 ahead the floor is yours. Thank you. First off in future if you need any audio expertise I'm happy to try to help out but the reason that I'm raising my hand tonight is because I just wanted to ask you a question I have this year adopted a new dog into our family so we have been using the dog park on a regular basis and I'm just curious in as a heavy user now of this dog park and thinking about how I'm using it and observing others I'm curious about who I would interact with at the city in regards to suggestions or thoughts about what's happening at the park things of that nature not about violations or any any significance or like that I just think there might be some ways that we can improve the experience for our residents as well as I see a lot of people coming from out of the municipality into our municipality because of the size and you know what the park currently provides but I think there's some improvements can be made. Thank you. Thank you Marcus. Brad that's under EVRP I believe. Yeah Marcus it'd be me or Harlan Harlan really but you can reach out to either one of us. Thank you I'll reach out appreciate it. Great. Thank you Marcus. Anybody else on zoomland if there are things that you'd like to bring up to the board that are not on the agenda please go ahead and raise your hand. So not seeing any other hands up we'll go off to zoomland is there anybody here in person who'd like to talk about something that's not on the agenda. Okay. Seeing none then we will go off from the public to be heard and now we'll move into the agenda item 5a which is public hearing on supposed cannabis related land development updates. Just a quick opening tonight is your public hearing on these updates that they've been recommended to you by the planning commission up for your consideration if after the public hearing tonight you would like to adopt them that's the next business item in the agenda if you want to make any minor changes you can if you'd like to make significant changes or give it further consideration we can warn another public hearing at least 15 days out but in terms of talking about the updates turn it over to Wendy and probably Raj to chime in on what the this proposal is. Yeah so it's a pretty the table that is on the website I'm not sure if you have that Brad but just shows the new zoning it was okay the next one I think or can it be there it is okay so the we have three retail districts the retail as recommended by the planning commission would be on the arterial so Pearl Street the two retail districts and on Pearl Street and not in the village downtown district the same with any wholesale establishments medical establishments manufacturing tier one is allowed in several little areas that would be a home-based business solo operation and manufacturing tiers two and three as well as laboratory testing would be in the light industrial zoning district great great thank you thank you Wendy is there anything else you want to add to the introduction well just to some background I guess the state will be rolling out retail licenses they've started issuing licenses sales can begin October 1st the state has allowed municipalities to work with zoning the zoning laws and the zoning process to identify areas of their communities where all of these different types of cannabis businesses may be located I think arguably there is some confusion and as to how the law was written and some of the rules were as a result of that developed but specifically I think around language that says that cannabis operations can't be singled out while while those phrases are there they are not exclusive of the permission for communities to again use 24 vs a 44 14 to to work within zoning to again defend define where where those operations exist so for the city we've identified cultivation and the planned agricultural district which on this map is sort of on the left in that light green and as Wendy pointed I think that's the only thing which you might not have mentioned was the was cultivation this is I think that's pretty much it I'm trying to think that there's anything else Raj can you sir Wendy of other ways that we currently zone for so that certain types of businesses aren't in certain parts of our municipality right I mean we already we already do some of this I'm trying to pull up that chart for myself so I can come up with some examples we do this already in and forgive me well I find that chart on my own screen so I can actually read it it's just a quick handy way to identify the one that just popped in the head my head in front of me right now is animal shelter is done that way just about every business that we identify on these charts has an area where they are allowed and not allowed so in that respect we are treating cannabis in the way we treat other businesses in the sense that we're identifying where they can be you know for instance car washes are identified in the HAA highway arterial district catering services are in some residential and other districts but not others and I'm looking for some more retail as I scroll through this but it is it is something that's already done as part of our zoning process yes and the ccb has indicated that we have we we are able to because we already have zoning districts for a lot of different businesses that it's would be continuous with the cannabis businesses as well so are we ready to turn this over to the public portion you know there are some interesting definitions of the different business types that are within the packet they're very long and detailed and I hesitate to try to read them out for this public hearing but I encourage people who are interested to access the packet at our website and review those definitions if they're interested just if you know again that's a source of of some of the many different business types and and tiers of those business types related to cannabis cultivation manufacturer processing and and retail I just put that in there in case people are interested but yeah I think we're ready to maybe take questions comments thank you thank you Raj thank you Wendy with this with this being a public hearing the portion is public particular the point of this is really to get public participation if there are questions comments concerns about about these changes people they develop in code now it's now it's time to let us know I'll start off with those here in the room anybody anybody have any questions comments concerns in the room about the proposed cannabis rules rules for changes like development code okay okay so so going back to zoomland does anybody have any questions comments concerns from the public and just so please make sure to raise your hand yes yes Alex go ahead hi my name is Alex I've spoken to a couple of you just sort of on my journey to this meeting I have a question and then I just have a couple comments my first question is so this would be related to just retail that would be what my I had been trying to open one an Essex junction obviously following this my my question is is it from my understanding of of the many documents that I've sort of reviewed the mac that you guys have created for this includes for retail only sort of that pretty small portion of pearl street am I understanding that is there any other street that the that retail zoning will be be allowed it is within the highway arterial district and the transit oriented district which does follow along pearl street but those but those are the two districts where we'll be allowed okay understood so I guess I just want to go into my comments I'll keep it keep it brief I because that was my understanding I walked that portion both sides of that street in search of an open space where a retail location could go and there is not one and the frequency with which a space becomes available there because it is a great place to do business I have I have have two other businesses I had three if they don't come available very often it is my understanding that there there is one place already existing that that is is seeking a license and that you know they have that and that that's obviously perfectly fine but from from the way that it is currently you know the proposed zoning it's very it's limiting for anybody else to come in and you know I just I think that that's a little bit of of the antithesis to to the vote that the people had had you know voted this in and and you know sort of the freeness with which you know I want to continue to do business in this city this is this is where I got my start in business and and I and I love this place and I don't see a place where I would be able to open if I got lucky and then and then on top of that there's all of the the existing laws that prohibit just certain places depending on banking and insurance to open it all so you're looking at just a tiny percentage of locations that do not exist yet even being available and there are retail locations in other parts of of the of the city specifically I would be talking about the village center I understand that might be it's a hard sell that are open and and would be available and it you know I just wanted I just wanted it to be taken into consideration when you vote on this that you are severely limiting if not completely 100 percent limiting anybody else from being able to open a retail establishment and to and to you know bring their business to as extension and that's really all that I wanted to say thank you for your time Alex can we just have your last name for the record please morano m o r a n o thank you thank you thank you Alex thank you thank you um I may not have enough information but just trying to understand how this has been derived to see cannabis manufacturing it looks like you've you've marked this for many areas of the city but yet every other aspect of cannabis is highly restricted and I since I'm guessing the restrictions are about this particular product I maybe I don't understand why the manufacturing has so much freedom in comparison to other aspects of the cannabis business um I don't know maybe if you could give me some more insight into that that would be appreciated yeah yeah I would actually turn that over to uh to ross challah who has been uh doing a lot of work behind this and get speed more intelligently than I oh margus that's a good question um specifically around manufacturing the tier what it some of this has a lot to do with how the state has rolled out levels of how these businesses operate and and so with manufacturing there's three tiers and the tier that um we've sort of identified the to appear the most in the in the city is the tier one which is very small I mean that's pretty much a uh a one person I think it's restricted to one person 10 less than $10,000 in annual sales um done out of the house like a home occupancy business no employees um and we felt that that could I mean for me it was sort of a compromise um and my concern frankly would be we've allowed it in places with multifamily buildings um so I'm trying to wrap my head around how that will work but we're going to try it I think um but we figured that that that tier um would be less impactful than uh for instance cultivation in a dense neighborhood um all of our neighborhoods are dense as an example the other two tiers of manufacturing I think you asked about um really elevate the the business level and the activity and that was we um we identified with other of those business types and where they tend to locate which was a light industrial district um cultivation we kept to an area already designated for agricultural use um some of that is out of concern for density and the impacts of the growing that can last for a period of time throughout that growing process and the impacts they could have on neighborhoods um so I don't know if that answers all your question and you know if if it didn't please right now just let me know so I can try to make you more clear now I appreciate that I you know again I think that I know that the rules on this has been confusing I've been following what the ccb has been doing and I I get the gravity of the difficulty of this whole situation um but that being said the areas of the city right now where you're allowing it I I understand the restrictive nature of it there seems to be parts of this city though where for I'm gonna word it my own way so pardon me for for speaking this way but if you're looking to bury you can bury it to manufacture in other manufacturing zones of the city for instance you can put it into these other areas that are not traditional retail corridors for the city um I'm not sure what you mean well I'm just thinking that because I think the zone my looking at this and again I'm I'm a noob so um it looks like you've primarily allowed retail zoning in retail areas that are reasonably distant I guess residential you know another you know the best way that you possibly can but I don't know I guess I'm not while the rules are difficult I'm still I guess I'm not under I guess is this is is there still a balance here that the city or the planning commission has put on this in order to and again I'm not pro against this is not about that I'm just trying to understand I guess yeah thinking behind it yeah about whether or not there was a restrictiveness to the placement of just these two zones for retail in comparison opening up to more areas of the city that it could potentially do yeah I'd like to share if Brad I don't think you have this map readily available but can I share my screen yes one second bear with me zoom is not behaving one second no problem well I can't because I'd have to change a privacy setting which means I would have to leave the meeting but um I'm gonna Brad in the meantime on our on the planning commission home page there's a cannabis regulation map that kind of is a lot clearer and includes the school buffer zones and everything else if you could grab that and put it up but Marcus I think we generally have essentially we have three retail zones um and a little bit more down Park Street but we did opt for an area that has I think more retail space especially with the two zones than is offered in the in the village core when you overlay the school restrictive buffer from Summit Fleming and Park Street school it really takes up a lot of the village core not all of it but it takes up a good portion of it almost potentially a majority of it I'm trying to remember um can't quite tell from this map um so we felt I think the planning commission felt that the Pearl Street opportunities um and there's the there's the map so on this map the the red shaded areas or buffers around schools where retail can't occur really only impacts the village core almost impacts the um first zone off Pearl Street but doesn't quite hit it the green that that dull green is um is where tier one manufacturing can occur that small scale home occupancy manufacturing um the dotted green on the left hand side of that screen around Cascade Street and the river is the planned agricultural district where cultivation is allowed this is all proposed being allowed um and the green the the bright green uh are the light industrial areas where um districts that we already have where we've identified the a much larger processing manufacturing operations um medical dispensaries are also included in those Pearl Street districts um so this is a little bit of a simpler map you can see the Two Roads Academy up on lower further down Pearl Street also impacts half of that zone as well for potential retail um so I think that was the thinking behind um behind what we're what's being proposed here um thank you that provides a lot of clarity for me um at the same time can I ask them why because you know again keeping in mind I know the feel of the city the area that you chose you know has uh significant enough retail that you know it would blend into the rest of the commerce but there is that section of Pearl Street too that is not restricted that is um also very retail and I'm wondering why that may not have been which which area do you mean well looking at like that map it looks like just south of uh five corners there on Pearl Street sorry Park Street not Pearl Street my apologies Pearl Park Street was what I mean that area why not Park Street um I'm trying to zoom in on the other map and see the zones for that yeah so down by you know the kitchen supply the railroad tracks down in that area there's you know significant enough retail and it would be out of the restricted area that yeah as a matter of fact you have a kind of outline there in the village center that Park Street area down at the south end of the city yeah I'm just trying to see what um on the other map Marcus bear with me I'm trying to see what how those are zoned yep that area I believe that um you're looking at it's outside of the village center district is residential office not retail I'd have to ask the planning commission to I know George is shaking his head but I'm looking at this uh zoning map designation and that between Franklin Iroquois and South Street looks to be R.O. So our I mean you've got a home center over there you've got well you got the paint and home center there you've got some restaurants over there you've got a couple of bars over there those don't count as like retail they're counted as offices and planning I'm trying to remember those are between I think those are actually covered in the downtown village core district Marcus they're they're on that side of on the on the village core side of Iroquois oh okay so yes that that was my understanding if you zoom in to whoever's controlled Brad if you that area right there a brown area with the hat with the diagonal that's the residential office the red I believe on this map with the brick is the downtown village core district yeah and I was thinking of that area right there below that that is outlined in red you know that interesting it's just looking at that outline is actually something we'll talk about at the full public hearing for the LDC and that designates those red outlines designate an expansion of design review and historic preservation review for further further development so that's no it's it could be confusing some of this conversation but the yellow on that residential two and the in that area and the area above that yellow highlighted in that outline is actually residential office so okay so I get what you're saying but I think the area you're discussing around those two sets of tracks and those businesses that I think we're both thinking of are in the village center district gotcha okay that's great thank you for that clear thank you thank you Raj all right I'm not seeing any other hands up in zoom world so last call all right go ahead hi sorry I just wanted to say thank you for it's clear that you spent a lot of time really thinking about this um and how to make this work and what the impact might be and I appreciate all the effort that went into that um and I um and I it makes sense to me kind of where how this is um where you've landed um I just had some questions and I didn't see anything in the um stuff I've read about was there any um discussion or additional zoning considerations around um like it's clearly plotted out what areas of the city will be allowed for a retail book um is there has there been discussion about density in general of in that area thinking about you know how many retailers can be within feet of another retailer that sell cannabis um and then also you know the um the state regulations of 500 feet from a school are kind of the in terms of uh impact on kids the kind of um the lease that we can do and so is there was there any consideration of expanding that to farther away from schools um to help increase that prevention piece that we hope for yeah Mariah thanks for that um we're not allowed to expand that buffer um by law um as much as we'd like to I think um you know this has been very difficult to wrap our heads around you know we're still very much a walking district um we have a lot of schools surrounding a very dense area and a lot of dense housing so that you're right a lot of thought went into this we're also not I don't believe we're allowed to I don't believe we're allowed to um identify density um but but again that I'm not sure we're a hundred percent on that and and it's something that I'm going to continue to work on to be honest you know what's the I think the marketplace for the time being is going to take care of density um and that was part of the discussion what can and can't we do what are we interested in doing what are we not interested in doing but mostly it was uh this this was a an exercise in what's possible and and and I'm going to be honest this is it's not been a very clear process the state um the law isn't the well I'm just going to leave it there um density did come up we're going to keep an eye on that and keep an eye on what we're able to do in the next legislative session and see if there are any adjustments made um based on feedback from communities like ours how's that great thank you I think you're you're right that um but you know you know I connect with a lot of towns and there's varying degrees of agreement around what you can do and a lot of people are disagreeing about what we can and can't do so I'll be interested to see how it all shakes out you know and and thanks again on that note we you know because I I know based on comments tonight we we do have confidence from our city attorney and from the attorney from the cannabis control board that what we are doing is within the scope of what we're allowed to do um the new regulations and under zoning law so I just wanted to put that out there we have checked and verified um that aspect of it yeah and there are things that are still that weren't really considered that they mean it's a little level I know that we're we have concerns about the any sort of storm water runoff and also municipal our municipal wastewater is potentially going to be impacted and we don't know exactly how if if we're if pretreatment's going to be needed for different businesses so there's going to be a lot of other things I think that will come out of this launching year thank you thank you rocks thank you Wendy so I'm not seeing any of your hands up on Zoom so so we'll go ahead and we'll close the public hearing on post cannabis related land development code updates which will bring us into business items 6a and that is to consider the approval of the post cannabis related land development code updates yeah Easter I think go ahead ah you take a breath you're good I think we already talked about the options um so they're out there for you guys to accept or amend or make significant changes and rewarn a future public hearing thank you thank you Brad uh based on the conversation I for one would be happy to uh go go forward with their recommended motion a of approving or adopting as presented to us so that's not the motion I'll just start the conversation off depending if anybody felt differently please chime in no I agree anybody so felt too you can make that motion I move that uh trust me you're the city council approve the recommendations and adopt uh the recommendation motion here uh adopting I mean that we adopt the post cannabis related land development code code updates as presented thank you thank you George councilors any further discussion hearing none all in favor please signify by saying aye I am no suppose please say nay great great thanks thank you all uh roger thank you for the the work on this the research on this greatly appreciated and now now maybe something a little more like hardy than fun how about we go into some resolutions for madio joey's yeah I think chelch chelsea's there if chelsea wants to say a brief word but then I think the resolutions speak for themselves right should I get closer come on up chelsea okay the resolution really speaks for himself but joey's joys and maddie are are no longer retiring from being administrative support for wastewater and corks works and they dedicate a lot of time many many years to the facility and public works as well as the village slash city and so we felt we felt that they should be recognized we did have a wonderful barbecue uh you do but um I also wanted to formally recognize them for all their for all their service so so absolutely and we already missed them but but yeah so so which of the counselors would like to draw this draw and read what you have here I'd be happy to read uh which one should which one should I read um I'll start with maddie's first um whereas mrs barry okay whereas mrs barry has served as part-time seasonal administrative assistant for the wastewater treatment plant week facility public works since 2007 where where and whereas 15 years of employment for the village of s exjunction as well as a prior career at ibm mrs barry is taking a well-deserved full retirement and whereas mrs barry sense of humor attention to detail and hard work will be greatly missed and and whereas mrs barry lives and raised her family in s exjunction she she and her late husband were deeply involved with the s exjunction fire department volunteered volunteered there 34 years and that's particularly awesome and whereas the staff in the village of s exjunction cannot thank mrs barry enough for her hard work and dedication over the past 34 years both both as an employee and and as a volunteer now now therefore be a result on on this day Wednesday september 14th 2022 the s exjunction city council expresses its appreciation to maddie barry for your many years of service to the city of s exjunction we we thank you for your time and service to our community it's your son copy whereas mrs standard served as the village of s exjunction administrative assistant to the municipal manager from 1985 to 2003 and i was here for some of those years before beginning at the wastewater treatment facility public works department in 2004 as a part-time seasonal and seasonal administrative assistant and and whereas after 37 years of employment for the village of s exjunction mrs standard standard is taking a well-deserved full retirement and whereas mrs standard's historical knowledge attention to detail networking and organization will be greatly missed whereas mrs standard lives and raised her family in s exjunction she is a passionate pickleball player and was instrumental to the installment of permanent pickleball courts in s exjunction i remember that and whereas the staff in the village of s exjunction cannot thank mrs standard enough for her hard work and dedication over the past 37 years both both as an employee and as an engaged citizen now now therefore be it resolved on on this day wednesday september 14th 2022 the s exjunction city council expresses its appreciation to joy standard for her for her many years of service to the city of s exjunction we we thank you for your time and your service to our community thank you thank you so so i i for one uh i just can't even quite articulate how i appreciate it personally i am that you spend as much time as you have in this community even for sure that we all are able to uh take care of the things that we need to and uh that our municipality has been able to thrive as well as it has over these decades personally greatly appreciate that so thank you both and and i'll i'll say if you don't mind you know you're leaving but your heart and soul will continue on here as you accomplish so thank you so much you're part of the fiber of the whole organization yeah so with the windows i would i would go ahead and i would move that the city council approved the following resolutions of appreciation i would like to vary and so your standard as we're as we're right we disagree with it i'll say i'll second thank you thank you george any any further discussion hearing hearing none of those would favor please signify by saying hi hi as opposed to both of you say nay thank you all again sincere thank you thank you chelsea for those of us that are here do you want us to sign the list or do you want to do it to do it digitally i don't have a color for joy so different to the black and white and we can we can get the other side by and i am so while we're doing doing that we can move into the business item like 60c and to interview and consider an appointment to the like walkie-talkie or you can do the parrot power eric eric hi you want to come on up you want me to be closer to the mic yeah i do appreciate it i don't have a speech prepared so no no speech is required good so eric eric appreciate you being here appreciate your patience and waiting to get to you which portion um um you you spoke a little bit in the the application as to your experience so far thank you as an even founding member she said i constantly leave your perspective um you talked a little bit about like why you're looking to continue to be here so you still mind no no no um i i honestly don't remember remember when i started roger probably can because he was also one of the original members 10 10 years maybe i think i think probably sounds about right yeah might be a little more so we'll say 10 years um i'm the i'm the only one left from the original creation team that's still on the organization um as as someone who served on a few boards and by time i think it's very important to have a mix of long longer standing members and newer members to try to try and keep that mix that also makes it important to always make use of what i like to call institutional knowledge seems to be waning somehow in this world but uh only call me old-fashioned but i think there's something to be said for that and um so that's so that's part of the reason why it keeps staying on this thing because i think it's really important for the for the for the continuity of it to to um right to keep to keep to keep to keep some of that institutional knowledge of where it all goes away um so so in some ways i like to be the keeper of what we've done you know i can't can't remember at all so i think that's really important and then um personally the reason why i want to join the organization is still 14 14 years ago i moved to a two s extension from the town um not my accident but a large reason why i did it was because the walkability i thought i thought it was a great uh concept that kids could walk to school like it's i want to solve more in high school and i thought i needed to upgrade here i think the other thing would walk walk away to bikes uh since i since they went preschool by by by design that was what i was interested in moved moved here um and that was a large part of my life by my organization uh additionally i want to physical education teacher in the town uh actually actually want to be like cameo actually kind of cameo nice to see that uh it's a little promotion by smart trailer i'm the only teacher in the district that does this right now um it's hard it's hard work there's easier things i could do with the kids but that just um speaks to the the passion so so i think that kind of describes where i'm going with that but then um on my walk over here i was kind of reflecting on the things that were done and one of the big goals that we had and all your organization wants to get recognition to be to be a walkable um new the uh organization at the time had an application process i think what people are still currently at so the silver status for for recognition recognition for a wide variety of music i think that i think that i know that's a new idea that i think we initially got recognition recognition in my new work in my new life uh the slash again brings around the around around the village largely to the work um trying to find out what he did and then making this happen so so um and now with the bypass coming in really want to make sure sure that this is where we are here keeps them walking away so yeah that's right that's what i'm going to do appreciate it here thank you too stubborn even if they might want to kick me off the the committee i'm just going to say again and i think you're i we really appreciate the continuity you're really is important to to keep that that thread going in number two i you know you really have had an impact it's a small committee but you've had a really big impact when i think what things were like before the committee got started it the slow and gradual but really good changes you brought about so it's all been really worthwhile and much appreciated that really really you really helped improve the safety and walkability and viability yeah i was yeah i was really sitting i um i i know i hadn't that been certain a couple times actually spent so much time and she found out while i was sitting here that i was only gonna walk a while maybe that was why i was here so like i got something for you so she so she pulled me inside and actually told me about a section inside a lot that she's hoping to get um repair repair just which is like the perfect perfect thing and just tell me about it and i'll bring it up on our next meeting so that kind of thing so really cool that's great no no i just uh i grew grew with all the comments that made the fire but uh and probably we were on the record and this that committee actually i know france let's think about it is there anything we can help you uh and the committee with um i think we can we can do for you all to keep keep the work going no no i think i think i think um we're now currently just just back to a reasonable um um number of people and um a good good working group where i think we can i think i think for the last two or two or three years we've been spending our wheels just a little bit there's been a lot of turnover to to add to the challenge of what we're doing and i think we just um now getting back to this place where we can start really digging digging in again trying to look at what we would like to accomplish and then figuring out how to do that again again it's it seems like we've had a little role in there i'm contributing to to turn over a little bit it was a bit of a challenge for quite a quite a while just having a reform and i think we're at the point now we have a couple of new additions and some new new energy so i think we can start great but we'll keep it posted um there's some really cool exciting things are happening now around here that i think and can um i think i think it's important to to um work work collectively so so it's really hard when you're you know your head's down and you're digging in on the project to think about the other players involved but i think um in terms in terms of the growth of the you know you know right around here if we can if we can if we can always keep the bike bike wall so that um in the background lines to figure out like what you guys are working on think about how we can help use advice or something like that we'll be in touch okay good thanks thanks andrew i was just going to add um we've been trying to bring some stronger support staff supports to committees and mark brislin the assistant director at ejrp is now the staff liaison with bike walk um mark is an avid mountain biker um former triathlon kind of guy so he not only brings a professional presence to that committee but also an interest and also rick jones is now providing as the staff liaison with the tree advisory committee so we're we're trying to get those committees a little bit better access to the administration and municipal government and employees great thanks appreciate that rad and i would entertain entertain the both of your wire to move i i if you don't if you don't mind just well i can do it i've got it right here i move that we appoint eric balker to a three-year term july 1st 2022 to june 30th 2025 on the bike walk advisor committee so thank you roger thank you dan any further discussion hearing hearing now those are favorably signified by saying aye aye let's oppose oppose please say nay thank you thank you all we appreciate your continued commitment to the community next next we have a business item 6d and a discussion on the website redesign yes and ashley is here as well as paul from eco pixel um as you know you previously authorized for the website redesign to begin and they've started that process and are here just to provide you with an update as to the early um early stages of the process just to make sure you're aware of where we're headed and and don't have any major critical feedback but this is certainly an opportunity to weigh in ask questions and provide any feedback for their further development ashley thanks brad as brad said paul is here with me now we have been working on this website since i started back in may this is the first design of the home page so you're only going to be seeing the home page tonight we will be working on the rest of the website once we get the approval of this first design from you guys we hope to have the completed website by um november um this design that we're showing you today like i said is just the home page and um we showed this earlier to the department heads and got some great feedback from the department heads earlier on we will also be providing a survey link tonight on our website and on our social media page that'll pop up after our meeting tonight and we really want to get some feedback from the community just on this initial design as well um and some of their interactions with our current website so i'm going to attempt to share my screen okay and tonight i'm just going to scroll through this and paul is going to go through the different areas of the new um home page and if you guys have any questions please feel for any chime in and we will go from there can i jump can i get a question right before you go any further sure this picture right here who was the author of this picture because because i know who the author of this picture here it is it's it's the chair of the s six town select board andy watz he took this while he was writing a balloon over five corners uh and i and i i'm sure andy would be delighted to see his photography on the front page of the s6 junctions city web page my title there's my first yes no right now this is just a temporary placeholder we wanted to show what um it would look like with a great photography photo that's something that i will be looking forward to um getting either some community photos to put on our home page or hiring a photographer uh to take some great photos really does aerial shot is what we're looking for and paul you can kind of go in a little bit more that'll be a great starting point for us sure thanks ashley so um i'm the lead web designer and web developer at eco pixel and and as ashley said we've been working together for a while on this um that question yeah some of the content we're going to see on this page are pretty realistic and some of it is just there to indicate what could be there that's the real content and the photo is a great example of that starting at the top of the page here we've we've made a few changes to the overall navigation of the website um mainly to highlight that we have a lot of initiatives which ashley is heading up as well as a new community section that pulls some content that's been elsewhere and some content that we're going to ask about in our survey that we're going to put out um and then there will be a photo not necessarily this photo but an aerial photo or some other photos that represent our community um and i think ideally they'd be seasonal at least so that we we show the changing schemes here in the city scroll down a little bit so this next section with the four icons we wanted to accomplish a couple of things one is to quickly orient people and guide people into the major content areas of the website and also to provide a kind of unified portal into the recreation and park section as well as over to the brown ale library which has its own website so we didn't use their icons their logos here because we wanted uh those sections to be a part of the whole so it all goes together and here you can see we're also starting to establish a pretty lively and colorful color scheme just below the icons we've got our kind of existing tagline that we're the only s-extinction in the world which i think is a little tongue-in-cheek but it's also true and um again this is text it can easily change we've got uh some brief description for for visitors new residents i guess even hey what's s-extinction all about in in a nutshell scroll down a little more uh in this part of the home page we're highlighting uh recent news as well as ongoing initiatives so it could be job openings road work big things that people need to know about and we've had a new section on the existing website um since it launched and uh i think it's important that it be easy to get what's going on the big things i need to be aware of um in the community one more all right now to your section uh on the city council we've got a box highlighting the uh upcoming agendas as well as about three recent meetings we assume that those are the ones people are most likely to want to get the minutes for but there's a button as well to take them to uh a redesigned city council page that will be a dashboard to everything that you do and then the other half of this or two-thirds of this section uh list all of the upcoming meetings that we have and so clicking on any of these would take you to that that meeting you could add it to your calendar or um if it's close enough there would be an agenda there all right um this is uh some of those other things we've looked at have some are been in the current website in some form but this is a new section which is to highlight big events and major things that are happening across our community and in the various like library and recreation and parks and to really create visibility for those on the home page several years ago we did have a community calendar in the website but it was very comprehensive and quite hard to maintain this is slimmed down and really focused on major events that we're going to have and then a footer of the website is just kind of a colorful approach to our take on our logo and quick links to facebook and cclick fix and the major sections of the website as well as an all contacts button so that people just need need a phone number need an email address they can get right there all right now we can go back up to the top and look at the last thing that we've got to show you tonight which is quick answers and click on that yep so this will be a really quick way to answer the most current and common questions that are going on that that um Ashley and others are hearing um like currently a real hot topic is do i live in the city or not or why am i paying town taxes still so Ashley will be able to change this list change it based on season like why isn't my street plowed yet or other other questions that come up and if there are more questions of course they can go to the more answers button and see the full list but i thought it was really important that people get these quick answers right from from any page of the website so that's an overview um any questions so far you can also take um are we taking questions in the chat or just verbally i just verbally okay so that's the website and then that's shell really what we're asking from you guys if you had any feedback to provide that feedback from up to us and also um we want to basically get the green light to move forward with this design so that we can start designing the rest of the website um the pages and all of the different parts of the website and all that it entails um we do have a raised hand from marcus before we jump into public comments yes quick quick quick question comment from me from me we go around the board real quick and then we'll go off to public comment um i really appreciate i really appreciate that you've kept the uh the connection with the council um as well as bearing down that uh the community calendar from what it used to be to something to something that seemed like it might be more manageable um because i got uh from the feedback i heard is that i'm looking at a little crazy kind of quick um the quick the quick answer seems very interesting uh the the thing that i'm i don't i don't have a concern on i just want to make sure of if that's the back end the ability to update these things is that is that system still going to be relatively simple and easy for you to use uh so that that way we can we can just as staff update things as necessary when necessary everything will be editable and and really um editing will be optimized around whatever it is so it'll be very easy um just basically paragraphs of text is what the quick answers will be to edit but in the front end it will have that nice look to it that's easy to browse great great go ahead go ahead raf i think i think it looks nice i think it's a great start um so thanks for thanks for presenting that um some things thinking about the websites and things um that that i think about or you know curiosity about the ability to search you know it's one thing to find minutes and find agendas from past meetings but if you have no idea where the topic was discussed in the past 18 months clicking through 26 to 30 different agendas so will there be the ability to to use search to to to die to dig into the database of pdfs and everything else that's in the back end of this um and i think the other the only other question um the quick answers i like a lot um if some of these sections especially around i'm thinking ordinance and codes and potentially departments if there could be a way to kind of think about yeah okay the ordinance is there and the codes are there but people just don't know where to start if they want to build an addition um do they need a permit for whatever do they you know there there are all those this stuff has always been out there but if you look in neighborhood forums and you look in other places people still are asking their neighbors where do i go for this um and so if there's any kind of way to once you get there to think about sort of what you're doing with the quick answers but almost on a on a sectional level um um ordinances and codes why why do i why would i go into the ordinances why would i go into into some of the bylaw areas what why would i look at the zoning or zoning page um almost little descriptions about what what's here and why why they might be here do you know i'm saying um because i think unless you're really familiar with a lot of this stuff it's it's a little foreign um and not very not very user friendly for for the rest of us so just a overall i think it looks good and i will say part of that is kind of this section right here with the community the work the parks and then the recreation our our thoughts around that is kind of once they click on that they have some kind of pull out sections whether that's uh you know talking about living or visiting in our city um and so that's kind of our ideas around that um and so that's something we're still fleshing out so thank you for that feedback it's something that we know that we can move forward with that and and george amber i'm i'm good looks very nice right it looks good it's not cooking butter and it's uh so it's it's different but it's still very well it's it's like like george said i think i like the layout i like it's easy to serve i think just looking at that type of a layout um i think i think you can get put a lot of stuff under a web page and then it becomes confusing and just very very difficult to to serve serve through just your your whole realm i like that simplicity very very nice all right uh so then so then why don't we why don't we go into other public comments and marcus your hands been up thank you for waiting haha it's a least sort of sneaking in under marcus this uh hi everyone and hello ashley we had a exchange earlier for the district so i wanted to ask what is the best way to submit uh feedback about it and the only reason i'm poking my nose in here is that the district right now uh chitin solid waste district is redoing our website too we've got lots of data um that might be helpful to our site um like for instance 50 of the people viewing our site are on mobile so i'm really going to be curious about how our site responds on mobile and the first thing that i would say about um our site because i've used it i've helped other but people use it is this is a doing site people want to come here and do they don't want to hunt and pack for information they want to do and we need to help them do that quickly and the only thing that i've learned that i would just offer and ashley i'm happy you know however you would like feedback or a little or a lot the hero image that you have here which is a lovely picture of five corners see my pandering to rash um is that it takes up a lot of real estate and while i really love beautiful pictures if we think about that people want to come to the site and do i want to find out we're building a fence do i have to get permits for that making sure people can get to the do part of the site as quickly as possible i i totally agree uh with rod is making searchable pdfs and things like that are really important because people want to come the average person on our site who's coming to find out how to dispose of something spends less than a minute and a half so that's just something to keep in mind when you're building our site is it's really about the doing thanks great thank you and yes if you'd like to provide feedback on our survey you're more than welcome to do that there is a section on there to provide other feedback other than the questions that we are asking so we'll be happy to get that feedback from you or if you want to shoot me an email i'm happy to take that feedback as well we will like i said post that survey right after this meeting on our website and on our social media page i wanted to comment on a couple things here certainly the photo um it this is a static mock-up so the photo doesn't change size but on different screen sizes it will take up more or less space depending on how much space is available so we we're really careful not to make photos like this so big that they overwhelm the rest of the site or the home page and i don't like to do that and and i don't like it either i'm more i'm a designer but i also care a lot about function and in terms of the search there've been a couple comments about search this search will be you'll be able to do a search but drill down by category so if you're really a um a city council document you can really get at that quite quickly um and then there was a comment about being mobile friendly um quite a bit more than half of the visitors to this website are using a mobile device a small screen and so after we've established this overall look and feel we'll be creating an optimized layout for mobile devices this is a fully responsive accessible design and we start with the desktop because it kind of shows everything that we're going to have on there but if you can think of the page being like bricks like building blocks we're going to take those bricks that are horizontal here and start stacking them up in different ways on mobile so for example the news articles will be stacked vertically and the size of the photos will be a little bit different that kind of thing so we we care a lot about um mobile friendly here thank you thank you thank you all uh i'm not seeing any other questions appreciate appreciate the preview thanks a lot thank you both i actually before you leave if you haven't left yet um what would the time frame be in terms of uh the thoughts of the survey closing and then when the final final website live so we are asking the surveys to be completed by october first so that gets people a few weeks to fill out the survey um we'll send out some reminders throughout the couple weeks just reminding people about that survey um and then we're hoping to have a live website sometime in november great great thank you thank you i actually appreciate all the hard work on this no problem thank you and and the next the next uh conversations are going to happen in executive sessions so we will go into the consent agenda move we approve the consent agenda thank you thank you ron so i started thank you thank you Dan any further discussion hearing hearing none i'll be able to signify by saying aye aye post please say nay great great pass unanimously thank you all and and going into the reading file and board member comments uh the we got we got quite a few things in the uh the reading file um appreciate the update on the present connector it's always good to see progress continuing to happen with that i'm looking forward to having that be built in the in the upcoming construction season uh the only other comment comment that i had i just wanted to take a brief moment and uh recognize that today is our last meeting with rad rad and wendy as our interim co-master's uh regina the homie starts tomorrow and and just really want to take a brief moment and rad rad wendy i just want to thank you for taking on this additional responsibilities that you took on um you've you've been able to help make sure that our our municipality continues to function that that's uh we as a board are able to continue to to meet and do the business that needs to be done uh in addition i think one of the things we talked about was no new initiatives and and then we had initiative after initiative after initiative so so we really appreciate you you both rolling with the punches as they are uh and uh really helping to you to see this this community through your dedication to the community is certainly recognized i appreciate that thank you and yeah we appreciate it um you know we're happy to serve and fill in and happy for regina to start um uh but it's uh you know we've talked a little bit of overtime certainly um you all make make the job uh easy here um you're a very easy progressive board to work with and very efficient um so uh it really made it uh easy on us uh to to step in and help out when needed so thanks for that yes it's been really great working with all you and it's been great working with brad so i think but yeah i'm i'm looking forward to having a library focus again great great any of the other board member comments any other comments on that stuff all right right so see none oh that's great i would go ahead and i would make the motion that we go into the discussion to discuss negotiating or some period real estate purchase or lease options under the provision of title one section 31382 and law statutes and completely interoperable managers and and i would further who that we go into the executive section we discuss documents that are exempt from public records law under those provisions of title one section 31386 and among statutes i'll second that i'm sorry hey rosh uh whoever's taking the minute so you can decide between jordan rosh put off the stopwatch so you got there at first um so all those in favor please signify by saying i i thank you so pass unanimously thank you um we will go ahead and head into the other room we are to make a decision um it may take a while for you to if you want to stick around feel free you don't have to that's totally within your control but we will head out and come back it might be a half hour it might be an hour or two hours all right but thank you thank you all