 Could I ask let's let's just do a rapid fire from facilitators? And I'm gonna ask the facilitators to just be ready share one or two things from your group Could I ask people to quietly move their way in and facilitators to? Get ready to just say one or two things in 30 seconds I'm gonna call on Ben Doyle to start and tell us what group you were in and what some of the Discussion was been great. Thanks everybody We had a really lively and I think productive conversation on advocating for state federal and philanthropic funds There are a couple specific action steps that could be moved forward I think it begins with quantifying the economic loss for businesses homes the municipality Understanding what the ask actually is Another idea that came up was do we have a lobbyist? Does the city have a lobbyist that's in the state house and another idea that came up was like there needs to be a Special session and we should be advocating for that. Okay. Thank you very much Yes, please Alyssa Sharon and Alyssa what group we with I Had the wastewater group and we talked about Community engagement and education around the state of the state of the wastewater facility We talked about doing a risk assessment and using past reports and information that had been filed and Analysis and then we talked about natural solutions So increasing floodplain doing buyouts doing plantings and we also talked about engineering solutions So using the road there And the raising of the road as a levy doing floodgates more stormwater and drains And then we also talked about looking in other models We're not the first city who's probably dealt with this and so what have other folks have done either in-state or out-of-state Thank you so much. Gary Holloway Want to share what your group came to? so I was with the group talking about resiliency planning and a Few a few ideas that came out of that was really looking at Who's already doing this work? There's a lot of nonprofit groups the cities involved with doing some of this work There's a lot of professionals Who are doing studies at universities who are already doing some of this work? So let's let's try to glean some of those ideas and talk to the experts and talk to groups So we were making sure that they're a part of the conversation But b we're not reinventing the wheel and we're taking ideas that have already been being studied And we can start to look to implement and implement them as it relates to Montpelier There's some work being done around you know pictures of the watershed so we can kind of understand kind of the greater Picture that Montpelier plays in that watershed so learning more from that and then we talked a lot about resources I'm probably running out of time aren't I? So just collect you know collect lists of you know technical resources people who are already doing this work contact information So we know like what what skills that they bring and then big part of this I'm just going to leave it on this is two things quickly Techno using technology to kind of communicate so that people who can't participate in these types of meetings can participate in the conversations And then finally Paul that we we make sure that we don't have You know there's going to be burnout and people who join a commission and step off How can we keep the conversation going and keeping constantly keeping people involved particularly of you know youth and of all ages? Thank you so much Gary John co-pounds Thank you. We had a group talking about investing in an adaptive downtown and I would say it's a little hard to synthesize but really a Lot of it was developing a common set of practices for utilizing For flood proofing the existing spaces. Maybe that's installing shelving upstairs are up high in the in the space Maybe it's using inventory upstairs. Maybe it's filling basements. What is that common set of practices? But also very much thinking about short and longer term solutions And we define short term probably is like within the end of this year versus long term really thinking about What do we need to do in a more aggressive way with downtown including climate mitigation as really embedded in those strategies and in terms of resources Building a public fund that that building owners and businesses can draw upon and that public fund isn't just Neutral it actually defines what it wants to invest in such that those practices are being deployed and supported And then of course expertise and the state of Vermont is going to be critical given both the resources But also the amount of land and particularly the amount of parking that is in our in our downtown Thank You John Who are we missing sorry oh Peter We had a wonderful conversation about improving preparedness communication and disaster alert systems I really want to give the city a lot of credit for showing up in force to listen to the community there I think we see a role for the Commission to form some Small subgroup advisory panel to support the city and updating the emergency response plan and really focusing on those members of our community who Aren't going to be on emergency or vt alert or aren't going to be looking at the Facebook page And we're going to need some additional supports beyond Our traditional modes of communication and really to think about what those traditional modes are and to continuously be updating those and it starts with a with a survey about how How do you want to be notified? Right, how would if you don't have power? How would you get information if you don't you know have internet? How do you want to get this you know sort of basic questions? So we can make sure that our our sort of mass broadcast system is getting as many people as possible and then the sort of hand-to-hand You know person-to-person outreach can help fill the remaining gap with the necessary expertise to deal with those Members of the community who who might have different needs So it was a great conversation and really look forward to that But I think it's a an opportunity for to align with the overall Commission work But not necessarily be within the direct scope, but more of a sort of task group that provides input to the city's Sort of reworking of the communications plan So I Guess I would say that the discussion in this room of the Commission was Really thoughtful. It was spark sparky. There was lots of good ideas around ways to improve the concept The diversity of the group how we manage that how it has expertise But it also represents the community whether we need to think about stipends for the group especially you know as needed to be able to allow any participant to be successful in participating so You know really good conversation. I think we have done a lot of work tonight We've done a lot really fast. I really appreciate your patience with me and the way that this is pushed I don't think we should go back and work on that vision statement right now I think we want to be fresh when we do that I do think that there's going to be more of these Facilitated sessions some of them very small in potentially forming some working groups around these different topics if you if you sign up in your room To express your interest. That's great. We have some signed sheets here that I'm hoping maybe Sarah and Ben could put out on the table and Allow you to sign into one of these priority areas to express your interest so that you can be called upon But we'll also put this out electronically so nothing has to be finished tonight I just want to quickly describe where we are today in terms of thinking about Starting to build this commission. We want to do this quickly. We want to continue momentum We don't want to wait two months to pull this off We're going to be looking for a balance of life experiences skills Expertise and experience in in everything from architecture to engineering to environmental science downtown development fundraising land use planning property ownership business low-income issues non-profit management Financing clean energy development housing and we're also going to try to keep this a small committee So it's going to be tight and it's going to have a lot of energetic Personalities no doubt to apply for yourself or to nominate someone else send contact information In a one paragraph description, so this is on the sheet that we gave out earlier We can put some of these on the table out there One paragraph description of why you want to participate and what some of the skills are that you would bring What could you represent on that commission? and and you'll you'll see there's directions to send it to m. Smith in the city who's going to gather these for the review committee and Title put a byline on it Montpelier Commission for recovery and resilience So today we're going to together these organizations the overarching funders founders of this are going to review these applications and weigh them and try to find a great balanced group But there will be plenty of other opportunities for volunteers to drive the agenda in in all of these different areas as work goes forward I want to close by thanking the Montpelier School District for hosting us tonight for Superintendent Bonesteal who's been here all evening Principal Jason Gingold who's been a very generous host with us Evelyn Prim Evelyn Prim from the city for all the legwork and communications work She's done front porch forum the bridge especially the bridge and where is Cassandra? Unbelievable the coverage you guys have given what a tremendous community institution And and not to this and not to not to anyone in person But to really flesh out the story and bring us together to understand where we are so unbelievably powerful The Times Argus 2 and Christopher and his great crew at orca We really appreciate everything you've done everyone whose work tonight from from Lauren Megan everyone who's manned the the Technology and made the online voting work when none of us had ever done this before To the facilitation team. I want to thank the city. It's not easy to you know when you're working so hard You're you're really in it and you're fighting to do the best job You can't every day and there's a lot to listen to when you're in the city government You know and mostly people come to you when they want to complain to you So let's appreciate these great people who are doing good work. Let's give them a round of applause Where would we be without them so Also, obviously our friends at Montpelier alive Katie and her team tremendous work the Montpelier foundation The fact that they were able to gather to raise two point two million $330,000 already and more coming to the businesses and to follow up and support this brilliant resiliency effort But but mainly thanks to all of you In-person people online who are dedicated to this place You wouldn't be here if you're unless you're here to stand up for your community for democracy for the collective power we have to drive our future and We all feel the tragedy of this moment We all you know that issue of mental health wasn't just for those people. This is fundamental to where we are where we're dealing with trauma We all but it we especially care for people at the front line who bore the great brunt of this the low-income folks the business people the peoples whose homes were were so terribly damaged and They are still facing loss uncertainty and exhaustion and they need our support and we're all with them I think But we also know that climate change is real and that our collective future our well-being and especially the future of our children in upcoming generations depends on us We understand together the need for a resilient future in this place that we love or we wouldn't be here So I want to thank you for being online for your neighbors for this city For a resilient future for our place and beyond Let's take courage in each other and build on the unity. It's going to take to succeed Now I'd like to introduce Mayor McCullough to say closing remark. Thank you, Paul. I want to start out by With some thanks. I want to thank Everyone here And all the members of the community who've come out tonight and the two previous workshops here and online to To help move this work forward I want to thank the city mayor the city manager all the department's heads all the city employees and People at Montpelier alive who organized and conducted these forums and I especially want to thank Paul Costello I know he's going to growl at this but For his expertise and his tireless work as a volunteer to guide us through this process It's been a long process the first chapter of our response to the flood to address the immediate crisis began even before the rain started falling When our city employees from the Department of Public Works the Department of Recreation Who staffed the tents and tables at the hub and all of our public employees? mobilized with Thousands of volunteers and donors to meet the immediate crisis without them we would be nowhere near where we are now The second chapter about this effort began at our first meeting up at Vermont College on Coincidentally another rainy night When hundreds of members of the community came out to share their experiences ideas and visions for the future the breadth of ideas that we heard that we have heard and the level of participation has Been more than we see in a whole year's worth of council meetings, and I thank all of you for your input Tonight we embarked on the third chapter of our response Deciding on our priorities and working to achieve them This will be a long haul bringing together community members and leaders And I call on everyone in our community to stay involved as we move forward The job begins tonight, and I thank you all for your hard work