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Welcome to a meeting of the Stanford Select Board.

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

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

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You notice that all our meetings are recorded,

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and this is to aid the summarization of the minutes.

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Visitors are welcome, and we allow five minutes of comments per visitor

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and 15 minutes per topic.

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

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Select Board members present are Nancy Bishica.

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Doug Wright.

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John Dunn.

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Kurt Damari.

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

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No.

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

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Oh, only if you wanted to add that executive session, or if you just want to wing it.

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I think we're okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I think we're okay.

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All right.

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Hearing of visitors.

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Okay.

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Dave, update.

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Did Mike get it all welded yesterday?

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Yeah.

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No.

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And we'd like to start budget sessions in January.

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So you were going to look into pavings and new truck and...

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Yeah, figures for the paving.

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Guys are working out okay then, and you're switching them around or whatever you have to do to them?

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Yeah, we've kind of got rooms.

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Now, you've got the wood stove hooked up?

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Yeah.

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How about the furnace?

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The oil gas furnace is working on a temporary basis.

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Okay.

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Until they get the new one in.

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Okay.

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I'm not sure about the new site about that.

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Mm-hmm.

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If you stay next to it, if you go...

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Right.

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It blows more heat than the other one.

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Does it?

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Oh, good.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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It does.

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It works pretty good.

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Okay.

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Anything else on highway, or...?

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No, I don't really have much.

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We've just been dealing with the repairs and being out loud.

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Okay.

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Any other questions?

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No.

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We're supposed to have 60-mile-an-hour at least tonight, so...

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Mm-hmm.

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That could be the nearest day.

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And the hatches.

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And then...

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And then it would snow tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's a lot of rain.

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Okay.

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But at least it was warm.

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It warmed up today, so hopefully it won't ice up too bad when the rain hits.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, it's the gravel.

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Yeah, the road's going to be...

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Anything...

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...for February.

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Anything on recycling?

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Um, they still haven't been bringing the right dumpster.

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Why did they always bring the wrong one?

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I don't know.

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I mean...

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The school contacted me, the cook there, and they hadn't been picking up the compost,

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but they had...

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They did.

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Okay.

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They picked that up.

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Do they know it's on the route or something?

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I think what happens is they go through help quite often, so when there's new people, they

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must not understand they've got to come down.

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Mm-hmm.

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They do the one thing...

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Well, is it a different truck that picks up the compost?

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They have different trucks than what...

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That old truck they used to pick up doesn't come now.

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There's two...

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Was...

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Oh, I just saw a little Pacella go by today.

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Is that the little white...

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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They picked up at the school, yeah.

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Oh, the guy that you talked to.

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Okay, good.

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Okay.

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Any...

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How are we looking salt and sand-wise, seeing as we're like a month ahead of snow than we're

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used to in the last few years?

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Well, we're way over on our sand budget for 2025.

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Last...

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We have plenty of material, but budget-wise, we're way over because at the end of last

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winter, I would say February-ish, March, we had that salt shortage.

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So, I had to start buying...

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I had to start mixing it heavier with sand, and then you end up retreating more, so it's

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kind of a...

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You know, sand's not cheap anymore, so...

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And then, not only that, we were low on our stockpile from the year before, and then once

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everybody's buying sand because they can't get salt, you're competing, so you just want

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to truck in as much as you can so you have that.

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So, we definitely stockpiled a little bit extra, too.

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Okay, good.

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Yeah.

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So, it's working okay with...

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Whitney's pretty good on it?

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His price hasn't changed, so it's not really anything to do with that other than just us

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needing to repair it.

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Oh, yeah.

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Sand, we're way over.

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A little bit.

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Yep.

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Salt, we're a little bit over.

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That's why I say it's a lot cheaper to treat with salt than with sand.

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I know it sounds crazy, but...

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How do you budget?

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You can't really throw it on dirt roads, though.

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The mud's everywhere.

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Right.

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World's on the other side.

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Yeah.

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I read it.

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They mined it out of the...

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It's okay.

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It's okay.

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It's also an environmental hazard.

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Yeah.

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People don't realize it.

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Yeah, no.

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It's running out.

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We're staying short of it.

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I mean, it depends on...

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Last winter was really busy, and that's why there was a salt shortage, so we were out

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of anything more than probably normal.

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Mm-hmm.

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It seemed like we had snow almost every single day last winter, even a little, a little

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small accumulation.

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That's right.

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You were saying that you'd have to have one big snowstorm and get it over with for a while.

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So, we're all...

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We're all set, then, with sand and salt.

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Yeah, we have material.

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Mm-hmm.

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Just to be spending money.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Anything else on highway recycling?

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John or Kirk?

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Discussion.

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Tree lighting ceremony.

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I think we covered that last time.

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I think that got...

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I think it went well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think we put it on last minute.

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Probably the computer left it on.

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So, it fell over.

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That's what I'm...

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Tree lighting ceremony.

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Tree lighting ceremony.

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We thank Cindy, Organize, and all that.

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Okay.

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That computer sometimes does stuff like that.

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Plan future budget meetings.

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Seemed to work well last year that we had budget meetings every Thursday in January.

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The off Thursdays, not our regular meeting, they seemed to work well.

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So, if we could just plan every Thursday in January and do them.

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What time?

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You're going to need to sign the warrant by January 29th.

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What's that by January 29th?

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There's one, two, three, four.

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Well, I guess you don't have the first one.

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Yeah, you'll have four.

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If you do every Thursday, you'll have four budget meetings.

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But by the fourth, you're going to want to sign.

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The fourth is the 29th?

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Yeah.

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So, that doesn't leave you...

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I've asked all the other people to get their budgets in to me by January 16th.

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Yep.

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So, I have time to pull it together.

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Yep.

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And the 26th for town reports still?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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The next two Thursdays are our holidays.

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Fine.

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Yeah.

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What's that?

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The next two Thursdays are our holidays, so...

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Yeah.

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Yeah?

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Uh, yeah.

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So, you won't have your regular first Thursday meeting because it'll be the first.

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Right.

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Right.

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And what's the second holiday?

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Christmas next week.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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That's this month.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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They're into next month.

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I know.

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I'm just trying to figure out how we get all the meetings in that we're going to need.

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Well, we'll do the best we can.

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And if we have to do a couple that week, just to get them in.

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Yeah.

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I don't remember how many we...

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I know we did it every Thursday, but I don't remember how many we had or whatever.

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I feel like we started it near the end of December.

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A little earlier this time.

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Yeah.

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So, are we going to do on off weeks and no meeting at 6 o'clock?

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6 o'clock?

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No, 6 o'clock.

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What about meeting weeks?

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6 o'clock.

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Did we have a session before our regular meetings, is what I'm saying?

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I don't know.

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I don't remember if we did.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't remember if we did.

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I think you did light meetings and then just started budget work session.

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That's just a budget.

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Whatever we couldn't finish.

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9 o'clock.

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Whatever you think.

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So, our first meeting in January is when?

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I didn't bring one.

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1-8.

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January 1-8.

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Ooh.

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That's going to be a lot of Thursdays.

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It does.

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I know.

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And then 15-22 and then you've got to sign it.

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Yeah.

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On the 29th.

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Real meeting.

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Three, four meetings, I guess.

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Well, maybe that four-week meeting.

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Yeah.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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I don't remember.

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So, maybe that first week in January, what if I scheduled one like a Wednesday or Tuesday

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or see how it works?

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That's fine.

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I'll get in touch with you guys for a budget work session.

277
00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:21,850
I'll be gone on the, we're leaving on the 17th, so the following Thursday after that

278
00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:22,850
I won't be here.

279
00:10:22,850 --> 00:10:23,850
Okay.

280
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On January.

281
00:10:26,669 --> 00:10:28,250
That's gone.

282
00:10:28,250 --> 00:10:29,250
22nd.

283
00:10:29,250 --> 00:10:31,559
22nd.

284
00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:32,690
Okay.

285
00:10:32,690 --> 00:10:33,850
All right.

286
00:10:33,850 --> 00:10:34,850
So, Nancy.

287
00:10:34,850 --> 00:10:35,850
I'm just going to try it and then if we start getting behind, you can pick on Monday.

288
00:10:35,850 --> 00:10:36,850
Okay.

289
00:10:36,850 --> 00:10:38,200
Okay.

290
00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:38,700
Okay.

291
00:10:38,820 --> 00:10:39,820
So, Monday or Wednesday on the last two weeks?

292
00:10:39,820 --> 00:10:40,820
No, no.

293
00:10:40,820 --> 00:10:41,820
I'd like to do something first.

294
00:10:41,820 --> 00:10:42,820
Early on.

295
00:10:42,820 --> 00:10:43,820
Early, yeah.

296
00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:45,039
Okay.

297
00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:46,039
Schedule early meeting.

298
00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:47,110
Early in January.

299
00:10:47,110 --> 00:10:48,110
Sound okay?

300
00:10:48,110 --> 00:10:49,110
Yeah.

301
00:10:49,110 --> 00:10:50,649
I don't know, a date, time?

302
00:10:50,649 --> 00:10:51,649
Okay.

303
00:10:51,649 --> 00:10:52,649
That's what I'm thinking.

304
00:10:52,649 --> 00:11:00,440
A day meeting, probably, then you wouldn't have to come out.

305
00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,440
But then, we've got workers.

306
00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:02,440
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are best for me if it's a day time.

307
00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,440
Tuesday or Wednesday.

308
00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:04,440
Tuesday morning setting?

309
00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,440
Yeah.

310
00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,440
Yeah.

311
00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440
The only thing too, I'm going to have to see what my.

312
00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,440
Yeah.

313
00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,440
Schedule is going to be like.

314
00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,440
Yeah.

315
00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,440
Don't worry about it.

316
00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:12,440
Okay.

317
00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,440
All right.

318
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:14,440
All right.

319
00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,440
All right.

320
00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:16,440
Yeah.

321
00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,440
Okay.

322
00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:18,440
I'll do it again.

323
00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:19,440
Okay.

324
00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:20,950
We'll.

325
00:11:20,950 --> 00:11:21,950
We'll.

326
00:11:21,950 --> 00:11:24,679
I'll see what works.

327
00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,120
All right.

328
00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,120
Final.

329
00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,120
Female final paperwork from July 23 flooding event.

330
00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:30,120
So, I received an email, and they recognize our reimbursement request we sent in for

331
00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:31,120
$4,817.

332
00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:32,440
And printed it.

333
00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,440
Nancy signed it.

334
00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,639
We've submitted it.

335
00:11:36,639 --> 00:11:37,929
So, hopefully, that will close the door.

336
00:11:37,929 --> 00:11:40,529
This is from Nancy.

337
00:11:40,529 --> 00:11:41,529
Nancy.

338
00:11:41,529 --> 00:11:43,559
Nancy.

339
00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:44,559
Nancy.

340
00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:45,559
Nancy.

341
00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:46,559
Nancy.

342
00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:47,559
Nancy.

343
00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:48,559
Nancy.

344
00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,120
Nancy.

345
00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:52,120
Nancy.

346
00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,120
Nancy.

347
00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:54,120
Nancy.

348
00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,120
Nancy.

349
00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,120
Nancy.

350
00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,120
Nancy.

351
00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,120
Nancy.

352
00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,250
Nancy.

353
00:11:59,250 --> 00:12:00,250
Nancy.

354
00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:01,730
Nancy.

355
00:12:01,730 --> 00:12:02,730
Seriously.

356
00:12:02,730 --> 00:12:03,730
This is from the July 23 flooding.

357
00:12:03,730 --> 00:12:04,730
It's just the last payment with the government shutdown, and all that, it was delayed for several

358
00:12:04,730 --> 00:12:05,730
months, and now, they're finally getting back to it.

359
00:12:05,730 --> 00:12:06,730
Okay.

360
00:12:06,730 --> 00:12:10,070
That would be good.

361
00:12:10,070 --> 00:12:11,840
Hopefully, we'll get it before the end of the month?

362
00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:12,840
I'm hoping to get it in this year.

363
00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:13,840
I don't know.

364
00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:14,840
That would be nice.

365
00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:15,840
If they put it direct deposit.

366
00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:16,840
that would be nice.

367
00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:17,929
That would be nice.

368
00:12:17,929 --> 00:12:18,929
If they mail it, well.

369
00:12:18,929 --> 00:12:19,929
They said all of this, 10-14 days, but.

370
00:12:19,929 --> 00:12:20,929
Yeah.

371
00:12:20,929 --> 00:12:21,929
Calendar days.

372
00:12:21,929 --> 00:12:22,929
Work days.

373
00:12:22,929 --> 00:12:27,929
Got to do��록 42 years, and then 날 ti motiva, and let's see, I have the money

374
00:12:27,929 --> 00:12:28,929
at the end of the month.

375
00:12:28,929 --> 00:12:31,009
Work days, it's gonna be tight.

376
00:12:31,009 --> 00:12:32,820
Yeah.

377
00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:33,659
Okay.

378
00:12:33,659 --> 00:12:35,679
Plus or minus 10 for the mail.

379
00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:36,519
Yeah.

380
00:12:36,519 --> 00:12:37,919
Yeah.

381
00:12:37,919 --> 00:12:40,340
Correspondence?

382
00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:42,370
I don't have anything.

383
00:12:42,370 --> 00:12:43,809
All right.

384
00:12:43,809 --> 00:12:46,710
Old business, 911 numbering.

385
00:12:46,710 --> 00:12:49,779
Nothing happened on that?

386
00:12:49,779 --> 00:12:56,570
I have no uptake.

387
00:12:56,570 --> 00:12:59,769
Do you want me to contact Bob Briggs

388
00:12:59,769 --> 00:13:01,190
and say, where's this standing?

389
00:13:01,190 --> 00:13:02,450
Or do we just let it go?

390
00:13:02,450 --> 00:13:04,490
And if people don't have 911 numbers?

391
00:13:04,490 --> 00:13:05,429
I mean, it's never,

392
00:13:05,429 --> 00:13:06,850
I've always been on the side of that,

393
00:13:06,850 --> 00:13:07,730
but I don't, I mean,

394
00:13:07,730 --> 00:13:09,610
I know it puts a burden on first responders.

395
00:13:09,610 --> 00:13:11,149
So it's a hard question,

396
00:13:11,149 --> 00:13:13,169
but people don't want to put the number up.

397
00:13:13,169 --> 00:13:15,070
I mean, what are you gonna do?

398
00:13:15,070 --> 00:13:16,009
It is tough though.

399
00:13:16,009 --> 00:13:16,850
You're looking for it.

400
00:13:16,850 --> 00:13:17,690
I mean,

401
00:13:17,690 --> 00:13:18,529
Yes, it is.

402
00:13:18,529 --> 00:13:20,509
In the middle of the night.

403
00:13:20,509 --> 00:13:21,350
Yeah.

404
00:13:21,350 --> 00:13:22,190
I acknowledge that.

405
00:13:22,190 --> 00:13:23,029
It's a small thing.

406
00:13:23,029 --> 00:13:24,450
You would think people would want to do it.

407
00:13:24,450 --> 00:13:26,169
Is there a way we could,

408
00:13:27,110 --> 00:13:29,490
I know I'm sure the fire department has enough to do

409
00:13:29,490 --> 00:13:34,009
as it is, but is there a way we could put the signage up

410
00:13:34,009 --> 00:13:37,169
and implement a fee through the town

411
00:13:37,169 --> 00:13:40,519
and process and get the money for paying the sign?

412
00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:43,620
You can already charge them a fee for not having it.

413
00:13:43,620 --> 00:13:45,740
Once Bob identifies it.

414
00:13:45,740 --> 00:13:46,580
Yeah.

415
00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:48,399
Yeah, so it's like pay a fee or.

416
00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:50,820
You can contact Bob and see if he's progressing on it.

417
00:13:50,820 --> 00:13:52,960
I'm just trying to like get it all buttoned up

418
00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,039
and be like this.

419
00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:57,419
Then you get everything called onto people's property.

420
00:13:57,419 --> 00:13:59,500
Donation to the fire department or something.

421
00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:00,340
Yeah.

422
00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:02,200
Well, I mean, I don't want you on my property.

423
00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,580
I don't want you to nail that sign to the town.

424
00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:05,840
Why'd you use that post?

425
00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:06,679
Yeah, yeah, no.

426
00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:07,519
It should be right away.

427
00:14:07,519 --> 00:14:09,759
It should go in the town right away.

428
00:14:09,759 --> 00:14:11,480
Wait, isn't there a state law

429
00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,259
that says they've got to have it?

430
00:14:13,259 --> 00:14:15,259
Is there some way we can invoke that?

431
00:14:15,259 --> 00:14:16,100
I think we have.

432
00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:16,940
We have.

433
00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:18,559
It's in our statute.

434
00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:19,720
It's in our ticket fee.

435
00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:21,679
All you can do is give them the rest of their dollars.

436
00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:24,480
It isn't expensive, but it is in our statute.

437
00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,379
I mentioned it just because like, you know,

438
00:14:26,379 --> 00:14:28,059
well, I don't want that on my property.

439
00:14:28,059 --> 00:14:29,600
Well, it's against the law if you don't put it

440
00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:30,440
on the property.

441
00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:31,559
I mean, we could fine them.

442
00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:32,399
Yeah.

443
00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:33,929
And stuff like that.

444
00:14:33,929 --> 00:14:36,509
Send them the tickets or send them a letter.

445
00:14:36,809 --> 00:14:38,230
We need to identify the ones.

446
00:14:38,230 --> 00:14:39,649
That's what we're asking them.

447
00:14:39,649 --> 00:14:40,350
Yeah.

448
00:14:40,350 --> 00:14:42,049
That's another thing, though.

449
00:14:42,049 --> 00:14:43,970
Somebody's taking their time and going around,

450
00:14:43,970 --> 00:14:48,279
driving around town and checking these signs.

451
00:14:48,279 --> 00:14:50,399
It's just a burden on them.

452
00:14:50,399 --> 00:14:53,860
Ones that don't.

453
00:14:53,860 --> 00:14:56,620
And I think Bob and his committee were going to do that.

454
00:14:56,620 --> 00:14:58,399
Did your state make any progress on it?

455
00:14:58,399 --> 00:14:59,000
Yeah.

456
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,960
Identify the ones that don't have.

457
00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,659
I haven't lost any sleep over it.

458
00:15:02,659 --> 00:15:06,639
Numbers.

459
00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:08,980
No, just the firemen that are back and forth

460
00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:09,879
in the ambulance.

461
00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:14,690
Yeah.

462
00:15:14,690 --> 00:15:19,919
Oh.

463
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,000
We'll give it to Dave.

464
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,960
Yeah, give it to Dave.

465
00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,899
To do what?

466
00:15:25,899 --> 00:15:27,100
Check the 911 numbers.

467
00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:27,600
Yeah.

468
00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,100
Yeah.

469
00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:30,360
Just run over to mailboxes that don't have them.

470
00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:30,860
Yeah.

471
00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:31,360
There you go.

472
00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,409
With the pop charts.

473
00:15:34,409 --> 00:15:36,450
Town sign update.

474
00:15:36,450 --> 00:15:38,740
They put the post in and it's.

475
00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:42,860
So I had a conversation with them today, finally.

476
00:15:43,570 --> 00:15:46,649
I think there were six phone calls and messages left.

477
00:15:46,649 --> 00:15:47,509
Oh, no.

478
00:15:47,509 --> 00:15:49,529
And so today, I.

479
00:15:50,190 --> 00:15:52,149
We drove by and his vehicle was there.

480
00:15:52,149 --> 00:15:56,679
So I called him immediately because I was getting ready to call him and he didn't answer.

481
00:15:56,679 --> 00:16:06,350
And so he answered and said that he all but promised before Christmas.

482
00:16:06,350 --> 00:16:07,850
We paid him everything though, right?

483
00:16:07,850 --> 00:16:08,850
Oh, no.

484
00:16:08,850 --> 00:16:09,850
No.

485
00:16:09,850 --> 00:16:10,850
We paid him half.

486
00:16:10,850 --> 00:16:12,080
Half.

487
00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,080
Okay.

488
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,080
But there's a contract that he's supposed to have this job done.

489
00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:19,679
I think it was.

490
00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:22,350
I know.

491
00:16:22,350 --> 00:16:23,350
Yeah.

492
00:16:23,350 --> 00:16:24,350
I know.

493
00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:25,350
I just reminded him.

494
00:16:25,350 --> 00:16:26,350
Yeah.

495
00:16:26,350 --> 00:16:27,730
Yeah.

496
00:16:27,730 --> 00:16:28,730
He's a nice guy.

497
00:16:28,730 --> 00:16:34,440
Who was it again?

498
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:35,440
A nice guy.

499
00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:36,440
I mean, it's just.

500
00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:43,289
It's just a lot of the progressing is only when you make a phone call, only when you.

501
00:16:43,289 --> 00:16:44,289
Yeah.

502
00:16:44,289 --> 00:16:50,759
You've got to push and then they'll come off and do one aspect of it.

503
00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:51,759
Right.

504
00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:53,049
Right.

505
00:16:53,049 --> 00:16:54,049
One little.

506
00:16:54,049 --> 00:16:56,049
Cement job and then he did the post.

507
00:16:56,049 --> 00:16:57,049
Just dug the holes.

508
00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:58,049
Yeah.

509
00:16:58,049 --> 00:16:59,659
You know.

510
00:16:59,659 --> 00:17:00,659
Did they put the sign on the belly?

511
00:17:00,659 --> 00:17:01,919
Yeah.

512
00:17:01,919 --> 00:17:02,919
Yeah.

513
00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:03,919
Well, that's been up for months.

514
00:17:03,919 --> 00:17:04,920
You didn't notice it curtain then?

515
00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,920
No.

516
00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:06,920
But it's pretty quick is what I'm saying.

517
00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:07,920
Yeah.

518
00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,200
That's like going pretty quick.

519
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,200
That's all.

520
00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,359
Did it?

521
00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:12,359
You guys were quick on it.

522
00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:13,359
Yeah.

523
00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:14,359
That one was pretty easy, quick.

524
00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:15,750
Okay.

525
00:17:15,750 --> 00:17:16,750
Just got some staging and did it that way.

526
00:17:16,750 --> 00:17:17,750
Well, as long as you're on it and thank you.

527
00:17:17,750 --> 00:17:18,750
Yeah.

528
00:17:18,750 --> 00:17:19,750
I've been doing my weeklies.

529
00:17:19,750 --> 00:17:20,750
Okay.

530
00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:21,750
Any other old business?

531
00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:22,809
I have an old business here.

532
00:17:22,809 --> 00:17:23,809
Bill, how did you make out at fire department with your wife?

533
00:17:23,809 --> 00:17:24,809
I was just a little bit busy.

534
00:17:24,809 --> 00:17:26,740
I was busy.

535
00:17:26,740 --> 00:17:27,740
I was busy.

536
00:17:27,740 --> 00:17:28,740
I was busy.

537
00:17:28,740 --> 00:17:31,019
I was busy.

538
00:17:31,019 --> 00:17:32,019
I was busy.

539
00:17:32,019 --> 00:17:34,910
I was busy.

540
00:17:34,910 --> 00:17:35,910
I was busy.

541
00:17:35,910 --> 00:17:36,910
I was busy.

542
00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:37,910
I was busy.

543
00:17:37,910 --> 00:17:38,910
I was busy.

544
00:17:38,910 --> 00:17:39,910
I was busy.

545
00:17:39,910 --> 00:17:40,910
I was busy.

546
00:17:40,910 --> 00:17:41,910
I was busy.

547
00:17:41,910 --> 00:17:42,910
Are you the fire department with the warrant article?

548
00:17:42,910 --> 00:17:48,200
Are the firemen going to do a petition for Vermont rural fire protection?

549
00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,200
You were going to bring it up at their meeting.

550
00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:52,200
A warrant article?

551
00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,799
I was about to say he just went and left over.

552
00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:55,799
Bill, that's why I have all these papers here.

553
00:17:55,799 --> 00:17:56,799
I honestly don't remember it.

554
00:17:56,799 --> 00:17:57,799
Okay.

555
00:17:57,799 --> 00:17:58,799
We could not put them on the warrant article, because they changed the amount of the appropriate

556
00:17:58,799 --> 00:17:59,799
—

557
00:17:59,799 --> 00:18:00,799
Oh, they're the ones who asked for more of it.

558
00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:01,799
Oh, they're the ones who asked for more of it.

559
00:18:01,799 --> 00:18:02,799
Yeah.

560
00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:03,799
I don't know.

561
00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:04,799
Okay.

562
00:18:04,799 --> 00:18:06,470
That's okay.

563
00:18:06,470 --> 00:18:07,470
That's okay.

564
00:18:07,470 --> 00:18:08,470
That's okay.

565
00:18:08,470 --> 00:18:09,470
That's okay.

566
00:18:09,470 --> 00:18:10,470
That's okay.

567
00:18:10,470 --> 00:18:11,470
Yeah.

568
00:18:11,470 --> 00:18:12,470
That's okay.

569
00:18:12,470 --> 00:18:18,769
more money right and if the fire department get a petition and then it

570
00:18:18,769 --> 00:18:25,680
could go on to a warrant article you need how many signatures 40 38 38

571
00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:37,460
signatures just word it like two years ago but put $200 and I'm sure you've got

572
00:18:37,460 --> 00:18:43,960
at least 10 signatures here to just to get it on the petition just sit

573
00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:49,549
petition go up I can get another 10 for the number of firemen to show up yeah

574
00:18:49,549 --> 00:18:57,619
they don't want to be meeting yeah that's a I think we could find okay so

575
00:18:57,619 --> 00:19:02,710
we need to word some kind of two years two years ago or three years ago right

576
00:19:02,710 --> 00:19:11,069
in your town report you've got a form for a petition that needs how it's drawn

577
00:19:11,069 --> 00:19:18,700
up or yeah rule fire protection appropriation

578
00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:19,000
okay

579
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,680
Vermont Association you know I listen to you just talk about it but it just

580
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,660
didn't ring a lot in my head that I needed to take me back to the fire

581
00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:34,059
yeah I think you said you were going to right maybe I'm putting words in your

582
00:19:34,059 --> 00:19:42,369
head you might have suggested it nice up took my head with it just ratty

583
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,920
may bring it up at the next fire department

584
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,220
I can't

585
00:19:55,220 --> 00:19:59,700
see yes or no question the fire goes yep

586
00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:02,720
maybe they want $200?

587
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,599
They want $250.

588
00:20:04,599 --> 00:20:06,940
Oh gracious.

589
00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:08,019
$200.

590
00:20:08,019 --> 00:20:10,779
The amount has increased to $200.

591
00:20:10,779 --> 00:20:14,400
We can put any amount in you want.

592
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,119
I'm sorry.

593
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:16,480
$200.

594
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,150
Okay, thank you.

595
00:20:21,150 --> 00:20:23,670
It has to be back here January 15th.

596
00:20:23,670 --> 00:20:25,069
I'll do that.

597
00:20:25,069 --> 00:20:37,819
Okay yeah there might be blank petitions or there's they're somewhere.

598
00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:40,140
Mickey, what about, shall the town...

599
00:20:40,140 --> 00:20:42,559
Not what about.

600
00:20:42,559 --> 00:20:45,559
Shall the town stand appropriate.

601
00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:46,559
Uh-huh.

602
00:20:46,559 --> 00:20:47,910
Yep.

603
00:20:47,910 --> 00:20:48,910
Old-fashioned.

604
00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:49,910
Hmm?

605
00:20:49,910 --> 00:20:50,910
Old-fashioned way.

606
00:20:50,910 --> 00:20:51,910
Yeah.

607
00:20:51,910 --> 00:20:54,970
Um, okay.

608
00:20:54,970 --> 00:20:55,970
New business.

609
00:20:55,970 --> 00:20:58,950
Bill.

610
00:20:58,950 --> 00:21:25,490
Grant for planning.

611
00:21:30,579 --> 00:21:33,019
Grant commissioned.

612
00:21:33,019 --> 00:21:42,099
Yeah, because I think I remember saying to Lisa,

613
00:21:42,099 --> 00:21:46,170
make sure you budget this in your, for 2026.

614
00:21:46,170 --> 00:21:49,170
Give it to Lori so we can enter it in our budget.

615
00:21:49,170 --> 00:21:52,170
That's your signature, huh?

616
00:21:52,170 --> 00:21:54,779
Planning commission grant approved.

617
00:21:54,779 --> 00:21:56,779
I know there's a planning meeting thing.

618
00:21:56,779 --> 00:22:00,059
Um, yeah, I did do one.

619
00:22:00,059 --> 00:22:04,859
There's one this Monday?

620
00:22:04,859 --> 00:22:06,730
No.

621
00:22:06,730 --> 00:22:07,730
I just wanted to tell us because we got it.

622
00:22:07,730 --> 00:22:12,059
Yeah, I did get that.

623
00:22:12,059 --> 00:22:14,859
Do you know how much we got?

624
00:22:14,859 --> 00:22:16,880
Do you know how much?

625
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,880
Uh, whatever the...

626
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,099
I don't know.

627
00:22:20,099 --> 00:22:21,700
Well, basically...

628
00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:22,700
30,000, no.

629
00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:23,700
Yeah.

630
00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:24,700
Yeah.

631
00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:25,700
It's not like 29.

632
00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:26,700
Yeah, it's just shy of 30.

633
00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:27,700
It's like 28 change.

634
00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:28,700
26,000 or something like that.

635
00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:29,700
That's the full amount, whatever it is.

636
00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:30,700
And that's to redo the town plan?

637
00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:31,700
The whole thing?

638
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:32,700
Completely, yeah.

639
00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:33,700
Okay, yeah.

640
00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:35,019
Well, it involves like business.

641
00:22:35,019 --> 00:22:36,019
It sounds like a whole lot of money.

642
00:22:36,019 --> 00:22:37,019
It involves like having one-on-one with students.

643
00:22:37,019 --> 00:22:38,019
Depends on how many years they stretch out.

644
00:22:38,019 --> 00:22:39,089
Oh, I don't know.

645
00:22:39,089 --> 00:22:40,440
Yeah.

646
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,440
She broke it down into different things.

647
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,440
Oh, that was just part of it.

648
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,440
Oh, yeah.

649
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,440
It's all this, it's all this stuff.

650
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:45,440
All the things that they, they go through.

651
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,440
Yeah.

652
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,440
Yeah.

653
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,440
Yeah.

654
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,440
Yeah.

655
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,440
Yeah.

656
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,440
Yeah.

657
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,440
Yeah.

658
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,440
Yeah.

659
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,440
Yeah.

660
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,440
Yeah.

661
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,819
And then they go through, through, when they're doing it, the new program.

662
00:22:57,819 --> 00:22:58,819
Yeah.

663
00:22:58,819 --> 00:23:04,920
Yeah like it's grant, yeah, grant request $25,200, town matches $28,800.

664
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,369
Pretty good use of that money the FEMA's gon' give you.

665
00:23:09,369 --> 00:23:10,369
$2,800.

666
00:23:10,369 --> 00:23:11,549
Put that at quick use.

667
00:23:11,549 --> 00:23:17,809
$6,000 to $28,000 or something like that.

668
00:23:17,809 --> 00:23:19,500
Okay.

669
00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,960
So, did they send it to me?

670
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,519
They, they, I thought they did.

671
00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:25,920
Cause I just want, I thought I saw something.

672
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,220
At the last meeting, there was an email that went out, um, and then they, they sent.

673
00:23:27,220 --> 00:23:28,220
Did they send it to you?

674
00:23:28,220 --> 00:23:29,220
They sent it.

675
00:23:29,220 --> 00:23:33,329
and then they were going to forward it to you.

676
00:23:33,329 --> 00:23:36,950
Kurt, can you send it to Lori?

677
00:23:36,950 --> 00:23:39,210
Because she'll print it out, sign it,

678
00:23:39,210 --> 00:23:42,900
or keep copies of it anyway.

679
00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:44,859
You've got to, if there's an old portion,

680
00:23:44,859 --> 00:23:47,819
you guys have to match it.

681
00:23:47,819 --> 00:23:48,319
Yeah.

682
00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,660
You've got to accept it, because you've got to take the,

683
00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:54,359
I thought everything would be here so that you could do it,

684
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,779
and then I would look for it.

685
00:23:56,779 --> 00:23:59,480
You can still have a moment to accept and print it.

686
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,819
That's a fancy sort of role.

687
00:24:01,819 --> 00:24:03,319
Yeah, but I don't know.

688
00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:05,329
When it shows up.

689
00:24:05,329 --> 00:24:06,670
I mean, I could try to call her.

690
00:24:06,670 --> 00:24:09,349
Do you know when the deadline is to sign this?

691
00:24:09,349 --> 00:24:10,680
I don't.

692
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,180
I don't.

693
00:24:11,180 --> 00:24:14,819
That's probably coming up.

694
00:24:14,819 --> 00:24:17,519
I got an email saying that the grant was awarded,

695
00:24:17,519 --> 00:24:20,450
but I haven't seen anything new.

696
00:24:20,450 --> 00:24:23,630
Yeah, that's the email I got, I think, that said it was awarded.

697
00:24:23,630 --> 00:24:24,250
Right.

698
00:24:24,250 --> 00:24:27,230
And then there was, I don't know.

699
00:24:27,230 --> 00:24:30,369
You're going to have to sign paperwork at some point.

700
00:24:30,369 --> 00:24:32,109
Well, maybe they haven't sent it yet, then,

701
00:24:32,109 --> 00:24:33,690
if they just said it's awarded.

702
00:24:33,690 --> 00:24:34,190
Yeah.

703
00:24:34,190 --> 00:24:34,569
Yeah.

704
00:24:34,569 --> 00:24:42,569
OK.

705
00:24:42,569 --> 00:24:44,630
I'll text her later.

706
00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:49,390
I was supposed to see her tomorrow, too, so.

707
00:24:49,390 --> 00:24:52,190
OK.

708
00:24:52,190 --> 00:24:55,930
Any other new business?

709
00:24:55,930 --> 00:24:57,430
I just had a question.

710
00:24:57,430 --> 00:25:00,670
Maybe I'm missing something, but I

711
00:25:00,670 --> 00:25:03,569
noticed the lights for the radar,

712
00:25:03,569 --> 00:25:06,569
or whatever those school signs are,

713
00:25:06,569 --> 00:25:09,839
they're not on during the day, during the school hours.

714
00:25:09,839 --> 00:25:13,940
I don't know if there's more to it, or.

715
00:25:13,940 --> 00:25:15,039
The speed sign that says.

716
00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:17,039
Yeah, you know, it says, like, 30 miles an hour.

717
00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:19,039
I noticed it's not on during school hours.

718
00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:22,279
You'll have to talk to the school, because they regulate that.

719
00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:23,119
They set the time.

720
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,410
There's some box there that Debbie used to go in and set the sign, Debbie,

721
00:25:28,410 --> 00:25:31,700
and whoever else the principal was at the time.

722
00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:43,980
I think that's been off since Rich hasn't been in the daylight state and all that.

723
00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:47,880
I just assumed it was an automatic, like, came on at a certain time or off at a certain time.

724
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:48,880
It's supposed to.

725
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,880
I think it comes on early in the morning until all of the schools.

726
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,880
Yeah.

727
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:54,880
In the afternoon.

728
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:55,880
Yeah.

729
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:56,880
I think it's the on-term school hours, right?

730
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:57,880
Like, 8 o'clock.

731
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:58,880
No, it's just a few hours morning after.

732
00:25:58,880 --> 00:25:59,880
Yeah.

733
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:00,880
Well, even in the morning, I drop my daughter off.

734
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:01,880
I'm like, yeah, they're not on.

735
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,880
They're not on.

736
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,880
But it's, um, it's, uh, does come on and off automatically, but it's got to be set.

737
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,880
There's something in that box that's got to be set.

738
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,880
You know, we've had enough power interruptions that it might have lost its setting.

739
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:06,880
Yeah.

740
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:07,880
Yeah.

741
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,880
Yeah.

742
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,880
Yeah.

743
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,009
Yeah.

744
00:26:11,009 --> 00:26:12,109
Yeah.

745
00:26:12,109 --> 00:26:13,109
Yeah.

746
00:26:13,109 --> 00:26:14,109
Yeah.

747
00:26:14,109 --> 00:26:15,109
Yeah.

748
00:26:15,109 --> 00:26:16,109
Yeah.

749
00:26:16,109 --> 00:26:17,109
Yeah.

750
00:26:17,109 --> 00:26:18,109
Yeah.

751
00:26:18,109 --> 00:26:19,109
Yeah.

752
00:26:19,109 --> 00:26:20,109
Yeah.

753
00:26:20,109 --> 00:26:21,109
Yeah.

754
00:26:21,109 --> 00:26:22,109
Yeah.

755
00:26:22,109 --> 00:26:23,109
Yeah.

756
00:26:23,109 --> 00:26:24,109
Yeah.

757
00:26:24,109 --> 00:26:25,109
Awesome.

758
00:26:25,109 --> 00:26:26,109
Yeah.

759
00:26:26,109 --> 00:26:27,109
Not пока.

760
00:26:27,109 --> 00:26:28,109
Sounds good.

761
00:26:28,109 --> 00:26:30,849
Okay.

762
00:26:30,849 --> 00:26:37,940
I wanted to ask you, do you want to check with the principal next time you drop your daughter

763
00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:38,940
off?

764
00:26:38,940 --> 00:26:39,940
I'll send an email and ask her.

765
00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:40,940
Oh, yeah, okay.

766
00:26:40,940 --> 00:26:41,940
Um.

767
00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:42,940
Yep.

768
00:26:42,940 --> 00:26:43,940
Well, if they're in charge would kind of, like, would refrain me from asking my

769
00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:44,940
next question, but, like, everybody is concerned with speeding in town.

770
00:26:44,940 --> 00:26:45,940
So, I was kind of hoping, maybe, we could adjust the times the lights are flashing,

771
00:26:45,940 --> 00:26:46,940
maybe would slow them down.

772
00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:49,539
I don't, I don't know if it was a thought, but.

773
00:26:49,539 --> 00:26:50,539
I don't know.

774
00:26:50,539 --> 00:26:53,259
Because it is a school sign.

775
00:26:53,259 --> 00:26:54,259
Just on the timer for the family, like, for for you?

776
00:26:54,259 --> 00:26:54,519
Yeah.

777
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:54,640
Yeah.

778
00:26:54,640 --> 00:27:08,200
So the state law says that it has to, they have to be implemented during school hours, and I don't, I always, the question I always had was why are they off during the day but school's still in session?

779
00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:09,700
Yeah, that's what I was wondering.

780
00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:21,750
So I believe state law says that those safety lights on the highways in front, and that's the other way too, if somebody was saying about crosswalk.

781
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:26,069
Is that why there's, no, this is, you don't know, they don't know, or after every time.

782
00:27:26,069 --> 00:27:29,450
You had the whole speeding sign thing last year, they lost by like one vote.

783
00:27:29,450 --> 00:27:34,170
Yeah, they don't want to, the people in town don't want to pay for any of them, the bus, or what they're paying.

784
00:27:34,170 --> 00:27:38,329
Speed signs are, they're useless. They're good for about a week, two weeks, and go away.

785
00:27:38,329 --> 00:27:41,990
I was just trying to put to use the ones that we already had.

786
00:27:41,990 --> 00:27:47,710
I don't think the speeders are local people, though. I think they're effective for people that are coming through town on the one or two bus.

787
00:27:47,710 --> 00:27:51,009
There's a lot of different things, I didn't look into what I was going on one time,

788
00:27:51,250 --> 00:27:51,730
but I know that there's a lot of people that are coming through town on the one or two bus.

789
00:27:51,730 --> 00:27:58,789
I know they had, a couple years ago, a talk up at Bennington, I think, Regional Planning Commission,

790
00:27:58,789 --> 00:28:08,819
and they were discussing, Bennington, different steps that could be taken, other than law enforcement, to, you know, things like driving around, sidewalk, different things.

791
00:28:08,819 --> 00:28:09,819
Sidewalks are a big one.

792
00:28:09,819 --> 00:28:14,819
A lot of them probably would be too expensive, but it might be worth looking into.

793
00:28:14,819 --> 00:28:21,319
I know, I've seen some of these signs where you're going down, and all of a sudden a blue light comes on. That makes you sit up, take notice.

794
00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:22,319
Sure.

795
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:27,319
So there are probably some things, I think a lot of them would be too expensive, but it might be worth looking into.

796
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:34,319
The crosswalk signs, I think you can get the state, I think you mandate the state to put crosswalk signs out there.

797
00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:37,319
Yeah, the flashing, the flashing crosswalk signs.

798
00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:39,319
Anything would be a help.

799
00:28:39,319 --> 00:28:43,319
Do they just work if someone pushes the button, or do they flash all the time?

800
00:28:43,319 --> 00:28:50,819
You could get, like the school has, the sign, so that they can adjust.

801
00:28:50,819 --> 00:28:51,819
Oh.

802
00:28:51,819 --> 00:28:54,819
You could do the same thing with signs.

803
00:28:54,819 --> 00:28:55,819
That would be good.

804
00:28:55,819 --> 00:28:59,819
I always thought there was a sensor on the sidewalk when they started walking.

805
00:28:59,819 --> 00:29:00,819
In Williamstown, there's a sensor.

806
00:29:00,819 --> 00:29:01,819
To flick on, yeah.

807
00:29:01,819 --> 00:29:02,819
In the college.

808
00:29:02,819 --> 00:29:04,819
Yeah, it's a, I mean, it just depends how many thousand whistles.

809
00:29:04,819 --> 00:29:08,819
There's a magic eye on the light itself that moves that.

810
00:29:08,819 --> 00:29:12,819
So somebody's got to be there ready to cross then, before it comes on.

811
00:29:12,819 --> 00:29:16,819
What if you're going by that eye at like 90? Does it pick you up?

812
00:29:16,819 --> 00:29:18,819
You're not going to get it then.

813
00:29:18,819 --> 00:29:19,819
What are you getting?

814
00:29:19,819 --> 00:29:22,819
There's a stop speed sign with the spike strip that spits out.

815
00:29:22,819 --> 00:29:23,819
Yeah, that's what I said.

816
00:29:23,819 --> 00:29:24,819
Just put nail strips on.

817
00:29:24,819 --> 00:29:26,819
It's going to be hard to stop speeding in town, no matter what you do.

818
00:29:26,819 --> 00:29:29,819
It's an inherent thing that's been going on forever.

819
00:29:29,819 --> 00:29:31,819
You should have seen it in the 70s, man.

820
00:29:31,819 --> 00:29:34,819
It was rubber strips from built blocks past the school.

821
00:29:34,819 --> 00:29:36,819
So they've had to slow down, in a sense.

822
00:29:36,819 --> 00:29:41,819
You got to keep in mind, also, school zones are extremely enforced.

823
00:29:41,819 --> 00:29:42,819
Yeah.

824
00:29:42,819 --> 00:29:48,819
So, but outside of, outside of school zones and stuff like that.

825
00:29:48,819 --> 00:29:55,140
I mean, if you're sitting doing speed drafts and radar and stuff like that.

826
00:29:55,140 --> 00:29:59,140
It was like, I think it was like 10 miles over is what we were always.

827
00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:02,140
Anything over 10 miles would go out of there.

828
00:30:02,140 --> 00:30:07,140
Our cheapest way is to probably buy an old cruiser and just park it on the side of the road and move it around randomly.

829
00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:08,140
That's been done.

830
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:09,140
That's been done.

831
00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:12,140
Have volunteers sit in there with a blow dryer.

832
00:30:12,140 --> 00:30:14,140
Point the blow dryer out the window.

833
00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:16,140
Just put a dummy in there.

834
00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:18,140
Well, the state trooper's been, he's hidden.

835
00:30:18,140 --> 00:30:19,140
He's hidden.

836
00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:20,140
He'll come down and sit.

837
00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:21,140
And he won't see him.

838
00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:22,140
And then he'll sit again.

839
00:30:22,140 --> 00:30:27,140
I think he leaves his set here a couple hours early and comes down here and sits.

840
00:30:27,140 --> 00:30:28,140
Yeah.

841
00:30:28,140 --> 00:30:29,140
Well, one lives like right up in Woodford.

842
00:30:29,140 --> 00:30:32,140
So I don't know if it's him coming down.

843
00:30:32,140 --> 00:30:34,140
We can talk to the sheriff again.

844
00:30:34,140 --> 00:30:36,140
But unless he's going to really, you know, spice it up.

845
00:30:36,140 --> 00:30:38,140
We don't need patrols on Wednesday morning.

846
00:30:38,140 --> 00:30:42,140
We need Friday, Saturday night, Sunday night, Thursday night at the least.

847
00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:47,140
And it's just going to, it was 75,000 a few years ago.

848
00:30:47,140 --> 00:30:50,140
So we'll probably be looking at 100,000.

849
00:30:50,140 --> 00:30:52,140
No, the train is just so expensive.

850
00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:55,140
And I want to say they have a buddy system now, too.

851
00:30:55,140 --> 00:30:58,140
So you've got to pay for two guys instead of one guy.

852
00:30:58,140 --> 00:31:00,140
I mean, we're strictly after speeding here.

853
00:31:00,140 --> 00:31:02,140
He's not going to really catch anything else.

854
00:31:02,140 --> 00:31:04,140
I might still have that paperwork at home.

855
00:31:04,140 --> 00:31:09,140
I'll bring that in so we can look at it, follow up on it, what they found up in bed.

856
00:31:09,140 --> 00:31:13,140
Like I said, a lot of that had to do with changing roads and this and that.

857
00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:15,140
But there might be a few things we could do.

858
00:31:15,140 --> 00:31:19,140
Like pedestrian strips, you know, sidewalks, things of that nature.

859
00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:22,140
A lot of it would be practical, but you could get a couple things.

860
00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:24,140
Anything would help.

861
00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:28,579
Nancy, the only other thing that I wanted to mention.

862
00:31:28,579 --> 00:31:34,579
I think I called you and talked to you about the playground.

863
00:31:34,579 --> 00:31:38,509
So I don't know if Lori called you and talked to you about that.

864
00:31:38,509 --> 00:31:42,509
But I just wanted to let the board know that it was brought to my attention.

865
00:31:42,509 --> 00:31:46,509
Well, I kind of overheard a conversation and then I said, in court.

866
00:31:46,509 --> 00:31:52,539
But they had received, the school, Julie Swanson, the principal,

867
00:31:52,539 --> 00:32:01,700
had received an inspection notification from the state for the playground down here.

868
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:03,930
Not enough mulch?

869
00:32:03,930 --> 00:32:06,930
Everything failed. Pretty much everything.

870
00:32:06,930 --> 00:32:09,930
And it was pretty serious.

871
00:32:09,930 --> 00:32:17,269
So I had called Lori and I said, you know, I first blew it off because, look, schools, right?

872
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:19,940
Schools issue?

873
00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:21,940
No.

874
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:25,940
So this is basically, keep in mind that our kids come here at night.

875
00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:28,940
We all bring our kids occasionally out here at night.

876
00:32:28,940 --> 00:32:33,940
So it's just as much the town's issue and then the problem in the past.

877
00:32:33,940 --> 00:32:35,940
Who owns the building?

878
00:32:35,940 --> 00:32:37,940
And we all know where that went.

879
00:32:37,940 --> 00:32:47,519
And so I just wanted the board to understand the fact that there is an inspection out there.

880
00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:50,519
And it's a bad inspection.

881
00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:51,519
I have a copy of the house.

882
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,519
I should have brought it.

883
00:32:53,519 --> 00:32:55,519
I think we all got an email to this.

884
00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:58,519
Is this inspection induced by the state or the principal?

885
00:32:58,519 --> 00:32:59,519
No, it was done by VLCT.

886
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,519
So it's our insurance company.

887
00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:02,519
Or their insurance company.

888
00:33:02,519 --> 00:33:06,519
So they're recommending that all the swings get replaced.

889
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:07,519
I don't know.

890
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:16,519
And there's portions of certain swing sets that are either too high or they have gaps in them where kids can dig in.

891
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:17,519
Right.

892
00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:18,519
It's stuck.

893
00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:26,519
The terminology they used to determine the whole thing is basically saying that it goes through one through five severity.

894
00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:30,519
Between one being the absolute worst and four being minimal.

895
00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:31,519
What's the penalty?

896
00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:33,940
Is it attached to the funding?

897
00:33:33,940 --> 00:33:36,940
I know in housing any inspections have to be attached.

898
00:33:36,940 --> 00:33:38,940
I don't know anything of that.

899
00:33:38,940 --> 00:33:41,940
I just wanted you guys to be aware of what this is out there.

900
00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:43,940
I called Jonathan Cooper.

901
00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:45,940
Seems like the school was.

902
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:46,940
Because I just felt like, you know.

903
00:33:46,940 --> 00:33:48,940
Maybe they can.

904
00:33:48,940 --> 00:33:54,940
To me it seems like more pressure from the state because if they can find a lot of faults in schools, then there's an excuse to close the schools.

905
00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:56,940
So this was done by.

906
00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:57,940
Leverage, leverage.

907
00:33:57,940 --> 00:34:02,940
The state school education requires this every year.

908
00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:06,940
And it's done by the carrier or whatever.

909
00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:16,099
The potential of this is just like if your insurance company, when you take out a new policy, comes and tells you that your hand railing is loose.

910
00:34:16,099 --> 00:34:26,099
If they give you a defect and you ignore it, and then something happens because of whatever that defect is, they absolve themselves.

911
00:34:26,099 --> 00:34:27,099
They won't pay for it.

912
00:34:27,099 --> 00:34:34,099
And that's the reason why I'm bringing it to our attention because this inspection was dated 24.

913
00:34:34,099 --> 00:34:37,099
So it's already a year old.

914
00:34:37,099 --> 00:34:43,219
So our children have been out here playing on all this equipment and everything even after that inspection.

915
00:34:43,219 --> 00:34:45,219
Crystal, she had no idea.

916
00:34:45,219 --> 00:34:48,219
Until that day, she had it in her hand.

917
00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:50,219
She says, I just found out about this.

918
00:34:50,219 --> 00:34:52,219
This is the first inspection of its kind.

919
00:34:52,219 --> 00:34:53,219
I don't ever recall.

920
00:34:53,219 --> 00:34:55,219
Not only do it every single year.

921
00:34:55,219 --> 00:35:00,219
I told Jonathan Cooper, our representative, to see if there was funding available to do anything.

922
00:35:00,219 --> 00:35:05,219
So from the year 23 to 24, the equipment just totally crept out?

923
00:35:05,219 --> 00:35:12,320
It's funny because Jonathan Cooper has a copy of the inspection and said that it passed the year before.

924
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,320
So that's not right.

925
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,320
I'm just saying.

926
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,320
That can't possibly be right.

927
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,320
So that should fall back on the state who inspected it in 23.

928
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,320
But what he just said.

929
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,320
I've done these inspections for years for housing.

930
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,320
Usually they're directly attached to any kind of funding that you would receive.

931
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,320
That's usually the weight that it bears.

932
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,320
I just wanted you guys to be aware.

933
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:42,579
It just seems like an additional move or something like that to some extent.

934
00:35:42,579 --> 00:35:44,579
Why is it so urgent?

935
00:35:44,579 --> 00:35:45,579
I don't know.

936
00:35:45,579 --> 00:35:46,579
It hasn't been done.

937
00:35:46,579 --> 00:35:47,579
The LCP does this in the garage.

938
00:35:47,579 --> 00:35:48,579
They have recommendations.

939
00:35:48,579 --> 00:35:49,579
That's what they did.

940
00:35:49,579 --> 00:35:50,579
Yes.

941
00:35:50,579 --> 00:35:51,579
And we're not doing what they do.

942
00:35:51,579 --> 00:35:52,579
We make an effort to.

943
00:35:52,579 --> 00:35:53,579
The accountants are fortunate.

944
00:35:53,579 --> 00:35:54,579
Exactly.

945
00:35:54,579 --> 00:35:55,579
I got a sense of mine.

946
00:35:55,579 --> 00:35:56,579
Exactly.

947
00:35:56,579 --> 00:35:57,579
But what I'm saying is this is over a year old and there's been no.

948
00:35:57,579 --> 00:35:58,579
Are they?

949
00:35:58,579 --> 00:35:59,579
Do you know what they're working on?

950
00:35:59,579 --> 00:36:00,579
It was in the 24th.

951
00:36:00,579 --> 00:36:01,579
I did.

952
00:36:01,579 --> 00:36:02,579
I was like, why isn't it a year old?

953
00:36:02,579 --> 00:36:03,579
Do you know that the school board is working on that?

954
00:36:03,579 --> 00:36:04,579
I don't know.

955
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:05,579
I don't know.

956
00:36:05,579 --> 00:36:06,579
I don't know.

957
00:36:06,579 --> 00:36:07,579
I don't know.

958
00:36:07,579 --> 00:36:08,579
I don't know.

959
00:36:08,579 --> 00:36:09,579
I don't know.

960
00:36:09,579 --> 00:36:10,579
I don't know.

961
00:36:10,579 --> 00:36:11,579
I don't know.

962
00:36:15,179 --> 00:36:16,179
I don't know.

963
00:36:16,179 --> 00:36:17,179
I don't know.

964
00:36:17,179 --> 00:36:18,179
Do they, are they working on this at all to.

965
00:36:18,179 --> 00:36:19,179
I.

966
00:36:19,179 --> 00:36:20,179
Do they pull up with the wood chips?

967
00:36:20,179 --> 00:36:21,179
Remember one year it was a pile of wood chips.

968
00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:22,179
Yeah.

969
00:36:22,179 --> 00:36:23,179
Yeah, we had to do.

970
00:36:23,179 --> 00:36:24,179
That was in there.

971
00:36:24,179 --> 00:36:25,739
Are the recommendations or laws?

972
00:36:25,739 --> 00:36:26,739
Recommend.

973
00:36:26,739 --> 00:36:27,739
I think they're recommendations.

974
00:36:27,739 --> 00:36:28,739
I think that's what it's.

975
00:36:28,739 --> 00:36:29,739
Well, it gives you.

976
00:36:29,739 --> 00:36:30,739
It gives you the.

977
00:36:30,739 --> 00:36:31,739
There's photographs involved.

978
00:36:31,739 --> 00:36:32,739
Of the, of the false?

979
00:36:32,739 --> 00:36:33,739
It was a similar report to what this church was like.

980
00:36:33,739 --> 00:36:34,739
When we did the report on the church.

981
00:36:34,739 --> 00:36:35,739
It's probably a health.

982
00:36:35,739 --> 00:36:36,739
It's a mandatory more likely health and safety inspection by the state.

983
00:36:36,739 --> 00:36:37,739
Well, I'm wondering.

984
00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:38,739
The state says it's not going to make it.

985
00:36:38,739 --> 00:36:39,739
I'm talking about the state.

986
00:36:39,739 --> 00:36:44,139
the report on the church it's probably a health it's a mandatory more likely health and safety

987
00:36:44,139 --> 00:36:49,900
inspection by the state that they're coming in to evaluate the school for various reasons

988
00:36:50,699 --> 00:36:55,739
um usually like i said i don't know if this is a part would be attached to funding or not

989
00:36:58,139 --> 00:37:04,780
but it's the it's the department of education requires that the insurance carrier requires

990
00:37:04,780 --> 00:37:10,219
this inspection annually right yes just like what you just said a little while ago just different

991
00:37:10,219 --> 00:37:15,739
cya and the insurance company is going to say hey we have this inspection done a year ago and you

992
00:37:15,739 --> 00:37:22,539
ain't done nothing right and so you've got a dead body on your hands out there that's yours not ours

993
00:37:22,539 --> 00:37:28,780
so like i don't understand how it felt so bad for my someone insurance trust or multi-line

994
00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:34,300
that's the language that was so so the school needs to forward to the town what

995
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:34,699
all this

996
00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:40,940
well we've got it didn't laurie laurie sent it to all of us the inspection report

997
00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:45,519
but when did i get this it doesn't the school have to fix it i mean

998
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:51,679
it is our pocketbook at the end whether school fixes it or we fix it but isn't the school

999
00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:59,860
what kind of things did they claim there was a jack in the slide like somebody could catch

1000
00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:04,420
their finger in the slide at the top or catch their sounds like a little hot shot

1001
00:38:05,139 --> 00:38:09,780
to have such deficiencies in one year's time how does the report go from gleaning good

1002
00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:14,019
to terrible so they had someone that didn't know what they were doing in 23 or they hired

1003
00:38:14,019 --> 00:38:18,659
someone brand new in 24 that's trying to be promoted there's changes there's changes in

1004
00:38:18,659 --> 00:38:25,300
the laws as time progresses the s folks are no longer closed they're not they're not closed

1005
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:31,699
enough they have to be like carabines now um there's a whole bunch of changes the trees that's

1006
00:38:31,699 --> 00:38:33,219
overhanging certain areas

1007
00:38:35,139 --> 00:38:40,579
uh slides got gaps in it to where they're you know hood strings could get caught

1008
00:38:42,739 --> 00:38:45,219
used to try to swing to hit the trees

1009
00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:53,619
yeah and the the base there's like a four and a half inch base

1010
00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:59,380
so the maintenance man should be taking in my opinion the maintenance man for the school should

1011
00:38:59,380 --> 00:39:03,460
be taking care of all the playground equipment he should be looking at it annually if there's

1012
00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:04,980
going to be these inspections someone in the

1013
00:39:05,139 --> 00:39:09,219
internally should be trained to know what they're looking for if there's something every year

1014
00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:14,900
so currently it's easy for you to sit here and say this one there there's like three different

1015
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:21,699
organizations involved in this right you've got the town with us so who's responsible for us

1016
00:39:22,579 --> 00:39:30,079
right because we this is our property this is our building so it's the town ultimately in charge of

1017
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:34,480
the schools utilizing it yeah and they have state contracts or

1018
00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:41,679
state state laws that they have to have that governs it right so we went through all this crap

1019
00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:46,000
for years so you know what ultimately ends up happening in small towns like this you have no

1020
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,320
playground right you close down the playground well then you're going to have to remove all

1021
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,800
the equipment because now the insurance company knows it's still cheaper than having a failed

1022
00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:01,679
inspection up here well i think first thing is go to the school board kurt you're the liaison if you

1023
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:05,039
can i'm not the liaison anymore oh i thought you were nothing

1024
00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:09,199
Jim, have you gone to a school board meeting and talked to a school board, and what did they say?

1025
00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:11,199
They wouldn't let me talk.

1026
00:40:11,199 --> 00:40:12,199
What?

1027
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:19,260
The last time we paid somebody to do, like, overseeing maintenance of these buildings through the supervisory.

1028
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:23,260
Yeah, that should be part of the maintenance of the building. It's the playground for the school.

1029
00:40:23,260 --> 00:40:25,260
I understand there's somebody that oversees all that stuff.

1030
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:26,260
Yes.

1031
00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:27,260
Because the last time the Chips were here.

1032
00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:28,260
That's right. He did it.

1033
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:30,260
He's the one that did it.

1034
00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:35,260
So I'm just curious if we're already paying somebody to kind of oversee this, all right?

1035
00:40:35,260 --> 00:40:39,260
So if somebody's dropping the ball at more than one spot.

1036
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:45,260
Usually the parent program over there does a lot of the work, volunteer work, right?

1037
00:40:45,260 --> 00:40:52,260
So I'll go over there and talk to Julie about this whole thing anyway, and I'll see where that all lies.

1038
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:57,260
I mean, some of it can be quick fixes with a wrench and a hammer and a bunch of mulch.

1039
00:40:57,260 --> 00:40:58,260
Yeah.

1040
00:40:58,260 --> 00:40:59,260
Guaranteed.

1041
00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:00,260
But ultimately it's the family.

1042
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:01,260
It's the family.

1043
00:41:01,260 --> 00:41:04,260
It's a good thing you didn't go down and take pictures of the time score.

1044
00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:06,260
Right, but we do have some in school.

1045
00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:07,260
Yeah.

1046
00:41:07,260 --> 00:41:11,260
I mean, how would you find that? I bet you the supervisor's in a lot of buildings.

1047
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:16,260
Oh, yeah, they do. It's the buildings. They have a building that's all out of covers and truck hazards and whatever.

1048
00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:19,260
But there's no funding for stuff like that.

1049
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:23,260
That's why I called John who said there was money available.

1050
00:41:23,260 --> 00:41:29,260
The grant just ended, but we might be able to get, he's going to try to sneak it in.

1051
00:41:29,260 --> 00:41:30,260
So I don't know where that crosses.

1052
00:41:30,260 --> 00:41:31,260
That's when.

1053
00:41:31,260 --> 00:41:32,260
He hasn't called you?

1054
00:41:32,260 --> 00:41:39,260
So I'll say this once again out loud because I'm sick of saying it, but the school lies within the Village Center District.

1055
00:41:39,260 --> 00:41:42,260
There's grant money available for the school.

1056
00:41:42,260 --> 00:41:47,260
I'm not going to look into it, so someone that's involved with the school should look into that.

1057
00:41:47,260 --> 00:41:48,260
Same with the firehouse.

1058
00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:52,260
The firehouse that I believe is also in the Village Center District.

1059
00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:55,260
Need a new roof, need new infrastructure for the firehouse?

1060
00:41:55,260 --> 00:41:57,260
There's grants available.

1061
00:41:57,260 --> 00:41:58,260
I've said this a hundred times.

1062
00:41:58,260 --> 00:41:59,260
No one's utilizing this grant program.

1063
00:41:59,260 --> 00:42:03,260
It's the whole reason we have the Village Center District.

1064
00:42:03,260 --> 00:42:05,260
Well, find out because we're looking.

1065
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:06,260
Sure.

1066
00:42:06,260 --> 00:42:08,260
We're going to talk about spending $35,000.

1067
00:42:08,260 --> 00:42:11,260
I'm 90% positive the school, the firehouse falls within.

1068
00:42:11,260 --> 00:42:12,260
$35,000.

1069
00:42:12,260 --> 00:42:23,389
So just for your information because they're going to have to, in order to find any of these, the stuff that he's talking about, it's like you've got to do your own, do the own homework.

1070
00:42:23,389 --> 00:42:28,389
So whoever you've got going over there doing grants and stuff like that, just tell them to call Jonathan Cooper, our state representative.

1071
00:42:28,389 --> 00:42:33,550
Who is also our representative for BCRC here.

1072
00:42:33,550 --> 00:42:34,550
Yeah.

1073
00:42:34,550 --> 00:42:40,619
Or exactly what this is for, for grants and all of this stuff for the town.

1074
00:42:40,619 --> 00:42:46,710
Bennington County Regional Planning Commission can give you a good lead on it too because they have all the paperwork.

1075
00:42:46,710 --> 00:42:47,710
We filed it with them.

1076
00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:48,710
The whole Village Center District.

1077
00:42:48,710 --> 00:42:49,710
That's where he works, Jonathan Cooper.

1078
00:42:49,710 --> 00:42:51,710
Yeah, he did work there for a long time.

1079
00:42:51,710 --> 00:42:55,710
There's money out there.

1080
00:42:55,710 --> 00:42:56,710
There's grants out there.

1081
00:42:56,710 --> 00:42:57,710
I'm not a grant writer.

1082
00:42:57,710 --> 00:42:59,710
Nor do I really want to.

1083
00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:05,099
So Jim, see how you do with the school PTG.

1084
00:43:05,099 --> 00:43:10,099
But I think, like Dave said, that's right, there is a maintenance fellow for the whole district.

1085
00:43:10,099 --> 00:43:14,610
And there's got to be a maintenance budget for the whole district too.

1086
00:43:14,610 --> 00:43:16,610
If it's not just Stanford School.

1087
00:43:16,610 --> 00:43:17,610
Right.

1088
00:43:17,610 --> 00:43:21,980
It seems like they could at least put together an estimate of what the costs are.

1089
00:43:21,980 --> 00:43:23,980
We should have got a report too, I think.

1090
00:43:23,980 --> 00:43:26,980
I mean, hey, if the school has these, the PTG assistants should be on here.

1091
00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:28,980
And you should have come down and discussed this.

1092
00:43:28,980 --> 00:43:36,269
I think the problem right now is there's too much separation between the towns and

1093
00:43:36,269 --> 00:43:37,269
the schools right now.

1094
00:43:37,269 --> 00:43:44,269
The supervisory board is basically, you know, they're like, they sit up in the White House.

1095
00:43:44,269 --> 00:43:47,269
And we're just this little peons down here.

1096
00:43:47,269 --> 00:43:50,369
We don't even, we don't know who's who.

1097
00:43:50,369 --> 00:43:54,369
I mean, they're going to change the structure of a lot of towns within the state of Vermont.

1098
00:43:54,369 --> 00:43:56,369
That's just going to be a fact.

1099
00:43:56,369 --> 00:43:58,369
Because they're going to consolidate a lot of schools.

1100
00:43:58,369 --> 00:44:04,369
And the whole reason that middle class people move to rural towns in Vermont is centered

1101
00:44:04,369 --> 00:44:05,369
around schools.

1102
00:44:05,369 --> 00:44:09,369
So if these small towns no longer have schools, there's a whole different dynamic for the

1103
00:44:09,369 --> 00:44:10,369
state.

1104
00:44:10,369 --> 00:44:15,369
Vermont just became the number one state to move into, according to Travel and Leisure.

1105
00:44:15,369 --> 00:44:16,369
Number one.

1106
00:44:16,369 --> 00:44:17,369
Yeah.

1107
00:44:17,369 --> 00:44:18,369
I'm sorry, two.

1108
00:44:18,369 --> 00:44:22,369
According to Travel and Leisure, Vermont is the number one state where people are moving

1109
00:44:22,369 --> 00:44:23,369
to right now in the country.

1110
00:44:23,369 --> 00:44:24,369
I believe so.

1111
00:44:24,369 --> 00:44:25,369
So a lot of people are coming.

1112
00:44:25,369 --> 00:44:27,369
So we've got to figure out what's this town going to be.

1113
00:44:27,369 --> 00:44:28,369
Is it going to be a middle class town that has a rural school?

1114
00:44:28,369 --> 00:44:29,369
Or is it going to be a second home village, you know, for a lot of people with money?

1115
00:44:29,369 --> 00:44:30,369
It's turning into a second home village.

1116
00:44:30,369 --> 00:44:31,369
That's what it's going to be.

1117
00:44:31,369 --> 00:44:32,369
It's going to have to be that.

1118
00:44:32,369 --> 00:44:33,369
A lot of people want to retire here because of the, the French house just got purchased

1119
00:44:33,369 --> 00:44:34,369
for like $305,000.

1120
00:44:34,369 --> 00:44:35,369
And that needed like a whole ton.

1121
00:44:35,369 --> 00:44:36,369
Peter's?

1122
00:44:36,369 --> 00:44:37,369
Peter French?

1123
00:44:37,369 --> 00:44:38,369
Peter French.

1124
00:44:38,369 --> 00:44:39,369
At first, you're going to see a dramatic, I mean, when the school closes or whatever,

1125
00:44:39,369 --> 00:44:40,369
you'll see a dramatic drop in population at first.

1126
00:44:40,369 --> 00:44:41,369
There's a total of those 200 people around.

1127
00:44:41,369 --> 00:44:42,369
Yeah.

1128
00:44:42,369 --> 00:44:43,369
So in what?

1129
00:44:43,369 --> 00:44:44,369
Let's say, you know, in the middle class town.

1130
00:44:44,369 --> 00:44:45,369
Yeah.

1131
00:44:45,369 --> 00:44:46,369
Yeah.

1132
00:44:46,369 --> 00:44:47,369
Yeah.

1133
00:44:47,369 --> 00:44:48,369
Yeah.

1134
00:44:48,369 --> 00:44:49,369
Yeah.

1135
00:44:57,369 --> 00:44:58,369
So that's going to be about $60,000 over asking price.

1136
00:44:58,369 --> 00:44:59,369
So then the whole thing's going to have to be structured through the planning, through

1137
00:44:59,369 --> 00:45:00,369
the town plan, of a second home community.

1138
00:45:00,369 --> 00:45:01,369
Yeah.

1139
00:45:01,369 --> 00:45:02,369
Right?

1140
00:45:02,369 --> 00:45:03,369
And that's where the tax base is going to have to be.

1141
00:45:03,369 --> 00:45:04,369
You were just saying $60,000 over asking price.

1142
00:45:04,369 --> 00:45:05,369
So when that happens, every year, the state, the Lister Association comes down and talks

1143
00:45:05,369 --> 00:45:06,369
to our assessor and say, why did that sell up here?

1144
00:45:06,369 --> 00:45:07,369
You've got it assessed here.

1145
00:45:07,369 --> 00:45:08,369
Oh, so that affects your COD.

1146
00:45:08,369 --> 00:45:09,369
Yeah.

1147
00:45:09,369 --> 00:45:10,369
Yeah.

1148
00:45:10,369 --> 00:45:11,369
Yeah.

1149
00:45:11,369 --> 00:45:12,369
Yeah.

1150
00:45:12,369 --> 00:45:13,369
Yeah.

1151
00:45:13,369 --> 00:45:14,369
Yeah.

1152
00:45:14,369 --> 00:45:15,369
Yeah.

1153
00:45:15,369 --> 00:45:16,369
Yeah.

1154
00:45:16,369 --> 00:45:17,369
Yeah.

1155
00:45:17,369 --> 00:45:18,369
Yeah.

1156
00:45:18,369 --> 00:45:19,369
Yeah.

1157
00:45:19,369 --> 00:45:20,369
Yeah.

1158
00:45:20,369 --> 00:45:21,369
Yeah.

1159
00:45:21,369 --> 00:45:22,369
Yeah.

1160
00:45:22,369 --> 00:45:23,369
Yeah.

1161
00:45:23,369 --> 00:45:24,369
Yeah.

1162
00:45:24,369 --> 00:45:25,369
Yeah.

1163
00:45:25,369 --> 00:45:26,369
Yeah.

1164
00:45:26,369 --> 00:45:27,369
Yeah.

1165
00:45:27,369 --> 00:45:28,869
And it takes, you're money, your CLA.

1166
00:45:28,869 --> 00:45:29,869
Yeah.

1167
00:45:29,869 --> 00:45:30,869
And your tax rate over there.

1168
00:45:30,869 --> 00:45:31,869
It's because people that live in the City...

1169
00:45:31,869 --> 00:45:32,869
Well that shouldn't be...

1170
00:45:32,869 --> 00:45:33,869
That should not be the issue, though.

1171
00:45:33,869 --> 00:45:34,869
Mm-hmm .

1172
00:45:34,869 --> 00:45:35,909
An assessed value wouldn't be an assessed value.

1173
00:45:35,909 --> 00:45:36,929
It's appraisal of the property...

1174
00:45:36,929 --> 00:45:37,929
Mm-hmm .

1175
00:45:37,929 --> 00:45:38,929
Right?

1176
00:45:38,929 --> 00:45:39,929
Yep.

1177
00:45:39,929 --> 00:45:42,230
Just because it's sold for 300,000, or a million dollars...

1178
00:45:42,230 --> 00:45:43,230
Yeah.

1179
00:45:43,230 --> 00:45:44,269
...it may only be worth $400,000.

1180
00:45:44,269 --> 00:45:45,269
Yep.

1181
00:45:45,269 --> 00:45:46,630
That's going be more accountant...

1182
00:45:46,630 --> 00:45:50,090
But they don't look at, they don't look at that.

1183
00:45:50,090 --> 00:45:51,090
...no.

1184
00:45:51,090 --> 00:45:52,090
That's going to be more common than not.

1185
00:45:52,090 --> 00:45:55,989
I've heard stories right in North Adams where people are asking how much you want for The

1186
00:45:55,989 --> 00:45:56,969
House.

1187
00:45:56,969 --> 00:46:04,969
I don't know how Massachusetts faces their tax, but that's one thing that Vermont looks at.

1188
00:46:04,969 --> 00:46:09,969
You drive up the back roads up through Shelburne Falls now, and there's nothing but million dollar houses.

1189
00:46:09,969 --> 00:46:12,969
Pay that kind of money and not live there all weekend.

1190
00:46:12,969 --> 00:46:16,969
That's it. They're there on the weekend and they leave. That's what this town's going to have to be.

1191
00:46:16,969 --> 00:46:22,969
Well, can we move on then? Jim, let us know on that playground equipment, what's going on.

1192
00:46:22,969 --> 00:46:27,969
That kind of stirred up something for me, the playground.

1193
00:46:27,969 --> 00:46:31,059
Alright, so the playground is delinquent in maintenance.

1194
00:46:31,059 --> 00:46:37,059
Where do we stand on the rest of the building? I'm sure that's behind that maintenance.

1195
00:46:37,059 --> 00:46:40,059
They did talk one time about painting, but I don't know where that went.

1196
00:46:40,059 --> 00:46:43,059
I mean, if they did such a thorough construction...

1197
00:46:43,059 --> 00:46:52,059
Again, they have a buildings department where there is a director of building and maintenance.

1198
00:46:52,059 --> 00:46:53,059
Where?

1199
00:46:53,059 --> 00:46:54,059
Here or up there.

1200
00:46:54,059 --> 00:47:01,190
Supervisors, okay. So it's important that we know this because are we tenants here?

1201
00:47:01,190 --> 00:47:06,190
No, seriously. I mean, you've been through this year after year.

1202
00:47:06,190 --> 00:47:14,190
I've sat here year after year in all them meetings of who's who and what's what and the lawyers and everything else.

1203
00:47:14,190 --> 00:47:20,190
What was the decision? It belongs to the inhabitants of the town.

1204
00:47:20,190 --> 00:47:22,190
And as soon as the school is here...

1205
00:47:22,190 --> 00:47:23,190
The school is here.

1206
00:47:23,190 --> 00:47:25,190
The school has control over it.

1207
00:47:25,190 --> 00:47:26,190
Over the building.

1208
00:47:26,190 --> 00:47:27,349
Right.

1209
00:47:27,349 --> 00:47:28,349
As long as they're here?

1210
00:47:28,349 --> 00:47:31,349
Yeah, they have control over it. This part, I don't know.

1211
00:47:31,349 --> 00:47:34,349
I mean, if they were to vacate, it's not like they're going to take the building.

1212
00:47:34,349 --> 00:47:36,349
Well, then they could use it for whatever.

1213
00:47:36,349 --> 00:47:39,420
It still would be ours, not the school's.

1214
00:47:39,420 --> 00:47:40,420
The town recreation center.

1215
00:47:40,420 --> 00:47:43,420
Well, no, they could literally take this part of the building, too.

1216
00:47:43,420 --> 00:47:45,420
We need a big town garage.

1217
00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:48,420
It's a building, it's a safety, public safety and all that stuff.

1218
00:47:48,420 --> 00:47:52,610
This garage is going to be downstream someday. Hopefully it's not the next storm.

1219
00:47:52,610 --> 00:47:59,610
You have people coming in off the site that unlocks the building, coming into the foyer right here.

1220
00:47:59,610 --> 00:48:03,019
Yep. Yep.

1221
00:48:03,019 --> 00:48:06,730
And everybody knows what's going on in there.

1222
00:48:06,730 --> 00:48:13,760
Well, there was talks about putting concrete pillars to keep cars from crashing into the building at one meeting.

1223
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,789
Yep. I don't know where that went.

1224
00:48:16,789 --> 00:48:20,110
Because we walked around, remember, with that?

1225
00:48:20,110 --> 00:48:22,110
That might be something the state put out.

1226
00:48:22,110 --> 00:48:25,110
The state police were told to go out and do it.

1227
00:48:25,110 --> 00:48:27,110
That might be just something on there.

1228
00:48:27,110 --> 00:48:29,269
Do you have any boulders?

1229
00:48:29,269 --> 00:48:31,269
Yeah, exactly.

1230
00:48:31,269 --> 00:48:33,269
I must have a few in my yard.

1231
00:48:33,269 --> 00:48:38,500
There's a new schoolhouse recommendation.

1232
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:44,500
And it's state by state, but it's federally kind of like, I forgot what the Department of Education came up with,

1233
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:49,500
because of all these school bombings and shootings and everything else.

1234
00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:50,780
So.

1235
00:48:50,780 --> 00:48:51,780
Um.

1236
00:48:51,780 --> 00:48:54,780
John, somebody mentioned the tennis court.

1237
00:48:54,780 --> 00:48:59,780
Do you think you guys can work on it this year and clean it up down there?

1238
00:48:59,780 --> 00:49:01,780
I'll do my best.

1239
00:49:01,780 --> 00:49:04,780
It looks terrible.

1240
00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:06,780
And what exactly are we doing with it?

1241
00:49:06,780 --> 00:49:07,780
Get rid of the boxes.

1242
00:49:07,780 --> 00:49:10,780
Get rid of everything down there? The fence, everything?

1243
00:49:10,780 --> 00:49:13,780
If you can use the fence, I'd say take the fence, use it.

1244
00:49:13,780 --> 00:49:15,880
There's nothing down there we can use.

1245
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,900
But what about the building?

1246
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:21,900
The building seems okay now, but I don't know what it would be used for.

1247
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:27,900
The thing is, I don't want to have to remove the building and clean up underneath the tennis court, you know?

1248
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,900
The blacktop is very uneven.

1249
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:33,900
I thought about just putting, you know, topstool down and seating it.

1250
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:34,900
Yeah.

1251
00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:36,900
Is it just, is it blacktop?

1252
00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:37,900
Yes.

1253
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:40,900
And it's all buckled and very uneven.

1254
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:44,059
The boxes are rotten.

1255
00:49:44,059 --> 00:49:47,059
This summer would have been, I mean, what we had.

1256
00:49:47,059 --> 00:49:51,059
When it's dry like that, I can get more done.

1257
00:49:51,059 --> 00:49:52,059
Yeah.

1258
00:49:52,059 --> 00:49:55,590
We need it to be dry to be hauling.

1259
00:49:55,590 --> 00:49:56,590
Yeah.

1260
00:49:56,590 --> 00:49:58,590
Can you figure next summer when school goes out?

1261
00:49:58,590 --> 00:49:59,590
Remind me.

1262
00:49:59,590 --> 00:50:02,880
Order a dumpster from Atkins or whatever.

1263
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,480
Yeah, we need to have dumpsters there.

1264
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,480
I suppose maybe we could offer the building if anybody wants the building.

1265
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,480
It's not my decision.

1266
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,539
The Seed Savers built it with volunteers.

1267
00:50:16,539 --> 00:50:19,539
I don't know who provided the lumber.

1268
00:50:19,539 --> 00:50:20,539
I think Potvin.

1269
00:50:20,539 --> 00:50:22,539
Larry Potvin provided the lumber.

1270
00:50:22,539 --> 00:50:23,579
Lumber.

1271
00:50:23,579 --> 00:50:24,579
And Helen's husband.

1272
00:50:24,579 --> 00:50:25,579
Built some.

1273
00:50:25,579 --> 00:50:26,579
Pretty much supervised, if not actually.

1274
00:50:26,579 --> 00:50:27,579
Yes, he supervised the building.

1275
00:50:27,579 --> 00:50:28,579
There's one picnic table that's not bad.

1276
00:50:28,579 --> 00:50:29,579
It's collapsing back there.

1277
00:50:29,579 --> 00:50:30,579
It's right up, those are like two feet from the start.

1278
00:50:30,579 --> 00:50:32,599
I know.

1279
00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:33,599
Okay.

1280
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:34,599
We have four of good soil and compost to fill those boxes.

1281
00:50:34,599 --> 00:50:38,929
It's full of weeds now.

1282
00:50:38,929 --> 00:50:39,929
It's awful.

1283
00:50:39,929 --> 00:50:40,929
I suppose if anybody wants them.

1284
00:50:40,929 --> 00:50:41,929
If anybody wants compost or dirt.

1285
00:50:41,929 --> 00:50:42,929
Go down and take it.

1286
00:50:42,929 --> 00:50:44,119
There's blueberry bushes.

1287
00:50:44,119 --> 00:50:45,119
There's blueberry bushes.

1288
00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:46,119
There's some.

1289
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:47,119
There's some.

1290
00:50:47,119 --> 00:50:48,119
There's some.

1291
00:50:48,119 --> 00:50:49,119
There's some.

1292
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:50,119
There's some.

1293
00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:51,119
There's some.

1294
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,119
There's some.

1295
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:53,119
There's some.

1296
00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:54,119
There's some.

1297
00:50:54,119 --> 00:50:55,119
There's some.

1298
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:56,119
There's some.

1299
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:57,119
There's some.

1300
00:50:57,119 --> 00:50:58,119
There's some.

1301
00:50:58,119 --> 00:50:59,119
There's some.

1302
00:50:59,119 --> 00:51:00,119
There's some.

1303
00:51:00,119 --> 00:51:01,119
There's some.

1304
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:02,119
Some.

1305
00:51:02,119 --> 00:51:03,500
groups.

1306
00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:04,500
There's some, where this is long, that's versus blueberry bushes.

1307
00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:05,500
Right.

1308
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:06,500
Blueberry bushes.

1309
00:51:06,500 --> 00:51:07,949
I'll leave on there.

1310
00:51:07,949 --> 00:51:08,949
Yeah.

1311
00:51:08,949 --> 00:51:09,949
Okay.

1312
00:51:09,949 --> 00:51:10,949
Anything else?

1313
00:51:10,949 --> 00:51:18,949
I blame these long meetings I mic, I guess I can't.

1314
00:51:18,949 --> 00:51:19,949
Nothing else.

1315
00:51:19,949 --> 00:51:21,500
I'll give you an each appointment on them.

1316
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:22,500
I will.

1317
00:51:22,500 --> 00:51:23,500
There's a doubinus?

1318
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:24,500
Yeah, he's not here.

1319
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:25,500
Yeah.

1320
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:28,590
Laurie is starting to close out the end of the year and she pays these, we used to call

1321
00:51:28,590 --> 00:51:29,590
them, $10 people.

1322
00:51:29,590 --> 00:51:34,650
they get $10 a year now they're up to $25 a year they get paid for serving on

1323
00:51:34,650 --> 00:51:40,989
the various committees like conservation tree warden Bennington County Regional

1324
00:51:40,989 --> 00:51:47,900
Commission some people opt to get paid and others say no I don't want to get

1325
00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:53,679
paid but that's up to them Lori has to have the money there in the budget or we

1326
00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:59,119
have to say yes and there's two positions that we've never designated

1327
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:05,019
any money for DV fiber representatives are two of them and there's the ethic

1328
00:52:05,019 --> 00:52:11,250
liaison whoever fills that position that we don't pay so are we going to

1329
00:52:11,250 --> 00:52:17,849
appropriate money for these three positions and if the people want to take

1330
00:52:17,849 --> 00:52:23,269
the $25 a year they can or if not Lori has a paper that they can sign the

1331
00:52:23,269 --> 00:52:26,789
ethical liaison is kind of a just hanging out there isn't it because we

1332
00:52:26,789 --> 00:52:29,170
don't have the board up there right now

1333
00:52:29,170 --> 00:52:36,489
that's true that's true so how do we feel about having Lori pay these people

1334
00:52:36,489 --> 00:52:49,159
that are in the position sure 25 bucks mm-hmm what is it the record five

1335
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:58,380
representatives and one ethic liaison when we had ethics policy we had to have

1336
00:52:58,380 --> 00:53:02,280
a liaison between the town and the state

1337
00:53:02,820 --> 00:53:07,230
then the state all of a sudden said we don't have the money or anything to we

1338
00:53:07,230 --> 00:53:10,849
don't have this money or anything to do it so basically it's a dead issue so we

1339
00:53:10,849 --> 00:53:17,360
got no liaison well there's still someone appointed to other whether he he

1340
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,599
didn't can't do his job though sorry dog

1341
00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:27,960
the state just cooled down that aspect of it you are the ultimate ethics

1342
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:33,300
Commission period right here but not only five bucks but not with the state 50

1343
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:35,300
55.

1344
00:53:35,300 --> 00:53:37,300
You're going to break us.

1345
00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:39,300
60.

1346
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:41,300
Yours.

1347
00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:43,300
So how do you feel? Do you want to do a motion for it?

1348
00:53:43,300 --> 00:53:45,300
Motion to pay those

1349
00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:47,519
three positions.

1350
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:49,519
Any seconds?

1351
00:53:49,519 --> 00:53:51,519
Second.

1352
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:53,619
All in favor? Aye.

1353
00:53:53,619 --> 00:53:55,619
John?

1354
00:53:55,619 --> 00:53:57,619
50 bucks.

1355
00:53:57,619 --> 00:53:59,619
Yes.

1356
00:53:59,619 --> 00:54:03,309
Get one big prime bread

1357
00:54:03,309 --> 00:54:05,309
and get one rib.

1358
00:54:05,309 --> 00:54:07,309
Yeah, that's right.

1359
00:54:07,309 --> 00:54:09,309
Oh, it's 25 bucks a pound, right?

1360
00:54:09,309 --> 00:54:11,309
So you get a slag.

1361
00:54:11,309 --> 00:54:13,309
Hopefully that 75 bucks doesn't hold

1362
00:54:13,309 --> 00:54:15,309
too long.

1363
00:54:15,309 --> 00:54:17,309
Prime rib? Yeah.

1364
00:54:17,309 --> 00:54:19,309
Okay.

1365
00:54:19,309 --> 00:54:21,309
Any other business here?

1366
00:54:21,309 --> 00:54:23,309
No. Make a motion to

1367
00:54:23,309 --> 00:54:25,309
adjourn. Second.

1368
00:54:25,309 --> 00:54:27,309
I just wondered if there was any consideration

1369
00:54:27,309 --> 00:54:29,309
for

1370
00:54:29,309 --> 00:54:32,239
the town report

1371
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,239
dedicating the town report. I got it right here and I

1372
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,239
got to look at it.

1373
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,239
Gene brought this up the other day about

1374
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,239
dedicating the town report this year

1375
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,239
to

1376
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,239
Betty Badness and

1377
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,239
Dottie Howe. I think that's a great idea.

1378
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,239
Okay. Do you want to take it on?

1379
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,239
Yeah. Write it up. Give the pictures to Laurie.

1380
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,239
I'm taking it on. Write it up

1381
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,239
and give the pictures. I've got to write a dedication.

1382
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,239
Sure. I'll help you with it.

1383
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,239
Okay. Sure.

1384
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,239
Get the pictures to Laurie.

1385
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,239
You want them scanned in to you to save

1386
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,239
you from running down there because you do everything

1387
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,239
on a computer now, right?

1388
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,239
You give me a picture

1389
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,239
or a scan of a picture, email me a picture,

1390
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,239
whatever. Is there anything we usually include in this?

1391
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,239
What's that? Someone might have to work on

1392
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,559
the pictures for me.

1393
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:18,559
Someone get the pictures?

1394
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:20,559
Or just snap a picture of Dottie on the side of the room.

1395
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,559
You probably just have to call the family and

1396
00:55:22,559 --> 00:55:24,559
you probably just have to call the family

1397
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:26,559
and they get one. Is there anything

1398
00:55:26,559 --> 00:55:28,559
we usually include? What's that?

1399
00:55:28,559 --> 00:55:30,559
CJ would have his mom, I'm sure, and Jim Howe

1400
00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:32,559
would have his mom. Yeah. I'll get a hold of them.

1401
00:55:32,559 --> 00:55:34,559
Yeah. Is there anything that we normally include in the

1402
00:55:34,559 --> 00:55:36,559
dedications? Anything you want.

1403
00:55:36,559 --> 00:55:38,559
Short, sweet. You can look back at the old ones.

1404
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:40,559
We haven't done a dedication in years.

1405
00:55:40,559 --> 00:55:42,559
In a long time. Do we have

1406
00:55:42,559 --> 00:55:44,559
anybody else? We

1407
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:46,559
try not to forget anybody.

1408
00:55:46,559 --> 00:55:48,559
Well, that's the problem with doing it.

1409
00:55:48,559 --> 00:55:50,559
You don't want to leave someone out. I know.

1410
00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:52,559
Somebody recently passed.

1411
00:55:52,559 --> 00:55:54,690
Betty Padman.

1412
00:55:54,690 --> 00:55:57,139
Long time member

1413
00:55:57,139 --> 00:55:59,139
of Historical Society.

1414
00:55:59,139 --> 00:56:01,139
Loved the town.

1415
00:56:01,139 --> 00:56:03,139
Matriarchs of the town.

1416
00:56:03,139 --> 00:56:05,139
That's a good idea.

1417
00:56:05,139 --> 00:56:07,139
That's all.

1418
00:56:07,139 --> 00:56:09,139
I mentioned that song this week.

1419
00:56:09,139 --> 00:56:11,139
Did she? Yeah.

1420
00:56:11,139 --> 00:56:13,139
She's 90, I think.

1421
00:56:13,139 --> 00:56:15,139
That's what brought it to mind.

1422
00:56:15,139 --> 00:56:17,139
Correct.

1423
00:56:17,139 --> 00:56:19,139
I just feel like I see her walking

1424
00:56:19,139 --> 00:56:21,139
every day. I know.

1425
00:56:21,139 --> 00:56:23,139
I saw Jim and I said, Jim, I haven't seen

1426
00:56:23,139 --> 00:56:25,139
your mom in a couple days.

1427
00:56:25,139 --> 00:56:27,139
He said, I brought her up to the beds home today.

1428
00:56:27,139 --> 00:56:29,139
The other

1429
00:56:29,139 --> 00:56:31,139
thing is for town report,

1430
00:56:31,139 --> 00:56:33,139
the select board

1431
00:56:33,139 --> 00:56:35,139
has to write a report every year.

1432
00:56:35,139 --> 00:56:37,139
Any thoughts, what you want to include

1433
00:56:37,139 --> 00:56:39,139
in the select board report?

1434
00:56:39,139 --> 00:56:41,139
Just give me sentences

1435
00:56:41,139 --> 00:56:43,139
and I'll try to

1436
00:56:43,139 --> 00:56:45,139
flesh it out a little bit, what you want to say

1437
00:56:45,139 --> 00:56:47,139
in the town report, what we did or didn't do.

1438
00:56:47,139 --> 00:56:49,139
Dave, you always have

1439
00:56:49,139 --> 00:56:51,139
some ideas that

1440
00:56:51,139 --> 00:56:53,139
what roads and what we're thinking of doing.

1441
00:56:53,139 --> 00:56:57,090
Because it's coming fast.

1442
00:56:57,090 --> 00:56:59,730
Yeah.

1443
00:56:59,730 --> 00:57:02,369
A couple weeks.

1444
00:57:02,369 --> 00:57:04,369
Any other new business?

1445
00:57:04,369 --> 00:57:06,429
We good?

1446
00:57:06,429 --> 00:57:11,539
Motion. Who wants to do a motion?

1447
00:57:11,539 --> 00:57:13,570
Mike's not here.

1448
00:57:13,570 --> 00:57:15,570
Second. All in favor?

1449
00:57:15,570 --> 00:57:18,340
Aye.

1450
00:57:18,340 --> 00:57:20,340
Okay.

1451
00:57:20,340 --> 00:57:23,230
I'm glad you showed some respect

1452
00:57:23,230 --> 00:57:25,230
for the elderly.

1453
00:57:25,230 --> 00:57:27,230
Yeah, I'm going to try.

1454
00:57:27,230 --> 00:57:29,230
I stopped at Crosswalk.

1455
00:57:29,230 --> 00:57:31,230
I stopped at Crosswalk

1456
00:57:31,230 --> 00:57:33,230
and I'm getting to Crosswalk.

1457
00:57:37,230 --> 00:57:39,230
I feel like I drive

1458
00:57:39,230 --> 00:57:41,230
to Canada back.

1459
00:57:41,230 --> 00:57:43,230
I thought you were doing alright

1460
00:57:43,230 --> 00:57:45,230
back there.

1461
00:57:45,230 --> 00:57:47,230
My mother, a while back,

1462
00:57:47,230 --> 00:57:49,230
she wasn't going to send her

1463
00:57:49,230 --> 00:57:51,230
a Christmas card.

1464
00:57:51,230 --> 00:57:53,230
Chairman John got together

1465
00:57:53,230 --> 00:57:55,230
and helped her

1466
00:57:55,230 --> 00:57:57,230
put this card together.

1467
00:57:57,230 --> 00:57:59,230
That's terrible.

1468
00:57:59,230 --> 00:58:01,230
Yeah.

1469
00:58:01,230 --> 00:58:03,230
No, change it

1470
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:05,230
along the way.

1471
00:58:05,230 --> 00:58:07,230
.

1472
00:58:07,230 --> 00:58:09,230
.

1473
00:58:09,230 --> 00:58:11,230
.

1474
00:58:11,230 --> 00:58:13,230
.

1475
00:58:13,230 --> 00:58:17,230
.

1476
00:58:17,230 --> 00:58:19,230
.

1477
00:58:19,230 --> 00:58:21,230
.

1478
00:58:21,230 --> 00:58:23,230
.

1479
00:58:23,230 --> 00:58:25,230
.

1480
00:58:25,230 --> 00:58:27,230
.

1481
00:58:27,230 --> 00:58:29,230
.

1482
00:58:29,230 --> 00:58:31,230
.

1483
00:58:31,230 --> 00:58:33,230
.

1484
00:58:33,230 --> 00:58:35,230
.

1485
00:58:35,230 --> 00:58:37,230
.

1486
00:58:37,230 --> 00:58:39,230
.

1487
00:58:39,230 --> 00:58:41,230
.

1488
00:58:41,230 --> 00:58:43,230
.

1489
00:58:43,230 --> 00:58:47,230
.

1490
00:58:47,230 --> 00:58:49,230
.

1491
00:58:49,230 --> 00:58:51,230
.

1492
00:58:51,230 --> 00:58:53,230
.

1493
00:58:53,230 --> 00:58:55,230
.

1494
00:58:55,230 --> 00:58:57,230
.

1495
00:58:57,230 --> 00:58:59,230
.

1496
00:58:59,230 --> 00:59:01,230
.

1497
00:59:01,230 --> 00:59:03,230
.

1498
00:59:03,230 --> 00:59:05,230
.

1499
00:59:05,230 --> 00:59:07,230
.

1500
00:59:07,230 --> 00:59:09,230
.

1501
00:59:09,230 --> 00:59:11,230
.

1502
00:59:11,230 --> 00:59:25,230
.

1503
00:59:25,230 --> 00:59:27,329
.

1504
00:59:27,329 --> 00:59:29,329
.

1505
00:59:29,329 --> 00:59:31,329
.

1506
00:59:31,329 --> 00:59:33,329
.

1507
00:59:33,329 --> 00:59:35,329
.

1508
00:59:35,329 --> 00:59:37,329
.

1509
00:59:37,329 --> 00:59:39,329
.

1510
00:59:39,329 --> 00:59:41,329
.