Looks like six years.

Yeah, let's do it.

Let's call this regular select board meeting of June 3rd to order.

Very quickly, board members in attendance are Jared Weber, Neil Maximilian, Ed Lane, and myself, Max Scherf.

We have CTSB TV recording this meeting live.

And Clarence Fanto is here from the Eagle.

Is anyone else recording?

No.

Then we will move to announcements from the chair.

There's one quick announcement from me, and that is that notary services are now available at Town Hall with a very pleasant emphasis on not dropping in for them.

Please do call to schedule an appointment for that.

But uh anything you'd like to add on that since you're one of the notaries.

Yeah, so uh Town Clerk and I will are now notary public and can um notarize for uh residents we're providing as a courtesy and um there there will be information online.

Please do call to make an appointment, same day appointments may be available.

Um we just need to plan accordingly.

We do have a lot of meetings we're in and out of and we just need to know when people are coming in.

Anyone else have any announcements?

No.

Then we shall move into Susan's open forum where Lennox residents are welcome to address the board for up to two minutes.

I know some of you have signed in.

Uh if you are here to um just wait till your two names called and we'll go from go from that.

All right, so first I'm Susan May.

Go up to the mic, please.

Oh, the mic

okay.

The mic is so that the recording or people may be watching at home in the case.

Oh, thank

you.

Hello, my name is Susan May, and I live at Turner Terrace at 40 Old Stark Bridge Road.

I was a longtime member and secretary for the Lennox Environmental Committee and served as the volunteer coordinator for the Solarize Linux project in 2019.

Although the committee is no longer active, I remain committed to personally and collectively work for the benefit of the earth.

When I retired from work, I started to do end of life planning, and I researched different options, including green burial.

I learned that cremation uses a large amount of fossil fuels to heat the ovens used for burning bodies.

That was out.

Uh that contributes to climate change.

The process of embalming uses toxic chemicals that can get into our waterways.

Even in a traditional burial, it involves wasting energy and resources by using metals and other non-bio non-biodegradable materials for caskets and cement faults.

As a long-term environmentalist, I want my last act, the disposal of my body after death, to be done in the most earth-friendly way possible, and that is green burial.

Thank you so much for your support in giving Lennox residents a choice.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank

you.

Uh

Carol Ramsey.

Hi, Carol Ramsey, old Stockbridge Road.

Um you've given beautiful reasons that are exactly where I come from in my being in support of green burial.

Um I have a lot of other reasons as well.

The um thoughts of of keeping us as green or friendly to the earth as we can be is my main reason for being in favor of green burial.

Um again of the age that I'm thinking about my last acts, and I would like my last act as well to be something that does not take away from energy that needs to be used by future generations.

So thank you for considering it.

Thank you, thank you.

And I have been part of Green Burial, Massachusetts for over a decade.

And one of the things we do is go out and talk to residents in different towns to encourage them to go for green burials, usually at their request.

And I can tell you in 2014, we knew of just three towns in Massachusetts that were doing green burial.

Brewster on the Cape, Chesterfield, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Today, through a crowdsourced database, we know that there are just about 50 towns in the Commonwealth that are using green burial in their municipal cemeteries.

And I am thrilled to know that Lennox is considering this now.

And I think it's this document prepared by Mary Beth Mitz.

I know has gone through several iterations.