1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,680 Addressing your chairperson and stating your name and address. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:08,080 You will notice that all our meetings are recorded and this is to aid in the summarization of the minutes. 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,880 Visitors are welcome and we allow five minutes of comments per visitor and 15 minutes per topic. 4 00:00:14,439 --> 00:00:18,339 Discussions will be held in a calm and civilized manner in respect for all others. 5 00:00:18,879 --> 00:00:24,899 Select board members present are Nancy Bishica, John Dunn, Ted Kremlin, Kurt Weidman. 6 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:29,039 Will there be any adding of items or removing items from tonight's agenda? 7 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:34,859 Um, new paperwork that's come in since the agenda. Information. 8 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:39,439 Will there be any adjustment to the agenda such as changing the order of items? 9 00:00:45,990 --> 00:00:49,130 Jed is recording tonight's meeting for his YouTube video. 10 00:00:55,350 --> 00:01:04,810 Hearing of visitors, Bradney Howland is not coming tonight. He asked to wait until, do you know? 11 00:01:05,030 --> 00:01:10,170 He asked to wait until your next May meeting so that he can talk to the school board. 12 00:01:10,170 --> 00:01:16,390 And the superintendent. And, um, get them on board, explain what's going on and then he would come here. 13 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:25,739 After it's already done. 14 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,540 The water. The water testing. 15 00:01:28,540 --> 00:01:29,459 It's about the well. 16 00:01:29,719 --> 00:01:31,379 The well is a leak, right? 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:46,659 Yeah. 18 00:01:46,659 --> 00:01:49,239 There's nothing wrong with that. He thought it was run off from the roof and the rope. 19 00:01:51,230 --> 00:01:56,049 Did Mike want to talk to him or something? Is that why we asked him to come or was he? 20 00:01:57,420 --> 00:02:01,700 Uh, we just asked him to come down. I guess we wanted to talk to him in more detail. 21 00:02:02,650 --> 00:02:04,510 Yeah, we wanted something on, um. 22 00:02:05,349 --> 00:02:08,919 Check my email. 23 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:11,840 You didn't email me that he wasn't coming. 24 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:22,900 I thought he was just going to come and repeat that, but he's not here and, I don't know, now the whole board is involved, so. 25 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:27,900 I had to send him off the agenda and that's when he responded and asked to wait. 26 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:29,900 Well, we'll see what he says and. 27 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:30,900 Yeah, that's fine. 28 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:31,900 Yeah, okay. 29 00:02:36,110 --> 00:02:40,300 Special meeting of March 30th, 2026. 30 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:45,550 Oh, I'm sorry. Any other visitors? Comments? 31 00:02:45,550 --> 00:02:47,550 Lori, did you have anything? 32 00:02:47,550 --> 00:02:48,550 Or you're good? 33 00:02:48,550 --> 00:02:55,550 Um, I did receive an anonymous complaint about the restructuring of the Planning Commission membership. 34 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:59,969 Anonymous? 35 00:02:59,969 --> 00:03:00,969 No, sorry. 36 00:03:00,969 --> 00:03:02,969 Anonymous complaint, really? 37 00:03:02,969 --> 00:03:07,969 About how the Planning Commission was restructured at one of your, I don't know if it's. 38 00:03:07,969 --> 00:03:08,969 They didn't want to put their name in it? 39 00:03:08,969 --> 00:03:10,969 They didn't want to put their name in it. I don't know, so. 40 00:03:10,969 --> 00:03:16,969 Well, we don't usually handle if it's not signed or people come here and say what's going on. 41 00:03:16,969 --> 00:03:19,969 I mean, what was the nature of the complaint that there's only a number of people? 42 00:03:19,969 --> 00:03:25,159 Yeah, they just didn't like the way it was, well, the way it was done. 43 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:26,840 Well. 44 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,439 And now we're getting 100%. 45 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:33,729 No, we, it's not signed, anonymous, and. 46 00:03:33,729 --> 00:03:34,729 Worthless. 47 00:03:34,729 --> 00:03:38,729 We've done that before with other unsigned letters. 48 00:03:38,729 --> 00:03:42,289 Okay. 49 00:03:42,289 --> 00:03:45,289 Any other visitors? Anything else? 50 00:03:45,289 --> 00:03:56,020 A special meeting of March 30th. 51 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:00,020 That was when we met with the library trustees. 52 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:04,780 Can I have a motion to accept them as written? 53 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:05,780 Motion. 54 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:10,810 We have to wait? 55 00:04:10,810 --> 00:04:15,360 Yeah, we've got to wait. 56 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,779 John, here. 57 00:04:16,779 --> 00:04:18,839 All right, the mic's not here, so we've got to wait. 58 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:26,240 Okay. 59 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:33,089 And regular minutes of April 2nd, to accept them as written? 60 00:04:33,089 --> 00:04:34,089 Motion. 61 00:04:34,089 --> 00:04:39,680 All in favor? 62 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Highway update. 63 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,980 Dave did mention to me that he's been out grading. 64 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:50,709 Laurie, he gave you some more information, too? 65 00:04:50,709 --> 00:04:53,410 Um, yes. 66 00:04:53,410 --> 00:04:59,709 It's time to sign the letter of. 67 00:04:59,709 --> 00:05:05,709 The letter of intent for the fiscal year 2027 grant and aid program. 68 00:05:05,709 --> 00:05:12,350 Um, we just have to let them know now we're interested in doing it, and then, um, Jim Henderson 69 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:17,350 will come out and drive around with Dave and decide what project is next on the list. 70 00:05:17,350 --> 00:05:19,350 So, at this point, we don't know. 71 00:05:19,350 --> 00:05:26,089 Can I have a motion to sign the letter of intent? 72 00:05:26,089 --> 00:05:28,089 It's not holding us to anything. 73 00:05:28,089 --> 00:05:32,870 All in favor? 74 00:05:32,870 --> 00:05:42,459 I spoke with Dara Zink this week from BC. 75 00:05:42,459 --> 00:05:44,769 She wanted to know if we could. 76 00:05:44,769 --> 00:05:51,769 She wanted to know if we had any, um, projects that would fit a FEMA mitigation grant. 77 00:05:51,769 --> 00:05:56,000 It's a 75-25% town match. 78 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Um, and I talked to Dave about it, and what he thought was we had tried to put in for 79 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 the Sportsman Road culvert through the Better Back Roads program, and the funding is just 80 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 tied up. 81 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,000 They don't know when they might be able to issue the grants and if we would even get 82 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,509 any. 83 00:06:14,509 --> 00:06:17,759 That's an 80-20 split. 84 00:06:17,759 --> 00:06:22,759 So, there's no obligation to begin moving forward with the FEMA grant at this time, 85 00:06:22,759 --> 00:06:28,759 and if the Better Back Roads does come through, we can just stop the FEMA, and if that fails, 86 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:33,329 we could consider getting the project done. 87 00:06:33,329 --> 00:06:41,240 So, it won't hurt us to sign the paperwork for FEMA and start proceeding with that, right? 88 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,240 Exactly. 89 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,240 That's what Dara suggested, was at this point, it's a letter of intent, and then the application 90 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,240 would be at the end of May. 91 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,949 And we could still at that point not accept the award when it's awarded later in the summer, 92 00:06:53,949 --> 00:06:55,949 but it's another opportunity. 93 00:06:55,949 --> 00:06:59,779 They won't let us do both, I don't believe. 94 00:06:59,779 --> 00:07:00,779 Right, they won't. 95 00:07:00,779 --> 00:07:01,779 No. 96 00:07:01,779 --> 00:07:04,040 We would at some point have to pick one. 97 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,470 Yes, go ahead with that, Lori. 98 00:07:09,470 --> 00:07:19,959 And then, um, I don't know if you remember, a few years ago, they did, um, Dave to pick 99 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:25,430 a list that they offered, and it paid a good portion of it. 100 00:07:25,430 --> 00:07:29,470 Thank you. 101 00:07:29,470 --> 00:07:30,470 Thank you. 102 00:07:30,470 --> 00:07:37,579 That's what he got was a compactor, and so that's coming up again. 103 00:07:37,579 --> 00:07:42,470 Dave hasn't had a chance to take a look at what we need to file. 104 00:07:42,470 --> 00:07:46,839 So, that's how we lock, lock the door? 105 00:07:46,839 --> 00:07:47,839 Plate compactor. 106 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:48,839 Yeah. 107 00:07:48,839 --> 00:07:49,839 Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah. 108 00:07:49,839 --> 00:07:50,839 That vibrates. 109 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:55,319 Jack. 110 00:07:55,319 --> 00:08:01,269 Jack Wack, or Wacky Jack, or something, I think. 111 00:08:01,269 --> 00:08:02,269 John Taylor. 112 00:08:02,269 --> 00:08:03,269 Jumping Jack Howard. 113 00:08:03,269 --> 00:08:04,649 Yeah. 114 00:08:04,649 --> 00:08:05,649 John used to call it something like that. 115 00:08:05,649 --> 00:08:06,649 You don't have to write it. 116 00:08:06,649 --> 00:08:07,649 Plate. 117 00:08:07,649 --> 00:08:08,649 You don't have to write it. 118 00:08:08,649 --> 00:08:09,649 Right. 119 00:08:09,649 --> 00:08:10,649 So, there's a whole list of things that you can buy. 120 00:08:10,649 --> 00:08:11,649 Yeah. 121 00:08:11,649 --> 00:08:12,649 Oh my gosh. 122 00:08:12,649 --> 00:08:13,649 All right, Jack. 123 00:08:13,649 --> 00:08:14,649 Okay. 124 00:08:14,649 --> 00:08:17,569 That's it for Dave? 125 00:08:17,569 --> 00:08:18,569 That's it for Dave. 126 00:08:18,569 --> 00:08:19,569 Okay. 127 00:08:19,569 --> 00:08:20,569 Anything on recycling? 128 00:08:20,569 --> 00:08:22,399 Oh, at least starting to be open? 129 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:23,399 Okay. 130 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:29,810 Yeah, what is it? 131 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:30,810 The last Wednesday in April? 132 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:31,810 The summer hours start? 133 00:08:31,810 --> 00:08:32,809 Yeah. 134 00:08:32,809 --> 00:08:33,809 The Household Hazardous Building in Bennington, I believe, will be open toward the end of 135 00:08:33,809 --> 00:08:34,809 May. 136 00:08:34,809 --> 00:08:35,809 You can go onto the website and see the dates. 137 00:08:35,809 --> 00:08:41,419 I'm pretty sure that's it. 138 00:08:41,419 --> 00:08:42,419 Okay. 139 00:08:42,419 --> 00:08:45,529 Thank you. 140 00:08:45,529 --> 00:08:46,529 Thank you. 141 00:08:46,529 --> 00:08:47,529 Thank you. 142 00:08:47,529 --> 00:08:48,529 Thank you. 143 00:08:48,529 --> 00:08:49,529 Thank you. 144 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:50,529 Thank you. 145 00:08:50,529 --> 00:08:51,529 Thank you. 146 00:08:51,529 --> 00:08:56,080 Thank you. 147 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,169 Thank you. 148 00:08:58,169 --> 00:08:59,169 Thank you. 149 00:08:59,169 --> 00:09:00,169 Thank you. 150 00:09:00,169 --> 00:09:01,720 Thank you. 151 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:02,720 Thank you. 152 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:03,720 Thank you. 153 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,029 Thank you. 154 00:09:06,029 --> 00:09:08,820 Thank you. 155 00:09:08,820 --> 00:09:09,820 Thank you. 156 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:10,820 Thank you. 157 00:09:10,820 --> 00:09:12,720 Thank you. 158 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Thank you. 159 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:14,720 Thank you. 160 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,720 Okay. 161 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:16,720 Thank you. 162 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:17,720 Oh, I thought they were going to be open towards the end of May. 163 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,259 I think it might be May 18th, just because I was talking to Mary Lou Wright, and she 164 00:09:19,259 --> 00:09:25,860 was like, oh, but they're not open yet, and I need to go up. 165 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:26,860 So, he told me May 18th today. 166 00:09:26,860 --> 00:09:30,870 Okay. 167 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:31,870 Okay. 168 00:09:31,870 --> 00:09:47,649 Anything else on recycling? 169 00:09:47,649 --> 00:09:48,649 Mowing quote. 170 00:09:48,649 --> 00:09:50,519 We asked John to give us a quote. 171 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:57,519 Spring cleanup, around the sign, remove clumps of sod and top soil and seed where needed, 172 00:09:57,519 --> 00:09:59,519 including old flowerbed, dispose of any debris. 173 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:00,679 Okay. 174 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,460 What do you mean the old flower bed? Oh, up there? 175 00:10:03,580 --> 00:10:07,740 Oh, yes. Right now there's just a flower bed with dirt, no grass seed. 176 00:10:07,860 --> 00:10:11,519 So I seed that whole area and put it back to grass. 177 00:10:11,740 --> 00:10:15,879 Okay. Then clean out the ditch. Is that the one along the fence? 178 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,519 The ditch all the way to like right here on this area. Clean that all out. 179 00:10:21,330 --> 00:10:25,529 Remove any unwanted dirt along the fence line ending at the playground area. 180 00:10:25,669 --> 00:10:26,909 Dispose of any debris. 181 00:10:26,909 --> 00:10:31,769 Yeah, that's covering that fence to that black fence there. 182 00:10:32,129 --> 00:10:36,970 Anything that's over here. And if you look over here, there's that communication box. 183 00:10:38,009 --> 00:10:44,809 The fence is actually like tipped over and engulfed in some kind of vines. 184 00:10:45,490 --> 00:10:51,049 So I'm going to try to clean that up and try to stand the fence back up if possible. 185 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:51,860 Okay. 186 00:10:52,059 --> 00:10:57,110 To the $800. 187 00:10:57,710 --> 00:11:00,350 That covers all of that, yes. 188 00:11:00,980 --> 00:11:01,340 Okay. 189 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:06,350 And then lawn mowing and trim per cut determined by lawn. 190 00:11:08,190 --> 00:11:38,980 $250 a make a motion to accept this quote for mowing and the cleanup. 191 00:11:40,169 --> 00:11:45,759 The mowing season, we can't say it's going to start April 1st. We never know. 192 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,559 So you just have to play it by ear and see when it mows. 193 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:55,000 I'm in town, so I kind of go by it and just look out and eat it. 194 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:56,460 So whenever it needs it. 195 00:11:56,460 --> 00:12:00,649 Do you want to have a set amount of times that we're allowing in the park? 196 00:12:00,649 --> 00:12:02,649 No, because we never know. 197 00:12:02,649 --> 00:12:06,840 Oh, because we always had 19. 198 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:13,159 Yeah, average is around 20 I'd say, but I guess it depends on how much rain, how much sun. 199 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:19,740 And I know one year it was so long out front they had to do it twice. 200 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:22,769 Like within the same week it was so long. 201 00:12:22,769 --> 00:12:23,769 That was before. 202 00:12:23,769 --> 00:12:27,210 Some years you didn't mow in the summer. 203 00:12:27,210 --> 00:12:29,299 It depends on the weather. 204 00:12:29,299 --> 00:12:32,879 I've mowed in probably at least 15. 205 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:35,480 It's been a while. 206 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,460 I have a second. 207 00:12:39,460 --> 00:13:01,590 Yeah, I'm going to abstain from the vote. 208 00:13:01,590 --> 00:13:45,710 Next on discussion is lister position. 209 00:13:45,710 --> 00:13:52,870 As you know, we have just one lister. 210 00:13:52,870 --> 00:13:58,289 Nobody else applied to work as a lister here in Stanford. 211 00:13:58,289 --> 00:14:05,340 We do have the NMRT, which we've had five, six years anyway. 212 00:14:05,340 --> 00:14:12,289 And Deb sent a letter to us that there's only one lister. 213 00:14:12,289 --> 00:14:16,730 There's only one lister so far. 214 00:14:16,730 --> 00:14:29,519 And she can't really do anything, but she's Beth Miller from State of Vermont Property Evaluation and Review. 215 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:35,059 We talked and said maybe Deb could work with the NMRT. 216 00:14:35,059 --> 00:14:42,110 She boots on the ground here and saved NMRT from coming down here all the time. 217 00:14:42,110 --> 00:14:50,240 So if you think it might work, I'd like to talk to NMRT and see if they want to hire her. 218 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:56,460 Because she really can't do anything alone for us. 219 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:59,320 That's my feeling. 220 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:06,409 $47. 221 00:15:06,409 --> 00:15:07,759 $47. 222 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:10,549 No. 223 00:15:10,549 --> 00:15:23,720 Yes, she has taken some training, yes. 224 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:29,059 I don't know which ones, but I know she has signed up for a couple. 225 00:15:29,059 --> 00:15:35,659 Probably get a lot more out of the NMRT guy with her backing up. 226 00:15:35,659 --> 00:15:44,039 Yeah, I'm just not sure who would verify her figures and stand behind her figures. 227 00:15:44,039 --> 00:15:46,039 If NMRT's willing to do this. 228 00:15:46,039 --> 00:15:50,730 Have them come down. 229 00:15:50,730 --> 00:15:51,730 What's that? 230 00:15:51,730 --> 00:15:53,730 Maybe have them come down so you can talk with them. 231 00:15:53,730 --> 00:15:55,730 Well, we can do a phone conversation. 232 00:15:55,730 --> 00:15:58,720 Well, you need two to be a lister, right? 233 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,169 If two, you wouldn't need NMRT at all. 234 00:16:01,169 --> 00:16:03,330 Well, not right today. 235 00:16:03,330 --> 00:16:06,330 Right, no, I'm just saying we had two experienced listers. 236 00:16:06,330 --> 00:16:07,330 Yes. 237 00:16:07,330 --> 00:16:08,330 You wouldn't need them. 238 00:16:08,330 --> 00:16:11,360 So if you have one experienced lister working with NMRT. 239 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:12,360 Yes. 240 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,519 Gain some background, gain some training, see how it's done. 241 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:16,519 Right. 242 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:17,519 Yep. 243 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:18,580 Yeah. 244 00:16:18,580 --> 00:16:22,580 So board of grades, should we explore this option? 245 00:16:22,580 --> 00:16:24,580 Yeah, that's a good idea, yeah. 246 00:16:24,580 --> 00:16:32,830 Because isn't the $47 or $45 the travel thing, and then isn't it like $95 and they're going 247 00:16:32,830 --> 00:16:37,059 up and down? 248 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:38,059 Yeah. 249 00:16:38,059 --> 00:16:43,529 I'd like to know, but it might save some money for the town. 250 00:16:43,529 --> 00:16:52,730 Yeah, so if anyone is being a lister. 251 00:16:52,730 --> 00:16:55,950 I see you looking right at me. 252 00:16:55,950 --> 00:17:03,100 I know, I know, I know. 253 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:05,099 And you get to know the town intimately. 254 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:06,099 Yeah. 255 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:07,099 Yeah. 256 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:12,099 And you see all the nice back roads and see all the nice houses. 257 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:13,099 Yeah. 258 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:14,099 It's all about training. 259 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:15,099 That's the hard part. 260 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:16,099 That's the hard part. 261 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:17,099 Yeah. 262 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:18,099 Driving around and looking at people's houses. 263 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:19,099 Sounds like school. 264 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:20,099 I love that. 265 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:21,099 I do that already. 266 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:22,099 Yeah. 267 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:23,099 Without having to go to school all day long. 268 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:24,099 Right, right. 269 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:31,099 I'll talk to Deb and see if she can explain how complicated the schooling is. 270 00:17:31,099 --> 00:17:33,099 Put your feelers out there. 271 00:17:33,099 --> 00:17:36,099 Maybe you can coax somebody into a . 272 00:17:36,099 --> 00:17:37,099 Yeah. 273 00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:38,359 As much as possible. 274 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:39,359 You can go online and look at the courses yourself. 275 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:40,359 I know. 276 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:41,359 We've been advertising and nobody's been interested. 277 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,359 Because you can do the schooling on your own time, right? 278 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:43,359 There are online courses. 279 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:44,359 Most of them are online. 280 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:45,359 Yeah. 281 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:46,359 We did come up with a set wage with options to grow. 282 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:47,359 I know the last one Deb took. 283 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:48,359 She said, this is boring. 284 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,839 It's a growth opportunity. 285 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:50,839 Yeah. 286 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:51,839 It's not a dead end job. 287 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:52,839 But she knows, you know. 288 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:53,839 Yeah. 289 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:54,839 She knows a lot of stuff just from already. 290 00:17:54,839 --> 00:17:56,319 Yes. 291 00:17:56,319 --> 00:17:57,319 Her, you know, more experience. 292 00:17:57,319 --> 00:17:58,319 Yeah. 293 00:17:58,319 --> 00:17:59,319 Yeah. 294 00:17:59,319 --> 00:18:00,319 Yeah. 295 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:01,319 Yeah. 296 00:18:01,319 --> 00:18:02,319 Yeah. 297 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:03,319 Yeah. 298 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:04,319 Yeah. 299 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:05,319 Yeah. 300 00:18:05,319 --> 00:18:06,319 Yeah. 301 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:07,319 She knows more than I do. 302 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:08,319 Yep. 303 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:09,380 But. 304 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:10,380 Yep. 305 00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:11,380 I can learn some tricks I guess. 306 00:18:11,380 --> 00:18:12,380 Okay. 307 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:13,799 Thank you for coming tonight. 308 00:18:13,799 --> 00:18:14,799 I'll think about it. 309 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:15,799 I'll think about it. 310 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:16,799 . 311 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:17,799 It brings a smile to their face. 312 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:18,799 . 313 00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:19,799 Next on the agenda is endless mountain adventure race. 314 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:20,799 Yeah. 315 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:24,519 I received an email from them. 316 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:29,579 They're doing a 350 mile course. 317 00:18:29,579 --> 00:18:32,700 Over a five day period. 318 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:34,430 Yeah. 319 00:18:34,430 --> 00:18:37,950 So, they're doing a 50 mile course. 320 00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:38,950 Did they pass? 321 00:18:38,950 --> 00:18:49,670 period. They're going to come down Sucker Pond Road, cut across a little bit of Klondike 322 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:54,470 or county and then down Klondike and into Massachusetts. They wanted permission to be 323 00:18:54,470 --> 00:19:01,269 able to hike, bike through our town and use our roads, but they're public roads anyway. 324 00:19:01,269 --> 00:19:11,420 It's nice of them to ask. They expect about 35 teams of two to four participants and they 325 00:19:11,420 --> 00:19:18,539 will be dispersed by as much as 24 to 36 hours. Seems about as close as we get to bringing 326 00:19:18,539 --> 00:19:25,740 that type of outdoor recreation to town. Should we put some kind of signage out so people 327 00:19:25,740 --> 00:19:34,140 are aware? They'll probably have some kind of signage. When does this happen? They didn't 328 00:19:34,339 --> 00:19:43,329 say, did they? Oh, June 2026. Okay. They mountain bike, hike, paddle, navigate using 329 00:19:43,329 --> 00:19:51,829 maps and compass skills. We are a proud member of the Adventure Race World Series. Most of 330 00:19:51,829 --> 00:19:59,450 it will take place on public land, National Forest. Might be a busy weekend for the fire 331 00:19:59,450 --> 00:20:07,269 department. It's a quick job. Yeah, and the ambulance service. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they 332 00:20:07,269 --> 00:20:08,710 might want to move the ice cream. 333 00:20:09,269 --> 00:20:16,269 It's frailer. Yeah. Put it up there. That's a good thought. Yes. Put it out at the intersection. 334 00:20:16,269 --> 00:20:20,500 Right at the intersection. Have it end right there. You know, instead of grabbing a bottle 335 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:26,000 of water, you grab an ice cream cone as you go. That's my kind of marathon. No problem 336 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:32,960 with that. They're out of public roads and stuff. I think it's great. Okay. Thanks for 337 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,259 their... Sounds like fun. Wish I could ride my bike farther than the building. Thanks 338 00:20:36,259 --> 00:20:41,569 for asking. Thanks for the update. Correspondent. 339 00:20:41,609 --> 00:20:48,769 Resignation from Planning Commission. Yeah. I should have also said from Emergency Management 340 00:20:48,769 --> 00:20:59,529 Coordinator. Okay. Received a letter from Dr. Stephanie Shelburne that she is resigning 341 00:20:59,529 --> 00:21:05,130 from Chairman and Member of Planning Commission as well as Emergency Coordinator for the Town 342 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:10,730 of Stanford. Effective immediate release April 9th due to personal circumstances. So, thank 343 00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:11,730 you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 344 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,730 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 345 00:21:12,730 --> 00:21:15,829 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 346 00:21:15,829 --> 00:21:16,829 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, we have 347 00:21:16,829 --> 00:21:30,769 a letter of interest for someone to serve on the Planning Commission because we have 348 00:21:30,769 --> 00:21:40,539 a vacancy. Did anybody go to the Planning Committee other night? Are they recommending 349 00:21:40,539 --> 00:21:51,500 anybody either? No. Did he... 350 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:55,039 Papers in before, when they reduced the... 351 00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:55,920 Report go there. 352 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:02,259 board when you guys produced the board he had his paperwork did he send us a paper of interest or 353 00:22:02,259 --> 00:22:08,420 did it was it just from the planning commission no he sent a letter he sent the letter directly 354 00:22:08,420 --> 00:22:15,619 to lauren i didn't get a letter like that was peter greenberg suggesting that he made it he 355 00:22:15,619 --> 00:22:26,259 said that he sent a letter to the planner to the we have uh errands and we have one from sheila 356 00:22:26,259 --> 00:22:36,539 that would be interested in going back on so um let's check that out and never got an email we've 357 00:22:36,539 --> 00:22:43,019 got two people interested yep we'll see if we can find aaron's letter yep yeah and she was interested 358 00:22:43,019 --> 00:23:03,759 yep consider me and it's one i've been doing sheila and aaron and more paperwork on that too 359 00:23:04,559 --> 00:23:15,200 you guys have a chair yet we'll restructure 360 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:22,319 we decided we should have the full 361 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:29,759 board before we restructure right we we are then you're waiting for us to appoint somebody 362 00:23:29,759 --> 00:23:36,720 correct we are doing two a month now because of the bylaws the town plan we have 363 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:42,400 bcrc at our meetings almost every almost every meeting so there's not really a lot of time to 364 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:51,299 work on the bylaws as well yeah so we started doing two a month starting this month so i know 365 00:23:51,299 --> 00:23:52,500 a function because he could be 366 00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:57,700 chair he's vice chair so he's just acting as chair in the meantime i do know that that um 367 00:23:59,059 --> 00:24:05,220 past practice first first person that had their letter in right right and um 368 00:24:06,319 --> 00:24:12,960 both of these people have been on the planning commission so we're lucky there aaron has been the 369 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:20,640 chair for quite some time going through the town plan and the bylaws and so we highly recommend 370 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,400 aaron meltz 371 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:31,440 that's okay sheila i'd like to say something about that for the many years that i was on there i was 372 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:38,460 chairman and when all of you came aboard i wasn't allowed to do anything other than just a person 373 00:24:38,460 --> 00:24:46,450 sitting there and going through the stuff and that so i really would appreciate you guys understand 374 00:24:46,450 --> 00:24:51,970 that i did do some a lot more respect in the world and i and i respect what you've done for this time 375 00:24:52,529 --> 00:25:00,190 absolutely you deserve it you've been uh you know one of the founding fathers here if you ask me 376 00:25:00,910 --> 00:25:05,710 i mean it goes way back i know you do and i know people that have told me that don't live 377 00:25:05,710 --> 00:25:12,750 in stanford that knows the lawrence family and you and everybody else your what you bring to 378 00:25:12,750 --> 00:25:20,109 to stanford i thank you and i'm only here 11 years and you've been a part of it all the way but 379 00:25:20,109 --> 00:25:27,170 i'm just i'm just talking now i'm just talking right now as what was what we think is best for 380 00:25:27,170 --> 00:25:35,009 the plan commission as it is it's not it's not perfect so like i said any time any time we go 381 00:25:35,009 --> 00:25:40,769 positions that are contentious or more than one person going for the position especially 382 00:25:40,769 --> 00:25:45,329 something like the planning board or the zba um we should probably at least sit down 383 00:25:46,609 --> 00:25:51,410 talk to these individuals and see what's up right and get a whole errand to see 384 00:25:51,410 --> 00:25:51,490 you 385 00:25:51,490 --> 00:25:55,410 is interested in just coming in and next meeting or wherever we can do it and 386 00:25:56,380 --> 00:26:02,960 have a quick interview and i'm sure she'll already is accepting that it's just a fair way to do it i 387 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:08,400 would think right and that's the logical way to do it especially not just for these two but going 388 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:15,660 forward well i don't have to get knocked off it was just like i was over and everybody was down 389 00:26:15,660 --> 00:26:22,140 to seven people i understand never know that you are we should go through a process and oh 390 00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:28,299 and also too if anybody else is interested maybe we have more people than sheila and aaron that might 391 00:26:28,299 --> 00:26:32,380 want to step up into the planning commission we got to get a set pattern on what we're doing i 392 00:26:32,380 --> 00:26:37,660 mean sometimes we're advertising it sometimes we're just um appointing somebody on the spot 393 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:43,660 you know sometimes well you know we got this resignation stephanie's resignation will be in the 394 00:26:43,660 --> 00:26:49,819 minutes and make some people aware that there's we need if there's an opening if anyone else wants to 395 00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:51,970 send in their 396 00:26:52,930 --> 00:26:58,130 in letter of interest that's i think any time we get like a resignation from the important boards 397 00:26:58,130 --> 00:27:04,619 that i've mentioned we should at least give it the two weeks to the next meeting one else i'll do that 398 00:27:04,619 --> 00:27:11,490 might be we just got to get away from blindly you know appointing people maybe you could ask 399 00:27:11,490 --> 00:27:16,930 those people to be here a half an hour before your next select board meeting and then you can 400 00:27:16,930 --> 00:27:34,750 put it on the agenda if you want it on the agenda for the next meeting this board that the wars when 401 00:27:34,910 --> 00:27:40,849 they did have an opening that they could interview the people the candidates and make a recommendation 402 00:27:40,849 --> 00:27:45,730 to the board and everybody agreed on that i think you guys did that the planning commission right 403 00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:53,089 we did that for the a.o we do it for the a.o that's a state law but um i'm just thinking going 404 00:27:53,089 --> 00:28:01,339 forward is uh i mean you guys know the work we do is extremely important she'll know that as well 405 00:28:01,339 --> 00:28:04,940 you've got a lot on your plate and we got a lot on a plate and we need 406 00:28:05,180 --> 00:28:06,359 aggressive 407 00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:10,779 go-getters that know exactly what they're doing all right i'm not saying that sheila doesn't know 408 00:28:10,779 --> 00:28:14,460 or aaron doesn't know they've both been involved in doing exactly what we need to be done 409 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:24,799 but keep in mind creating a new system should be done outside of having to appoint somebody now 410 00:28:25,599 --> 00:28:31,900 we need somebody as soon as possible so if you're creating a new system and by interviewing people 411 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:37,279 i wholeheartedly commend you for doing that that's what needs to be done interview 412 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,930 us and all of that stuff for for these important positions but you know 413 00:28:43,569 --> 00:28:48,930 up until today you have chosen the person the basically the first person that put in their 414 00:28:48,930 --> 00:28:55,170 paperwork yes well at some point we got to change whether that's today tomorrow or or whenever i 415 00:28:55,170 --> 00:29:03,059 got full faith that the six you can handle it yeah so i think it'll be all right the uh i'd like to 416 00:29:03,059 --> 00:29:06,180 table anyways until we have a full board i think it'd be okay good to hear what mike may or may not have an option if they want to start 417 00:29:06,180 --> 00:29:06,660 the table anyways until we have a full board i think it'd be okay good to hear what mike may or may not have an option for someone who's not in their position 418 00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:13,819 hear what Mike may or may not have to say on the matter and we'll see if we can find a letter from 419 00:29:13,819 --> 00:29:18,700 Aaron I I remember one from the planning commission recommending Aaron but I don't 420 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:28,019 remember one from Aaron Sheila a lot some of it but um I hate that yeah I know you got me when 421 00:29:28,019 --> 00:29:36,390 you said something more um the thing is is I did not put in you know to say that I wouldn't be here 422 00:29:36,390 --> 00:29:42,410 normally you get a letter from the selectmen saying congratulations we reappointed you and 423 00:29:42,410 --> 00:29:49,109 if you decide not to do it let us know right I never received that letter right but when you 424 00:29:49,109 --> 00:29:54,950 you did discuss with Laurie to go around and ask certain people that were going to be coming up if 425 00:29:54,950 --> 00:30:01,569 they were interested still and I did tell her yes I am and I was asked I asked around and then 426 00:30:01,569 --> 00:30:05,390 she did bring my name up told you that I 427 00:30:05,390 --> 00:30:06,369 wanted to stay 428 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:11,910 on all of them right so I just don't understand why to my point I got shipped up the goal 429 00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:17,450 pulse is always moving and we need a set standard a set practice that we do every time every person 430 00:30:17,450 --> 00:30:34,230 they kind of respect their policy is that they send the letter in but we we eliminated the 431 00:30:34,230 --> 00:30:48,380 position yeah we had a lot of talking about the different things people could get blindly 432 00:30:48,380 --> 00:31:05,329 appointed way more things to pay attention but I'm not dumb I'll tell you that now I can't afford 433 00:31:05,329 --> 00:31:05,750 to go alone 434 00:31:05,769 --> 00:31:17,519 with what everything is going on okay so can we John suggestion is this going to hold the Planning 435 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:39,880 Commission though we're totally fine who do you have to remember zombies nice Lisa you trying to 436 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,079 say seven people yes 437 00:31:44,380 --> 00:32:07,019 okay for now we should at some point um so john's motion is table until next meeting do i have a 438 00:32:07,019 --> 00:32:20,940 second second all in favor person who is that person is what the trustee for the library who 439 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:26,539 wants to be oh that's coming okay i didn't know if we uh okay now planning commission now we'll 440 00:32:26,539 --> 00:32:32,859 move to letter of interest from the library board of trustees now cindy did not resign she just 441 00:32:32,859 --> 00:32:41,220 didn't run right she did not run so there's a vacancy vacancy left too much so um victoria 442 00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:48,019 jeffrey stepped forward and said i would like to be appointed to fill the vacancy until the next 443 00:32:48,019 --> 00:33:01,910 election any problems with that make a motion to i mean i haven't been doing that i think we 444 00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:06,470 still need to do the same thing we just did i think we need to just ask that is this person 445 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:08,119 what 446 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,240 they think of it of it before we just started is it is it an elected position this was elected 447 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,039 that's not what's the procedure on hand 448 00:33:20,380 --> 00:33:25,900 she went to a library meeting a week or two ago and i believe they already supported it and told 449 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:34,900 her to send in her letter process they just uh maybe you need to uh ask the powers that be 450 00:33:37,529 --> 00:33:40,250 that needs to wait to an election no we can appoint 451 00:33:40,250 --> 00:33:43,369 a scenario that i'd deserve to be consistent we can appoint until the next election 452 00:33:44,170 --> 00:33:56,019 so her term will be up in march of next year tree work representative she thought he's been kind 453 00:33:56,019 --> 00:34:01,859 of involved in whatever projects she was involved is she wasn't there at the library that day and 454 00:34:01,859 --> 00:34:09,750 said that's why she'd like to fill that vacant position you want to wait for this one too just 455 00:34:09,750 --> 00:34:26,380 put it out there say we yeah game because they've been without one thing yeah put this in the minutes 456 00:34:26,539 --> 00:34:33,070 we have vacancies and get the letters of interest to the select board for next 457 00:34:33,070 --> 00:34:36,840 meeting at the very least we could probably be consistent with that we just 458 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:48,690 wait so we have a motion to table it all in favor yes anything else under 459 00:34:48,690 --> 00:35:04,630 correspondence Lori old business 9-1-1 numbering update so I went through the 460 00:35:04,630 --> 00:35:12,619 list that Bob Briggs sent to us I've matched all the names up with the 461 00:35:12,619 --> 00:35:20,099 address I sent Bob the letter copy of the letter that we sent out two years 462 00:35:20,099 --> 00:35:26,099 ago I asked him to please revise it or any suggestions and he didn't get back 463 00:35:26,099 --> 00:35:38,659 to me yet so we're still on hold with this but there's I could send you the 464 00:35:38,659 --> 00:35:49,820 copy of the you see anybody on there maybe you could get your 9-1-1 they have 465 00:35:49,820 --> 00:35:51,260 to be four inches 466 00:35:51,739 --> 00:35:59,920 contrasting letters on a reflective surface reflective surface and if your 467 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,619 house cannot be seen from the road there are certain specification do you still 468 00:36:03,619 --> 00:36:06,400 have that move Maybe we can include that in the letter 469 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:13,650 Collen says if we can't see the number, it's because the number needs to be seen from 470 00:36:13,650 --> 00:36:21,869 the edge of the road on a house or a post at the end of your driveway what is 471 00:36:21,869 --> 00:36:25,269 it uh is it fifteen dollars 16 16 dollars for half an hour or 15 estouks six hundred dollars is that saved? 472 00:36:25,269 --> 00:36:25,349 擊 473 00:36:25,969 --> 00:36:31,949 $16 the Stanford volunteer fire department will make you a nice 474 00:36:31,949 --> 00:36:37,809 reflective sign that fits the description. Fits the regulations one or 475 00:36:37,809 --> 00:36:52,650 two sides. And you can pick if it's vertically or horizontally. Yep. Pre-drilled. Pre-drilled holes. Save yourself a trip to the hardware store. Yep. Especially when they don't have matching numbers. Then you're running all over for them. 476 00:36:52,650 --> 00:37:02,320 It would be like me that buys a sign and then it's sitting under my seat in my truck. 477 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,610 He has a few also. Strolling to the side of the truck and parking off front. There you go. 478 00:37:06,610 --> 00:37:19,219 We did notice the town of Stanford was in violation too. So we are working on that. Busted. Yeah busted. 479 00:37:19,219 --> 00:37:26,130 Alright I'll send you the list of guys and if you need anybody. 480 00:37:26,130 --> 00:37:38,210 What's that? 481 00:37:38,210 --> 00:37:42,369 Do you have any volunteers yet to do flower pots on the signs? 482 00:37:42,369 --> 00:37:47,989 Under there? 483 00:37:47,989 --> 00:37:54,500 What's the job? 484 00:37:54,500 --> 00:38:00,500 We haven't really discussed any flowers there and just let it go to the grass. We know what happens in the past. 485 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:04,500 I was thinking about brackets off the poles just for hanging baskets. 486 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:12,949 Who wants to do them take care of them. I'm not taking care of them. 487 00:38:12,949 --> 00:38:18,829 Yeah that's the thing. I'm down here every day. 488 00:38:18,829 --> 00:38:20,829 Is there an outdoor faucet here? 489 00:38:20,829 --> 00:38:21,889 This is too much. 490 00:38:21,889 --> 00:38:22,889 Cactus. 491 00:38:22,889 --> 00:38:23,889 No. 492 00:38:23,889 --> 00:38:27,889 I think there's a little area where the memorial is. The VFW memorial. 493 00:38:27,889 --> 00:38:32,889 I think if you're going to do flowers that would be a good spot right in front of the school. 494 00:38:32,889 --> 00:38:37,889 I take care of the two buckets there. There used to be a beautiful flower bed. 495 00:38:37,889 --> 00:38:43,690 It's kind of all grown in right now. It might soak up the water that's coming into the school. 496 00:38:43,690 --> 00:38:49,849 There you go. 497 00:38:49,849 --> 00:38:52,849 I think that's done. 498 00:38:52,849 --> 00:39:00,570 Then we don't need the facilities manager. 499 00:39:00,570 --> 00:39:04,570 Well they have Leo's areas decorated nicely. 500 00:39:04,570 --> 00:39:05,570 Yes. 501 00:39:05,570 --> 00:39:08,369 I think Carol keeps that. 502 00:39:08,369 --> 00:39:13,710 There was volunteers that took care of that. 503 00:39:13,710 --> 00:39:19,510 I guess the school was doing it for a while. 504 00:39:19,510 --> 00:39:23,150 Somebody was working on it and then... 505 00:39:23,150 --> 00:39:27,210 Years go by and the people that knew and worked with Leo are gone. 506 00:39:27,210 --> 00:39:28,210 Yes. 507 00:39:28,210 --> 00:39:32,210 Like the memorial out there. Who's that guy out by the basketball court? 508 00:39:32,210 --> 00:39:33,210 That is... 509 00:39:33,210 --> 00:39:36,210 Like the guy that built the school or something. I don't even know. 510 00:39:36,210 --> 00:39:38,210 No. The stone out there? 511 00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:39,210 Yeah. 512 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:43,980 No. That's Jackie. Somebody that died in a car accident. 513 00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:45,679 Ah. 514 00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:52,969 Many years ago. Lived down Main Road. 515 00:39:52,969 --> 00:39:54,969 The little log cabin? 516 00:39:54,969 --> 00:39:57,969 Yeah. The log cabin guy. 517 00:39:57,969 --> 00:40:00,969 Yeah. With the mailbox in the driveway. 518 00:40:00,969 --> 00:40:03,969 His name was Jack. 519 00:40:03,969 --> 00:40:07,420 I forget the name on it. It's been a long time. 520 00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:09,480 It's been a long time and I can't say it. 521 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:14,480 He's probably almost... would have been about 80 years old. 522 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,480 Yeah. I mean that's been there my whole life. 523 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:27,769 He had a sub shock down under the big bridge on the highway there. 524 00:40:27,769 --> 00:40:29,829 Where... 525 00:40:29,829 --> 00:40:35,829 He used to have the gas station here and then you have where you can turn and go to the cops but it's right in there where the engine... 526 00:40:35,829 --> 00:40:37,829 There was like a sub-shot I'd call it. 527 00:40:37,829 --> 00:40:45,639 He's Jack Roy. 528 00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:46,639 That's what they make. 529 00:40:46,639 --> 00:40:49,639 They do a lot of good things for the town. They just have a name and why not. 530 00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:52,869 I think it was Jack. I think it was Sherman. That's the last name. 531 00:40:52,869 --> 00:41:09,909 Old business. Have you had any luck coordinating the school and library meeting with us? 532 00:41:09,909 --> 00:41:16,909 Well, they had a meeting together so I was kind of waiting to see if anyone had any information on the outcome of that. 533 00:41:16,909 --> 00:41:27,000 We kind of farmed an email as of what to say. Based on our email it was going to be about the library and school relations as well as the town. 534 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,030 I just wasn't sure what the outcome of that meeting was. 535 00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:42,960 Lori and I were both there and what was the outcome? They just discussed it and I believe Cindy was going to go back and talk to the school board because there was only two members there. 536 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,960 So do we still want to meet with the library? Do we just want to meet with the school? 537 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:47,960 We'd like to meet with all three of them. 538 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:48,960 Okay. 539 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:55,719 Okay. I'll send out an email tonight. I wasn't sure if they came to some kind of conclusion or agreement. 540 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,719 Not as far as I know. 541 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,639 Okay. 542 00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:05,659 Was there any library minutes out? I don't know that. I didn't see any. 543 00:42:05,659 --> 00:42:09,809 Do we want the supervisory in there? No? 544 00:42:09,809 --> 00:42:15,809 No. I think just our local school board, library. Just our three local boards. 545 00:42:15,809 --> 00:42:28,170 Okay. Any other old business? New business. 546 00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:32,840 There's an upcoming training for VCA training. 547 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:41,369 VCA training. June 17th, 6 to 7 30. It's an online webinar. 548 00:42:41,369 --> 00:42:45,000 I'm dumb. What's VCA? 549 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,000 VCA. 550 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Oh. 551 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:59,000 Focus. The session walks participants through the legal and practical requirements of the hearing and offers guidance on conducting fair, timely, and well-managed hearing from start to finish. 552 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,320 Is this the same one that we did before when we all came in here? 553 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,320 Probably. It's an hour and a half. 554 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:06,320 Yeah. 555 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,320 Maybe it'd be a good refresher course. 556 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,320 Yeah. And if anything's changed. 557 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:23,079 Yeah. Might be good to sit in on it. It doesn't say the cost or anything. 558 00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:31,320 So do you have a CT? 559 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:41,380 No. It's through PBR. They usually charge. I'll find out because it's June 17th. 560 00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:50,900 And if they charge, they would charge for you being on your computer and you being on your computer. 561 00:43:50,900 --> 00:44:01,829 So we should be all together here on one computer. 562 00:44:01,829 --> 00:44:06,519 Any other new business? 563 00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:08,610 Just a Uniform Municipal Access Weight Permit. 564 00:44:08,610 --> 00:44:10,349 Okay. 565 00:44:10,349 --> 00:44:11,349 Casella. 566 00:44:11,349 --> 00:44:20,409 We're getting more now than we... 567 00:44:20,409 --> 00:44:26,650 By these people that, or they just blatantly come in and give you... 568 00:44:26,650 --> 00:44:31,650 We said we weren't going to chase after them, but ever since we said we're not going to chase after them, they've been... 569 00:44:31,650 --> 00:44:36,650 We started sending them in. I don't know if it's worth chasing $10, but... 570 00:44:36,650 --> 00:44:37,650 No, it wasn't. 571 00:44:37,650 --> 00:44:38,650 Yeah. 572 00:44:38,650 --> 00:44:44,650 I think Sheila, when you were on the board, you called people for these overweight permits. You had the list and called them every year. 573 00:44:44,650 --> 00:44:45,650 Yeah, we did. 574 00:44:45,650 --> 00:44:47,780 But we never had as many as this. 575 00:44:47,780 --> 00:44:51,389 We had five. 576 00:44:51,389 --> 00:44:52,389 Okay. 577 00:44:52,389 --> 00:44:56,389 Basically, there was only like two or three that were on the honors. 578 00:44:56,389 --> 00:44:58,389 Yeah, we got a lot of them. 579 00:44:58,389 --> 00:45:00,389 Can I have a motion to sign? 580 00:45:00,389 --> 00:45:01,389 Motion. 581 00:45:01,389 --> 00:45:02,389 Second. 582 00:45:02,389 --> 00:45:12,929 All in favor? 583 00:45:12,929 --> 00:45:13,929 D.O.T. 584 00:45:13,929 --> 00:45:15,570 Not for us. 585 00:45:15,570 --> 00:45:26,519 D.O.T. 586 00:45:26,519 --> 00:45:35,110 D.O.T. 587 00:45:35,110 --> 00:45:43,110 This is a new business. I don't... This is kind of an old law, I guess, or passed a couple years ago. Act 181. Anybody familiar with it? 588 00:45:43,110 --> 00:45:44,139 Oh, yeah. 589 00:45:44,139 --> 00:45:49,139 It seems like there's a lot of people up in arms about it. 590 00:45:49,139 --> 00:45:51,139 It's a contention. It's a contention. 591 00:45:51,139 --> 00:46:03,170 It's just another layer of permitting for... You've got your town permits for something, and then if the town can't approve it, it goes to Act 250. 592 00:46:03,170 --> 00:46:14,880 And then from there, it goes to this Act 181 approval, and it could cost up to $30,000, I read, on one machine. 593 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,880 I don't know what tier that is. 594 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:17,880 It depends on what tier. 595 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:18,880 What tier you are. 596 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:28,880 It's all a tiered level. I mean, some of it doesn't even override Act 250. It depends on where... They haven't drawn out the official maps yet, so it's hard to say. 597 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,880 It's all based on if you're in 1A, 1B section. 598 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:39,880 Then you don't have to worry about Act 250 stuff, and you can build. It's all about how fast can we move houses. 599 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:40,880 Yeah. 600 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:50,880 And from what I read, too, that it's another level of bureaucracy that they have to do another committee, another review, so... 601 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:51,880 We don't want it. 602 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,880 More levels. 603 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:54,880 Everything you're reading, we don't want. 604 00:46:54,880 --> 00:47:01,880 Everything that I'm reading seems that they're absolutely, you know, shelving it for now, and, you know, that... 605 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:02,880 How do you get... 606 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:03,880 Probably, it's just dead. 607 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:09,880 How did it get passed to begin with? Did it just slip through, and nobody heard about it until it's... 608 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:21,880 A lot of flame. Housing is a crisis. So they're trying to alleviate that without having sprawl all over the place in Vermont. Mountain sides and range just getting torn up. 609 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,880 It's not all bad. And there's some parts in there that people aren't going to like, but... 610 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:27,880 Yeah, like the part where you can... 611 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:28,880 It's not all bad. 612 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,880 You can have yours here, and you want to get it over there. You can get it over there. 613 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,880 You can scoot right through everybody's property without getting in trouble. 614 00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:36,880 That would be perfect. 615 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:42,880 They're trying to actually tighten up on the road a little, make it shorter, 800 feet. 616 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:44,880 That's the most contentious part. 617 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:45,880 Yeah. 618 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,880 People would put private roads in. 619 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,880 Well, I mean, I think there definitely needs to be some limit on private roads. 620 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,880 You can argue the distance, but there definitely needs to be limits. 621 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,880 I mean, you can see this whole town changed completely. 622 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,880 I know people are big on property rights, and so are I. 623 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:07,880 But, I mean, if you leave people to their own devices, they're a lot of the times going to do absolutely the wrong thing. 624 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:08,880 Yes. 625 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,880 So, that's why there's structured laws, you know. 626 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:19,869 I don't know if anybody's seen that, but Reedsboro sent a letter to the farmers to be there that they weren't... 627 00:48:19,869 --> 00:48:21,869 I think Whittingham was also... 628 00:48:21,869 --> 00:48:22,869 Whittingham. 629 00:48:22,869 --> 00:48:23,869 Whittingham. 630 00:48:23,869 --> 00:48:28,869 I mean, farmers are definitely going to hate it because it restricts their private property. 631 00:48:28,869 --> 00:48:30,869 Have you seen that coming up? 632 00:48:30,869 --> 00:48:32,190 Here? 633 00:48:32,190 --> 00:48:33,190 No. 634 00:48:33,190 --> 00:48:34,190 No, they're like... 635 00:48:34,190 --> 00:48:35,190 Oh, yeah. 636 00:48:35,190 --> 00:48:36,190 Other informational media. 637 00:48:36,190 --> 00:48:43,190 It seems to be pinpointing metropolitan areas, if you want to use that word, in Vermont. 638 00:48:43,190 --> 00:48:50,219 But they're just basically left all of the rural settings, you know, to... 639 00:48:50,219 --> 00:48:51,219 Yeah. 640 00:48:51,219 --> 00:48:53,219 They see this thing, and this doesn't work in rural settings. 641 00:48:53,219 --> 00:48:57,219 After the meeting the other night, I went back and read up on a bunch of things. 642 00:48:57,219 --> 00:48:58,219 And I'm curious. 643 00:48:58,219 --> 00:48:59,219 Stanford, obviously, is going to have a lot of kids. 644 00:48:59,219 --> 00:49:00,219 Yeah. 645 00:49:00,219 --> 00:49:01,219 So there's a lot of kids in the area. 646 00:49:01,219 --> 00:49:02,219 There's also a lot of people from other areas who are going to have kids, and they're just 647 00:49:02,219 --> 00:49:03,219 going to have a lot of tier-three in it, which they already do. 648 00:49:03,219 --> 00:49:04,219 I mean, 60% of the town is already a national forest. 649 00:49:04,219 --> 00:49:05,219 So it's really no change. 650 00:49:05,219 --> 00:49:06,320 Absolutely no change to that. 651 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:15,320 But I'm curious whether they're going to label the village district a I-A or a I-B, and a 652 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:20,320 surrounding area around it, which basically alleviates all permitting for a period of time. 653 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:29,320 I don't know how river corridors and flood plains and stuff like that play into it, but 654 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,619 A lot of this is still being argued about and debated. 655 00:49:33,539 --> 00:49:39,460 Well, the big thing is, too, is floodplains is something that FEMA sets, right? 656 00:49:39,460 --> 00:49:44,199 So that's a given where the floodplains are. 657 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:51,300 But river corridors, they can put a number on 100 feet apart, a different number. 658 00:49:51,599 --> 00:49:54,199 So there's no set number on a river corridor. 659 00:49:54,199 --> 00:50:00,469 They have to come down to tell you if you're in the river corridor or not. 660 00:50:00,789 --> 00:50:04,500 So for us to call, that's a set, right? 661 00:50:04,860 --> 00:50:07,460 There's maps, but they're not footage. 662 00:50:07,460 --> 00:50:13,139 You know, like for us, if the AO has to go and try to give a permit to somebody, 663 00:50:13,699 --> 00:50:16,840 she needs to know where the river corridor is. 664 00:50:16,980 --> 00:50:19,840 Generally speaking, I think it's 50 feet from the rise. 665 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,000 That's the right. It's always been 50 feet. 666 00:50:22,139 --> 00:50:23,619 But now that's all changed. 667 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:24,780 There's an if-if. 668 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,880 It's a big, huge change now. 669 00:50:28,659 --> 00:50:33,719 Jim, the Planning Commission, are you going to ever have somebody come down and explain this 670 00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,000 or train the sessions on it? 671 00:50:36,260 --> 00:50:37,699 We're working on that now. 672 00:50:39,619 --> 00:50:42,559 It's on our agenda for our next meeting, is 181. 673 00:50:43,059 --> 00:50:52,690 I think there's been so much pushback, and I feel like a lot of it has become very politicized. 674 00:50:52,690 --> 00:50:59,230 It's an effort to balance development and conservation in a thoughtful way, 675 00:50:59,230 --> 00:51:05,690 and unfortunately, the way they're doing it is very heavy-handed in terms of cost 676 00:51:05,690 --> 00:51:11,389 to people who just have a big piece of land and want to build one house for their kid. 677 00:51:12,269 --> 00:51:20,650 And the financial burden, and then also people discovering that their massive piece of land 678 00:51:20,650 --> 00:51:22,230 is not suitable for development. 679 00:51:22,690 --> 00:51:30,480 If they were planning on cashing in, you know, that way, it's causing a lot of strife 680 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:36,139 because I think it's not well understood, and we don't really know where it's going, 681 00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:39,260 and also mapping isn't finished yet. 682 00:51:39,519 --> 00:51:44,119 I mean, there's a lot of mushiness around it, and now it has become this real hot button. 683 00:51:44,380 --> 00:51:48,260 And it has because, I mean, as soon as you lost me a property, that's right. 684 00:51:48,260 --> 00:51:49,719 I'm not even going to go read the law. 685 00:51:49,780 --> 00:51:50,860 I'm not going to listen to anything else. 686 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,619 You just said my property rights are affected. 687 00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,780 So I'm against it, which is the wrong strategy to take. 688 00:51:56,340 --> 00:52:00,980 Look, Stanford could very easily be inherently a different town than what we're looking at right now. 689 00:52:01,420 --> 00:52:04,380 If all these hillsides and everything are developed, which some people want to do, 690 00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,619 the town is completely different than the whole reason you moved here to begin with, right? 691 00:52:08,820 --> 00:52:10,699 It can very easily change your definition. 692 00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:12,500 Plenty of land around here to be developed. 693 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,539 So we need to be careful of what we're wishing for and what we're not wishing for. 694 00:52:16,739 --> 00:52:16,940 Yeah. 695 00:52:17,260 --> 00:52:19,380 And be logical about what we're thinking of. 696 00:52:19,380 --> 00:52:20,019 The Riggies. 697 00:52:20,699 --> 00:52:22,380 If you're 1A, look what happened to... 698 00:52:22,780 --> 00:52:24,440 Right next to their land. 699 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:29,340 I mean, we started standing all over the place here, and the real budget alone is going to break this town. 700 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,659 So how do you get into 1A? 701 00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:38,159 You have to have sewer or water as a prerequisite. 702 00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:39,820 On your property? 703 00:52:40,039 --> 00:52:40,820 No, like... 704 00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:40,980 No. 705 00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,599 As a matter of the sewer system or water system. 706 00:52:44,599 --> 00:52:45,280 I didn't read it. 707 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:46,039 I didn't read it. 708 00:52:46,159 --> 00:52:47,159 The sewer system or water system. 709 00:52:47,159 --> 00:52:51,199 You have to have the town, the background, the purchase of the sewer system, the sewer system. 710 00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:52,239 To me, it doesn't matter. 711 00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:52,340 To me, it doesn't matter. 712 00:52:52,340 --> 00:52:52,360 To me, it doesn't matter. 713 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:52,400 To me, it doesn't matter. 714 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:52,460 To me, it doesn't matter. 715 00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:52,760 To me, it doesn't matter. 716 00:52:52,780 --> 00:52:52,840 To me, it doesn't matter. 717 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,639 The sewer system or water system. 718 00:52:54,780 --> 00:52:56,780 Sometimes it just has the ability to... 719 00:52:57,679 --> 00:52:58,900 1A or the... 720 00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:00,460 It's a fine for... 721 00:53:00,460 --> 00:53:05,699 Seriously, our taxes are going up exponentially every year. 722 00:53:06,179 --> 00:53:06,239 Right? 723 00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:08,119 Because you can't start stacking houses on top of it. 724 00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:08,980 It has for 10 years. 725 00:53:09,199 --> 00:53:09,619 Did I know? 726 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:10,260 11 years. 727 00:53:10,699 --> 00:53:14,960 I mean, these planning commissions, they're salivating over a town like Stanford, right? 728 00:53:15,340 --> 00:53:18,840 There's a 300-acre gulf forest out there that's prime real estate. 729 00:53:19,460 --> 00:53:19,599 Right? 730 00:53:19,860 --> 00:53:21,340 They love that there. 731 00:53:21,940 --> 00:53:22,519 You know, they just see it. 732 00:53:22,519 --> 00:53:22,559 They just see it. 733 00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:22,860 They just see it. 734 00:53:22,860 --> 00:53:22,900 They just see it. 735 00:53:23,099 --> 00:53:23,619 Bam. 736 00:53:23,860 --> 00:53:24,599 Wow, there it is. 737 00:53:24,739 --> 00:53:26,559 How many units you can put on 300 acres? 738 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,880 I mean, it's a multiple land with multiple access points and basically a road system 739 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:32,539 already through it. 740 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:33,780 A little bit. 741 00:53:34,219 --> 00:53:36,179 Not well. 742 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,179 We're zoned out at two acres a lot. 743 00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,699 There's 300 acres of land over there. 744 00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:43,400 It's 75. 745 00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:44,519 It could be a lot. 746 00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:45,340 Put it that way. 747 00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:46,800 At the end of town, it's flat. 748 00:53:48,019 --> 00:53:50,440 There's land all over the place if you know where to look. 749 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,880 What we have to do as we're planning for the future, 750 00:53:52,940 --> 00:53:55,400 and when you're on a planning board, you're not planning for next week, right? 751 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:56,480 You're planning for the future. 752 00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,340 We need to get out of the floodplain, all right, 753 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:03,559 and start looking at the next elevation up before you get into the elevation where you just can't build. 754 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,420 There's plenty of that land here. 755 00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,820 I'm not going to point it out because it's private property, but it's all over the place. 756 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:16,159 And it just depends on whether people want to split up their 40-acre property or not. 757 00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:21,610 I mean, Stanford is exposed to vast development if we let it. 758 00:54:21,610 --> 00:54:25,269 But I don't think that's the key to our success. 759 00:54:25,269 --> 00:54:29,719 We just get bigger, and we're going to need more people to go to high school, and, you know, 760 00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,179 I don't know if there's a fine line between it all. 761 00:54:32,380 --> 00:54:36,500 Yeah, we need some development and a little expansion, but we've got to be very careful over it, don't we? 762 00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:40,559 That's why we need other sources of revenue in town other than taxation. 763 00:54:41,300 --> 00:54:44,900 So that brings me to that 1% tax that you looked at. 764 00:54:45,519 --> 00:54:47,900 Is this something we want to pursue? 765 00:54:47,900 --> 00:54:49,340 You know, I don't know. 766 00:54:49,340 --> 00:54:51,760 Is it worth putting the law in? 767 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,760 And who are we hurting or helping? 768 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:54,760 Is it worth it? 769 00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:55,760 Exactly. 770 00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,260 But you can't create any atmosphere for business without trying to create an atmosphere for business. 771 00:55:00,260 --> 00:55:01,260 I agree. 772 00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:03,260 We're not going to probably generate a lot of revenue from it. 773 00:55:03,260 --> 00:55:05,260 I mean, how many rooms do we rent? 774 00:55:05,260 --> 00:55:08,260 Alcohol, we could probably get a fair amount for. 775 00:55:08,260 --> 00:55:10,519 Food, we don't have any restaurants. 776 00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:12,519 And the other one is just a general sale tax. 777 00:55:12,519 --> 00:55:16,519 But, I mean, if we want to... 778 00:55:16,519 --> 00:55:17,519 I don't know. 779 00:55:17,519 --> 00:55:18,519 I don't know. 780 00:55:18,519 --> 00:55:19,519 What direction does the town want to take? 781 00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:21,519 We have no other sources of revenue other than taxation. 782 00:55:22,019 --> 00:55:24,019 That's all we have. 783 00:55:24,019 --> 00:55:26,019 And that's all we have for the foreseeable future. 784 00:55:26,019 --> 00:55:27,019 And I can... 785 00:55:27,019 --> 00:55:30,019 I mean, maybe I'll lose the election, but taxes aren't going down, all right? 786 00:55:30,019 --> 00:55:31,019 Nope. 787 00:55:31,019 --> 00:55:32,019 They're never going down. 788 00:55:32,019 --> 00:55:34,019 No one's ever taking a pay cut. 789 00:55:34,019 --> 00:55:36,019 You know, the budget for the school is not going to get smaller. 790 00:55:36,019 --> 00:55:43,019 So we need to start getting creative and find ways to afford to live here for the people that have always lived here. 791 00:55:43,019 --> 00:55:47,269 But, you know, at this point, it's probably not worth it. 792 00:55:47,269 --> 00:55:50,269 But I don't know if at some point we can't do it at all. 793 00:55:50,269 --> 00:55:52,269 You know, the laws are changing all the time. 794 00:55:52,269 --> 00:55:53,269 So... 795 00:55:53,269 --> 00:55:54,269 And it had to be a town... 796 00:55:54,269 --> 00:55:57,269 I mean, it'd be a town vote at town meeting, anyway. 797 00:55:57,269 --> 00:55:58,269 Yes. 798 00:55:58,269 --> 00:55:59,269 It had to be warranted. 799 00:55:59,269 --> 00:56:01,269 It'd be all three separately, the way I understand it. 800 00:56:01,269 --> 00:56:04,269 There'd be a vote for whether you want a general sales tax. 801 00:56:04,269 --> 00:56:08,269 Then there'd be a vote if you want a meals and alcohol tax. 802 00:56:08,269 --> 00:56:09,269 And then the last one's rooms. 803 00:56:09,269 --> 00:56:12,269 So you could vote for one, none, or all three. 804 00:56:12,269 --> 00:56:14,269 And then you get what you get. 805 00:56:14,269 --> 00:56:17,269 I mean, I don't know how many people are claiming their room rentals in town. 806 00:56:17,269 --> 00:56:18,269 That's a whole other can of worms, right? 807 00:56:18,269 --> 00:56:19,269 Yeah. 808 00:56:19,269 --> 00:56:20,269 How do they... 809 00:56:20,269 --> 00:56:21,269 We don't know. 810 00:56:21,269 --> 00:56:22,269 We don't know if they're paying a sales tax or not. 811 00:56:22,269 --> 00:56:23,269 There's no way for us to really verify that. 812 00:56:23,269 --> 00:56:24,269 I think the Airbnb, they're checking on this now. 813 00:56:24,269 --> 00:56:25,429 And I don't know who they charge a sales tax or if they pay into it. 814 00:56:25,429 --> 00:56:26,429 I mean, the only reason I would even slightly consider it at some point, because it's a consumer-based 815 00:56:26,429 --> 00:56:27,429 tax. 816 00:56:27,429 --> 00:56:28,429 It's not... 817 00:56:28,429 --> 00:56:29,429 I mean, the property owner, you collect it, you know, at the premises. 818 00:56:29,429 --> 00:56:30,429 But it's paid onto, you know, from the consumer. 819 00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:31,429 But you do... 820 00:56:31,429 --> 00:56:32,429 But is the consumer going to come up here because we have this extra tax? 821 00:56:32,429 --> 00:56:33,429 I mean, I don't know. 822 00:56:33,429 --> 00:56:34,429 I don't know. 823 00:56:34,429 --> 00:56:35,429 I don't know. 824 00:56:35,429 --> 00:56:36,429 I don't know. 825 00:56:36,429 --> 00:56:37,429 I don't know. 826 00:56:37,429 --> 00:56:38,429 I don't know. 827 00:56:38,429 --> 00:56:39,429 I don't know. 828 00:56:39,429 --> 00:56:40,429 I don't know. 829 00:56:40,429 --> 00:56:41,429 It all depends. 830 00:56:41,429 --> 00:56:42,429 You know, this town's only ever going to grow only so far as far as restaurants and commercial 831 00:56:42,429 --> 00:56:43,429 properties, because we don't have any store of water, right? 832 00:56:43,429 --> 00:56:44,500 You can't put a 100-seat restaurant in with a septic tank. 833 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:45,500 That's not really going to work. 834 00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:46,500 Maybe a group of people can do that. 835 00:56:46,500 --> 00:56:47,500 Could we just say good-bye to that? 836 00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:48,500 Yeah. 837 00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:49,500 I mean, you know, we're all right. 838 00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:50,500 It's the only thing we don't have. 839 00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:56,500 We've got to work on the 840 00:56:56,500 --> 00:57:01,500 We've got to work on the 841 00:57:01,500 --> 00:57:02,500 Okay. 842 00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:05,500 We've got to work on the 843 00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:06,500 We've got to work on the 844 00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:07,500 We've got to work on the 845 00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:08,500 We've got to work on the 846 00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:09,500 We've got to work on the 847 00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:10,500 we've got to work on the 848 00:57:10,500 --> 00:57:14,820 people got together or so, you know, like a little advisement committee or something 849 00:57:14,820 --> 00:57:18,659 to do this kind of brainstorming on the side. 850 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:24,000 I mean, like you said before, our taxes are just going to keep going up and keep going 851 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:31,719 up unless we figure out a way, one, not changing the atmosphere or the beauty of Stanford, 852 00:57:32,909 --> 00:57:36,090 but two, make it affordable for people to live here. 853 00:57:36,090 --> 00:57:36,289 Sure. 854 00:57:36,289 --> 00:57:42,829 I mean, so if we come up with a way where we can make money to pay down our taxes and 855 00:57:42,829 --> 00:57:49,369 things like that, that solar field I was talking about, it might be a site that nobody wants 856 00:57:49,369 --> 00:57:55,769 to look at, but it might be, it would be in a location to where you couldn't build in 857 00:57:55,769 --> 00:57:57,550 the area anyways because it's... 858 00:57:57,550 --> 00:58:03,039 Like I said the other night in the meeting, right, not many people like windmills, but 859 00:58:03,039 --> 00:58:06,260 when you start selling them, they're 50,000 pop or so, right? 860 00:58:06,519 --> 00:58:07,880 They get a little more interesting. 861 00:58:08,199 --> 00:58:09,559 I'm not saying I'm for windmills or anything like that. 862 00:58:09,559 --> 00:58:16,579 It's a, I'm just saying, if a town, if a town invested a million, 1.5 million or whatever 863 00:58:16,579 --> 00:58:22,539 it is for the fire truck, I mean, I don't want to, I'm just saying, we have an investment 864 00:58:22,539 --> 00:58:24,199 to protect our town. 865 00:58:24,719 --> 00:58:31,519 So this, I would say, would be an investment or something like this in order to bring in, 866 00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:35,059 you know, a half a million dollars or a million dollars a year. 867 00:58:35,739 --> 00:58:36,059 Right. 868 00:58:36,519 --> 00:58:37,380 Wouldn't that be nice? 869 00:58:37,380 --> 00:58:38,440 Could we do like a lottery? 870 00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,679 You know, that's generating some serious income for the state, right? 871 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,420 Probably like a 50-50 or something. 872 00:58:46,079 --> 00:58:47,500 Fire department, how's that? 873 00:58:47,659 --> 00:58:47,900 Yeah. 874 00:58:48,340 --> 00:58:50,059 Would the town be able to do something like that? 875 00:58:50,079 --> 00:58:51,900 To set up a five-meg system. 876 00:58:51,900 --> 00:58:56,599 A town fair, where you buy admission tickets. 877 00:58:56,860 --> 00:59:00,539 Future, we talked about before, I mean, gravel is a resource, right? 878 00:59:00,599 --> 00:59:03,639 What if that resource starts running out and we've got to start trucking in gravel this 879 00:59:03,639 --> 00:59:03,940 town? 880 00:59:04,659 --> 00:59:05,539 Holy cow, man. 881 00:59:05,699 --> 00:59:05,880 I mean. 882 00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:06,460 Well, that would be a good idea. 883 00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:06,500 That would be a good idea. 884 00:59:06,500 --> 00:59:11,380 Yeah, 1%, if we're really thinking about it, we've got to start now and get some information 885 00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:15,440 before town meeting and see if it's worth putting this into effect. 886 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:16,920 Yeah, I mean, the statute's pretty fairly written. 887 00:59:17,059 --> 00:59:21,420 It's just a matter of whether we, I mean, it's going to stir up a lot of emotions, I'm 888 00:59:21,420 --> 00:59:24,860 sure, with people that just don't know how they're reading anything into it and just 889 00:59:24,860 --> 00:59:26,619 react on the 1% tax. 890 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,099 But, you know, we've got to get creative. 891 00:59:29,659 --> 00:59:30,880 It's worth at least a discussion. 892 00:59:31,059 --> 00:59:34,380 I don't know whether we go as far as, you know, we've got time to figure out whether 893 00:59:34,380 --> 00:59:35,300 it's a warrant or not. 894 00:59:35,300 --> 00:59:37,239 Well, maybe more. 895 00:59:37,260 --> 00:59:40,019 It's more of a debate, I guess, at a different time. 896 00:59:40,139 --> 00:59:40,900 I've got to look at that. 897 00:59:40,980 --> 00:59:41,119 Yeah. 898 00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:41,900 Okay. 899 00:59:42,420 --> 00:59:43,739 Any other new business? 900 00:59:44,199 --> 00:59:44,320 No. 901 00:59:44,460 --> 00:59:45,000 That's it? 902 00:59:46,559 --> 00:59:49,599 Make a motion to go into executive session for personnel. 903 00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:50,639 I second. 904 00:59:51,570 --> 00:59:51,889 Okay. 905 00:59:52,070 --> 00:59:52,570 All in favor? 906 00:59:52,570 --> 00:59:52,630 All in favor? 907 00:59:53,449 --> 00:59:57,210 Deadline's up. 908 00:59:57,329 --> 00:59:57,840 I got it. 909 00:59:58,039 --> 00:59:58,599 Thank you. 910 00:59:58,860 --> 00:59:59,119 Yep. 911 00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:00,639 Have a good night, everybody. 912 01:00:00,659 --> 01:00:01,059 All right. 913 01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:02,019 Thank you, Kirk. 914 01:00:02,300 --> 01:00:02,579 Yep. 915 01:00:02,639 --> 01:00:03,000 Take care. 916 01:00:05,610 --> 01:00:06,590 Thank you, guys. 917 01:00:06,989 --> 01:00:07,510 Thanks for coming. 918 01:00:10,610 --> 01:00:11,150 See you. 919 01:00:11,210 --> 01:00:11,489 See you. 920 01:00:11,670 --> 01:00:12,090 Take care. 921 01:00:12,090 --> 01:00:12,369 Bye. 922 01:00:12,369 --> 01:00:12,389 Bye. 923 01:00:12,389 --> 01:00:12,409 Bye. 924 01:00:12,409 --> 01:00:12,429 Bye. 925 01:00:12,429 --> 01:00:12,449 Bye. 926 01:00:12,449 --> 01:00:12,469 Bye. 927 01:00:12,469 --> 01:00:12,489 Bye. 928 01:00:12,489 --> 01:00:12,510 Bye. 929 01:00:12,510 --> 01:00:12,570 Bye. 930 01:00:12,570 --> 01:00:12,610 Bye. 931 01:00:12,610 --> 01:00:12,630 Bye. 932 01:00:12,630 --> 01:00:12,650 Bye. 933 01:00:12,650 --> 01:00:12,690 Bye. 934 01:00:12,690 --> 01:00:12,710 Bye.