Town Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. This is a special Londonderry Town Council meeting on Monday, March 30th, 2025. Everyone please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. First off, we have a special presentation to the Londonderry High School girls basketball state championship team. Mr. Combs. Thank you. If you would all folks come up here if you would right over here. Great. Yeah. Okay. So, whereas Londonderry High School's girls basketball team has demonstrated extraordinary talent, dedication, and perseverance throughout the 2025-2026 basketball season. And whereas through countless hours of practice, teamwork, discipline, and sportsmanship, the team achieved an outstanding record and earned the opportunity to compete at the highest level of interscholastic athletics in the state of New Hampshire. And whereas the Londonderry High School girls basketball team captured the Division 1 New Hampshire state championship bringing great pride and recognition to their school, families, and the entire Londonderry community. And whereas this championship reflects

not only athletic excellence, but also the commitment and leadership of the student athletes, coaches, school administrators, and families who supported them throughout the season. And whereas the team's success serves as an inspiration to younger students and exemplifies the values of hard work, resilience, teamwork, and community spirit that define Londonderry. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the town joins in celebrating this accomplishment and extends its best wishes to the team for continued success both on and off the court. And witness thereto set hands on this 6th day of Well, it was supposed to be next Monday, uh but today, March 30th, 2026. I'm going to go through your roster here. We have Sammy Sullivan, Brooke Wilson, Brooke Eckert, Gemma Murray, Allie De Allie De Excuse me. Allie DeNovo, Alana Lope Ooh, that's a tough one. Lope I'm not going to mess up your name. Emerson Dodge, Mia Buco, Maddie Couture, Lexie Van Avery, Nora Proulx, Emily Bugenhagen, Ari White, and Madison Addison Martinez. Congratulations, everyone, on a well-deserved victory.

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Do you guys want to come on up? We'll take a quick picture. Yeah. Get a photo. Yeah, come on in. Let's all get in here. We got the video. We'll take a still of it, so but Still can't see it. It doesn't matter. A little bit of a glare because of the It's cuz of Ron's bald head. That's what that is right there. Trying to get them to smile, okay? Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Congratulations. [applause] And we'll make sure that the proclamation gets sent on over to you guys at the high school. We don't have it printed up for you right now, but we'll make sure it gets printed up for you guys. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you for your help doing that quickly. And now we're at the new business, appointment of Allison Parsons as our tax collector. I'll accept the motion. Move [snorts] that the Londonderry Town Council hereby approves the term of the contract between the Town Council and the tax collector. I'll second that motion. I have a motion from Shawn, a second from Ted. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Chair votes in the affirmative. Um I move that the Londonderry Town Council hereby appoints Alice Allison Parsons as the tax collector for the town of Londonderry for the term beginning April 1st, 2026 and ending March 31st, 2027. I have a motion from Shawn. Second. Second from Dan. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Chair votes in the affirmative. Thank you very much for your patience with us. Appreciate that. Um up next discuss and approve the Saint-Gobain settlement agreement. And then Megan. Hey.

Megan, you're muted. There you go. Yes, hello. Hey. Hello everyone. So we have Megan Carrier and and Tom. They are attorneys for us who represent us on this matter and Megan if you just want to give a brief summary of where we're at with this. Yeah, I think Tom has our our settlement so I'll let him take the lead on that. Sure. Uh good afternoon or evening everyone. Again, my name is Tom Burack. I'm an attorney with Sheehan Phinney and along with Megan Carrier you have have the privilege of representing the town in negotiating a a proposed settlement with Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in connection with contamination of our drinking water and ground water in the town. Uh just uh by way of background the settlement proposal is necessarily structured around the original 2018 settlement agreement represent the decree entered into between the state of New Hampshire and Saint-Gobain as it was then subsequently uh amended or updated in in 2022. And I think it's fair to say that what could have resulted based on the terms of of of those original agreements what could have resulted in nothing more than perhaps a few hundred point of views or point of entry treatment systems in individual homes instead the document that you have before you for approval this evening is part of an overall resolution with Saint-Gobain that will help to extend public water to numerous Londonderry neighborhoods within the next few years and also provide a a vital public water supply backbone along the west side of Londonderry. Specifically what this settlement agreement will under the settlement agreement Saint-Gobain will pay 40% of the cost of installing the water main

extending up High Range Road from Royal Lane at the south to Alexander Road at the north. The town will cover the other 60% with grant funds already awarded for this purpose by the state of New Hampshire and the town will also cover uh certain engineering and other costs. Once it is been installed this High Range Road North project will complete the backbone which is already uh largely constructed uh from which additional water mains can then be extended both into the consent decree area to the west of High Range Road uh as well as in the neighborhoods to the east of High Range Road. Saint-Gobain's financial contribution to the High Range Road North project will help free up state grant dollars that otherwise would have been spent on High Range Road North and the town can now request to reallocate for other priority water supply extensions in the town. So this is freeing up money that the town again can can uh reallocate uh with the support of the state for other purposes. By moving quickly and getting the settlement approved tonight the town with the cooperation of Pennichuck Water Works and American Excavating Company will be able to extend the contract under which American Excavating successfully completed phase one of the High Range Road project in 2025 and just as a reminder that included stretches of Nashua and Mammoth Road as well as High Range Road as far north as Royal Lane. The goal is to be able to start phase two of this this project construction in April this coming month uh and to have it largely completed by the end of the 2026 construction season. So that's a very quick summary of the

the overall components of the settlement agreement that is proposed for our approval this evening. Megan and I would be happy to answer any questions. Does the council have any questions? I just want to thank you guys for getting this finally done. It's been a long long process to get this here so I read it over and I I feel like it's good and I'm I'm happy that we're finally here. We finally have something. So thank you guys for your work on this. You're you're you're most welcome. It's been a pleasure working with with with the town staff and and with the town council uh on on all of this. So and obviously also with the folks at Pennichuck Water Works on behalf of the Department of Environmental Services uh the New Hampshire Department of Justice and certainly obviously negotiated with the with the folks who represent Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. So could I accept a motion to accept the Saint-Gobain settlement agreement? So moved. Second. A motion from Sean and a second from Ted. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes in the affirmative. And once again thank you guys very much for your hard work on this. We just clarify We just clarify the vote. This was an issue as you know we've had that email from It was uh 5-0. It's 5-0. Okay. Up next we have council's approval of purchases greater than 15,000. So I only have a couple but I have a couple of clarifications on some of them too so I just want to make sure we got everything covered. So the first one is for Zoll AED defibrillators. Remember we had a Yep. money for that. It's 575 579,190 dollars and 40 cents. That'll come out of the capital reserve fund. And they have agreed to allow us to make payments over a 5-year period without interest. Mhm.

Do you need the vote Do you need us to vote on each one separately or can we do it as a group? just do all of them it's up to you how you want to do it. good I'm good with doing them as a group. I just want to make sure Yeah I there's probably unless there's an issue with one of those. Yeah. Um so there's no questions I'm going to move on to the next one. Anyone have any questions on the defibrillators? What was the total cost on those again? Uh 579,190 dollars and 40 cents. And spread over 5 years? Yeah. That's what they Nice. without any interest so Perfect. Can you repeat that? No. Next. Yes.

Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Ford of Londonderry 59,518 dollars and that is for an F-250 vehicle which was uh in the budget before. Any questions? We're good. Okay. Uh municipal pest management services two contracts total of 42,975 for mosquito and tick management. They do this every year. Any questions? That's the spraying of the commons, right? Say that again? That's spraying at the common area and stuff. Uh yeah I got a whole That's also be for the ball fields so I assume.

Ball fields, yeah. That's all. That's all I need. That's all Sean. No big deal. Everyone good? Yeah mosquito contract. Mosquito and tick. Yeah. That's for the fields and Yep. We're good, sir? All right. Faro is um so it's Have you ever heard of a total station? It's a device they use for crime scene um uh photographing the crime scene measuring the crime scene. It's a police department tool. It's uh software plus the equipment. 53,504 dollars and 69 cents. Um the one they have is outdated can't be updated anymore and that comes out of their uh capital reserve fund police technology equipment capital reserve fund which they'll be a request to to remove that from there but need authorization on that one.

Any question on that purchase? Do we know how much is left in that account or no? I don't know. I don't have that in front of me. Hold on a second. Let me just see if he put that in here. Yeah. He just put the quote in here so I don't know how much is left. Got you. Thank you. I have a question. Go ahead. Um what's the lifespan on these? So when do we get the last one? How long do they

I I don't I don't have that info. What's the lifespan on this one? It it depends on how long it's updated for. I mean it total stations have been around for a long time. Um so I don't I don't know. We can try and hold on to that question Deb when the chief is here next. Okay dokey. [snorts] Ready for next?

All set. Yep. Okay. Uh Continental 37,500 dollars for sand. Any questions? What was the total price again? 37,500 dollars. Good. We're good, sir? Okay. Um Iconic Elements uh up to 18,000 dollars for the fire command truck box that goes in the back of the vehicle. It has all the command equipment on there. Is that one coming out of a expendable maintenance trust fund as well? No. That gets charged to the total cost of the truck. It's in the total cost. But it's a different contractor so you have to get Is that being added on to one of our trucks that's being built right now? Yes. Um so the truck was ordered prior to the new rules that we have and this has to be this is a subcontract that goes on top of that so Got you. It's over the 15. Any other questions? I guess the question is is where are we finding the 18,000 for this item? It's part of the project cost cost of the truck. Oh okay.

So that's what was budgeted for. It's just the truck is one uh company. Got you. You just didn't fully explain that at first. Thank you. Yeah. Um okay. 3.9 million dollars for the SEU office building I assume I'm ready to proceed with that. That's per warrant article, right? Yes. Yeah, and it was a pre Yeah, that's you've seen all the documents in there. for that. Anyone good with that? Good, sir. So, the rest are invoices and there seems to be a lack of clarity as to whether these are I don't think this is what you need, but I'm going to run it by you anyway. These are invoices from 2025 for Continental. Yeah, we don't need that.

Yeah, I don't think so. Uh Indoor Doctor, that's for this year. That's 19,855. I don't think you need that either cuz you already authorized the 257 plus the 60.

Um uh Vass Consuelos Snow Contractor, you already talked about that the last time. That's 47,045 and I don't you said that we know that we could go ahead and Yeah, so I don't think we need to worry about that. And then uh Cryer Precision, this is a purchase that was made in 2024. Uh 73,978. It's a grant for SOU equipment, but that would have presumably been approved back then. Okay. Yeah. So, I don't think you need to worry about that one. Motorola portable radios, this is new. This is 17,744 dollars and 16 cents uh from the police technology equipment capital reserve fund. And you'll get a request, I think it's at the next meeting to transfer the money the funds out of that. Okay. Awesome. Any other, sir? That's all that I have.

Anybody have any issues with the ones that You read off? I'll accept the motion to accept them all as one package. So moved. I have a motion from Shawn. Second. Second from Ted. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair will state affirmative. 5-0. Okay. I will accept the motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion from Shawn. Second. Second from Ted. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair will state affirmative. Thank you very much.