Nancy Bushika

“And I'm concerned about the salt on the road. And I'll go into that another time. There's way too much. We have a vernal pool on Robillard Road. Down where the old sugar shack was. And this year there were hardly any frost. And there were no frogs in it. And so when I test, when I told, I think both of you this, I have a whole house culligan system. And I've had it for, I don't know, 20 years now. When they come and replace the filter, I will be taking some water directly from my well and having it tested. At that time, at my expense, at that time I will also go to the vernal pool. And hopeful…”

“And I thought, and you know, I think to myself, well, maybe he wasn't told. Maybe he doesn't know that when you're using town equipment, you should be taking care of town roads and not personal projects. Now, I relate a little story. Last year, I was cleaning off my car or shoveling my driveway or something. And Mike stopped and told me he would, you know, pull my car out, he'll plow my driveway. I was like, whoa, okay. That never happened before, but that's okay. I was like, all right, thank you. Because what are you going to do when you're 68 years old and you're out there and shoveling and,…”

“we finally came to terms with um the refusing to pay the dcrc bill we fought back dcrc ended up submitting a new bill for almost 500 almost half of the first bill which the state will allow a reimbursement of because it falls within the proper dates dcrc said they would um i think refund the money that we paid for the remaining part of the bill so that we're not left only holding back i'd like to sign this grant i'd like to sign this grant agreement then we can send it into the state and share this we'll watch the dates closer fighting back really helped us out yeah that's a thousand dollars r…”

“have that big hard gravelly stuff that we had last year and the year before and the year before that. I was pleased to go up to the town shed and find that there was sand in there. Not big clunky nasty gravel. But sand. Wonderful. Who would have thunk? There it was. So if you guys could kind of toss that around between yourselves and think about that. And I will come back when I know. I'm going to come back more often. But when I know about if there is a salinity problem in my well and in the vernal pool where I expect there will be one. We might have to do something.”

“It's a new vote. Question on the dog reserve fund. Yup. Are you content to have that just in the general fund, separated, or would you like its own account that would be over to us? Or is that interesting idea? Well, you would track it. You would do a separate fund, right? You keep track of what it is, I don't know. Yeah, I think the auditor's kind of recommended. Yeah, it just won't be an interest if it's part of the reserve fund. If it's part of the general fund, it'll just, you know, the $5 will go into it. I don't think it's part of the reserve fund.”

“and faithful to the state of Vermont and that I will not directly or indirectly do any act or thing injurious to the Constitution or government thereof. So help me God. Again, I, Nancy Bushika, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of select board member for the town of Stamford and will therein do equal right and justice to all persons to the best of my judgment and ability according to law. So help me God. So help me God.”

“I know that there's a cost per hour. And you start adding up those five minutes here, ten minutes there. And, you know, how many hours does it end up being over the year? So how much has the town paid to have these certain driveways plowed? Consistently. Maybe you can help me. Maybe Dave can help. Maybe Mike didn't know. And to me, then that would be an honest mistake. Right? Right? You don't know? You don't know? I didn't know”

“you think this is something that he would maybe want a group like just an emergency management group under him as opposed to just appointing coordinators? Did he ask specifically to name an additional coordinator? Yes. I'd give it to him. If he wants to establish a broader group of people to work under those coordinators and he has the time”

“I love Mike. I've known Mike since he was a little boy. And as I said, I'm very concerned, though. Because I think the use of our town equipment, whether it's the loader or whether it's the plow trucks. Or whether it's a brush hog in the summer. I don't know.”

“So, once the information on voting began in the back of the select board minutes, that note was on there. It's been on there. so it's been on probably since the end of december only january okay uh if you wanna take more time that's totally up to you do”