Board of Selectmen - Regular Meeting

We're still waiting on Ian, but we believe he's on his way, so we're going to go ahead and get started and he will join us when he gets here. First up, we're working with new microphones and sound tonight. Bear with us as we figure out just how close we need to be, but hopefully it works better for everybody here as well as for the recording. So this is our select board meeting for the town of Kensington for Monday, August 10th, and we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance.

And we will begin tonight with our public comment. Are there folks who are here for that portion of the meeting?

Thank you.

I'm here for the universal society of Kensington trustees. Um, we are having our annual summer services and are requesting the use of the bathrooms in the town hall. If it's permissible with the board next Sunday, the 16th for what is our traditional old home Sunday. We will also have an old home ceremony during the town's old home weekend, but we're asking for next weekend and probably the 16th if. If that's the whatever the Sunday is old home weekend for those 2 Sundays permission to use the town hall and to have the police open the town hall for us. It'd be a 10 o'clock service to 11. so for that time, I don't know if they will be having refreshments. We will be having refreshments or not, but if I, if I could for the society.

I mean, I think that's something we've done regularly in the past.

Yes, it's a longstanding tradition.

Yeah, that's all I was going to ask. I imagine it's historical. Thank you. There's never been any issues. Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Other public comment? All right.

Then moving on to our agenda for department heads. Chief Kane, you want to start? I know our fire chief couldn't be here tonight, but we did want to share as an update from them. They did the push-in ceremony on the new tanker over the weekend. Sadly, the timing, none of our current select board could be there, so they did take a video that we wanted to share so we could see it as well.

Thank you for playing that.

Again, I know the fire chief's not here, but thank him and the team for putting that together. And we're excited to have the new tanker available for any needs in town. So Matt, roads updates?

Yeah, just a few things from the road department. The culvert was replaced and updated on Stumfield Road. We ended up replacing a 12-inch failing metal culvert and updated it with a 12 inch HDPE plastic culvert. So that's all set, ready to go for paving later this summer. Bell and Flynn sent back the signed agreement and insurance binder pertaining to road reconstruction 2026. And like I said, anticipates September, early September as a date. And that's it from the road department. Matt, did the, did the culvert come in at the quote? Yeah. Yeah. It was 300 dollars. Yeah. Yeah. And then the, the 6,000 and change was quoted of installation. So awesome. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.

It looks like we have the agreement that needs to be signed motion and signed here.

so this is the this is the road reconstruction that we agreed to last time with bell and flynn so it looks like everything's in order yeah it has the quoted amount from what we discussed and what was provided to us in the bid so based off all the information within the road reconstruction agreement i will make a motion to sign the bell and flynn agreement for the road reconstruction on olivia lane and stumpfield road

I second that motion.

All in favor aye. Thanks again for that. Yeah, I did a great job. Thank you very much.

Uh, one of us just wanted to just follow me. She's the boss.

I think we got three lines here. Is there right? Yeah, for you a little.

Alright, fine.

We do matter slightly less separate. Thank you. Oh, there's the proposal. All right. And Kathleen over to you.

Thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Sarah, anything from you or Carleen first?

One thing I have to report is that the Tax Collector's Office is going to be starting with checks via the computer. So we're just starting on that. We are contacting ClerkWorks and Jane is helping us tomorrow morning. We all will be in a meeting at nine and by the December bills that will be up and running.

That's great. And that's going to be similar to like how we would do the online car registration or dog licenses, that type of payment system. True. Okay. Yeah. So that's great. I think that'll be really convenient for folks.

Yeah. I saw something that Kathy or currently somebody had sent out. Yeah, that would great. Thank you.

Thank you. That's it. Thank you.

Yeah. From the town clerk's office, I have some appointments for you all to sign. The parties did appoint inspectors of election. I received two from the Republican Party and three from the Democratic Party. Everyone that I've reached out to so far is able to participate. So I have appointments ready for your signature. As far as our election budget, which I'm keeping tabs on, with Harold's help and talking with Chief Kane, discussed having just one police officer for the election instead of two throughout the day, which at their detail rate will save $1,400 over September and November elections. So that's very helpful. Harold and I will be attending an election law training on Thursday in Concord. So I will have to close the office during the day to attend that. And I have a couple other things, family things coming up in the next couple of weeks. So there will be some slight changes to my hours, but I will have everything posted on the website.

Thank you. I think I received an email as well about the election law training dates and times were not super convenient to me. It sounded like they were going to do offer like an on demand webinar, something we could do as well. Yeah. Anything further about that?

I haven't heard any. As far as the availability of the webinars that hasn't been disclosed yet, but I do know they intend to do that. Okay. I'll also share those with some of my election volunteers, especially some who haven't been familiar with the process before, just so they're familiar with what we do. Okay.

Thank you. I'm skipping ahead slightly to the new business section, but since we're talking about the election, do we want to talk right now about the setup procedure? Have we heard from anybody that's available to help? Yes. Oh, you want to go ahead?

Go ahead, Harold. Election stuff while we're right there.

Yeah, I think it relates to that.

School is in session this time for election, so we're kind of in limbo on some of the election procedures that are going to be changed because of that. There are 14 election team members, 20 school employees in the parking lot with a 50 car parking lot. So we're going to be using the parking lot next door and we're going to be using the parking lot behind the Grange for election day. The kids are going to be released and brought into the school. So there's going to be, and I'll coordinate this with the chief, some Issues relating to movements at 830 in the morning and 330 in the afternoon during the drop off and pick up. I've had 2 meetings with the principal over these concerns, and we've resolved the majority of them with making some procedural changes in the election process. And as far as the setup, we have our election set up team for September. And so I look forward to you folks being creative again. And I think some of these people will come back, but we'll face this problem again in November and November. There's no school in session, so we will not have those logistical issues that we're going to be facing this time.

Okay, great. Thank you.

Thanks, Harold.

But I will say the outreach, putting it on the website and putting it on Facebook, people were great about responding and offering to help. So thank you for that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kathy, for posting that too.

Kathy did all the work.

It's okay. And then just to close out that agenda item as well. So we board attendance. I know that came up. Carol, you had sent some information along to remind us that we have an obligation to be there. I'm good. I'm set. I'm available to be there all day. I don't know if either of you are available or if we need to find some alternates to designate.

It's Tuesday, September 8th. Yes. Yes.

Also, 1 of the obligations of the segment at the end of the night after the reconciliation period is to sign the seals that I have to put on the boxes. So. Just so, you know, it's, it's not just during the day that we need your assistance. It's also at the end of the night.

You're not in the area.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, and if that's necessary, I can create the appointments for them.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

So we'll make it work. Thank you.

Do you want to do those appointments now?

Sarah? Oh, sure. We need each one of these names. Do we need to read off that?

Yep. OK. And what they're doing. Is it just for the September election or is this for the November as well?

These appointments will be valid through the end of the year. So for September and November.

Perfect.

All right. Here we go, everybody. Ready? All right, so Gene Waldron in Rockingham County will fill the vacancy of Kensington Inspector of Elections. There we go. Al Brandano for the same role of Kensington Inspector of Elections. Marianne Horn.

We're going to move your mic a little closer to me. Sorry, I moved it away. It was my fault. User error. How we doing?

Do I just speak into the mic?

Just speak into the microphone.

You don't have to be quite as ridiculous. All right. So we have Jean Waldron, Al Brandero, Marianne Horn, Kelly Bennett. Sorry, I'm doing my best. Donna Georges. Lisa Peralt. Thank you, Peralt, Jane Bannister, Jacqueline Benson, Janine Archibald, Laura Snyderman, Steve Snyderman, Nabi Ledoux, Eileen Pacey, Lena Sawyer, all right, as mentioned, these are all for, whereas there's a vacancy for the position of a Kensington election worker, Townsend Kensington, we will hereby recognize and sign them off as is.

Do you wanna? I second that motion. All in favor?

Aye. Okay, here we go. Lots of signatures now. Pass one down, pass one down.

Very exciting moments. Love signing things.

Probably could have done this in a better fashion, I guess.

It's a good arm stretch.

Not the most efficient. It's a good arm stretch.

See what you're easy. Again, thank you. Is this a record number of people?

Is this typical?

This is typical.

This is typical, all right.

Yeah, we have a morning shift from 7.30 in the morning to about 1.30, and then a shift from 1.30 to 7.30, and then end of night counters.

Got it. Democracy takes people. Who'd have thought?

Other departments or committee heads that are here that want to speak tonight? Recreation?

You guys have any questions about on home day? And we put in for the fireworks display, which those cost quite a bit. So we're hoping we're all set. Kathy, are we all set with that?

The board's right here, and they'll make their determination. Donna had wrote back and said that they could take half from the rec revolver and half from the budget, if that would help alleviate some of the cost of the $5,000 for the fireworks.

So we'll go, basically? Oh, 1 day in September, we've had attendance has been less and less every year than August. So we're trying September and we got some nice things coming. So hopefully we get the community out. That's what it's really all about.

How does the cost for the fireworks compared to how does the cost for the fireworks compared to previous years? Quotes about the same.

Not inexpensive, but it's.

Yeah, I think if there's the opportunity to take some of it from the revolver, it helps just with the default budget across the board. I know it's something that's built into the budget from 2025 for you all, but as we try to minimize cutting costs on elections and things like that, if we can find a way to spread that out, I think that helps.

Well, the fireworks are kind of important. They bring a lot of people out. Last year, we had a problem. We couldn't do the fireworks, and we had no one there for the barbecue. No one. So the fireworks are definitely a big job.

Yeah, sorry. The reason why I haven't, there we go. Parks and recreation. All right. Available $9,500 spent $2,500 plus $5,000 gets you to

So I'm coming from a revolver fund.

So can you help me out with a revolver fund? I was not aware of what that was until recently when Chief helped me out with what a revolver fund is. But just about how much is in there?

I don't even know. Kathy, do you know what we have in the revolver? I'm going to look. Camp has gone really well this summer. Excellent. Amazing coordinator and director. So it's going really well. I think our numbers are up and that helps with that.

That's awesome. That's excellent.

Yeah.

But I think the yeah, the tuition was up a little bit too, right?

It was up. Yes. Yeah.

Okay. It's all of that adds up in the right direction.

And we are probably the least expensive camp around.

For sure. For sure.

A big value.

All the Balaban boys were there. The Balaban boys were there. Yeah, at least two of them.

Yep.

One more than the other. I mean, in theory it makes sense to me. Do we have any idea what the actual cost was for last year? For camp or no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

So there's $26,968. Okay.

Feels like, feels like finding.

Yeah, looks like to put, do we need a motion for that?

Yeah, please.

You need to do a motion because you're going to divide action here by motion to have an excellent old home day and watch the beautiful fireworks go off at the cost of $5000. I will enjoy thoroughly. So the agreement is as of 10th of the day of August, so. Says the disagreement as of this 10th day of August 2026. That's today. Look at the calendar more often, huh? Maybe a Clockwell metal show up on time. OK. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the pyrotechnico fireworks quote $5000 for the old home day.

I second that motion.

We just amend the motion to include that it's split between budget and revolver.

You bet on a to be determined ratio. 50 50. 50 50 ratio you got it. Thank you, but I.

There we go. Thank you.

That was a heck of a motion.

Do we need to send this? It doesn't look like it.

Can Kathy sign on that? Or Lily, maybe she can see something.

Yes.

I'm also. I.

None of those are on the right line, but it's okay.

All right. Any other departments making updates today?

Energy?

Just a quick update unrelated to the next business. The numbers that I gave last time continue to hold for downstairs, the radon. So we're seeing well below one unit per Eco Leader, I think. It's hovering at like 0.5, which is great news. Of course, we're going to keep going, but I'm just excited to see it every month because the summer months are the ones where we use the system the most in a building like this. So it's where we're expecting to see the most change. We had also used, July was the hottest month by far of the summer so far. And it used just under $100, the whole building. So minus these two. So we're still on point with the performance of that system and no issues. So as far as the geo goes, we're still tracking pretty well.

And does that $100 take into account the solar or no? Nope. Okay.

No, this is purely the, I just multiplied the number of kilowatt hours that are used. Well, it says sometimes what we pay in electricity. That's great. Yeah. Yeah, with the solar, I think we're at a negative right now. So we are being paid by the utilities and that's likely to last well into the winter at the rate that we're going. So yeah, that's what's going on. Yeah. Yeah, that was the only thing for this.

Thank you.

Thank you, Zeke.

So then moving on to new business, we have a discussion from C-Pacer.

good evening i'm charlie horn from the energy committee and i wanted to introduce um sarah brock from clean energy new hampshire who was going to give us an overview of a program that we outlined last year before there was a statutory amendment so she's going to bring us up to speed on all of that as well as what the amendment did so sea pacer is commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency so i'll hand it over to sarah thank you

Hi, I'm Sarah.

I'm at Clean Energy New Hampshire, and I work very closely with your energy committee, and may I commend you on having a really excellent energy committee. And congratulations on everything you've done on this building. We've been tracking your progress closely. I know Kathy sent you some information about CPACER on a scale of, like, I didn't touch it at all to I'm now an expert. Where do you all feel like you are? Somewhere in the middle there.

I'm a solid 4 on a 10 scale.

Okay, that's fair. So what I've got here, and if you need a print copy, I brought a few extras. I'm assuming this is one of the things you have in front of you. Exactly. There's a one-pager that if you get a digital copy of, has a lot of hyperlinks, which later you may find helpful as you dig in. I'm going to quickly run you through just the high-level bullets, and then... you can poke me in any direction that you'd like to get a little bit more into this. I had an opportunity to speak with Kathy before today, so have a sense of some of what I think might be helpful to go over. So the first just basic and for anyone else in the room that needs the quick, what are we talking about? Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resiliency is the acronym, CPACER. In New Hampshire, it's called CPACER. Elsewhere in the country, it's just called CPACE. We added the R for resiliency, and I'll explain that in a minute. This is something that's available in 40 states across the country, has been for over a decade, and it's pretty well established. We even had something like this in New Hampshire, but it wasn't being used because it was set up in a sort of clunky way. The legislature fixed that last year, and we're seeing a lot of communities jump on board and start to implement. What it is is private financing. It's a unique mechanism that attaches the loan to the property instead of the business owner. It's only for commercial properties, but in New Hampshire, that also includes housing of five units or more. So... larger housing, and then also anything commercial, can't touch municipalities or single family homes. The financing is all private, so this is banks and credit unions, and it is specifically for things that are related to clean energy, energy efficiency, water conservation, and in New Hampshire, also resiliency, which means making a building more fire resilient or floodproof and those sorts of things. The concept is that it can be difficult to invest in those sorts of things upfront for commercial property owners because they tend to be big upfront cost, long-term benefit, and it can be hard to look past a few years when you're a commercial property owner. This is a mechanism that sort of changes the dynamic and makes it a lot easier for buildings to make those investments. That goes for new construction as well as retrofits. So let me check some of the other headings that might be helpful here. The reason that towns have to be involved is because there's this component of attaching the loan to the municipality. Historically, I mentioned this kind of model has been used across the country for over a decade. Historically, the towns and cities have had a pretty intensive role in overseeing the program. That's not how it works in New Hampshire. New Hampshire has delegated almost all of the administration of the program to the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority and built into this revised version of the program full authority for the town to delegate all of your otherwise responsibilities of billing and keeping up with payments and all manner of anything that would happen after the closing to the financial provider or to BFA. So the actual lift on the town is very, very minimal. but because it still has this component of being a special assessment on the property, the legislature preferred to let the towns opt in as opposed to that being a default, which is why many, many towns across New Hampshire right now are having this exact conversation and select boards are deciding to opt in, even though the actual impact on your community and your administrative team is very, very small. So let's see if there's anything else I want to highlight before We go through some of the things that you may be curious about. I might leave it there for now because I'm most interested in what you are wanting to ask me. I know that when I spoke with Kathy and when I've spoken with other select boards, the question of administrative burden comes up, the question of risk and liability comes up, the question of who else is doing this comes up. I'm assuming you probably have all of those. Is there anything else on your minds that you'd like to touch on while you have me?

Um, if you could also touch on a little bit, I don't remember if it was this document or the longer 1 that was sent to us about designating a zone versus the entire municipality. If you could touch on that a little bit.

Absolutely. When I start there, the advice, so part of adopting CPACER, which is adopting this RSA statute language, is to set up a district within which it is okay to use this financing mechanism and attach loans to the property in the way laid out in the law. The guidance is from and even from the folks with the legislature who created this is that they expect towns to set the district at the at the property line of the whole municipality, not to try to sub. Section out the reason for that being that this has nothing to do with zoning and nothing to do with. you know, what can and can't be built. This is just a mechanism for properties. If they can be built within that zone and meet all of your planning, et cetera, guidelines, if they can get through your processes, then they can, if they wish, take out a CPACER loan, if they can qualify. for that funding. So there's really no reason to set it as a smaller district. In fact, it would probably be something you would trip over later. So the smart thing to do is say any property within the bounds of Kensington that can meet all of the other requirements of either retrofitting a building or building a building, if they get through all that and they're eligible for CPACER financing per the program, sure, they can take out a loan and use it.

Just one of my only questions would be, I'm trying to poke holes in it to see where the nefarious boogeyman is. Maybe executive summary, it's the ability to take a loan instead of personal to business for the assumptions that you'd said, stipulations that are required. What would be... if I was a glass half empty person, what would I say would be a potential negative or potential downfall? What am I not understanding? Or is it just

Yeah, for a community like Kensington, the loans themselves have pretty high closing costs because you've got to get engineer's reports to justify to the lender and to the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority that you have a qualifying purpose and that it's going to save you money and therefore the lender feels secure that you can pay it back. So that means that it's hard to scale the program down. So for businesses in a community like Kensington that are not building massive new buildings, it could be marginal and they would really need to read the fine print and make sure that they should look into this program. It might not always pencil out and a program like this isn't going to get you a better interest rate. What it can do is help you get your monthly loan payment down and spread the term out in a way that can be hard to do. It can also just make it so that you know that you're only responsible for the payments while you're in the property and then it passes on. But I think that would be for me the only boogeyman and that's more of a buyer beware type of make sure that you know what you're getting into kind of thing.

Thank you.

Do those rates typically fall within industry standards for loans of that length?

yeah um they you know the interest rates tend to be pretty standard commercial interest rates the thing that can be different is they can tend to have longer loan terms which can be helpful in getting that monthly payment down in the what responsibilities and liabilities do a municipality have once enrolled um section

The tasks, municipalities perform a small number of administrative tasks using documents and resources provided by NHBFA. These tasks include recording the assessment when a CPACER loan is made and releasing the lien when the CPACER lender certifies the loan has been repaid. Both tasks would be delegated to the loan's closing attorney if the municipality wishes. Why would one choose one way or the other? The

As I understand it, when the legislature made this switch in this last year to, to make the program be a program of New Hampshire business finance authority, and to remove the onus off the municipality, they didn't want to fully remove it because we are the. We are die state and they wanted to give towns the authority if they wished to, but I. has been made very clear to me that no one can think of a reason why a town would retain the rights to bill this and implement it because it's just so onerous and BFA and the capital provider can do it. So it was left in as a kindness, but if the expectation is, and I've spoken to no community that's even remotely considering retaining as opposed to delegating any of that, any of the piece you're allowed to delegate in terms of what we're set at these loans.

Okay.

If a town, I'm sorry, no, if a town ops in what are the termination. Terms look like, are there are there any ways to back out of the.

To get out of being part of C pacer. Correct. Absolutely. In fact, I think the very last, if you have the FAQ in front of you, I think the last FAQ might be related to this. Um, but the. You know, any active C pacer loans would stay in effect because you've already contracted and everything set up, but you would just not have any new loans happen and you can opt out at any time with a vote. To reverse the option of the ordinance.

Thank you.

Um, I think just 1 more just to. For the sake of having it on the records, you know, when it when someone presented last year, there was some confusion about costs to the town. And my understanding is that there is no cost to the town to offer this.

No, no cost at all. Um, if you were curious. And it's on the documents list, which is listed. There's this lovely checklist that goes through exactly what the town staff, the town clerk and everyone would have to do when BFA says we have vetted a loan and it's ready to close. We certify to you that it's complete here. Just execute this, please. You could even ask for reimbursement for the time and administrative effort you took to do those small lists if you wish. And that's laid out in the FAQ and in their documents. So not only is it no cost, but you can technically get reimbursed. It's so minimal that most towns I'm talking to are not exactly planning to set up.

I don't want to ask this and make it sound redundant from what Ian kind of asked, but the RSA 53-F and the RSA 53-F colon 2. Yeah. Any terminology in there that is binding and scary you know anything in there that would make someone read that and go oh i'd want to have an attorney look at this a little bit deeper before we were to commit is there anything in there that if we went through those is a yikes

No, if anything, it's the reverse. Um, it's pretty, I mean, the protections in there on behalf of the municipalities are pretty robust. Um, there's very specific language, you know, under no circumstances made the town spend any money. to pay off any of these loans. That is very clear cut, which I appreciated seeing when I was going through the what are the risks section of the FAQ, which I wrote with help from BFA's lawyers. And then beyond that, it's just very clear about the process that you've got to go through. And you do need to take the right votes in the right order to make sure that you get the confirmation that this is in the public good and that you've adopted it properly. The other thing, and this isn't exactly your question, but it is a Something I'm seeing towns trip up over is being careful if you choose to move forward. The BFA that runs the program has had its lawyers create this wonderful ordinance. That's all carefully drafted to meet the statute requirements. And if you mess with it. you can easily drop something and then have to circle back because you didn't realize that was in there to meet that particular RSA statutory requirements. That would be my one piece of advice for you. If you're feeling like you want to move ahead, use the templates in the documents list that Kathy's bringing up and don't adapt them. And if you feel like you have a question or you want to adapt them, tell me and I will help connect you with BFA's lawyer and get you an answer or make sure that you're adapting something that's safe to adapt.

Thank you. Thank you.

No, okay. I'm curious. What does resiliency improvement mean?

Yeah, so mostly we're talking flood and fire. And for different buildings that might look like different things, but you can technically finance things in buildings that would help if there was a flood to make the building more resilient and have less damage in the case of that flood. Similarly, fire protection, fire prevention type of measures would be covered under this kind of program.

Okay. That makes sense. Thank you.

And so in terms of next steps for the board that if we wanted to move forward, am I remembering not saying it here, but we would need to hold a public hearing. Is that correct?

Exactly. Thank you. Um, Yes, you would need to hold a public hearing. What you would want to do is direct Kathy and the team to look at that model ordinance and make sure that they are feeling really comfortable about the administrative tasks. If you get through this, there's a participation agreement that the town signs with the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority. So make sure that your team has looked through that and the ordinance draft and the sort of sample vote language and the requirements around what you need to say. Thank you, Kathy. what you need to say in the posting of your public hearing. But once all that's in order, notice the public hearing, have the public hearing that you've got to have a vote to adopt the RSA, followed by a vote to confirm that you think this is in the public interest as the statute lays it out to be. And then you direct Kathy and the team to enter into the participation agreement and move forward. And after that, you just wait until BFA comes to you and says, we have a loan ready to go. Thank you.

So do we want to take the time between this and the next meeting to further review those documents?

That's what I was going to ask. Yeah, because candidly, I haven't gotten enough time to review.

Yeah, I looked at this and scanned the 15-page document.

So yeah, but if we could just table it until we come back next time, give a chance to review. Right now, everything I'm seeing and hearing lends me to think that there's more good than anything else that could come from it.

Yeah, I think last year my biggest concern was the administrative lift and what that might look like. So hearing more about that and having had whatever changes made, that's been helpful for me. So I think we can continue to look at that. And it looks like we've got some contact here that if we have additional questions, we can reach out between now and then. Please do. Yeah, don't hesitate.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So, I'll put this back on the agenda for the 31st.

You got it. Okay.

All right, next on the agenda, we are staying with energy tonight. So we have a conversation about our partnership. Citizen Steven Greenland reached out and asked to present, especially following up. We had a presentation from last time. We granted that to be put on the agenda because we do want to make sure that we're hearing all voices and different perspectives on this. But to to kind of preface things, I, we did ask Mr Greenland to provide us with some materials review in advance. I was specifically hoping to have a summary of talking points. I didn't receive that. I did. We did receive somewhere between 12 and 15 documents to be honest. Some of those were screenshots of Google searches. Partial documents, so I just, I feel the need to kind of preface this that. We want to hear you speak and hear your what you're presenting today, but it's also hard for me as a member of the board to say that we are endorsing this when I don't really know what the presentation is. So, I want to remind you that tonight's presentation should be fact based. It's not an opportunity to platform a theory or speculate on things. We want to keep this as straightforward and direct as possible. And I'll ask you to direct your presentation to the board. We'll ask questions if at some point it feels like we are traveling into a territory that is more assumptions and speculation than it is truth, I will put a stop to it. I just wanna make sure that what we are conveying on our agenda is straightforward for folks to tune in through the minutes or through the recording. But we will give you 10 minutes to make that presentation.

You've got 10 minutes on the floor to present.

And apologies, thank you for working with our makeshift podium this evening.

Thank you. Thank you for your time. I'm going to have a prepared statement. I previously appeared before the Board of Directors to make an appeal for the overall review of Kensington Community Power and specifically CPC-NH finances. Purpose of this evening's appearance is to continue my advocacy to do so, and it's coupled with increased sense of urgency. Responsible municipal oversight and review of community risk and monetary impact is needed in the face of mounting problems with the CPC and each organization. These problems are causing an inability to deliver on commitments made to Kensington. Our citizens deserve accountability. Any notable New Hampshire member communities are already discussing, planning, or have taken formal steps to exit CPC NH. In 2024, the legislative body of Kensington voted to embrace community power aggregation as defined by RSA 53E. The Warren article was passed by an overwhelming majority. The community displayed significant blind trust in the Kensington Board of Selectmen's recommendation. I was among these voters, but early on I became aware that something was amiss and so opted out. In hindsight, the selection of CPCNH as an aggregation partner was done in an overly expedited fashion. The timeline was designed to meet the upcoming town meeting and public utilities commission filing deadlines. The first true evidence of trouble surfaced on the announcement of rates that would commence on February 1st, 2025. The increase was quickly followed by a second increase a month later that was highly abnormal and contrary to the stated policy to use a standard six-month rate adjustment interval. The change was done on an emergency basis according to CPCNH risk management policies. Most of the participating CPCNH communities were abuzz with questions. When an official statement was finally made by CPCNH, little fact could be gleaned from it. I quote, a failed agreement with an in-state generator was given as the official reason. A further disclosure was made later by the CPCNH chief executive officer And he detailed the failed agreement involved about 30 percent of the coalition's power needs for the coming six month period. No further information on this has been released to date. The identity of the supplier has gone undisclosed. Later on, CPC and NH claimed financial losses in the preceding period as well. It was blamed on poor planning, forecasting, and unusual weather demand issues. Over time, further meaningful events and disclosures have trickled out. These events occurred in directly overlapping timeframe. Individually, they might be dismissed as coincidental. But when reviewed together, I believe the information is indeed illuminating and well beyond simple chance occurrence. For consideration, following. Number one, Calpine was a sizable business entity held by a consortium of private equity investors consistent with private equity. Their premier objective was to take control at a low investment price and then add perceived corporate value quickly. A corporate exit and cash out would happen later. Their goal was simply maximize monetary return.

Can I, excuse me, I just want to make sure that what you're reading to us is something that the company that you're speaking about has said and not your own

These are routine and readily enforceable by anyone who's in private equity finance. I have experience, significant experience in dealing with private equity, and therefore I feel qualified to make these statements. And these are my opinions. However, they are able to be backed up. So I continue. Calpine had gained control of the largest gas generation station in New Hampshire, but it did not have a consumer level market presence. As a path forward, Calpine actively fostered an advantageous relationship with the newly forming CPCNH. Calpine has publicly disclosed a funding contribution to CPCNH of $750,000, but they also provided other very substantial financial credit backing. In exchange, CPCNH was required to tie themselves to Calpine through binding legal instruments that have never been fully disclosed. The strength of Calpine's influence over CPCNH may be witnessed by various disclosures that are contained in the member agreement attachments.

Steve, really quickly, can I pause? The Calpine CPCNH correlation, that is confirmed? Right.

I'm having a hard time. This is backed up by the email that I forwarded to you all that says that there are eight pages of influence that are detailed in the agreement. And it says repeatedly it uses LSE. It doesn't say CALPINE. But understand that LSE and CALPINE are one in the same. They are the contracted load servicing entity to CPCNH and they are bound to it. They cannot get out of it. CPCNH accepted financing and financial backing contributions And that is what the payback was. I'm sure that this was not foreseen. The consequences of this at the time, I'm tired of hearing nefarious. It's not a nefarious plot, but it may have been a nefarious plot on the part of Calpine. we don't know i'm not going to speculate i just know that they have extreme influence over the financial decisions that are made at cpcnh and cpcnh has declared that they cannot do anything without approval from cal pine specifically We go on, number two, financial shortfalls and deepening risks at CPCNH will first disclose, I'm sorry, first disclose the key member representatives and the board of directors in late December 2024. This happened just days prior to the initial rate setting for the upcoming period. Number three, Constellation Energy publicly announced the pending acquisition of all Calpine assets and their debt on January 10th, 2025. The deal was disclosed to be about $26.6 billion, including the assumption of net debt. The acquisition was in talks long before this. Obviously, you do not snap your fingers and make a $26 billion acquisition merger happen. The acquisition and talks, I'm sorry, key Calpine staff were undoubtedly aware of the pending deal before it became public. Calpine controlled numerous energy assets. Granite Ridge Power Station in Londonderry, New Hampshire was the most notable to New Hampshire. Among them as well was Calpine Business Units serving as the exclusive load servicing entity to CPCNH. So that's a restatement of what I said a few minutes ago. Unlike Calpine, Constellation is a publicly traded company. underpricing or non-standard extension of credit terms to CPCNH would place Constellation at serious risk of being afoul with antitrust laws. So this acquisition also had to go through the Department of Justice, who is even now deciding what they're going to force Constellation to divest. Number four, by the rate setting actions taken at the onset of 2025 in March, CPCMH demonstrated to all that they are not legally bound to adhere to the pricing and timeline commitment of rate structure extended to consumers by traditional utility service. Number five, retrospectively, one may also conclude that the initial rate setting for 2-1-25 was made without heeding the risk management warning. The lower rate was likely intended to minimize customer program opt-outs and the resulting decline in revenue that would have occurred.

All right, we're at 10 minutes.

I'm sorry.

You've exceeded 10 minutes at this point.

That's a statement that is on record. The newly hired CPC.

Mr. Greenland, you've reached your 10 minute limit.

I'm sorry.

You've reached your 10 minutes. We're over 10 minutes for your presentation.

You've reached your, I gave you 10 minutes and you're approaching 12, your time's up. Could we could we ask for you to just kind of summarize in general?

Let's jump to conclusions. I asked for equal time.

Which is what you're being given.

I asked for equal time in the face of the presentation that was made at the last meeting by CPC and H, in which they failed to address any of these issues. So when we come to the conclusions and I will submit this to the board for total review and continuation, The bottom line is that as we speak, the town of Hampton has negotiated and secured alternative energy under 53E, and they're providing energy at literally more than 30% less than the newest rate that's been announced by CPC. The other problem that comes that I'd like to be on the table is that we have a lot of dialogue about environment. I'm sympathetic to the previous presentation, and this is kind of contrary because it comes back and it's a little confusing. But the reality is that if we were in Hampton right now, And a Hampton resident, you could power your house at 100% renewable for less than the price that Kensington is having to pay for standard power. We jump down, reporting, financial reporting. The reporting stops the 15 month prior details, a loss to aggregation participants in this town of $163,561 during the last 15, from their last report back 15 months. That's the cumulative loss. It has been a continuous ongoing loss. I'm sorry, Zeke, you can look at whatever you'd like to look at, and they have the backup already, so I'd ask them to share it with you. Do not rebut at this point.

Mr. Greenland, I'm going to ask you to wrap up your presentation, please.

I'm sorry?

If you could wrap up your presentation, and then we can take questions, and we can go from there.

Fine. I'll jump to the bottom again, the arm's length. This is summation. An arm's length review of CPC-NH financials reveals that a dramatic negative change occurred in the first months of 2025 rates the consumers were required to be raised on an emergency basis merely to continue CPC-NH. should the cash flow of corporate operations fall into a state of full insolvency the corporate non-profit structure will prohibit or limit the ability to file for bankruptcy protection i quote now directly from a report dated july 27 2026 by rashida I can't pronounce his name, I'm sorry. And he is the director of finance for CPCNH. And I quote, CPCNH remains in a net negative cash position through UAP7. UAP 7 is a designated time structure that they've got their tracking. Consistent with prior reports, reserves remain below trend targets for future periods. On the aspect of liquidity, the report indicates a neutral cash position at mid-year point this year that is swinging in and out of debt. It states that a cash positive position was forecast to occur Q4 of 2026 and cash balances beginning to build not until the second quarter of 2027. This is my observation. Modern free market competition in the United States requires demonstrated financial strength, particularly in commodity energy markets. Personal desires for CPCNH to continue cannot be allowed to override logical dealings. I learned of the resignation of Mr. Devonshire from the Exeter Energy Committee and mention it here because it adds to my alarm about CPCNH. Mr. Devonshire is an investment professional with a specialized focus on alternative energy generation. His direct input and comment would be highly desirable. I'd like to have him here, but I expect he will remain silent. Exeter satisfaction with CPCNH performance was an instrumental part of gaining trust in the Kensington community.

We need to be careful about speculating. I don't know this individual. I don't think we have any idea why he may have stepped down. So I just want to make sure that we're clear on that, that we don't know the answer to that. We do not, the individual that you're referencing from Exeter, I just want to be very clear that we don't know why he stepped down from his position. So I just want to make sure we're not going on record speculating.

You should have 53B back onto the ballot.

on the next meeting of the legislative body and let the town determine whether or not they wish to continue.

This is our copy. Thank you.

I do think there's some things that we want to clarify for the record. Zeke from the Energy Committee, I know you had a comment to make. Do you want to come up and share some feedback on that?

I'm allowing Zeke to speak.

He had a comment that he wanted to make to clarify.

Yes, so there were a couple of things in there that we want to put on the record. The Energy Committee, we've already suggested to the board. Of course, we're just here to give you guys advice on what we think is right for the town. A couple of things that usually fail to be mentioned in these debates is When we're comparing rates, what we're usually comparing is the rate hike, not just in isolation, but relative to Unitil's rate hikes. So obviously energy prices have been going up across the world. So when we compare, what we want to look is the difference between the unitil rate hike and the one that CPCNH or other suppliers gave. And very true that they have been above, CPCNH rates have been above unitils for the last actually couple of rate periods. But one of the things that is important to call out and it's coming out on the news quite a bit of late is that there was a moment in 2025 when the PUC ordered the utilities to procure their energy in a way that was incurring more risk than not. And as it turned out, that risk was to the detriment of the utility. So they have been accruing sizable losses over the last two years. which does coincide with the rate periods that cpcnh has uh been above the utilities not entirely though it is true that there were the 30 loss in uh load in back in 2024 2020 uh or yeah uh no 2025 that was uh something that drove cpcnh's rates uh substantially higher but The reason that I bring up the losses from Unitil, Liberty, and Eversource, which amount to over $40 million in the state right now, is that the PUC has ordered the utilities to eventually charge customers that were in the default rate to recover those losses. So what that means is effectively if we were to leave the program, for example, or anybody that's not in the program currently, Would eventually have to pay for all those losses. And so what we've seen over the last 2 periods have been artificially inflated rates from the utilities that unfortunately, everyone is going to have to pay for. There's talks even of back charging interest. So the utilities are saying that that is on the table, even though experts don't think that's actually going to go through. But those are things that are important and why we still suggest that the town does not exit. Um, also. What we to be perfectly clear, what we are recommending is that we do not break our contract. When the time comes to reassess whether we should continue to to be working with, which I have another talk and figure out if that's the right thing for the town, but exiting prematurely not only invalidates us from ever joining the program ever again. it also doesn't guarantee us lower rates, right? Our goal is to help the town figure out what the best way to lower rates are. And it is just, there is no reasonable argument we can make as to why we think that the whole town should all of a sudden stop allowing residents to contribute to CPCNH. The other thing that I wanted to call out is that when we talk about the losses incurred by the town, What that is, I hope, I haven't calculated those numbers, but the way that I would calculate it would be the rate difference had we stayed with Unitil versus the rate hikes that CPCNH has, which is a little bit unfair because it's a choice by the residents. Minus the town accounts, which make a very small percentage of of the amount. So when we use the numbers, I think it's a little bit misleading to call out the 160,000 dollars. I would say it's, you know, it's what we could use as a number would be. This is what a shouldn't happen, right? Like, had the rates been lower as we had hoped, and we wouldn't have seen this at all, but. That's a little bit unfair. Beyond that, I don't know if the board has any questions for us. We've been in contact with CPCNH, of course, and with other towns. We asked CPCNH, it said two towns out of the 64 have exited or are intended to exit, so it's not also as traumatic as it sounds. They have good reason, of course, much larger towns than ours, but yeah, that's another data point.

I guess one of my biggest personal conundrums here, and I asked the CPC representatives last time as well, Individual residents have the ability to opt in or opt out. Now, if I recall, everyone was opted in unless you chose to opt out. Was that correct? Yes. Everyone was rolled over unless you said, no, I'm okay. No, thank you. Yes. And that I posed the question to them last time they were here as well, saying, asking a very specific question again, has anything changed? And the answer was no, right? You still have the ability to opt out as you wish. You can opt back in at any time as an individual resident. Town of Kensington is serviced by Unitil, I believe. At least that's what I was. So, I guess, Mr. Greenland, what I'm failing to understand is how does CPC and the town board, how are we failing when the optionality at any given time at any given person is to simply opt out and go back to the PUC that exists? Now, people may not understand that, although I remember seeing that very clearly. And that's been that way since its inception. Where is the town being harmed? Now, regardless of the CPCNH's financial liquidity, longevity, etc., which... I have personal little interest in, honestly. The town is locked in, although we seem to keep getting our bills lower based off of green energy initiatives. Where are we harming the town folks? Where are the town folks being harmed? I guess that's what I don't understand.

The reports that CPCNH has publicly posted, I feel that the rest of New Hampshire should be embarrassed because the opt-out in this town is higher than any other town.

That means we have engaged citizens, though, correct? That means we have citizens who are understanding the optionality that exists.

Problem is that even today, we have people in the town who don't even know that they're overpaying for the utilities and just have not opted out. In specific, I will state that I gave Zeke a bit of hard time on social media announcing, I kept waiting for the rate announcement to come forward because I suspected it wasn't gonna be good. This was the previous freight announcement. And there was no public announcement. Now, under Public Utility Commission rules and our own filing that we've made with them, we are legally compelled to publicly distribute the information on rate at no less than 30 days in front of the change. And we were right on top of it. and I give him credit for this, was trying to help people opt out literally a week in front of the change. The other part that was not fair is that they told people that they could simply opt out and go back to Unitil. That was not the case. Unitil had specific rules and you could not just opt out after the fact and drop in and receive the rate and had to wait an entire another six month period before you were returned to default rate status and the protections that it affords.

I think that's incorrect.

I mean, I well, recently, and I haven't looked into this. I've read that. And it's, I think it's his posting that they've changed this. I don't know why they would other than the fact that. They felt guilty about it somehow. They were not compelled to do so. I don't know why he did it. Because one of the problems I have personally is I brought documents here that are public announcements, and they're literally dated 30 days in front of the rate change, which meets the minimum requirement by one day. And that's corporate level. I didn't see an announcement publicly posted on social media saying, oh, the rate's going up again.

I don't think social media is considered public.

It doesn't matter. There isn't a posting. It doesn't happen in a timely fashion. The rest of it is we have senior citizens in this town. They don't even understand the bill they're getting. I personally polled people on my street. They had no idea what was going on. All they know is that their rates are going up. Their bills are going up. Everybody's unhappy. We talk about affordability crisis. And I like to think that the town is sympathetic to that. But at the same time, continuing with an entity that we have entrusted completely to control and monopolize under an aggregation uh vote that the town took and we are literally now more than three years into this effort and we've lost money for the citizens we haven't saved a dime and we're not doing anything and i find that deplorable i don't have any great vested interest financially in seeing this change Although I will tell you that I did math on my household and figured out that if I was in Hampton, I would now be paying about $350 a year less than I would if I was on CPCNH in this town.

To be fair, though, the numbers that you shared from Hampton, they have a three-year rate setting program. And the numbers that you're referencing were set last year. It's not exactly apples to apples that you're comparing.

I will repeat myself. I'm looking for the town and the selectmen to take fiduciary duty to the town and the citizens of this town and review the situation. And if what I'm saying is correct, that the board of selectmen would hopefully underwrite and support a warrant article that goes on to the ballot in the coming years. even if the warrant for withdrawal, even if the warrant article were to pass, it will take an entire year before you are legally allowed to reinitiate 53 proceedings with another another community. And I also want to bring up the withdrawal time frame could also be long.

It's not that we could just exit immediately if we put that on the warrant.

It's not going to happen. You can't get rid of these people. We've signed into something. You can't get rid of them fast enough.

We've committed to a program at this point that the town voted on. And I think to Zeke's point, there could be some changes that'll come along for other rates to go lower again. We don't know right now. I think it's advisable to continue to monitor where things are at, where the rates are at, where the program is at. And we can continue to do that. I think we've also done a good job. I think your point about only that we have the lowest rate of people enrolled also speaks to the fact that we have communicated this well to folks who do want to opt out, that they can opt out and they can opt back in. Maybe we've, if only, I believe it's 50% of our residents right now are currently enrolled from the numbers I looked at.

If the town's population, if we had a 10, if we were down to a 10%, participation rate, just understand one thing that's meaningful to you as the Board of Selectmen. They are continuing to accrue charges to the negative against this town. And if they go to bankruptcy, if they default, whatever, that money is going to be sought to be paid from this town. you will not escape it. They claimed in the original agreement that the child would be held harmless. And 53E says that you cannot use tax money to support the program. But what was never disclosed, and I find the most offensive of all, is that CPCNH did not have the ability to float the cash flow that is required for the business that they created. And the only reason they got it is because they had the backing as a pseudo-governmental agency.

OK, I'm going to stop you with the speculating, with the air quotes and the pseudo. You're getting into your own opinion on this. And I do think that it's valuable.

I don't want to continue to argue.

May I continue my statement? I believe it's valuable for the community to continue to monitor this and to ask questions and have conversations about it. But I will not continue to have a conversation that speculates over things that we don't have all of that information about or making our opinion about how the business is run.

Sarah, respectfully, when I approached you about this previously and I asked about reports, there was denial that such reports exist. It is the duty of the selectmen, all three, to review these reports and know what's going on.

Mr. Greenland, you sent us 12 emails over the last five days with documents with no explanation, no connecting of the dots. You sent us screenshots of your Google searches and partial documents. I have read all of them and I have further tried to look into them myself because you were not connecting the dots for me. So I've spent probably 10 hours in the past week reading these documents.

The purpose of this presentation is to bring to surface and confront the reality of the circumstances. I'm not going to tell anybody what I want to do. I'm not going down that road. I'm putting it in front of you. If you choose not to act upon it and later on it blows up, then it reflects directly on the Board of Selectmen. You will personally, I might add. But that's what I think.

Thank you for your time. We're going to wrap this up. Either of you have any other questions? I don't mean to.

I'm sorry, I wasn't going to questions. I just.

When I want to give you a better because I think this is not a democratic process, but I would like to draw your attention to this announcement. And you see the circles and I will tell you that the entire it's embarrassing. That is a folding company of California.

For the record, what we're being shown is an announcement from the town of Hampton and their rates, which is a completely different agreement that was set up before we went into our CPCNH agreement.

Thank you for your time.

I just want to clarify a couple of points. So just for the record, the point about. Leaving at any point, there was absolutely no reason why anyone would have to wait 6 months. I don't know where that came from. I think he was referencing the fact that under certain circumstances. Residence will be placed in a variable rate versus the fixed rate. And that is only if you miss the last meter read before the rate was set. That rule has been removed by Unitil. So it's not even moot anymore. And I don't know, there were a couple of other things that were a little bit outlandish, but The point still stands. The Energy Committee still thinks that it's the right move to continue ahead. There will be way too much volatility and risk to exit at this point, especially after what Mr. Greenland said, that it would take over a year. In that time, we're talking a year and a half to two years before the next available time that we could enter into an aggregation plan. And by then, who knows what the rates would be.

Did you have other questions? I'm sorry, I was frustrated.

No, I, my comments were going to be that given conversations I've had with Zeke and the Energy Committee and hearing Mr. Greenland's concerns, also reading and spending a lot of time going through what was sent, I myself had difficulty connecting the dots with how There was malicious or or something nefarious. I know we keep using that word by organization. To your point, Zeke and to, you know, the option to opt in or opt out at any given time. And I think given. We talked about this earlier, the unknowns of the socioeconomic and geopolitical space we're in right now, having a. what I would view as a safety net to potentially go back to, depending on what the future holds, it'd be bad to opt out that we don't have the ability to opt back into it. And given the statistics that we have the most opt outs, and it seems like the residents are educated on that. Maybe we could potentially try to find another way to communicate these, this data to residents just so more people are educated, but yeah, I'm just on record, I am having trouble finding the reason why we would need as an entire town opt out of the program.

Yeah, thank you. Zeke.

I agree. Thank you. And I think if you can continue to keep us updated on things as you're hearing from them about rates or changes to practice what they're doing, that'd be helpful.

That's the other thing. So Charlie and I are the representatives for the town and we do get regular updates. We'll just be extra sure to send them over to you guys as soon as they come.

Great. Thank you.

Thanks. See you tomorrow.

All right. That leaves on our new business. We're at the cruiser lease. Yep. And you have that.

So there's the lease agreement with Ally that would need one signature. And then there's also the authorization for Chief Kane to sign all of the lease paperwork. Legal counsel will also sign off on part of the agreement. After the board confirms their section chief, we never buy these outright.

Is that correct? We always lease them.

Yeah. That's right. Yep. Right.

And I look at it as. We do the initial lease on it, and then usually I pay them off way before the leases are all due. So like next year, I'll probably pay another car off, so we'll still have only one car under a lease payment. Buying them outright is sometimes, you know, you're looking at $50,000, $40,000, $46,000 up front. And then if they change the body style, then you're paying out that outfitting totally different. Right now, we're in a good place that the body styles haven't changed so as they're just swap outs they're just swapping the equipment in and out so that's a little bit cheaper but again you use that the revolver fund for the details is unpredictable you don't know what it's going to be from year to year some years you have a really good year some years it may slow down so using all that money up front and not having anything you know I believe at one point it was down to like ten thousand dollars in there there wasn't much in there so And again, that money is also used for other things that aren't budgeted for the cars, tires, we can use it for fuel. Like this year, the fuel is going to be really tight because of the cost of fuel. So more than likely, I'm going to have to use some of that cruiser revolving fund towards the fuel. But let's say a computer goes bad in a car, the computers are about $4,000. So having that money there is just a place to back up. So I'd rather not use it right up front, all that money, and then try to play catch up if I needed it. But we use that money once we do the purchase with the lease part, the rest of it's paid, not by the taxpayers, paid out of that Cruiser Revolving Fund.

All right. And so the amount of finance is $30,523 over three payments. Is that correct?

I think it's two, right? Only two payments.

Yeah, we've made that.

I already made an extra payment on it.

We made the first payment, the first year's payment. There you go.

All right.

And that's the amount that was in the default budget for that line item already. Yeah.

I have two leases in there for two cars. Okay. And you need it. The thing that's tough is you need it in your line items, unless you're buying it outright. You need it in your line items. So if it's not there, then you've got to go to a private leasing company, which the interest rates are way different. And we've had to do that before because they weren't in our line items at one point. We took them out for a little while. Yeah. you know, you end up paying a lot more in the least interest rates.

Okay.

Thank you, Chief.

Total interest of a little under $3,000. Sounds about right for a car.

Well, remember that you add the hours and the mileage, it's doubled. Right, so that's that's you look at a casket 100,000 miles where they get 200,000 the way that's looked at because it's just idling hours and these cars nonstop idling.

Yeah, got it.

Got it. Got it.

OK. All right, that was a good price. Usually give us about 1500 and so.

I will make the motion to sign allies to get municipal agreement for the 2026 police cruiser. I second that motion all in favor I. I don't know who this is.

Who's who's my sending this one? That says legal up there. Yeah, yeah, just the one signature. Yes, because I will test it.

OK, so I'm signing other agency. There we go, yes.

Thank you. And this.

I don't know chief.

It's a lot on this list. To authorize you to complete and execute the leasing documents.

But I guess... What's funny is this is the first time I've had to sign that of all the cows I've bought. So this was new to me too when we got this. So I've been signing them right along.

Well, now we're going to do it officially. There you go. All right. So this letter here is to serve as official authorization from the town of Kensington for selectments for Police Chief Scott Kane to execute the documents necessary to complete the lease transactions for the town police cruiser and to accept delivery of it. I suppose that's important too, right?

I've already had the car.

Well, you know, we've had it for a couple of weeks. It's being outfitted. Let's pretend like this is proactive instead of reactive. Yeah. All right. I'll make the motion to authorize you, Chief Kane, to complete and execute all these documentation and accept the vehicle.

I second that motion.

All in favor?

Aye. And as you can see, we purchased, we bought that car, we ordered it back in March, and it takes this long. That's what I say. It takes a long time for these cars to come in and get outfitted.

2 spots sure. 2.

We screwed up the lines again, but there's three signatures.

OK, great, OK, great.

Alright, then we have a hanging agreement for the conservation property at 259 North Fable Rd. Yes, and agreement.

Alright, talk talking about small town.

Um? So the hang agreement, um? It's right here. So that's with the Conservation Commission. I don't have the insurance certificate that's supposed to go with that. I'm trying to work that out now with the individual doing the haying. They were confused about having to submit another one. They said they had submitted one years ago, but they have to submit one every year. They do expire. So I'm working with them on getting the insurance. I don't know if you want to Hold off signing that or approving it until after I get the insurance or if you want to do it pending. An approval pending insurance, we see insurances for the person paying it. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, definitely holds the town harmless. Yeah. Okay. Understood.

They just name us as an additional insured policy. Yeah, yeah, I, this is the 1st 1 I've seen.

For this property for this property, it's the 1st 1.

But they have been hanging it. I believe so doing the right thing now. Yep. All right. Just like the cheap over there doing the right thing with the right paper. I mean, I think let's not hold it up. Let's sign it. Let's get proof of insurance and move forward. That'd be my vote. I agree with that.

Everything I'm reading here, yeah. Perfect.

Yeah, I certainly don't get the insurance. Yeah. So, all right. We would sign and have it be pending. That's you, Sarah. Okay. Yeah.

Do you want me to sign now so it's ready to go?

That's up to you. It depends on how you make the motion. If you make it, you know, you approve it pending insurance, then I'll just, you could sign it tonight and I would hold it until I got the insurance and then give them the signed copy afterwards.

Make sure I get the right details here. All right. I will. As long as we're good with the pending insurance. Perfect. All right. I'll make the motion to have Dennis Perkins with an address of 78 Depot Road in East Kingston, New Hampshire. Enter into the hang agreement with the town of Kensington at.

One address.

There you go. 259 North Haver Road map 13 lot 7 pending and have the Board of Selectmen sign it. Hello, hold it pending proof of insurance and I second that motion all in favor.

More details are first motion.

Come along away.

Perfect, thank you.

Then we have an alcohol permit.

Um, this 1 actually is not going to have a fee attached to it because they actually turned it in before we set the fees. So.

Yeah, all right. People 30.

What age?

Ages 2 through 77. We got a birthday party.

What was it? Family party. Okay.

So you're giving me? Yep. I mean, I certainly went ahead and redo it. That's not fair. All right. I will make a motion to approve the special alcohol permit for Shanna Town Park rental on August 30th, 2026 from 12 to 5. So this is approving the special alcohol permit application.

I second that motion.

All in favor?

Aye. Aye. And he's already.

Looking for my look at my name. Yeah, you're never going to find it.

You think what else can be?

Yes, I have a couple things. The cemetery trustees turned in a request for reimbursement. So there's two parts to this request. One is to request the funds from the Kensington Cemetery Expendable Trust Fund that the trustees of the trust funds hold, as well as doing a reimbursement for Jackie Benson for taking care of the shed. that had the tree damage. So she took certain things to the Raymond Transfer Center and then another to the resource waste in Epping. And it totaled $350.80. So there would be a reimbursement for her as well as the request from the trustees.

Does anyone from the trustee need to, like, do we need approval on that? Pulling from the funders? Do they need?

on the back of that you'll see that the trust the cemetery trustees voted to approve the use yep there's meeting minutes attached to the thank you all right that's all right oh there we go beating of the tens of yep my name's in there look at that address the question on the mower it said the eminence values of over zero because i've been running for like 13 years

It's all true. She did well. All right, OK. Wonderful. Here's the receipts. Also wonderful. 250, is that right?

I mean, theoretically we saved money because if a contractor they would have charged for their time. Absolutely.

So yeah, yeah.

Alright, I have no issues with this at all. Me neither. I will make the motion to. Per the recommendation of the cemetery, trustees request reimbursement from the Kensington Cemetery Expendable Trust Fund in the amount of $350.80. I second that motion. I OK.

But yeah, there you go.

Just one. Most important of us all. That's it. Or just keep saying it enough.

I have also the Zoning Board of Adjustment met last week and they made a motion to recommend Peter Fowler as a Zoning Board of Adjustment alternate.

I remember this one came up before and they just hadn't had a chance to meet with him.

okay well congratulations to peter fowler i'll make a motion by recommendation and vote of the zoning board of adjustments to appoint peter fowler to the zoning board of adjustments as an alternate member expiring april 2029. i second that motion all in favor hi welcome aboard peter found government

Thank you.

And then I also have this is a notice of intent to tax. So, when we have a property that is owned by an individual, and there's a trailer on it. that is owned by someone else there is a document that the state lets us use it's a 7316 a personal property on land of another and this just allows the town to be able to collect the taxes from the property owner if the person that owns the trailer does not pay them

What kind of trailer are we talking about? A mobile home. Okay. Mobile home.

And is this a newly added trailer or this is something that we've already had in place with this property?

This has been here for years. Okay.

Yep.

Is this something typically a homeowner is advised of when somebody decides to park a mobile home on their property?

They would have had to make an agreement with this person years ago. And we've had this on the books for I don't even. Yeah, I don't know how many years we've had this on the books.

Yeah.

At least 30 probably. At least 30 years or so. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it's been. Yeah. Okay. It's the only one left in town that we have with this configuration. Got it. Okay, so this is just allowing the tax collector to collect the taxes from the landowner.

Interesting. Okay. Okay. That makes sense.

Mount Dew 30 years of doing this, not not much, OK?

OK. Interesting, very interesting.

OK.

Seems OK. Alright, I will motion to authorize Sarah Higgins to sign for bar. Board an issue. Notice intent of intent to tax. Pamela and Jeffrey Walsh. Just has the scratch that I'm start over again. I'd like to start over again. Thank you very much. I will make a new motion that wasn't signed. Authorized Sarah Hamilton assigned for the select board to issue notice of intent to tax Pamela and Jeffrey Walsh at 90 Amesbury Rd in Kensington, AM.

I second that motion.

I.

So many signatures for me tonight on fire.

OK. And I believe. That's it for me.

That's it from you. That's it for me.

Unless you wanted to approve the July 27th meeting minutes.

I did review and I could approve. Yeah, that's fine.

Uh, my only comment would be that I think that the the minutes are in the order of the agenda, not necessarily the order. Of the recording. So OK, the CPC NH piece is is it's not in the same order as it is in the video. So if we could just rearrange that, but the content with fine.

OK, impressive pick up.

I was looking for it.

Arrange the order OK. Will do.

We can save the approval for next week if you want on those after it's done, it's up to you.

I'm also, I mean, I'm fine also approving pending that change.

Okay.

Content is sound the motion to approve the July 27th meeting minutes pending.

The reorganization a 2nd, that motion.

Like, she just took that my gosh took my job. I know. All right.

I'll see my way up, I guess.

And then we still have on here the the website content policy. I would like to come up with something. I haven't put some I have put anything together yet, but just something that kind of outlines the purpose of the website. to clarify kind of what does belong there. I want to make sure that we're not in a, if someone's looking for something and they don't see it on the website thinking that it doesn't exist or that they can't have access, but kind of knowing when they need to reach out for more information. Okay. I can start, I can look into that a little further if you have any ideas too.

Oh, look at that. Proposed website to policy.

Wow.

I did something on the social services too, so if you guys wanted to look those over, we can discuss them next week and then you can just tweak them however you want. Yeah, I'm not sure if I emailed those to you guys yet. I don't think so. OK, yeah, we can move that.

Yeah, I want to send the word in word copy or the original and can take a peek at maybe red line it and yeah, that'd be great.

Thank you for doing that, Kathy.

Very good. You just want to hit approved comments. I just want to, you know, throw into the chat GPT and I'm just kidding. Kathy looking into draft is always better than originally creating something. So thank you very much for doing that. Yeah, OK, thank you very much.

Did did you have anything Steve for the board? OK, OK.

Anything else then?

Just enjoying the commentary.

Man, you know.

We like to keep it entertaining.

Perfect and then we just have the bills bills. You.

Thank you all.

Do we want to motion? Can we motion to adjourn while we yeah, we'll sign this.

OK, I will make a motion to adjourn the Board of Selecting meeting on Monday, August 10th.

I second that motion all in favor aye aye thank you.

So for you chief, you gotta stand up. No, no. Just mess with me.

She's always gotta wait to get