 I'm going to proceed to additions to the agenda. Not for me. Who doesn't have any, Carl, Judith? No, none for me. Review of minutes, January 24th. You have the minutes, I have the minutes in front of me. They look great. Move to approve. I would second Judith Dillon, select board member appearing remotely. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. I second. I was just also identifying myself, Judith Dillon, select board member appearing remotely. I second approval of the minutes. Thank you. Any further discussion on the minutes? Those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes appear to have it, they do have it. The minutes are approved. Public comments. We're slightly early for our open forum, but we do have people here. Looks like that would like to comment on our ad for forum. So we'll definitely move to open up that article, open forum on 2022 town meeting warning articles and other items. The town residents. So here we go. I see Ty is you. Can you hear me, Ty? Yes. Yes, I can hear you. Okay. Were you here to ask questions or other items of interest on the town warning? I was here just to, if they answer any questions, if there was anything on the warning for our discussion piece that came up about the request to purchase a new truck for the select board support from Calisadee Smote Fair. Yeah. Thank you for tuning in because that's important. But we don't have anybody in yet asking any questions, but can we just wait? We are a few minutes early. Yeah, that's fine to me. We can wait until you get some other people on or see if people are coming even. Right. I see Paul. Hi, Amy. We started without you. I am so sorry. I have a computer and it just, it is not doing Zoom. So I have to, I will do this from now. Just revert back to the old computer. I'm sorry about that. That's okay. We didn't do much. Okay. We approve the myth, but we're waiting for it to do important things for you to again. Okay. Yeah. So now we're in our open forum. So we have Paul, are you here to ask questions on the forum? Well, John, you are staying to tune in. So John, good to see you. We started the meeting without you. We dare to, and we approve the myth, but we held off on doing anything else because of course your Highness wasn't here yet. Oh, awesome. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Of course, you and Amy were a little bit late. Tell it like it is. So now we're in our open forum. Anyone is here who wants to ask questions, we're here to answer them. What's our plan? If we get no questions, do we wait around until the time of the next agenda item on the agenda or do we plow forward? Well, maybe we can do something and then we can do one of our items and then of course if someone tunes in, we'll get that item done and then go to questions. Right? Paul, so can you hear me, Paul? Oh, I can't hear Paul. He's muted. He's muted. He's moving his lips. That's Paul Guare from the fire department. Okay, Paul. I thought maybe you had questions, but you're here to answer some questions. There we go. I got it. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Yeah, just to let you know Seth, it is very cold out in Florida. I'm not in Florida. Are you in Florida? I am and it's cold down here. I know. I was just down there, but three of the days I was down there was really nice. It was in the 70s, but... Yeah, I suppose I will start warming up tomorrow, so I'll be happy. Yeah, great. Okay, well, it's a lot colder in Vermont, I'll show you now. It's like eight degrees. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, so let's move to an item just because I think on the resilient, I don't think they're all here though. Seth, why don't you skip that one and go to the treasure report? Okay, good idea. Number E is the town treasure report, but is Don gonna present? He isn't. No. Okay, so we have it to look at. Yes. Okay. So, select board members, let's look at the town treasure report. And I'm looking through, is it the general ledger that we're supposed to be looking at? Yeah. It's a colorful one. A colorful one? Yeah. Yeah. All right, yeah, I see it. There's multiple pages with lots of figures. So there's nothing in there that caused Don to have any concerns if that helps? Yeah. I see lots of figures, town checking accounts, town looks pretty healthy, I wish mine looked like that. Does anybody have any concerns with the first page? How to be healthier at town? No. No. No. I need it. It looks healthy. Going to the next page is the balance sheet. So we have assets listed, we have the money that's in the checking account, the fund balance, anybody seeing anything there that has concerns? I'm basically killing time here and pretending I'm knowing where I'm looking at, but. So the miscellaneous trust fund, that looks good. We have a good healthy account in the capital reserve. I don't see anything there of concerns, like status quo is needed. And then the next page, general ledger, you can cut money in it. I don't see anything there. Does anybody see anything? I'm just going through the pages. So the budget's showing about altogether about 52% expenditure, that's normal. That's normal. All right, in there, everything seems pretty good. You know, there's nothing out of line. Anything that would be more than that is probably something we have to pay twice or four times a year or something like that. Right. I'm content to ask Bruce to convey our thanks to Don for this monthly report. Monthly report looks good to me. So we're going to get done with that item. So that's the town trader report that's done. Thank you, Don. Do I see anybody tuning in? No. What about the consideration of CAI technology tax match maintenance contact? That's a pretty quick item. That's item F. Could the amount go up this year? Oh, it's the exact same as the last two years. Do you need a motion to approve it? A motion to approve it and authorize me to sign it. Make a motion to approve the CIA tax mapping proposal for the town of Eastmont Clear and how the board authorized the town administrator, Bruce Johnson, to sign it. I will second a motion to approve the CAI tax match maintenance contract. I thought it was CIA. I want nothing to do with the CIA. And... Can we get them involved if we want them to though? Well, the culinary... They're probably already mapping for us, but we don't know... Yeah, it's already mapped. Okay. It's a lot of money. Or are there maps? We have a motion and we also have a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes, it's unanimous. The ayes appear to have it, they do have it. It takes you to ask. Okay. Are there any town residents that I'm missing here that are anxious to ask questions? I don't see anybody. How about consideration? How about G? Consideration certificate of no appeal or suit pending for 2021 GLAM lists? Can you explain what that means, Bruce? It pretty much says it in the title that there was no BCA hearings last summer. There were no appeals of the BCA hearings and no other action at the state level regarding our GLAM lists. So we're through that period clean. And this is a certification that gets put in with the tax book on an annual basis, if it's true. I move to authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the board, the certification that there are no appeals or suits pending for the 2021 GLAM list. Could I actually just ask a question? Yeah. Apologize. Whose signatures are they that are indicated on that form? I just can't read them. So I'm just wondering who... It's Ross. Yeah. That's Ross Hazel and Chris Racconelli, the two remaining listers. Okay. So they actually were the ones who confirmed that there are no appeals pending. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. So I believe we made, somebody made a motion and there's a second on that. I'll second it. Thank you, Judith. In favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes have it. We have no appeal. But G, I'm still looking for residents. I don't see any. We might as well go with that. We might as well go to H. Well, just a point of order when you're talking about town residents, I mean, I think members of the press who don't live in the town would be welcome to ask questions as well. Correct? Is that to town residents in the notice here? If you want the press to ask questions, I'm sure they could without being censored by the people. Yeah. I just want to make sure that it's clear to the press that they are welcome to ask questions. Yeah, I was just reading the item was said to town residents. Sure. Okay. Okay. So I think that I don't see any additional town residents on the Zoom meeting that are going to ask questions. So I move that I think that we should go to H which is discussion on town residents that might have COVID-19. Anybody have anything to discuss about the mask mandate? You want to? I think that perhaps we should keep it at least until after town meeting day and then revisit it again. But I think we should have the mask mandate through town meeting, at least to ensure that poll workers are protected, people who are voting are protected. It doesn't hurt, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like I feel the same way. Does anybody else have any comments about the mask mandate? I think extending it another 30 days is appropriate. As for town meeting day and protecting poll workers, the board of civil authority already decided that everybody who works the election will not only wear a mask, but will be vaccinated and boosted. And the BCA also discussed that we aren't allowed to keep prevent people from voting if they don't want to wear a mask in, but we will make every effort to help them vote outside and not come in so they can comply with the mask mandate and vote. Or of course, mail-in ballots are an option when everyone's been mailed to the town and school ballots. Yeah, any further comments on the mask mandate? I moved to extend it for 30 days. You have a second on that? I'll second it. John seconds it. Any further discussion about the mask mandate? I think it's better off to extend it and go with flow and the least of perception is we're doing something that's all good. So all of the favor, please say aye. Guys, care to have it as you have it. That takes care of H. Actually, I have another piece of business related to H. Somehow for our last select board meeting, it was decided in a way that I'm not familiar with to not have an option to come in and participate in the meeting in the town office. And according to the wording on the website, that seems to be the case for today also. And that puzzled me. I thought that was the sort of thing the select board decided. So wondering where that came from. That's a good question, Cobb. I saw the same thing. But then I'm like, well, if she's going and I'm like, somebody's got to sign a warrant. So I came in. Okay. So I will explain where that came from, Mr. Chair, since you're the one that made that decision just so you remember. It's your call. You made it two meetings ago. Carl just fortuitously showed up at the last one, which was nice because we needed somebody. And now that you're back from Florida, you're doing your normal thing. But we had decided to go with that all remote meeting. Okay, so I must have done that inadvertently because I certainly didn't need to do that. Okay. So throw your town administrator under the bus, buddy. Well, okay, so I'll take the responsibility because I'm not feeling that that's that big a deal to say that. But can we unsay it? Because I do feel that having people come in in person is a valuable option. Yeah. Yes. How does that sound, Bruce? It's up to you guys. Okay. I think we need to unsay it. Does everyone feel the same way? So next, I mean, I would like to go back to the way that we had it, where we have the option of zooming in. Members of the public have options of zooming in. But we also, as a select board, can show up at the town meeting, town office and people want to come. They can do that too. I thought that the people participating that we're not on select board were not invited to come into the office right now. I thought it was just select board, but... Is that an option for us to have a meeting where we are in person and everybody else comes in via Zoom? I don't know how that works legally. So I will give you my take on it. I don't think it is an option. I don't think it should be an option. And I don't think that's the way the allowance to allow you to do remote meetings only is phrased in the statute that just got passed, the act that just got passed. But I would say for the next meeting, I would ask you to keep it the way it is because the next meeting runs right into the town forum and we do not want to get into that particular discussion. Yeah, so we'll just leave it the way it is for that. For the next... That makes sense. Okay, that works okay for everybody. I think you're right. So wait, let's be clear. We're all on the same page. Leave it the way it is, meaning next meeting, we will not have the option of coming into the town office. It will be entirely remote. And the reason for that is it's a town forum. We're encouraging a lot of people to come out and we would like to encourage them to come out via Zoom, is that correct? It's also the way it's warned. Yeah, okay. So yeah. Okay, good. And then after that, we can evaluate hopefully go back to allowing in-person. Well, can we decide right now that after that we're going to allow the in-person attendance unless we change our mind and decide otherwise? Well, I'm just being cautious about COVID numbers. Yep, okay. I'm just, I just think that going by the data data is the most valuable way we can go forward. But we just need to assess that at that time. You know, if we're having 1,500 cases a day, we're not going to want to do that. But if we're having a couple hundred a day or less, then we're certainly feeling better about opening up the meetings. Okay, so talk about it again next time. Yeah. We always do, yep, okay. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Good question though. Because I had the same one, it's like proof. But I guess I approved it, so. Okay, so we're 10 minutes to seven. What does that put us on our forum? So you get another 20 minutes. All right. Hey, Jeff, do you know if Joanne is coming? I expected that she was coming. I expected that she was coming. I expected that she was coming. I expected that she was coming. I don't know if she had a problem getting into the zoom meeting. I sent an email. You mentioned the link was updated. And I didn't hear anything back from her. So I guess I wouldn't worry about her attendance at this point. Well, let's do. We can do a couple more things and kill a little bit more time. Before we have to go to the resilient road to me. So if she is playing to attend. A little bit more closer to the time. So the next item here is I appointment is called counter-trash reflection committee. I don't know if everyone's aware of what's happened on this pressure selection committee. Nope. So what happened is we had Ryan. Who is the son of a vegan on the committee, but the committee felt like it was conflict of interest with certainly, you know, it could be perceived as office of interest pretty easily. So certain members of the committee felt strongly that we need to have Ryan off the committee or Ed to withdraw his, his application. So it was decided that that's the thing to do is not have Ryan on the committee. So Ryan agreed to step off and game boroughs has agreed to take his place if the select board agrees to do so. So because it is the responsibility of the select board to appoint the members of the selection committee, that's why it's before you today. So there you go. Game boroughs will replace Ryan on the committee. She's not going to have to do too much, but there is going to be a couple more meetings when we go through the applicants, resumes, et cetera. And it is valuable to have a CPA on that, asking the questions that need to be asked. So there you go. So I guess I'm asking you to approve game boroughs as you feel comfortable with that so we can move ahead with having a CPA on the committee. So moved. We have a second. We have a second. Amy seconded. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I could go ahead with item B with the work session on 2022 town meeting in town form. Which would take care of some time, which I think we should do. Go ahead. The garden wants to tune in to the tree. On the work session for 2022 town meeting and town forms. What is there specifically that we need to discuss. The first thing you would have discussed is the input you got from the public. Yep. So absent that. Yep. It's sort of whatever you might want to do in terms of setting up for the, the next forum, the actual form. Right. Okay. Okay. Does anybody have any thoughts about questions or points that aren't clear? Is that's basically what happens in the town form is residents ask questions. And we try to feel those questions the best for our ability. And sometimes we have to go look something up or. For instance, on the fire truck, which I think we probably ought to talk about. Because we've got Paul where here in chief Ty Roland. And that's something that they would anticipate some questions on and I would too. Where are we at on that. I, as what we're asking is, there's two thoughts on that actually. Well, there's a couple of things that we should talk about one is, it's on the town morning. It's a, how much was it 130,000. 133,333. Okay. I'm in full support of this. I think it's a modest ask to the town considering the amount of money that truck costs. And I'm in support of taking it out of the capital reserve. But what does everyone think about that. That is the question. I think we've already said what we think about it. We put it before the members of the public to vote on it. I'm just trying to kill time. And ties here so you could ask the question. So if you had any questions to ask him, I don't have any. I just thought it was something town residents would ask about, but we don't have any. We have a gig and I see. And you had some questions on the truck. Can, can you hear us? You talking about the fire truck. Yeah. And actually emailed me some questions about that. And I forgot to call them back. So. Maybe I could ask interest questions now, but he's, I can see him on the zoom, but I don't, I don't think he's hearing us. For me. Question was. Doesn't show up as an asset for the town. And the answer is. It won't because we're basically, just giving the money to the fire department. Everyone clear on that. It's not a town asset. It's, it's going to the fire department. We're just giving them the money. So, um, that was the answer to the question. So anyway, I guess we should move on to other questions that we. Could have on the town meeting one. Does anybody have any. Don't hear any. So maybe we should move to the. Shade three. Plan. What do you think? Oh, we've got. And we have sand. Okay. Here. Um, alias. Paul. Paul alias. And we have sand. Okay. Here. Um, alias. Paul. Paul alias. You got Jeff. Here. And we don't know where. Joanne garden is going to tune in. So. I'd say we start the tree. Discussion. What do you think? I think that's a good idea. Joanne. Realize that. It might, might start early anyways. Okay. I'm assuming she's not coming. Okay. So you and Paul. And. Let's talk about the. The. Preservation plan. Sounds good. So I think Bruce put it out on the website. Well, I'm sure he did. And I guess we. Paul and I. We'd like to. Answer any questions. That you have about it. I think we're planning. The hearing, which would be March 7th. Um, and that's a hearing. Between the. Free warden and the select board. To receive. Comments from the public on the draft plan, which I think has to be. Available at least 10 days before the hearing. If I recall correctly. Um. We, we sat in on your last meeting. Um, and after that, I did. Do some revisions to the plan. Including. Completion of. The three appendices. That. Have tables indicating. Which trees. Um, Our town planted trees. Um, which trees. Are in zones. Where all of the trees would be considered. Shade trees quote unquote. Under the statute. And a third table. That would be a tabulation of any. Reaches of town road where. There are no shade trees. Um, And as we mentioned before. Um, we'd start out with basically. Um, any trees that are four inch diameter. Or larger would be considered shade trees. And subject to the jurisdiction of the, uh, the tree warden. So. The public may have. Objections to the plan. Um, They might recommend, um, Some changes to the tables. Um, to include more trees or fewer trees. Um, but. Um, Is there any questions? Uh, We'd be glad to, Glad to answer them now. Yeah, I do. I got a couple. And everyone does actually. Well, go ahead. Go ahead. Carl, I think your hand was up first. Okay. Thank you. Um, yeah, it looks looks like a good report. Um, I think you all for pulling that together. Um, very comprehensive, very clear. The only disconnect for me is on the appendices. Uh, C and D. Uh, they are named in the report. Um, the appendix on the, the beautiful parts of town. Uh, has, uh, some places listed the, The ugly parts of town appendix is, is empty. Um, and it, um, It's just, there's no explanation for why areas are included in the one appendix or, or the other. And I was wondering, you know, maybe the names of the appendix appendices, those two are clear enough as to what they're about that you don't need to describe that, but maybe in the appendices themselves, you could put some information as to why those designations were given to the areas for the gorgeous parts of town. Um, Will there be a map that goes along with this? I didn't see a map. Um, No, I don't think there's any plan right now to have a map. Um, we've talked to Joanne about, um, Having that kind of information digitally available on a map. Sort of, um, Like our ash tree inventory information, adding another layer that would show the zones in town, uh, where all of the trees are protected basically. Um, and the exclusion areas. Um, we could add some language in the appendices. I mean, there's some in the, in the text, certainly. Uh, the reason the, um, ugly quote unquote part of town, uh, stuff is blank. Um, that was sort of just a placeholder in case people, uh, wanted to present information to the select board and tree warden. That, uh, justified not including trees on that section of road or. If they, If there are any trees there now, and they wanted it to be, um, indicated in the table. Um, That's possibility too, but, um, Um, it's sort of something that we're looking at as being organic. You know, and coming back to the select board. Annually or bi-annually and adding things to the table. Um, we did the work in the center. Um, under the, uh, Arbor Day grant, uh, to plant trees and did the hedgerow work. And that's why that's reflected in, uh, the table that, uh, includes trees that are smaller than four inches. Um, so. And I'm sure that you have from the extensive paperwork that you've generated in, in this project and the grant applications and so on. I'm sure you have language already as to why the center area, uh, was singled out, why the area by the school was singled out. Uh, you could just put that in the appendix for each area and it would, would help people understand it better. I got a question that's in line with you to, to start with. You were thinking of a map that was specific to the areas that are going to be designated. Yeah. Just so that it's, you know, understood. And I guess I would, you know, make an exception to Carl's characterization of ugly versus gorgeous parts of town. I think all. So, but it might be, um, helpful just, you know, similar to the, um, ash trees, you know, just having plots. I mean, on the existing, obviously maps that we have, but maybe just plotting on that. Um, that was. I don't disagree with that concept at all. But what I do. What I'm reading into this is you could actually make a blanket. Um, policy where all the trees over certain side. On all the road would be under the jurisdiction of the tree. That's how I'm reading that. That's correct. Basically what this is. Right. So there wouldn't be a map because everything would be designated as a shade tree in the town right away over 40. That right. That's right. I'm not saying I support that concept because I don't actually but I do that. I do support the content in certain areas in the town and certain trees designated as shade trees. But if you're going to make that blanket, um, rule where all trees over four inches under jurisdiction of the tree one that serves circumventing the statute that they change, which gave back some control over trees that are in a landowner's land that are within the town right away. Did it not? Well, yeah, but not for that reason. I don't believe. You know that there was a lot to having to do with landowners cutting trees in a town right away. And then the legislature changed the statute. Just gave back some control of trees in the town right away that are on landowners land. Right. That correct. Well, by default, yes. Right. So now. If you enact this rule that it looks like it's before us. That gives back all the control of the trees in the town right away over four inches to the tree ward. Yeah. Which is the way it was before. That's the way it was before. Right. But I'm saying the statute got changed for a reason. And I know some of the landowners. They were impacted by that old rule. It went to court. And, um, They landowner one. Because they cut trees. It was a farmer. Actually they had a field. I know all about it. Yeah. Okay. Now as a farmer that sometimes cuts trees and then it's cut right away. They're dead, et cetera, et cetera. I'm a little resistant to. Making a blanket rule. That would circumvent the set. That's all. You know, it comes to the point where we haven't had to hear any, et cetera, et cetera. I'm just saying. Can you, can you describe in brief what happened with that farmer? I don't think everybody knows about this. It had a field and a lot of trees along the edges of the road. He cleared the trees because they're on his land, but they were actually in the town right away. And at the end of the, and then somebody came along town, state, whatever. And they sued him for, I'm not sure how much maybe Paul can tell us, but it was like a million bucks or something. It was expensive. He was a farmer. They went to court on it and. Didn't the landowner win. Because the town said it was. Unsightly. It was in. A view shed, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the end of the day. I thought the landowner won. He was a dairy farmer by myself. He thought he was improving his field, which he probably was. So that's, that's a long and short that I know of now. Maybe I don't have all the facts. Maybe Paul. Well, I don't, I don't know all the background facts to that. And I haven't kept up with what's happened lately. But I'm not sure. Last time I knew it hadn't finished. Okay. Okay. So. The reason. For having that in the first place. Is so that you. Don't have. People. Who own the land. Indiscriminately cutting stuff that is. Potentially affecting the roadway. You know, in the right of way. So it's just a matter of how you discern whether. The. Person. With the trees. Should be able to do any darn thing they want. Even though it may affect the town's right of way. In a less than desirable way, let's say. Or whether. They. Work things out with. With in this case, the tree would. You know, and it's. We run into these kind of things every day. It seems like this. It depends on your point of view. Whether it's a perceived problem or a real problem. And I think a lot of that depends on. If you've got a tree warden, it's out to get the. Get in a trouble. I, you know, you could have. Issues if you don't. Well, then they're probably doing a town of big favor. Okay. So thank you for all on that. You probably have some information. Yeah, I wanted to clarify something. Follow up on something that you had said. You had suggested that this plan. Is in contravention of the new statute. That's incorrect. The statute specifically provides for the creation. Of these plans. And provides for the mechanism that. And the procedure that is spelled out in this plan. So the statute, whereas before you didn't have to adopt a plan. Now you have to adopt a plan. And this is what has been done. And that's perfectly consistent with and compliant with the new statute that was enacted in response to that legislation. So I just wanted to clarify that what's being proposed. Is consistent with the statute. The other thing, the other question I had regarding the plan. Is looking at page four. When you're talking about the processes. So process. Excuse me. Cross disease not inconsistent with 24 BSA chapter 67 for removal of, and you say section a disease, dying or dead shade trees and B, any shade trees that create a hazard, public safety impacted disease or insect control program. And then that you kind of have a paragraph underneath. That you're saying consistent with 2504. The tree warden will authorize without a public hearing. The removal of shade trees that fit those three categories. What are the three categories? Cause you just had two headings. So I, I wasn't sure what that referred to. And. Looks like we're missing a category. Is that the three categories? I wouldn't say so. That would be one of them. Oh, I think it's under B. And those three categories of creating a public hazard. Disease trees or trees removed to comply with state. Or federal law. So that could be clear. Okay. So is that whole paragraph actually part of B? Should that be part of B instead of it's kind of hanging out on its own? I think so. Just a little bright, Joanne. I see that you're here now. Hi everyone. I'm sorry to drop into the zoom world, but I'm Joanne Garten. I work with the urban and community forestry program. And it's great to see all of you. I've met all of you. But that a, A and B, those words are actually from the statute itself. So I think where it starts to say consistent with the essay two, five, oh, four, the tree wouldn't will authorize and then get some of the three categories. Correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff, but I'm guessing that. That. The East Montpelier committee wrote that and either. It's kind of a typo and should say to referring to A and B or, which are verbatim, I think, from the statute. Or I don't know. I don't know why it says three. Yeah, I think. I think both under those paragraphs are responding to the two. A and B, the language that's in statute. So I think the two paragraphs that are under A and under B. Should be indented to reflect the fact that they are responding individually to A and B, if that makes any sense. So that last, last paragraph. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The Judith was noting should be indented. So it's clear that it's a response to item B. And that's the three things. Public safety. Yeah. Or state law. And similarly, similarly, Jeff, you're saying that the paragraph that begins a tree warden will identify diseased that that paragraph. Is referring specifically to disease dying or dead shade trees. Yeah, that makes sense. Like there's it up. Okay. Any more questions for Joanne or Jeff. Or Paul. Will the hearing process be, and maybe I glossed over this and might, might have missed it, like the hearing process. Where's that spelled out. Before doing March. Do we set the date for that tonight? You can if you want to. It's your hearing. So yeah. So the hearing could be on the mark seven. That's what you're saying. Yes. That that was the first state that we could reasonably fit. We couldn't do it on the 28th. As Jeff said, you need a 10 day notice period. So the first meeting you have coming up that we could do a hearing with was the seventh doesn't have to be on the seventh. It can be any date you want. Yeah, I'm not here on the seventh, but I guess I can zoom in. As a matter of zoom in anyway. That's the board. Or what does everyone like to do as far as that hearing go? Can work. Yeah, that sounds fine to me. Sounds fine to me. It's fine with me. All right. Do we need to know we aren't. Do we need to make a motion to bring this to the public in a hearing or would just do that by consensus? I would just do it by consensus, but I would ask you to decide if you want to have the hearing before the meeting. I yet six o'clock or something like that, or do you want to have it at 630 and start the meeting after. I think we would need to make a motion. The statute provides that the tree warden and the legislative committee of the municipality may adopt a Shaitri preservation plan. So I think maybe we need to approve it or authorize it. Ultimately, yes, but right now we're just setting a hearing to get it. Okay, so. Okay, got it. So after the hearing in response to the hearing comments, we would do that. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Do we have a lot of stuff on the March seven. Don't we have to create the new board and everything and do any appointments or anything or what? You will definitely have the organizational aspect. My guess is that you won't. The March seventh meeting is actually quicker than normal. Usually we have a little more time. In March. This will be as early as it gets. So I don't know that we'll have all the appointments ready to go at that point, but yeah, that's that meeting is for the organizational thing. It's usually when we have the state police in, I don't think they're going to make it on the seventh. I think they'll be there on the 21st. So. The one on the seventh. Yeah, there isn't that much going. Yeah. So the question is what time. So I say we do it during our meeting. Don't start to meeting early. Yeah. I agree. Is there a problem with holding that type of hearing? The way that we held our forum tonight. And just holding it. And if nobody comes talking about other select board business, do they have to be separate in time? I think you probably would in this case, since it's a mandated hearing, you would close the hearing and move on with life. Which are worth following. I think that there will be some comments. I mean, I've got some. Yeah. I don't think it'll be. I think it's. I think it's important and. I think we'll have comment. If not from the general public. It'll be from us. So. I'm anxious to attend the hearing and ask questions and. You know, I'm anxious to attend the hearing and ask questions and ask questions. Etc. Etc. So. I say we will, we have the hearing at seven or whatever. You know, embedded on me. Move on. So that works for everybody else. I'll be there. Yep. I will be somehow. Okay. Yep. It just, we just need to, when we're noticing it, we need to make sure to publish the plan. I think that does the preservation plan. Thank you. Thank you everybody for tuning into that. Now we don't have our forum. Is. Do we have anybody that wants to talk. Ask questions. On the forum. And they don't have to be residents as. Carl said. I'm not seeing that. Paul was already gone. And Ty Roland for tuning in. Oh, there's Paul. Thank you, Paul. Being on hand to answer questions. We will have another forum at the next meeting. Which is what's the date on that February 28. Yes. Yeah. Everybody 28 will have another forum. I hope it's better attended. I guess that's it for that. It's it for the forum. For the shape preservation plan discussion. Yeah. Have we done. Done the whole thing. Other than the other business part. Right. We didn't have any other. Administrator report zoning administrator report. Yeah, I'm reading. I'm not really sure. We did it. Once we're done. Administrator report. Be trans access. We notice anything to talk about on that. No, it's just same old, same old. Yeah. Then the rest of it is. The dates. Planning commission has their hearing on Thursday. Yeah. Okay. Really. That's all that's going on. Okay. So I don't see anything too exciting on that. Anybody else have any comments. Thought. Everyone's looking a little more. Maybe in April, we can begin to. Invite input on how to spend our COVID funds or talk about how to elicit input on that. Actually, I'm glad you brought that up. Because I had a couple of questions about that. Can I ask them? Before. So I was reading, you know, various articles in the paper about various towns. Because the rules are out. And it sounds like they're. Allowing more use. Originally thought. So. One of the things I was reading into it was. I was thinking about was the town road or the town garage. And look like that could be an approved use. Am I wrong? So at this point, I would say you're still wrong on that. But not wrong on that, but. You're not right on that. The concept. However. What we're still waiting for is VLCT to. Finish its vetting. Of the very intriguing. Concept that we can take a one time charge off. On revenues. To the tune of $10 million. Which of course is more than we have. But what that implies is that we can take the entire ARPA. Funding. As lost revenues due to the pandemic. And what VLCT is trying to. Track down. Is what the back story on that is. FEMA did this. For. Storm. Categories. A few years ago where they gave a. Automatic 5%. For any administrative work rather than having to prove it. You could just take it. And. The state. Push that hard. We accepted it along with every other town. And then on the backside, we actually had to prove more. This was in 2017 for that wind event. We had to prove more than we did from the 2011 events. So it was a. Apparent. Good news thing that turned into a nightmare. And what VLCT is trying to. Prove to its own satisfaction and then give us the. The end result. Is whether that's going to happen again. Where it appears that there's a. Essentially a free money check off. But there will be. A reporting requirement that. Will essentially take away the value of the. Of the free revenues. And so they're still advising that you do nothing. Hang on. Because there may be very good news coming. We may be able to. Essentially free this money from. The bulk of the federal rules. But we don't know for sure. For sure yet. Okay. So. That's good advice. And. Thank you for that. I'm still. You know. I'm. On my radar. And. I think that's an important project. If we can funnel the money towards that, it would be great. So. So basically what, what I was implying was that if we get that check off. You can funnel that money to your capital reserve fund. And hold it for projects like what you're talking about. Yes. Right. It won't have to meet any of the so-called categories that you've seen so. So far. Right. And that would be fantastic. So. We'll just keep our fingers crossed and see what happens. Does that work for you, Judith? So. Is there anything else that we need to go over? Not seeing much on the. Select board. Is there anything else that we need to go over? Not seeing much on the. Select board memo here. Anybody else have anything that's burning. A burning desire to discuss. It's like we could call the meeting. So moved. Usually called a motion to adjourn. A central reminder, but. No one seems to be. In that motion. I second that motion to adjourn that John made. He didn't really take it. Kind of. All of the favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. And by. Hi, everybody. Hi. Good to see everybody. Happy Valentine's Day. Yeah. You too. But we are going to be done early. So. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.