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Call a meeting to order sewer commissioners.

And

we'll start with new business.

So thank you.

And Justin Scalar.

So Dave and Justin put together a PowerPoint classification report.

Each of the items that are on the agenda under new business.

The items on the agenda are encompassed through the entire presentation.

So the agenda item is not really in order, but there's just listed so that way you have just variables that discuss this and an open meeting.

And I will also and Paula from a wastewater treatment plant that uh is here for questions as well as a finance team.

Chris should be online as well, if you can elevate them just a bit so that he has the opportunity just to chat.

That'd be great.

Okay.

Um I think I'll just hand it over to Justin, our engineer at DDC.

Great.

Thank you, Liz.

And thank you, everybody, for coming together tonight to uh review this important uh project that Great Barrington faces.

Um in rather short order, Dave and I are going to try to get everybody up to speed with you know your wastewater system, what projects are ongoing now and what the important capital projects are, you know, uh right on the horizon for the town.

And these things have been being planned for for quite some time.

I'm not sure the information's been you know disseminated to all parties.

So that's why we thought it was very important to get everybody up to speed.

Uh, you know, you folks as the commissioners as to what's going on and what the team and your your town staff have been planning for a while here.

I'm going to go through a presentation.

Um hoping to go through that and then offer some time after the you know 14 or so so slides to go through some photos of the current facility.

Um at that time, I'd like to have you know, Paula and Shay kind of describe what you guys are seeing on those photos, you know, in the room and really just stress some of the issues that they're facing uh with with frankly one of the town's most important assets or any town's, you know, really their most important asset.

If you don't have a wastewater system, you don't really have uh development, you don't have to a town um you know support system there.

So

let me just pull up the presentation.

We'll go through it here.

Uh we'll have plenty of time for questions.

Um,

you

know, at the end of this.

Switch to this.

So

again, my name's Justin Skelly with DPC Engineering.

Uh Dave Prickett is also here, president and owner of uh DPC Engineering.

And we've been working for Great Barrington, I mean myself for at least the past 10 years, and Dave probably, you know, twice as long as that.

So we've been heavily invested with you know prior town managers, DPW directors, etc.

I know there's a lot of new faces in town, um, you know, most recently, but again, we're just trying to get in front of everybody and kind of pick up where things uh left off to make sure these important projects you know aren't forgotten about.

So we're gonna take you through again, just a recap of what Great Barrington owns uh in terms of a wastewater system and some of the highlights

there.

We'll go over some of the current conditions and more so that'll be at the end, you know, looking at some actual pictures that Paul and Shay took over the past day or two and and got to me to include in this presentation and go over some of the associated capital needs with

that.

We'll talk about some of the funding options, and that's really one of the drivers for meeting in short order tonight.

Is that the town does have a grant award in hand uh through a mass DEP program, and we could talk about the specifics of

that.

But essentially there's a decision point uh that we've reached in terms of the awarding authority, you know, pretty much putting it on the town to make a decision on that, you know, soon.

So that we'll get into that a little bit later.

But there is some potential, you know, grant non-loan funds uh available to the town if they if they choose to take

it.