Note: The meeting transcript states the date as September 2, 2025, but the instruction requires using August 30, 2025. This summary reflects the transcript content with the date discrepancy noted.
The Bourne Select Board met on the recorded date to discuss a wide range of items including consent agenda approvals, a suicide prevention proclamation, termination of an Owner's Project Manager (OPM) contract, police and fire department staffing updates, preparation for a special town meeting, future participation in the Fourth of July parade, and implementation of board goals. Public comments raised concerns about handicapped parking at a marina.
7 p.m. Um September 2nd, 2025. Uh note this meeting is being televised, streamed, or recorded by Bourne TV. If anyone in the audience is recording or videotaping, uh they need to acknowledge such at this time. I do see Owen Drury, Owen up there. And uh please refrain from using flash photography. Uh if anyone from the public wishes to access the meeting, they can do so by calling the following conference line. 1929 205099, Zoom meeting ID 897, 1229, 3538 password born all caps. The Zoom chat will not be monitored. Uh participants who wish to speak must raise the hand icon to the chair, ask them to unmute. All items within this meeting agenda are subject to deliberation and votes, and I will call this um public session into order in open session. Uh we'll start with our um Did we omit? Did we forget a moment of silence? I'm gonna do that now. Not on the agenda. All right, let's do reasonable. And to the public relations, liberty and justice. Thank you. Anyone want to take on the vision and mission, one or the other or both. Um I'll do the vision. Bourne is a proud community that embraces change while respecting the risk heritage of the town and its villages. It's a municipality based on strong fiscal government with a durable economy that recognizes the rights of all citizens, respects the environment, especially the coastal areas of the community, and the amenities that it affords. Bourne embraces extra and education and offers the citizens a healthy active lifestyle. Thank you. Sure. Born will maximize opportunities for social and economic development while retaining an attractive, sustainable and secure coastline and environment for the enjoyment of residents and visitors. Through responsible and professional leadership and in partnership with others, Bourne will strive to improve the quality of life for all residents living and working in the larger community. Thank you. I do want to make note that um Jean Azarevitz is on um online just so everyone knows. So we will do roll call vote. I do roll call vote for everything anyhow. All right. Um shout out. I think I'm just gonna start. I don't have any like our specific shout out, but I did want to make sure and make a note this um this session to acknowledge, you know, our school school year has started. And I do want to shout out to all of our um, you know, our teachers who planned and got ready for our students to come into their classrooms and our first responders, the police and fire who really keep them safe. And um, yeah, that was really my shout-out for this morning. I know Peter had this evening. Sorry, I'm a day behind. Oh no, no, it's alright. Uh there's a couple, you know. I want to say thank you to the K Cod Canal Chamber, uh Chamber of Commerce for putting on a uh you know their summer concert series with great success. Some good some are some nights were canceled due to weather, uh, but we did the best we could with the remaining nights because I helped participate there. Uh as part of it, uh we had bins out for the born food pantry this summer. And what people don't know is this time of year, the born food pantry, well not now, but in the summer months, it is their quietest time of the year. So we're trying the you know the health the born food pantry with food donations and any other way we can get them in there. So which is our way of doing that. And also um Mrs. Two Um Emily Emily Bakiaki and the Mariner uh we we just ended Labor Day and I've been down on Taylor, I live on Taylor's point, so we have Terrace Point Marina and we also have Marmot Beats in Picasset and uh I see the staff running around, you know, you know, working very hard, you know, for for our uh vote patrons, you know, throughout the summer, and you know, we can't thank them enough because it's very demanding in the summertime. So it's nice to uh to say thank you to the Mariner uh staff that stepping up, but also to the patrons who are our customers, you know.