The Monday, August 3, 2026, meeting included multiple committee sessions (Bids and Purchases, Finance, Housing/Recreation/Environment, Education, Economic Development, Police/Judicial/Legal, and Planning) followed by a Special Town Council meeting. The day featured contract awards, land-use discussions, public advocacy on animal welfare and property development, and updates on town projects.
Note: All times and dates are as stated in the transcript. The meeting took place on Monday, August 3, 2026, beginning with committee day in the morning and concluding with a special council meeting at 12:30 PM.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to committee day. It is Monday, August 3rd, 2026, and we are going to start with the bids and purchases committee. Before we begin, we'll pause for a second for a silent reflection. Thank you. Agenda item number two is approval of minutes from the July 6th, 2026 meeting. Is there a motion? So move. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. And that carries unanimously. Item number three is public comment. Is there anybody here to address this board? Seeing none, we will move on to agenda item number four, which is a word of a contract for security guard services at town hall. Ms. Harness. Good morning. Good morning. So staff requested best value bids from qualified and interested bidders to provide sled certified armed and unarmed security guards at town hall. For the solicitation, price was only one of six equally weighted evaluation factors to be reviewed to assist the town and selecting the most qualified firm for the work. The evaluation factors covered each bidder's experience, primary business status as a security guard firm, past performance, references, responses to timeliness and quality of services, management plan, and price. Staff received three best value bids. A three member evaluation team was selected to independently review the three bids against the criteria in the solicitation. When the scores were tallied, Metropolitan Services, Metropolitan Security Services doing business as Wald and Security was determined to be the best value, most responsive and responsible bidder. Staff therefore recommend awarding the contract to Walden Security and the amount of 196,100 to perform the security guard services at town hall. This amount is within the town's budget for these services. Thank you, Miss Harness. Let's go ahead and take a motion to get this on the table for discussion. So move. Second. All right, so we have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments from committee members? Yes. How long's the contract? The contract for the contract is for one year and the option to renew for four additional years, so it can be five total. And this is not the security team we currently use. No, it is a different firm. Okay. Is this standard uh practice every year to put this out for bid? Was it every five years? Every five years. Of course, always worry about the people that are here. So how that affects the current personnel. That's all I have. Okay. And anything else or um, I guess that was my only question about the current personnel. So will they interview or do you think there'll be a change or we don't know? We don't know. We don't know.