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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

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and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Sorry, I'm starting a little bit late.

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Our boys were out on the road since 9 o'clock last night.

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I'm 30 years by my house.

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Oh, now we're up.

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Okay, welcome to a meeting of the Stanford Select Board.

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If you have a matter to discuss that is not included on the agenda,

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you may do so by addressing the chairperson and stating your name and address.

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You will notice that all our meetings are recorded, and this is to aid with the summarization of the minutes.

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Visitors are welcome, and we allow five minutes of comment per visitor and 15 minutes per topic.

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Discussions will be held in a common, civilized manner and respectful of others.

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Select Board members present are...

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Mike DeNorme.

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Nancy Bishica.

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John Dunn.

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Eric Amari.

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Will there be any adding of items or removing of items from tonight's agenda?

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I have new correspondence that's come in.

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I have a couple things here.

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One, prepare for the town meeting Monday night.

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I think that was all I had.

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Will there be any adjustments to the agenda, such as changing the order of items?

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Yes.

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And Jeff is recording the meeting tonight for his YouTube video.

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Is it?

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We were in executive session from 5 to 6, maybe 6 to 10, for employee reviews.

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Hearing the visitors.

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She can go ahead first.

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Sheila.

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Hello.

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Do you know anything about this Green Mountain Express bus that's going around the town?

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No.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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That's for public transit.

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Is that the one that picks up people if they need to go to doctor's appointments or something?

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You call them, and they'll bring you to your doctor's.

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Does anybody know how to come to that?

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Yeah.

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It's pretty well...

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It's pretty well...

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Seniors, some seniors know about it.

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I mean...

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I just saw it the other day.

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No one knows.

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You didn't know about it.

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In mass.

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Yeah.

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So the...

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The Green Mountain Express...

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...comes from the Bennington area, and their depot is...

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Ooh, it's kind of like a brain fart in the back of my head, but it's in the Bennington

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area, I want to say, and it...

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It's like a transit authority.

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It's like the regional transit authority for the area.

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You can call them.

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I don't know what the equivalent is for a PT1 form in Vermont, but if you have, like,

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certain insurance, they provide you a certain amount of trips to doctor's appointments.

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Plus, you can do a pay-by-fare.

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You know, there's...

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It's a bus, too.

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You know, they do busing.

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I mean, they bring people from the Powell area to North Adams early in the morning for

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a doctor's appointment.

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh, a bus home.

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I mean, they're...

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I knew a couple of people in Stanford that did take advantage of it.

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You call, make an appointment.

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They don't like coming here, but...

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...to a doctor's appointment, but I don't know if it's just in Vermont, or if they'll

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...that I don't know.

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Yeah, they're DOT certified.

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Sheila, call the 211 number.

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I don't want to.

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Well, I don't know.

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I just want to know what it is.

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Is it because of two people I've talked to who I've seen, or she didn't know what it

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So, do they take you to North Adams?

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Do they take you to Bennington?

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Bring you back?

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They must have a website.

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I don't think they can get in there.

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Or bring you back.

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I think they'll take you back.

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I think if you just...

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If anybody can call them, I'll say.

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Did they get you to the casino back?

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They'll come down to the casino.

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They may do a casino trip.

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I don't know.

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So, I just wanted to reach back around and see if you guys had an opportunity to discuss

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what was brought up in the last board meeting regarding the conflict of interest.

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If you guys were able to get a hold of the Vermont, the VLCT, or you guys spoke about

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Well, we haven't spoken about it because it would have been out of a meeting, so it

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would be here.

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But, I did get stuff from VLCT and I sent the email on to the board.

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But, I'm still waiting for VLCT to get back to us because they brought it to their legal

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department because, as you know, there is no statutory conflict between collector delinquent

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taxes and JP.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not the actual JP that's the question.

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It's the...

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It's the fact that the individual sits on the board of civil authority.

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So, when you sit on the board of civil authority as a tax appeal and you have a say in that,

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those people that are looking for that appeal, like we stated in the meeting, generally have

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already gone into delinquency.

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So, most of them are waiting to get through that process to pay their bill.

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And so, with that being said, if that individual...

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Has a say in that tax appeal, that directly affects their pay, and so that's where that

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conflict for me comes in.

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So, yes, I know it's the JLP that it's used as, but of course, in order to be on the board

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of civil authority, you have to be a justice of the peace.

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So, and so, the other job that's held, which we all know that many people in small towns

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hold multiple positions.

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I'm more of like, get it, okay, but to have, it just comes back to you collect delinquent

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taxes to get paid for it based on the amount of 5%, which we know, we won't reiterate that

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and go down that road, but to have a say in the abatement, a say in the assessment, a

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voice in the assessment, a voice in the abatement, and a voice in the tax appeal, that's...

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I don't care what Vermont says, that looks really bad for our town and anybody sitting

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in that position, and that could be you, that could be him, that could be anybody that has

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that position that is in those, all those positions at the same time.

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Just looking at, so, I just wanted to see, because, I mean, it just costs us, which I

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was just talking, it just costs us $1,000 to run an election, a runoff election, which,

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if...

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I'm trying not to have it be a personal thing, but the individual is part of the JLP, and

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so, which is the Board of Civil Authority, and if that person gets stopped away, we don't

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spend $1,000 on an election for that issue, you know what I mean?

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And I'm not saying that she should have done that, like, that's her own right to do whatever,

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you know, and, but, bottom line is we're, you know, here we are.

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I just don't want to go around and around.

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I just don't want to go around and around, because I'm not going away.

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I'm going to be here until I find out, you know, like, until, because the longer this

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goes, the more people I talk to, the more people are like, really, that happens?

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Like, a lot of people have no idea that, you know, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I don't

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think it's maliciously happening, it's just what is there, and it just doesn't look so

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bad.

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The, well, like I said, I'm waiting for the legal department to get back to me, I just

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emailed them yesterday.

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It's still nothing.

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Our conflict of interest policy, from what I'm understanding, the state one will override

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ours, so everything will be through the state, with that ethics committee.

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And you need to appoint somebody on that.

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I was just going to mention that, too, like, they want an appointee for an ethics lead.

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Yeah, yeah, so I was going to bring that up later in the meeting, too.

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I mean, I tend to agree with what Pete's saying.

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It doesn't look great.

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But, I mean, I did go back and look for the ten years that there might have, that this

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person was on both boards, that the one opinion did not sway the board's decision, because

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it's always a board decision.

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It swayed my decision.

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It swayed your decision?

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It sure did.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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She was the tipping.

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From that vote, in the Board of Civil Authority, it's like almost like a deadlock, and you'll

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have a better idea, because you were there, and you were there.

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You guys understand who was voting, but from what I'm told, because I wasn't there, and

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it wasn't recorded, is that the voting came down to that one sway vote, which was her.

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So, that's one of those things that's kind of like, that's, again, it's that kind of,

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ah, man, do I keep, do I keep, do I keep, do I keep, do I keep, do I keep, do I keep, do

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We say that that doesn't happen, but I know it did.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I'm not trying to be that guy.

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And, again, it could have been you that sat there in that meeting and had the conversation with me and had the opinion.

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And, again, this isn't personal.

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This is just fact.

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Well, one thing I read was about the recusing of people.

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You know, that's a volunteer thing that the board can't force someone to recuse.

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But if someone did recuse every single abatement, what are the other duties of a JP?

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Say I want to be a JP and I'm sitting in that position.

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Are there all these other duties that I can recuse myself on that position but do all these other things?

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So from what I read, there is other things that the JP does.

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That is, clearly not just.

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The Board of Civil Authority.

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Right.

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But you can't not be part of the Board of Civil Authority.

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It's part of your duty as a JP.

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But you can, in that position, recuse yourself every single case you could.

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It's possible.

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Somebody would be like, I mean, at that point, you're used to the Board of Civil Authority.

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If it didn't go delinquent, just a regular hearing, you might not have to recuse yourself.

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Yeah, I've looked into it a little bit.

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I'm sorry.

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I saw your email and I was waiting myself.

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I do, just like I said last evening, I do tend to agree that there's certain times where everybody does the right thing and you still look like you're doing something wrong.

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And you look and say, what is it for the best of the time?

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What is it for the best of?

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It's almost like even for the best of, you know, for yourself.

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Right.

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You don't want to put yourself in a compromise.

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There's really no reason for it.

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I mean, I agree with Nancy.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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I'm going to come back.

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Personally, that meeting, I don't know, I can't remember what the vote was, but you actually, I made an motion to lower your amendment in the past.

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I remember that part of it.

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So your amendment actually lowered.

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So I don't think she would have been a factor at all, but that's not, I guess it doesn't matter if we vote individual stuff.

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And that was done in the executive session, though.

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Or deliberative session.

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So there was no notes on that.

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So, you know, but it doesn't matter.

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It's like you're saying.

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It doesn't matter what the facts were in the meeting.

250
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It's the perception of what could happen.

251
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And that's all.

252
00:12:36,169 --> 00:12:37,169
That's what we've got.

253
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OK.

254
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How long has this individual had all these positions?

255
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About 10 years.

256
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10 years?

257
00:12:43,210 --> 00:12:44,710
More.

258
00:12:44,710 --> 00:12:46,210
More than 10?

259
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Just about.

260
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So I would recommend as a board.

261
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No, JP and delinquent tax collector.

262
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As a board member, I would recommend

263
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that we have an executive session

264
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to talk to her as an employee.

265
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Sure.

266
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And talk to her and discuss it with her

267
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and see if there's a road that we can go down

268
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to everybody's agreement.

269
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It may be smooth.

270
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It may not be.

271
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We will be reviewing employees so that can be brought up

272
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in there, too.

273
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,620
I think that's something we should take both sides of a star.

274
00:13:23,620 --> 00:13:26,179
Take both sides of a star.

275
00:13:26,179 --> 00:13:27,419
As a board, look at it.

276
00:13:27,419 --> 00:13:29,659
You know, Pete's giving his side of the story and taking

277
00:13:29,659 --> 00:13:31,240
the other side of the story and look at the left.

278
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You can excuse yourself.

279
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And look into the, you know, what the state says

280
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and go from there.

281
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What was that now?

282
00:13:39,659 --> 00:13:42,419
She can always excuse herself.

283
00:13:42,419 --> 00:13:44,259
Yeah, but if you're doing it for every meeting.

284
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Correct.

285
00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:48,870
But that's, you know.

286
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For that certain board.

287
00:13:49,950 --> 00:13:53,220
That's what I'm just, and that's why I asked that question.

288
00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:58,509
And I think that it's something

289
00:13:58,509 --> 00:14:02,549
that we should respect, something that didn't work

290
00:14:02,549 --> 00:14:04,049
for 10 years or something.

291
00:14:04,049 --> 00:14:05,690
I don't think it's a personal thing.

292
00:14:05,690 --> 00:14:09,840
I think it's a, it may be.

293
00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,299
I don't know if it is personal or not.

294
00:14:11,299 --> 00:14:12,759
I don't care.

295
00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:15,620
I do agree that it doesn't matter whose name was in that.

296
00:14:15,620 --> 00:14:18,259
You just say, like you said, if it was me or the janitor

297
00:14:18,259 --> 00:14:20,600
and all of these other, when you just throw someone's name

298
00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,129
in there, it's still the same issue.

299
00:14:24,129 --> 00:14:25,250
Yeah.

300
00:14:25,250 --> 00:14:28,909
If this person is the delinquent tax collector,

301
00:14:28,909 --> 00:14:29,409
Mm-hmm.

302
00:14:29,409 --> 00:14:31,110
Or that person may be in any town.

303
00:14:31,110 --> 00:14:31,610
Right.

304
00:14:31,610 --> 00:14:33,070
If that person doesn't have anything

305
00:14:33,070 --> 00:14:35,169
to do with the other boards, it's a debt issue.

306
00:14:35,169 --> 00:14:35,669
Yeah.

307
00:14:35,669 --> 00:14:36,169
Right.

308
00:14:36,169 --> 00:14:36,669
Right.

309
00:14:36,669 --> 00:14:37,169
Yeah.

310
00:14:37,169 --> 00:14:37,669
Great.

311
00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:39,629
I collect taxes and I don't care how you get paid.

312
00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:40,129
Right.

313
00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:40,629
Or whatever.

314
00:14:40,629 --> 00:14:42,169
I don't care how you get your money.

315
00:14:42,169 --> 00:14:43,490
That's not my job.

316
00:14:43,490 --> 00:14:45,629
I mean, it would be, I mean, maybe it's a good time

317
00:14:45,629 --> 00:14:47,909
to bring up, or maybe it's an appeal to the public.

318
00:14:47,909 --> 00:14:51,629
It would be nice to get some diversification, I guess,

319
00:14:51,629 --> 00:14:52,590
in a lot of these boards.

320
00:14:52,590 --> 00:14:53,090
Sure.

321
00:14:53,090 --> 00:14:54,549
And get more people involved that we

322
00:14:54,549 --> 00:14:58,029
don't have to be repetitive and have to serve on two, three,

323
00:14:58,029 --> 00:14:58,529
four boards.

324
00:14:58,529 --> 00:14:59,409
That's the other thing.

325
00:14:59,409 --> 00:15:02,649
I thought of it the last thing, Kurt, was this town,

326
00:15:02,649 --> 00:15:05,350
and Pete called me out on it and said, you know,

327
00:15:05,350 --> 00:15:11,009
I say it all the time, we're fortunate that we have people,

328
00:15:11,009 --> 00:15:14,690
right, you know, we're literally adding elections,

329
00:15:14,690 --> 00:15:20,860
that people are going, wow, we had a run-off election to,

330
00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:23,440
you know, other towns would be going, jeez,

331
00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,139
we got a wall of openings here, you know, for all these boards.

332
00:15:27,139 --> 00:15:29,379
We're fortunate enough to have people saying, hey,

333
00:15:29,379 --> 00:15:33,279
if there's an opening for that board, put me on the list,

334
00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:38,659
you've done that, you know, put me on the, you know,

335
00:15:38,659 --> 00:15:41,360
clean up or whatever you want to call it, you know,

336
00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,809
and I'll jump in, I'll do it, you know.

337
00:15:43,809 --> 00:15:46,429
So it's fortunate we have that.

338
00:15:46,429 --> 00:15:49,110
So if we are having that, that's a great time

339
00:15:49,110 --> 00:15:54,409
to let that new generation step in.

340
00:15:54,409 --> 00:15:56,409
I mean, we're going to have to replace certain people

341
00:15:56,409 --> 00:15:57,509
at some point, right?

342
00:15:57,509 --> 00:15:58,009
So.

343
00:15:58,009 --> 00:15:59,210
And I don't think that.

344
00:15:59,210 --> 00:15:59,929
It would be nice to have it.

345
00:15:59,929 --> 00:16:02,429
The position that we're talking about is a very,

346
00:16:02,429 --> 00:16:06,169
it's an important position, but it's a very big board.

347
00:16:06,169 --> 00:16:06,789
Right.

348
00:16:06,789 --> 00:16:08,909
You know, that board of abatement.

349
00:16:08,909 --> 00:16:09,409
Yeah.

350
00:16:09,409 --> 00:16:11,590
So the authority is a big board.

351
00:16:11,590 --> 00:16:12,230
12 or 13.

352
00:16:12,230 --> 00:16:14,250
12, 13 people on that board.

353
00:16:14,250 --> 00:16:18,090
It's a big board, so it's one individual

354
00:16:18,090 --> 00:16:19,929
doesn't have a ton of power.

355
00:16:19,929 --> 00:16:20,429
Right.

356
00:16:20,429 --> 00:16:24,289
The tax collector has much more power than that.

357
00:16:24,289 --> 00:16:31,340
I guess it's not so much the sway of the vote, it's the opinion.

358
00:16:31,340 --> 00:16:33,700
That shouldn't be had.

359
00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:38,539
OK, so for example, if I didn't pay, I'll use myself because I did it.

360
00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:43,149
That when I go from the board of civil authority,

361
00:16:43,149 --> 00:16:44,970
I hadn't paid my taxes.

362
00:16:44,970 --> 00:16:46,789
OK, and I didn't pay my taxes for a reason.

363
00:16:46,789 --> 00:16:49,490
I wasn't going to give you the money and have to sit and wait for a check from you guys.

364
00:16:49,490 --> 00:16:49,990
Whatever.

365
00:16:49,990 --> 00:16:52,850
I'll pay my $300 fine, whatever.

366
00:16:52,850 --> 00:16:53,590
OK.

367
00:16:53,590 --> 00:17:00,190
So that should have been, that individual that was sitting in that position should have recused

368
00:17:00,190 --> 00:17:00,690
themselves.

369
00:17:00,690 --> 00:17:01,190
From that.

370
00:17:01,190 --> 00:17:01,490
Yeah.

371
00:17:01,490 --> 00:17:06,359
That any conversation and a vote didn't happen.

372
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,980
So that's all I can vouch for.

373
00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:11,759
I can't vouch for any other person's hearing.

374
00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:16,319
But that to me is where I see an issue.

375
00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:17,519
That's it.

376
00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:23,369
Before this happened with you, I never thought about it.

377
00:17:23,369 --> 00:17:26,130
And I don't think any of us ever thought there was a conflict.

378
00:17:26,130 --> 00:17:29,130
During that hearing, when it's in the public,

379
00:17:29,130 --> 00:17:31,789
she could show up and say, let's go have an opinion.

380
00:17:31,789 --> 00:17:33,789
Nothing we can do about that, right?

381
00:17:33,789 --> 00:17:36,789
So anyone could have it go in a public opinion.

382
00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:42,789
It's in the deliberation that the opinion would be squashed.

383
00:17:42,789 --> 00:17:45,789
Yeah, because anybody can come and sit at this meeting and have an opinion.

384
00:17:45,789 --> 00:17:50,789
I mean, are people going to frown on that individual, whoever it may be?

385
00:17:50,789 --> 00:17:52,789
You know, maybe, but that's not who I am.

386
00:17:52,789 --> 00:17:54,789
It's a public forum.

387
00:17:54,789 --> 00:17:56,789
You can come and say whatever you want.

388
00:17:56,789 --> 00:17:57,789
But in terms of...

389
00:17:57,789 --> 00:17:59,789
It's no different when I go to a plan board meeting.

390
00:17:59,789 --> 00:18:00,789
I'm a slight board member.

391
00:18:00,789 --> 00:18:01,789
But I go there.

392
00:18:01,789 --> 00:18:04,789
As an individual saying, hey, look, yeah, you know I'm a slight board member,

393
00:18:04,789 --> 00:18:06,789
but it doesn't hold water.

394
00:18:06,789 --> 00:18:09,789
I admit I don't have any authority there.

395
00:18:09,789 --> 00:18:13,789
I just say, well, I have an opinion that you guys should be doing this

396
00:18:13,789 --> 00:18:14,789
and give you my opinion.

397
00:18:14,789 --> 00:18:15,789
It may sway you.

398
00:18:15,789 --> 00:18:16,789
It may not.

399
00:18:16,789 --> 00:18:17,789
Absolutely.

400
00:18:17,789 --> 00:18:20,200
Okay.

401
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,200
Well, I still have it on my list.

402
00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,200
I'm still...

403
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,200
I'd like to put that on our agenda if you don't mind.

404
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,200
No.

405
00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,200
We're going to be doing it anyway.

406
00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:32,200
We're not going to lose it.

407
00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:33,200
We're not going to lose it.

408
00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,200
We're not going to lose it.

409
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,200
We're not going to lose it.

410
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200
I do agree.

411
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,200
One more thing I agree with is just kicking a can stuff.

412
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,200
I can't stand it.

413
00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,200
Whenever we talk about it, it works for me.

414
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,200
Yeah, that whole like it used to be that way.

415
00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,200
So, why?

416
00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,200
Is that what you're talking about?

417
00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,200
No.

418
00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:44,200
Just kicking a can like...

419
00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,200
Oh, just keep it going.

420
00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,200
Next meeting.

421
00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:47,200
Let's talk about it next meeting.

422
00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,200
Hey, you guys want to put a sign up?

423
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,200
Let's talk about it next meeting.

424
00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,200
Yeah, yeah.

425
00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,200
Four years later, we'll still have it.

426
00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,200
You know, stuff like that.

427
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,200
So, clean it up.

428
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,200
We were talking about, oh, we're going to do this.

429
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,200
And then, you know, we've been 10 years talking about who owns this building.

430
00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,200
Ten years.

431
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,200
So...

432
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,200
On Sesame Street, when you were about five or six years old, there was a hole in the

433
00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,200
bucket.

434
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:13,200
Yeah.

435
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,200
Oh, yeah.

436
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,200
There was a hole in the bucket.

437
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,200
There was a hole in the bucket.

438
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,200
Sheila, when...

439
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,200
I'm trying to plug it.

440
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:19,200
Yeah.

441
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:26,200
Sheila, when has anybody taken out papers to run against this person?

442
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,200
Anybody can take out papers and run against somebody.

443
00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,200
Yeah.

444
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:31,200
Uh...

445
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:39,650
It's been probably this year, no more than 20 or 30 years.

446
00:19:39,650 --> 00:19:41,650
Oh, for collector delinquent taxes?

447
00:19:41,650 --> 00:19:43,650
Oh, no, no, no, no, the Justice of the Peace Act.

448
00:19:43,650 --> 00:19:45,650
I voted for the Justice of the Peace Act.

449
00:19:45,650 --> 00:19:47,650
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

450
00:19:47,650 --> 00:19:49,650
I couldn't agree more.

451
00:19:49,650 --> 00:19:53,650
Oh, yeah, yeah, this has nothing to do with it.

452
00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:59,650
I'm just saying if there is a conflict, the easiest thing to do is to say,

453
00:19:59,650 --> 00:20:02,650
you know, hey, these two boards here, there's a conflict.

454
00:20:02,650 --> 00:20:03,650
Yeah, I agree.

455
00:20:03,650 --> 00:20:07,650
Let's just say we bring it up to the person and they say, yeah, I agree with that.

456
00:20:07,650 --> 00:20:12,650
If they don't agree, then there's another, then we have to do something about it.

457
00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:15,650
Exactly, I mean, the Justice of the Peace one is expandable to me.

458
00:20:15,650 --> 00:20:16,650
Yeah.

459
00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:18,650
She needs to be the collector delinquent.

460
00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:21,650
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a tough decision.

461
00:20:21,650 --> 00:20:23,650
I couldn't agree more with that.

462
00:20:23,650 --> 00:20:27,130
I don't think it has anything to do with that.

463
00:20:27,130 --> 00:20:29,130
Yep, thank you.

464
00:20:29,130 --> 00:20:30,130
Thank you.

465
00:20:30,130 --> 00:20:31,160
Thank you.

466
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,160
I have one more thing to say.

467
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,160
Yep.

468
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,160
No.

469
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,160
Are you a dissenter?

470
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,160
No.

471
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,160
Oh.

472
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,160
No, I'm actually a co-chairman of this book now.

473
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:48,960
No, the talk about the expense of, if this happens, if someone steps down, the board

474
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,960
can appoint an elected official.

475
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:51,960
No.

476
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:52,960
Correct.

477
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:53,960
Not the J.P.

478
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:54,960
Not the J.P.

479
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:55,960
Okay, so I'm asking that question.

480
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:56,960
Yeah, the governor's going to appoint.

481
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,960
But then we're going to have to have another election.

482
00:20:58,960 --> 00:20:59,960
No.

483
00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:00,960
No, the state.

484
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:01,960
Oh, the state.

485
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:02,960
Okay, I got a question.

486
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:03,960
The state appoints.

487
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:04,960
Okay.

488
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,960
And I know you're here with a sweatboard.

489
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:06,960
Right.

490
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,960
I'm not 100%, but I think that they might take a recommendation.

491
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:10,960
Okay.

492
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,960
Like, for example, we'll just use an example, the runoff that just happened.

493
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:14,960
Yep.

494
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:15,960
One person won, one person lost.

495
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:16,960
Right.

496
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,960
The board may be able to say the loser's name.

497
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:18,960
The loser would be the recommender.

498
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:19,960
Because it's so fresh.

499
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:20,960
Correct.

500
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:21,960
That's what we did with the sweatboard.

501
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:22,960
It was so fresh.

502
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:23,960
We had a sweatboard member left right now.

503
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:24,960
I don't know if they'll take it as any weight.

504
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:25,960
I don't know.

505
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,960
I don't know.

506
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:27,960
I don't know.

507
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:28,960
I don't know.

508
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:29,960
But maybe they will.

509
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:30,960
But I would assume that they probably would if that person had been there for, you know,

510
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:31,960
a couple times.

511
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:32,960
But no, the sweatboard can only the state can do the JP.

512
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,960
Is something to do with a JP is more of a regional or a county position?

513
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:34,960
Yeah.

514
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:35,960
Yeah, because something about.

515
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:36,960
Yeah, because their election happens a different time, right?

516
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:37,960
Yeah.

517
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:38,960
I'm good.

518
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,960
Okay.

519
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:40,960
Thanks.

520
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,960
Regular minutes of November 21st.

521
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,960
Can I have a question?

522
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:43,960
Yeah.

523
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:44,960
Okay.

524
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,960
I have a question.

525
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:46,960
Okay.

526
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,700
I have a question.

527
00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:49,700
I have a question.

528
00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:50,700
I have a question.

529
00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:51,700
I have a question.

530
00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:52,700
I have a question.

531
00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:54,279
I have a question.

532
00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:55,279
I have a question.

533
00:21:55,279 --> 00:21:56,279
I have a question.

534
00:21:56,279 --> 00:21:57,279
I have a question.

535
00:21:57,279 --> 00:21:58,279
I have a question.

536
00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:02,500
On November 21st, can I have a motion?

537
00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:03,500
Sure.

538
00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:05,690
To accept them?

539
00:22:05,690 --> 00:22:06,690
Sure.

540
00:22:06,690 --> 00:22:07,690
As written?

541
00:22:07,690 --> 00:22:08,690
I wasn't here.

542
00:22:08,690 --> 00:22:09,690
They weren't here?

543
00:22:09,690 --> 00:22:10,690
That was the last meeting I had.

544
00:22:10,690 --> 00:22:11,690
Right.

545
00:22:11,690 --> 00:22:12,690
Kurt was at repairs.

546
00:22:12,690 --> 00:22:13,690
John, you were here, weren't you?

547
00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:14,690
Yeah, I was.

548
00:22:14,690 --> 00:22:16,200
You won Sen.

549
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,200
I was 2nd.

550
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,079
Bay, right?

551
00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:22,079
Road conditions.

552
00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:23,079
réussed .

553
00:22:23,079 --> 00:22:24,079
They just went to bed?

554
00:22:24,079 --> 00:22:25,079
Yup.

555
00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:26,079
Instead of snowing out?

556
00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,079
Yup.

557
00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:29,180
Thanksgiving Day, you had to work, and then you had to work again?

558
00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:30,180
Yep.

559
00:22:30,180 --> 00:22:31,220
Maybeán

560
00:22:31,220 --> 00:22:37,140
work again that's 24 hours of plow yep and he had a breakdown he just sat on top of maltese road

561
00:22:37,140 --> 00:22:44,779
when the plow came off the truck and it wasn't fun he said he spent half the day under the truck and

562
00:22:44,779 --> 00:22:55,150
half of it in it yeah he loved to walk home recycling laura you had something on recycling

563
00:22:55,150 --> 00:23:07,380
yeah we had a surprise inspection from the state agency yeah showed up unplanned

564
00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:13,059
he was able to not do a full inspection because there weren't people there

565
00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:19,859
but he said the area was tidy he did not observe any solid waste violations

566
00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:26,180
he sent this email as a courtesy appreciation of our work and

567
00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:36,819
how well we're taking care of it could you um put that in dave's box let him know and probably

568
00:23:36,819 --> 00:23:58,480
give a copy to buzz and laura um anything else on recycling discussion review and

569
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:04,420
revise highway ordinance um this is one of those kick the can ones i read it

570
00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:12,160
i don't have any problems with your changes well if you want to i do change it that's fine

571
00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:19,099
discuss it discuss it i would like to talk to dave there's a couple things on here that

572
00:24:19,740 --> 00:24:24,859
i wasn't quite sure of what we meant and we did when we did talk to dave a while ago it

573
00:24:24,859 --> 00:24:31,180
was probably in august which one was a while ago yeah and dave has not seen this right so

574
00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:35,900
i'd like dave to look at it and if i can talk to dave there's a couple of spots where we can talk to dave

575
00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:43,900
just have trail but we probably should have said legal trails because we have legal trails um okay

576
00:24:47,740 --> 00:24:48,299
yeah right

577
00:24:50,539 --> 00:24:57,740
and there's a couple spots in here where we have the standard where agency of transportation using

578
00:24:57,740 --> 00:25:05,180
the standard plan b71 well that's now outdated so we probably should note it in the ordinance too

579
00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:06,779
but i want to run it by day

580
00:25:06,859 --> 00:25:11,519
then and i think there was one spot we said to remove this word

581
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,680
but i don't think we removed it but maybe it was by notes two of them

582
00:25:19,789 --> 00:25:24,500
so i just want to make sure oh and uh haggard is bridge

583
00:25:26,819 --> 00:25:31,220
i know we've got to come up with it he's got to see if there's a number on that bridge

584
00:25:32,420 --> 00:25:34,819
because does anybody know not you sheila

585
00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:39,380
do you know where haggard is their bridges don't answer that

586
00:25:39,460 --> 00:25:45,859
because you know where it is yes but uh so nobody knows we're having these bridges so this

587
00:25:45,859 --> 00:25:51,539
you want to know no we know yes i do want to know oh maybe he might be east road

588
00:25:52,900 --> 00:26:00,829
there's a bridge up there yeah yeah oh it goes over uh there's a little stream there that's a

589
00:26:00,829 --> 00:26:03,869
bridge

590
00:26:07,069 --> 00:26:07,869
yeah

591
00:26:07,869 --> 00:26:09,710
yeah so we might get

592
00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:15,069
it might be better to have a bridge number or okay so we're gonna have dave pick through this

593
00:26:15,069 --> 00:26:18,829
with you yeah we should have gave him that's before he left i don't know i don't think he's

594
00:26:18,829 --> 00:26:26,269
tired then nobody will know where it is with a number i know you're the only one in this room

595
00:26:26,269 --> 00:26:31,150
that knew where it was if you would answer i knew where haggard was yeah i would yeah

596
00:26:33,309 --> 00:26:39,069
do i want to say to all people or just the people that lived in stanford forever yeah right right

597
00:26:40,589 --> 00:26:48,670
so if i can work with dave and laurie and see if we can just get dave in here a few minutes and

598
00:26:48,670 --> 00:26:54,980
pick the game again i know well it's better to have it now than go in the paper got the word

599
00:26:54,980 --> 00:27:06,900
insured you i'm thinking that it was our computer i think it was operator era and i think she caught

600
00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:10,019
it but i think it was operator era 10 years ago

601
00:27:10,259 --> 00:27:15,460
oh no yes 10 years was your glory so yeah before that i see everything

602
00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:29,490
sounded okay so it's not right enough i'm sure you want to talk about the insurance

603
00:27:31,890 --> 00:27:35,009
you want to insure something because we're saying that you're wrong

604
00:27:36,130 --> 00:27:36,289
sure

605
00:27:37,089 --> 00:27:37,569
edges

606
00:27:38,690 --> 00:27:39,009
or the

607
00:27:39,730 --> 00:27:40,210
is

608
00:27:40,289 --> 00:27:42,289
uh

609
00:27:42,289 --> 00:27:46,369
you and that's that's kind of waiting for us that's too far back

610
00:27:48,369 --> 00:27:52,930
oh come on you know all the history i know i don't know a lot of history

611
00:27:52,930 --> 00:27:57,410
in that house other than that i didn't see if there was somebody in there before in between

612
00:27:57,410 --> 00:28:02,529
but yeah i know i know it was an old house a long time ago i probably used to work for that

613
00:28:04,769 --> 00:28:05,970
when they had a little farmland

614
00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:08,670
all right um

615
00:28:09,710 --> 00:28:10,109
of course

616
00:28:10,109 --> 00:28:18,289
um

617
00:28:19,009 --> 00:28:25,009
signed the grant agreement i think we two meetings ago the 33 000 for the garage doors and stuff

618
00:28:27,150 --> 00:28:32,910
now we have to sign an affirmation of use of funds basically saying we agreed to use the funds

619
00:28:32,910 --> 00:28:37,900
to handle the student purposes to us okay

620
00:28:39,890 --> 00:28:43,490
before we're going to top the papers they've given us funds now we've got to use it for the rest of the year

621
00:28:43,490 --> 00:28:45,490
All of us or just me?

622
00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:47,490
All of us.

623
00:28:47,490 --> 00:28:59,990
And we also would like to apply for a new grant every, I don't know what it is now,

624
00:28:59,990 --> 00:29:01,990
five or ten years.

625
00:29:01,990 --> 00:29:06,990
The state tells Dave he has to go through and do an inventory of all of his culverts,

626
00:29:06,990 --> 00:29:10,059
his water crossings, everything.

627
00:29:10,059 --> 00:29:15,059
And last time we had the DCRC guys come down and go around with them

628
00:29:15,059 --> 00:29:19,059
because they have to map, you know, if there's critical problems,

629
00:29:19,059 --> 00:29:22,059
you know, minor problems, if everything is good,

630
00:29:22,059 --> 00:29:25,059
and put everything on a priority list.

631
00:29:25,059 --> 00:29:29,059
And so Dave felt it was good to have their assistance last time

632
00:29:29,059 --> 00:29:34,059
and would like to get a grant to hire them to do the same thing this time.

633
00:29:34,059 --> 00:29:42,559
So the first step would be to sign a letter of intent saying we intend to file some grant.

634
00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:43,559
We intend.

635
00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:44,559
We intend.

636
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:45,559
We intend.

637
00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:46,559
That we will file.

638
00:29:46,559 --> 00:29:47,559
We will file.

639
00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:48,559
Yeah.

640
00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:49,559
Then we'll say we're going to do it.

641
00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:50,559
Yeah.

642
00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:51,559
And then we will use the money to put it back.

643
00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:52,559
Then you file it.

644
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:53,559
Yeah.

645
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:54,559
You intend to and then you do it.

646
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,640
And that's how I have it.

647
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,640
Do those culverts and stuff go on the class four rows or just threes?

648
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,220
I'm not complaining.

649
00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:08,220
I'm just asking.

650
00:30:08,220 --> 00:30:11,210
No problem.

651
00:30:11,210 --> 00:30:12,210
That's a question for Dave.

652
00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:15,210
Who replaces the culvert if there's an issue?

653
00:30:15,210 --> 00:30:18,210
I would say yes.

654
00:30:18,210 --> 00:30:19,210
I would assume.

655
00:30:19,210 --> 00:30:21,210
I would assume that Dave.

656
00:30:21,210 --> 00:30:22,210
Yeah, the culvert.

657
00:30:22,210 --> 00:30:23,210
I'm not complaining.

658
00:30:23,210 --> 00:30:24,210
I'm just saying.

659
00:30:24,210 --> 00:30:25,210
I know he's got a lot of other priorities.

660
00:30:25,210 --> 00:30:26,210
Those are probably all majorly undersigned.

661
00:30:26,210 --> 00:30:27,210
They're rushed.

662
00:30:27,210 --> 00:30:28,210
Crushed.

663
00:30:28,210 --> 00:30:29,210
I mean crushed.

664
00:30:29,210 --> 00:30:30,210
Cast iron.

665
00:30:30,210 --> 00:30:31,210
Got it.

666
00:30:31,210 --> 00:30:32,210
You know.

667
00:30:32,210 --> 00:30:33,210
Climbed.

668
00:30:33,210 --> 00:30:34,210
Yeah.

669
00:30:34,210 --> 00:30:35,460
Yeah.

670
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:36,460
There's no one.

671
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:37,460
Non-existent.

672
00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:38,460
We open them up on our own.

673
00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:39,460
We don't have a problem doing that.

674
00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:40,460
I just.

675
00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:41,460
I don't have a problem fixing them, you know, by my hand.

676
00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:42,460
And nobody else has a problem.

677
00:30:42,460 --> 00:30:43,460
As long as we don't hear from the other side going, hey, you can't do that.

678
00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:44,460
We can't work together.

679
00:30:44,460 --> 00:30:45,460
You know.

680
00:30:45,460 --> 00:30:46,460
Yeah.

681
00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:47,460
Yeah.

682
00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:48,460
Yeah.

683
00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:49,460
Yeah.

684
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:50,460
Yeah.

685
00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:51,460
Yeah.

686
00:30:51,460 --> 00:30:52,460
Yeah.

687
00:30:52,460 --> 00:30:53,460
Yeah.

688
00:30:53,460 --> 00:30:54,460
Yeah.

689
00:30:54,460 --> 00:30:55,460
Yeah.

690
00:30:55,460 --> 00:30:56,460
Yeah.

691
00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,460
Yeah.

692
00:30:57,460 --> 00:30:58,460
Yeah.

693
00:30:58,460 --> 00:30:59,460
Yeah.

694
00:30:59,460 --> 00:31:00,460
Yeah.

695
00:31:00,460 --> 00:31:01,460
Yeah.

696
00:31:01,460 --> 00:31:02,460
Yeah.

697
00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:03,460
Yeah.

698
00:31:03,460 --> 00:31:04,460
Yeah.

699
00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:05,460
Yeah.

700
00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:06,460
Yeah.

701
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:07,460
Yeah.

702
00:31:07,460 --> 00:31:08,460
Yeah.

703
00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:09,460
Yeah.

704
00:31:09,460 --> 00:31:10,460
Yeah.

705
00:31:10,460 --> 00:31:11,460
Yeah.

706
00:31:11,460 --> 00:31:12,460
Yeah.

707
00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:13,460
Yeah.

708
00:31:13,460 --> 00:31:14,460
Yeah.

709
00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:15,460
Yeah.

710
00:31:15,460 --> 00:31:16,460
Some states are, like, mapping them all out.

711
00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:17,460
Every single color.

712
00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:18,460
Masses.

713
00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:19,460
Every single color in the entire state.

714
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:20,460
Wow.

715
00:31:20,460 --> 00:31:21,460
They're asking quite volunteers.

716
00:31:21,460 --> 00:31:22,460
We have it now on one of our GAS.

717
00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:23,460
Yeah.

718
00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:32,460
A lot of it's to do with, a lot of it's in the climate adapt, adaption money, um, fish, fish passages, things like that.

719
00:31:32,460 --> 00:31:35,460
Not just... There ain't no fish going through these out there.

720
00:31:35,460 --> 00:31:39,460
That's where the, that's where the money's at, the research, why they're trying to document them all.

721
00:31:39,460 --> 00:31:40,460
Sure.

722
00:31:40,460 --> 00:31:42,690
Broke trail. Broke trail.

723
00:31:42,690 --> 00:31:46,319
All about the broke trail.

724
00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:48,319
Yeah, they all went down to Beaver Street anyway.

725
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:50,319
Yeah, exactly.

726
00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:53,319
Went down to the park, the dam.

727
00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,319
No, not down past that, up, up, up, upper Hudson Broke Trail.

728
00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:01,319
I can put a message in a bottle and send it to you down at your place, from my dam.

729
00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:02,319
Oh yeah?

730
00:32:02,319 --> 00:32:03,319
Yeah.

731
00:32:03,319 --> 00:32:04,319
Yeah.

732
00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:09,960
Starts up there, that tool they split as my borderline goes up.

733
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,960
There's one by, there's one by the property line, and I consider the source of Hudson out past county.

734
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:15,960
Yeah.

735
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,960
I always go to the farther point where water, water comes in.

736
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,960
So both Hudson and Hoosix are in, well, Hoosix and Harborville, but...

737
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:23,960
Right.

738
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,599
They all stay under water.

739
00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:33,819
Okay, Monday night, we have a town meeting at seven?

740
00:32:33,819 --> 00:32:34,819
Seven.

741
00:32:34,819 --> 00:32:36,240
Seven.

742
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,240
So, I should have made this.

743
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,240
Yeah, make some copies of that.

744
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,240
That's just the outline of what happened.

745
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,369
It might be good to have it at a town meeting.

746
00:32:48,369 --> 00:32:54,559
Paul Lathier did send us a, an email that the,

747
00:32:54,559 --> 00:33:00,910
that the truck was coming in $15,000 less than they thought.

748
00:33:00,910 --> 00:33:03,910
So, we will have enough money.

749
00:33:03,910 --> 00:33:06,910
We were going to be short about $1,500.

750
00:33:06,910 --> 00:33:07,910
And now...

751
00:33:07,910 --> 00:33:08,910
Covered.

752
00:33:08,910 --> 00:33:10,910
It's covered.

753
00:33:10,910 --> 00:33:20,069
I'm thinking the, we have been putting $50,000 away each year from the new fire truck.

754
00:33:20,069 --> 00:33:23,069
Now to pay for this fire truck,

755
00:33:23,069 --> 00:33:28,420
I'm thinking between $55,000 and $60,000 a year.

756
00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:29,420
But I'm not sure.

757
00:33:29,420 --> 00:33:32,420
But I don't know until we get the loan.

758
00:33:32,420 --> 00:33:35,420
But we will know at budget time because...

759
00:33:35,420 --> 00:33:37,619
But we can go back and see.

760
00:33:37,619 --> 00:33:40,619
Yeah, we said not to exceed $270,000.

761
00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:41,619
Yeah.

762
00:33:41,619 --> 00:33:43,619
$270,000 to borrow.

763
00:33:43,619 --> 00:33:49,619
But we'll find out by budget time what we need to put in our budget to pay for the fire truck.

764
00:33:49,619 --> 00:33:52,940
But this meeting is just to cover what we didn't do.

765
00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:54,940
What we didn't do is buy the truck.

766
00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:55,940
Right.

767
00:33:55,940 --> 00:33:58,940
If you see the outline that I wrote up...

768
00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:01,940
We got a vote, right?

769
00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:03,190
Yeah.

770
00:34:03,190 --> 00:34:05,190
We got a vote to pay for the truck.

771
00:34:05,190 --> 00:34:06,220
Put money away for the truck.

772
00:34:06,220 --> 00:34:08,219
But we didn't get the vote to buy it.

773
00:34:08,219 --> 00:34:09,219
Yeah.

774
00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:10,219
And that's our deal.

775
00:34:10,219 --> 00:34:12,219
March of 2022.

776
00:34:12,219 --> 00:34:20,219
This is when it started to put $50,000 into a fire truck replacement fund.

777
00:34:20,219 --> 00:34:23,289
But there was already $81,000.

778
00:34:23,289 --> 00:34:27,289
We were putting like $5,000 or $10,000 a year.

779
00:34:27,289 --> 00:34:28,289
Right.

780
00:34:28,289 --> 00:34:31,289
And we realized that was not going to be enough.

781
00:34:31,289 --> 00:34:39,670
So in December of 2022, we estimated the cost at $498,000.

782
00:34:39,670 --> 00:34:43,670
But that was just a ballpark figure.

783
00:34:43,670 --> 00:34:51,769
Then in 2023, the fire department intends to purchase the chassis from the replacement fund.

784
00:34:51,769 --> 00:34:54,769
We won't need the rest of the financing for another couple of years.

785
00:34:54,769 --> 00:34:57,769
These were all taken from our minutes.

786
00:34:57,769 --> 00:35:01,769
And then in 2023, still too soon to start the loan process.

787
00:35:01,769 --> 00:35:04,769
It won't be ready for 2024, 2025.

788
00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:16,179
Then in July 2024, Select Board authorized the payment of $107,000 for the cab and chassis.

789
00:35:16,179 --> 00:35:20,179
And my written note said it will cost $526,000.

790
00:35:20,179 --> 00:35:23,179
And that's probably when we should have started warning for it.

791
00:35:23,179 --> 00:35:25,179
It's a very special town meeting.

792
00:35:25,179 --> 00:35:29,300
But we just assumed that it was done.

793
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:35,300
And then the bank picked up on it that we need townspeople approval.

794
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:42,300
And it's also a state law that when we're buying something like that, we do need townspeople approval.

795
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,300
So hopefully, everybody will approve the purchase of a fire truck.

796
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:52,460
Otherwise, we'd have a fire truck partially paid for that's not ours.

797
00:35:52,460 --> 00:36:00,159
And we need $133,000 due from the town.

798
00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:04,159
And we have about $147,000 already set aside for it.

799
00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:12,159
So our loan is we're asking the townspeople to approve the purchase of a fire truck for Article 1.

800
00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:18,340
Second article is to borrow up to $270,000.

801
00:36:18,340 --> 00:36:23,690
So hopefully, everything goes well.

802
00:36:23,690 --> 00:36:34,269
And we don't have a snowstorm because that will cut down on the town.

803
00:36:34,269 --> 00:37:05,150
There's just a

804
00:37:05,150 --> 00:37:06,150
Yes.

805
00:37:06,150 --> 00:37:09,150
And then the other thing is so can we redirect that?

806
00:37:09,150 --> 00:37:10,150
Do we have time?

807
00:37:10,150 --> 00:37:11,409
Yeah.

808
00:37:11,409 --> 00:37:39,639
we can redirect it and it's got to be done by December 31st. So let's ask for it and next meeting we can talk about maybe someone we can redirect that money. Even if it's just into a fund that we already have, a savings fund. No, it has to be. We can put it onto the East Road chip seal project, our percentage.

809
00:37:41,599 --> 00:38:04,150
Oh, that's not covered. We didn't cover the whole thing. I don't know if we did. Well, we'll look into it. We'll have to look into it. I thought we covered a whole lot. Maybe we could use it for recycling improvements. That might be covered. That might be covered. But we have to have it done by the end of December. Otherwise, it goes back.

810
00:38:04,150 --> 00:38:11,650
We need to sign anything about it?

811
00:38:11,789 --> 00:38:15,329
Just say it in the meeting. Just make a motion at a meeting.

812
00:38:15,329 --> 00:38:18,449
Can I ask for it back? No, to commit.

813
00:38:18,449 --> 00:38:22,429
Just to be committed and not be spent.

814
00:38:22,429 --> 00:38:33,150
I have to make quarterly filing. Oh, the quarterly file. Okay. I probably will have to report that it's all been committed. Okay. And then we have another meeting.

815
00:38:33,150 --> 00:38:41,550
That's how we're going to reach out in the next 3 weeks. We'll come up with something. I'm sure you can spend $7,500 or something that's needed.

816
00:38:41,550 --> 00:38:45,849
As long as we come up with something, I mean, it's crazy to not use it for a long time.

817
00:38:45,849 --> 00:38:46,449
Yeah.

818
00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:53,690
That reminds me. Remember we submitted our passive grant application?

819
00:38:53,690 --> 00:38:54,349
Oh yeah.

820
00:38:54,349 --> 00:38:59,670
We did what? The eyewash?

821
00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,039
Yup.

822
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:07,380
The thing, and we bought eyewash solution for it because it didn't come with it, and we bought an exit sign.

823
00:39:07,380 --> 00:39:09,880
And submitted everything.

824
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,760
They came back and said to eyewash solution is not helpful.

825
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:39,989
I had to do a revised one to take the eyewash solution bottles off and just submit it for

826
00:39:39,989 --> 00:39:40,989
the next meeting.

827
00:39:40,989 --> 00:39:41,989
I think we gotta buy an eyewash solution.

828
00:39:41,989 --> 00:39:42,989
She says you can pick a different kind.

829
00:39:42,989 --> 00:39:43,989
These kinds over here are covered.

830
00:39:43,989 --> 00:39:44,989
It's like, why?

831
00:39:44,989 --> 00:39:45,989
We have eyewash solution.

832
00:39:45,989 --> 00:39:46,989
That's a lot of water.

833
00:39:46,989 --> 00:39:47,989
Some, some.

834
00:39:47,989 --> 00:39:49,500
Exactly.

835
00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:50,500
Okay.

836
00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:51,500
Alright, that's good, Lori.

837
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:52,500
You can buy a concentrate that you add water to or you can buy the actual solution.

838
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:53,500
Okay.

839
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:54,500
Okay.

840
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:55,500
Okay.

841
00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:56,500
Okay.

842
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:57,500
Okay.

843
00:39:57,500 --> 00:39:58,500
Okay.

844
00:39:58,500 --> 00:39:59,500
Okay.

845
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:00,500
Okay.

846
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:01,500
Okay.

847
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:02,500
Okay.

848
00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:03,500
Okay.

849
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,489
Okay.

850
00:40:05,489 --> 00:40:06,489
Okay.

851
00:40:06,489 --> 00:40:07,489
Okay.

852
00:40:07,489 --> 00:40:08,489
Okay.

853
00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:09,489
Okay.

854
00:40:09,489 --> 00:40:10,489
Okay.

855
00:40:10,489 --> 00:40:11,489
Okay.

856
00:40:11,489 --> 00:40:12,489
Okay.

857
00:40:12,489 --> 00:40:13,489
Okay.

858
00:40:13,489 --> 00:40:14,489
Okay.

859
00:40:14,489 --> 00:40:15,750
Okay.

860
00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:16,750
Okay.

861
00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:17,750
Okay.

862
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:18,750
Okay.

863
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:19,750
Okay.

864
00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:20,750
Okay.

865
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:21,750
Okay.

866
00:40:21,750 --> 00:40:22,750
Okay.

867
00:40:22,750 --> 00:40:23,750
Okay.

868
00:40:23,750 --> 00:40:24,750
Okay.

869
00:40:24,750 --> 00:40:25,750
Okay.

870
00:40:25,750 --> 00:40:26,750
Okay.

871
00:40:26,750 --> 00:40:27,750
Okay.

872
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:28,780
Okay.

873
00:40:28,780 --> 00:40:29,780
Okay.

874
00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:30,780
Okay.

875
00:40:30,780 --> 00:40:31,780
Okay.

876
00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:32,780
Okay.

877
00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:33,780
Okay.

878
00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:34,780
Okay.

879
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:35,780
Okay.

880
00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:36,780
Okay.

881
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:37,780
Okay.

882
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:38,780
Okay.

883
00:40:38,780 --> 00:40:39,780
Okay.

884
00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:40,780
Okay.

885
00:40:40,780 --> 00:40:41,780
Okay.

886
00:40:41,780 --> 00:41:04,500
I think, didn't we hire them for two years? So they should be set for, yeah, if we find out when they want to come in January, maybe we can get a fund balance by town meeting. I don't think they'll work that fast, but I know when I tried last year, I think they wanted to wait.

887
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:35,260
I don't think they came until, what, May? That's right, they want to wait for three months. Three months after the close of the year. Yep, yep. And I can cry. We're used to the other ones that came right away in January, but these guys start a little different. Yep. Let's keep it on our list. Kick it down the road for a couple months there. Make sure they... You'll pick it on me. Yeah.

888
00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:39,099
That was good.

889
00:41:41,329 --> 00:41:43,949
Lori, you were going to talk to us about dog license.

890
00:41:44,230 --> 00:41:45,989
That's increasing through the state.

891
00:41:47,619 --> 00:41:48,800
Right. At this point,

892
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:51,059
dogs either cost $9

893
00:41:51,059 --> 00:41:52,719
or $13.

894
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,400
We get four,

895
00:41:57,619 --> 00:41:58,699
the state gets five,

896
00:41:59,139 --> 00:42:01,480
for the $9 dog. The state has decided

897
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,659
to increase their portion of the fee

898
00:42:03,659 --> 00:42:05,599
by $2. So now it's

899
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:07,340
going to be $11 and $15.

900
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,679
Can we increase ours?

901
00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:10,599
Well, here's the thing.

902
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:11,139
Here's the thing.

903
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,599
Near the end of 2022,

904
00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:17,019
maybe,

905
00:42:17,219 --> 00:42:17,380
yeah,

906
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,280
by 2023,

907
00:42:18,539 --> 00:42:21,340
when you guys were reviewing

908
00:42:21,340 --> 00:42:23,380
the dog ordinance and whatnot

909
00:42:23,380 --> 00:42:25,519
with Luke McKay, you guys made the decision

910
00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:27,579
to increase our portion

911
00:42:27,579 --> 00:42:29,039
of the dog fees by

912
00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:30,769
$10.

913
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:35,079
And then when January came around

914
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:37,280
and we flipped the dog licensing

915
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,460
stuff over, I forgot all about it.

916
00:42:40,219 --> 00:42:41,579
So a year ago,

917
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:42,880
we wanted the licenses

918
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,000
increased $10, and it went...

919
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,219
And I had not done it.

920
00:42:47,219 --> 00:42:49,099
Did not do it for all of 2020.

921
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:49,780
Oh, boy.

922
00:42:49,780 --> 00:42:50,900
You owe us the money now.

923
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:55,139
And it said, I think we were going to use it towards,

924
00:42:55,139 --> 00:42:59,460
it said to, we can use it to enforce its animal

925
00:42:59,460 --> 00:43:01,559
and rabies control program.

926
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:05,159
So we thought we could use it in a special fund.

927
00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:08,519
If Luke picks up a dog that needs to be euthanized,

928
00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:09,519
this will pay for it.

929
00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:12,000
Or if he's got to take an injured dog,

930
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,400
we don't know the owner,

931
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,260
but the injured dog's got to go to the vet right away.

932
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:17,659
We had one case that...

933
00:43:17,659 --> 00:43:19,099
Or I found it for three months.

934
00:43:19,099 --> 00:43:20,099
Yeah.

935
00:43:20,099 --> 00:43:21,099
That this...

936
00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:22,099
We had one case, guys.

937
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:23,099
This money would go into that dog fund.

938
00:43:23,099 --> 00:43:24,099
I mean, like I said before,

939
00:43:24,099 --> 00:43:25,099
if the state wants to keep raising their portion,

940
00:43:25,099 --> 00:43:26,099
why don't they just take over the whole program?

941
00:43:26,099 --> 00:43:27,099
Come down and find the dogs.

942
00:43:27,099 --> 00:43:28,099
And hire the dogs.

943
00:43:28,099 --> 00:43:29,099
So that worried about, you know, rabies ultimately.

944
00:43:29,099 --> 00:43:30,099
So right now it's nine to 13.

945
00:43:30,099 --> 00:43:31,099
So you're looking to get raised at $10?

946
00:43:31,099 --> 00:43:32,099
Yeah.

947
00:43:32,099 --> 00:43:33,940
Yeah.

948
00:43:33,940 --> 00:43:34,940
Yeah.

949
00:43:34,940 --> 00:43:35,940
Yeah.

950
00:43:35,940 --> 00:43:36,940
Yeah.

951
00:43:36,940 --> 00:43:37,940
Yeah.

952
00:43:37,940 --> 00:43:38,940
Yeah.

953
00:43:38,940 --> 00:43:39,940
Yeah.

954
00:43:39,940 --> 00:43:41,130
Yeah.

955
00:43:41,130 --> 00:43:42,130
Yeah.

956
00:43:42,130 --> 00:43:43,130
Yeah.

957
00:43:43,130 --> 00:43:44,130
Yeah.

958
00:43:44,130 --> 00:43:45,130
Yeah.

959
00:43:45,130 --> 00:43:46,130
Yeah.

960
00:43:46,130 --> 00:43:47,130
Yeah.

961
00:43:47,130 --> 00:43:48,130
Yeah.

962
00:43:48,130 --> 00:43:49,130
Yeah.

963
00:43:49,130 --> 00:43:50,130
Yeah.

964
00:43:50,130 --> 00:43:51,130
Yeah.

965
00:43:51,130 --> 00:43:52,130
So about two years for both,

966
00:43:52,130 --> 00:43:53,130
is that what the initial was?

967
00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:54,130
So right now

968
00:43:54,130 --> 00:43:55,130
it's nine to 13.

969
00:43:55,130 --> 00:43:57,130
With the state's law it will be 11 and 15.

970
00:43:57,130 --> 00:43:58,130
So starting January 1st

971
00:43:58,130 --> 00:43:59,130
it will automatically be 11 and 15.

972
00:43:59,130 --> 00:44:03,570
But that's what got me thinking about dog

973
00:44:03,570 --> 00:44:13,389
fees and I went back in the minutes and saw that they had done a motion to increase dog

974
00:44:13,389 --> 00:44:14,389
fees.

975
00:44:14,389 --> 00:44:17,710
Not to just put in the budget and defray the budget costs,

976
00:44:17,710 --> 00:44:19,849
but to kind of start setting aside.

977
00:44:19,849 --> 00:44:20,829
Oh.

978
00:44:20,829 --> 00:44:30,510
So it would, so let's say you do that for $20, $25, it would be $25, and you're in trouble

979
00:44:30,510 --> 00:44:36,309
selecting that money now because the state got to it before we did, and that's why it's

980
00:44:36,309 --> 00:44:41,809
like, oh crap, you know, now we did it, so we might have to lower that down a bit to

981
00:44:41,809 --> 00:44:49,769
justify, but, you know, we're the ones, the state gets their money, that's it, they do

982
00:44:49,769 --> 00:44:55,820
nothing else, we're the ones that incur every expense, every expense.

983
00:44:55,980 --> 00:44:57,280
What if we don't have a dollar officer?

984
00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,300
Are you required by law?

985
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:03,000
We are required to have one, and a, and a kennel.

986
00:45:03,340 --> 00:45:07,739
They may need a bunch of stuff, I mean, and they kind of, they strap you in a lot of different

987
00:45:07,739 --> 00:45:12,000
ways, and they don't, like they said, they just take the money and that's it, here's

988
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:12,719
your responsibility.

989
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:16,059
A lot of officers, health officers go to the board.

990
00:45:18,860 --> 00:45:19,860
We don't have a kennel.

991
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:21,579
The state's always dying.

992
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,719
They'll take over more and more things, so they can gladly have this one, I mean, here

993
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:26,079
you go.

994
00:45:26,940 --> 00:45:33,440
And the kennel has to be, I think you said heated, and so many times a day you have to

995
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:34,760
go check the dog.

996
00:45:35,159 --> 00:45:40,820
We're very fortunate to have who we have doing that, and taking care of it, and very fortunate,

997
00:45:41,139 --> 00:45:44,019
because that's another position that could just go away.

998
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,360
You try to fill that.

999
00:45:45,699 --> 00:45:49,860
I mean, last year, I don't know what we spent on the budget last year, but it was quite

1000
00:45:49,860 --> 00:45:51,800
a bit, everything that went on there.

1001
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:54,400
Was it last year we had a dog problem?

1002
00:45:54,619 --> 00:45:55,619
I think it was last year, yeah.

1003
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:56,039
Oh, yeah.

1004
00:45:56,619 --> 00:45:56,780
Yeah.

1005
00:45:57,139 --> 00:45:57,780
We had a house.

1006
00:45:57,780 --> 00:45:58,300
It was a lot.

1007
00:45:58,420 --> 00:45:59,019
It was a lot.

1008
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:00,940
I forget what the amount was.

1009
00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:04,320
The kennel said they would take it, and they said, no, we can't.

1010
00:46:04,559 --> 00:46:05,139
I don't know what it was.

1011
00:46:05,699 --> 00:46:07,559
I remember reading about it.

1012
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:08,239
It was that.

1013
00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:17,599
So, if we do add on the $10 that we said we were going to, I would like to make a motion

1014
00:46:17,599 --> 00:46:22,820
like Mike said, as low as that, maybe to five, and then we have to start a separate dog

1015
00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:22,840
fund.

1016
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:22,880
Okay.

1017
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:22,920
Okay.

1018
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:22,960
Okay.

1019
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:22,980
Okay.

1020
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:29,400
We'll have to bring it up at town meeting to start this dog fund, that if we need it,

1021
00:46:29,460 --> 00:46:31,119
we can take it right out of the dog fund.

1022
00:46:31,139 --> 00:46:37,800
I mean, personally, the number is so low, it shouldn't be a problem, but when you said,

1023
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:42,320
oh, good luck, good luck, the ones that aren't paying the nine are going to be the ones that

1024
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:47,260
won't pay the 15, and then the ones that won't pay, you can make it $1, they won't pay.

1025
00:46:47,519 --> 00:46:48,179
You know, it's just.

1026
00:46:48,260 --> 00:46:50,039
It's one of those things, too, where there's a balance, right?

1027
00:46:50,260 --> 00:46:50,500
Yeah.

1028
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,480
It's where do you cross the threshold where it was just.

1029
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:59,840
And it's not, it doesn't seem to be that people can't afford it.

1030
00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:05,619
It's just, they don't take, they, oh, my dog never goes out, so he's not going to get

1031
00:47:05,619 --> 00:47:06,039
rabies.

1032
00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:07,059
Well, that's not true.

1033
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:12,059
If you own a dog, you can't afford the $10, $20 for this.

1034
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:13,679
You shouldn't own a dog.

1035
00:47:14,059 --> 00:47:16,199
It costs a lot more to raise a dog than that.

1036
00:47:16,380 --> 00:47:16,579
Yeah.

1037
00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:21,039
Between spaying, and some people get their dog, have their teeth cleaned.

1038
00:47:21,039 --> 00:47:21,679
Oh, okay.

1039
00:47:21,860 --> 00:47:22,380
That's a lot of.

1040
00:47:22,380 --> 00:47:23,139
I had dogs.

1041
00:47:23,139 --> 00:47:23,920
A lot of money in that.

1042
00:47:24,900 --> 00:47:25,719
So bad.

1043
00:47:29,050 --> 00:47:29,530
So.

1044
00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:32,179
My kids aren't going to have to.

1045
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:32,480
Yeah.

1046
00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:39,920
So you follow through with this $10 for the town, reduce it, what do we do?

1047
00:47:40,019 --> 00:47:44,280
Well, I mean, what's the stake going up to, 15?

1048
00:47:45,099 --> 00:47:47,619
11 and 15, two bucks on your show.

1049
00:47:47,619 --> 00:47:48,940
I mean, no better than me.

1050
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:51,579
I mean, I don't own a dog, so, you know.

1051
00:47:52,260 --> 00:47:52,619
But.

1052
00:47:54,010 --> 00:47:55,670
So, what would it be total?

1053
00:47:56,659 --> 00:47:58,739
11 and 15, with Joseph staying.

1054
00:47:58,739 --> 00:47:58,840
Okay.

1055
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,139
Without us raising it at all.

1056
00:48:00,579 --> 00:48:00,880
Okay.

1057
00:48:01,199 --> 00:48:07,380
So, I just don't believe that a $20 bill hurts anyone that owns a dog, and, you know,

1058
00:48:07,380 --> 00:48:08,460
that doesn't get it spayed.

1059
00:48:08,460 --> 00:48:11,019
I mean, $20 over a year's time, come on.

1060
00:48:11,179 --> 00:48:12,440
What do you mean by that?

1061
00:48:12,739 --> 00:48:16,739
So, I mean, if you went to five, it would be 20, 16.

1062
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:17,980
16 and 20.

1063
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,880
If you want to lower it for the, you know, we were going to raise it 10.

1064
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,119
Our state just raised it.

1065
00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:24,460
Mm-hmm.

1066
00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:26,000
I know, I felt bad, and I feel bad.

1067
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,360
How much did the state raise it from?

1068
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,059
Two bucks.

1069
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:29,920
Oh, $2?

1070
00:48:30,699 --> 00:48:35,340
Well, they used, on a $9 dog, we keep four, they get five.

1071
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:35,760
Right.

1072
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:38,380
So, now we're going to keep four, and we're going to get seven.

1073
00:48:38,980 --> 00:48:40,139
Right on the house, John.

1074
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:41,039
Yeah.

1075
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:43,159
Exactly.

1076
00:48:43,679 --> 00:48:46,139
You know, I mean, I know it's a little more amounts.

1077
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,300
It's not over the state.

1078
00:48:48,539 --> 00:48:49,099
It's the state.

1079
00:48:49,099 --> 00:48:49,900
It's the entire state.

1080
00:48:50,159 --> 00:48:51,659
Yeah, all over the state, yeah.

1081
00:48:52,219 --> 00:48:53,190
It's a lot of money.

1082
00:48:53,210 --> 00:48:53,389
Okay.

1083
00:48:53,630 --> 00:48:54,510
How many dogs in town?

1084
00:48:54,530 --> 00:48:56,320
Two hundred and seven.

1085
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:56,340
Two hundred and seven.

1086
00:48:56,340 --> 00:48:56,920
They're shysters.

1087
00:48:57,199 --> 00:48:57,400
Yeah.

1088
00:48:59,280 --> 00:48:59,519
Right.

1089
00:49:02,460 --> 00:49:03,360
It's a good thing.

1090
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,059
We need to pay for our expenses.

1091
00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:08,960
Like I said, with the recycling, and I know we've had it.

1092
00:49:10,019 --> 00:49:11,420
We should be paying a loss.

1093
00:49:11,420 --> 00:49:12,000
Well, it's fine.

1094
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,260
Well, we shouldn't have to go up $5 on a dog license.

1095
00:49:15,420 --> 00:49:16,099
Yeah, exactly.

1096
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:18,400
I agree.

1097
00:49:18,980 --> 00:49:19,500
I'll pay it.

1098
00:49:19,619 --> 00:49:19,940
All right.

1099
00:49:20,059 --> 00:49:20,280
All right.

1100
00:49:21,519 --> 00:49:24,860
We just shouldn't be paying losses all the time, you know?

1101
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,679
I mean, I know there's a service to.

1102
00:49:26,679 --> 00:49:27,960
Life's not getting any cheaper.

1103
00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:28,659
No.

1104
00:49:29,019 --> 00:49:30,500
That's a guarantee.

1105
00:49:30,940 --> 00:49:43,289
So, hypothetically speaking, $1,300 every year will just go into this fund and just stay there to either do a rabies clinic, or will it continue to build up for when you have a...

1106
00:49:43,289 --> 00:49:47,769
I want to say, is the $7,000 unreasonable for what we spent last year?

1107
00:49:48,050 --> 00:49:48,329
Yeah.

1108
00:49:48,570 --> 00:49:49,190
No, it's not.

1109
00:49:49,730 --> 00:49:50,389
No, I'm sure.

1110
00:49:50,449 --> 00:49:51,670
$7,000 for a new dog.

1111
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,619
But my point is it just goes into a fund, is what I'm saying.

1112
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:55,840
Sure.

1113
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,760
You said you're going to go into the town meeting.

1114
00:49:58,119 --> 00:49:58,440
Yeah.

1115
00:49:58,440 --> 00:49:59,719
And make a fund for.

1116
00:49:59,820 --> 00:50:00,039
Right.

1117
00:50:00,139 --> 00:50:00,300
Right.

1118
00:50:00,699 --> 00:50:01,219
And spend.

1119
00:50:01,519 --> 00:50:03,219
And spend dogs.

1120
00:50:03,219 --> 00:50:03,920
Just dogs.

1121
00:50:04,179 --> 00:50:04,340
Yeah.

1122
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:05,280
Makes sense.

1123
00:50:06,389 --> 00:50:06,590
Yeah.

1124
00:50:06,829 --> 00:50:11,210
Whether to, how I can think, euthanize or board them.

1125
00:50:11,550 --> 00:50:12,090
Board them.

1126
00:50:12,090 --> 00:50:12,230
Yeah.

1127
00:50:12,230 --> 00:50:16,449
I mean, maybe if it got so crazy that we would need a bigger...

1128
00:50:16,449 --> 00:50:17,530
Sheriff hired a dog?

1129
00:50:18,030 --> 00:50:19,610
We've had to hire a sheriff to come down.

1130
00:50:19,730 --> 00:50:20,809
That should come out of that one.

1131
00:50:21,010 --> 00:50:29,380
So, the state law, if I'm not correct, I mean, if you don't license your dog, like, we're in our well-given right to go to the house.

1132
00:50:29,380 --> 00:50:31,380
There's a process, but yeah.

1133
00:50:31,380 --> 00:50:33,380
God forbid it happens.

1134
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:33,880
Yup.

1135
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:34,380
Yup.

1136
00:50:34,380 --> 00:50:34,880
Yup.

1137
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,880
You send a ticket that goes to the court system.

1138
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,880
That's covered some way or if it comes to...

1139
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,380
Pete, even the ticket money doesn't come to us.

1140
00:50:41,380 --> 00:50:43,380
Goes to the state.

1141
00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:45,480
We send the ticket.

1142
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,480
Could you imagine somebody showing up to your house and going, give me your dog?

1143
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:49,480
Right.

1144
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:50,480
That's why they share it.

1145
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,480
Right.

1146
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:52,480
That's why they share it.

1147
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,480
Come and get it.

1148
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:54,480
So then you gotta hire a sheriff.

1149
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:55,480
Yeah.

1150
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:56,480
That's why they're like, we're nice.

1151
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,480
Like, come on guys, please register your dog.

1152
00:50:58,480 --> 00:50:58,980
Yeah.

1153
00:50:58,980 --> 00:50:59,980
They don't want it.

1154
00:50:59,980 --> 00:51:03,980
We had a year where we sent out warrants to use a nice dog.

1155
00:51:03,980 --> 00:51:08,980
I mean, you wouldn't think if there was someone in the town that was, you know, down and out.

1156
00:51:08,980 --> 00:51:09,980
Okay.

1157
00:51:09,980 --> 00:51:10,980
I can't afford it.

1158
00:51:10,980 --> 00:51:11,980
I'm down and out.

1159
00:51:11,980 --> 00:51:12,980
I haven't paid my taxes.

1160
00:51:12,980 --> 00:51:13,980
I haven't paid my dog.

1161
00:51:13,980 --> 00:51:15,980
You know, for 20 bucks?

1162
00:51:15,980 --> 00:51:16,980
I'm not...

1163
00:51:16,980 --> 00:51:19,980
I don't want everybody coming in that, but I can give you the 20 bucks in two seconds.

1164
00:51:19,980 --> 00:51:20,980
Say, here you go.

1165
00:51:20,980 --> 00:51:21,980
Or if you're down and out.

1166
00:51:21,980 --> 00:51:24,980
We've had, like, a sweat to do that before.

1167
00:51:24,980 --> 00:51:25,980
Yeah.

1168
00:51:25,980 --> 00:51:27,980
You know, in this town, you know, we wouldn't do that.

1169
00:51:27,980 --> 00:51:28,980
We wouldn't do that.

1170
00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:29,980
We just, you know...

1171
00:51:29,980 --> 00:51:31,980
I mean, at least if I'm out before, I would help people.

1172
00:51:31,980 --> 00:51:37,980
I think it's there more to, like, persuade you that, you know, to persuade the person to...

1173
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:38,980
Yeah.

1174
00:51:38,980 --> 00:51:41,980
There's people that are the same offenders every year, you know, and the same thing...

1175
00:51:41,980 --> 00:51:42,980
Same thing with taxes.

1176
00:51:42,980 --> 00:51:43,980
Yeah.

1177
00:51:43,980 --> 00:51:44,980
Same thing with taxes.

1178
00:51:44,980 --> 00:51:45,980
Exactly the same offenders.

1179
00:51:45,980 --> 00:51:46,980
There's usually like a dog...

1180
00:51:46,980 --> 00:51:47,980
Don't worry.

1181
00:51:47,980 --> 00:51:48,980
Don't worry.

1182
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:49,980
Don't worry.

1183
00:51:49,980 --> 00:51:50,980
Don't worry.

1184
00:51:50,980 --> 00:51:51,980
Don't worry.

1185
00:51:51,980 --> 00:51:52,980
Don't worry.

1186
00:51:52,980 --> 00:51:53,980
Don't worry.

1187
00:51:53,980 --> 00:51:54,980
Don't worry.

1188
00:51:54,980 --> 00:51:55,980
Don't worry.

1189
00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:56,980
Don't worry.

1190
00:51:56,980 --> 00:51:57,980
Don't worry.

1191
00:51:57,980 --> 00:51:58,980
Don't worry, not to worry.

1192
00:51:58,980 --> 00:51:59,980
Don't worry.

1193
00:51:59,980 --> 00:52:00,980
Don't worry.

1194
00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:01,980
Not to worry.

1195
00:52:01,980 --> 00:52:02,980
Don't worry, not to worry.

1196
00:52:02,980 --> 00:52:03,980
You know, it's awful.

1197
00:52:03,980 --> 00:52:05,199
Yeah.

1198
00:52:05,199 --> 00:52:06,199
Those are other kids.

1199
00:52:06,199 --> 00:52:07,199
How is the dog officer paid?

1200
00:52:07,199 --> 00:52:08,199
He has a budget.

1201
00:52:08,199 --> 00:52:09,199
He's paid by...

1202
00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:10,199
Hour?

1203
00:52:10,199 --> 00:52:11,199
Hourly.

1204
00:52:11,199 --> 00:52:12,199
Hourly.

1205
00:52:12,199 --> 00:52:13,199
And then, he...

1206
00:52:13,199 --> 00:52:14,199
You know, he only can go within the budget.

1207
00:52:14,199 --> 00:52:15,199
If he goes over the budget, you have to adjust.

1208
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:16,199
But, he doesn't get paid from any of the...

1209
00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:17,199
I didn't know.

1210
00:52:17,199 --> 00:52:18,329
Yeah.

1211
00:52:18,329 --> 00:52:19,329
Just as a cost.

1212
00:52:19,329 --> 00:52:20,329
I don't think he goes over the budget too often.

1213
00:52:20,329 --> 00:52:21,329
No, he doesn't.

1214
00:52:21,329 --> 00:52:22,329
No.

1215
00:52:22,329 --> 00:52:23,329
Yeah.

1216
00:52:23,329 --> 00:52:24,329
That's one thing.

1217
00:52:24,329 --> 00:52:25,329
Yeah.

1218
00:52:25,329 --> 00:52:26,329
We just end up paying the dog, if he pays too much.

1219
00:52:26,329 --> 00:52:29,969
And of course, it depends on the year, too.

1220
00:52:29,969 --> 00:52:31,530
But the budget's very long.

1221
00:52:31,530 --> 00:52:32,530
Oh, yeah.

1222
00:52:32,530 --> 00:52:34,130
It's right in the calendar.

1223
00:52:34,130 --> 00:52:36,630
No, it's up there.

1224
00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:38,389
Yeah, it's right in the, I forget what it was.

1225
00:52:38,389 --> 00:52:40,429
It's not like $5,000.

1226
00:52:40,429 --> 00:52:42,329
That's from 20.2.

1227
00:52:42,329 --> 00:52:42,889
You know what I mean?

1228
00:52:42,889 --> 00:52:46,130
You're a dog officer on call all year long.

1229
00:52:46,130 --> 00:52:46,829
I mean.

1230
00:52:46,829 --> 00:52:48,590
It's a hot, yeah, it's a hot volunteer.

1231
00:52:48,590 --> 00:52:51,829
Just the three months of care, like last year, Frank.

1232
00:52:51,829 --> 00:52:54,530
He had to feed them, you know, do everything with the dogs.

1233
00:52:54,530 --> 00:52:58,030
Go out, feed them, water them, make sure they're okay, keep the heater going.

1234
00:52:58,030 --> 00:52:59,030
Yeah.

1235
00:52:59,030 --> 00:53:04,929
And do all the paperwork so he can get reimbursed from the town for, you know, all those expenses.

1236
00:53:04,929 --> 00:53:12,429
Last year, well, 2023, we budgeted $500 and it cost us $4,000.

1237
00:53:12,429 --> 00:53:13,329
Not for that.

1238
00:53:13,329 --> 00:53:15,130
No, no, for the dog expense.

1239
00:53:15,130 --> 00:53:15,630
Right.

1240
00:53:15,630 --> 00:53:16,929
And that was the dog problem we had.

1241
00:53:16,929 --> 00:53:20,739
That was a case, one case.

1242
00:53:20,739 --> 00:53:21,340
So.

1243
00:53:21,340 --> 00:53:24,639
If that doesn't happen, then the $400 is fine, you know.

1244
00:53:24,639 --> 00:53:25,039
So.

1245
00:53:25,039 --> 00:53:27,739
But this fund that we can keep going up with Eddie there for us.

1246
00:53:27,739 --> 00:53:28,440
Right.

1247
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:44,829
Now, the other last thing I have is we got a letter from the Vermont, or email I did.

1248
00:53:44,829 --> 00:53:55,130
Maybe Laura got it and sent it to us from Vermont State Ethics Commission that the January 1st,

1249
00:53:55,130 --> 00:54:02,119
by January 1st, we have to appoint an ethics liaison to serve as a point

1250
00:54:02,119 --> 00:54:09,579
of contact with, between the town and the ethics commission.

1251
00:54:09,579 --> 00:54:12,000
Volunteer, step right up.

1252
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,909
The, it could be one.

1253
00:54:14,909 --> 00:54:17,510
You're trying to get someone ethically off this board?

1254
00:54:17,510 --> 00:54:18,610
Yeah.

1255
00:54:18,610 --> 00:54:21,809
We could, could be one of the selectmen.

1256
00:54:21,809 --> 00:54:22,610
Can we appoint somebody?

1257
00:54:22,610 --> 00:54:25,110
I had thought of Doug, but of course he's not here so.

1258
00:54:25,110 --> 00:54:26,510
Well, let's elect him now while he's not here.

1259
00:54:26,510 --> 00:54:28,010
Yeah, I know.

1260
00:54:28,010 --> 00:54:29,409
Can we appoint somebody?

1261
00:54:29,409 --> 00:54:30,710
We can.

1262
00:54:30,710 --> 00:54:32,010
And then, all the select ones.

1263
00:54:32,010 --> 00:54:32,309
Okay.

1264
00:54:32,309 --> 00:54:32,409
Okay.

1265
00:54:32,409 --> 00:54:32,510
Okay.

1266
00:54:32,510 --> 00:54:32,610
Okay.

1267
00:54:32,610 --> 00:54:32,710
Okay.

1268
00:54:32,710 --> 00:54:34,190
Okay.

1269
00:54:34,190 --> 00:54:34,289
Okay.

1270
00:54:34,289 --> 00:54:34,389
Okay.

1271
00:54:34,389 --> 00:54:34,489
Okay.

1272
00:54:34,489 --> 00:54:34,590
Okay.

1273
00:54:34,590 --> 00:54:34,690
Okay.

1274
00:54:34,690 --> 00:54:34,789
Okay.

1275
00:54:34,789 --> 00:54:34,889
Okay.

1276
00:54:34,889 --> 00:54:34,989
Okay.

1277
00:54:34,989 --> 00:54:35,190
Okay.

1278
00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:35,289
Okay.

1279
00:54:35,289 --> 00:54:35,389
Okay.

1280
00:54:35,389 --> 00:54:35,590
Okay.

1281
00:54:35,590 --> 00:54:35,690
Okay.

1282
00:54:35,690 --> 00:54:35,789
Okay.

1283
00:54:35,789 --> 00:54:35,889
Okay.

1284
00:54:35,889 --> 00:54:35,989
Okay.

1285
00:54:35,989 --> 00:54:36,090
Okay.

1286
00:54:36,090 --> 00:54:36,190
Okay.

1287
00:54:36,190 --> 00:54:36,289
Okay.

1288
00:54:36,289 --> 00:54:36,389
Okay.

1289
00:54:36,389 --> 00:54:36,489
Okay.

1290
00:54:36,489 --> 00:54:36,590
Okay.

1291
00:54:36,590 --> 00:54:36,690
Okay.

1292
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:36,789
Okay.

1293
00:54:36,789 --> 00:54:36,889
Okay.

1294
00:54:36,889 --> 00:54:36,989
Okay.

1295
00:54:36,989 --> 00:54:37,090
Okay.

1296
00:54:37,090 --> 00:54:37,190
Okay.

1297
00:54:37,190 --> 00:54:37,289
Okay.

1298
00:54:37,289 --> 00:54:37,389
Okay.

1299
00:54:37,389 --> 00:54:37,489
Okay.

1300
00:54:37,489 --> 00:54:37,590
Okay.

1301
00:54:37,590 --> 00:54:37,690
Okay.

1302
00:54:37,690 --> 00:54:37,789
Okay.

1303
00:54:37,789 --> 00:54:37,889
Okay.

1304
00:54:37,889 --> 00:54:37,989
Okay.

1305
00:54:37,989 --> 00:54:38,090
Okay.

1306
00:54:38,090 --> 00:54:38,190
Okay.

1307
00:54:38,190 --> 00:54:38,289
Okay.

1308
00:54:38,289 --> 00:54:38,389
Okay.

1309
00:54:38,389 --> 00:54:38,489
Okay.

1310
00:54:38,489 --> 00:54:38,590
Okay.

1311
00:54:38,590 --> 00:54:38,690
Okay.

1312
00:54:38,690 --> 00:54:38,789
Okay.

1313
00:54:38,789 --> 00:54:38,889
Okay.

1314
00:54:38,889 --> 00:54:38,989
Okay.

1315
00:54:38,989 --> 00:54:39,090
Okay.

1316
00:54:39,090 --> 00:54:39,190
Okay.

1317
00:54:39,190 --> 00:54:39,289
Okay.

1318
00:54:39,289 --> 00:54:39,389
Okay.

1319
00:54:39,389 --> 00:54:39,489
Okay.

1320
00:54:39,489 --> 00:54:39,590
Okay.

1321
00:54:39,590 --> 00:54:39,690
Okay.

1322
00:54:39,690 --> 00:54:39,789
Okay.

1323
00:54:39,789 --> 00:54:39,889
Okay.

1324
00:54:39,889 --> 00:54:39,989
Okay.

1325
00:54:39,989 --> 00:54:40,090
Okay.

1326
00:54:40,090 --> 00:54:40,190
Okay.

1327
00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:40,289
Okay.

1328
00:54:40,289 --> 00:54:40,389
Okay.

1329
00:54:40,389 --> 00:54:40,489
Okay.

1330
00:54:40,489 --> 00:54:40,590
Okay.

1331
00:54:40,590 --> 00:54:40,690
Okay.

1332
00:54:40,690 --> 00:54:40,789
Okay.

1333
00:54:40,789 --> 00:54:40,889
Okay.

1334
00:54:40,889 --> 00:54:40,989
Okay.

1335
00:54:40,989 --> 00:54:55,619
it's probably going to be an online training so do you want to see first if

1336
00:54:55,619 --> 00:55:00,239
there's any volunteers that want to be appointed to it and then Doug is here

1337
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:06,920
next time I would like to appoint him but I can't do it without him here so

1338
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,920
should we ask Sally Bull?

1339
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,559
You know it's still hot in season be careful!

1340
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:29,309
Anything else for Select or for Giddy?

1341
00:55:29,309 --> 00:55:31,309
Just want to mention the Christmas tree here

1342
00:55:31,309 --> 00:55:33,309
Is it? Yup! It's cute

1343
00:55:33,309 --> 00:55:37,309
I don't know if it will ever open up because it's so cold

1344
00:55:37,309 --> 00:55:38,309
but it is so cute!

1345
00:55:38,309 --> 00:55:39,420
It's so cute!

1346
00:55:39,420 --> 00:55:43,900
It's up, and I guess nobody stepped forward to do any events, but at least the tree's up.

1347
00:55:44,019 --> 00:55:44,579
The tree's up.

1348
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:45,039
The light's on.

1349
00:55:45,659 --> 00:55:46,179
It's cute.

1350
00:55:46,340 --> 00:55:47,019
It's so nice out.

1351
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:53,010
John donated it, so I'd like to thank John.

1352
00:55:53,210 --> 00:55:53,449
Yep.

1353
00:55:53,730 --> 00:55:54,090
All right.

1354
00:55:54,849 --> 00:55:55,949
It's a cute little tree.

1355
00:55:58,639 --> 00:56:00,900
Executive session, do we need to go in?

1356
00:56:01,039 --> 00:56:01,900
Nothing we haven't heard.

1357
00:56:01,980 --> 00:56:02,199
Okay.

1358
00:56:02,199 --> 00:56:06,400
And our next meeting is?

1359
00:56:07,889 --> 00:56:10,070
December 18th.

1360
00:56:10,070 --> 00:56:12,110
19th is the regular meeting.

1361
00:56:12,409 --> 00:56:12,710
Okay.

1362
00:56:14,219 --> 00:56:16,579
We may have to go early again.

1363
00:56:16,820 --> 00:56:20,500
If we have other employees we need to review, we can talk about that.

1364
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,760
I can talk to Lori about it anyway if we need to start early.

1365
00:56:24,860 --> 00:56:26,860
It probably won't be as early as 5, though.

1366
00:56:29,329 --> 00:56:33,449
In January, we're probably going to be meeting every week because of budgets.

1367
00:56:35,550 --> 00:56:39,929
The warrant has to be signed and posted by February 2nd.

1368
00:56:42,190 --> 00:56:44,429
Yeah, do you want to meet, like, December?

1369
00:56:44,610 --> 00:56:49,769
Do you want to do December 12th and start budgeting, or do you want to maybe?

1370
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,880
I know you'll not have the full year, but you'll have almost.

1371
00:56:56,929 --> 00:56:59,929
The summer stuff is easy, so we can do summer stuff in a week.

1372
00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:02,329
I don't care.

1373
00:57:02,329 --> 00:57:02,829
I don't care.

1374
00:57:02,829 --> 00:57:03,730
It doesn't have to be.

1375
00:57:03,730 --> 00:57:08,460
But if you want to do the 12th, or do you want to wait in the room?

1376
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:14,380
We could do the 12th and see who else we need to get into executive session to review.

1377
00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:15,420
Yeah, that's fine.

1378
00:57:15,420 --> 00:57:15,820
Okay.

1379
00:57:16,219 --> 00:57:18,760
So, I'll do the 12th, that first time, 6.

1380
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:19,260
5.

1381
00:57:20,610 --> 00:57:21,369
Probably 6.

1382
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:23,239
Regular.

1383
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:25,659
And what day is it?

1384
00:57:26,019 --> 00:57:26,579
The 12th.

1385
00:57:26,679 --> 00:57:27,380
It's Thursday.

1386
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,000
So, you're here anyway, so it doesn't matter.

1387
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:40,210
12, 12, 6 o'clock, executive session, possibly, and then just a work session for budget, work session.

1388
00:57:42,039 --> 00:57:45,119
It won't be a regular select board meeting, it'll just be the work session.

1389
00:57:46,039 --> 00:57:56,849
We can review what we can, and I think that's it.

1390
00:57:58,349 --> 00:57:59,650
What day is the town meeting?

1391
00:58:00,090 --> 00:58:00,309
Next?

1392
00:58:00,309 --> 00:58:01,650
Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday.

1393
00:58:01,650 --> 00:58:02,710
It'll be a busy week.

1394
00:58:02,710 --> 00:58:03,210
7.

1395
00:58:03,210 --> 00:58:03,710
Yeah.

1396
00:58:06,460 --> 00:58:06,960
Good.

1397
00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:07,880
Good.

1398
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:08,519
I think we're good.

1399
00:58:08,519 --> 00:58:09,380
Anything else, Beth?

1400
00:58:09,380 --> 00:58:09,880
4.

1401
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:10,619
Me, right after.

1402
00:58:10,619 --> 00:58:11,179
2 is going.

1403
00:58:11,179 --> 00:58:11,739
I don't know that.

1404
00:58:14,789 --> 00:58:15,630
Motion to adjourn.

1405
00:58:16,150 --> 00:58:16,650
2nd.

1406
00:58:16,789 --> 00:58:17,530
All in favor?

1407
00:58:17,530 --> 00:58:18,130
Aye.

1408
00:58:18,130 --> 00:58:18,630
2nd.

1409
00:58:18,630 --> 00:58:19,199
3rd.

1410
00:58:19,199 --> 00:58:20,739
Oh, it's David.

1411
00:58:20,739 --> 00:58:21,239
Aye.

1412
00:58:21,239 --> 00:58:21,739
2nd.

1413
00:58:21,739 --> 00:58:22,239
3rd.

1414
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:22,739
2nd.

1415
00:58:22,739 --> 00:58:23,239
3rd.

1416
00:58:23,239 --> 00:58:24,239
And then, 2nd.

1417
00:58:24,239 --> 00:58:24,739
5.

1418
00:58:24,739 --> 00:58:25,239
2nd.

1419
00:58:25,239 --> 00:58:25,739
3rd.

1420
00:58:25,739 --> 00:58:26,239
2nd.

1421
00:58:26,239 --> 00:58:26,739
4th.

1422
00:58:26,739 --> 00:58:27,239
5th.

1423
00:58:27,239 --> 00:58:27,739
6th.

1424
00:58:27,739 --> 00:58:28,239
6th.

1425
00:58:28,239 --> 00:58:28,739
5th.

1426
00:58:28,739 --> 00:58:29,239
6th.

1427
00:58:29,239 --> 00:58:29,739
7th.

1428
00:58:29,739 --> 00:58:30,239
6th.

1429
00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:30,739
7th.

1430
00:58:30,739 --> 00:58:31,239
8th.

1431
00:58:31,239 --> 00:58:31,739
9th.

1432
00:58:31,739 --> 00:58:33,019
I hear you.

1433
00:58:33,019 --> 00:58:33,519
I know.

1434
00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:34,019
Yeah.