on the school building committee. We've been purposely planning $6 million because we know eventually we're going to build this school. We're going to have probably $8 million entering the levy directly, right? So, if we're looking at this as a short-term solution, hey, we can bang our uh our levy capacity. True, we can, but that blows up our plan school. Yeah. So, >> no solutions, only tradeoffs. >> So, a little bit premature to hit
016the panic button, but I definitely need departments, I definitely need you folks here, finance committee to understand that this is going to be a very challenging year. >> I think it's important, Zach, that we get the message out to the department heads early that as you're building your budgets, keep in mind, keep, you know, that that you got to be working tight to the >> we got to work together. You got to work together. I've already spoken to a few uh school committee members. I think they're meeting as we're meeting right now. So, some messages will they're probably having the exact same conversation we are right now. >> Um it's going to be challenging. We'll work through it like we normally do. >> Yeah. >> I think uh I think what I am saying is
017we certainly should be instituting a hiring freeze across the whole town >> until we can kind of weather this storm. and nothing forecastwise tells me that we're going to be in a better position the year after. So, I mean, we really need to take this serious right now. And um >> that's why like you were mentioned before, I remember when you do a budget, you know, you just only do it for that particular year. You do it how is that going to affect three in five years? >> Yes. >> You know what I mean? You got to have that foundation. >> Yep. Yep. Exactly. Now, again, as I'm saying, fortunately, we're in a position where we can do a few things here, but it does start with the operational budget. We got to get the
018operational budget under control. Um, we can't let this thing bloat out. Initiatives, everyone wants these new initiatives and I get it. They should be fighting for them. I totally get that. But we're in a position now where we're saying like, hey, we can't be handling this. We we should, if we're level funding, we ought to be happy with that. Um, I do think it would be very important, I'm talking to you, chief here. I think it'd be very important to have our chairman meeting in light of this. Um, chairman of finance committee and chief of Laughlin, myself, Rick. Uh, I think that would be very smart of us. I think we need to all be on the same page here. And I would suggest maybe like right after our special town meeting, we set that
019meeting up, Chief. And then I think we can get really serious about where we're going to go with directions here. You know, I mean, um, let's face it, the lo the largest budget in in any community, but certainly in Milford is the school department. So, it's going to be really tough for them. They know it. I know it. And >> Right. And like you were mentioned this, you know, with the uh school, you know, where our our bond rating also depends on the um revenue sources that we bring in as as well. like you said, we can't, you know, it'll be really, you know, not in a good light to start raising fees and in in in in various uh uh expenses like like that too right now. >> Yeah. I think I think we
020want to avoid knee-jerk reaction, but we got to start thinking about this stuff. >> Think of something, right? >> Yeah. >> Like you said, when we do go hopefully, you know, down the road for bond uh work and all that and that's that's going to depend how our rating is. >> Absolutely. And and not to pick on the school department, but having experienced both of us being on the school committee, the message we have to send to them is the message that you just said, Jack, we want to try, >> you know, and this is early, but we want to try not to have any layoffs. >> Yeah. >> So, the message to the school department and to all departments is you got to work together. >> You know, we're from where we sit, we're
021going to try to make sure that people keep their, you know, their jobs, stay employed, but everybody's got to work together. It can't be an eye attitude. >> It's got to be everybody looking out for everybody. >> Exactly. >> And in and you know, every department in the town, but as you said earlier, the school department being the largest budget in the community, you know, we got to work together so we can keep everybody working. >> Well said. Yeah. And then again, as I said, put a pin in the health insurance. The second big biggest budget in any community, certainly again in Milford, is is benefits. Mhm. >> And uh Kristen will be in front of you, but they're going to be looking for a decent increase. And out of necessity, it's not just Milford.
022>> It's not that's national. >> It's national. It's an issue. It's a it's a national problem, but we're going to have to deal with it, too. >> Mhm. >> You know, and that's something that we we can't be a let's just cut some out of there. You can't >> can't, >> you know. So, that's a number that just we have to work around that number, frankly. >> You know, debt, retirement contributions, those are already set. We can't go back on them. No. >> So then you take them out of the equation. We we basically have salaries and wages. >> Mhm. >> You know, so this is going to be a challenging year. Little nervous about it, but I'm also This isn't our first rodeo. I mean, we will work through it, but it it's going
023to be tough. >> Couple couple of years ago, we were facing the same thing almost. >> Yeah. >> I remember you came with the same type of news. >> Yeah. Well, which I I rattled those numbers off purposely because uh >> so I expected you might have asked why why do we why do we think these numbers are the way these are? Certainly at chapter 70. So uh we had the student opportunity act. We're all familiar with that, right? >> Mhm. >> So that was phased in over like a 5-year period, but then when CO occurred, they extended it a little bit. And I call that also for ease of reference like shuffling of the deck. You know, they phased it in over a number of years was rob Peter to pay Paul. We'll give
024Hope Day a little bit less because Milford needs it more. Yeah. They weren't going to do that all at once because it'd be devastating to the other communities. >> But when I was in here, I said, "Hey guys, this looks really tight." You know, >> then all of a sudden the state came in with an 18% increase and it was kind of poof. All right, we're good for another year. >> And now we're at that point 006. >> Oh, that's horrible. >> I was thinking the same thing, Zach. uh you know did this kind of get prolonged a little bit because of the opera money >> a little bit. Yes. >> You know the fed the money coming in from co. >> Yes. as you know there were you know times where it just kept
025coming and you know so maybe that prolonged you know this >> yes that in conjunction with I mean I was reading I thought we this is where you were going Paul with uh elely they're projecting only a 2.9% revenue increase for the whole state you know so they also have health insurance challenges and so this is governor's budget we know it goes through a number of different committees but should we expecting expect that they're going to come and save us No, we shouldn't. >> No, no, [snorts] >> no. >> Good enough. >> So, effectively again, >> I was going to add >> Go ahead, Chief. >> Zach, I was going to ask you if that was based on the governor's numbers. >> I mean, >> looking at history, there's a probability we'll see a different
026number from the legislature. Um, I think that's where it's going to be helpful to have a discussion with Brian Murray, um, to see if there is going to be a shift and if so, do they have a sense of what that shift is going to be? >> Good point. Yes. >> When >> even if such and we should definitely do that, I do not think we should plan on some kind of large increase. If it if something like that occurs, we'll be pleasantly surprised. >> Like like we said, man, let's look at level funded or maybe a moderate increase. >> Yeah. >> You know, again to the point you made earlier, we have negotiated contracts. So we uh I think the directive will be like to the extent of contract negotiations and then everything level
027funded. I don't even know if we can entertain even small initiatives areas. Yeah. Right. Say I would set the goal and level funded. >> Yeah. Got to take the good with the bad, that's for sure. >> Well, I thought that's the type of thing I'd like to flush out with the chairman meeting. So, uh, we'll get with your chief when offline and we'll set that up. >> Meanwhile, we have a special town meeting coming up and we're well prepared for that. >> Mhm. >> Questions? >> No. >> Okay. >> Very good. Thank you. And we appreciate the the detail that goes into this too for us. You know what I mean? >> This is just a starting point. And I don't see it really getting better, but we'll be we definitely will be talking a
028little heavier this year. >> That's what I mean. It gives us something to absorb right now. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That's it. >> You got it. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. Thanks, Zach. >> Thank you. See you now. Have a good night. Thank you. Have a good night. >> Okay. Our next agenda item is town administrator support. >> Yes. Thank you. Uh just two items tonight. We have received notice from the Department of Environmental Protection that Milford has been awarded recycling dividends program funds in the amount of $5,400 under the sustainable materials recovery program. In addition, the town has been awarded 6,000 in funding for drop off equipment for a reuse swap shed. This will allow residents to donate and exchange uh good condition household items. The second item is I've been informed by National
029Grid they're beginning to reach out to our customers in Milford to introduce and familiarize them with the smart meter program. The benefits and features of their new meter include more customer control with secure access to how and when consumers use energy which could help in conservation, faster near realtime readings available within minutes and enhanced outage monitoring storm response. National Grid installs anticipates installing smart meters in Milford in the next few months. Customers will begin receiving their first and second communications which are a letter and or email approximately 60 days and then 30 days prior to their scheduled installation. So the public should be made aware of that. And that's all I have tonight gentlemen. >> Thank you Rick. >> Thank you. >> Paul, do you have any questions for Rick? >> I do not. Thank
030you. It was >> Tom. Any questions for Rick? >> I do not Rick. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Rick, very much. Next agenda item is old business. Do you have any old business? >> No, I I don't. Michael >> Tom, do you have any old business? >> I do not. Thank you. >> And I don't either as well. Okay, new business. First item under new business is classic crust Milford doing businesses classic pizza Milford transfer common vicular license. >> Hopefully you brought a pizza cuz I'm starving. No, you didn't. >> That was yesterday. >> They brought 13 of them yesterday. Sorry, guys. >> Yeah, thanks. >> You missed out on it. >> They didn't last. >> Not even a slice. >> They didn't last. The next meeting will bring some on good pizza.
031>> Okay. >> Did not last. >> Thanks, Andy. >> And we promise to keep it the same. >> So, this is a transfer of common vicular license. [snorts] Uh, I'm not even going to try to pronounce the names. Please forgive me for that. Um, it's for Classic Crust Milford doing business as Classic Piece of Milford and it's being transferred I believe from >> it's Alex and Pizza Chef. >> Pizza Chef. Yes. >> To Classic Crust. >> Correct. All right. You gentlemen want to have any presentation you'd like to >> give me your names gentlemen just so I have them. Costa Bra and Sydney Adelino >> drinks you. >> Okay. >> It's Alex Vyati, president of Pizza Chef. After 45 years, I think I deserve to retire. >> That's it. Huh? >> That's it. That's right.
032>> Enough. After 45 years. >> Yes. and we coming in with new energy >> to keep up his good job and make it even better. >> Here you go. >> Well, that's what we like to hear, >> right? >> We'll make you proud. >> So, as always, we have a department head review form that gets submitted to us. Uh the building commissioner uh it is uh allowable [snorts] use of the building. The building is accessible. Um and a group B use and occupancy is accepted. Town planner, no change of use. Town treasurer, there no outstanding taxes or no outstanding leans. Fire chief has no objections. Police chief has approved it as well. And the board of health says there are no violations. With that, I will entertain a motion. >> Yes, Mr. Chairman. Um, like
033I said, everything's you just mentioned, everything's in order by the department heads. Um the um uh classic uh uh pizza has been here for for quite some time and it's we're very proud to have you here >> in in the best to you on your retirement as well sir. Okay. So with that, uh, Miss Michael, I'd make a motion that the select board approve the transfer of the common victor's license from, uh, Alexandros Volatas. Voyati. >> Voyatis uh doing business as pizza chef uh to Classic Cross Restaurant LLC doing business as Classic uh Pizza of Milford located on 179 181 Main Street with Costa Burgu as manager and is subject to all applicable rules and regulations. >> Thanks Tom. >> I second that Mr. Chim >> and I would make that unanimous. Roll call vote
034please. I >> I >> and I would vote I as well. >> Good luck to you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Good luck to you. >> May I ask a quick question? >> Alex, all the best. >> We have a I have a location in Malber. >> You take care, my friend. >> And we have beer and wine there. Is there a way we can apply? Maybe not. >> You can give me a call tomorrow and I'll speak there. >> Okay. >> All right. I don't >> Thank you very very much administrator. >> Congratulations. Enjoy your retirement. Welld deserved. I'm trying my best. My back and take it. >> There you go. Stretch it out. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Pizzas. >> Yeah, I know. >> Okay. >> Going to get one call.
035I know it. Our next uh item under new business is K&M Auto Sales, a class 2 dealer license. This is K&M Auto Sales Incorporated, 40 Cape Road, Milford, Mass, has applied for a new class 2 license to buy and sell secondhand motor vehicles. And with us tonight are two gentlemen and their attorney, attorney Bernazi. >> Good evening. >> Uh this is Marcelo Rojo. He is the principal of K&M and this is his son. >> Ah brother. >> Brother [laughter] thank you for the son. >> Good night brother. >> I spoke with the son on the phone so I got confused. I apologize. You can give him the business later. [laughter] >> Okay. So uh that's all you have. >> Oh no no I I >> it's okay. >> Um so so this is a Mr.
036Rojo, you may have recall, you may recall, was in front of you probably about a year ago, a little less. >> Uh he was looking to operate, open and operate a small uh sales in Main Street >> on Main Street in the old Sherman. Yeah. Right next to the >> Okay, now I got >> that unfortunately was a short-lived and um uh didn't work out arrangement. He has found a new location uh up on 40 Cape Road. uh and he has uh gone through the all the the process and the final step uh the light at the end of the second tunnel um would be uh seeking this license. >> Sure. Sure. >> So I I believe it's 11 cars. Is that >> Yeah. >> Okay. So in the department head review form again as
037you watched in the last hearing uh building commissioner has no concerns. Town planner site review is fine. Tax collector no outstanding leans. Fire chief has no uh objections. Police chief has approved it and the board of health has approved it. So from all the department heads, everybody has approved it. Paul, do you have any comments? No, like I said, I just mentioned like the last time too, the department head review form was fine and all paperwork is in order uh according to um the administrative uh summary that we have here and I have no uh questions or concerns >> and I will say although you >> go ahead Tom I'm sorry >> was going to say Mike uh the only thing I see is the fire chief did ask that they would review the proper
038permitting with the fire department. So just a flag for the owners that they should contact the fire chief. >> Right. And to even though your previous uh endeavor was short-lived, there was no concerns while you were operating in that location, which is important for the town to know as well. >> So I'm sure that'll follow you to your new location. >> Thank you. >> Good motion. >> Yeah. Motion, Mr. Chair. I move that the select vote approve the application of K&M Auto Sales, Inc. of 40 Cape Road, Milford, for a class 2 license to buy and sell secondhand motor vehicles contingent upon compliance with all state and local regulations. And as select Laughlin uh pointed out too, where the fire chief does have uh an applicant must review proper permitting with the fire department. So
039based on that as well. Okay, >> I would second that, Mr. Chim. >> I would make that unanimous. And roll call, please. I >> I as well. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Good luck on your next adventure. >> Thank you. Thank you. Good to >> see you. >> All right. Take care. >> Good luck, sir. >> Next item [snorts] under new business is the acceptance of gifts from Benjamin Moore. Attach is a gift acceptance form. the gift from Benjamin Moore to the Milford Fire Department in the amount of $3,000. [clears throat] And as I've people have heard me say in the past, Benjamin Moore is once again always very very generous to this community. And uh again, they come forward with $3,000 for our fire department, which is just, you know, very
040very appreciated and and you know, very very grateful. We we really appreciate that. So, thank you very much, Paul. >> Definitely agree. Uh and also too, Benjamin Moore uh on our u January uh 12th, 2026 meeting also gave 3,000 to the police department as well. So, like you mentioned before in and to repeat for effectiveness, uh uh they have been very generous uh contributions to the town of Milford. Um, and also we'd like to recognize Scott Kaplan as well who represents Benjamin Moore, right? >> His continued partnership uh with the town of Milford. >> Right. Come on. >> I would agree, Paul. Um, thank you for mentioning Scott. He has always been gracious uh with regard to providing funding annually to police, fire, and the uh youth center. So, um, as well as other departments.
041So, uh, thanks to Scott and I, I, uh, second that motion. >> And I would make that Did you make that motion? >> Yes, you did. You did. And I would make that unanimous. And, and also, I'd like to say, you know, when you drive by the property of Benjamin Moore, it's always clean. It's well organized. You know, they're they're really they're great neighbors to be honest with you, and it's a pleasure to have them in town. And again, thank you very very much uh Scott as always for this very generous gift. Thank you. And we come right back with our last uh item on the new business again is Benjamin Moore uh making a gift to the Milford Youth Center in the amount of $3,000. Again, repeating everything that I said prior, Benjamin Moore
042has always um been very, you know, vested in the youth center. Um I can remember years ago being on the board there. They sent some employees there to do painting. They always were, you know, very kind with any supplies that were needed that they could to, you know, supply to the youth center and every year making a generous, you know, monetary donation. And here they come this year with a $3,000 donation to the Milford Youth Center. So Scott, to you and to everybody involved at Benjamin Moore, thank you. It's greatly appreciated in the uh youth center. Surely can use it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, Michael. And and again to repeat what you said and I definitely agree. So if you need a motion, I can make a motion. >> Please. Uh, I
043make a motion that the select uh, board accept with appreciation a gift of $3,000 from Benjamin Warren Company for the benefit of the Milford uh, Youth Center. >> I second that. >> I would make that unanimous. Roll call, please. >> I >> and I as well. Thank you very much. Next agenda item is invitation to speak. Is anybody here for invitation to speak? Anybody online, Andy? Uh there is no one online. >> No one online. Seeing nobody in the audience. Next agenda is correspondents. Paul, do you have any correspondence? >> Michael, I do not. >> Mr. Chairman, do you have any? >> I do not, Mr. I do not, Mr. Chairman. >> Thank you. If I may, I'd like to take this to personally from the select board, from the town administrator. I'd like to
044thank um the Milford Highway Department, the Milford Parks Department, the Milford Police Department, the Milford Fire Department. I'd like to thank Mr. Vani is the town administrator for the outstanding job that they have done. They're still working on it, handling the snowstorm that we got over the weekend. Um I know they're out there right now clearing Main Street. Again, I'd like to say thank you. Um it's greatly appreciated. It's a it's a huge sacrifice [snorts] um on the people that are involved in it and from the board of from the select board and I know from the community because I've spoke I have spoken to some of the people that are out there working and have told me some stories of some kind gestures that citizens and some groups in town have done for them
045which is greatly appreciated. But I would like to just extend a sincere thank you to all people that are involved handling this, you know, severe snowstorm that we got with another threat coming to us this weekend. Uh I would like to just say thank you very very much. It's greatly appreciated. >> Yeah, I agree. Thank you, Michael. >> Michael, if I could add to that, uh Carlos Benjamin and his staff, >> yes, >> who take care of the town buildings, the walkways, etc. um you know they were out there as well just to mention >> absolutely >> so nobody gets lost the mix. >> Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. Thank you. And with that we do not have any executive session this evening. >> Not tonight Mr. WS. >> And I'll take a motion
046to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Mr. >> Chair and I second Mr. Chair. >> And I would make that unanimous. Roll call please. >> I >> and I as well. And with that, good night everybody. Thank you for watching. I hope you're safe. Please be safe out there on the roads as we try to keep them clear and and and passable and the sidewalks and keep the schools going. And let's hope this storm this weekend doesn't turn into another what we just went through. So, thank you very much for watching and from the Milford Select Board, we wish you all the best. Thank you and have a good night. >> Good night.