The first item we have on the agenda is a surety reduction for Tide Mill South.

I don't see anyone here for Tide Mill South, but we do have communication data July 26.

This was sent from Ali Spox, the Deputy Director of Public Works slash town engineer to Nicole.

And this is a reduction to hold a total of $60,402 and 41 cents.

This is a reduction of $29,774 and 38 cents.

This brings us down to the final 10%.

And this has received a positive recommendation to us from the deputy director.

And if no one has any questions or comments on this, I would ask for a motion to accept this recommendation and send it forward.

I'll make that motion.

Second.

Motion and a second.

Is there any discussion on this?

Okay.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed.

That is 6-0.

Next item on the agenda.

Minor modification request of Reynolds Farm LLC to eliminate not yet installed street lights, phase one of Runnels Farm.

Sandy, you're in here for the applicant.

Okay.

I think you know the process.

Nicole walk us through and then after questions, we'll give you whatever time you need.

So this is not the easiest to explain, so I apologize if I confuse you before I help you.

This is for the first phase of Reynolds Farm.

And for some reason, they out of the 14 required lights, eight were installed and six are not installed.

Of the eight that were installed, a number of them were the approved type of lights, and a number of them are not.

So the basis for all of the lights were installed, but the lights were not.

Sandy, identify yourself for the record, please.

My name is Sanford Resnick.

I'm the attorney for the applicant.

So we've had meetings over, I'd say it's been a couple years with representatives of the H.A.

Fisher Homes Company.

We've been in touch with National Grid, and there does not seem to be a one answer as to why eight were installed and the other six pieces were installed, but not the lights.

So you could not just go in and repeat the action, whatever it was that was taken to install or put in those first eight lights now.

It's a different process for them.

So that being said, we did hold uh $50,000 in your last bond for the streetlight issue because it was not solved.

As you know, streetlights are not or have not been part of our bonding process because they were never town infrastructure or going to be owned by us.

They were always a utility.

So we it was not something we thought of.

Now that we we are in the light business and we own lights, we will now be including the lights within any bond where they are required.

As you also know, they are not required in many places.

The specific locations where it's required.

Um these are on the final plans, the final approved plan.

So at this point for us as a town, they are required infrastructure.

Um that's why the applicant is here today, because the first step in figuring out how we're going to move forward after having these couple of years of trying to figure out what the heck happened is there they're requesting that they don't have to figure out the rest and put in the rest of the lights.

Um that's sort of a very basic version of the history.

So uh my my basics is that I cannot give you a reason why the lights are not installed, but they're not.

The bases are in, they're on the plans, and we have to figure out a way to move forward either with installing the lights or not installing the lights.

Our um, I did reach out to our public safety departments on the issue because I felt that that was obviously an important piece of it.

I do not hear back from the fire department.

The police department basically said if the lights were required, they should install the lights.

Um our DPW director has been involved in this from for years.

And I would say that he he's not adamant the lights have to be installed, but he does know that when when and if those lights are not installed, this is an area where the homeowners do want the lights or will want the lights, and those calls and those issues will fall on his shoulders, you know, in the long run.

Um so that's where we are with this.

And we thought that this, you know, obviously they had to request this modification to the subdivision for any changes, and that this was a uh a starting point for moving forward in whatever direction we do.

So it looks here from the picture they've got the foundation and the conduit.

Yep, so the there are no, there are no what I understand is the bases are in, but there are no wires to those bases at this time.

So there are wires to the lights that are in the actual light poles that are there, but where the bases are, it does not sound like there are wires that are have actually been installed to them.

And I assume but uh this conduit, does that?